Chapter 164: The Order of the Three Lights

"Kill those who resist! Kill those who resist......" The ironclad soldiers on horseback shouted loudly from the head of the village to the end of the village, and the peasants of each family with their meager possessions, farm tools, and their livestock gathered in the open space of the village on rickety ox carts, and then divided into three teams and embarked on an unknown journey in three directions under the roll call of a middle-aged man with a roster of animal skin paper.

The smallest number of troops to the south were the management of the village chiefs, sheriffs, tax collectors, millers, etc., who were the basis of Duke Lukins' rule over the south. But now they were also the most embarrassed, their belongings were confiscated, and they had to take their families with the coarse dry rations allocated to them and march towards the capital of the Grand Duke, Gildusk.

The group to the west was also small, but they were all relatives of the Northland Legion, and they were to be sent to Sakura Ridge Manor Castle according to the agreement reached between Lorist and Henned.

The largest group to the north would arrive at a camp a hundred miles away, where they would wait to be grouped, transported to the county of Spenced, merged into the camp camp, and finally to the Norton family territory to start a new life.

"It's okay to burn ......," ordered a small leader of ironclad soldiers, and a dozen soldiers began to throw torches into the thatched huts in the village, and soon the whole village was on fire, and a thick smoke rose into the sky.

The peasants, who had not yet gone far, wept as they watched the burning village, which was the home where they used to shelter from the wind and rain, and the young and old depended on each other......

The fierce escort soldiers on the side rushed over and shouted loudly in their voices: "What are you crying about, what is there to cry about? If the old does not go, the new will not come." My family said it. When you get to the family domain. Everyone will be given a new field and a new house, but it's not like your broken thatched nests......"

Countless plumes of smoke rose from the southern Grand Duke, known as the Essence of the Northlands, and countless villages were reduced to ashes in the flames. Lorlist, under the guidance of the Guiding Party, swept through the entire Grand Duke's realm in only sixteen days, and the two manor castles in the Dukedom of Lukins, six towns and the capital city of Gildusk fell into Lorlist's hands.

In addition to the 5,000 men of the Henned's knights who were entrenched in the castle of Sakura Ridge Manor and the town of Evenson, the rest of the entire southern Grand Duke's were the soldiers of the 5,000 Northland Legion who guarded the Hendry Vorsock Bridge checkpoint and the Fresd Fortress Castle.

The Golden Knight Oldmar, who commanded the army, sent a brigade of 2,500 men to attack. Preparing to sweep away the small group of Norton family forces who hijacked the villagers, but they were ambushed by two ironclad spear brigades led by Tiger Ross, who had been secretly watching them, and Odmar was seriously wounded in the battle of Tiger Rose, and after fortunately escaping with his life, he gathered five or six hundred deserters to abandon the Hendry Ford Bridge checkpoint, and concentrated all the Northland legionnaires in the fortress of Fresd to defend and shut up.

After defeating the attack force of the Northland Legion, the Norton family forces no longer had any scruples in the Southern Grand Duke, and they unscrupulously emptied Duke Lukins's vaults, granaries, and arsenals. The property of the nobles under the duke was confiscated, and all the goods and vehicles of the caravans that came to the Grand Duke were forcibly expropriated. With the relocation order issued by Lorist. They turned their attention to the villages of the Grand Duke's domain.

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"This was a premeditated, organized, and planned mass robbery of all kinds, and the Norton family, known as the Northland Roaring Bear, were armed with the most greedy and ferocious bandits. They emptied the town's treasury, confiscated the nobles' belongings, and robbed the rich of their possessions, not even a crude clay pot.

My caravan had gone through great hardships to transport its goods to the Northlands, only to be robbed as soon as they arrived in the Dukedom's capital, Gildusk, and the iron-clad Norton soldiers forcibly expropriated the goods we had brought and paid only half the price of the goods, despite our strong protests. Although this half of the price did not cost me money, it was too far from the profit I expected. My poor little Tiny, your father is incompetent and can no longer buy you that beautiful evening dress to make you look like a princess......

Originally, the caravan's plan was to sell the goods and purchase the specialties of the Northland and then set off back, but there was a chaotic scene outside, and the suppliers I had contacted were all robbed by the iron-clad Norton family soldiers, and I couldn't even find a merchant I knew. Under such circumstances, I decided to leave this place as soon as possible. Unfortunately, our caravan vehicles needed to be overhauled, and pack horses needed to change their horseshoe before they could hit the road.

