Riding and Slashing

Chapter 166 The Noldo's Army Has Been Dispatched
The leading ebony gauntlet knight didn't know how to answer for a while, so he had to salute first.

"Ah, Your Excellency Li Ang! It's a pleasure to meet you again..."

Seeing Li Ang, an ebony gauntlet knight suddenly left the team and came to say hello with a smile on his face.

"It's you... I'm not very happy to see you in this situation... Tell me, what's going on with this scene now? Why are you beating my subordinates every time I meet you? Why do I Think you look down on me?"

Seeing the knight's smiling face, Li Ang remembered that this was the ebony gauntlet knight who besieged Lisadilan in the Long River Forest.

But Li Ang still didn't give him a good face, the lord is not here to resolve the dispute.

"I am Dumbledore, Your Excellency Leon. We are here to go to Long River Forest. Everything here is a misunderstanding... You know, our life is to break the skull of Noldor with a hammer. We don't want to be with you. There's a conflict between people in your territory. It's really just a small misunderstanding."

The knight didn't mind Li Ang's attitude, he obviously saw John next to the lord, and planned to calm down.

But the lord is not ready to accept his kindness.

"Dumbledore, attacking my subordinates in my territory, can this be called a misunderstanding? Who beat people in my territory just now? Stand up and let me see."

No one stood up, and no one was a fool.

But the businessmen next to him have already started pointing: "My lord, this, this, and this, they attacked Mr. John, and this, he just pushed me..."

The lord nodded: "Okay, everyone else go away. Those of you who have done something, according to Mai Xiangling's decree, this is a disturbance of the law and order, and you have been arrested!"

The ebony gauntlet knights looked at each other: "Picking quarrels and provoking trouble? Is there such a crime?"

These days, there is indeed no law and order clause, and it is normal to have a fight...

"My lord, they wanted to snatch these carriages just now!"

A coachman saw that the lord was obviously pulling aside, so he quickly began to accuse.

"Oh? Robbing Mai Xiangling in broad daylight? You guys are getting hairy! It seems that this is a rebellion! Arrest them all!"

The lord had a smirk on his face, completely like a big villain, and waved his hand to signal for his hands to arrest people.

This time it was no longer a matter of arresting three or five people. Hundreds of soldiers separated from the crowd, their weapons out of their sheaths, and they stared at them.

Naturally, the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet also drew out their weapons.

At this time, John behind Li Ang raised the golden griffin flag in his hand.

"Disobey the control order, plunder the nobles' territory, and try to attack the border county governor of the kingdom! And when I was transporting the prisoners of the Bacchus Empire..."

Li Ang began to read the crime aloud.

Speaking of which, it's not wronging them, it's just magnifying everything a few levels...

"No! Master Li Ang! We will withdraw from your territory immediately... We promise that we will not step into Maixiang's territory!"

But the lord did not finish reading the crime, but was stopped by Dumbledore waving his hands.

At the same time, he also pulled several ebony gauntlet knights to apologize to Li Ang and John, and even took out a large amount of dinars for compensation.

That was several hundred dinars, and it was given out without blinking an eye. The Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets did have money.

This Dumbledore seems to be a very smart guy. Seeing that the lord is obviously slapping his hat, he knows that there should be no bigger conflict with Li Ang at this time, so he hastened to give in.

Dumbledore is a nobleman of Cliff Bay, he knows that not everyone can use the banner embroidered with a golden coat of arms, which means that Leon is now a traitor, which means King Ulrik's trust—— Alfred, the Duke of Sarleon in the former Kingdom of Pendor, was the traitor.

In other words, Li Ang can directly attack this 'rebel army' directly on the grounds that the 'Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets intend to rebel', without reporting or asking for instructions from anyone.

As for the evidence proving their rebellion - Judging from Li Ang's current behavior, if the Ebony Gauntlet Knights don't leave, then the evidence may be produced at any time...

