Chapter 521, Nui River and Nui Beiguan

Author: Yuan Zhen’s Fish

Chapter 521, Nui River and Nui Beiguan

When Keir woke up in the morning, he felt weak.

The hard cowhide armor that looked like nothing on his body before now felt as heavy as iron armor. He fell asleep like that in a daze last night. When he got up in the morning, he felt very uncomfortable besides being weak.

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But the whole camp was already up, and it was impossible for him to stay in the tent and not come out.

There's no reason to leave him here alone.

Kil had no choice but to take off the armor he was wearing, and simply wore linen clothes with a long sword hanging on his waist. He stuffed the other things into the carriage, then endured the discomfort and went to eat.

You have to eat, especially when you feel uncomfortable. All actions of the body require sufficient material and energy supplements.

Therefore, eating is a must and cannot be delayed.

Slowly pouring the thick soup into his stomach, Kil ordered a small piece of dry wheat cake and ate it.

After returning, he rested against his two horses for a while, then took down his tent, rolled it up into a ball, and stuffed it into the hood of the carriage.

Knight Crow's bodyguards had already cleaned up and fed the two horses for him, so Kiel was spared this troublesome matter.

Knight Crow happened to be wearing a suit of steel armor and walked over from the direction of the baron's camp. Looking at Kil's tired face, he laughed and asked about Kil's physical condition at this time.

"As you can see, I feel like I have no energy all over my body and I feel so weak."

"This is normal, don't worry, it will ease in a day or two. When you feel better, come to me. Training must continue, but you can't stop contacting life just because you don't like a weak body.

The induction of energy.”

"Hmph, no one else has this opportunity. There are many guys in the Kendall Guards who want to become knights. Don't look so reluctant. If you can work harder and use the dolls to communicate with each other on a regular basis, learn to follow them early.

By controlling and communicating with your own life energy, you can avoid this training earlier."

"Do you understand?"

Kil replied lazily, and Knight Crowe left with satisfaction.

He didn't care about Kil's weakness. This was how he came here, but when he was in the army, this training was done together with supplementing Warcraft meat and drinking the tempered Warcraft flesh and blood potion.

Part of the life energy lost by his body was immediately replenished by the small amount of monster meat he ate that day, so he did not remain in this weak state for long.

In particular, a weak physical state will be reflected on the human spirit and will, which will delay the progress of the person involved in mastering the control of life energy.

But Knight Crow knew that there was nothing he could do. After all, this was a march in the wild, and he himself did not have the support of the entire training system of the kingdom's army.

Without the Warcraft meat and the Warcraft flesh and blood potion carefully crafted by the pharmacist, Kil's situation was a bit miserable, but the advantage was that it was simple and cheap.

Back in his camp, Knight Crow was thinking about whether he should find something to replenish Kil's supplies these days.

But it cannot delay the march of the entire army.

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In this way, Kiel dragged his lazy body every day, sat unsteadily on his horse, and followed the logistics team.

Knight Crow didn't let him go with the forward troops anymore. After all, given Kiel's physical condition at this time, he couldn't help much.

Both Knight Rumi and Baron Kendall knew what was going on with Keir at this time, so they did not give Keel any work, but simply asked him to follow him.

Knight Rumi, who also became a knight in the army, criticized Knight Crow's inadequate preparation for training. He and Knight Crow often quarreled in front of Baron Kendall at night, feeling that the lack of preparation was due to such conditions.

Conducting knight training in the dark is simply to embarrass that young man Kiel.

But Knight Crow did not admit this statement.

"Well, if you think my method is not good, how about I leave Kil to you and you train him for me?"

After asking this question, Knight Rumi stopped. He himself was just an ordinary knight, and he was not as far as Knight Crow could go on the road of knighthood.

At this time, he had no preparation or intention to train a knight himself.

This is bad for knights like him and Knight Crow who came from the Kingdom's army. Their family itself is not a knight family and has no long-standing inheritance. Although they are knights, they do not have the knowledge and experience to train their heirs to become similar knights.

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However, Knight Crow is stronger than ordinary knights and has a wide range of knowledge, so he has the ability and confidence to train Kil to become a new knight.

The situation is different for nobles like Baron Kendall.

The basis of their rule is not to become knights themselves. Although knights are needed to maintain their rule, there are many ways.

For example, recruit retired military knights as subordinates, or take stray knights into your own hands, or find superior nobles to arrange for knights to come over, or even find the noble council and the god of nobles, and spend some resources to have yourself or your family members trained by the council.

A strong knight.

Although the Baron was a little curious about this matter, he actually didn't care. In addition to reading some books he carried every day, he mainly talked with the priests who followed the army, talking about the church behind those priests. Or he slowed down and talked with the followers.

The merchants behind the army chatted and learned some knowledge about the places the merchants had visited. They also made friends with some of the larger merchants in the caravan to lay the foundation for future development.

