Chapter 129 Panic

"They have already taken the initiative. Why don't you agree to become Baron Ewood's guardian? Wouldn't it be easier to control Green Valley City that way?" After Baron Ewood and others left satisfied with the offensive and defensive covenant they had just signed, Namei Leah couldn't wait to ask.

"If I become the guardian of Baron Ewood, then what is the difference between my control of Green Valley City and now after signing the offensive and defensive covenant?" Lind did not directly answer Nymeria's question, but asked instructively. asked rhetorically.

Nymeria thought about the specific content of the covenant and said: "We have no right to interfere in the government affairs of Green Valley City, but we are allowed to establish several military stations on the road connecting Rose Avenue and Summer Hall in Green Valley City to maintain the road. Green Valley City will also pay a fee to maintain the operation of the military station. In addition, when the two sides encounter war, they are obliged to send troops..." At this point, she suddenly froze and looked at it in surprise. Linde said: "Other than the lack of public allegiance, the relationship between Green Valley City and us seems to be no different from the relationship between vassals and lords."

Linde nodded and said: "Yes, except for the fact that it is not recognized in name, this offensive and defensive covenant is actually an oath between the king and his vassals."

"Baron Ewood and the others didn't see the actual content of this covenant?" Nymeria asked.

Lind thought for a while and said: "Baron Ewood probably didn't see it, but the two bachelors and the steward should have seen it. They took the initiative to make changes such as the establishment of the military depot and the payment of fees. They are using this method to deepen the and our connection.”

Nymeria refused to answer: "I remember that the direct lord of Green Valley City is the Duke of Highgarden. Why did they abandon the Duke of Highgarden, who has a higher status, and become vassals of border lords like us? Our status Not much taller than him?"

"This is called the county magistrate, who is not in charge now." Lin De suddenly said a common saying in the language of his previous life.

"What?" Nymeria didn't understand what Lind said and looked at him in confusion.

"This is a saying from a distant country. Translated into the common language of Westeros, it probably means that the vassal with a high status is too far away, and only the powerful vassals around him can directly affect him." Linde said roughly. After a translation, he said: "Your Tengshi Town and my Shengxia Hall are both rising strongly. Green Valley City is caught in the middle and it is impossible to compete. Anyone with a little bit of intelligence can see that sooner or later we will We will take action against Green Valley City because this land is very important to us, so instead of joining passively, we might as well take the initiative to join. At least in name, allies sound better than vassals, and the rights they retain and the benefits they obtain are also More."

Nymeria thought for a while and said with a slight worry: "Won't this matter cause resentment in Highgarden?"

Linde explained: "We just signed an offensive and defensive alliance contract. The fact that High Court is the direct lord of Green Valley City has not changed, and the taxes that should be paid to High Court will not be reduced. On the contrary, High Court no longer needs to be responsible for Green Valley City. The safety of Gucheng has reduced the burden on High Court. Not only will they not resent it, but they are happy to see it happen. "

Nymeria was silent for a moment, and suddenly said with emotion: "I never thought that we would have the day when a great noble would take the initiative to join us."

Lind stepped forward and held Nymeria's hand, and said with great confidence: "This is just the beginning, and more noble nobles will take the initiative to join us."

Linde's team stayed in Green Valley City for two days. During these two days, Linde asked Jon to discuss with Green Valley City officials the location of the military station, the planning and maintenance of future trade routes, and other issues.

After discussing these matters, they continued on their way towards the Summer Hall.

During the Targaryen dynasty, the Iron Throne built a road directly from Greendale City to Summer Hall. This road was entirely paved with carefully polished stone bricks and could support two wheel palaces running in parallel. Along the way Simple forts were also built to maintain roads.

Nowadays, these roads have been severely damaged. Most of the stone bricks have been taken away by nearby villages to build houses. A large number of weeds have grown on the roads. It is difficult to see the original appearance of this road.

As for the fortresses on the road, they were used by some bandits or free people, forming strongholds one after another.

