At noon on the second day after the Count awoke, all the vassals were summoned to the castle's council chamber for a meeting.

"Huck, what do you think the Count will do this time? I can't explain why I abandoned everyone the day before yesterday but failed to defeat the gray goose, right? Viscount Elk asked Baron Galloping Horse with some indignation.

"Gantt, there's no need for this. When I came back the day before yesterday, I thought about it for a long time.

Under the circumstances, the Earl made the best choice, but he ignored the power of the barbarian priests, "because he felt that his baronial title was crumbling, Huck Galloping Horse was always defending Kempins, consciously or unconsciously, and imagined in his heart that the Earl would be moved by his silent support, and maybe he would not pursue his own fault for leaving the territory in the future."

"Baron Huck, you're right, but if I had made such a decision to abandon my vassals, I would have no face to go back to the castle to meet them," Baron Geo added, hearing Huck's explanation.

Huck, of course, didn't agree with the Earl's approach, so he just made up for the Count and stopped talking.

In the midst of all the vassals' discussions, the Earl, dressed in a shirt, forced his body through the main entrance, and walked through the hall to sit in the master's seat in the middle of the council chamber, he had never encountered such a noisy council in the decades that Count Maned Wolf had ruled the northwest, and he had never felt such contempt and anger from the vassals.

Caspian was unwilling and dissatisfied, but he knew that he couldn't be angry with the vassals now, the dukes and marquis in the royal capital were waiting for themselves to make mistakes, waiting for themselves to be separated from the vassals, and the elders of the family were waiting to see their jokes, and at this moment, Count Caspian couldn't make any mistakes.

The enemies of the barbarians are calling for battle outside the city, the nobles of the royal capital are ready to meddle in the territory, and the opponents in the family will attack at any time.

The enemy is outside, the abyss is behind, if you have a dispute with your subordinates, you will have no chance to turn the tables.

"I know what you think," the Count said aloud, "you feel that you have been betrayed, that you have been injust, that your territory has been invaded by barbarians, all because of me, because your feudal lord, the Earl of Pioneer in the Northwest, has not been able to hold the territory of Rot, and has not been able to block the barbarians north of the Kornico Pass, has it!" ”

The Count roared loudly, and he shook out the little thought of his vassals.

The scene was silent, of course the vassals thought so, at least before the decisive battle with the gray goose the day before yesterday.

However, after the decisive battle the day before yesterday, the vassals also knew that the Roth Castle would definitely not be able to stop the attack of more than 200 barbarians, and the best case would be to rescue the 25 knights of Viscount Roth, so that they could come to the Blue Magpie to fight with them.

"Then you can see," said the Earl, tearing open his shirt, revealing an incredible wound on the left side of his abdomen, on the Count's brown-red belly, there was a dark red, slender wound surface, the core of the wound surface was a fissure like a burning flame, the crack scorched the surrounding skin and muscles, and the Count's powerful body was constantly regenerating skin and muscles to replenish the wound.

"Oh" the vassals subconsciously exclaimed, everyone was thinking in their hearts, if such a wound grew on their body, would they be able to survive two days.

"This is the curse that the Grey Goose Priest brought to me!" The Count roared, and he saw the fear and respect reappear in the eyes of his vassals,

"Knights, as I said, these barbarians have come to take us all and dig in their salt mines;

And the nobles of our kingdom are waiting for our help, so that they can get a share of the southern gate of Kornico, which is led by Roth.

This is not only my dilemma, but also the dilemma of each and every one of you, once the border with the Galloping Horse Plain is lost, the nobles of the entire Northwest Territory will lose the privilege of pioneering nobles"

The earl's voice echoed in the hall, and everyone realized the seriousness of the problem, the pioneer nobles were in a more dangerous situation and had a weaker infrastructure than the ordinary fiefdom nobles, so they had some natural privileges of a welfare nature, and the various territories in the northwest had been using these privileges to a greater or lesser extent these years.

Once they lose the title of pioneer nobles, the small means they used to be on the border line will become the reason for those big nobles and palace bosses to come to find fault in the future.

"My lord" Viscount Gantt Elk was the first to speak, "The situation has not yet reached the most critical moment, although the barbarians have been under the city now, but our losses are not too great, we have a strong city and they have fast horses, it depends on who can consume whom." ”

"Lord Viscount, I'm afraid that the barbarians of the Galloping Horse Plain are still gathering and heading south, right?" Another nobleman interrupted Viscount Elk.

"Of course, they will be more and more, but so what? They need to consume a lot of food to migrate and gather, and the stored grain of the Luo Tak may be able to feed 200 barbarian cavalry, can it also feed 2,000 barbarian cavalry? Viscount Gantt Elk suddenly opened his mind.

It's going to snow soon, and once it snows here, the outer wall will be directly splashed with water and frozen, and they won't be able to attack the city.

At that time, there will be a bigger snowstorm on the Galloping Horse Plain, and they will not be able to break the city and return home, so everyone can only be squeezed on the ground that the Baron of the Galloping Horse led to the Blue Magpie Castle.

A barbarian's cavalry is larger than our meal, let them eat until the beginning of spring, I am afraid that these 200 barbarians will eat all their horses. ”

Huck heard Viscount Elk's thoughts, that is, to wait for change, and resolutely defend the Blue Magpie Castle without fighting, "But Gantt, won't the barbarians loot his territory to raise food?" ”

"Then the Maned Wolf Knights will form an interception team," Fernando spoke, "as long as they dare to act separately with small forces, I will take the Knights to intercept and not let a grain of grain enter the Grey Goose camp"

"That is, as long as they dare to divide their troops, we will intercept their small troops, just so that we can replace them with black-scaled horses"

"That's right, if they don't want to die and divide too many teams, the Blue Magpie Castle will face fewer enemies; If they don't send troops, they don't have enough food, and they have to go back to the Galloping Plain. ”

The earl saw that the enthusiasm of the vassals was mobilized and actively offered advice, knowing that the internal crisis could be regarded as a temporary relief.

"Okay, just follow Viscount Elk's advice,

Fernando, you and Cronie and you will organize the knights and vassals into 3 or 4 teams of 10 people, and divide two small teams every day to intercept the barbarians, as long as they are 20 kilometers away from the main camp. ”