On February 16,

Everything in the territory of the Kingdom of Kruria is as peaceful and calm as ever.

Next to the old mulberry tree at the intersection outside the main gate of the national capital, farmers and a group of merchants who were about to enter the city blocked the nearby intersection.

On the old mulberry tree, fifteen newly hung corpses were hung in the most prominent position.

The corpses were not dressed in prison uniforms, nor were they naked as usual, but ornate aristocratic robes with clearly visible family crests embroidered on the collar and cuffs.

Beneath the trunk of the old mulberry tree, a row of policemen wearing chain mail stood guard with spears in hand, forbidding everyone to come forward.

The sign in front of the officer reads in black charcoal:

"According to the Kingdom's New Law, Baron Tovan-Achillo... The above fifteen nobles will be hanged above on charges of indiscriminate killing!"

At the bottom right of the bulletin, the steel seal of the police station and the signature of the police chief, Don Wright, are marked in very conspicuous red.

All this in front of him was enough to make the surrounding crowd of onlookers burst into a heated discussion:

"Who are these people?"

"Didn't you hear the police officer just now? It's a nobleman, a big nobleman!"

"All nobles?"

"That's still false, you see the bottom right of the bulletin board, it's the police station. ”

"Damn, the police department is so powerful, weren't they recruiting police officers some time ago?

"You're over sixty at a glance. ”

"I'm fifty-two, not yet sixty. ”

"Then no one wants you..."

In less than half an hour, the news spread throughout Crewe City.

An hour later, many noble house slaves in the inner city hurried to check on their masters.

Soon, the nobility of Crewe City shook.

...

These days, Daisily Pombo has bad news in his ears.

At first, he would occasionally get angry, but now, somehow, deep down in his heart, he couldn't get any anger.

Perhaps, he gradually got used to being surrounded by bad news, or maybe he buried his anger deep in his heart.

He had just finished the royal meeting and was led to the main hall of the castle by his assistant.

Today, the nobility came earlier than usual.

After the formation of the Cabinet, the matter of the Council of Nobles, the Governor Herman, on the orders of Pedi, was handed over to Daisily Pombo as Prime Minister.

The daily life of the aristocratic council is not mysterious, nor does it appear to be lofty.

On the contrary, it gives people a chaotic and vulgar feeling.

Every day, the nobles in the city would either argue over their own family conflicts, or constantly argue with their opponents for their own selfish interests.

Previously, Daisily Pombo loved to watch these nobles quarrel, because when they quarreled to the point that they couldn't resolve the conflict, they would always find him to help adjudicate the case.

Adjudicating disputes between nobles was the right of the duke before the establishment of the kingdom.

Daisily Pombo was fascinated by the right,

He enjoys that feeling of being respected,

It felt as if he was a god who had insight into the world, and everyone had to listen to him.

But today, he suddenly grew tired of these nobles, tired of their endless quarrels, and tired of their endless greed and demand.

Since the end of that uncontrolled Imperial Council, Daisily Pombo has not only fallen out with Chancellor of the Exchequer Edwin Film, but War Secretary Sira Marne has also begun to drift away from him.

But Daisily Pombo was still unaware of his predicament, and he was still thinking like an old empire, believing that he could be invincible with the support of the nobility.

Until this morning,

When his assistant tells him about the corpses hanging from the old mulberry trees outside the city, he suddenly realizes that the situation suddenly becomes out of his control.

According to previous traditions, the execution of a nobleman would be preceded by stripping him of his nobility. But this time, those who were hanged maintained their status as nobles until the last moment of their hanging.

This is the first time since human civilization has written records that someone has been executed as a nobleman!

When he first received the news a few hours earlier, Daisily Pombo looked shocked, and he really couldn't understand why the young ruler had made a decision that seemed so ridiculous to him.

He couldn't understand it.

Even more unacceptable.

But when his carriage drove into Twilight Square, he saw regular soldiers patrolling back and forth in the square and surrounding streets.

He finally understood... I might be doomed.

At one point, he thought about resisting, but the thought was extinguished.

