Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 15 13. The Fall of Roth

gray goose deal

On September 996, 9, the Emperor of God, the road from Viscount Rotor to Baron Galloping Horse was almost flat, with only a small river and some sparse trees.

A convoy is marching along the dirt road between the two castles, led by the steward of the Roth domain. The entire convoy consists of 6 carriages and transports 1 ton of grain, 15 pieces of pork, spices, wood, live poultry, etc. Supplies, these things are all on the list that Viscount Rott made a few days ago.

According to the verbal agreement between Viscount Rotor and the Gray Goose Tribe, after obtaining these items, the Gray Goose Tribe will return to the north, and this barbarian's southward movement will end.

Just a few hundred meters behind the convoy, 25 armored knights were following the truck far away, and the leader was Viscount Bob, the former deputy head of the Maned Wolf Knights.

Since Bob went to the Benma Plain 8 years ago, he met the leader of the Gray Goose Tribe who had just eaten the salt mine at that time. Since then, the business relationship between the two has continued. The salt business in the territories of several viscounts and barons also introduced the Frostwolf family from the royal capital Dragon Tooth City to the Gray Goose Tribe.

The business of this family covers many kingdoms and principalities, and it can be regarded as a large business family in the entire human race, as well as the young man from the Blue Dragon family.

After introducing the two people to the Gray Goose Tribe, the tribe has entered a new stage. From the third year of their acquaintance, the Gray Goose Tribe sold more black scale horses to Bob every year, and Bob knew If you want gray geese to provide more horses, you need to give them more food.

So Bob's caravan went to the Gray Goose Tribe every spring and autumn, and sent another caravan to the Marquis's territory in the south of the Dragon to buy a large amount of old grain. Black-scaled horses and salt were exchanged for gold coins on the plain. This was the business practice of the Rot family.

Of course, it is impossible to completely offset the price of 20 war horses with only grains, so it is necessary to purchase rune versions, magic crystals, magic sealing boxes, magic pattern lamps, and other magic tools that rely on magic crystals to operate from the capital.

The barbarians have salt mines and war horses, but gold coins are not very useful to the barbarians. At the same time, the tents of the barbarians on the grasslands are far less comfortable than the castles full of magic circles of the human nobles, so the barbarians who have obtained a lot of cash are eager to exchange gold coins for improving their lives. Quality magic tools.

At the same time, because the demon possessors of the barbarians cannot feel the operation of magic, they cannot understand even the simplest rune boards, and there is no need to worry that these rune boards will be prevented by the barbarians.

However, Viscount Bob still did not expect that the Gray Goose tribe had become stronger than he imagined in the past seven years of continuous trade.

In the first year of business, the leader of the Gray Goose tribe gave all the salt in the camp to Bob Viscount, and also sold him his mount, which allowed Viscount Bob to feel the level of strength of the Gray Goose tribe.

However, only in the second year, when Bob brought Mace Frostwolf to the Gray Goose Tribe, Gray Goose had already prepared enough black-scaled horses, so that the viscount even felt that the goods he brought could not bring all the horses. Walk.

In the third year, Bob needs to sell some rune boards and magic crystals. After that, Bob is no longer the biggest business target of the Gray Goose Tribe. trade, while he himself fell behind.

What made Bob intolerable was that since before spring, Bob even heard that other viscounts in the earldom were also coming and going with gray geese.

In Bob's eyes, the so-called Gray Goose Tribe is just an agent on the Galloping Horse Plain supported by himself. Although this tribe is a large tribe in the southern part of the Galloping Horse Plain, it is impossible for the barbarians in the tribe to add up. More than 100 people.

They also need to invest more than 50 people to maintain the vigilance of the salt mine, and they also need to put some cavalry on the Cornicol Pass for vigilance, and no more than 20 cavalry can go to the Barony of Galloping Horse.

Bob has entered the plain many times, and he has a good understanding of the habits of the barbarians. Although the barbarians have the physique of an intermediate knight, they are only a general concept.

Just like the black-scaled horse is indeed a good horse, but in various knight orders, even the black-scaled horse needs several months of training before it can be called a qualified war horse.

Barbarian tribes cannot use combat skills or fighting spirit in battle, and barbarian cavalry with strong physique can only charge hard.

