The content of Nanding's letter surprised the Vikings in the lord's longhouse, as well as the Angles who had gained trust and were able to attend the meeting.

In the past, although there were letters from the "Lord of God", they were all about transgressions, prohibitions, and warnings.

Sometimes it comes with some unfriendly things like fingers, ears, etc.

"What is a friendly exchange?" A Viking asked.

"It's to let your wife sleep in someone else's bed." Another Viking, who had never been a good dealer, laughed and scolded.

The old man who was put on a hat for no reason immediately threw the pottery cup in his hand and almost did it.

It wasn't until Shi Meng used the old leader's "crutch" to hit the ground a few times that the farce was pulled back.

Everyone made a fuss, and once the leader spoke, he still knew the severity.

Shi Meng stopped talking and looked at his wife beside him.

The status of the Viking woman was very high, and she could also participate in meetings, plus her status was given by her wife, but whenever she encountered any problems, he would ask for advice.

"Since the letter has no malicious intent, Shi Meng, let's take a look first."

"I don't think the White Eagle Leader is so vast, why is it suddenly bordering us?"

Orlan's rise was too fast, and in a few months, he controlled the whole county, and Simon didn't know that County Durham had changed dramatically, and he still planned to deal with it with his previous attitude towards the Baron's forces.

At the lords' meeting, in addition to this letter, there were some scattered disputes, which Shi Meng adjusted one by one, except for the felony of murder, his sentence was as good as possible not to hurt people's lives.

Waiting for the chores to be done, he got up and looked around, then raised his cane and used it as a sword.

When the flat swept past, the Vikings in the front row were cold.

The leader of the Smons was also a notorious Viking warrior.

"What are we here for? You said. ”

Shi Meng pointed to a man, who replied, "To avoid endless conflicts." ”

Shi Meng pointed to another fat man, who took a sip of the special sour and replied, "I have committed a crime and have been expelled. ”

After asking the two, Shi Mengdao,

"What 'Inge' said today, I know that many of you agree, but have you ever thought that if you really go to the battlefield, you can survive? Can luck be better than others?

We have gathered here for various reasons, and together we have cultivated the hard rocky ground and planted wheat seedlings.

Build a fence together to resist the enemy,

Here there are people with crosses, and there are people with Odin hearts, but no one will force you to convert.

No one will oppress you at will.

When we encounter problems, we solve them together, maybe it's not good enough, but we continue to make progress, this is our home, and it will be your children's home in the future. ”

After Shi Meng finished speaking, applause applauded, and most people immediately raised their hands in agreement.

But it was customary for "all" freedmen who could enter the lord's longhouse to agree.

In the crowd, one person did not lift.

"Glock?" Smon's wife, Freya, looked over and prayed mentally to this cousin not to cause trouble.

Shi Meng looked at the man, "What do you think?"

Glock leaned against the corner and picked up the wine bag and poured it until the whole bag was finished, and then responded to the cow's neck.

"Chief Shimeng, if what you said is right, there are more and more people, and we are getting poorer and poorer?

When the old chief was here, it was not like this, our range of activities, from Edinburgh in the north to the border of King Ella's castle in the south, who is not afraid of us?

Even King Ragnar knew that England had a powerful descendant of Odin!

Today, those two fleeing Danes dare to laugh at you, but you are afraid, let them go, and give them food? In a few years, no one will respect us, including you, my chief. ”

"Father said that division is the beginning of destruction." Freya stood up and removed the cloth from her face.

This is a testament to the bravery of Freya, a child who was less than half a person tall at the time, who broke out in a fire in the settlement thirteen years ago, and brought out Cousin Glock, who was a year older than herself and choked on smoke.

This injury made Glock feel distressed for the rest of his life, and in the end he had no choice but to raise his hand in agreement.

But my heart became more and more irritable......

After the discussion, Shi Meng asked the food to be brought out, "Praise everything, let's enjoy this together." ”

The people of the longhouse have no pursuits, they look at Shi Meng in everything, and they have wine to drink and bread to eat.

Glock felt the noise and got up to leave the lord's longhouse.

As soon as she walked out of the door, Freya followed with her stomach held up, holding up a glass of ale.

This is a gesture for Glock to return to the house.

"The baby is about to be born, and I hope he brings good luck to all of us, Glock, don't blame anyone, you know, how much Simon has to pay for peace."

"In the past, I drank every cup of wine you sent, but this time, I can't drink it, we used to be wolves, but now we have become sheep, and in a few years, we will not even be as good as dogs!"

