Mercenaries Under the Sky

Nobles and Territories

The owners of the territory are generally feudal nobles with titles, such as Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, etc. These knighthoods are hereditary, and the knighthoods and territories of all countries implement the eldest son inheritance system, but non-eldest sons or other persons without knighthood can often obtain the title of knight by serving in the king's army, and can also obtain a part of the territory. Therefore, the cavalier class became the base of the ruling of feudal rule. Later, some people without a knighthood can also run business and industry, donate money to the royal family to buy the title of riding soil, and some new nobles are born in this way.

The territory is divided into multiple types.

The hereditary noble territory is often called: Caiyi.

Most of Caiye is an effective incentive for the founding emperor to conquer the ministers. In Caiye, nobles have absolute rights.

In addition to Caiyi, there is a manor.

The manor generally refers to the aristocratic territory not designated by the king. Most of them are obtained through legal or illegal purchases. In the manor, the rights of the aristocracy can no longer be equated with the law.

Many nobles like to buy manors abroad for many reasons.

With the help of the Snow Wolf Cavalry, the new partner of Chapter 45 of "Continental Development History: A Talk of the Princes" has gone smoothly.

The wind has turned from south to north, almost as if the citizens representing the snowfield city sent the plague away.

After walking out of the snowy forest, it was already moonlit. The dark front was the frontier checkpoint of the Imperial Border Guard. Several imperial veterans accompanying him escorted Lin Yushang to make a simple negotiation. The gate of the checkpoint opened.

Amy and Daqingshan both left the Hami Kingdom for the first time. When they stepped into the border line of the Amy Empire, they could hardly believe that they had come to another country. The two young men were still betting: Ai Whether the land of the Mi Empire is the same as the land of the Hami Kingdom, whoever loses their bets will squeeze together with Lu'er at night.

Finally, Amy hugged her quilt, scratched her head, muttered, cursed and squeezed together with Lu'er, and saw someone huddled with it to sleep, Lu'er excitedly drilled her head into Amy's arms, and soon In the area of ​​Amy's belly, the snoring sound of young dragons rang like mountains and seas.

It was night, Lin Yushang and Sha Ruo went to the camp hospital to visit the seriously wounded envoy envoy-the undersecretary of the empire's foreign affairs. His injuries have been much better, but the doctor thinks that it is still bad, and in addition, the freezing winter can fully kill All the susceptible germs, so it is recommended that the foreign minister grow up to be able to treat in the ice and snow continent until next summer. Both Lin Yushang and Sha Ruo suggested that the undersecretary of foreign affairs should relax and the task has been completed. What the doctor said is very reasonable. The foreign minister is the old man of Lin Yushang ’s father. He served as the chief of staff of Count Lin for the past 20 years. In a coma, he was sent back to the border guard station. It was very worrying to learn that Lin Yushang went to the Hami Kingdom alone. He came back safely and took a breath. On the way back, there were elite escorts from the frontier guards. Nothing should happen, so rest assured.

Early the next morning, 500 **** snow wolf cavalry left the border guard and returned to the Hami Kingdom. The task of continuing the **** was undertaken by the Imperial Border Guard Cavalry Brigade, and several veterans who accompanied them to the Hami Empire. He and the captain of the Glacier Infantry requested to **** Amy and his party to the northern capital of the northern confederation of the Amy Empire-Ice Fortress. When the current captain of the Glacier Brigade learned that Amy was the only son of the former captain, he also specifically visited Amy and agreed to their request.

In the past twenty days, Amy and the veterans have also established a profound friendship. He likes to listen to them telling the stories of his father in the past, especially how his father defeated 24 Imperial Military Schools within three days by a guide. Officer, won the position of captain of the Glacier. Of course, he encouraged these veterans to tell negative rumors about Captain Chi Hanfeng, and put them together one by one. It is said that they were to be used by Mr. Chi Hanfeng to build a monument.

Finally, it was confirmed that there were a total of four imperial soldiers who went to the Ice Fortress together. They were Mo Hao who was formerly a guard of Lake Haber and the second detachment of the Glacier Brigade. The detachment of the second squad leader Barbas, now the Glacier brigade engineer brigade soldiers.

The 200 cavalry escorts are considered to be unconventional. Generally, in the empire, even earl-level escorts are escorted by up to 100 soldiers at most.

The cavalry was just about to set off, and suddenly there was an urgent footstep in the distance. There was someone shouting the names of Amy and Daqingshan over the newly opened border post.

A dwarf appeared and rushed over from the checkpoint, panting.

There are many kinds of dwarves, no matter what kind of dwarf, they are born Hercules, but also a warrior that daunts all opponents. In human areas, there are two main types: mountain dwarfs and forest dwarfs.

