Chapter 146: A dilemma

Schrader was angry, but no matter how loud he screamed, no one in the tent took his words seriously. What are you kidding, sending troops to besiege the city of Nadegas and meeting His Royal Highness with the Second Highness is a rebellious act. It is a well-known fact that the Andinac royal family is the inheritance of the orthodox former imperial Krisson royal family, that is, the Andinac royal family, which is now represented by His Royal Highness, is the upper lord of the Norton family. Unless Schreid is ready to abandon his status as a knight of the Norton family and lead the group to become bandits, he will not be able to send troops.

"Telman, you write an official letter to negotiate with His Second Highness, and ask him to send our family soldiers back. Otherwise, if the news spreads, the face of the Andinac royal family will not be good. Bodfinger said to Telman.

"Okay, I'll write it. Telman stood up and walked out of the tent.

"Alright, it's not a big deal, there's no need to be angry about it. I suspect that this is just a self-inflicted decision by Edmar and Wanpu, and that His Royal Highness has no idea about it. Because if the news spreads, the Andinac royal family will be more disgraced than we are. Bodfinger said to Schreed.

Bodfinger is right, as the upper lord, the second highness can give instructions to the Norton family, borrow troops and materials, or anything can be discussed, even if he is now poaching and recruiting those old students of the Dawn Academy, it doesn't matter, because these old students are not knights of the Norton family, they just agreed to Lorlist's invitation to follow the convoy north, and whether they are willing to become knights of the Norton family will have to reach the destination. Therefore, it is justified for His Royal Highness to recruit these old students, and it is only natural that these old students have a better place to go and abandon the team.

However, the two squadron soldiers who were taken away were Norton's family arms, if the Second Highness refused to return it, it must be in the brain, in the Gelinthia continent, rebellion is the most taboo thing among nobles, the lower lord rebels against the upper lord, no matter how reasonable you are, you will be pointed out by the thousand husbands, automatically rejected by all the nobles, once the family fails, the family will never be able to recover.

Like the Pegasus family, a hundred years ago, the seven nobles and Cleison IV fought over a crescent-shaped magic stone, but no one regarded them as rebellion, and the descendant of the Philim family, Baron Charward, claimed to revive the family under the banner of Pegasus and won a lot of praise. The reason is very simple, the Philim family is not a rebel, their war with Clison IV is only because they refuse to sacrifice the magic stone to the Clison royal family, Clixon IV is angry and sent troops to rob it, they are just defending themselves and resisting. Even if they failed, Chrisson IV did not declare the nobles rebellious. In the eyes of all the nobles, the Crescent War was just a bullying of the unlucky ones by Christen IV.

When the upper lord is strong, the lower lord can only compromise and perfunctory. But when the strength of the lower lord exceeds that of the upper lord, he can also disobey or ignore the instructions of the superior lord, the reason is very simple, as long as the lower lord thinks that the orders of the superior lord harm the interests of his family, he can ignore the orders of the superior lord, this is the sacred right of every noble, and the superior lord is helpless. Like Schreed's shouting of sending troops and declaring war, that is the real act of rebellion.

In the same way, if the superior lord annexes his men or materials without the consent of the lower lord, it is also taboo to have his belongings, and will be spurned by all the lower lords, or even deviated. Now the strength of the northbound convoy is stronger than that of the Second Highness, and if the Norton family turns their heads to the eldest prince because of this incident, or the second prince turns his back on the third prince, then the second highness will regret it endlessly.

It takes a lot of brains to turn a friendly army into a life-and-death enemy, not to mention that there is no shortage of soldiers in His Royal Highness, and any move among the homeless people is tens of thousands, as long as he can raise it. There is no shortage of equipment, and the Royal Guards still has tens of thousands of weapons and equipment stored in warehouses. For the soldiers of the two squadrons and the Norton family, it was more than worth the loss from the point of view of the Second Highness.

Telman lifted the curtain and entered the big tent, and said, "The second highness has come down." ”

Schrader was still angry and shouted, "Let him go, I don't want to see him." ”

If you don't want to see it, you can see it, although Schreid is the head of the northbound team appointed by Lorlist, he is still the knight of Norton's family, and His Royal Highness is the upper lord of the Norton family.

His Royal Highness II had come to apologize and return the soldiers of the two squadrons. The more he looked at His Royal Highness, the more unhappy he felt, he thought that most of the team's current dilemma was due to His Royal Highness, and the fat man had always thought that he was witty, who would want to be played with by this seemingly harmless and amiable Second Highness.

