Chapter 21: The Town of Mara

Chapter 21 Mara Town

With only a rudimentary map in his hand and a memory of only one or two times in his mind, Owen gritted his teeth and still set off with the caravan.

The only good thing about the Northland border is that the road does not need to be repaired, because the terrain is flat, find the right direction to go on the finish, but relatively easy to get lost, once lost, walking even where they can not figure out, because of this hell of a place there is no reference.

Owen is not from the system to exchange a special props, really do not necessarily dare to go out, because he is not sure he can find the way back.

Fortunately, the effect of this kind of props like a compass is not bad, divided into yin and yang, can be separated, after separation always point to the direction of the other side, so as long as one side of the compass to stay in the castle, he is not afraid of not finding the way home.

Along the way, Owen undyingly tried to perfect the map in his hand with only simple lines, but found that he overestimated his ability.

Although he had always overestimated his abilities, this time the blow was even greater because there was no way to start.

As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but grass, not to mention rivers, hills and other recognizable terrain, not even big trees and rocks, so how could a blank piece of paper be used as a marker?

Owen had no choice but to give up on this idea, but he felt that if his territory grows bigger in the future, he must build a big straight road.

On the way, he encountered some wild beasts and robbers, but facing forty professional soldiers, ten of which were breastplate cavalry, no one dared to make a move, and even when passing through the noble territories, the local lords would send gifts to express their goodwill for fear that these people would turn around and destroy them.

This is not a joke, the northern nobles lack of heritage, like the Hydra family can occupy an abandoned ancient fortress there are not many, most of the northern lords live in the earth and wood construction of the fortress, a rain with the pigsty like, coupled with the habit of urinating and defecating anywhere, that is really yellow soup floating shit, the aroma of ten miles.

As for the soldiers, at most maintain one or two dozen people, is not a professional soldier, simply can not beat Owen’s elite soldiers.

So really fight, a fight, run no place to run.

There is no way, on the north of this ghost place, lose the territory even a place to escape, otherwise Owen this year will not be in addition to see the Hai Rui Chamber of Commerce once, there is only a group of hungry crazy robbers.

The good thing is that Owen is really not interested in them, because there is no oil and water, even if you hit down, the land also need to invest more manpower and material resources in order to get a return, and this cycle of cost recovery is almost half a generation, so in the absence of a special output, hit down more territories is just a liability.

However, with the emergence of noble territories, Owen slowly found the knack of looking at the map, and in his heart, he got the bottom of it, knowing that he didn’t take the wrong path.

This map does not look simple, in the Northland border is very precious, if not for the Hydra family has the help of the Hare Chamber of Commerce, it is simply impossible to have.

From the map, he was able to see that the closer to the border of the empire, the more the number of lords would increase.

According to the density of the map, a day’s journey would be able to pass by two or three Northland nobles’ territories, which was unimaginable in the area where Owen’s territory was located, as the nearest territorial residence needed to walk for two days. This was mainly due to the fact that the Northland border nobles were like a handful of seeds that the empire had casually scattered, the further out the interval the bigger it was, because only a few ambitious Northland border nobles would choose to go deeper into the Northland to occupy more land, the majority of the Northland border nobles were still keeping their sanity, and they chose to gather at the empire’s border line.

With the back of the Empire’s border troops and at the same time, it was convenient for the Empire’s merchants to come, the speed of development naturally exceeded that of the lords who went deeper into the Northlands.

However, because of the close proximity to each other, coupled with the competition for interests, it is inevitable to produce many conflicts and frictions, and all kinds of open and secret struggles will involve a lot of energy, and it is difficult to say whether it is good or bad.

But this is exactly what the empire wants to see, a scattered plate of northern border nobles is a dish, but when they embrace the group, the size is also a threat, so there is no less in the inside to fan the flames.

This has little effect on Owen, because his territory is too far from the border of the empire, even if he does not stop hoofing it will take several days, and the surrounding area is full of wasteland, the nobles within the empire’s brain was kicked by a donkey will not hit his idea.

Owen’s destination is not the several big towns near the border of the empire, where half of the wealth of the entire Northland is gathered, it is the place where the nobles of the empire harvest the wealth of the border of the Northland, but he is just to buy some serfs, he doesn’t need to go to any place at all.

Besides, with the many novels he has read, as the protagonist, if he dares to approach this kind of place, he will definitely offend the descendants of a certain imperial great noble for various reasons, and then be targeted and hunted down, although the other party will definitely not be able to defeat the protagonist’s aura in the end, and be killed by his pretentious face counter-killing, but he is full of food, and he doesn’t plant a good field, and runs to look for excitement, is the territories’ work done, or is it that Maya isn’t funny any more?
So Owen’s destination is the town of Mara, located in the middle of the border of the Northland, which is one of the transit points through the North and South, and is only three to five days away from his territory.

The border of the Northlands was fan-shaped, and similar transit stations were like fan bones, allowing goods from the North and South to circulate.

Because there is more than one similar transit station, so the importance, although there is, but not so big, resulting in the interests of the competition is not so strong, naturally will not attract the big sharks, the risk is much less, at least with Owen now show the strength, get all the goodwill, whether it is the Mara Town like to take the guards, or come here to look for prey robber scouts, see Owen’s team all learned to smile.

Owen was not surprised by this and surveyed the place in front of him that had only appeared twice in his memory.

Mara Town wasn’t small, but the permanent population was only about three hundred, as most of the people here were herders, and it naturally occupied a much larger area.

The location of Mara Town is considered to be unique, not only is it one of the transit points between north and south, but the water and grass here is also good, suitable for grazing, so Viscount Mara is one of the few lords who can form a large-scale cavalry.

The problem is that there is a difference between cavalry and cavalry, when Owen entered the town he saw the cavalry of Mara Town, mostly herdsmen converted, horsemanship is good, the curved sword is also quite smooth to play, it is the combat power is not satisfactory a little bit, to deal with the unimpressive robbers or other lords half-assed soldiers is not a problem, but if you are against Owen’s men of the breastplate cavalry, even if the number of twice as many is also a stable loss.

After all, less than three feet long scimitar against more than two meters long cavalry lance, simple leather armor against the fine breastplate, free and loose against the well-trained, think also know who lost and who won.

Training, equipment, morale, cooperation, these are too much difference, there is not enough number simply can not make up the gap between the two sides.

And Owen’s other soldiers are also not vegetarian, spearmen, swordsmen, foot bowmen, in the case of formation, a small number of cavalry really do not dare to charge, at least Mara Town’s light cavalry do not dare.

(End of chapter)