Chapter 495: Asking for help

There are some things that Lorist can do but can't do, and he can't even give them to his three disciples to do. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Reddy is loyal, but his brain is tendoned, and he goes straight. If you give it to Schward, you can guarantee that it will be done well, but Lorist is reluctant to let Schward get his hands dirty, perhaps the biggest reason is that Lorist is worried that his impression of this teacher will change color in Schward's heart. As for Genolio, he was still young.

Another unspeakable reason is that everyone knows that Reddy, Schward, and Genolio are all disciples of Lorlist, and any of them will be reminiscent of Lorist when they appear on the scene. To avoid rumors and suspicion, Lorist needs a pair of hands that can do the dirty work for him. Targar may be a good fit, but as the head of the Norton family's intelligence agents, he is also well-known, and he will be noticed by those who know him wherever he goes.

Baron Christon is a very suitable person, first of all, he is not a confidant of Lorlist, nor is he a member of the family, and no one will suspect him. Secondly, Baron Christon himself is the criminal director of the Norton family, responsible for the investigation and trial of all criminal cases in the family territory and the three provinces, and he is recognized as an expert in criminology and an expert in reasoning and solving crimes. The most important thing is the third point, the appearance of Baron Christon on the scene does not have any associations with Lorliste, only as a coincidence.

Just like the day of Lady Elena's death, Baron Christon happened to take two of his subordinates to Beihai City via Maple Grove Villa to investigate a fisherman's drowning incident, and stayed overnight at Maple Grove Villa because it was getting late. In terms of route, the smuggling trail from Raging Bear City through the Blade Mountains through Fengle Plain, Beiye Town, Maple Forest Villa, and Poplar Town to Beihai City is indeed the fastest way, if it wasn't for the fact that it was too dark too quickly, Baron Christon would have wanted to stay in Poplar Town.

While two of Baron Christon's subordinates were sitting in the dining room drinking and boasting to the guards and servants of Maple Grove Villa about their past crime-solving experiences, the room where Baron Christon was staying could be seen lit up from the window. When the young maid who had gone to deliver dinner returned, she said with admiration that Baron Christon was really a dedicated and elegant nobleman, and even at the same time as dinner, he was racing against time to review the files and handle official duties.

What impressed the maid the most was that when Lady Irina cursed Lorist and wailed in the night sky, Baron Christon did not be frightened and embarrassed, but listened quietly for a while and said to the maid with a gentle attitude: "She is just a poor mother who has lost her beloved son, you should usually care more about her, I hope that the passage of time will make her forget the sad past as soon as possible and return to a peaceful life......"

The young maid thought that Baron Criston was too understanding, he was such a good man, if Baron Criston wanted to, that the young maid would be happy to accompany Lord Baron in a romantic and passionate evening with her towering chest and gentle arms. Even in the middle of the night, the young maid was still thinking about whether to knock on the door of the guest room where Baron Christon was, but unfortunately the emergency of Lady Elena's sudden death caused the young maid and Baron Christon to miss a wonderful night......

Fortunately, Baron Christon happened to stay in Maple Grove Villa, so he was able to protect the scene of Lady Elena's death as soon as possible after receiving the report from the guards, and through a simple identification, it was believed that Lady Irina was likely to die of a heart attack, and learned about Lady Elena's past medical history. When the pharmacist arrived, he agreed with Baron Christon that Lady Irina had indeed died of an acute heart attack.

When Baron Criston returned to Raging Bear City and handed the black folder to Lorlist, Lorist threw it directly into the burning fireplace. Both of them knew that the black folder contained a report from the guards of Maple Grove Lodge, and that it contained most of Lady Irina's words cursing Lorist. Lorist gave the black folder to Baron Christon to deal with, and Baron Christon took a solution once and for all. This is actually also a vote.

Baron Christon got his wish, and from this day on he entered the upper echelons of the Norton family and became Lorlist's confidant. On the surface, his position is the deputy director of the newly expanded family security department, although he has been promoted to a higher level, he is still responsible for criminal cases in the family domain. But secretly he is the most mysterious person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the family, under the direct jurisdiction of Lorlist, and is on a par with Targer.

This page of Maple Grove Villa has just been turned over, and Lorlist's memory of Maple Grove Cottage will become a distant memory. Although it was the birthplace of the Norton family, Lorist preferred the situation he was creating now. So when Chrisia asked Lorist what he would do with Maple Grove Villa, Lorist replied without hesitation, keep it for now, and when Herriles graduated from Dawn Academy, he would canonize Maple Grove Villa to him.

Herriles is the widow of Lorist's eldest brother, who has long since died in battle, and has grown up to be a very good young knight under the tutelage of his stepfather, Knight Pachko, who has been studying at the Dawn Academy for three years, and is deeply appreciated by the academy teachers and admired by the students. Lorist has always loved his own nephew very much, and leaving Maple Grove Villa to Herriles to inherit is also an explanation for his deceased eldest brother.

