Chapter 197

The wind blew and the flag sounded.

In the valley, riders scattered in all directions, and cavalry came from all directions.

In the hunting camp, the hunters changed their hunting clothes, put on armor and long swords. In the twinkling of an eye, the elegant nobles became powerful knights. The attendants put on fine iron lock armour and picked up spears and crossbows, as if they were elite soldiers.

When the boots stepped across the grass, the iron ring of the armor collided with a clang. This sound interweaves with the thunder like hooves and the neighing of war horses.

Long guns are like a forest, banners are waving, and hunting camps have been turned into military camps.

At Sylvia's command, the Knights of the York family gathered their retinue and came from all over the country. In half a day, the York family gathered hundreds of elite cavalry, dozens of knights and all high-level knights. They passed and formulated the battle plan against Duke Eriksson in only one hour. Perhaps it could not be called a battle plan. In order to fight for the right to fight, the great knights had been bargaining in the camp until Sylvia personally selected the candidate for the battle, and the pre war meeting ended.

Victor was not shocked by the York family's efficient war mobilization ability. The hunting event had the nature of military exercises. Victor was surprised that Sylvia decided to launch a family war so hastily. Her opponent was still a Duke of the kingdom of Dodo, and the senior level of the York family had no objection. She not only responded positively, but also made no plan.

This is such a joke!

As early as ten days ago, Victor received the first letter from old ham. He had learned that the alchemy militia wiped out a knight team of Duke Eriksson. As for why Duke Eriksson invaded Raven village, Victor didn't think much. It was just a territorial dispute.

The Lords have disputes over their respective spheres of influence. They all talk after fighting. Victor was neither angry nor going to ask the York family to help mediate. Now, no lord can resist Victor's revenge.

In order to avoid Duke Eriksson's follow-up, old ham has led the villagers into the mountains. Victor will mobilize 10 alchemical war mastiffs, bite Duke Eriksson's cattle and sheep, threaten his neighbors, make them unable to farm, and then continue to attack their supply convoy until Duke Eriksson gives up the nearest town or village.

The knight team is inexplicably missing. Any Lord will be on guard. It is expected that Raven village will be flattened. After receiving the report, Victor's anger was more to distract Sylvia's attention so as to get out of the "forced marriage" first. But Victor didn't expect Sylvia's reaction to launch a family war.

Victor didn't think Sylvia was trying to vent his anger. He was still thinking about the purpose of the York family's war.

The curtain of the camp was lifted, and the high-ranking Knights of the York family rushed out. They greeted Victor kindly and left in a hurry.

"It has been decided. I personally led three big knights, seven knights and 21 trainee knights, and then took 300 cavalry, one man and three horses, and set out today."

Sylvia came to victor. She had changed into rose armor. The armor is made of secret silver and refined gold. It has both defense and element affinity. The body fitting design not only highlights the beautiful body shape, but also remains flexible. The surface of the armor is sealed with rose and flame patterns, which looks exquisite and gorgeous. At this time, powerful, mysterious, gentle, heroic, noble and graceful are perfectly interpreted in Sylvia. Victor is slightly distracted by her charm and momentum.

Is this the peak knight?

Sylvia didn't care about Victor's mood. She said, "Eriksson destroyed your village and I'll let him compensate you for a castle, okay?"

Victor couldn't help saying, "for such a little thing, start a war?"

"War? No!" Sylvia smiled slyly: "we are still holding a hunting party, but Duke Eriksson has become our prey."

Victor took a breath of air-conditioning: "take a Duke of the kingdom of Dodo as prey? Aren't you afraid to cause a rebound in the kingdom of Dodo? Besides, the Duke's army and castle are not toys. How should we prepare?"

Sylvia nodded and said, "any lord who attacks the kingdom of Dodo should be careful, except Duke Eriksson." In Victor's puzzled eyes, she explained: "Eriksson is a duke in name, but his strength is not much better than the count. Most importantly, I won't have much trouble if I beat him."

