Chapter 121: The meeting of the Grand Duke of Thorns and the performance of the White King's personal guards

Black and Brown City is not particularly far from Thorn City, although it is not close either.

The Marquis of Black and Brown and the Earl of Buck got off the carriage and went through the cumbersome aristocratic procedures before entering the meeting place.

The venue was already full of people.

The Black and Brown Marquis and the Stag Earl sat in nearby seats, making it convenient for them to hold meetings and paddle.

The first half of the meeting was the official session.

The theme of the official meeting certainly would not be just to target Rand. Rand was not qualified to be targeted by so many nobles.

What was being discussed was actually the previous looting of the Southern Kingdom.

It needs to be reiterated here that most of the nobles in the Northern Alliance are good at looting and like to do so. The more northern the nobles are, the more so, and they are even more so when they are determined to rob their own people.

The king has officially issued a decree. Although it is not called a permission to plunder, this is what it means.

Military authorization order for free development operations.

There is no need to interpret it at all, you can tell what it means at a glance.

Now, as the Minister of State and the largest noble in the country, Grand Duke Thorn is almost the leader of all nobles when the king does not take action himself. Unfortunately, under the aristocratic system, his authority is still only average.

At least since they cannot start a civil war again without authorization, the Grand Duke of Thorns actually does not have a particularly great influence on the domestic nobles.

Of course, the small and medium-sized nobles bordering Grand Duke Thorn are excluded. If the distance is too close, it will be easy for him to mess with you. Moreover, if the hatred is very big, Grand Duke Thorn must have more than one top-level professionals, which can be really disgusting and even threaten personal safety.

At other times, the Thorn Grand Public Assembly could not accommodate so many nobles, big and small, but now, everyone is willing to come and listen to how to make a fortune.

Everyone likes to get rich.

It is nothing more than a matter of regional division. In short, they must obey government orders. Nobles cannot take action personally, otherwise it would be embarrassing if they were caught. They cannot also invade with a large army.

Otherwise, it would be easy to be dragged into the gold mine war. The Frost Moon Kingdom plunders to make money, not to participate in war.

Although everyone was angry about the previous invasion of the Kingdom of Lensa, robbery was more important.

And who says robbery isn't revenge? There's always time to go.

After the robbery issue that everyone was concerned about was discussed, Duke Thorn left immediately, leaving the other nobles to discuss some things that were not decent enough.

To be honest, Grand Duke Thorn didn't want to hold a meeting to deal with this kind of shit, but it was still necessary to let them deal with these things together and set a tone.

In fact, it is not just Rand's situation that needs to be dealt with. Due to the civil war, a large number of small and medium-sized nobles died, and some even became extinct.

Even some great nobles died in the brutal war.

Although the new king promptly won over many of the old party members of the Three Princes Faction and filled some vacancies, many new nobles still emerged.

The territories obtained by the new nobles will not conflict too much with those of the old nobles, as they are not yet qualified to do so.

However, the emergence of the new nobility did break the aristocratic system that could be considered stable and even rigid, so that the authority and status of the old nobility were still impacted to a certain extent.

However, it is worth mentioning that these new nobles were originally children of nobles, but it was unlikely for them to obtain their own territories.

As for the one who jumped from a commoner to a noble, Rand was the only one.

This makes Rand more conspicuous.

And Rand is also the most influential among the emerging nobles.

So much so that such a meeting is being held now.

But then again, although the Duke of Thorns also sent Rand an explicit message of marriage, this did not affect his feeling that he could suppress Rand's development speed.

The suppression of the new nobles was originally a tacit understanding among the old nobles, and they would not bring it up openly. Theoretically, this time it was also the case. Anyway, the Duke of Thorns, who represented the official, had left, and what followed was all the business of these nobles themselves.

To the right of the Black and Brown Marquis sat the Earl of the Stag, and to the right of the Earl of the Stag sat the Little Earl of the Green Leaf.

Looking at the nobles who quickly came up with disgusting means, the corners of their mouths twitched.

Then they thought that if they did not participate, it would be difficult not to be suspected that they were trying to win over Rand, such as choosing to marry him.

After thinking it through, the three nobles who had already made up their minds to have a good relationship with Rand and even to form an alliance with him began to perform.

By the way, I also silently took note of a few nobles who really wanted to do some disgusting things.

One of the nobles stood out, an elderly noble with a curly beard.

He was the Grand Duke of the Three Princes faction, but now he has become an earl. All the duchies have been divided up, leaving only the core Feihu Earldom.

During the civil war in the Frost Moon Kingdom, he was the first to choose to support the Fourth Prince.

It was also he who saw Rand crush the Fourth Prince's head, destroying all his hopes of victory and turning him from a Grand Duke into an Earl.

Now, whenever someone called him Earl Feihu instead of the Grand Duke of Needle Leaf, he would find it difficult to control himself, but he could not lose his temper.

Therefore, although the original intention of the meeting was to suppress Rand to a limited extent, he still put forward many opinions with "far-reaching significance".

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After the meeting, the White King's personal guards and the Crescent Moon pioneer army looked at each other with higher regard.

