Beaumari Castle, which is now the stronghold of the rebel army.
When the news of Prince Will's death came back to the base camp, the king of Newcana, the leader of the alliance of the Three Kingdoms rebellion, was shocked by the wine glass in his hand.
"how is this possible?"
Regardless of the existence of other people around, the King Rantoft of Newcastle exclaimed. He leaned forward on the armrest and asked urgently.
"The Duke of Buckingham is not dead?"
"died."
"Didn't the Gulundian heavy cavalry arrive?"
"They arrived"
"Who commanded the battle? Who defeated Will?" Rantoft asked anxiously, in disbelief.
"Yes... the king."
The messenger answered with a pale face.
"The army led by the king himself has recaptured the castle and is now advancing towards Bomari, and it is estimated that they will arrive in five days."
"king?"
Rantoft turned to look at his advisors, and saw the same look of surprise on their faces. There was silence in the hall, and all the rebellious nobles who had been waiting for the good news to come, looked panicked and had their own thoughts. After a moment of silence, several people in the hall suddenly stood up one after another to say goodbye.
They were messengers from the other four kingdoms in the North.
"These bastards who see the wind fall!"
Rantoft's reluctance to laugh was ineffective, and after the messengers left in a hurry, the smile on his face disappeared instantly, and he cursed in a low voice.
Rantoft, the king of Newcana, is a red-haired middle-aged man with a mustache. He has a bright forehead, and his cheeks are relatively rich and somewhat incompatible with the barrenness of the North. Smile very kindly. But anyone who knows him knows that Rantoft is ruthless and acts only on interests.
Also in the hall were his allies, the generals of Balbo and Chavos. Rantoft turned his head to look around at the people in the hall. The haze of anger disappeared from his face in an instant. He returned to his smiling and friendly face: "My friend, I always knew that Will was too arrogant and cowardly, and now he deserves to live up to our expectations - this is not the first time he has been defeated by the hairy boy. in hand!"
Saying that, Lantoft sighed bitterly: "Although he is my brother, but for the loss he has brought us this time, even if he comes back alive, I have to hang him on the flagpole to show the public. No!"
Everyone exchanged glances tacitly, and no one was the first to speak rashly.
The honey sword is almost synonymous with Lantoft. Whoever really believes what he says is the number one fool in the world.
"The order goes on—" Rantoft took everyone's expressions in his eyes, and he couldn't help but scolded in his heart, "Because Will's arrogance has brought great losses to the great Liberty Alliance, because of his unforgivable fault, I officially deprive him of his title and territory."
As soon as this order came out, many people in the hall felt a slight chill.
Lantoft's heart is cold and vicious, far beyond people's imagination. His brother had just died fighting for him, and his first reaction was how to minimize the impact of defeat on morale... There is no doubt that when his order was issued, people would naturally lose the battle Blame it on Prince Will's arrogance, and Rantoft, who stripped his dead brother of titles and territories himself, was able to gain a good reputation for being "just" at this juncture.
In this way, he can also stabilize the military heart that was shaken by the defeat to a certain extent.
Since Newcana State has made such an example, the alliance's Balbo and Chavos have no reason to retreat.
After giving the order, Lantoft looked at the nobles in the hall.
"Now, let's discuss how to send that esteemed His Majesty a ride?" He said briskly, in a friendly tone, "If he really leads troops to Bomari in person, we won't leave him forever , isn't it too much shame for this kindness?"
The nobles in the hall looked at each other for a moment and began to express their opinions one after another.
Some people advocated to attack in advance, before the king's reinforcements on both flanks had completed their attack on the rebel areas, and then defeated the king's central army first. Some people advocate sticking to Beaumari, and then mobilizing support troops... The hall became quarreling, and Prince Will's fiasco was temporarily suppressed.
The final decision was to stick to Beaumari Castle.
Legrand's conscription period was only forty days, and when the forty days passed, Legrand's knights would no longer be obliged to obey the king. It is not so easy to capture a strong castle, and it often takes several months or even a whole year.
Beaumarie Castle is definitely one of Legrand's very difficult castles to capture.
At the end of the meeting, Lantoft crossed his chest:
"In the name of the Lord, we are a battle of God's blessing."
After the rest of the others dispersed one after another, Lantoft hurried to a gorgeously furnished room in the castle. This room is even more decorated than Rantoft's room.
He took care of his clothes outside the room, and then knocked on the door respectfully.
With permission, Lantoft stepped in and humbly fell to his knees.
"The merciful Holy Lord blesses Newcana, who yearns for freedom. Your lord, Bomari is in danger. Can you make an exception and kill the monarch of Legrand?"
Lantoft kowtowed and pressed his forehead to the icy rocky ground.
His attitude was as humble as a wagging dog.
The fireplace in the room was burning brightly, but this room was as warm as summer when most of the people in the North were starving and cold. A figure sat silently by the fireplace.
A large part of Lantoft's confidence in daring to start this rebellion came from that figure.
…
January has passed, and the year wheel of February is slowly spinning.
The king checked the layout of Beaumari Castle in his tent.
In the era when the development of gunpowder has not yet reached the level of breaking through the thick city walls, siege warfare is a matter that will take a lot of energy and a long time. The Beaumari Castle, chosen by the rebels as the base camp, is definitely not a simple fortress - in fact, it originally belonged to the Rose family.
The construction time of Beaumari Castle can be pushed back to a thousand years ago.
That was the Rose family, the most powerful period of Legrand. The entire western continent was unified, and the royal family built strong fortresses and castles in various places to guard the Quartet to defend the people. Among them, the Rose Royal Family in the Northland also left behind such a great building.
