Warlord: King of All Clans

Aini was born into a family of civil servants who had served the Burke family for generations. He was proficient in the dialects of the various tribes in the West and the bilingual language of the Empire, and had excellent reading, writing, and calculation abilities. That was why he was able to serve as "Sanji" of the Buck Fortress despite his non-noble ancestry.

"Sangji" means "Consul" or "City Lord" in the dialect of the Western Territory. In the Western Territory, where there are only a few cities, this is a position second only to the title of Berk.

If it weren't for his outstanding abilities, Aini wouldn't have been given the position.

After the peace talks between the two regions, the trade volume of Bak Fortress increased sharply. Not only the Tarhan tribe, but also the Ashina tribe further west, and even the four desert tribes thousands of miles away, had caravans coming to trade.

At the end of this year, a large caravan of lizardmen appeared outside Buck Fortress. The lizardmen, who were similar in size to the dragon-blooded dog-headed men, made the werewolves guarding the city very alert.

Especially that group of lizardmen barbarians, they are completely the alien version of Venom, with the physique of orcs and the agility of trolls, completely different from the other thin lizardmen.

While selling scarce goods that were rarely seen in the Three Realms, they secretly spied on the defenders of Buck Fortress.

Looking at the strong werewolf warriors on the city walls and the river musketeers stationed at various commanding heights, he did not harbor any ill intentions.

Don’t be fooled by the weapons and clothing of these lizardmen, which look like primitive people. They once had a glorious imperial civilization.

Thousands of years ago, when the human race was still in the city-state era, the prosperous Lizardman Empire had already occupied the southern part of the continent, with a population spread across the western and southern borders.

However, due to some reasons, they almost lost their country and their race, and finally their power continued to shrink, and they retreated to the desert in the west and the mountains further west, becoming a small alien country.

No matter where the caravan comes from, the experienced Aini can quickly estimate the price of the goods and the psychology of the merchants, and give a convincing price to make huge profits for the fortress.

After Aini's three-year consulting career ended, the River Bay Lord's Mansion sent a civil administrator from Buck Fortress and recommended him as the next civil administrator. He then went to Xingtao City to continue assisting his old friend Knight Solovy.

In the administrative division of the Earldom of River Bay, Buck Fortress is still at the "town" level. How can it compare with the future industrial city of Xingtao City?

Moreover, there are three cross-border highways similar to Buck Fortress in the jurisdiction of Xingtao City!

When Aini was in Buck Fortress, he had taken care of Yue Gechaer for a long time. They were good friends who shared weal and woe. When he saw him going back this time, he quickly reminded him, "The grassland will not be peaceful this winter. You must be careful on the road and don't leave Xikes' side."

Even Aini, an "outsider", knew that he would be safest if he stayed with Six.

Yue Gechaer knew Aini's intelligence ability - the herdsmen on the grassland were his eyes, so he asked in a deep voice: "What rumors have you heard?"

"There's no rumor. I just feel that this time, Captain Dukak has made a big fuss. He will not have no backup plan."

Yue Gechaer looked around at his friends and said confidently, "Let him come."

Yue Gechar rode a horse, and Freya turned into a giant bear and followed beside him, carrying Totos on her back.

On his other side was Six riding her giant war pig, the size of a rhino, with Snell on its back.

This time Strong did not ride his own mammoth war elephant, and there was no suitable war horse for him to ride, so he could only sit in the carriage.

Bjorn, who came from a savage family, was not used to riding a horse, so he sat on the roof of the carriage with his Virgil rifle, completely ignoring the biting cold wind.

Behind them were a thousand Hewan soldiers on war horses.

Si Zhuang sat in the carriage, holding the map of the Western Territory and looking at it non-stop. From time to time, he would lean over to ask Yue Gechaer questions. Finally, he became impatient and dragged Yue Gechaer directly into the carriage to ask him face to face.

"The Kerey tribe is so close to your Tarhan tribe? Where is their main city?"

"There's no main city, only a big tent? The people in the Western Territory are so poor!"

"Why is there no moving route for the big tent? Where is it stationed in winter? Where is it stationed in summer? No, your own vassals can't grasp this situation?"

"Where are the allies of the Kerait tribe? The A'er tribe, um, only one thousand armored cavalrymen, it's a bit difficult to deal with..."

Because there were a lot of carriages and baggage, Yue Gechaer's speed of returning home was not fast, and he only walked a hundred miles a day.

During these few days, Strong continued to send out troops, and by the last day, there were only three hundred people left in the team.

Seeing that they were less than fifty miles away from Ulanggar, Yue Gechar relaxed, smiled, and rode over at full speed on a light cavalry.

The extraordinary scout "Shadow" Fisher, who had separated from the main force to scout, came over to report, "A group of cavalry appeared in the west, with more than a thousand people, and they are heading this way."

Strong asked, "Under whose banner?"

"No flag."

Strong picked up the large shotgun and jumped off the carriage. The whole carriage was tilted forward by him. "Without flags, they are bandits. Everyone get off the horses and prepare for battle!"

He casually glanced at the terrain, pointed to a small mound a few meters high not far away, and said to the deputy general: "Take a hundred men over there, guard the mound, and provide remote support."

"yes!"

"The rest of you, form a defensive vehicle formation and stay where you are!"

"Move out all the centurions on the carriage."

As his order was issued, all the three hundred Hewan soldiers dismounted. A small team was assigned to manage the horses, and the rest quickly unloaded their luggage and rushed to the battle position.

The grooms, with the help of the soldiers from Hewan, quickly surrounded the carriages in a circle, unloaded the draft horses, and hid in the formation.

The reaction speed of the Hewan soldiers was incredibly fast, but the cavalry on the opposite side was just as fast. By the time they finished their deployment, the ground was already shaking.

One thousand Western Border cavalry appeared on the right side of the team.

Si Zhuang picked up the telescope and took a look, then sneered, "It's either the Kerait tribe or the A'er tribe. They are just ordinary horse bandits. How could they have so many armors?"

The horse bandits in the western border are also divided into different levels. The lowest level is the small horse bandit groups that herdsmen use to make extra money. All members are unarmored, and some do not even have qualified saddles. They just carry iron scimitars and short spears to rob small caravans.

In the mid-level professional horse bandit groups, only the big and small leaders have iron armor and war horses, while the rest ride on horses with fur armor. There are more people, and there are also many archers mixed in.

Such troops cannot deal with regular legions, but they can deal with the armed guards of caravans, and they can also form groups to make money in the north and south.

The highest-level horse bandits are the armies of the lords of various tribes in the western border.

Whether it is Berk or the centurion, they have hundreds of regular cavalry at their command. The soldiers make a living by killing and are all skilled in archery and horse riding.

Therefore, it is easy to get rich and have money to equip better weapons and armor.

Among the thousand Western Territory cavalrymen in front of them, more than half were wearing iron armor, and there were also dozens of armored knights, that is, the Western Territory Qiexue. This is completely at the level of regular troops.

Seeing the cavalry getting closer, Strong waved his hand behind him and said, "Bjorn, give them a surprise."

Bjorn had already aimed his heavy Virgil rifle at the oncoming Westerner cavalry.

His eyes had been searching the ranks of the Western Cavalry, and by the time Strong gave the order, he had already found the main general mixed in among them.

"Three, two, one."

As Bjorn silently chanted in his heart, a clear and loud gunshot rang out across the wilderness, and the cavalry commander fell down hundreds of meters away.