Seeing Victor's curious baby appearance, Sylvia smiled and said, "here's a secret. Most nobles don't know because it involves the dignity of the Golden Knight and the Dodo royal family."

"More than 40 years ago, the old king of Dodo accidentally fell into a tight encirclement when he was resisting the invasion of Satan. At that time, the Golden Knight of Dodo was facing off with the Golden Knight of Satan. They couldn't bear the news of the king's distress and tried to break the encirclement. Instead, they exposed the identity of the old king. The Golden Knight of the kingdom of Satan stopped them and sent high-ranking knights To encircle and suppress the old king, the situation became extremely critical. In order to save the king, Dodo's iron wall Knights used the tail breaking tactics to get rid of the entanglement of their opponents and successfully joined the old king, but Sasan's high-ranking Knights also surrounded them. The head of the iron wall knights at that time was Lord Eriksson's grandfather. He asked the deputy head dunkru to lead a team to protect the king and his two sons Then stay behind. "

"The old king succeeded in breaking through the siege, but all the Knights of the Erikson family died in battle. King dodo felt the loyalty and sacrifice of the Erikson family, granted their family heirs Duke, and designated a territory as a hereditary fief. Because the fief was far from the area of the Duke's dominion, the king promised never to charge their annuity."

"The heirs of the Eriksson family, now the Duke of Eriksson, were still young children at that time, and all the knights in the family died in battle. Therefore, the head of the iron wall knights, dunkru, announced to act as his guardian until he reached adulthood, while the Knights sheltered his family for 50 years."

"The Eriksson family is alone. Their officials and guards are appointed by the king and dunklu. Territorial affairs are inevitably controlled by the king, and the annuity is paid as usual. After the old king died, dunklu was promoted to the Golden Knight, and those officials moved closer to dunklu. Duke Eriksson grew up in this environment."

"When Eriksson became an adult, he had some intelligence and means. He was unwilling to act as a puppet, secretly cultivated confidants, and soon drove away those disobedient men and regained the power of the territory."

"If he stopped, Du encrewe wouldn't mind. Unfortunately, the foundation of the Eriksson family was too shallow, and the king lifted them too high at once. Du encrewe was not a qualified guardian, didn't give him enough education, and didn't have time to cultivate feelings with him."

"Eriksson was immersed in his little intelligence and bred unnecessary ambition. He was completely unaware of what kingship and Golden Knight meant." Sylvia sneered.

"Eriksson regarded duncrore and the royal family as a threat and used their promises and names to frantically expand his power, but he also managed to prosper the territory. But he did two stupid things, which made the Dodo royal family and duncrore lose patience with him."

"After the migration of forest people and horses, Eriksson designated the north of the people and horses hills as his sphere of influence without the consent of the king. He also found a gold mine and forged coins privately. In order to keep the gold mine, Eriksson began to refuse to pay annuities to the royal family and drive away the tax officials of the kingdom."

"It's OK to occupy the territory of the man horse hills, but private coining is a serious provocation to the kingship. Even our York family won't do it, and Eriksson did it. King dodo has been patient due to the promise of the former king and the face of duncru, but he certainly hopes someone can teach Eriksson a painful lesson."

"I see." Victor nodded and asked inexplicably, "don't the other lords of Dodo have a problem with Eriksson's occupation of so many territories?"

Sylvia said faintly: "occupying territory depends on interests. What's the use of drawing a sphere of influence on the map by relying on your strength? Moreover, unlike our Gambis, the Lords of Dodo Kingdom do not lack land."

"Why?"

Sylvia whispered out two words: "war, population."

Due to the reasons of church and productivity, there are few large armies in the merger war of the human kingdom. When there are knights on both sides, it is particularly difficult to break through fortresses and castles. Therefore, when the Sassanians attacked the kingdom of Dodo, they did not attack the castle, but went deep into the hinterland, broke villages and towns, plundered materials, destroyed production facilities, destroyed the vassal class, drove away the people, created refugees, and increased the burden of the kingdom of Dodo until it collapsed.

