Throne of the North.

Chapter 98 The eve of the decisive battle
Of course, the nobles saw through Viscount Dragun's methods, but they could do nothing about it.

They must return to their own territory, otherwise they believe they will lose everything except the soldiers brought to Lingdu City. Their people will appear as slaves in the territories of those attacking nobles, and their wealth and food in their warehouses will be plundered. They believe that the other party can do this because they can do it themselves.

Similarly, as the leader of many nobles, Viscount Miles could not think of a way to deal with it.

Before today, no one knew that Viscount Dragun would do this. They even built fortifications in Lingdu City.

"Castor, do you have any ideas?"

Viscount Miles looked at Castor Weiss who was sitting next to him, and the latter also frowned.

He came to Lingdu County this time for two reasons. One was to help Earl Miles so that his father could gain the support of Lingdu County. The second reason was selfish. He wanted the Miles family to support him personally while supporting the Weiss family.

He knew his father's ambitions and what he wanted, so when planning for the future, he wanted a piece of his own rights.

This is inseparable from the support of all aspects of the Earl of Weiss's family. In his vision, the Viscount Miles family is the most important support among them.

So he was happy to help Viscount Miles, but he had failed once and only had 1,500 troops left in his hands.

After a moment, Castor looked up.

"Viscount Dragun is doing this because he wants us to leave Lingdu City and go to war with them. Since he wants us to, let's just leave the city."

"Even without Lingdu City, we still have an absolute advantage. Don't forget, we have more soldiers and we also have more knights."

Beside Viscount Miles, Rag was still somewhat doubtful. He looked at Castor and asked:

"But if we leave Lingdu City, we will lose the advantage of the city, and we don't know whether Viscount Dragun has other supporters."

Castor looked at Rag with some surprise, then glanced at Christian on the other side and said:
"Don't worry. The two earl families in the North Wind Province did not provide any support to Dragun. As for Lingdu County, there is only the Frozen Baron. Although his soldiers won the war, they also suffered heavy casualties and cannot provide any help to the Dragun family at all."

After hearing this, Viscount Miles felt relieved. He knew that leaving the city and fighting Dragun was the best option.

"So……"

The elderly Viscount Miles coughed a few times and said weakly to the other nobles:

"The Miles family will also support you with some soldiers so that you can repel the nobles who invade your territory."

"Thank you, Lord Viscount."

The nobles thanked Viscount Miles, then hurried back to their own territories.

The dispute between the two viscounts of Lingdu County finally turned into a big melee in the entire county.

In just the past two days, wars have broken out in the territories closer to Lingdu City. With each subsequent day, new territorial wars will break out, ranging from battlefields involving a few hundred people to fights involving thousands of people, spreading to every corner of Lingdu County.

As for Ryan? Ryan is training his soldiers.

He stood in the military camp, watching Brand loudly scolding the soldiers, and then thinking about the war happening in Lingdu County.

“The emergence of chaos and war is essentially the result of greed for profit and the emergence of the lordship system.”

"The latter led to the former's transformation from thought to action. The Lordship system forced the lords of the knight territories to rely on the fifth-class nobles. Naturally, the fifth-class nobles would not allow the existence of enclaves, because it would mean that it would be difficult for his power to reach those places."

"This would result in those lords being lords but having the substantive rights of barons."

"Secondly, connecting the lords' territories will make management easier. We can use more population and wealth to develop our own territories. This is also what the lords need. It is difficult for them to expand their original territories. After all, there is only so much wealth that can be generated each year, and it may become less and less due to various accidents."

"The Lord also needs to rely on the fifth-rank nobles to make his status higher than that of more people. Of course, this is certainly not as comfortable as being a local tyrant in your own territory."

"So, it's hard to say how many of those nobles who started the war really want to move their territories next to other nobles."

"But this war is exactly what they want. Before the Lordship system is fully implemented, they want to plunder more wealth and more slaves."

"The nobles of the Northern Wind Province are indeed tough and sturdy."

Ryan was organizing the thoughts in his mind. He was thinking about what else he could get in the upcoming territorial war.
After much thought, there was no better solution. With his army suffering heavy losses, it was really difficult to do anything.

Preserving existing interests is all Ryan can think of for the time being.

"We can only wait until they have some problems with each other before we can find a way to take advantage of the situation."

Ryan thought so. Of course, at this time, the most important thing for him was to train a brand new army so that he could seize the opportunity when it came.

Training a similar army was not a difficult task for Ryan, especially since these soldiers were all "veterans" who had survived a brutal war.

His training methods were advanced enough, and he gave these soldiers enough things, so much so that he could even directly let these people see the best among them being blessed by the deer spirit and becoming knight masters.

With such a big pie in front of us, how could there be a lack of excellent soldiers?

Other nobles thought that Ryan had defeated their elite troops, but Ryan himself did not think so.

The peace in the territory of the North Wind Flower continued, but the war between other nobles in Lingdu County was in full swing. Ryan even knew that frictions of varying sizes were also breaking out in other counties in the North Wind Province, and the territorial frictions caused by the lord system were becoming more and more intense.

Around mid-August, the armies of the two viscounts in Lingdu County finally confronted each other on a plain.

Among the 3,500 soldiers belonging to Viscount Dragun, more than 1,000 were temporarily transferred slave soldiers who had only undergone about ten days of training.

There were also 5,000 soldiers belonging to Viscount Miles and Castor, half of whom were slave soldiers, about 2,000 in total.

(End of this chapter)