Duncan returned north on the same day with his men. If it were normal, he would have a rare trip. He would have to spend the night in Rova City. The mayor of Rova City and the merchants had some transactions with him on weekdays. Every time he came here, he would always be treated by these people.

But now Duncan doesn't have such thoughts? The deal with Chen Daolin is like a sharp sword hanging above his head. If he didn't go back early to report, God knows what would happen.

Thinking of this, Duncan couldn't help but hate his deputy deeply in his heart.

That damn guy, if he hadn't sold the military ration to Polomir for money, he wouldn't have caused so many things to follow up! Hell!

...

The border in the northern part of the Nourin Province is the northwest part of the long Kaspersky line in the north of the Roland Empire.

This section of defense is composed of an imperial first-class military fortress and more than ten small military fortresses.

This military fortress, the famous northwest fortress of the Empire, broke out several wars here more than a hundred years ago. The most famous legend left here was that in the First World War, the human army launched a massive counterattack with the powerful cavalry of the Tulips family as the main force. In that war, Domines, one of the three giants of the orcs at that time, fell outside the northwest fortress.

Domines is the leader of the wolf clan and one of the three saint-level powerhouses among the orcs. After Domines fell, the wolf clan among the orcs gradually declined.

The werewolf warrior thunder that Chen Daolin encountered in the Frozen Forest was a descendant of Domines.

Now, after more than a hundred years of peace, the power of humans and aliens has undergone great changes. Especially in the northwest, the traditional sphere of influence of the Tulips family is also the one.

According to the tacit understanding between the Tulip Family and the Empire, the Northwest Fortress has always been stationed by the Tulip Family army, and the Empire's army will not intervene.

Because the Tulips are rich and powerful, although they have been over a hundred years, the Northwest Fortress has undergone repeated renovations and expansions.

Today's Northwest Fortresses and Fortress Groups, both in scale and in a solid manner, have been recognized as the most indestructible section of the entire Kaspersky line of defense.

You should know that where the Kaspersky defense line was built, among the fortress buildings of the entire defense line, the northwest fortress could only rank third.

More importantly, because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the Tulips family is in charge, the central government of the empire has no way to intervene. Gradually, a unique atmosphere of "only knowing the Tulips family laws but not the national laws" has been formed here.

In the Northwest Fortress, both the garrison and the officials here are from the Tulip family. Although the local officials here still hold official positions in the empire due to the extension of the imperial government, in fact, the candidates have always been recommended by the Tulip family.

In addition to the doctrine of the grassland people, trade in the northwest, smuggling goods and trading with the orc kingdom is also extremely popular in the area of ​​the Northwest Fortress.

Orcs are not good at producing and farming, so in the north of the border, the orc kingdom lacks supplies. It can be said that those guys are short of everything, whether it is various tools, food, salt, iron, weapons, or even some daily necessities, clothing, shoes, pots and pans. As long as they can get to the orc kingdom, they will become best-selling goods.

In the Northwest Fortress, these transactions were acquiesced by the Tulips. Of course, the Tulips did not allow such transactions without principles, at least in terms of iron and military weapons, extremely strict restrictions were imposed.

However, smuggling weapons into the orc kingdom often makes the most profitable! Especially the alien races in the north occupy the frozen forest. Ninety percent of the monsters live in the frozen forest. Only a very small number of monsters are distributed in the long Kilimaro Mountains and the swamps in the south, and their quality is mostly low.

The magic civilization of the Roland Empire flourished, and a large amount of magical beast materials were needed every year, which also catalyzed the scale of transactions with orcs to a certain extent.

...

It was already three days later when Duncan returned to the barracks.

In order to get back as soon as possible, he did not hesitate to horsepower along the way. Anyway, in the Tulip family, he had grassland relationships, and there was almost never a shortage of excellent war horses.

In the evening, the huge northwest fortress in the distance seemed to be a sleeping giant beast under the afterglow of the sunset.

However, in the south of the northwest fortress, a huge town like a market had long been formed.

The size of this town is even larger than that of the city of Rova.

But this town has no walls or even fences.

After several generations of development, there have been various buildings in the town.

The most common one here is the warehouse built by rows of sheds, which provides a place for chambers of commerce groups from the south to the north to hoard goods.

