"Your Excellency, the situation has changed, His Royal Highness Pepa has confessed everything to me, Princess Malm is not the eldest daughter of the king at all......"

The contents of this express letter kept Orlan from leaving his personal study in the town of King's Landing all morning.

Since Orlan and Ulf communicate in code, a letter of 2,000 words can only translate about 100 useful words.

"Why did Pepa suddenly hook up with Ulf?"

"Was Ulf bribed at the royal court?"

"How many secrets does King Ella know about the Border Rebellion?"

Orlan then picked up the reply letter she had received yesterday, read it, and threw it on the table.

This is a letter from King Ella who reprimands Orlan for causing trouble on the border and leading his troops into the territory of Earl for no reason.

The letter also rejected Oran's request to convene a "Sain Conference".

He also said that he would send someone over to find out the truth immediately.

With Ulf's letter, Orlan had seen the visit of the new king's envoy as a precursor to the dispatch of troops.

Looking at the sand table, Oran began to deduce, but he couldn't make a satisfactory change.

With the addition of each variable, the total variable produces at least three more paths.

He thought about it for a long, long time, and the Titan came in to change the tea a few times, and Orlan didn't even raise his eyes.

It wasn't until the Titan reminded him that it was time to eat, otherwise his body would be in trouble, that Oran clenched his fists, slapped the table hard, and scolded, "Damn!"

"Your Excellency!" The titan immediately bowed his head in fright.

"I thought of it, Titan!"

"What did you say?"

"Call Southamp here."

As Southamp entered, the Titan stood guard outside.

Oran asked, picking up the cold wheat cake, "Read the letter." ”

Nanamp's gaze swept over, and his face turned solemn, "The king wants to do something about his skills?"

Your Excellency, we have a marriage covenant between the two of us, and you have asked me to keep an eye on the envoy Sals, and I have sent someone to intercept and examine every letter he sends, and make sure that there is nothing against us in the contents.

After the war with the Vikings and Eil, from the border to the King's domain, all the people who passed through our jurisdiction were searched, and we have killed several messengers in El's domain.

It is for this reason that Earl has sent to the kingdom to inquire whether we have received a special order from the king to clear the Vikings, and the fake has not been exposed, so far it has not been exposed, where did the king know?"

"Southamp, there is no eternal secret in the world, as long as three people know, the secret will be revealed sooner or later.

Just as we used the trick to kill Smon's subordinate 'Sn' and bribe the Viking named 'Mizzy' to report the false news, this matter may be put on the table soon.

I've been thinking about it for a long time today, and you say, what are the similarities between us and Ella now?"

"Similarities?"

Nanamp paid attention to Oran's face, and then thought of Ella's horizontal face, and patted his ass, "He is the false king who usurped the throne, and you are my real king." ”

Sycophants go first, but Southamp knows Orlan's temperament, and sometimes Orlan doesn't want to listen to this kind of nonsense, so he immediately blurts out the following words, "Priest Ulf is in the king's territory, and King Ella's envoy is also in our White Eagle City. ”

"Yes, that's it! You say, 'Can this man be bought?'

"Buying that knight?"

Southamp didn't dare to respond immediately, and thought for a long time, "According to the report from Ulf and the twenty soldiers brought by Sals, I know that he is a nobleman from Ireland to Wales,

Later, he came to the royal court, and other information is unknown...... In daily interactions, this person is polite and cautious, not like a knight who can be bought. ”

"Don't you think it's strange that the little leader named 'S'Ern' brought fifty men to the castle before he was tempted or in danger, and he wore his robe like a saint and picked up a sword like a warrior.

But we didn't imprison Sals, and he also brought so many people to live in our castle, I really don't know at all?

His men also frequented brothels and went in and out of the countryside.

None of the peasants or wool merchants had ever told the soldiers about this?

And then back to his ears?

As you said, this knight is cautious, but obviously too cautious!

You know, I had the maid of the castle serve him and get him drunk, and what drunken thing did he say?

Twice in a row, he said good things from our territory, and then from the mouth of the maid to my ears.

What good things have we done to him that deserve it?

He came here to urge us to fulfill our covenant, but did he?

We confiscate all their weapons, and have a little bit of resistance?

Even the letter to King Ella, which we have intercepted and reviewed, says that Benbo is raising food and training troops, and if it were not for the Vikings, he would have been able to send troops to support the war against the former king.

When a person occasionally does one or two abnormal things, it is a dizziness,

If a person does something abnormal from beginning to end, there must be a plan!"

Told by Orlan, Southamp was also wary of Sals.

"Your Excellency, how can you buy him? Find it, and add a sword?"

"It's better to buy people's hearts with danger, but the king can give him more than us, haven't you also heard from those royal soldiers brought by Sals, he has been named 'Earl of Yorkshire', as long as he defeats the former king in the future, he will become a nobleman who can be equal to me, although this is the king's empty promise, but my empty mouth, can it be better than this?"

Southamp fell into deep thought again, and made several proposals, but none of them were very good.

"Your Excellency, no matter what strategy you use, I think we must first ensure that we have enough ability to fight the enemy, which is the fundamental."

"You're the same as I thought, we're in a lot of places, and we're obviously overwhelmed.

Now that we think we're going to fight the Golden Fang, we might as well retreat and build a line of defense from Seatown to King's Landing, blocking all passages through El's southern realm and cutting off his connection with the kingdom.

As soon as we flinched, the Vikings from the Golden Tooth came over, but it was Earl who bore the brunt.

He may be consumed by the wrath of the Vikings, he may lose both sides with the Vikings, or he may cooperate with the Vikings.

The first two developments are beneficial to us, and if it is the third, it will be even better!

The tragedy of 'Canterbury' is imminent, the king has just held a 'canonization ceremony of holy bones' in the royal domain, and Earl has joined forces with the Vikings, so we have entered the county of Yerey without permission and falsified the news of the royal decree, and no one can be held accountable.

In this dispatch, we cooperated with Simon to disrupt nearly half of the county of Jeree, loot several months of food, a large number of iron tools, and move three or four thousand people back to our Durham.

Among them, there are many excellent craftsmen and farmers, our strength has increased a lot, now stop, trying to follow-up, can still occupy a local advantage, if forced to start a war, the defense line in the territory is already empty, once lost, it will be difficult to resist King Ella.

After this is done, and then free up your hands to buy and deal with Sals, know his intentions, and solve other problems, this is 'abandon before taking'. ”

Southamp agreed, and immediately went down to prepare what Oran had ordered.

Among them, the most troublesome is the problem of population migration.

Orlan directly used intimidation methods to let Shi Meng's people raid several times, and successfully transferred the population of several knight leaders to King's Landing first.

and the food which was placed for them was the food which had been taken out of their territories.

For each household and a meal, the soldiers let the fleeing people chant Oran's name and praise his mercy.

In order to paralyze the opponent, Orlan also released the news that he was going to take the initiative to attack, so that the Vikings such as the Golden Fang in the north waited for Orlan's arrival and wiped them out.

But another week passed, and the Sabbath had passed one more time, and the shadow of Oran did not appear, and the Vikings could even move south, until they were close to Sea Town, and then they were driven away.

July 5, 865 in the main calendar.

The envoys sent by King Ella (the Hundred Guards) entered Dan and came to King's Landing.