Warlord: King of All Clans

The fiefs that were confiscated were the knight's territory of Rigorov's second brother Babik Petukhov and the pioneer territory of his eldest son.

Rigolav's own knight territory is the ancestral land of the Petukhov family. Although the Northern Knights do not have hereditary rights, the ancestral land of the Square Banner Family is of extraordinary significance, equivalent to the ancestral hall of a large clan.

During the period of kings' struggle for hegemony and the subsequent earl's war of annexation, hundreds of clan territories, large and small, and hereditary titles in the north were deprived of and annexed. Their ancestral lands were still retained, and a bloodline was left to honor their ancestors.

Therefore, even when it came to declaring war, Tariq did not risk depriving the Petukhov family of their ancestral land and causing dissatisfaction among all the local lords of Isenpol.

The Solovi Knight Commander is far away from the western watchtower, and with the Wind Knight Solovi in ​​charge, he is also a difficult target to deal with.

So as soon as Tariq took action, Rigolav's second brother and eldest nephew suffered immediately.

This poor second brother with little fame finally got a name, but at the same time he also lost his territory.

But in peacetime, the ownership of the knight's fiefdom can be decided by the lord with a single word, but in times of chaos, fists are needed to speak.

Apparently Tariq's punch wasn't strong enough.

So the second brother was very angry and wanted to rebel. He gathered the relatives and vassals of the Petukhov family and integrated 500 armored soldiers. Within seven days, he broke through the four corner flags of the knighthood of Tariq, a vassal in the southern suburbs of Isenpol, and brought the war to the city wall of Isenpol!

The city's central flag bearer, Flynn Adonis, was furious and gathered a thousand armored soldiers to go out of the town to suppress the rebellion. On the way, he was ambushed by two hundred cavalrymen of Rigolav. They fled back to the city, abandoning their armor and weapons!

Petukhov, full of martial virtue!

Rigolav was originally a famous square flag general in Isenbol, and his fighting skills were well known.

But this family is conservative. There is not even a noble manor in the territory. They live in the lord's house which is hundreds of years old. Normally, few people are willing to visit them.

According to normal estimates, in such a remote and poor area, the maximum number of soldiers that can be maintained is several dozen.

But no one expected that a knight leader in a remote mountain area actually had two hundred cavalrymen!

The Petukhov family secretly gathered their strength, as if they were waiting for this day.

This feeling makes everyone shudder.

In addition to the Petukhov family, several corner flags who were close to Rigolav also joined the rebellion without hesitation, without any regard for Tariq's identity.

So in just half a month, the Petukhov family gathered thousands of troops, and after Isenpol was defeated, he also urgently convened a meeting of lords to prepare to form a legion to suppress the rebellion.

However, most of the lords were ambiguous and unwilling to participate in this matter. Arnold and Rudolf even claimed to be sick and refused to participate in the lords' meeting.

Tariq could only let Flynn Adonis serve as the legion commander, form a legion, and use the armed forces of the lord's mansion and the square flags in the city to fight against Petukhov.

In response to this information, gatherings were held frequently in the lord's house at River Bay.

Leo was also very angry. He only wanted to farm and didn't want to fight.

"Another war! Another war. In our northern border, apart from fighting, is there no other entertainment?"

Ivan was also in the big house, stroking his hairless chin, wondering, "Have you noticed that we don't have enough wives? Is that why we like to go out to fight?"

The Petukhov family has five knights, but only two of them have wives. The situation in the River Bay Territory is even worse. Among so many young talents, only a few have wives.

All the northern earls are warlike and fight all the time. Because of this, the status of men has become increasingly high.

But in this case, the number of females is still small. After all, the barren land cannot support all the cubs, and some will be abandoned as soon as they are born.

There are more baby girls drowned than men killed in battles in the North!

Among civilian men, less than 30% marry before the age of 20, and the rest will be killed in military service before they have the chance to marry and have children.

The gap between the rich and the poor also leads to the phenomenon that the rich have three wives and four concubines, while the poor never marry in their entire lives.

Leo sneered: "If I give you ten wives, can you support them?"

The reason for the war in the North was that the gains from plundering were greater than the output of the land. A farmer's farming for ten years could not equal one successful plundering trip.

The output of the land can only feed oneself. If one wants to marry, have children and raise them, one has to serve in the military and earn extra money.

The Knights of the Corner Flag in the North have a large family to support. If they live a slightly more extravagant life, how will they survive if they don’t have to fight?

In Hewan today, everyone lives and works in peace and contentment. The birth rate has skyrocketed, and incidents of infant drowning have been greatly reduced. The people have jobs to earn money to support their families, so they no longer think about going out to fight.

Vicky interrupted, "The question now is whether we should support the Petukhov family and formally declare war on Isenbol."

Wuliyan sighed and said, "Support is necessary. We only have this one ally right now, but formally declaring war requires careful consideration."

"Currently, half of the food in Hewan is imported, and most of it is shipped from the port of Isenbol. If we declare war on Isenbol, we will have to find another seller for this food."

Hewan's own agricultural output is mainly cassava, with wheat and barley accounting for less than 20%, and grains are basically all imported.

Tariq of Isenpor was afraid of the power of Hewan and never declared war directly, but instead started with Petukhov.

As a consolation, they did not impose economic sanctions on Hewan, hoping that Hewan would continue to remain neutral.

Leo and Uliyan had already made preparations. They opened up Linhai Town in order to open up the road to the north and purchase grain from the Anzeno River basin via the land route northeast of Isenpol.

However, these operations only started this year, only about half a year, and are not yet able to completely replace Isenbol.

Leo made the decision, "Then let's not declare war. We will first transfer 200 soldiers to Uncle Solovy's name and let him lead the troops to support his family. We will wait and see what happens and wait for Rigolav's notification."

"Even if we declare war and join forces with the Petukhov family, it will be difficult to capture Isenpol. We might as well wait for them to tire themselves out."

Wu Liyan also nodded, "This is the only way."

The Solovyvian Knights, with two hundred regular troops from the river bend, under the banner of the Petukhov family, merged with Rigolav. At the same time, new news came from the west.

There were unusual movements at Buck Pass in the west. Two thousand Western cavalry left the fortress, set foot on the World Tree Avenue, and headed towards Isenpol!

Sure enough, as Rigolav expected, Tariq joined forces with the western chieftain Talhanberk to eliminate opposition forces within the country. The threat to the river bend was not in Isenpol, but in the west.

Tariq did not make any move towards River Bay. On the one hand, he did not want to be hostile. On the other hand, he was also paralyzing River Bay and waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the West!

Most of the people in the Western Territory are nomadic people. Everyone is good at riding. With a scimitar and a bow and arrow, the herdsmen can become qualified light cavalry.

However, the productivity of the Western Territory is even lower than that of the Northern Territory, and there are basically no large cities or metallurgical industries.

The grassland horses in the western border are generally short. They are good at running long distances but have poor load-bearing capacity, so they cannot form large-scale armored cavalry regiments.

Therefore, although Berke of the Western Territory has a large number of cavalry, their armor coverage rate is not high, and more than half of their troops can only be regarded as assembled horse thieves.

But even two thousand horse bandits are extremely threatening.

Leo could only urgently deploy troops and form a legion to station at the river mouth to prepare for the attack of the Western Cavalry.