Power and Empire Chapter 1178: Barras
In the dark night, the howling wind crackled against the old and spotted walls of the Baras Fortress. The majestic Dorok Mountains were like a natural gate dividing the Dorok Mountains in two. The difference between the upper and lower Doroks comes from this, one side is barren mountain, the other side is rich and fertile soil
Along the Balas to the east is the Aaron Basin known as Dorok’s granary. The unique landform has established the unique strategic position of the Balas Fortress.
Since 400 years ago, the mainland was divided. The once powerful thousand-year dynasty Ikadiva fell apart during the civil strife, and the heroes came together. The northern Ailey strongly controlled the central and northern part of Dorok, and united with the Swadians to suppress the south. It’s backed by rende, against the oppression of northern forces,
The forces of both sides are staggered in the middle, Swadian and Rude secretly push their hands behind, and the lords conquer, slaughter, massacre, and exterminate people abound. At that time, Dorok was a battlefield where the two forces competed. The Aaron Basin in the middle of the forces is undoubtedly the focus of this North-South war,
For Aaron, it was a dark age that lasted for a hundred years. In that era, this fertile land did not grow heavy golden wheat ears, but grew out of humans because of blood. High weeds, this is a land full of blood and killing,
If the southerners win, they will clean up the Aaron lords who took refuge in the north, and the northerners will not let the Aaron lords who take refuge in the south. The population of the times is not even 50,000. Even the lords of Aaron are all anxious, because they come from the north and the south. Who doesn’t know if tomorrow morning, will see the enemy on top of their dilapidated castle With the flags flying across the mountains, if a lord can stay in the Aaron area for 5 years without dying, it is basically a miracle.
The turning point came from the 30 Years’ War a hundred years ago. It is called the 30 Years’ War because the length of the war lasted for 30 years. Su Luo in the area fought hard, the two sides mobilized the nation's forces to fight hard. After the war lasted for 10 years, the Vikings from the west also joined in, and the mainland was fought.
For Dorok, it was an extremely rare period of peace,
The eyes of the mainland are all concentrated in the Suluo area. No one cares about the remote Dorok, and no one notices the Dorok, known as the Barren Mountain, an aristocrat from the northern Anto Mountains, Antobar. With a hesitant look, Baron Russ took a team of 100 servants and entered Aaron, a land full of weeds. The baron Antobaras was not here to fight, he was very unwilling to enter Aaron. A new lord appointed by the rich family in the northern Ailey area. His duty is to take over a piece of land that no one in the family is willing to take over.
This land is in the hinterland of Aaron, and the head of the previous lord is still hanging on the broken castle wall. The Aaron tenant farmers there rebelled. They killed the lord sent by the family, and there were not many. The food was divided up, and the family was very angry about this, but there was no intention to send troops to crusade, because there is no place worth using the family army,
So Antobaras took such an appointment on the road. He rode a thin old horse, followed by a group of ragged servants. The setting sun in front of him shone from the edge of the mountain, lonely and desolate, just like those in front of him. Like the lord of the same fate, he spent a night in the mountains, drank a night of sullen wine in a leaky tavern halfway up the mountain, drunk and yelled at those who had fallen into trouble in this matter,
He came here because of the jealousy of the new patriarch. He has a pretty handsome face, well-read books, and active thinking. Such a person always pleases young girls. If he is replaced by the beautiful wife of the new patriarch, that’s another matter. If he doesn’t come, it’s said that the new patriarch will send him to Sel Pawn as a mercenary, where the dead are scattered and able to live. Almost none came down,
In the early morning, Antobaras crossed the mountain pass with a heart of speculation. The sun illuminates the **** below his feet. In his imagination, the Aaron area is a poor mountain and bad water, and the land is dry. The sky is full of yellow sand, and the eyes are full of hard rocky ground that cannot be cultivated.
As the nobles mentioned loudly at the banquet, this is not a place for people to live, only those who deserve to be roasted in **** will be assigned here, and the absoluteness that appears in front of him Not this, but a beautiful and unusual morning. The grass swayed like the wind, the water murmured, the birds flew around the forest, and the sky was blue like water.
You can imagine a person who is used to seeing hundreds of miles of mountains, suddenly saw the shock when he saw an endless plain. A quarter of an hour later, Antobaras knelt on his knees, lifted the soil in front of him and wept with joy.
Knowing that the entire Aaron is actually a large closed basin, except for a river, there is only one pass leading to the outside world, this well-read and sociable little baron thought of something that shocked him. Thought, if a strong fortress is built on the pass, then this beautiful and unusual land can grow amazing wheat ears! He is not a person who is very good at fighting, but he has a trait that is extremely rare in the lord of that era.
That is tenacity and justice,
He treated Aaron’s other lords with a heart of equality and justice and an admirable broad mind. He did not hesitate to visit other lords one by one, and was almost killed by the enemy lords several times. , But in the end he was moved by his magnificent ideals and became his secret supporter. Soon, he won a good reputation as a fair judge in the Aaron area.
He is like a grass growing against the wind, absorbing sunlight, and also bathed in wind and frost, using the advantages of being the dominant northern nobleman at the time. After entering the war-torn land of Aaron, on the one hand Slowly develop oneself in the gap between the North and South forces. On the other hand, secretly gathered the hearts of all the lords in the basin and secretly formed the Alliance of Aaron,
Disputes within the alliance are resolved in a unique form of political discussion, and warfare has been greatly reduced. Both the North and the South have chosen a tacit peace.
The Aaronic people were able to live, and the fertile soil began to grow wheat ears, like a seed deep into the soil. During the 30-year long war between Ruud and Swadian, in the majestic group On the top of the mountain, I don’t know when, a huge fortress with a length of 10 miles and a width stood up.
