The scenery on both sides is moving back rapidly, entering the middle of summer with all kinds of flowers, but Kang Tuoyi has no time to stop, he desperately uses the horse whip to spur the mount under the crotch, the brown horse runs sweaty, but the owner on the back is still not satisfied, the invaders on the border of Mecklenburg County upset him, and the most uneasy thing for him is his two elder brothers, they each gather men and horses to occupy the castle, and solve the inheritance problem between them in a great way of war, The people of the West Slavs were terrified and divided into two parts.

The people of the town of Wisma saw Kang Tuoyi leading three guards, galloping from the gate on the narrow and muddy streets, he galloped straight towards the house of the mayor of Jakesh, when they came to the door of the house, several servants hurriedly stepped forward to take the reins of the horse, Kang Tuoyi jumped off the horse, he strode into the house, and saw the mayor of Jakesh and his son talking to each other, but they were a little surprised to see that Kang Tuoyi actually came in person.

"How many enemies are entrenched on the border?" Without saying a word, Kang Tuoyi took off the leather gloves in his hand and still sat on the wooden table, sat on the wooden chair, picked up the cup on the table, and drank the malt wine in it in one gulp.

"There are probably two or three hundred people." The son of the mayor of Jakesh immediately stepped forward and said to Kang Tuoyi, he also had a rough estimate, after all, they had already been discovered by the soldiers of the Angry Lion Castle at that time.

"Two or three hundred? Why are you only reporting to me now? When Kang Tuoyi heard this, he put down his wine glass, frowned and said reproachfully to the Jakesh father and son.

"This. We don't know when these people entered the border, but you know that because of your two elder brothers, Momis and Billis, they transferred all the border patrolmen into their own troops, resulting in a shortage of people on the border, and it took almost three or four months to patrol the border, and maybe the enemy took advantage of this opportunity to enter. Mayor Jakesh said to Kang Tuoyi.

"Oh?" Kang Tuoyi calmed down, and at the same time felt that the enemy this time was different from those wandering knights in the past, very planned and well aware of the situation in Mecklenburg County, which made his heart can't help but be alert, and he was deeply worried about the internal and external troubles of the Great Emirate of Mecklenburg.

"They also built castles in the delta of the river. I've never seen a castle like that. It looked like a pile of wood and dirt, and it was not at all like the castle of the Catholic princes of the South. The son of the mayor of Jakesh added that he had seen the castle with his own eyes, for the Europa people who built their castles only with wooden stockades and stones. The slab wall method was something they had never seen before.

"The castle. Ha. They also built a castle right under our noses. Kang Tuoyi was almost mad with anger, and the invaders not only shamelessly illegally occupied his father's land, but also built a castle on it. This was a naked invasion, and what made him even more angry was that his two brothers, who held military power, were indifferent and only focused on the title of their father, who had not yet breathed his last breath.

"Kang Tuoyi is now the only person we can rely on, what do you think we should do? We need your prestige to rally an army. Mayor Jakesh said solemnly, he is only the mayor of the town of Wisma, and all he can call is the people in this town, but Kang Tuoyi is different, he is the son of the great chief and is known as a hero among the people, not only the nobles of other counties in Mecklenburg County will also respond to his call and lead their men to help in the war.

"These people must be resolutely expelled from our territory, otherwise these Germanic people will consider us weak and deceitful, and they will flood into our territory like locusts, occupy the land and enslave our people." In a categorical voice, Kang Tuoyi commanded the mayor of Jakesh and his son.

"Yes, Kang Tuoyi, I will send my son and my men on horseback to convey this order to the nobles of the Great Chieftain, in your name, our hero." After bowing to Kang Tuoyi, the mayor of Jakesh sent several of his men, including his son, from the town of Vismar to gallop on fast horses to the Great Chieftain, and they were to visit the nobles in the countryside, castles, towns, and temples one by one, and convey to them the orders of the hero Kang Tuoyi, asking them to lead their best men to assemble in the town of Visma.

It took at least a month for the West Slavic nobles to get the news and mobilize for war, and it took at least a month for the assembly from the Great Emirate to the town of Vismar, during which time Arold also sensed the tension of the war, and he began to tighten the fortifications of the castle, erecting a structure of fixed hobbs on the walls, which, if cut off with fixed leather ropes, would roll down the walls and smash into the attacking enemy. In addition to this, traps were dug at strategic points to prevent the enemy from attacking the walls from anywhere, Arold inspected the walls every day to ensure that these measures did not go awry at critical times, and the craftsmen worked hard to build weapons, and even the slaves felt a tense atmosphere.

