Chapter 164 The Order of the Three Lights

"The rebels will kill you! The rebels will kill you!..." The iron-armored soldiers riding horses shouted loudly and rushed from the village to the end of the village. The farmers took their meager property, farm tools, and drove the livestock they raised, squeezed on the shaking ox carts and gathered on the open space in the village. Then, under the name of a middle-aged man holding a list of animal paper, they were divided into three teams and embarked on an unknown itinerary in three directions.`

The team heading south had the smallest number of people. This was the management class of village chiefs, sheriffs, tax collectors, millers and other management classes in the village. They were the basis for Duke Lukins to rule the south. But now they were also the most embarrassed. Their property was confiscated and they could only take their families to the city of Gildusque, the mansion of the Grand Duke.

The team heading west was not large, but these people were relatives of the Northland Legion. According to the agreement reached by Lorist and Henneed, they would be sent to Sakura Ridge Manor Castle.

The largest team to the north, they will arrive at a camp a hundred miles away, and then wait to be grouped there, transported to the Earl of Spencer, join the camp of the private sector, and finally head to the Norton family territory to start a new life.

"It's time to burn..." A small iron-armored soldier gave an order, and more than a dozen soldiers began to throw torches into the thatched hut in the village. Soon, the whole village became a sea of ​​fire, and a thick ray of smoke rose into the sky.

The farmers who had not yet walked away were crying at the burning village. This was their home that had sheltered from the wind and rain in the past, and the family of young and old depended on each other...

The soldiers who were escorting the soldiers on the side rushed over and shouted loudly in their voices: "What are you crying? What's the ones that don't go to? The old ones don't come. Our adults said that when you arrive at the family territory, each of them will be assigned new fields and new houses, which are not comparable to those of your broken thatched nests..."

Countless thick smoke rose up on the southern Grand Duke, known as the essence of the northern region, and countless villages turned into ashes in the flames. Under the guidance of the Leader Party, Lorist swept across the entire Grand Duke in just sixteen days, two manor castles in the Duke of Lukins' territory. Six towns and the palace of Gildusque fell into the hands of Lorist.

The entire southern Grand Duke, except for the five thousand troops of the Henneed Knights who were entrenched in the Sakura Ridge Manor Castle and the town of Evanson, were left with the five thousand soldiers of the Northland Legion guarding the Hentery Foso Bridge Level and the Fred Fortress Castle.

The golden knight Odma, who commanded the troops, drew a brigade of 2,500 people to attack, preparing to sweep away the Norton family armed forces who hijacked the villagers. However, they were ambushed by two armored cavalry brigades led by Ross, who had been staring at them in secret. Ordmali was seriously injured in the tiger Ross, who was lucky enough to escape and then gathered five or six hundred deserters and gave up the Hendrifosso Bridge level, concentrating all the soldiers of the Northland Legion in Fresd Fortress Castle and stayed in the door and stayed away.

The attacking troops of the Northland Legion were defeated. The Norton family armed in the southern Grand Duke's lord had no scruples anymore. They unscrupulously emptied Duke Lukins' vault, granary, and arsenal, confiscated the property of the nobles under the Duke's subordinates, and forcibly collected all the caravans of the Grand Duke's caravans. With the migration order issued by Lorist, they turned their targets to the villages in the Grand Duke's territory.

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"This is an unprecedented premeditated, organized, planned large-scale robbery. The Norton family armed forces, known as the Northland Roaring Rage Bear, are comparable to the most greedy and cruel robbers. They emptied the treasury in the town, confiscated the nobles' property, robbed all the wealth of the rich, and they didn't even let go of a rough pottery basin.

My caravan went through a lot of hardships and transported the goods to the north. As a result, I just arrived at the Duke's mansion, Gildusk, and checked into the hotel. The Nortons soldier in iron armor forced us to collect the goods we brought despite our strong protests, and paid only half of the goods price. Although this half of the goods price did not make me lose money, this was really different from the profit I expected. My poor little Tinny, your father is incompetent. I can't buy you that beautiful evening dress to make you dazzling like a princess...

