Lord of Hyranza

After a while, Nika's mother finally set her eyes on Nika's face:

"Nica, follow the baron yourself!"

Nika looked at her mother in surprise, not understanding why she made such a decision, with an incomprehensible expression on her face.

Nika's mother let Nika lie on her lap, stretched out her hand to stroke her long hair, and said in a low and calm voice:

"I'm getting old, and I don't want to leave Kieran Town. The neighbors around me are people I know well, and this is the environment I'm most familiar with. I don't want to take risks outside. As long as you live a good life, I will live a miserable life here It's nothing at all, but Nika, you have to remember... no matter where you go, the most important thing is to be alive."

"Mum, why don't you come with me?" Nika asked.

Nika's mother closed her eyes in the dark, and said hard-heartedly:

"Mom is reluctant to come here. I heard that widows must marry according to the imperial law. If you hadn't dragged me down, maybe I would have married a long time ago."

Nika also knows that there is such a decree, but this decree has always been enforced by those imperial immigrants in the small town. Perhaps this will allow those widows who cannot support themselves to find another one to rely on, but the aborigines do not. Never implemented.

With so many young Aboriginal girls to choose from, who would want an older Aboriginal woman?

Nika said to her mother: "That is the law of the imperial people, and we aborigines don't have to abide by it."

Mother stretched out her hand and patted her delicate face, squeezed out a forced smile, and said, "Okay, I've already decided on this matter, I'll sleep with you in my arms tonight, and you will learn to take care of yourself in the future."

Mother Nika didn't say the last sentence, but said in her heart:

'Nica, only by leaving me can you really grow up. '

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The wind in summer makes the dew so heavy on the grass in the morning.

The cavalry battalion packed up the tents in the camp when it was daylight, poured out all the fire pits with water, buried all the domestic garbage in place, and cleaned up the vicinity of the camp as much as possible, and then rode on horses one after another. , walking west along the Bailin River, according to the guidance of the guide, the cavalry must bypass this mountain and go all the way north, which is the shortest road to Duodan Town.

After resting for half a day, the war horses recovered a bit. It seemed that the 27 herdsmen really took good care of these war horses.

The girl Nika was standing alone by the river with a linen bag on her shoulders. When Surdak and Samira rode over on horseback, they found that her eyes were red and she was wearing a clean skirt. Those burns and sunburns were completely healed, and even a layer of old skin peeled off to reveal a fairer and more tender skin.

"Why is it only you, where is your mother?" Suldak asked in surprise.

"Mom doesn't want to leave Kilan Town..." Nika said with red eyes and aggrieved face.

Samira led the horse and took two steps forward, bent over and passed through Nika's armpit, and carried her lightly onto the horse's back. Without saying anything, she patted the horse's butt, and followed the cavalry battalion to go go out.

Unexpectedly, Nika's mother was worried about dragging her daughter down, so she gave up the chance to leave Kilan Town.

Suldak didn't have time to explain, and he didn't know the situation in Dodan Town. He estimated that the living conditions there must be worse than that in Kilan Town, so he didn't invite Nika's mother to go with him.

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"Ma'am, the foreign cavalry battalion left this morning!"

The maid stood beside the bed of Baroness Goss with a sleepy face, lowered her head and whispered in her ear.

Baroness Goss woke up suddenly from her sleep, looked at the maid fiercely, and then realized that it was her order before going to bed last night, telling her that whenever there was any movement of the cavalry battalion of the Luthor Legion, she must Waking herself up, she closed her eyes, sat up on the bed with her forehead pressed, and Baron Goss beside her was still fast asleep.

The maid brought the nightgown and put it on for Baroness Goss.

She stood barefoot on the cashmere carpet, glanced at Baron Goss, and pushed Baron Goss awake with her hand.

Baroness Goss said a few words, but Baron Goss didn't hear clearly. He hadn't fully woken up from his sleep, but facing his wife, he was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, lying on the bed a little irritated.

