On the first morning after fleeing with the entire barony, Rand, who had not finished breakfast, saw his chief knight hurrying to him.

"Aren't you on the alert?" Rand guessed bad news, but he preferred that Rohr would have come back for breakfast.

"The barbarians have arrived at the Galloping Horse Castle," Rohr confirmed the worst news in Rand's heart.

"How many of them are there?"

"At least 10 cavalrymen, just scouting, because they found that there was no one around the castle, they went in directly."

"How long do you think they'll come and scout the forest?"

"I guess it won't be long, the ruts on our ground are too obvious, don't come unless you're blind"

"I thought I could fight for one day, but it seems that I only fought for one more night" Rand muttered to himself, and suddenly looked at Rohr, "Inform everyone, pack your bags and set off immediately, the two knights should know the route of the next camp, let them set off first, there are many of us, we can change the way"

"Understand, within 20 kilometers of this forest is our backyard, every family is familiar with this place, don't worry about getting lost in the forest" The Rohr team is very informative with this forest.

Half an hour later, fifteen minutes after the main team of Rand had set out, the first barbarian cavalry followed the rut marks of the galloping horse lords.

The spies of the barbarians are all good hunters in the tribe, and once they have their eyes on their prey, they will not lose them. Today, he came to search for the barbarian called Bison, and he also found the galloping baron Huck two days ago, and has been following the horses of Huck for 1.5-2 kilometers, and finally helped the other cavalry in the tribe to capture Huck and the others.

Last night, the tribal leader had asked them to set out before dawn to reconnoiter outside Baron Gallop's castle, and the chief had confirmed that the larger castle directly south of the Colnico Pass would not interfere with their westward exploration.

Outside the Baron's Castle, however, it was empty. The bison shouted in his heart that it was not good, and the prey was startled, and now that he had not yet attached, he ran away, and it would be difficult to find it again.

Fortunately, there were so many people in the barony's domain that you could see obvious wheel tracks all the way to the west. After about half an hour of chasing, the bison reached the outside of the great forest, where he hesitated, because he had never seen so many trees after more than ten years of wandering on the grassland.

Just as the buffalo was about to ask one of his companions to report back and take three people into the forest to search, a white mist rose on the ground of the entire forest, and this white mist was like a wall blocking the bison from the forest.

In the early morning in the forest, there is always a miasma. The early morning in the Great Forest was no exception, but the inhabitants of the Galloping Horse Territory had experienced it to a greater or lesser extent, and it was not very surprising that it was the barbarian pursuit that made everyone speed up a little.

Behind the line was still Rohr, who was on guard about 500 meters behind the line. However, Rohr didn't know why the barbarians on fast horses never entered the forest.

But he knew that the danger was about to be lifted. Because between the second camp and the first camp there is a small river that is not too narrow.

Flowing down from the mountains of Cornico in the north, the river has formed several waterholes in the woods, only half a meter deep at its shallowest point, and has experienced many refuges in the woods, and has become the most important refuge barrier in the Galloping Horse Territory.

During the evacuation period, people and livestock will be the first to wade through the knee-deep river, and the horse-drawn cart behind it is not easy to wade, but there are several places in the basin of the small river where the riverbed is particularly flat, and the water depth is relatively shallow, and there is a small pond less than 300 meters upstream of this flat land, which is specially set up after many evacuations.

Once the downstream outlet is closed, the increasing pool drains water from a higher gap in the other direction, draining the water into a dry winter season, allowing evacuees to artificially divert the river and reopen the original outlet after the carriage has passed through the riverbed, allowing the river to become a barrier again.

Barbarians are more cautious about unfamiliar environments, no barbarians will easily try to cross unfamiliar rivers, they are more inclined to look downstream for flatter places to cross rivers, but this will inevitably lead to deeper forests.

After entering 10 kilometers of this forest, there will be some territory of medium and high-level demonic beasts, and ordinary barbarian cavalry will not be able to deal with it at all.

