"How many of them are hundreds?" You Hao asked as he sat in his castle hall and asked the two men standing in the center of the hall.

Li Shan, the messenger of the Great Bear City, was a tall man with a strong build, about thirty years old, and his appearance was quite fierce, but his tone of voice was very respectful, even a little cringe. "My lord, they have nearly a thousand, or more. They hid at the foot of the mountain and attacked in turn. ”

"We've found a little more, scouts report at least two thousand people. "Fort Fortitude's Guo Mai is much older, in his sixties, and he doesn't look like he's recovered from the exertion of traveling day and night. A younger messenger should come. However, You Hao also knew that Fortitude Fort really didn't have many talents, and Guo Mai was afraid that he was the most eloquent among them.

"What about the current losses?" the invaders were in the role of one or even worse, and he suspected that if the other side launched a fierce attack, the two border towns might fall before the envoys they sent back home.

"The farmland and farmhouses outside the city were occupied, and some people died. Fortunately, the city wall is strong enough, and they haven't been able to enter the city yet, but I'm worried that it won't last long, so please send reinforcements to save your subjects!" Li Shan was about to cry as he spoke.

The situation is even worse on Guo Mai's side. "They are going to besiege the city, our walls have been specially thickened, but the outer wall has been blasted open a gap, I don't know where they got the siege gun truck. We prepared hot oil and poured it on the moat, otherwise they would have prepared to build a siege ladder. My lord, the situation is quite dangerous, and I am afraid that Fortitude will not live up to its name. ”

The walls of Fortitude Fort are the strongest in the entire Red Mountain, with three layers inside and out, each of which is at least three zhang thick. Even such a defense was still not strong enough for the mountain giants.

"I understand, go back and tell your city lord, to ensure that the hearts of the people are stable, and reinforcements will arrive soon. The freaks have seen the power of Redstone. "I hope my soldiers can travel a little faster than the invaders.

Those guys who have been nesting on the plateau for a long time actually have artillery trucks, You Hao really didn't expect it. Just thinking about how huge the giant's gun carriage was, and how much destruction it could cause, gave him a headache just thinking about it. If Fortitude is lost, his Prince's prestige will be tarnished.

He had been feeling restless lately, and the joy of being a prince did not last as long as he had imagined, and the long-awaited title was becoming a pressure on him. The mountain giants hadn't come out to harass the Boxers much in years, and it was rumored that they had lost the protection of the mountain god Sudara, and that the mountain god no longer responded to the people's responses.

It seems to be true, otherwise it's hard to explain why the aggressive mountain folks are happy to live with the boxers. During the city-state era, it was they who launched a powerful attack and forced the Boxers into a situation of joint resistance. Now those huge creatures are no longer so strong, they are becoming more and more scarce, according to the records of a war of the You family more than ten years ago, the population of the giants is less than 30,000, and most of them have cowered in the easily defended Sudara Plateau, becoming real mountain dwellers.

You Hao suspected that there were fewer of them now. Both Great Bear and Fortitude are located beneath the Inchiramo Mountains, the poorest area of the Red Mountains, with a relatively sparse population and modest defenses, and if the mountaineers wanted to attack, they would have been able to conquer them for a long time. But they didn't, perhaps because of their decimating population. They have been nesting in the mountains, and it is impossible to increase their numbers.

Despite earlier warnings from the royal court that the barbarians outside the dragon walls had united the mountain people and the swamp people to prepare for an uprising, the barbarians had captured Palm Grove City, and the swamp king of the Deep Plains had also attacked, the mountain people had not moved, and it seemed that the warning was exaggerated. So his tense nerves gradually relaxed, and he used this as a cover created by a barbarian. Unexpectedly, now Great Bear City and Fort Fortitude have been attacked one after another...... Bad news has always come relatively quickly, and one after the other.

You Hao had never seen any mountain people with his own eyes, and in his opinion, those giants should be the existence recorded in legends, not the troubles of real life. For most Chishan people, this is almost the case.

The Sudara Plateau is a rugged terrain and a warrior of the mountaineers, and the narrow and rugged mountain trails are so difficult that the kingdom has no plans to occupy it for many years. In the past 100 years, Eugene has only launched one attack, and the purpose at that time was only to find out the current situation of the mountain people, including the population, defense arrangement, and area of activity. In the years following Eugene's assault, Redstone City provided enough support to Fortitude and Great Bear to defend it, but the mountaineers did not retaliate. Wars of revenge have been planned for a long time, and now the mountain people have finally made a move.

According to the accounts of the two couriers, the mountain people moved in the hundreds or thousands, plundering farmhouses and estates, taking crops and livestock, and possibly women and children. The texts record that the brutal mountain people ate people, as primitive as the barbarians, and they threw the living boxer children into the cauldron to cook, I am afraid that is true. Now it is only a few hundred people attacking, which can hardly be called a war, at best it can only be called a plunder. However, the size of the mountain giants' assembly was still threatening enough, and thousands of giants would cause anyone to panic strongly, and both city lords were very worried about the loss of the city, so they sent messengers to come to Redstone City day and night to ask for reinforcements. They don't even count on carrier pigeons to ensure that the message is delivered.

