Chapter 136: Aftermath Trivia

The "flutter" long sword pierced into the chest, and the tip of the sword peeked through the back armor.

The Chevani knight froze, and the sword in his hand hung down weakly......

Lorist looked at him with pity and sighed, "Why are you so troubled......

The corners of the Chevani knight's mouth foamed with blood: "The general of the defeated army, it is not a pity to die." It was my incompetence that led to the annihilation of the whole army...... I, I can only atone for my sins to the Duke once I die......"

"It's not your fault," Lorist reassured him, "When Lord Duke is blinded by greed and stretches out his claws to the Norton family, he makes the biggest mistake of all. Actually, you've done a good job, because I've spent a lot of time trying to find a chance against your battalion. If it hadn't been for the negligence of the guards in Kitano Town and we captured it in one fell swoop, I don't even know how long this war would have dragged on......"

"Yes, is that so?" Knight Chervani's eyes quickly dimmed, and he opened his arms and fell to the sky with a relieved smile on his face.

Lorist silently looked at the Chevani knight who fell to the ground, and for a long time, said softly: "Go all the way......"

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On August 29, 1767, the Duke of Lukins, Grand Duke of the Northlands, ordered more than 4,000 soldiers from two battalions of the Norton Legion to march against the Norton family, and the remaining 1,279 of them laid down their arms and surrendered to the Norton forces in an unnamed valley in the Northland Knife Peak Mountains. At this point, the expedition that entered the territory of the Norton family was completely wiped out.

The chief general of the expeditionary force, the commander of the Northland Legion, the chief family knight of Duke Lukins, and the Chevani knight of the Golden Three Stars, was forced into a predicament by the Norton family when the expeditionary troops were cornered, and when they were cornered, they challenged Norton Lorlist, the new lord of the Norton family, and died heroically at the age of fifty-three.

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When the white knight told Lorist that the knight was willing to order his soldiers to surrender to the Norton family, but he asked for a life-and-death duel with Lorlist, Lorist agreed despite the objections of Joske, Vasima and others around him.

It was not difficult for Lorist to deal with the knight of Giovanni, a knight with three golden stars, and he wanted to force the knight to fold his sword and throw in the towel. Helplessly, the Chevani knight was desperate for death, regardless of his own safety, and adopted a style of play that ended up together, blindly attacking, adding a lot of trouble to Lorist.

For the onlookers, this was the first time they had seen the strength of Lorist's skills and swordsmanship, and Vasima and the leaders of the four mercenary groups were dumbfounded. Who would have thought that a Lorist, who couldn't even shoot a sword and a black iron rank, would be able to fight with a golden three-star knight, and also have the upper hand, suppressing the attack of the Chevani knight all the time. If it weren't for the mercy of his subordinates who didn't want to hurt the lives of the Chevani Knights, the Chevani Knights would have been in pieces.

The Cavalier Chevani was getting colder and colder, he had already understood that he was no match for Lorist at all, and he was even more ashamed of the mercy of the other party's men. So when Lorist stabbed him in the chest with one last slash and forced him to retreat, he didn't dodge, but accelerated forward, catching Lorist off guard, and the sword in his hand pierced the Chevani knight's chest......

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More than 1,000 soldiers of the Northland Legion who surrendered were disarmed, stripped of their leather armor, and their bits and pieces were searched and confiscated, and then began to set up camp under the watchful eye of the family soldiers. The surrendered Silver Knight told Lorist that the soldiers had broken out in a dark cave and fought each other in a dark cave yesterday when they found that there was no way to go. By the time the Chevani knights led their men to stop them, more than 400 soldiers had died. That's why the Chevani knight decided to surrender and find a way out for the remaining soldiers, while he himself was determined to die, even if he defeated Lorlist, he would kill himself......

Lorist stayed in this nameless valley for three more days, and ordered the surrendered soldiers to enter the cave again, collect the bodies of the dead soldiers in the entire cave under the supervision of the family soldiers, and bury them in the nameless valley, so that the surrendering logistics officials could burn the names of the dead soldiers and mark them for their families to come to pay respects in the future. And this nameless valley was named the Cheverani Valley, and a monument was inscribed in honor of the Chevani Knights.

