"Your Highness, the harvest of the capture of the Fedelica royal city is recorded here." Malek placed a crust paper folder on the table.

This is the lord's mansion in the inner city of Fedoliga. After occupying the lord's city, it naturally became the place and command center for Lorist. However, due to the president of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and a group of senior chamber officials setting fires before evacuation, the originally magnificent lord's mansion was almost burned down, and only one-third of the intact houses were rescued.

Lorist was standing in front of the window at this moment. This relatively neat side hall had been arranged into his study and the office where he summoned his subordinates to discuss matters. A large area of ​​ruins burned into broken walls in front of the side hall had been dug out several large pits. Many guards were searching for property in the big pit and the ruins with small shovels in search of rubble. The gravel garbage they filtered was piled up next to the big pit into several small mounds.

Lorist looked up at the cloudy sky, sighed and turned around and asked Malek: "Today is February 33, and the rainy season will come in two days. Look at the sky, maybe it will rain tomorrow. Are the residences of the refugees and prisoners already arranged? It will be difficult to stay in the house in the next month..."

Malek replied expressionlessly: "Your Highness, please rest assured. All the captives were concentrated in the barracks in the West City District, and Lord Bodfinger was in charge of the city defense. Lord Joester was in charge of the city, and refugees were arranged to the residences in the East City District. They were in a stable mood and were happy to serve our family. During this month of the rainy season, their supplies and order will be in charge of Lord Dolles."

"Then have the station of our family armed forces been arranged?" Lorist asked again.

"Okay, too. Lord Tiger Ross arranged the Flying Tiger Legion in the South City and the Panshi Legion in the North City. There have been temporary barracks. There will be no problems during the rainy season." said Malek.

"You guys have done a good job, very meticulous and thoughtful." Lorist praised, walked to the table and picked up the sack paper folder, opened it and looked at it, a little surprised: "Well? The Jin Fude we seized this time is only about four million?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Malek said: "These Jinfuds were found in the vault. I asked the people who were in charge of the vault. They said that this was the reserve fund of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, and most of them were used to pay the salaries and benefits of the armed legion soldiers of the Chamber of Commerce and employees of various departments of the Chamber of Commerce. The rest were used in case of shortage of funds.

The total value of all the materials we seized this time is equivalent to nearly 10 million Jinfude. Unfortunately, most of the food and material reserve warehouses were set on fire when the senior management of the Vecia Chamber of Commerce fled. Our soldiers did not rescue many food and military supplies. More warehouses were stocking with various alloy materials that were expensive but useless for our current situation."

This is expected. The Vecia Chamber of Commerce is the largest weapon and arms manufacturer of the commercial alliance. It has its own integrated mining, refining and forging systems. During the production and experiment, a large number of expensive alloy materials are stored in the warehouse for spare use. However, these materials are useless for the Norton family. Not to mention the long journey back, the weight and reserve quantity alone will cost huge transportation costs.

For the Norton family, these valuable alloy materials are simply useless, and it is a pity to lose them. After all, they are worth millions of gold. However, it is useless to transport them back, and they also cost transportation costs. You should know that the Norton family itself has a refining and forging department, and the family-style equipment produced is not inferior to the weapons and armor produced by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, and it is even worse than that.

Lorist really wanted to find someone to sell the alloy materials from Fedelica Royal City to him. The problem was that it was difficult to find a suitable person to take over the alloy materials worth millions. The Second Highness was a good candidate, but he didn't have that much money and was also thick-skinned. Lorist was sure that if he wanted to transfer this batch of alloy materials to the Second Highness, he would ensure that what he got would be white strips instead of gold coins.

Pointing at the stacks of documents and materials piled up in the corner of the study, Lorist smiled bitterly: "In the past twenty days, I have carefully checked all the documents and archives that have not been burned by the fire, but I did not find the production and ratio materials of the alloy materials. I suspect they were all burned. I don't know if Reddy and El had found clues about the material ratio technician among the prisoners. I really want to know what material the big iron gate in the North City Gate was cast..."

"Sorry, Your Highness, I have no right to ask about this matter. I don't know if Reddy and El and others have made progress." Malek still had the expressionless face.

"Oh, I forgot. I really shouldn't ask you about this. Forget it, Malek, there are many unexpected situations in this siege, which made the plan we originally formulated impossible to achieve. However, we finally captured the Fedelica Royal City and destroyed the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, which also achieved two goals. When the rainy season comes, you will be responsible for all the material allocation and jurisdiction!" Lorist patted Malek's shoulder and said.