The panic brought by the giants will spread throughout the entire province of Chishan. From the moment the two couriers leave the council hall, Redstone City will begin to boil over all sorts of terrible things. You Hao really wanted to lead the troops himself, he was confident that he would be able to destroy the invading enemy, this was a feat, and history would record his prestige. But for now, he must stay in Redstone City, and he can't stay away at will.

It's just one such trouble, but he has another one. The invasion of the mountain people is also a problem that Chishan Province should have in any case, and if it suffers any losses as a result, it is also normal, and who can guarantee that he will not be woken up from his sleep when he is a neighbor of a giant? His army can handle all this. The source of his restlessness was the latest news from the royal capital.

The eldest daughter of King Nioh, who was imprisoned in the heavenly prison, successfully escaped from prison, and the person who took her away turned out to be Yu Jian, the chief guard of the former king and the first warrior of the kingdom, who had been torn apart, and they escaped in the direction of Jinbao and successfully escaped the pursuit of Yuan Yiping and Li Yue. But Jinbao did not accept them, and after Qin Wei's death, his eldest son Qin Ming took over his father's position, and the kid wisely announced the dissolution of his marriage to Long Dailan. You Hao was a little surprised by this. He was originally inclined to believe that Long Dailan and Yu Jian's adultery might have been made out of political necessity, but now it seems that all this is true. Now that the adulterer and adulteress no longer care about suspicion, they get along day and night, and no one with a little brain will believe that Long Dailan still has any chastity at all.

This is a major event that shakes the whole country, no matter how troublesome this matter is, it should be taken care of by the cabinet and the Golden Castle, what does it have to do with him, the new prince? But trouble always comes uninvited, and now the situation is different, the latest information points out that Yu Jian and Long Dailan did not pass through Saltwater City, nor did they return to the south, and they did not see their shadows at the levels of the road to the virtuous king, so it is very likely that they have turned to the road of northerners. Yu Jian was born in Tieshu Village, Lengquan Province, and he has nowhere to go, so he may choose to return to his hometown, so he will definitely enter Chishan Province through the Red and Gray Corridor through the Northerners Road, and then return to Lengquan from Chishan.

Of course, Long Dailan may also flee to Ice Spring City to seek refuge from Luo Xun, but now that the Northern Alliance has existed in name only, and the Northern Desert is the weakest in the northern provinces, Luo Xun cannot have the courage to rebel, it will only bring the fate of destruction to his family. Therefore, it is reasonable that both Long Dailan and Yu Jian should enter Chishan Province.

As a result, this super trouble became an additional burden for the three provinces of Beimo, Chishan, and Lengquan. Luo Xun's stubborn old guy will not cooperate with Red Rock City at all, he will most likely pretend to be in this kind of matter, Long Jun and the cabinet also have something to consider this, so they especially told You Hao to set up cards on the traffic arteries of Chishan Province, and be sure to arrest Long Dailan and Yu Jian, it is better to capture them alive, and the corpses are also needed.

Now that Long Jun wants a corpse, he shouldn't have let her live in the first place. At that time, if the secret execution was carried out, it would be a hundred, why is there so much trouble today. But complaining is complaining, You Hao, as a prince, is a brother publicly recognized by Long Jun, and the affairs of the royal court have become his affairs, not to mention those involving his territory. If he could capture the two of them and send them to the dragon in one fell swoop, of course, it would be perfect, but once he didn't even see the figures of these two people, then it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of the three northern provinces. He knows very well what kind of person Long Chengtian is, and why he was named a prince. Such dereliction of duty should definitely be avoided.

Therefore, the raids from the Sudara Plateau were not so important in comparison, he only needed to send an elite army and sit in the castle and wait for good news. They were overwhelmingly superior in strength and well-equipped enough that he was absolutely certain that they would be able to quell this small scourge with ease.

Whether he did it or not, the mountain giants would only eventually increase his fame.

But the dragon's reputation ultimately depends on whether he catches the two adulterers. He understood that the Dragon Monarch would not care if the mountain giants killed a few boxers, whether Fortitude Fortitude and Big Bear City had fallen, and whether the Red Mountain army would kill a few more mountain people. The rare car splitting torture in the history of the kingdom killed the wrong person, and the prison was successfully escaped, which made Long Jun lose face and became a laughing stock among the people. Now, as a prince, he must defend the dignity of the dragon king. This is the war that really belongs to him.

Before today, he had already sent a large number of people to set up cards in various towns along the Red and Gray Corridor, all of which were in charge of his closest subordinate, Zhu Yan.

