Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Dreyer's advice sounded in his mind again, Haiwen shook his head, thinking: I should listen to Dreyer, I didn't listen to Tang Deen that time, I can't repeat the same mistakes.If I break my face with the nobles now, then I will have no way to go in the future.

The Mid Valley is not far away, and I can come back in about ten days, so let's go there.

Chapter 23: Soldiers approach the city, a

Chapter 23: Soldiers approach the city, a

Sand Scorpion Panav brought [-] more people than originally planned.

People from the Western Regions formed an army of [-] and marched to Eagle Head City.This is almost all the power the West can produce.

Cade was not happy to see such a majestic reinforcement, but only scared.

Who the hell is this for, the baylands or me?He couldn't help thinking, if this army started to wreak havoc in the northern border, who would be able to stop them?Um?

This morning the little king stood atop the walls of Eaglehead reviewing his troops.

my army?No, not my army, only those within the walls are my army.Here is the army of the people from the Western Regions, the soldiers of Panaph the Sand Scorpion, the disciples of the Lord of Seven Colors, the yellow sand, the storm, the fire, the drought, the iron and the rock.

The [-] troops of the Lord of Seven Colors formed a square formation below the city wall.The king glanced around, and he saw the white-robed cathars, camel riders, sub-dragon knights, warriors with golden swords, and heavy crossbowmen, the most representative arms of the Western Regions.

The four guardians of black, white, yellow, and green stood in front of them riding horses. They were the four strongest warriors in the Western Regions.In the middle of them is the sand scorpion Panav.

Sand Scorpion Emperor Panav, Cade silently recited the unspoken name in his heart.People in the Western Regions call him "Emperor Panaf". He is an iron-fisted ruler. The Western Regions have the most stringent laws of the four principalities-the dual laws of national law and religious law.Everyone lives within absolute rules.

Emperor Sand Scorpion is the Duke of the Principality, the King of the Western Regions, and the most devout believer and spokesperson of Lord Seven Colors.He is strict with himself and even more strict with others.Prostitution in the Western Regions is illegal, and gambling is the most serious. If you go out without permission after the curfew, you will be imprisoned. Men who cheat will be castrated, and women will be sold as slaves.Rape, incest, and adultery are capital crimes.Blasphemers were even more punished by stoning.

Panav is very tall, close to two meters, but he is very thin because of his frequent penance.Sitting on the horse, the man looked like a huge skeleton.And his eyes were even deeper and darker than the skull's pupils.

He combed his gray beard like a sharp knife, and his half-black and half-silver hair was smooth and neat.The white robes were spotless, and the gold crowns gleamed.

Panav looked older, but he was still so energetic, Cade thought, is this man's soul made of iron?

The harsh environment creates a strong soul, and the king in the desert must also have an indomitable spirit.

"Your Majesty!" Panav said, his voice was heavy and hoarse, "Panaph Stuba obeyed the oracle and led a hundred thousand troops to serve the king!"

After he finished speaking, the [-] soldiers and horses under his command roared in unison: "Huang! Huang! Huang!" (Onomatopoeia, meaningless)

When the sand people roared, a sandstorm blew up, and the sound waves approached Eagle Head City. Cade seemed to smell the pungent smell of sand and dust, which made it difficult for him to breathe.

Who are you demonstrating for, Emperor Panav?

Where the king is, is his territory, where Panav stands, and the desert descends.From Cade's point of view, there is a piece of yellow sand under Eagle Head City.

It would be all right if there were only troops, Cade thought, but he brought more than that.

Yesterday, the little king received information from his secret conversation, saying that Panav not only brought troops this time, but also brought siege engines.These siege engines were transported in bulk, covered with black cloth, and camouflaged in grain and grass.

Hearing this news, the little king couldn't help but think: He is helping me defend the city, why bring a siege engine?

Now that a city in the northern border has not been lost, whose city is he going to attack with his siege equipment and craftsmen?

Damn it, thought the king, I wanted to drive the tiger away, but the tiger wanted to eat me too.

