"The knights are really a big rice bucket per capita, according to their amount of food, they can last for a year at most, and by the next winter, the food reserves in the territory will be exhausted."

Ronan sat in the main hall of the old castle, reviewing the food situation handed over by Old Motou.

The food in his current hands is basically from the Pex family in Black Rock City.

Thanks to the large amount of food stored in the castle of Peques, he was able to do so without worrying about the consumption of food during this time.

But with the appearance of a hundred knights in the territory, the daily consumption of food doubled in an instant.

And this number will continue to rise in the future, so he has to start thinking about it in advance.

The land that can grow food in the Cold Wind Territory is only near those two villages so far, and after the harvest, it will support 5,000 ordinary people.

The focus is still on the large farmland near Blackstone City.

With the spread of the Black Death, serfs and yeoman farmers on these farmlands died and fled.

As a result, farmland has been largely abandoned, and not much grain has been harvested throughout the year.

After this winter, we will have to find someone to rebuild the farmland.

It was during this time that Blackstone City was undergoing a large-scale urban cleanup.

Ronan asked Finance Minister Adlich to use the urine and manure collected from grass and wood straw to set up a lot of manure sites outside the city, so that they can be used to increase the fertility of the land and promote the growth of crops in the future.

Ronan was thinking about the cultivation of farmland in Black Rock City when suddenly his attention turned to another field.

When it comes to food problems, the most serious disturbance has to be the western Great Plains of the kingdom.

Because Count Cobb, the lord of the Western Great Plains, chose to deceive the Northern Lion Principality and maliciously raise the price of grain, it eventually led to the Northern Lion Knights disguised as robbers and crossed the border to plunder the Great Plains.

To this end, the current emperor sent a part of his royal guard, with 200 elite knights to assist Count Kobo in resisting the bandits.

And the captain who led this team of knights was none other than Ronan's brother Edson.

At this moment.

The Gyrfalcon was hovering over the border between the two countries, over the Rhine Territory east of the Insel River, transferring the situation below to Ronan.

After more than a month of rushing and planning.

Edson led two hundred royal guards, as well as three hundred knights of the Golden Ears of Wheat belonging to Count Cobb, to the Rhine Territory.

and recaptured the transport channel of the Insel River, cutting off the transport route of the Northern Lion Knights.

And now, facing more than 500 bandits who have regrouped from all over the border.

Edson chose to abandon the Rhineland's fortifications, fearlessly leading his knights to confront the enemy on the vast plains.

Ronan can clearly see the whole picture on both sides through the top-down view in the sky.

On Edson's side, the pure white armor of the Royal Guard and the black armor of the Golden Ears of Knights were distinctly colored, neat and solemn.

On the other side, the robbers wore all kinds of strange fur fabrics and wrapped themselves tightly.

At first glance, it looks like a rabble formed by a group of wandering knights.

But when they gathered together and formed a complete cavalry force, whether it was a neat military formation or a unified movement, they all revealed a sharp edge.

Two teams of cavalry faced each other on the plain, each with more than five hundred burly and fierce knights.

The horses under their crotches exhaled hot air in the face of the impending charge, neighing and stomping their hooves from time to time.

Realizing that war was imminent, Ronan leaned back and leaned back against the soft back of his chair.

In order to be able to watch this largest knightly clash in the past decade more comfortably.

Suddenly, a sharp horn cut through the silence.

It was the signal to attack, sounded by Ederson himself.

The knights behind him raised their spears, shouted loudly, and rushed towards the enemy.

And in the distance, the cavalry team formed by the robbers was not to be outdone, and came towards them head-on, choosing the most direct hard encounter.

The two cavalry crashed into each other in the center, making an earth-shattering bang.

The rifle collided with the armor, sparking sparks, and even violently penetrating the opponent.

War horses collide with war horses, sorrowful roars grow, knights and knights fight, roaring incessantly.

After a round of collision, the knights of both sides pulled away from each other, leaving hundreds of corpses on the battlefield in the very center.

Most of the surviving knights were also wounded, gritting their teeth and bandaging their wounds.

After regrouping, they did not charge again.

Rather, they form a circle around each other, leaving a huge open space between them.

Then, Ederson and Endri, the head of the Golden Wheat Ears Knights, who had not been in action in the first charge, rode out from the back of the group.

The leader of the bandits, who was watching the battle, also broke away from his men and entered the circle.

In the sky, Ronan, who had seen the whole process, understood the situation.

It seems that neither the kingdom nor the Principality of the Northern Lion wants to make things bigger, so they maintain great restraint between each other.

This is exactly what the battle is in front of.

It was a war, but rather a large-scale knightly contest, and both sides strictly followed the rules and etiquette to prove their strength in battle.

Hedge head-on in a dignified manner, and then rest separately from each other when it is over.

And now it's the turn of the head-to-head showdown between the bosses.

Edson and Endri are both third-order Golden Knights, and since the bandit side dares to engage in battle, I am afraid that they are also third-order.

"Oh, despicable people who don't even dare to show their faces, I'll send you to hell!" Endri rushed out, a black spear in his hand.

With the sprint, a layer of black flames burned on him and the war horse.

The flames twisted and twisted, and finally wrapped around the spear like a python.

The bandit leader opposite him lifted his head, wrapped in layers of black cloth, and the only pair of eyes that showed showed no waves.

He raised the double-edged axe at his waist, picked up a semicircle, and slashed at the spear.

Pure power exploded at this moment, the flames were cut off, the spear deflected off course, and the vibration sent from it made Endri's arm feel a strong numbness.

The two sides staggered, regrouped and attacked again.

After several duels, Endri was slapped off his horse by a giant axe, and fell to the ground with shattered armor and unknown life and death.

Edson, who was behind him, was stunned when he saw this scene, and looked at the bandit leader with a frown.

For some reason, he felt an indescribable sense of strangeness from the other party's movements.

Just before he could think about it, the roar of excitement that suddenly sounded on the bandit's side made him react and rushed forward on his horse.

Endri has been defeated, and as the leader of one side of the kingdom, he must step forward to defeat the other side in order to end the fight smoothly.

The sun was setting, dusk was falling, and the battle that had lasted from noon to the present was over.

Edson defeated the enemy, causing the robbers to choose to retreat.

He rode his horse, watched his knights, and examined the bodies of his colleagues.

The corpses of the enemy had long been taken away by the robbers, and Edson did not and could not stop them.

Soon his eyes turned to the knights of the Golden Wheat Ear Order, who were helping the unconscious Commander Endri to treat him urgently.

It was clear that Endri had lost any resistance in a short period of time, and Edson watched the scene with a blank face.

"Rest here tonight and pay attention to the cleaning of the wounds." He ordered.