Originally, the caravan’s plan was to sell goods and buy specialties from the Northland before leaving, but there was a mess outside, and the suppliers I had contacted were all robbed by Norton’s soldiers in iron armor, so I couldn’t even find a merchant I knew. In this case, I decided to leave this place as soon as possible. Unfortunately, our caravan’s vehicles needed to be repaired, and the pack horses needed to replace the horseshoes before they could get on the road.

So I went to find blacksmith again, but I didn't expect that there would be no blacksmith in the city of Gildusk, which is nearly 100,000. I spent a lot of money to find out that the Norton family armed forces had hijacked all the blacksmiths and other craftsmen in the city. Even the civil servants and servants were spared. All the people left in the city were masters and merchants, and many village chiefs and officials were brought in from outside...

When I returned to the hotel, I realized that I no longer had to worry about the vehicles. The Nortons soldiers in iron armor appeared in front of me again. This time they were going to collect vehicles from our caravan. I was too lazy to protest and let them take advantage of themselves. But this time they were fair. They paid the cost of the vehicle and pack horse at the market price, and they still used Jinfude.`

We left the city of Gildusk that afternoon and set out on foot on our way home. Only after we left the city of Gildusk we realized that the formerly hospitable villages of the northern land had been burned down and were filled with black smoke. The villagers who carried their property and protected their wives and children were taken to the ox cart in tears under the care of the vicious Norton soldiers...

From time to time, tall gallows appeared on both sides of the road, with rural nobles or warriors who died in the atrocities of the Norton family. We dared not restrain their bodies, because from time to time, there were fully armed patrol soldiers of the Norton family riding horses passing by. When we left the city, we had already obtained a pass. These patrol soldiers found that we were caravan personnel and did not make things difficult for us, but we were often annoyed.

We had no carriages and horses, and everyone could only hike. They carried large luggage on them and built a wooden rack to put camping equipment on them and pulled them by manpower, so they walked very slowly. If we only took a day to ride a horse, we could reach the Hendrifosso Bridge, but now it seems that we can't reach it in three days.

When I was camping in the evening, a team of patrol cavalry came and borrowed our camp to rest for a while. Only then did I realize that there was a silver lion badge on their iron armor chests. The mercenary captain next to me secretly told me that this was the standard equipment of the famous White Lion Legion in the former Crison Empire.

So I took a few bottles of fruit wine and asked the soldiers to have a drink. Then I pointed at the silver lion badge in surprise and asked if they were the famous White Lion Legion. The soldiers shook their heads and said that they were soldiers of the Count Norton family. I was surprised to ask them that the Norton family was not the Baron? How could they become the Count?

The soldiers told me proudly that the Norton family's convoy went north and helped the Second Highness get the regent of the Kingdom when passing through the Kingdom of Andinak, stabilizing the situation in the Kingdom. Therefore, the Andinak royal family, as the orthodox tradition of the former Crison Empire, promoted the Norton family's title to the earl, and also granted the second Highness's prince's territory to the Norton family. The standard equipment of these disbanded White Lion Legion is also provided with gifts.

I asked the soldiers why they took away the poor villagers and burned all their villages? The soldiers told me indignantly that this was to give the greedy Grand Duke of the North to a profound lesson, and to let him not always fight against the wealth of the Norton family. Because these wealth was obtained by all the soldiers of the Norton family in order to open the Norton family territory to build a beautiful home so that their families could live and work in peace and contentment. They implemented the three-light policy issued by the adults to grab, burn and migrate the light, so that the Grand Duke of the North would no longer be able to harass everyone's happy life in the Norton family territory...

Perhaps thanks to my bottles of good wine, the patrol soldier left me an old horse before leaving and wrote a caravan that proved that we were friendly to the Norton family. We avoided a lot of trouble in the next trip. Before leaving, the captain also gave me a business opportunity. After crossing the Hendry Foso Bridge, he could collect vehicles and horses on the other side and sell them to the Norton family armed forces stationed in the Fortress Fortress. They bought them at a high price...

This would be a good business. I originally thought of buying carriages and horses after passing the Hendrifosso Bridge before buying carriages and horses. Now, I think what the team leader said makes sense. The Norton family moved the Dagong leader and the villagers did lack transportation vehicles. I could try it first, and maybe I would compensate the caravan for the loss this time. So I ordered the caravan members to leave as soon as possible and arrive at the Hendrifosso Bridge early..."

