The winter world is covered with snow.

A farmer buried his head in the world next to the road, throwing aside the snow and softening his land to ensure next year's spring ploughing.

The winter wind seems cold, the thin linen clothes of the farmers can't stop the invasion of these cold winds, fortunately, the non-stop work can make them warmer, the farmers finish the farm work in their hands, ready to get up and stretch their stiff waist, but when he straightened up, he was suddenly stunned, he looked at the road in front of him in disbelief, where unconsciously, the road was full of people who kept moving forward.

The 25,000 White City Legions, surrounded by Lelouxiu, marched along the main road leading from the White City to the north, and the surprised peasants in front of them were only insignificant cases along the way.

The powerful lineup of 20,000 newly formed garrisons, 3,000 5 Sect Guards, 1,050 Praetorian Guards, and 25,000 people is a magical picture that is difficult for the peasants in the north to see, especially the equipment level of 25,000 has left the nobles in the north I don't know how many streets.

Perhaps because of the winter, almost all the soldiers wore cloaks, and at the same time added a large cotton jacket to the shoulders, so that they all looked like Alsace in the 'Ice Throne', but the armor was more holy and mighty, and in this snow-white world, they were more graceful.

"My lord, almost all the nobles in front have left, and only some small nobles who are not even as good as the rich peasants are waiting for us!"

After receiving the news brought by the herald, Frank reported by Lelouch's side that since Lelouch marched all the way, almost all the nobles knew that they were not Lelouch's opponents at all, but they were completely unable to accept the conditions given by Lelouch, in fact, the conditions given by Lelouch were already very good, Lelouch would not deprive them of their noistocratic status, but only deprived them of all their aristocratic privileges, and their property would not be completely confiscated, but according to the title to ensure their living needs.

Well, although such conditions are extremely excessive for the nobles, but it is not yet time to ask for their names, although Lelouch also wants to abolish all these nobles and obtain all their property at the same time, but Lelouch has not yet completely controlled the entire heaven-sent land, if he goes too far, Lelouch does not dare to guarantee that the remaining three realms will not jump over the wall in a hurry.

Lelouxiu, who got the report, nodded, the performance of the northern nobles was completely expected, according to the prior deduction, Lelouch also knew that the northern nobles would gather together to guard the provincial capital city in the north, so before reaching the provincial capital, this road could only be regarded as an armed march.

"How long will it take for us to get to the provincial capital?"

Lelouch rode his horse and looked into the distance, and Frank hurriedly returned:

"There is still half a day's journey from the provincial capital Northridge City, and we can arrive this afternoon!"

Lelouch nodded: "Don't attack the city today, rest early when you get to the place, everything goes according to plan!"

Frank nodded, then said with some concern:

"Although our battle plan has been tested and indeed highly feasible, it is estimated that there will be no less than 50,000 noble troops in the city, and even if most of the coerced civilians are removed, they will have at least 20,000 diehards, and the destruction of Northridge City will still be very fearful at that time!"

Frank and Lelouch, and even the entire White City higher-ups, have no doubts about recovering the north, the only thing to pay attention to is only the loss, this loss is not even limited to his own casualties, and the city that is about to become his own territory, Lelouch does not want a dilapidated Northridge City, so he didn't even bring any large siege equipment.

Of course, it is impossible for Lelouch to be stupid enough to use human life to fill this vacancy, as early as when Lelouch was ready to make a move on the north, he had already thought of countermeasures, this method Lulouch actually didn't want to use it at this time, because it would be difficult to work in other places after using it, but the current north is too important to Lelouch, and the population alone is enough for Lelouch to give everything for him.

Although the north is also sparsely populated, but in the vast and sparsely populated area, there is also a hundred years of recuperation and recuperation compared with the almost desperate situation of the garrison, the north can almost be called a metropolis, Lelouch has worked hard to integrate manpower, and in five years, Lelouch only has nearly 700,000 or so, this is still plus the three parties of Fort Horn, the garrison, and the White City, and how many are there in the north? About 1.5 million people, if you add the black households lurking in the north, the population of Lelouch is even estimated to be two million, and the population of two million is already nearly three times the current population of Lelouch, and it has been said more than once before that it is not tools, materials and money that restrict Lelouch's development, but the population.

And the north is the treasure trove of manpower in the eyes of Lu Luxiu, only with the north border, Lu Lu Xiu really has the confidence to use troops against the other three realms, after all, the population of 700,000 Lu Lu Xiu no matter how poor the army is, it is only 100,000 people, Horn Fort needs garrisons, Baicheng needs garrisons, and the long border line needs a large number of garrisons.

The team did not exceed Frank's estimate, in the afternoon of the same day, the army rushed to the city of Northridge, looking at the city in the distance, as one of the four realms of the human race, there are all the characteristics and scenery of the White City, if the White City is the majesty of the Holy White, then the Northridge City is desolate and magnificent, which is even more so now under the embellishment of snowflakes.

The tall city walls, which look dry and cracked under the cold wind, are almost all made of gray boulders, which has a very rough visual impact.

The city wall in the distance is densely packed with peasant soldiers, they stand here reluctantly, they don't want to face Lelouch, especially when they learn that Lelouch is going to prepare to implement the land policy in the north, they want to jump up and cheer, but they don't want to refuse their lord, not how much they love it, but before Lelouch comes, they will be hung on the tree by their noble lord, becoming a beautiful landscape.

Lelouch can feel the restless atmosphere in Northridge City, the people inside have no fighting spirit for themselves, the only thing that can support them is the towering city wall of Northridge City, but the city wall is not Lewouch's goal, Lelouch glanced at the huge city gate, turned around and walked towards the camp behind him, there will be no battle today.

