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Chapter 95 The Dilemma and Choice of the Kingdom of Hastings
middle kingdom.

Hundreds of villagers from both sides are confronting each other over the land issue.

"Damn ****, why are you encroaching on our land."

The leader of one side stood up first, ready to set the tone of this matter, that is, the other side invaded their land.

"Bah, it's obviously you who invaded our land. The lord awarded it to us last month."

But the leader of the other party was obviously not a fool, he directly pointed out that this was assigned to them by the lord.

"F*ck you, that has always been our land. You have deceived the lord. In addition, your people are too rubbish to defeat us. It's just a few more people who died. Otherwise, the lord will award it to us." you?

But there has always been our land, don't you yourself know about this? "

"Ha ha."

"Hehe, you fucker, let's stand shoulder to shoulder and kill these idiots from the next village."

This confrontation has lasted all morning, and the patience of both parties has been almost exhausted.

Seeing that it could not be resolved through negotiation, coupled with the other party's contemptuous expression, the headman who was exhausted of patience was completely enraged. As soon as he gave an order, the people in the village rushed up with sticks.

Of course, they were not willing to show weakness. If you dare to hit me, I will hit you. With this in mind, I also took out the stick and rushed forward.

If today's fight is lost, the land will not be occupied.

The two sides quickly scuffled together. At the beginning, everyone was able to restrain themselves. As the battle continued, some people lost their temper very quickly, and hit the other person's vitals without hesitation.

Seeing that someone did not obey the rules, the fight quickly escalated and became a large-scale fight.

"It's not good, it's dead."

After these words fell, the two sides stopped fighting in a very tacit understanding, and after saying a few cruel words to each other, they ran away in a hurry.

Now there are only a few leaders from both sides left. They know that there has been a death incident, and someone must come forward to take responsibility for this incident, so they stayed here.

The baron who got the news looked at everything in front of him and felt that the blood was about to burst into his head. He trembled for a long time before he said angrily: "What are you doing? This is the first time that your two villages have changed each other this month The leader? Huh? Talk."

Seeing that they just stood silently, "Why don't you let this baron do it for you? I can't be here anymore, and I can't control you. You are planning for the whole village to go in and eat in prison. me?"

Seeing them staring at him with bright eyes, the baron scolded himself Shabby, afraid that they really had such thoughts.He simply waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take them away and throw them into the cell.

As the middle kingdom, the Hastings Kingdom should not be considered weak just because it is located between the three kingdoms. On the contrary, they occupy the most fertile land in the human world. Because of the suitable climate, their wheat can even be harvested twice a year.

And as the hinterland of the former First Empire, they have become the most important inheritors of the empire's legacy, which has the most mineral deposits, fertile land, and the most skilled craftsmen in the entire human world.

Huge food production has brought about a leap in population growth, but land is limited.Because of the annual wars in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of people died in chaos. The nobles did not allocate land to the people under their rule, but allowed them to develop freely.

This increased their enthusiasm at the time, and also increased the income of the nobles, but now, with a large population, the sequelae of this problem have broken out, that is, there is no clear division of land.

As a result, various problems have arisen now. In order to compete for land between the same villages, families are fighting to the death.The competition between the villages is even more tragic, and there may even be large-scale fighting.

It often takes the lord to send out regular troops to suppress it, but it won't be long before they will trigger new fighting because of the same problem.

This phenomenon was quickly put before the king, but this kind of problem was repeated repeatedly. In the final analysis, there was still too little land and too much population.

Looking at the troubles caused by the large population, His Majesty the King was a little bit dumbfounded. He also deeply understood the complaints of nobles at all levels, because such a scene was also staged in his land.

They can only be selectively guided.

Some chose to move into the towns and work as apprentices, learning the trade so they could support their wives and several children, which boosted commerce.

With the increase in the number of artisans, the demand for various minerals also began to soar, and another group of people without land chose to enter the mine and began to mine minerals.

At the beginning, the lords laughed from ear to ear looking at the rapidly increasing weapons and armor in the treasury, but as time went by, they gradually discovered something was wrong.

When they wanted to sell these weapons and equipment to other lords, they discovered that they were in the same situation as themselves.

Weapons and equipment are for war, but without war, these are useless.

Although it is expensive to maintain these equipment, no one tries to discard it, because force is their foundation, and they are very aware of this.

When the lord no longer needed it, the blacksmiths lost their jobs. With the blacksmiths' unemployment, a series of things that were more difficult to control were triggered.They began to be hired by the villages to secretly make inferior weapons for them. As for armor, they still had a few horses and didn't touch it.

After obtaining weapons designed specifically for killing people, the bloodshed caused even greater chaos. One baron even died in the conflict, which also sounded the alarm for all nobles.

The nobles had no choice but to pinch their noses and call these blacksmiths back to their own subordinates to take care of them.

