Chapter 484: Civil Strife (1)

The news brought by Arridori was very messy, she said that the Norton family had an accident and it was not from the Northlands that she got the news, but the Massa knight of the Diner family garrison sent a letter from the front line of the Farichu Plains to tell her that it was said that the Norton family had a civil strife, and the Norton family armed three legions on the front line insisted on leaving for the north, and His Majesty regretted it, so the Dina family garrison also had to come back. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, because of the long distance and the distribution of the booty, more than 1,200 members of the Dina family garrison are expected to return to the family territory of the province of Demke in May and June next year, and the Massa knights have arranged for the family garrison to spend this year's winter and the rainy season of the next year in the imperial capital before going on the road, and a list of the trophies is attached, because of the care of the Norton family's armed forces, the Dina family garrison suffered minor casualties and made huge profits, and the total value of the loot was nearly 3,000 gold and fortune......

Lorist has no opinion on the Diner family garrison following the Norton family forces to drink soup, and he is not interested in how much property they have looted in the Plains of Fala Moll, he is concerned about what the Massa Knight said in the letter about the three major armies of the Norton family armed forces who have suspended their operations and set off for return because of the civil strife in the Northlands, but unfortunately the Massa Knight has only heard about it, and he has mentioned it in the letter, and he does not know what happened in the Northlands......

"Ally, the last time you said you were sending a servant to the Northlands to deliver a message to your sister, but you were stopped at the ferry, and it is said that the First Legion of the Norton Family Guards took over the Jiangfeng and temporarily cut off the Northlands' communication with the outside world, right?" Lorist asked.

"Yes. Aridolly nodded: "The pontoon bridge at the downstream ferry of the Midobro River has been dismantled, and only two river boats can be used to cross the river, but a notice was posted at the ferry, saying that because the Grand Duke of the Northland was seriously injured in the duel with the Storm Sword Saint, in order to prevent the enemy from plotting against him, the cross-strait communication will be temporarily cut off during the period when the Grand Duke of the North is recuperating from his injuries, and the ferry will be opened when the situation is stable." So the servant I sent to deliver the letter returned. ”

It's a little strange, is there really something going on within the family? Lorist touched his beard and thought, now his beard is more than half an inch long, and when he washes his face in the morning, he looks like Zhang Fei from the basin of water in his previous life.

In July, Aridolly wrote a few letters to the two servants to send to the Northlands because she had not received letters from her sister Fena Gary and her aunt Diliana, as well as the situation of her younger brother who was studying at Dawn College in the Northlands, of course, she did not disclose Lorlist's affairs in the Barony of Dinar, but showed that she was very concerned about Lorlist's whereabouts and recovery from her physical injuries, as Lorlist's lover and mother of illegitimate children, she behaved very perfectly, so that even if these letters fell into the hands of others, there would be no suspicion。

But to Aridori's surprise, the two messengers returned half a month later, bringing her the news that the Norton Northland Armed Guards First Army had taken over the defense of the Mitobro River, and not only the pontoon bridge downstream, but also the chain bridge to Winston Province was also banned from passing. It is said that it was because the Grand Duke of the Northland and the Storm Sword Saint were seriously injured in the duel and needed to recuperate, and at the same time, in order to strictly prevent the plots of those with bad intentions, the communication between the Northland and the outside world was cut off.

Unable to get the letter, Aridori ran to find Lorist, who still felt normal at the time. When he left the Northland, he entrusted the security of his family territory to the Captain of the First Guards Legion, Berunek, and now that he is not in the Northland, the Business Alliance sent the Great Sword Master to assassinate him, so the focus is naturally on the Northland. Although there is no need to worry about the safety of his family, but Beidi will inevitably be harassed by those great sword masters, so it should be a normal reaction for Belunek to take over Jiangfang and cut off transportation, which is not surprising.

But now that Aridolly has brought information from the Northland, this information has been transmitted from the three armed legions of Norton on the front line of the Falcan Plain, and the three armed legions of the Norton family have also set off directly to return north, it seems that something big should have happened.

However, what does Knight Massa mean in his letter that His Royal Highness is too remorseful to repent? Could it be that the Second Highness has intervened in the chaos of the Norton family? This is impossible, the Second Highness is not a brainless person, Lorist has now become a sword saint in the town country, if he doesn't coax the Norton family at this time, his head must have been kicked by a donkey......

Lorist thought for a long time but didn't think that anything would happen to his family's territory, there was no way for Belunek to betray him, Fat Man was his close friend, and although the commander of the Second Guards Legion who was in charge of the garrison of Angry Bear City, the capital of the Northlands, Ovikis was loyal to him, although he was born a bandit. Moreover, the family territory also has the Voliber Intelligence Investigation Bureau controlled by Schward and Tugger, and Lorist can't think of anything that could be the source of chaos in the family territory.