After all, the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets are not very popular. Except for the nobles of Cliff Bay, I am afraid that no one will speak for them--in other words, those nobles and kings may also be happy to see them become illegal knights group……

In fact, the entire Ebony Gauntlet Knights has 600 members, including more than a hundred knights and five hundred retinues, all of whom are well-equipped heavy crossbowmen and hammermen, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong.

Even counting only those present at the scene, there are nearly 400 people.

If there was a fight, Li Ang probably wouldn't be their opponent.

But they didn't want to be rebels, and they couldn't clearly say that this mission was the king's order, so it was wise not to have a bigger conflict with Li Ang.

If they attacked Li Ang, it would be the rebels.

Who wants to become an illegal knight order?
And judging from what Li Ang meant, it seemed that he wanted the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets to attack him?

Considering Leon's golden coat of arms...

So Dumbledore made a decisive decision to withdraw from Mai Xiangling immediately to avoid further escalation of the situation.

But the lord still stopped them.

"Dumbledore, it's not that I want to embarrass you. Ayrshire just fought against the Bacchus Empire two days ago. I captured more than 1000 people, including a governor-you should understand the importance of this matter." sex?"

Li Ang looked at Dumbledore suspiciously.

"Understood, Lord Li Ang, we really shouldn't step into your territory at this time. It's understandable to have a misunderstanding. Let's leave immediately."

Dumbledore nodded frequently, and his attitude was quite good.

"It's not enough to just leave Maixiangling, Dumbledore... For the safety of the captives and the safety of the entire Ayrshire, I must see you stay away from the range of Ayrshire with my own eyes. I don't care what you came here for. What, but you can't set foot in Ayrshire, or I'll call you rebels!"

The lord shook his head and pointed in the direction of White Hart Castle: "I mean the whole of Ayrshire."

"Master Li Ang, but at least we need to rest in the village, right? We don't need to enter Maixiangling and White Hart Castle, but we can't even have a place to stay..."

Dumbledore frowned.

"You have been in the market for so long, should all the supplies you need to purchase have been completed? I can take you to a suitable place, which is the camp established by the Bacchus Empire to attack White Hart Castle. It is enough to station thousands of people. People. Dumbledore, take your people and these mercenaries who don’t know which country they come from, follow my men and go there now, I will watch you from behind..."

So, the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet followed Li Ang's cavalry to the big camp two hundred miles south of White Hart Castle with an ugly face.

After walking this way for a day and a half, the lord has indeed been watching from behind.

It feels like a small army of more than 100 people is escorting an army of more than 3000 people...

Those mercenary groups actually don’t care, most of them are from other countries, the nature of the work of the mercenary group determines that they have to obey the requirements of the local lords wherever they go, as long as the requirements are reasonable, they will not have conflicts with the local lords conflict.

But it is uncomfortable to be stationed in the wild. Although the mercenaries can understand that there will be military control during the war between the two countries, it is inevitable to make noise and complain all the way.

Although the members of the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlet felt very humiliated, it was more important to complete the king's mission. On the contrary, they didn't care so much, and even made less noise.

The Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets is a knight order after all, and the overall quality of its members is still much higher than that of pure mercenaries.

So many armed men moved mightily at the edge of the Noldor Forest, and settled in that camp with great fanfare, anyone with eyes could see this.

Especially the military discipline of the mercenaries is not very good, they are noisy all the way...

Of course Noldor could see it too.

When the lord first discovered the camp, he felt that the location might be easily noticed by the Noldor elves.

Amy, who has lived in White Hart Castle for a long time, is more familiar with the Noldor elves. In Amy's opinion, the two thousand peasants cut down trees to build a camp, but they were not attacked by the Noldor elves. It is probably the luck of those Bacchus...

And Lisa Dilan also told Li Ang that he had met the Noldor people behind the White Hart Castle-this means that the Noldors actually paid attention to the White Hart Castle.

