Throne of the North

What a courageous nobleman.

At this moment, Ryan couldn't help but admire Viscount Hogg's choice.

If you charge on the land on this kind of road, even a knight will stumble and die under the trampling of his own army. After all, except for the road which is less than five meters wide, it is smoother, and both sides are covered with rocks and overgrown weeds. .

"Lord Ryan, Viscount Hogg's cavalry lost two hundred and thirty horses. The number of knights who died in this war should be more than one hundred and twenty. These are the bodies we can find."

"But the death toll among our slave soldiers exceeded five hundred."

There is no precise figure for the brief cleaning up of the battlefield, but such losses allowed Viscount Hogg's army to successfully avoid being attacked from both sides.

Harrington, covered in blood, knelt in front of Ryan.

"Master Ryan..."

He couldn't say anything. If the soldiers around him hadn't been afraid of the majesty of the knight and guarded him desperately, Harrington might have died in the continuous charge of thousands of cavalry.

"Get up, I don't blame you for this. I took away all the elites, and the rest are all soldiers made up of slaves. It is impossible to make them brave and not afraid of death."

Ryan did not mean to blame Harrington. This war was already doomed when Viscount Hogg chose to let his most elite cavalry clear the way.

The cavalry is not just cavalry, but also thousands of knights who are training intently after dismounting.

Ryan was able to cut through Viscount Hogg's slave army with five hundred trainee knights. Similarly, on this road, Viscount Hogg was able to kill the slave soldiers with fear and despair with a thousand of the same team.

"I think that Viscount Hogg has lost more than 10% of his trump cards and will probably not dare to take such extreme risks in the future."

The chaotic battlefield required a long time to clean up, but a few hours later, Ryan heard some news that shocked him.

Baron Freeman's castle was captured.

Earl Weiss's army arrived from the south, and the fleeing Viscount Hogg appeared in the north at the right time. Both sides attacked at the same time. With the continued effect of the fury potion, they actually took the tower standing on the hillside. of fortress.

The biggest reason is that in order to attack Viscount Hogg's army from the north and south, Tieshan County's own two thousand soldiers were also mixed with the army commanded by Harrington. Therefore, there were less than three thousand soldiers in Baron Freeman's castle. With a hundred-man defense, when the enemy army arrived, the civilians and slaves in the small towns in Baron Freeman's territory had no time to enter the castle to assist in the resistance.

Viscount Walter, looking at Baron Freeman in the dim hall, whose expression was exactly the same as that of Baron Malik, Ryan couldn't help but sigh.

"I have long asked you to keep your troops in the south for defense, but you insist on bringing them to the north."

They also listened to Ryan at first and left the last two thousand slave soldiers of the Iron Mountain County nobles on the southern defense line. But later when they heard that they could defeat Viscount Hogg with a double attack, they couldn't wait to fight in the war. Write your name in the history of victory.

Of course, the most important thing is that if they play a huge role in the war, they can find ways to obtain more wealth and benefits after the war.

As a result, two thousand soldiers came to the north.

"Lord Viscount Walter."

Ryan looked at Viscount Walter and said:

"You need to quickly let the slaves harvest the food outside. In the next war, there will be no way to attack from both sides. If the food outside your castle cannot be harvested as soon as possible, it will become the enemy's rations."

"I'll make arrangements now, but..."

Viscount Walter looked at Ryan.

"Ryan, please lend me a thousand slave soldiers to help harvest food."

It is not an easy task to harvest all the food cultivated outside the castle in a short period of time. It requires a large number of manpower. Viscount Walter's original slaves were all lost in several tragic wars and have not yet been harvested. Too many additions.

"I will lend you two thousand people, but you must be quick."

Ryan didn't mean to refuse. When those slave soldiers were not soldiers, they were serfs themselves, and they were instinctive about the production and harvesting of crops.

"Tell those slaves that the harvested food will be their rations for the next war. Don't even think about hiding it secretly."

As a noble who exploited slaves, Viscount Walter also knew very well that every year during the harvest month, slaves would be bold enough to hide some grain in their clothes in the hope that they would not be found.

In the south, under the excellent morals and traditions of the nobles, Baron Freeman's family members have been sent to the territory of Viscount Walter to meet Baron Freeman.

So the castle was temporarily without an owner, and Viscount Hogg settled down with peace of mind, along with Hector Weiss, the eldest son from the Earl of Weiss family.

"Lord Viscount, you look a little embarrassed."

Hector looked at Viscount Hogg and asked with concern. As a future heir to the earl, he now also has the aura of a noble.

"Baron Tundra is as powerful as rumored. Hector, don't underestimate our enemy."

Viscount Hogg said that he did not think that the eldest son of the earl in front of him was qualified to mock him.

"My stupid brother lost at the hands of Baron Tundra. Of course I won't underestimate him."

"It's just that there is no doubt that you are powerful, but you will also suffer heavy losses."

When entering the castle, Hector saw the situation of Viscount Hogg's elite troops, which suffered heavy casualties.

"Let's talk about the next war. How did you come here? How is the Earl's war going?"

At this time, Viscount Hogg was also very envious of Earl Winter's Flying Wolf Cavalry. Apart from anything else, they were unparalleled in transmitting information.

"Father has entered Beifeng County, but it is not going smoothly. Even the Thunder Giant can hardly destroy Earl Winter's power on the battlefield."

"The wealth that the governor has earned in Beifeng Province over the years is richer than we thought."

"So, if we can occupy Tieshan County, it will be very beneficial to this war."

"Don't worry about this. We are already invincible."

Viscount Hogg said confidently.

"In front of us, Viscount Walter's territory is a plain, and they have no cavalry, so it is impossible for them to walk out of the castle and start a war with me."

"However, how many barbarians did you bring?"

"Four hundred and fifty."

Hector said, with great confidence in his words. This is a real extraordinary legion soldier.

"Then it is enough to attack the castle. The nobles of Tieshan County only have more than a thousand slave troops. Counting the Frozen Baron, we only need to make them lose at most 30% of their soldiers, and the nobles of Tieshan County will surrender to us, otherwise their territory will not be able to complete the cultivation next year."

War is never a matter of you die and I say kill the last soldier. There is no such war. Even if the nobles are willing, the soldiers will flee in fear in such a bloody fight.

When the loss is large enough, it is over and negotiations can be started.

In fact, if Viscount Walter of Tieshan County and Earl Winter were not so deeply bound together, there would be no war today. Before that, Tieshan County had already surrendered to the war power of Earl Weiss.

Even now, the nobles of Tieshan County are already very dissatisfied. Too many slaves and warriors have died, which will have a huge impact on next year and even the next few years.