Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 78 76. Change Strategy
At noon on the second day after the earl woke up, all the vassals were summoned to the castle's chamber for a meeting.

"Huck, what do you think will happen to the Earl this time? You can't explain why you abandoned everyone the day before yesterday but failed to defeat Gray Goose, right?" Viscount Elk asked the Baron Galloping Horse somewhat aggrievedly.

"Gant, there's no need for this. After I came back the day before yesterday, I thought about it for a long time.

Under the circumstances at the time, the earl made the best choice, but he ignored the power of the barbarian priests." Because he felt that his baronial title was in shambles, Huck Benma was always defending Kebbins intentionally or unintentionally. I imagined that the earl would be moved by his silent support, and maybe he would not pursue his fault for leaving the territory in the future.

"Baron Harker, you are right, but if I have made such a decision to abandon my vassals, I will definitely have no face to go back to the castle to meet them." Baron Geor added after hearing Harker's explanation.

Of course Huck didn't agree with the Earl's actions, so he just made up for the Earl and stopped talking.

Amidst all the discussions of the vassals, the earl wearing a shirt forced his body to come in through the main entrance, walked through the hall and sat on the master seat in the middle of the meeting hall. , He has never encountered such a noisy meeting, and has never felt such contempt and anger from the vassals towards him.

Caspian was unwilling and dissatisfied, but he knew that he couldn't get angry with his vassals now. The dukes and marquises in the capital were waiting for him to make mistakes, to separate himself from his vassals, and the elders of the family were waiting even more. Looking at his own joke, at this moment, Earl Caspian could not make any mistakes.

The barbarian enemies are fighting outside the city, the nobles of the royal capital are preparing to intervene in the territory, and the opponents in the family will attack at any time.

The enemy is outside, the abyss is behind, if there is a dispute with his subordinates again, he will have no chance to come back.

"I know what you think," the earl said loudly, "You feel that you have been betrayed, you have been unfairly treated, and your territory has been invaded by barbarians, all because of me, because your lord, the pioneer earl of the Northwest, failed to Defend the territory of Roth, but you can't block the barbarians to the north of the Cornico Pass!"

The earl roared loudly, shaking out all the little thoughts of his vassals.

There was no sound at the scene, and of course the vassals thought so, at least they thought so before the decisive battle with Gray Goose the day before yesterday.

However, after the decisive battle the day before yesterday, the vassals also knew that the Roth Castle would definitely not be able to stop the attack of more than 200 barbarians. Fight with yourself.

"Then take a look," the count said, tearing off his shirt, revealing an unbelievable wound on the left side of his abdomen. On the count's brown-red stomach, there was a dark red, slender scar. At the core of the trauma surface is a fissure like a burning flame, which scorches the surrounding skin and muscles, and the earl's powerful body is constantly regenerating skin and muscles to supplement the wound.

"Oh" the vassals subconsciously exclaimed, everyone was thinking in their hearts, if such a wound grew on their body, could they survive for two days.

"This is the curse brought to me by the Gray Goose Priest!" The earl roared, seeing the fear and respect reappearing in the eyes of his vassals,
"Knights, as I said, these savages came here to take us all to dig in their salt mines;

And the nobles of our kingdom are waiting for our help, so that they can share the southern gate of Cornico, Rothland.

This is not only my predicament, but also every one of you. Once the border with the Benma Plain is lost, the nobles of the entire Northwest Territory will lose the privilege of developing nobles."

The earl's voice echoed in the hall, and everyone realized the seriousness of the problem. Compared with ordinary fiefdom nobles, pioneering nobles were in a more dangerous situation and had weaker infrastructure, so they had some natural welfare privileges. The various territories of the country are more or less taking advantage of these privileges.

Once they lost the title of pioneering nobles, their unscrupulous little tricks on the border back then would become the reason for those big nobles and palace ministers to come and find fault in the future.

"My lord" Gantt Viscount Elk was the first to speak, "The situation has not yet reached the most critical moment. Although the barbarians have been under the city, our loss is not too great. We have a strong city and they have fast horses. Who can spend who."

"Master Viscount, I am afraid that the barbarians in the Galloping Horse Plain are still gathering and going south?" Another nobleman interrupted the Viscount Elk.

"Of course, there will be more and more of them, but so what? They need to consume a lot of food when they migrate and gather. The food stored in Rothland may be able to feed 200 barbarian cavalry. Can it still feed 2000 barbarian cavalry? "Gantt Elk Viscount suddenly opened his mind.

It's going to snow soon. Once it snows here, water can be poured directly on the outer wall to freeze, and they will be even more unable to attack the city.

At that time, there would be a bigger blizzard on the Galloping Horse Plain, and they couldn't break through the city and couldn't go home. Everyone could only be squeezed on the ground led by Baron Galloping Horse to Blue Magpie Castle.

A barbarian cavalry has a bigger appetite than ours. Let them eat until the beginning of spring. I am afraid that these 200 barbarians will eat up all their horses. "

Huck heard the Viscount Elk's thoughts, that is, to wait for a change, and resolutely defend the Blue Magpie Castle and not fight, "But Gant, wouldn't the barbarians loot his territory to raise food?"

"Then the Maned Wolf Knights will form an intercepting team," Fernando said. "As long as they dare to use small groups of troops to separate, I will lead the Knights to intercept and prevent a grain of food from entering the Gray Goose camp."

"That is, as long as they dare to divide their troops, we will intercept their small troops, just in time to replace everyone with black scale horses."

"That's right, if they don't want to die and send too many teams, Blue Magpie Castle will face fewer enemies; if they don't send troops, they don't have enough food, and they have to go back to the Galloping Horse Plain."

Seeing that the enthusiasm of the vassals was mobilized, the earl actively made suggestions, knowing that the internal crisis could be regarded as a temporary relief.

"Okay, just follow Viscount Elk's suggestion,

Fernando, you and Colony, you guys organize the knights and vassals into 3 to 4 teams of 10, and send out two small teams every day to stop those barbarians, as long as they are 20 minutes away from the main camp. Kilometers, you can do it. "

(End of this chapter)