Regarding the bandits, Linde was not polite at all and destroyed them directly. As for the free citizens, Linde temporarily let them go. After the Midsummer Hall is rebuilt in the future, he will come back to collect them and use them to fill the vacancies in his territory. .

As Linde entered the Dorne Frontier, more and more people were secretly observing them wherever they passed. Most of these people were bandit groups entrenched in the Dorne Frontier.

Lind didn't care about this. These people will be his targets in the future. When these people leave, he will secretly ask Glory to follow them, find their hiding place, and mark them on the map for future reference. Free your hands to take care of them again.

Although Linde didn't care about these people, the spies and scouts of these bandit groups couldn't help but care about Linde.

When the spies of the first bandit group recognized Linde's eye-catching red sword flag, the news that Linde led the cavalry into the border area immediately spread throughout the area, causing huge panic and affecting Follow all the bandit groups in this area.

Because many of the bandit groups currently entrenched in the northeastern section of the Crimson Mountains were driven all the way from the Mande River by Linde. They are very aware of Linde's power and ferocity, and all of them speak from the bottom of their hearts. Afraid of Linde.

The news that Linde became the Earl of Summer Hall has not yet spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms, and the bandits in the frontier areas have not had much contact with the outside world. Naturally, they do not know that the territory they occupy has become Linde's territory. If they knew it, , they may have fled to other places before Linde arrived.

So when they learned that Linde had come to the Dorne Frontier, their first thought was that Linde had expanded his bandit suppression area to the Dorne Frontier, especially when they discovered that Linde had passed through those roads before. When he arrived at the fortress, he wiped out all the bandits entrenched there, confirming his suspicions.

"No, if that monster wants to destroy us, shouldn't he bring more people?"

Out of fear of Linde, the bandits in the Midsummer Hall area gathered outside the ruins of Midsummer Hall to discuss countermeasures. Some of them doubted Linde's statement that he came here to annihilate them, because the people Linde brought with him There were really not many, only a few hundred people. Although these hundreds of people were knights and elite cavalry, the number was still too small.

"Aren't hundreds of people enough? When he entered Tengshi Town, there were only a few hundred people?"

"And do you still regard Lind Terra as a person? Who can kill hundreds of powerful warriors like a group of chickens that can't resist?"

"I heard that he once killed more than 700 Ironborn in Oldtown with his own strength. Are you crazy for such a person to think of him as a human being? That is a humanoid dragon. , Yes, it’s a humanoid dragon!”

The leader of a bandit group who had witnessed his men being massacred by Linde had a ferocious expression on his face, dancing and shouting, as if this was the only way to vent his long-standing fear.

However, no one here would laugh at him, because most of the bandit group leaders present at the party were the bandit group leaders who were expelled to the border areas by Linde, and some of them had also fought against Linde's bandit-suppressing cavalry team.

Although they did not see Linde's actions with their own eyes like the shouting leader of the bandit group, they had all seen the power of Linde's cavalry, and the fear in their hearts was not much worse than that of the bandit group.

As for other bandit groups that have been entrenched here before, even if they have not experienced Linde's bandit suppression, they can still feel an invisible pressure from the fear expressed by these migrating bandit groups. This pressure also makes them involuntarily Linde, whom he had never met before, was frightened.

"We are not arguing about how terrifying Lind Terra is now, but we are deciding how we should deal with him now." A leader of a bandit group in the border area still maintained some sense, loudly suppressing the noise of the crowd, and then made it very clear asked: "Are we going to fight or retreat?"

Everyone fell silent and looked at each other. No one had any intention of speaking first.

In fact, the first thought that came to the minds of many people present was to withdraw, because they already knew the power of Linde and knew what the consequences of a head-on confrontation would be. Since they had already withdrawn from the area south of Rose Avenue before, It's not a big deal to withdraw again.

However, the people who can make the decision now are not them, but the leaders of the four frontier bandit groups sitting in the center of the crowd.

After they fled to the border area, they relied on unity to fight against the outside world. They were not annexed by the local bandit groups and established a firm foothold in the border area. However, this does not mean that they can really fight against these large bandit groups. .

