Chapter 620

Conquer the first year of Wangli. www.

There is no unified calendar in the whole Searle world. After Wu Ming came to power, the first thing he did was to issue decrees, set a new calendar, and unify measurements.

This method of chronology is known as the "new calendar", which begins on the last day of winter in the year when he became king, also known as the first year of the new calendar.

In the first year of the new calendar, at the call of William Wallace I, the conqueror, the blue blood nobles, as well as the freemen, mercenaries and even savages, began to retaliate against the invasion of the highlands.

Nearly twenty thousand troops marched into the Highlands through death Canyon of Eagle castle.

Along with them, there are many single adventurers, volunteer mercenaries who want to be honored, and small businessmen who just want to make a profit.

The blue torrent surged and brought terrible disaster to the highlands.

In March of the first year of the new calendar, the conqueror's army came to Juyan city in the east of the highland. Count Kyle Wellington was guarding the place. He refused the request of the conqueror's emissary and declared: "every inch of the land here belongs to the Highlanders. Blue blood people go back to the plain!"

The envoys who conquered King William were still polite: "your actions will bring war, your people will betray you, cheer for our king, and put your head on the spear!"

The furious Earl of Kyle cut the messenger's ear and put him back.

The conqueror who got the news immediately began to attack the city. It was just a round of wooden artillery bombardment. There were several openings in the seemingly impregnable wall of Stonehenge. A large number of troops poured in from the gap, and the whole Stonehenge started a riot.

Instead of fighting for count Kyle, as their Lord had said, the people chanted "peace, no shells!" He rushed into the Lord's room and caught count Kyle, who was unprepared, and presented it to the king of conquest.

The seemingly impregnable megalith City surrendered to the conqueror in one day.

At this point, the gate to the east of the highland was opened, which meant that the whole highland was opened to the conquering King's army.

Earl Kyle is known for his stubborn, granite like character.

Even if he had completely failed and was tied up in front of the conquering king, he also held his head high: "king of foreign aggression, you can hang me, or even cut off my head and put it on the spear, but the resistance of Highlanders will never stop."

The conquest King smiles and shakes his head. After cutting off Earl Kyle's ears as punishment, he mercifully gives him two choices.

Either continue to cut off the head and send it to lion heart in a gift box, or surrender, kneel down in front of the great conqueror and choose to swear allegiance and kiss the land under his feet.

Count Kyle was very passionate before, but when he was really cut off his ears, the bloody scene and pain immediately made him cry. He immediately knelt down and kissed the land in front of the conqueror and chose to give in.

For this reason, the king of Conquest generously reserved the title of Kyle, only reduced to Baron, and deprived him of the suzerainty over Jushi City, and divided it to other meritorious officials.

In the map with the book of sages, after the occupation of Jushi, the conqueror did not stop at all. Except for leaving the necessary troops to guard the rear road and grain road, the army immediately rushed to Shixin city.

He decreed that all nobles who surrendered before the arrival of the army could retain their original titles and fiefdoms, otherwise these rights and interests would belong to the first one who defeated them.

As soon as this decree was issued, plus the previous propaganda, many little nobles immediately submitted to the conquering king.

Of course, some of them resisted firmly, but before Wu Ming arrived, they were overthrown by their own servants or mercenary regiments. The original clay legs lived in the aristocratic castle and got their land, wealth, women... And lived a life that they could not even dream of.

In order to maintain their current position, they must firmly support the conqueror and win the highland campaign!

The whole highland was in a mess.

In this haze, the blue dragon flag slowly approached lion heart, the headquarters of the Wellington family and the ruling core of the whole highland.

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In the city of lion heart, in the assembly hall of the Wellington family, many well-dressed nobles can no longer maintain their manners.

They blushed, quarreled angrily, told of their misfortunes and sufferings, and denounced each other's inaction and stupefaction.

This mutual prevarication, with a strong fear, makes the Lord Wellington very helpless.

A few months ago, he was still a middle-aged man with high spirits and might even become the king of the new duchy. But now, his head is gray and his forehead has many wrinkles. He looks like a dying old man.

It seems that Arthur's capture, as well as the successive bad news, has dealt him a great blow.

