Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 33 31. Contact
The horseshoes fell on the ground and stirred up dust. The knights on the horses were armed with long spears and iris shields, and they confronted each other hundreds of meters away with the round shields and scimitars of the barbarian David.From time to time, the knights approached the barbarian team, and after a little contact, they separated again. Occasionally, the knights would attack the barbarian cavalry with their spears, and the dexterous cavalry dodged immediately.The barbarian cavalry can also shoot arrows with bows, but unfortunately, the beast-tooth arrows shot by the composite short bow cannot penetrate the knights in iron armor at all.The two teams circled each other, sometimes approaching and sometimes separating.

Blue Magpie Castle, the Earl of the Maned Wolf is standing on the watchtower watching the mutual temptation between the first team of the Maned Wolf Knights and 30 barbarian cavalry.After several years of accumulation, the armor of the Maned Wolf Knights and the black-scaled horses are in order, and each team has a high-level knight as the leader. It can be said that a team of knights of the same size can completely defeat a barbarian cavalry team twice as large as itself.

Now the leader of the knights outside the city is the eldest son of the maned wolf. As a leader of the younger generation, the eldest son has strong talents in fighting spirit, equestrian skills and moves, but lacks combat experience.

Fortunately, this kind of mutual testing is not for fighting for life, but a mutual testing between opponents.

Ever since Earl Maned Wolf noticed the intention of the barbarians, which was to prevent the vassal knights from all over the northwest from approaching Blue Magpie Castle, and then break them one by one, the Earl has been thinking of a way.The current situation between the Maned Wolf and Gray Goose is that the sum of the Knights of the Maned Wolf and all the vassals' knights is stronger than the sum of the cavalry of the Gray Goose, but the Gray Goose is now divided into 5 armies, except for those under the Blue Magpie Castle. 100 people, the rest turned into a small force, harassing the vassals' territory, and disturbing the vassals' assembly to the Blue Magpie Castle.The Earl's Knights, who had no vassal army to plunder, hedged against 100 cavalry, the loss was too great, and the Earl was reluctant.

If you want to break the stalemate, you need fresh forces to join.The earl did two things in total. First, he sent a cavalry team of 10-15 people to continue stalemate and test the barbarians.The knights are powerful, and there are mid-level priests from Maned Wolf City in the castle. As long as they can control the intensity of the fight with the barbarian cavalry, they will not lose staff or suffer losses.

After a few days of trials, more than a dozen barbarians were injured and fell off their horses, and had to recall some cavalry troops who went out to harass.In this way, the earl's vassals can go out of the city to gather in the blue magpie territory.The elk viscount on the watchtower and another baron from the east of Maned Wolf City were liberated in this way.

However, just gathering vassals may not be enough.Lord Maned Wolf is calling for his vassals, and Lord Gray Goose is calling for more tribes on the plains.Therefore, the Earl also contacted the Blue Dragon Family in the kingdom, and asked the Blue Dragon Family to support the 25-man Knight Squadron with the income from private salt in the next three years as collateral.

This squadron is expected to arrive in about a month. The Earl believes that the local vassals plus external new forces are enough to ensure that the barbarians are driven away without letting the territory escape from his control.

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"You know Albert Galloping Horse better than I do. He won't be caught by barbarians." Behind the earl, the Viscount Elk was comforting Huck. "Your family has been operating in that forest for so long, what else do you have to worry about?"

"Because I am familiar with it, I am worried. There are too many monsters in the forest. If you are not careful, those without monsters will become meals for intermediate monsters. Why did I take care of the citizens of the two territories for the Rot territory 8 years ago? , it’s because we know the forest so well, there’s a middle-level knight there who can’t handle it at all.” Huck was always thinking about his territory.

"At first, I always objected to your trading grain, salt, iron, and horses with the barbarians. I used to think that it was lending money to the enemy, but now I don't think so. The black-scaled horse is too powerful, and the iron armor is the strongest when you can't use your fighting spirit. Armor. Now that the barbarians are riding horses and equipped with armor, if we can’t keep up, we can only be surrounded by the barbarians in the castle.”

"Don't you say, is it because of our deal that the barbarians became stronger?"

"Just kidding, how many barbarians of yours are enough to put on iron armor?" There is a saying in the dragon kingdom that the barbarians are now powerful because of the frequent transactions between the border nobles and the barbarians. "Now there are at least 200 barbarian cavalry in the entire Northwest Territory, and there are at least the same number of barbarian demon possessors and 5 times the number of non-magic ones in their tribe. Such a number of demon possessors send all the food in the entire Northwest Territory. Even on the Benma Plain, we can’t afford to support so many people.”

"But the empire can afford it." Huck said with a wry smile, "how can we keep down the cost of salt and iron while ensuring the interests of the nobles? Of course, the Salt and Iron Division directly purchased the salt and iron ingots of the barbarians on the Benma Plain on a large scale. "

"Yes, salt and iron are both bulk goods, and transportation is not easy. Only local production is beneficial. In order to ensure greater benefits, the Salt and Iron Division also provides barbarian iron-making and salt-boiling technology." Families entering the important channel of the Benma Plain are very sensitive to the transportation of goods. "Every year, a large amount of grain from the east and south of the mainland, and many demon owners of families who have failed in the struggle will enter the Benma Plain. The barbarian tribes supported by these grain and slaves Now it is easy to send hundreds of cavalry to sweep the Northwest Territory.

Not only that, the entire Northwest Territory and the entire Dragon Kingdom are buying salt and iron from the barbarians, and our gold coins have been divided up by the agents of the Dragon Family and the barbarians. These gold coins have now become chains to hang us. "

The two border nobles outlined the well-known secrets on the Benma Plain with each other.After many unsuccessful campaigns, the human race planned to develop the mineral resources on the Benma Plain through an agent. The Blue Dragon Family, the agent of the Yantie Division in the kingdom, came forward to guarantee the mining technology and transportation channels of the barbarians.

Although this kind of mining will increase the strength of the barbarians, no matter how powerful the barbarians are, they cannot threaten the interior of the Dragon Kingdom, because as long as they pass the maned wolf city, the influence of the turbulent magic will almost disappear, so the threat of the barbarians will only exist In the territory of the Northwest Earldom.

Although the minor nobles in the Northwest Territory will be in danger, such a sacrifice is necessary compared to the cost of living of the people in the entire Dragon Kingdom and the interests of the Imperial Salt and Iron Division.This is the inner thoughts of the princes rolling in the temple in the dragon kingdom.

"I really don't know how you got here all these years." The Elk Viscount admires Huck very much now, "Don't worry about the territory. Come on, it’s not easy to find 300 citizens for you. The third son of my chief knight has recently become an intermediate knight, and I will call him tomorrow to be your value knight.”

Now that the nobles in the Northwest Territory have felt the threat of the barbarians, they all know that Huck's territory is their outer gate, and they don't mind giving Huck a part of the population and demon possessors from the territory.

"Who is that?" suddenly asked the Count from the terrace.

(End of this chapter)