Start as Inherited Baroness

On the open space in the southeast of the city, three field armies have already assembled and lined up.

And in the southwest are the 50,000 militiamen. Although their spirits are far less than those of the regular troops, they at least have a good standing posture.

It seems that the training during the slack season every year is still effective.

Most of the field armies are equipped with bronze armor, which looks golden and looks great.

Of course, elite soldiers wearing iron armor are also indispensable, accounting for about 30% of them.

There are cavalry, but they are basically reconnaissance light cavalry equipped with travel horses. Only the legion commander's guard is equipped with about 50 ordinary war horses.

After Simon inspected the army, he waved his hand and announced the departure.

Suddenly, a deep horn sounded, and officers at all levels in the army received the message, began to reorganize the team, and set off one by one.

And there are only more than 20,000 militias following the field team. They are equipped with a large number of cargo carriages, and are responsible for transporting food and various supplies.

Others cooperated with the defense corps to ensure the smooth flow of logistics and food routes.

In the era of cold weapons, granaries and transportation routes were extremely important. Once they were destroyed, it basically meant that the war entered the countdown to failure.

In the first battle, Simon was ready to attack Count Bingol.

This man was born as a noble in the River Bay. He currently has 21 baronies under his command, which is not a small number.

And it happened to be bordering Simon, just to the north of the Beech Territory. If you count the distance, it is about one-third longer than going to Changxiang Territory.

In less than 20 days, Simon led his army to the northern border of the Beech Territory. Going further north, it is the territory of Count Bingol, the Mountain Poplar Territory.

For this person, this area is also a marginal area, which has not been developed much and is almost uninhabited.

The current nobles in Xisai, except Simon, are facing the dilemma of extremely short manpower.

He also occupied the geographical advantage. Most of the refugees who rushed to Xisai were intercepted in the areas of Duishi Territory and Yongyi Territory.

If other nobles wanted some working cattle and horses, they basically had to send their confidants to the interior to organize caravans to smuggle them, and they rarely picked up refugees.

In this way, their development speed must be far slower than Simon.

"My Lord Earl, the scout cavalry reported that there is a miniature stone fortress outpost 20 miles ahead, flying the flag of the Bingol family."

Simon was resting with the army on the border line when he suddenly received a whistle report.

"Let Kailaf lead people to pull out this nail, pay attention to casualties, use more siege equipment, and don't act recklessly."

It was noon at this time, and Simon was eating a piece of barbecue made from the front legs of a magical creature. Hearing this, he whispered an order.

"Yes!" The messenger immediately conveyed the order.

Simon was very calm in his heart, because Earl Bingol was definitely not his opponent.

This person only had about 12,000 troops, of which more than 5,000 were only at the level of militia, and their equipment and weapons were not sophisticated.

In addition to the miscellaneous barons or viscounts under his command, a total of less than 20,000 people could not be gathered.

The two sides will fight once and the outcome will be decided.

The real challenge is still to come.

When he conquers one or two more earls, the remaining nobles will probably unite after recognizing the threat.

There will definitely be a big battle to fight. If you win, you can swallow up the West Sealand. If you lose, don't be afraid, you can return to Yongyi City to defend.

In that case, the pace of development will undoubtedly be dragged down for a long time, but Simon is still confident of winning.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, he received the news that Kailaf had broken through the outpost.

There were only more than 60 enemy soldiers stationed in the outpost. Kailaf only dispatched 500 people and completed the task with three siege ladders.

It was late today, and Simon had to let the army camp around the outpost and rest for a night.

There were no ready-made roads in this area, and the speed of marching was greatly hindered. It was really helpless.

The pace of war in the cold weapon era was really not fast, and the time spent on traveling accounted for most of the time.

For several days afterwards, Simon led his men through the woods, across streams, and across the wilderness. Finally, on this day, they found human traces again.

It was a small castle covering an area of ​​more than ten acres, standing by a green river.

And around it was a circle of five or six meters high wooden walls, covering about a hundred acres of land.

On the periphery were farmlands, five or six hundred acres, and the crops on them had been harvested, but they had obviously been taken care of again, and I don’t know what they were planted with.

“Hahaha…” The soldiers in the vanguard position all laughed, with a bit of arrogance.

“Finally saw someone!” the officers shouted.

Simon also received the report quickly, and then he looked at it for a while according to the simple map, guessing that the castle should be Green River Castle.

This castle belonged to the Green River Baron, who was granted by Earl Bingol. Naturally, his composition was also from the river bay, and the two sides had a somewhat complicated relationship.

Woo-woo-woo-

After a while, a desolate horn sounded in the Green River Castle, which was a common warning method in the Eagle Kingdom.

Simon looked at the small castle, smiled faintly, waved his hand and said: "Capture it! Let the South Guard Corps practice!"

"Yes! Sir! Please watch my performance!" A corps commander wearing heavy armor not far away responded solemnly.

This person is called Yurit, a newly promoted officer and an old man in Simon's team. He was a heavy cavalryman at the beginning.

Now after a long period of training, he can almost take charge of his own affairs.

The group of people who were originally in the panel team column are now in management positions, either leading troops or engaging in politics.

Not long after, the Southern Guard Corps on the left wing of the team began to move forward and approached Green River Castle.

This army has more than 12,000 well-trained and well-equipped soldiers, but most of them lack actual combat experience and need to be tempered in blood.

At this time, Green River Castle has fallen into panic, and Lord Baron was scared out of his wits.

"What should I do!? Ask Lord Bingol for help!"

Baron Green River has never fought against orcs on the front line, and he got the title of baron through nepotism.

He is only in his thirties this year, but he is fat and pale, and his body has been hollowed out by alcohol and sex.

Now that he was frightened, bean-sized sweat was flowing.

"Baron! It's too late. Count Bingol's Flower Vine Castle is far away from here... Our letter for help can't be delivered at all...

Now we can only rely on Simon, the guardian of Xisedi, to have a glimmer of hope. Anyway, it's just a temporary change of a feudal lord, a stopgap measure..."

A butler-like figure beside him, with a thin body and shrewd eyes, advised.

"You're right! Raise the white flag!" Baron Green River suddenly realized and immediately shouted and ordered.

Just like this, not long after, Yurit was welcomed into Green River Castle, and all the defenders knelt down and surrendered.

"What are you doing! Lowlife! This is the inner castle of this baron, who let you in!

I will report to Lord Count Simon! I will skin you, you lowlife!!

Ah! Julia!! Take your dirty hands away! You blasphemed the lover of the nobles, and you dared to abuse the nobles!! Woo woo woo..."

After Yurit took control of the entire castle, he naturally went to welcome Simon in.

Not long after he entered the castle, he heard the wailing of a pig being slaughtered.