Lord of Rot

Chapter 123 Covered with thorns

It's dark.

The wind blowing in from the window was still hot.

dinner.

Li Qiqi requested to make lemon chicken. The sour and appetizing chicken soaked in the soup, paired with a glass of beer, will make people sigh with satisfaction.

"Uncle Kuai Jian, how are the soldiers training?" He put down his wine glass and asked.

Quick Blade raised his hand to wipe away the grease on his mouth: "Those boys are well trained. As long as they see blood, they will become qualified soldiers."

"Where's the armor and weapons?" he asked.

"not yet"

"I'm sorry, sir," Joe said, "I went to Ironstone City and asked the blacksmiths if I wanted to make the same chain armor as Lord Kuaishou and them, complete with helmet, shoulder pads, arm guards, chain armor pants, and weapons. , a set requires at least 2 gold days, I am planning to report this matter to you."

"Two golden days?" Li Qi mistakenly thought he heard it wrong.

A full set of equipment for a noble cavalry only costs 5 gold days. Of course, the price of the war horse and horse gear and other expenses need to be calculated separately.

This means that if Li Qi wants to equip the remaining sixty soldiers with the same armor as Kuai Blade and others, it will cost at least 120 gold days!

In addition to the later maintenance and repair of damaged armor, hiss.

No wonder the porcupine leader is so poor that he can't see gold. Father Lild really spent too much money for his soldiers.

"Then buy ore and iron ingots, let our blacksmiths make them themselves, and try to equip everyone within a month."

This time he came back from Green Forest Castle and brought a lot of blacksmiths with him. They were not like Black Ears. Making armor and weapons was their job.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's difficult," Kuai Ren said. "I've seen blacksmiths make weapons and armor. One person can make at most half a set of armor in a month."

"Half set?"

This world has not yet entered industrialization, and everything is done with hand hammers.

Kuai Jian suggested: "You can make some leather armor and light armor first."

"Where's the speed?" Li Qi asked.

Kuai Jian thought about it and replied: "Maybe two or three pieces can be made in a month."

The speed of pure hand production is really a headache.

In their opinion, the lord's hope of using those few blacksmiths to produce more than 60 sets of armor in a month is simply fantastic. Unless all the blacksmiths in Iron Stone City take over the work, it will be possible to arm these 60 or so people within a month or two. .

"I will go talk to the blacksmith tomorrow." Li Qi raised his chopsticks: "Cheers to Porcupine for a better tomorrow."

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

"cheers!"

……

Longboat Castle.

The letter from the raven was immediately delivered to her sister by Yilin.

In the Baroness's bedroom in Longship Castle, Irene looked at her sister quietly.

Sister Jielin quickly read the letter, and her expression changed dramatically.

"How is it?" Erin asked hurriedly.

"Leach Clarence is willing to help us."

"Really? That's great!" Erin was overjoyed. Although Baron Porcupine was just a country baron, he decided to help so that Longship Castle could survive for a while longer.

There is always a solution.

But when Yilin looked at her sister's expression, she felt something was wrong.

She asked carefully: "What did he write in the letter?"

Jie Lin took a deep breath: "He wants to use us to declare war on the fake illegitimate son, and ask the other party to hand over the stolen slaves and 1000 gold days as compensation, otherwise he will chop off his head."

"What?" Erin thought she heard wrongly.

The entire Porcupine Territory only has a population of one thousand, and now there are tens of thousands of people in Wodu Nineteen. Unless all of his thousand people are elite soldiers, there will not be enough for Wodu Nineteen to fight, and one person can drown him with just a spit of spit.

Or Li Qi secretly raised a giant dragon.

"That's what he wrote." Jie Lin handed the letter in her hand to her sister Yilin: "I don't know what he was thinking. Even if Baron Porcupine is covered in thorns, he is too..."

too exaggerated!

Erin took the letter and nodded in agreement after reading it. Then she asked worriedly: "Should we do it?"

"Why not?" Jie Lin asked her sister.

……

Crow Camel woke up sleepily.

He doesn't like Shrimp and Fish Village very much. To be precise, he's not used to the food here. Just like the name of the village, it's all shrimp and fish.

Growing up in the desert, he was more accustomed to eating sizzling, oily roast lamb with bread and a glass of beer.

The grilled fish did taste pretty good, but the fish bones would always prick his tongue provocatively, and the roughnecks at the dinner table would laugh at him when they saw this.

I still remember that yesterday when he was eating fish, a fish bone got stuck in his throat. They just laughed at him and drank beer and ate bread hard before swallowing the fish bone.

Get up and change clothes.

When he opened the door, there was a mess outside, and he was starting to get used to it.

"Good day, Sir Crow!"

The loud voice behind him startled him. Crowe immediately turned his head and found that it was Wodu Shiba who had a few more gold ornaments on his body. He immediately showed his impeccable noble etiquette: "Good day, Sir Wodu !”

