Riding and Slashing

Chapter 169 The Chaotic Battle
From Lisa Dilan, Li Ang has learned about the overall situation of the Noldor elves.

At present, there are four tribes of the Noldor Elves, Ainor, Finarfin, Finwe, and the 'Dalyan' tribe, which is not yet an official family.

Among them, the most well-known family leaders are Islandil and Aldalion, who often lead the army abroad.

But neither of these Lords of the Noldor was really King of the Elves.

Humans invaded massively 300 years ago. Although the elves successfully defeated the human army, the four major families suffered heavy losses.

Islandil's father was seriously injured and disabled, and then retired. Islandil became the leader of the Aino family, but he has not been crowned for 300 years, and has always been "His Royal Highness".

And Aldalian's "Dalian tribe" is not actually a family, because Aldalian is actually a warlord.

He had been a warrior of House Fenway.

In the war with humans, Aldalian repelled powerful enemies with unparalleled bow skills and saved his family. He became the most outstanding twilight knight in the past few hundred years, and once served as the leader of the counterattack against the human army. Was also awarded the treasure of the Noldor Elf 'Curtain Bow'.

This bow was originally in the hands of the elven king 'Felgas', but this elven king has no heirs, and he originally regarded Aldalian as the inheritor of the Finwe family.

But in the process of counterattacking the human army, this powerful warrior gradually became an extreme racist, and he was extremely hostile to the humans in Pendor.

This is also understandable, after all, many of his family members and comrades died in the wars launched by humans in those years.

In Aldalian's eyes, humans invaded the land that belonged to the Noldor elves and slaughtered his compatriots. Some lords even imprisoned the proud female ranger of Noldor in a high tower to torture them day and night.

So he kept sending his patrol team to patrol around the Long River Forest, and would shoot and kill any human beings he encountered, and he would regard any show of mercy for human beings as cowards.

But such behavior is not a good thing for the entire Noldor group. Aldalian continues to actively attack human civilians, which not only deepens the hatred between Noldor and humans, but also causes the Noldor to lose more people in the battle. .

More importantly, the war and hatred continued to deepen, and the Noldor, who was closed in the forest, would not be able to communicate with the human world—no trade, no new knowledge, and even difficult to understand the changes in the outside world.

Therefore, the Elven Kings of the three major families decided to take back the power of Aldalian to lead the army after discussions.

Ardalian expressed dissatisfaction with this result. In addition, he was the most powerful warrior among the Noldor elves and had a strong appeal. Therefore, he took away a large number of warriors who were willing to follow him—people from the three families. Both, and then these people themselves formed a new tribe 'Dalian'.

But fortunately, Aldalion did not initiate any civil war, and his arrows were never aimed at the Noldor. He was still protecting the entire group, but in his own way.

He just wanted to avenge humans, or just sit back and watch the battles between humans, looking forward to the day when humans become weak due to internal strife, and Noldo can have the opportunity to rule the continent of Pendor.

The three elf kings were also unwilling to lose their clansmen due to internal friction, and Aldalian did have outstanding achievements, so they chose to acquiesce to this and set aside a territory for Aldalian.

The Aino family led by Islandil has always been a tribe in the Noldor that inherits knowledge. They are most concerned about the acquisition and protection of various knowledge.

As for the Fenway family, the elven king Felgas Anel has devoted himself to cultivating elven horses and manufacturing various weapons and equipment in the past 300 years, and basically no longer appears in front of people.

As for the House of Finarfin, Celebrity King of the Elves was an artist and a scholar, and he was most concerned with the art and culture passed down by the Noldor, and never took part in wars.

Knowledge, technology, and art are the inheritance of the original three major families.

The tribe that Ardarion founded had no such heritage, and so his domain was regarded only by the Noldor as a tribe of warlords.

But the Noldor was quite united, and there was no civil war among the four races.

In fact, the Fenway family is more dangerous now. The elf king Felgas'an has no heirs, and the bloodline is about to be cut off.