So I went to look for a blacksmith again, but I did not expect that there would be no blacksmith in the city of Gildusk, with a population of nearly 100,000. It took me a fortune to find out that the Norton family had kidnapped all the blacksmiths and other craftsmen in the city, including the civilian servants and the like, and all the lords and merchants who were left in the city were the lords and merchants, in addition to the village chiefs and officials from many villages brought in from outside......

When I got back to the hotel, I realized that I didn't have to worry about the vehicles anymore, and the iron-clad Norton soldiers appeared in front of me again, this time to expropriate the vehicles of our caravan. I didn't bother to protest and let them do their own thing. This time, however, they were fair, and paid for the pack horses at market prices, using Kingford.

We left the city of Gildusk that afternoon and set out on foot to return home, only to find that the once hospitable villages of the Northland had been burned down and black smoke was billowing everywhere. The villagers, who carried their possessions on their backs and protected their wives and children, were weptly escorted into ox carts and headed north under the watchful watch of the vicious Norton soldiers......

From time to time, high gallows appeared on both sides of the road, hanging from the village nobles or warriors who had died in the atrocities of the Norton family's armed forces. We didn't dare to collect their bodies, because every now and then a heavily armed patrol of the Norton family on horseback passed by. We had already obtained our permits when we left the city, and the patrolling soldiers did not bother us much when they found out that we were caravan officers, but we were often annoyed by the frequent inspection of us.

We don't have carriages and horses. Everyone can only walk. They all carry big bags on their backs. I also built a wooden frame out of wood and put the camping equipment on it and pulled it by manpower, so I walked very slowly. It would have taken us only one day to reach the Hendry Ford Rope Bridge on horseback, but now it seems that we will not be able to reach it in three days.

When we camped in the evening, a patrol cavalry came and borrowed our camp to rest for a while. That's when I realized that they had a silver lion badge on their chest. The mercenary captain next to me secretly told me that this was the standard equipment of the famous White Lion Legion of the former Krisson Empire.

So I took a few bottles of fruit wine, gave the soldiers a toast, and then pretended to be surprised, pointing to the silver lion badge and asking if they were the famous White Lion Legion. The soldiers shook their heads. They all say that they are soldiers of the family of Earl Norton. I was surprised and asked them if the Norton family was not barons, how could they be earls?

Those soldiers proudly told me that the Norton family's convoy traveled all the way north, and when they passed through the Kingdom of Antinac, they helped His Royal Highness get the regent of the kingdom and stabilized the situation in the kingdom, so the Royal Family of Antinac as the orthodox inheritance of the former royal family of the Cresson Empire promoted the title of the Norton family to the earl, and also added the princely domain of the Second Highness to the Norton family, and the standard equipment of the disbanded White Lion Legion was also a bonus.

I asked the soldiers why they had taken the poor villagers and burned down their villages, and the soldiers told me with indignation that this was to teach the greedy Grand Duke of the Northland a profound lesson not to keep fighting the Norton fortunes. Because these riches were earned by all the soldiers of the Norton family in order to develop the Norton family's territory, build a beautiful home, and let their families live and work in peace and contentment. What they executed was the snatching and burning of the light ordered by the adults. The three-light policy of migrating light wants to make that Northland Grand Duke no longer have the strength to harass everyone's happy life in the Norton family's territory......

Perhaps thanks to my few bottles of good wine, the patrol soldier left me with an old horse and a caravan that proved that we were friendly to the Norton family, which saved us a lot of trouble for the rest of our trip. Before leaving, the captain of the squad also pointed out to me a business opportunity, after crossing the Hendry Ford Rope Bridge, I could collect vehicles and horses on the other side of the bank and sell them to the Norton family troops stationed in the camp on the other side of the fortress of Fresd Fortress, and they would buy them at a high price......

This will be a good business, originally I also thought about buying the carriage and horses to go home after crossing the Hendry Ford Rope Bridge, but now that I think what the team leader said is very reasonable, the Norton family moved so many villagers in the Grand Duke's territory that there is indeed a lack of transportation vehicles, I can try it first, maybe it will make up for the caravan's debt. So I ordered the caravan to depart as soon as possible, and to reach the Hendry Cord Bridge as soon as possible......"

