Chapter 157: Robbery while the fire is on

At the beginning, Starbuck also wanted to take a shelf to cut off the trade between the Eternal Night Legion and the Lord and Noble of the Manyu Army, as a threat, and wanted the Eternal Night Legion to soften, and took the initiative to beg them to trade. ◢ with ◢ dream ◢ small ◢ .lā

The results can be imagined.

The Legion of the Eternal Night did not bird them at all, and the mountain pass was blocked, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.

After a long time, Starbuck couldn't hold it back.

With Philip and Lancelot, the first heirs to the Pheren family, and Patlem the second in line, hooking up with the Holy See, the pressure on the slave rebels doubled.

Although the Lancelot royal family did not mobilize troops, but a large number of material resources continued to send to Philip, the rich and fertile Plains of Asia Minor moved the world, occupying most of the Lancelot Plain of Asia Minor, the royal family of Lancelot is also notoriously rich, especially in the past two years after the iron princess Sophilina took out a part of the wealth from the Holy Aether Holy See, it is said that the mice in the granary are as big as cats.

Money and food are Philip's biggest shortcoming, and after making up for it, it will naturally snowball, growing stronger, and a large number of nobles of the Manyu army leader began to move closer to him, ignoring the orders of the new Grand Duke Patlem of the Manyu army leader.

It is not that Philip is the heir to the famous words of the Manyu Army, this kind of nonsense can only fool those new nobles, but he holds the first elite army of the Manyu Army Leader - the Golden Camel Heavy Cavalry.

Compared with Patlem, who adopted the tactics of shrinking, Philip advocated attack, and the golden camel heavy cavalry attacked frequently, and those small groups of slave rebels were not their opponents at all, and the blood of their slaughter was like a river, and they fled hundreds of kilometers in disarray.

If he can find protection there, the nobles will naturally move closer to him, and in this chaotic situation, survival will always come first.

Compared with Lancelot's more tactful approach, the Holy See is more direct, and Cardinal St. George, who came to baptize Patalem, directly brought a Holy See Knights, no, the Holy See Knights Legion is more suitable.

All kinds of papal knights and fanatical believers, plus their followers, there are tens of thousands of people, and their composition is very complex.

There is a papal escort brought by St. George from the Holy See Holy Land, St. An'andi.

There are also pious papal knights who have heard news along the way and joined them in the name of the guardian of the living saint St. George.

There are also fanatical believers who have been indoctrinated by St. George along the way, who are hot-blooded and desperate.

In addition, there are a large number of untrustworthy people following them, most of them have a certain confidence in their own strength, and they are a little unsatisfactory in the local mix, they have long heard about the chaos of the Manyu military leader, and want to join it to get a piece of the pie, but they are limited by their own strength, and there is no way to go alone, and now they hear that St. George is going to go, so they naturally bring their belongings and actively participate in it.

St. George did not reject the visit, believing it to be a great opportunity to strengthen his power.

By the time the mighty arrived at the Manyu Army, it had this scale.

Patrium was not surprised by this situation, and not long ago, due to his attitude towards the Holy See of St. Aether, he had a complete falling out with Angie Bena.

With General Christopher, Angela withdrew from the city of Feeron and withdrew to General Christopher's territory, declared neutrality to the outside world, and officially announced the establishment of the Red Cross Knights Hospitaller, with the mission of saving lives and eliminating wars, and began to run around to promote their own ideas of peace.

Maybe it's because the turmoil of the Manyu military leader in the past few years has been too great, or maybe her new concept has won the approval of some people, and a large number of people have joined it, not only those low-level citizens and peasants, but also some small nobles, knights and farmers, who have also been affected by the war, and want to end the war as soon as possible and return to the previous life of not being rich but stable.

At this time, when Patlem was weak, he was afraid all day long, lest Philip lead his iron cavalry to rush in front of him like a flood, lest the help given by the Holy Aetheric Holy See be not strong enough, where would he have the energy to consider the reason of the great overpower?

Even if you know, you don't care.

Although the Holy See has been extending its hand to secular power, it always has to take into account the reactions of other lords and nobles, so even if it is done, it must be done very secretly, to prevent others from grabbing their handles, even if they want to control the Manyu military leader, they do so by setting up Patriem.

In this regard, Patrium has long been accustomed to it, and many people have turned to him in the past, not because of how much ability he has, but because he wants to use his identity.

So it was with Conrad, and so was it with Angel Banna.

The former's grave grass was already a foot tall, and the latter carried her followers away from the center of power.

And he, Patalem, step by step, leads to the pinnacle of power.

Now it's just a change of Holy Aether Holy See, if in the core of their power, in the plains of Asia Minor, Patlem dares to do this, it is definitely selling himself, but this is the turbulent and chaotic Manyu military territory.

