What did you get out of Nan Nizi's mouth yesterday?" Mu asked Agna, who was sitting with him. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info caravan has already been on the road, and last night's banquet was quite enjoyable, and the female warrior and her men should still be drunk in the tavern.

"Nothing, basically the same as what we saw, as for further information... Aigna shook her head, "It seems that the training of the Nord King's Guard is also quite secret in Nord, and only the Sagos and a few of the king's cronies know about the existence of this unit, and yesterday was the first official appearance." ”

"What a nuisance. Mu smacked his lips, "I hope I don't run into them one day." ”

"Instead of worrying about this," said Agna, "you should think about where you will stay tonight." At normal speed, we should be able to get to Tihlog Fort today, but unfortunately, we are nowhere near as fast as we are now. I don't want a cold wind blowing on the plains of the Northland at night. ”

"You can rest assured," Mu smiled, "I do know a good base, and I shouldn't need to camp." ”

"That's good. ”

After walking for a while, Aigna noticed that they were getting farther and farther away from the main road, and the road was getting worse and worse.

"Where are you going?" said Agna, frowning.

"That stronghold. Mu replied, "I've already called the one-eyed dragon and Bandak to take a look, and there should be a reply soon." ”

"What reply?" asked Agna, puzzled.

At this time, a cavalryman came galloping from a distance, circled around Mu's wagon, and then marched in tandem with his boss.

"Boss, our boss and Mr. Bandak have cleaned up the place. There were only a few weak displaced people, and there was no threat. ”

"Okay, let's get over. As the convoy progressed, a dilapidated manor gradually came into view.

"Is this what you call a stronghold?" Agna jumped out of the car and looked around curiously.

"Yes. Mu untied the horse from the cart and led it to a sheltered place to tie it up, "Although it is a little broken here, the structure of the building is still basically preserved, and it can barely live if it is cleaned." Not to mention ... He pointed to a small group of homeless people tied to the side, "I'm afraid these people have already prepared the place." ”

"That's true, boss!" said the one-eyed dragon cheerfully as he came out of the manor, "and the places that need to be cleaned up have been cleared by those guys, and we've even found some pyre, so we don't have to freeze tonight." ”

"Good. "Mu is also quite pleasant.

Aigna frowned again, pointed to the homeless people tied to the side, like frozen chickens, and asked the merchant, "What are you going to do with these people?"

"It's none of my business. Mu waved his hand, "You have to ask the one-eyed dragon." ”

Aigna immediately set her sights on the bounty hunters.

The bounty hunter was immediately stunned and blushed, and quickly said, "Hey, it won't sell for much anyway, just do what you say!"

Aigna nodded, drew her saber and walked over to the outcast.

When the homeless people saw it, they were immediately shocked, screaming and struggling to move backwards, and a few of them were timid, and they could see a wet crotch part.

Seeing this, Aigna frowned, it seems that the Nords are not all warriors. But he still said patiently, "Don't worry, I won't kill you, you're free." As he spoke, he swung his sword and cut the rope.

When the homeless people saw that the rope that bound them was loosened, they immediately jumped up and rushed into the Northland wilderness in a panic, for fear that the group of strongmen would change their minds. Aigna frowned, but still didn't say anything.

Mu walked up behind Aigna and said, "This is not Svadia, and you won't get the slightest praise for doing good deeds. ”

Aigna shook her head, "I'm just following the chivalry in me and don't ask for thanks." ”

The merchant disagreed, "Do you really think you're right? You know, these outcasts are probably future robbers, future pirates, and they may kill more people." When the time comes, if you fall into their hands, these guys won't necessarily let you go. ”

"At least they're civilians now. The knightess said.

The merchant shrugged, "Well, they're all let go anyway." Why don't we go into the manor and have a fire? I don't want to stay in the cold wind for a second longer. ”

Agna nodded, brushed her crumpled cloak, and entered the manor first.

Soon, she discovered something unusual about the estate. For example, there are wooden fences on the perimeter, broken wooden stakes that look like horses are rejected, and some pieces of rusty iron that resemble the tips of spears or arrowheads.

"This manor ... Destroyed by war?" Aigna asked, "and, is it a tug-of-war?"

"Good vision. Mu said with a smile.