"There will be no fighting today!"

A nobleman breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Baicheng army that had just arrived outside the city and was encamped, as did the other nobles around him, and the decision-making layer composed of eight dukes looked at the outside of the city with satisfaction, and said in a tone not without lightness:

"I'll just say that Leluxiu's thief can't bring many people in half a year, Baicheng is not his dilapidated garrison, and the people of Baicheng won't listen to Leluxiu, now it seems that he can bring out 20,000 people is indeed very talented, but he doesn't have even a siege ladder, even if he starts cutting trees tonight, he may not be able to fight tomorrow. ”

The duke's words made the other nobles think deeply, although a fierce battle is inevitable, but at least so far they can still breathe a sigh of relief, they actually understand that they are definitely not Lelouxiu's opponents, the relationship between the north and the other three realms has always been not very good, and even the grand duke of his own side has expressed his support for Lelouxiu, in this era when subordinate nobles want to unconditionally believe in their lord, the north has been their only righteous advantage from the beginning.

Therefore, the nobles of the northern realm did not have the luxury of hoping that they would be able to defeat Lelouch, their greatest hope was to stick here, delay for a while, hope that Lelouch would retreat, they could believe in Lelouch as their new lord, but to ensure their privileges in their own territory, why did those mud-legged people live such a good life? They wanted Lelouch to know that they were the cornerstones of Lelouch's future rule.

Thinking about the rest of the matter, the nobles of the northern realm were ready to go down and rest, at least today, they could still get a good night's sleep.

...

The bonfire brought little warmth in the cold night, and the people from Baicheng rested early after dinner, and the nobles clearly saw that the soldiers fell asleep, so they put down their last worries and returned to the city to rest with confidence, and at the same time, there were no harsh requirements for the people on the city wall to stick to it, after all, it was a very unacceptable thing to be on duty on the city wall in the cold winter.

The nobles were also afraid that these peasants would be forced to do something out of the ordinary, and now the nobles rely on these peasants.

The food at night is not very good, the peasants and soldiers can only get a night of porridge and half a piece of bread that is not too thin, the north is different from the south of the economy is developed, and a hundred years ago Lelouxiu's crazy pursuit of food, but almost bought up all the surplus grain in the north, they also did not expect that Lelouch would take the lead in the north to start, in their opinion, between the obedient north and the rebellious south, Lelouch should be more likely to choose the south.

So this caused a shortage of supplies in the north, and of course the nobles knew that they could no longer be stingy at this time, but they really couldn't get more supplies.

It was dark in the city of Northridge at night, and a peasant soldier coughed behind the shelter wall, wrapped in sackcloth, feeling the invasion of the cold air on his body.

He staggered to his feet, walked to the city wall and was about to pee, he didn't pay much attention to the outside in a daze, so when a black shadow appeared behind him, he didn't notice it until a pair of big black hands made a 360-degree turn around his neck, he didn't react, but at this time, he couldn't make any sound.

Maybe this peasant soldier is committed to Lelouch, but in order to be foolproof, Lelouch still chose to kill them, and after solving this peasant soldier on the city wall, a black shadow stepped onto the city wall, Lelouch did not have any siege equipment, that is because Lelouch was not ready to attack the city from the beginning, Lelouch's real plan is to reproduce the glory of Fort Horn, relying on the special brigade, surprise attack on the city wall.

The garrison did rest early, but this was to be able to get up early in the middle of the night, when these secretly trained special forces attacked, the White City Legion had woken up and was ready, and not far from the city gate, dozens of barbarian warriors in black armor were hiding in the snowdrifts, these warriors from the snowy mountains were born to know how to hide in the black snowy night.

Wait, these dozens of people will firmly control the city gate, bringing time for the army behind them to enter the city.

Nearly 100 black-clothed people were ready to be together, constantly approaching the city gate, the black figure made the people outside unable to see them, and individual unlucky ghosts would also lose their lives under the attack of the small crossbow, almost very quickly, the black-clothed people controlled the entire city gate, but at this time they did not immediately open the city gate, but poured a bottle of vegetable oil down the shaft of the city gate, when the vegetable oil covered the entire shaft, the black-clothed people began to open the city gate slowly and carefully, and under the lubrication of vegetable oil, the city gate did not make a little sound, so it was quietly opened。

Seeing the city gate open, more than 30 barbarian soldiers in the snow quickly ran over, and at the same time, inside the city gate, they raised a torch and shook it, and with the shaking, the dark and silent barracks in the distance moved, and an army as white as snow walked out slowly.

At this time, the strong logistics of Lelouch's army began to show his might, the army of more than 20,000 people, not a single night blindness, in this dark night, they were still able to separate the way, and step by step towards the city gate, their speed was not fast, but not slow, under this speed, their voices were reduced to a minimum, which made them quietly advance for a long distance, but the 25,000 troops, it is impossible to go undetected.

I don't know who suddenly glanced out, stunned for a while and sat down in his seat, thought about it, rubbed his eyes again, and looked out again, he was finally sure, but the peasant soldier did not speak, but sat back in silence, they did not dare to resist their lord, and they also did not want to resist Lelouch.

But when he turned around, he heard an angry roar, and a young peasant soldier shouted in terror: "The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!"

Quiet Northridge City, a lot of noise!

A group of at least two hundred knights rushed towards the city gate, they had only come to command the peasants on the city wall, but they looked at the gate in disbelief, they looked at each other, grabbed their horses' bellies, set up their spears and rushed towards the city gate, they had to take him back before the news of the seizure of the city gate spread.

But the black-clothed and barbarians will not give them such an opportunity:

"The city gate is lost, and His Majesty the Son of God has entered the city!!"

(End of chapter)