Chapter 138 Rand just likes to bully children

The Snow Fox Countess fled back to her territory in a very embarrassed manner.

The journey back to the territory was much more difficult than she had imagined. She didn't know why Viscount Rand had so many troops.

But wherever she went, she could see sturdy villages where Tauren might be hiding, or patrolling infantry units, or scouts on horseback looking around.

But now, she felt completely different from when she first invaded. She didn't dare to kill these scouts or patrolmen for fear of being discovered and surrounded.

Fortunately, as a senior professional, her abilities in all aspects are pretty good. At least her eyesight and hearing are much better than those of ordinary soldiers. This allows her to discover these soldiers first and then hide.

But the days of hiding were not easy, and the lack of food and water forced her to eat raw meat and drink blood in the forest.

After narrowly avoiding all searches, she finally returned to her territory and to her army.

None of her knights recognized her when they first saw her.

It was hard for them to believe that this disheveled savage was actually their lord earl, and she was alone. None of the knights who followed her to the Crescent Territory returned.

A knight is already a minor noble, and dying bravely on the battlefield is the glory of a knight.

But now, after passing through the enemy's defense line in a dishonorable way and with the strategy seemingly failing, the Snow Fox Countess, as the commander, actually abandoned her subordinates and returned to the territory alone.

The morale of the army was shaken for a while, and after the troops were disbanded, things would continue to ferment, and the children of these knights would know what had happened.

This will undoubtedly shake the stability of the Snow Fox Territory.

But now the Snow Fox Countess could not use overly drastic measures to ask the remaining knights to shut up. After all, her prestige had been greatly damaged.

In the past, she had always used victory to suppress the voices of her opponents. Now that she had lost the victory and faced with the doubts of her subordinates, she didn’t know what to do for a moment.

She didn't know how to control her power in other ways, and for a moment she seemed at a loss.

But she soon forced herself to calm down, tidied herself up with an expressionless face, and then changed her clothes. Although many wounds on her body were still visible, she had basically regained her dignity.

From a disheveled savage woman, she transformed back into the famous Snow Fox Countess of the Southern Kingdom.

Although he looks a little less arrogant now.

After spending half the night sorting out her thoughts, the Snow Fox Countess gathered her knights at dawn and said tiredly, "Retreat. It is impossible to complete the offensive against Crescent Territory now."

Need to go back and regroup.

In order to facilitate command this time, and because she looked down on Rand, she only summoned the knights directly under her command. As for the viscounts and barons, she did not summon any of them.

Now it seems that this was a mistake. Even now, because the information from Count Feihu has become unreliable, she is not sure whether she overestimated Rand. This Rand has no ability to control the New Moon Territory, which is a mess with villages everywhere...

Or maybe she underestimated Rand. Viscount Rand was actually a dungeon lord who could control the creatures in the dungeon.

But in either case, her current strategy has failed.

"Report!" A soldier walked into the tent.

Ordinary soldiers would not dare to disturb her meeting with the knights unless there was something really serious.

"Speak." The Snow Fox Countess said gloomily.

"On the defense line of Crescent Territory, there are many knights rushing here." The soldier said with some stuttering.

At first, the Snow Fox Countess thought that someone was sent by Viscount Rand to hunt her down.

But thinking that he was back in the barracks now, he breathed a sigh of relief, but soon his heart began to lift again. There were so many knights, how many were there?

The Snow Fox Countess took a few steps outside the tent and could already feel the ground shaking.

She was very familiar with this vibration, it was the sound of a group of horses carrying riders stepping across the ground.

It was too late to escape, but there was still time to form a formation. The only good news was that there were still many soldiers here, and if they rushed directly from the defense line without taking a detour, the terrain here would have a slight advantage.

The bordering area between Crescent Territory and Snow Fox Territory is mostly mountainous, but in the future, both Crescent Territory and Snow Fox Territory have large plains suitable for farming.

Moreover, because the Snow Fox Countess had sneaked into the Crescent Territory with her elite troops, she ordered the remaining soldiers to set up camp well before leaving.

Although it is not like those outrageous villages, it does not have high walls, sturdy gates, or even arrow towers.

But now, at least there are still chevaux de frise.

The Snow Fox Countess ordered her conscripts to stand in the front, and then ordered her knights to mount their horses, ready to engage in a confrontation with the enemy knights.

She used to look down on conscripted militia, but after meeting the infantry of the Crescent Territory, she changed her mind. It seems that conscripted infantry is still very powerful.

Soon they encountered the enemy, a group of cavalry with different flags and a seemingly loose formation.