The smallest number among these bandit groups is about a thousand people. Although many of them are not soldiers and are robbed slave workers, there are also many real soldiers, as many as several hundred people. This one is enough to suppress these stragglers.

"All of our warriors add up to more than 3,000 people. Is it necessary to be so afraid of these hundreds of people?" One of the bandit leaders with a Dornish accent was not too afraid of Linde's power. He calmly analyzed Said: "And they don't seem to be coming for us. I went to see them personally. There are actually maids, servants and children among them. It doesn't look like they are coming to fight at all."

A black man sitting next to him who was obviously from the Summer Islands also nodded in agreement and said: "I also think that Lind Terra did not come for us. We should figure out what his purpose is now. It should not be like this. Self-disruption."

All the bandit leaders around looked disdainfully at the two people who were speaking.

Anyone who knows these two people knows that although they are bandits, they are actually inextricably linked to the lords of Dorne. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are spies sent by them. Even if something happens, they will He can also escape back to Dorne and still regain his strength quickly, unlike other bandit leaders present who fled to other places and found it difficult to get back up again.

"Indeed, we should now figure out why Lind Terra came to the borderland?" The oldest bandit leader among the four agreed and said: "I have a way to try to find out that Lind Terra Why on earth are you here?"

As he spoke, he paused, as if waiting for others to ask, but everyone around him looked at him, waiting for him to say the solution, but no one spoke.

A little embarrassed, he touched his beard as if to hide it, and continued: "We can gather everyone here. If he comes for us, he will definitely come here. When the time comes, we will think of countermeasures." ”

Everyone felt that this method was also suitable to test Linde Terra's intentions before there was no other better way to deal with it.

Therefore, in the following days, each bandit group gathered their soldiers outside the ruins of Summer Hall and deliberately spread the news.

However, the result made them extremely disappointed. Linde's team did not avoid their actions at all, but rushed directly towards Summer Hall.

At this moment, all the bandit groups felt that Linde was undoubtedly coming for them, so they gathered together again to discuss countermeasures, but this time there were almost half less bandit leaders present, and the missing half was obviously The decision has been made to evacuate here, and there are no further plans to discuss any countermeasures.

The gathered bandit leaders failed to come up with a result after a day of discussions. By the next day, except for the two local bandit groups, all the other bandit groups left. Even the two who were related to Dorne The leader of the bandit group he contacted also left with his people.

Seeing this situation, the remaining two bandit groups had no way to stay here. They could only pack up their belongings and flee the area around Shengxia Hall like other bandit groups.

The fleeing evacuation of these bandit groups naturally attracted the attention of the savage tribes in this area. They immediately sent people to investigate what happened, and the results they obtained surprised them. These bandit groups turned out to be just because of one person. Come and flee.

They were all curious about this person, but when they knew that the person coming was Lind Terra, the chiefs and leaders of the savage tribe also lost their interest in watching the excitement, and their hearts became heavy one by one.

Although the savage tribe lives in the mountains all year round, this does not mean that the savage tribe really knows nothing about the outside world. In fact, the savage tribe in the Crimson Mountains often takes mined ores, herbs and other items with some merchants or The free people's villages in the Crimson Mountains exchange needed items, so their understanding of external things is not much worse than the outsiders.

Over the past year, bandit groups from the outside world have been escaping into the Crimson Mountains. This naturally aroused the curiosity of the savage tribe, and they sent people to inquire about the relevant information. Finally, they learned that a fierce man came outside the mountain and would kill the people entrenched there. He wiped out all the bandits, and except for some who fled to the mountains, he killed all the others.

For a time, Linde's reputation began to spread in the Savage Mountains.

Now, this Linde has actually come to the Crimson Mountains in the border area, and just by hearing the news about him, the vicious bandits fled, which shocked the savage tribes even more.

At the same time, they also thought about how Linde was rumored to deal with the savage tribes around Tengshi Town. For a while, various thoughts began to arise in the hearts of the leaders of the savage tribes.