Chapter 0906: The Red Viper Army Returns to Defense Will Destroys Gao Yin City
The Dark Star, Sir Geralt Dayne, arrives and asks Prince Oberon of the Red Viper to be the Scout Captain.
The Red Viper agreed.
Dark Star led more than 300 people from his headquarters to take the lead. They walked through a ravine and crossed the Feiliu River below the ChΓ’teau de Bremont, the nearest and most precipitous.
The army took the official road, passing under the mountains parallel to the castle of Bramont, and it was more than fifty miles to walk, but the road was better and suitable for the march of large troops.
Edric Dane arrives and asks Red Viper to be the vanguard general.
The second daughter of the Red Viper, Namelia Shad, also asked for 3,000 men in the vanguard of the army, to fight for the first prize.
So, the Earl of Oberon made Namelia Shad the general of the vanguard army, and Edric the lieutenant general, leading a mixed formation of 3,000 horse infantry as the vanguard.
Nemelia Shad was the illegitimate daughter of Prince Oberon and a noble woman from Valantis. She is the second oldest of the famous sand snakes.
Twenty-six years old, Nymelia was the most coquettish of all the eight sand snakes, with her wicker-soft waist and round hips fascinating many young sizzers.
Edric also had the shadow of Nymeria in his heart, lingering as if under a spell.
Edric and Nemelia rode in a row, with two at the head of the line.
The fragrance of Namelia's body could be smelled far away, and her long black hair was braided into a long braid behind her head, and the braid was full of gold and silver bells, which shook gently, and the bells jingled, like beautiful jade pearls falling on a jade plate, which was very good. At the tip of the braid, a small sharp spike was tied with a bright gold rope, and the spike was coated with deadly poison.
Men who didn't know how powerful Nymeria was, for example, in hotels or inns, who saw Nymeria's beauty and came forward to tease, basically died under the spikes on Nymeria's braids.
Namelia is very beautiful, and her figure can only be described as perfect.
Her eyes were also black, as bright as her hair, with high cheekbones, plump lips, and milk-white skin. She is a stunner that a man wants to fall in love with when he sees it, but she is very deadly.
Adric said, "Nymelia, we should speed up. β
"Don't worry, Adric, the enemy may be waiting for us to take our own in. β
"Then we have to speed up the march, we are the vanguard. β
Nemelia smiled slightly: "Adric, since Lord Will started with the blood of nobles, we will definitely end with their blood, and the most important thing in fighting a war is to calm down and kill with one blow." I'd better keep moving at an even pace and wait for news from the Scouts of the Dark Star. β
"I beg the general to give me a thousand men, and I will first go to find out the reality of the enemy. β
"No, Adric, I'm not going to give it to you alone. You really have to be busy, and I won't stop you, so you can take your three hundred soldiers from Starfall City and go first. β
"General, three hundred is too many. β
"Then you come with me. Nymeria was unmoved, "Adric, your Starfall City has been burned, even if you fly back with wings, Starfall City has been destroyed, the most important thing now is not to rush into action, but to approach the enemy, and then find out the enemy's reality, if you want to attack, you have to kill like a poisonous snake." β
"But our speed is too slow, give me three hundred cavalry. Adric said again.
Nymeria lost her patience, her long hair flicked, and her braids swept in front of Adric's face, the silver spikes on the tips of the braids skimming Adric's face, the cold sharpness giving Adric the illusion of stinging.
Edric's face changed, he reached out and touched his face, but fortunately, he was not injured.
The spikes on Nemelia's braid are said to be poisonous and have no antidote, and if the skin is accidentally broken, the person will be finished, and it is really poisonous to death, which is terrifying.
It is precisely because of the horror of the eight sand snakes that there are men who covet their beauty from eighty to eighteen years old, but no one dares to be strong with these sisters.
Patterned snakes are often overlooked for in the eyes of people for their beauty and feared for their venomousness. Blessed are the men who are favored by them, and often taste different from other women, and they will never forget it.
The eight daughters of Prince Oberon are simply the eight life-threatening flowers of Dorne, and after smelling the flowers, they can't extricate themselves and just want to sink.