This is a northland account written by a merchant who traveled to the northland, this diary-like biography-like book caused a great sensation hundreds of years later, and he described the scene of the so-called southern catastrophe from another side, providing very detailed supporting materials for later experts and scholars to study the rise of the Norton family.

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"Cool ......" Knight Henneid put down the smashed and tattered back chair in his hand, looked at the study of Duke Lukins, which was his masterpiece in half an hour, and said triumphantly.

When I looked up, I saw Lorist's gaze like a nervous patient.

Knight Henned's eyes were a little annoyed: "What kind of eyes do you have, why do you look at me like that? In the past, we reported to the Duke that if something angered the Duke, he would smash the study in front of us, so that we could only wait for him to regain his composure...... So I've always wanted to go back to the Duke's study, and today I finally got my wish. ”

Lorist snorted disdainfully from his nose: "That's all you have to say, it seems that the Duke has a lot of power in your heart, so you think that you can smash his study once and fulfill your wish, it's really like a child......"

Henneid jumped up: "I'm not afraid of him, it's just that he was the head of my family before, and as a knight of the family, I can't go against his will." Now that I am Baron Saheen, as a lord, I can rightfully refuse the unreasonable demands of the Duke."

Lorist said impatiently: "Okay, no, I've had enough fun, I've got a lot of things to deal with next." ”

"Okay, okay, if anything is so important, just explain it to your subordinates, and keep yourself busy like a dog, not at all like a lord in charge. As he walked, Hennend wrapped a gray linen scarf around his head to cover his face: "Wait, I have to cover my head and face first so that no one can see ......"

Well, this mysterious gray-robed man with a hooded head and face who appeared next to Lorist was the rumored Knight Henned, who bravely resisted the Norton family's armed forces, and unfortunately lost his horse and was seriously wounded. This guy showed up in Lorlist's tent that night, saying that he was going to follow Lorist home to pick up his four ******, and in fact he was leading the way for Lorlist.

Lorist didn't treat him badly, and the soldiers of one of his brigades sneaked into the camp of the convoy and when they came out, they had changed into iron armor, which were all equipment from the convoy's armed reequipment. As a result, Hennet saw that he had this advantage to take advantage of, so he simply pulled another brigade over and changed it into iron armor, and his Cherry Blossom Ridge Manor Castle was left with only about 300 soldiers left to defend, less than a squadron.

The iron-clad Northland legionnaires were more ferocious and robbed more thoroughly as the fake Norton clan armies, and were more cruel to the village nobles and officials who resisted. With these 5,000 qualified leaders who were familiar with the Grand Duke's territory, Lorist commanded his troops to sweep through the Duke's territory with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and was invincible.

The only bad thing is that Henned's silver knight went to recruit more than 2,000 Northland legionnaires stationed in various places, and then ran to the convoy camp and asked Lorist to change the iron armor of more than 2,000 people.

Like the Northland legionnaires of the squadron guarding the Dukedom capital of Gildusk, they laid down their arms and surrendered, and it was the hands and feet of the Henneid knights. He asked his Silver Knight to tell the squadron leader on his behalf that he should not take eggs and knock stones, that the sacrifice in vain would still affect his family, and that if he wanted to preserve his vitality, he could surrender first, ask them to be released to Sakura Ridge, and then create the glory of the Northland Legion under the leadership of Knight Henned.

In this way, the city of Gildusk fell into the hands of Lorlist, and Knight Henneid dragged Lorist to the Grand Duke's palace, saying that it was to fulfill a wish he had had long had, and Lorist found out that Knight Henned's wish was to smash the Duke's study......

Reddy greeted him: "My lord, we found a man in the water dungeon of the Duke's Palace..."

After a moment's hesitation, Reddy reported his name: "Baron Camorra......"

Lorist was stunned: "Who are you talking about? Baron Camorra?"

Henned, who was next to him, with his head covered and his face next to him, jumped up: "How can he be locked up in a water prison? No wonder I sent someone to deliver a letter to him but I couldn't find him, send him over quickly......"

Reddy knew that the mysterious man with the masked face was Knight Henned, and he saw that Lorist also nodded, and ran out.

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