Chapter 793, King's Banquet, King's Fight

High King, is this a joke?

Ryan was a little uncertain about what Thorgreen meant, a hundred thousand troops?

The Kingdom of the Knights of Brittania once had a period of heyday. This time was probably from the third Knight King "White Death" Guillaume to the Knight King "Justice" Jules on the eve of the Dole Tower incident.

During this period of time, Britannia defended against Chaos in the north, fought against the Tomb King fleet and the Dark Elf fleet in the west, and conquered the Arabian and Nicohala deserts in the south. Pi has been away from Brittania for two hundred years, and the farthest knight army has reached Lustria, which can be said to be a model of abundant martial arts, but according to the records of this period in the Krona Palace obtained by Ryan, At that time, all the troops in Brittania, including the standing army, knight lords, knight retinues and sergeants (excluding serf soldiers), were about 100,000 people.

So what now?

After many battles, all the knights (capable of purchasing equipment) and knight retinues (qualified for retinues) in the entire Cavalier Kingdom of Brittania were less than 30,000, plus their respective sergeants (that is, freedom At most 60,000 civilian) soldiers were killed, and 100,000 people had to be called up. Not only would it be necessary to recruit serf infantry on a large scale, but it was also impossible to consider domestic defense and possible invasion at all.

One hundred thousand people, is Thorgreen serious? Was he joking, or was he ignorant?

Ryan frowned and thought for a while. The King of Knights felt that the High King was unlikely to be ignorant. Thorgrim, the Grudger, was famous for his wisdom and stability. He had also traveled the entire Old World and knew many things about the human kingdom very well. It is impossible for the High King not to have an accurate number in his heart about how many people the Britannia can produce. It is not necessarily that he is so ignorant.

"I guess, you must be wondering why the dwarves can afford so much money, right?" the High King continued very calmly and rudely, stopping his knife and fork, stroking his beard, his beard There are several silver tableware in front of you, each with a different purpose: "You don't know anything about the treasure house of Eternal Peak, young man, I can offer you a very generous price, and the annual income of an ordinary knight is about More than a hundred gold coins, right? For dwarves, this is only more than thirty gold coins. I can pay you fifty dwarf gold coins for a knight a year, how about it? As for other things, I can pay the price of an imperial mercenary, How about paying you a 20% premium?"

The price is very fair, and after seeing the treasure house of Bafeng Mountain, Ryan will not doubt that the Supreme King can't afford the money. Ryan frowned slightly. He thought for a while, and he was not in a hurry to refuse. He didn't even admit that the Knight Kingdom is now organized Can't afford 100,000 people: "I don't think so many people are needed to guard the bad land, I think..."

"Don't need so many people? Hahaha~" Thorgreen sneered, and he interrupted Ryan very roughly: "Look at my beard, young man, look at my beard, you little fellow You don’t even have a beard, and your experience with green skins is less than one percent of mine, so why do you think that you don’t need so many people to guard Bafeng Mountain?”

"After one year and dozens of battles, the coalition formed by us and Belegar has defeated countless greenskin tribes along the badlands, wiped out Skarsnik and his evil moon tribe, and destroyed the Skavens. The headquarters of the Moss clan and the trial of the headhunter Quick, and after that, I was with Belgar,

After cleaning up many small green-skinned tribes near Bafeng Mountain, let alone the next few years, at least the next 20 years, Bafeng Mountain will not face a huge waaagh! up. Ryan said quite sincerely: "Therefore, I don't think it is necessary to station so many troops. Bafeng Mountain is now in a state of waste, and it is not capable of supplying so many military supplies." "

Compared with the dwarves, the reproductive capacity of the green skins certainly has a crushing advantage, but it doesn't mean that the green skins can explode to hundreds of thousands of people in just a few months. After suffering such a huge blow, Bafeng Mountain It will take at least ten years for the nearby greenskins to recover and sow more mushrooms, and then slowly choose greenskin warlords through civil wars and "big chaos" until one greenskin warlord defeats the other greenskin warlords, and the It was a relatively long process until the entire tribe was unified and became the Greenskin Warlord. Even Skarsnik himself spent decades.

"Of course I will handle the military supplies. What do young people know?" Listening to Ryan's analysis, Thorgreen squinted at this young human being. He forked a piece of fresh and juicy lamb chops and put it in his mouth: Yes, why do you think this is enough? Have you ever met a real big waaagh? Have you dealt with it? Have you seen it with your own eyes? Have you ever faced a real big green-skinned warboss? Don't pit you against Skarsnik For example, the goblin warlord is cunning, but its melee strength and army strength can only be considered above average among the green skins. Have you ever dealt with the big belly king Gollum? Ironclaw Gorbad? Or, Ge Rimger-Ironhide?"