I heard my wife say: "I'm going to send someone to trade those horses to them. It seems that they are going to give up the deal. They don't want to do it, but we must do it. After all, they represent the Luthor Legion Cavalry Battalion. , we need to establish a relationship with them..."

It was only then that Baron Goss realized that Madam was talking about the cavalry battalion yesterday. He didn't care if Baron Suldak was part of the Luthor Legion, and he said reluctantly: "Your gift is really heavy, They actually want to send the goalkeeper horses to sell to them, these Gu Bolai horses have already booked buyers."

Baroness Goss sat on the round stool by the bed, with a paranoid look in her eyes, and said, "It won't matter if you sell a few hundred horses less, and besides, they would rather buy at a high price than let us take a share. This kind of person is either quite self-confident, or too proud."

"Whatever you want... just don't wake me up, let me sleep a little longer!"

After finishing speaking, Baron Goss covered his body with the velvet quilt and continued to sleep soundly...

Chapter 705 Arrival

Surdak didn't expect that Baron Goss would change his mind, so he sent someone to catch up with a herd of [-] ancient horses and completed the deal in the wild.

Although he had some slander against Baron Goss, he was not cold enough to reject the horse transaction. This transaction was also based on market conditions. Five hundred horses were converted into [-] gold coins. Following the followers of Baron Goss' manor, he returned to Baron Goss's manor by Bailin Lake, and handed over a bag full of gold coins to Baron Goss in person.

Only then did Andrew and a guide catch up with the cavalry battalion along the original road.

The cavalry battalion suddenly had [-] more ancient horses, which doubled the size of the cavalry team, and formed a long, long team on the pasture.

Fortunately, Suerdak hired 27 herdsmen in Watts Village. Thanks to their skilled horse herding skills, the newly sent war horses were properly placed.

This time the cavalry battalion has more than a thousand horses, basically every cavalry can have a horse that can be changed at any time.In this way, it will be much more convenient to march in a hurry in the future.

Fortunately, there are pastures along the way, so there is no need to prepare any additional fodder for the war horses. As long as the war horses drink water on time, these war horses will eat green grass on the grass for half an hour after drinking water. Although such a short time is not enough for the war horses to fill their stomachs, But it doesn't make them hungry.

These ancient war horses sent by the ranch have not undergone formal training. They do not understand simple riding instructions, and have not worn saddle covers. These must go through a period of training before the cavalry can ride normally.

Suldak handed over the task of domesticating the 27 war horses to 27 herdsmen. Apparently, the [-] herdsmen were also very happy with Suldak's arrangement, and they began to domesticate the war horses along the way.

Nika and Samira shared the same horse, and they ate together when the cavalry battalion was resting.

With Samira's special care, it only took Nika half a day to get a preliminary understanding of the cavalry battalion.

The cavalry in the cavalry battalion were all kind to her, only the girl named Signa was a bit hostile to her. Although the two hadn't greeted each other yet, she knew that the little princess in the barracks must be very difficult to deal with. , everyone in the barracks took good care of Signa, she was on the white camel most of the time every day, she was a girl who didn't like to talk much.

Samira took Nika with her and asked her to follow her to get familiar with life in the military camp.

Unexpectedly, this local aboriginal girl is extremely adaptable, and soon knows what she should do every day.

The cavalry battalion had extra horses. In order to drive a longer distance every day, the cavalry set off before dawn every day and camped after sunset. After driving for four consecutive days, the cavalry battalion of Suldak finally left Weir. On the night of the eighth day in X City, they rushed to Dodan Town.

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The town of Dodan is surrounded by mountains, and this is an important pass leading to the Warcraft Forest in the northern part of the Bailin Plane.

The town is built on a highland surrounded by mountains. There is a valley road leading directly to the Warcraft Forest in the north of the Bailin Plane. If you don’t take this valley road, the surrounding mountains will have huge sharp teeth like blades. Looking down, you will find that the dangerous peaks around the forest of monsters are almost connected into a large area. If you want to bypass this pass and enter the forest of monsters in the north, you will have to detour for at least two days.

