"Sir, the great brave man led his troops to pursue the orcs."
Hogel frowned and said, "How many troops did he take away?"
Immediately he replied: "About three thousand people followed him."
Another person corrected: "There are not that many, there should be only a little more than 2,000 people."
Finally, someone added: "The people who followed were all from the southern border. Not many of our imperial soldiers went, at most a hundred or so."
So Hogel felt relieved and waved his hand. "Don't worry about him, just let him be... You follow me first."
Hogel led everyone towards Allen who was crying in pain. The old Duke died, and as the supreme commander, he had to show up to comfort him and handle the funeral affairs from the side.
Unexpectedly, Allen, who was crying bitterly, became excited when he saw Hogle. He drew his sword and came to kill him. The old retainers of the Duke's family were frightened and hurriedly grabbed him.
"Traitor!" Allen roared: "Everyone has seen what you did. You escaped from the battlefield and let my father face the enemy alone. Fortunately, you are still the chief knight of the empire. Where is your sense of honor? Doesn't your conscience hurt?
!?"
Hogel frowned and said: "What do you know, junior? I am the commander-in-chief of the entire army. If I rush in front and die like a reckless man, then who will command the entire army?"
Huh, being responsible for your father alone means being irresponsible to the tens of thousands of people in the entire army. If I hadn't been in charge of the overall situation and won this battle, now let alone your father, you would have to 'walk' with him!"
Allen was about to curse again, but Ronis and others had already covered his mouth and pulled him away.
Ronis trotted back and said respectfully to Hogel: "Young people are not sensible and can't speak. I hope you will understand me."
Hogel looked dissatisfied. "Huh! Don't use ignorance as a reason. If an apology can make up for everything, you can just apologize to the orcs. What else do you want from this army!?"
"Yes... you are saying..."
Ronis said in a calm voice as much as possible: "If you hadn't come all the way to help the Southern Territory, the Southern Territory would already be the territory of the orcs, and there would be no chance for a junior like Allen to act arrogantly in front of you. We don't owe you such a great favor.
It is unforgettable. Before leaving, I will give you a generous gift to express my gratitude. Now please relax, we old guys will teach that incompetent brat a lesson and teach him to come back and apologize to you."
Hogle: "Humph!"
Ronis and a group of old retainers left and returned to the angry Allen.
"Your father is dead now, have you thought about the future?"
"My dad is dead!!"
Allen's fair face flushed red, and he cried hard: "Who would have thought that he died in vain for a traitor, my innocent father! Daddy! Oh..."
Ronis was infected by his sad emotions, and the corners of his eyes became a little moist. Scenes of sharing weal and woe with the old Duke emerged, and Ronis's heart also shrank and hurt.
No matter how bright the winter sun is, it can't warm the wind in Luosuo. Ronis's thin body is as desolate as the wind. He said to Allen with some pity:
"Your family's territory was entrusted by the Urban royal family. In theory, it is just a feudal state under the suzerain. You think that the southern territory has been managed by your family for dozens of generations and is your family's property. This is not wrong, but Urban
The royal family may not necessarily agree with you in this way.
Your family's territory has always been enfeoffed by them, and they have always wanted to take it back. Five hundred years ago, there were many feudal states, and a baron and viscount could become the lord of a city and a land. Five hundred years later, we will be the only ones.
The two earls owned land, and the royal family had wiped out more than 90% of the feudal states, and its ambitions were clearly revealed.
Now that your father is dead, our southern border has ten houses and nine empty houses. We only have tens of thousands of armored men. We are unprecedentedly weak. If the royal family launches an attack in the next few years, it will be difficult for us to resist..."
"Why are they doing this to us!" Alan roared: "We defended them from the orcs in the south, and shed our blood in the southern border. The southern border belongs to my family! It belongs to our family! Anyone who wants to rob us will let his blood bleed.
, let him die!!..."
