Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 6 4. It's too late to explain, let's go
As everyone was looking forward to, Walker, the junior knight of the territory, came back.

When someone reported that he had entered the village, Rant even felt that Roll and Albert breathed a sigh of relief.

If Walker can come back, it proves that Huck Benma and several other family members should be able to come back.

The three of them rushed out to welcome the village entrance, but just as the three of them left the gate of the castle, they felt something was wrong.

Walker looked too embarrassed. There were several holes in the armor on his body, and there were blood stains in the lining. When the knight gradually approached, Rand could already see that Walker was about to fall off his horse.

Everyone hurried to meet the knight and help the horse to dismount.At this moment, Walker's face was pale, and he was sweating profusely under his helmet.

Rand asked Albert to arrange someone to take care of Walker, and he asked Roll to organize and complete the migration preparations in the entire territory as soon as possible.

Rolle also saw that Walker definitely did not encounter a small group of barbarians by chance, but that Huck and the others encountered relatively serious troubles, so they had to hurry up and supervise the preparations of each family.

In the Benma Territory, there are actually only 22 households in total, and 220 people are fully paid. There are 120 family members living near the castle in the Galloping Horse Territory. There are also 3 knights leading the village. There are 100 people in total. 22 households correspond to 20 people in the entire territory. There are more than one demon possessor, of which Rand's family accounts for 6, including Huck, Albert, and Rand brothers.

There are about 70 non-monsters in the Harker family, including servants, family members, etc., and other non-monster descendants.There are also 3 family knights and 3 knight apprentices. Both the family knights and the knight apprentices have about 5 family members. In addition, the Huck family also has 2 demon possessors who are independent households.

剩下的2个骑士领地，有2位分封骑士和1个初级骑士的子嗣、2个骑士学徒和其他6位拥魔者。

Therefore, before Huck's expedition, the strength of the entire territory is about 2 intermediate knights, Huck and Roll; There are 7 knight apprentices (Rand himself, knight apprentices from 2 families, and 3 knight fief apprentices), 6 unprofessional demon possessors, and the total number of demon possessors is 3.

When Huck set off not long ago, he took away all the knights of his family, the family knights, and 2 knight apprentices including 5 of the entrusted knight leaders.

After the encounter with the barbarians in the north, there are now 1 intermediate knight, 2 junior knights, and 3 apprentices who have returned to the territory. It can be said that more than half of the losses have been reduced. Now a junior knight has returned, and all the current territories add up There are 1 intermediate knight, 6 junior knights, 3 knight apprentices (the two did not come back, Rand was promoted) and 8 non-magic, with a total of 18 combat power.

Soon Walker woke up, and the information he brought was even worse than everyone imagined.

Just after Huck took his two sons and Walker separated from Rand and others, they successfully disengaged from the barbarian cavalry.In the past 10 years, Huck has often traded and scouted in the southern part of the Galloping Horse Plain, and he is more familiar with the situation north of the Cornico Pass than those barbarians from the north.

After a whole night of twists and turns, Huck and a few people managed to throw off the pursued barbarians.After dawn, they discovered a barbarian camp that had never been seen before about 30 kilometers northeast of the Cornico Pass.

The barbarian is tall and tall. According to Albert's description, the barbarian is a special descendant of orcs and humans.The proportion of demon possessors in barbarian tribes has reached 20%-30%. Usually, the demon possessors of barbarian tribes are tall and powerful, and their physical fitness is comparable to that of intermediate knights.

But ordinary barbarians cannot use fighting spirit or magic, and can only rely on their powerful bodies to fight.

There are a small number of priests among the barbarians. In a large tribe or a group of multiple tribes, the highest barbarian high priest is as powerful as the high priest of the human race.

If it is the hinterland of the human race, the barbarian race, which cannot use magic power, is not dominant, but Rand is now south of the Galloping Horse Plain, where the magic elements are extremely chaotic in the air, and the chaotic elements are called magic disorder. flow.

