Chapter 367: Escape

Grand Duke Fisabrun wakes up early, and as he gets older, he sleeps less. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info but the Grand Duke himself never thought he was old, although he was nearly seventy years old, but after all, he was a third-level great sword master, his physical function was like a person in his fifties, very strong, and he also found two palace maids to relax twice last night.

The reason why I can't sleep may be that I have too many things to worry about. The spies who went to the Duchy of Sabaji sent a report that at the end of last year, Sendy and two other great swordsmen entered the Egret Lake swamp to search for the Norton boy, and there has been no news yet. What's that kid's name? It seems to be the sword champion of the last knight tournament. Poor Ginoyd, just died under the sword of that kid, he originally wanted to cultivate him vigorously, but it was rare for the Fisabrun family to appear such a talent but fell into the hands of the Norton family, and the Grand Duke was on fire when he thought about it.

Xiandi should be fine, no matter how you say it, she is also a third-level great sword master, and when she was just promoted three years ago, she was even surprised by herself, it was because she was promoted to a third-level great sword master that she made up her mind to raid the big and small Jinchuan, you must know that the Hubet tribe entrenched in the big and small Jinchuan is not easy to mess with, and there are seven grass barbarian sacrifices equivalent to the great sword master alone. He teamed up with Xiandi and booby-trapped six people, and then took advantage of the panic of the Hubet tribe to send out a large army to launch a surprise attack, destroying the Hubet tribe in one fell swoop and capturing the big and small Jinchuan.

As a third-level great swordsman, Xiandi should be able to walk sideways in the Gaylinthia continent, as long as he doesn't provoke those old monsters, even if he encounters other third-level great swordsmen, he can get out of the way, and he hasn't come back until now, he should have encountered something or had fun forgetting the time. Women are so willful, the Grand Duke shook his head, and no longer worried about the Great Swordsman of Xiandi. Of course, the Grand Duke never dreamed that Lorist would make a move and take down his lover Xiandi Great Swordsman and make him a prisoner of the Second Highness.

The family territory is also safe, and Christopher is in charge of the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan areas, and is currently building castles and forts, and replanning the infrastructure of the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan areas. The year before last, more than 200,000 young and strong men and women who had been forcibly relocated from the former Principality of Melein had already settled there, and this year they are preparing to relocate another 300,000 people from Donghuang Province, so that the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan areas will become the new and most solid base camp of the Fisabrun family.

As for the lack of manpower in the Eastern Wilderness Province, let's replace it with the young and strong men and women who migrated from Winston Province, plus those naturalized barbarisms, it can still ensure that the number of people in the Eastern Wilderness Province will reach about 500,000. Now Silivia is in charge of the construction of hydroelectric facilities and the reclamation of land in Donghuang Province, hoping to make the cultivation of grain in the family territory reach the point of self-sufficiency this year and next, and there is no need to buy large quantities of high-priced grain from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce. Although there is no shortage of cattle and sheep in the family territory, it is too extravagant and wasteful to let the people eat meat, so they can just have miscellaneous grains to fill their stomachs.

You must know that cattle and sheep are hard currency that the Fisabrun family bought a large amount of materials from outside, although the family occupies the large and small Jinchuan areas and has a stable income from gold mines, but gold mining also requires capital. Besides, gold is easy to store and can be kept for the most critical moment of the family, but cattle and sheep are different, the family collects annual payments from those subjugated grass barbarian tribes, and the number of cattle and sheep has reached more than 100,000 heads, which is almost free capital. The Fisabrun family used these cattle and sheep every year to exchange a large number of materials from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, and then exchanged the materials for cattle and sheep from the grass barbarian tribes.

Just thinking of Princess Celevia, Grand Duke Fisabrun's face became gloomy. How well-behaved Celivia was when she was a child, and how did she become more disobedient as she grew up? Although it is true that the kid is the best marriage partner for Celevia in all respects, it is a pity that the kid is not on the same path as the Fisabrun family, on the contrary, the Norton family is still a potential enemy of the Fisabrun family. Thinking of that kid's refusal to make his request to his face, Grand Duke Fisabrun felt like he had been slapped in the face......

