Throne of the North

The huge army and spoils of war slowly advanced towards the Fortress of the North Wind Flower. Behind the army, the straight black smoke in the sky sank into the sea of ​​clouds.

Although extremely tired, Ryan was more aware that the disaster caused by ignoring the corpses in the war would be more terrible. He asked the slaves to pile up all the corpses and dig pits to burn them while cleaning the battlefield.

As for the subsequent burial problem, it had to be handed over to Baron Barnes, who was in his territory.

But I'm afraid this land will become very fertile in the future?

The army marched forward in silence. The war and fatigue made the soldiers and prisoners weak. Although they were happy to survive, they had to wait until they rested before they could celebrate.

"Lord Ryan."

Lian came to Ryan and said hesitantly. After experiencing the war, the boy also grew up and respected Ryan.

"Let's go back to the North Wind Flower. Will it be breached?"

Lian shook his head.

"Flower of the North Wind, that ancient castle is not so easy to break. As long as Baron Barnes is not stupid enough to open the gate of the castle and let the enemy in, there will be no problem."

In fact, Ryan still overestimated Baron Barnes.

The landlord has a stupid son, but even if he is a stupid son, he will inherit a huge fortune, and it is not the turn of others to squander it.

This is how Baron Barnes feels to Ryan now.

Perhaps Baron Barnes is ambitious, wise, and knows the rules of the game between nobles. He also made his baronies the most powerful barons under the two viscounts of Lingdu County. He is a hundred times better than Baron Hatton, the prodigal son of Shenma County.

But he did a stupid thing.

When he was returning with his army of more than a thousand people, he saw the armies of the nobles on the side of Earl Weiss and Viscount Miles outside the Flower of the North Wind. He panicked. Facing more than twice his number of enemies, he asked his men in the castle to open the heavy door.

That would be fine. If he could get back to the castle, his soldiers could easily resist these enemies.

The problem was that after his army had been running for an hour and a half to rush back to help, they could no longer run faster than the other side on the hillside up to their doorstep.

When Baron Barnes arrived at the gate of the fortress, the tail of his army had been caught by the chasing enemy.

If the gate of the castle was closed at this time, Barnes might have won the war, but he was too panicked. When he rushed into the castle, the soldiers behind him had no scruples and began to push forward in panic to enter the castle.

At that time, the soldiers thought that if they stayed, they would die. Only by rushing into the castle, the tall fortress would block all threats for them.

This was especially true for the soldiers at the back, so the army was still in chaos.

The gate of the castle was so big that how could more than a thousand people pass through quickly? The beginning of the battle was a massacre.

This was the case with the army composed of slaves. When the situation was favorable, there was no problem, so when the battle started with a one-sided killing, the victory or defeat was clear.

In the end, it was the guardian knight of the Barnes family who stood up and blocked the gate of the castle. He led the soldiers who had recovered from their shock in the castle to fight bloody battles and repel the enemy.

It can only be said that Baron Barnes is regarded as the most powerful baron in Lingdu County for a reason. Of course, the castle of North Wind Flower is located halfway up the mountain. The slope and road problems also led to the tilt of the balance of victory.

However, Barnes' army still left more than 500 corpses at the door of their own home.

When Ryan came to the castle of North Wind Flower, he saw the army of those nobles, looting the village and town below Baron Barnes's castle of North Wind Flower, which was only more than 1,000 meters away from the castle.

The arrival of Ryan's army stopped the looting, but many of the houses had been burned down, and there were constant cries and wails. Naked corpses lay on the muddy streets.

Clothes are important to the soldiers composed of slaves, and these things are the only spoils that will not be taken away by the lord after they return to the territory, because they are really not worthy of them.

But these clothes can keep the slaves alive in the cold winter.

The arrival of Ryan's army made all parties nervous, but his mithril armor was really dazzling, so the nobles' coalition began to retreat, and Barnes's army on the other side gathered on the wall of the castle.

Harrington rode a warhorse to the center of the open space and shouted to the nobles' coalition:

"Your army has been defeated, do you still plan to start a second war here?"

In the coalition, there was an obviously gorgeous young man riding out on horseback, and a tall figure followed him and looked in the direction of Ryan.

"Baron Ryan..."

The young man stared at Ryan, and he never thought that his uncle would fail again, and was defeated by the same person.

He was extremely wary of Ryan at this moment. If he hadn't noticed it before, it would have been fine, but now, he thought Ryan was the same as himself. Their fathers were both powerful earls, and they were the descendants of more noble nobles, and they were in the same circle.

The failure of this war made him regard it as his failure in the face of Ryan.

"My name is Castor Weiss. You will remember my name because it will become a nightmare for your whole life."

After saying these words, Castor turned and left, but the tall figure next to him looked over, and his eyes fell on Brand next to Ryan.

"I will use your head to honor my brother."

He raised his foot and kicked the boulder next to him. The next moment, the boulder roared and shattered into pieces.

"Golden Knight..."

Ryan and Brand's expressions were a little solemn.

"There shouldn't be many golden knights under Count Weiss, but one of them actually appeared in Lingdu County."

"Can you handle it?"

Ryan asked Brand, who was silent for a moment and then said:

"It still needs a little time."

He was about to break through. In less than a year since receiving the blessing, he was about to become a Silver Knight. Such a talent made Ryan envious.

"Even if you break through, you can only deal with the lower limit of the Golden Knight. I hope that Casto is not a favored guy."

Ryan knew that the eldest son of Earl Weiss's family was not Castor, so he didn't quite understand this.

Arranging his own army to imprison the prisoners in the previous military camp, Ryan led hundreds of people into the Flower of the North Wind.

When he saw Baron Barnes again, the middle-aged man was extremely angry.