Faced with this situation, the Lords of dodor will not send knights and troops to intercept directly, otherwise they will be annihilated. They can only seize the opportunity of the withdrawal of the Sassanians and kill their troops as much as possible. Both sides have their own victories, but the people dare not stay in the territory. Their migration leads to the desolation of the territory. In the long run, the leader of Dodo either gives up the territory or surrenders to Sasan. The Sassanian empire finally completed the merger.

In order to prevent this from happening, Gambis has been providing supplies to the Lords of Dodo, and refugees fleeing the war have also poured into Gambis. Therefore, the kingdom of Dodo does not have much population pressure, while Gambis is already overcrowded and overburdened, in urgent need of new territory.

Although the traditional tactics are effective, it takes too long, and the Sassanians may not be able to survive.

In fact, Victor's wolf disaster tactics completely copy this set of tactics. In this regard, he has unparalleled advantages. The alchemical war mastiff is enough to waste any territory. But it's not in Victor's interest to do so.

Victor has no ambition to unify the human kingdom, no political basis to rule the human kingdom, and there is no need to do so.

Without strategic power in hand, it is naturally impossible to keep the fruits of victory. In addition, destruction is easy and construction is difficult. Rebuilding the territory requires more time and investment, and the alchemy tower operates by consuming gas and resources.

Victor's strategic thinking is very clear. He absorbs the luck of other families through trade, so that the alchemy tower can continuously manufacture alchemy creatures, protect his monopoly position and interests, and expand his power and influence. From this point of view, Victor would rather help the Lords build their territory than turn them into poor people. Force is only to tame disobedient Lords.

War is never an end, but a means. So what is Sylvia's purpose?

With this question, Victor said, "even so, the kingdom of Dodo would not want you to attack their Lord. Is it too expensive to start a war for a castle?"

"Hum! What can they do if they don't want to? Our York family made a plan to seize the north of the man horse hills a few years ago." Sylvia said coldly.

"Do you remember? When we first settled in the Renma hills, we gave up the western and southern territories and occupied the eastern and northern territories. Therefore, we forced you to replace the territory. That's because the Renma hills lacked stones, and there happened to be a stone mine in the north. Only by taking the stone mine can we build castles and fortresses, but Eriksson unknowingly designated it as His sphere of influence. "

"It's about the foundation of the family. What does it matter even if we fight the kingdom of Dodo? The dodos have to do their best to defeat our York family! Then they will perish, and Gambis won't stand idly by. In this case, do you think dodo will stand out for Erikson?"

"It's just that the rock brick you invented changed our strategy, but Eriksson dared to provoke me. More than ten days ago, he scolded us for invading his territory in the name of dunkru, and now he flattened your village. If he didn't respond, he really thought we York family were bullied!"

"If I'm right, dunkru and his knights must be led by Eriksson. Eriksson just wants me to recognize his sphere of influence. But this fool can know that dunkru won't conflict with another top knight for him. Even if there is a conflict, the iron wall knights can only be annihilated in addition to running away!"

Speaking of this, Sylvia, who has all kinds of manners, has an arrogant spirit. Then she said with a smile: "since Eriksson flattened your village, I'll take someone to visit his gold mine. If he doesn't compensate hundreds of thousands of gold sols, we can only mortgage the gold ingots to the Gambis royal family to make up for our losses."

Victor suddenly realized that no wonder the Knights of the York family were so active that they were poor to rob!

"Honey, do you want to go hunting in the north?" Sylvia sent out an invitation.

Victor twitched at the corners of his mouth. He felt ashamed to follow Sylvia behind her ass to seek justice, so he shook his head and said, "the reservoir should be repaired. I want to go back and have a look!"