The rumors are not credible, don't look at the many nobles who are talking about the Norton family in private, the new leader of the Norton family, Lorist, is a person who loves the family and has no ambitions, but he has a strong family strength but shrinks into the Northland as a shrinking turtle, and he also has a four-way alliance in the Northland in order to protect himself. If other nobles had such a powerful family arm, they would have monopolized the northern land and even peeked into the world in order to go further. However, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun did not think so, and carefully deduced every step Lorist took, and the Grand Duke was secretly surprised in his heart.

Although the Grand Duke of Fisabrun did not know the words of building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king, he still did not underestimate the arrangement of Lorist over the years, the Northland has become a monolith, and the Norton family and his three allies have accumulated extremely strong strength, and they are at the point where they can attack, retreat and defend, so that after the news came that the four alliances of the Northland sent troops to destroy the Duchy of Madras in one fell swoop the year before last, although the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was shocked, he was not surprised, and the four alliances of the Northland did have the strength to destroy the country.

No wonder that kid dared to refuse his request, that was where his confidence lies. Whether it is personal cultivation or family strength, the Norton family is not inferior to the Fisabrun family, on the contrary, it is much surpassed. Grand Duke Fisabrun sighed deeply, he really wanted to use Celivia to tie the Norton family together, and influence the Norton family through the marriage of the two, at least not let that kid ruin his own good deeds. It's a pity that the kid was too strong, or he knew his own intentions, so he simply and rudely rejected the third request......

Now the Nortons are almost on the verge of turning against the Fisabruns, and after the last arms deal was completed at the end of last year, they only maintained the most hypocritical politeness. For example, the Earl of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce wrote to himself at the end of last year, apologetic for various reasons, the purpose is one, the price of all commodities has been greatly increased to two or three times this year, which is obviously to learn that the Fisabrun family has occupied the large and small Jinchuan area and has money, and has slaughtered himself as a big kaizi.

It is precisely because of this that the four alliances of the Northland know that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and the Central Four Duchy have joined forces to destroy the Duchy of Melain and open up a trade route to the Central Four, so why does the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce still have a fearless demand to greatly increase the price of goods? Aren't they afraid that the Fisaburun family will turn around and order from the Central Four Duchies? You must know that the rock salt produced by the Central Four Duchy is not much worse than snow salt......

Obviously, the four families of the Northlands probably wanted to stretch their claws against the Iberian Kingdom, and perhaps the destruction of the Duchy of Madras gave the four Northlands so much confidence that they did not take the Fisabrun family seriously. Everyone knows that the Iberian Kingdom relies on the Fisabrunn family, and to act against the Iberian Kingdom is to declare war on the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

Now the Grand Duke of Fisabrun regrets that he was too slow to act against the Iberian nobles last year, and wasted a lot of time in vain. Fortunately, two of the four major families in the Northland exchanged their territories last year, and the Grand Duke estimates that they will only settle down this year, and it will be next year if they want to do it. Or should we send an emissary to test it sooner, even if it costs an extra two million, it should be an insurance policy for this year's peace, Archduke Fisabrun thought.

I hope that this year can be completed in Winston Province according to their own plan, then next year I will have the confidence to have a good maneuver with the four alliances of the Northland in Winston Province, the time is too urgent, this year to complete the construction of the castle fortress in three places, train the garrison corps responsible for defense, and relocate most of the residents of Winston Province, there are thousands of things, time is not waiting!

At this time, the two court maids on the bed, who had been tossed by the Grand Duke last night, finally woke up, and saw the Grand Duke of Fisabrun standing in front of the window in a nightgown and sighed for a long time, so they hurriedly got up and fetched hot water, and brought a new rainy and shy service to the Grand Duke to wipe the body, and by the way, the Grand Duke was addicted to the two of them. I was about to give the old and strong Grand Duke Fisabrun a good morning bite, but was rejected by the Grand Duke with a wave of his hand. The Grand Duke picked up his saber and went out to start his morning exercise.