"..." Ryan remained silent, and the King of Knights thought that this old thing is selling the old by relying on the old, trying to overwhelm me with seniority!

But Ryan is indeed weak in this aspect. After all, he is still too young. Sol Green is already a thousand years old. The High King shows his qualifications, and Ryan is really helpless.

"Let me tell you, if the green god of war Grimgr-Ironhide and his black orc army 'Immortals' appear on Eight Peaks Mountain, even if you have a hundred thousand people, you may not be the opponent of Ironhide!" the High King continued. Using power to overwhelm others, he said in a muffled voice: "One hundred thousand people is absolutely necessary, you don't even know how powerful Grimger is!"

"The last time Grimgor appeared was in the pit of hell in the Mourning Mountains north of Kislev, he slaughtered tens of thousands of Skaven and then headed towards the Eastern Kurgan Grassland " Ryan immediately retorted: "It is tens of thousands of miles away from Bafeng Mountain, we should not take this factor into consideration."

"Ironhide will kill the Kurgans one day! I know it! It will come back, it will." The High King interrupted Ryan again: "Do you know Ironhide, or I understand it? I tell you, In the book of great hatred, there are as many as three chapters related to iron skin!"

Then let it come! As the knight king of Britannia, the chosen champion of the fairy of the lake, the Primarch of the gray knight, and the emperor's son, am I afraid of some green-skinned iron-skinned god of war? Come if you can!

When the High King said this, Ryan's blood rushed to his head, and he subconsciously wanted to blurt out these words.

But when he raised his head, what he saw was the High King's sneer. Thorgrim was eating lamb chops quite leisurely and at ease, as if he had expected Ryan's reaction, and everything was under his control.

Yes indeed! Since the conversation began, since the two sides met, Thorgreen has mastered all the rhythms of the entire conversation! Lion found himself led the entire way by the High King.

Throughout the whole process, the rhythm of the topic and Ryan's emotions are all under the control of the High King.

Thinking of this, the King of Knights gritted his teeth. He forcibly suppressed all his anger. The King pretended to be thirsty and wanted to drink water. He first filled a large glass of Bagman's stout, took a big gulp, and then bowed his head Cut the lamb chops with a knife and fork, close your eyes and feel the deliciousness of the food.

Well, it's just a bit salty, dwarves always have a heavy mouth, so the King of Knights thought.

How can we get back the initiative of the topic? Ryan chewed his food, suppressed his anger, and carefully thought about countermeasures.

The High King didn't seem to be in a hurry, he ate slowly, waiting for Ryan's answer.

Three minutes later, Ryan finally spoke: "Your Majesty the High King, since Grimgor-Ironhide is so difficult to deal with, it is useless to garrison 100,000 humans. For Ironhide, no matter how many humans there are, they will be slaughtered." , I think we need to change our thinking.”

"A different way of thinking? What kind of thinking?" The Supreme King became interested, and he asked casually: "Young people, think about it before you think about it, you young humans, it's good to have one, where in the world are you going? With sharp ears, you can run fast, but the questions you ask and the opinions you put forward are all too superficial, ah, sometimes you are very childish, do you understand?"

"That's right!" To Thorgreen's surprise, Ryan graciously admitted his shortcomings. The King of Knights calmed down and said with a smile, "So I think the dwarves should be allowed to defend Bafeng Mountain, after all' One dwarf is ten greenskins, it’s too unreliable to place too much hope on us humans for the defense system.”

"Of course dwarves are stronger than you humans, but we don't have enough population now." The High King thought about Ryan's words again: "There are only 150,000 dwarves left in Eternal Peak, which is far from the scale of 1 million at its most glorious time. , whether it is the rapids in the north, Butcher Fort or Haimen Pass, they have no energy to help Bafeng Mountain, otherwise why do you think that we dwarves will abandon our compatriots and ignore it, why do you think I will come to you to talk about this matter thing?"

"There are people somewhere!" Ryan spread his hands, and he said in a serious manner: "Norsca, Dulong City! Norsca dwarves, they have a lot of people. I heard from the Belegar brothers that Dulong City is alone. There are more than 20,000 adult dwarves in the city! The population of the entire Norsca dwarves exceeds 100,000. Your Majesty, the 100,000 you want are here!"

Ryan was right.

Besides the Dwarven strongholds of the Roof of the World, the Gray Mountains, and the Black Mountains, there is a great army of Dwarves in the Norse Mountains and the Mourning Mountains in the northern part of the Old World.

These dwarves are collectively known as the Norsca dwarves.

