Chapter 434: Hunting

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun simply accepted Lorlist's invitation to the banquet, and did not even ask Lorist why he was invited to the banquet, and he only brought one of his attendants with a swagger. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lorist felt that he had been a villain in vain, and he had been entangled for so long. The lover is not worried that he will harm him at all. Thinking about it, if he invited the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to his disadvantage, then the reputation of the Norton family would be ruined.

Not to mention that no one will believe in the credibility of the Norton family in the future, maybe most of the family knights under his command will turn away. In the world of Gaylinthia, the reputation of the family is the most sacred honor, at least most of the nobles, knights, and lords are of the same opinion. Even some nobles and knights sacrificed their lives for the sake of the family's honor.

Just like Lorlist, in order to maintain the Norton family's loyalty to the Kerisian royal family's ancestral oath and had to serve the Second Highness, even if the current Norton family's strength has surpassed the Antinac Kingdom, Lorist still has to obediently be the Grand Duke of the Northland of the kingdom, and the Second Highness is in vain.

In the continent of Gelinthia, keeping promises and loyalty are still the traditional virtues preached by the nobles, even if the nobles intrigue with each other in private and tear each other down, but at least their faces and mouths must be above board. In the nearly 1,000-year history of the mainland, there were very few rebels, and all of them were nailed to the frame of shame, and all of them became negative teaching materials. The tradition of the Gallinthians is so strange, the upper lord is unfair, and the lower lord can rebel, but not rebel.

Well, all this is the fault of this sinister and cunning old fox, why did he accept my banquet so brazenly without asking why? Could it be that he really didn't worry about me harming him, or did he look down on me, and didn't believe that I had the courage to move him? Lorist gritted his teeth and planted all the imaginary reasons for his mistakes on the old man who had come to the banquet, but he still had to force a smile and enthusiastically welcome the Grand Duke of Fisabrun into his big tent.

Lorist set up a private banquet, that is, a table of wine was set up in the big tent, and he and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun were not prepared to have a feast for the whole army to celebrate or anything. This is that he thinks he already has five children, so it is not a big deal for Princess Celivia to become pregnant. Second, he was worried that coming to a banquet for the whole army or something would make the family misunderstand, thinking that he really paid attention to the difference between his concubines and concubines. After thinking about it for a long time, it was decided that it would be enough to have a private banquet with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and tell him the news, without having to publicize it everywhere.

Seriously counted, this is the second time that Lorist and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun have met privately, the first time was in the royal city of Windbri, Lorist privately discussed with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun about marrying Princess Celevia, because Lorist refused to agree to the third condition put forward by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, which was to exile his concubines and illegitimate children, and the negotiations collapsed, and Lorist was angry and parted. Then, a year later, Lorist led the four alliances of the Northlands to drive the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and his family back to his family domain, forcing him to sacrifice Princess Celivia in order to reach an armistice.

Then the Second Highness went to the Eastern Wilderness Province, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun bowed his head and surrendered to the Second Highness, becoming the same kingdom and one camp as Lorlist, so that Lorist had to admire the old man's thick skin and strong flexibility, and he became more and more suspicious of this old man. After sending troops to the four central principalities, although they belonged to the same camp, Lorist really had no private contact with this old man, and every time His Royal Highness held a military meeting, a large group of people gathered together.

Perhaps the Grand Duke of Fisabrun thought that the night attack on Lorist had suffered a little bit two nights and wanted to ask himself, after all, he and Lorist were both responsible for maintaining a certain degree of offensive posture against the three forward defensive positions of the Duchy of Handla, so as to put pressure on the defenders. The defeat of Lorist's night attack was already known to the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. However, the old rivers and lakes encountered new problems, and he could not do anything about the three defensive positions of the Duchy of Handla, so he could only comfort Lorist to take his time and not to rush.

Lorist couldn't help but laugh and cry, so he had to make it clear that today's banquet was to tell the Grand Duke of Fisabrun a good news, because Celivia was pregnant, so he invited him to come over to celebrate in private, not for the night attack or anything.

I didn't expect the old man Fisa Burun to care more about the news than Lorist, and he was so overjoyed that he didn't even drink and walked around the table, and kept muttering that Celevia must be careful and take care of herself, and even began to think about where to find an experienced midwife for Celevia......

fainted, this is too far to consider, this will be Celevia's belly has not yet been conceived, and it will take at least half a year for the child to be born. It was not until the Grand Duke of Fisabrun realized that he had lost his temper, and the old man blushed and sat down to drink again, but the old man may have been a little overexcited, and he toasted Lorlist, and drunk himself as soon as he had a heartbeat, and Lorist had to send someone to escort him back.