While Lorist rode his horse towards the Rose Palace, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was enjoying a hearty breakfast in his study after his morning exercises, reviewing some documents and taking care of some administrative affairs of the kingdom. At the first sound of the alarm horn, the Grand Duke only frowned, and he thought that it was probably the thousands of trained soldiers who had been gathered in the Grand Campus to make a fuss.

Because those thousands of people were selected from the private soldiers left by the nobles of the southern provinces and the garrisons of the nobles of the traditional territories who were destroyed by themselves, they all awakened their fighting spirit, although most of them were bronze and black iron, but the day before yesterday, the First Frontier Ranger Regiment went out, and people with intentions must have thought that this was an opportunity, so they instigated these people to mutiny or something.

It doesn't matter, just lead the guards around you to kill a group of them, and if you kill those soldiers, you will naturally be honest and obedient, and they will not dare to go west when they are told to go east in the future, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun has always governed the army with iron and blood, otherwise how can those grass barbarians with a perverse nature and a tyrannical temper obediently obey his orders? Without him, with a big stick in one hand and a radish in the other, it is good for those who obey orders, and those who do not listen to the command will have one word, kill!

However, when the bells of the enemy attack in the royal city were connected, the face of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun finally changed, this is not a mutiny, there is an enemy attack, who will it be?

Just when the Grand Duke of Fisabrun sent people out to find out what was going on, and while summoning the palace guards to arrange the defense and prepare to take people out of the palace, he heard a loud "bang", and the two doors of the Rose Palace were kicked open, and a somewhat familiar voice sounded very arrogantly: "His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, the distinguished guests are coming, and they should not come out quickly to greet them!"

"Who dares to be so rude!" was the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and when he came out of the palace, he saw that it was Lorist standing in front of the two doors that had been kicked to the ground, and in a flash of his sword, there was a loyal palace guard who fell to the ground with blood splashed and died, and thirty or forty people were lying on the ground all around......

"You stand down......" Grand Duke Fisabrun's heart is dripping blood, these guards around him are the elite of the Fisabrun family's armed forces, after holding a knight tournament the year before last, Grand Duke Fisabrun learned from Lorist, and transferred two thousand soldiers from his own family armed forces to form a guard battalion around him, so that these guards would follow him for two or three years, and then be sent to the family armed forces after a period of training, each of which was a hundred team leaders. It not only increases the loyalty and sense of honor of the family armed forces, but more importantly, it enhances the combat power of the family armed forces, making their own commands more handy, like an arm.

"Hehe, Your Highness, Norton Lorist is here to visit!" Lorist did not chase after these retreating little trash fish, but greeted Archduke Fisabrun with all his might.

Although the face of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was as heavy as water, his heart was in turmoil at this moment, Lorlist, how did he come, and he came to the door so arrogantly. The Grand Duke recalled the scene of Lorist killing the golden three-star knight in one move at the banquet that day, and his eyes were full of jealousy and vigilance. If you have a sword in your hand, it is not difficult to kill a golden three-star knight in one move, and no matter how you say it, the Grand Duke is also a third-level great sword master. But with his bare hands, the Grand Duke believed that he would never be able to bring about the life of his opponent as neatly as Lorlist......

"You, how did you get here?" said Archduke Fisabrun, while making a gesture of caution, while holding his left hand behind his back.

"Haha, His Royal Highness, of course I came to visit with my family arms, this Iberian kingdom is not even a king, so naturally it should also perish. That's what the Four Northland Alliances are here for. Come on, Your Highness, we can sit down and discuss what to do about this......" But looking at Lorist's posture with a sword, it doesn't look like a good discussion at all.

"You, you are dreaming, this Grand Duke will never allow the Iberian kingdom to perish!" said Grand Duke Fisabrun angrily.

