In this way, they tied up everyone and distributed black bread to them, and then asked Vivian and the other girls to go to communicate and comfort them.
If they were ordinary serfs, Narant probably wouldn't be able to relax until the end of the war to prevent them from escaping.
But these are the relatives of the Daughter of Doom. As long as they are not killed immediately or sent to do dirty and tiring work regardless of life or death, their experience cannot be worse.
So, as long as you give them a little bit of hope, it should be easy to control.
And things turned out exactly as Narant expected.
Everyone was given a full meal, and a few lucky girls like Vivian came to tell them about the beauty of the Storm Territory and promised to have a full meal.
After untying their hands and feet at night, no one escaped.
Of course, if someone really escaped, it would be a dead end. Xiao Huihui and Bee Bee were placed around to monitor them.
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Time flew by and it came to the morning of the third day in a blink of an eye.
Today, after resting for a day and night, the Agate Principality's army finally launched again.
The king only left an army of 2,000 men in Maple Leaf City, and then led the rest of the army towards the Earl of Barnby.
During the march, the army became more vigilant. The number of rangers doubled than before, and the detection distance was also increased to a hundred miles.
However, the Northern Principality did not seem to dare to confront the Agate Principality's army head-on in the wild, so their march was quite smooth.
Along the way, the Agate Principality's army had nothing else to do except collect 'protection fees' from the small noble castles in the Earl of Barnby.
In this way, after traveling for five or six days, they were finally less than two days away from Earl Barnby's big city, Oak City.
That evening, after the army settled in camp, the king once again summoned several earls for a pre-war meeting.
The main content of this meeting is to allocate a part of the manpower to guard the various passages and checkpoints in the Earl of Barnby.
This Earldom of Barnby is different from the previous Earldom of Brock.
The Earldom of Brock is surrounded by the sea to the east and mountains to the west, so it is connected to other territories of the Northern Principality in only one direction in the north.
However, the Earl of Barnby has already penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Marquis of Lisson, and the surrounding roads connecting the territories of other northern principalities can be said to be extending in all directions.
Although the possibility of the Northern Principality sending a large army to raid was very low, the king and several earls felt that it was very necessary to send people to guard these passages because of the lessons learned from the past.
What's more important is that this time the king sent several teams of rangers to sneak out of Oak City to investigate.
According to the careful observation of these rangers, it is absolutely certain that there are at least more than 100,000 people living in Oak City.
This also means that Oak City will no longer have the same empty city situation as Maple Leaf City.
The Agate Principality army is bound to conquer Oak City.
In order to prevent the fish that escaped from the city from escaping when the Oak City was destroyed, having each family garrison these passages also meant to trap the fish that had slipped through.
At the meeting, the location of the various horsemen stationed at the pass became the focus of debate among several earls.
It's not that they are unwilling to send troops to defend and guard, but because there are big differences between the garrison locations, which are directly related to the interests of each family.
There are a total of seven road checkpoints that need to be guarded this time, just enough for the king and six earl families to allocate one.
But the distance between each level and Oak City is different.
The nearest road takes only about a day to reach Oak City.
As for the farthest passage, it would take six or seven days to reach Oak City.
The reason why the earls are fighting for each other is because of the distance at this level.
Because in the Autumn Campaign, besides gold coins and food, population is also the most important prize.
And when those fish that slipped through the net escaped, they must have felt that the closer the road, the more promising it was.
In this way, the road that is only a day or two away is likely to become the first choice escape route for those in the Northern Principality who slip through the trap.
At that time, the families stationed there can wait for work and easily capture more people.
As for those that are far away and require six or seven days to escape, if people run there because they are crazy, isn’t that because they don’t want to die quickly enough?
Therefore, except for the most recent road checkpoint, which is reserved for the king, the other secondary checkpoints have naturally become fragrant nests, and no family is willing to give up.
In the end, all the earls were furious at the meeting, and the king had no choice but to draw lots to decide where to garrison.
As this was a matter of luck, all the earls had nothing to say, and the drawing of lots began immediately.
In the end, the result of the lottery was that the Batman family had the best luck and won a checkpoint that was only about two days away from Oak City.
The Tulip family is second, with a journey of about three days.
And that guy Lakoff was the most unlucky. He actually got the farthest spot, which was six or seven days away from Oak City.
What's even more terrible is that although the checkpoint at Rakov is also a road, it can also lead to the hinterland of the Northern Principality.
But outside the level in question is a long stretch of desert and next door, not to mention that Oak City has slipped through the cracks.
I'm afraid that if the Northern Principality really has military support, it probably won't pass through here.
Chapter completed!