Lorist finally decided to let Reddy go to the Northland to see what was going on, now the injuries inside his body have almost been adjusted, and in two or three months, he can re-practice Jinshui Duel to restore his strength, and then run Danhai Qi Duel without Reddy's help to guide his internal force, anyway, Reddy is also very restless during this time, and he and Aridori's maid Suni Lulu have cooked rice but refuses to agree when to marry her, and Aridori almost makes him bleed.

Reddy accepted Lorist's assignment and patted his ass to the tears of his little lover Suniruru, and his journey was to go to the island of Hilovas and then take the island boat to the Northlands, which was estimated to take three to four months. But what Lorist didn't expect was that less than two months later, at the end of December, Reddy braved a heavy snowstorm to rush back, and he also brought one person with him, that is, Tagel, who had mastered the Norton family's intelligence system.

With Tagger, soon the events of the Northland are clearly presented to Lorlist.

In August of the previous year, Lorist faced off against the Tempest Sword Master on the front line, and both were defeated. When the news reached the Northland, the high-ranking members of the Norton family were both excited and sad, excited that Lorist had become the Sword Saint of the Zhenguo, and sad that Lorist was seriously injured and was taken to the imperial capital by His Royal Highness to recuperate.

Immediately afterwards, the Cavalry Hunter Legion did not listen to Shi Fatzi's orders, and Jost and Tiger Ross of the Flying Tiger Legion privately led their troops south, wanting to find trouble with the Business Alliance to avenge Lorist. Shi Fatzi had no choice but to send the Angry Bear Knights stationed in Vandenas City to the empty province of Makino to guard against attacks and harassment by the Barbarian Rangers.

Similarly, Tiger Ross and Jost led two legions to the front line, leaving a mess for Shi Fatzi, nearly half a million immigrants who were forcibly relocated were left in the southern provinces, and the commander of the 4th Guards Legion, Farea, and the commander of the 5th Provisional Guards Legion, El, complained that on the one hand, to maintain the order of these immigrants, on the other hand, to ensure the logistics supply line of up to eleven provinces, the strength of the 4th Guards Regiment and the 5th Provisional Guards Regiment, a total of seven corps, was simply not enough.

Shi Fatzi had no choice but to transfer another corps from the Second Guards Regiment to send reinforcements. In this way, the Second Guards Regiment stationed in the southern part of the Northland was left with only one corps responsible for the garrison of the capital city of Angry Bear. Shi Fatzi had no choice but to ask the commander of the First Guards Regiment, Berunek, to send a corps to take over the three external passages.

In January last year, Lorist was assassinated by the Great Swordsman sent by the Business Alliance in the Imperial Capital, and was escorted out of the city by the Grand Swordsman of Huth and Reddy and fled to the province of Demke, and then the Grand Swordsman of Hus and Jenorio led the attention of the Great Swordsman who came to assassinate him, and fought all the way back to the Northland to the City of the Angry Bear. Reddy and Lorist disappeared and were never heard from again.

Immediately after that, Angry Bear City was harassed by the Great Swordsman, but fortunately, Princess Celevia's adoptive mother, Cindy Archswordsman, was here, and she, together with the Theseus Great Swordsman, as well as Shi Fatzi's grandfather, the Ingjerek Great Swordsman, became the three guardian spirits of the family, stopping the attack of the Business Alliance Great Swordsman on the central castle of Angry Bear City. However, news of the loss of the Norton family's lord, Lorlist, and his unknown whereabouts began to spread in the Northlands.

No one expected that at the most dangerous critical juncture of this family territory, the Hansk governor of Maple Grove Villa suddenly attacked, he first hosted a banquet for the commander of the First Guards Legion, Berunek, saying that he wanted to inquire about the whereabouts of Lorist, as an old courtier of the Norton family, he was naturally very concerned about the missing family master. The Commander of the Legion of Berunek, who came from Maple Grove Villa, could not refuse the invitation of the Governor of Hansk, so he went to the banquet.

At the banquet, the chief manager of Hansk proposed that now that the whereabouts of the head of the family are unknown, and the people of the entire Northland are panicking, can the eldest young master of Maple Grove Villa, Lesket, come out as a temporary envoy to serve as the temporary head of the family, and stabilize the situation and people's hearts in the Northland?

The Commander of the Legion of Berunek refused the request of the Commander of the Camp, but he did not expect the Commander of the Inske to come prepared, and he hired two great swordsmen out of nowhere, restrained the Commander of the Captain of the Guard, and put him under house arrest in the Maple Grove Villa. At the same time, he summoned the old army to take control of the First Guards Legion, and at the same time recruited the garrisons of various towns in the original family territory, and attacked Xiongcheng in the name of the young master Leskett as the temporary head of the family......

"Wait......" Lorist was puzzled, "I obviously purged the people from Maple Grove Villa in the three major legions of the Guards Legion and the Family Armed Legion, so how did Hansk gather the old troops to take control of the First Guards Legion, and how did the legionnaires be encouraged by Hansk?"