Before entering the King's office for his daily meetings, he kept thinking about his life and the most glorious days of his life in the past few months.

He felt like a fool,

A complete fool.

In the Imperial Council, he rarely did not express any opinion,

He anxiously awaited his fate, but until the end of the council, the young ruler showed no hint of wanting to deal with him.

Daisily Pombo didn't know how he got into the Council of Nobles, and he didn't even have to know how he got out of the King's office. When he deduced that His Majesty was about to attack him, he was in a state of confusion.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency..."

The call in his ear made Daisily Pombo subconsciously turn his head, it was his assistant Adrian.

I don't know when it started, but the quarrel of the nobles in the hall suddenly stopped. In the past, such a situation would not have been possible because they always had endless fights to fight.

"Prime Minister, you have to take a stand on this matter!"

"Isn't the police department directly under the Cabinet? Who has ordered them to openly execute people with aristocratic status!"

"This is rebellion, eradicating the law of nobility, Don Wright should be divided!"

"Yes, according to the Ancestral Covenant, no one can execute nobles or descendants of nobles with titles. ”

"Not even His Majesty, you should call His Majesty as soon as possible, we need to ask about this matter. ”

Daisily Pombo looked at the indignant crowd with a blank face, and sighed in his heart as he watched their arrogant appearance and the pride shown by shouting honor.

"The Cabinet will investigate this matter thoroughly, but only if you do not make a noise here, let alone intimidate His Majesty. Daisily Pombo said calmly, "Give me three days... Now, you go back first!"

He didn't want to give any explanation at this time, and there was no need to do anything,

Because he found that all the nobles in this hall at the moment were young faces, and almost none of the people with real energy could see it.

Therefore, he did not speak with any politeness.

After saying these words, Daisily Pombo immediately turned around and walked towards the outside of the hall as fast as he could, and the surrounding nobles looked at the gloomy face of the prime minister, and no one dared to step forward to stop him.

When he returned to the prime minister's office and looked at the familiar furnishings in the office, he felt as if he had been in a trance for the past hour and a half.

He rebuked everyone in the office and began to think about a series of recent events on his own,

Soon, he understood why the young king had left him.

There is still a silver lining!

Daisily Pombo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stood up to call his assistant in, but the room rang before he could speak.

"Come in!"

The door was pushed open a small crack, and Adrien slipped into the room through the crack and looked cautiously at the master of the room, and when he saw Daisily Pombo's apparently improved face, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and whispered, "Sir Benger is outside asking to see you." ”

"Huh?" Daisily Pombo was stunned, the eldest son had not seen each other in months since he was transferred to the police department as deputy chief of special affairs. It's not that he can't meet, but he is deliberately not seeing each other, and the other party seems to be deliberately avoiding suspicion.

At this critical time, he never thought that his eldest son would come to him, and he didn't want the other party to come to him at this time.

"Tell him, No. Daisily Pombo refused without much hesitation.

The young assistant naturally knew what his lord was thinking now, and he hurriedly said: "My lord, Sir Banger said that it was official business, and the official business of the police department. ”

"That's not going to be seen either!"

...

February 20, Crane City.

The cold air of the Lordan Mountains still surrounds the entire Territory of Kran, making the winters extremely long in this territory surrounded by snow-capped mountains.

North of Crane City,

The large army originally stationed here by the Kingdom of Balu has been retreated to the town of Benson due to the formation of the coalition army of Crane City.

And this natural camp area immediately became the front-line defense area of the coalition forces of Klan City after the withdrawal of the army of the Balu Kingdom. The coalition forces used this camp as the starting point for the northeastern defense line of the city, and built a narrow front line along the boundary of the northern part of the city to the town of Bevil.

Another day dawns and a soft light rises from the horizon to dispel the gloom of the earth.

The snow on the treetops is slowly melting at an imperceptible rate, wild animals that are not in hibernation habits are returning to their nests, and northern rattan birds with thick feathers are searching for food in the woods.