Mountain dwarves are world-renowned artisan-level figures. Eighty-nine of the world ’s well-known magic weapons are from the hands of mountain dwarves. They generally live in mountainous areas rich in various minerals. They cooperate with gnome to jointly develop mineral deposits. I found rare colored metals or other rare minerals. Imagine that a worldly soldier would come out again. The most convenient weapon for mountain dwarves is the iron sledgehammer. A hammering unit composed of mountain dwarves is a nightmare for any heavy warrior or heavy knight.

The forest dwarves also have talents in weapon making, but they are worse than the mountain dwarves. The forest dwarves are taller than the mountain dwarves, about 1.2-1.4 meters. The best weapon is the wheel axe, most of the axe blades With a length of 50 centimeters, the more brave forest dwarf's large axe blade can reach 1 meter in length. The forest dwarves are almost natural warriors.

Dwarves can generally live between 800 and 1200 years old, and it is not the upper limit of the lifespan of dwarves. This is the actual life span of most of them. No matter what serious trauma or seemingly incurable disease, it is difficult to really knock down the body like a mountain. Strong dwarf.

The dwarf in front of him can see at a glance that he is a forest dwarf. He has a huge battle axe with a diameter of at least 80 cm behind his back. During the running, the blade of the axe reflects the glory of the sun and emits a blue light. -This color can only be obtained by adding a rare mineral amethyst, which is unique to weapons, and weapons with such crystals are valuable. Wearing a beast helmet on the head, it can be seen vaguely as a large cat, if it is not a tiger, it should be a large leopard. The dwarves have a very peculiar custom. All male dwarves will perform a rite of passage when they are 200 years old. They need to go to the forest to hunt a beast and hand it to the patriarch independently. The patriarch personally makes a beast head helmet. The ability to hunt large cats empty-handed means that the dwarf must be very glorious during the adulthood ceremony, and few dwarves can independently kill large cats the first time.

The helmet was pressed against his strong short brown hair, his face was full of stiff beards, his face looked like a few circles, his eyes were slightly squinted, and he was wearing a large leaf of a numb tree, which is a specialty in tropical forests. After making the twine and then the linen shirt, the trousers are obviously the same material. The waist is a wide belt with copper nails on it. He seemed to have been running for a long time, his sweat evaporating into water vapor, and he slowly floated from his head.

Although he was not tall, the dwarf ran very fast.

Amy jumped off the horse, and Daqingshan also jumped off the sleigh. The two looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes.

"Are you Big Brother Amy and Big Brother Qingshan?" The dwarf ran directly to Amy and Daqingshan.

"Yes, are you?" Amy asked hesitantly.

"Uncle Uncle is Locke." Although the dwarf was slurred, he still broke through, and took out a letter from his pocket. The handwriting was written by Old Locke.

It turned out that this dwarf was the nephew of old Rock, the youngest son of the current head of the Silver Snow Wolf mercenary regiment: Horns. He had just finished his salute, and came out to find his father and uncle. But he did not expect that his father and uncle did not want to keep him in the mercenary regiment. He was afraid of being spoiled. He just remembered the small mercenary regiment who had just left the day before, so he helped him immediately. After completing the entry procedure for the mercenary, he kicked him out.

The dwarves had straightforward personalities. When Houns heard that his uncle was looking for a powerful young man to bring himself and listened to his uncle telling the story of chanting wind, he expressed his willingness at that time. Old Rock sent him a magic portrait. With the pictures of Daqingshan and Amy on it, and telling him the specific direction, Horns chased down the Longyashan Highway.

"How old are you this year?" Amy still has some understanding of the dwarves, how to think this guy doesn't seem to be his "brother".

"Even this year I just performed the adult ceremony. It's still young, only 200."

Coaxing-Not only did Amy and Daqingshan laugh, the two girls laughed back and forth, and the knights surrounded by laughed loudly.

Amy shook her head while laughing: "The things I have encountered in these years are really strange. The 200-year-old brother is called 18-year-old, and the 300-year-old is not as sensible as a child." Just finished, Luer was not happy at the time. , Jumping over and licking Amy's face with his big tongue, everyone laughed harder.

There is such a small episode, especially when the dwarfs just came out of the country, they almost do n’t understand anything, always make some jokes, or let the long journey fill with happiness. On the same day, the little mercenary regiment has the first Three members: G-class mercenary Hornes.

It takes 3 days from the border guard post to the ice fortress.

Three days later, the envoy arrived at the Ice Fortress.