Manors are places that are usually used by lords or wealthy people to produce crops and take vacations. In order to achieve supreme enjoyment, they will build the manor to be splendid, but they will not deploy any unsightly fortifications, and the main army will not be stationed in the manor. Therefore, the average manor, when it encounters the invader, is almost instantaneously breached, and this kind of crushing war will never give the owner of the manor any chance to rebuild the fortifications. But judging from the wooden remains on the ground and the half-collapsed wooden fence, the manor must have been specially repurposed for the war, and the scrap iron that appeared to have been used as arrowheads and spearheads shows how fierce the war was.

To be honest, five years ago, this place was quite famous. Mu smiled, "I wonder if Miss Aigna has heard of the Princess Army?"

"Princess Army!" Agna was stunned, "Could this be Fort Crown?"

"That's right, this is it. Mu nodded.

The Princess Army, this is yet another legend created by women. Ironically, the legend originated from a family feud.

The leader of the princess army, Lady Mathilde, was nothing more than the wife of a Nord squire before she became the world-famous "Princess of Thorns". Their family has never produced any nobles, but they just have a little more money and land than ordinary commoners. The venerable squire had always loved his wife, and Mathilde was loyal to his husband, and the two even died together on the battlefield, killing on the trade routes together, and gaining many feats and fortunes.

Unfortunately, however, the plague took the squire's life, and he passed away peacefully after entrusting all his possessions to his beloved wife.

However, as the so-called puppet is not guilty, Mathilde, who inherited a lot of property, was naturally targeted. In Svadia, there would probably be many "young talents" kneeling under her window, singing love poems to the young and wealthy widow, and offering her delicate roses under the moon. But it's a pity that this is Nord.

The relatives of the squire's family forcibly took all of Mathilde's property and kicked her out of the house on the grounds that "women cannot have the right to inherit". If she were an ordinary woman, she would probably starve to death on the streets of Sagoth, or be forcibly married home by some rough man, give birth to a large number of children, and endure a life of poverty.

Mathilde was no ordinary woman, she was a warrior who had fought death several times on the battlefield! She quickly recruited a large group of women who were in the same situation as her, or who had been displaced by the war, organized them, gave them formal military training, and under the slogan "Strive for happiness with your own hands!", this all-female army grew stronger and stronger.

Some time later, Mathilde led her detachment of women back to her husband's estate. However, the stupid relatives did not take these women seriously, but leisurely squandered the squire's inheritance. It wasn't until Mathilde had routed all the guards and rushed in front of them that they realized something was wrong. By the time they knew they were going to run away, it was too late.

But Mathilde was not the devil, and for her husband's sake, he simply drove the relatives out of the estate and took over most of the property that had been squandered.

Mathilde's deeds were then widely spread in the Nords, and this decisive and fierce temperament was deeply welcomed by the Nords, so more and more Nords joined Mathilde's team and fought for happiness with their own hands. Of course, most of them are women, which is why this team is called the Princess Army.

However, the relatives did not rest on their laurels, forgetting the kindness Mathilde had bestowed on them, and instead colluded with the then Jarl of Fort Tihrog to destroy the nascent princess army in one fell swoop.

During the time when the group of despicable villains were still plotting, the princess army was not idle, and for their safety, these women began to renovate the manor, build wooden fences and other fortifications, and make a large number of armor and arrows in case of emergency.

Eventually, the lord of Fort Tihlog, having received a large amount of benefits, finally sent out an army to attack the small manor that was not very fortified in the name of conquering the traitors. No one felt that it was a difficult battle. This army, from the lords to the soldiers, was thinking about how to grab more possessions and women after storming the manor.

Probably, Mathilde did not receive much systematic military education, but her military talent could not but be admirable. She pioneered the construction of wooden fences in a zigzag shape instead of the traditional square. This made the veterans who came to the city and boasted of being experienced laughed off their big teeth, saying that Mathilde was worthy of a woman, and that she could do anything for the sake of beauty! In order to satirize this "stupid" decision, these veterans called the renovated manor house Fort Crown. Yes, the comparison of the dog-toothed fence wall to the zigzag crown worn by the princess, and the comparison of the dilapidated little manor to the castle is a very clever satire of Mathilde's self-indulgence.