Two days later, Lorist received an invitation from the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, thinking that it was a reply, so he took Genolio and the two of them over. Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the gate of the barracks over there, I found that the entire barracks was decorated with lights, and I looked beaming. Lorist was curious, and grabbed a few soldiers who were guarding the door and asked what had happened.

The soldier replied, as if it was said that the granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had been made to have a big belly, and His Royal Highness was very happy, and paid out of his own pocket to celebrate for three days, so there was a festive atmosphere in the barracks, and these three days not only could eat and drink a lot, but also a reward, and everyone was very happy to wish the Grand Duke's granddaughter a big belly every year......

Poof, Genorio next to him sprayed on the spot, but Lorist didn't know what to say, old man, you should make it clear if you want to celebrate, this word of mouth is a joke. But Lorist won't bother with these little guards at the door, just a person at the gate of the barracks, okay, old man, do you have to make a big deal about this, can't you celebrate here and I will be silent, right? Turning around and ordering Genolio to go back and give the order to Tiger Rose, let the other side also celebrate the feast for three days, and the reward will be doubled from this side, all of which will be paid by Lorist out of his own pocket......

In the end, even the Second Highness who was in the city of Pedro knew that Lorist had enlarged the belly of Princess Celevia, the granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and the whole army celebrated for three days. So His Royal Highness also sent a rich gift to Lorlist, to express his expectations for the future heir of the Norton family. Lorist felt as if he had been chased to the shelf, and almost everyone regarded the child in Celevia's womb as the future heir to the Norton family.

However, as a result of this incident, the relationship between Lorist and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was greatly relaxed, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun would come over every once in a while to ask Lorist if he had any new information about Princess Celevia, or to discuss the situation of the war. Lorist found that the old man was quite self-aware, and knew that Celevia didn't treat him very well as his own grandfather, and he was very concerned about the fact that he had sent him to the Norton family back then, so the old man took some of the precious medicinal herbs he had collected and handed them over to Lorlist, and then handed them to Princess Celeste in Lorlist's name.

For example, Grand Duke Fisabrun heard from the locals that the Nibalaku River produces a golden-scaled red-lipped fish, and the swim bladder of this fish is a very valuable fetal-preserving herb in terms of pharmacy, but in recent years it has been very rare and difficult to catch. So the Grand Duke of Fisabrun recruited a large number of craftsmen and began to build boats on the Nebaraku River, and his purpose was to catch fish. As a result, the Duchy of Handla misunderstood the news and thought that His Royal Highness wanted to attack from the waterway, so they added a garrison corps to the bend of the river in the middle reaches to take strict precautions......

Through the scout's reconnaissance, Lorist was very keen to detect the increase in the defense of the Duchy of Handla, and after a little thought, he understood what was going on. So he invited the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to come and consult, and prepared to put more defensive pressure on the Duchy of Handla.

Lorist's decision was simple, he let the 20,000 heavy armoured soldiers of the Kenmax family defend the camp, and then ordered the Pegasus Legion of the Philim family to cover the entire battlefield, and occasionally feinted the three defensive positions, and then commanded the Flying Tiger Legion and the reserve army of the Fisabarun family to cross the Nebaraku River with great fanfare, and built a road south in the primeval jungle on the other side of the river to the hinterland of the province of Druma......

This is actually the second of the three strategies that Lorist dedicated to His Second Highness, a roundabout plan to divide the troops, but Lorist is not really going to make a detour, but to increase the defensive pressure on the Duchy of Handla, forcing it to recruit and form a garrison to defend along the river again, increase the consumption of various materials for its armament supply and reduce its ability to fight a protracted war.

Regardless of Lorlist's grandeur, two legions of troops crossed the river to build a road on the other side of the Nebaraku River to attract attention, but in fact he was now busy with his business, making money for himself and the Fisabrun family. The road construction is one day of fishing and two days of drying nets, but it is very active in organizing and directing the Flying Tiger Legion and the Reserve Army to hunt......

The Nebaraku River can be described as a natural dividing line between the four central countries, dividing civilization and barbarism in half. On this side of the river are fertile farmland, manicured fruit groves, and peaceful villages. On the other side of the river is primeval jungle, endless mire and endless barren hills. Even the hunters of the Four Central Duchyes generally only dared to hunt within ten miles of the river, and did not dare to venture deeper.

Decades ago, the Duchy of Forendor had the idea of land on the other side of the river, preparing to develop the land there, and recruited nearly a thousand poor people to go to the other side to reclaim wasteland and set up several villages. But they didn't expect that as soon as winter arrived, the demonic beasts in the wasteland on the other side of the river attacked those tunken villages in groups in order to forage for food, and if it weren't for the fact that the Nibalaku River was a river that didn't freeze, maybe those demonic beasts would cross the river and attack the villages here.