"General Nameria, I'm sorry, I'm going to go first. β
"Okay, you can think of it as a scout for our vanguard, and you and Dark Star Geralt Dain will be divided into two ways, and go to reconnoiter the enemy's situation first. I'll give you three hundred of the best sand horses, go!"
"General Xie!"
Edric hurriedly thanked him!
Soon, all of Adric's three hundred family warriors were replaced with high-grade sand horses, and on the mountain road, the small sand horses were like walking on the ground, and they could go to steep places. This is the strength of the Sand Horse, and Dorne has the Sand Horse as the Skags have the Unicorn.
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Geralt the Dark Star was the first to arrive at Starfall City, and he marched for a day and arrived at Starfall City shortly after dark.
Starfall City has been burned to rubble, and it can be seen that the other party has poured a lot of fire oil, and many stone structures have collapsed due to high temperature.
Starfall City is on the edge of a cliff, and many stone structures are unique, and after being burned down by a hard fire, they cannot be regenerated. It was a ruin of stones, and in many places, because of the fire, the stones fell down with swords, and fell into powder.
It is no longer possible to build the starfall city that was as tall and majestic as it once was.
Geralt unleashed the raven, and then sent three teams to approach the city from three directions.
High Hidden City is the home fort of the Gero family, and it is not far from here.
In order to protect the city from being burned down by fire, the Dainns of the city surrendered without a fight, but the land has been given to the proletarian civilians by Will and others, and the propertied civilians have also been given land and living materials again, and the rest of the food, gold and silver finances are said to have been completely emptied.
Will and the others' swords this time were only aimed at the nobles, and they did not commit any offense against the common people, but they were not merciful to the nobles, and it was said that when they met resistance, they would be exterminated.
Geralt himself led a team of men to investigate the news of High Hidden City, and half of the people in Starfall City were left here as backup.
There is no need to raise a fire, and on summer evenings, the southern sky is always high and the stars are bright, and the moon is also big and round in the sky.
The most elite men and horses led by Geralt made a total of ten men, and an hour later they arrived at the city of Gaoyin, in order to prevent enemy scouts in the villages and towns along the way, they did not enter any villages and towns, but just detoured all the way.
Gaoyin City was dark, and there was not a single star of light.
This is abnormal!
The surrounding small villages and towns are all lit, why is there no light in the huge Gaoyin City?
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Chapter 0906-2 High Hidden City
Geralt is a dark star, and this nickname can show some of his abilities, in addition to being good at walking in the night, there is also a saying that his heart is also dark and determined.
In order to be safe and not to startle the snake, Geralt decided to enter the High Hidden City alone.
The rest of the brothers ambushed on the road and intercepted the other two scout teams, the other party's forces were too strong, they were all only more than 300 people, everything had to be careful.
Geralt was all too familiar with his castle to climb the wall.
The walls of Gaoyin City are made of stone, and there are small holes between the stones, and it is not for a child like Gero who grew up here, and he does not know that the stone wall behind the castle can be climbed. At night, it is even more dangerous. If you climb to a high place, if you are not careful, you will be killed.
Under the walls of the high hidden castle built on a pile of rocks, there are all rubble.
Geralt climbed smoothly, he had climbed these places since he was a child, and he was all too familiar with them. When you close your eyes, you know where the stone is a hole and where the stone is protruding.
Geralt climbed the walls.
There was no one on the city wall, and there was still no light in the whole castle, as if the whole castle had been killed, and it was like a dead city.
But Geralt didn't smell blood.
Because Will and others divided the fields among the nobles, and also distributed food and money to the proletarian poor, although the people of Dorne were suspicious, they all accepted Will's property, and many commoners had their own private fields, and Geralt did not enter the homes of the people in his own territory to find out the situation for the sake of safety. Find someone to understand the situation, but also find your family's trusted subjects.
Geralt arrived at the stable, which was left without a horse. He came to the kennel, which was no longer free of dogs. He came to the butler's door, which was quiet, and he reached out to push the door, but he couldn't open it.
It made his heart move.
There was someone in the room!
The door of the room will not be tied if there is no one.