Satisfied with Lorlist's answer, Chrisia made another request to Lorist to leave the Northlands after adopting Lorliste and Irina's second son, Villeward. Krisya wanted to go to Makinohara Province to serve as the commander of the garrison corps in that place, because the garrison corps was formed from the original family armed guard 1st legion, and although Chrisya only served as a temporary corps commander for a short time, she also developed feelings.

Lorist eventually agreed to Chrisya's request, though he objected to Chrisya taking Villeward to Makinohara as well. Chrya said that Villeward should also see the vastness of the world and experience the wind and sand of the prairie, and only in this way can he grow into a man in the future. And since she had already adopted Villeward, Lorist had no right to object. Lorist could only helplessly watch as Chrisia walked away.

At the end of November, Lorist held another family work meeting in Bear City. The meeting determined the family's development goals and priorities for next year. In terms of administration, the main thing is to resettle the newly relocated immigrants to the Northland, and to divide the fields and houses so that the new immigrants can settle down with peace of mind, and in terms of construction, the main thing is to rebuild the construction of the palace that has been delayed by the family civil strife for two years, and at the same time to complete the security system and the armed patrol force to improve the security environment in the family territory.

In terms of armaments, the main thing is to reorganize and reduce the family armed forces, complete the work of garrison corps in various provinces and localities, and step up the integration and improvement of the new command and staff system of the armed forces. Speed up the update of weapons and equipment for the main legions of the family arm. Baron Camorra has been appointed by Lorist as head of armaments in the Ministry of Armed Forces. As for the reorganization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the artillery battalion, these were placed in the shadows and not in the open.

After completing this family work meeting, Lorist finally calmed down, mainly because winter came, and in addition to the family armament, the family civil officials in the administrative system could basically be said to have taken a long vacation. In addition to some summary and summary of the writing work, all that remains is to prepare for a grand New Year's celebration, which is naturally in charge of Shi Fat and Speer, and Lorist does not need to be nosy.

Anna and Maria finally got bigger, but Princess Celivia and the two remaining concubines, Fenna Gary and Daisy, were not happy and began to squeeze Lorist even harder. Lorist also wished to make them belly so that he could rest for a few months, but after tiring the three of them every night, he never succeeded, and could only lament that his life was hard and continued to fight at night......

At the end of December, two uninvited guests came to the Northlands, and Lorist did not expect that the Duke of Kenmeth and the Duke of Fisabrun would travel thousands of miles from the front line of the Falcan Hill Plain to the Northlands, nominally to attend the New Year celebration of the Norton family, but in fact, these two Grand Dukes were ordered by His Royal Highness to ask for help from Lorlist.

Only then did Lorist find himself busy pacifying the family's internal strife, reorganizing the family's armed forces, and rebuilding the order of the family's territory, and forgot about the Second Highness and the army of the Kingdom of Antinac, who had fought to the death in the Plains of Fallimound and the Commercial Alliance. When asked about the situation at the front, both Duke Kenmeth and Grand Duke Fisabrun did not look very good, because they found that His Royal Highness and their noble family forces had been dragged into a big quagmire by the commercial alliance. It's easy to get in, but it's hard to get out.

The Duke of Kenmax told Lorist in great frustration that since May this year, the Business Alliance had launched a total of five major offensive campaigns, and the Kingdom of Antinac had won three times and failed twice. However, these two failed battles cost the Kingdom of Antinac two fortresses on the plain of Falka, the city of Credo and the city of Leit. At present, there is only one fortress city left in the hands of the Second Highness, Bruvick City. This is the only bridgehead occupied by the Andinac kingdom's army on the plains of Falisun, and if lost, the merchant alliance forces will be able to counterattack into the territory of the former Krisian Empire.

Duke Kenmeth was in a bad mood Lorist can understand, because the only armed legion of their family is a heavy armored legion, so it was given the important task of defense by His Royal Highness II, after the five offensive campaigns launched by the commercial alliance forces, the heavy armored legion of 45,000 people of the Kenmath family is now only more than 18,000 people left, and the losses are extremely heavy. This has almost lost all the loot and spoils that were plundered during the invasion of the Mana Hill Plains in the previous two years. For Duke Kenmeth, this was already a very loss-making business, and he couldn't get out......

Archduke Fisabrun also told Lorist with a wry smile that not only the heavy armoured army of Duke Kenmeth, but also almost all the family forces of the nobles who participated in the war suffered heavy losses. Duke Shahin's two corps of light infantry were lost, and Duke Philim's Pegasus corps was crippled in both legs. Even the two legions of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, the Reserve Corps had almost re-re-re-recruited the barbarian cavalry, and the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment had lost more than one corps.

Could it be that His Royal Highness is deliberately depleting the family armed strength of the nobles of various territories in the kingdom? Lorist began to suspect it. But Grand Duke Fisabrun shook his head and told Lorist that the seven White Lion Legions trained by His Second Highness that year were nearly 300,000 horses, except for the Duel between Lorist and the Storm Sword Saint who suffered nearly forty or fifty thousand casualties in the surprise attack of the Commercial Alliance, the rest were in the Falcan Hill Plain and the Commercial Alliance's armed battles, and after five battles, the Second Highness had only about three White Lion Legions left in his hands.

