When Marty walked out of the tent, she took off her delicate and fine iron scale armor, like a Valkyrie descending from heaven to the mortal world, at this time she was wearing a long skirt of an ordinary Slavic girl, except for a string of amber zuò earrings on her ears, there were basically no other ornaments, Marty's father was killed by her own uncle at the banquet, and she inherited her father's territory, in order to protect the territory left by her father, she was always nervous, dealing with various crises from within and outside the tribe, So she has given up the right of a girl to enjoy the beauty of youth, and grabbed a strong bow and spear.

"Who is the messenger sent by the Count of Mecklenburg?" Marty asked his general curiously.

"It's an old acquaintance, Julian." The general, who was on horseback, replied to Marty.

"What? It's Julian, so why didn't you say it earlier. Marty listened to the stiffness of the body on the horse, she never thought that it would be Julian, she was going to wait for the border to calm down, and then go to Mecklenburgshire in person to intercede with Arrod on behalf of Julian, but she did not expect that Julian had been reactivated by Arold and became the envoy of the visit.

"That's right, the title is Foreign Minister of Mecklenburg." The general said.

"Where have they gone now?" Marty hurriedly asked.

"It's still a few miles from our castle, and the patrol cavalry on our border got the news first, what's wrong?" Seeing that she suddenly kicked the war horse with her feet, it galloped away like an arrow off the string, her dress fluttering in the wind, and the general's loud shouting behind had no effect.

Julian was leading a team of emissaries and was walking the dirt trails of Weltershire. Because they had a gift for Countess Marty, the team consisted of five javelin cavalry, ten armed servants, two two-handed swordsmen, plus Julian and two retinues, and ten miscellaneous servants, for a total of thirty men, and the retinues unfurled the banner of the black lion representing Arrod, and the patrol cavalry of Willle who saw this banner led them in front of them, and walked towards Marty's castle.

"Ahead is the Countess's castle." After walking for about two hours, they were finally able to see a wooden fort standing above a small plain. Controlling the nearby land. In the Middle Ages, the nobles of Europa built castles, and the strength of their control over the land gradually decreased with the distance of the castle, so a lord had to often lead his army to patrol the borders of his territory like a lion to make sure that his rights were not violated by his neighbors.

"The messenger of the Count of Mecklenburg has arrived." One wears an iron helmet. A patrol cavalryman wearing leather armor made of pigskin. The horse stepped forward on the black, muddy ground outside the castle. Approaching the wooden wall trench, he shouted loudly to the guards on the gatehouse.

"Okay, I'll open the door right away." The guard lifted his wide-brimmed helmet. After looking down to confirm the identity of the other party, he beckoned to the other side, and the guard inside lifted the heavy wooden bolt from the wooden door, opened the gate and lowered the drawbridge, and Julian immediately led his team into Marty's wooden fort.

"Welcome, guests from afar." Marty's general was already waiting at the city gate, he saw Julian immediately smiled and said hello, the serfs working in the castle looked curiously at this team with a baggage cart, with the Mecklenburg miscellaneous men pushing hard, the wheels of the baggage cart pressed the ground and moved inside and stopped, the castle was inhabited by twenty serfs, and a hundred Slavic soldiers, the terrain in the castle gradually progressed from low to high, the highest apex was a wooden tower, inhabited by the ruler of this land, Marty and her courtiers, The wooden fence has fourteen arrow towers to protect the people inside.

"Keep pushing the miscellaneous servants and pushing the gift for the countess." Julian looked up at the uphill tower, turned his head and shouted to the miscellaneous servants, urging them to continue to push the baggage carts towards the towers, he must personally hand over these gifts to the countess, although the miscellaneous servants were very tired, but Julian did not dare to disobey the order, fortunately, the general immediately arranged for some serfs to help them.

While the miscellaneous servants and serfs struggled to push the heavy wagons up, Julian's soldiers were placed in the residential area below the hillside, and were allowed to go to the main tower with a maximum of two retinues.

"It's not easy to build a castle on flat ground, and it's really not easy to achieve such a scale." When Julian stood in front of the wooden tower and looked down, he found that the castle had been built with a wall, then excavated through the guò perimeter, gradually piled up the earth inside, and then tamped the soil to build the wooden tower, which was still a huge amount of work.

"It was built by the countess's grandfather, and it was originally a gathering place for our Slavs' harvest festival, not a castle for military defense." The general explained to Julian that he thought the castle should be built on a cliff or hilly site, but Marty refused to offer it because it was a precious legacy left by her ancestors and should not be given up lightly.

"It's true that it's very convenient if it's a town, but the castle that needs to be defended is too wide." Julian also tried to think from a military point of view, and did find a lot of problems, but since the countess was unwilling to give up, it was not easy for him to comment too much as an outsider.

"Willeburg has a long history, but it is the least valuable of the estates of the Great Chieftain of Mecklenburg, ha, well, my monarch is still waiting for you." The general shook his head regretfully, but he remembered his duty and said to Julian.

Julian, under the leadership of the general, walked into the wooden tower, only to see that there was a fire pit at the entrance inside, on which there was a tong pot boiling some broth, and in front of the fire pit was the wooden table and high-backed chairs where the lords and courtiers dined, and on the left and right sides of the long wooden table and chair were two wooden stairs that went up, and the upper floor was the residence of the lord and his family, and the wooden tower could be said to be very simple, and Countess Marty was sitting on his lord's seat and looked at Julian who walked in with a smile, She wore a silver chain as a headdress on her head, amber earrings on her ears, and an emerald pendant around her slender neck, but there were no other ornaments, and Julian, who was accustomed to seeing Mecklenburg's wealth, thought it was shabby at first glance, but Marty's red hair and beauty made up for these defects, and Julian hurriedly stepped forward and bowed. (To be continued......)