"Really?" Lorist smiled, "You don't say it, I do." Old fellow, your First Frontier Ranger Regiment is finished, all wiped out, and not a single one has slipped through the net, otherwise how do you think we got here? Stretch out your ears and listen carefully to the cheers outside, the victorious cheers of King Windbury falling into our hands. You're done, old man, give up your sword and surrender, for Cilivia's sake, I'll let your Fisabrun family live, as long as you are obedient, hahaha......"

Lorist laughed triumphantly, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun stood in front of him, and at this moment he assured the old man that he would not be able to fly. As long as the Grand Duke of Fisabrun falls into his own hands, hehe, then all the problems are solved.

"Fart!" Grand Duke Fisabrun shouted: "Norton boy, this Grand Duke will never give up with you, the Fisabrun family is inseparable from you, if you want me to abandon the sword and surrender, you will die of this heart, as long as the Grand Duke has a sword in his hand, he will fight to the death with you!"

"Really?" Lorist sneered, "Don't give up your sword?" Look at the sword!"

Lorist is the main player and rushes forward.

"Zheng Zheng Zheng!"

The sound of sword strikes rang out three times, and Grand Duke Fisabrun slashed out three meters away.

"Yes, old fellow, your basic skills are much more solid than your old concubine, and it seems that it will take a little effort to take you down......," Lorist praised.

"What do you mean?" Archduke Fisabrun did not dare to be careless, and slowly circled around Lorist with his sword, as if he wanted to find a good time to take the initiative to attack.

"Don't you understand? Your old concubine, the great swordsman of Xiandi, hehe, is also a third-level person, he hasn't gone through ten moves under me, and now he is a prisoner in the imperial capital. "Although Lorist is sure to take down the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, on the surface, he is unscrupulous, but he still raises his vigilance, and it will become a joke if the boat capsizes in the gutter, after all, the Grand Duke is also a third-level great sword master who has been famous for a long time, maybe there is some unexpected trick that can surprise him.

"You, you are talking nonsense!" said Archduke Fisabrun, and his steps were confused when he heard the bad news.

Lorist didn't take advantage of the fire to rob: "I'm talking nonsense? Hehe, I really think that our Norton family is easy to bully, knowing that Reddy is my eldest disciple, and dare to go out to hunt him down in person, is it really easy for me to be messed with? The tiger doesn't threaten you, I am a sick cat! And your plan in Winston Province, do you think that our four alliances in the Northland are blind and blind people? I think it is beautiful, so that Winston Province will become the main battlefield with us...... Hehe, I'm sorry!"

"Bullying, bullying is too much! I, I'll fight with you!" Archduke Fisabrun's face was flushed with anger, and the anger in his eyes stared at Lorist like substance, and he scolded and pounced.

"Good time!" Lorist cried out, ready for a stormy attack by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

Unexpectedly, Grand Duke Fisabrun pounced forward, but his body retreated sharply, and he shouted violently: "Release the arrow!"

With his shout, nearly a hundred longbowmen suddenly flashed in the secret places of the palace, and the rain of arrows shot at Lorist in a continuous stream......

"Oh my day!" Lorist scolded, he didn't expect the old guy to have this trick, this is too shameless, he is a three-great swordsman!

But Lorist can't help it, he has to deal with these nearly 100 longbowmen first, many of them are silver-ranked, and the arrows shot are fast and fierce, accurate and ruthless, Lorist jumps up and down, dodging and blocking, and finally approaches these longbowmen, and pounces into the crowd to kill these longbowmen, but at this time he loses the trace of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun......

There was a neighing of war horses in the distance, and Lorist jumped up to the roof of a large hall to look at the place where the horses neighed, but saw Archduke Fisabrun with dozens of guards galloping away from the Rose King's palace towards the south gate. The old man glanced at Lorist from a distance before he left.

Not good, this old immortal wants to run, Lorist flew down from the main hall and hurried in the direction of the south city gate.

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