The Ice Fortress is the northern capital of the Amy Empire. It is also a relatively large rest point in the return of the envoys. The homes of most of the imperial border guards are here. The homes of Moye, Wulanfu, and Barbas are also in the west of the city. They asked Amy and Daqingshan to visit them together. The two girls and the dwarves also Very interested, a large group of people rushed to the west of the city.

Not far from the city gate is a large residential area, which is very different from the neat house in the city. The specifications of this residential area are very different, some are beautiful, and some are very dilapidated thatched houses, Moye, Wu Ranf and Barbath ’s homes are good. Barbath also has a very well-behaved young daughter, who is only three years old. After coming out of several of them, Moye discussed with Wulanfu and Barbas, and said to Amy, they want to see the deceased orphans of the few robes that have passed away. Amy can not go if there is nothing.

"Oh, are those dead soldiers also my dad's comrades?" Amy asked casually.

‘Well, yes, and a few of them were surprised when they last completed the mission of the begging tower. "Mo Ye's face was very sad.

"Then I want to see it too." Amy said lightly.

The further back, the house is getting shorter and shorter, and the road is getting narrower and narrower. When I see someone walking through, I have found a few small heads from some broken windows. They are thin-skinned children who are curious Looking at the soldiers, a little boy said aloud: "My dad used to be like this, he is so good."

The eyes of several veterans immediately became red, Lin Yushang and Sha Ruo were affected, and their eyes were wet.

Amy and Daqingshan bit their lips tightly.

Several people stopped in front of a dilapidated hut, Mo Ye gently shouted into the house: "Small beans, small beans."

A boy more than ten years old came out and saw the veterans, a smile appeared on Huang Huang's face: "Uncle Mo, Uncle Wulanfu, Uncle 8284, how are you."

"How about your mother?" Mo Ye squatted down and picked up the boy named Xiaodou.

"She went to work for others." Xiaodou reached out and touched the long sword behind Mo Ye, showing an envious expression.

"Winter is coming soon. Your mother didn't tell you when to keep the house intact? How can you survive the winter?" Woolf looked worriedly at the thatched house that had been blown by the wind.

"My mother said: sad every year, every year, every year is hard to survive, just wait until I grow up."

Everyone has a sour nose.

"Uncle Mo, what's the situation like this?" Amy looked at the large, ruined house in front of her.

"Um ... many, there are probably more than 200 such families outside the west gate of Beidu." Mo Ye answered with a deep voice.

"Uncle Mo, I bet on a rich nobleman in the Snowfield City, he lost to a manor in the Ice Fortress, his house should not be bad, but I do n’t know if it ’s big enough, can arrange these soldiers Widows and widows go to live? "Amy consulted Mo Ye in a low voice.

"That's great." Mo Yexian was very happy: "For these orphans and widows, the most sad thing is winter, everyone is crowded. Oh-" Mo Ye and several other veterans took a long sigh : "Everyone freezes to death every year."

"Little brother, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Amy patted the boy's face.

"I imagine my dad to be a brave warrior." The boy looked childish.

"I have another idea. Do you think it is feasible?" Amy said while pondering: "If these children continue like this, there will not be a very good way out. I and Daqingshan still have about 30,000 gold coins in their hands. Is it possible for some uncles to help? I want to set up a regiment of a small mercenary regiment in that manor. These children and their family members are members of our regiment. I want to arrange for them to learn something and be willing to continue to be a soldier. Or those who are willing to be magicians, hire good teachers for them, and those who are willing to do business, also arrange them in a unified manner. When they can become self-reliant, come and go freely. "

"Not bad." Daqingshan, who did not speak easily, took over: "We can arrange the teaching courses assigned to us by our masters. We work harder outside and we can earn more money without making them hungry."

"Stupid, according to Uncle Chi's teaching courses, they can sell firewood every day for a living," Amy smiled at the corner of her mouth, stood up and patted Daqingshan's head: "If it is a manor, there will be a large area of ​​land, no need Worrying about food. And we are A-level mercenary regiments. They are considered as reserve soldiers of A-level mercenary regiments. If they are slightly larger, they can take on simple tasks. Maybe they make more money than us. "

Lin Yushang's eyes squinted together: "Amy, you are too polite. If they make more money than you, wouldn't everyone else not live that day?"

Barbas, who hasn't talked much, suddenly inserted: "Amy, if you do have this idea, I will leave the army and join your mercenary regiment and use these years to educate these children."

At that time, everyone at the scene did not expect that today a temporary idea. Today, these children struggling to survive and die today, 5 to 10 years later, will become the core backbone of the famous small mercenary regiment.

The scroll of history has turned a new page here.

This is the first volume of the mercenary world. I will use this volume to commemorate some friends I have known in the kok magic forest since September 2000.