The strength of human knights lies in the changes in combat habits, senses, and moves that dou qi has brought about. After long-term dou qi training, junior knights can condense dou qi in their bodies and attach them to their bodies to strengthen their bodies even if they cannot use their dou qi skills on the Galloping Horse Plain. You can still fight back and forth with the barbarians.

Viscount Bob, who had many battlefield experiences, decided to teach Gray Goose a lesson.

Bob is the most talented and capable viscount after the Galloping Horse family moved into the territory of Rott. He is a senior knight himself and has many connections in Dragon Tooth City and Maned Wolf City.

After being sealed off, Bob dredged up the relationship between Maned Wolf City, Dragon Tooth City and several other earls and marquis cities, and at the same time sent the caravan to the Galloping Horse Plain, turning his Rot territory into a border trade hub. Transit place.

With the gold coins brought by the trade, Bob himself also selected 12 junior knights and 5 intermediate knights from his colleagues and classmates of the former knight order to come to the territory to become his own family knights.

Now the knight squadron with 25 knights is Bob's greatest reliance. With such strength, Bob is not afraid of the barbarian cavalry that the Gray Goose tribe can come.

In Bob's view, the Galloping Horse Plain is the future land of prosperity for his family.Now the Gray Goose Tribe relied on their own rise to count, but they actually planned to invade the south, forcing themselves to pay for food in the name of lack of food.

Originally, he wanted to spread the Baron of the Running Horse and let the barbarians take them away. Rotor sent out some non-monsters to re-enter the Baron, making the Baron of the Running Horse a territory that was nominally kept by the people but the nobles were taken captive. As the close branch of Huck, the Viscount can put his youngest son there as a baron.

My own knight group can arrange some to be entrusted knights, and then go to the Galloping Horse Plain to do business with gray geese, and even take care of the Galloping Horse family.

However, by coincidence, the side branch of my family didn't understand things, and didn't know how to shelter the main branch, so the fourth son of the youngest baron ran away with the whole leader;

Feng Jun listened to and sat on the sidelines, covering the knights in Maned Wolf City; now he can only rely on himself, with the accumulated knights, to drive out these barbarians.

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As the carriage gradually moved forward, the steward of Rothland could already see Baron Galloping Horse's castle.

After continuing for a short time, a patrolling barbarian cavalry came over. After a simple inquiry, the cavalry led the steward and the convoy to the castle.

In the original baron's room on the second floor of the castle, Butler Root met the Gray Goose leader.

"Has the viscount's supplies arrived?" the leader asked indifferently

"Yes, Lord Gray Goose, my viscount has sent 6 carts of supplies, and they are just outside the castle. Please check, sir."

"Okay, let me take a look." The gray goose leader finished the list of goods on the carriage handed over by the butler. "Very good, it seems to be consistent with what we agreed on."

"Of course, my Lord Viscount always keeps his word. Do you see your team?"

"Of course it is in accordance with the agreement with the viscount to evacuate here." The leader smiled, greeted the barbarians in the baron's castle, and prepared to leave.

Soon 25 cavalry gathered in the castle, and then 10 people guarded 6 carriages. The other 15 people were divided into 2 waves, 10 people led the way, and 5 people stayed behind.The carriage escorted by a group of people marched northward.

On the way from the Galloping Horse Territory to the plain, you will pass through a section of Rott Territory.There is a small forest on the dirt slope beside the road.Here lie Viscount Rotor and his squadron of knights.

The Viscount first saw 10 barbarians walking in front of the carriage, and then the first carriage. At this time, all the knights had mounted their horses. When the third carriage passed by, the Viscount led the knight squadron to rush down from the slope.

The barbarians had already seen them when the Viscount just rushed out of the woods. Without any hesitation, all the barbarians gave up their carriages and headed towards the Cornico Pass.

Although the barbarian cavalry were all in leather armor, and the viscount's knights were all in iron armor, the distance between the two sides was getting closer.

The first group of combat skills that members of the Knights need to train is to pass their fighting spirit to their mounts. Therefore, in the south of the Cornico Valley, even lightly armored cavalry cannot run against armored knights.

The distance between the two sides kept getting closer, and Bob had already seen the last cavalryman in front of him. He concentrated his fighting spirit on the tip of the lance. Although the spear point was still a little away from the barbarian cavalry's back, the fighting spirit had already rushed into the cavalry's body, the thin leather armor was torn apart, and the cavalry fell to the ground.

