The source of all this lies in the inheritance law, and it will take at least half a day to talk about it, so I won't say much here, the second lord is very anxious, don't you see?

Although what the second lord did was beneficial to the county of Ferran Valley, this matter was not ordered by the Duke in the first place, and the money obtained in the second was not distributed to the Duke Jue, and now that he has hit the iron plate, he is going to lose money, why should the Duke help you?

Fortunately, the relationship between the two brothers is really good, and being a younger brother is also considered to be competitive and peaceful, Dujue is still quite happy to lend 2,500 Stolin - the more than 500 is considered to be an emergency for the second lord, and this brother is indeed kind.

Although the borrowing of money went smoothly, but from the county to a back, but also to pull a box of money, this half a day passed, the second lord mobilized dozens of people, several carriages to relay the way, only in time to put the money in the designated position before the sun set.

Of course, it is impossible for the second lord of Ji Ma to leave the money on the roof and ignore it completely, he still arranged people in the town, but these people are not responsible for ambushes, but are responsible for checking whether the other party has taken the money, only by confirming that the other party has received the money, the second lord can completely put his mind at ease.

In addition to the confirmation message, the person in charge of the inspection also brought back a letter left by the other party.

Hearing that the other party took the money, the second lord's heart had not had time to fall for most of the day, but he heard that the other party had left a letter, so it was needless to say that he was shocked.

The letter was written in Qunhe, the official language of both the Gunhe language and the Nangalen language of the kingdom of Miledan, which belonged to the Kasso language family, and both had slightly different pronunciations and scripts, but the Qunhe language belonged to the local language of the surrounding counties such as the Ferran Valley, and was far less influential and used than Nangalen. Could it be that this person is a local from the surrounding area? The second lord's heart moved, but he didn't have a particularly clear idea, he didn't want to take revenge on this person, at least for the time being—spending 3,000 Stolin to get back 5,000 Stolin seemed to be able to alleviate the loss, but what if he didn't kill and was escaped by the other party?

The content of the letter is very simple.

"Your integrity has saved your life, please cherish it all. At the same time, I would like to warn you that if you try to cover this expenditure by imposing a special tax, I will appear before you at any time to make you understand what it means to repent of not being in the first place—Honorable Unknown Mage. ”

At that time, he didn't have any understanding of the "economy" of the world, so he could arbitrarily throw out more than 3,000 Loren guilders to bid for a foal, and now he knows what kind of money 5,000 Stolin is. He needed to teach the Lieutenant a "deep" lesson, but he didn't want other commoners to pay for it. So this "threatening letter" was deliberately written in the local language.

The second lord did not show the letter to the others present, but burned it directly in the lamp.

His reaction was as arrogant as he had expected, and if he hadn't had this letter, he might have thought of some bad idea to make up for the loss—the two thousand five hundred Stolin of the Duke had interest, and at least he had to pay it back as soon as possible. However, now faced with such a clear warning from a mysterious mage from a local background, he had to give up his original idea and make another decision.

"Prepare your horses at once, I will rush to the shell city overnight," the second lord commanded decisively.

"Are you going after that mage?" the three Sleeve Mages asked nervously together.

They couldn't help but be nervous, they knew too well the gap between themselves and a mid-to-high-level mage, if the second lord planned to take revenge with this lineup alone, they would definitely oppose it desperately - against losing their jobs at most, and finding the field back was a life and death.

"I'm going to see Priest Langrisa!"

Everyone suddenly realized, breathed a long sigh in their hearts, and hurriedly prepared to go.

There is one of the best Kotocha temples in the kingdom of Miredang, and the priest of Langrisa is the attendant of Kotocha, the god of healing and health.

Well, the second lord was in a hurry to rescue his broken arm. It was completely severed, and for more than a day, no one but God was able to save the arm.

Time on the sixteenth day of the month of the gods, fire two.

Last night was the first official night in the war zone, and he spent one night in a small village called Fumi, which he had borrowed for four geelongs.

Elsewhere, four geelongs would be enough for a good night's sleep in a nice hotel in town. However, thinking that this is a war zone where supply is insufficient and precarious, it is also relieved to pay this price. In fact, the cost of accommodation in the war zone is already considered to be a low increase, after all, people in the war zone are dying and fleeing, but the houses are not destroyed much, except for a large influx of refugees in a few towns, small villages do not feel the "pressure" of lack of shelter at all.

Since arriving in the world of Plozzi, Proud has hardly lived in the village, for the simple reason that the accommodation and sanitary conditions in the village are far inferior to those in the town, but in the war zone, the environment in the village is much better than in the town.