"How many of us are left?"

Asked the Duke of Wellington in a low voice.

"We have assembled all the troops in the territory, and urgently recruited all the civilians over the age of 16 to join the army. Plus the mercenaries and adventurers, it's no problem to make up 50000 people!"

A fat nobleman stood up and said.

But even so, there was not much joy on their faces.

After all, most of these 50000 people are farmers, and there are less than 9000 trained regular soldiers.

"What about the Celts, the listers, and the Andreas

The Duke of Wellington frowned.

These families, originally conquered by Arthur's army, recognized that the Wellington family had the duty to fight for their monarch and patron.

But with the spread of the bad news, those weeds began to swing.

But when this need to be firmly suppressed, the Wellington family lost the absolute force contrast because of Arthur's defeat, and the conqueror's army was advancing step by step, so that they could not add soldiers to the newly conquered land to maintain their rule, but had to withdraw the elite six.

As a result, the oppressed place began to rise.

After all, with the accumulation and heritage handed down by noble families for thousands of years, the local network is inextricably linked. Unless all the leaders are killed, it is impossible to thoroughly clean up at one time.

"They..."

The fat man's voice suddenly stopped, and his manner immediately let the Duke of Wellington know the result.

"Damn it

When Duke Wellington patted the conference table, the air inside seemed to shake: "I've decided that the Highlands alone can't fight the conquerors. We need reinforcements, reinforcements from storm corner!"

"Veron, as an emissary, go to storm corner immediately, find their biggest storm tribe chief, and tell him... As long as he comes to help me, I will give them the ice city in the North!"

Duke Wellington closed his eyes painfully and said in a deep voice.

In the view of all the nobles in the sixth year of thurda, although the storm horn is vast and vast, it is synonymous with barbarism and barrenness, not to mention the Fengying plain. Even compared with the Highlands, it is also wild and backward, and the natural environment is extremely bad.

In the past, in order to cope with the plunder of the barbarians in winter, the princes of the highlands and Fengying plain had to invest a lot of troops in their respective north.

Now the Duke of Wellington himself opened the northern highlands to them.

"Ice city has always been a bulwark against the invasion of Storm Warriors. Once ice city changes its ownership, our highlands will be exposed to the sword of Storm Warriors at any time! I'm against it

A side aristocrat of the Wellington family immediately stood up and asked in a loud voice, "Duke of Wellington, what do you want to do?"

"I just want to keep the family, so that our glory can continue!"

The Duke of Wellington crossed his fingers and put them on the table: "the storm warrior and the chiefs only need our food, iron, women and salt... But from the windfly plain, the greedy dragon is asking for everything we have!"

Although explained a sentence, but his heart is more tired.

When it came to this time of life and death, the internal strife in the family was still going on, which really disappointed him.

"William the conqueror?"

After making a hasty decision and ending the family meeting, Duke Wellington went back to his study and mumbled the name.

His hands began to shake unconsciously, as if there was some magic in the name.

If the Conqueror has no magic, how can he defeat his invincible son who has the protection of the king's sword?

The Duke paced slowly in his study. After a long time, he finally made up his mind.

He pursed his lips, went to a bookshelf, took out a black cover, covered with dust, and opened it to the last page.

In the center of this page, there is an empty slot, in which is a black card, with purple Mandala flowers blooming, with a mysterious flavor.

In the middle of the study, the doors and windows were closed, and the thick curtains were drawn up to cover all the light. All around the study, all of a sudden, it was dark. Only the light on the black card was more and more dazzling.

"With my blood, call my contract, come!"

The Duke took out a golden dagger, cut his finger, let the red blood drop on the card, and recited a deep call in his mouth, like a mysterious spell.

"Your Highness!"

A purple mist gushed out from the card, and the mandala flowers on it slowly bloomed, and the enchanting light overflowed. In the mist, a man with a cloak loomed and bowed to the Duke: "after hearing the news of conquering the king, I knew that the day was coming! Everything is under the eye of the Lord of shadows

The Duke of Wellington looked at this magical scene, but his heart was cold. He immediately bit his teeth: "I want the life of William Wallace!"

"As you wish!"