"Glock, you!"

"Freya, when my uncle was still there, he told me to marry you, but I refused at the time...... Because I didn't feel worthy of you, that time, I was frightened by the fire, my brother was smashed by a wooden pillar in front of me, I didn't dare to save him, and watched him burned alive!

When I see your wounds, I always think of him, and I am in pain...... Later, I swore that I would no longer be weak and afraid!"

Freya didn't know what to say, and at one point, she also wanted to marry the cousin she had grown up with, but her father finally told her that Glock didn't mean it.

After that, I didn't cry again.

Glock made up his mind and said, "As a leader, I look down on Smon, but as a husband, he is a good man!"

With that, Glock walked a few hundred steps, disappeared into the night, and finally returned to his longhouse.

After a while, he packed his bags, took a horse, and quietly left in the night.

He didn't want to wait to die, and his premonition grew stronger.

He wasn't afraid, he wanted to accumulate new strength to protect all this.

Over the years, he has followed the old and new leaders to fight, and many of them have received his favor, and as long as he raises his arms, at least thirty or forty people will follow him.

But this is a breach of unity, and he does not want to clash with his sister's man.

Things are always so wonderful.

Shi Meng came here alone and finally got everything.

Glock was the heir, but had to leave alone.

When he came back to his senses, he had already gone far, and after another night, he ran into the people of Inge who had left earlier.

He rode and followed his footsteps, and soon came to several people.

Alger recognized him, and at first thought that he was sent by Smon to "hunt down" him, but when he saw that Glock was alone, he retorted, "You're here to join us?"

Seeing that Glock still didn't respond, Inge became alert and prepared to make a move.

Glock did have murderous intentions, but because he was not sure, he changed his words, "I'm very interested in your plan, if you can force it, why bother with it." ”

Alger laughed bitterly, "This is the wisest decision you've ever made in your life...... Let's go to Baldo, the Golden Tooth, who controls a harbor and has a ship in his hands. ”

"You're going back to Denmark?" Glock asked.

Alger just said, "Just follow." ”

Along the way, Alger deliberately brings up the topic of Smonn in order to observe Glock's reaction.

"He's a bastard, he doesn't deserve to go to Valhalla again, and dying in a woman's bed is his final destination."

Glock was annoyed by what he heard, but in order to win the trust of a few people, he also slandered Shimon together.

Two days later, the group finally entered another Viking settlement, where the Golden Tooth Baldo was located.

In terms of numbers, the number of Golden Tooth and Shi Meng's settlement is on par with that of nearly 2,000 people, but the combat effectiveness of his people is significantly higher than that of Shi Meng.

Because they still believe in "forcible taking".

Because of this, the "miser earl", with a population of nearly 10,000, was defeated one after another.

Glock was well acquainted with the Golden Fang, and he knew that this neighbor had only profit in his eyes.

The headquarters of the Golden Tooth's territory is in a mountain fort, condescending, monitoring the surrounding area.

As far as the eye can see, the northern mountain ranges in the distance, although some snow has not melted, but it is almost May, and it is not very cold.

But when he entered the castle of the Golden Tooth, he met the Viking leader sitting on the seat of the animal.

The smile of the golden tooth made Glock feel that winter was not over yet.

When Alger walked over with his cane to hug Goldtooth.

Glock secretly scolded that he shouldn't have listened to Shi Meng's words in the settlement earlier, and he should have killed these people directly!

"Welcome, Alger and Inge from Denmark, even if Lao Tzu hasn't been back to Denmark for three years, I still know that there are many powerful new warriors among the 'Dan people', and among them are the two of you who are the best."

After greetings, Goldtooth's gaze shifted to Glock, the two knew each other and had fought each other.

Now that you're on the thief ship, let's hold on to the end.

Glock said, "Long time no see, Baldo, so you're not dead. ”

After the friendly opening remarks, facing Baldo's men who came up, Glock was still calm,

"I can pull a lot of people from the Smond settlement, and further north to the heads of the Danfa districts in Edinburgh, I also have friends and can be responsible for liaison.

Kill me, you're just multiple 'skulls' that can be kicked as balls,

Leave me alone, and you won't have to hide in this mountain fort. ”

Glock is confident and has to be confident.

The Vikings hate the bad seeds, and even if they pretend, they have to pretend to be not afraid of heaven and earth.

"What do you want?" Gold Tooth was interested, and this was very much to his taste.

"Everything that Simon has is mine."

"Freya too?" Golden Fang laughed, as an old rival, he also knew a little secret.

