Chapter five hundred and sixty nine southern acquaintances
"kill!"
A knight's castle in the south not far from Posey City is being attacked by a group of armored warriors. The originally strong iron gates are scattered on the ground. The fractures of the iron gates are very neat. It doesn't look like they were knocked open by heavy equipment such as a car. It looks like
It looks more like it was cut directly open by sharp fighting spirit.
A large group of armored guards swarmed into the castle, killing everyone they saw, including ordinary waiters.
Of course, this kind of knight's castle has a certain degree of force. There are also many guards in the castle who rush out to resist. The strength of the castle's resistance is not small. There are more than two hundred fully armed guards in a small knight's castle who resist with all their strength.
, one or two rays of fighting spirit appeared from time to time among the soldiers, obviously there was more than one knight in the team.
However, such an elite resistance force seemed weak in front of the attackers. The soldiers who rushed into the castle were a group of experienced killing machines, and many of them were elites close to the level of quasi-knights.
With the cooperation of two or three, they quickly harvested the heads of the resisting guards. Several knights in the castle were just getting angry. Before they had time to show off their power, they were suppressed by more knights from the attacking side. After a while, they turned into corpses on the ground.
To live and breathe.
"boom!"
"Who are you! I am a noble of the kingdom. Your attack on my castle has attracted the attention of Percy City. When Percy City's army arrives, none of you will survive."
Among the castle defenders, a master of the knight level actually appeared. With the sudden attack, the attacking knights suffered a small loss. Fortunately, the other two knights behind him came to rescue quickly, and the defenders were able to escape.
The Cavaliers did not achieve greater results.
Viscount Sandry is famous for his military force among the southern nobles. The peak strength of the Grand Knight is definitely top-notch among the small nobles. Some earls' houses do not have such strong military force as him.
The soldiers under him are also carefully trained. It stands to reason that even if they are defending a castle, even if they are not as strong as the opponent, they will not collapse so quickly.
Viscount Sandry didn't even understand the situation at the moment. He was practicing martial arts in the backyard not long ago, and then heard a report from his bodyguard that an unknown army was approaching.
After he finished dressing up and gathered half of his guards, the other party had somehow opened the city gate and rushed in.
The next time the two sides fought, it was even more difficult for Viscount Sandry to accept. Although the numbers were even, and his own bodyguards fought bravely, they were easily crushed by the other side. Even the quantity and quality of the knights were far inferior to the other side.
If the fight continues like this, it won't be long before there will be no survivors left in the castle.
In desperation, Viscount Sandry had to pull up the tiger skin of Posy City and try to frighten the opponent.
His castle is not far from Percy City. If he deliberately sends out a signal, Percy City will soon notice something strange in the castle. At this time, there are at least more than 200,000 troops stationed around Percy City. No matter how elite this small team is,
It is impossible to withstand the encirclement and suppression by the army.
However, he did not have the opportunity to think carefully about how such a fully armed army would be afraid of the Percy City garrison if it dared to attack a noble's castle in broad daylight without concealment.
He threatened that his words had no effect at all, and the soldiers below continued to kill and kill.
Viscount Sandry was so anxious that he attached his fighting spirit to his sword again and swept the sword towards the attacking soldiers.
As a high knight, Viscount Sandry's strength is extremely strong. With this sword, there is no problem in cutting down some ordinary elites.
"clang!"
But at the moment when he swung his long sword, the offensive officer, who had been silent all this time, suddenly swung his long sword, and the fighting spirit he released directly knocked the long sword away from his hand.
Viscount Sandry was horrified. This was at least an earth-level master, but the real master of the other party had not yet made a move.
It's just that this burning fighting spirit seems a bit familiar.
Looking towards the direction where the fighting spirit came from, there was still a resolute face, and there was something strangely familiar about it, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
"Who are you!"
"Chi!"
Before he could scream in surprise, the opponent had already jumped to his side. With a swing of his long sword, he easily knocked off the weapon in Viscount Sandry's hand, and the long sword with a golden and red fighting spirit pierced into Viscount Sandry's chest.
Viscount Sandry had almost no resistance, and the gap between the two sides was not as simple as the Great Knight and the Earth Rank.
Viscount Sandry stared at the other person with his eyes, and opened his mouth to try hard to say something, but blood poured out of his mouth in large mouthfuls.
Although Viscount Sandry never made a sound until his death, the other party could still tell what the other party wanted to say from the shape of his mouth.
"The Lord of the Rising Sun will not let the traitors go..."
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Posey City
The most important area in the southern part of the kingdom, not far from the city, is the main channel of the Jinlong River. The river is densely packed with merchant ships carrying goods without stopping for a moment. Along the coast is the great plain washed out by the river all year round. The fertile land produces enough food to supply Poxi City every year.
Costs for hundreds of thousands of people.