Aldalian also took away the most people from the Fenway family back then, which resulted in a very small population of the Fenway family. It is said that there are only 800 people now.

This weak family has mastered Noldor's elven horse and equipment forging technology, and the elven king also has a disagreement with a warlord like Aldalion. It is said that accidents are prone to occur.

But in fact, no vicious incidents have occurred in these 300 years. On the contrary, Aldalian will deliberately protect the Fenway family.

Similarly, if Aldalian's group needs war horses and equipment, the Fenway family will fully support it-although there are conflicts in philosophy between the two sides, the relationship is still there, and Aldalian is not regarded as a traitor.

But the mightiest warrior of the Noldor for centuries, having suffered his first defeat in his life, inadvertently brought the greatest danger to the House of Finwe.

The territory of the Fenway family is actually in the dense forest of the mountains two hundred miles east of White Hart Castle.

Each Noldor group has its own territory, but the boundaries are not so clear.

Now the Forest was to the Noldor largely what the cultivated land was to Men.

Because most of the Noldor are vegetarians, fruits and nuts grown in the forest are their staple food.

Of course, this is not to say that they don't eat meat or pasta, mainly because it is really not suitable for cooking in the forest...

So the Noldor rarely kill animals in the forest for meat, but they still have hunters who shoot birds and animals.

The food chain in the Noldor Forest is not very complete, and there are not many beasts. The top of the food chain here used to be bears, forest wolves, and goshawks.

However, since the north of the forest is close to the Jatu grassland, the Jatu people especially like to use wolf teeth to make ornaments and arrows, which gradually reduces the wolves.

Goshawks are semi-migratory birds, and they will fly to the south for the winter in the cold season, but the Bacchus in the south like to use eagle feathers to make headdresses, and like to capture goshawks and raise them as falcons—the Bacchus even use them for their military flags. Falcons, but their love for hawks has directly led to a sharp decline in the number of goshawks.

And there are many savages in the Misty Mountains in the east. The savages in the Misty Mountains are very fond of hunting bears, and sometimes they go into the forest to hunt...

The result is that the balance of organisms has been disrupted, natural enemies have decreased, and vegetarian animals have become more rampant.

Therefore, the Noldor elves will specially organize young people to shoot and kill those too many birds and beasts, otherwise the forest will be eaten up by fast-growing vegetarian animals sooner or later.

This is also a way for the Noldor to grow up, and their bows and arrows are also trained in such an environment.

Now the lord is in the forest, looking in amazement at the many animal carcasses left unattended.

Lisa Dilan leads the way in front, and only he can fully grasp the direction in this kind of virgin forest.

"Lisa Dilan, were these animals shot by your people? Even if you don't eat meat, why don't you peel off the skin?"

When he saw a fairly fresh corpse of a wild badger that had died under a tree, Li Ang finally couldn't help but ask.

"Because there are already too many leather materials... We can't trade with humans, so of course we don't need to bother. It's better to let them return to the earth..."

Lisa Dilan glanced back and shook his head: "Besides, we don't like to use fur. Even after tanning, we can still smell the stench of fur."

"I thought it was because the Noldor loved animals..."

Anson who accompanied him seemed a little disappointed.

"Ha, a group that is always in danger of extinction is always thinking about survival. The fishy smell of fur will attract ferocious beasts and bring danger to the group..."

Risa Dilan explained.

"But in terms of Noldor's skill, he should not be afraid of wild beasts..."

Anson still didn't understand.

"Because the number of ferocious beasts in this forest is too small, we don't want to kill them. Too few ferocious beasts will cause other animals to multiply. When I was young, I shot and killed many animals according to the instructions of the elders. There are standards for which animals to kill and how many. All of this is for the survival of our people in the forest. Only by ensuring the balance between species can this forest maintain its vitality for a long time, thus ensuring our people Being able to get enough food is no different from human farming and weeding.”

Lisa Dilan is in a much better mood now and talks a lot more.

"So that's how it is... Then what about this? What's going on with this?"

