Chapter 484 Civil strife (I)

The news brought by Aridori was very messy. She said that something happened to the Norton family was not the news from the north, but the Masa Knight of the Dinner family garrison sent her a letter from the front line of the Farichu Plain that it was said that there was a civil strife in the Norton family. The three armed armed armed forces in the Norton family insisted on setting off to return north. His Majesty the King regretted it, so the Dinner family garrison also wanted to come back.

However, because the journey is long and the trophys he received, more than 1,200 members of the Dina family garrison are expected to return to the family territory of Dremke Province in May and June next year. The Masa Knights have arranged for the family garrison to spend this winter and rainy season in the imperial capital before going on the road. In addition, a list of trophys are attached. Due to the care of the Norton family armed forces, the Dina family garrison has suffered minor casualties and made huge profits. The total value of the trophys obtained is nearly 3,000 gold fortitude...

Lorist had no objection to the Dinner family garrisons drinking soup after the Norton family armed forces, and was not interested in how much property they robbed in the Manaqiu Plain. He was concerned about the three major armed forces of the Norton family gangs in the letter that the three Armed Forces of the Norton family stopped fighting and set off for a return due to civil strife in the north. Unfortunately, the Masa Knights had only heard of it. They mentioned it in the letter and did not know what happened in the north...

"Yali, last time you said you sent servants to Northland to deliver letters to your sister, but you were stopped at the ferry. It is said that the First Legion of the Norton Family Guards took over Jiangfang and temporarily cut off the traffic contact between Northland and the outside world, right?" Lorist asked.

"Yes." Aridori nodded: "The ferry bridge downstream of the Midobro River has been demolished, and only two river boats can cross the river. However, a notice was posted at the ferry saying that because the Grand Duke of the North and the Storm Sword Saint were seriously injured, in order to prevent the enemy from making plans, the Grand Duke of the North was temporarily cut off cross-strait traffic during the Grand Duke of the North, and the ferry was opened after the situation stabilized. So the servants I sent to deliver the letter came back."

It was a little strange. Is there something really wrong with the family? Lorist touched his beard and thought that the beard he had now been half an inch long. When he was washing his face in the morning, he looked like Zhang Fei from the reflection of the basin in the past folk legend.

In July, because Aridori had never received letters from her sister Finna Galli and aunt Dilliana, and her younger brother who was concerned about studying at the North Dawn Academy, she wrote several letters for the two servants to send to the North Dawn. Of course, in the letter, she did not reveal what Lorist had received at Baron Dinner. Instead, she showed great concern about Lorist's whereabouts and recovery of her injuries. As Lorist's lover and mother of the illegitimate child, she performed very perfectly, so that even if these letters fell into the hands of others, she would not have any doubts.

But what Aridoly didn't expect was that the two servants who delivered the letter came back half a month, and the news brought to her was that the Norton Family Armed Guards First Legion took over the river defense of the Mitobro River. Not only did they demolish the downstream pontoon bridge, but they also blocked the iron chain bridge to Winston Province. It is said that because the Grand Duke of the North and the Storm Sword Saint were seriously injured and needed to rest, and at the same time, in order to prevent the plot of those who were ill-intentioned, the traffic to the North was cut off.

Unable to believe, Aridori ran to find Lorist. Lorist felt it was normal at the time. When she left the Northland, she entrusted the safety of her family territory to the commander of the First Legion of the Guards. Now that she is not in the Northland, the Commercial Alliance sent a great sword master to assassinate him, so the focus of attention is naturally on the Northland. Although there is no need to worry about the safety of her family, the Northland is always harassed by those great sword masters. It should be a normal reaction to Berunek taking over the river and cutting off traffic.

But now Aridori has brought information from the Northland again. This information is still coming from the three armed armed legions of Norton on the front line of the Mana Hill Plain. Moreover, the three armed legions of the Norton family set off directly to return north. It seems that something big should have happened.

However, what does the second highman say in the letter of the Knight Masa said that the second highman regretted it? Could it be that the second highman was interfered with the rebellion that occurred in the Norton family? This is impossible. The second highman is not a brainless person. Lorist has now become the sword saint in the country. If he doesn't coax it, he will make trouble for the Norton family at this time, and his head must have been kicked by a donkey...

Lorist thought for a long time but couldn't think of anything going on in the family territory. Berunek could not have betrayed him at all. Fatty Shi was his close friend. The commander of the Second Guards, the capital of the northern region, Ovikis, was a bandit, was loyal to him. Moreover, the family territory also had the Wolibel Intelligence Investigation Bureau controlled by Schwart and Tager. Lorist could not think of anything that would become the root cause of the family territory's chaos.