Originally, Posey City was managed by officials sent by the Kingdom, but in the south far away from the core of the Kingdom, powerful aristocratic forces had already penetrated all aspects of Posey City. The officials dispatched by the Kingdom had to work with the nobles of Posey City to achieve anything.
They discussed what to do. Without the cooperation of the Percy nobles, it would be difficult for the officials of the kingdom to accomplish anything in the city.
The south has always been the most powerful region of the kingdom's nobles. Except for completely separated territories like the North, the empire's control over the south is only in a few major cities. The nobles almost co-administer the south with the kingdom.
But things always happen unexpectedly. Since Prince Pare took control of Posey City, he has changed the previous situation where the kingdom and the nobles jointly governed the south. By expelling the Sea Clan, Pare almost controlled most of the army in the south.
There is a force that is not weaker than the eldest prince's iron guard, and Parley, who controls most of the trade in the south, is richer than the eldest prince, and the number of strong men he recruits is even greater than that of the eldest prince's men.
Parley is a well-known figure in Percy City. Even outside of Percy City, the weight of Parley's words in the south is much greater than in the kingdom without the Dragon Knight. The Gu raised by Charman's family is really good. Once released, all
He is an outstanding person who can control an area.
In the garden of the city lord's palace, Pare was sitting lazily on a lounge chair. There was a pot of hot tea on the table and several plates of desserts unique to the North. The maid on the side put the cakes into Pare's mouth. This was sweet but not sweet.
The greasy taste made him enjoy it.
"My brother-in-law, if nothing else, enjoys this life in a separate way. If the orcs hadn't come calling, I would have really wanted to go to Miracle City and enjoy life with him."
Although Richard is not extravagant and lustful, he still has to enjoy what he should enjoy. The enjoyment of life is absolutely unique among humans. Before Richard came, all the nobles had their fingers full of glittering things.
On weekdays, I can only eat random stews. At most, I can eat lamb that has not completely removed the smell and rub some black pepper powder on it. It can be said to be enjoyable. In Richard's opinion, these things can only be eaten.
It can barely be considered as human food, and it can be said to be comparable to the big pot rice in school.
Exquisite foods like sweet-scented osmanthus cakes and flower cakes were all passed down from cooks in the North, as well as things like soaps and cigarettes. Richard developed some simple enjoyment products based entirely on his own preferences, and he made them abruptly.
This has improved the living standards of the kingdom's nobles.
Although Pare likes to enjoy, in fact, like Richard, he has no desire for so-called luxury goods such as gem velvet. Although the city lord's palace is large, it has almost no other accessories except basic tables and chairs. Compared with his power in Posey City
It definitely looks simple.
"Your Highness, General Mixiu is back and is asking for an audience outside the city lord's palace."
"Oh, please come in, General Mishu."
When he heard that Mi Xiu came back, Pare immediately sat up straight, and the maids serving on both sides also stepped back very consciously. Pare loved to enjoy, but he was also very serious when talking about business.
This general who has the same name as the Pope of the Rising Sun Sect is the Pope himself. Things are so miraculous. This number one rebel who once assassinated the king and almost succeeded has become the Pope.
Ray's men.
It was a guy like Parley who even dared to take Mi Xiu under his control. Mi Xiu had already been disallowed by the church because he had violated the oracle and led Hussein in an internal strife at Longxing Pass, clearing out a large number of his own people.
Churches in various places received news of Misu's apostasy through their own information channels.
Misho and Hussein came to the south with a small number of knights who were willing to follow them. Before they settled down, they were attacked by the Southern Church.
The kingdom's control in the south is weak and the power of the nobles is huge. Correspondingly, the strength secretly accumulated by the church in the south is much stronger than that in the central plain.
In one attack, the church mobilized more than 500 elite soldiers, more than 20 knight-level masters and six grand knight-level masters, and all the army's crossbows and other sharp weapons were brought out.
In fact, with the power of the church in the south, it could even mobilize more troops. However, it was afraid that the commotion would be too loud and attract the attention of Pare in Posy City, so it reduced the number of personnel as much as possible and only used elite forces to attack and kill.
Mi Xiu and his party have just arrived in the south.
It's just that they misjudged Mi Xiu's strength. According to the idea of dealing with sky-level masters, they first introduced Mi Xiu into a narrow room, and then used knight-level masters to operate large war weapons such as crossbows and ordinary crossbows to cover and fire.
No matter life or death, they will be surrounded by a large number of heavily armored soldiers.
According to this arrangement, ordinary sky-level masters may fail.
It's just that they were besieging the most talented Pope in hundreds of years. Mi Xiu, who had been killing people at Longxing Pass, had more clear ideas. Coupled with the help of the slow recovery of magic power, he had already entered before arriving in the south.
Holy steps.
It is obviously unrealistic to deal with a holy class master according to the preparation of besieging the sky class masters. The holy class masters are simply not something that hundreds of elite soldiers can deal with. After a fight, the Southern Church suffered heavy losses and declared defeat.
This fight almost completely severed the remaining friendship between Mi Xiu and the church.
