In the morning, the autumn sun rises above the horizon, and the horns sound one after another in the out-of-town garrison of the City of Glory.

"Oh! Is it finally time to pull out? ”

Awakened by the shrill sound of the horn, Gervais rubbed his head, which was still slightly swollen.

Last night, because of the practice and trial of the newly learned healing technique, Gervais directly overdrew his mental power, even if he slept with his head covered all night, he had not fully recovered, and now his brain still had a faint pain.

"Your Excellency!"

Gervais rubbed his head and sat on the cot to recuperate, but a crisp greeting came from outside the tent.

"Lilia, come in!"

The voice was familiar to Gervais by now, it was none other than Lilia, the leader of his medical team.

Recently, Lilia has been making a cameo appearance as a temporary maid every day, so in the morning, Gervais's dressing and washing are all served by Lilia.

With Gervais's permission, Lilia carefully opened the curtain of the tent and walked in with a bucket of water.

After more than ten minutes, Gervais, who had finished washing up and was fully armed, walked out of the tent, although his eyes were still a little red, but his spirit was still good.

At this moment, the camp was already full of people, and all the soldiers and serfs were busy packing up their things and repairing their weapons and equipment.

"Your Excellency, the Earl has just sent a herald to tell you to get up and go directly to the gates of the City of Glory, where the King will make a speech in a moment."

Gervais stretched out beautifully, and Ike, who was guarding the door, handed over a plate of bread and roasted meat, and after handing the plate to Gervais, Ek whispered to Gervais.

"Oh! I know! ”

To be honest, Gervais hates this kind of leader's speech the most, basically there is no substantive content, and he has to ramble for a long time, he doesn't know how many times he has been poisoned since he was a child, but he didn't expect that being a lord in this other world would inevitably have such a thing.

But I don't like it, this is also my first time participating in the war, and Gervais is still ready to go and have a look.

After breakfast, Gervais hurried to the gates of the City of Glory under the escort of his own guards.

In the distance, Gervais saw that thousands of people had gathered at the gate of the city.

Gervais rode the unicorn to the nearest place, looked around and soon saw the flag belonging to the Jones family.

Gervais then turned over and dismounted, leaving the unicorn to the Icke and the others, while he squeezed towards the front of the crowd on foot.

There is no megaphone in this world, of course, it is impossible for the king to speak to tens of thousands of people, and the people standing at the moment are all nobles and lords with titles, and the king's mobilization before the war also needs to be conveyed to these large and small lord classes.

As for those ordinary soldiers and serfs, they have no human rights at all, they just go to the battlefield and listen to orders, and no one cares about their feelings.

Gervais squeezed all the way forward, and the little nobles who were squeezed were still angry, but when they saw Gervais's appearance, they all immediately changed from angry to smiling, and this smile was very sincere and friendly.

"Viscount Gervais, well done!"

"Viscount Gervais breathed a sigh of relief for us!"

"Viscount Gervais, next time kill that count of the Charles family!"

In addition to smiling kindly at Gervais, these people also whispered cheers beside Gervais, apparently they had also heard about yesterday's events.

Of course, Gervais was in a good mood for this situation, and although he couldn't say anything from his mouth, he nodded to them and paid respect.

"Gervais, you have to go to bed earlier at night in the future, otherwise it will affect your combat effectiveness during the day!"

When Gervais finally squeezed into the front row of the line and stood beside Alice, Alice glanced at Gervais and saw that Gervais's eyes were a little bloodshot, so she couldn't help but say something lightly.

"Oh!"

Gervais replied simply, without explaining too much, that his eyes were bloodshot because of excessive mental energy consumption, not because he stayed up late.

In response, Gervais was silent, for King Lawrence on the city wall was already speaking.

"Today, another great day, this year's southern expedition is about to begin!"

"Every year we will witness the exploits of countless warriors in the City of Glory, and witness them become a glorious nobleman!"

"And you are also warriors who have come out of the City of Glory, and here I want to say thank you!"

"Duchy of Alban! He was built by a despicable traitor! ”

"When my father, Tred Jean the Great, died suddenly, Hayden Harold, the shameless marquis, took advantage of the leaderless situation of the empire to establish his own principality!"