Magic scholars believe that the extensive turbulent flow of magic on the Galloping Horse Plain makes it difficult for the low-level occupations of the human race to perform here. That is to say, under the same population base, less than 10% of the population of the human race can compete with more than 20% of the barbarian race. Population for power comparison.

This very obvious disadvantage has created the status quo of the barbarians running rampant on the Benma Plain.

However, the barbarians also have their own weaknesses: the social organization is low, and they can only maintain a tribal society on the Galloping Horse Plain. A small tribe has about 50 members, of which 10 are demon possessors and 40 are non-magic ones; The population of a medium-sized tribe is twice that of a small tribe, and that of a large tribe is three times that of a small tribe. The total population does not exceed 2 people. Large tribes of 3+ people are usually alliances between tribes under very specific conditions.

Just yesterday, Huck discovered a super barbarian camp north of the Cornicol Pass. According to their statistics on the horses in the camp, the current population of this tribe exceeds 500, of which more than 100 possess demons However, while Huck and the others were observing, at least two barbarian cavalry were gathering towards this camp.

In the more than 100 years since the Benma family moved to the current Northwest Earl's Territory of Julong, such situations did not happen many times, but every time it caused a huge disaster in the entire Northwest Earl's Territory.

Because of this, Huck immediately decided that Ryan, the eldest brother of Rant, would take Walker to retreat into the Baron of Galloping Horse's territory, and notify Rand and other people in the territory to move immediately.

And Huck decided to take Obote, the second brother of Rand, to the Maned Wolf City where the Northwest Earl was located to report.

On the way back, Huck and his party met again with a small group of barbarian cavalry, and this cavalry was just spies. Get reinforcements.

Seeing more and more enemies, Huck decided to disperse and break through. Whoever can successfully leave will return to the galloping horse territory first and notify everyone to evacuate to the big forest.

In the end, after several struggles, only Walker managed to escape after being captured and escaped from the tiger's mouth. When Walker was escaping, he saw that Huck, Ryan, and Obote were all captured.

Listening to Walker's description, everyone was very sad.Undoubtedly, the Galloping Horse Territory was betrayed, and the barbarians specially set up an ambush where Huck and others must pass, and deliberately wanted to catch every member.

Such a betrayal undoubtedly showed that if they dared to borrow the Lot territory, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Rohr, go and call everyone in the territory, now!" This was Albert's first sentence after silence.

"Ah? Oh. Okay." Luo Er recalled, and hurried to call for someone.

Half an hour later, except for the two demon-less people led by the knights, everyone else, including the two knights led by the knights and ordinary demon possessors, arrived at the gate of the castle.

The castle of Barony Galloping Horse is a three-story stone building. The first floor is a 6-meter-high large floor, with restaurants, living rooms, prayer rooms, warehouses, etc. The second floor is divided into two parts, one of which is also 6 meters high. Mi Gao's house, the four children including Rand and Ryan live in this part.

The other part is divided into two 3-meter compartments in terms of height, where Huck’s non-magic family members live, as well as the rooms of high-status servants such as personal servants and butlers. The top floor is Huck’s own residence and magic room. Storage room for materials, potions and books.

On both sides of the main building of the castle are two houses with the same height as the second floor of the castle, and a two-story building (6 meters high each) is the dormitory for the family knights and knight apprentices in the territory.

Another building with 4 floors (3 meters high each) was the dormitory for other servants in the castle.Outside these three buildings, there is a circle of 6-meter-high stone city walls, and four towers are distributed.

Outside the castle is the small town of Galloping Horses. There are blacksmith shops, mills, a small grocery store, houses of several family knights, knight apprentices, and 2 families of non-magic people in the territory.

If Rand stayed in the territory in the future, he might establish his own family in this town and call himself the knight of the family.Outside the main entrance of the castle, there is a 3-meter-high platform for Baron Harker to speak to the people in the territory.

"Dear knights and citizens, I am Albert Galloping Horse, a scholar in the barony, and the younger brother of Baron Huck." Albert stood on the high platform and said loudly in front of everyone.

