Throne of the North

When the werewolves broke through the Xiangshan Plain Fortress and entered the Beifeng Province, the scene that appeared was more tragic than before, because the werewolves would kill the nobles.

Just like when a new wolf king appears, he either drives away the old wolf king or kills him in battle.

Werewolves do this, they need food, but they don't need human nobility.

Since werewolves don't have much interest in killing ordinary people, why would they be more tragic?

Ryan looked at the news that kept coming from the distance, and deeply realized the inseparable connection between nobles and knights, and commoners and slaves.

Under the orders of the nobles, countless civilians and slaves followed the knights to resist the werewolves. Once the war broke out, the werewolves would not have any scruples.

The nobles resisted extremely resolutely because of the threat of death. The werewolves' bloodthirsty desire to attack turned the Beifeng Province into a pot of bloody porridge.

More and more people fled to Lingdu County, Tieshan County and Yinchuan County, but then the werewolves followed them. The nobles in the middle clung to their castles and did not care whether the werewolves were there. After passing through their own territory to other places, they even wished that there were fewer werewolves and they were farther away.

This is why werewolves continue to appear in Lingdu County and put increasing pressure on the nobles here.

"How to deal with such a huge number of werewolves?"

On Rhinohorn Mountain, Ryan thought about it for two whole days, but there was still no good solution.

Either survive in death, fight to the death, and use human beings' belief in greed for life and fear of death to start a war with werewolves in every corner, or use what Rosalind said and use absolutely extraordinary means to burn werewolves with the flame of life.

No matter what the outcome is, the price is terrible.

Ryan wants to ask for an intermediate result, because many people have died in Beifeng Province now.

"The army...is difficult to assemble."

"After the Xiangshan Plain Fortress was breached, except for the army that retreated to Hanshan City and did not leave due to the pressure of Viscount Landa, the remaining combat power was firmly held in the hands of the nobles. They were unwilling to give up the army in their hands and used to protect your own life.”

The nobles whose lives were threatened by werewolves would never let their troops leave their side for any reason, not even if the emperor came.

Under such circumstances, when Ryan gathered his army to attack the werewolves, there was only one kind of person who became his soldiers, and that was the slaves.

There are no civilians, because the civilians leave the territory, especially the lord who needs them to serve as soldiers. At that moment, they have been marked as slaves.

Plus running away, being homeless, getting sick...

Ryan thought about it for a long time. Apart from Rosalind's method of exchanging his life for it, there seemed to be no second better way.

"One general's success will make a thousand bones wither."

Ryan said with emotion that he had seen that once he succeeded, everyone would praise him, but he completely forgot that this fame was built from the bones of hundreds of thousands of humans.

After thinking about this clearly, Ryan's eyes became firm. He was not a saint. When there was no other way, so be it.

Lingdu City.

Baron Lane's army once again left the Tundra Territory and appeared outside Lingdu City. An army of 50,000 people had been assembled here. Lingdu County and Tieshan County contributed half of the number, and the remaining half came from As for the refugees from the surrounding counties, just as Ryan thought, the nobles would not let them out and empty their castles.

Fifty thousand slaves with sallow faces and skinny muscles, with cracked palms and soles from the cold, were the army assembled by the Marquis of the North Wind. Ryan even suspected that if these fifty thousand people entered a mountain forest to chase a wild boar, the end result would be that the wild boar escaped.

It was too weak, and fifty thousand was not a real number, because when Ryan came here, he saw a dozen people dying of hunger and cold in the smelly military camp.

In the end, all he got was 50,000 people.

I'm afraid the knight responsible for this matter doesn't know exactly how many there are.

"This is the army that is going to regain the lost land in Beifeng Province?"

Ryan smiled. Next to him, Rosalind suddenly appeared like a ghost. He seemed to have some kind of ability to escape into the shadows.

"They are not yet, but they will be soon."

Rosalind took out a crystal with a drop of dark liquid sealed inside.

"What's this?"

"A potion made from the blood of the Demon Lord."

Rosalind's face turned a little pale, and he took out more crystals. Inside each crystal, there was a drop of pitch-black potion.

"I prepared 30,000 copies. You don't know how much it cost me."

Rosalind gritted her teeth. Only he understood how much accumulation and resources other than wealth he would spend for these things.

"Not enough."

Ryan shook his head and said, pointing to the chaotic military camp in front of him.

"Thirty thousand copies are far from enough."

"I know."

Rosalind did not refute, he knew how powerful his things were, and he had seen the fighting power of werewolves.

"I will continue to prepare, but it is too late now. The nobles in those counties have gone crazy. If this continues, His Majesty the Emperor will not be able to withstand the pressure brought by the nobles, and will declare me an enemy of the empire."

"Can this still happen?"

Ryan was a little curious, and Rosalind was helpless.

"You don't know how many nobles died in front of the werewolf. If it continues to be delayed, even the Grand Duke will not be able to bear it."