There is another hill ahead. When entering the uphill, all the horses will slow down, but the knights can keep the horses at a faster speed through fighting spirit, especially the black-scaled horses. The magical elements of the wind system can be condensed on the horseshoes, and the knights They can make the proportion of wind element on the horseshoe higher and flow more smoothly through fighting spirit.

In an instant, Bob pierced the second barbarian, who was picked off his horse by Bob before he even had time to shout, and then the third and fourth barbarians.

Finally, all the remaining 19 barbarians ran to the top of the slope, and then continued to run northeast along the edge of the slope.

Bob is willing to let them go at this moment.However, just as Bob was concentrating on picking out a cavalryman, his helmet was suddenly bumped.

Bob was wearing an iron helmet, his eyesight was narrow, and he was staring at the barbarian cavalry in front of him, so he didn't know anything about the flanks.

At this moment he heard other knights shouting again, so he opened his helmet.

Around the slope, about 150 cavalry were surrounding Bob's knights.

These cavalry did not stop, but circled around Bob's knights.

This was the first time Bob saw so many barbarian cavalry as Viscount Rotor.

The knights gathered together, and at this moment Bob knew that he had been tricked, not only him, but Huck and the Earl of the Maned Wolf.

From the very beginning, Gray Goose didn't intend to rob the family and leave, and even said that Gray Goose didn't rob Rand and they might not.

This gray goose is really crazy now, and actually brought a large group of barbarians to the interior of the dragon kingdom.

"Why, some cavalry dare to challenge the knight?" Rot sneered. "When will you barbarians have this illusion, thinking that if you have more people, you can defeat the knight?"

Roth shouted, and all members of the Cavalier Squadron immediately took a charge formation, and the entire squadron rushed in one direction.

There was a loud "boom", and the Viscount cavalry fell to the ground before breaking through, and then many knights heard a strange whistle, which was melodious and melodious.

With the sound of the whistle, the horses under the knights' crotches suddenly became agitated. Without the strongest captain, the horses were agitated again, and the formation of the remaining knights was quickly broken.

With the roar, 150 barbarian cavalry rushed into the formation of the knights in a roundabout way.Although the knights could barely control the horses at this moment, they had no intention of fighting against the barbarians who were so numerous.

"Boom" was another sound. A mid-level knight was hit by a bolt of lightning and fell to the ground. Then the leader of the barbarian tribe rode into another mid-level knight. He was thrown off his horse and pierced by many cavalry spears.

The combat strength of the 6 intermediate knights and above was instantly reduced by half, and the remaining junior knights and knight apprentices were in no mood to fight again at this moment, and they all prepared to break through on their own.

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As the setting sun set, on the tower of the Rotor Castle, a demon possessor of the Rotor family was looking in the direction of the Cornico Pass in vain.This Demon Owner is the illegitimate son of Viscount Rot, originally the Viscount would not care about such an illegitimate child, but this 16-year-old child inspired the Demon Owner.

Although there is basically no potential for promotion, it has added combat power to the family after all, so Viscount Rotor stayed in the castle to guard the castle when the Viscount led the main force out.

The illegitimate child watched a group of knights turning over from the northern hillside. They were riding black scale horses, holding the temperament of Rott's territory.

"Finally back, the barbarians are gone!" The illegitimate son didn't think much, and led the demonless man in the castle to the gate of the castle to welcome the Viscount.

As the knights got closer, the illegitimate son repeatedly rehearsed in his heart how to appreciate the bravery of Lord Viscount and the strength of his brothers.However, what he didn't expect was that the knights just stopped in front of them, and one of them said loudly, "The viscount is injured, get out of the way!"

"Father, you are so powerful... What? The Viscount is injured?... Hurry up and get out of the way, let the Viscount go in quickly, don't get in the way."

The knights entered the castle with the viscount in their arms, and the illegitimate son hurriedly led the non-monsters into the castle in a panic.

"Father, how are you? Are you seriously injured? Do you want to go to Maned Wolf City and invite a priest?" The illegitimate son followed the knight team all the time, but watched the "Lord Viscount" who was facing away from him take off his helmet , the illegitimate child suddenly felt that this figure was very strange, "Father...Father?"

When the other party turned around, the bastard saw an unfamiliar face, and he froze in place.

(End of this chapter)