This matter was beyond the king's expectation, because when the prime minister was still there, he personally assured him that the letter had been delivered, and Panav was very willing to cooperate with the northern border.He later wrote back, expressing his agreement to the little king's conditions: As long as you help me fight the war, Exlid will let you do whatever you want, and Vulcan Castle will be incorporated into the territory of the Western Regions from then on.

The little king didn't feel sorry for the loss of Vulcan Castle, because it wasn't his place in the first place, and he was happier when Exlid died, because the cultist should have died long ago.

but……

He realized that he had underestimated the appetite of the Western Regions people.Sand people have obeyed the northern border for decades, giving Cade this illusion.

So what to do now?

He looked at the sand scorpion below, and first said: "Duke Panav, I represent the northern border and the empire, thank you for your assistance." I want him to know who he is, "Now, I ask you to show your strength." sincerity."

The sand scorpion Panav raised his sickle-like eyebrows, opened his arms, and said loudly: "I have brought 10 people here, and I have doubled my sincerity!"

Yeah, who the hell let you bring so many people?Cade glared at him and said, "I need more, Panav. Listen to my terms."

Panav held back his breath and said, "Please speak, Your Majesty."

"I would like to invite your three sons to the city," said the king.

Panav immediately shouted: "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"I want to talk to the young people and have a drink," said the king.

Panav said: "Your Majesty Cade! I am not your servant, I am Panav of Cold Night City! I am so loyal to the empire, why are you treating me like this?"

Kade replied loudly: "I don't care about these things. If you are really loyal, then ten of your sons can also be sent! I will not harm them. After the war is over, I will return them to you in their entirety!"

Panav said: "I only have three sons in total, and two of them are in Cold Night City. You ask me for three sons? Your Majesty, forgive me for not being able to do so."

The king said: "That one is fine, let him enter the city first. If he comes in, I will let you enter the city too."

Panav nodded and said, "Okay!"

So the king asked someone to bring a hanging basket, and asked the prince of Sand Scorpion to come up in the hanging basket.Panav shouted: "How can I let my son sit on this thing? Your Majesty, please open the city gate!"

The king said: "Military affairs come first, state affairs are the most important, duke, please forgive me for being rude!"Sand Scorpion gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Linnit, you go up."

Walking out of the army was a small man who was only as tall as an ordinary person's thigh. From a distance, he might have thought he was a child, but the little king knew that this man was the eldest son of Sand Scorpion, who was already 33 years old.

Dwarf Linnett, son of the cursed.

The little king knew that he would send this useless thing up, and he didn't feel bad when this guy died.

Soldiers approaching the city, two

Soldiers approaching the city, two

Fuck-you-damn Panav, your good son, I curse your whole family to die tragically, leaving only this little monster to pass on to your family.

Panav shouted loudly: "Your Majesty! My son has already gone up, please open the city gate!"

"No," replied the king, "Parnave, I only said to let you enter the city, but I did not say that I would let you enter the city of Eagle Head! Now there is room and food in Bullland Castle Sword and Shield, and he can accommodate you. Army. Go find him!"

Panav's face trembled angrily, and he shouted: "Your Majesty! Why don't you let us in? Could it be that Eagle Head City has no room?"

"I have my own arrangements for Eagle Head City, so you don't have to worry about it."

Panav asked, "Are you asking me to turn around and leave?"

"Very well," replied the king.

Panav asked: "I'm withdrawing from Castle Sword and Shield now, so who will deal with the Little Trident?"

Cade smiled and said, "Bagu Kahn hasn't arrived here yet, why are you in a hurry?"

Panav said, "I'll come back when he comes to the city?"

Kate crossed his arms and said, "Eagle Head City is as solid as gold, and it won't be broken in three or two days. It won't be too late to come back then!"

Panav stared at him angrily, pointed at him and shouted: "Sand scorpions are not dogs, sand people are not slaves, how can you come and go when you call?"

