Chapter 120: Duke Lukins's Plan

The obese Lukins elephant a wild boar with wild hair rampant in the study, and the ground was a mess. This is the Duke who was furious just now, and all the items that could be dropped were smashed, and all that survived in the study were furniture and bookcases that he couldn't move......

"Send troops, let the Northland Legion send troops immediately! I will let the Norton family be wiped out, I will make that Norton family kid kneel in front of me like a reptile and beg for my forgiveness, and then I will hang him in the square, and all the Northland nobles will see, this is the fate of those who dare to disobey me!" Grand Duke Lukins roared viciously with red eyes, panting.

Baron Camorra, who returned from the mission, reported that the Norton family was unwilling to hand over the 100,000 gold fords, and when he heard that the Norton family refused to recognize the Duke as their superior lord and not hand over the materials they had obtained from the Kenmas family, the Duke became angry and began to smash things, and when the Camorra Baron said that the new head of the Norton family abolished the Golden Knight Tabek, killed seven silver knights of the Northland Legion who accompanied him, robbed everyone's money bags, and even detained everyone's mounts in the name of compensation, the Duke was completely mad。

The Duke slammed the desk in front of him with his chair in his seat, and kept muttering, "How dare they do this...... Why do they dare to resist my orders......"

There are three people standing next to the wall next to the door of the study, this position is better, one is not easy to be hit by the items flying in the study, and the other is good sight, in case there are really objects flying can also be calmly dodged, so as not to suffer from the fish in the pond.

Except for the expressionless Baron Camorra, the other two were tall knights in armor. The bearded man was Wisson Chervani, the chief family knight of Lord Lukins and one of the five Golden Knights. He is also the commander of the Northland Legion. The younger one next to him is also the golden knight Henned, who is also Lord Duke,.

Hennerd's eyes flashed with excitement, looking at Duke Lukins, who smashed his chair and slumped on the ground, gasping for breath on top of the books, and muttered enviously: "I really want to smash a study like this, it must be very enjoyable......"

"What nonsense......" Knight Giovanni snorted from his nose and turned to Baron Camorra, "Your Excellency seems to be getting angry more and more easily, and this is not a good sign." ”

Baron Camorra replied in a strange whisper: "That's it since I came back from the last meeting with the second prince. I heard that during the meeting, he was provoked and insulted by a great sword master beside the second prince. It's okay, adults will make the fire and it will be back to normal......"

Chewani sighed bitterly, bowed his head and blamed himself: "It's because we are incompetent, we can't touch the key to being promoted to the Great Sword Master, so that the adults are always ridiculed and ridiculed in front of the second prince......"

"It's no wonder you, you've done your best, and you've done a good job, if the second prince doesn't have the support of the two great swordsmen, he'll have to beg the lord in turn......" Baron Camorra comforted the Chevani knight.

When Duke Lukins raised his head again, his eyes had regained their clarity, and he glanced at the study that he had made like a tornado, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "As I get older, this temper is becoming more and more difficult to control." Let's go, let's go to the small conference room, Camorra, you tell me what happened in detail, and let's discuss how to deal with the Norton family. ”

Baron Camorra's memory is extraordinary, and he has given a very detailed account of the mission to the Norton family, and even the tone and expression of Lorlist's voice are imitated in full likeness.

"How's Tabek's injury?" asked Duke Lukins.

"It's not a big deal, the main thing is that the two arms were injured and sprained severely, and the pharmacist said that it would take about a year to adjust and recover slowly. The Chevani knight replied.

"And do you think that new leader of the Norton family is powerful?, and what rank is he, and why is Tabek so defenseless in his hands?" asked the duke.

The two knights looked at each other, and the Chevani knight replied, "My lord, I went to visit Tabek overnight after receiving the notice from the guards last night. According to him, the leader of the Norton family should be the Black Iron Rank, which he couldn't hide, so he decided to capture that kid at that time. But what I didn't expect was that the kid's kung fu was extremely strong, he was too despised by the other party and was defenseless, and as a result, he fell on the road as soon as he fought, and was countered by the other party, and when he reacted, it was too late, so he was so seriously injured. ”

"All nonsense, Tabek is still not honest, is it possible for a black iron rank to let the Golden Knight suffer such a serious injury? If you lose, you will lose, don't make so many excuses......" Duke Lukins angrily banged his fist on the small coffee table beside him.