Anson pointed to a dead bear cub in front of him.

The lord and Lisa Dilan frowned and walked over quickly.

It was a little bear, which must have been less than a year old, and fell under a big tree, with two arrow holes in its chest.

"This is what the Jatu people did!"

"All prepare for battle!"

The Noldor did not shoot bear cubs, and like Lysadiran, most Noldor were taught the importance of forest ecological balance from childhood.

Bears are almost becoming protected animals in the eyes of the Noldor elves. Unless they actively attack the Noldor, the elves will not take the initiative to harm them.

But the cub obviously didn't have the ability to attack Noldor. Now that he met the cub that was shot, it naturally meant that the Jatu people who invaded the forest from the grassland were not far away.

……

At the same time, Changhe Town has become a chaotic situation.

Leslie was rushing to report to White Hart Castle.

Because two days ago, Godric's troops fought a battle with Duke Alma's troops in Longhe Town.

This is a real civil war.

It starts with Godric chasing down those Red Brotherhood members.

At about the same time that the lord captured Livius again, Godric and Charles' troops followed the escaped members of the Red Brotherhood and chased them all the way to the vicinity of Payne Village in the southeast of Lion Lake City.

Later, they found traces of the Rangers called by the Horn.

There are more than 400 members of the Horn Call Ranger Group here, most of whom are rangers under Ralph.

It is obviously weird for the Rangers to appear in this position, and of course both Godric and Charles can sense that there is a problem.

Moreover, after seeing the gangsters fleeing for their lives, the Horn Summoning Ranger Group immediately began to intercept and kill those gangsters.

This caught Godric a little off guard. Originally, he planned to chase these Red Brotherhood members all the way to find the mastermind, or at least capture the leader of these bandits.

Godric didn't intend to kill these bandits, even if he wanted to kill them, he had to capture at least a few live leaders.

Of course, at present, these gangsters have traveled seven or eight hundred miles to Payne Village, which is only more than 100 miles away from Lion Lake City, which already explains the problem.

However, what Godric was thinking was to catch them alive - and now the rangers are completely intercepting and killing the gangsters without leaving a single one alive, it feels like they are killing them!

So Godric planned to stop this behavior, and sent many soldiers to order the ranger group to stop the attack and capture the prisoners.

But surprisingly, the Clarion Call Rangers completely ignored his orders.

The local knights in Changhe town actually ignored the order of the chief of military affairs in the eastern region. It was obvious that there was something wrong with this ranger.

So Godric took an army of more than 1000 people to surround these rangers.

But what was even more strange was that the rangers did not leave after killing the robbers, but waited in place, and even put down their weapons and surrendered directly, just letting Godric surround them.

Later, Godric found Ralph, who was seriously injured, in Penn Village.

Since Raphael was held hostage by the Duke of Alma, Ralph could only obey Alma's command, led the ranger group to help Alma form a military deterrent, regained Lion Lake City, and followed Alma to go to Fort Brave Shield.

But he didn't expect that Duke Alma's real goal was not Yongshield Fort, but Changhe Town!
Duke Alma initially brought out more than half of the army from Lion Lake City, plus the Horn Call Ranger Squad, a total of 500 troops, and led the army westward, saying that he wanted to rescue Fort Brave Shield.

But as soon as they walked to the north of Payne Village, another scout came to report, saying that 'Baron Li Ang has treasoned in Changhe Town' - at that time, the news of Li Ang's treason was really spreading.

As a result, the ranger group was divided into two factions.

Including Ralph, half of the people thought that Baron Leon would not do such a thing, which must be false news.

The other half felt that regardless of whether the news was fake or not, they should go back to Changhe Town. They should go back to Changhe Town first to make sure that their hometown is fine before going to rescue Yongdunbao in time.

So the Duke of Alma took the other half of the ranger regiment, plus his own troops, more than 2000 troops went to Longhe Town, and asked Ralph to take the rangers to 'support Fort Yongshield'.

