The distribution of interests was agreed, and most of the army was ordered to stay, Zhou Ming took a light cavalry force of 3,000 people, one step ahead of the seven counts, and returned to the Grand Territory as soon as possible. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Count Lauzitz, who has fought all his life, has a good grasp of the timing, even if Zhou Ming left an elite guard force of 300 people in the Grand Castle in advance, with the thickness of the city's high walls, it is no problem to block the siege of ten times the enemy, so after ordering the guard troops to strengthen the vigilance, Zhou Ming did not worry too much.

But he didn't expect that Count Lauz, who was nearly 70 years old and had lost all his children, had the only motivation to live at this time was revenge! So, after seeing that he couldn't break the castle for a while, he actually pulled all the farmers in the territory, including the old men, women, girls and children, as cannon fodder to fill the trenches and attack the city with ants, and under the non-stop attack day and night, looking at the crumbling castle, Lauzitz's scarlet eyes only had the madness of bloodbathing this castle!

"Kill me!"

After seeing the corpses that had been piled up in front of the city wall nearly ten meters high, as well as countless enemy soldiers who had climbed the city wall and cheered, Zhou Ming, who had been running for two days and two nights in a row, and half of the knights around him had fallen behind, gave an order, with more than 1,500 cavalry, rushed into the group of siege troops in front of the castle who only cared about attacking the city and did not make any defensive posture.

After the horse's hooves stepped on the half-foot-deep blood pond and entered the castle where the city walls, terraces, and battlements were dyed red everywhere, Zhou Ming, who was a little panicked in his heart, hurriedly asked Eric, a disciple who stepped forward to greet him and was covered in blood, how about the loss in the castle?

"Lord Baron was hit by a heavy arrow in the chest, and his injuries were somewhat severe, but everyone else was fine. ”

After speaking, Eric's body shook, and Ryan, who was on the side, quickly supported him who was extremely tired.

Seeing the servant steward Ryan holding a blood-dripping sharp knife in his hand, and a group of servants behind him who were also holding weapons and had a lot of blood stains on their clothes, Zhou Ming was a little surprised, these servants ......

"Teacher, fortunately, Ryan came to help with the servants in time, otherwise this castle would have fallen a few days ago, Ryan is a man. After Eric explained, he couldn't support it, and in the panic of the crowd, his body passed out.

Let people help Eric go down to rest, Zhou Ming looked at this 20-year-old, brave, resourceful, shrewd and capable, since marrying Anna, the daughter of the bakery owner Defoe, Ryan has been more calm and steady, nodded and said, "Good job, Ryan." ”

Ryan stepped forward, waited for Zhou Ming to get off the horse, and whispered in his ear in a hurry: "Young master, Alice is about to give birth, and she has been in bed for three days in childbirth, and the midwife said that her life is in danger at any time." ”

"What?!"

Zhou Ming was taken aback, and hurriedly walked towards a room on the third floor of the side fort, and just as he reached the door, he heard a crisp and loud voice coming out.

"It's a boy, it's a boy!"

When I pushed the door in, I saw my mother, Madame Madeleine, holding a baby in her hand, walking around the room, constantly making prayer gestures, and tears of excitement.

Without glancing at the baby, Zhou Ming walked straight to the bed, took the cold and wet hand of the woman on the bed, kissed her pale and pretty face, and blamed himself: "I'm sorry Alice, I swore to protect you for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect that when you needed me the most, I still didn't guard you." ”

"Hee-hee~"

Alice smiled, blinked her eyelids and said, "Young master, when did you say such things to Alice, you just said that you want to give me a happy and beautiful future...... I'm fine, what about my child? Let me see my child?" Alice's somewhat childlike and playful face released a maternal glow.

"Oh, all right, Mom, bring the baby over and show Alice. ”

Zhou Ming touched his nose a little embarrassed, gently took the child his mother handed to him, and put it in Alice's arms.

Thinking about it in my heart, that oath to protect for the rest of his life seems to be what he said in his last life, right?

……

Zhou Ming, who lifted the siege of the castle, killed Count Lauzitz, and had his first son (the snake girl also gave birth to a daughter for him), only stayed in the castle for two days, and on the third day, he took the lightly armed knights who returned one after another, and with little effort, occupied the entire territory of the county of Łódź, and connected the territory with the United States of Iron Castle -- after more than ten years of hard work, this world finally had a relatively broad stage for him to perform.

However, not long after taking Rozyburg, Zhou Ming hurriedly returned to the Grand Territory.

His father, Baron Connor, was dying.

The heavy arrow shot by the top marksman pierced Baron Connor's chest and lungs, and the despicable poison smeared on the arrow, the sturdy flame of life of his father, Baron Connor, who was already old, was quickly on the verge of extinguishing.

At the bedside, holding his hand, his father was making a final explanation.

"Edward, no... Don't just focus on the big things...... Have a few more children, the Burns family, will be in your hands... Carry forward the ......"

