Shita Town is a large town located in the gray water area west of Feinberg. Earl Halwin and his family owned it. It is now the 30th generation. This is a fish and rice town with developed trade and can bring considerable income every year. The Gray Water River is divided into two strands here, surrounding the Earl's castle in the middle, providing it with good protection.
If you want to reach the castle, you must pass through the stone bridge. The bridge deck is not wide, and you cannot deploy troops, and there are towering arrow towers to defend. When the 20,000 troops of the Central Empire of Revi came here, and after discarding three thousand corpses in front of the bridge deck and the city gate, they had to adopt a method of siege but not attacking and political negotiation. However, in addition to intermittent river transport, the Stone Tower Castle also has secret tunnels that can be used to obtain supplies. So after the siege and two years of negotiation, the Central Empire only nominally gained the allegiance of Count Halwin, and could not even collect taxes, let alone other things.
This is a good place both military and economically, so the Halwin family devoted the most energy to protecting it. With more than 40 elite family knights and hundreds of real-life hired warriors, there was no major loss here on both Blood Meteor Nights. The castle still stood and the town was still bustling.
But these days, there have been many strange faces in the town. These people have been dressed in furious horses, well-equipped, holding flags and entourages, and are some nearby lords. After hearing the Revi Magic Empire crossing the church corridor and capturing many remote castles along the Sunset Mountains, they personally attended this year's "Grey Water District Noble Spring Hunting" and wanted to discuss how to deal with it.
In previous years, spring hunting was all about going to the mountains and forests to find trouble for bears after hibernation, and then drinking, having fun, and relieving the loneliness of not going out throughout the winter. This year, although spring hunting is also going to be held, many people lack interest and do not have the intense fighting spirit of previous years. They gathered more in castles and manors, exchanged news with each other and discussed the empire that was rapidly rising in the East.
"That was a greedy emperor, and he would sooner or later call it - such a good place as Shita Castle. In the early years, when he was still in Minas Ishir, he had already known many merchants from Shita Town and knew that it was rich. It is not a question for those merchants to be careless. No one would have thought that a model consultant who worked for the elf woman has now become the emperor of the empire?"
"He used to be a member of the Hall family and never changed. When can the members of the Hall family be underestimated?"
"Those who say are useless, and thinking about how to make him fail is the most important thing. I recently heard the news that His Majesty the Emperor is going to fight back against the blood-colored meteor and recruit us lords and knights. Who do he think he is? Even the church will not do such a thing, right?"
"The church will definitely not do it, that's broken the rules." A middle-aged man with a wide face pulled a bone out of his teeth and threw it aside. "In my opinion, as long as the church takes action, with the majesty of the goddess, any kind of empire will be destroyed. The empire? Want to climb onto everyone's heads and climb onto the heads of us? Humph, dreaming!"
At this moment, a voice sounded from everyone's ears: "Dreams must always be there, what if they come true?"
"Who! Who said it?" Everyone started looking for this voice at the same time. They looked around and looked around, but in the end they found nothing and could only look at each other.
"Bastard, where did you come from the clown who knows ventralism?" They quickly found an explanation, so they could comfort themselves and put what had just happened. "By the way, where is the owner of this place, Earl Halwin? Who of you has seen Ruhr III?"
"The master is meeting with important guests from afar and will meet you soon." The servant answered the question, but it did not satisfy them. Who is not an important guest here, and why can those who are "afar" get priority?
"Who do you think this guy from afar is? Or who he serves?" A question sparked heated discussion. Shita Town is the big town close to the border of the Revi Magic Empire, and is the first to be threatened, but it is not the only one. There are many important towns further west and south behind it, and there are many powerful lords there. If one or a few of them comes, then there is hope to form a small alliance here.
Deep down in my heart, no lord believed that after forming an alliance, he could resist the iron hoof of the Revi Magic Empire. Everyone knew very well that the knights of the non-Hall family of the Hoya nobles, who had formed a coalition forces, weren't they defeated by Feiqi Hall alone? In that battle, the conditions for the coalition forces were no longer better. They had sufficient supplies, sufficient physical strength, and sufficient preparation time, but they were directly crushed to death by a person on the front battlefield with their incredible combat power.