"What's wrong with Melina?" When Martin saw Melina bringing them food, he whispered to Melina, and although they were treated much better than before, he was still wary of the strong male slave Arrod, and once they were done, he locked them up again and drove them back to the longhouse and imprisoned them.

"War, it's war." Melina was soon assigned to work as a maid in the Saxon lord's house, so she was able to obtain information about many of the other slaves.

"War? And with whom? Martin asked curiously, he didn't know where he had been trafficked by the slave owner.

"It's the West Brothers, Count Arrod thinks he has a legitimate right to the land, but the West Slavs have long lived here, and it seems that they can't come to an agreement, and both sides are gearing up like aggressive roosters."

"The nobles are striking, Melina is waiting for an opportunity for the lord to value us." Martin had seen a lot in the process of fighting for his lords, and the nobles often claimed legal rights to other people's lands, but in fact they were just greedy for other people's territories, but Martin didn't care about this, he was thinking about how to find his freedom from this war.

"I'm leaving, there's still a lot to do." Melina finished distributing the food in the basket to the slaves, and then turned away, but just as she was walking out of the construction site, Arold happened to come down from the city wall, and he saw the slave girl carrying the food basket back to the Saxon house, and Arold remembered that the slave girl seemed to be a Slav as well, and he took a few steps forward to stop the slave girl named Melina.

"Melina, I remember that you are also a Slav, do you know anything about the Slavs of Mecklenburgshire?"

"I'm sorry, my lord, but my family comes from the territory of the Byzantine Empire, and I don't know much about the Slavs here." Melina hurriedly lowered her head and replied honestly to Arrod.

"You speak Germanic very fluently, and I thought you were from the Slavs adjacent to the Holy Roman Empire." Arold nodded, most of the slaves in this group could not communicate in language, fortunately Melina knew the languages of many peoples, so she solved the communication problem of the slaves, and her language skills were sometimes better than those of the monks, so in her free time, Arold also asked Melina to teach the Germanic languages of other slaves.

"Any other commands?" Melina hung her head and stood respectfully in front of Arrod, although Arold was a very easy-going lord, but she knew her status very well, and did not dare to go beyond it, after all, the life of a slave was as light as grass in front of the nobles.

"Lord Earl, there is a fast horse coming towards our gate, do you need us to release arrows?" At this moment, the voice of an archer came from the arrow tower of the city wall, and Arold had to re-ascend the tower after hearing it, Melina had to follow him without Arrod's order, and Arold saw three horsemen wearing iron helmets, linen shirts in Slavic clothes, cloaks tied behind them, and holding a white banner representing peace in their hands, galloping towards the Angry Lion Castle.

“@#￥%&*。” The cavalry shouted loudly from outside the moat, but the language of the Slavs was unknown to them, and the archers looked at Arold for orders, and at this distance the cavalry was completely exposed to range, and only Arold ordered the cavalry to be killed on the spot.

"This is a messenger, Lord Arrod." At this time, Melina remembered Martin's words, and she hurriedly translated the words of the cavalry to Arrod, which probably meant that he asked to speak to the owner of the castle on behalf of Contoyi, the son of the great chief of Mecklenburgshire.

"Let him in." Although Arold guessed the identity of the cavalry, Melina could better listen to the messenger's message with him, so as to judge the will and progress of the war of the West Slavs.

Arold received the messenger in the Saxon house, he sat in his chair and looked at the three Slavs in front of him, the Slavic messenger led by him was greatly surprised when he entered the castle, he looked at the castle with its neat construction and abundant troops, the tall walls made of planks and earth, and the arrow towers built in three directions, from which the archers could shoot at the attacking enemy, and what made the messenger feel even more troubled was the natural moat, which could not be approached by so many people could not break through the castle.

"Your Excellency, I have brought the news of the heroic Kang Tuoyi." Under Melina's translation, Arold sat in his chair and listened to the words of the leading messenger, and on Arold's left and right stood Julian and John Berg, as well as the monks from the monastery of St. Fonso, all of whom looked at the messenger and his escort in front of him. (To be continued......)