"Just a few days ago, a huge crisis occurred in our territory. Our baron and his eldest son and second son were unable to return to the territory due to various reasons. I have no time to explain the specific reasons. Now the barbarian cavalry is about to arrive. , we need to move all to the big forest immediately.

Since Mr. Huck could not come back, according to the aristocratic laws of the empire, Rand would act as the baron in the territory. "

Since Albert had already explained the current situation to several knights before the conference, as long as the demon possessor had no objections, other people would naturally have no objections either.

"Rand, can you tell me a few words?" Albert looked at Rand.

"Hello, everyone," Rand stepped onto the high platform. Although in his previous life, Rand spoke in front of hundreds of people more than once, and even gave orders, when his decision could affect the safety of these people, Rand would still Somewhat at a loss, "I... I, like everyone else, believe that Baron Huck Galloping Horse will return to the territory soon, bringing security, prosperity and hope as before.

But before that, we need to dodge the barbarian cavalry.Now the barbarians are only a day away, and we have no choice but to go west into the great forest.

Now I order everyone to leave the territory before the sun sets today, take every grain, every piece of meat, move every animal, and go to the big forest. Everyone must obey the order.Now everyone has to go back and get ready, we'll start tomorrow night! "

As Rand gave the order, everyone acted immediately.Pack animals that looked like yaks but were the size of rhinos were pulled out, and the tall demon owners carried hundreds of catties of food and goods to these pack animals.

These pack animals all came from the Benma Plain. The special magical environment on that land made the animals living there strong in size and of good breed. Whether it was horses, cattle, or sheep, they were stronger than other areas of the empire.

Therefore, in the past 8 years, whether it is Galloping Horse Territory or Rotor Territory, the biggest annual revenue is trading with the barbarians on the plain, exchanging grain, cloth, and alchemy artifacts from the royal city for horses, cattle and sheep on the plain. , Warcraft meat.

Through continuous trade, there are now dozens of pack animals and twenty galloping horses in the territory of Rott, a specialty of the plain: the Black Lin horse.This kind of horse has a shoulder height of 2.0-2.3 meters, which is already a giant for ordinary people, but for demon possessors with an average of 2 meters or more, this kind of horse is just right.

This kind of horse belongs to the lowest level of magical beasts, and the horseshoes contain wind magic power, so they can perform high-speed maneuvers after being equipped with magic possessors. However, these horses cannot release wind spells, so for ordinary people Also relatively safe.

While helping the servants in the castle to move sacks of barley and wheat into the boxes next to the carriage and pack animals, Rand looked at his father's family fortune accumulated over the years, and suddenly felt that he was selling his land.

Before the sun set, the people directly under the entire barony had already packed their bags.Ranter didn't want to wait any longer, and asked everyone to set off to the west immediately. An apprentice knight of the family led two demon possessors to go out to investigate. Alberto and himself led a large team forward, and Rolle was in the rear.

The sky at night is very bright. Three moons, big, medium and small, hang high in the astrolabe. The big moon is called Su Lun, who is considered the god of tides and time, and is also called the white moon;
The medium moon, glowing with gold, was named Luna, and was believed to be one of the sources of magic;

And the smallest moon looks like a jelly bean. Its name is Wei Li. It is often called Yuyue and is considered to be the source of the magic net.

All three moons were important deities, objects of worship and prayer in church shrines.

With the double illumination of 3 moons, the night here is not very dark, and people here rarely suffer from night blindness.Of course, according to the minds of the barbarians, it is rare to come up with a plan for a night attack, but Lante, who had experienced it once a few days ago, did not dare to be lucky, and forced the entire team to march towards the forest.

The team of more than 160 people and more than 60 animals marched forward in a mighty manner, and did not enter the nearest camp in the forest until late at night, and successfully joined the team led by two knights.

Rand's own judgment is that overnight actions can buy him at least one day.

Even if it was safe for the time being, Rand did not dare to take it lightly. He asked Roll to monitor at the edge of the forest.

When the sky turned pale, Rand woke up again, and he began to urge the people to eat and set off.

Today's breakfast is the extra food I made for dinner after camping last night.Everyone had just had a few bites when Rand saw Roll back.

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