"As the great prince of the Snow Eagle Empire, I am bound to not let such a shameless betrayer have a good time!"

"So, all these years, we, the Duchy of Jean, have been crusading against this shameless traitor every autumn! We want to reclaim the vast plains occupied by Hayden the Betrayal, and that rich land belongs to us! ”

"Tell me, would you like to follow me to crusade against the traitors and restore the glory of the Snow Eagle Empire!"

King Lawrence stood on the city wall, and used the blessing of fighting energy in the process of shouting, although it could not be transmitted throughout the entire city of glory station, but the thousands of nobles standing under the city wall could still be heard.

"Willing to work for you! Your Majesty! ”

When the king's words fell, all the nobles, big and small, responded loudly, whether they were sincere or not!

"Crusade against Hayden the traitor! Restore the glory of the Snow Eagle Empire! ”

King Lawrence stood at the head of the wall and was satisfied to hear the shouts of the thousands of people below, and then continued to shout at the top of his voice.

"Crusade against Hayden the traitor! Restore the glory of the Snow Eagle Empire! ”

The thousands of nobles below continued to repeat the slogan shouted by the king, and for a time the gates of the City of Glory shouted all day long.

"Very well, then, I announce! This year's autumn expedition to the south has officially begun! Our first target is White Rock City, fifty miles away! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

At this moment, the atmosphere under the city wall has been provoked by the king's words just now, and at the moment when the king announced the start of the southern expedition, these nobles all drew their long swords, raised their long swords and shouted.

For the aristocratic old fritters who have participated in many southern expeditions, the southern expedition is the season when they make extra money every year, as long as they are lucky, the income of the southern expedition is faster than their territory by collecting taxes from serfs.

Of course, since it is a war, there will be casualties, but under normal circumstances, only serfs and soldiers are killed or wounded, and the lives of nobles are generally not in danger.

Even if you are accidentally defeated and captured by the enemy, you don't need to worry too much about your life.

Because this continent is sympathetic to the nobles, the three principalities are actually split from the Snow Eagle Empire, maybe there is still a blood relationship between these large and small nobles of the three principalities decades ago.

Therefore, as long as it is not a special case, the captured nobles are entitled to preferential captive rights.

As long as the ransom was negotiated after the war, the captured nobleman could safely return to his territory and become his noble lord again.

The nobles under the city wall had been shouting excitedly for more than half a minute, and King Lawrence waved his hand with satisfaction, signaling the crowd below to be quiet.

After the crowd below was completely silent, King Lawrence continued: "White Rock City is the largest military fortress in the Duchy of Albanne near our Duchy of Jean! ”

"White Rock City will become a stumbling block to our southern expedition every year, so I have one more piece of news to announce here!"

"In the battle to attack White Rock City, if whoever is the first to enter the city and guards the entrance to let the army enter White Rock City, then all the spoils obtained by the earl family to which he belongs in this southern expedition will belong to him, and he does not need to hand over and distribute them!"

Wow!

The king's words really set off a storm, no less than dropping a bombshell in the hearts of these nobles.

In an instant, all the nobles, big and small, were stunned for a moment, and only after reacting did they quickly discuss with the people around them, and their faces all showed a look of excitement and eagerness.

You must know that in the past southern expeditions, all the loot of all people needed to be registered and handed in in advance, and these loot would be distributed and returned in different proportions according to merit after the war.

After all, when attacking some castles or big cities, one or two minor nobles can't be captured alone anyway.

And after the spoils of war are handed over, they are handed over to the earl above them, or to the king at the top of the king.

In the end, the loot that was distributed to the hand was returned after a few hands, and even if it really made a great contribution in this battle, it would be good to have half of the original loot left in hand.

Of course, both the big nobles and the small nobles are not happy about such a thing, but handing over the spoils of war is a rule that has been handed down since the Snow Eagle Empire.

And this rule is also very necessary to prevent the army from losing its combat effectiveness due to the competition for the spoils of war.

Therefore, the king's sentence to give a certain family the opportunity to hand over the war power is not a precedent for dozens or hundreds of years, and it has a huge temptation for any family.

It's fine if you capture a small castle, but what if you capture a viscount, or even an earl's castle?

The heritage of the big nobles for dozens or hundreds of years is enough to make these small nobles eat a lot of money!