Among the three southern counties.

Alderborough County is closest to Danse.

Although there were many people in the Ella Belt, the terrain was flat, and it was even four days earlier than Oakland entered Yorkshire to besiege Berry.

The king's five hundred light infantry, one hundred and fifty heavy infantry, one hundred and eighty spearmen, as well as other troops and logistical servants, as well as monks and royal servants (poets who recorded information, entertainers who entertained the king, cooks, etc.), totaled nearly 1,200 men.

The iron armor, black boots, and square shield on his body reflected the waves with the sun when he walked.

The royal poet patted Ella's sycophants and called this army a "torrent of black armor"

The Mercian people in this county only occupied a few pillboxes and manors, and did not control any important roads, and the Mercian nobles issued a ruling decree in the name of "King Burgred", which was not actually the rule.

As soon as the king entered the main city of the county, he called the nobles and monks of the surrounding counties, and two days later, under their watchful eyes, declared his rights to the county.

There were still a few nobles loyal to the former king, but Ella did not give them a chance, and asked the knight to put the sword around their necks, and refused to kneel, and took all those who offered the sword and greeted them all.

At this time, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and hundreds of people can dominate a county, at least a baron.

With more than 1,000 people in Ella and the troops that Frank can mobilize, it is easy to control the nobles of the county.

Frank saw that everyone had surrendered to Ella, and no one had come out to be loyal to the former king, and he secretly cursed shamelessness in his heart.

Because then you can't borrow a knife to kill someone.

He made a fool of himself and attacked that night, arresting some nobles who had a good reputation and had a grudge against him, accusing them of gathering together to rebel.

At the same time, forge a letter of traitor defecting to Mercia.

Infected by Oran's "Heavenly Father", Frank understands that a person can climb fast and high as long as he is shameless enough, has strength and a little luck.

Learn from Lord Oran.

So he also directed a scene - killing good and pretending to be loyal.

The knights, the priests, and their servants had died in vain, and after Frank had killed them, he sent the forged letters.

When he arrived in front of the king, he knelt down without waiting for the king's question, then put his hands on his legs, crawled up to Ella, and began to weep.

When he was living in the slums, he was beaten every day for a while, and later in order to avoid beatings, he even practiced a crying technique, which can make people feel that he is almost dead and avoid being poisoned too much.

"Your Majesty, the traitors have gathered together to insult you as a usurper, saying that I am the blood of a prostitute, and that neither of them is worthy to be their lord, so they intend to return to the manor and take all refuge in the Mercians."

Tears and snot are all on his face, and Frank's acting skills are amazingly good.

The rebel knight was killed by him, forged the Mercian Letters.

Plus Frank himself insults himself, enhancing all sorts of credibility.

Finally, he added to Ella, "You are my sun, my father, and my loyalty to you will never change color like gold."

Frank has done it all, and Ella has nothing to say.

And Frank's plan doesn't stop there, he will send people to the towns to spread rumors that the king is cruel, but as long as the lords of the manor support him, he can be sheltered.

Sometimes you want someone to be afraid of you, you don't need to do it yourself, commit to someone who is more brutal than you, and use his power to achieve results.

Frank was able to gain a foothold in the county and become an heir, all because he could fight and dare to fight on the battlefield.

The king's advisers reminded Ella of his wasteful behavior of "pretending to be a father".

They said, "How can a man be brave and weak at the same time?"

But the king has a common problem, he likes to regard the kind reminders of his subordinates as noisy words, and he likes to regard the sycophants of careerists as loyal words.

In the eyes of King Ella, Frank's nephew was just rude and obedient, and he didn't dare to have any ambitions, and he helped him become the county magistrate, and he would be loyal for the rest of his life.

After that day, Frank began to tell people that the king's kindness to him was as deep as the "Thames", and even asked the king to give him a name.

Ella didn't agree, but her psychology was more and more convinced of the little fat man.

The success of Alderborough County filled Ella's heart with pride.