That's Beaumari Castle.
After the "Battle of God's Punishment", Legrand was divided into hundreds of large and small countries. During that chaotic time, Beaumarie Castle has always been the place where all the states in the Northland are trying their best to win. Got the castle. Like a series of other Rose Royal castles of the time, it was the technical pinnacle of castle architecture at that time.
Over the long period of time, Beaumari Castle has successively changed many different owners.
Sadly, since the "Battle of God's Punishment", no second Qiangwei family's bloodline has ever set foot in Beaumari Castle again.
The original William III attacked all the way to a place less than twenty miles away from Beaumari Castle, but due to a domestic rebellion, after accepting the surrender letter from the King of Newcana, he had to immediately transfer his army to quell the civil strife.
Now, what the king will take back is such a castle that has been engraved with the shame of the Rose family for so many years.
It is a dusty pearl in the crown of the Rose family.
"It is difficult to attack the city directly."
General Sheehan was also looking at the map of Beaumari Castle, frowning.
The king also surveyed the castle.
As a jewel in the crown of roses, Beaumari Castle has an exquisite design and has been carefully maintained and repaired by later generations over the years.
There is a series of impregnable fortifications on the periphery of Beaumarie Castle - a black stone fortress stands on the wetland formed between the two tributaries of the Lacey River, and opposite the wetland fortress in the center of the river is another isolated in the main trunk of the Lacey River. isle. There is another fortress on that island, and the two fortresses are connected by a pontoon bridge.
Behind these outer barriers is the main city of Bomari Castle, which is divided into two parts under the circle of the huge outer moat ditch. One part is the outer base of the triangle, and the other part is composed of two parts, the inner defense and the middle defense. On the left and right sides of the castle are rolling hills. [1]
If the king wanted to take the castle, he first had to break through the series of defenses on the outside.
Siege battles are bound to take a lot of time.
It is not uncommon for a castle to be besieged for a year in a war. But the king could not afford this time.
The arrival of February not only means that this long winter is coming to an end, but also means another more serious matter - the forty days of compulsory military service have passed more than half.
Clearly, the king could not have spent his precious conscription duty time on lengthy sieges and blockades.
You must know that after the conscription is over, if you want the knights to continue to fight for themselves, the king will have to pay other prices at this time. It is definitely not what the king is willing to do to grant new privileges to the nobles.
He must take this fortified castle as quickly as possible.
Even, he had to ensure that the losses of the army were as small as possible.
This is a difficult problem.
"Waterways... castles, inner and outer cities..." the king sketched slowly on the map. He looked up at General Sheen, "Who is in charge of the military defense of Beaumari Castle?"
"There are three," replied General Sheehan. "In order to consolidate the rebel alliance, Rantoft gave a step back to the control of Beaumari Castle, which is now under the joint responsibility of the representative generals of the three states. External military The defense is controlled by the state of Balbo, the outer base is the state of Chavos, and the central and inner defenses are in charge of Rantoft's own cronies."
"Shared responsibility?"
The king was thoughtful, and suddenly he smiled.
"Lantoft has finally done a good thing."
The king has an idea.
"Go and contact General Edmund and let him march at full speed," the king ordered, and he picked up his pen and began to write.
From the beginning of the war to the present, there is an army that has never been used by the king - the army of Anger.
Once they left the state of Anger and lost the protection of the terrain, it was difficult for the Anger army, which only had simple leather armor, to gain much advantage in such a siege. Therefore, the king never put this important reinforcement into the battlefield, but let them follow the advancing Earl Henry, on the one hand to stabilize the victory for Henry Earl, and on the other hand to wait for the opportunity.
Now the time for which the king was waiting has come.
It's time for Angel's army to join the battle and become an important move for the king to attack Beaumari Castle.
While the king was writing a letter, a messenger hurried in.
He sent a letter from the Rose Palace, written by General John.
Hearing the letter from his cousin, the king's hand in writing the letter paused. He put down his pen and turned to look at General Sheehan.
General Sheehan understood and got up to leave.
Only the king was left in the tent.
The king looked at the letter on the table, and finally reached out to pick it up and unfold it.
The letter was long, but said nothing about the Duke of Buckingham's death. General John said only two things in the letter.
"I have prepared iron gloves, and when you triumph, please allow me to be your defender." When General John wrote this line, his handwriting was originally stable, but before the word "become", there was a Altered, he crossed out the word "succession".
Another thing was mentioned by General John, who received a letter from Ferry III.
The situation in Blasey was more complicated than they had predicted, and it was difficult for Legrand to explore with all his strength now. But there are some key messages in the letter from Ferry III.
However, Ferry III is not dead, which in itself is good news.
"Hopefully he lives longer."
Until seeing this, the king said lightly.
He wrote back.
"… You are already my defender."
…
The king's letter to Angel's army arrived quickly.
This time, Angel led the troops to Legrand's old acquaintance, General Edmund.
When he was leading the army along the way, he felt that he and his cousin were like gamblers, a big gamble on Angel's future - his cousin burned the secret letter from the Holy Court and chose Legrand. None of them knew what the outcome of this gamble was.
However, when he heard that the Duke of Buckingham was killed in battle and the king turned the tide and won the Battle of Banz City, General Edmund's uneasy heart suddenly calmed down.
A hunch:
They got it right again.
After reading the king's letter, General Edmund raised his head and ordered:
"Move forward at full speed and attack Balbo King City."
The author has something to say: [1] Beaumari Castle Structure Reference Section Gaillard Castle.