Chapter Sixty-Eight: The War Begins

"My lord, we're back. "Pat, El took Mr. Tim into the big tent.

"Oh, come back, Reddy, go get Knight Schreed and Sedkamp, and by the way, Captain Dorus of the convoy. Lorist rubbed his face to sober himself up. I didn't sleep all night last night, just to study how to eat the reinforcements sent by Count Cobilly, and try to minimize the losses of the family forces escorting the convoy.

"Sit down, it's going to be a good trip, isn't it?Pat, pour a glass of Max for Mr. Tim, I saw Reddy tinkering there for a long time in the morning, and I smelled the scent. Lorist said.

Fat Man and Sedkamp arrived quickly, and Lorist asked them to check the grain, grass, supplies and belongings that had been brought back, and register them in the warehouse and make a good account book.

Soon, Shi Fatzi returned to the big tent with a happy face: "My lord, they are all refined flour, and there are 200,000 catties." ”

"Mr. Tim, why does Viscount Talbury have so much fine flour?" asked Lorlist.

Tim stood up and saluted: "My lord, this is the Viscount's grain production for two years, and all of it is ground into fine flour for a better deal." Every two years, caravans would come to the Viscounty to buy the refined flour, and the total value of the trade was more than a thousand gold fords. I've always been in charge of this. ”

"Oh, I see. With this batch of refined flour, the food supply of the convoy should be much more abundant. Thank you, Mr. Tim, and rest assured that we will not take this batch of supplies for nothing, and will buy them at market price. Lorist nodded.

Dorus entered the tent and saluted, and Lorist told him to wait a while, and there would be something for him to do.

After a while, Sedcamp came in and reported to Lorist with the account book: "My lord, seven large wooden chests, a total of 17,000 gold fortunes and 110,000 gold coins of the old man's head of the empire. ”

"Mr. Tim, as heir to the Viscount of Timberley, I think a thousand goldfords are well suited to your ransom expenses. The remaining gold is kept in our convoy, and all your expenses and those of your subordinates will be deducted from this account until we help you get the Viscounty. We'll give you back any extra gold, do you think that's okay?" said Lorlist, looking at Tim.

Tim bent down deeply: "My lord, everything will be done according to your wishes. ”

"Very well, you are wise. Mr. Tim, how many people are willing to serve you now?" asked Lorlist.

"Well, I don't know much about this, there should be more than six hundred. You'll have to ask the Knight Comers ...... exact number," Tim thought for a moment, unsure.

"Knight Comers, who is he?"

Tim hurriedly explained to Lorist that Knight Comers was a knight of Viscount Tebberly's family, with two silver stars. It's just a little old, fifty-three years old, with a straightforward personality, and often admonishes the Viscount for certain behaviors, and is very unpopular with the Viscount. If it weren't for the fact that he had been a knight of the Tebury family for generations, and was loyal, Lord Viscount would have sent him away long ago.

In order not to let him be annoyed by the fact that he was dangling in front of him, the Viscount sent him to the Grange to guard the fine flour of the trade. And Tim was ordered by Lord Viscount to hide this batch of grain, and it was only with the great assistance of Knight Comers that it could be completed. Then when he returned to the castle, he found that the Viscount's family was finished, so Knight Commers took Tim as the master, and prepared to let Tim pass on the blood of the Tebury family, and gathered the people of the Grange to go to the western mountains to build a cottage to become a force against Count Kobilly.

This time, the cottage was broken by the sweeping troops, and Tim ordered to surrender relatively quickly, and the personnel losses of the cottage were not large. After being rescued by the convoy, Tim became the leader of the original cottage leaders, and with a few familiar cottage members nearby, he quickly gathered more than 600 young people. However, Tim said that he did not understand military matters, and they were all left to Knight Comers.

"Well, Mr. Tim, you will go back to your men, and I will order you to go down and equip your men and horses, and you take your men and horses to the opposite camp to set up another battalion, and I will allow you to fly the banner of the Tebberly family. Then you send a few articulate men back to the western mountains, and vigorously publicize that our convoy is going to attack the territory of Earl Corbilly, and invite the various rebel forces there to come and join and cheer on our convoy, or you can go to Earl Corbilly's family territory to make a big profit, and take all the loot to their own. And after arranging your men, let your Knight of Kremus supervise them to train, and then return here to be taught the proper etiquette of the nobility. ”

"Dorles, get acquainted, this is Mr. Tim, heir to Viscount Turberly. For some reason, Mr. Tim was not taught aristocratic etiquette. I know that you have been an assistant in the etiquette class at Dawn Academy for a while, and now I am leaving him to you to teach Mr. Tim to be a nobleman of impeccable manners in the shortest possible time, understand?" Lorist commanded Dorus, who was waiting beside him.