But in fact, he gave Ralph the task of killing all the Red Brotherhood members he could meet along the way, and as soon as this was done, he would release Raphael.

Ralph's only son is in the hands of Alma, and he can only obey the arrangement on the surface—but he already knew what Alma was going to do after the last time Alma settled in Longhe Town.

So, after Alma left, Ralph told the members of the ranger group what they were facing.

After all, Ralph had been the Knight Commander of the Horn Call Rangers for 20 years, and the Rangers trusted him and knew he never lied.

Regardless of whether Changhe Town will eventually be controlled by Alma or Li Ang, it is an internal struggle among the lords of the kingdom, and the Horn Summoning Ranger Group has no interest in participating.

Anyway, any lord who controls Changhe Town will not harm the common people, as long as his hometown is not harmed by Jatus or bandits.

But if Raphael is rescued, at least Ralph will not be controlled by others, and Lion Lake City is nearby, so there will be no delay.

So the Rangers decided to save people first.

Ralph and the Ranger Group believed that Raphael must be locked up in Lion Lake City.

Therefore, the half-horn call ranger group planned to try to send an elite team to sneak into the city and rescue Raphael.

But Ralph failed.

Although more than half of the garrison in Lion Lake City had been taken away, the First Banner Guard was still in the city, and the flag officer Ge Langlong was not easy to deal with.

Most importantly, Raphael is not in Lion Lake Prison.

Ralph and Grandlon fought to the detriment of both sides. The elite squad of the Horn Call Rangers was almost lost. Ralph was seriously injured and managed to escape from the city.

Ralph could hardly move after being seriously injured. He originally sent the ranger group to Fort Yongshield, leaving him and Raphael alone.

But the Rangers were still loyal to him. Not only did they not abandon him, they also intercepted and killed all the members of the Red Brotherhood they saw in accordance with Alma's request to him-they were dispatched to suppress the bandits. Well, to be honest, Alma didn't lie to them either.

Knowing all the situation, Godric had no choice but to temporarily include the ranger group into the army, and then rushed to Changhe Town.

He was more worried about Long River Town than Ralph—because most of the Long River Town garrison was currently in his team, and there were only two or three hundred defenders in the city.

When he came to Changhe Town, the golden lion banner was still hanging on the city, and the city was quite peaceful. Godric originally thought that Alma hadn't succeeded.

But just as he led his troops into the city, a large net fell from the sky.

It was a big fishing net. Both Changhe Town and Shihu City were backed by lakes and seas, and there were many fishing nets—and Shihu City was actually backed by a large inland sea. Fishermen have long used this kind of net to catch big fish .

Godric was extremely skilled, but he didn't suffer any injuries, but no matter how skilled he was, there was really nothing he could do about this kind of net, and he was captured.

The one who attacked him was the troops from Lion Lake City, Alma's subordinates.

At the moment when the big net fell, the gate of Changhe Town was also closed halfway through the troops' entry!

Troops from both sides fought a brutal battle in Changhe Town, but Godric's troop was certainly no match due to mental calculations or unintentional calculations, and the town was bloody in a short time.

On the contrary, Charles saw the opportunity quickly. He was walking behind, and when he saw the city gate closed, he immediately ran out with the red arrow longbowmen around him, and he really escaped.

But then the troops of Lion Lake City began to chase Charles all the way, and deliberately prevented him from running southeast—obviously, the enemy knew about his relationship with Li Ang.

Charles couldn't run in the direction of Mai Xiangling. Seeing that there were only two hundred brothers following him, and the enemy army chasing him was at least a thousand, unable to resist, he simply let all the brothers run separately.

He himself ran west, while most of the Red Arrow longbowmen headed northeast for their old home of Fletcher.

Charles was considered heroic to lure the enemy, and the troops of Lion Lake City chased Charles all the way, basically ignoring the fleeing soldiers.

However, Charles was not chased, and he fled into the village of Kewen, which was the home of the countess, and the countess did shelter him and hid him in the wine cellar.

(End of this chapter)