Rise In Calradia

Amila’s castle has been completely renewed. When the newlyweds arrived, it had been completely renovated and partially renovated according to Byron’s wishes. All kinds of furniture filled the vacancies in the room. The Swadia style bedroom There are a lot of novelties from the East, which are not inferior to their homes when they got married in Suno City in terms of appearance.

Byron even demolished the collapsed building in the castle and rebuilt it, turning the vacated part and the original open space into a courtyard with a garden, and even built a pavilion. Although there were no flowers and plants growing at this time due to the season, Nelda was still very moved and gave Byron a kiss in the pavilion.

The following days were a wonderful honeymoon time. Everything about Amila was operating in an orderly manner. The previous reforms have been effective. The substantial tax cuts have alleviated the burden of most of the residents during the winter. Logging permits have greatly reduced the price of fuelwood. In addition, the temperature in Rhodok is already higher than that in the north. There is no outbreak of diseases that are prone to winter, and vaccinia vaccination has been confirmed to be effective after several months of observation. , Began to spread throughout the territory, the number of deaths caused by smallpox has been reduced by 90%, and the improvement of sanitary conditions has also significantly improved the health of residents. Everyone was satisfied with the wiseness of the new lord, and completely forgot the past.

Byron and Nelda were almost inseparable during this time, lingering together every night, full of affection. When the new year is approaching, people are preparing to celebrate the coming of the new year, Nelda’s belly has also improved, Byron’s joy is beyond words, he cared for his wife more than ever, and began to help He prepares his children's clothes, supplies, toys, and constantly considers what name he should give his children.

In this way, they spent the New Year together in Amila. Whether it was Byron or Nelda, it was the first time to spend the New Year in this castle. Byron’s heroes also came to congratulate him. Local residents organized many celebrations. Byron distributed a large amount of bread and beer in front of the castle, and slaughtered pigs and sheep as gifts. This made most of the festivals in It was held around the lord’s castle, and people set up tents nearby to eat and drink. Byron also took Nelda to participate in the event, together with the heroes and the people to welcome the new year.

It is also in this New Year that Byron took out his new gadgets. Fireworks mixed with iron and copper powder bloomed in the night sky of Amila, even though he looked at those in Byron’s memory Fireworks are much worse, but the flames burning in the sky and sparkling sparks still won the amazement of local residents. From towns to villages, people are all excited to discuss the new things that Lord Lord made with dragon fire. Byron seized the opportunity to let his merchants sell fireworks locally, which were expensive and limited in quantity, but there were always wealthy people and business travelers who would be willing to spend money to buy this fresh and exciting entertainment.

After spending the New Year together, Byron should also take care of him. He is about to have a future. He changed many of his original plans. Instead of traveling far, he concentrated on staying in the castle to handle government affairs and accompany his lover. He hopes that he can stay with his wife during this time. He has learned too much from Eleon. He doesn't want to be that way, let alone Nelda becoming the next Jamila.

But sometimes people are more hopeful, the more they fail to do so. Just three days after Byron promised to stay with Nelda, a messenger from Dehrim rushed to Fort Amira and brought news of Earl Kleis.

Just as Byron was worried, the Drum River died last month. A big river has now become a pile of puddles scattered on the original river bed, and the forest trees scattered with branches and leaves can hardly serve as soldiers. Provide shelter, and the secret whistles used to block the enemy are also exposed. The herders on the grassland began to migrate westward, looking for pastures and water sources. Count Kleis knew right away that if natural defenses could not even stop a group of herders, then the heavily armed Khergit Lancers would not to mention.

The Earl of Kleis immediately ordered to strengthen the guard, increase the number of border patrols, strengthen the original defensive belt along the river, and use thousands of soldiers and dozens of kilometers of wooden fence defense line to block those herdsmen who run too far and those who are mixed in it. Those with bad intentions, especially the spies of the warlords of the steppe and the looting horses everywhere.