In the camp preset by Baron Galloping Horse, on the one hand, there is not much going into the forest, and on the other hand, it will be often taken care of: marked with the fecal powder of high-grade magical beasts specially purchased from the royal city. Let the mid- and low-level monsters avoid here.

In short, Rand found that the Prancing Horse family took this refuge very seriously, and thought more about it than their own castle.

The biggest disadvantage here than the castle is that the air here is too humid, and if it could be a little drier, Rand would be more satisfied.

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After setting up camp, Rand began to wonder what the barbarians wanted to do.

Rand can understand that they came to rob, but do not understand why they plundered the people, although the barbarians have a low level of civilization, but do not eat people, or the barbarian food mainly depends on cattle, sheep and other animals, cattle and sheep not only produce meat, but also produce dairy products, and use meat to trade food with the human race, which is enough for the barbarians to escape the climate crisis in winter.

So why did they venture over? Why did you capture your father and brother? The pursuit is understandable, afraid of revealing secrets, but really afraid of leaking secrets, aren't the dead people stricter?

Rand was surrounded by mysteries, and he wanted to ask Albert for advice, but when he went to the scholar's tent, he found that Albert was writing a thick book.

Rand didn't bother Albert, but observed the book by himself, it was actually a paper book, and the quality of the paper was very good, although the pages were very thin, but there was enough strength, and it was not transparent, and it was very mature papermaking technology at first glance.

Albert wrote selflessly, then felt Rand behind him, and turned away, "What's wrong?" Rand, why did you come to me? ”

"Albert, what are you writing about?" Rand asked curiously

"Territory log, every domain above the baron has a family scholar, and one of the missions of this scholar is to write a territory log, and it is his duty to record every day in the territory."

"But we've been out for four or five days," Rand asked

"Yes, it was the housekeeper who wrote it for me the other day"

Mei Wennan is the steward of the territory, and by blood, Mei Wennan is a contemporane of Huck Galloping Horse, and they have the same grandfather.

Mei Wennan has been a housekeeper for more than 20 years, and has been dedicated to the entire family, writing the territory log on behalf of Albert after Albert's departure.

"I want to ask, what time is it today?" Rand wanted to understand the world, and he only received 4 seasons, 4 quarters, and 12 months of the year from the memory of the original owner, but the original owner lived too roughly, so he remembered the beginning of the middle and the end of the month, and he had no concept of more detailed time.

"September 21, September 21, 996 to be more precise," Albert blurted out

"Good vintage," Rand thought to himself, 996, a year suitable for hard labor. "What day do you think the barbarians will leave the galloping realm?"

"From the current point of view, today's barbarians are just spies, and the large army will come back in a day or two, we haven't left them food, but they can't leave easily, I estimate that they will stay until the end of the month, that is, the 33rd or 34th."

"Oh, 33, eh, what day did you say?" Rand felt that he had suddenly found Hua Point,

"It's the end of the 33rd, you won't forget that this month is September and there are 34 days, right?" Albert laughed, but Rand could only laugh

"You remember the days too clearly, I usually remember the beginning of the middle and the end of the month." Rand complimented as he figured out the calendar, "Do you have a calendar or a monthly calendar?" I want to see."

"Of course," Albert then got up and walked over to a box, "Speaking of which, this is still your property?" ”

"What? It's mine? ”

"Yes, this is the alchemy calendar, a magic product that relies on the magic rune circle to run, and it is your credential and tool as the director of the territory" Albert found an item, a small blue box, and when opened, there was a dial, and the date hand in the dial pointed to September 21. Albert said that the alchemy calendar was issued by the Holy Supreme Council and was the benchmark tool for every lord above the baron. The hands of the hour, minute and second on the largest dial are almost exactly the same as the clocks in Rand's hometown, and the subdials are calendars of the year, month and day, and there are several small dials that can also display the stars, the phases of the moon on three moons, the orbits of the two suns, etc., which can be said to be an all-round mechanical clock.

