Summer in Latuquette

Teal vines crawled all over the walls of La Tukette Manor, like countless tentacles surrounding this deep courtyard.

In the eyes of the townspeople, the owner of this courtyard must have been a nobleman who lived in seclusion.

Although this manor house is full of romantic and elegant style, it looks so charming, with the breeze blowing through the sprawling walls and the colorful flowers swaying in the wind

Few people in the town have really seen the appearance of the owner of this manor.

The manor, like its closed and decadent exterior, envelops all qiē

Most of the time, all the townspeople see is black carriages stopping in front of this mysterious courtyard.

The people above always hurried into the courtyard gate,

Then he was blocked by an emerald green arabesque sculpture at the gate of the manor,

It's been a long time, and the people in the town are no longer surprised by such a situation,

It is said that the nobles of the city are most fond of buying secret estates in the suburbs outside the city to do some shady deeds, and in some places there have been cases of a large number of missing girls

Compared to these terrible rumors, this secluded and tranquil La Tourket estate is much better

But this time the guests are more special,

The old Yorkies across the manor, awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of hurried horses' hooves,

The sound of metal colliding made them get up from the bed curiously,

Through the slight opening of the window,

Old York looked cautiously with his old dizzy eyes,

Peeping at the guests from the manor across the street has become a unique hobby of the old couple

By the bright moonlight in the sky,

Old York saw a group of black-armored cavalry glowing with a metallic sheen stop at the gate of the mysterious Latuket Manor

"What are these!" Old York almost cried out in surprise, the black devil from the South, the embodiment of blood and carnage,

This was once the favorite word used by the rulers of Kudan, the Stien family to lash out at Samor

But now, Old York really understands this sentence

The black armor shimmered in the cold light in the deep night,

The black soldiers in armor and with a stern expression lined up in front of the Latuket estate like a strange wall,

La Tukette Manor, which has always been known for its mysterious closure, is rarely lit up today.

The steel gates of the courtyard, which had always been closed, were now wide open,

The emerald green sculpture that was originally used to cover the figure was demolished, and a more spacious space was revealed.

From time to time, officers on war horses came and went,

In the silence, you can faintly hear the breath of the war horse spurting from its nose,

"I'm going to send this document to the south immediately! This is the order that the Lord just signed!"

A red-cloaked general stepped out of a small two-story hall in the middle of the courtyard and handed the text in his hand to the heralds waiting outside

The tranquil manor is shrouded in a suffocating suffocation

Old York, a farmer who had never stepped out of a small town in his life, was stunned by the sudden change in front of him.

The black, death-like armor, the tall war horse that could reach the eaves of his house

This is probably the legendary Samar.

Old York remembers, Old York, who had just escaped from the city, said,

The powerful Samor army in the south had just defeated the local Great Lord of Stian with an army of 100,000 on the outskirts of the Kudan Plain.

Now these southerners have become the new owners of this land,

For these great things that have only been heard in rumors and gossip,

Most of the people in the town have the attitude that it is just a different person to collect taxes.

But it's another thing to actually see these murderous knights with your own eyes.

"It's horrible," Old York gasped, leaning down hesitantly,

The already rickety hunchback looked even more bent, and he prayed secretly in his heart,

I hope that these rulers from the south will be able to add less taxes,

Hopefully, they won't drive themselves from their dilapidated homes to the more inhospitable West, as they have been rumored

The bright moonlight shone through the cracks in the slightly open windows of the room,

Like a sharp blade, dividing the darkness in the room into two distinct pieces,

One glimmer of light, one glimmer of darkness!

The Fat Man led the Guards cavalry to settle down at the Latuket Manor, and asked Hukochili to represent him to the Salonia camp outside Kudan.

"This is a letter from Lady Jerinkana from Kudan City to your lordship, and Hukochili handed the letter to Saron with a strange face, and whispered

"My lord asked me to tell me that he would arrive in Kudan in two days!

"Kudan's open door?" Hukoch's ambiguous words made Salonen pause,

There are too many meanings in these words, and the gate of Kudan City is not as weak as a piece of paper in front of tens of thousands of Samor troops,

Salon believed that with a maximum of one squadron of troops, he could easily occupy this nominal gate.