"Yes, sir. After saluting, Dorres said to Tim, "Go, Mr. Tim, now you can go and finish what your adult has told you, and I will be by your side to see what you need to improve in your behavior and manners, and the etiquette training has begun." ”

After Dorus and Tim had retired, Lorist said to Fat Man and Sedcamp, "Build another account book of the grain and gold that Tim brought back this time, and make a copy of it for him." Tell him that whatever he needs will be taken from the main camp, and that everything he spends will be deducted from this book. This time, he armed his men and horses, and used the weapons and equipment handed in by the surrendered garrisons, and discounted them at market prices. As for the materials they need to set up another camp, they are also allocated to them, you two should not go too far, it is okay to be a little more expensive, but don't turn over and increase the price. ”

Shi Fatzi laughed: "I was just thinking about whether the price would increase several times in my stomach, and you broke it." Forget it, Sedkemp, just listen to your young master, we won't increase the price of those things, weapons and equipment are 7% off, and other materials will be sold to Mr. Tim at market price. It's all up to you. ”

"Yes. Sedercamp saluted and hurried away.

The big tent was left with Lorlist, Fat Man, El, Pat, and Reddy. Pat couldn't help but ask Lorlist: "My lord, why do you still let that Mr. Tim be so laissez-faire, not only allowing him to organize an army, but also letting people teach him how to become a nobleman? ”

Lorist laughed: "Pat, it is not up to us to decide whether Mr. Tim is a liar or not, in fact, Viscount Tybley's entire family is in trouble, so it is beyond reproach to find an illegitimate son to come out and continue the bloodline, such an example is not unheard of among nobles." If I were in the Northlands, I would have beheaded him as a liar like those nobles, and annexed the viscountyls by the way. But this is in the kingdom of Redlis, thousands of miles from the Northland, why should I do such a thankless job. Killing Mr. Tim would not do us any benefit, on the contrary, I would raise Mr. Tim to become a nobleman here, a force, and a favor for our family. In the future, in this area, our family will also have a helper. Got it?"

Shi Fat also opened his mouth next to him: "Also, vigorously support Mr. Tim and help him build a family army is to set an example for those forces in this area who resist Count Corbilly, is it to be our friend or our enemy? Be our enemy, and we will destroy it without mercy. The most important thing is that we are not short of gold and weapons, what we lack is people who come to trade, so we don't need to fight the idea of the gold and food that Mr. Tim brought, as long as it is fair, it will naturally attract those resistance forces to come and trade with us. ”

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As Shi Fat Man said, since Tim led his men and horses to set up another battalion in the opposite camp to play the banner of Viscount Tybley, as well as the move of the Chosk Knight to take over his family members with great fanfare and Tim sent people to publicize the results of the convoy's armed annihilation of the sweeping troops in the western mountains, the resistance forces in the western mountains have sent people to negotiate or trade in the western mountains for several days, and Shi Fatzi's weapons and equipment trading has finally opened, because the price is reasonable and the quality is guaranteed, in just a few days, Shi Fatzi exchanged weapons and equipment for hundreds of war horses, which can be regarded as alleviating the situation of the lack of war horses in the family convoy。

However, many rebel forces' plans to exchange war horses for a batch of grain and grass were rejected by Shi Fatzi on the pretext that his family had a big business and a large convoy and there was not much food. However, Shi Fatzi said that in the past two days, the convoy was ready to send men and horses to Count Billy's territory after eliminating the reinforcements sent by Count Billy, and then these rebels were welcome to go to make a fortune together. These rebel forces are all suspicious, but there are still many people who are ready to see if what Shi Fat Man said is true, and the convoy is really ready to destroy the reinforcements sent by Count Corbilly.

After another two days, Yuri sent someone to report back, and finally found the traces of reinforcements sent by Count Corbilly. As everyone expected, it was indeed a squadron of lancers, but there were dozens of more carts, which seemed to be transporting some kind of supplies. According to estimates, they walked for six days along the way, and there was still one day to travel before they could reach the barracks. The march was a grinding, and Lorist had expected the reinforcements to arrive in four or five days.