Malek stood at attention: "Please rest assured that I will do my best to fulfill my duties. But the biggest problem now is food and grass. I have sent someone to budget. At present, the food and grass carried by our family and rescued from those burning warehouses will be enough for us to survive the rainy season if the supply is reduced slightly. But after the rainy season, we are facing the dilemma of shortage of food."

"Just get through the rainy season." Loris nodded: "After the rainy season, it is the harvesting period of winter wheat. The large wheat fields outside the city are enough to provide us with food for a period of time. When the sky clears, the tiger Ross will lead the Flying Tiger Legion to sweep away all the territorial nobles of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce in Podoorge. At that time, there will naturally be food and supplies seized. At the same time, Bodefinger will also lead the Rock Legion to attack Campona Province, and then you can get food and enemies.

After the sky clears, the logistics and supplies team of Andrewev Province will also escort a large amount of supplies, and Josk's hunting cavalry regiment will also arrive here, and they will escort more than 100,000 immigrants to the north. If the population of the Fedoliga Royal City is less than this 100,000, the food pressure will naturally be reduced. At that time, the seized and newly harvested winter wheat will be enough for our family to spend several months on daily consumption."

What Lorist hated the most was that when the senior executives of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce abandoned the city and fled, they really set fire to the commercial area and food and material reserve warehouses in the south of the royal city. Just as the envoy said, once the city fell, they would burn the city and never leave the royal city intact to the Norton family. Since the senior executives of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce could do what they said, Lorist was unwilling to break his promise. After capturing the senior executives of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, regardless of the status and influence of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce in the commercial alliance, he insisted on killing all the senior executives of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and their relatives, resulting in the removal of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce.

When the food and supplies warehouses caught fire, Lorist immediately gave up the pursuit and led the guards to put out the fire. The efforts of two days and three nights only saved one-third of the food reserves. After the capture of the Royal City of Fedeliga, the total number of people in the city was nearly 280,000, and the supply of food and supplies was indeed tight. So for the next ten days, the Norton family armed forces kept escorting the prisoners to find food hidden under the ruins in various cities of the Royal City.

After Malek left, Reddy and El came. After the newly formed miner garrison armed forces of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce put down their weapons and surrendered, Lorist handed over the task of identifying the technicians and useful talents among the captives to Reddy and El. Judging from their expressions, this task was obviously done well.

"Your Highness, this is a list of identified persons, a total of 178 people. Most of them are technicians, and some are technical managers. Their families are lucky to not die in the battle. We believe that after moving them to the North, they will be smoothly integrated into our family territory." El report said.

"Your Highness, we also found the material refiner who casts the large iron gate. His name is Motilla, forty-seven years old, single. According to people who know him, he is a technical madman who is obsessed with material refining and synthesis." Reddy told Lorist about it again.

"Oh, how did you find him?" Lorist was very happy.

"This was him who ran out by himself." Reddy laughed: "When we were looking for someone to ask in the prison camp, Motilla suddenly rushed over and hugged a guard, muttering something in his mouth. We were all shocked. At first we thought it was attacked and almost cut him down. But later we found out that he hugged the guard for the steel armor he wore. At that time, he looked at the armor we wore and his eyes shone brightly. We thought he was a madman, but when we asked the people next to us, we realized that he was really a technical madman. When we met the materials he was interested in, we forgot everything. We heard that the two large iron gates at the North City Gate were also cast by the materials he provided, so we brought him back directly. Your Highness, do you want to see him?"

"What is he doing now?" Lorist was really curious.

"He grabbed our armor and kept putting it on. After he brought him back, we threw a spare steel bracelet at him. Now he is studying the bracelet in a room. He doesn't care about it. He only needs paper and pen, and it seems that he wants to infer the steel bracelet's ratio..." Reddy thought for a while and guessed.

"Well, let him study the steel bracelet there. After the rainy season, I will send him to our family's iron ore refining base and hand it over to Master Sid, telling him that this man is a precious talent and should not be taken slowly." Lorist said.

"Yes, Your Highness."

...

The mountain road was covered with blood, and the corpses fell to death one by one on the other. Their bodies either had feather arrows or large bones collapsed, which was a wound hit by heavy objects.