But when he received Byron's letter, he realized that he still underestimated the seriousness of the situation. He immediately used all the scouts in his hand to go to the east, bringing back all the information he could collect. At the same time, he began to ask the militia to participate in training, to inform his barons and knights, so that they would gather troops and prepare for battle. Considering that after He Lu dried up, there are now countless defensive loopholes from the grasslands to the plains to the Dherim Highlands. He spent a lot of money to hire mercenaries on patrols and asked the villages and towns to strengthen their defense levels.

Count Kleis estimated that the Kurgits would launch an offensive after the spring, when the snow melted, the vast grassland could provide fodder for the horses, the temperature and climate were much better than today, and it was more suitable to start a war. But he was wrong. The leader of the Khergits, Saiga Khan, waited impatiently until spring, just after the new year, and people had not yet recovered from the drunkenness of festive wine. A cavalry force as large as that imagined Crossed the border of the grassland and entered the land of Swadia.

According to the scout who was so panicked that he bit his tongue, Saiga Khan took his marksman flag and wore his golden armor to personally lead the army to the west. Almost all the banners of the grassland can be found here. Among the huge army, they saw that their cavalry queues continued to disappear for ten miles, and there were countless herdsmen and slaves following the army. The scout pessimistically estimated that among the Khan’s army, there were more than 15,000 cavalry on horseback and thousands of additional horses and pack horses. The scale of the cavalry used by them was even larger than that of the previous war. Just to transport the forage needed by the horses, five hundred four-wheeled carriages were used, not counting the dry food and forage that the cavalry brought and the bean cakes carried by the packhorses.

The emergence of this army shocked the entire kingdom. Now that the authority of King Haraus has been severely weakened and the kingdom has many factions, it is difficult for Swadia to gather a team that can resist the enemy in a short time under the king’s call. The army, and the Kujites' advancement speed is far beyond their imagination. While many local nobles were still struggling whether to provide assistance, the prairie cavalry had already ransacked Lundia. The local people and defenders all retreated to the castle to defend themselves with the advantage of city defense, but the enemies outside the city did not care at all. They, they can only watch the robbers looting one village after another, plundering their wealth, and setting fire to their houses, but they dare not go out of the city and can only stay in the castle and watch the enemy evacuate the entire area. Then drove away.

In a very short period of time, Saiga Khan met the minimum needs of his men and satiated tens of thousands of soldiers. But these trophies can't satisfy them. They have prepared for too long and spent too much. Now is the time to pay back.

So this huge cavalry team continued to move closer to the west. They did not attack the city but only plundered the land. After trapping the lord and his army in the castle, they looted the surrounding area and filled their stomachs with food, gold and silver. Pockets, by the way, occupy the barn to solve the forage problem for horses~www.readwn.com~ For a while, the corpses in the east of the Drum River were everywhere, and the fire spread among the woodland, shining the terrible sight of those prairie cavalry chasing their prey.

Count Kleis understood that it was only a matter of time before they stepped across the riverbed of the Drum River according to this trend, and the forest defense line would not last long. The fortress group could resist the prairie people’s cavalry, but if they don’t go out, what should they do? What about saving their people?

In desperation, he began to ask other family members and old friends for help. He wanted to form a powerful coalition to defeat Kujit's army on the plain, stop their offensive, and drive them back to the grassland.

Although Byron didn't want to leave Nelda, it was a matter of family and country after all, and he had been loyal to the Earl of Claes. The relationship between the two is very close, and Byron hopes to get his support. Nelda was also reasonable. Although she was a little worried, she embroidered a cloak for her husband herself, and watched Byron stay away when she went out.

Byron dispatched the only battle group in his hand, and ordered Fatis to command the local guards and militias during his expedition to guard Amira Fort from being attacked by the Earl of Leyland.

This battle will be very tragic, but Byron is not worried that he can't accept it, he is used to bleeding. All he has to do is to lead the army, win the victory and reap the benefits, and finally return in triumph.