Lorist finally decided to let Reddy go to the north to see what happened. Now the internal injuries in his body have been treated almost. In two or three months, he can re-ed up the Golden Water Jue and restore his strength. Moreover, he will no longer need Reddy to help him guide his internal force when running Danhai Qi Jue. Anyway, Reddy was also very restless during this period. He cooked rice with Aridoly's maid Sunilulu, but refused to agree to marry her when he would, which almost made Aridoly bleed.

Reddy accepted Lorist's mission and patted his butt and went away with tears in the tears of his little lover Suniluru. His journey was to first go to Shilovas Island, and then take the island's boat to the north. It was estimated that this round trip would take three to four months. But what Lorist did not expect was that in less than two months, Reddy rushed back in the end of December, and he brought someone, that is, Tager, who mastered the Norton family's intelligence system.

With Tagel, the changes that happened in the North soon appeared clearly before Lorist.

In August of the previous year, Lorist confronted the Storm Sword Saint on the front line, both of which were both defeated. The news reached the north, and the senior officials of the Norton family were both excited and sad. What was excited was that Lorist became the Sword Saint of the Town Kingdom. What was sad was that Lorist was seriously injured and was taken to the imperial capital for recuperation.

Then the Hunting Legion did not obey Shi Fatty's orders. Joest and the Tiger Ross of the Flying Tiger Legion privately led their troops to the south to find trouble from the Commercial Alliance to avenge Lorist. Shi Fatty had no choice but to let the Knights of the Rage Bear stationed in Vandenas go to the empty Makinohara Province to guard against the attack and harassment of the Kusman Rangers.

Similarly, Tiger Ross and Jost led two legions to the front and left a mess for Fatty Shi. Nearly 500,000 immigrants who were forced to migrate were left in the southern province. The commander of the Fourth Guards Legion and El, the commander of the Fifth Temporary Guards Legion, complained. On the one hand, the order of these immigrants was maintained, and on the other hand, the logistics supply line for eleven provinces must be guaranteed. The total strength of the Fourth Guards Legion and the Fifth Temporary Guards Legion is not enough.

Fatty Shi had no choice but to draw a corps from the Second Guards to send reinforcements. In this way, the Second Guards stationed in the south of the north and the south were only one corps left to be responsible for the garrison of the capital Ao Xiong City. Fatty Shi had no choice but to let the commander of the Berunek Legion of the First Guards to draw a corps to take over the three external passages.

Last January, Lorist was assassinated by the great sword master sent by the Commercial Alliance in the Imperial Capital. He was protected by the Great Sword Master and Reddy and fled to Dremke Province. Then the Great Sword Master and Georio led the guards to attract the attention of the great sword master who came to assassinate, and returned to the north to the Angry Bear City. Reddy and Lorist disappeared and there was no news.

Immediately afterwards, the Great Bear City was harassed by the great sword master. Fortunately, Princess Celivia's adoptive mother, Xianti, was there. She and Sius's great sword master, as well as Fatty Shi's grandfather, Yingjielek, became the three guardian gods of the family, and stopped the great sword master of the Commercial Alliance's great sword master from the central castle of the Rising Bear City. However, the news that the whereabouts of the Norton family's head Lorist had disappeared began to spread in the north.

No one expected that at the most dangerous critical moment of this family territory, the commander Hanske of Fenglin Villa suddenly attacked. He first invited the commander of the First Guards Legion, saying that he wanted to inquire about the whereabouts of Lorist. As an old minister of the Norton family, he was naturally very concerned about the missing head of the family. The commander of the Beruneck Legion was born in Fenglin Villa and could not refuse the invitation of the commander Hanske, so he went to the banquet.

At the banquet, General Manager Hanske suggested that the whereabouts of the family head are unknown and the people in the north are panicked. Can we let the eldest son of Fenglin Villa come out and temporarily serve as the temporary head of the family to stabilize the situation and people's hearts in the north?

The commander of the Berunek Legion rejected the request of General Hanske, but unexpectedly, General Hanske came prepared. He hired two great sword masters from somewhere, suppressed the commander of the Berunek Legion on the spot, and placed him under house arrest in Fenglin Villa. At the same time, he summoned the old subordinates to control the First Guard Legion, and convened the garrisons of various towns in the original family territory, and soldiers were angry with Bear City in the name of Master Leskert as the temporary head of the family...

"Wait..." Loristmas was puzzled: "I clearly cleaned up people from Fenglin Villa in the three major guards and family armed forces. So how did Hanske summon his old subordinates to control the First Guards, and how did the soldiers of the legion be tempted by Hanske?"

"Oh..." Tagel sighed: "Your Highness, you have ignored a family garrison armed forces. It is the security camp."

