Chapter 421: Grand Duke Falcon
There is no specified number of people in the mission, but Yang Hao is not prepared to involve the gale, the witch Lilian is a 100% dangerous person, and she can't harm her brother.
Therefore, Yang Hao is single, life and death are bearish, and if you don't accept it, you will do it!
The teleportation array activated, and after a burst of light, he came to a plain covered in snow, and villages and towns could be seen not far away.
The temperature here is nothing for Yang Hao, and the extremely cold places such as the Great Snow Mountain have been broken, and it can be said that it is warm here.
Yang Hao was heading towards the town, he should be on the outskirts of Zhivading now, and he was eager to learn about the battle ahead.
The Vekia Empire is located in the northernmost part of human power, with only a few areas in the south having a mild climate, and the rest of the region being cold.
Among humans, their living environment is comparable to that of the Salanders who survive in the desert, which also gave birth to the stoic Vekians.
The Grand Duke of Falcon was a legendary figure who was originally a landless nobleman with the title of baron, and he was at the lowest end of the aristocratic class.
But with his extraordinary military talent, after the war between Vekia and the steppe peoples, he rose rapidly, expanded his territory at a jaw-dropping speed, and won every battle!
In four years, he became the master of the south of Vekia.
His opponent, King Davis, was a mediocre man, which may be an exaggeration, but compared to the great exploits of the Falcon, the king really had nothing to match.
The source of the war between the two sides lies in the population!
In the territory of the Grand Duke of Falcon, the power of the nobility was drastically curtailed, and the merchant community gradually emerged.
Merchants built an endless stream of caravans to pump blood for the Falcon Grand Duke, create wealth, and create an invincible Samarish army!
However, with the rise of various industries, the pressure on the population became more and more serious, and more than sixty percent of the population of the Wiki Empire was in the north, half of which were slaves of the nobility, which was the labor that the south desperately needed!
King Davis was jealous of the rising Falcon, preferring his own interests to the detriment of the power of the South.
So he killed the road from the north to the south, and enacted the "Migration Act" to strictly prohibit the people from going to the south!
The contradictions between the two sides have completely exploded!
The Archduke of Falcon completely ignored the identity of the king, and the day after the publication of the "Emigration Act", the Samar army was like a flood, breaking through the fourth legion of the king's army, and annihilating 10,000 enemies!
However, the king's army had a great numerical advantage, and the loss of 10,000 regular troops was not broken, and under the command of the marshal of the kingdom, with the strategy of saving people and losing land, he ceded large tracts of land and placed the battle line in the dense area of the castle.
The war is in a stalemate.
Then both sides began to play tricks, and some people propagated that the Falcon Open War was not for the sake of the population at all, let alone for the benefit of the merchants under his rule, but his own ambitions, and that he was a shameless traitor!
Similarly, in the Imperial City, there are also people who accuse King Davis of being a dull and incompetent ruler, who provokes wars just because of his personal preferences, regardless of the lives of the people and the interests of the nobles!
Not long ago, news came that in a field in northwestern Arkansas, the Battle of Pea Ridge, in which hundreds of thousands of people participated, ended in the victory of the Falcon Grand Duke, and the balance of combat power between the two sides on the western front was not guaranteed.
In this battle, Generals McCulloch and Mackintosh were killed, and the King's army lost two of its right-hand men.
Moreover, there was no blood transfusion from southern merchants and there was a shortage of materials in the north, and anyone who was interested could see that the outcome of this battle was decided.
Perhaps soon, the Grand Duke of Falcon will take the throne!
Yang Hao's mission goal was to disappear under a good situation, and he was also labeled as a deserter.
After inquiring about the news in Zhivadin's tavern, Yang Hao went to the front line, where he met a group of soldiers on the way.
He overhears their conversation and learns that the soldiers are patrols sent to search for deserters, headed by a captain named Frey and an adjutant named Weber.
Yang Hao was not sure how to find someone, so he decided to quietly follow behind these soldiers.
The patrol has been given a death order to find Mochi's sharpshooter!
"Captain, will there really be deserters in the Samorian army? Following the Grand Duke, our lives are countless times better than before, and I can't figure out how someone will betray the Grand Duke! ”
"Damn, that Moqi is a nobleman, he must be greedy for life and afraid of death, those brothers can be regarded as miserable!"
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During the conversation along the way, it was not difficult to hear the soldiers' love for the Falcon Grand Duke and their dislike for Mochi.
Yang Hao sighed, this task is difficult to do.
In the evening, the soldiers came to an abandoned farm.
The houses and barns on the farm, although dilapidated, are relatively structurally intact, suggesting that their owners have only recently left. These abandoned houses apparently served as shelters for deserters, so the soldiers inspected them one by one.
However, they only found that most of the farms had been looted, but they could not determine whether this was the work of the retreating rebels, a small group of Kingdom Army scouts, or the fleeing peasants themselves.
Eventually, the soldiers came to a farm that appeared to be still inhabited.
A chicken flutters its wings on a dusty road pecking, and you can vaguely see someone fetching water from a well next to the farm.
The farmer at the well was a gloomy-looking widower named Nate Farley, who was clearly reluctant to talk to the soldiers. The war destroyed his farm, and the noble soldiers robbed all the livestock, burned the barn, and even planned to poison the well.
These southern nobles are a group of robbers, who hitchhike on the Falcon's Grand Duke's ride, plundering in the north, pulling people's hearts of resistance, pure pig teammates!
Farley's daughter, Libby, peeks out of the house with a broomstick, and the soldiers quickly dispel expectations of the family's kindness. "You stole everything," she growled.
"What do you want from us now? You are worse than the "robbers" on the mountain! ”
Nate scolded her daughter to go back to the house, but she continued to yell at the soldiers without moving.
"The Farleys didn't see any deserters, and even if we did, we wouldn't tell you!" Libby said angrily.
Yang Hao was secretly observing, he used ultrasound to inspect the farm, there was indeed no one else hiding here, and in addition, he was quite interested in what Libby called "robbing the road".
The soldiers, who were ultimately unmoved, were the army of Samor, and were given orders that they were not to disturb the civilian population unless there were exceptional circumstances.
So, they pretended to leave, had a simple dinner, and two hours later turned back and secretly reconnoitred, but the results were still disappointing.