To the southeast of the Kornico Pass lies the largest border castle of the Dragon Kingdom, the Blue Magpie Castle.

The castle sits on a delta where two rivers meet.

The castle consists of a main fort and three secondary forts, and from the castle's lookout, you can see the territory of Rott to the west.

At noon on October 12, Kempins Mane, Earl of the Northwest, held the railing of the castle lookout in his hand and looked at the barbarian cavalry on the other side of the river more than ten kilometers away.

"You said you saw at least 100 cavalrymen at the time, and I'm afraid it's more than that now.

The total number of barbarians we have seen outside the various towers and noble territories is even more than 300 people, and there has never been so many barbarians who have invaded the territory of the dragon. Kempins said solemnly.

"My lord, what I am reporting to you is the number of barbarians we saw about a month ago, and with the fall of Roth, there must be more barbarians going south." It was Huck Galloping Horse, Rand's father, who said this.

After escaping from the barbarian tribe 12 days ago, Huck, Ryan, and Obote traveled for more than ten days, disguised as lone barbarian cavalry, and mixed up in the Cornic Valley.

After leaving the valley in the south, they immediately headed east into the southeastern remnants of Cornico, and when they were about to approach the Blue Magpie Castle, they were just in time for the Knights led by the Maned Wolf to enter the Blue Magpie Castle.

When the knights saw the two "wild men" that suddenly appeared, they immediately became vigilant, but fortunately, it was the deputy head of the knights and the deputy captain of the well-known social expert in Maned Wolf City, Colony Red Dragon, who noticed the abnormality.

Under great pressure, he came forward to recognize Huck and his two sons, and finally asked the Count to piece together the truth about the barbarian encroachment of the entire two territories in the south of Cornico.

Earl Maned Wolf had already known through his network that although Huck and Bob were both doing business with the barbarians, Huck obviously had a better bottom line, and he was ready to inform the other nobles as soon as he sensed the changes in the barbarians this winter.

And Bob did not hesitate to choose to kill Huck to protect himself after also knowing about the barbarians' movements, but was played by the barbarians, resulting in the murder of the whole family.

Now that Huck had returned from the Prancing Horse Plains, Huck had confirmed the previous suspicions of the Maned Earl, and the Count naturally appeased Huckdoga. "Huck, don't worry too much, I've received reliable information.

The people of your realm followed Albert and them to the Great Forest, which is well known throughout Roth's territory.

As long as you keep your people, your title of galloping horse will never be removed. ”

"Thank you, Lord Earl, I am more worried about the war situation in recent winters, the fall of the Roth Territory will only attract more barbarians, and now the nobles have not realized the seriousness of the barbarian invasion."

"You're right, these old men have been comfortable for too long," the earl teased his men, but he had misjudged the situation because of the long period of peace.

"My lord, my lordship, there is the latest battle report!"

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Baron Geo Mormont of Wild Bear Ridge was the first baron to prepare 10 knights to set off for the Blue Magpie Castle after receiving the Earl's call-up order, but for several days after completing the preparations, Baron Geo was never able to leave his Wild Bear Ridge.

The reason is simple, a camp of more than 25 barbarian cavalry suddenly entrenched outside their Wild Bear Ridge.

The intention of the barbarian cavalry was also obvious: to entangle them. Or to say that the connection between Maned Wolf City and its southern vassals prevented the troops of the various viscounts and barons from supporting the Blue Magpie Castle in time.

The area of Wild Bear Ridge is small, and some potions and magical beasts are produced in the mountains and forests.

Many of these valuable materials need to be exchanged for iron, salt, food and other daily necessities from other territories, and some of them need to be supplied to the family knights to improve their strength, and the resources that can be exchanged for weapons and war horses are very limited.

Unable to equip each of his knights with black-scaled horses and iron armor, the most effective means of killing barbarian cavalry was to kill a baron, a mid-level knight, with a single cavalryman.

The other knights are in trouble, they can't catch up with the barbarians on horseback, and they will be entangled when they retreat, unless they are extremely experienced junior knights, ordinary junior knights and reserve knights can't hurt the barbarian cavalry with armor.

Baron Geo tried to organize a sortie a few days ago, but was almost surrounded, his eldest son was seriously wounded in the battle, and in the end, he himself became the queen of the knights, so that the entire family would not be buried on the way to Blue Magpie City.