Bodfinger protested to His Royal Highness, the convoy was facing a dilemma, His Royal Highness was still digging into the corners of the northbound convoy, although the old cadets who were recruited by His Royal Highness were not knights of the Norton family, but these old cadets were in important positions in the convoy and were given important responsibilities. As soon as they left, the mess left behind was a headache for several directors of the team, and Bo Finger did not object to the Second Highness recruiting talents, but at least let them have a beginning and an end, and it was not too late to take the team to the Norton family territory in the Northlands and then come back to join the Second Highness.

His Royal Highness apologized very sincerely, he said that he was mainly happy to see the hunt, and talents were rare, but he didn't expect that the Norton family's northbound convoy had gathered so many outstanding talents. In order to revive the Clison royal family's unified empire, it is necessary to recruit more talents to work hard to achieve his ideals, so he is very interested in the many talents in the team. However, he can promise that he will not let the convoy go to him right away, and he will take Bodfinger's suggestion to wait until the convoy arrives at its destination before letting those who like it come back to report.

Bodfinger was also helpless, and now there were only a few people in the team who had been accepted by Lorist as family knights, he, Schreid, Eyre, who was recovering from his injuries in the tent next door, Telman, and Yuri, who was leading the patrol outside. Like his former colleague in the White Lion Legion, Rhodes Wells of the Golden Rank, Mons Malek, who is now in charge of the management of the outcasts, Zino Farea, the golden mercenary who is in charge of a garrison, Injerek, the golden swordsman who is in charge of the main camp of the convoy in place of the wounded El, and Dorres of the chariot team, Renmed of the pharmacist team, and the rest of the old cadets of the Dawn Academy, these are the backbone of the northbound convoy, but they are not the knights of Norton's family, and it is indeed inevitable that they will be poached by the Second Highness.

For ambitious old cadets, the title of royal knight is more attractive than that of family knight, the kingdom of Antinac has been armed and cleaned up by the convoy led by Schred, it can be said that everything is in ruins, except for the sea to the west, the other three directions are facing malicious neighbors, plus being deliberately suppressed and blocked by the Fude Business Alliance, the situation is difficult. But wealth is in danger, and now if you take refuge in the Second Highness, you have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds, once you are named a territorial nobleman for merit, it means that you are on an equal footing with Lorlist, and you will also become a member of the aristocratic class, and you will be superior from now on.

Fortunately, the current refuge in the Second Highness are a few of the old cadets who are not very outstanding, like Edmar and Wanpu, they are only squadron leaders, and some of the old cadets who have performed well have already taken the position of captain, which is also the reason why Schrader has expanded the team too much. Nearly 20,000 family troops, more than 5,000 carriages, more than 60,000 convoys, and 100,000 displaced people followed, forcing everyone to grow up quickly to adapt to the new positions and changes in the situation.

His Royal Highness also came this time for another purpose, which was to find out when the convoy would set off for the north.

Without the slightest hesitation, Schrader told His Highness that the convoy was now blocked here, and it was impossible to go to the Northlands, because the Duchy of Madras had sent the Iron Guard Legion to block the border, and no one or one horse was allowed to pass. It is very likely that the convoy will stay in the Kingdom of Antinac for the winter, and wait for next spring to figure out whether to make a detour or what to do. Therefore, Schrader hopes that His Royal Highness can raise clothes and grain for the winter. Assist the convoy to help nearly 100,000 displaced people survive the cold winter.

His Royal Highness shook his head, and told everyone very directly that the Kingdom of Antinac could not afford the package of 100,000 displaced people, and although he had divided half of the seizures of the two provinces swept by the convoy before, it was almost empty of recruiting troops to settle the displaced people. As for the seizure of the province of Verbasya, Schrader did not give it to His Royal Highness, but was used to resettle the displaced people. Therefore, if the convoy wants to survive the death, there is only one way, and that is to attack the Duchy of Madras and collect grain, grass and supplies from there.

The Second Highness said that if there is really no way, there is only one way to kill, which can incite the displaced people to attack the fortress of Liechtana in front, and the 100,000 exiles, even if they can't capture the fortress, are enough to exhaust the Iron Guard Corps guarding the fortress, and even give heavy damage, and then the convoy will be able to strike with all its strength, and it should be easy to take the fortress of Liechndana, and the gate of the Duchy of Madras will be open, and the convoy can go to the Northland unimpeded.