In the other two counties, where there were not many men with him, dozens of men hurried back overnight, arriving almost at the same time as Ella, and when he returned to the realm, he immediately issued a summoning order for his vassals, calling all the lords of the estates with more than 500 acres of land, collecting their wealth and manpower, and withdrawing any support to the Mercians.

He told the crowd that another royal reinforcement would then arrive, and that "Manchester" would return to the Norn family.

There was a Mercian army in the territory of Katana who was unwilling to retreat, and he was not polite, and attacked directly with the Flame Cross Banner.

The Patriarch's assassination of King Mercia made Katana, a fanatic, as excited as he was to kill a heretic when he fought against the Messians.

He was forced by his father at the age of three to recite the heroic legends of his ancestors, and after thirty years, he developed an unknown strange desire to kill a Mercia king for real!

He wanted to bring this ancient family legend to an end.

It would be wonderful if the Zealots could be preceded by a monarchicide, wouldn't it?

......

October 4, 865 A.D

The first night of Orlan's siege of Berry passed like this, and Berry's response was perfunctory, Orlan was ready to take it by force at dawn, but when it was almost dawn, Gliese's scouts came to report that another army under the banner of Mercia was approaching.

Now that the border of the three southern counties is undefended with Mercia, Orlan is not familiar with Mercia at all, and it took Gliese a long time to figure out who it is.

Because of this, the offensive operation was delayed, and Berry was also waiting, the second batch of receiving teams from the kingdom would arrive in about two days, and if they could add their troops, it would be enough to resist Gliese.

At this time, Berry did not know that the other two counties had also changed, and according to his assumption, the surrounding Mercians had come and would be able to drive this northern army away.

Looking at the White Eagle Banner outside, Berry had a discussion with his subordinates yesterday and had already asked for some information about Oran.

There are two main things, one is that he asks to marry the king's daughter, and the other is to win love in the church.

"Mighty White Eagle Lord", Berry silently jotted Oran's name last night.

Today, Berry had decided to abandon the city, but he didn't expect Orlan to suddenly stop fighting, which made him guess that maybe reinforcements had arrived, so he had a desire to resist and encourage everyone not to give up.

It was nearly noon, and Gliese told Oran, "It's the Governor of Lincolnshire, my old friend, and a close vassal of King Mercia."

"Brave?"

"Women and hunting are his interests."

Looking through the map again, Orlan wrote down the surrounding swamps, forests, and estuaries, and counted the time, so that he could prevent the army from approaching.

So he consulted with Gliese and sent men to block the army, but not to fight too much.

When the kingdom went on an expedition, the county magistrates pulled out a lot of their own private soldiers, wounded a few people, and Orlan thought of recovering the territory at a very small price.

The scouts reported that the Lincolnshire army was at least three hundred men, and that there seemed to be a convoy of Mercia on different roads in the distance.

I don't know how many people there are, and I don't know the purpose, but if these people come again, Orlan doesn't want to solve it by force.

Of course, if Gliese wanted to send his own army, he would like to see it.

As for Gliese, Orlan was stationed in Yorkshire as a court minister, and he also collected the taxes he should have handed over to the kingdom a year in advance to replenish his army.

He had already suffered a loss first, and now as long as he could drive away the Mercia, he didn't want to kill or wound too many private soldiers to go to war.

Orlan left 400 men to defend the perimeter, so that the defenders did not dare to move.

When the remaining 300 men went out of the fortress, they began to stain themselves with sludge, tearing their clothes and making them disgraced.

Then they dispersed to several main roads, shouting from time to time.

Gliese secretly supported himself with a hundred men and went to meet the Lincolnshire team.

When Orlan gave the order and the troops began to disperse, Gliese asked him what he wanted to do, to which he replied simply, "If the rabbits are not afraid of eagles, then Bember will scare them with wolves."

After saying that, Orlan also made himself dirty, picked up the sand and poured it on his body, and after brushing the clean horses under his crotch, he got on the horse and ran.

To bully more and less, the advantage is in me.

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