Throne of the North

When Ryan received the appointment from the emperor, it was already five days after he stayed in place to reorganize and wait.

"Have the fortresses in four of the other five northern border provinces of the empire been defeated?"

Ryan was a little shocked. He never knew that five fortresses in the empire's six provinces near the northern border, including Xiangshan Plain, had been defeated by orcs, and millions of orcs filed in from the fortresses.

This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the empire that vows to fight against the orcs in the north on its own.

The four extraordinary legions commanded by the four archdukes have all been carried on their backs, and they have appeared in the four provinces with broken fortresses to clean up the mess.

Of the six major provinces, only the fortress of Blazing Snow Province is still strong, and currently, the Royal Templar Legion is ready and will go to Blazing Snow Province at any time.

In addition, the nine legendary magicians in the Imperial City are worshiped, and half of them have also entered the four provinces, where they not only need powerful extraordinary legions to fight back against the orcs, but also need legendary extraordinary power to prevent the ultimate consequences brought by the sublimation of war. Destructive power.

Just like the Behemoth beast, it is said that it has trampled on an earl territory.

The situation in the north of the empire is serious, more serious than Ryan thought. The nobles continue to send troops to support, but they can only block the orcs in several provinces and prevent the orcs from continuing to move south.

"The Nightmare Knight Legion has entered the Twilight Province. It won't be long before the Behemoth Orcs will be eliminated."

Rosalind said that no one would doubt this result. After all, the Clayton family's Flame Dragon Knight Legion was able to penetrate deep into the hinterland of the orc territory, and the extraordinary legions in the hands of the four archdukes were the most powerful in the world. That batch.

If there are only two extraordinary legions on Norris continent, none of the four extraordinary armies of the four archdukes will be excluded. In fact, their positions will be selected first, and the rest will be taken care of by others. scramble.

Ryan put the information down and focused on his appointment.

"The time limit for me to become the manager of Beifeng Province is - thirty years?"

"Before Marquis Beifeng grows up, Beifong City belongs to me? When he grows up, that city will have to be returned?"

Ryan raised his head, this was different from what he said.

"Beifeng City cannot be loyal to any nobles except the royal family forever. You are not even the governor of Beifeng Province, so you are not qualified to obtain the eternal loyalty of that city."

"And, it's not just that, you were so anxious that you even lost your other identity."

Rosalind pointed to the second half of the appointment.

"Earl Winter has become the military commander-in-chief of the North Wind Province. Do I obey his orders?"

Ryan smiled. This was obviously a confrontation between the Meyers family and the emperor. No matter what, the emperor was very rebellious and could not be whatever Meyers said. He had to have the emperor's own thinking and majesty instead of becoming The 'puppet' of the Meyers family.

From the looks of it, Grand Duke Meyers, one of the four Grand Dukes, does not have a good relationship with the Emperor.

As a result, Ryan was very satisfied.

"Earl Winter deserves to be the commander-in-chief of the war. This is not a big deal."

Just as it happened, the scent of this bait was three points stronger.

When Ryan received the news, Earl Winter also received the trust from the emperor, which included not only an appointment, but also a secret letter from the emperor. The emperor did not trust the Meyers family and wanted to have his own sight in the North Wind Province.

Viscount Hogg is quite different from Marquis Beifong, but Earl Winter is very suitable.

Earl Winter was still very excited when he received the recognition of Columbus III. Of course, he did not lose his mind because of this.

That afternoon, Earl Winter's Airwolf Cavalry came to Ryan with a probing tone and asked him what he thought.

"First of all, we can no longer allow the werewolf battlefield to expand. Too many nobles have been hunted by werewolves. This is a heavy and sad news. We cannot let more noble castles be surrounded by werewolves. From now on The terrible situation of rushing in through the windows, through the cellar, through the door.”

"The dignity and life of the nobles cannot be blasphemed by orcs."

"We cannot control the nobles who have been deeply involved in wars and battlefields. They need the army to protect them. The only ones that can be mobilized are the noble armies of Lingdu County, Tieshan County and Yinchuan County. They have not been surrounded by orcs and fallen into war. mud."