"The Emperor's Victory" is the name of the Magic Empire for this battle, but for others it is called the "Demon Emperor Ta Wugang Massacre". They also know that the Emperor of the Magic Empire did not massacre Ta Wugang City, and the coalition forces also died on the battlefield, so the massacre was untenable. However, this statement can scare civilians who lack knowledge and information channels under their command, and make them cringe under their own rule, which can collect more taxes.
Collecting more taxes is a very practical choice in the current situation. Before, the noble coalition could not defeat Fitch on the front, so the others would probably repeat the same mistakes. In fact, everyone knows what an ugly war looks like, the kind of thing that can achieve a fight, and then abide by the rules and promises to make a decision on the battlefield is difficult to happen again. Sneak attacks are now a manifestation of intelligence, and raids are the use of force, and the magic emperor Fitch Hall never lacks wisdom and ability.
No one wants to face such an enemy alone on the battlefield, nor do he want to be attacked by him, so everyone wants to meet Feiqi later, so it is best not to meet him. If you have to face it, it is acceptable to get a more decent ending, which is much better than being arrested and deprived of everything.
If you want to be decent, you must show that you can gain decent ability, and this ability can only be obtained on the battlefield. Therefore, it is best to encourage Count Halwin to resist and act like "you can still fight yourself". If Halwin is not fooled, there will be Malwin and Zhuerwen... If you keep ranking and no one resists, then let Feiqi Hall clean up slowly!
For the lords present, it is not good to let the big lords unite first, so that the small lords themselves become vassals and become existences used to sacrifice on the battlefield. When one is stronger or more small, the small can also make the strong set an example, so that Halwin will be ahead. But the stronger or more small and the strong unit unite, then the one who is ahead must be the small.
"When will he come out?" The nobles were tired of waiting endlessly at the banquet where they kept adding meals. They were all important people with responsibility, not pigs.
"Sir, Ruhr Harwin III." The butler standing at the gate announced loudly, which caused a burst of curses and a harsh friction sound of the retreat of the table and chairs. When everyone turned their eyes to the gate, a servant hurried over, stuffed a note into the butler's hand, and then pointed it hard. The butler glanced at it, his legs became weak, and there was a hint of trembling in his high voice: "His Majesty the Emperor of the Ravi Magic Empire, Fitch Hall, arrive!"
All the sounds came to an abrupt end and the scene was silent. Then several knights rushed to the dining table, snatched the knife and fork from above, and made a pose to prepare for the battle. What's ridiculous is that they had a sword on their waists.
Earl Halwin's wide body came out of the shadow at the door. He was surrounded by Fitch Hall, who was not outstanding in appearance, but Halwin's magnanimity was not worth mentioning at this time. The Emperor of the Magic Empire held a long staff, his face as solemn as a sword, and his face was cold.
"Friend Booker, put the knife and fork down. Have you mixed me and my roast pig?" Halwin said with a smile, but no one responded. "Everyone, I want you to introduce His Majesty the Emperor of the Revi Magic Empire. He came to our little spring hunting party to make the place shine brightly!"
"Halwin! When did you invite him! Are you going to surrender to the empire and give up the land and titles left by your ancestors?!"
Earl Halwin smiled bitterly but did not dare to show it. He didn't invite Fitch Hall at all! He hadn't thought about this in his mind, but his original plan was to first see the results of the spring hunting party, and then consider whether he would secretly write a letter to His Majesty the Emperor.
Although the plan was good, when he opened his eyes this morning, Fitch Hall stood at the head of his bed, sitting on a chair beside him to read the novel. He quickly pushed away the young girl who was still sleeping soundly beside him and reached out to touch the sword beside the bed.
"I want to kill you, you are already smelly at this time." Feiqi closed the book and gently placed it on the bedside table. He picked up the cat teasing stick, passed over the count's body, and gently pointed it on the girl. With two "puff" sounds, she was teleported away by Feiqi.