Fame, prestige, these are all benefits that attract nobles. But in the current Beifeng Province, if nobles die on a large scale, they will not investigate any reasons. The nobles will only look at the results.

What's the result? It was due to the decision of the Emperor and Archduke Meyers that the nobles of Beifeng Province suffered heavy casualties.

No matter what, the nobles of Beifeng Province are all nobles of the empire. In terms of status and style, they are the same as all nobles. They are loyal to the emperor, and the loyalty is mutual.

Ryan watched Rosalind make a slave swallow a crystal two fingers wide, and then watched the slave in front of him turn into a cruel demon dependent.

After a long time, after Rosalind killed him, Ryan came back to his senses and asked:

"Do they want something to eat?"

Rosalind was a little confused, eating? Then shook his head.

"The power of demons is to fight by burning their vitality and souls. If they eat, they eat their own souls and lives to sustain themselves."

Ryan disagreed and said:

"How can we not eat more when we have changed so much?"

After saying that, Ryan turned and left. Not long after, a new order from Marquis Beifeng came out from Lingdu City, which required the nobles to use the food stored in the ice warehouse of the Tundra Territory to serve as a force to fight against the werewolves. Army rations.

This move caused dissatisfaction among many nobles, but it was of no use.

The army needs food. This is a consensus. The infant Marquis Beifeng has already become a famous Marquis who has issued many orders as a governor.

Of course, the nobles were not stupid. They knew that the origin of this order was not decided by Marquis Beifong. But now the nobles still need Baron Lane and his army, so they did not think more about it.

The mighty 50,000-strong army set off, actually more than 50,000, because Marquis Beifeng's order was true, and the food was transported to the military camp. Everyone knew that if they followed the army, they would be able to eat.

For this reason alone, the army has become bloated.

"What we have to do is force the werewolves to fight us in the same place."

Rosalind's method is obviously not that easy to control. If there are too many battlefields, the humans who have become demons will not care about orcs or humans, and even humans will be more hostile in front of them.

So at this time, a complete battlefield is needed to fight the werewolf in a decisive battle without any unnecessary means.

Otherwise, once the werewolf reacts and starts running away in all directions, there will be no solution if he uses cunning methods to delay the duration of the devil's potion.

With the wisdom of a werewolf, Ryan felt that if this was the case, most of the werewolves would leave.

"Then... we need a battlefield, a battlefield that can gather all werewolves and humans."

"To gather werewolves, another bait is needed."

As the army moved forward, Ryan continued to use the process of elimination.

Humans only have one chance in this war, so the battlefield cannot be dispersed. Either the werewolves attack a certain place with all their might, or they need a suitable bait. The two can become the same condition, and the choice of bait must first be based on Taking counties as a unit, we can exclude the three counties of Lingdu, Tieshan, and Yinchuan that have not yet fought fierce battles with werewolves, because most werewolves are not in these places, and it is impossible for all werewolves to cross the noble territories to attack these three counties. border counties.

The remaining Longshan, Leiyun, Beifeng and Hanshan counties, and Jinmaisui City are all possible options.

Among them, the last two were eliminated by Ryan first, not because they were not close to werewolves, but because of their value.

There is no need for the werewolves to gnaw down these two cities that are currently in the hands of Viscount Landa, and if they want to occupy them... it is not too difficult for the werewolves.

But just like the fortresses in the Xiangshan Plain, these cities were, strictly speaking, also fortresses for the nobles.

If they were just plundering, then these places would be a good choice. Just like when the orcs went south in the past, they would not attack noble castles that were easy to defend and difficult to attack and would cost a lot of money to break into. Instead, they would choose villages and towns.

However, through the gathering of various information, Ryan does not believe that the werewolves just want to plunder and consume the number of orcs.

After all, if this is the case, why are only werewolves and no orcs from other groups entering the Northwind Province so far?

Wouldn't it be most reasonable to reduce the number of orcs?

The orcs have great goals. They want not only the wealth created by humans, but also humans themselves.

While thinking about the werewolves in the North Wind Province, we must also see that the entire north of the empire is facing a full-scale invasion by the orcs.

This is not the decision of the Silver Moon Royal Court itself, but the consensus of the entire orc family. Therefore, robbery cannot be an answer.

Therefore, as bait, it must be of sufficient weight.

Longshan County, Leiyun County, and Beifeng County all have enough weight. A marquis and governor, the territories of two earls are among them, and even Beifeng City, the most populous city in the province, is also included.

Among these three, Longshan County was the first to be eliminated.

Because what Earl Sauron has... Earl Winter has, and even more.

Under the same conditions, Earl Winter is better than Earl Sauron, so the value of Longshan County is less than that of Beifeng County.

Now, there are only two counties left.

Between Leiyun County and Beifeng County, which one is more suitable to be a battlefield and a bait?

Ryan was wondering what the royal marquis and provincial governors of the human empire were like to werewolves.

"Brand, what do you think of werewolf civilization?"

