Chapter 225: The Village of Farama

The village of Farama sits on a mound with a small river beneath it. By the time Lorist arrived with more than a hundred men, the inhabitants of the village of Farama were already in full swing.

Pat rode a mule found in White Bird Town and shouted, "Open the door, Lord of Hilowas, Lord Earl Norton has arrived, come out to meet you!"

No one in the village paid attention to him, and Pat shouted three times in a row, and finally the head of a big man appeared on the wall of the village, and the big man held a longbow in his hand and shouted: "This is the village of Farama, we are the people of the Second Highness, and we are not your lord's territory here." Get out of here, or I'll give you a taste of the power of our longbow......"

Pat was so angry that he couldn't ride a mule alone to storm the closed gate, so he rode back with a mule and reported to Lorlist, who was waiting under the mound, the reply of the village of Farama.

Lorist sat in a lavishly decorated carriage, one of the trophies of yesterday's capture of Wanghai Manor. The entire Wanghai Manor has three carriages and six horses, one for passengers and two for goods. Now, with the exception of the two pack horses that pulled the carriage in which Lorist was riding, the other four horses had temporarily become their mounts in Faryachosk.

"My lord, shall we just kill it?" said Farea.

Lorist shook his head, this Faramar village is not Wanghai Manor, I have heard Hicked introduce it in detail yesterday, originally the small village here was called Xiaohe Village, which is located next to the small river under the mound. After His Royal Highness was ordered to return to the Prince's domain on the island of Shilowas, the only construction began on this village of Farama.

Most of the people who followed His Second Highness to Hilovas Island were his cronies, and they also brought their families, adding up to more than 4,000 people, many of whom followed His Second Highness to fight in the north and south, and they were old or seriously injured, and they wanted to settle down. So His Royal Highness relocated the villagers of Xiaohe Village to another place, and ordered one of his staff members, who was proficient in architecture, named Farama, to build a safe place for these meritorious soldiers.

It turned out that entrusting this to this staff member named Farama was actually overkill. This Farama still had the castle in mind, so he first abandoned the original site of Xiaohe Village, believing that it was unsafe and inadequate, and then moved the newly built village to the mound, and prepared to build the village on the scale of building a fortress castle.

If it weren't for the whim of the Second Highness to look at the construction site under construction, he would not have discovered that this Faramar was going to be built as a small fortress castle, which would take four years to complete. His Royal Highness was so angry that he grabbed Farama and asked who to build a fortress castle to defend against.

Faramar left the island of Hilovas, but the construction site had already started, and in line with the principle of not wasting it, His Royal Highness pinched his nose and approved the design of the original fortress castle, but a lot of deletions were made in the construction, such as the stone wall of the village was replaced with a wall of logs and mud bricks. Later, when the village was finally completed, everyone asked His Royal Highness to give him a name, and His Royal Highness said that since this was the design of Farama, it should be called Farama Village.

As a result, the village of Farama became the place where His Highness placed his subordinates, and even the surrounding plains were included in the scope of the village and fully developed. This is the most suitable place for cultivation on the island of Hirowas, with a total of more than 6,000 acres of land. After His Royal Highness left the island of Hilovas and returned to the royal capital to take power, more than 1,300 people from more than 400 families remained in the village of Farama and did not want to leave, and they still occupied the fields here and refused to pay taxes.

Hicked told Lorist that there are currently more than 300 veterans in Farama Village, most of whom have seen bloody killings, and they are all veterans of the battlefield who have experienced life and death in the imperial civil war for a long time, and they have basically awakened their fighting spirit, and more than 100 of them are the strength of the silver rank. If it weren't for the fact that they were all in their forties and fifties when they were older, and their physical condition began to decline, His Royal Highness would not be willing to let them retire from the army and return to the field.

Lorist looked at the people he had brought, Josque Farea, the two Golden Knights, El, Pat. Jim and Dorus four silver knights, ten black iron rank guards, sixteen sailors who disembarked one small team in Wanghai Manor, there are only six sailors here, five bronze and one black iron, and there is a bronze rank Schward by his side. Shi Fatzi didn't come, he summoned Hugo's father Hicked at the town office, and they were busy researching how to develop this new territory.

He followed him to Farama Village and the members of the 100 White Bird Town garrison team led by the lame Victor, dressed in cloth clothes and holding spears, they were watching the excitement and playing soy sauce, and they were not qualified to be cannon fodder, and they were taking them to attack Farama Village, which was a dream.