Cade looked at him and said, "When the king is in trouble, it's only natural for the ministers to work hard for the king. You should come here no matter how many times!"

Panav was trembling with anger, and he said loudly: "Okay, Cade Heworth, don't regret what you did today!" After he said that, he waved his hand, and the army sounded the call to retreat, and the hundred thousand troops Turn around and leave.

Cade finally breathed a sigh of relief, he ordered the defenders not to go down the city wall, and continued to maintain vigilance, and then returned to the palace by himself.

On the way back, people didn't give him a good face, just like before, everyone thought that the king had done something wrong-of course no one dared to say it to his face, but their eyes, their chuckles, and their whispers all showed that they Attitude.

News of Duke Claus's defeat has spread throughout the North, and since yesterday there have been rumors that the enemy has captured Wolf City.This incident aroused people's fear, many people planned to escape from the castle quietly, and some people came to petition the king, asking him to take the initiative to send troops, and some nobles secretly contacted the Gulf to find a way out for themselves.

Cade killed these guys, caught them, and sent them all away.Then he personally refuted the rumors, saying that Wolf City has not fallen and everything is fine.

Having said that, it is an indisputable fact that Wolf City was besieged.The followers of the Night God of the Flowers family and the descendants of the Sea God joined forces to attack Wolf City. Although Wolf City is the number one city in Middle-Earth, it is not impossible to be attacked.

Two of the three major dukes have fallen, and the psychological defense of the northern nobles is about to collapse.People began to think that the Sea God Sect and the Little Trident were demons, and panicked for a while.

Cade was really annoyed, because it wasn't that the Northern Territory couldn't defeat the Little Trident, and the reason why it was defeated was because no one obeyed the king.

The three dukes, Old Bear Bean's power was scattered, and he was emptied by his sons, and he only had to die in order to join the war in the extreme north; Bullland, who was not righteous, regarded the interests of the family more than the country; Klaus, an idiot, let his brother Not only did he stab the back, he lost his life, even Wolf City was at stake.

The remaining earls, viscounts, lords, knights... all stick to their own territory, and the king cannot directly order them. They listen to the marquis, and the marquis listens to the three dukes.The Great Knight will be dismantled by Cade himself, and the Vulcan Cult is even more untrustworthy.

The only people Cade can really use are his own family's soldiers, and if they are added together, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers.In this way, he is not as numerous as the people in the Gulf.

There are only two troops in the Gulf, one for the Little Trident and one for the Descendants of the Sea God, but at least the two troops are of the same mind, and no one has stabbed them in the back.I'm so fucking good, people are useless, you can't fight a war, and you have to beware of your own people.

The king didn't want to explain the problem to the idiot, so he went back to the room alone to think.

I've spread the power out too much, maybe I should have been diligent earlier and not let them run amok like this.Cade suddenly felt a little regretful. In recent years, his policy has been to check and balance the forces of all parties, weakening the strong and strengthening the weak. In the end, he himself became the weakest one.

The armies I can count on now are: the Mountain People of Bullland, the Klaus Garrison of Wolf City, the Northern Guards, the Sea Reinforcements of the Far North, and my own soldiers...

And Camtrane Lastor.

When the Dragon Slaying Knight goes out, the Grand Knight will be resurrected immediately, and he is the leader of the knight class, and all the knights in the northern border are willing to fight for him.He is different from me, I am a foolish king whom everyone spits on, but he is a legendary hero.When he raises the dragon-slaying sword, people all over the world will believe that he is the savior. If the general situation rises, like a storm or a tsunami, no one can escape.

So should I let him out?No, I'm not dead yet!

The great knight will never fight for the little king unless I am dead.

Thinking of this, Cade felt sad: the big knight didn't fight for the little king, why did the little king fight for these jackals?

I don't want to be a king, brother, ah!You're the most asshole brother in the world.

He sent a flying letter, asking Bullland to accept the Sand Scorpion's army first, and no matter what, the Sand Scorpion could not be allowed to come to Eagle Head City.Afterwards, he sent a letter to the northern guards, asking them to guard the city, stop Little Trident, and prevent him from returning to Eagle Head City.