Because of the existence of the Baras Fortress, there is a real Aaron,
Baras built his own spirit and blood in this fortress forever. The fortress guards of each generation are the children of the Anto family, and the blood of the Anto family is thrown here in every war. , This is a family of talented geniuses,
For hundreds of years, there have been many famous Dorok players in this family. They leaped on the horse, fought to the death and fought **** battles, and blocked the north and the south. In the chaos of war, they propped up a peaceful sky for Aaron. The blows of this huge fortress standing on the edge of the Aaron Basin have left a series of cracks like spider webs, but no Aaron has ever suspected that the Fortress of Balas will fall.
This is the glorious place of the Anto family, and it is also a barrier that will never fall in the hearts of the Aaron people. Under the moss-covered bricks of this huge fortress, you can occasionally see broken and rusty Spears, that is the crushing ambition of countless fierce heroes,
Years are like songs, everything goes with the wind and rain,
The former heroes have gone away into history, leaving only the majestic fortress on the top of the mountain that makes people talk about. The name Ballas will always be with this fortress. He is the greatest hero of Aaron. Like his greatest wish during his lifetime, Aaron was basically not affected by war in the following hundred years. The wheat ears overgrown the earth made this the most fertile and beautiful area in Dorok.
Someone opened the window, and the first ray of sunlight in the morning entered the room with the cold air of early winter. Arnason, the head of the new Fourth Banner of Dorok, who was awakened from his sleep, immediately raised his head from the table. Ask Simmel, the deputy who just came in
"Is there any news?" As he stayed up all night, his haggard eyes were full of bloodshot eyes. From the window, he could see the fortress of Barras in the distance. The deputy Sim did not make a sound, but shook his head. , Arnason said with dissatisfaction, "What do our scouts do for food? It's only 20 miles from here to Ressard, and you can go back and forth in half a day. It's all over the night, why there is no news at all. "
" I don’t know what's going on! It’s really unbelievable." Deputy Sim shrugged his shoulders and said confusedly, "Four teams of scouts were sent in one night, but by daybreak, none of them brought back news. , If it is not impossible, I even suspect that someone behind us has severed our connection with Ressard!"
"Cut the connection? What a joke!" Arnason grinned slightly when he heard the deputy's words." Resald has a 40,000 army of General Kartu. Who has such a big appetite? Can bite off 40,000 troops without any movement!
"Even if these things are aside, the Fortress of Barras is still in our hands. Did the enemy fly over with wings? Today, I must contact Resard. Yesterday the logistics officer told me that the army has only enough food. One day, we must let Ressard bring some food, otherwise, after today, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind! I heard that everyone has been short of food recently! If we don’t speed up, we will be flagged by other flags. The group is ahead"
"Okay general, I can only send out the last team of scouts." The deputy nodded helplessly, opened the door and walked out. After a while, a soldier stumbled in, with some hair on his face. White,
"What's the matter? He was robbed or kicked in the ass!" Arnason was eating breakfast and raised his head very dissatisfied.
" Your lord, Captain Riha of the scout team is back!" The soldier said breathlessly
" Really, bring Riha in! "Hearing the soldier's report, Arnason stood up happily. There is now a drop in the grain, but the soldier hesitated on his face and said timidly," Your lord, Captain Riha is back, but he can't come here!"
"Why?" Arnason asked dissatisfiedly. "Do you want me, the head of the banner, to invite me in person?"
"No, he is dead. I guess he can't walk up to report to the adults!" The soldier answered with an ugly face,
"Dead?" Arnason stiffened, his face changed, and he said in disbelief. "What a joke, Riha is a veteran of 3 World Wars who can pierce the armor of the cavalry with a single shot. If you just use life-saving as the criterion, even if all of your guards are on, you will definitely not be able to kill him!"
"He didn't lie to you, Riha is indeed dead! You can't die again"
The door was pushed open, and his deputy Sim pushed in from the outside with a cold face. He held a cluster of arrows solidified with blood and minced meat and placed it heavily on the breakfast table. The voice said, "It's this kind of arrow. He was shot 7 arrows, and was dragged by the horse for 20 miles. The flesh and bones on his body were cracked~IndoMTL.com~It's too hard not to die!"
"Arrow!" Arnason focused his gaze on the arrow cluster on the table, a little at a loss. What can an ordinary arrow cluster explain?
"A beautiful murder weapon!" The adjutant Sim stroked the arrow clusters with his fingers, his eyes filled with a very complicated emotion, and gritted his teeth and said, "The white wings are embedded on a black arrow shaft. , The sharp arrow cluster is Mitsubishi, which is easy to penetrate the armor. They call this arrow cluster the black shadow "
"Black Shadow? A very apt name! What does that mean? Just because the arrow shaft is black?" Arnathan looked at the adjutant Sim and asked, "If it's just that, what's to be afraid of? !"
"It’s scary is black!"
Sim’s voice stopped, and his voice was cold. "Two years ago, I joined the Swadian army as a mercenary. Our enemy is the Kujites on the grassland. The arrow clusters they use are This kind of black arrow shaft, I have remembered this color all my life. The Kujites have the habit of ambushing the enemy at night. Rangers like a storm, with a strong murderous aura permeating the grass, the earth rumbling and shaking, we start immediately. Defending the cavalry’s spear formation, but what we were waiting for was a dark shadow. The black arrow shaft completely covered the cold light of the arrow cluster in the night! We did not notice that a brother from a squadron was nailed to the ground like this!"
" Do you mean, there are Khergits behind us? Are you crazy!" Arnason looked at his neurotic deputy and looked very speechless. He emphasized his tone and pointed to the fortress on the majestic mountain in the distance. "I know you are not an Aaronic, but you have to figure out that this is Baras, the Baras that our Aaronics will never fall! Unless the other person can fly, from the prairie to us Behind!"