The casualties were too heavy, Grand Duke Fisabulun sighed, counting that the army of the Kingdom of Antinac had lost nearly 200,000 troops in the Falcan Hill Plain this year, whether it was the kingdom's * army or the family arms of the nobles, they were all broken. If you can win at such a big price, then everyone can still grit their teeth and persevere, but the difficulty is that now the commercial alliance forces hold the initiative and advantage on the battlefield, and the Kingdom of Antinac has no hope of a truce, let alone victory.

The merchant alliance forces treated the Kingdom of Antinac as the former Crescent Empire for a hundred years of feud, and resolutely refused to compromise with His Royal Highness, not only refused to stop the war, but also kept transferring troops and generals, and vigorously recruited and formed new armed forces, and continuously sent from all over the country to the Falcan Hill Plain to participate in the war. Although five offensives were launched, the losses were greater than those of the Kingdom of Antinac, and the casualties were heavier than those of the Kingdom of Antinac, but in less than a month, a large number of conscripted armed forces arrived to reinforce them, which easily replenished the lost forces and formed a crushing victory for the Kingdom of Antinac.

"The merchant alliance forces have suffered a lot of losses?" Lorist asked.

Grand Duke Fisabrun nodded, giving Lorist a clear answer. As he said just now, if the Andinac Kingdom suffered more than 200,000 casualties, then the merchant alliance forces lost at least 300,000 people in five offensive battles.

But the problem is that there are many people in the business alliance, and their losses can even be exchanged with the Andinac kingdom for two to one. Especially after the Glass War, the merchant alliance began to annex and grow, and became the largest country in the territory of the Gelinthia continent. At the same time, because these annexed countries have not been at war for a hundred years, they are overcrowded, and because of the exploitation of the territorial nobility of those countries in the past, they are extremely poor. With a little money, the business alliance can induce a large number of young people to go to the battlefield and die for them. So the business alliance does not have to worry about no cannon fodder.

But the Antinac Kingdom is different, the seven years of imperial civil war, as well as the next ten years of wars between various kingdoms and principalities and the imperial unification war launched by His Royal Highness, the various divided kingdoms and principalities in the territory of the former Krisson Empire have long been exhausted. Otherwise, His Royal Highness would not have accepted Lorist's harsh conditions in order to attack the Four Central Duchyes. It was precisely because of the capture of the four central principalities that His Royal Highness had the capital and human resources to rearm an army of 300,000 to threaten the business alliance. It's a pity that His Royal Highness's plot was shattered, and the business alliance was soft and hard, so he had to fight to the end with His Second Highness.

To tell the truth, His Royal Highness is now riding a tiger. The commercial alliance forces can afford to lose troops, but the Second Highness can't afford to lose them. He had already ordered the only remaining Royal Guard in the kingdom to be brought into battle. If all the 100,000 horses and the family forces of those nobles in his hands were killed and wounded in the Falcan Hill Plain, the merchant alliance forces could even drive all the way into the kingdom of Antinac, all the way to the provinces of Dramke and Winston, and then the kingdom of Andinac would be completely finished.

If the Business Alliance is willing to cease the war, His Royal Highness is now even willing to re-send the recovered provinces of Armenia and Malivia to the Business Alliance as a condition for the armistice and peace. Such a war of wounding the enemy by one hundred and injuring himself by sixty or seventy was really unbearable, so he sent Duke Kenmeth and Grand Duke Fisabrun to the Northland to ask for help, as long as Lorist agreed to send reinforcements, His Royal Highness was willing to assign the province of Yungeshandra to the Norton family as a jurisdiction.

Lorist smiled dumbly: "What do I want to do in Yungeshandra Province?"

Duke Kenmeth reminded him that Lorist and Archduke Volendor had signed an agreement to jointly develop the province of Yungeshandra, which was later disrupted by His Royal Highness. His Royal Highness promised Archduke Volendor that he would move back to the central province of Perorina, the former family territory, as long as he participated in the battle against the commercial alliance, so the plan to cooperate in the development of Yunge Shandra Province was shelved indefinitely, and the Norton family spent half a year and a lot of money on the investigation work of Yunge Shandra Province was all useless.

His Royal Highness must have thought of this development plan, so he used Yunge Shangdra Province as a condition in exchange for the Norton family's armed reinforcements, because he couldn't get any other benefits, and this was really a rush to the doctor.

Archduke Fisabrun said at this time a situation that attracted Lorlist's attention, since the second half of this year, the business alliance armed forces have appeared a lot of catapults and large crossbows that are not much different from the Norton family's armed equipment, although in terms of power are not as powerful as the catapults and steel crossbows equipped by the Norton family's armed forces, but the victory is large, which is also the main reason why the armed forces of the Antinac Kingdom still suffer heavy casualties although they are in a defensive position.

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