There are also the crowded hotels - everyone knows that outside the Northwest Fortress, opening a hotel business will never make any profit. Every year, the number of merchants who come here to trade will reach a shocking number. These merchants will come here with a large number of caravans, mercenaries, and a large number of coolie craftsmen.

Duncan rejected his subordinates' suggestion to rest and have dinner at the market. He led his men to urge the horses to gallop quickly over the market's long street.

Because they were all wearing Tulips’ military uniforms and were of high level, everyone who saw them on the road would hide from afar - here, Tulips’s family is the sky!

Ten miles north of the market is the fortress. The lowest part of the wall of this fortress and the main castle is ten meters high, and the highest part is twenty meters high.

The castle that is mainly blocked can contain tens of thousands of soldiers!

According to the design built here, once war occurs, this northwest fortress will be enough to accommodate 100,000 soldiers! It has solid city defense and various complete military facilities. On top of the city defense, there are more than 600 crossbows and hundreds of magic cannons!

And various military uses that make people's scalp tingling.

During the war a hundred years ago, the coalition of orc dwarfs and elves attacked the fortress for more than a year, filling in tens of thousands of lives, but failed to break the fortress!

On the south side of the fortress is the frontier camp here.

There are two elite infantry regiments and an elite cavalry regiment, as well as five thousand minions and auxiliary troops.

Duncan was unable to return to his logistics camp. The first thing he did was to come to the garrison camp behind the fortress. He presented a warrant and was able to directly enter the garrison of the Central Commander.

This is a permanent military barracks. Before Duncan walked into the hall, he tidied up his clothes and appearance, calmed down his rapid breathing, and then walked in carefully.

In the hall, there is a huge circular table.

A huge terrain model was created from clay on the table, with the northwest fortress and more than one hundred surrounding fortresses, as well as part of the terrain of the orc kingdom in the north, and a variety of colorful small flags were planted on it, each flag represents a garrison.

When Duncan walked in, he saw a person sitting next to the hall, far away from the table.

Fiona sat there, holding a cup of hot tea in her hand, and was carefully blowing the heat on it.

The woman wore a black plain long dress, which didn't look like the charming and charming woman she was in the imperial capital. The dress was extremely conservative, completely wrapped her seductive body from top to bottom, but it was cut but it was quite fit, especially the waist and hips, which still outlined the seductive lines of her mature woman.

However, when facing this woman, Duncan would never dare to let his eyes look around!

Everyone knows that the woman in front of me is not an Yiyou person. This woman was responsible for the family's business in the imperial capital for many years. After returning to the northwest, she immediately became the duke's confidant and right-hand man. There are even rumors that even in the family's capital, Loulan City, they lived directly in the duke's mansion!

More and more signs indicate that the Duke has listed this woman as a key target for training. I am afraid that within a few years, the position of the first general manager of the family will not be considered by others.

Although he is a commanding officer and is sitting in the shortage of military commanders, this woman can doom herself if she moves her mouth!

And right next to Fiona's seat, another person was sitting upright.

This person Duncan is naturally more familiar with - his own chief general, the number one boss in the Northwest Fortress, and the commander general of the Tulip Family garrison.

Commander of the Northwest Independent Division, General Sylvester.

As the commander of the Independent Division of the famous elite army of the Tulip Family, Sylvester's appearance is not as powerful and heroic as people imagine.

In fact, the general is only 33 years old this year, with a slightly short body and a little thin. His face does not look like a warrior, but rather a bit delicate and weak. Of course, his years of military career still brought him some changes. At least the deliberately broken beard still adds a bit of masculinity to him.

Sylvester sat next to Fiona. As the dignified commander of the Northwest garrison, his actions gave Fiona enough face.

Duncan came to the two of them, first saluted to the head of his family according to the military salute, and then asked Fiona.

Fiona then put down the teacup, raised her eyelids and looked at Duncan.

Fiona's expression was not polite - in fact, she knew very well that this guy named Duncan had finished. Even though he had completed the errands that Du Weiwei had given good work this time, his previous reselling military supplies to make profits has caused Du Weiwei's dissatisfaction. Even if he escaped this time, his future in the Tulip Family will be completely ruined.