This is the most ordinary morning in the Klan Territory, since the beginning of the Orc War three years ago, there have been frequent wars in this territory, resulting in the closure of the original vast farmland and pastures, countless villages and towns have been destroyed in the war, the prosperous land has become unpopular, the original natural field paths and dense forest paths have disappeared, and even the wide official roads have become dilapidated.

War has wiped out civilization in this region!

In a small steppe north of the town of Bywest, a squadron of Twak light cavalry slowly moved through the snow.

An officer with a chainmail jacket gestured to the sun in the sky with his hand, calculated the current hour, and then stretched hard and took his distant gaze back, "Hmm... The damn patrol is finally coming to an end, and it's time to get into a warm tent and get some rest. ”

After muttering to himself, he took two quick steps forward, turned his head to look at the soldiers behind him, and shouted, "Brothers, we can go back to the camp, another safe day... The next group of brothers will be coming to meet us shortly, and let's go back to enjoy the hot rice wine and broth in the camp!"

The officer was followed by a standard hundred-man patrol, all of Dwak's light cavalry due to its location, whose main duty was to patrol the relatively vast grasslands in the Klan Territory to prevent orcs from attacking the rear lines.

After receiving the order of the squadron leader, the soldiers who were on patrol alert breathed a sigh of relief, and the officers quickly moved from the front to the rear on horseback, and the front team quickly changed to the rear team in the sound of "hunting" with a battle flag flying.

The officer who was on the flank of the army column subconsciously glanced at the white dense forest in the north, according to the news from the intelligence, there was already a small force of orcs stationed there.

However, the High Command issued a death order, strictly forbidding the patrol to enter within ten miles of the tacit border between the two sides.

The officer was very unimpressed by the above order, and he thought that if the orcs really wanted to provoke a war, it would be useless to avoid it, and it would be better to organize a secret army to raid the opponent's camp that had not yet been formed.

"Huh" The officer sighed and looked helpless, after all, such a thing was not something that his little patrol leader could control. Shaking his head, the officer shook out the messy thoughts in his mind, and then the vague appearance of his wife, daughter, parents, and other relatives began to appear in his mind.

At this moment, colleagues are talking about who has more military merits and who can be promoted to become the new captain or corps commander under the 'new law' promulgated by Duke Andy. But he just wanted to end the war as soon as possible, return to his relatives, fulfill his responsibilities as a husband and father, and be filial to his parents.

Suddenly, the war horse under the officer's crotch began to sneeze uneasily, pulling him back to reality in his fantasy, and he subconsciously made a gesture.

Soon, the entire patrol immediately stopped and fell silent.

Under the watchful eye of his subordinates, the officer took off his helmet and tilted his head sideways, listening carefully to the movement in the distance. In a few moments, a faint, almost inaudible roar reached his ear piercing, and at the same time, the branches of the trees that occasionally popped up in the snow trembled slightly as if they had malaria.

The expression of the battle-hardened officer suddenly became extremely serious, and then a little desperate.

"It's an orc!" said one of the veterans, already aware of something.

The officer regained his composure after a short period of despair, he didn't give any explanation, and directly roared and issued an order, "The first squad in front rushed back to the camp as fast as possible to tell the captain that the orc army is coming, and the number is unknown!"

When the words landed, before the soldiers had time to carry out his order, on the horizon outside the jungle in the distance and in the snow on the left and right wings, a huge number of orc wolf cavalry immediately appeared, and at a glance there were no less than tens of thousands!

"Damn, damn it!" the officer cursed, shouting at the stunned soldiers, "Array! What is going on!" and he rushed to the nearby high ground as fast as he could.

When the field of vision became wider, the officer found that the entire meadow was surrounded by an army of orcs!

When he saw the battle banner in the distance, symbolizing the Orc Overseer, he completely gave up on his last hope.

"Damn, it's enough to kill one, kill one more and earn one!"

"Cheer up, don't lose the face of the Tekava, the overlord of our highland steppes, the fearless warrior... Short archers get ready!"

Despite the momentum of this patrol squadron,

But the huge orc army did not stop for a moment, and the charge of the huge wolf cavalry was like a flood that instantly submerged the patrol, and then there was no sound again.