"Ronan, come and see, it's snowing outside!"

Early in the morning, when Ronan struggled to get out of bed from his bedroom in the old castle, overcoming his sleepiness from the soft and warm multi-layered plush blanket.

From the next bedroom came Kasanna's cry of surprise.

Ronan yawned, got dressed and just walked out of the bedroom, and Kasanna, who had been waiting for him outside, couldn't wait to grab him and lead him to the verandah on the second floor of the castle.

As she had said, it had snowed lightly outside, the dead branches across the door were covered with hoarfrost, and a thin layer of pure snow had accumulated on the wooden handrails of the verandah.

Kasanna, dressed in a plush shawl coat, looked out at the snow-covered land in the distance.

Then he turned to Ronan and showed a red little face, full of excitement.

"Do you like snow?"

The cold air on his face quickly woke Ronan from his sleep.

He picked up a white felt hat and put it on the girl's head to help her keep the falling snowflakes out.

"Yes, I was born on a snowy day, and every time I have a birthday, my mother will accompany me to celebrate in the snow."

Kasanna's voice grew quieter as she spoke.

She walked and walked involuntarily to Ronan.

Ronan took her hand and patted the snowflake on her shoulder with the other, "Then this time is the same." ”

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The Great Plains of the Western Ordovician Kingdom, the City of Golden Wheat Ears.

This is the domain of Count Cob, one of the two pillars of the kingdom, the guardian of the Great Western Plains, and the Earl of Cob.

"Captain, it's starting to snow."

It was a knight dressed in white full-body plate armor with a golden sword medallion on his chest.

He stretched out his hand and watched the snowflakes fall in his palm.

"Yes, winter is coming, and the hungry lions will become even more frantic in order to hunt for the winter."

The man who was called the captain by the knight looked coldly at the Golden Wheat Ear City behind him, his long golden hair and bright purple eyes shining even more dazzling against the snowflakes.

He was followed by a cavalry force of two hundred, all dressed in uniform white knight's plate armor and armed with a golden sword medal on their chests.

Among the ten people at the front, the medal is crossed by two golden swords.

This is a powerful army that is feared by all the nobles in Triumph City - the Royal Guard. Directly under the current king of the Ordovician Kingdom, Emperor Wilson II.

A single golden sword represents a knight, and a cross of two golden swords represents a royal knight, i.e., a knight of the Silver Order.

And their leader, with his purple eyes, showed his identity as the Ordosius family.

He was the eldest son of Count Grant and the elder brother of Ronan, Edson Ortautiaus.

"Maliciously raising the price of grain, for this reason, he did not hesitate to stop the trade routes and freight routes to the Principality of the Northern Lion, and treated the grain covenant between the two countries as a piece of waste paper, heh, but in the end, you still need Your Majesty to clean up the mess for you."

Edson's words were filled with intense sarcasm.

Although he did not name names, the knight behind him was very clear that he was talking about the master of the city behind him, the Count of Kobo.

The Black Death caused severe economic losses to farmland cultivation in the western Great Plains, and a large number of serfs contracted the disease, resulting in the abandonment of patches of farmland.

In order to make up for the losses brought about by this, Count Cobo constantly tried to raise the price of grain, trying to dump the grain accumulated in his hands at a premium of dozens of times.

It is a pity that most of the nobles in the kingdom have the habit of stockpiling grain and refuse to accept his rude prices.

So, the earl set his sights on the neighboring Duchy of Northern Lion.

According to the alliance oath signed by the seven countries when the empire was established three hundred years ago, when the Northern Lion Principality defended the fortress of the Death Mountain Range for the Empire, the kingdom needed to provide food support for the Northern Lion Principality at 50% of the market price.

The grain produced in the western Great Plains is responsible for seventy percent of the grain supply of the Northern Lion Principality.

Faced with the food covenant, Count Kobo did not dare to break it openly, but secretly came up with an extremely stupid idea.

He contracted the Black Death and was robbed by robbers, so that the convoys carrying grain disappeared repeatedly.

They then use this as an excuse to claim that the amount of grain in the warehouse is insufficient and that the price needs to be increased before it can be sold.

Once or twice is enough, but the Count of Cobb, who tasted the sweetness, kept repeating it, completely angering the Northern Lion Principality.

In this regard, the lions chose to do as he wished, and let the convoy of his food transport be really hijacked by the "thieves".

Not only that, but the "thieves" also attacked the Rhine Territory in the eastern part of the Insel River.

Then it occupied the largest waterway connecting the Great Plains of the West to the Northern Lion Kingdom, the Insel River Channel.

The Ereins spread eastward, and a large number of border lords were attacked by this group of thieves, and the looted grain and treasures were lost along the Insel River.

The nobles of the kingdom had long recognized the true identity of those robbers, and under the shabby leather jackets, there was no doubt that the golden and red armor of the Northern Lion Knights.

For this reason, the Count of Cobo hurriedly sent a letter to His Majesty in Triumph City to ask for help, accusing the Principality of the Northern Lion of its evil deeds.

Fortunately, he still has a bit of a brain, Edson thought to himself, without hyping up the invasion of the Northern Lion Principality, and still defining the enemies in the territory as bandits.

For now, at least, the kingdom and the Northern Lion Principality still have this layer of bandit cover as a buffer.

The emperor did not have to be humiliated because of the duke's rebellion, and the Northern Lion Principality would not be blamed by the Six Kingdoms for this, and the war did not really start.

But if this group of robbers continues to wreak havoc in the territory, and the kingdom is unable to organize a decent resistance, the angry lion duke's idea may not be true.

For this reason, Edson took the initiative to ask Ying, and brought one of the squads of the royal guard to help Count Cobo intercept the robbers.

In order to ensure mobility, not to be surrounded by armies, and at the same time to have the destructive power to quickly penetrate the defenses of ordinary lords' realms.

The number of Northern Lion knights who play the role of robbers will not exceed five hundred, but without exception they are all absolute elites.

Edson was ready to take the royal guard and the knights under the Earl of Cobb to quickly recapture the Rhine and reoccupy the Insel River.

As long as this grain channel is cut off, the Northern Lion Knights' raids in the kingdom will be meaningless.

They will inevitably choose to fight back.

In the end, if the opponent's attack is defeated in the front, then the bandit incident of the Northern Lion Principality will be successfully resolved.

After all, neither the kingdom nor the Northern Lion Principality wanted to fight during the time when the Black Death was spreading.

As long as the kingdom shows the strength it deserves, the Northern Lion Knight will retreat.

Thinking like this, when Edson saw the knightly troops sent by Count Cobo and the leader of the other party, he was suddenly stunned.

His mind was reminded of the nightmarish back of ten years ago.

A middle-aged man in black armor walked in front of him, with a vicissitudes of life and a slightly slumped body.

"I am Entri, the head of the Golden Wheat Ear Knights, under the command of Count Cobb, and I will lead three hundred knights to assist you in your crusade against those hateful thieves!"

There was a fierce hatred of thieves in his words.

Edson pulled out a pendant from his chest and held it in the palm of his hand, quickly recovered, nodded at him, and began to lead the way ahead.

Just after a while, Edson suddenly turned his head to him and asked:

"I take the liberty of asking, I wonder how long Captain Endri has been with the Knights?"

"I grew up in the Knights of the Golden Ears since I was born and never left."