Unknown Knight

In the past few days, Aix's headache has recurred, and he has occasionally had a high fever. He has been staying in bed in his tent and doesn't want to see anyone.

His territory was occupied, his title was stripped away, and the people who depended on him lost their foundation for survival and became helpless. His beloved relatives Yamila and Cress disappeared, and the whereabouts of respected elders and good comrades Old John, Bandak, Fatis, Catherine, Ran Hu, James and others were unknown. All these things were like huge hammers, hitting his heart every moment.

Fortunately, there was the little girl Sofia, who took care of Aix in every possible way, often speaking to him in a soft voice. Every time the two looked at each other, the girl's face, full of worry and concern, always showed a gentle and sweet smile, which spread like sunshine into his heart.

So much so that apart from his confused, bored and messy mind every day, what Axe wanted to see most was Sofia's beautiful smiling face. It makes people sigh that even the strongest man, when he is at his weakest, all he needs to comfort and heal him is a kind woman.

Of course, Aix did not do nothing. Since the first day he lay down in the tent, he called Desevi, Niza, Liu Tang and Robin Hood to his side, and asked them to rely on the mobility of the cavalry and shoot the Nord pirates with armor-piercing arrows from a distance. They also kept harassing the nearby Nord pirates and captured any lone Nord pirates they could. Aix had a hunch that capturing some prisoners might be useful.

At the same time, he also called Yamanti, Zhang Ping and Li Da over and asked them to maintain order in the temporary camp. He also required Li Da to report to him every day on the consumption and inventory of camp supplies.

He then lay down for another five or six days. With Sofia bringing him meals and medicine on time every day, chatting with him and giving him massages, Axel's headache was almost gone.

He estimated that the last fall might have caused brain damage, or even slight bleeding, so that when he arrived at the temporary camp, he suffered a headache again due to increased intracranial pressure after the blow. He really didn't dare to take this matter lightly. If it left any root or symptoms, it would be troublesome in the future. After all, he was not alone now.

In the past few days, he began to walk out of the tent and patrol the temporary camp from time to time. Although the surviving subjects now all looked anxious, they saw that their lord was in good health and often took the initiative to come to them and ask about their well-being, which made them feel much more at ease.

Although the supplies in the camp are not sufficient at present, they are enough for a period of time. However, the road ahead is uncertain and he doesn't know what to do next or where to go. This is his biggest worry at the moment.

That afternoon, Desevi brought him good news. It turned out that they finally captured three Nords. After severe torture and isolated interrogation, they got an important message. Idenyar in the city of Tiha captured more than fifty people belonging to Aix and was preparing to let the slave trader Ramon sell them.

Aix immediately called a meeting of the leaders. After discussion, Aix decided to lead the cavalry to rescue the people. That night, an elite cavalry team of about fifty people secretly left the Black Forest. They brought enough dry food, one man on two horses, and rode towards Tiha City under the cover of darkness.

The cavalry team hid during the day and moved at night, avoiding crowded roads. After one day and two nights, Aix and his party arrived outside the city of Tiha.

After some reconnaissance, Aix discovered that the distance from Tiha City to the seaside pier was about three or four miles. The terrain on this section of the road was flat and suitable for cavalry combat. Aix decided to start from this section of the road.

Soon, a team of more than 30 slaves were escorted out in shackles, escorted by more than a dozen bounty hunters holding whips and daggers on their waists. With a wave of his hand, the cavalry ambushed in the nearby jungle rushed forward and shot and killed more than a dozen unmounted bounty hunters in an instant, along with the pirate sellers who were escorting them.

After removing the shackles of these slaves, he found that there were indeed five or six residents of the territory among them. Aix released the other slaves and let them escape on their own. He didn't care whether they could escape or not.

Aix chose to let the five or six subjects stay. After asking them about the situation of the slaves in the city, Aix asked them to arm themselves with the captured weapons and then go to the place in the forest where the remaining horses and supplies were stored to guard the camp.

According to these subjects, there are still several hundred captured slaves in the slave market in the city, including about fifty subjects from the territory, and the rest were looted by the pirates from the Kingdom of Swadia. They are now being sold out one after another. Not only here, but also slaves were taken away from another gate of Tiha City.

It seems that Ramon's slaves are still very popular. Aix immediately sent three cavalrymen to wait near another city gate and report immediately if they found any slaves being escorted out of the city.

In just one morning, Aix led his team to travel back and forth between the two city gates and rescued four waves of slaves, a total of more than 110 people, including more than 20 of his subjects. In addition, he also killed more than 30 bounty hunters and Nord pirates belonging to the city of Tiha. After receiving the news, the city of Tiha no longer dared to escort slaves out of the city.

