Oran loves the morning sunshine so much that every time he wakes up, he stands at the window and looks into the distance.

Behind her stood Karin and Mi'er, both of whom were now lord's lovers, and Orlan had just ordered their identities confirmed.

Because of her qualifications and status, Karin is Orlan's first lover, and she is still the castle's head maid.

Mi'er served as the second maid in the castle before a new mistress appeared.

They were each given a single whitewashed room, on the lower level of Oran's bedroom, and if Oran did not let them come to bed, they were left alone in their room for the night.

"My lord, it's time to prepare for dinner."

The servant reminded that when he came to the hall, the main dish for breakfast today was fish.

Orlan only ate a little, he had no appetite.

In the afternoon, he came to the top of the stone castle and watched the leaders at the training ground below practice their swords.

The sun was about to set, and Oran felt a sense of disgust that was hard to control.

After cleaning up Soge's father and son, the ten days of life increase brought to him by controlling the village have long passed.

He came here on January 1, 865 Arahur Calendar, and now it is February 6, and after increasing his life, he will die on January 10, 866 Aramahir.

He was always accompanied by a maid, and Mi'er was by his side.

Oran saw Nanding holding a knight's sword below, and was ruthless to the recruited recruits, "Haven't you eaten, like a woman, with soft hands and feet, I'll give you a skirt and put it on." ”

The soldiers who were beaten and scolded could only stand up, knowing that if they didn't practice diligently now, they might never be able to get up again the next time the Vikings came.

This stone fort, built around the perimeter of the river, is the base camp of Oran.

Several wells also have a diversion tank, which makes it easy for the territory to get water.

There is a forest in the back, which is specially used to make fuel for fire, make tools, and there are many small animals in the forest, which are for the lord to hunt for fun or eat, and the loggers and hunters are not allowed to enter without the permission of the lord.

Thirty people (mostly servants) lived in the castle, and more than seventy people lived around the castle walls, all of whom were craftsmen with special skills in the territory or priests with status, merchants, and particularly strong soldiers.

These 100 or so people are basically high-level lords who will move with the lord after the city is broken.

And the castle doesn't have that much space to cram all the people.

Open the city gate, outside the city in the left and right directions, along the river can not be separated, there are many rows of irregular thatched houses, a little richer will build wooden houses, stone houses, is disorderly built, looks uneven, a total of nearly a thousand people.

This is an out-of-town district, with arrow towers, outposts, and shop strongholds.

Every morning, the gates of the city would be opened.

The lord is with God, so the chapel is located in the inner part of the city.

The sword guards the master, so the blacksmith shop is also there.

Exclusive to the aristocracy, the sweet bakery is still here.

After opening the gates, the people of the out-of-city districts who came in to worship and wanted to get some iron tools to cut something, or to celebrate something, and exchanged flour for a loaf or two of bread, would enter.

The out-of-town area is not the lowest point of life, and there are also vagrants and criminals, and people without status.

These remote inhabitants far away from the lords, once they are close to the "bustling city", are often bullied and cold-eyed, and can only be used as people.

Most of the people had empty and numb expressions on their faces, and for them, life was all about finding today's food.

The farther away from the lord's settlement, the air is filled with a sense of oppression.

The furthest in the world of these people is to a few nearby villages and towns.

"Eat, multiply, and wait to die", three things run through life.

Orlan wanted to make life better for his people.

Raising livestock, composting, cultivating land, digging wells, or inventing something?

These can slowly increase strength, but too slowly, too slowly!

Orlan watched the soldiers training in the inner part of the city, occasionally dropping a few copper plates.

It was a gift from the lords, and the soldiers, chanting the surname "Vijay", quickly found and picked it up, despite the dirty burials on the ground mixed with dung.

They won't let go of things related to money and food, and money has to be earned desperately.

Feeling that the weather was getting colder, Mi'er reminded on the side, "My lord, the weather has changed." ”

Orlan would cough up blood at any moment, and she had to stay on her feet.

"It's okay, the Vikings are also training naked on the mud and sand in this weather, I just watch, not so fragile."

Kunsang also came to Oran's side, and Oran, seeing that his hand was always close to his waist, said, "Relax, it's safe here, and no one can hurt us." ”

"My lord, I'm used to it, there (in the Viking region), people's lives are not much worse than those of ants on the ground, and in their sleep, enemies often touch their sides and cut off their heads with a sword."

Kunsang craned his neck and painted with his fingers, and a small scar was faintly visible in the sunlight.

"There was an enemy who wanted to kill me who was slow to strike, and when I felt the danger, I instinctively pulled the knife at my waist, hit my body, got out of control, swung forward, and slashed him with my backhand, leaving this scar."

Kunsang's description is very profound, and Mi'er even subconsciously wants to protect her neck.

"Didn't the Vikings value honor? Do you do it this way?"

"It's the captured Frankish slaves, the Vikings say to accept us, but they also make us hostile to each other for fun, and we quarrel over a slave girl, so we do it."

As the two spoke, the kitchen beneath the castle came back with a cart of dried pickled fish and flour.

Orlan had already begun to stock up on food, and since expanding his territory would keep him alive, he would fight until the day he died, and he needed to feed his soldiers before fighting.

"What's the information from the port?" Orlan was not in good health, so he whispered, and then Kunsang shouted down in his big voice, "My lord asks you, what is the news of the harbor?"

"No, I heard from the sailors who returned to port that they went to sea this time and the waves were calm, and they didn't see a single Viking boat."

When he heard this, Kunsang said to Orlan, "It's too reluctant to let these scythe-wielding farmers hold their swords, and if they are allowed to face the 'Viking Berserkers', it won't take a turn for their bones to separate and die." ”

Orlan has been hearing the term "Berserker" a lot lately, asking, "I heard that they are a very fierce group of soldiers?"

Kunsang began to explain, "The Viking king Ragnar created a new method the year before, he selected a small number of elite soldiers who had been on the battlefield and divided them into three parts, each of which used a totem of a powerful beast, namely:

There are three kinds of wild boars, wolves, and fierce dogs, which are ruled by his sons. ”

"He robbed women everywhere to give birth to children, so many sons, and set up three departments?"

"So in the case of uneven distribution, it also causes unrest, and the Vikings believe in the strong, and his sons who are not born of the same mother side with each other, and we can use this to increase our chances of victory against the Vikings."

In the past few days, Kunsang has discovered one thing, although the Orlan people dislike Vikings as much as he does, he is not completely impossible to talk about.

After decades of Viking invasions, the Viking Islands were barren lands that couldn't even grow sand.

Many Viking barbarians coveted the warm climate of England and were unwilling to rob it anymore, so they stayed and formed some settlements.

Three days ago, a Viking settlement sent someone to ask for passage, but Orlan didn't bother them, just asked them to pay some protection money and leave.

Ordinary English lords, if they encounter such a situation, tend to attack.

Because these Viking settlements left on the island of England have been disconnected from the Viking island, and even some individual radical Viking forces still regard them as traitors.

Fight this kind of Vikings, there is no fear of retribution, and there is a good chance of victory.

But Oran knew that manpower was valuable, and he was still weak and didn't want to cause unnecessary casualties.

At this time, the person sent out to investigate the whereabouts of "Adesha" also happened to return, and Oran grasped the approximate location from Soge's "last words", plus the investigation in the past few days, the location was accurate.