Everyone in the big tent heard that their scalps were numb, and His Royal Highness said it lightly, but as soon as everyone thought of driving 100,000 homeless people to attack the fortress guarded by the Iron Guard Legion, which was known as the world's first defense capability, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood involuntarily appeared in front of them.

"No, it can't be done like this," Bodfinger was the first to disagree, like the eldest prince of the kingdom of Ridleys, who has always been known for his cruelty and tyranny, but he is only a young man who captures the outcasts and serves as cannon fodder for the siege. Driving the old and weak women and children among the displaced people to attack the city, as long as the notoriety of the Norton family spreads, it will spread throughout the entire Gelinthia continent, and it will not only become a disgrace to the nobles, but also be disgraced by all the commoners, and the fame of the family accumulated for more than two hundred years will be lost.

The Second Highness spread his hands: "I have no choice, either wait here for death, or capture the fortress of Liechdana." That's all I had in mind. If you are not willing to drive the outcasts, then I can send a legion of 10,000 soldiers to assist your convoy in attacking the fortress defended by the Iron Guard. However, I am not optimistic about the outcome of the attack, the Iron Guard is known for its defense. At the beginning, they had only 8,000 men, and they withstood the attack of my father's 60,000 troops for half a year. Now it has been expanded by the Grand Duke of Madras to a legion of 28,000 men, as well as the fortress of Liechdana. It is impossible for my 10,000 soldiers and your northbound convoy of nearly 20,000 family troops to capture the fortress......"

This is true, if the convoy is stuck here like this and cannot go north, the large convoy of men and displaced people will be able to consume all the food and grass in only three or four months at most, and then the convoy will collapse. If you change the route, you will have to pass through the territory of the second prince Iberian Kingdom, and there will be 100,000 displaced people behind, and the convoy will definitely become the second prince's meal, and the future will be more unpredictable, and the Iberian Kingdom has been war-torn for a long time, coupled with the second prince's looting, it is impossible to obtain food and grass supplies at all, and the journey of three months has been increased, there is no supply, and you have to guard against the interception of the second prince's army, this is a dead end, and there is basically no need to consider the problem of diverting.

The best way is to go north through the Principality of Madras, a distance of more than 1,300 miles, even if you only walk 30 miles a day, you can reach the Northland in 40 or 50 days, but the Principality of Madras has blocked the border and does not allow convoys and displaced people to pass. If the method of the Second Highness driving the displaced people to attack the city was not adopted, even with the 10,000 soldiers supported by the Second Highness, everyone would not be sure to capture the fortress of Liechdana, which was guarded by the Iron Guard Legion.

There was a moment of silence in the tent......

As soon as the curtain was lifted, Yuri rushed in with a happy face: "Look, everyone, who's coming?"

Following into the tent were Reddy and Jim, and when they saw Reddy, Shred was overjoyed: "Ray Reddy, are you here?"

"My lord misses you very much, and asked me to come and deliver a few letters, and see where you are. By the way, he's Jim, a silver mercenary promoted by the adults. Come, Jim, I'll introduce you......" Reddy pulled Jim to introduce him to the people in the big tent, but in front of the Second Highness and Chrisya, Reddy was stunned, and he didn't know who these two were.

Telman hurriedly introduced Reddy and Jim to the Second Highness and Chrisia, and when they heard that it was the Second Highness of the Antinac Kingdom and Lorlist's cousin Chrisia, Reddy and Jim hurriedly saluted respectfully.

"Reddy, and that Jim, don't be busy with your courtesies just yet. Isn't the border of the Duchy of Madras blocked?, how did you get here?" asked Schreid, anxious.

"Oh, it's all up to Jim, we've heard that the Duchy of Madras has sealed off its borders to people because of something called Demon Sred. But Jim knew an old fisherman on the shores of Egret Lake, who had taken the seven of us across the lake in a small boat. Reddy replied with a grin.

Schredder's face was a little red, and he didn't expect that he was already infamous: "Seven of you came?"

"Well, there are five other family guards, all of them are mercenaries, we pretended to be mercenaries, the road was very smooth, just after crossing the lake, we met Yuri-sama's scout hussars, and brought us over. Reddy replied.

"Reddy, is your lord okay now, and what's going on in the family territory?" asked Bodfinger.

"Adults are very good. As for the situation of the family territory, it's a long story, we followed the adults back to the family territory, and we had a very wonderful time, you listen to me......."

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