The first year of the Conquering King Li.

There is no unified calendar in the entire Seer world. After Wu Ming came to power, he was deeply confused, his first thing was to issue laws, formulate new calendars, and unified measurements.

This chronological method is called the "New Calendar", which starts with the last day of winter when he became king, also known as the first year of the New Calendar.

In the first year of the New Year, under the call of King William Wallace I of the Conquering King, the blue-blooded nobles, as well as free people, mercenaries, and even wild people in the entire Fengying Plain, began to launch a retaliatory counterattack against the previous invasion of the Highlands.

The army of nearly 20,000 drove into the highlands through the Eagle Fort Death Canyon.

With them, there are many single adventurers, volunteer mercenaries who want to obtain merits and small businessmen who are simply to make a fortune.

The blue torrent was surging, causing terrible disaster to the highlands.

In March of the first year of the New Year, the army of the Conquering King came to the Giant Rock City in the eastern border of the Highlands. The Earl of Kyle Wellington guarded this place. He refused the submission request of the envoy of the Conquering King and declared: "Every inch of land here belongs to the Highlanders, and the blue bloods rolled back to the plains!"

The messenger who conquered King William was still polite: "Your actions will bring war, your people will betray you, cheer for my king, and put your head on your spear!"

The furious Earl of Kyle cut off one of the messengers' ears and put him back.

The Conqueror King who received the news immediately began to attack the city. With just a round of bombardment of wooden cannons, several gaps appeared in the seemingly indestructible wall of Giant Rock City, a large number of troops poured in from the gap, and the entire Giant Rock City suddenly began to riot.

The people did not fight for Earl Kyle as their lord said, but instead shouted the slogan "Peace, no shells!" and poured into the lord's room, and captured the caught off guard Earl Kyle and presented it to the Conqueror King.

The seemingly indestructible giant stone city surrendered to the Conqueror King in one day.

At this point, the gateway to the eastern border of the Highlands was opened, which was equivalent to the entire Highlands opening the door to the conquering king's army.

Earl Kyle is known for his stubborn personality and granite-like nature.

Even though he had completely failed and was tied to the conquering king, he held his head proudly: "Foreign King of Invasion, you can hang me, or even cut off my head and put it on the spear, but the resistance of the Highlanders will never stop."

The Conquering King smiled and shook his head. After cutting off Earl Kyle's ears as punishment, he mercifully gave him two choices.

Either continue to cut off your head, put it in a gift box to send it to Lion Heart City, or surrender, kneel before the great Conquering King, choose to swear allegiance, and kiss the land under his feet.

Earl Kyle was passionate before, but after his ears were really cut off, the bloody scene and severe pain immediately made him cry. He immediately knelt down and kissed the land in front of the Conquering King, and chose to surrender.

For this reason, the Conqueror King generously retained Kyle's title, but was demoted to a baron, and deprived him of his sovereignty over the Stone City, and assigned it to other heroes.

With the map of the Book of Sages, after occupying the Stone City, the Conquering King did not stop at all. In addition to leaving the necessary army to protect the rear and food routes, the army immediately rushed towards the Shixin City.

He issued a decree that any noble who surrendered before the arrival of the army could retain their original titles and fiefs, otherwise these rights would belong to the first person to defeat them.

As soon as this decree was released and previous propaganda was introduced, many little nobles immediately expressed their surrender to the Conquering King.

Of course, there were also those who resisted resolutely, but before Wu Ming arrived, they were overthrown by their own retainers or mercenaries. The original mud-legged people lived in the castle of the nobles and obtained their land, wealth, women... and they could not even imagine life in their dreams.

In order to maintain their current status, they must firmly support the Conquering King and win the victory in the Battle of the Highlands!

The entire high ground suddenly became a mess.

In this haze, the Blue Dragon Banner slowly approached Lion Heart City, the base camp of the Wellington family, and the core of the ruling of the entire Highlands.

...

In the city of Lionheart, in the meeting hall of the Wellington family, many well-dressed nobles could no longer maintain their own demeanor.

Their faces flushed and they quarreled in anger, telling their misfortunes and sufferings, as well as their inaction and ignorance of the other party.

This kind of mutual veto was filled with a strong fear, which made the Grand Duke Wellington in the main position very helpless.

