Chapter 172: Roll rough

His Majesty King Crisson Iberia's hands were bruised, and his whole body trembled with anger.

As the second prince of the former Krissian Empire, now the king of the Iberian Kingdom, he felt that he had been insulted like never before. He never dreamed that the new head of the Norton family would write two words in his reply: "Get out."

For the Norton family, the second prince has already put a lot of effort into gathering intelligence. When he first sent troops to the Duchy of Madras, he heard a rumor that the Norton family in the Northland had a large convoy to help His Royal Highness of the Kingdom of Antinac seize the ruling power, stabilize the kingdom, and assist His Royal Highness to conquer the fortress of Liechdana in the Duchy of Madras and sweep through the province of Yungshandra.

The second prince laughed at this rumor, is it possible? Although the Norton family is known as the roaring bear of the Northlands, the young master who wants to inherit the family business, the Golden Knight Abrid, fell after he died on the battlefield under his command, so that the Kenmax family, a business family that was newly canonized as a territory noble, was beaten, and since there was no use value, the second prince ignored the disputes of these territory nobles in the Northland, and even in order to win over the Duke of Lukins in the Northland, the second prince also took it upon himself to transfer the jurisdiction of all the territory nobles in the Northland to the Grand Duke of the Northland.

However, when the second prince occupied the city of Kebo, he got accurate information from the displaced people abandoned by the convoy in the city, and the Norton family did have a large convoy, more than 10,000 carriages, and nearly 100,000 homeless people to go north. It was only when the second prince sent troops to pursue him that he found that the Norton family's convoy had already crossed the Mitoburo River, and the pursuers could only look at the river and sigh.

Next, the second prince was busy looting the private wealth of the nobles of the province of Delemke in the Duchy of Madras. They were hanged for fornication against the Andiac kingdom and rebellion against the Iberian kingdom's support army. It is also necessary to sweep around the private armies of the nobles who raise troops to resist. Until the defeat of the city of Kebo. He had left the Norton family's northbound convoy behind.

This expedition to the Duchy of Madras was a great gain in terms of harvest, not only to write off the huge debts of the Grand Duke of Madras, but also to collect a large amount of money, grain, grass and materials from the nobles of the province of Delemk to fill the empty treasury, which can be called a big fortune.

The Battle of Kebo City failed, and the second prince had no choice but to withdraw his troops from the Duchy of Madras, experiencing two major defeats in the "Attack of Daybreak" and the "Battle of Kebo". The second prince lost more than 50,000 soldiers. Although most of them were the private armies of the nobles of the territory under his command, the three frontier guards supported by the second prince's father-in-law, Grand Duke Fisabrun, also lost more than 20,000 people, which was the most heartbreaking for the second prince.

In troubled times, military power is supreme, and the second prince knows this truth well. He is going to use this capture to form a kingdom legion directly under his jurisdiction, one is to stabilize his throne, and the other is to lay the foundation for the next army, but the second prince can't think of any territory in the kingdom where he can form a legion and train troops with peace of mind......

When the Iberian Kingdom was founded, it consisted of five provinces of the former Cresian Empire, of which Northland accounted for half of the size of the Iberian Kingdom and was self-contained. In addition to suppressing the Grand Duke of the Northland, the second prince did not allow him to establish a principality and break away from the kingdom. There has never been a good way to keep the Northlands under their control.

As for the Eastern Wilderness Province and Makinohara Province, which are close to the Northeast Prairie, they are the private lands of the second prince's father-in-law, Grand Duke Fisabrun, and are also the foundation of the frontier army under his command. Unless the second prince is crazy, he will not fight these two provinces.

Then the rest of the Iberian Kingdom is the Southern Province and the Winston Province, where the current royal capital Windbri is located. It's just that the southern province has just been beaten to pieces by the Grand Duke of Merein and the Tempest Legion, and if the second prince puts the newly formed kingdom legion here to train, it is likely that the Grand Duke of Mehlain will have the idea of striking first, and the second prince doesn't want to let the Grand Duke of Melein fight under the royal capital again.

When the second prince founded the country, for the sake of face, he changed the southern province into three southern counties, and the larger Winston province into four counties in the royal capital, and in order to raise military expenses and maintain his luxurious life, he sold the territory directly under his jurisdiction at a high price, so that now he can't find a place to train his troops.

Just when the second prince was full of melancholy to plan for the next step, a search unit that was at the forefront of the army sent him several merchants. From the mouths of these merchants, the second prince once again heard the news of the Norton family's northbound convoy. They defeated the coalition of Northland lords led by Duke Lukins, Grand Duke of the Northlands, and won a great victory. And in order to take revenge on the Grand Duke of the Northland, they also robbed the Grand Duke's territory in the southern elite area of the Northland, and relocated all the people in the Grand Duke's territory of the Northland. Now the Northland dragons are ownerless and out of control.

This is really a big pie falling from the sky, the second prince immediately made a decision, sent troops to the Hengdeli Ford Rope Bridge, and sure enough, it was effortless to occupy two strategic fortresses, and then occupied the capital of the Grand Duke, Gildusk, and saw Duke Lukins in a coma due to vomiting blood in the Grand Duke's Palace.