Even if the Holy Aether Holy See is a strong dragon, it has to rely on him, the head of the earth, in order to make waves.

Once a person is overconfident, the results are usually not particularly good.

Patlaim was visibly overconfident.

St. George, who has the reputation of a living saint in the Holy See, is known as the genius of the Holy See for a thousand years, the reincarnation of the saint, and the most powerful contender for the next pope.

St. George made no secret of his superiority from the outset, and was extraordinarily eloquent.

The tongue is full of lotus, the words are beady, the words are endless, and the mouth is like a hanging river.

These adjectives are very suitable for him, and he never talks emptyly, is very good at grasping people's **, and uses words to stimulate and amplify them, so as to produce a sense of identification with his point of view.

After two public lectures and sermons, most of Patlem's followers became his followers, including Patlem himself.

Because St. George not only baptized Patrium, but also adopted him as his godson, opening up a wider world for him - the Manyu military territory is only a corner of the continent of Ashan, the Byron Alliance.

If he can really integrate into the big family of the Holy Aether Holy See, Patlem's achievement is far from being as simple as becoming a military archduke.

And St. George will be the best guide for Patalem.

In other words, it is no longer Patlem that dominates the forces of the Patelem Group, but St. George.

Unlike Patlem conservative, St. George, who was of high status, ambitious, and in the prime of life, was more aggressive, hating any form of rebellion, believing them to be saboteurs in the flock, and that the only way out was to convert to the Holy See and believe in the God of Truth.

Although St. George and Philip did not communicate with the messengers, they reached a consensus on this point, and the deployment of forces began to be consciously shifted to the side of the slave rebels.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it will not be long before there will be a big war in the Manyu Army, and the Slave Rebel Army will be the first target.

The slave rebels naturally increased the pressure and tried to expand their strength by all means.

But their origins doomed them to be the target of the public, and they were the natural enemies of all lords and nobles, and no one would risk the condemnation of the world to trade with them, let alone those who could be plundered by them.

There is always a limit to the harvest of raiding, and when there is no one around them to raid, they can only rely on self-reliance and trade.

However, their ability to be self-reliant is indeed not flattering.

Their main constituents were slave gladiators and the lowest serfs.

Needless to say, the former is basically nothing but killing.

It is also difficult to say that the latter have any skills to speak of, after all, the heaviest and repetitive work they used to perform, many of whom would not be able to work without the whips of their slave owners.

At first, they didn't pay attention to the craftsmen, and when it came to an end, they remembered that the effect could be imagined, and many people were almost harmed, and even if they were forced to join them, they would not really do things.

Without the accumulation of time, they have no way to complete the transformation from rogues to lords, and what they lack most at the moment is time.

The Eternal Night Legion became their only choice, even if the conditions proposed by the Eternal Night Legion were very harsh and the price was very high, they could only pinch their noses and admit it.

Marshall may not have been a qualified profiteer before, but the financial pressure on his body was too heavy, so he could only make up his mind and ruthlessly peel off a layer of skin from the slave rebels.

Not only did he pack and sell the rags of the Eternal Night Legion to the slave rebels at a price thirty percent higher than the new equipment.

He also sold Andes's longbow and Tang's studded armor for three times more than the price they sold to the lords and nobles, which was about the same weight of gold and silver.

Not only did they loot most of the wealth from the slave rebels, but they also finally obtained a large number of new labor from the hands of the other side.

Some of the Slave Rebels were Andesian slaves, and they joined the Slave Rebels only to get rid of their slave status, not to identify with their ideas.

In the past, they were in the hinterland of the Manyu Army, and they had no choice but to follow the slave rebels, but now that they are close to their hometown, many people have shown that they want to return to the mountains, and some people secretly contact the Eternal Night Legion.

When this was discovered, the top brass of the Slave Rebel Army was furious, and at that time, when the two sides were first in contact, there was resistance on the part of the Slave Rebel.

However, some things can't be suppressed, and the longer the pressure lasts, the more terrifying the power that erupts.

They started with this, and they know it very well.

Hence the supplementary agreement between the two parties.

If there is a slave rebel army who voluntarily goes to the Legion of the Eternal Night, the Slave Rebel Army shall not stop it, but for each person who goes, the Legion of the Eternal Night shall give compensation in response and deduct it with military supplies.

There are not many such people and there are not too many of them, there are nearly 10,000 of them, there are fewer young and strong laborers, and most of them are women and children, compared with the former, the latter yearn for a more stable life.

The Eternal Night Legion does not refuse to come, since all people, regardless of the old, the young, women and children, can play a role in the Eternal Night Legion and create value, it is just a matter of how much, and the fear is that no one is available.

Starbuck was a resolute man, and against public opinion, he took those who were wrapped up in the slave rebel army, and who had no sense of belonging, especially the old, weak, sick and disabled, so he simply packed them all up, and stuffed them half bought and half given to the Legion of the Eternal Night.