"The royal family has grown up. It has grown to the point where everything in the world is the king's land, and the shores of the land are the king's ministers. We have become dispensable...
At the beginning of the establishment of the empire, the human race was weak and the four frontiers were not stable. Urban I was able to properly manage the small area of land under the jurisdiction of the imperial capital, but it was not easy to manage the whole country. Transportation, food, money, whether officials in various places were good, local
Many problems such as the legacy of folk customs have halved the effectiveness of political orders once they leave the imperial capital, and the borderlands are even more lawless places.
Under this situation, Urban I implemented a system of enfeoffment on a large scale, distributing land that he could not control to the nobles with meritorious deeds, and letting them manage it without any interference.
Later, the human race prospered, and the foreign races fell by the wayside. Most of the alien forces on the mainland that could threaten the survival of mankind disappeared. In the eyes of the royal family, the nobles were no longer a force that protected the family and the country, but replaced the alien races and became the 'alien' that endangered their rule. Ur
From then on, the Ban royal family began to cross rivers and burn bridges, and continuously strengthened its control over the land in all directions. To this day, we aristocratic forces can only bow to them and make concessions."
Allen's blood rushed to his head, and he cried loudly and stubbornly: "If they want to take it, let them take it! We people in the south are all hard-nosed. If anyone comes to rob us, we will let him bleed and let him die!!...
"
Ronis also spoke a little irritably:
"In short, your job at this stage is to get the king to issue the 'canonization'. An important indicator to determine whether the king is malicious towards our southern border is whether the 'canonization' can be issued.
After all, our Southern Territory is just a country under the suzerain. Each successive family head who succeeds to the Southern Territory needs to be canonized by the Urban family of the suzerain. After being canonized, you are the formal and legal lord of the Southern Territory. The suzerain will not care if you do anything out of the ordinary within the territory.
;no registration
Feng is not recognized by the suzerain, and you are out of the suzerain's protection. Although you can continue to lead the southern territory, you are not the "little brother" of the empire in a legal sense. If the "big brother" of the Urban royal family wants to beat us, there will be no restraint.
…”
Allen: "Let them come! Let them come!! The hatred of killing my father is irreconcilable!!..."
"It was an orc who killed your father!! It was an orc!!!"
Ronis said angrily: "You are now the Lord of the South!! Can you not be so childish in your actions!? Listen to me, go and apologize to Mr. Hogle. He is a popular person around the king and the prince. His words
It can very much influence the empire’s view of us…”
Allen said hysterically: "Let them come! Let them come!! Kill them all!!!..."
Snap!
Ronis slapped Allen.
Elu rushed towards Ronis. "Why do you hit me!? My dad has never hit me!!"
The old retainers pulled Allen again to prevent him from jumping on Ronis.
"...You really disappoint me." Ronis's leaving figure was full of disappointment.
Ronis left, and Allen did not apologize to Hogle.
…
That night and the next day, the 15,000 ambush troops sent by Hogel to capture the rear came back one after another. The 10,000 ambush troops who ambush the werewolves and tauren suffered very few losses, and the remaining third ambush troops received very little information.
All I know is that they may have been defeated.
Xing Jun came back at noon the next day, bringing with him the third formation of ambush troops who suffered heavy losses...
The third group of ambushes ambushed the Beast King and the ten thousand beasts under his command. The angry Beast King ignored the geographical advantage of the ambush and took the lead to praise them with a fierce charge. Just as the sad orc soldiers chased the fleeing beasts
When the human race ambushed their troops, Xing Jun appeared at the right time.
The Beast King's pupils shrank.
His hunting-like steady breath eliminated the water vapor he exhaled, and the cricket stood up and shuttled through the forest, disappearing...
The Black Sheep is slaughtering the orc warriors unscrupulously! He is indeed very strong...very strong...so strong that even the heroic orc warriors cannot withstand his blow head-on!
But he can no longer act recklessly, because the greatest orc warrior Krodos is here!!
