Chapter 180 and three years
John's army set off, and Malone saw him off at the city gate.
Some caravans that had completed their trades were preparing to go south, but they were temporarily blocked here.
Looking at the cavalry regiment rumbling out of the city gate, a merchant who did not know the real image asked the bystanders: "Are these troops escorting us back?" ”
The people who were waiting to leave the city around him glanced at him, and replied disdainfully: "You think beautifully, this is the elite cavalry of Black Rock City, it is not enough to fight the barbarians, how can I have the kung fu to send you!" ”
The merchant complained dissatisfiedly: "These lords know that they are fighting every day, and they are working hard and losing money!" ”
"Hey...... You're sick in the head, if it weren't for the Blackstone Army's army that beat the barbarians out of temper, you could come here and trade with the dwarves? ”
Someone next to him also said peacefully: "What is there to say to this kind of person, if it weren't for Lord Bojue's "labor and money", his brain would have been eaten up by the barbarians, where would he have the opportunity to ...... here?"
"Hey...... I said you're enough, don't I just complain? You ......," but no one listened to him anymore.
The army is all out of the city, and everyone else is in a hurry to command their caravan to set off, who has time to waste time with him?
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Three years passed in a hurry, and the time came to the year 726 of the Kingdom calendar.
In 723, the cavalry regiment of John Shuai cleared the barbarians south of the Gelong River and east of Tucheng and the Grand Canyon.
Over the next two years, the leaders of the various armies of the Blackstone Command took turns to lead the army and purge the barbarians west of the Tucheng Trade Road.
Until this year, three months ago, Marlon personally commanded the knights of the Black Stone Command to purge the last barbarians.
He succeeded in fulfilling his declaration a few years ago, and truly pulled up a thousand-strong knight order!
After several years of fighting, the number of knights in the Blackstone Collar has grown extremely fast, and now, I am afraid that it is not inferior to the entire kingdom!
Such a powerful force naturally arouses people's fear, and it has attracted the eyes of countless people.
In the past few years, there have been all kinds of tricks, coercion is not good, convenience and temptation, and if it doesn't work, it will dig into the corner...... All kinds of means took turns, but unfortunately the results were not great!
Not to mention that all knights swear allegiance to Marlon, once they leave, they will betray their masters, unless they hide their names, otherwise they will be looked down upon wherever they go!
Besides, how strong is the power of the Blackstone Collar?
Outsiders may not know that as an internal knight, they all know in their hearts, once they escape, who can shelter them?
Moreover, the treatment of the Black Stone Collar is not bad, the land and population are indeed limited, and it is impossible for Ma Long to be canonized.
But there is still no shortage of various welfare benefits, Ma Long referred to the insight of his previous life, and made all kinds of welfare benefits, although the real rights are not much, but it is convenient for life and honorable.
There is no shortage of living materials, all the in-service knights of the Black Stone Collar are not short of money, and Marlon has money!
The most intriguing thing is the resurrection.
If you die somewhere else, you're dead, and death doesn't matter if you're a knight or not!
But the Black Stone Collar is different, as long as it is not a natural death, as long as the corpse can be relatively intact, it can be resurrected!
It's a perk that doesn't come anywhere!
Indeed, I heard that there are also people on the side of the central temple who have mastered the resurrection technique, but that rare number is not something that a small knight can rank!
But there are no absolutes in the world, and there are really some knights who can't see the situation clearly, and they are lured away on the grounds of canonization, but there are not many of them!
And these people are not having a good time, they have to face the contempt of their new colleagues outside, and they have to face the fear in their hearts inside, for fear of when they will be liquidated by the Black Stone Collar!
It can be said that every day lives in the self-torture of fear.
His own strength also began to stagnate, and under the irritability, he didn't like anything, and he always had the illusion that nothing was as good as the black stone collar.
In the newly sealed village, it is clear that they are the same farmers and workers, and they just don't work neatly in the Blackstone Territory......
In fact, that's not an illusion, people on the outside move more slowly, and the Blackstone Collar has various production efficiency bonuses, and the most basic external embodiment is the numbness of hands and feet......
After escaping from the Black Stone Territory, some people were terrified every day, couldn't stand the mental self-torture, couldn't get used to seeing everything in the outside world, and actually abandoned their own territory and ran back.
Malone didn't embarrass them and accepted them again, but everything had to start over.
Although the knights of the Blackstone Territory have lost all their former honors, privileges, and even financial income, they have settled down, and they can sleep peacefully, and they no longer have to wake up from nightmares every day.
Knights with the intention of leaving came to inquire about the news from these forerunners, and then gradually disappeared from the bad thoughts!
Of course, not all the people who fled have returned, some people are afraid of nightmares and can't sleep well, and naturally people with big hearts don't care!
There is no need for this kind of person to show mercy, Heishi led two thousand knights, and took out a small part to form an assassination force or something, it was really not difficult!
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Three months ago, Marlon set out with a large army, with the knights as the vanguard, along the south bank of the Golong River, sweeping away the last remnants of the barbarians!
In the past few years, the barbarians in the south of the Gelong River have almost been wiped out, except for a part that is now being cleared, the rest of the scattered ones have fled into the mountains, not daring to show their faces!
The current human race, in the eyes of the barbarians in the south, is the demon who destroys the family and destroys the clan, especially the knights, and it is the demon of the demons, an invincible existence!
"My lord, the next step ahead is the Great Snow Mountain."
The last group of barbarians fled all the way to the northwest along the Gelong River, and Ma Long led the army to chase and kill all the way, running thousands of miles, which would have reached the bottom of the snow-capped mountains.
It is said that the cavalry chases the foot soldiers, even if the other party is a barbarian, it should not be so long.
Unfortunately, the further north you go, the more unfriendly the terrain is to the cavalry.
In some places, barefoot barbarians crossed the mountains and mountains, but the cavalry had to go far around a section.
Fortunately, over the years, there have been many adventurers running around in the Black Stone Territory, and there happen to be people who are familiar with this side, otherwise I am afraid that I will have to get lost!
The knights turned a mountain col, and the sky was wide in front of them, and they felt that the sky was high and the earth was far away.
In the distance, the majestic snow-capped mountains are undulating, reflecting the light of the sun, appearing pure and sacred, like the manifestation of the Lord of Light!
"What a beautiful ......"
This is the thought of everyone at this time.
Among the Order, many Templars bowed their heads in prayer and chanted loudly.
"This is the source of the Gelong River, the Great Snow Mountain?" Looking at the majestic mountains in the distance, Ma Long was also deeply shocked.
In his previous life, there were also many pictures of snow-capped mountains circulating on the Internet, and even computer screensavers, he had seen a lot.
But it's nowhere near as impressive as what you see with your own eyes today!
In fact, the Hengduan Mountain Range, which stretches for thousands of miles, is not bad from the top of the towering mountains, both of which are sacred mountains that are difficult to see for thousands of miles, but they are not as strong as the feeling brought by the Great Snow Mountain to Ma Long!
Maybe the first two are less mysterious or magnificent, or maybe something else?