So Dodan Town is called the gateway to the north of Bailin, which is not an exaggeration.

Dodan is more of a fort than a small town.

Only Suldak and the cavalry battalion arrived at night.

Since it was night, everyone didn't have an intuitive understanding of the whole picture of Dodan Town. Suldak originally wanted the cavalry battalion to be stationed outside the city to spend the night, and then change defense with the garrison tomorrow morning.

Unexpectedly, the cavalry battalion of Langdon's regiment gave up the garrison camp overnight.

They were probably waiting too anxiously. Before the garrison handover ceremony was completed, the commander of the cavalry battalion hurried to Wilkes City with the main force of the cavalry battalion, leaving only a few deputies to garrison with Suldak. handover.

Five hundred cavalrymen lived in the garrison barracks in the town. The dormitories in the barracks consisted of three rows of wooden houses, and each row of wooden houses had about twenty dormitories. The dormitories were allocated according to the cavalry battalion squads, and it was midnight in this way.

There is also a row of newly built stables in the garrison camp. Most of the nearly 100 war horses can be kept in the stables. Due to the limited size of the stables, there are nearly [-] horses left outside the stables overnight. Expanding the stables is probably a top priority. thing.

An officer dressed in magic pattern hurried over. He was also a noble baron. When he saw Suldak, he greeted him warmly: "Hello, I am from the No.20 Seventh Cavalry Battalion of Langdon Legion. Deputy Commander Maynard, has been specially ordered to stay in Dodan Town to conduct a garrison change and handover to you."

In the night, the Baron Maynard looked a little bigger than Suldak, and he looked very stable. He saluted as he spoke.

Suldak saluted him and asked him: "Commander Maynard, hello! I am Suldak, the commander of the Independent Cavalry Battalion of the Luthor Legion. Next, I would like to trouble you to introduce the defense area and military affairs here. , Your battalion commander is in such a hurry to return to Wilkes City, is there something going on in the central city?"

Baron Maynard shook his head and said:

"It's not Wilkes City, it's the home in Bena Province that was attacked by Lord McDonnell's private army. The summons was sent to Dodan Town today. Even if your cavalry battalion doesn't arrive in Dodan Town tonight, we will The main force of our cavalry battalion will return to Wilkes tomorrow morning."

Suldak was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Lord MacDonnell to actually launch an offensive against the noble lords of Benar Province after the Luthor Legion entered the Bailin plane.

What surprised him even more was that the noble lords who bore the brunt were actually the Langdon family.

Suldak could only say euphemistically: "I didn't expect the situation at home to deteriorate so quickly..."

Baron Maynard's complexion was also very bad. Anyone who heard such news would not be in a good mood. He said a little tiredly: "Baron Suldak, take a good rest. I will take you first tomorrow morning." Familiar with the northward extension of Dodan Town, as well as the defenses that need to be responsible for each area in the city."

In addition to being responsible for the security of the town, the garrison here is the border of the occupied area of ​​the Bailin plane. They also need to patrol the border every day. They have to patrol in the morning, noon and evening. The defense targets are not only the natives of the plane in the mountains. Strength, there are also some gangs of robbers and monsters in the mountains.

However, on the day when Suldak arrived in Dodan Town, an adventure group outside the town was attacked by a group of thieves. There are several adventure groups in Dan Town that have been hunting on the edge of the Warcraft Forest for a long time. Recently, the bandit group has often appeared to plunder. These adventure groups have gone far and wide.

Baron Maynard was very busy during the day, and he heard that the territory of Benar Province was attacked by Lord McDonnell, and he was also exhausted physically and mentally.

The next morning, Baron Maynard introduced the defense of Dodan Town to Suldak. After completing the handover ceremony, he hurriedly took the last cavalry squadron of the cavalry battalion and set off on his way home.