Probably, as long as there is a war happening near the Noldor Forest, the elves will be watching, but they will not participate in the struggle of humans.

This is normal thinking - your neighbor is fighting with another group of people, you will definitely pay attention to it, you will probably watch the whole process, but most likely you will not participate...

But if they stop fighting, and a lot of hooligans come to squat downstairs in your house, not only that, but you also find that one of the hooligan leaders has a grudge against you-then you must participate in this situation, I guess you would rather Those who are absent from work and school have to deal with these little hooligans first.

And at this time, if the neighbors came forward to expel those hooligans and directly called the police, they would show a hostile attitude towards those hooligans...

Even if the hooligans are still in the stairwell on your floor after being evicted by the neighbors, at least you can know that these hooligans have nothing to do with the neighbors, and you will share the same hatred with the neighbors.

So the lord wants to create a conflict, and then use the conflict to expel these more than 3000 mercenaries, and let them squat in the 'stairwell' built by Governor Levius...

Moreover, after the lord completed this matter, he closed White Hart Castle.

After returning to White Hart Castle, the first order Li Ang issued was to close the city gates. Except for the side gates that allow civilians to enter and exit, any strangers will be strictly interrogated, and those with weapons will be expelled on the spot.

And let Amy send a large number of soldiers to announce decrees in various rural knights, and the whole county is under control, and no armed personnel are allowed to enter even an inch of land in the county.

Once it is discovered that a knight leader provides supplies and accommodation for foreign armed personnel, it will be regarded as 'suspected of treason'.

At the same time, Roland was asked to drive out the idlers around White Hart Castle again.

This is the first time such strict control has appeared in White Hart Castle.

At this time, this is a very clear attitude - White Hart Castle does not support these mercenaries, not only does not provide supplies, it even does not allow them to enter.

In this way, the Noldor will probably not trouble White Hartkeep.

After all, the Noldor were paying attention to White Hart Castle, so they would know that White Hart Castle didn't even let those mercenaries in.

And indeed the Noldor saw it.

In fact, as early as when Levius asked the "Second Empire Army" to build the camp, the Noldor had already paid attention to the whole process.

If it wasn't because Islandil didn't allow his subordinates to attack civilians, the two thousand civilian husbands would have disappeared long ago...

But more than 3000 armed personnel, plus the Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets who have a blood feud with Noldo, this is completely different. Islandil also gave an order—as long as anyone enters the camp, kill them!
The current attitude of White Hart Castle obviously does not support the actions of those mercenaries, of course Islanduil can understand.

He was probably the Noldor who understood the quickest.

Because he knew that the lord of White Hart Castle had once shown his trust in the Noldor Elf Lisa Dilan...

More than half a year ago, White Hart Castle was besieged by the army. When it was about to be captured, Lisadilan blew the horn in the forest, delaying the time for White Hart Castle—this was the twilight knight’s request to Islanduil. mentioned.

Islandil is also the great lord who commands the army. In his opinion, only the most trustworthy subordinates will be sent to carry out this most important and dangerous task.

Since the lord of White Hart Castle trusted a Noldor elf, it is easy to understand the behavior of White Hart Castle to expel the mercenary group.

In the forest near the camp, Islandil was listening to his men's report.

"Judging from White Hart Castle's reaction, these mercenary groups are not motivated by the entire human race's attack on us, but a private act... Where is Ardalian now? Didn't he claim to deal with the Ebony Gauntlet Knights?" ? Why is the Knights here intact?"

"Your Highness, His Excellency Aldalian seems to be chasing dozens of Ebony Warhammers all the way north... As you know, he will never let any humans go..."

The one who answered was a twilight knight, who seemed to be mocking Aldalian in his tone.

"It's hard to imagine that a powerful warrior who is favored by the heavens hasn't made any progress in 300 years, and his mind is still so simple and rude... He was actually lured away by a small army like this?"

