"Your Highness, you seem to be a little too nervous...... If you go on like this, the morale of the army will be weakened, and you must make the soldiers understand that it is good to follow you......

Eld Fred felt that this was not a good situation, the morale of the troops was quite low, and it was likely that they would collapse at the first contact with the enemy, so he began to give advice to Alain Rick.

"What...... Advantage? I do not know...... I don't know how to deal with these rude soldiers...... What should I do?"

Aranrik doesn't speak very well now, and he really doesn't know how to boost morale and get the soldiers to trust him.

But he blew the cool breeze for a while, his mind was already clear, and he also understood that his current appearance was difficult to make the soldiers have any fighting spirit, but he really couldn't control his fear, and the closer he got to Lion Lake City, the more scared he became.

"Kwyn is here...... It is said that there is a rebellion, Your Highness, and it seems that there is a man named Dalion who calls himself the royal family of Pande......

Baron Leofwan and Aldfried glanced at each other, and together they looked back at the village of Kwyn, which had just passed......

Half a day later, Brenus also came to the north of the village of Kwyn with 1,200 men of the Lion Knights.

Then he saw the indescribable noise and misery.

Almost every house in the northern part of the village is on fire, children are crying everywhere, many villagers are running in panic, and soldiers can even be seen in the fields in front of women.

Everywhere there were the bodies of civilians hacked to death, and countless villagers were wounded and bleeding and cried on the side of the road.

It seems that most of the civilians have been scourged, and it looks no different from the Gatu people entering the village......

The only ones that were not harmed were the estates of the nobles in the center of the village.

It wasn't any bandits and bandits that caused all this - Kewen Village is a large town of nearly 10,000 people, and ordinary bandits and bandits are not capable of harming such a place.

It was Aranrik's forces that harmed the civilians north of Kwyn, including Aranrik himself.

The two barons, Leofwan and Eldfred, are both noble lords with combat experience, and in their opinion, it is understandable that Prince Aranrik is nervous when he goes to war for the first time, so they intend to pass on some experience to the prince to adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield and relieve stress.

At the same time, it also contains the experience of boosting the morale of his subordinates.

These experiences come from their own experiences in the past.

Before they first went into battle, their predecessors also taught them this - to plague a civilian village and connive at their subordinates to burn and loot *** women.

After doing all this, there is basically no fear of war anymore, and his subordinates will be willing to follow, which can really improve morale and replenish military supplies.

Yes, most of the nobles in the western region of the Lion Kingdom do this, and it seems to be effective.

At the very least, it will definitely make the soldiers under him fully understand the "benefits".

But the average aristocrat would not harm a big town like Kwyn, and at most they would do things in some remote mountain villages.

However, after all, the prince is not an ordinary nobleman - the small nobles scourge the small village, and of course a prince has to be a little big to be worthy of the identity.

Of course, it is impossible for a large town like Kwyn to loot for no reason, so Leofwan mentions Dalion......

In order to extinguish rebellion, of course, it is a very convincing reason.

It is also a very convincing reason to suspect that someone is harboring rebellion, so every civilian should be screened and every house should be searched.

So, when Aranrik, at the instigation of Alderfried, set fire to a civilian house with his own hands, his soldiers were immediately excited......

Every soldier understood what His Royal Highness the Prince meant, and they did become "morale-like" in an instant, shouting "Follow His Royal Highness the Prince to the death", and at the same time, they rushed to the houses of those civilians with a hundred times more spirit.

Then, a large number of civilians were looted, girls were humiliated, houses were burned, and belongings were plundered......

Aranrik is really not so scared now, he still seems to be a bit addicted - he is violently assaulting a panicked girl with his own hands

Beside him were two equally interested barons helping.

It may take a lifetime to learn to be good, but it only takes half a minute to learn evil.

It only takes a simple reason to cross the door of morality and eat the conscience hidden in the door.

The village of Kwyn, which had always been peaceful and peaceful, was destroyed by more than half of it, and the nobles in the manor could not resist this huge army, they could only pray that this would end quickly.

Half a day later, they saw the "savior", the Duke of Brennus came with the Lion Knights.

But then they were disappointed—the Lion Knights turned a blind eye to all of this, as if the tragedy that was happening did not exist at all.

And Brenus himself didn't care about the miserable situation of the civilians at all, he just led people directly to find the elated and disheveled Aranrique.

The prince was coming out of the house with his belt tied, and was immediately carried away by Brenus after several lion knights gagged him.

Brennus didn't even pay attention to Ald Fred, who was still laughing wildly in the house, or Leofouvan, who was whipping an innocent child on the other side of the house.

After taking Aranrik away, Brenus led the lion knights through the still chaotic village, lined up outside the village, and blew the horn of the assembly.

The horns continued on and off for a full hour, but the soldiers still did not all assemble.

Aranrik was supposed to have 3,000 troops, but less than 2,600 actually came to assemble.

Originally, it seemed that the people of the mercenary group with the worst overall quality were basically complete, and there were only five or six missing.

