The horses' hooves fell on the ground and stirred up dust, and the knights on horseback, armed with spears and iris shields, confronted each other with round shields and scimitars a few hundred meters away. From time to time, the knights approached the barbarian ranks, and the slightest contact was made before they separated again, occasionally the knights would attack the barbarian cavalry with their spears, and the dexterous cavalry would immediately dodge. The barbarian cavalry also shot arrows with bows, but unfortunately the arrows fired by the compound short bow could not penetrate the knights in iron armor. The two teams circled each other, sometimes approaching, sometimes apart.

In the Blue Magpie Castle, the Maned Wolf Count was standing on the lookout at the moment, watching the mutual temptation between the Maned Wolf Knights and the 30 barbarian cavalry. After several years of accumulation, the iron armor and black scale horses of the Maned Wolf Knights are neat, and each team has a senior knight as the leader, so it can be said that a knight team of the same size can completely beat twice the barbarian cavalry team.

Now the leader of the knights outside the city is the maned wolf eldest prince, as the leader of the younger generation, the eldest prince has a strong talent in fighting spirit, equestrianism and moves, but lacks combat experience.

Fortunately, such mutual temptation is not for the sake of fighting for life, but for mutual temptation between opponents.

Ever since Count Maned Wolf sensed the barbarians' intentions to prevent the vassal knights from all over the northwest from approaching the Blue Magpie Castle and then breaking them individually, the Count has been thinking of a way. Now the situation between the maned wolf and the gray goose is that the knights of the maned wolf and the knights of all the vassals are stronger than the total cavalry of the gray goose, but the gray goose is now divided into 5 ways, except for the less than 100 people under the blue magpie castle, the others have become small forces, attacking the vassal territory, and interfering with the vassals to assemble to the blue magpie castle. The Counts' Knights, who did not have a vassal army to plunder, hedged against 100 cavalry, and the losses were too great for the Count to be reluctant.

If you want to break the stalemate, you need fresh forces to join. The Earl did two things in total, the first was to send a knight team of 10-15 people to constantly stalemate and test the barbarians. The knights are strong, and there are middle-level priests from Mane Wolf City in the castle, as long as they can control the strength of the battle with the barbarian cavalry, they will not be attrition or suffer.

After a few days of testing, the barbarians were injured and more than a dozen people fell from their horses, and they had to recall some of the cavalry teams that had gone out to attack and harass. In this way, the earl's vassals can go out of the city and gather in the territory of the Blue Magpie. This is how the Viscount Elk and another Baron from the east of Maned Wolf City were liberated today.

However, just gathering vassals is probably not enough. The Maned Wolf Count is summoning vassals, and the Grey Goose Leader is summoning more tribes on the plains. Therefore, the earl also contacted the Blue Dragon family of the kingdom, and asked the Blue Dragon family to give support to a squadron of 25 knights with the private salt income for the next three years as collateral.

The squadron was expected to arrive in about a month, and the Count believed that the local vassals, plus the new forces from outside, would be enough to keep the barbarians out of his control while keeping the territory out of his control.

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"You know Albert Galloping Horse better than I do, he won't be caught by a brute" Behind the Earl, Viscount Elk was comforting Huck. "Your family has been in that forest for so long, what else do you have to worry about?"

"It's because I'm familiar that I'm worried, there are too many demonic beasts in the forest, and if you're not careful, the demonless one will become the meal of the intermediate demonic beasts, why did I take care of the people of the two territories for the Roth territory 8 years ago, it's because we know the forest too well, and a middle-level knight in it can't be busy at all" Huke's heart has always remembered his territory.

"Originally, I was against you trading grain, salt, iron, and horses with the barbarians, and I used to think that was an enemy, but now I don't think so. The black-scaled horse is too powerful, and the iron armor is the strongest armor when it can't use the fighting spirit. Now that the barbarians are all on horseback and equipped with armor, we can only be surrounded by the barbarians in the castle if we can't keep up. ”

"You don't say that it's because of our trade that the barbarians have become stronger?"

"Just kidding, how many barbarians are in iron armor with that little deal?" There is a saying in the Dragon Kingdom that it is because of the frequent trade between the border nobles and the barbarians that the barbarians are now powerful. "Now there are at least 200 barbarian cavalry in the entire Northwest Territory, and there are at least the same number of barbarian demon supporters and 5 times the number of demonsless people in their tribes, and such a number of demon supporters send all the grain in the entire Northwest Territory to the Galloping Horse Plain, and they can't support so many people."

"But the empire can afford it," Huck said with a wry smile, "how can it keep the cost of salt and iron down and at the same time protect the interests of the nobility?" Of course, it was the Salt and Iron Division that directly purchased the salt and iron ingots of the barbarians on the Galloping Horse Plain on a large scale. ”

"Yes, salt and iron are both bulk goods, it is not easy to transport, local production is profitable, in order to ensure greater benefits, the salt and iron division also provides barbarian ironmaking and salt boiling technology." As a family that controls the important passage from the hinterland of the empire into the Galloping Horse Plain, the Elk family is very sensitive to the transportation of goods, "Every year, a large number of grain from the east and south of the continent, and many demon supporters of the families who have failed the struggle will enter the Galloping Plain, and these barbarian tribes fed by grain and slaves can now easily send hundreds of cavalry to sweep the northwest territory."

Not only that, the entire Northwest Territory and the entire Dragon Kingdom are buying the salt and iron of the barbarians, and our gold coins have been divided between the agents of the Dragon Family and the barbarians, and these gold coins have now become the chains that hang us. ”

The two border nobles sketched out the well-known secrets of the Galloping Horse Plain. After many fruitless battles, the Terrans are ready to develop the mineral resources on the Galloping Horse Plain in the form of agents, and the Blue Dragon Family, the agent of the Salt and Iron Division in the kingdom, will come forward to ensure the mining technology and transportation channels of the barbarians.

Although this kind of mining will increase the strength of the barbarians, no matter how powerful the barbarians are, they will not be able to threaten the interior of the Dragon Kingdom, because as long as they pass the Mane Wolf City, the influence of the magic turbulence will be close to disappearing, so the barbarian threat will only exist in the territory of the Northwest Earldom.

While the minor nobles in the Northwest Territories would be in danger, such sacrifices were necessary compared to the cost of living for the people in the entire Dragon Kingdom and the interests of the Empire's Salt and Iron Division. This is the inner thoughts of the princes rolling in the temple in the dragon kingdom.

"I really don't know how you got here all these years" Viscount Elk now admires Huck very much, "Don't worry about the territory, even if Albert and they don't keep the people, it doesn't matter, it's not easy for a few nobles in our east and south to get together and find you 300 people." The third son of my chief knight has recently become a mid-level knight, and tomorrow I will call him to be your family knight. ”

Now the nobles in the Northwest Territory, after feeling the threat of the barbarians, know that Huck's territory is their outer gate, and they don't mind separating a part of the population and demon supporters from the territory to Huck.

"Who is that?" Suddenly, the Count asked on the terrace.