Next to him, Brand thought for a while and replied:

"The law of the jungle created the werewolf civilization. If you are strong enough, you can become the wolf king. The royal family of the Silver Moon Royal Court can only be because they are strong enough."

Ryan nodded.

"Yes, being strong is what is advocated in the werewolf civilization."

He took a deep breath. This answer did not seem to require too many choices.

Among the several counties currently fighting with werewolves, Thundercloud County is the worst, because the Marquis of Beifeng cannot leave the mountain at all. Thundercloud County is so weak that it can't even mobilize much troops. The war between the nobles and Earl Weiss consumed all the resources of Thundercloud County.

The Marquis of Beifeng, who came from afar, brought extraordinary people with him. The army was temporarily formed and could not be compared with the local snakes in Beifeng Province.

The only thing that Thundercloud County can compete with the nobles is the title of the Marquis of Beifeng, a great noble, and the identity of the royal governor.

But the Marquis is still a baby.

Beifeng County, Ryan has made a choice. Beifeng County is the battlefield he needs, and it is also a bait to lure all the werewolves there.

Next, the second question is how the werewolves bite the hook, and how can this bait succeed?

Lai looked at Rosalind and asked:

"I wonder how the Grand Duke handled the North Wind City incident?"

The army stopped, and Ryan had to wait for the outcome between him and North Wind City, which made Rosalind angry. They had agreed to give it to North Wind City later, but Baron Ryan went back on his word and wanted to give it to him now.

But Ryan would not explain too much. It was better to break his promise to Rosalind and Meyers than to expose the matter behind the scenes and leave Meyers with a handle.

Handle, Ryan wanted to use North Wind County as bait, which meant that many people would die there, the population, nobles, and land would become barren, and the territory of Earl Winter would suffer heavy losses, and even the Earl Winter family would be destroyed.

If the Meyers family told the nobles afterwards that the reason for this was because Baron Ryan wanted to turn it into a battlefield...

The nobles would resent him, Ryan, and this matter would determine whether Ryan chose to tell the Meyers family about his decision and plan at this moment.

If they were not told that Baron Ryan had broken his promise, and if they were told that the Meyers family would have a handle on Ryan, they could easily collude with the nobles of North Wind County to target Ryan.

If they were to harm each other, then Meyers would be the one to blame. After all, in the current political circle of the empire, Ryan was born to rely on Earl Clayton and stand on the side of Grand Duke Fleming's family.

The impact would not be too great.

Rosalind left in anger. He needed to contact Shaya and let Shaya contact Grand Duke Meyers, otherwise Ryan would not lead the army to recover the North Wind Province and continue to move forward.

But he could not control the army over Ryan.

Because of food, the army had free food every day, and they did not have to do anything. This kind of life was not too good. If possible, the soldiers would rather stay here for a lifetime.

In this situation, the soldiers would only choose the former of Baron Ryan and Rosalind's orders, after all, they came in because Baron Ryan assembled the army.

Well, although active or passive has nothing to do with the wishes of these slave soldiers themselves.

However, Ryan did not expect that this matter would be so troublesome.

On the first day, there was no movement, and on the second day, Rosalind still did not return.

The matter of handing over North Wind City to Ryan was more troublesome than imagined. The emperor's palace in the imperial capital had been in chaos.

"Your Excellency Grand Duke Meyers, every city in the empire, every human being, even you, Grand Duke Meyers, are my people."

"The noble Columbus gave you land and made you nobles, but it does not mean that nobles can get involved in the power belonging to the emperor. Moreover, I have not abandoned the North Wind Province. Even after thirty years, I will move the people of the North Wind Province to live in the land in the south. Their emperor will give them a comfortable living environment!"

Columbus III roared, and the elderly Grand Duke Meyers was indifferent, and even had some sarcasm in his eyes.

But lowering his head, Grand Duke Meyers said respectfully:

"As you said, every noble and civilian in the empire is your subject, but Beifeng City now needs a manager. There are hundreds of thousands of subjects there, but now, Marquis Beifeng cannot manage that city."

The emperor looked cold and said mockingly:

"That was your choice, my Grand Duke."

"I didn't think it through."

The words of Grand Duke Meyers were very useful to the emperor. This was the first time he heard the other party say that he was wrong in front of this Grand Duke of the empire. The emperor's majesty seemed to bloom at this moment.

"But why is it that Baron Ryan? The child of the Clayton family."

The emperor was naturally familiar with all the nobles in his empire, including their blood, heritage, history and present.

The fifth-class nobles had long been woven into a list in the emperor's mind.

"North Wind City was previously controlled by the Marquis of North Wind, so he is the most familiar with it."

"Because Baron Ryan has excellent military talent, he needs population to build an army to clean up the orcs."

"Four fortresses in the north have been breached, and your majesty also needs nobles who are really good at war to drive out the orcs for you."

The words of Grand Duke Meyers made the emperor's eyes gloomy.