Urban Sims

An agreement was reached on the distribution of interests, and most of the troops were ordered to stay behind. Zhou Ming led a light cavalry force of 3,000 people, one step ahead of the seven earls, and traveled under starry night to return to Glenland as quickly as possible.

Earl Lauzitz, who has been fighting for a lifetime, has an expert grasp of timing. Even though Zhou Ming left an elite guard force of 300 people at Glenland Castle in advance, with the high walls and thick walls of the city, he could block ten times the attack. There was no problem with the enemy's siege, so after ordering the guards to strengthen their vigilance, Zhou Ming was not too worried.

But he didn't expect that Count Lauzitz, who was nearly 70 years old and had lost all his heirs, would be alive at this time with the only motivation for revenge! Therefore, after seeing that the castle could not be breached for a while, he actually pulled over all the farmers in the territory, including old men, women and children, to serve as cannon fodder for filling the trenches and attacking the city. Under continuous attacks day and night, watching the A crumbling castle, in Lauzitz's scarlet eyes, there was only the madness that would wash this castle with blood!

"Kill me!"

After seeing the nearly ten-meter-high corpses piled up in front of the city wall, as well as countless ants climbing up from the siege ladder, and even many enemy soldiers who climbed up the city wall and cheered, they ran for two days and two nights. Zhou Ming, who had half of the knights behind him, gave an order and led more than 1,500 cavalrymen to rush into the group of siege troops in front of the castle who were only focused on attacking the city without making any defensive posture. Among the enemy troops , A sword cut off Count Lausitz's head.

The horse's hooves stepped on the blood pool half a foot deep. After entering the castle where the city walls, terraces, wall stacks and other places were dyed red, Zhou Ming, who was a little panicked, hurriedly asked his disciple Eric who came forward to greet him and was covered in blood. , what about the losses in the castle?

"The Baron was hit by a heavy arrow in the chest, and his injuries were somewhat serious. Everyone else is fine."

After speaking, Eric's body swayed, and Ryan on the side quickly supported him who was extremely tired.

Zhou Ming was a little surprised to see the servant Ryan holding a bloody sharp knife in his hand, and a group of servants behind him who also held weapons and had a lot of blood on their clothes. These servants...

"Teacher, luckily Ryan and his servants came over in time to help, otherwise this castle would have fallen a few days ago. Ryan is a man." After Eric explained, he could no longer hold up, and was helped by everyone in a panic. , the body one side fainted.

Someone helped Eric down to rest. Zhou Ming looked at this man with relief, who was already in his 20s, brave, resourceful, smart and capable. Since marrying Anna, the daughter of the bakery owner Defoe, his behavior has become more mature and steady. Ryan nodded and said, "Well done, Ryan."

Ryan stepped forward, and when Zhou Ming dismounted, he whispered in his ear hastily: "Master, Alice is about to give birth. She has been lying in bed with difficulty in labor for three days. The midwife said her life is in danger at any time."

"What?!"

Zhou Ming was taken aback and hurriedly walked towards a room on the third floor of the side castle. As soon as he reached the door, he heard a clear and loud voice.

"It's born, it's born! It's a boy, it's a boy!"

When I pushed the door open, I happened to see my mother, Mrs. Madeleine, holding a baby in her arms, walking around the room, constantly making prayer gestures, and bursting into tears with excitement.

Without looking at the baby, Zhou Ming walked straight to the bed, took the cold and wet hand of the woman on the bed, kissed her pretty face as pale as paper, and said with great self-reproach, "I'm sorry Alice, I was I vowed to protect you all my life, but I didn’t expect that when you needed me most, I still wasn’t there to protect you.”

"Hehe~"

Alice chuckled, blinked and said: "Master, when did you say this to Alice? You just said that you want to give me a happy and beautiful future... I'm fine, where is the child? Mine Where is the child? Can you let me see my child?" Alice's childlike and playful face exuded a maternal brilliance.

"Oh, okay, mother, bring the child over quickly and show it to Alice."

Zhou Ming touched his nose with some embarrassment, then gently took the child from his mother's hand and placed it in Alice's arms.

I thought to myself, that vow to protect him for the rest of his life seemed to be something he said in his previous life, right?

…

Zhou Ming, who lifted the siege of the castle, killed Count Lauzitz, and had his first son (the snake girl also gave birth to a daughter for him), only stayed in the castle for two days, and returned with Lu on the third day. The light knights, without much effort, occupied the entire territory of the Earl of Rhodes and connected the territory with the United Iron Castle - after more than ten years of hard work, this world finally has a broader stage. For him to perform.

However, not long after taking Fort Ross, Zhou Ming hurried back to Glenland.

Father Baron Connor is dying.

The heavy arrow aimed and shot by a top marksman penetrated Baron Connor's chest and lungs. Coupled with the despicable poison smeared on the arrow, the already old father, Baron Connor, and the strong fire of life soon... On the verge of extinction.

Beside the hospital bed, holding his hand, his father was giving his final instructions.

"Edward, no...don't just focus on those big things...have a few more children, and the Burns family will flourish...in your hands..."