Islandil shook his head, and he didn't seem to like Aldalian very much.

"Your Highness, when shall we attack?"

The Twilight Knight seemed to have a flexible mind, so he changed the subject - Aldalian was a great lord no matter what, and his Highness could comment on the other party, but he couldn't agree with him.

"Is His Majesty Kelevan Yier still unwilling to let his people fight?"

Islanduil looked at the camp, and at the subordinates looming in the forest, he seemed a little hesitant.

"Your Majesty has been doing this for hundreds of years, but as always, he agrees to let you gather the warriors of the Finarfin family, as long as they are willing..."

Twilight Knight shook his head.

"Come on, I can't command the artists of the Finarfin family... Forget it, let's do it... Order! Attack at the crescent moon!"

After speaking, Islanduil turned back and walked deep into the forest. Another Twilight Knight just ran over from the forest.

"Your Highness, I have received a message from Lisa Dilan! He sent it on his own initiative!"

The twilight knight held a silvery Noldor arrow in his hand.

A letter was tied to the body of the arrow.

……

During the night, there was a little argument in the camp on the edge of the forest.

"Dumbledore, I can understand why you don't want to clash with that Baron Leon. In fact, I think you are doing the right thing. But why don't we attack immediately? White Hart Castle won't let us enter, and our supplies won't Too much, don't waste it here!"

A man who looked like a mercenary captain was questioning Dumbledore, the ebony gauntlet knight.

"My friend, you should understand why I became the knight leader of this operation... I spend half of every year in this forest fighting those sharp ears. I know those sharp ears! I don't want to be with them Fighting at night! Moreover, our people have not yet arrived, and the Griffin Sword and other large mercenary groups have not yet arrived."

Dumbledore shook his head, looking calm.

"I think our current military strength can completely complete the king's mission, and we are not trying to wipe out the race with pointed ears..."

The mercenary leader shook his head and expressed his objection, looking a little urgent.

There are hundreds of tents in the camp, and the scale of more than 3000 people is indeed enough to do a lot of things. It is understandable for him to have such an idea.

"Shut up! I can't mention it after I said it... This is a private mission issued by Grand Maester Igor. I hope you and your subordinates can understand this!"

Dumbledore gave the mercenary captain a hard look.

"Okay... okay, I won't mention the king... I have to do it but dare not admit it, hmph... Then how long are we going to wait in this ghost place? I miss Singal's taverns and brothels..."

The mercenary captain shook his head slightly, with a sneer on his face.

"After the news came from the north... Do you think our Knights have not acted? We have sent someone to lure away the most terrifying large force in the Noldor..."

The mercenary leader shook his head and sighed, the sneer on his face has clearly turned into sarcasm: "You people in Sarleon Land like to use these tricks too much, I don't think those pointy ears are so difficult to deal with..."

"Enemy attack!!"

Right at this point, a rain of arrows hit, and the mercenary leader fell down without saying a word...

In his head stuck a silvery Noldor Arrow.

The D'Shar peaked helmet on his head did not provide any protection at all-the helmet was pierced by an arrow.

"Hidden, get down! Raise your shield!"

Dumbledore turned over and lay on the ground, then crawled forward and leaned forward behind a low wooden wall in the camp, tilted the shield at an angle, and slowly raised it upwards.

'Whoosh'!
A Noldor arrow pierced his shield with ease even though the shield was inclined at forty degrees.

But Dumbledore judged the distance from the strength of the arrow - the Noldo who shot the arrow was only 50 meters away from him at most!

He is too familiar with Noldo, if he only shoots arrows at this distance, then it is by no means a small Noldor patrol!

If Noldo's small patrol team encountered a large human army, they would either shoot back arrows hundreds of meters away, or hide in the forest. Close-range attacks would only happen when those Noldo were absolutely sure!

And now, 3000 people are stationed in the camp...

Here comes the army of the Noldor!

(End of this chapter)