13. The Fall of Roth
On September 30, 996, the journey from Viscount Roth to Barony of Galloping Horse was almost flat, with only a small river and some sparse trees.
A convoy was marching along the dirt road between the two castles, led by the steward of the Roth Domain, the whole convoy consisted of 6 wagons, including 1 ton of grain, 15 fans of pork, spices, timber, live poultry and other supplies, all of which were on the list that Viscount Roth had made a few days ago.
According to the verbal agreement between Viscount Lot and the Grey Goose Tribe, after obtaining these things, the Grey Goose Tribe will return to the north, and this barbarian's southward activity will end.
Just a few hundred meters behind the convoy, 25 ironclad knights were following the truck from a distance, led by Viscount Bob, the former deputy head of the Maned Wolf Knights.
Since Bob traveled to the Galloping Horse Plains 8 years ago, he met the leader of the Grey Goose tribe who had just eaten the salt mine at that time, and since then the relationship between the two has continued, Bob not only represents the salt business in the many viscounts and barons in the Northwest Earldom, but also introduces the Frostwolf family from the royal capital Dragontooth City to the Grey Goose tribe.
This family's business covers multiple kingdoms and principalities, and it can be regarded as the largest business family in the entire human race, as well as the young man from the Blue Dragon family.
After introducing the two of them to the Grey Goose Tribe, the tribe has entered a new stage, starting from the third year of their acquaintance, the Grey Goose tribe has sold more black-scaled horses to Bob every year, and Bob knows that if he wants Grey Goose to provide more horses, he must give them more food.
So Bob's caravan went to the Grey Goose tribe once a year in spring and autumn, and sent another caravan to the southern marquis of the dragon to buy a large amount of aged grain, which was sent to the northernmost plains of the kingdom in exchange for black-scaled horses and salt in gold coins, which was the business of the Roth family.
Of course, it is impossible to completely offset the price of 20 war horses with grain alone, so it is also necessary to purchase rune versions, magic crystals, magic sealing boxes, magic lamps and other magic tools that need to rely on magic crystals from the royal capital.
The barbarians have salt mines and war horses, but gold coins are of little use to the barbarians, and the barbarians' tents on the steppes are far less comfortable than the castles full of magic circles of the human nobles, so the barbarians who get a lot of cash are eager to exchange the gold coins for magic tools to improve their quality of life.
At the same time, because the barbarian demon supporters can't feel the operation of magic, they can't understand even the simplest rune boards, and they don't have to worry about these rune boards being controlled by the barbarians.
However, Viscount Bob still did not expect that the Grey Goose Tribe had become even more powerful than he had imagined in the past 7 years of constant trade.
In the first year of business, the leader of the Grey Goose tribe gave all the salt in the camp to Viscount Bob and sold his own mount to him, which gave Viscount Bob a taste of the strength of the Grey Goose tribe.
However, only the following year, when Bob arrived with Mace Frostwolf to the Grey Goose tribe, Grey Goose had prepared enough black-scaled horses for the Viscount to feel that he could not even take all the horses with his cargo.
By the third year, Bob needed to sell some rune plates and magic crystals, and after that, Bob was no longer even the biggest business object of the Grey Goose Tribe, Blue Dragon and Cool Wolf would go to the Grey Goose Tribe for large transactions, and he would fall behind.
What Bob couldn't tolerate was that since before the spring, Bob had even heard that the other viscounts in the county's field were also dealing with the gray goose.
In Bob's eyes, the so-called Grey Goose Tribe is just an agent on the Galloping Plain supported by himself, although this tribe is a large tribe in the southern part of the Galloping Plain, but the total number of barbarian demon supporters in the tribe cannot exceed 100.
They also need to put more than 50 men to maintain the vigilance of the salt mines, and they also need to put some cavalry to guard the Kornico Pass, and there will be no more than 20 cavalry who can go to the Barony of Galloping Horses.
Bob has been into the plains many times and is very familiar with the habits of the barbarians, although the barbarians have the physique of a mid-level knight, but it is only a general concept.
Just like the black-scaled horse is indeed a good horse, but in various knights, even the black-scaled horse needs to go through several months of training before it can be called a qualified war horse.
Barbarian tribes cannot use combat skills or fighting spirit in battle, and barbarian cavalry with strong fitness materials can only charge hard.