"Kill Shi Meng, I am the father of the child!"

Glock's words are enough.

At this time, a new Viking League came to the land of England.

Baldo "Golden Fang" supplies local force.

"Stegowolf" Alger and "Big Bear" Inge contact Denmark and their partners who invaded Kent.

"Boy" Glock led people to recruit the old ministry and coordinate with the surrounding forces.

……

Two days after Glock entered the Golden Tooth Territory, it was also the same day that Nanding's emissaries prepared to enter the "outer settlements" of Oxneck.

Oran is among them.

Earlier he had sent a small gift, mainly thirty wooden ploughs, five carts of wheat, and wool for fifty garments.

This is a list of gifts that Orlan improvised after finding out that Shi Meng was thinking about peace and encouraging his people to farm and give up the idea of forcible acquisition.

That morning, Orlan dressed up again, crushed the coals of the black call, and stained his golden hair.

Cover up this sun-blonde hair.

After that, his face was covered with mud, and he was wearing ordinary coarse clothes.

Dressed in leggings, tattered leather boots, hidden in the ranks.

In layman's terms, he has changed from a "beautiful boy" to a "rough and smelly boy".

The leader of the nobles is Nanding, who is in the middle of the line.

At this meeting, Orlan gave him a luxurious battle lineup.

Fifty heavy infantry interspersed the ranks, all with long swords, soft armor, and short swords.

Twenty longbowmen followed last, and twenty light infantry armed with axes and shields protected the longbowmen.

Twenty long horsemen, five heavy cavalry, fifteen light cavalry.

On the heavy cavalry, there were also three pieces of chain mail from the Franks.

A hundred and thirty men were to be dispatched.

This is Orlan to show the bull's neck, the White Eagle Collar has enough strength to leave and right the border peace, so that in the next talks, take the initiative.

This meeting was held in an open plain, the outermost settlement in the territory controlled by Niu Neck.

The area is sparsely populated, but there are many longhouses, more than 50 of them.

There used to be hundreds of people alive here, but due to the war, they were attacked by Ella, Vikings, and Durham, and the population ran away eighty percent.

It has been less than three months since Oxneck reoccupied the area, and the site has not yet been built.

Adhering to the idea that "hearing is not as good as seeing", Orlan took care of everything and assessed that the danger was very small, so he came in person.

In addition to the 100 men, Orlan also ordered Ladd and Armand to pull out 50 men each to build a new guard tower and improvised wooden fort northwest of Durham, so that they could quickly support the border in the future.

These 100 people are less than a day's journey away from him, which makes the danger even smaller.

In the queue, the Titan and four of his own soldiers separated Orlan from the rest of the soldiers, forming a human wall.

In order to be afraid of the tomahawks falling from the sky, the soldiers in the front row of Orlan should pay attention to raising their small shields at all times.

"Layers of protection, interlocking, everyone protects me, this is the lord."

Nanding is accompanied by a border smuggler as a guide.

As he walked, he told Nanding, "My lord, news came yesterday that the "boy" had defected. ”

"Who's that?"

"Glock, the number two man in the Cowneck Settlement."

"Still a kid?"

"No, he became famous very early, and at the age of thirteen, he made the credit of 'Ten People Beheaded', because of his delicate face, compared with those tough guys, he got this nickname, which should have changed over time,

I didn't think that ten years later, Glock's face has hardly changed, and it is still the same as it was at the beginning, so this nickname now refers only to appearance. ”

"What impact does the absence of him have on our trip?"

"Good thing, this man has always hated to negotiate terms with us Anglos and Saxons, and when Bullneck wanted to join His Majesty the King, there were several conflicts on the border, and it is rumored that he was one of the leading ones, and his nickname is inversely proportional to his means!

In front of the Vikings, he is a boy herding sheep, and in front of us, he is a man-eating wolf!"

Nanding's position was only a dozen steps away from Orlan, and Orlan could hear their conversation.

He heard it without any waves, and in this era, anyone who can fight a little bit and have a higher status will have strange rumors.

The best example of this is himself.

Recently, the border merchants who came and went to and from the territory also came to the news, saying that in the royal court of Ella, there was a huge white eagle in his territory, which spread its wings and vibrated like a big bell, reminding the leader of the time.

Presumably because Oran wanted the craftsmen to create a mechanical hourglass that could tell the time.

In the end, it somehow spread, and it became more and more outrageous.

Accustomed to riding horses, Oran could only walk on his legs, and the team had to coordinate and stop and go.

It took half a day to arrive at the agreed place.