Heroes of the Invincible Knight

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Posey City

Compared with the fierce battles on the Central Great Plains, the south has always been in a state of undercurrents and turbulence.

The main target of the orcs has always been the central plains, but the south has not encountered any military disasters for the time being. The slightly threatening trolls and sea tribes have already been dealt with for a round, and they are honestly not good at the moment.

While the battle was going on in the north, the south seemed a little peaceful. Even because some nobles from the north fled to the south and brought a lot of wealth and a lot of people, in the past few months, the city of Posey, which is located in the main basin of the Jinlong River, has been extremely prosperous.

Merchants from south to north gather here, and there are more vendors pushing small carts selling gadgets, and the supply of coolies carrying bags on the wharf is in short supply, and their wages have risen by a few pennies.

Once people have money, they always have to consume. When there are more rich people, consumption will naturally prosper. The business of roadside stalls and higher-end restaurants has improved a lot. Even those in the attic The pink curtains have been closed recently and I can't see the window opened several times.

The most popular business was the tavern in Posey City. Because of the agreement with the Dwarf Alliance, the first batch of 50,000 dwarven heavy infantry entered Posey City.

Although the dwarf has a hot temper, he is not cruel. As long as no one provokes him, he is still easy to talk to. You can make superficial friends if you buy him a glass of wine. These dwarves have a good military discipline in Posey City.

The only problem is that these dwarves can't help drinking no matter what they do. 50,000 dwarves can be worth 100,000 or 200,000 alcoholics. With their presence, the taverns in the city are almost full every day. The price of wine in Percy City made them drink several times higher.

Anyway, all walks of life are making money. On the surface, the south is even more prosperous than before the war started.

But the crisis under the prosperity has never been resolved, not to mention that the forces buried in the south of the church are only temporarily dormant under Paley's thunderous means. As long as the orcs go south, they can immediately pierce this somewhat vain prosperity.

Santo's Mansion

In the conference hall, several neatly dressed people were discussing matters.

The two officers wore simple and practical military uniforms, and some other civil servants also wore gowns with simple colors. These are the main officials in the city of Posey. In the past, the nobles in the south liked extravagance. , Gold wire and precious stones adorn the clothes colorfully, and most of the weight of a dress has to be on the decorations.

After Paley secured his position as the actual ruler of Posey City and established a certain authority in the southern provinces, he quickly replaced most of the officials in Posey City and replaced them with his own team. Ray's simple and capable style.

"Lord Paley, the price of food in Percy has risen by more than 50% in the past few days. Although the people can bear it temporarily, if it continues to rise, there may be trouble."

"What's going on? Did you put a batch of old grain from the granary on the market a few days ago? Why did the price go up so much?"

Although the kingdom's main grain-producing area is in the central plains, the climate in the south is more suitable for growing grain, and there has never been a shortage of grain in the south.

Most of the noble families still have the habit of hoarding food for two or three years. Paley recently purged the families related to the church and confiscated a lot of food.

In order to stabilize food prices, the City Lord's Mansion sold a large amount of old grain, which prevented the food prices in the south from rising sharply due to the war in the north. The sudden increase of 50% in the past few days seemed a little abnormal.

"Lord Paley, the price of wine in Posey City has risen sharply recently, and a lot of grain has been purchased to make wine."

"The price of wine has risen so much? Is it because of those dwarves?"

"Well, those dwarves are not short of money. They drink a lot of wine every day. When the price of wine rises, the price of food also rises."

"I remember that the dwarves have a regular supply of wine every week."

It was less than a week since the dwarves arrived in the city. During this time, Paley was still busy suppressing those nobles who had colluded with the church, and he felt that they had "colluded" with the church. He didn't pay attention to the affairs of the dwarves for a while. It had such a big impact.

"My lord, the dwarves drank the wine they sent in two days, and the dwarves spent the rest of the day drinking in the city by themselves. They almost bought out all the wine in the tavern."

Paley touched his forehead with some headaches. These dwarves have nothing serious, except that they are addicted to alcohol.

If the people under his command dared to drink like this, they would have chopped off countless heads and hung them up long ago, but he couldn't deal with the dwarves like this. No one could stop the dwarves from drinking, not even the patriarch of the dwarves.

Paley can discuss anything with the dwarves, but only about drinking, Paley knows that he can't discuss it, so he can only follow the other party.

"Purchase some more wine from the Northland, and mix the spirits of the Northland with some water and send it to the dwarves. If they don't get drunk, I will drink them up."

"Also check for me who are behind the price increase of food."

"Yes, my lord!"

Although Paley was a little confused at first, but after all, he is the old Yinbi who inherited the excellent blood of the Charlemagne family. After thinking about it for a while, he can be sure that the rapid increase in food prices is not entirely caused by dwarves drinking. This is rich by hair.

"After finding out which ones are driving up the price of food, His Excellency Mixiu brought someone to come forward to warn them and let them restrain themselves."

"Um!"

As Paley's number one master, Mixiu is naturally qualified to participate in this kind of meeting, but Mixiu usually seldom speaks and just obeys Paley's arrangement.