The benefits of this are obvious, not only do you get more equipment, but you also have to streamline your composition, and your combat effectiveness will increase instead of decreasing - at least when you are in the air, it will be faster without the drag of these people.

As for the slave rebels, they were stationed here.

If Starbuck and Dick Dragons had dared to make such a decision, they would not be far from defeated.

Their advantage is to wander around, and then coerce more homeless people.

They moved closer to the Andes, not only to prevent the enemy from the enemy, but also because the Manyu army was almost already in the direction of their scourge, and was looking for a new direction of the scourge.

There are only a few options for them.

One is to go west, kill to the Broken Mouth Prairie, but there is the fief of the Streich family, not to mention the steppe of a flat river, from the time of the ancient Andis Empire, the Streich family, who guarded the Broken Mouth Blood Castle in the era, has the most elite and powerful knight order in the world - the Broken Blood Horse.

This name is not self-proclaimed by them, but killed, with countless Streich family blood and Odin orc bones piled up, perennial war, always keep them at the top - whenever the Streich family falls into a trough, it must also be the time when the Byron alliance is unlucky, once the Odin orcs break through, it is a bloody killing.

Therefore, the Streich family, who have been guarding the Broken Blood Citadel for generations, are the most prestigious and respected family in the Byron Alliance, and to some extent, even above the Lancelot royal family.

Whoever dares to attack the Strachrich family will risk the world's condemnation and stab the lungs of the entire Byron Alliance, and it is inevitable that they will attack them en masse.

The slave rebels did not understand this, and the Starbucks, who were born as lords and nobles, did not understand this truth, and their retreat to the east had already shown it.

The slave rebels gave up not only the possibility of advancing westward, but also the possibility of advancing to the southwest of the plains of Asia Minor.

Although the plains of Asia Minor are known as the richest places on the continent of Ashan, they are also the most difficult places to mess with, not only this is the territory of the Lancelot royal family, but also the most prosperous place of the Holy Aether Holy See.

Needless to say, there are cut off mountains in the north, small scale entry and exit are okay, large-scale movement, don't even think about it, and to the north, it's not them who rob others, but the poorer Odin orcs who rob it.

The slave rebels now chose only two directions.

The idea of going east to fight the Andes mountain people, in fact, they have already tried, with Sean and the Eternal Night Legion here, they must be defeated now, if they want to enter the mountain, they must be defeated now, judging from the current situation, the difficulty is not ordinarily high.

The last one was to go south and fight the Kingsley family in the Carthusian hills, which had the largest mining area on the continent, rich in copper and iron, and it is no exaggeration to say that one of the three iron artifacts used on the continent of Ashane must have been produced by the Kingsley family.

Therefore, the Kingsley family is also known as the richest family in the continent, and has the reputation of being a stag minted with gold coins (the Kingsley family badge is a golden stag running in the sky with gold coins flying in the sky), but their money is not golden, but blood-colored, built on the bones of millions of miners, which is the largest slave exporter of the Manyu Army.

This is also the biggest movement of the slave rebel army, and the benefits of attacking it are numerous.

This place is rich enough to obtain a large amount of supplies and wealth, especially a large number of weapons and equipment - even if the Eternal Night Legion is free to trade with them, it cannot fully meet the needs of the slave rebel army for weapons and equipment, after all, the mountains themselves are short of iron weapons, weapons and equipment are mainly bows and crossbows and leather armor, iron tools and the like, the Eternal Night Legion itself is not enough, how can it be traded.

There are enough slaves here, which is a natural source of soldiers, and if they can take this place, the size of the slave rebel army will reach a terrifying level.

The Carthusian Hills terrain is complex enough that, once inside, you can play hide and seek with your enemies.

The only drawback, that is, the goal is too obvious, everyone knows that the slave rebel army is the most likely to go south, so they will naturally be on guard, and the Kingsley family has already mobilized heavy troops on the border to guard it to the death.

Once the slave rebel army is unable to quickly break through the Kingsley family's defense line, it will inevitably be made dumplings by the Manyu army and the coalition army who heard the news, and there will be no chance to turn over.

As for the large number of valuables traded from the slave rebels, the Legion of the Eternal Night is of little use, and there is a general who lives a simple life, except for a general who is a little particular about food and personal hygiene, and the people below will not live too luxuriously.

To be more precise, they are just a group of people who have never seen the world, with their relatively simple thinking, there is no way to imagine what a luxurious life is like, perhaps in their eyes, eating three meals a day, eating a round belly, is luxury.

The lords and nobles of the Manyu Army despise the Legion of the Eternal Night, and in a way, it is not unreasonable.

Sean is also very happy to keep the Eternal Night Legion in this purity, although it can't be permanent, but if it can be kept for a while longer, let's keep it for a while longer!