At the same time, although the Beast King hid in the forest, Xing Jun also noticed the danger through his excellent brave skills. Xing Jun noticed the danger but ignored it. The madness of the berserker after seeing the blood made him not only ignore it but also ignore it.
He was on guard, and even more proactively exposed his flaws to attract the enemy. He thought that only if his flaws were big enough and "delicious" enough, would the coward in the dark dare to rush out and bite him fiercely?
!
Xing Jun: Come out of the darkness quickly! I can feel you, I can feel your existence, my blood is agitating for you, let me see you quickly, let me see you quickly, let us fight for real
Let’s have a big fight with real guns!!
“Ouch————!!!!”
The beast king suddenly jumped down from the height.
"I'm waiting for you!!"
The red barrier suddenly opened. At this moment, whether it was the orc warriors or the human knights, their vision changed and became abnormally red. The strange blood-red world enveloped them all, and their hearts were abnormally...
Wrapped in intense fear, it was as if an abnormally cold hand stretched out from the underworld and grabbed their hearts.
Where Xing Jun was, a monster transformed from a black phantom suddenly rose up. He was as tall as two orcs, with four legs, two heads, one taller and one shorter, two hands, and a red and black hair-raising terrifying weapon.
…
The falling world of the Beast King turned red and roared subconsciously.
"————Ouch!!!!"
Xing Jun's eyes suddenly condensed. After the fighting skills were activated, his vision was also red, and a second color actually appeared in this red world - gold!!
The golden beast king descended from the sky, and a huge stone weapon that was neither a sword nor a hammer came towards him. Xing Jun could only passively block it on horseback.
With a crisp sound of "choking", the Beast King's weird weapon smashed Xing Jun's long-handled mace, and hit Xing Jun's face hard!
Xing Jun's face was violently smashed to the side. After landing, the Beast King jumped up again and smashed the weapon on his chest. Xing Jun was hit by a high-speed truck, and his body swayed inexplicably like a flag fluttering in the wind.
, the horse retreated quickly, and he almost fell off the horse. His helmet rolled to nowhere, his hair was disheveled, his breastplate was dented, and the horse staggered under his crotch as if it was lame.
"die----!!"
The Beast King jumped up again, Xing Jun's eyes were red and blood spurted out: "——Come on!!"
The broken long pole was filled with fighting energy and knocked together with it. Although it was a broken weapon, it prevented the Beast King from moving forward at all.
It turned out that he could withstand the beast king's heavy blow, but the war horse underneath him could not. The horse's eyes, nose, mouth, and ears were all bleeding and falling backwards, and behind Xing Jun was a steep cliff!!
"No——!!" Xing Jun roared.
The Beast King smiled ferociously. After landing, he did not attack Xing Jun again, but pushed Xing Jun, including his men and horses, off the cliff.
Xing Jun fell off the cliff, and the red world that enveloped everyone suddenly disappeared.
The world erupted after a brief silence. The orcs cheered and launched a counterattack towards the human pursuers. The human soldiers were so frightened that they had to be defeated. When the orcs who had been fleeing could not breathe, only two hundred of the three thousand horsemen were left.
A humanoid monster covered in blood appeared in front of them. The soldiers were frightened and were about to resist, but saw the monster running closer and roaring: "Where is the Beast King!?"
The soldiers recognized Xing Jun and hurriedly said: "Run away!!"
The unclear answer caused everyone to agree. I don't know if they ran away or the Beast King ran away. In short, he ran away.
"Go back with me!!" Xing Jun said ferociously.
More than two hundred people followed Xing's army back anxiously. The remaining soldiers gathered along the way, and the number of people returned to five hundred.
After Xing Jun climbed up a hill, he finally saw that the Beast King had indeed led his men away...
"ah--------!!!!!!!"
The humanoid beast roared in the forest: "Damn golden lion! I will skin you next time we meet!! Skin you!!!!"