"Some things can only be handed over to Zhu Yan to do, and I can only rest assured with him. That's what Daddy Eugene said, and he couldn't agree more.

Zhu Yan was his playmate and attendant when he was a child, three years older than him, and turned thirty-eight at the end of last year. The contrast between the two of them standing together was extremely stark, You Hao was nearly a zhang tall, with a big waist and round shoulders, and strong muscles, while Zhu Yan was a whole head shorter and had a thin body, and it seemed that the north wind could send him from the council hall to the city gate with a gentle blow. But no one in Chishan Province dared to underestimate Zhu Yan, and this was not because he became the attendant of the provincial governor.

As early as when You Hao was seventeen years old, the security of the kingdom was not as good as it is now, and the area around Redstone City was chaotic, with wolves infesting and wandering gangs of thieves, the number of those thieves was not large, less than a hundred, but they were elusive and skillful in martial arts, and Red Rock City sent people to arrest them many times without any effect, which was a headache. Daddy strictly forbade him and his younger brothers to go out of the city at will, but in order to prove his bravery and martial arts to Daddy, he secretly took ten guards out of the city to hunt, including Zhu Yan.

It was a brave and foolish act, without thorough consideration, and only with enthusiasm. Eleven of them went into the woods outside the city in search of wolves, and spent the night finally destroying a wolf den. The northerners did not have any ill feelings towards the wolves, and usually drove them out rather than exterminated them, and he did the same that day, and most of the wolves were driven away.

But the leader of the thieves had great powers, many ears and eyes, and he did not know how he had learned about his hunting, so he set up an ambush in the area infested by wolves, and eleven of them did indeed fall for it. That night, sixty or seventy thieves surrounded them, he relied on his height and strength, brave fighting, but the enemy was outnumbered, gradually difficult to resist, under the desperate protection of the guards, he escaped alone, eight of the ten guards died, and Zhu Yan and one other person were captured alive.

Back in the castle, Eugene severely reprimanded him and locked him in confinement, and he did not leave the castle for half a year. Thieves have always asked for money, and the two who were captured could be exchanged for gold, even if Daddy would refuse, the thieves should always give it a try. However, Redstone City did not receive any ransom letters from the thieves, and even in the following month, there was no news about the thieves, and the search team sent out by Redstone City was always in vain. Just when everyone thought that the captured guards were dead or alive, Zhu Yan came back alone.

Zhu Yan was covered in scars and blood, as if he had crawled out of a pile of dead people, and almost no one recognized him. When he saw Zhu Yan, You Hao was surprised and delighted, he couldn't believe his eyes at all, and he could still see Zhu Yan who had no arms or legs! People were surprised that this magical little man could survive the thief cave, but the news he brought back was even more surprising: the thief cave was the same as the virgin in the early night, clean and clean, and all the thieves were eliminated, and no one was left.

No one believed everything Zhu Yan said, and Eugene was especially suspicious, so he sent a team of 500 soldiers and ordered Zhu Yan to lead the way to the thief's cave to check, and if what was said was found to be untrue, the liar's tongue would be cut out. Facts have proved that what Zhu Yan said is true, the thieves are indeed in the thieves' caves, and the corpses are counted, a total of sixty-nine corpses.

How the thieves suffered a catastrophe, and how Zhu Yan miraculously survived from the thief cave, outsiders don't know, the secret is only known to Zhu Yan and You father and son, but they have never revealed it to the outside world, people just heard Eugene's evaluation of Zhu Yan: witty, courageous, some things can only be handed over to him to do, with him I can rest assured.

Since then, Zhu Yan has won the trust of the old provincial governor and has been by Eugene's side, after Eugene's death, You Hao inherited his father's throne, and Zhu Yan continued to serve as an attendant, and his position became more and more stable. This little man has no ** for power, and he refused You Hao to give him an important title several times, and You Hao gave up. Zhu Yan is still a small attendant, but he is more awe-inspiring.

It is of course better to entrust such an important task to such a person. You Hao never doubted Zhu Yan's ability, but he always had a hunch: it was not easy to catch the pair of dog men and women, even if it was Zhu Yan, I am afraid that he would not succeed easily. No matter how you say it, it is also the first warrior Yu Jian, and even Yuan Yiping is planted in his hands.

Although Yuan Yiping's pursuit on the road of the virtuous king had major gains, successfully intercepting Mu Rong and Qin Shuo, as well as many people from the Qin family, but in the end there were still fish that slipped through the net, after the news spread among the powerful class, You Hao could fully imagine Yuan Dawei's angry expression, as well as Yuan Yiping's embarrassed and embarrassed appearance.

It was the only thing that still made him laugh at this moment. He has always believed that the Holy King is not surnamed Long, but You, and the bloodline of the You family is as noble as the Long family, and it is just reasonable to be a prince, and he should get greater glory. He prayed to the dragon god that he would do better, because he was the king of redstone, after the holy king, and he had Zhu Yan. Dark. Break off??