Looking at the dwindling wealth, their hearts were bleeding, and everyone became a little nervous. They even started to keep bandits in captivity, and ransacked other families' caravans and lands.

However, paper still cannot contain the fire, and some nobles were quickly exposed, causing repeated chaos.

Subsequently, various countries launched development laws one after another, which made the nobles of the Hastings Kingdom very jealous. This aroused their desire for land, and they began to shift their attention and focus on the land of their territories.

More and more land disputes pushed them to acquire more land, and it was precisely because they did not border on alien races that they could not open up new territories. From the citizens to the nobles to the king, the desire for land overwhelmed everything else.

They have little choice but to go to war against other kingdoms that are also human.

Of course, even if you have a choice, you never know where they will set their sights.

After hearing the news of the orc's change, the king of the Kingdom of Hastings, which borders the Kingdom of Rhodes, was a little ready to move.

After convening a nationwide parliament of nobles, they unanimously decided to target the Kingdom of Rhodes for development.

It's just that the Kingdom of Rhodes is facing the threat of orcs, which makes His Majesty the king a little unsure.He was afraid that after doing so, he would be nailed to the pillar of shame of mankind and be cast aside by people.

Of course, there is no shortage of smart people in the kingdom. On the one hand, they persuaded that the history books are written by the victors. Just look at the reputation of the First Empire.

They decided to promote the common people's desire to go to the land and transform their internal conflicts into external conflicts, so that at least they would not be spurned by their own people, because this was a decision made by everyone.

Until then, His Majesty the King has truly made up his mind. As long as he is not cast aside by the people of his country, he will have no excuses or reasons to be overthrown. Whether he wins or loses, he can still sit on the throne of the king.

Although he didn't think he would fail, caution was the magic weapon that kept him in control of the kingdom.

King Hastings knew that the issue of land was imminent, and if it was not resolved, perhaps the Kingdom of Hastings would be destroyed in internal conflicts.Even if they make it through, they will inevitably face attacks from the other three countries because of their internal conflicts.

They who occupy the plump land have always been missed by the other three countries.

Moreover, according to the spies' reports, due to the issue of restarting the development law, the relationship between the other two countries and the foreign races has dropped to a freezing point.

As for why the other two countries were not chosen to go to war, it was because the two countries bordered each other and had already formed an alliance. Compared with attacking them, it was easier to attack the Kingdom of Rhodes.

One is self-destruction, and the other is to destroy others. Many nobles know how to choose. When it is the turn of Hastings Kingdom, he has no choice. After thinking for a long time, King Hastings agreed to this request.

For this reason, they started a protracted propaganda campaign, claiming that other kings were sparsely populated, and there were even other alien races entrenched in the territory, and that this was the reason why they restarted the pioneering act.

Their inaction is obviously a desecration of the land, which is obviously unforgivable to the Hastings people who can fight bloody battles for a little land.

They don't understand any big principles, but through countless conflicts, the lord's tolerance time and time again, and even paying out of their own pockets to subsidize those who died in the conflict, they feel that they can't live up to their lord.

In fact, these are just things that these lords should do. They do this just to maintain their rule. There is so much love for no reason, but they don't even know the words, so they can't understand the mystery at all.

Under the impetus of the kingdom, the common people at the bottom began to look outside, and they realized that the land outside was so vast.

As the propaganda continued, more and more people spontaneously joined the lord's guard and became soldiers, which also made the military strength of these nobles expand day by day.

Holding heavily armed forces, they also began to look forward to this war.

Honor and land, everything seems to be at your fingertips.

The friction on the border has become increasingly fierce. From the beginning of attacking each other's outposts, they have now begun to loot each other's villages.

Hearing that the Kingdom of Rhodes dared to loot their village, the Hastings were furious. They gathered together one after another, trying to complete their revenge as commoners, but were stopped by their lord.

In their view, this is simply courting death. Unarmed civilians have no power to resist in the face of heavily armed soldiers. Do they think this is a brawl in the village?
Although the people were persuaded to return, they also agreed to their request and were "forced" to sack the villages of the neighboring country to enrich their wealth. While enjoying the love of the people, they robbed the villages. Never dreamed of it.

The expansion of the bloody conflict between the two sides is inevitable. Of course, there is also the promotion of some nobles of the Rhodes Kingdom. They have coveted this land for a long time, and more of them have to do it as a last resort.

"My lord, you have to decide for me. Three villages in my territory have been looted by the northern donkeys, and the soldiers suffered heavy losses."

The reason why Baron Aaron was so miserable was because he had so many weapons and armors that he could no longer afford to support dozens of blacksmiths. In desperation, he chose to sell all the armors he had stored to the hostile lord next door.

Then the lord next door sells them to various territories of the Rhodes Kingdom, because the equipment of the Hastings Kingdom has always been known for its quality, and there is no need to worry about sales.

