Baron Gebhardt has been in a bad mood lately, he doesn't know what is crazy about Baron Hill next door, and he has to ask him for compensation for a little trivial matter?

What chickens in his territory were stolen, what peasants in his own territory cut down his trees, etc.

By the day, he had received more than a dozen letters from Baron Hill complaining and demanding reparations, and one was more severely worded than the other.

By the time of the last letter, Baron Hill even stated that this was a serious provocation against him, and that if Baron Gebhardt remained indifferent, he would claim compensation in his own way.

The threat in the letter was already very obvious, and if Baron Gebhardt did not give money or apologize, he would start a war.

As for Baron Hill's threat, Baron Gebhardt didn't pay attention to it at all. As an aristocrat, it was already common to fight wars from time to time. What's more, judging from this kind of trivial matter, most of them are taking each other's armies and watching a few cavalry rush to the end of the victory.

Then the two sides sit down, negotiate the problem, and the losing side symbolically compensates for the loss, gives some money and land, and a farce war ends.

This kind of thing has not happened before. This is how many of his mountain territories were taken from the hands of the small nobles in the southern mountains.

This time, most likely, it will be the same.

It's not that he hasn't competed with Baron Hill before, and there are wins and losses against each other, and there is no major change in the overall boundary. Baron Gebhardt knew very well that the strength of the two sides was between the two sides, and it was impossible for anyone to really help the other.

The last time he fought the other party, it had been several years, and that time he was slightly inferior and lost a small piece of land to the other party. This time, I took the opportunity to get it back.

However, the other party has just been so provocative, and it is very likely that he has recently gained a lot of wealth from the commercial taxes of the Allgao collar, and he has come up with the idea of expanding his territory.

Thinking of this, Baron Gebhardt wanted to curse.

After Aargau took the lead in collecting the business tax, the surrounding nobles also collected the tax, and with the geographical location of Bern, even if the tax rate was lower than that of Aargao, the money received did not have to be less than that of Aargao.

Unlike Otto, who collected taxes as a whole in the county and shared the profits with his vassals. The Bernier region is entirely from the earl to the knight, and the various nobles collect taxes in their respective territories.

But in this way, there is no doubt that almost all the income was taken by the Count of Bern, for the Count of Bern had the largest domain. Caravans are not stupid either, and if they can pay taxes only once, then why pay more.

A lord like Baron Gebhardt, whose territory is close to the Alps and is not on the path of the caravan, can only watch others make money, and do not receive a penny.

It is not without the nobles of the Bernese Territory who have complained to the Earl about this problem, but I don't know if the Count is really old and confused, or if he is reluctant to pay the huge dividends of the commercial tax. As a result of the final complaint, each vassal was given a small amount of money that was better than nothing.

It is very likely that Baron Hill used his wealth to hire a mercenary, or be careful, perhaps, he can contact a nobleman with better relations to help?

Sure enough, a few days later, Baron Gebhardt received a letter of war from Baron Hill.

During the Carolingian Dynasty, in general wars, the nobles were still quite "graceful", and even if they were fighting, they would make an appointment in advance about the time and place.

The two sides took their vassals and knights, pulled some levies at will, and fought a skirmish like a clock-in, and then the point was over after the winner was decided.

After all, everyone is a nobleman, and if you look down and don't see you when you look up, if you count them carefully, maybe they still have some origins, so there is no need to work so hard.

Therefore, Baron Gebhardt quickly agreed, made an appointment with Baron Hill, and sent someone to inform him of the allies he had already found.

"Knight Wade, that Baron Gebhardt has already agreed, and I have to worry about you a lot.

However, I think that the other party, knowing that I was deliberately provocative, promised so readily, I am afraid that he called an ally. ”

Inside a low castle, Baron Hill looked at the letter in his hand and said to Wade with a smile.

"Your Excellency, rest assured." Wade smiled slightly, not paying attention to the other side in the slightest. "This time, I brought with me the cavalry unit carefully built by Master Otto, and even if Baron Gebhardt has helpers, he cannot be our opponent."

"In this way, I am relieved." Baron Hill laughed and raised his glass. "For the sake of victory, for the sake of Master Otto, cheers."

"Cheers!"

On the appointed day, Baron Gebhardt was the first to arrive at the appointed place with his army, and this time, he was full of confidence. A total of five knights, and a regular knight, close to twenty cavalrymen, and five hundred soldiers, the Baron Hill, what to fight him.

Baron Gebhardt sat on his horse, chatting and laughing with several knights around him, and was in a very happy mood.

But soon, Baron Gebhardt could not laugh, because he saw the belated Baron Hill and the army he led.

One, two, three, four...... Needless to count, there must have been hundreds of cavalry.

Baron Gebhardt's pupils shrank, and he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief, how could Hill, a small baron, make up a hundred cavalry.

Broken! Baron Gebhardt suddenly came to his senses, it was not Baron Hill's idea to beat him at all, but the Count of Allgäu, no, it was Baron Otto's idea to beat him.

At this moment, Baron Gebhardt even wanted to turn around and run, but reason told him that even if he ran, it might not be useful, and he would lose his reputation, so he had to wait in place with anxiety.

At this moment, he had lost the courage to resist, he didn't think that his hundreds of men could fight against the elite cavalry of the Allgao Collar.

"Good afternoon, Baron Gebhardt, long time no see, may the gods protect you." Baron Hill smiled and stepped forward, greeting each other warmly.

Baron Gebhardt squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and reluctantly responded:

"May the gods protect you too, Baron Hill, good afternoon."

This time, he was afraid that he would have to lose at least one knight's land, how could he be happy.

"Oh, Baron Gebhardt's territory is developing very well, the soldiers are strong and strong, no wonder the mud legs of the territory dare to run to my territory to show off their might, it turns out that they rely on the protection of His Excellency the Baron."

Baron Hill looked at the troops brought by Baron Gebhardt with great interest, and laughed at each other.

"You—" Baron Gebhardt was furious, and wanted to say that it was all made up out of thin air, but now that the situation was stronger than people, he could only endure it.

"Your Excellency, everything is a misunderstanding, I am willing to compensate for the loss of your territory, let's not fight today."

"Hmph, don't fight?" Baron Hill sneered, and changed color in an instant. "I have written to His Excellency the Baron many times before, but His Excellency has never responded, and now I am told that I will not fight, and I am willing to compensate for my losses, is it a little late?

Even if I had agreed, my knights would not have said yes. ”

"That—" Baron Gebhardt's face changed and changed, and finally he spat out a sentence weakly. I surrender and admit defeat, and I won't fight! ”