Most of the shortfalls came from the Lion Knights, the Intracity Guards, and the levies of the Barons Eldfried and Leofovan.

"Your troops don't seem to have good military discipline......

Brennus squinted at Eldfried and Leofovan, his eyes full of sarcasm.

"Lord Brenus, isn't it led by His Royal Highness the Prince......

The two barons asked a little wryly, they were all subordinates of Brenus, and they could only obediently obey Brenus when they saw him—they both knew that the duke was hot-tempered, and he would definitely be whipped for his mouth.

"He's sick...... Wind right away. Forget those who are late, take your troops and set off, our target is not Talon Castle, but Lion Lake City."

Brenus casually helped Aranrique get sick, and then motioned to the herald next to him to blow the trumpet.

The horn of the march sounded, and the large army left Kwen and began to move north.

……

The Countess's vineyard, where Charles and Dalion were located, as were many of the old nobles of Kwyn.

In fact, none of the noble estates have been plundered, and so far, not a single soldier has entered the noble estates.

But the nobles of Kwen have a deep understanding of what it means to be a bandit - these soldiers are worse than bandits, and bandits know not to overdo things, and it is best not to kill if they can, but these rebels have no scruples.

Dalion couldn't help but want to rush out desperately, but it was Charles who hugged him tightly.

After Darion was inadvertently rescued by a group of drunkards, he met Charles, who came out of the countess's estate and was about to run away.

Charles then found that Dalion and several of his men were being left unattended in a prison van, and that most of the enemy's prisoners were friends, Charles released them.

So, after knowing that Charles was a knight under Leon, Darion became Charles's friend, and mentioned that Eric was building a griffin knight station.

Charles went to see the ruins as well, but he didn't meet Eric, who had already gone to Long River to rescue Godric.

So Charles stayed at Kwen to wait for Eric's news - Charles was born as an attendant and was very good at reading words and feelings, he could see Dalion's temperament, and he could also realize that there must be a reason why Leon arranged for Eric to follow Dalion.

Later, when he heard that Eric had rescued Godric, Charles was relieved and did not leave in a hurry.

The Countess is also willing to let Charles stay in her own estate, she is quite good to Charles now, and Charles, who has lacked maternal love since childhood, is indeed a little reluctant to leave.

As a result, I stayed until now.

Charles has been with Count Auden since he was a child, and has seen the faces of various nobles, and he has heard a lot about this kind of aristocratic scourge of the village, of course, he will not be impulsive.

"Charles, don't stop me! Since they're trying to arrest me, I'll just get out!" Why would they do it? Those are innocent civilians!"

Darion's teeth were about to be crushed, he knew that the army had entered the village of Kwen in the name of "tracking down the rebellion", but he couldn't understand why the nobles of the Lion Kingdom were so harmful to the civilians of their country?

Burning houses, looting property, *** women, killing innocents, what do these things have to do with tracking down rebellion?

"Don't be impulsive...... Dalion, you can only die when you go out, it won't help, don't be impulsive!"

Charles imprisoned Dalion and kept him from moving.

Charles didn't know why the nobles wanted to harm the commoners, and Count Auden didn't do that anyway. And as far as he knew, Alma, Leofric, Leon, Godric, and other nobles of the Eastern Regions had never done so.

It seems that this is a characteristic of the aristocracy of the West?

Charles also did not understand why such a culture had developed in the West, where there was less war......

"Charles, let me go...... I know they're here for the blood of the royal family of Pande! Let me out, I don't want to kill so many innocent civilians because of me!"

Darion felt that this force had come in the name of pursuing him, and he was now filled with guilt.

"Royal blood? Hum...... Dalion, they're not here to capture you, no one cares about blood, they're just using this excuse to loot civilians."

The Countess walked up to Daleon: "But if you go out, they will plunder our manor for harboring rebellion!"

Dalion, who was tightly held by Charles, stopped struggling and quieted down, seeming a little dazed.

Until then, the nobles of Kwyn, including the Countess, had never paid any attention to Dalion's restoration of the kingdom, or even had anything to do with him.

But they all knew Dalion.

It's just that in their eyes, Darion is just an upright but frizzy child, and they don't want to pay attention to his royal status in Pande's bloodline.

However, when Aranrik's forces plagued the village under the pretext of "tracking down the rebels", they joined forces to take control of Dalion.

This is not to give Dalion out, but not to let Dalion take people out to fight hard, so as not to bring more trouble to the village of Kwyn.

These old nobles have a lot of experience, and they know very well that these rebels were not actually recruited by Dalion, and Aranrik just found a random name to plunder the civilians of Kwyn Village.

As long as Dalion did not appear, Aranrik's forces would not attack the nobles' estates.

But if Dalion impulsively appeared in front of Aranrik's troops, then the estates of these nobles were also likely to be "thoroughly searched".

So, they took Dalion and hid in the countess's estate.

Now, these nobles are cursing together against the shameful rebels, the Lion Knights, Prince Aranrik, and, incidentally, King Ulrique, who gave birth to this scourge.

