Throne of the North.

Chapter 13: Battle in the Iron Mine
Thinking that the North Wind Province was far from being as peaceful as it seemed, Ryan finally returned to the topic. He asked Hatton:

"Mr. Hatton, does Lingdu City sell war horses every year?"

"Of course, every spring when the weather is not so cold, the Chamber of Commerce from the south will come to the Northern Wind Province in batches with good goods."

"Lingdu City is already considered remote, so there aren't many chambers of commerce coming, but there are still a dozen or so."

"The most eye-catching one every year is the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, which is exclusively for the royal family. All the Highland Warhorses come from them."

Ryan thought for a moment and asked again:
"Only a hundred?"

"Yes, only one hundred."

Ryan couldn't help but be speechless. Baron Hatton was even less intelligent than he thought.

So he said it directly, "The grassland where the war horses of the Southern Highlands of the Empire are located is in the south near the imperial capital. It takes so much effort to transport them to the North Wind Province. How could Lingdu County, one of the seven counties, have only a hundred war horses? Even so, Viscount Miles, who has been passed down for hundreds of years, would never agree to it."

"There are so many nobles and knights in Lingdu County, how can one hundred horses be enough?"

"Yes." Hutton's eyes showed confusion. His not-so-smart brain obviously couldn't think of any more answers.

"So, there are definitely more than a hundred war horses. Before the Imperial Chamber of Commerce took them out for sale, the extra war horses had already been divided up."

"Those 100 war horses are the ones that were left over because they didn't dare to eat them all by themselves."

Think about the soldiers a normal barony can provide, including serfs, which can be around four or five hundred people, so a few war horses are really nothing.

After saying this, Ryan couldn't help but look at Baron Hatton.

"It seems that Mr. Hatton's relationship with Viscount Miles and Viscount Dragun is not that good."

His words made Haddon's face flush immediately, and he almost lost his temper at Ryan, but considering the purpose of this trip, he calmed down.

At the same time, he was thinking that after this matter was over, he would have to get to know the two viscounts.

There is not only fighting and killing among the nobles, but more about the human relationships and worldly wisdom.

But at the same time, he also felt a little resentful towards Ryan.

Hypocrisy and acting skills are innate abilities of a noble, but Ryan actually criticized Baron Hatton in front of so many people. He is not a qualified noble at all.

Ryan glanced at the gloomy expression on Baron Hutton's face and was finally satisfied.

He was not very willing to have his name spread so quickly among the aristocratic circles of the North Wind Province. After this exchange, Baron Hatton might not brag about himself in front of other nobles.

For Ryan, this is a good thing. He has the spiritual power to open the door to the plane and can make a fortune in the frozen land quietly.

After an unpleasant exchange, the journey became much faster. At noon, Ryan saw the iron mine hidden in the hills.

After many conflicts, the iron mine has been completely occupied by Knight Water, and Baron Hutton has not received any income from the iron mine for several months.

What made Ryan speechless was that their group of several hundred people had already appeared two or three hundred meters away from the mine, and no one had noticed them.

It seems that Knight Water is not as smart as he thought.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, a miner finally saw the crowd while carrying ore, and suddenly shouted in fear, causing the entire mine to panic. Finally, after some apprentice knights roared and suppressed them, seven or eight hundred people came to the outside of the mine without any formation. Standing in the front were more than a hundred combat-capable soldiers led by Knight Watt.

Hatton looked at the armored figure standing in the front with some shock, "Walter! Why are you here!?"

"Hahahaha, Hatton, I knew you wouldn't give up, so I've been waiting for you here. Your patience is even worse than I thought. But that's good too, because this way I can get back to the territory earlier. I'm almost getting maggots from sleeping in the mines these days!"

Walter had obviously calculated that Hutton would not be satisfied with the profits from the iron mine, and at this moment he could not help but feel happy about his military strategy. However, when he looked at Ryan next to Hutton, he could not help but frowned.

He had never met Ryan, but he could see the aristocratic temperament in Ryan.

After a brief shock, Hatton sneered, "Walter, you may be smart, but you must hand over the iron ore today."

After that, he ordered White: "Go ahead."

What made Ryan speechless again was that after the lords on both sides shouted, the serfs on both sides charged forward with forks or wooden spears without any rules.

But the large scene of thousands of people still made people excited. Ryan saw that Hutton next to him subconsciously clenched his knight's sword, and his face turned a little red.

"Ryan, you have to help me."

Hutton looked at Ryan. His repeated defeats against Knight Water made him less confident.

"Don't worry, Mr. Hatton, we are friends."

Ryan nodded to Brand, who rode his horse towards the battlefield between Knight White and Knight Water. Behind him, thirty-one knight attendants also formed two phalanxes and rushed towards the battlefield.

Ryan is not a commander, he cannot change the way this war is fought, but it is enough for him to control his soldiers.

Facing a group of soldiers who were trainee knights, a group of skinny serfs had no chance of resisting them at all. The soldiers formed into a square formation also broke through the serfs' battlefield with unstoppable force and collided with the soldiers led by Knight Water.

The soldiers blessed by the deer spirit gained the upper hand at the first moment, and Knight Water's soldiers had no rules in their fighting style and were no match at all.

Of course, the most crucial thing is the battlefield of the three official knights.

Knight White and Brand were almost suppressing Knight Water in the fight. Although Knight Water had a knight's armor built at a high price, he would probably be defeated quickly facing two knights.

As Knight Water was knocked off his horse by a sword and fell to the ground, the battle between the three people also fell from the horse to the ground.

To put it bluntly, none of the three were good at riding horses and fighting, and the best performer was Brand, who had only a few hours of experience.

Knight Water, who had fallen heavily, got up very slowly. When he got up, Knight White had already arrived in front of him and stabbed him with a sword.

At this moment, Knight White's eyes were full of excitement. He wanted to make merit. Only by accumulating enough contributions could he exchange for a pioneering order from the Hutton family in the future.

But at this critical moment, Knight Water, who was covered in armor, grabbed White's sword with one hand.

Both sides could vaguely see that there were wisps of dark air flowing on the surface of Knight Water's armor.

"The Bronze Knight!"

White's eyes were filled with fear and he screamed.

(End of this chapter)