Geralt pulled out his sharp knife and pried open the window, and gently dodged inside.
He drove to the door of the butler's bedroom, where the sound of human breathing was distinct.
He gently pushed the door and tried, but it wouldn't be pushed.
The door is topped up from the inside!
"Aldrich!"
The sound of breathing inside immediately stopped.
"Sir Geralt!" the voice inside was cautious.
"It's me!"
After a rush of noise, the door quickly opened, and the butler hugged Geralt Dayne.
"Why don't you light torches and candles?"
"Prime Minister Will ordered that for three days, no fires should be allowed at night, and as long as they appeared, the city would be burned to ruins. β
"What about the others?"
"We all surrendered, Prime Minister Will did not kill us, but robbed all the belongings of the family, and part of it was distributed to the people in our fiefdoms, and those who had no land, Prime Minister Will gave them the land they were now sowing. β
Sir Geralt noticed that Aldrich addressed Will as Prime Minister instead of by name or word of abomination.
This is a detail that deserves vigilance.
"Where's Will?"
"It's time to go south and attack Sandstone City. β
Sandstone is the castle of the Cogle family, located in the upper reaches of the Vance River, in the desert of Dorne, hundreds of miles from the city of Goin.
Prince Oberon Martell, the red viper, was once the adopted son of Sandstone. The coat of arms of the Coggle family in Sandstone City is three black scorpions on a red background. The people of this family are good at raising sand scorpions, and the red viper has been fond of poison since childhood, and it was cultivated in the Cogger family in Sand and Stone City.
In the Red Viper's army of fifteen thousand, Quentin Cogle, Earl of Sandstone, was in the army, and his eldest son, Sir Gullian Cogle, the heir of Sandstone, and his second son, Ser Aron Cogle, were in the army, and were rushing here to fight Will.
"How many of them are there?"
"Eight thousand, two griffons. β
Eight thousand, not ten thousand. And the army led by the Red Viper is 15,000 men, which is twice the strength of the enemy. Geralt Dane breathed a sigh of relief.
"How many sand horses do they have?"
"Starfall City and Gaoyin City, as well as the sand horses of a dozen or so nobles' families nearby, all of them do not exceed a hundred. β
Shama was requisitioned by the nobles to go to the prince's pass, and there were not many Shama left.
"Without the sand horse, they would be very slow when they enter the desert. β
"Yes, sir. β
"How are their horses?"
"Almost all infantry, my lord. β
"Now that they've left to attack Sandstone, why are you still so scared to obey the orders of the man named Will and not light torches and candles at night for three days?"
Aldrich was resigned, not making it clear why.
"You and your family have been given a share of the land money?" asked Geralt.
"Yes, if we don't accept it, we will be put to death. β
"After you accepted it, and your family and your family, you think that Prime Minister Will and His Majesty Shireen are really wise, right? Then why do you want to stay? Isn't it that the grooms, servants, blacksmiths, butchers, and canines in the castle are all gone, and you can live a good life comfortably with my money and land?"
"My lord, if we don't accept it, we will be put to death. High Hidden City will be burned, just like Starfall City. β
"Okay, what about my family?"
"They were all taken away by Lord Will, in Lord Will's army. β
Geralt noticed that Aldrich had changed the title of Prime Minister Will to Lord Will, and he could still hear the closeness of the title, if not closeness, at least not hatred of the enemy.
Indeed, this time the army does not kill civilians, does not rob civilians of their money, but also gives them money, and it is difficult for such an army to make civilians hate. Even if they don't accept not being close, they don't hate them.
Will's swords were only aimed at the nobles, and the goal was clear, a completely new tactic that had never been seen before in Dorne.
"Aldrich, why didn't you leave?"
"I'll wait for your return, master. β
"I'm back now. β
"Master, your family has all been taken away, Gaoyin City has become an empty city, and the rest of the people are gone, since the adults are back, I will go and call them all back. β
"No need!" Geralt said, "The vassals and subordinates who have betrayed their master, and the people who have different intentions in the realm will die!" Geralt drew his short knife and stabbed Aldrich in the heart.