The strength of the Terran knight lies in the change of fighting habits, senses and tricks of the fighting spirit, and the junior knight who has undergone long-term fighting qi training, even if he cannot exert his fighting spirit skills on the galloping horse plain, can condense the fighting qi in the body and strengthen the body, and can still fight back and forth with the barbarians.
Viscount Bob, who has many battlefield experiences, decides to teach Grey Goose a lesson.
Bob is the most gifted and capable viscount of the Galloping Horse family after moving into Roth's territory, and he is a high-level knight in his own right, and has many connections in Dragon's Tooth City and Mane Wolf City.
After the seal, Bob dredged up the relationship between Maned Wolf City, Dragon's Tooth City, and several other earls and marquis cities, and at the same time sent the caravan to the Galloping Horse Plain, turning his Roth territory into a transit place for border trade.
With the gold coins brought by the trade, Bob himself selected 12 junior knights and 5 intermediate knights from his former colleagues and classmates to come to the territory to become his family knights.
Now the knight squadron with 25 knights is Bob's biggest reliance, and with such strength, Bob is not afraid of the barbarian cavalry that the Grey Goose tribe can come.
In Bob's view, the Plains of the Galloping Horse is the future of his family. Now that this gray goose tribe has risen on its own, it is not counted, but it is still kicking its nose and planning to invade the south, forcing itself to pay for food in the name of lack of food.
Originally, he wanted to scatter the Barony of the Galloping Horse and let the barbarians take it away, but Lot himself sent some demonsless people to re-enter the Barony, so that the Barony of the Galloping Horse became a territory that the nominal people kept but the nobles were taken captive, so that Viscount Lot, as a close branch of Huck, could install his youngest son as a baron.
Your own knights can arrange some to be sub-knights, and you can also do business with the gray geese when you go to the Galloping Horse Plains in the future, and even take care of the Galloping Horse family.
However, it was a coincidence that the side branch of his family did not understand things, and did not know that the main branch was sheltered from the wind and rain, and the fourth son of the youngest baron actually ran away with the entire leader;
Feng Jun listened and watched from the wall, and covered the knights in Mane Wolf City; Now I can only rely on myself, with the accumulated knights, to drive out this bit of barbarians.
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As the carriage progressed, Rothling's butler could already see Baron Gallop's castle.
Not long after the continuation of the walk, a patrolling barbarian cavalry came, and after a brief inquiry, the cavalry went to the castle with the butler and the convoy.
In the original baronial room on the second floor of the castle, Butler Roth met the leader of the gray geese.
"The Viscount's supplies have arrived?" The leader asked absently
"Yes, Lord Grey Goose, my Viscount has already sent 6 carts of supplies, just outside the castle, please check it out"
"Okay, I'll take a look," the leader of the grey geese turned out the list of goods on the carriage handed over by the butler, "Very good, it seems to be the same as we said"
"Of course, my Viscount has always been a man of his word, do you look at your team?"
"Of course, according to the agreement with the viscount, evacuate here" the leader smiled and beckoned to the barbarians in the baron's castle to prepare for the pull.
Soon the 25 cavalry in the castle were assembled, and then 10 men escorted 6 carriages, and the other 15 men were divided into 2 waves, 10 men opened the way, and 5 men were behind. A carriage escorted by a group of men headed north.
On the way from the Galloping Horse Territory to the Plains, you will pass through a section of Rot's Territory. There is a small grove on the dirt slope by the roadside. Here lay an ambush for Viscount Roth and his squadron of knights.
The Viscount first saw the 10 barbarians walking in front of the carriage, then the first carriage, by which time all the knights had already mounted their horses, and when the third carriage passed, the Viscount led a squadron of knights to rush down the dirt slope.
The barbarians had already seen the viscount when he had just rushed out of the woods, and without any hesitation, all the barbarians abandoned the carriage and headed for the Kornico Pass.
Although the barbarian cavalry is all leather armor, and the knights of the viscount are all iron armor, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.
The first group that the members of the Knights need to train is to pass on their fighting spirit to their mounts, so even the light cavalry cannot outrun the ironclad knights south of the Kornico Valley.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer, Bob has seen the last cavalry in front of him, he gathered the fighting spirit of the whole body on the tip of the cavalry spear, when the two horses were less than two meters apart, the fighting spirit stabbed forward with the tip of the spear, although the tip of the spear was still a little distance from the back of the barbarian cavalry, but the fighting spirit had rushed into the cavalry's body, the thin leather armor was torn, and the cavalry fell to the ground in response.