After speaking with all his strength, Baron Connor lowered his hand. Baron Connor, who had never achieved any great achievements in his life, but was always proud of cultivating an outstanding member of the Burns family, gave his final instructions and left. died.

"dad!"

Zhou Ming shouted, but there was no response. A drop of clear tears, which never flowed out easily, slipped from the corner of his eyes.

After his father's funeral, his father-in-law, Baron Sean, just kept silent about the death of his family friend and an old friend of his children's family. When the knighting ceremony was held in Fort Ross, he saw the man wearing an iron ring crown. After Zhou Ming, who was holding a mahogany scepter, was elected as the earl of the Earl of Rhodes by the seven Earls, Baron Sean pulled him aside and said some harsh words.

"Edward, I don't care if I become an earl, a duke, a king, or an emperor! No matter how many illegitimate children you have with those messy women, my daughter Fanny must be your only legal wife! If you dare to violate this, I will Even if you risk your life, you will still have to pay a price!"

Watching Zhou Ming continue to expand the territory, acquire so much land, and constantly get promoted to nobility, standing above his head (after being ennobled, in order to maintain the integrity of the territory, Zhou Ming promised a certain amount of benefits to Earl William brought the three baronies of Glenland, Nathanland and Yorkan back into the jurisdiction of Rhodes Territory, in addition to the gold-rich Bodo Territory.) He was young and promising, and was favored by many earls and even dukes. Baron Sean, who was favored by Zhou Ming and felt a serious sense of crisis in his heart, was afraid that Zhou Ming would not be able to resist the temptation of marriage with some big shots and make his Vogt family (Sean's last name) the biggest victim.

"Father-in-law, what are you thinking about? How could I abandon Fanny? She has been with me for more than ten years. Who can let go of this kind of relationship between husband and wife?"

Zhou Ming said helplessly that he understood what his father-in-law, Baron Sean, meant. He actually had doubts about his own character, thinking that he would like those marriage alliances that might have some effect. In fact, he didn't look down on them at all.

"Speaking is better than singing!"

Baron Sean sneered and asked angrily: "Then why did my daughter Fanny tell me that since that humble maid gave you a son, you originally went to Fanny's room at least five days a week. Why did it decrease?" Only three days to go? Instead of focusing on having a son with Fanny, you are thinking about that servant son every day?!"

It’s unfair, my father-in-law!

Zhou Ming was powerless to defend himself. After giving birth to three daughters in a row, his wife Fanny came up with various ways to give birth to a son. She even became interested in some folk remedies and often took some strange medicines. During those critical few days when the month was over, he was dragged to work in broad daylight. After more than two years of hard work, not only did he give birth to a boy, but he was not even pregnant.

It's just crazy.

but……

Seeing that his father-in-law, Baron Sean, was so angry, Zhou Ming couldn't tell him the whole story. Moreover, his wife Fanny's condition was indeed not very good in the past two years, and he was busy with various things and had no time to enlighten her, so Haosheng After appeasing Baron Sean, Zhou Ming promised that he would spend no less than four nights a week with Fanny in the future. During special periods, he would spend time with her every night... This was how he settled his father-in-law, Baron Sean.

"When you have some time to relax, take some time to spend time with Fanny. If this continues, I'm afraid something will really happen to her..."

Zhou Ming thought so in his heart.

However, not long after, after learning that the earldom of Rhodes had been annexed by the Granland and that the earl of Lauzitz had been killed by the rebels, King Helian, who was furious, once again issued a conscription order and gathered the six southern earldoms. With his own strength, and the fact that he had retrained a Kingdom Knights for nearly a year, Helian decided to take action on Glenland first! He personally leads 20,000 troops, preparing to take back the Earl of Rhodes, and then capture the precious land of Glenland!

After learning the news, Zhou Ming had to mobilize back part of the "Conquering Legion" stationed in the United Iron Fortress, recruit a group of strong mercenaries, and borrow a group of knights from surrounding friendly territories. , also gathered a force of 20,000 troops, and the two armies fought a battle at a place called "Iti Valley" on the western border of the Earl of Rhodes.

In this battle, Zhou Ming's army pretended to be retreating step by step, relying on their superb battlefield command art. After introducing Helian's army to the place where the weeds were the most abundant in the Iti Valley, they rolled down hundreds of thousands of feet from the top of the slope. A huge burning grass ball went down, and in the dry environment of autumn, it burned into a valley of flames, which once again deepened King Helian's fear of fire, and fled back in embarrassment with less than 2,000 remnants of the army. to the royal capital.

Seeing that the king's army is so vulnerable, some of the seven earls in the north, because of the overpopulation of slaves and insufficient food production, wanted to lay down a piece of warm land that could grow food. In order to save some food purchase costs, and The two factions were already at odds with each other, and soon after, four more of the six counties in the south fell into the hands of the "Yankees" they hated.

At this time, King Helian was still the king of the Kingdom of Voris in name, but now he can still command and move. In addition to being directly under the royal territory and the Southwest, he is also willing to obey his earldom. A small force in a territory.

This is a bit weaker than the Arino Kingdom, which originally had only 6 earldoms, and now has 7 earldoms after desperately gnawing a piece of meat from the western border of the Iron Castle Kingdom.

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