The second prince waved his hand, and Duke Lukins left the Northland in the name that the royal capital Windbri City was more suitable for recuperation, and whether he could return to the Northland in his lifetime was already a tacit answer to everyone's mind.

After taking over the mess left by the Grand Duke of the Northland, the second prince realized how completely the so-called Grand Duke of the Southern Grand Duke of the Northland Essence Zone had been destroyed, and he couldn't find a working blacksmith or a servant in the capital of the Grand Duke, let alone the villages outside the city that were burned to the ground.

At this time, the second prince received a report that when a large group of 2,500 soldiers of the Frontier Corps and nearly 3,000 noble private troops were going to rob the seemingly intact town of Evenson, they were attacked by the remnants of the Northland Legion in the nearby Sakura Ridge Manor, suffering heavy losses and killing more than 2,000 people.

How can this be reasonable, the second prince immediately ordered a large army to go out, but unexpectedly, the remnants of the so-called Northland Legion pulled out more than 10,000 people, all on horseback, all dressed in iron armor, and the first was two golden knights, one was the self-proclaimed Baron Sahein, one of the golden knights of the former Grand Duke of the Northland, Knight Henned, and the second was also. Tabek Golden Knight. As the five famous knights of the Golden Family under the Grand Duke of the Northland. They are no strangers to the second prince. It's even called an old acquaintance.

Looking at the chaotic array of subordinates, and then looking at the murderous aura on the opposite side, the second prince knew that if he fought, he would definitely not be able to please anything. So he rode out of battle alone, and persuaded him with good words, only to know that the original knight of Hennend had inherited his father's domain and the title of baron, and now the castle of the Grand Duke's Sakura Ridge Manor and the town of Evenson have become the territory of the Shaheen family, and even Tabek has become the knight of the Henneid family.

The second prince had no choice but to apologize for his ignorance and offending the Shahin family's territory, and explained that it was because of Duke Lukins's illness. He has now taken over the dukedom and cordially invites Knight Henneid to join him in the cause.

Knight Henned, who has become Baron Shaheen, gave the second prince a lot of face, and he accepted the second prince's apology, saying that those who did not know were not guilty. It's just that as a vassal family of the Grand Duke of the Northland, it is difficult for him to agree to the invitation of the second prince without the approval of the Grand Duke. After all, Duke Lukins was so gracious to him that he entrusted the Northland Legion to him at the time of crisis, not only allowing him to inherit the position of baron, but also making the Tabek knight his family knight, so his loyalty to Duke Lukins was just around the corner. However, if the Duke himself tells him, let him join the second prince. Then he promised not to say a word and serve the second prince until death......

First of all, I suffered a loss. Then he hit a soft nail again, and the second prince withdrew his troops back to the city in a depressed manner. The only catch was when he curiously asked Knight Henned, where did all the iron armor of his soldiers come from?

So the second prince spent a lot of energy to inquire and collect information about the Norton family, and when a steady stream of gossip and rumors gathered in front of the second prince, he finally sorted out a more or less reliable information from it.

It turned out that the second young master who was exiled by the family for ten years was now in charge of the Norton family, who left the family at the age of fourteen and learned a good skill with his bare hands outside, although the strength of the fighting spirit was only black iron, but he once folded the golden knight Tabek of the Grand Duke of the Northland with his subordinates, and let Tabek lie in bed for a year.

Arrogant, he took the initiative to provoke a war with the Kenmas family as soon as he took over the family territory, set fire to the Red River Valley Manor Castle of Viscount Kenmaz, and built a rock castle in the Morgen hills. Refusing the blackmail of the Northland Archduke, he annihilated the 4,000 men sent by the Northland Archduke to conquer the Norton family, and also sent troops to attack, and hanged Baron Farad, who had whipped and led the horse for the second prince, on the charge of hurting the messenger of the Norton family......

It is said that the second young master of the Norton family made a fortune during his exile, and after receiving the news that the family asked him to return to inherit the title and family territory, he organized a convoy to go all the way north, and there were many gold-level family knights under his command, the most famous is a golden archer who returned to the family territory with the second young master first, during his time in the rock castle, the Northland lords coalition organized by Duke Lukins was overwhelmed for a long time, and finally waited until the arrival of the Norton family's northbound convoy and suffered a major defeat.

Knowing the general information about the Norton family, the second prince only understood three points, the first point, the Norton family is very rich, and the assets they have looted from the Grand Duke's territory alone exceed one million gold fords, not to mention the paper convoy going north, nearly 20,000 carriages, it is said that the iron armor loaded is countless, and Hennell said that the iron armor exchanged for the 10,000 people under his command is less than one-tenth of the total number of iron armor of the Norton family.

The second point is that the armed forces of the Norton family are very strong, estimated to be forty or fifty thousand people, and their weapons and equipment are more complete and leading than the second prince's Iberian King **** and the border guards. At present, the second prince can only befriend in the Northlands, not to offend the Norton family.