Lorist believes that the war is not troublesome, the trouble is the aftermath. Especially after Kitano Town was slaughtered, he felt that there were a lot of affairs that he needed to deal with. As soon as he returned to Kitano, he received a messenger from Rock Castle, in which he reported that the Knights' Tournament of the Harmony Cup would be over in three days, and that it was customary for Lorist and Viscount Kenmeth, the hosts of the Tournament, to attend the feast together to congratulate and pay tribute to the winners of the tournament. Sødercamp hopes that even if the war is not over, Lorist will make the time to make a trip so as not to be seen as rude.

Fortunately, the battle was over, and it took about twenty days in total. Lorist asked Joske and Paul Binns to take two teams of family soldiers back to Rock Castle with the captives first, and he had to go back to Rock Castle in Beino Town for two days before taking care of the matter. Lorist also issued an order to several stewards of the Rock Castle, so that the steward of Boris was responsible for moving the laborers, family members and immigrants in the city back to the camp outside the city again, and the war was over, and there was no threat to the camp outside the Rock Castle, and they could move out of the city so that the city could continue construction.

Father Balek was ordered to accompany the Sid master to survey the mountains near the copper mines of the Morgen Hills in search of iron ore and other mineral resources. The Kedan steward was ordered to set up a camp for the prisoners, and to take over the management and work of the prisoners when they arrived in Chosk. Finally, Lorist wrote a greeting to Miss Theresty, telling her that, in addition to the sensual love words, the news was that the crisis in the territory had been lifted, and that she could begin planning and designing the mountain town that had been promised to her after arranging the construction of the Rock Castle.

In all fairness, Lorist felt that Miss Theresti was a good fit to be the Baroness of Norton, first of all, Miss Theresty was not stunning, but she was also very beautiful. She has a slender figure, fair skin, and most importantly, she has a unique intellectual beauty, which is very much in line with Lorist's aesthetics. And Miss Theresti is not one of those aristocratic ladies who can only dress up and show off her amorous feelings, she is also a female scholar, like the sentence Lorist heard in her previous life, she can become a goddess with her face, but she has to rely on her own efforts to become a scholar. Miss Theresty's self-reliant personality made Lorist admire it.

In her dealings with Miss Theresty, Lorist could sense her affection for her, and was able to tolerate her rudeness, such as hugs and tongue kisses. Although I was angry every time, it was more of a shame and ambivalence. She was unwilling to break her vow to live celibate, to pursue knowledge and truth. This is also Lorist's biggest indignation, what oath is not good, but this kind of most inhumane oath is too infuriating.

Lorist asked the steward of Speer, who had received his order, to count and register the belongings, grain and grass and other materials in Kitano Town, and he was going to move all the materials available in Kitano Town back to Maple Grove Villa and abandon Kitano Town. The most important thing at the moment is to build the Rock Castle and start building a mountain town in the Morgen Hills after the Rock Castle is built. As for Beiye Town, there are more than 27,000 acres of cultivated fertile land. Although it is a pity that it is abandoned, the family currently does not have the extra manpower to come to farm, so it should be thrown here to restore the land, and wait for Shi Fatzi and their northbound convoy to arrive before making plans.

The mercenary fees of the four mercenary groups have also been settled, and the four mercenary groups that accepted the Norton family's employment this time all felt that it was worth it, not only the mercenary money was high, but also the personnel loss was small. Compared with other lords who like to use mercenaries as cannon fodder, this young lord of the Norton family is often the first to take the lead, and the mercenaries have instead become followers and join in the fun, that is, the last defense of Kitano Town, although the mercenaries act as the main force of the defense, but they are willing, because their seizures from the siege soldiers have filled each mercenary's pockets with coins.

Wasimma took Jim to escort the surviving women and girls of Kitano back to Maple Grove Villa. In any case, many people in Maple Grove Villa have a twisting relationship with these women and girls, let them recuperate in Maple Grove Villa for a while, and then escort them to Rock Castle, give them the freedom to contact and fall in love with those single young people, and when they are home again, they can forget about the past and start a new life.