A few months ago, he was still a middle-aged man with a high spirit and might even become the king of the new principality. But now, his hair is gray and his forehead is full of wrinkles, and he obviously looks like he is about to be idly old.

It seems that Arthur's capture and the subsequent bad news have caused a great blow to him.

"How many people do we have?"

Duke Wellington asked in a low voice.

"We have gathered all the troops in the territory and urgently recruited all civilians over the age of sixteen to join the army. In addition to the mercenary groups and adventurers, it is no problem to raise 50,000 people!"

A fat nobleman stood up and said.

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

After all, most of these 50,000 people were just farmers, and there were less than 9,000 truly trained regular soldiers.

"Where are the Celtic family, the Liszt family, and the reinforcements agreed by the Antilles family?"

The Duke of Wellington frowned.

These families were originally conquered by Arthur's army and recognized that the Wellington family had the obligation to send troops to fight for their vassal and sanctuary.

But as bad news spread, the fence-bearing grass began to sway again.

But when they needed to be resolutely suppressed, the Wellington family lost the absolute military comparison because of Arthur's defeat, and the conquering king's army advanced step by step, which made them not only unable to add soldiers to the newly conquered land to maintain their rule, but instead had to withdraw their elite troops one after another.

As a result, the suppressed local faction immediately began to look up.

After all, with the accumulation and background passed down by the aristocratic family for thousands of years, the local relationship network is inextricably linked. Unless all the people are killed, it is impossible to completely clean up at once.

"them……"

The fat man was speechless, and his expression immediately made Duke Wellington know the result.

"Damn it!"

The Duke of Wellington slapped the conference table, and the air in the whole room seemed to be shocked: "I decided that the high ground alone cannot fight the conquerors. We need reinforcements, reinforcements from the Storm Point!"

"Weron, you serve as an envoy. Go to Storm Corner immediately, find their largest Storm Tribe Chief, and tell him... As long as he comes to help me, I will give them the Ice City in the North!"

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

In the eyes of all the nobles of the Ser continent, although Storm Point is vast and vast, it is synonymous with barbarism and barrenness. Not to mention the Fengying Plain, even compared with the highlands, it is still wilderness and backward, and the natural environment is extremely harsh.

In the past, just to deal with the spontaneous looting of the barbarians every winter, the princes of the Highlands and the Fengying Plain had to invest a large amount of troops in their respective north.

But now, the Duke of Wellington personally opened the northern border of the Highlands to them.

"Ice City has always been a barrier to resist the invasion of Storm Warriors. Once the Ice City changes its ownership, our highlands will be exposed to the swords of Storm Warriors at any time! I object!"

A nobleman from the Wellington family immediately stood up and asked loudly: "Duke of Wellington, what do you want to do?"

"I just want to keep the family and keep our glory going!"

The Duke of Wellington crossed his hands and put them on the table: "The Storm Warriors and the Chiefs only need our food, iron tools, women, salt... But from the Fengying Plain, the greedy dragon, what we ask for is everything we have!"

Although he explained it, he felt even more tired.

At this time of life and death, the internal strife in the family continued, which really disappointed him.

"William the Conqueror?"

After making a quick decision, after the family meeting ended, Grand Duke Wellington returned to the study and murmured the name.

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

If this conqueror had no strange magic power, how could he defeat his son who was invincible and protected by the King's Sword?

The Duke walked slowly in the study, and after a long time, he finally made up his mind.

He pursed his lips, came to a bookshelf, took out a black cover, a dusty classic, and opened it to the last page.

In the center of this page, there is a hollow groove, and a black card with purple mandala flowers blooming on it, with a mysterious smell.

In the study, the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the thick curtains were pulled up to block all the light. The four sides suddenly fell into pitch black, and only the light on the black card became more dazzling.

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

The Duke pulled out a golden dagger, cut his fingers, letting the red blood drop on the card, and a low call was chanting in his mouth, like a mysterious spell.

"Duke Duke!"

A purple mist poured out from the card, and the mandala flowers on it slowly bloomed, and a charming light overflowed. In the mist, a cloaked man appeared and bowed to the duke: "After hearing the news of the Conquering King, I knew that this day was coming soon! Everything was under the gaze of the Lord of Shadows!"

Duke Wellington looked at this magical scene, but his heart was a little cold, and he immediately gritted his teeth: "I want William Wallace's life!"
Chapter completed!