Suldak ordered people to hang the flag of the Luthor Legion on the top of the city.

So far, the defense of Dodan Town has been handed over to the Luthor Legion.

Chapter 706 Dodan Town

The pass between the two mountains on the north side of Duodan Town has a city wall more than 40 meters high. The stone cracks on the outer wall are filled with white ash, and the entire outer wall is not smooth. The nearly 350-meter-high defensive wall was built There are 69 guide grooves, which are specially prepared for rolling stones.

There are nearly twenty bed crossbows installed on this section of the city wall.

On a span of 350 meters wide, there are fifteen watchtowers alone.

It's hard to imagine how much the Bailin natives in the north will pay if they want to attack the town of Dodan.

Using this section of the city wall as a standard to evaluate the walls of other cities, Suldak felt that even the city wall of the main city of Bena would not be stronger than the section of the city wall north of Dodan Town.

Suldak saw that the mountain body plunged into the clouds, and the shortest stone clusters rising into the sky were at least nearly [-] meters high.

The situation in Dodan Town is not as optimistic as the official report, because the report did not mention that a small-scale beast swarm would break out in the Bailin Warcraft Forest every ten years or so. According to Mei Baron Nader said that the largest beast swarm in the history of Dodan Town was about 120 years ago, when violent and ferocious monsters rushed out of the northern Warcraft Forest and bloodbathed the northern part of Wilkes City, including Dodan Town, almost overnight. There are more than [-] small towns in the city.

At that time, the Bena Legion relied on the city defense of Wilkes City to barely stop the beast tide.

After the beast tide subsided, the then Duke Newman spent huge sums of money to build an impenetrable city wall here in Dodan Town, and the new Dodan Town was also rebuilt on the original site of the old town. In the following years, although the Warcraft Forest There is no such a big beast tide anymore, but every ten years or so, small beast tides still break out.

The worst piece of news left by Baron Maynard is that it has been 11 years since the last outbreak of beast tide in Dodan Town. So far, although there have been some changes in the monsters in the Monster Forest, no major monsters have been found. Signs of mass buildup.

Such a big event was not clearly pointed out in the report submitted by the Langdon Legion to the province of Bena. Obviously, some dignitaries of the Langdon family made some small moves in it, worrying that the family's private army would fall into the northern part of the Bailin plane. It is difficult to get out of the beast tide in the Warcraft Forest. This time, the House of Representatives of the Bena Province sent the Luthor Legion, probably because they wanted to use the elite troops of the Bena Legion to resist the beast tide.

However, according to the data of Dodan Town's resistance to the beast tide over the past hundred years, the city wall blocking the northernmost part of the occupied area of ​​the Bailin Plane is still trustworthy.

It was on the eve of the war that Suldak needed to prepare as much as possible.

Standing on the city wall, Suldak could see the edge of the Warcraft Forest in the north of the plane through the narrow gap between the pass and the mountain. He turned around and looked at the guards on the city wall. These city wall guards currently belong to the city defense of Dodan Town Brigade, this is an armed force directly controlled by the Town Hall of Duodan Town, and the city defense brigade is usually responsible for city defense affairs.

These guards were wearing armor and weapons, all of which were standard weapons issued by the military.

The captain of the city defense brigade, Hans, and several squadron leaders accompanied Suldak, and introduced the defensive power of the city wall to Suldak. After opening the material warehouse behind the city wall, they saw that it was filled with bundles of supplies. The giant crossbow arrows wrapped in oilcloth, boxes of kerosene, fire scale bombs, and rows of two stone balls with extremely smooth diameters on the wooden frame under the city wall, Suldak knew that in order to be able to defend the north of Dodan Town For this wall, the high-level officials, including Wilkes City, put a lot of effort into it.

