Urban Sims

Chapter 75 On the stage
An agreement was reached on the distribution of benefits, and most of the troops were ordered to stay behind. Zhou Ming led a light cavalry force of 3000 people, one step ahead of the seven earls, and traveled day and night to return to Granland at high speed.

Earl Lausitz, who has fought all his life, is really good at timing. Even if Zhou Ming left an elite guard force of 300 people in Granling Castle in advance, with the high wall and thick wall, he could block ten times the attack. There is no problem with the enemy's siege, so after ordering the guards to strengthen their vigilance, Zhou Ming was not too worried.

Unexpectedly, Earl Lausitz, who is nearly 70 years old and has lost all his heirs, the only motivation for living at this time is revenge!Therefore, after seeing that the castle could not be breached for a while, he pulled all the farmers in the territory, including old women, girls and children, to serve as cannon fodder for filling the trenches and attacking the city with ants. A crumbling castle, in Rausitz's scarlet eyes, there is only madness to wash this castle with blood!

"Kill me!"

After seeing the corpses piled up nearly ten meters high in front of the city wall, as well as countless enemy soldiers climbing up from the siege ladder, and even many enemy soldiers who climbed up the city wall and cheered, they ran continuously for two days and two nights. Zhou Ming, who was half behind the knights around him, gave an order and led more than 500 cavalrymen, rushed into the group of siege troops in front of the castle who only focused on attacking the city and did not make any defensive postures. Among the enemy troops, A sword cut off Count Lausitz's head.

After stepping on the half-foot-deep blood pool with the horseshoes, after entering the castle walls, terraces, wall stacks, etc., which were dyed red everywhere, Zhou Ming, who was a little panicked, hurriedly asked Eric, the blood-covered disciple who came forward to greet him. , what about the losses in the castle?
"My lord baron was hit by a heavy arrow in the chest, and the injury is a little serious, but everyone else is fine."

After finishing speaking, Eric shook his body, and Ryan on the side quickly supported him who was extremely tired.

Zhou Ming was a little surprised when he saw Ryan, the steward of the servant, holding a sharp knife dripping with blood, and a group of servants behind him who also held weapons and had a lot of blood on their clothes. These servants...

"Teacher, fortunately Ryan came to help in time with his servants, otherwise the castle would have fallen a few days ago, Ryan is a man." After Eric explained, he couldn't hold on any longer, and he was supported by a crowd of panic , the body one side fainted.

Asking someone to help Eric down to rest, Zhou Ming looked at this 20-year-old, courageous, resourceful, shrewd and capable with relief. Since he married the bakery owner Defoe's daughter Anna, his gestures have become more mature and steady. Ryan nodded and said, "Good job, Ryan."

Ryan stepped forward, and when Zhou Ming got off the horse, he whispered in his ear hastily: "Master, Alice is about to give birth, and she lay in bed for three days with dystocia. The midwife said that her life would be in danger at any time."

"what?!"

Zhou Ming was taken aback, and quickly walked towards a room on the third floor of the side castle. Just as he reached the door, he heard a clear and loud voice.

"It's born! It's a boy, it's a boy!"

Pushing the door open, I just saw the mother, Mrs. Madeleine, holding a baby in her hand, walking around the room, making prayer gestures, tears streaming down her face.

Without looking at the baby, Zhou Ming went straight to the bed, took the cold and wet hand of the woman on the bed, kissed her pale and pretty face, and said with great self-reproach: "I'm sorry Alice, I once I vowed to protect you for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect that when you needed me most, I still didn't protect you by your side."

"Hee hee~"

Alice chuckled, blinked her eyes and said, "Master, when did you say that to Alice? You just said that you want to give me a happy and beautiful future... I'm fine, what about my child? What about the child? Let me see my child, please?" Alice's innocent and playful face released a kind of maternal brilliance.

"Oh, okay, mom, quickly bring the baby here and show Alice."

Zhou Ming touched his nose with some embarrassment, gently took the child handed over by his mother, and put it in Alice's arms.

I thought to myself, the oath to protect him for the rest of his life seems to be something he said in his last life, right?

……

Zhou Ming, who lifted the siege of the castle, killed Earl Lausitz, and had his first son (the snake girl also gave birth to a daughter for him), only stayed in the castle for two days, and returned to the team one after another on the third day The light-clothed knights occupied the entire territory of the Earl of Rhodes with little effort, and connected the territory with the United States of Iron Fortress. After more than ten years of hard work, this world finally has a wider stage. For him to perform.

However, not long after taking Roseburg, Zhou Ming hurried back to Grandland.

Father Baron Connor is dying.

The heavy arrow shot by the top sharpshooter pierced Baron Connor's chest and lungs. In addition to the despicable poison smeared on the arrow, his father, Baron Connor, who was already very old, had a strong fire of life. To the brink of extinction.

Beside the hospital bed, holding my hand, my father was making the final confession.

"Edward, no... don't just focus on doing those big things... have a few more children, the Burns family will develop... carry forward..."