For a knight, all he needs to do on the battlefield is charge. He should rely on the sword and lance in his hand, as well as the horse under his crotch, to win on the battlefield, and then win wealth and status.

And dying in battle is also a knight's fate and glory.

At least this is what these miscellaneous knights and knight attendants who gathered together to form the cavalry should think.

Therefore, even though the terrain of this camp was higher than theirs and there were chevaux de frise blocking the way ahead, they still rushed forward resolutely under the early summer morning sun.

It was a rather tragic scene. They used their flesh and blood to break through the barricades in front of them, and then used their flesh and blood to break through the front row of infantry.

At this time, the Snow Fox Countess looked at these conscripted soldiers in shock as they collapsed at the first blow.

Although she didn't have high hopes to begin with, after all, these were just conscripts, but this was too quick a collapse.

They collapsed at the first blow. These conscripts simply did not have the courage to face the armored knights and war horses.

There was no way to retreat, and the Snow Fox Countess could only order her knights to attack. This time she finally did not watch from behind, because she knew very well that it would be difficult for her to escape if she was defeated. There were only cavalry here, and she could not run away.

Therefore, they could only make a desperate attempt. The Snow Fox Countess also picked up the lance in her hand and said, "Charge with me."

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At this time, Rand just learned that the nobles who failed in the looting had passed through the defense line and headed to the Southern Kingdom to seek revenge.

It is estimated that the conflict will soon intensify. Fortunately, on the front battlefield, the northern coalition forces have diverted most of the attention of the southern kingdoms.

Therefore, the Frost Moon Kingdom's raiding group and the local conflict with the Southern Kingdom were destined to be of little consequence.

But this is not that big relative to the size of the entire Frost Moon Kingdom. If it is not handled properly, it is entirely possible that Rand, a small viscount, will be destroyed.

For the Frost Moon Kingdom, if one does not care about face, a small viscounty is really nothing.

At this time, he was still thinking about the reward for the first place in the small classroom test at the foot of the mountain.

He asked Ellie, and the answer he got was to do small scientific experiments together in the alchemy workshop.

Olenna Rand asked as well, but Olenna didn't answer.

Now he is supervising Lisa in marking the papers. Since the answers he got were all what these senior executives wanted to do, he strongly suspected that the senior executives of these dens were directly involved in the examination.

Now Rand was staring, trying to find a flaw.

Lysa didn't care about Rand's gaze at all. She looked upright and had nothing to fear as she graded the papers seriously. This test did not test martial arts and aristocratic etiquette, but only cultural knowledge.

If the results of this test are good, there will be practical courses next semester. In other words, it is a challenge. As the territory expands, Rand is increasingly short of people.

Normal nobles would not be so short of people, but Rand's development speed is too fast, and the Rand territory is completely different from the regular noble territory.

Generally speaking, noble lords are landlords, and their main income is rent, which can be accomplished with the help of tax collectors.

If there were mines, orchards, rivers, or lakes in the territory, there might be additional income, but that's about it.

Unlike the territory of Koland, the Crescent Territory is a complex economic combination of tourism economy, light industry, food consumer goods, agriculture, etc. The tax revenue for each quarter requires the people in the office to spend half a day to calculate it clearly.

Moreover, as the Crescent Territory is gradually developed, things will only become more and more complicated. The speed at which the nest produces talents is already very fast, but it still cannot catch up, and there is a shortage of people everywhere.

In fact, there is a shortage of not only talents but also population. With the slow progress of agricultural technology, the per-acre yield of farmland in the nest is gradually increasing, and Rand needs more people.

It takes 16 years for a person to reach adulthood, plus one year of pregnancy, which is almost 17 years. This cycle is too long, so Rand's strategy in the early stages of development was to rob, and he was determined to seize the Snow Fox Territory.

The grading results came out very quickly. After all, there weren't that many people. Rand took a look and saw that it was the daughter of the young Earl of Green Leaf. She seemed to be a relatively quiet little girl.

Rand scratched his head, looked at Lysa and said, "Why don't you ask her what she wants to do? I can spare a day."

Then he remembered the problem and warned Lisa, "Don't induce me with malicious intent."

After hearing this, Lisa blinked her eyes. It was obvious that she had thought about this. Lisa was a person who was never shy and always looked confident in everything she did.

Lysa took the test paper and left for the small classroom at the foot of the mountain. After Rand waited in the lord's hall for a while, Lysa came back.

"What's that?" Rand asked.

"A noble boy thinks you've taken his sweetheart away and wants to duel with you." Lisa blinked again, looking like she was trying to hold back a laugh.

Rand laughed evilly and rolled up his sleeves. He loved bullying children.

(End of this chapter)