Throne of the North.

Chapter 95: Foolish Barnes
The huge army and the spoils of war slowly advanced towards the Fortress of the North Wind Flower. Behind the army, the straight black smoke in the sky sank into the sea of ​​clouds.

Although extremely tired, Ryan was more aware that the disaster caused by ignoring the corpses in the war would be even more terrible, so he asked the slaves to pile up all the corpses while cleaning the battlefield and dig pits to burn them.

As for the subsequent burial issue, it will be left to Baron Barnes, as this is his territory.

But I'm afraid this land will become very fertile in the future?

The army marched forward in silence. The war and fatigue had left the soldiers and prisoners with no strength left. Although they were happy to be alive, they had to wait until they had rested before they could celebrate.

"Lord Ryan."

Lian En came to Ryan and said hesitantly that after experiencing the war, the boy had grown up and was quite respectful to Ryan.

"Let's go back to the Flower of the Northern Wind. Has it been breached?"

Ryan shook his head.

"Flower of the North Wind, that ancient castle is not so easy to break into. As long as Baron Barnes is not stupid enough to open the castle gate and let the enemy in, there will be no problem."

In fact, Ryan still overestimated Baron Barnes.

The landlord has a stupid son, but even if he is a stupid son, he will inherit a huge fortune, and it will not be the turn of others to squander it.

This is the feeling that Baron Barnes gives Ryan today.

Perhaps Baron Barnes was an ambitious and intelligent man who understood the rules of the game among the nobles. He also made his barony the most militarily powerful baron under the two viscounts of Lingdu County. He was a hundred times better than the prodigal Baron Hatton of Shenma County.

But he did a stupid thing.

When he was returning with his army of more than a thousand people, he saw the armies of the nobles of Earl Weiss and Viscount Miles outside the Flower of the North Wind. He panicked. Facing enemies that were twice as many as his own, he ordered his men in the castle to open the heavy gate.

That would be fine, if he could get back to the castle, his soldiers would be able to easily resist these enemies.

The problem was that after his army had rushed back for an hour and a half to provide assistance, they could no longer outrun the other side of the hillside at their doorstep.

When Baron Barnes arrived at the fortress gate, the tail of his army had been caught by the pursuing enemy.

If the castle gate was closed at this time, and Barnes fought a desperate battle, he might have won the war. But he was too panicked. When he rushed into the castle, the soldiers behind him had no scruples and began to push forward in panic, trying to enter the castle.

At that time, the soldiers thought that if they stayed, they would die. Only by rushing into the castle, the tall fortress would block all threats for them.

This was especially true for the soldiers at the back, so the army was still in chaos.

The castle gate was so small, how could more than a thousand people pass through quickly? The battle started with a massacre.

This is how an army composed of slaves works. When the situation is favorable, no problems can be seen, so when the battle begins with one-sided killing, the outcome is already clear.

In the end, it was the guardian knight of the Barnes family who stood up and blocked the entrance to the castle. They led the soldiers who had recovered from their shock inside the castle in a bloody battle and finally repelled the enemy.

It can only be said that there is a reason why Baron Barnes is regarded as the most powerful baron in Lingdu County. Of course, the castle of Flower of the North Wind is located halfway up the mountain, and the slope and road problems also caused the balance of victory to tilt.

However, Barnes's troops still left more than 500 bodies at their doorstep.

When Ryan arrived at the Castle of Boreas, what he saw was the army of those nobles plundering the village below Baron Barnes's Castle of Boreas, which was only a thousand meters away from the castle.

The arrival of Ryan's army stopped the looting, but many houses had been burned down, and there were constant cries and wailing. Naked bodies lay on the muddy streets. Clothes were important to the slave soldiers, and they were the only spoils that would not be taken away by the lords after they returned to their territories, because they were not worthy of them.

But these clothes allowed the slaves to survive the cold winter.

The arrival of Ryan's army made all parties nervous, but his mithril armor was so dazzling, so the coalition of nobles began to retreat, while Barnes' army gathered on the castle wall.

Harrington rode his warhorse to the center of the open space and shouted to the nobles' coalition forces:

"Your army has already been defeated, do you still plan to start a second war here?"

Among the coalition forces, a handsome young man rode out on horseback, followed by a tall figure who looked in Ryan's direction.

"Baron Ryan..."

The young man stared at Ryan. He never thought that his uncle would fail again and be defeated by the same person.

He was extremely wary of Ryan at this moment. It would have been fine if he hadn't noticed it before, but now, he thought that Ryan was the same as himself. Their fathers were both powerful earls, and they were the descendants of even more noble nobles and belonged to the same circle.

He regarded the failure of this war as his own failure in the face of Ryan.

"My name is Castor Weiss. You will remember my name because this will become a nightmare for your whole life."

After saying this, Castor turned and left, but the tall figure next to him looked over and his eyes fell on Brand next to Ryan.

"I will use your head to sacrifice to my brother."

He raised his foot and kicked the huge rock next to him. The next moment, the rock made a loud noise and broke into pieces.

"Golden Knight..."

Ryan and Brand's expressions were somewhat solemn.

"There shouldn't be many golden knights under Earl Weiss's command, but one of them actually appeared in Lingdu County."

"Can you handle it?"

Ryan asked Brand, who said after a moment of silence:

"It still needs a little time."

He was about to break through. In less than a year since he received the blessing, he was about to become a Silver Knight. Such talent made Ryan envious.

"Even if you break through, you can only deal with the lower limit of the Golden Knight. I hope that Castor is not a favored guy."

Ryan knew that the eldest son of Count Weiss's family was not Castor, so he didn't quite understand this.

After arranging his army to detain the prisoners in the previous military camp, Ryan led several hundred people into the Flower of the North Wind.

When he saw Baron Barnes again, the middle-aged man was extremely angry.

(End of this chapter)