Magic Emperor, Coffee, Ark, Dark Earl, A Feng, Qianli Xue, Silver Fox, Xiao Liang ... I really miss the days when I was just in contact with this online game and ran around in a strange world. I have never thought that I can meet so many trustworthy friends through the Internet, and I can also feel the bravery of the brave liver and the hottest intestines.

Of course, I still miss a Shanghai high school girl named Sha Ruo. My first and only "wives" on the Internet so far, I miss the feeling that I just bought a house in kok and left messages in the house, although so far I don't know her name, but the feeling is that the other girls I know on the Internet won't give me anyway.

I also dedicated the whole book to a friend. I started writing this book when I was with this friend; however, in these days of getting along, because the work and writing time are too busy, resulting in some irreparable error.

Regardless of whether it is 5 or 10 years, I hope that one day this book will appear in front of this friend. I hope this friend will know my mood through some simple words and stories in the book.

For this friend, I will try my best to finish writing and finishing.

...

When I closed this volume, I wanted to give him a name, just use the name of a city in the book as the name of this volume.

Snow friendship

Information Four

The front of the cave is getting brighter and brighter, and skylight is transmitted from there. The flames on the torch suddenly exploded, greedily swallowing the fresh air.

A young man in a snow-white military uniform threw the torch in his hand into the dark cave behind him. Several low-level crawling dragons panickedly avoided the flame, barking at the orangutan in the dark, and green eyes penetrated the cave. , Showing strong unwillingness.

The ground at the entrance was very slippery, with ice and water. The young soldiers crawled out of the entrance with their hands and feet, and pulled out a gray-haired magician from the cave, followed by a small group of young men in white uniforms and 10 Multiple middle-aged magicians.

"Captain Lake Huber, thank you very much. If it were not for you, my old man would not be able to get out of this trial cave."

The old magician brushed the blue neutral magic robe and thanked the young soldiers.

"Lord Magi, you're welcome." Lake, who is not good at speaking. Hubble's mouth showed a humble smile.

This is a huge valley, the walls of the valley and the snow on the ground. In the middle of the valley, a straight gray tower pierces the sky.

This is the legendary ice magician holy land-Ice Begging Tower? Is this the place where all the ice magicians finally challenge the limit to become magisters?

The magician released a floating technique with his finger, and then released the magic of the wind system, and his body flew towards the begging tower. Lake. Hubble brought the soldiers to the front of the tower with the crunching snow on the last knee.

"Send a thousand miles, there will be a difference. Captain Lake Hubble, I'm going in. I hope there will be a chance to see you all in this life." The old magician's expression dimmed-ten great magics that challenge the limits of the begging tower Teachers, at most only one person can come out and become a magician with his own realm. Even the great magician who devotes his life to magic is feeling depressed.

"The God of creation-the elf who created the ice and snow-release your magic and call out the snow and ice dragon ..." The blue crystal of the magic wand is filled with magic as the old magician sings loudly The wave of the elves, the goose feathers and snow suddenly flew in the sky ~ www.novelmtl.com ~ The air is wrapped in snowflakes and is qualitative in the air. An arrogant silver flying dragon has materialized from scratch in the air. It inherits the great magician The will of the man screamed in front of the silver gate of the begging tower. The huge dragon claw struggled to pull the latch. His wings vibrated in the air. The gate was squeezed open.

No one thought that the violent wind screamed out of the tower and formed a twisted vortex, sucking everything in front of the tower into the tower. The great magician's weak body couldn't be lower than the gang wind, and he was caught in the tower even before the cry. The whirlwind raged through the valley, devouring everything in front of it.

"Get down--get down--hand in hand--" Lake Huber shouted hoarsely in the storm.

"Ah-Captain save me!" The bodies of the two soldiers and some magicians walking in the front were caught in the wind, and the whirlwind whistled through the valley with the bodies of the two soldiers and the screams. .

Lake Hubble shook the snow on his head and got up from the ground. A soldier was held on the mountain wall in a twisted whirlwind, and red blood was sprayed across the sky. Several magicians obviously also suffered injuries.

Lake Huber lay his body flat on the snow, pulled out his long sword, dialed the snow behind him, and regarded his body as a huge sled, quickly approaching the gate of the begging tower. He approached the side of the door in the strong wind and stood up with his head bowed down, trying to push the door hard-at this time, a few gusts of wind quickly returned to the cave with his prey.

The door was closing a little bit soon, and Lake Huber turned his long sword over, inserted from one end of the door bolt, and inserted it into the tower bolt. Suddenly, another gust of wind blew past, and Lake Huber had no time to make a roar, and he was swept into the begging tower by the strong wind.

The wind stopped, the door closed, and his black long sword was fastened firmly on the door.