The four family tribes of the Lake family are the most powerful forces in the western steppes, the Uzi, Xavier, Yoruba, and Vonimir tribes, which have more than 80% of the population of the entire grassland, cattle and sheep, and support the family's 100,000 standing cavalry. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The leader of the tribe is called a liege and can only be directly served by the direct line of the Lake family.

The cavalry commander must have a side line, because the side line does not have a fief, so it is not really a noble.

Let the side faction without a fief control the army, this is the smartest thing about Oran, somewhat similar to the "separation of military and government" in modern society, and Renault also paid attention to this.

The difference is that this approach of the Lake family is more direct so that the relationship between the lord and the archon will always be envious and jealous.

The lord envied and was extremely envious of the well-equipped cavalry under the command of the great commander, and hated the army for eating and drinking in the tribe for nothing, while the great commander was envious and jealous of the lord's aristocratic status, hating them for simply becoming a nobleman just because they were in the direct line, and even if he made countless merits, he would be rewarded with some gold coins at most, but in the final analysis, he was just a dog of the nobles.

Therefore, both sides keep an eye on each other, wary and suspicious of each other.

This time, however, Orlan seemed to break the precedent and prepare to let the side line also have a fief and enter the ranks of the nobility.

It's just that these fiefdoms are not in the western steppes, but in the Tuke Basin and Black Iron Town.

And the lord of Orlan said unto them, Whoever occupies these places shall belong to him.

After coming out of the lord's palace in Oran, the four cavalry commanders were so excited that they couldn't even tell the direction.

There are wars and fiefdoms, they never dreamed that they would encounter such a good thing in their lifetime.

Usually, in the entire Western Territory, no one dares to provoke them, except for boring training, the greatest pleasure is to bully the remote small tribes. But the largest of those tribes is no more than 10,000 people, and seeing them is like seeing a father, and there is no sense of accomplishment at all when they are bullied.

Now that he is going to attack Black Iron Town and Tuke Basin, he can finally let his cavalry vent their excess energy.

Grand Commander Zeis, with his high nose and piercing eyes, is 54 years old, his thinning hair has begun to turn gray, and he is a generation older than the other three Grand Commanders, so after a heated argument, he was given the highest priority.

He rightfully chose to attack the Tuke Basin.

In his eyes, the Tuke family and their people were nothing more than a bun of dirt buns who could only farm the land, and the trained army was not even worthy of carrying shoes for his cavalry.

Although now the Tuke family has broken its bloodline, and the Tuke Basin has been occupied by Renault, in just half a year, he does not believe that Renault can train much of a powerful army.

He believed that as long as his more than 20,000 cavalry came ashore, he would be invincible and set foot on the entire Tuke basin before the second group of cavalry arrived.

At that time, he will be the new lord of the Tuke Basin, and maybe for the sake of the lord of Orlanda, he will come out with such a small piece of land, such as Sequoia Town, after all, there is a big lord who is his own nephew.

Therefore, with the support of his ambition, the ship, which could only hold 200 men and horses, was stuffed into 250 men and horses by him, so that his cavalry could be transported over at one time.

Standing at the bow of the boat, looking at the paddles on either side, Zes put on the thick wool coat handed by his attendant. His body is no longer as strong as it was when he was younger, and he feels chills all over his body in the morning and night.

This is also the reason why he is in a hurry to send troops, decades of grassland life have made him feel a little tired, the sooner he takes the Tuke Basin, he can become a nobleman a day earlier, and lie on a soft chair every day to bask in the sun, instead of riding a horse to inspect the cavalry with his old waist in pain.

"Commander Zes, the river ahead is getting narrower and narrower, and the current is getting faster and faster, do you want to stop first and wait until dawn before setting off?"

"Wait, wait, wait for Jester, that kid to catch up!" Ezes gave the lieutenant a displeased look, "let everyone get out of the cabin for me, and hang the lights in the bow and stern, so that one after the other, there will be no problem." ”

In order to lighten the load on the ship, they drove all the sailors off the ship, and now the cavalry took turns paddling the oars.

Originally, I was not very familiar with operating ships, plus I had been rushing non-stop for the past few days, and there were many people who were seasick, and the cavalrymen were so tired that their eyes were about to bulge.

It can be seen that his expression is resolute, and the deputy commander does not dare to touch the mold, so he sighs in his heart and goes down to give orders.

Soon the flotilla of three ships moving side by side became a column, one after the other, in the turbulent and narrow river, like a twisted hemp rope.

Most of the soldiers on board were shouted, and they lit their torches, and kept an eye on the reef hidden beneath the river, and the oarsmen did their best to control the boat without danger, and swayed upstream.

Zes's face looked a little better at this time, and he tightened his thick and went to the cabin to rest.

As soon as I lay down, there seemed to be a slight rumbling sound outside the window.

Could it be a flood? Zes sat up from his bed suddenly, and if there was a major flood in this section of the river, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But when I think about it, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival now, and it never rains heavily in the West at this time. Without heavy rain, there would be no big water in the Naxi River, which has been an inconvenient law for thousands of years.

It must have been the sound of the wind blowing through the canyon, and Zese was comforting himself as the lieutenant knocked on his door with a pale face.

"Oh no, Lord Zess!"

"What's going on?"

"Water...... Flood ......"

Zese immediately jumped out of bed, but before he could stand on his feet, the boat began to shake violently.

The rumbling sound was like a huge leather drum overhead, and a dozen people were holding drumsticks and beating without interruption, Zes only felt a dizziness, and walked out of the cabin with the panicked support of the deputy commander, just in time for a wave more than two meters high to smash head-on.

Bang -

In the darkness, a spiked iron ball slammed into the bow of the ship, instantly smashing the wooden planks of the bow into pieces, and the cold water poured into the cabin, and the bow of the ship quickly sank, and turned its head, and crashed into the ship behind without any suspense.

Boom -

The boat behind didn't have time to avoid it, and the bow was knocked out of a huge crack.

A greater flood came like a roaring beast in the darkness.

Zess struggled in the icy waters, desperate and helpless to grab onto a plank that floated by, only to be swallowed up by a large wave.

He could never have imagined that after a lifetime of living on the vast grasslands and on horseback, he would end up drowning in the river.

The ferocious flood poured thousands of miles, and the Black Sheep family had thousands of wooden boats, and in the end there were only a few hundred left, and when the flood came down, they were still in a wide area, so they picked up a life.

The sun rises in the east, but the Naxi River is a miserable scene.

Fragments of countless ships and swollen corpses littered the river, and the surviving cavalry watched a scene even more terrifying than hell.

And because there were so many of them, they couldn't even salvage the bodies of their comrades, and could only watch as they kept passing by the side of the boat, not knowing where they would be washed away. (To be continued.) )