"I thought I would meet the countess - or you can play." Feiqi looked outside. The sun had already crossed the horizon and shot the sunlight through the window. "I heard that you have spring hunting here, and invited lords of all sizes within a hundred kilometers around. I calculated on the map. The closest distance from you to the border line of the empire is less than a hundred kilometers, so I came over."
"Your Majesty, I can't believe you can come here, so I didn't send an invitation letter, and... I will definitely do it in the future!"
"No future." Feich's words made Halwen feel cold, but fortunately there was a turning point in the second half: "If you don't surrender today, I can make sure that there will never be a spring hunt that the Halwen family will participate in next time."
"Your Majesty, can you make me more decent?" Halwin wanted to call for help now, but who would come to save him? No, who could save him? If he shouted, things would not turn around, and the whole family would probably be buried with him.
"Okay, put on your clothes and arrange the things outside." Feiqi looked at the sky: "I can make half a day for you. I have other things to do at noon, so I will definitely leave here. When I leave, either know you surrender or make sure you don't surrender. Isn't it easy?"
Halwin didn't think it was simple at all. He nodded and quickly put on his pants, and then thought about countermeasures while putting other clothes on his body.
His eyes swept through every corner of the room, measured every blunt and sharp weapon, evaluated every window, door and passage that allowed him to penetrate. After a less intense ideological struggle, Count Halwin finally sat in front of Fitch, put his hands on his knees, and began to discuss the specific terms of surrender.
"In the next period of time, our family will gradually hand over all the affairs of Shita Town to the Revi Magic Empire. When all the work is completed, it will become a part of the empire." Earl Halwin announced loudly in front of the lords: "Our family admires His Majesty the Emperor's spirit of counterattacking the blood-colored meteor on behalf of everyone in Yongli Continent, and is willing to contribute to this. My three sons will receive the best training and then become His Majesty's vanguard and the vanguard of all mankind!"
"Halwin, you have violated your oath! You are under the Duke of Kona and are his subordinates. Now you are going to change your master?" a lord accused.
"Don't make things difficult for Ruhr Halwin III," Feich put his hand on the count's shoulder: "Even if I'm forcing him, let Duke Kona come to me. No matter what level of parents you are looking for, I will continue. If you want to organize a coalition, I don't mind."
"What an arrogant person! Do you think you are invincible in the world? Don't forget that there is a church and a goddess!"
"I want to unify all human beings, is it a violation of the church's regulations? I am doing this with the least cost." Feiqi said: "I understand your thoughts and your loss, because I have limited time and energy, and I will only ask rulers like the Halwin family to talk about individual merger agreements, and have no time to take care of those small ones."
"What are you doing with so much nonsense?" An impulsive knight blushed and pulled out his long sword and rushed towards Feiqi. "Let me solve all the worries for everyone!"
Fitch gently raised the cat funky stick, shot a black fire line from the crystal at the top, and swung straight to the swordsman's face. In an instant, his eyes melted and continued to melt inward from the eye socket. The burned skin, muscles and the liquid from the eyeballs slid down like jelly, igniting the beard, clothes and armor. In an instant, the swordsman turned into a pillar of fire, with the tongue of fire more than twice his height, and the huge heat radiated was accompanied by a terrifying flesh fragrance. All this happened between the lightning and flint. The swordsman did not even scream, but could only leave the crackling sound of burning. His body and weapon armor melted together, and in a moment it turned into a pile of undistinguishable viscous and charred substance on the ground. The remaining fire was still there, and the recklessness attacking His Majesty the Emperor was burned out.
"I'm sorry that it has affected everyone's appetite. I shouldn't be the owner of this place... Oh, no, the agreement has been signed just now, I can do it." Feiqi blinked, then pointed to the dining table beside him and said, "Is that a roast rabbit? You have this for breakfast? I'm just hungry."
He stepped over the charred black, walked through the crowd without any mind, and came to the dining table to tear off a rabbit leg. He was chewing, and everyone present felt that the next one in the mouth of those good teeth would be himself.
Chapter completed!