In the evening, he would discuss the army's marching matters with the two knights and the logistics clerks, mostly the wear and tear of the militia's weapons and equipment, the stock of hay for the horses and donkeys, as well as food and drinking water.

When the soldiers got sick, he had to arrange for the priests who accompanied the army to use magic to cure the soldiers' illnesses. He also had to choose multiple roads on the kingdom map and discuss with the knights which road was the fastest and which one to choose.

Which road can supply the most villages, what is the condition of the road, will it affect the team's forward speed, etc.

This map was specially made by him because he was responsible for the hydrological affairs of the province. Now that it is used here, this extraordinarily detailed map comes in handy.

The situation of some bandits that you inquired about when passing through the village must also be taken into account. Should you eliminate them as you advance? Or should you ignore them and go directly through the road with bandits, or send someone to negotiate, explain the situation, and avoid conflict with the bandits?

, and also showed that our own army has nothing to do with annihilating them, but it is not something to be trifled with.

These days, after the army passed through the territory of Knight Gulov, these things gradually increased.

Knight Gulov naturally belongs to another baron, but that baron's county territory is much smaller than that of Kendall County, and the terrain has become strangely jagged due to the obstruction of the mountain collar. It is far different from the border areas.

Noble lords are very different.

In the border areas, counties like Baron Kendall have very large lands, and their territory covers far more than the territories of ordinary barons or even viscounts. But this is simply because most of the land in their territories is dangerous.

Mountains and forests, or wastelands that lack water sources and are difficult to settle in, are far inferior to the more densely populated noble territories in other places.

The closer the kingdom is to the east, the smaller the nobles' territories are, but the number of people living in the territories is actually larger.

And the closer it is to the empire, because in terms of the difficulty of migration when the country was founded, the closer it is to the land of the empire, the longer it will take for the land to be developed by the relocated people.

Roads, bridges, checkpoints, castles, finely divided fields, evenly distributed villages, centralized towns, and cities where rulers live. Everything is much better than the western border of the kingdom.

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After nearly ten days of marching at a steady pace, the entire army arrived at the border between the northwest and western provinces of the kingdom.

The border between the two provinces is a natural dividing line, the Angry River.

This river flows eastward from a high mountain on the western border. The water flow is large and rapid, and it directly erodes the place where it flows through to create a long and winding water-eroded canyon.

Although it is only a small canyon, it naturally separates the Northwest Province and the Western Province firmly.

For many years, it has been difficult to cross here, which made the immigrants who first arrived here particularly angry, so the river was called the Nuanu River. Before a stone bridge was built across the Nui River, the two were next to each other.

The connection between the provinces is not even better than that of the central provinces to the east of the two.

However, more than ten years ago, through the efforts of many people, a wide and strong stone bridge was built at the place where they are now.

The trade route from the northwest province to the south must pass through here, and it has naturally become a key area connecting the two provinces.

At both ends of this stone bridge, the rulers of the two provinces, the earls, established a checkpoint managed by their own side next to the stone bridge.

On the north side of the stone bridge, on the land belonging to the Northwest Province, the thin barrier made of rocks and wood is called Angry North Pass. On the south side, belonging to the Western Province, the barrier made of huge mounds of earth and wood is called Angry South Pass.

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The trade route connecting the two western provinces passes through here. Caravans come here all the time along the busy road. What’s funny is that the merchants have to cross the two checkpoints on the north and south sides every time.

One-time export tariff and import tariff.

If it is a caravan belonging to the northwest province, the export tariff will be reduced, but the import tariff from the south will be a little bit higher.

If it is a caravan belonging to the western province, the export tariff will be a little higher, but the export tariff on the south side will be reduced.

And if the caravan is neither a caravan from the Northwest Province nor a caravan from the Western Province, it will have to pay a lot of taxes in order to cross the Wrath River through this stone bridge.

But if you don’t go here and want to save the customs tax, you have to spend nearly a month just like many years ago, walking eastward along the Nui River to look for the water of the Nui River in the central province.

Only at the gentle ferry can you cross the river by boat.

Kil was riding a horse, looking at the two checkpoints built on a bridge, and the chaotic villages and towns formed spontaneously by caravans outside the checkpoints, similar to gatherings.

It is said to be a village market town, but there are basically no fields and no one is farming here. There are only some large poultry pens surrounded by tall fences, and valuable livestock pens, which contain many large livestock, ranging from gray-haired ones.

From domestic pigs to sturdy cattle, from hooting donkeys to strong horses wagging their tails.

Not only that, looking from a distance, there is actually a huge bipedal walking bird three to four meters high that is also kept in a separate enclosure.

In addition, there is a separate wet mud pond far away from the river bank. The sound of frogs in it is loud, and a kind of earth-yellow or earth-green frog that is larger than a human is kept in it.

Keir was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say.

At this time, Kil was in the militia army, following Knight Rumi. Because he had to conduct knight training, his physical strength continued to be weak these days, and he was unable to keep up with the various tasks of the forward team in charge of Knight Crow, so he was
To be continued...