One thing only happens once and countless times. After tasting this sweetness, Baron Aaron resumed the work of the blacksmiths and let them continue to build weapons and armor. For this, he was praised by Count Cabal.

Soldiers who participated in selling armor throughout the whole process naturally gained a lot of benefits. At the same time, in order to prevent them from leaking secrets, they provided delicious food and drink every day, which also caused them to slack off. There is no longer any idea of ​​​​selling one's life.

You never know what shit they're going to be like until the war comes.

However, he did not dare to explain something like selling armor, which was expressly prohibited, otherwise today might be the day when the Aaron family would be expelled.

In the face of the enemy's attack, Baron Aaron's soldiers could almost be said to be defeated at the touch of a button. The hostile lord was stunned and even suspected that there was some conspiracy in it, so he did not choose to pursue it.Now, they are huddled in the castle, and they don't want to go out anyway.

He understands that it is impossible to rely on this group of people to defend the castle. At the moment when the whole country is trying to open up, if he loses the castle, he can't even imagine the scene.Forced into desperation, Baron Aaron had no choice but to bring the 'modified' battle report and come here to seek the suzerain's help.

"Stupid thing, what the hell did you do?"

Listening to the wailing Baron Aaron below, Count Bakar only felt a wave of irritation. When he was looting other people's villages everywhere, why did he have such a fool under his command.

But after reading Baron Aaron's battle report, Earl Bakar's expression became a little better. At least this idiot caused a lot of damage to the enemy.But they didn't know that those losses were caused by the resistance of the villagers.

Although the kingdom level is still in the stage of wrangling, the kingdom will still declare war in the end, and he estimates that this time will not be very long.

The boys under his command have long been screaming after getting this news. Maybe he should take them out to practice, and at the same time try the quality of the Rhodes Kingdom to see if they have made any progress in these years.

If they were still the same as before, maybe they would be able to advance by leaps and bounds and expand wildly after the official war started.

He was not worried about the blame from other nobles, because everyone was eager to speed up the process, and he was also eager.

"I know the matter, and I will go there myself with the army."

"Thank you, Lord Cabal." Baron Aaron was about to leave after speaking, but he immediately realized that something was wrong. The Earl led the army himself, so it wouldn't directly cause a war.

The responsibility for this undeclared war will not fall on his own head in the end. He wants to stop it, but he doesn't know how to speak.

Seeing Baron Aaron's constipated look, Earl Cabal knew what he was worried about. Although he was very hip, the Aaron family was his vassal after all, and had paid donations for many years.

"I won't go to war brazenly in disregard of the king's order. You can rest assured. But I will think that the vassal is taking revenge. After destroying the castle of Viscount Hess, I will directly evacuate there."

After speaking, Count Kabal left here directly.

Baron Aaron knew that it was time for him to leave. 'It's just this revenge, isn't it a bit too exaggerated? With doubts, he stepped on his horse and went straight to the territory.

He needs to prepare the food and supplies needed for the march for his suzerain, because of the recent publicity, the soldiers of nobles everywhere have expanded rapidly, and Earl Cabal already has [-] soldiers.

But he probably wouldn't bring so many people to attack a Viscounty, Baron Aaron was very sad about the supplies he had stored.

But this is a request he made, and if he wants the sect leader to avenge himself, he must bear all this.

Earl Cabal did not bring too many soldiers, but only thousands of troops. If he carried too many troops, there was a high probability that he would be besieged by them, or even be in danger of annihilating the entire army. Of course he would not do that.

Moreover, these thousands of troops were all divided into ten teams pretending to loot the village. According to the plan, they would meet in the territory of Viscount Hess in 5 days.

He led the cavalry as the vanguard, and at the same time sent soldiers disguised as villagers to directly attack the town of Viscount Hess, and then guarded the city gate, waiting for the follow-up of the rear army.

This is still a safe approach. When everyone has not attacked the town, using this trick is absolutely unexpected to the enemy.

Viscount Hess really did not expect such a thing to happen. There were more than a dozen soldiers guarding the gate of the town as usual. What they didn't expect was that the civilians who entered the city suddenly drew their weapons from their waists. Lost control of the city gate.

As the cavalry charged, the city gate quickly fell, and then more soldiers poured in. Viscount Hess, who had just heard the bell, looked at this scene in disbelief.

But he didn't have any way to stop it, because there were far more people than himself, and they blocked the town, so the news couldn't get out at all. Even if it got out, he probably wouldn't be able to wait until then.Viscount Hess thought desperately.

What Viscount Hess did not expect was that he would be captured in just one day.

He also saw his captor, and the first thing he said was 'You don't play by the rules. '

Count Cabal just smiled and nodded in agreement.

With the spread of this news, it will inevitably trigger a larger-scale conflict, and what to do at that time is not up to King Rhodes alone.

(End of this chapter)