The reason for sending Mixiu to warn is also very simple. Recently, Mixiu is the main force in cleaning up and suppressing the church forces in the south. In addition, Paley suppressed dissidents and forcibly selected families that colluded with the church. The two nobles who were led by Mixiu to exterminate I can't count them on my hands.

At this time, Mixiu could be regarded as a ferocious figure among the southern nobles, and it was only appropriate for him to warn these people, because just showing his face would cause some people's legs to tremble.

"However, I have to wait for me to finish some things in my hand, and it will be done in two days."

"Oh? What did General Mixiu discover?"

What Mixiu did the most in Paley was to suppress the church and clean up the nobles related to the Sun God Sect. As the former pope of the Sun God Sect, this is a professional counterpart.

At this moment, I heard Mixiu say that there are still matters to be dealt with, most of which are related to the church.

"I found something interesting when dealing with the Vals family. The Sun God Religion seems to have discovered a son of God."

"Oh? Son of God?"

"It's just a lie."

Mi Xiu shook his head, as if he didn't take the other party too seriously.

As the former pope, Mixiu is very familiar with the affairs of the church. The so-called coming of the Son of God is just a trick used by the church to deceive people.

"How much army assistance does General Mixiu need? If necessary, you can directly mobilize Percy's city guard!"

"No, if there is too much movement, it will startle the snake. I can handle it myself."

"Um."

Seeing that Mixiu was so confident, Paley also nodded and didn't say anything more.

With the strength of Mixiu, Hussein and some elite knights who defected together, they can handle almost all the problems in Posey City. If they can't solve them, it doesn't make much sense to call the city guards.

"Is there any latest news about the North?"

"It's still the same. Kles City has been besieged by orcs, but the orcs probably haven't broken through Kles City yet."

"Brother's ability to train and command is really good. If one day I want to meet my brother in arms, I don't know if I can fight."

"Willing to fight to the death for His Royal Highness Paley."

Paley was a bit outspoken when he spoke, and most of the people present were his confidantes. Hearing that Paley said that he would meet the eldest prince in battle, not only did he not panic, but all of them showed joy. What they were afraid of was that Paley himself was unwilling to fight.

Although almost all the regular army regiments that belonged to the kingdom in the south were transferred to the north, but with the financial resources and population of the south and Paley's means, they also pulled up an army of nearly 300,000 at this time, although the number of troops was smaller than before. Some, but this is an army that Paley can fully control, plus dwarven allies.

From the point of view of Paley and his subordinates, they had to compete with the eldest prince no matter what.

Paley pressed his hands and signaled his subordinates to be calm.

"Competing with the big brother is a matter of the future. The most important thing is to deal with the orcs first."

"Where are the troops now??"

"The Sixth and Seventh Legions have already arrived near Posey City. The Ninth and Eleventh Legions were a little further away from Posey City in order to guard against the Haizu. It will take a few days before they arrive. The rebellion that just suppressed the Wusi family and the Sun God Sect is still resting."

"Well, there can't be any problems with the logistics supply. After all the legions arrive, the army will camp outside Posey City, rest for a few days and prepare to go north."

Paley manages the south, and he has no intention of watching the fire from the other side. Waiting for the orcs to break through the Golden Dragon City and sweep the north, it is absolutely difficult for him to settle down. Paley is not so short-sighted. After the arrival of the dwarf reinforcements, he began to mobilize his forces to prepare for the north to help the war. up.

"My lord! The latest military situation!"

"Um?"

While several people were still discussing the military situation, a soldier in light armor rushed in while discussing the specific deployment of troops, holding a red sealed letter in his hand.

Paley took the letter and looked at it for a few seconds, his pupils dilated, and he read it again carefully for fear that he might have misread it. His expression became as exciting as that of the eldest prince at that time. The whole expression changed so much that the other people on the table They also had a lot of curiosity, wanting to know what made Paley change his expression so exaggeratedly.

Paley didn't keep it secret, after digesting it for a few seconds, he calmed down and said:

"Guys, I'm afraid I haven't given the troops a rest."

"The latest military report shows that the northland army going south confronted the orc army. Two battles resulted in two victories. In the second battle, the main force of the orcs was wiped out, and the orc coach was killed. The city of Krystal was thus relieved."

"What?"

"How can it be!"

They never expected that the war in the north would change so quickly. There were no idiots present, and some of them knew how to deal with the orcs. They knew how difficult the orcs were to deal with. It is hard to find a victory, let alone a battle of annihilation.

In an annihilation battle, at least beheading or capturing the opponent's main general, and killing more than half of the opponent's strength can be called annihilation.

Since Aragon, the human army has never had such a big victory against the orcs.

"Your Highness, is the information accurate?"

Normally, in the outcome of such a large-scale decisive battle, there is no possibility of any error in the intelligence, but it is too incredible, and some people still can't help but want to confirm whether the intelligence is accurate.

"I will send someone to verify again, but there should be no problem with the information."

"The King of the North, what a hero."

"Make preparations immediately and urge the army to go north as soon as possible. Slow down and we really can't even drink soup!"

"Yes, my lord!"

There was no time left for them to continue to marvel. Among the people present, except for Mixiu, everyone knew the urgency of the matter. If Paley continued to stay in the south, the throne might really have nothing to do with him.

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