The source of this dwarf is the dwarf army and dwarf expedition left by the dwarf ancestor gods before they tried to go to the northern Chaos Wasteland to close the ancient holy portal. After they discovered the rich mineral veins in the Norsca Mountains, they decided immediately Settled here and established many fortresses, and after discovering the news of the Chaos invasion, the dwarven ancestor god Grani sent a messenger in time to inform the dwarves that Chaos was about to go south, which gave the Norse dwarves enough time Seal off the fortress and prepare for defense. When the Chaos army went south, they found that the group of dwarves had already set up ten lines of defense and waited for Chaos to attack!

The siege of Dulong City lasted for decades, and the Chaos army only broke through the three outermost lines of defense. The demons could neither enjoy the thrill of victory nor taste the blood and glory. After a huge snowstorm, the Chaos army chose to retreat and continue southward, leaving only the Norscan dwarves who cut off all outside news and lost contact with their own people.

Until the Great Holy War, the Norse dwarves set out to support the empire from the underground river they dug in the fortress. After thousands of years, they finally ushered in a long-lost reunion with the dwarves of the Mountain Empire.

Regardless of being on the front line, the Norsca dwarves have a large population and are very tenacious. Now there are four large dwarf cities left in Norsca, namely Dulong City, Thunder City, Crow's Nest City and Eagle Peak City. In addition, there are more than a dozen small dwarf cities scattered all over the Norscan mountains. Among them, Dulong City, the most populous, has more than 20,000 adult dwarves, and the most conservative estimate of the total population of the Norscan dwarves is more than 100,000.

"Do you think I don't want to? I have sent three waves of messengers, but the king of Dulong City, Tolgard, the Crimson, just doesn't want to!" Thorgrim retorted subconsciously, and then he suddenly paused, then bowed his head eat meat.

Damn, I'm being paced by this young man, the High King thought as he munched on the lamb.

Hey, it seems that this young man is not simple.

It is not that the High King has tried to persuade the Norscan dwarves to withdraw from the mountain kingdom, but the Norscan dwarves collectively refused. The first reason is that the dwarves will not abandon their homeland unless they have to, and the two sides have been separated for too long, so that The Norse dwarves have only respect for the High King, not obedience.

The second reason is that the Norsca dwarves are too rich. The Norsca mountains are rich in iron, precious metals (mainly silver) and gem veins, and the valleys have vast amber deposits. The mountainous coast, covered in pine forests, teems with animals of all kinds, the rivers and coastal waters are rich in fish, and the mines are inexhaustible, all opencast.

Normally, it takes tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years or even longer to produce a mineral lode, but for the Norscan mountains, the mountains that have been blown by the wind of chaos are mutating all day long, and a mineral lode only needs It can be regenerated in dozens of hundreds of years, so the Norsca dwarves can always enjoy endless mineral resources, or open-pit mining.

Don't ask why, because Chaos doesn't talk to you about reason and rationality.

With such rich geographical conditions, the Norsca dwarves did not want to return to the Mountain Empire at all.

"North? Those dwarves are used to living there, they won't go to Eight Peaks Mountain." The High King said in a muffled voice, "Your idea is unrealistic."

"But what's the use of those Norscan dwarves hanging alone in the north?" Ryan followed the High King's words and said directly: "We should establish an emergency mechanism and concentrate our strength. Anyway, these 100,000 people Throwing it in Norsca is also a waste. Relying on these dwarves can't stop Chaos from invading, it's better to withdraw it quickly, am I right? Your Majesty the High King? Didn't you say that you are rich and don't care about this little commission? Then Instead of asking us humans for help, why not just let the Norse dwarves go south?"

The High King raised his head, and looked at Ryan with his eyes, as if he wanted to know him again. His long white beard swayed back and forth, and pondered for a while. But at the age of forty, how could it be possible to know such detailed information about Norsca and Dulong City? Bellegar, why tell you these irrelevant things? It is impossible for these Norsca dwarves to join the Angrund clan!"

"This is my own idea!" Ryan was stunned for a moment, and he continued: "Aren't the dwarves all doing strategic contraction now?"

"Huh! What do you think? I don't believe it! You are really being played around by that idiot! You young people, you must be careful, don't 'see the wind, but you must rain'. Hearing these news, you As a king, you have to judge yourself, if these things are completely...impossible, you go and explain it to that idiot, which means...you are also responsible for this thing!" The Supreme King shook his head suddenly, and he Staring at Ryan's face closely: "So, who is it? Belegar or your regent, or your courtiers, who gave you the plan to let the Norsca dwarves move in?!"

"I want to listen to the truth!"

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