Perhaps the nobles of Kwyn were not very kind to the commoners on weekdays, but now everyone is extremely indignant, Kwyn, which was originally an excellent retirement place, has now become dire and devastated, and everyone is angry.

"Dalion, when you asked for support before, you seemed to have said that you were the heir of some order...... Are you planning to rebuild the Order?"

The Countess suddenly mentioned this matter at this time, and the nobles present stopped cursing incessantly.

Dalion stopped struggling and quieted down.

"Yes,

I'm going to rebuild the Griffin Knights...... Madame, I am of the royal blood of Pande...... Have you ever seen this ring?"

Dalion raised his hand and turned the ring to the outside in a gesture.

"This griffin looks like the banner of Baron Leon...... Dalion, if you are willing to form a knight order to protect this village, I will be happy to provide you with money and food. But it has nothing to do with your royal blood - look what that prince did outside? He is also the royal blood of the Lion Kingdom...... I just want this place to be protected. However, if you only want to seek the support of the nobility in your so-called blood status, then I want you to leave Kwyn and not come back, lest you once again provide an excuse for these scourges."

The Countess didn't care much about Darione's ring and identity, she just didn't want anything like this to happen to Kwyn again.

"Yes, we are willing to support a knight order that protects the village, but don't mention any royal orthodoxy......

"Yes, it's like a trumpet calling the rangers, not participating in power struggles......

"I've heard that Charles's village of Fletcher has also formed a longbow team......

"If you just want to fight for power and become king, then try your luck elsewhere, young man......

The other nobles were silent for a moment, and then they all echoed each other, and they were basically in line with the countess's thoughts.

Dalion looked at the Countess in a daze, and then turned his head to look at Charles, he was a little confused, which was completely different from what he had always accepted and imagined.

"It's not about blood...... Isn't it related to bloodline...... Charles, don't you care about bloodline orthodoxy either? What are you loyal to Lord Leon?"

Darion looked down at the High King's Ring on his hand and muttered.

"I don't know much blood...... Lord Leon selflessly helped me avenge my father's murder, so I pledge my allegiance to him and swear that I will never betray."

Charles shook his head slowly, "My father doesn't have any noble background...... And he once said that the real knights are the ones who are willing to protect the commoners, and this has nothing to do with blood origin, so he became the Grand Master of the Horn Summoning Ranger Regiment."

"Protecting civilians is the true knight...... I understand. Madame, ladies and gentlemen, I will form a knight order to protect this village......

Dalion seemed to understand something.

He looked around the people in the manor, then turned his face back and put on his helmet.

"But before I can do that, I should be a good knight. Charles, let's go clean up the scourge out there...... Their large forces seem to be gone, and we should let them stay here forever for those who are reluctant to go."

Outside the village, the sound of marching trumpets could be heard in the distance, and Dalion was familiar with these military signals.

Charles nodded, took off his two-handed sword from his back, and walked out of the manor side by side with Dalion.

……

Kedren really didn't expect that the large army of the Lion Kingdom would come to the city so quickly.

He was a little apprehensive in Lion Lake because his legion of rogue knights was too good to defend the city—the people of Lion Lake would not help them.

Not only will it not help, but it will be hostile to them.

Because those underworld gangs either robbed houses or stole chickens and dogs after entering the city, they caused every house in Shihu City to close their doors, and there was not even a dog on the street in broad daylight.

Although Kedren had always restrained them from doing anything too tyrannical that would cause the heavens to be angry, the citizens of Lion Lake City still did not like them very much, and one of the braver citizens almost rose up and raised their flags to revolt.

Outside the city was an army of nearly 4,000 people led by Duke Brenus, and basically the entire Lion Knights were here......

He knew that in recent years, this 1,800-strong Lion Knights basically had no opponents in the plains field battles.

When the Knights of the Lion Knights were in extraordinary armor and charged, they were a torrent of steel and spears, and the entire continent had so far not found that they could resist the Lion Knights in the field

Regimental charge of the troops.

So he can't even run now, and if he goes out of the city in the wilderness, he will definitely die.

But it doesn't seem to be a good result to stay in Lion Lake City, maybe when Brenus starts to attack the city, there will be citizens in the city***.

Desperate Kedren couldn't understand that Ulrik didn't care about the safety of Lion City. Why did he send out all the elite troops directly under him?

And why didn't he retake the town of Long River first? Why come straight to Lion Lake City?

Time was running out for Kedron, as Brenus's army had already sounded the horn of the attack.

In fact, when Kedren saw the army, he directly raised the flag of the kingdom's lion and waved the white flag at the head of the city......

He did not openly claim to be a follower of Ursula, and to this day, Kedren was still a vassal of the kingdom.

But Brenus didn't even seem to see the banner at the head of the city, and the duke didn't even send any messenger to ask for a word.

He directly sent Eldfried and Leofovan, using the Lion Knights as the overseers, and forced the two barons to lead their levies to start attacking the city.