"Use these troops to form a line of defense to prevent the werewolves from continuing to expand. The North Wind Province has been easily occupied by the orcs several times and has been laughed at by the nobles in the south. This is our shame."

"After stopping the werewolves, the armies of the three counties entered Longshan, Leiyun and Beifeng counties. They used an advancing method to gather the power of all the nobles in the six counties little by little, and used a fan-shaped war to force the werewolves back to Xiangshan. plain.”

"This step can only succeed and cannot fail. No matter how many soldiers die, no matter how much land is destroyed, it must be completed, because we cannot afford the price of failure in the war. This is our last army. Once it fails, all the nobles of Beifeng Province will The territory will become a paradise for orcs."

"As long as the orcs can be driven back to the Xiangshan Plain, no, as long as the werewolves can be driven back to where Hanshan City is, the victory of the war will belong to us."

Facing Ryan's description, it seemed that victory was close at hand, but Lord Hora, who represented Earl Winter in front of him, couldn't help but hesitate.

"Baron Ryan, you should have never seen the werewolves who defeated the Xiangshan Plain Fortress. They... are very powerful."

After speaking, he glanced at the slave soldiers around him.

"I'm afraid these soldiers can't execute the plan you mentioned."

In his opinion, it was a miracle that these people under the leadership of Baron Lane could resist the werewolf attack. As for counterattacking the werewolf?

Can it really be done?

"They can."

Ryan said confidently.

Of course he also knew that ten of these crooked melons and cracked jujubes together could not kill a werewolf, but he just needed to let the werewolf know the determination of human beings to resist.

"I will lead the army here to Thundercloud County. Lord Hora, you also know that the military strength there is the weakest, and Meyers has begun to own the North Wind Province, and the Sayana woman has become very important."

"My army is also needed there to resist the orcs' attack. Otherwise, if the werewolves open a gap in the fan-shaped war from Leiyun County, all plans will be meaningless."

"What about offense? What offense do you people use?"

Lord Hora asked, and Lane told him directly.

"Don't forget Your Excellency Rosalind. He has the foundation he brought from Meyers. As long as we can hold on to the first stage, Your Excellency Rosalind's trump card can help us win."

"After all, humans are no longer the humans they were a hundred years ago, but the orcs are still the orcs they were a hundred years ago."

Ryan said this, finally making Lord Hora feel at ease. He had been racking his brains for a while, but he couldn't think of a way to fight the werewolf.

"Since Lord Rosalind has the means, and Earl Winter is the commander-in-chief of the war now, why not let him go to the Earldom of Winter?"

He didn't understand why Rosalind was in Lane's army. Even though the nobles had previously agreed that Baron Lane would command the nobles' army, now Earl Winter is the commander.

Ryan looked at Lord Hora deeply and said seriously:

"Lord Hora, do you know what Lord Rosalind's methods are?"

He said quietly:

"That is a method that will kill many, many people. As long as the army is involved, no soldier will be able to survive."

Lord Hora, who is insensitive to politics but has a memory of the extraordinary, naturally remembered some scenes from the Kingdom War and could not help but shudder. He had not felt anything in the Kingdom before, but now within the Empire...

He stopped proposing. Looking at the troops behind Ryan who could overthrow them with one hand, he finally understood the meaning of these soldiers eating and drinking well.

"I will ask the Earl to transport another batch of food to Leiyun County. Werewolves don't have much interest in human food."

"Can the war be won?"

Lord Hora asked finally, he was really not confident.

"As long as the werewolves can be forced back to the Xiangshan Plain, even if it only takes one day, the war will not fail."

Ryan said this, and Lord Hora also returned to the earldom with Ryan's confidence and told Earl Winter of Ryan's plan.

"Can such an approach really be successful?"

Earl Winter was a little hesitant. After listening, he only felt that there were two options: defense and offense.