Ramon, furious, sent all the forty-odd slave hunters under his command out of the city, determined to fight to the death with Aix. However, without the fatal weakness of long-range attack, after chasing Aix's cavalry for several rounds, they were shot dead or injured by more than a dozen elite archers on Aix's side. They were so scared that they went straight back to the city and never dared to come out again.

Through the mouth of an injured slave hunter who fell off his horse and was captured, Aix learned that there were about four to five hundred Swadians captured as slaves in the city. These people belonged to dozens of Nord nobles. At the same time, Idenjar was gathering a large army, ready to go out of the city to attack Aix's cavalry at any time. However, without cavalry, they would not leave the city now, but wait until night to come out and attack Aix and his party.

After hearing the news, Aix decided to go all out and ordered the cavalry to attack all the Nord caravans coming out of the city. All those flying the flags of Nord nobles were attacked and killed, and the goods that could be taken away were taken away, and those that could not be taken away were burned on the spot. As for the caravans flying the flags of nobles from other countries, Aix drove them back to Tihar and did not allow them to leave the city.

When it was getting dark, he led his troops to evacuate the area of ​​Tiha City and rest in the forest dozens of miles away. Idenyar's troops, who had been holding back for a day, searched the area near Tiha City for a whole night but did not find a single horse hair, so they had to return to the city in disgrace.

For two days in a row, Aix led the cavalry to do this. Seeing that the effect was good, he came up with an idea. He called over a cavalryman, gave him some instructions, and the cavalryman took the order and left.

In the next five or six days, the cavalry led by Aix almost cut off the trade routes and slave trade in Tiha. He only allowed the caravans of a few nobles that he was familiar with to pass, such as the caravans of Marquis Claes of Deherim, Rodelaboye of Kulau, King Ragnar, and Lord Iaia, and told them not to come to Tiha for business in the short term. The caravans of other nobles were either driven back to the city by Aix or isolated outside the city.

During this period, Idenyar also sent more than a hundred elite Nords to escort part of the caravan out of the city. As a result, they were harassed by the cavalry sent by Aix who took turns shooting arrows all the way. Two days later, when these people were exhausted, they launched a surprise attack at night. Not only did they set fire to the goods, but they also killed more than a hundred elite Nords and defeated them. There were more than forty corpses left on the road alone. Idenyar was so angry that he screamed and dared not send anyone out of the city again.

On the morning of the seventh day after blocking the city of Tiha, Aix brought Desevi and Sophia and came directly to about seventy or eighty meters outside the gate of Tiha.

At this position, even if Edenyal sent archers to shoot him, Aix had time to put up a shield for defense. He was not afraid of cavalry rushing out of the city. In the forest a hundred meters behind him, other cavalry were lying in ambush, ready to respond at any time.

After Aix stood still, he looked at the tightly closed city gate and the heavily manned city wall. After the enemy on the opposite side had made arrangements and everything had quieted down, Aix shouted towards the city gate tower:

"Eden! Eden! Eden! You pig-like fool, since you have provoked me, do you dare to come out and fight me to the death?"

Silence, deathly silence. No one on the wall with hundreds of people responded. Seeing Eden being so cowardly, X laughed wantonly:

“Hahahaha, Eden—! Are you a turtle? You can only hide in your shell in the city and don’t even dare to come out? Don’t you claim to be brave and extraordinary? Do you dare to come out and fight me in an open battle? You softie! A sinister villain who can only attack by surprise!”

Silence, or deathly silence. Aix knew that Iden was on the city wall, and he must be looking at him with vicious eyes at this moment, but Aix didn't expect that he didn't even reply to his words. Was he afraid that he would have to go out of the city to fight him if he continued? It was really possible. The Nords who advocated bravery despised cowards the most. Thinking of this, Aix's disgust for him increased a little bit, and he continued with contempt:

"Hahaha, you coward Eden, listen carefully. This is your new title. Since you don't dare to come out for a fight, I will treat you as a weakling without balls and will not bother with you. I heard that there are more than 300 Swadians in your city. I will give you two hours to consider. Release the captured Swadians in the afternoon and I will meet them outside the city. After that, I will withdraw my troops and will not bother with you, a weakling without balls.

If you don't do as I say, I won't care about the lives of these people. My troops will stay outside your city and will not withdraw until we have killed all of you Nord pirates. Listen carefully, I won't say this a second time."

After Aix finished speaking, the silence on the city wall broke out and a burst of discussion broke out. It was obvious that Aix's words made the Nord nobles who were still in the city very excited, but also caused great disagreements.