Lorist has no doubt that he can win by leading Joske and them to rush up and attack, but this victory must not be very pleasant, in addition to the bloody river of killing, he is afraid that these guards and sailors under his command will suffer heavy casualties, and Lorist doesn't want to do it if he loses his manpower in vain in a battle like this, anyway, if he has time, he just plays with these rebellious Farama villagers, and he should give Schward a tactical lesson.

Beckoning to Victor, the lame captain of the garrison limped over.

"Victor, is the village of Farama fed by this creek below?" asked Lorlist.

"Yes, my lord. Victor replied.

"Tell me about the specifics. ”

"Lord Lord, you can't cut off the water source, the village of Farama was built according to the fortress castle, first, the small river under the mound is close to the village, within the range of their bow and arrow defense, and second, there is a well in the village to connect to the river below, and there is a cistern next to it, so it is impossible to prevent them from taking water from the small river. "Lorist asked about Victor, the water source of the village of Farama, and knew what the lord had in mind, after all, he was also an officer of the Tempest Legion, one of the three main legions of the former Empire, and he still had some knowledge.

Lorist smiled: "Schward, ride back to White Bird Town, and let Schrader issue an announcement to recruit a thousand young men to bring digging tools, and the reward for one day is a small silver coin, including three meals." ”

Victor was shocked next to him: "Lord Lord, you don't want to lure a thousand young men to come over and be cannon fodder to attack the village, right?"

Lorist pouted: "I'm not as ruthless as you, and the Norton family has never done such a thing." Order your garrison to prepare for camping, and you'll know what I want to do when the people come tomorrow. ”

Schward hit his horse and left.

At noon the next day, a large group of young men rushed over under the leadership of Shi Fat Man and Hugo's father, and for the inhabitants of White Bird Town, a small silver coin a day was a good reward, and if they did it for a year, they would have four golden fords.

"My lord, what do you want to do?" asked Fat Shi.

"Nu, I'm going to change the path of the creek under the mound over there, so I'll start digging from there, and then dig a trench three hundred meters around the mound, and see what if the fool above runs out of water. ”

Lorist said easily, but Victor next to him was dizzy to hear, in the end, the lord's thinking was still to cut off the water source of Farama Village, but it was different from what he imagined, instead of risking the village's bow and arrow to block the river below, but to divert the river far away, this is a big project, a thousand young and strong laborers, a thousand a day, plus food costs at least twenty gold fords a day, five days is a hundred, ten days is two hundred. This is too bullying, and it is clearly using Kingford to smash the enemy down......

For the sake of freedom, the villagers of Farama still hold on to their pride even when the water is cut off, and do not bow down to the lord who wants to climb on their heads and oppress them. But ten days later, a thousand more armed soldiers in armor and armor dressed in the Norton family's standard equipment arrived, and they finally despaired.

"Your Excellency, North has been ordered to report to you with a thousand soldiers of the Guards Battalion. "Nosli saluted Lorlist.

Two whaling ships carrying 500 soldiers each arrived at the island of Hilowas, only two days later than Lorist, but ten days behind the Dawn's Exocet. North is an old acquaintance, and during the first Warcraft Boom, he was the garrison knight of the Royal Beast City, and assisted Lorist in pouring water on the city to build the central town of the sixth district into an ice city.

This time Lorist was preparing to form the 3rd Guards Battalion and the 2nd Sailors Battalion on the island of Shilowas. The 1,000 soldiers of the Guards Battalion brought by North this time are all veterans drawn from the 2nd Guards Battalion, and in two months the family will transport 1,000 recruits over, and then recruit 1,000 local young men from Hiloas Island, and the 3rd Guards Battalion will be full.

"Is the road alright?" Lorist asked.

North smiled: "There were a lot of seasickness at first, but after ten days of getting used to it, but when I got off the boat in the morning and got to the shore, I fell down a lot, and it took two hours of rest to recover." ”

"Normal. Lorist said: "After staying on the boat for a long time, I feel like this on the shore, and I feel that the ground is shaking, hehe." ”

"Your Excellency, are you going to attack that village? do you want us to go up?" asked North.

