At 10 p.m. on the 18th, after communicating with the salt mines, Rand finally met his father, Huck Gallop.

Rand came back in such a hurry just to discuss with his father why the Count was in such a hurry to summon him.

"The earl summoned a few things, raising taxes, fighting, and raising taxes for the sake of war" Huck is very clear about the earl's routine, but all good things are explained in the letter, and only bad news is afraid of the vassals, so they need to be specially summoned.

The Earl's letter was only given to Rand alone, and now Rand is the leader of the Galloping Horse family, and the family does not need to go to such a meeting, Rand is enough to represent both territories.

"Didn't you just finish the fight two months ago?" Now Rand is not afraid of war, but he thinks it is a little strange.

"Hey, you used to be young, you didn't experience much, in fact, there will be battles every year, and after sowing in the spring and harvesting in the fall, the lords will prepare for war, and they will be idle anyway, and the right should be relieved." Huck doesn't really care about it.

"You're going to fight in the village when you're free, aren't you? Is this a lord or a street wreck? Besides, I'm not that idle, if you really have nothing to do, you can come and help me pick salt," Rand kept complaining in his heart.

"Our earl will still take his vassals out to fight?"

"There are generally three directions, the Frostwolf Forest in the north, the Galloping Horse Plains in the west, and the lizardman tribe in the south," Huck continued to analyze.

"We are pioneer aristocrats, we have to develop from time to time, otherwise the kingdom should take back the right to explore"

"Hi" Huck looked at Rand's appearance, and knew that he didn't want to mix, and said with a slight smile,

"Don't worry, our two territories have just experienced a war, and it is customary not to participate in the war next year. And now that there is no war on the Galloping Horse Plain, the remaining two directions are too far away from us, and we can't afford to make up the excitement. Huck smiled and said,

"I guess, this time I invite you to dance, the Maned Wolf family holds various balls every spring, inviting various vassals."

"Then why don't you go with your eldest brother?" Rand was holding the Earl's letter, somewhat headed.

"Don't, you're the most powerful vassal under the Count, you don't want to show that you don't give him face" Huck knows his boss very well,

"And if he really wants to fight, he has to buy cheap equipment from you."

"In that case, I would like to ask you to take care of Luo Tie more during this time" Rand is now too big, but there are too few people, and many things involving core interests can only be asked to help his father and brother keep an eye on,

"Pete will bring in a new batch of salt by the end of the month"

"I know, our caravan will depart at the end of the month, and we must deliver this batch of salt before the new season." With the father and son agreeing, Rand took out a small bottle of potion from the spatial ring and handed it to Huck.

"Father, this is an intermediate-grade potion, it was taught to me before, I think it should be given to one of the two elder brothers"

"Intermediate Elixir!" Huck stared at the glass bottle in Rand's hand and swallowed uncontrollably,

"You didn't promise them anything, did you?" Huck wanted to take it but didn't dare to take it, generally the mid-level potions were a reward given by the great nobles to the young people of the family, and each bottle of potion required the young people to serve for many years to obtain.

"How can it be, this is as a reward for exterminating the gray goose" Rand stuffed the potion to his father,

"Look at who of them will take it, I'm sure this isn't the last bottle I'll ever get.". On February 24, the city of Blivinyansk, the westernmost county of Kirislavia, the Count's Palace.

Lalzan Catarrol, Earl of the West, was pacing up and down in his lavishly decorated study, Ralzan, with his gray and white beard, and his right hand, which wore a seven-jewel ring, was constantly twisting his beard.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!" While the Earl was pacing, his family scholars rushed in,

"Lord Earl, the battle has already started ahead, and our knights are going very well"

"How's Yeveil's over there?" Lalzan stared at the scholar.

"The Yewei Grand Knights are also going well, their knights have successfully penetrated into the core of the Frostwolf Forest, we should be able to open the passage to the Galloping Horse Plains in April, no, even before March."

"Your Majesty is right, this is an armed parade, we can not only take the Frostwolf Forest in a few months, but even get a piece of the pie on the Galloping Horse Plains." Cattrall rubbed his hands excitedly, and several gemstone rings collided

"Ding. Ding".

"Yes, my lord, most of the orc tribes in the Frostwolf Forest have been bought by us, and the only remaining tribes are completely vulnerable!" Scholars are also constantly ingratiating,

"We should plan now, how to control the entire forest in a few months, how to manage those orcs!"

"Hahahaha," the Count let out a rough laugh, his eyes narrowed into a slit.

"Tell those worried nobles that we don't need to mobilize the knights of the various families at all, and we can easily win the victory by relying only on Your Majesty and the knights directly under the territory!"

。 At the same time, in the depths of the Frostwolf Forest, a group of 25 Kirislav knights was rapidly advancing and were tasked with breaking as far west as possible, preferably only in a few days through the Frostwolf Forest to the Lokirav Pass on the eastern border of the Galloping Horse Plain.

The dim light of the forest, the dense trees, the occasional roots under the horses' hooves, and the branches and forks sticking out around them prevented the order from its usual speed.

"Commander, are we lost?" One of the knights said triumphantly, a worried look on his face

"Impossible, the lord said all the way to the west, let's just go" The leader of the regiment was calm and relaxed.

"My lord, my horse seems to be dying!"

"It's okay, change a batch" The Knights are configured according to 2 war horses per person and a batch of pull horses, which is the most luxurious level in the entire border area, although the war horses are just ordinary horse breeds.

According to the requirements, speed is the most important thing, and tired horses will be temporarily burdened with lighter supplies, and if they are injured or tired, they can only be abandoned on the road.

And so the Order went round and round into the evening.

"Captain, this forest is really evil, this forest path looks straight, but if you really walk, you will always get lost"

"yes, I feel like we've been going around in circles several times," the knights chattered, their words full of apprehension about the operation.

"It's okay, the whole forest doesn't grow long, let's go out in two or three days." The Knight Commander comforted his men.

"We've found the river, and we can go out by following the river." The bonfire scurried up merrily, and in the trees downwind in the distance, a pair of beast-like eyes were staring at the knights.