Chapter 577： return

In the northern part of April, it is already the season of spring flowers.

The bright sunshine poured down, awakening the vitality that had been dormant for the whole winter.

The endless field is full of green grass, flowers are in full bloom, and all kinds of animals and birds can be seen playing and playing everywhere.

Just the next second, they seemed to hear something terrible, and they all ran away in a blink of an eye.

In the tremor of the earth, a mighty army appeared on the road leading to Winter City.

At the forefront of the team are three columns of heavily armored cavalry, with more than a thousand people, all composed of professionals.

They were uniformly dressed in bright red adamantine armor, armed with steel lances, the half-meter-long spear blades flashed with icy cold light, and behind their backs was a kite shield with a fine iron edge, with a sheathed long sword on their shoulders, Pin a sharp saber.

Just this outfit, it is estimated that it will cost hundreds of gold coins to build, not to mention that each of them is equipped with three high-headed horses, one to ride when marching, one to carry equipment and food, and one to wear fine iron scales. A, is the real charge horse.

In this way, this heavy armored cavalry company of more than 1,000 people may be able to ruin an imperial viscount.

And here, they are only the sharpest point of the blood cavalry army, behind them, there are more than 20,000 light cavalry, although the equipment is not so luxurious, but it is enough to make any army stay away.

It's just that such a strong army did not go to the west to fight against the biggest enemy of the Radiance Empire today, which is really incomprehensible.

In fact, when Emperor Reinhardt heard that Colin was about to lead the blood cavalry back to the north, he also raised doubts, but Marquis Garcia put it off on the grounds that he needed to guard against trolls going south.

Since the number of troops dispatched in the north has reached the requirements of the war order, even if Emperor Reinhardt knew that the north was suspected of deliberately preserving his strength, he was helpless.

This time back to the north, in addition to the blood cavalry army, Colin also brought back the phoenix army of the Morrison family.

I don't know what Marquis Garcia said to Mrs. Grace in private. The knights of the Morrison family were a little reluctant at first, and they all wanted to go to the Western Frontier to make contributions, but they were all persuaded by Mrs. Grace to appease them one by one. .

In this way, the two armies slowly marched on the field, and the team stretched for several kilometers, with no end in sight.

There were no pedestrians on the main road, and they were all led to the surrounding trails in advance by the army outpost. A row of straight hemlock trees are planted on both sides of the road. The trees are not very old, but the spacing is almost the same and very neat. It is obviously a deliberately arranged landscape.

Seeing these hemlock trees, Colin knew that Winter City was not far away.

Sure enough, after turning over a hilly highland, you can vaguely see the outline of Winter City.

After walking for more than an hour, the army finally arrived at the foot of Winter Winter City and stopped more than a thousand meters outside the city.

Colin stepped out of the crowd and rode slowly towards the city gate on a white horse.

Outside the city gate, the guard of honor had already set up a battle, and the military band also played exciting music.

The Duke of St. Hilde was wearing a gorgeous palace dress, standing at the front of the greeting queue, smiling and looking at her husband who was walking towards him.

Colin got off his horse, came to his wife, knelt down on one knee, and performed a standard knightly salute.

Vera pulled her husband up, then took his arm intimately, and whispered in his ear:

"Welcome home, my knight!"

Colin looked at Vera's pure and warm smiling face, and the haze in his heart was instantly swept away, but when he turned his eyes to the crowd who came to greet him, he unexpectedly found a few faces that surprised him.

"Okamoto?"

The troll emperor Okamoto Volkin saw Colin's gaze, hurriedly took a few steps forward with a smile, and saluted:

"Dear Count Angele, take the liberty to visit, please don't take offense."

"Of course not." Colin put away the surprise on his face, put on a smile, and said, "Welcome to Winter City again, Your Majesty Okamoto."

Before leaving, Marquis Garcia also reminded Colin to be careful that the trolls would go south again while the north was empty, but unexpectedly, the trolls really went south——

It's just that it's not the army going south, but the troll emperor.

What does it mean?

Sincerely say that he has no plans to take advantage of the fire?

Or deliberately pretending to paralyze the North?

Colin thought of all kinds of thoughts in his heart, but on the surface he didn't miss the slightest bit, and he smiled and greeted Okamoto, like a long-lost friend.

During the conversation, a woman with a face somewhat similar to Vera stepped forward and saluted:

"Count Angeli."

"Your Highness the Queen." Colin also recognized that this was Nora Saint Hilde, a collateral daughter of the Saint Hilde family who was married to Okamoto by the previous Saint Hilde Duke.

Immediately, he saw an inconspicuous little follower behind Nora.

"Ann... Ang... Count Lie... Your Excellency."

Colin raised his brows and looked at the half-troll child with both human and troll characteristics in front of him. He looked at Okamoto in surprise and asked, "This is your son?"

"Yes." Okamoto nodded with a smile, "His name is Gondwala Volkin, and he will only be one year old next month. Please forgive me for not saying it well."

Colin nodded, looking at this half-troll who walked freely, the size of a three- or four-year-old human child, and secretly sighed that the racial difference was really obvious.

However, as the troll emperor, Okamoto was really willing to give birth to a half-troll son with Nora, which is quite sincere.

Just as half-elves are not treated by elves, half-trolls are actually discriminated against within the troll empire, and their status is extremely low.

Although Okamoto didn't say it, Colin could also guess that because of this half-troll son, he must have been protested and opposed by many clansmen.

I just don't know if this half-troll prince can successfully inherit the throne of Okamoto in the future.

If possible, then conquering and even assimilating trolls is not an unimaginable thing.

The sky ice field is too barren, too bitter and cold, and the area is almost endless. It is impossible to completely eliminate the trolls in the north.

Moreover even if it is eliminated, it will not do any good, and the people of the north are reluctant to settle on the ice field in the sky.

Therefore, it is a wise choice to use a gentler method to conquer this race.

While thinking about it, Ke Lin squatted down, looked at Gondwala with a smile, reached out and touched his head affectionately, and said warmly:

"Gondwala, do you like the North?"

Gondwala nodded humbly and said, "Hi... I like it."

Colin smiled more cordially: "Then stay in Winter City for a while longer."

Gondwala raised his head and looked at his father.

Okamoto seemed to have no objection to this, and immediately nodded:

"Since Earl Angelie personally invited you, you should stay in Winter City for a while."

"Okay." Gondwala also smiled happily, revealing two ugly fangs.