"Your Majesty, we really can't attack. The snow-flowing mountain road is too slippery. The enemy is condescending and has a well-protected castle. We have lost three squads of 100 people, but we haven't even touched the edge of the castle..." Lipired stood in front of His Highness dejectedly. As the second highness's most trustworthy Golden Knight and the most elite armed force in the Andinak Kingdom, the commander of the Blizzard Raider Corps led 3,000 people to attack a small castle with less than 1,000 people but lost troops, which made him feel ashamed.

The second prince also had a gray face, and he looked at the small castle standing on the edge of the cliff at the end of the mountain road, and was extremely depressed. After launching a winter raid on the northwest region in late December last year, the news of good news spread and was invincible all the way. First, he dealt with the garrison army deployed by Grand Duke Ztulam in the border fortress, and sent a 28,000-man legion to make a good start for the raid.

Immediately afterwards, His Highness led the Storm Raiders to sweep across most of the northwest region, and wiped out more than 30 territorial nobles enthroned by the commercial alliance. His Blizzard Raiders lost less than a thousand people. It was at this time that the enemy finally discovered His Highness's Raiders. The alarm bell kept ringing, beacon fired, and wolf smoke was everywhere.

At that time, the Second Highness thought that the enemy's situation was gone and there was no other way to go except surrender. The Second Highness was very proud and decided to torture him hard after he caught the Grand Duke Ztulam and then execute him.

I remember that Zturam was an earl of the Kingdom of Reedlis and his territory was in Andrewev Province. Because he opposed surrendering to His Highness, he gathered nearly 10,000 people to fight against the kingdom's rebellion, and set up a conspiracy to lure the rebellion army into a trap. A flood caused the second highness to ashes to ashes to ashes.

The second highness hated the Grand Duke of Ztulam to the core. At that time, he was defeated by the Royal City of Fedoliga. This Zitulam defected to the Commercial Alliance and was named Grand Duke. He also cut off the province of Hansdemos from the newly ascended Queen Carrey, and joined forces with the northwest to establish the Principality of Ztulam as a buffer state between the Commercial Alliance and the Kingdom of Andhinac.

Later, with the help of the Norton family armed forces, the second highman overthrew the usurped Queen Carrie and ascended the throne again, and asked the Norton family armed forces to recover the province of Hansdemos. This Grand Duke Ztulam was very aware of it and retreated his troops back to the northwest region, so that the Norton family won without fighting and regained the province of Hansdemos for the Kingdom of Andhinac.

In the next few years, the Grand Duke Ztulam stayed in the northwest region very peacefully and did not make any provocations against the Kingdom of Andhinak. His garrison army was also very aware of the current affairs and stayed ten miles away from the border line, guarding the dangerous situation to avoid conflicts with the Royal Guards guarding the border of Hansdemos.

But no matter how Grand Duke Ztulam acted harmless, he was still a thorn in the heart of the Second Highness, and it was uncomfortable to not pull out Ski. The Second Highness used the winter raid to catch Grand Duke Ztulam off guard. With the help of the cold winter, he had no way to escape, and became the defeated general of the Second Highness so that the Second Highness could avenge his revenge...

But the Second His Highness did not expect that Grand Duke Ztulam arranged the alarm system in the northwest region so perfectly. As soon as he received the alarm, he prepared for a decisive battle in his own castle. The Second His Highness besieged Grand Duke Ztulam's castle until mid-February, and with the help of the belated catapult cart, he broke the castle. Unfortunately, Grand Duke Ztulam ran away again. In February, snow turned into snow. The Second His Highness's blizzard raid was unable to use snowboards, so he led Grand Duke Ztulam to escape to the small castle on the edge of the cliff with more than 300 cavalrymen.

The mountain road was rugged and slippery, and the attacking soldiers would fall accidentally. Even after attacking several times, they were defeated by the guards in the castle with crossbows and rolling wooden stones, with heavy casualties.

"If the catapult can come, we will definitely be able to capture this small castle with the help of the shield car!" Lipid said unwillingly.

The Second His Highness shook his head: "The road is muddy and difficult to walk. The rainy season is coming soon. The catapult cart cannot come immediately. Let's do this first, don't worry, he can't escape. Let's withdraw our troops first, choose high ground nearby to set up camps, and wait for the rainy season to launch an attack. By then, this traitorous traitor will still fall into our hands..."

"Yes, your majesty," said Lipid.

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Chapter completed!