But it is clear that the Grand Duke delayed his trip at this moment,

and gave himself a 2-day deadline,

I'm afraid that this is not what is needed

"Yes, Kudan's open door!" Hukochili was Salon's favorite general when he was the commander of the Guards, otherwise he would not have taken Salon's place after Salon left,

For this grace of knowing the encounter, Hukochili has always remembered it,

Naturally, he will also give his old chief some hints at this critical moment

"What the adults need is the hearts of the people of Kudan, and the people of Kudan themselves to open the gates of the city in front of the adults!" Hukochili said in an accentuated tone

He knew that his old chief was a good hand at fighting, and he was a little worse at playing politics.

I couldn't help whispering another reminder in Salon's ear, and handed a note attached to the back of the letter to Salon,

"Kudan's heart!" Salon looked at the letter in his hand, and the corners of his mouth were bitter,

It was the Grand Duke who issued the expulsion order, and when he expelled most of the Kudan people by coercive means, it was also the Grand Duke who demanded to recover the hearts and minds of the people.

It's too hard!~

"Actually, it's not impossible!" Hu Keqili looked at Salon with a face like a bitter melon, knowing that this chief who carried out the demolition order must have five flavors in his heart at this time.

Having offended most of the Kudan people, he now wants to regain the hearts of the Kudan people within 2 days,

This is an impossible task for Salon, who is not good at government affairs.

"It's just!" Hukochili looked around cautiously, and stopped talking.

"Go down and rest first!" Thron saw Hukochili's expression, and ordered his generals to disperse.

When the generals had already withdrawn from the tent, Hukochili whispered in Salon's ear

"The hearts of the people of Kudan are in the city of Kudan, and the city of Kudan is in the hands of Lady Jarinkana,

All you have to do is make a deal with this Lady Jelinkana!"

"Protocol!" said Salon, with a grim face,

It's okay to want him to fight, but if you want him to sit at the negotiating table like a seasoned politician, bargain with the enemy like a businessman who buys and sells,

And there is a deadline for negotiation, which undoubtedly makes Salon, a bloodthirsty man, depressed and want to vomit blood

"It's so hard!" Salonn sighed and shook his head helplessly

"Your Excellency, don't let down the Grand Duke's painstaking efforts!" Hukochili saw Saron's dejected appearance and continued, "Since the Grand Duke has handed over this letter to your Excellency, he is actually putting the supreme control of the entire Kudancheng into your hands

Recovering people's hearts is the Grand Duke's strong point, do you remember how the Grand Duke recovered the Southern Rivacheze?"

"Nanbu Rivache, you mean......" There was a hint of light on Salon's depressed face, as if he remembered something,

Although Saron did not participate in Satsuma's campaign to conquer the south, Saron had also heard something about the south.

In particular, Caesar Solon of the Northern Legion had a good relationship with Salon, and in their letters, there are many references to the situation in the South at that time,

In retrospect, there are many similarities between the Riwache at that time and the current Kudan City.

One is a century-old southern aristocratic cultural center, and the other is a century-old northern aristocratic cultural center.

Samar is a strong entry in the way of an intruder,

"Land is what the peasants desire most! Wealth is a fatal temptation for the aristocracy!

If you want to gain a firm foothold in the shortest possible time, as long as some special means are indispensable,

Some of the Grand Duke's practices in the southern Rivacheze, why don't you learn from them?"

Hukochili saw Salon's look of sudden realization, and suddenly his heart tightened,

The one-eyed dragon Saron was the most famous in the Samor army,

Even many of the generals in the cavalry of the Guards now, when they saw the one-eyed of the old commander, they couldn't help but feel cold,

Hukochi was afraid that Salon would be wrong, so he hurriedly reminded cautiously

"If I'm not mistaken, the reason why the Grand Duke wants you to do this should be to pave the way for your upcoming position as the consul of the Kudan region!

The northern Kudan is the most important hub area in the entire north.

Adults must give it to the person they trust the most,

Looking at the whole of Samor, there is no one else who has such prestige and loyalty to the Grand Duke, except for the Lord.

"Loyal?" said Salon, whose face turned slightly dark, not knowing what Hukochili meant

"Your Excellency resolutely carried out the demolition order, offended the Kudans, but won the Grand Duke's loyal recognition of your lordship," Hukochili saw Salon's puzzled eyes, and then explained,

"If you can complete this task well, I believe that your Excellency will be the second corps commander in my Samore who will also serve as a local administrative military commander in addition to Lord Statunko of the Southern Army!