There is still one problem to be solved, and that is that Husky's mercenary team is about to be disbanded. There are more than twenty mercenaries who are willing to join Lorlist's family army, and more than thirty mercenaries who have recovered from injuries are unwilling to say goodbye to their mercenary careers, and have joined the four mercenary groups in the past few days. It's just that in this way, Lorist's military village at the junction of the two mountains on the edge of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, the family territory, has no candidates to garrison. If a small group of people is selected from the family army, it will affect Lorlist's next arrangement. After thinking about it, Lorist decided to choose one of the four mercenary groups to entrust.

Among the four mercenary groups, Lorist favorites the Spear Mercenary Group, because this mercenary group is composed of retired soldiers and civilian officers, and it acts in the most disciplined manners. It can be seen from the war that has just ended that the spear mercenary group has suffered the least loss and the greatest gain. However, after listening to Lorist's commission, the head of Sandro politely refused the mission, because he said that he had already made two appointments, and he would take those two tasks when he returned this time.

Lorlist's second search was Richard, the leader of the Cromwell mercenary group, and similarly, Richard's commander refused to accept the mission, he was worried that he would lose a lot of money against the mountain barbarians. After thinking about it, I decided not to accept this commission. The third one is looking for the leader of the Night Bat Mercenary Regiment, Ulepmasin, as an old fritter among the mercenaries, Ulepmasin does not refuse Lorist's commission, but he thinks that the bounty for this task is too small, and he asks for a mercenary fee of one hundred gold merit per month, and the reward will be doubled.

Lorist almost laughed angrily, he used to give Husky their mercenary gold of one Imperial Old Man Head per month for the Silver Rank, and fifty Imperial Small Silver Coins per month for the Black Iron and Bronze Ranks, which added up to only about one hundred gold merits a year. And the members of the Night Bat Mercenary Group are only twice as many as Hawski's mercenary team, but the mercenary money has increased more than tenfold, which is really unreasonable.

The Five Swords Mercenary Regiment agreed to Lorist's request, but they made another request. They wanted to move their family members as a member of the mercenary group to the Norton family's territory, and they were willing to become Lorlist's lords. Lorist was amazed.

Du Bofu, the leader of the Five Swords Mercenary Group, said with a wry smile that life was forced to do nothing. Their mercenary group was originally composed of villagers from several neighboring villages, in order to work as mercenaries to earn some money to pay the lord's endless taxes, but now the lord's oppression is getting heavier and heavier, and their families are already hungry and cold. Although they formed a mercenary group to protect the villagers from oppression, their taxes were not reduced, and their village was located near the royal capital of Windbri, and they were often harassed by the nearby Kingdom soldiers.

This time, when he accepted Lorlist's employment to participate in the war against the Duke's army, the five leaders of the Five Swords Mercenary Regiment paid attention, and in contact with the soldiers and guards of the Norton family, they found that the Norton family was too merciful to the people compared to other lords. Especially when he saw the fields that were about to be abandoned after the slaughter of Kitano Town, he thought about moving several villages there.

Lorist was very happy, what was lacking in the family territory was manpower, and he said that he welcomed the Five Swords Mercenary Group to move his family and even those villages over, promising that as long as he could come, he could get houses and fields, and the tax was only 30% of the fields, and other miscellaneous taxes such as fishing, hunting, and cutting wood were 10%, and if he joined the family armed forces or contributed to the family, he could also reduce various taxes.

Dubof was also very happy that in his village, the main tax was 70 percent of the harvest and 50 percent of the miscellaneous taxes, so his family and friends could no longer maintain food and clothing. Lorist added another fire, since the five sword mercenary group took his commission, then his relatives can be taken care of according to the treatment of their own family soldiers when they arrive, and if they die in the battle against the mountain barbarians, then the mercenaries who died in battle can also be compensated like family soldiers.

Well, the only thing to consider next is how the relatives and villagers of the Five Swords Mercenary Group will escape their lord's grasp, Dubov said he is sure. Lorist gave him two months and a deposit of fifty goldfords, and Duboeuf went back in high spirits.

After finishing this work, Lorist finally breathed a sigh of relief, handed over the transportation of supplies and belongings from Kitano Town to Vasimma, Speer and Pachco, and took Reddy back to Maple Grove Villa. After greeting the old manager Cress, examining Bérunec's body, and spending the night with Irina, he took Reddy and Jim to Rock Castle the next day.

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