The third point, which is what the second prince finds most ridiculous, is that the new head of the Norton family, the second young master is a dog-keeper with a mouse's eyes, no ambition, and a turtle-like turtle. As long as anyone has the current financial resources and force of the Norton family as capital, as long as they have a little ambition, then the Northland has long become a delicious meal on their plate. Instead of defeating the Grand Duke of the Northlands and robbing the Grand Duke, as the new head of the Norton family did, he took the proceeds of the captivity and retracted his head back to the family territory.

Looking at the map of the Norton family's territory in the Northland, and the rocky castle in the Morgen Hills that separates the family's territory from the outside world, the second prince thought it was really funny, the roaring angry bear that shook the Northland had turned into a shrunken turtle in the Northland, and the territory was large but extremely desolate. It seems that the Norton family has migrated so many people from the Grand Duke, and they are preparing to retreat themselves. of engage in territory developed.

From the point of view of the second prince. He had to thank the new head of the unambitious Norton family, if he hadn't given the Grand Duke of the Northland a salary, the second prince would not have taken over the Grand Duke so smoothly. The second prince didn't care if the people were gone, and the seven counties he ruled in the Iberian Kingdom were full of landless peasants and war-torn refugees, and the second prince had ordered his lords to take these people to the Grand Duke of the Northland, where there was ready-made farmland for them to cultivate. As long as the second prince has more patience, when these peasants and refugees have a harvest and settle down, the Grand Duke of the Northland will be able to become a treasure land that will continue to provide him with manpower and material resources.

Occupied the Grand Duke. Not only did it eliminate Duke Lukins, the biggest obstacle bent on separating the Northlands from the Iberian Kingdom and becoming a principality, but it also provided the second prince with a place to train his troops and collect wealth. The second prince is full of ambition, he wants to effectively control the entire northland, tie all the nobles of the northland to the chariot under his command, and shed blood and sweat for his cause of fighting for hegemony in the world......

And the second prince now has time, he doesn't fight against the day, everything takes his time. For the Norton family, who he can't afford to provoke at the moment, the second prince doesn't plan to let it go. You must know that the former Grand Duke of the Northland was also a housekeeper, but he was still played with by the second prince in the palm of his hand. The second prince was very excited, since the new head of the Norton family was also a family dog. Then he has experience to deal with him, compared to the Grand Duke of the Northland. It's clear that it's the fledgling little ones who are easier to get away.

The letter to the new head of the Norton family, the second prince, was well thought out, and even the three conditions were a temptation. The first condition called for the surrender of the 300,000 gold fords in the private treasury of the Grand Duke of the Northlands, and the purpose was simple, to make the Norton family feel that his robbery of the Grand Duke of the Northland had become a legitimate and sanctioned act of revenge. He robbed a million yuan, but the second prince only needs a small 300,000 of them, which will make the Norton family feel that he has taken a big advantage, as long as he hands over 300,000, he will not be held accountable for the crime of moving all the people of the Grand Duke's territory, I believe that the Norton family will be happy to send 300,000 gold fords to the second prince......

The second requirement is to target the new lord of the Norton family, who is like a dog, let the new lord swear allegiance in front of the second prince, and promote the title of the Norton family, which is both a temptation and a trap, as long as people come to the second prince, the second prince has the means to manipulate him. What's the use of having more golden knights, like Duke Lukins, one of the reasons why he doesn't dare to become an independent principality in the Northland is that the five golden knights under his command have been repeatedly suppressed by the two great swordsmen beside the second prince......

The third requirement is to let the Norton family send two corps to pacify the northern land for the second prince, which is actually another test of the Norton family's ambitions, after all, such a powerful army is shrunk in the family territory, and the second prince is not at ease when he sleeps. If you agree to this request, then it means that the Norton family is sincerely obedient to the second prince, and then they can consider how to cut meat from the Norton family and have a good meal......

From remembering the eldest young master of the Norton family who died bravely on the battlefield for himself to putting forward three requirements, the second prince felt that the letter he wrote was justified and touching, and he dreamed that the new head of the Norton family was subservient to him, allowing himself to take away the Norton family, and the population, weapons, equipment, materials and property were endless......

The second prince laughed out loud in his dreams......

But what's the matter with this reply? There are just two words on the paper -- roll rough.

The vocabulary of the Guelinthia lingua franca does not include the phrase "roll", and no one has ever associated the word "roll" with "bold". It's not getting out, it's not getting out, but the two words are put together The second prince realized that there was a strong malice in it, with contempt and ridicule, as if he had been slapped twice in the face......

The second prince slowly folded the reply letter in his hand, as a superior person, there is still a little bit of silence in the city, after sending Viscount Hinderson who went to deliver the letter, the second prince pinched the reply and gritted his teeth, as long as he gave him time and let him find a chance, then he would definitely let the Norton family never recover, and then he would definitely let the new master swallow this reply alive, no one had ever insulted the second prince who had been in a high position since he was a child, he would remember these two words firmly...... (To be continued.) )