"Alas......" Tagger let out a long sigh, "Your Highness, you have neglected a family garrison. It's the garrison battalion. ”

Lorist suddenly realized that most of the garrison battalions were composed of retired soldiers from the three major legions, and they were responsible for taking care of the material warehouses, prisons, top-secret industrial and mining factories and production bases in the family territory, and also to give these retired family soldiers a place to exert their spare energy. The Norton family forces have a total of five garrison battalions, all of which are within the territory of the Northland Plains family.

There were at least one or two thousand people who joined the family armed forces in Maple Grove Villa more than ten years ago, and at that time, Lorlist, who had just returned to the family territory, only hated the small number of soldiers, and almost swept all the young men in Maple Grove Villa into the family armament. As time passed, these family soldiers from Maple Grove Villa were replaced by new soldiers, who joined the garrison after retiring and continued to serve the family.

In terms of loyalty, the soldiers of the garrison battalion are of course the most loyal to the Norton family. But their loyalty to Lorist is questionable. In a way, they are more like they have the imprint of Maple Grove Hills, and Lorlist's vigorous promotion of foreign talents to exclude those who come from Maple Grove makes them feel abandoned. Therefore, it was easier for the young master Lesket, who was born in Maple Grove Villa, to gain their loyalty.

Because the soldiers of these garrison battalions are all retired from the various legions of the family army, and most of them are not small or small soldier leaders before they retire. Therefore, they responded to the call of the Governor of Haske, and replaced the middle and low-ranking officers of the 1st Guards Legion, and easily took control of the entire legion. As for the garrisons of those towns, needless to say, they are also retired veterans, because of their experience in various legions of the family armed forces, so most of them serve as captains in the town garrisons. They ascended and shouted, and the guards below naturally followed blindly......

Lorlist's face turned ugly: "Didn't Baron Schreed take any effective measures?"

Tugger smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, Lord Schrader and Director Speer threw themselves into the net at that time and were put under house arrest by Governor Hansk......"

Tagger went on to recount that after taking control of the 1st Guards Legion, the Governor of Hansk gathered a garrison of various towns and gathered nearly 50,000 horses to march towards the city of Angry Bear. Lord Ovikis, the commander of the 2nd Guards Legion responsible for guarding Angry Bear City, refused to surrender despite having only one corps under his command, and strengthened the city defenses of Angry Bear City, preparing for a big battle with the rebellious 1st Guards Legion and the garrisons of various towns.

With the family's civil war about to break out, Fat Man and Director Speer decide to go out of the city to persuade Governor Hansk to stop from becoming the sinner of the Norton family. Unexpectedly, as soon as the two of them went, they were also put under house arrest by the frenzied Hansk Governor. If it weren't for the persuasion of Director Kodan, who pretended to agree with Governor Hansk's proposition and proposed that the young master of Lilesk be the temporary head of the family, perhaps Governor Hansk would have hanged Fat Man on the spot.

It is said that the governor of Hansk angrily denounced Shi Fat Man as a treacherous villain, and Lorist believed too much that Shi Fat Man entrusted all the administrative power of the family to let the family go down the wrong path. Shi Fatzi was very depressed and asked him what he had done wrong and what wrong path had led the family on? Governor Hansk thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out, and he was so angry that he ordered Shi Fatzi to be hanged.

At this time, Director Codan came out to persuade him, saying that Fat Shi was Lorlist's most valued cronies, and if he was hanged to death, he was afraid that Lorist would be furious when he returned, and then not only Governor Hansk's plan would be shattered, but he was afraid that it would also affect the eldest young master of Leskett and Lady Irina's mother and son in Maple Grove Villa. Governor Hanske had no choice but to hold back his anger and put Fat Spei and Director Speer under house arrest.

Lorist was also very depressed, and he asked Tagger: "What is Hansk's plan? No matter how he jumps now, once I return to the family territory, he can only dream in vain, and he is not afraid that the bigger the trouble, the heavier the punishment will be when I return?"

"That's right, Your Highness, Director Codan has revealed that the Governor of Hansk sent an envoy to the front line of the Mana Hill Plain, and in the name of the Norton family, he proposed to His Majesty the King to appoint the eldest young master of Leskett as the acting head of the family, and to deal with the affairs of the Norton family before Lorist's injuries recovered, and said that he would let the three major armies of the Norton family do their best to cooperate with His Majesty the King to attack the business alliance and win the battle of the Falis Plain. ”

Targar replied: "Governor Hansk's plan is to let Young Master Leskett obtain the approval of His Majesty the King to suppress Lorist, no matter what, Lorist is also the Grand Duke of the Northland of the Kingdom of Antinac, even if he becomes a sword master, he must respect the opinion of His Majesty the King." In this way, even if Lorist returns, he will not be able to punish Young Master Lesquet. Governor Hansk hopes to divide the Northland into two parts, the original family territory will be handed over to Young Master Lesket, and the rest of the Northland's territory will still be under the control of Lorist, the Grand Duke of the Northland!"

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