Crowe followed Vodou 18 into the restaurant.

In the dining room is a long table covered with a red table rug. The long table came from the Knight of Fish Village, whose body is now hanging on the gallows.

There are eight chairs in front of the table.

The main seat is Vodou 18, and at his hand is Crow's position. Vodou 18 attaches great importance to the first noble to declare allegiance to him.

Then there are the brothers before Vodu eighteen.

People arrived one after another, and they were the core of the Wodu Eighteen team.

The strong man who kicked Crowe away before was called "Boll". He got the name himself because his mother was a prostitute. Bol believed that anyone could be his father, so why was his father Couldn't it be King Bol Kein? Everyone knew that the king was lecherous.

The king who was far away in the capital might not have thought that he would have a son who could not be beaten with eight poles.

Some people even call him "Boll III", but of course this is just a joke.

"Squeak——!" Boll pulled the chair suddenly, and the legs of the chair scraped the ground with a sharp sound.

He didn't think there was anything wrong and sat down crookedly.

But Wodu Shiba's expression was ugly: "Sit upright!"

"What?" Bol tilted his head.

"Sit upright! This is a dining table, and you must follow noble etiquette!" Wodu Shiba emphasized.

After all, Bol didn't have the guts to argue with Vodou 18. He muttered, "There were no such stinky rules before." He straightened the chair, but this inevitably caused a harsh sound.

There was something strange about the atmosphere at the dinner table.

The robbers and bandits ate awkwardly, and only Wodu Shiba and Crowe chatted happily.

Look what aristocratic elegance is!

These elegant etiquette will help you better become the Baron of Longship Castle.

It's just that the people under his command don't seem very happy, but Wodu Shiba doesn't care at all. Becoming a noble requires making changes, right?

After dinner, Vodou Eighteen and Crowe came to the meeting hall. In his opinion, Crowe, as a noble, would be able to provide him with excellent advice, but Crowe was heartbroken. He was a real loser. I don’t know how to fight.

The so-called meeting hall is actually another house in Xianyu Village. There is a very simple map here, which simply marks the location of Longboat Fortress, but it is difficult to find from it the location of Xianyu Village where they are at this time. Location.

"The next step is to visit Hebeng Village"

Wodu Eighteen's war strategy is very simple, crushing with numbers.

The purpose is to determine the identity of his illegitimate son through war, force Baroness Jie Lin to recognize him, and fight for the legal inheritance rights.

Or he could capture Longship Castle directly, and when he sat down on the chair in the castle, he would be Baron Waudou!

Bang!

The door was suddenly knocked open.

Wodu Shiba raised his head and his expression suddenly turned bad: "Knock on the door before you come in!"

It was Bol who rushed in. Although he was scolded as soon as he entered, he still remembered his mission and said in a deep voice: "It's urgent! We robbed dozens of slaves before, and they belonged to a baron." Property, now that baron has declared war on us, saying that we should hand over slaves and 1000 gold days as compensation, otherwise we will take your head."

"What!" Wodu Shiba slammed the table and said angrily: "Huh, I have an army of 40,000 now! He is really brave, let him come!"

After yelling, Wodu Shiba asked: "When did you rob the slave?"

"It was probably Shanrat and the others who robbed the passing caravans," Bol said nonchalantly.

"Where's the baron?" Vodu eighteen asked.

"It seems to be a country lord named Baron Porcupine."

Wodu Shiba frowned: "I haven't heard of it."

"I know," Crowe said, "I've heard of the Porcupine Baron. Their family emblem is a porcupine. Their family motto is: they are covered with thorns. Anyone who tries to provoke them will eventually be pricked with blood."

"Hahaha! It definitely doesn't include us." Wodu laughed: "If you have the guts, let him come! He's just a country baron."

Crowe was very worried. Although he could see that there were many problems in the team of Vodou 18, he didn't understand why the baron declared war. Wouldn't it be better to wait for him to destroy himself?

That's right, Crowe discovered after these days of observation that this team is about to self-destruct, and only food has become a problem.

Forty thousand soldiers sounds intimidating, but forty thousand mouths waiting for food is even more terrifying.

They are like locusts, because it is not their own food or their own land. They eat and plunder everything crazily.

tomorrow? Who cares.

As long as we wait a little longer, this team will surely dissipate.

But the farmer who delivered the letter had been away for a long time and had not come back yet. He didn't know what Li Qi was thinking, so he could only laugh along.

He only hoped that the lord he was loyal to was really rational and not carried away by anger.

However, the baron who can see his own advantages at a glance and come up with the idea of ​​letting himself sneak into the enemy to obtain important information must be a wise man with great foresight.

Thinking of the development of Porcupine Territory and those buildings full of wisdom.

Crowe was immediately full of confidence, and he said to Vodou 18: "We will definitely win!"