In addition to the time function, at the bottom of the box there is a gauge with a length of 0.1 meters, which can be used as a length measurement datum, and inside the box there is a 0.1 kg alchemical ceramic weight, which has exactly the same density as water and can be used as a measuring tool for volume and mass. All officially recognized barons and on-the-ground nobles throughout the empire would be issued with one of these alchemical tools as a benchmark for weights and measures within their realms.

"This calendar, the lord's alchemy seal, and the alchemy boundary marker on the territory are the three major credentials of the lord of the field."

From the calendar wheel, Rand found that there are 400 days in the year, with 33 days in each month, and 34 days in January, June, September, and December. The standard of each day is very similar to his former planet, but when looking at the calendar, Rand vaguely noticed that something was not quite right. For example, in the astrolabe, Rand found that the star he was on was actually revolving around the so-called Raya, and Raya was revolving around the emperor with Alivia and several planets. At some point, Rand felt that if Laya was a planet, then Alivia was a moon. And now, the Raya galaxy where Alivia is located can be counted as a secondary galaxy of the Diyang galaxy. Alivia has both its own rotation and its revolution, as well as the entire galaxy revolving around the emperor's galaxy.

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The nights of September were already getting cold, but the temperature in the Barony of the Galloping Horse was still much warmer than on the Plains of the Galloping Horse.

At this moment, the leader of the Grey Goose Clan, who had just gone south from the Galloping Horse Plain, was sitting in the living room on the first floor of the Baron Galloping Horse's castle, feeling the aristocratic life of the so-called Terran civilized world. After thinking about it, the leader only had one sentence, and the chair was not very soft.

In addition to the elders and warriors of the Grey Goose tribe standing next to him, there was also a young Terran man.

"Patriarch, the son of the viscount outside is here again" Suddenly the rumor from the tribe came to report.

"That little Rot, and the face. He said that there were hundreds of people here for a winter's food, more than 50 war horses, and more than 20 slaves, but here I only saw this earthen house. You go and tell that boy that we don't see a grain here, so we'll naturally look elsewhere, and let his viscount's father choose for himself whether to give us the grain or we'll get it himself!" ”

"Yes!" The herald turned away

The young man on the side looked at the gray goose patriarch, "Patriarch, as I said, this poor barony not only has no slaves, but also no food. These two items you want can only be found in the Viscount Castle next door. ”

"Yes, I know," said the grey goose leader, lightly, "but less than 60 slaves is not enough. You know, it's winter, the ground is about to freeze, and only the strong demon bearers will be able to dig through the hard ground. Therefore, the main force of mining is knight apprentices and junior knights. ”

"This is easy to do, once the matter of Roth's territory is exposed, the entire Maned Wolf City will be under pressure from the Dragon Kingdom, they will launch some families to repent of the crime, and we will let the demon supporters in these families also be sent to the Prancing Horse Plains"

"Good! I hope you will be able to keep your promise" The tribal leader looked at the landing of a large rock and was very happy.

"Of course, we have worked together for such a long time, which time did I not keep the agreement" The young man's tone was also a lot more relaxed.

"It's inconvenient for you to stay here all the time, so I suggest you go back to the camp first and help me debug those capricious magic circles."

"Good. Do I need to contact my local connector before leaving? The young man didn't seem so willing to leave.

"Local?" The leader looked like he thought for a few seconds, "No, we'd better not let too many people know about our affairs." ”

"Well, then I'll wait for news from the chief in the camp," said the young man, who left the castle.

After watching the young man leave, the chief whispered, "Barons, viscounts, counts, you nobles hiding behind the stone wall, what do you think I am?" Vultures on the steppe? How many pieces of carrion are you giving to you and you are full? ”

"Someone!" The tribal leader shouted, "Prepare the camp north of the pass, let the warriors polish their iron swords, wipe their armor clean, feed their horses, and let the tribal camps on the plains go south." This winter, let's find a warm place to spend the winter! ”

"Yes!" With the order of the tribal leader, many barbarian cavalry rushed to the north, and the hunt of the barbarian tribes in the southern part of the entire galloping horse plain was about to begin.