This is a record of the Northland written by a businessman who went to the Northland to travel. This book, like a biography, caused a great sensation hundreds of years later. He described the scene known as the Southern Tribulation from another aspect, providing very detailed supporting materials for later experts and scholars to study the rise of the Norton family.

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"It's great..." Knight Henneed put down the ragged backrest chair in his hand and looked at the disheveled Duke Lukins' study. This was his masterpiece within half an hour. He said proudly.

He raised his head and saw Lorist's gaze that looked at the nervous patient.

Knight Henneed was a little angry and embarrassed: "What are you looking at me like this? Let me tell you, smashing the Duke's study is one of my always wishes. In the past, we reported to the Duke, and if something angers the Duke, he would smash the study in front of us. We could only wait for him to finish the smash and return to calm... So I have always wanted to smash the Duke's study back, and today I finally got my wish."

Lorist snorted from his nose: "You are just here to make a fortune. It seems that the Duke has a great power in your heart, so you feel that you can smash his study and satisfy your wish. You are really like a child..."

Henneed jumped up: "I am not afraid of him, but he used to be my head. As a family knight, I cannot go against his wishes. Now I am Baron Shahin, and as a lord, I can justify rejecting the unreasonable requests of the Duke."

Lorist said impatiently: "Okay, have you played enough, go quickly. I have a lot to deal with next."

"Okay, okay, if there is anything so important, just tell me to my subordinates, and I'm busy like a dog, not like a lord at all." Henneed walked while wrapping a gray linen scarf around his head to cover his face: "Wait, I have to cover my head and face first to avoid being seen..."

Well, the mysterious man in gray robe who appeared beside Lorist was the rumored Knight Henneed, who was seriously injured in the Norton family's armed forces. The guy appeared in Lorist's tent that night, saying that he wanted to follow Lorist home to pick up his four, and in fact he was a leader for Lorist.

Lorist did not treat him badly. One of his squadrons of soldiers sneaked into the convoy's camp and then came out and had already put on iron armor. These were all equipment that the convoy's armed forces had replaced. As a result, Henneed saw that there was such a bargain, so he simply pulled another squadron over and replaced it with iron armor. There were only about 300 soldiers left in his Sakura Ridge Manor Castle, and less than one squadron.

The Northland Army soldiers who had been replaced with iron armor were more fierce as fake Nortons, and the robbery was even more thorough, and they were even more cruel to the rebellious rural nobles and officials. With these five thousand qualified leading parties familiar with the territory of the Grand Duke, Lorist commanded his troops to sweep the Duke's lord with the fallen leaves in the autumn wind, and were invincible.

The only bad thing is that Henneed asked his Silver Knights to surrender more than 2,000 soldiers from the Northland Army stationed everywhere, and then ran to the convoy camp and asked Lorist to replace the more than 2,000 people with iron armor.

The soldiers of the Northland Legion guarding the Duke's Duke's squadron, Gildusk's city, were the hands of Knight Henneed. He asked his Silver Knight to tell the squadron leader on his behalf, not to kowtow with eggs, and his vain sacrifice also implicated his family. If you want to preserve your vitality, you can surrender first, ask them to go to Sakura Ridge, and then create the glory of the Northland Legion under the leadership of Knight Henneed.

In this way, the city of Gildusque fell into Lorist's hands. Knight Henneed pulled Lorist to the Grand Duke's Mansion, saying that he wanted to satisfy one of his long-standing wishes. Lorist then realized that Knight Henneed's wish was to smash the Duke's study...

Reddy greeted him: "Sir, we found a person in the water prison of the Duke's Mansion..."

After hesitating for a while, Reddy named: "Baron Camora..."

Lorist was stunned: "Who did you say? Baron Camora?"

Henneed, who was covered in a face next to him, jumped up: "How could he be locked in a water prison? No wonder I sent someone to deliver a letter to him but couldn't find him, send him over..."

Reddy knew that the mysterious man with a mask was Knight Henneed. Seeing that Lorist also nodded, he ran out.

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Chapter completed!