The White King’s personal guards used to think that the infantry were all useless and would collapse at the first sign of trouble.

The pioneer army used to think that they could easily resist even a cavalry charge.

Therefore, the two sides met up and walked together for a while. It happened to be convenient for them, and the Bai Wang's personal guards also planned to find a place to replenish their supplies.

It’s a long journey from the White Country, and now that our friendly forces seem reliable, there’s no need to go to Crescent Moon Territory immediately to rest.

Fenris also wanted to show his hospitality: "The village of Crescent Territory is just ahead."

To be honest, the villages in Crescent Territory are more powerful than the bandits in Crescent Territory. Even if he held up the coat of arms and tried to persuade them, it took him a long time to convince several villages to accept the rule of the Nicholas family.

However, as long as he can be persuaded, Fenris does not intend to use force. After all, he comes from the Torch Church and does not intend to harm civilians just to prove his loyalty to the hideout.

Although the den is not really an evil force.

After marching for a distance, the village can be seen. After persuading Fenris, he reinforced this place and used it as a semi-outpost.

But now Fenris quickly realized that something was wrong.

There were flames, noise, and shouts of killing.

His expression changed and Fenris looked at the White King's guards who were riding slowly on horseback beside the infantry.

"Enemy?" asked the captain of the White King's personal guards.

"Those in the village are our own people," Fenris judged.

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As for those cavalrymen who had no flags and whose armor patterns were different, like a ragtag army, no matter where they came from, if they dared to plunder in the Crescent Territory, they were all enemies of the Nicholas family.

After determining who is friend or foe, the knight in red cloak and brown armor closed his visor.

The lance that was originally inserted into the mount slot was also taken out and then raised.

The knights, who had previously been somewhat lax and aristocratic, suddenly changed their temperament and became more aggressive.

Gather into tight formation and then charge.

From slow to fast, and then it was like a sharp arrow galloping across the field.

Before these miscellaneous troops who were trying to rob the villagers could even react, they directly broke through their formation.

Although they were there to rob, they didn't have much of a formation to speak of.

But after all, they were knights who practiced martial arts regularly and were familiar with battle formations. They were pierced through like this and were unable to react for a while.

One of the knights in green armor spat out a mouthful of blood.

It was very difficult to rob the village before. These villagers, who were already somewhat willing to fend for themselves, were stubborn and disgusting. They said that it would be impossible to rob their property unless they were killed.

Generally speaking, villagers' lives are not as valuable as their grindstones, and chopping villagers is a sheer waste of weapon durability.

But since they said so, let's just start killing.

It was incredibly difficult to kill them. Although they were all villagers, they all had decent weapons, the only difference being that they had no armor.

And the fighting spirit is also very strong.

These robbers don't realize that in this land full of bandits and cultists, if you don't have any skills, how can you expect to be a farmer and live a peaceful life? However, you can't beat the fully armed knights, but it's very slow to kill them.

This delayed the arrival of these cloaked brown-armored knights.

The first reaction was that Rand had brought people here.

But does Rand have such an exaggerated cavalry corps? How can a grassroots who has just become a viscount not long ago have such terrifying cavalry?

After the drilling, many brown-armored knights were covered with blood, internal organs, and even brains.

They threw the corpses strung on their lances to the ground, turned their horses around, and formed a tight formation again.

At this time, these disorganized cavalry finally reacted a little, stopped attacking the villagers, and prepared to form a formation.

On the battlefield, formation is the basis of combat effectiveness. Without formation, we are all lambs to be slaughtered.

Unfortunately, the Crescent Territory's pioneering army is very close.

Due to the need to maintain formation, the marching speed was not fast, but these miscellaneous cavalry stopped fighting with the villagers and re-formed their formation also slowed down.

King Bai's personal guards broke through and reached the other side.

It formed a double-sided situation with the Crescent Territory's pioneering army.

Although the surrounding terrain was not narrow, this group of miscellaneous cavalry could easily leave from both sides.

However, even so, they still had to face the rain of arrows from the infantry, as well as the pursuit of the White King's personal guards, who were also cavalry.

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Rand finally returned to the hideout. Now he had to prepare for the robbery in the Southern Kingdom. Moreover, the Crescent Territory bordered the Kingdom of Lunsa. He didn't know whether it would be easy to rob, but it would definitely be convenient to transport things and people back.

It just so happens that Xinyueling is still short of everything.

These things still need to be discussed with Ellie.

Although Earl Buck has some friends who sail longboats, Rand also has some friends.

The White Kingdom is also a member of the Northern Alliance. It has now formed a coalition with the northern kingdoms and is preparing for a war of revenge. Rand has even heard that some northern countries bordering the southern kingdoms have signed development orders, preparing to take over some of the southern kingdoms' territories.

This is a good opportunity to ask the White King if there is anything he wants to steal but it is not convenient for the army to go around and fight. The White King said before that he would support him with a group of White King's personal guards, although Rand has not seen them yet.

This is a good opportunity to give something back to the White King.

This can be considered as reciprocity.

(End of this chapter)