Little Trident can't attack Eagle Head City directly, but if he solves the worries of the northern guards, then things will be hard to say.That's why the little king set traps for him in the first place—in the beginning, Cade hoped that the little trident would come directly to attack the city, so that Cade could wait for work, exhaust him, drag him to death, surround him, and repel him.

But Bugu Kahn was not fooled after all, he went to play the northern double guard.If the two guards are not down, Eagle Head City will be fine. If the two guards are down, Eagle Head City will lose an arm.

Once the little trident breaks through the northern double guards, and then attacks Eagle Head City with its remaining prestige, then things will be really bad.

On the other hand, he sent a signal to the fleet in the extreme north, asking these people to be on standby at any time. When the little trident approached Eaglehead City, the fleet would march from the port, outflank the little trident, and surround and kill him.

This is Cade's last line of insurance. If the Northern Guards are also broken, then he can only rely on the Extreme Northern Fleet.

After writing the three letters, the little king went back to his room to rest. Four more days passed like this, and an urgent report woke him up.

What the letter said was simple:

Sand Scorpion Panav rebelled, and a hundred thousand soldiers invaded Fort Sword and Shield. The prince died in battle, and blood flowed like a river.

Chapter 24: Overlords don’t need tricks, a

Chapter 24: Overlords don’t need tricks, a

"Quick! Quick! Quick!" The Overlord whipped his horse and led eight hundred cavalry galloping across the plain.They had just crossed Leiyin Mountain, and the army had been marching in a hurry, almost without sleep for two nights.Eight hundred cavalrymen, one man and two horses, rode alternately. To this day, many horses and men have fallen.

But Bugu Kahn would not allow them to rest, and if anyone fell, leave him where he was.Bing is expensive and fast, and military planes are like fire.There can be no delay.

After turning over the mountain, there is a plain, which is the territory of the Bullland family.Before the war, this was a grain-producing area in the north. There were tens of thousands of mu of fertile land, pastures and orchards. There were many big landowners who were comparable to nobles. This place has been transporting grain to the south, and you can even buy Bullland in the Gulf. Food from the land.

The weather here has been good for many years, and the occasional drought and locust plague have not affected this place.People in the north point to this place to fill their stomachs.

But now, here comes the war.

The little king and Bullland would not leave anything to Bugu Kahn. They harvested the grain early and took all the stored grain to the warehouse. If there was any leftover, they would burn it on fire.

The fertile land has turned into red land, and the scorched earth has been scorched for thousands of miles. This is the cruelty of the little king.Bagu despises the little king, but in this matter, he admires this guy.

Now the wealthy mountain people have become refugees, either fleeing to Castle Sword and Shield or leaving their homes.War ruins everything.

But he didn't have much pity for these people, the Overlord thought to himself: Who told you to be born weak?The weak prey on the strong, someone has to be ruled in this world.

As long as my enemies are alive, war will not disappear.

Bugu's horse was also tired, and Bugu was a little worried. If the horse fell down, there would be no horses in the bay area that could carry him.

As a last resort, he had to order the army to rest by the lake.Just in time for the horse to drink some water.

Ba Gu took out the soul stone that Lan Zuo gave him: green, safe.

The soul stone represents Lan Chu's safety, the green one is safe, and the red one means Lan Chu is in danger.

At that time, Bugu had to consider going back to rescue—this is a difficult decision, and it is said that the overall situation should be the most important thing, but Bugu is not a little king, he treats the people around him like brothers.It doesn't matter if it's Rancho or Kipps, Karen, Sour Eye, and the little giant... He remembers the names and nicknames of the guardsmen, and he really can't do it if he is told to abandon these people.

Forget it, let's take a step by step.

A moment later, the army moved out, and the cavalry galloped across the deserted farmland.They passed a village with good fields, tile-roofed houses, large farmhouses and a church, but there was no human habitation in it.