Black Iron Crown

In this battle, the Kingdom of Bukeden paid the price of more than 300 soldiers and more than 20 knights dying on the city wall.

However, the defenders of the Kingdom of Bazalan lost less than two hundred people.

The advantages brought by the city wall can be seen.

While the allied forces were recuperating under the city, the defenders in Fort Rohr opened the city gate and dispatched ten cavalry to raid the Jinglan and Ballista positions.

Although the ten cavalrymen were all strangled by angry soldiers in the end, they brought the loss of three well rails and one ballista to the coalition forces.

The wooden well rail and ballista did not take any measures to set fire at all, and the raging fire ruthlessly devoured them.

Although the soldiers put out the fire at an extremely fast speed, the main parts were still burned by the flames and could not be repaired.

In a fit of rage, King Satri gave another order to attack the city, and the whole army once again set up a formation under the castle of Rolle to prepare for the attack.

But this time, the defenders of the Kingdom of Bazalan had figured out the combat effectiveness of the enemy army, and were no longer afraid of the coalition forces.

Although some people in the coalition army are indeed capable of fighting, most of them are cowardly lambs. They have excellent equipment and do not have the courage to fight to the death.

More than 300 sets of excellent iron armor were left on the city wall, which strengthened the armed forces of the defenders of the Bazaran Kingdom.

At the same time, the news that the Grand Duchy of the North was independent, and that the royal lords had collectively invested in Leiner's command and became vassals, spread to all parts of the empire at an extremely fast speed through the flow of merchants.

In the imperial capital, the empress was watching the emperor's teacher teach the little emperor etiquette.

A servant hurried into the room and told the Queen the news.

"What?" The queen frowned tightly and lost her voice.

Seeing that she had attracted the attention of the little emperor and his teacher, the queen immediately covered her mouth and said, "Go ahead, I'll go out first!"

The queen left the little emperor's room in a hurry, and said to the servant seriously: "Is what you just said true?"

"I'm sorry Your Majesty, I'm just passing on a message for you, and it's Sir Melen who I want to convey. You should ask him, and don't dare to tell stories at will!"

"Call me Sir Mellen!" the queen said eagerly.

After a while, Sir Mellen came before the Queen.

Before Sir Meren saluted, the Queen asked, "Is your news true? Grand Duke Rainer is really independent?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, our spies in the north came back to the imperial capital and told me the news. Grand Duke Leiner has announced that he has renounced his allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor. Apart from that, all the lords of the royal family are all loyal to him!"

Sir Mellen answered truthfully.

After hearing Sir Mellen's affirmative answer, the queen sat down on the chair in a daze.

"Damn! Damn! They all deserve to die!" The queen yelled angrily as she slammed the table hysterically.

The queen knew what would happen if the royal lord gave up his allegiance to the emperor, which would greatly reduce the royal family's right to rule the empire. After all, this was the empire built by the Merland family, and it did not mean that the entire empire was The emperor's private property.

And members of the Moreland family gave up their allegiance to the emperor, which would undoubtedly make others doubt whether this empire still belonged to the Moreland family?

Sir Melen stood by with his head bowed, not daring to speak. It was never reasonable for a woman to get angry. He didn't want to offend the queen at this time.

After a while, the queen finished venting, supported her forehead with her hand, and said slowly: "I condemn all the traitorous lords for me and order them to give up that unwise choice, otherwise they will definitely pay the price, remember, The point is to condemn their betrayal!"

The queen is very clear that her condemnation will not have any effect, but at least the other party's behavior must be classified as rebellion, so that the royal family can continue to dominate.

Sir Mellon's actions are still very fast. Their intelligence department also undertakes the function of manipulating public opinion, and this intelligence department does not have so many nobles in it. Therefore, the statement that the northern royal lord's behavior is a rebellion will soon be dismissed. It began to spread in the imperial capital.

However, such rumors cannot offset the negative impact of the independence of the Grand Duchy of the North.

It is not that there are no discerning people in the imperial capital, and more and more weird remarks are flooding the imperial capital.

Including around the imperial capital, the squires who had been suppressed before also expressed their support after hearing the news, and at the same time denounced that the current royal family had become puppets of the upstarts and the Earl of Redmara.

Not only that, more and more aristocrats whose interests were harmed because the royal family favored the upstarts also began to turn to the north, hoping that the royal lords could regain power.

Even more exaggerated, he even sold his family property near the imperial capital, and moved his family with the wealth to the independent country of the Northern Grand Duchy.

Reiner was very satisfied with this series of events. He looked at the dossier and the information submitted by Logan in the study, and the smile on his face never stopped.

From the part of the gentry in the imperial capital who sold their property to the northern border, to the nobles from all over the country turning to the Grand Duchy in the northern border, or the royal family becoming more and more unpopular, all these news made Reiner very happy.

The royal lords were too busy laughing at their newfound lands, where to establish effective rule and collect taxes.

For the time being, Reiner didn't have much interest in the territory, and he wouldn't object if he could get it, but he didn't think it was worth it if he had to pay a price to get the territory.

His current territory is still sparsely populated. Although the number has increased from 170,000 to 250,000 in six years, the gap in the number of people is still too large.

Even if Reiner has been encouraging childbirth, and gave subsidies and rewards for the successful birth of a child, it will take at least fifteen years to see the effect.

For example, some time ago, Reiner received the hero mother.

His two sons served in Rainer's army. She was already in her thirties and had given birth to fifteen children, and only four died.

This is already an extremely high survival rate, and what is even rarer than this survival rate is the number of births of this mother.

Giving birth to fifteen children means that she will conceive and give birth almost every year since she got married.

For such a heroic mother, Reiner is naturally not stingy with rewards.

Setting up a positive example can effectively encourage fertility.

So Reiner should reward the woman with a gold coin, thank her for her contribution to the territory and her family, and choose one of his eleven surviving children under the age of eight. The child was received in the castle, and after training, he was canonized as a knight.

Under Leiner's will, such news spread throughout the northern border at an extremely fast speed, and for a while, a more fanatical childbirth movement was set off across the northern border than before.

Of course, such a craze is not without its aftermath.

The aftereffect is that, in this winter, men all over the northern border are a little bit imaginary...