"It's okay, you see the grass under the mound is yellow and withered, and they can't hold out for a few days without water. I also didn't want the clan to be damaged so I played with them, and it was over soon. Rest for a few days, and then the safety of Hilovas Island will be left to you. ”

"Yes, please rest assured, the 3rd Guards Battalion will live up to your expectations. "North saluted.

While Lorist was relieved that North had arrived with a thousand guards, there was an air of death in the village of Farama. One hundred and twenty-eight veterans in their forties and fifties put on their former leather armor, picked up their swords and guns again, drank the last jar of self-brewed liquor tragically, and walked towards the gate of the village.

These one hundred and twenty-eight veterans are all the Silver Rank warriors of the village of Farama, and they will shout the name of the Second Highness Ogceiro to launch a decisive charge against the Norton forces, believing that their death will terrorize and shock the lord Earl Norton, and arouse the wrath of the Second Highness, so as to earn a way for their loved ones to survive.

The gate opened, and one hundred and twenty-eight veterans rushed out with the determination to die on the battlefield, well, that road was a bit far, and Lorist had the trench dug three hundred meters away, which meant that these brave veterans needed to run three hundred meters before jumping over the trench before they could rush into the Norton family's armed array, satisfying their desire to die on the battlefield. This seemed a little unfair to the veterans who were on crutches in the back.

Of course, the movement in the village of Farama attracted the attention of the vigilant Norton family forces, but when Lorist saw that those veterans began to charge nearly a hundred meters or so, the long swords in their hands lit up with white swords, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "The family soldiers retreat a hundred meters, and the silver knights and above are all brought to me, Josk, you are not allowed to release arrows, hear clearly, I want to catch them alive, these old men with silver fighting spirit are the best laborers to do hard labor and dig rocks, no one should be heavy-handed, otherwise whoever kills himself will open the mountain instead of him!"

Everyone laughed, the family had leveled the two peaks of the Blade Mountain Range when they developed the Black Mud Swamp, which of the silver rank had never done coolies, and it was much more efficient to cut rock and stone with a sword than to chisel with a chisel.

After all, when he was old, he first ran three hundred meters, and then jumped over a trench two or three meters wide, and this momentum was almost discharged, and all the 128 veterans lay down, and Lorist alone was almost half stunned, and even jumped over the trench impatiently, and went up dozens of meters to disarm the old men who were tired and panting with crutches.

There was no tragic scene of death on the battlefield, and all the old men were huddled together like bundled rice dumplings. Lorist also impatiently urged the family soldiers to bring water to these old men to quench their thirst, these veterans are treasures in Lorlist's eyes......

The village of Farama surrendered, flying a generic white flag. All the villagers came out with the old and the young, and the first thing they did was to find water to drink.

When they had been filled with water, Lorist announced to the desperate and grief-stricken villagers that they would be punished: hard labor. Since they did not pay taxes for five years, they were punished by five years of hard labor, regardless of men, women, and children. After five years, you can be free, and you can go wherever you love.

A surprised old man couldn't help but ask, "My lord, won't you hang us, tear up our homes, and sell our families into slavery?"

Lorist lowered his face and said, "The Norton family does not have slaves, and they do not do slave business, and the punishment for mistakes is hard labor, unless your sin is too great or you hurt people's lives, you will be hanged." As long as you work in peace, we will not break up your family, but you must remember that if you resist laziness, it will also affect your family, and they will suffer with you. ”

After getting the village of Farama, the trip to the imperial capital is approaching. Lorist decided to take five hundred soldiers of the Guards Battalion with him. Shi Fatzi was left on the island of Hilovas and was in charge of population registration, the establishment of the camp of the 3rd Guards Battalion and the water-fortified camp of the 2nd Battalion of the future sailors, and the construction plan for the initial development of the island of Shilowas.

Lorist originally wanted Jim to be the commander of the third battalion of the guards that was about to be formed, and it was time to let him go after being by his side for so long. North became the commander of the 2nd Battalion of Sailors, and recruited sailors from Shiloas Island. But what he didn't expect was that Pat was in love, and he was pursuing the beautiful Martha of the White Bird Restaurant who was scared to cry by him, and he didn't want to go to the imperial capital.

Lorist had no choice but to wish him all his wish come true and return with a beauty as soon as possible. Jim and Pat were replaced, making Pat the commander of the 3rd Guards Battalion, which was to be formed.

...... (To be continued.) )