After finishing speaking with all his strength, he lowered his hand. The Baron Connor, who has never made any great achievements in his life, but is always proud of cultivating an outstanding member of the Burns family, expressed his final entrustment and left. the world.

"father!"

Zhou Ming yelled, but there was no response, a tear that never flowed easily fell from the corner of his eye.

After his father's funeral, his father-in-law, Baron Sean, just kept silent and didn't express anything special about the passing away of this family friend who was also a family friend of his children. After Zhou Ming, holding a mahogany scepter, was elected by the Seven Earls as the Earl of the Ross County, Baron Sean pulled him aside and said some harsh words.

"Edward, I don't care if I become an earl, a duke, a king, or an emperor! No matter how many illegitimate children you have with those messy women, my daughter Fanny must be your only legal wife! If you dare to violate this point, I will Even if you risk your life, you will have to pay a little price!"

Watching Zhou Ming keep expanding his territory, laying down so many lands, and constantly adding officials and ranks, he stood on top of him (after being knighted, in order to maintain the integrity of the territory, Zhou Ming promised a certain amount of benefits to let Earl William, in addition to the gold-rich Bodeaux, reintroduced the three baronies of Granville, Nathan, and York into the jurisdiction of Rhodes), young and promising, and was influenced by many earls and even dukes. Baron Sean, who had a serious sense of crisis in his heart, was afraid that Zhou Ming would not be able to resist the marriage temptation of some big shots, making his Vogt family (Sean's surname) the biggest victim.

"Father-in-law, where did you think? How could I abandon Fanny, she has been with me for more than ten years, who can give up this kind of relationship between husband and wife?"

Zhou Ming said helplessly that he understood the meaning of his father-in-law Baron Sean's words, and he actually had doubts about his own character, thinking that he would fall in love with those marriage forces that might be useful, but in fact he didn't look down on them at all.

"Speaking is better than singing!"

Baron Sean sneered, and asked angrily: "Then why did my daughter Fanny tell me that since that humble maid gave birth to a son for you, you used to go to Fanny's room at least five days a week? It's only been three days? You don't put your mind on having a son with Fanny, but you think about that servant every day?!"

Unjust, father-in-law!
Zhou Ming was powerless to explain. Since having three daughters in a row, his wife, Fanny, has come up with various ways to give birth to a son. She even became interested in some folk remedies. She often takes some weird medicines. When the month came to the critical few days, he was dragged to work in broad daylight. After more than two years of tossing, not to mention giving birth to a boy, he even failed to conceive.

It's just crazy.

but……

Seeing that his father-in-law, Baron Sean, is so angry, it's not good for Zhou Ming to tell him the whole story. Moreover, his wife Fanny's condition is really not very good in the past two years, and he is busy with various things and has no time to enlighten her, so, good voice After appeasing Baron Sean, Zhou Ming promised that he would spend no less than four nights with Fanny every week in the future. During special times, he would go to accompany her every night... This was how he settled his father-in-law, Baron Sean.

"After a while, when you are free, take some time to spend with Fanny. If this continues, I'm afraid she will have some problems..."

Zhou Ming thought so in his heart.

However, it didn't take long before he learned that the Earl of Rhodes was annexed by Granland and that Earl Lausitz was killed by a rebellion. King Helian, who was furious, issued another call-up order and gathered six southern earls. With the strength of the army, and the fact that he had retrained a Kingdom Knights for nearly a year, Helian decided to take Granling first!He personally led 2 troops and planned to take back the Earl of Rhodes, and then capture the precious land of Granville!
Zhou Ming, who heard the news, had to withdraw some of the "conquering legions" stationed in the United States of Iron Fortress, and then recruited a group of good mercenaries and mercenaries, and borrowed a group of cavaliers from surrounding friendly territories , also gathered a force of 2 people, and at a place called "Iti Valley" on the western border of the Earl of Rhodes, the two armies fought a big battle.

In this battle, Zhou Ming's army pretended to be retreating step by step, relying on their superb battlefield command art. After introducing Helian's army to the place where the weeds were the most abundant in the Iti Valley, they rolled down hundreds of thousands of feet from the top of the slope. A huge burning grass ball went down, and in the dry environment of autumn, it burned into a valley of flames, which once again deepened King Helian's fear of fire, and fled back in embarrassment with less than 2000 remnants of the army. left the capital.

Seeing that the king's army is so vulnerable, some of the seven earls in the north, because of the overpopulation of slaves and insufficient food production, wanted to lay down a piece of warm land that could grow food. In order to save some food purchase costs, and The two factions in the north and the south had already torn their faces apart. Soon after, four of the six earldoms in the south fell into the hands of the "Yankees" they hated.

At this time, King Helian was still the king of the Kingdom of Voris in name, but now he can still command and move. In addition to being directly under the royal territory and the Southwest, he is also willing to obey his earldom. A small force in a territory.

This is a bit weaker than the Arino Kingdom, which originally had only 6 earldoms, and now has 7 earldoms after desperately gnawing a piece of meat from the western border of the Iron Castle Kingdom.

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