Power and Empire Chapter 1178: Barras
In the dark night, the howling wind crackled against the old splattered 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 east of Balas is the Aaron Basin known as the Dorok Granary. The unique landforms have established the unique strategic position of the Balas Fortress.
Since the mainland split 400 years ago, the once powerful millennium dynasty Ikadiva fell apart in 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, and the southern races It’s backed by rende, against the oppression of northern forces,
The two forces are staggered in the middle, and Swadian and Ruode secretly push their hands behind. The lords conquer, slaughter, massacre cities, and exterminate tribes abound. At that time, Dorok was the battlefield where the two major 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 the infestation of blood. High weeds, this is a land full of blood and killing,
The victory of the southerners will clean up the Aaron lords who took refuge in the north, and the victory of the northerners will not miss the Aaron lords who have taken refuge in the south. Several massacres will let the real Aaronic people be there. The population of this era is not even 50,000, and even the lords of Aaron are all anxious, because they come from the north and the south. Who doesn’t know if tomorrow morning, on the top of his dilapidated castle, will see the enemy’s battle flag flying over the mountains. If a lord can stay in the Aaron area for 5 years without dying, it’s basically a miracle,
The turning point came from the Thirty Years’ War a hundred years ago. It is called the Thirty Years’ War because the length of the war lasted for 30 years. Su Luo in the region fought hard, and the two sides mobilized the nation's forces to fight desperately. After the war lasted for 10 years, the Vikings from the west also joined in, and wars in the mainland were raging.
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, a nobleman from the Anto Mountains in the north. Baron Antobaras took a team of 100 servants with a hesitant look and entered Aaron very unwillingly. In this chaotic land full of weeds, this baron named Antobaras is not here to fight, he is a newly appointed lord of the rich family in the northern Ailey area, and his duty is to take over a piece of the family and no one in the family is willing to take over. Land,
This land is in the hinterland of Aaron, and the head of the previous lord was 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. The family is very angry about this, but there is no intention to send troops to crusade, because there is no place worth using the family army,
So Antobaras went on the road with this appointment. He rode a thin old horse, followed by a group of ragged servants, and the setting sun in front of him shone from the edge of the mountain. Lonely and desolate, just like the lords who had the same fate as him, he spent a night in the mountains and drank a night of sullen wine in a leaky tavern halfway up the mountain. Drunk and yelling at those who fell into trouble in this matter,
He came here because of the jealousy of the new patriarch. He has a handsome face, reads many books, and is active in 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 of looking at the boundless plains, 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 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 the 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 bathing in the wind and frost, using the advantages of being the dominant northern nobleman at the time, and after entering the war-torn land of Aaron, he 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 have been 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 land 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 Barras fortress, there is a real Aaron,
Balas put his spirit and blood. Built forever in this fortress, 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 Dorock generals in this family. In the chaos of war, propped up a peaceful sky for Aaron. Heavy blows have left this huge fortress standing on the edge of the Aaron Basin with spider-like cracks, but no Aaron has ever suspected that the Fortress of Baras 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 turned 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 make 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?" Because of staying up all night. His haggard eyes were full of bloodshot eyes. From the position of the window, he could see the fortress of Barras in the distance. His deputy Sim didn't make a sound, but shook his head. Arnathan said in dissatisfaction, "What do our scouts do? Eat? It’s only 20 miles from here to Ressalde, and you can call back and forth in half a day. It’s been a night, why there’s 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 off the connection? What a joke!" Arnason grinned slightly when he heard the deputy's words." Ressald has a 40,000 army of General Katu, who has such a big appetite. Can bite off 40,000 troops without any movement!
"Even if these things 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 there is only enough food in the army. 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 the last team of scouts out." 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.
"My lord, Captain Riha of the scout team is back!" the soldier said out of breath
"Really, bring Riha in!" Hearing the soldier's report, Arnason stood up happily. Now the grain has fallen, but the soldier hesitated on his face and said timidly, "My lord, Captain Riha is back, but he can't come here!"
"Why?" Arnathan 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's body 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 anymore"
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, "That's the arrow. He was shot 7 arrows and was dragged by the horse for 20 miles. The flesh and bones on his body were cracked. It's too difficult to survive!"
"Arrows!" Arnason focused his gaze on the arrow clusters on the table, somewhat at a loss. What can an ordinary arrow cluster show?
"A very beautiful murder weapon!" The adjutant Sim stroked the arrow cluster~IndoMTL.com~ His eyes were filled with a very complex emotion, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The white wings are inlaid in a black body. On the arrow shaft of Mitsubishi, the sharp arrow cluster is easy to pierce through the armor. They call this arrow cluster “Black Shadow”.
"Shadow? A very apt name! What does that mean? Just because the arrow shaft is black?" Arnason looked at the adjutant Sim and asked, "If it's just that, what's to be afraid of? !"
"It's terrible is black!" Sim's voice stopped, his voice was cold." Two years ago, I joined the Swadian army as a mercenary. Our enemy is the Kujit on the grassland. , The arrow clusters they use are like this, the black arrow shaft, I remember this color all my life, the Kujites have the habit of ambushing the enemy at night, the rangers like a storm, with a strong murderous aura permeating the grass from time to time. , The earth rumbling and shaking, we immediately deployed the spear array to defend the cavalry, but what we were waiting for was a dark shadow, and the black arrow shaft completely covered the cold light of the arrow cluster in the night! We did not notice that a brother of a squadron was nailed like this Died on the ground!"
"You mean, there are Kurgits 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!"