This should be the Grand Duke's reward for your outstanding performance in this Kudan battle!"

"Ah, this can't be......" Salon's one-eyed light up suddenly, and he almost cried out in excitement,

I didn't expect that after being placed alone in the northern defense line for a year, I still had the possibility of achieving such glory.

"This is what adults deserve! There is no adult lonely in the north,

The Grand Duke can't completely rest assured that he will withdraw his hand and unify the entire central and southern parts of the kingdom.

Speaking of which, the Lord can be regarded as Samor's greatest hero!

The Grand Duke was able to deliver tens of thousands of Samar's elites to the adults during the entire campaign, which in itself is a recognition of his loyalty to the adults!"

"No matter how great a monarch is, the loyalty of his subordinates always comes first!"

Hukochili patted Ssalon's shoulder with emotion on his face,

Thinking that he has experienced dozens of bloody battles from south to north, although he now seems to be a henchman by the Grand Duke's side, there is still a big distance from Salon, a member of the party who is about to be released.

What may be lacking is "loyalty" to the unconditional execution of the Grand Duke's orders

"Here I wish your Excellency the promotion to the chief of charge of the Kudan region" Hukochili gave a military salute like Salon, who was still in a daze, and took the reins of the war horse from the guards outside the tent,

Seeing that Hu Keqi was leaving, Salons hurriedly stayed, and Hu Clues said to Salon, who kept him, "I also want to stay here for a few days, but the military affairs are urgent, and I have to rush to the west to meet a few important northern guests!"

"Guests from the North!" Sharon asked curiously, "Could it be the Kugits again, aren't they besieging Achmore?"

"Hehe!" Hukochili said with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, "I heard that those arrogant Kujits are surrounded by the Ryerdian army in Achmore, and this time they are here to ask for help!"

"No, the Kugits have used 80,000 troops!" Salon was startled by Hukochili's words, thinking that he had misheard, that 80,000 cavalry was not 80,000 infantry

Cavalry battles, it is very easy to travel a hundred miles a day,

In particular, the Kugit people know the way of hunting and cavalry, and the cavalry group is like a hurricane whistling on the grassland, with frightening high mobility and strong combat power.

To surround the vast steppe in all directions, surround the 80,000 brave and warlike Kugit light cavalry,

That's just a dream of the Arabian Nights,

But what a terrible means and calculations it took for the people of Ryordian to do that!

Thinking about the Kugit War 2 years ago, it was just the 40,000 Left Guards cavalry of Kugit, which almost turned the entire north-central part of Vekia into a hornet's nest,

If it weren't for the strong rise of the fat man in Samor,

Vikia may have long been a grazing ground for the galloping Kugit cavalry!,

"I heard that this time it was Marshal Raldian who personally took action," Hukochili shook his head with a sigh on his face

"This time, the Ryerdian army fought beautifully, they used the 20,000 Ryerdian army that was holding on to Achmore, and fought street battles with the Kugits on the inner wall of Achmore, street fighting was not the strength of the Kujits, and the 80,000 troops were dragged by the 20,000 Ryerdian infantry for half a month.

Just when he was about to break through the last line of defense of Achmore, Marshal Berlante, who had already been assembled, personally led the 30,000 cavalry from the north to rush to the aid of 3 days and 3 nights.

Sudden attack on the rear court of the Kugits that was too front,

The royal court was attacked, and the exhausted main force of Kugit had to choose to retreat,

The result is when passing through the Laha area

Once again, he was flanked on both sides by the 100,000 Northern Army of Ruierdian, which had withdrawn from Stien's territory.

The Kugit army suffered numerous casualties, and it is said that even the king of Kugit was seriously wounded!

Kujitte's envoy Duo Weiyan walked into the verdant courtyard in front of him with a heavy heart,

The cool summer breeze mixed with the fragrance of grass hits the nose,

Let Duo Weiyan's heavy heart feel even more anxious, in his hometown, the vast Kugit grassland,

This season is the time when the weeds grow wildly and the horses gallop,

And now, there is a lot of mourning,

The intruder becomes the invaded!

What an irony!

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