But when they started to charge, no one could laugh anymore. Yes, this seemingly ridiculous zigzag wall has become the Grim Reaper who harvests lives. The Nord soldiers who rushed to the city were horrified to find that they would be attacked from both directions at the same time, and they would have to withstand a rain of arrows. Moreover, these cunning women also stabbed the Nords outside the walls with their spears, while in front of them were friendly soldiers with large round shields. The short axes of the lord's soldiers were not effective at all, and the axes and arrows were also blocked by the round shield. The Nord cedar tree, which is famous for its "ironwood", cannot be destroyed in a short period of time, and the only thing they can do is to try to block attacks from all directions, and strive to survive to the moment when they can retreat.

However, there were not many such lucky ones, and soon, the soldiers brought by the lord were all wiped out, and the lord himself had to retreat under the onslaught of the defenders.

This battle can be said to have caused an uproar in Nord, and Mathilde's reputation also skyrocketed instantly, because the spiky wall stabbed the invading enemy like thorns, so the resounding name of the "Thorn Princess" spread all over the continent in the form of various heroic epics, and Crown Fort finally became a complimentary name. Because of this, more and more warriors came to defect, and the princess army became stronger and stronger, even reaching 500 people in its heyday, even more majestic than the armies of some lords.

However, the lord was also a Yar after all, how could this kind of sulking be endured?So, the princess army finally attracted the attention of King Ragnar, and the most elite army of the Nord kingdom finally came to the city.

With the command talent of the princess of thorns, advanced fortifications and the support of admirers, the princess army held out for more than a year under the full attack of the elite army, and forced King Ragnar to withdraw several times, ruthlessly sweeping the face of those nobles. This made the reputation of the princess army and Mathilde rise again, and even became legends!

Finally, the defeat of the princess army was also quite dramatic. A female warrior in the princess army falls in love with an enemy commander during the war. Carried away by love, she quietly opened the gate of the manor in the middle of the night after receiving a promise that her sisters would not be harmed. The Nord elite army seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to raid, and the princess army was caught off guard and fell into chaos, and the only soldiers who could be mobilized could only rely on the buildings of the manor to defend it. However, they were quickly wiped out by the elite army after losing the cover of their fortifications, and the famous Mathilde has been nowhere since then, leaving only the legend of the Princess of Thorns still spreading throughout the continent.

"Alas," Agna sighed with emotion, looking at the dilapidated manor house.

"What a fierce battle back then, what a proud hero, now, it's just a broken wall and loess. ”

Mu couldn't help but sigh, looked at Agna beside her, and sighed that things were completely different.

As long as this woman is by her side, she will have to do what Princess Thorns has done if she can't do it. May Haraus not be impulsive ... No, no, no, it's more reliable to pray that he dies soon.

The two waited for a long time, only to find that the other party didn't seem to have any intention of continuing the topic, and the atmosphere suddenly became particularly awkward.

"Let's go," Mu patted his nose, "Don't stay here and blow the wind, go in and bake the fire." ”

"Hmm. ”

When the mist began to erupt from the horse's nose, and the frost and snow slowly hung on the leaves of the trees on the side of the road, the dullest man knew that he had come to the Northland. The Northland here isn't like Nord, it's just a shiver, it's a real snowfield. However, in the midst of this ice and snow, there is a city that is very out of tune with the cold style, yes, this is Kulau, the hot, boiling city, Kulau.

Speaking of Kulau, we have to mention its mining. Perhaps God bless Virgia, whose main god Orodine has bestowed upon his followers the largest and best iron ore on the entire continent in this snowy field. As a result, a city called Kurau slowly sprung up next to the iron mine, and the people of the city smelted the ore from the mines into ingots, and made iron and steel ingots into weapons, which were then sold all over the continent. As the production of iron ore continued to increase, the vast majority of the city's civilians were engaged in mining, ironmaking, and blacksmithing, and almost every chimney would emit green smoke from the iron. After the establishment of the Karad Empire, a large forging furnace was even built in the city of Kulau, which could smelt tons of ore every day, which greatly promoted the development of Kulau.

Of course, Kurau is not the only city on the roads of Karad that is famous for its steel, there is also a city of Salander called Amerad. Amerad is famous for a type of steel that bears the same name as the city. The quality of Amerad's iron ore is far inferior to that of Kulau, but the shrewd Salanders discovered a peculiar mineral powder, which, combined with their invention of a unique forging method, made the material of Amerad steel extremely good, and formed intricate and magical patterns on the body of the sword, which also made its legend among merchants even more mysterious.