Chapter 163: The Rise and Fall of the North Mountain
Many new families emerged in the conquered lands, among which the Beishan family, which was able to fight well, was the most famous.
From the farmer-turned-ancestor who broke into the Northlands alone, to the descendants who were crowned dukes of the kingdom, the family's experience is inspiring.
The ancestor Nordberg was a ruthless man who fought his way out of the sea of dead corpses and blood, and the strange things are still a repertoire for the troubadours of Herode.
Stepping on the sea of corpses and blood of orcs and other alien races, the four generations of the Beishan family have become dignified border military lords in one hundred and thirty years, and the fierce reputation of the knights of the family can stop the night cry of the orc children.
All the gifts of fate have been secretly marked with a price.
The Beishan family started by killing aliens, and for a hundred years, the hands of each male member of the family were stained with the blood debts of the beast tribe, and they plundered the relatives and children of the aborigines of the beast tribe into slaves, built territories for them, cultivated the land, mined minerals, served their families, and worshiped the gods.
In the eyes of all the orcs who are still free, they have many enemies, but the closest, most vicious, and most damned must be the Beishan family.
The greater the honor and power that the kingdom bestowed on the Kitayama family, the deeper the orc's hatred for them, the more determined they were to take revenge, the more brutal the means, and the greater the casualties caused by the battle.
If the Kitayama family and other nobles wanted to win, in addition to the king's trust, expanding their territory was a top priority.
But no one knows better than them what a terrible place the forests and mountains of the north are.
Even if they were born in the north, they did not want to approach undeveloped land, they did not want to walk through the trees that had been soaked in the smell of decay for many years, and they did not want to be in the company of countless wild beasts and insects in the mountains and forests.
Winter winds and snowstorms are even more terrifying disasters, heavy snow covers the mountains, the land freezes, food is cut off, and the cold and despair are deadlier than the battle, and there is no escape.
The ancestors of the orcs were forced to open a home that could be lived in in this treacherous environment, and they were taken away by the army of the Herodians and rewarded to the Herodian immigrants, and the fleeing orcs all wept blood and wailed, swearing revenge.
The orcs swore to the ancestral gods that even if there was only one man left, they would pay the blood debt of their enemies, the Herodians.
It's not an easy thing to do, but in extreme cases, hatred can overcome everything, so that the orcs who keep fleeing north slowly learn to understand the enemy, study the enemy, imitate the enemy, and finally defeat the enemy.
Not only did they form a tribal alliance that united all formerly feuding races, but they also actively learned the techniques and tactics of the Terrans, and for this reason they did not hesitate to become slaves, stealing skills and obtaining information in difficult and dangerous jobs.
As the land occupied by the Terrans became larger and smaller, and the number of slaves in demand increased, it became easier for the Orcs to enter the territory of the border, and some even gained the appreciation and trust of the Terrans.
Some of them also pretended to have accepted a new faith, lurked in the church, and even became missionary priests.
Two hundred years later, the orcs, who had fled to the snow-capped mountains and tundra of the north, had mastered iron smelting, blacksmithing, horseback riding, city building, tactics, command, and organization, and began to form armies to launch attacks on lands beyond the reach of the kingdom.
On the one hand, the orcs who are familiar with the terrain, full of hatred, and good at sneak attacks, and on the other hand, the territory with a sparse population and army, the orcs soon gain the advantage, constantly attacking small territories, slaughtering the Herodians to vent their hatred.
Due to the Herodians' contempt and cruelty to orc slaves, many orcs and half-orcs joined the rebellion when they saw their kindred.
Slaves would ventilate information, pass on information, smuggle supplies, and risk their lives to open doors as internal responses, or directly assassinate their masters, just to no longer be slaves.
By the time the aristocratic armies had assembled and arrived, the strong and agile orcs had long since fled with supplies and slaves, leaving behind only charred villages and dead Herodians.
It was extremely difficult to clear the snowy mountains, but the Herodian border nobles who did not have enough troops to hold on and could not trust the orcs had no other way to destroy them.
After a hundred years of stalemate between the two sides, the arrival of the demons from afar brought a new choice for the orcs.
Become a soldier of the kingdom to fight with the demons, this is something that all orcs have never thought of, and some orc tribes are tempted, and some people have become generals with their exploits in the war, and some have been named nobles.
They fought for the Kitayama family and played a key role in several key wars.
For example, the patriarch of the Snow Leopard Clan, with the blessing of the ancestral god, led his clan to defend the castle in the battle array, blocking the magic attacks of tens of thousands of enemy troops and lichs, and even Roland of the Herod Kingdom praised his bravery and loyalty.
After the war, the patriarch with the title of baron was drunk and secretly executed by Duke Kitayama's subordinates, and his children and clansmen were either executed or sold into slavery.
In the eyes of the Frontier Duke, who has been fighting with orcs for hundreds of years, orcs can be used but cannot be trusted, and the stronger they are, the more they must be killed to prevent future troubles.
Most of the orc generals and families who had assisted the coalition forces had been eliminated in the past thirty years for various reasons.
Although this was brutal, it also avoided the potential risk of them escaping to the orc alliance in the north to make trouble.
As for whose order it was actually carried out, only a few people, led by Duke Kitayama, knew it.
The dead knot was not untied, but the rope became tighter and tighter.
Since last year, the orcs in the north have begun to stir again, and even began to use the recaptured territory under the snowy mountains to launch winter attacks on the Herod border.
Duke Kitayama's army was exhausted in the assault and suffered heavy losses, but it did not bear fruit, and the war dragged on until the next summer and still did not end.
In order to show that his strength was still strong, the Duke decided to take it personally.
However, the Duke was still too confident, forgetting that his army and family had also suffered heavy losses in the war, and his strength had been damaged, and even though he had betrothed his daughter to Prince Lingus and greatly increased his power, the military strength on the border was still insufficient.
So, in a personal expedition half a month ago, the Earl of Beishan, who had obtained false information, was surrounded by the Orc Army in ambush in the valley, and after three days of death, nearly 10,000 people were annihilated, and the Duke was beheaded.
The victorious orc army picked up the duke's head, held it high, and made his eyes look in the direction of the territory, and then lit all the captured banners, burned the dead, and struck south in a big way.
The main force was destroyed, and the number of troops in the dukedom's towns was reduced compared to before.
Most of the male members of the clan are killed in battle, unguarded castles are being occupied, and the unleashed orc slaves are straining the enemy army and making it difficult for the rest of the world to sustain itself.
The fate of the Beishan Territory is gone with the death of the Duke and the loss of the army.
At about the same time as this happened, La Nina, the daughter of the Duke, who was visiting the Mage Guild in the south, was kidnapped and thrown into the demon territory by the cultists, and almost died at the hands of the lord Vincent.
The Beishan family, one of the four dukes of the kingdom, has suffered a series of blows, and the war has basically returned to its former glory.
In other words, Vincent is the prince himself, and it is inevitable to consider whether his marriage is still meaningful.
Defeated political allies have no value in wooing, and it is better to get off the ship in time to find other replacements.
Calm to cold-blooded, cold to cruel, never far apart.
However, this series of events is also too coincidental.