After that, Gio, who failed to attack, could only hide in the mountains. Fortunately, the barbarians are not good at mountain warfare, and they have no interest in entering the mountains and forests, they just want to stay in the key places and block the will of the human race.

Looking at the barbarian camp on the Lingbei Plain, Baron Geo let out a long sigh, "This barbarian invasion is too abnormal, what happened to Roth's territory?"

"It doesn't matter what happened in Rot's territory now," Wild Bear Ridge Scholar said, "Now that Jacques's injuries are beyond our consideration, he must be sent to Maned Wolf City immediately to be treated by the priest of the temple." ”

"Yes, but how can you break through the group of cavalry in front of you?"

"I have a suggestion...

An hour later, the knights of the Barbarian Camp and the Wild Bear Ridge reappeared at the edge of the mountain, and the Barbarian cavalry immediately assembled.

The knights wandered the edge of the woods in the mountains, occasionally making their way out into the plains, only to return to the woodlands at once.

The wandering of the knights made the barbarian cavalry very hesitant, the barbarians did not like woodland, and even less like mountains, so the barbarians never entered the woods in the mountains of Wild Bear Ridge to pursue the knights, and generally only chased to the edge of the woods and stopped.

Now the Wild Bear Ridge knights are at the edge of the woods, as if they want to make a detour to Mane Wolf City, or they may have deliberately introduced the barbarians into the forest to defeat them one by one.

The barbarians were not sure what the knights were for, but the previous battles had proved that the barbarian cavalry could not bargain with the Wild Bear Ridge knights in the forest.

Finally, the barbarian leader saw that the knights had advanced more than 2 kilometers out of the forest.

Although he still did not know the intentions of these knights, the barbarian leader decided to lead his troops to intercept them immediately, and he did not seek to kill them now, but to drive them back into the forest.

Watch as your knights hedge against the barbarian cavalry, even knowing that they will return to the woods later.

But letting his subordinates be used as bait to cover his way out of the territory still gave Jao a sense of shame as a deserter.

The only thing he could do at this moment was to rush to Maned Wolf City as soon as possible, inform the Count of the southern information, and let his son receive treatment.

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Facing the same dilemma was Viscount Elk, who was east of Mane Wolf City and had a head-on confrontation with the barbarian cavalry for the first time in his life.

The viscount met a barbarian cavalry of 25 men with 20 knights.

The Viscount and 2 Intermediate Knights and 5 Junior Knights were all equipped with iron armor and black scale horses, but the Reserve Knights were just ordinary war horses and leather armor.

After the battle, Viscount Elk immediately discovered the gap in the combat effectiveness of the two sides, he and the two intermediate knights were still able to deal with the entanglement of the 3 barbarians with their fighting spirit, and the junior knights found that they could not fight and could rely on the black scale horse to evacuate, but the 12 reserve knights fell into the overall disadvantage of not being able to penetrate, prevent, catch up, and run away.

The barbarians do not pay attention to one-on-one chivalry, nor do they take care of the weak, they will cut when they come up, and they will not fight alone if they can fight.

The knights of 21 people were immediately killed and wounded, and in the end, they could only rely on the mid-level knights to retreat to the castle, Rao still had 2 reserve knights killed, 4 wounded, and Elk Castle was also the first time that the barbarians were beaten to the doorstep.

The viscount stood above the castle gates and looked at the barbarians who were circling the castle in the distance.

"This is the battle of the barbarians, how did that guy Bob survive for so many years in the Kornico Pass?" Viscount Elk looked at the remnants of his army and doubted himself.

"Lord Viscount, those barbarians... They led them to the knights of Doron," cried one of the knights.

"What!" The viscount knew that these barbarians were now going to rob the knights, and they had just been defeated, and they were powerless to stop it.

A similar situation is constantly playing out, the leader of the gray goose divides 100 barbarians, divided into four groups to go to the hinterland of the maned wolf's territory to harass, rob, block and other tasks, so that the maned wolf's forces cannot be concentrated.

The leader of the Grey Goose placed his main camp outside the Blue Magpie Castle to block the Knights of the Maned Wolves.

The Count, having received the battle report, finally understood that the situation he was facing at the moment was even worse than he had imagined.

His own troops can't leave, and his subordinates' teams can't get through.