After finishing speaking, his hand drooped, and Baron Connor, who had never achieved any great achievements in his life, but who was often proud of raising an outstanding member of the Burns family, gave his last promise and passed away.

"Daddy!"

Zhou Ming shouted, but there was no response, and a tear that never flowed out easily slipped from the corner of his eye.

After the funeral of his father, the father-in-law, Baron Sean, who had made friends in the world and was a son and daughter, passed away, and his father-in-law, Baron Sean, just kept silent and said nothing special, and waited until the knighthood ceremony held in Rozburg, looking at Zhou Ming, who was wearing an iron ring crown and holding a mahogany scepter, and was elected by the seven earls as the earl of Łódź, Baron Sean pulled him aside and said some stern words.

"Edward, I don't care if I become an earl, a duke, a king, or an emperor! No matter how many illegitimate children you have with those messy women, my daughter Fanny must be your only lawful wife! If you dare to violate this, I will fight for my life, and I will make you pay a little price!"

watched Zhou Ming keep expanding his territory, laying down so much land, and constantly increasing his official ranks, standing on top of his head (after being knighted, in order to maintain the integrity of the territory, Zhou Ming promised to let Earl William, in addition to the gold-rich Bethor Collar, take the Gran Collar, Nathan Collar, Yoken led the three baronies back into the jurisdiction of the Rhodes Domain), young and promising, favored by many counts and even dukes, Baron Sean, who had a serious sense of crisis in his heart, was afraid that Zhou Ming would not be able to resist the temptation of some big men to marry, so that his Vogt family (Sean's surname) would become the biggest victim.

"Father-in-law, where did you think of it? How could I abandon Fanny, she has been with me for more than ten years, who can give up this kind of husband and wife relationship?"

Zhou Ming said helplessly, he understood the meaning of his father-in-law, Baron Sean, and he actually had doubts about his character, thinking that he would take a fancy to those marriage forces that might have some effect, but in fact he didn't look down on them at all.

"It's better to say than to sing!"

Baron Sean sneered and asked angrily: "Then why did my daughter Fanny tell me that since that lowly maid gave birth to a son for you, why did you go to Fanny's room at least five days a week, but why did it be reduced to only three days?

Wronged, father-in-law!

Zhou Ming was powerless to defend, since giving birth to three daughters in a row, in order to give birth to a son, his wife Fanny came up with various methods, and even became interested in some folk remedies, often taking some bizarre drugs, every month to the critical days, he was dragged to work in broad daylight, and after more than two years of tossing, not to mention giving birth to a boy, even if he was pregnant, he was not pregnant.

It's just crazy.

But......

Seeing that his father-in-law, Baron Sean, was so angry, Zhou Ming didn't want to tell him what was going on, and his wife Fanny was really not in a good state in the past two years, and he was busy with various things and didn't have time to enlighten her, so after reassuring Baron Sean, Zhou Ming promised that the time to accompany Fanny every week in the future would not be less than four nights, and he would accompany her every night during special periods...... This leveled the father-in-law, Baron Sean.

"After a while, I'll be free, take some time to spend time with Fanny, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid she will really have some problems......"

Zhou Ming thought so in his heart.

However, it didn't take long to learn that the county of Rhodes was annexed by the Gran Territory and that the Count of Rauzitz was killed by the rebellion, King Herrian, who was furious, issued a conscription order again, gathered the forces of the six southern counties, and retrained a knight order of the kingdom for nearly a year.

Zhou Ming, who learned the news, had to transfer back part of the "Conquest Legion" stationed in the United States of Iron Fort, recruited a group of mercenaries with good strength, borrowed a group of knights from the surrounding friendly territories, and also gathered a team of 20,000 men.

In the battle, with superb battlefield command art, Zhou Ming's legions, disguised and retreated step by step, and after introducing Herrian's army to the most weedy place in the Itti Valley, hundreds of burning huge grass balls rolled down from the top of the slope, and burned into a sea of fire in the dry environment of autumn, which once again deepened King Herion's fear of fire, and fled back to the royal capital with the remnants of less than 2,000 people left.

Seeing that the king's army was so vulnerable, the seven counts in the north, several of whom wanted to lay down a piece of land that could grow food and warmth because of the excessive slave population and insufficient food production in the territory, in order to save some grain purchase costs, and the north and south factions had already torn their faces, and soon after, four of the six counts in the south fell into the hands of the "northern Yankees" they hated.

At this time, King Herian was still nominally the king of the Kingdom of Volis, but now he can still command, in addition to the direct royal territory and the southwest two pieces are also willing to obey his countydom, full of calculations, only a small force with only 3 territories on one side.

This is even weaker than the Arino Kingdom, which originally had only 6 counties next to it, and after desperately gnawing a piece of meat from the western border of the Iron Castle Kingdom, it has now become 7 counties.