"No, my lord, it's possible. Legend has it that in the era of magical civilization, there was a profession called warrior monks, they were all monks who worshipped the gods, they were proficient in hand-to-hand combat skills, and their physical strength was comparable to that of a dragon, and they were later killed after the magician and the gods went to war. Hundreds of years ago, some of the cultivation skills of warrior monks were found in some excavated ruins, and they were regarded as treasures by various temples. Now some of the ascetics in the temple are practicing these improved martial arts, and I have heard that their hand-to-hand combat skills are very powerful, and they can often defeat their opponents beyond the ranks. So I suspect that the leader of the Norton family has been inherited by the ascetic, and it is this kind of hand-to-hand combat skills that he cultivates. Cavallini Knight said.

"But don't worry, my lord, this hand-to-hand combat technique is also effective one-on-one, if it is on the battlefield, that kid from the Norton family is no match for the fully armed and galloping Tabek. Knight Henneid, who was on the side, added.

"I see, it's okay, even if this time I teach Tabek a lesson. Recently, I heard that he is becoming more and more arrogant, and this time he has suffered a big loss, hoping that he can change his temperament, and stop offending people easily and causing trouble everywhere. The Duke snorted twice from his nose.

"Giovanni, will you be able to take down the Norton family with a brigade?" asked the Duke.

Knight Chevani shook his head: "I can't take it, my lord, I have checked the map, and I heard from Lord Camorra that the Norton family has built a new castle level in the Morgen hills, and according to the city defenses described by Lord Camorra, I think a brigade of 2,000 people will not be able to capture this wall." ”

Baron Camorra took out a map of animal skins from a bag beside him: "My lord, please see, this is here, this is the best location to separate the Norton family's territory from the outside world. On the way back, I kept thinking about the reason why the Norton family was not afraid to turn against the adults, probably because they thought that as long as they defended this castle level, even if the Northland Legion soldiers came to the city, they would not be able to do it. There are also a few pictures of the general situation of the castle wall I drew, and Master Cervani has also seen it, and he thinks that at least the entire Northland army will have to take turns attacking and exhausting the strength and number of guards before it is possible to occupy this wall, but the casualties will be very large, estimated at about five or six thousand. ”

The Duke of Lukins carefully examined the drawings handed by Baron Camorra, and finally had to admit that the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and indeed as Giovanny said, a brigade of 2,000 soldiers could not capture the walls of this castle level.

"Then we just let the Norton family go?" The Duke is very unwilling, if the Norton family's rebellion becomes a model for the Northland nobles, it will be very detrimental to the Duke's control of the Northlands, and the Norton family must be made to pay the price, and use the fate of the Norton family to warn those Northland nobles who are dissatisfied with the Duke, so that they will obey the Duke's rule as always.

"My lord, there is actually another way to the interior of the Norton family's territory, which can bypass this castle level. Baron Cavani said.

"Oh, where is that road?" The Duke searched the map again, but he couldn't find it, he could only say that the location of the Norton family's territory was too good, the black mud swamp to the north, this road was impassable, the Blade Mountains and the sea to the west, the Morgen Hills and the Black Forest to the south, and the Demon Dragon Mountains to the east. Except for the castle built by the Norton family, which locked the only main road to the outside world, the Duke couldn't find a place where the brigade could pass.

"To be honest, I don't know where that path is. Baron Camorra said, "However, the night before I left Maple Grove, the main castle of the Norton family, I received several visitors. They are several elders and garrison captains of Kitano Town, the only town in the Norton family's domain. The reason for their visit was to accuse the new leader of the Norton family of changing the rules passed down from his ancestors and treating Kitano Town unfairly, so they came to ask for help, and were willing to stand by the adults when they punished the Norton family and help them defeat the Norton family. ”

They said that the new Norton kid was already very cruel, and that he was so vicious at a young age that he even pushed his seven-year-old brother into a well and nearly drowned. Eventually, everyone couldn't bear it anymore and was exiled by the family for ten years, only to return to the territory a few months ago and become a lord. After becoming the head of the Norton family, he intensified his efforts, stirred up wars everywhere, and treated the residents of Kitano even more abusively, and all the residents of Kitano could not stand his brutal rule and were plotting to resist. If the Duke is willing to send troops to punish the Norton family for their disrespect to him, but is blocked by the new castle level, then the residents of Kitano Town are willing to take the Duke into the interior of the Norton family's territory through a secret route and take the Norton family by surprise......"