It was just because of Sylvester's face that Du Weiwei had not been in charge of the family for a long time, so it was difficult to make rash adjustments to the personnel of the army, especially the troops stationed on the border. However, in the future, after the Duchess settled in his position, Duncan would be in trouble sooner or later, and would most likely be transferred to an inconspicuous position and slowly stayed idle to retire.

For such a guy, Fiona naturally doesn't have to keep a good look.

After sighing softly, Fiona said slowly: "Feither the look of the commander, I think this matter is done."

Duncan wiped his sweat and nodded, "Yes! The matter in Rova City has been completed - that gentleman, he has accepted the list I sent and has reached a deal agreement. But..."

Afterwards, Duncan told the content, conditions and prices of the agreement reached by himself and Chen Daolin, especially the additional procurement projects proposed by Chen Daolin in the end.

Fiona listened very carefully. After listening, the woman did not say anything. She just turned her body and quietly looked at General Sylvester beside her.

The frontier commander frowned, then looked at Fiona and said lightly: "Can the ordnance bows and war horses be arranged? The logistics can be equipped with a batch, but those thousand cattle and sheep... The Northwest Fortress is not a livestock area, where did these things come from?"

His voice sounded very calm, but there was a hint of unhappiness in his tone.

Fiona smiled sweetly: "Don't worry, General, do you have cattle, sheep, livestock? I will mobilize cattle, sheep and livestock from the family, but I will have to worry about the logistics of the border army transporting it."

Sylves nodded and stopped talking.

But Fiona had already turned her eyes back to Duncan.

After pondering for a moment, the woman slowly stood up, looked at Duncan, and said lightly: "Is this matter? You are doing a good job. I will go back to Mulan City to commit suicide. But... Lord Duncan, I have a few more words. Before coming, the Duke asked me to convey it."

Duncan quickly bent down solemnly and made a listening gesture.

"The Duke said: Although she is not in the army, she also knows that the brothers in the army live a hard life. But the family has always used the greatest power to supply military supplies, providing the best supplies and treatment. It is a customary practice to deal with some materials replaced by Taobao every year, so there is no need to say more. However, if someone is greedy and has too long his hands, do they really think that the family's family rules are decorations?"

Duncan heard it, cold sweat flowed from his forehead.

General Sylvester, who was standing beside him, also had an ugly face. He sat there, holding a teacup in his hand, and was silent. Although this was for Duncan, as the commander of the border army, wasn't he deliberately said it to himself?!

Duncan shivered, but he bent down and dared not speak.

Fiona had nodded to General Sylvester: "I've finished speaking and the matter has been done. General, I'm going to say goodbye now."

Sylvester stood up, and he was furious, and he didn't take any steps to see him off, but just nodded coldly.

When Fiona walked past Duncan, she suddenly stopped, looked at Duncan, and suddenly laughed: "Mr. Duncan, I'll give you another word. Of course, whether to listen or not, it's your own choice."

Duncan's body became weak. If he hadn't taken into account the fact that his boss was by his side, he would have almost kneeled down and shouted "Miss to save me"!

"That's the way. Before I came, I mentioned you to the Duke. During a joke, the Duke said a joke. The Duke said: Duke Duncan is so good at doing business, so don't stay in the army. It's good to leave the army and be a businessman. Haha... Of course, this is just a joke that Mr. Duncan may not take it seriously."

After saying that, Fiona left and walked out of the hall without looking back. Outside the door, there were naturally several guards wearing family guard uniforms who surrounded her and left the barracks.

Only Duncan and Sylvester were left in the hall. Duncan stood there, his body trembling and his teeth were fighting in the princess.

Finally, Sylvester's cold voice came: "Cowardly trash, everyone has left, why are you still shaking here!"

Duncan softened his body, and he knelt in front of Sylvester and shouted loudly: "General! General! Save me!"

"Save you?" Sylvester said coldly: "It's because I'm too indulging you guys on weekdays. I always think that it's good to use eliminated supplies to get some benefits for the brothers in the army every year, but I didn't expect that you are becoming more and more bold and more out of the way. Humph... I'm asking me to save you now!"
To be continued...