There is another hill in front of you, and when you enter the uphill slope, all the horses will slow down, but the knights can keep the horses faster through their fighting spirit, especially the black-scaled horses, the horse's hooves can condense the magical elements of the wind system, and the knights can make the wind elements on the horse's hooves have a higher proportion and flow more smoothly through the fighting spirit.
In an instant, Bob pierced the second barbarian, and before the other party could even shout, Bob picked off his horse, and then the third and fourth barbarians.
Finally, all the remaining 19 barbarians ran to the top of the dirt slope, and then continued to run northeast along the edge of the dirt slope.
Bob was willing to let them go at the moment. However, just as Bob was concentrating on picking out a cavalryman, he was suddenly knocked on his helmet.
Bob was wearing an iron helmet, and his vision was narrow, and he was staring at the barbarian cavalry in front of him, and he didn't know anything about the flanks.
Then he heard the other knights shouting, so he opened his helmet.
Around the slope, about 150 horsemen were surrounding Bob's knights.
The cavalry did not stop, but circled around Bob's knights.
This was the first time Bob had seen so many barbarian cavalry as Viscount Roth.
The knights got together, and at this moment Bob knew that he had been tricked, not only him, but Huck and Count Maned Wolf had all been tricked.
From the very beginning, the gray goose didn't plan to grab a house and leave, and even said that they couldn't tell if the gray goose didn't grab the rand.
This gray goose is really crazy now, and actually brought a large group of barbarians to the interior of the dragon kingdom.
"Why, some cavalrymen dare to argue with the knights?" Roth sneered, "When did you barbarians have this delusion, thinking that you can defeat the knight if you have more people?" ”
Lot shouted, and all the members of the knight squadron immediately formed a charge formation, and the entire squadron rushed in one direction.
There was a loud "boom", and before the cavalry viscount could break through and fall to the ground, then many knights heard a strange whistle, which was melodious and melodious.
With the whistle, the war horses under the crotches of the knights suddenly stirred, and without the strongest captain, the war horses were in a commotion again, and the remaining knight formation was quickly shattered.
With the roar, 150 barbarian cavalry rushed into the knight's formation in a roundabout way. At this moment, although the knights can barely control the war horses, they have no intention of fighting in the face of the overwhelming barbarians.
"Boom" was another sound, an intermediate knight was struck by a lightning bolt and fell to the ground, and then the leader of the barbarian tribe rode into another intermediate knight, the knight was knocked into all kinds of meat, and the war horse also suddenly galloped away, and soon the knight was thrown off the horse and pierced by many cavalry spears.
Originally, the combat power of the 6 intermediate knights and above was instantly reduced by half, and the remaining junior knights and knight apprentices were still in the mood to fight again at this moment, and they were ready to break through by themselves.
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As the sun sets in the west, on the tower of Roth Castle, a Roth demon bearer looks in vain in the direction of the Colnico Pass. This demon bearer is the illegitimate son of Viscount Lot, and the Viscount would not have cared about such an illegitimate child, but the 16-year-old child inspired the demon bearer.
Although there is basically no potential for promotion, after all, it has added combat power to the family, so he was left in the castle by Viscount Roth, and guarded the castle when the Viscount led the main force out.
The bastard watched as a group of knights were coming up the hillside to the north, riding black-scaled horses and holding the air of a Roth territory.
"It's finally back, the barbarians are gone!" The bastard didn't think much about it, and walked to the gate of the castle with the demonless people in the castle to welcome the arrival of the viscount
As the knights drew closer, the bastard rehearsed in his mind how to appreciate the valor of the viscount and the strength of his brothers. However, what he didn't expect was that the knights only stopped when they arrived in front of him, and one of them shouted "The viscount is injured, get out of the way"
"Father, you are so powerful... What? The viscount was injured?。。。 Don't get out of the way yet, let the viscount hurry in and don't get in the way. ”
The knights entered the castle with the viscount, and the bastards hurriedly followed the demonsless ones in a panic.
"Father, how are you? You're not badly injured, do you want to go to Maned Wolf City and ask a priest to come over? The bastard always followed the knights, but seeing the "Viscount" with his back to him take off his helmet, the bastard suddenly felt that this figure was very unfamiliar, "Father... Father? ”
When the other party turned around, the bastard saw an unfamiliar face, and he froze in place.