When Suldak stood at the top of the wall and asked Hans how he managed to survive the previous beast hordes, Captain Hans, who had already participated in two battles against the beast hordes, immediately led Suldak to the wall Next to him, he pointed to the dark ditches on the plane of the city wall, like drains, and said:

"When we were defending the city in the past, when those monsters attacked, we only needed to pour oil from the city wall down the groove, and ignite the oil before the beast horde arrived, forming a wall of fire to block most of the monsters from the wall. Outside, as long as enough fire oil is prepared to keep it burning for two to three weeks, the beast horde will recede on its own."

Unexpectedly, the city defenders in Dodan Town still set up a firewall outside the city wall. Hearing what Captain Hans said, this firewall seems to be quite practical.

Suldak nodded and walked down the steps of the city wall.

Standing on the steps inside the city wall, you can clearly see the entire town of Dodan. There are only two most conspicuous buildings in the town, and the other buildings are ordinary.

Looking at Suldak to a two-story building in the center of the town, Captain Hans quickly introduced: "Master Baron Suldak, that is the town hall of Dodan Town, and the garden and courtyard behind it are small buildings. The residence of Baron Marko, the town's consul."

Then he pointed to a three-story building in the middle of the busiest block in the town, and said, "That is the largest trading firm in our town. If you need anything, you can go there to buy it. The merchandise in the firm is very complete."

A large clock was built on the top of the three-story building, and the street outside the trading house was full of magic caravans, making the trading house look extraordinarily lively.

"Lord Baron, the outside of the town is not very safe recently. It is close to the beast tide. Some bandit groups can't get along in the monster forest, so they go outside Dodan Town to rob the merchant groups and weak adventure groups here. However, they usually hide in In the mountains to the north of the city wall, as long as you don’t cross the city wall, there will be no danger. When your cavalry team patrols the north of the city, you must be careful of those bandits.” Hans followed Suldak and walked down the road. The city wall and said.

Suldak asked in surprise: "At this time, there are still bandits who dare to loot the adventure group north of the city wall? Are they not worried that they will be swallowed up by the beast tide in an instant?"

Hans explained with a wry smile: "Those bandit groups are said to be bandit groups, not some local aborigines in the mountains, and some adventure groups who are familiar with this place. They usually hunt monsters in the forest of monsters, but when they see other The adventure group will also transform into a powerful bandit group, and when the beast tide breaks out, they will enter the town of Dodan with a big swagger."

As long as this kind of adventurous group that doesn't taboo on meat and vegetables can't get solid evidence, no one can do anything to them.

This type of adventure group is also more dangerous than those pure robber groups, because their identity as members of the adventure group can provide them with more information about other adventure groups. This type of adventure group is also the target that the adventure union has been focusing on.

Vilu, who had been silently following behind a group of people and almost became an invisible person, came out from behind and said to Suldak: "I'll go out and check. Naturally, they can't be allowed to mess around at this time. Let them be honest, since we are here, we must always send a signal to the people of Dodan Town..."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards the city wall without waiting for Suldak to express his opinion.

"Viru!" Suldak shouted from behind.

Viru, who was covered in bandages, stopped and turned to look at Suldak.

Suldak waved to him and said, "Be careful."

Just when Hans was wondering how the bandaged and longbowed archer said he wanted to go out of the city, but instead climbed onto the city wall, he saw Viru jumping from the 40-meter-high city wall. In the eyes, the body disappeared instantly.

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Suldak was going to visit Baron Marko, the consul of Dodan Town in the afternoon. Instead of returning to the barracks, the group directly chose a restaurant in the town for lunch. This restaurant was just an ordinary barbecue restaurant.

The waiter at the door saw Suldak coming in, opened the door eagerly, and arranged the group of people on a row of long tables in the corner of the hall.

Signa hid behind Selena, looking curiously at this restaurant filled with the smell of barbecue and ale, looking at the decoration in the restaurant, she felt a little dazzled, those waiters holding silver-plated trays in the lobby Shuttle in, it is very ornamental.