After the rainy season, people rowed across the river to take a look, only to find that the villages had long been wiped out, and all the villagers had been lost in the mouth of the demonic beasts, leaving only a trace of wolf and blood marks to warn the latecomers. After this incident, almost all the inhabitants of the four central principalities regarded the other side of the Nibaraku River as a fearful path, and even gave the other side of the river the name of the Demon Plain......

In the mouths of the hunters of the four central principalities, the most common monster encountered on the other side of the river is the wolf, a very cunning beast, which is said to be able to understand human speech in folklore, and often uses this to lure hunters who cross the river into the jungle to become their prey.

This kind of giant wolf bigger than a calf is the overlord of the demon plain, the group of wild wolves is the most dangerous and the most resentful, when the Grand Duke Handra was young, he once took a large group of men and horses across the river to hunt, but unfortunately encountered a group of more than 20 wild wolves, and escaped three or four after eliminating twenty heads, and then these wild wolves gathered like friends and attacked the hunting team of the Grand Duke of Handra day and night, until the Grand Duke of Handla crossed the river and fled back, the hunting team of nearly 1,000 people only escaped back more than 300 people......

As far as Lorist is concerned, he doesn't care about the overlord of the Demon Plains, the wild wolf who understands human speech, or something. Originally, it was just a helpless move to hunt, although the army was stationed here, although the food and salary were provided by the Second Highness, but the meat was very scarce, and the supply of grain and grass was enough for the soldiers to just eat, and it was impossible to eat well. And the dried meat that the Lorist family transported from the Northland also added a lot of cost due to the long distance. It's like the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, who ordered the family to drive a large number of cattle and sheep from the grassland to the front line, but when they arrived at the front line, they found that these cattle and sheep had lost fat so badly that the fat cattle were covered with skin and bones.

Therefore, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun recruited craftsmen to build ships, not only to catch the rare golden-scaled red-lipped fish, but also to replenish his own legions with meat. Lorist sent the idea of obtaining meat to the demonic beasts in the Demon Plains on the other side of the river, and naturally gained his strong support.

For the Flying Tiger Legion, hunting monsters can be said to be a good business, from the Norton family's territory to fight against the tide of monsters to the later winter to hunt in the barbarian plains, more than a million monsters died under their hands. For the barbarian cavalry, the rock bear with thick skin and thick flesh and strength like a bull, the fierce and strong saber-toothed tiger, the fearsome giant python, and the giant crocodile of the mire with iron armor on its body are all magical beasts that they cannot control. Even the wild wolves, even if they were familiar with wolf nature on the grassland, these giant wolves that were one size bigger than the grassland demon wolves could also inflict heavy casualties on them.

But as soon as the Flying Tiger Legion made a move, the grass barbarian cavalry of the reserve legion was an eye-opener, and the Warcraft that they had to ride their horses to escape when they met became targets in front of the chariot steel crossbow, and became a source of all kinds of meat, and in less than two months, all kinds of Warcraft meat in the two barracks were piled up, and finally a corps of soldiers had to be dispatched to be responsible for making these fresh Warcraft meat into all kinds of storage-resistant jerky.

At this time, the Flying Tiger Legion and the Reserve Legion had already swept through most of the Demon Plains, and gradually moved south. The Duchy of Handla was naturally very nervous when they found the enemy's scout cavalry on the opposite bank, and they set up guard towers and wolf smoke beacons along the river, so that they could warn the enemy in time when they crossed the river. Unbeknownst to him, Lorist was busy hunting demonic beasts, and had already forgotten about his other mission.

Now Lorist is eyeing the fur on the monster, which is a lot of money. The Gelinthia continent does not produce cotton, and it relies on all kinds of fur to keep warm in winter. Although Lorist has opened up a large ranch in the western part of the Northland, it is home to nearly a million cattle and sheep. However, the fur of cattle and sheep is not a good material for keeping warm and cold-proof in winter, but the fur of some monsters is the best choice for winter.

The fur of some rare monsters is worth thousands of gold, and in addition to meat and fur, the materials on some monsters also have excellent medicinal value, and the price on the market is very expensive. Lorist roughly calculated that the two months of hunting were almost equivalent to nearly a million goldfords in his account, and this was still minus the portion that had been distributed to the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. Unexpectedly, there was such a foreign bargain to be made in coming to war, and Lorist was even more happy, and even ignored the front-line intelligence inquiries sent by His Royal Highness from Pedro City, and regarded hunting as a serious business.

In the blink of an eye, in October, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun sent a dozen messengers in a row to summon Lorist back from the Demon Plain. As soon as he entered the barracks gates, Lorist saw the Grand Duke of Fisabrun hurrying up to him, and told him that the Grand Duke of Handra had privately sent an envoy and had been in the camp for four days.

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