Lorist suddenly realized that most of the security battalions were composed of retired soldiers from three major legions, and were responsible for guarding the material warehouses, prisons, top-secret industrial and mining workshops and production bases in the family territory, and also to give these retired family soldiers a place to make use of their remaining energy. The Norton family armed forces had a total of five security battalions, all in the original family territory of the Northland.

At least one or two thousand people joined the family armed forces more than ten years ago in Fenglin Villa. At that time, Lorist, who had just returned to the family territory, only regretted the few soldiers, and almost wiped out all the young and strong people in Fenglin Villa into the family armed forces. As time passed, these family soldiers from Fenglin Villa were also replaced by new soldiers. After they retired, they joined the security camp and continued to serve the family.

In terms of loyalty, the soldiers of the security camp are of course the most loyal to the Norton family. But there is still a question whether they are loyal to Lorist. In a way, they are more like being branded as Maplewood Villa, and Lorist vigorously promotes foreign talents to reject people from Maplewood Villa, which makes them feel abandoned. Therefore, the eldest young master Leskert, who was born in Maplewood Villa, is more likely to gain their loyalty.

Since the soldiers of these guard battalions retired from various legions of the family, and before retirement, they were mostly soldiers leaders, so after responding to the call of General Hanske, they replaced the middle and low-level officers of the First Guards' Army, and easily controlled the entire legion. As for the garrisons in those towns, it was also because of retired veterans. Because they had experienced in various legions of the family armed forces, most of the garrisons in the towns served as captain. When they called up, the garrisons below naturally followed blindly...

Lorist's face became ugly: "Has Baron Shred taken any effective measures?"

Tager smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, Lord Shred and Superintendent Spel fell into the trap at that time and was under house arrest by General Hanske..."

Tager continued to tell that after taking control of the First Guards, General Hanske summoned the town garrisons from all over the country to gather nearly 50,000 troops to march towards the City of Nuxiong. Lord Owikis, the commander of the Second Guards who were responsible for guarding the City of Nuxiong, was not outdone. Although he had only one corps under his command, he still refused to surrender and strengthened the city defense of the City of Nuxiong, and prepared to fight against the rebels of the First Guards and the garrisons of each town.

As the family civil war was about to break out, Fatty Shi and Superintendent Spel decided to leave the city to persuade General Hanske to stop and not become the eternal sinners of the Norton family. Unexpectedly, they were also under house arrest by the crazy General Hanske as soon as they left. If they hadn't pretended to agree with General Hanske's proposal to make the eldest son Lesket persuade the temporary head of the family, maybe General Hanske would hang Fat Shi to death on the spot.

It is said that General Hanske angrily denounced Fatty Shi as a villain. Lorist believed that Fatty Shi had entrusted all the family's administrative power to make the family go on a wrong path. Fatty Shi was very depressed and asked him what he had done wrong and what was wrong path that the family went on? Chief Hanske thought for a long time but didn't think it out. He was so angry that he wanted to order Fatty Shi to hang him.

At this time, Director Kodan came out to persuade him, saying that Fatty Shi was the most important confidant of Lorist. If he was hung, he would be furious after Lorist returned. At that time, not only would General Hanske's plan be shattered, but he would also implicate the eldest master Lesket and Mrs. Elinna of Fenglin Villa. Chief Hanske had no choice but to suppress his anger and put Fatty Shi and Supervisor Spel under house arrest.

Lorist was also very depressed. He asked Tager: "What is Hanske's plan? No matter how he travels now, once I return to the family territory, he will only be in vain. Isn't he afraid of the bigger the trouble, the more severe the punishment I will be when I come back?"

"It's so, Your Highness, Chief Kodan revealed that General Hanske sent an envoy to the front line of the Plains of Manulichurch, and in the name of the Norton family, he asked His Majesty the King to make the Grand Master Leskert the acting head, and handle the Norton family affairs before the Lorist's injury was not recovered. He also expressed that the three armed armed forces of the Norton family would cooperate with His Majesty the King to attack the Commercial Alliance and win the victory of the Battle of Manulichurchurchurchurchurch."

Tager replied: "The plan of General Hanske is to allow Master Lesket to gain the approval of His Majesty the King to suppress Lorist. No matter what, Lorist is also the Grand Duke of the North of the Andinak Kingdom. Even if he becomes a swordsman, he must respect His Majesty the King's opinion. In this way, even if Lorist returns, he will not be able to punish Master Lesket. General Hanske hopes to divide the North into two parts, and hand over the original family territory to Superintendent Lesket, and the rest of the territory of the North will still be under the jurisdiction of the Grand Duke of the North!"

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