Lord of Riders

The army walked for a long time, basically there was no personal shadow. There are still relatively few residents in this harsh environment. The residents of the Sultanate of Salander are denser in the southwestern part of the country near the Kingdom of Rhodok, and the environment near Turga is even worse, with few residents.

"Report! Your Majesty, a village was found ahead, with an estimated population of three or four hundred!" Shao Yu led an army walking on the land of the Salander Sultanate. The scouts in front of the way came back and reported.

"How far is it?" Shao Yu asked

"One hour at full speed," the scout replied

"Order the soldiers to speed up and try to rush to the village to rest before the dark sky!" Shao Yu preached.

The soldiers speeded up the march after receiving orders. After another two hours' journey, the soldiers of the Shao Ming Kingdom finally arrived at the village where the scout had discovered.

It was late in the evening, and the sun was about to set. When Shao Yu led the army into the village, he found that there were basically not many people in the village.

There were no three or four hundred people as the scout said, and at most there were less than one hundred people in this village. At a glance, I knew that I must have known the arrival of the enemy, and they all fled. But when Shao Yu entered the village, someone greeted him.

An old man in a plain gray robe greeted him.

"My lord, I am the elder of this village. Our village is only old, weak, sick, and disabled. We don't know what the adults want. We do our best to hope that the adults can let go of our village." The old village chief was haggard and in shape. Skinny, saying that the eyes here are full of fear.

Seeing this old man, Shao Yu was silent for a while. Originally, Shao Yu had no hostility towards these civilians. They were not enemies, and it made no sense to kill them. And it is estimated that the residents in these deserts can't have anything valuable, if any. I'm afraid it's just tons of sand.

"What I want to say is, I have no hostility to you, because from now on, this is the territory of our Shao Ming Kingdom. You only need to live your own lives, and the Shao Ming Kingdom’s army will give you Provide protection. Anyone who dares to attack or rule over you is challenging the Shao Ming Kingdom and infringing on the sovereignty of the Shao Ming Kingdom. You convey these words to every villager, and the money is even for your relief." Shao Yu directly and The elder expressed his will. Then he took out a purse containing a few hundred dinars, a very large purse, and threw it to the elders.

The money bag fell in front of the elder. The elder bent over and picked it up, his face turned several times.

After Shao Yu finished speaking, he went straight into the village. The elders had already prepared rooms for them. These are not good houses, but simple houses. The big bed with woolen quilts and animal skin cushions seems to have been prepared long ago. , This is the best room in the village

The elder knew that a big man might come to this village. Although the other party was an enemy country, the elder did not dare to offend. In this era, the other party could kill everyone in the entire village with a word. The elders did not dare to neglect, and let all the young and middle-aged people in the village run away, only some old and weak women and children stayed in the village to see what happened. It is not impossible that the other party looted the village directly, and it may directly kill all the people in the village.

But the elder was thankful that Shao Yu didn't mean anything hostile, but rather generously gave him several hundred dinars of gold coins. Of course, Shao Yu also made it clear that it is for the villagers to improve their lives.

Shao Yu said that the village will belong to the Shao Ming Kingdom, and the elders did not raise any objections. Of course, it is useless to raise objections, and it is also a foolish act. Originally, these lands belonged to whoever occupied the territory. A large army of more than 40,000 people was stationed next to the village. They set up a large camp here. The army had linen tents deployed with the army. The linen was imported from the kingdoms of Nord and Swadia, and the kingdom of Shao Ming They do not produce linen, but they finally process linen into linen tents and cushions. Although it is still hard and uncomfortable, it is always better than sleeping directly on the ground.

The soldiers rested in the tent all night. On the second day, Shao Yu did not continue to stay in this village. Shao Yu found a few people with convenient legs in the village as a guide, and led the army to a nearby town in the Salander Sultanate.

After Sultan Hakim retreated, he retreated to Amerad, a town not far from the village where Shao Yu was resting. Samara Fort, a castle next to Amerad.

Shao Yu's current destination is Samara Fort.

The two places of Samara Fort and Amerad are very close, which can be said to be the legendary horns of each other. One area is attacked, and the other area can be quickly assisted, so the defensiveness of this area is not bad.

After Shao Yu left the village and walked for a few hours, Fort Samara appeared in front of Shao Yu.

Sultan Hakim had long received news that Shao Yu led the army to attack. This was out of the surprise of Sultan Hakim. Sultan Hakim did not expect that the Shao Ming Kingdom would have chased the Sultanate of Salland. . Originally thought that Shao Yu would go back after helping the Kujit Khanate repelled his attack, but he did not expect that the Shao Ming Kingdom would directly invade Salander. It seems that Shao Yu didn't intend to let Sarander go easily~www.readwn.com~ Hakim knew that this time he might have angered Shao Ming's kingdom, so now he was a little scared and regretful. Originally, it was good for them to watch the fire from the shore, but Hakim realized that if the Salander Sultanate cannot be strengthened, although it can protect itself in a short time, it will not be long before Salander will still be in the Shao Ming Kingdom. After the battle between the two powers of the Sa Empire is over, they are eaten by one side, and the victorious side is likely to unify the Calradia continent.

In this regard, Sultan Hakim still has a long-term vision. In fact, many people can see that in the future, the Shao Ming Kingdom and the Ansa Empire will be the main rulers of Calradia. One of them annexed the Kingdom of Vigia, and the other annexed the Kingdom of Rhodok. Now any of the two countries surpasses the other countries in the continent of Calradia.

Sultan Hakim knew that the Shao Ming Kingdom’s army was strong, but he did not expect it to be so strong.

Now Shao Yu personally led the main force under him to attack the Salander Sultanate. King Haraus didn't dare to slacken his efforts. He hurriedly mobilized the guards of the surrounding castles and gathered five thousand men and horses to guard Samara Fort. At the same time, they mobilized part of the forces in the city of Kuba, plus the 10,000 defeated troops brought back by the Hakim Sultan, plus 10,000 defenders from Amerad, and gathered a group of temporarily recruited recruits and mercenaries. , Barely organized a garrison of 30,000 horses to garrison Amurad.