The process of encircling and annihilating the reinforcements sent by Count Cobilly was lackluster, and when the squadron of lancers found themselves in an ambush of the enemy and was surrounded, they were in chaos, and the knights of Joske showed their magic skills in front of everyone, and the three arrows shot the three silver knights led by the squadron of lancers off their horses, and after the battle, it was found that two of the three silver knights were the illegitimate sons of Count Cobilly, and the knights of Joske also sighed.

Then Telman's newly formed knight squad and Bodfinger, Rose's two squadrons of heavily armored lancers launched a charge, and the lancers, who had been trekking in the snow for five or six days, could not resist such a fierce attack, and the leader had already died under Josk's arrows, and surrendered after only a little resistance.

After the battle, Lorist and his family knights were embarrassed to find that although the casualties in the battle were slight, the only soldier who died was accidentally injured by his own people and fell off his horse, and finally died after being trampled in the chest by his horse. There are also dozens of cases of self-injury and accidental injury, and less than 10 have been injured after fighting the enemy. After the statistics came out, Telman, Bodfinger and Rose blushed like monkey butts, and they were really embarrassed.

However, the representatives of the rebels who were invited to watch the battle did not notice these shortcomings, and only saw that the convoy was armed to the ground of Count Corbilly's squadron of lancers, and completely annihilated the support army. Then I calculated in my heart that three of Earl Billy's squadrons of lancers had been wiped out by the convoy, and the garrison had also been wiped out by a brigade plus a squadron stationed in the barracks, so Count Billy had lost more than half of his troops, and now his huge sphere of influence was like a thinly dressed beauty, underdefended, waiting for everyone to get on the ground soon.

Soon, the bosses of the various rebel forces in the western mountains came to the barracks with their men and horses, and you 300 and 500 of you crowded the opposite camp. Lorist and Fat Man gathered the leaders of these rebel forces and fought with them for a day and a night, and after promising the convoy to provide them with armed shelter, under the instigation of the opportunity to not miss the time, the resistance of nearly 3,000 people roared towards the sphere of influence of Count Corbilly.

The first to be unlucky was the original family domain of Count Corbilly, and the castle of Burgdock Manor received more than a dozen alarms a day, either the village was robbed by bandits or the warehouse was attacked, and the wolf smoke was everywhere for a while. The bastard son of the golden-rank Earl of Cobilly, who was sitting in the castle of Burdock's manor, angrily gathered three squads of garrisons and went out of the castle to find trouble with the bandits who dared to offend the territory of the Cobilly family. The end was tragic, the three garrison squads were wiped out, and the head of the golden-ranked bastard was stuck in Ross's spear.

After seeing this head, the last garrison team guarding Burdock Manor Castle wisely chose to surrender, and Burdock Manor Castle fell into the hands of Lorist in its entirety.

"Let's go!" Fat Shi rode on a tall Zino warhorse, waving his whip in high spirits.

Nearly a thousand carriages formed four columns and headed for the distance. In the barracks, the Norton family's furious bear flag slowly fell, and the banner representing the horseshoe coat of arms of the Tebury family was raised.

After receiving the news from Lorist, Shi Fatzi, who had been prepared, ordered the family convoy to march towards Burdock Manor Castle. Before leaving, Fat Shi also made a deal with Mr. Tim, transferring the military camp to him for 1,000 gold fords. And Tim also felt that the defense facilities of the barracks were much better than his cottage in the western mountains because the original viscount was dilapidated, and the two hit it off.

After a few days of training in aristocratic etiquette, Mr. Tim looked like an aristocratic person, or at least dressed appropriately. During this time, there were supplies from the convoy, and under the banner of Viscount Tybley, he vigorously recruited men and collected the exiles, and now he also had more than a thousand strong soldiers and more than 2,000 lords. It can also be regarded as a relatively large armed force among the resistance forces. It was just to Mr. Tim's dismay that the number of his deposits in the team's books had dwindled very quickly, and so far only about 10,000 Kingford remained.

This is not that the team embezzled Mr. Tim's gold coins, on the contrary, Mr. Tim is very grateful to the team for the help he has given, every time the team deals with him, it is a clear price, and also gives him a great discount, but the cost of collecting these thousands of men is too great, so Mr. Tim can't wait to go to Earl Cobilly's family territory to make a big profit, this time he brought 800 strong soldiers with the team, and also ordered his subordinates to bring an extra-large bag to be used for war spoils.