"Oh, I see. Lord Lukins let out a long sigh, "Did they say how that kid of the Norton family changed the rules that had been passed down from his ancestors and oppressed those residents?"

The Duke had always been interested in the methods used by the nobles of these realms to loot the lords, and he thought that it would broaden his horizons and enlighten his thinking, so that he could better find a way to snatch the last copper plate from the lords.

Baron Camorra's face suddenly distorted, looking very strange: "It's like this......"

Baron Camorra was a shrewd man, and he had seen a lot of deceit among nobles, and he was also very handy with it. That night, he received several visitors from Kitano Town, and his hospitable attitude, amiable smile, and patient and considerate accommodation made several visitors to Kitano Town feel like a spring breeze, coupled with Baron Camorra's unobtrusive side knocks, he soon made a few dirt buns in Kitano Town forget their shapes and confide everything they knew.

When Baron Camorra finished introducing the relationship between the Norton family and Kitano Town, he was faced with three dumbfounded faces......

"And such a thing, there is such a lord......" was the muttered Knight Henned.

The Chevani knight slapped his palm on the table: "How can this be true, ungrateful, really damn it! Are the ancestors of the Norton family stupid, they should have been killed a long time ago, why have they been delayed until now......"

"It turns out that the taxes and fees paid by the Norton family in the past few years are all paid by themselves, and they didn't go to search for the residents of that town, it seems that the Norton family is very rich, after all, it is a two-hundred-year inheritance, and the background is very thick......" Lord Duke pays attention to another aspect, for him, morality is a trivial matter, and he is concerned about benefits.

"Did the man from that north town say anything to show us the way?" asked the Duke faintly.

"This, this ......," Baron Camorra began to hesitate.

"Say, let's hear what these wolf-hearted dogs have to ask for. The Duke urged.

"They, they say that the Norton family has a large territory, and they are not greedy, and they hope that after the Lord destroys the Norton family, they can use a small half of the Norton family and divide it into four barons......" Camorra felt a little blushing when she said the request of those people in Kitano Town, it was really whimsical.

"It's just to lead the way, why would they dare to make such a request?" the knight Hennedd next to him quit.

"They said that there were more than 600 people in their four families who had awakened their fighting spirit, more than a dozen of them in the silver rank, and 2,000 young people. If they take root with the Norton family, then the adults will never want to punish the Norton family. In addition, that secret route is a secret that all the families in Kitano Town have kept for a hundred years, and it is also a secret channel for them to smuggle to the outside world. After telling the adults, the route was scrapped, so they demanded compensation...... "Baron Camorra explained.

"Hehe, a hundred years of smuggling, only handed over ten percent of the grain to the Norton family, it seems that Kitano Town is very rich. Promised them that after entering the territory of the Norton family, let those bullshit families in Kitano Town attack the main castle of the Norton family, and they said that they would agree to their request if they were captured. Let them rush to the front and reduce the losses of our Northland corps. The Duke made a decision.

"But my lord, did they really make them barons of the realm when they captured the main castle of the Norton family?" asked Knight Henned, very angry.

"Is there such a cheap thing? We're not the Norton family. When they take the main castle, it's our turn......" Duke Lukins smirked grimly.

"What if they refuse to attack the Norton family's main castle?" asked the Chevani knight.

"No, hehe, then let them all come to the barracks, and say that I canonized them to hold a ceremony for the baron, and then they will do it, and by the way, bring me back the wealth of Kitano Town. As for the people, the old and the young have all been killed, and it is also a scourge to keep them. The young woman left for me, virgins, you don't move, the price of the female slave has risen during this time, and it is just right to sell it for a large price. The Duke said.

"How many men are there for us, and should we send troops to contain the wall level in front of us?" asked the Chevani knight again.

Duke Lukins thought for a moment: "Just send two brigades, four thousand people should be enough, led by you and Henned, keep an eye on the gold-level archer of the Norton family, and if he is willing to join me, bring him back." As for the castle level ahead, we don't have to bother. Yesterday Viscount Kenmax had set out in a hurry with his family's two thousand armed soldiers, and he was in a hurry to retrieve his gold. Hehe, let's just wait and see them hit their heads and bleed under that castle level. ”

"By the way, Camorra, you go and contact the contact person from Kitano Town and ask them to provide food and grass for our army, if you don't bargain, they can't believe that we will agree to their request so easily. ”

"Yes, sir. Baron Camorra bowed deeply.