As for this battle, the church naively did not want to attract the attention of Pare in Posi City. In the past, when the kingdom officials were in charge of Posi City, they would have been able to hide this kind of news with a little bit of tricks, but they wanted to hide it from Pare.
It's a bit wishful thinking.
Pare not only noticed the battle, he even found out the reason for the church's dispatch and the targets of the ambush. Not only was the church heading into the kingdom, but the kingdom also had many spies buried inside the church.
After understanding what happened, Pare not only did not fear Mishu's force, he even came up with the bold idea of directly recruiting him.
I don’t know what kind of mentality Mixiu had, but after several contacts, he actually joined Pare’s command. The most important thing he did under Pare’s command was to lead a group of elites to help Pare clean up the church in Percy City.
The hidden seeds buried nearby.
A former pope came to lead the team to annihilate the Rising Sun Cult. Its efficiency can be imagined. After the orcs won successive victories on the battlefield, the remnants of the church everywhere were in great joy. On the contrary, the church in the south was originally the strongest.
In this area, they were suppressed to death, and they had no temper at all. It can be said that Mi Xiu played an indispensable role.
Shortly after the personal guard reported, Mi Xiu came to the courtyard of the city lord's palace. In order to show his attention, Parley also stood up and waited.
Despite the fact that Parley doesn't have a formal appearance in front of Richard, he actually has a character that depends on others and he has always been able to keep his bearings when facing a serious person like Mi Xiu.
Pa Lei expressed his attention, and Mi Xiu also gave him face. When he came in, he bowed to Pa Lei first, and then said:
"Viscount Sandry has been completely wiped out. In addition to Viscount Sandry, there are two priests of the Rising Sun Cult in the castle."
"Well, thank you for your hard work, General Mixiu."
Faced with Parley's polite words, Mi Xiu nodded slightly, with a non-committal attitude.
Parley was also very wise and went on to say:
"All the Sandri family's land will be used as public land and distributed to landless refugees at low rents. After the property is liquidated and calculated, it will all be used to fund the orphanage in Posey City. It is time to provide supplementary nutrition to these poor children.
"
After hearing this, Mi Xiu, who had no expression on his face at first, finally became a little shaken and nodded towards Pa Lei, which was regarded as an expression of approval.
In this era, the most indispensable thing is bankrupt refugees and helpless orphans. Ordinary small peasant families are extremely fragile. A natural disaster, an illness, or even the bad taste of a certain noble can destroy the family in an instant.
, some peasants in aristocratic territories sometimes become deserters because of the nobility's excessive taxation. These people usually do not survive for too long. Although orphans who have lost their parents are not everywhere, there are definitely a lot of them.
These people usually don't survive for too long. Deyi and Paley followed Richard's method of governing the North, dividing farmland for the refugees, adopting orphans and raising them, which can be regarded as giving these desperate people some way to survive.
It's just that Parley, who was in the south, didn't dare to do something too extreme like Richard, so he could only cut the flesh with a blunt knife, change it little by little, and rely on the powerful force in his hand to avoid causing any trouble.
Even so, Parley's actions also caused dissatisfaction among many nobles, but this dissatisfaction was nothing compared to Mi Xiu's attitude. Parley was indeed a very smart person, and after a short period of contact, he almost
Found the only way to win over Mi Xiu.
Mi Xiu is not greedy for money, sex, or power. He is almost a saint with no desires, but he is very sympathetic to the poor. Parley has basically stabilized Mi Xiu by constantly showing his caring side for the people.
Xiu, you can even try to ask Mi Xiu to do something other than wipe out the Rising Sun Cult.
"General Mixiu, how is the situation with the dwarves?"
"Sorry, I couldn't pick up that shield."
"You can't even do anything about it. The orcs have already broken the dragon's breath barrier. These dwarves are really stubborn."
The dwarves living in the southern hills are definitely a powerful force. Parre has been trying to form an alliance with them to fight against the orcs. Unfortunately, he cannot win the dwarf king's shield. No matter what conditions Parre puts forward, the dwarves will not send troops.
I originally thought that a strong saint like Mi Xiu could succeed, but I didn't expect that even someone as strong as Mi Xiu could not successfully pick up the shield.
"Forget it, no one can pick up that shield. Let's put it aside for the time being. Let's work hard to repair the general."
Even Mi Xiu failed. Parley had no choice but to temporarily give up the plan to unite the dwarves. But at this moment, Mi Xiu, who had been silent, suddenly spoke:
"If we rely on pure strength, the King of the North is stronger than me. If there is anyone else among humans who can do it, the King of the North may be able to try again."
Mi Xiu had fought against Richard, and Richard's powerful strength left some impression on him. The other party seemed to have reached the holy level. Maybe the other party could try this kind of strength-fighting thing.
When Mi Xiu said this, Pa Lei, who was about to give up temporarily, regained his energy and seemed to have found his direction again...