At this moment, the Earl really wanted to lead the Knights to attack the Grey Goose camp head-on, but there were no clergy in the Blue Magpie Castle, and he was afraid that the casualties would be too bad.

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Inside the Grey Goose Tent, the Grey Goose leader saw the mysterious young man again.

"Congratulations to the leader for successfully taking the territory of Roth and approaching the city of Blue Magpie." The young man said.

"Hahahaha, it's easy to say. At the end of the day, thanks to your plan. The leader of the grey geese looked very happy.

"With the wealth of Roth Castle, the leader will definitely be able to dominate the entire Galloping Horse Plain, and in the future, we will rely on you to do the salt mine and black scale horse business."

"Haha, it's easy to say, I'm also an old friend with the front secretary of the palace."

"I... Chief, I am from the Imperial Salt and Iron Division" The young man was a little embarrassed, he had always claimed that he was from the Salt and Iron Division, but the barbarian leader in front of him recognized himself as the Imperial Salt and Iron Division.

"Hey, what are you hiding from me, the Salt Iron Division is represented by the Blue Dragon Family of the Dragon Kingdom on the Galloping Horse Plains.

The gang of the Salt and Iron Division, open their mouths and close their mouths to say the words "salt price" and "salt quotation", and they won't tell me which territory has weak defenses, and which earl has conflicts with the king, this is something that your palace boss is concerned about, isn't it? ”

"This..."

"You're not the first Imperial official to see me, or even the first representative of the Imperial Division I've seen, you Terrans only focus on your own little things, and it's easy to tell where you are."

“。。。 That... You should also know that the Magisters and Legends of the Dragon Kingdom are very concerned about the barbarians... Your activities in the Northwest Territory, they will not sit idly by and watch you go deep into the Northwest Territory" The young man saw that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he simply planned to let the gray goose withdraw his troops.

"Of course, we steppe warriors don't plan to live behind a stone house, and I won't stay under Blue Magpie City for too long."

"Then you...

"Our salt mines are in dire need of slaves right now, I'll leave if I find some slaves here"

"But you're at the Blue Magpie Castle... You... You wouldn't send a small force of cavalry to raid the Terran Demon Breeders in various territories, would you? ”

"Of course, if I don't send troops, can I still ask the Earl directly?"

"Well, you didn't tell me about this at the time, you said that if you get the wealth of Lot's territory, you will go north" The young man found that the situation before him was getting out of control, and he was very angry at the treachery of the gray goose at the moment.

"Isn't this a change of plan?" the Grey Goose leader was unconcerned about the promise that the Terrans had taken a fancy to.

"You, aren't you afraid that after the matter gets bigger, the powerhouses of the Dragon Kingdom and the powerhouses of the Human Empire will intervene?"

"Well, how can that? Haven't you been covering up for me?

Aren't you bewitching the dragon's mighty man and the old maned wolf on the other?

With your cover, how could I pass up this great opportunity? ”

"You..."

"Didn't you receive a letter from your temple boss before you came? So that you must ensure that the plan is carried out. ”

“。。。” The young man didn't expect that his actions had been monitored by the barbarian leader in front of him all along, but how did they know?

"Why are you looking at me like that?" The Grey Goose Leader couldn't help it at this point, "Oh, you want to know why I'm so aware of your actions, right?

Quite simply, do you remember the representative of the Salt Mine before you?

I guess you don't know that he was killed in the tribal melee, but as a mid-level mage, he set up a monitoring circle in the room of the former salt mine chief.

Guess who's in that room now? ”

As he spoke, the leader took out a small mirror, a special magic mirror that could be operated by magic crystals, through which he could see the situation in a specific room thousands of miles away.

"You... You actually dare to use the means of the temple front division to spy on the representative of the temple front division! The young man was enraged, and his words were fierce at the moment, but his hands were crossed, and his hands were reached into the wide cuffs.

There are several terrifying scrolls in the hidden pockets of the cuffs, the contents of which are enough to kill the barbarian in front of him.

However, before the young man could reach the scroll, his body suddenly appeared in his vision, and the neck of the body was already empty.

Behind the representative of the temple stood a tall barbarian, and he drew his knife between the flints and directly beheaded the representative.

"The blade of a knife can not only kill, but also hurt yourself," the leader of the gray goose said coldly, "If you use others as knives, you will always stab yourself!" ”