In the war zone, there is no territory in the true sense of the word, but only the occupied zone, and if you occupy it today, maybe tomorrow it will return to me, and then three days later it will be taken away by you again. Whether it is a Kingdom Army or an Imperial Army, the strategic goal of both sides is the same - to occupy strategically important places, such as castles, and in addition to fighting for castles, the goal is to destroy and consume the opponent's living forces.

The castle is a stable military structure, and the army defending the castle can compete with several times the number of enemies for a long time, and at the same time, it can also provide strong support for the friendly forces moving around, so the gain or loss of a castle affects the battle situation in a large area nearby.

Castles can generally be divided into two types, one is the lord fort, this kind of castle in addition to strict defense, but also because of its proximity to the city, both material and manpower supply is relatively easy, is the most decisive place in the battlefield.

The second type of castle is more often called a fortress, the fortress is a purely military building, they are often built alone in key locations and dangerous places, more emphasis on functionality rather than both function and beauty, so the influence of attack and defense is huge, but because there is no settlement nearby, all kinds of supplies rely on the surrounding transportation, so it is weaker than the former in terms of sustained combat power.

Cities are usually located in the vicinity of the Lord's Fort, and approaching the city is often seen as a harbinger of attacking the Lord's Fort, and the opponent will resist and fight back. What's more, many cities have fortifications on the periphery, and attackers will have to pay a lot of money just to get into them.

Compared to cities, villages and towns are in a very different situation.

Few towns have walls, and even if some of them do, the height and strength are not enough to block the regular army, and more importantly, the town's own armed forces are extremely limited, and if there is no external support, no matter how strong the wall is, it is only a ladder to solve the problem. And the town itself is relatively rich in supplies, which is simply the best target for the guerrilla troops to loot supplies.

On the other hand, the village could hardly be said to have defensive strength, no walls and no permanent armed force, and they were simply vulnerable to the regular army, but because the people in the village were poor and small, even if they robbed the harvest, it might not be worth the consumption of the troops for looting. Therefore, almost no village will become the target of large-scale troops, and only small groups of armed forces such as rogues, who take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters on the battlefield, love to plunder villages.

In addition to towns and villages, there are also some groups formed as a result of the war in the war zone - communities.

The composition of a community is complex, but if you want to classify them simply, you can divide them into aggressive and non-aggressive groups.

The former is basically a rogue bandit, the so-called rogue is a team of thieves, bandits and other people who are not very peaceful, taking advantage of the chaos of the war to gather a team, plus some remnants of the army who have been separated from the army and do not want to continue to be soldiers. The total number of rogues is quite large, but the number of single bands of rogues is not too large, because these guys are not engaged in production, and they have not formed a stable base area, and it is difficult to manage because there are many people, and it is difficult to eat if they grab less, and if they grab too much, they are prone to internal strife, and they are also easy to become the target of attack by the regular army. Therefore, the rogues generally bully the village, and those who dare to rob the town are considered powerful.

The non-aggressive communities are mainly refugees of all kinds, i.e. people living in villages and towns whose houses have been destroyed by the fighting, living as displaced, some of them aiming to move into relatively safe towns and cities, while others are looking for temporary shelter in ruins or wasteland closer to the rear in order to survive this difficult time.

After talking about these idle people, it is the turn to introduce the real protagonist.

In the theater of operations, the protagonists, of course, can only be the regular armies of both sides.

Not many people can tell how many regular soldiers on both sides are invested in the war zone of about 16,000 people in the three counties, and the imperial side may be better, after all, the imperial army that invaded Miredang is based on the corps, and the kingdom side is much more complicated, and the local aristocratic troops such as the local duke and the second lord are also divided into direct subordinate armies, city defenders, and people's brave armies. These were only local armies, but also the central army sent by the king, and the guerrilla armies sent by the neighboring counties.

In fact, the main force can be called the Central Army and the army directly under the vassals, and the others are cannon fodder, but they do not have the strength to compete head-on with the Imperial Army. The head-on confrontation here refers to fighting field battles and defending cities, which is still useful.

The above is not all the information collected by Ao Zongheng in the past two days, in fact, the current war zone is not closed to news, but there is too much information, and there are many contradictions, for example, this village said that a certain city had fallen yesterday, and if you go to the next village, it may become the same city that has fiercely repelled tens of thousands of imperial troops. The variety of information sources and the unclear truth of the information have made the people here, especially those in villages and towns far away from the cities, even more panicked - such as the current Fumi Village.

At breakfast, I don't know who first came the news, saying that there were hundreds of rogues outside the southeast of the village. So the whole village jumped up, and no one could afford to eat breakfast except for arrogance.

This is not to blame them, after all, there are only about a hundred men, women and children in the entire Fumi Village combined.