"There are three steps in the plan. The first step is defense. Our territory can withstand the werewolf's attack and even force the werewolf to be unable to approach the earl territory."

"The Sauron family should be able to do it. He invited me to Longshan City before. Earl Sauron's warlock group has extracted the energy from the Thunder Giant's body. It may be able to help them attack the werewolves, so that the werewolves cannot assemble and fight in a short time. Stop drowning his army of dragon blood warriors."

Beside Earl Winter, Countess Winter said softly.

"So the key points are Baron Lane and Thundercloud County. But since Baron Lane has this confidence, it means that he can withstand the werewolf's attack."

"If three counties block werewolves at the same time, it will indeed prevent werewolves from appearing in the three border provinces."

"But after defense...offense."

Countess Winter shook her head. She didn't know where Ryan's confidence came from. If the noble army of Beifeng Province could really attack the werewolves and gain an advantage, then the Xiangshan Plain Fortress would not be defeated at all.

She believed that the nobles of Northwind County led by Earl Winter could not fight back against the werewolf army.

The Earl Sauron family can at most fight back for a while because of the power of the Thunder Giant, and then they will be forced to suffer heavy losses by werewolves appearing from all directions. If they really want to attack, it is impossible.

Could it be Leiyun County? What can Baron Lane do? Just like the Tundra Territory blocked the werewolf's attack there?

Earl Winter and his family couldn't figure out what Baron Lane would use to attack, and they thought all three counties could counterattack.

"But this is an opportunity for the Winter family. The emperor has made you the commander-in-chief of the war in the Northwind Province, which means that the relationship between the emperor and Archduke Meyers has become even worse. Columbus needs your support."

Countess Winter looked at Earl Winter, who nodded. He naturally understood that this kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing could completely regain the Winter family's right to speak in the North Wind Province.

In recent years, the right to speak that has been snatched away by Baron Lane and Marquis of Northwind has made Earl Winter too timid in the small political circle of Northwind Province.

The reason why he was not so happy was that he still wanted to understand Baron Ryan's means of attack, which might become an important factor in his inability to completely regain the right to speak.

In fact, Ryan couldn't think of a way.

The natural physical gap between humans and werewolves made humans no longer qualified to compete fairly with werewolves after the fortress was breached.

A tall werewolf fighting on the battlefield at the same time, claws can kill two people, fangs can bite one person to death, and three people will die when they meet, and there is no chance of serious injury at all. How to fight? How to attack?

He said to Lord Hora, defense, attack, and then a decisive battle on Xiangshan Plain.

But he didn't say that Xiangshan Plain can be Xiangshan Plain, Xiangshan Plain can also be Beifeng County, and it is the Earldom of Winter.

Xiangshan Plain = Earldom of Winter.

The three-step plan of defense-attack-decisive battle has therefore become two steps, defense-decisive battle.

Attack? The weak slave army that had not recovered from the past few days of eating and drinking, would they use their heads to feed the werewolves and then attack by stuffing them to death?

Attack is impossible.

"The most critical issue now is... how to let this army stop the overwhelming werewolves."

Ryan took a deep breath. The most important thing in the plan was not which county the werewolves decided to concentrate their forces to attack, but how he, Ryan, could let this human slave who might not even kill sheep stop those vicious wolves.

As long as they can stop them, when the werewolves find that they can't penetrate any direction, they will naturally gather the werewolves to launch a charge.

If they can't stop them... all of Ryan's plans will become a joke.

"It's a bit troublesome."

Ryan stood on the edge of Lingdu County and Leiyun County. If it was other enemies, he could still use the terrain as an advantage, but for the werewolves, even the terrain of the frozen land has little effect on them...

"It seems that the only way is to believe in the brilliant light deep in the human soul."

Ryan raised his head and looked at the sun above his head.

"God of Light? If you really shine on every inch of land, then I hope you can really be of some use."

"As a great being served by this land, you won't let them down, right?"

"Let me see your limits."

Ryan took a deep breath, dismounted, took off his boots, and walked barefoot towards the land of Thundercloud County.