Inside the Big Tent, Josk, Vasimma, Ovekis, Pachko, Pat, Jim, Paul Binns, Reddy, Steward Hanske, Steward Kodan, Steward Speer, Steward Boris, Thed Kemp was lined up in two rows, sitting upright and listening to Lorist's speech. Except for Berunek, who is about to be promoted to the Golden Rank, Papa Barek, who accompanied Master Sid to explore the iron mines, and Miss Baisha, who is not favored by Lorist, the current knights of the Norton family , leading generals and civilian management officials are already present.
"Yesterday, Sedkamp has handed over the body of Chevany Knight to Viscount Kenmes, as well as the list of more than a dozen surrendered Silver Knights and the more than 1,000 captive soldiers. Duke Lukins to discuss. I estimate that we may have two or three months of rest time this time. It will take some time for the Duke to react after receiving the news that his army is completely wiped out. He cannot immediately send troops to retaliate. How many soldiers are sent here? If there are too many soldiers, we may wipe them out. If there are too many soldiers, I doubt that he will be willing to spend such a large amount of military expenses." Lorist said.
Everyone present laughed.
"The Kenmes family and the Duke of Lukins are not of one mind. The Kenmes family is now turning their attention to the eastern part of the Northland. They also need us to fight the Duke to the death. Of course, both sides are their most hopeful outcome. So this time we If you hand over the list of captives to them, they will definitely cause trouble in the Northland Legion. Even if the Duke is willing to pay a ransom for a dozen Silver Knights, the Duke of the more than 1,000 captured Northland Legion soldiers is definitely not willing to pay the ransom. I believe that the Kenmes family will not let go of this opportunity, to shake the morale of the Northland Legion and lower their loyalty to the Duke is a fact that every Northland lord is happy to see."
"If the Duke wants to send troops to retaliate against us, we must first settle the matter of the captives. We can even artificially delay the negotiation. But we are not afraid of Duke Lukins' revenge. Anyway, we will destroy his army every time he comes. I want to see how many times the Lord Duke can bear the blow of spending a lot of military expenses and getting nothing. If the Northland Army shrinks by more than half, how can he still boss him around in the Northland? I believe he will not be able to suppress it by then. Those territorial nobles are too busy to protect themselves." Lorist said with a sneer.
"Next, we will use this rest period to integrate our family's armed forces, improve the training of soldiers and increase combat power, so as to prepare for the upcoming battle. Sidkamp, you have prepared the family's armed reorganization plan Read it to everyone." Lorist nodded at Seide Kemp.
Sedkamp stood up, took out a piece of animal skin paper and began to read: "The reorganization of the guard team, with a number of 120 people, requires the strength of the fighting spirit, black iron steps, equipment, riding shields, spears, mail armor and iron chain armor. , short soldier of your choice, throwing a barrel, and two mounts. Captain, Pat, deputy captain, Paul Binns."
"Form a cavalry archer squad, captain and instructor, Josk, among the 29 wandering knights recruited in this knight tournament, 22 archery masters will join the cavalry archer squad, with a total of 120 people, request, black Strength above iron, good at archery, good at riding horses. Equipment, mail armor, leather armor, longbow, three pots of arrows, long sword, arm shield, two mounts."
Lorist said to Josk: "Joe, I will leave the cavalry squad to you. This is the main force of our family's armed attack. It must be well trained..."
Josk struck the left breastplate with his fist: "My lord, I guarantee that the cavalry squad will be the sharpest blade of our family..."
Sedkamp continued to read: "Form a cavalry squadron, organize four squadrons of soldiers and a small squadron of supplies, with 600 people. Squadron leader Vasinma. Requirements: Bronze strength or above. Equipment, mail armor and iron chain armor, Shield riding, spear riding, optional short soldiers, double mounts.
Form two squadrons to guard. The first squadron leader Pachko, the second squadron leader Ovekis. Formation: Four squads of warriors and one backup squad, with a full staff of 600 people. The formation of the squad is as follows, one squad of sword and shield soldiers, one squad of longbow soldiers, two squads of spearmen, and a mixed squad of reserve squads. Equipment: iron chain armor, square shield, round shield, spear, longbow, long sword, throwing axe, throwing spear, etc...
In addition, two family garrison teams will be formed, composed of the unselected personnel of the above-mentioned troops, with an establishment of 100 to 120 people. Equipment: gray leather armor, spears, long swords, longbows, and various shields. "
Sodkamp put down the animal skin paper, saluted Lorist and sat down.
Lorist looked at his subordinates present: "Is everything clear? I hope everyone will work out a training plan and plan as soon as possible, and report to me for approval. For the other two family defense teams, I am going to arrange for the first team of Fenglin Villa. First, Pachiko will serve as the captain, and this garrison team is responsible for guarding Fenglin Villa. As for the garrison team of Rock Castle, the main tasks are to be responsible for public security, patrol, security and warehouse defense. Captain. At present, the number of armed soldiers in our family is not enough, even if the number is not full, we must start training first."
"I will set up a recruit camp in the Rock Castle, led by Sodkamp, Pat, and Paul Binns. I will serve as the head instructor and continue to recruit new recruits into the camp. All recruits must awaken their grudges and familiarize themselves with the regulations in the recruit camp. After receiving the most basic military training, they will be assigned to various units according to their specialties until they are fully staffed."
"In addition, Steward Hanske will be our family's financial accountant, responsible for the statistics and distribution of finance and materials. Steward Boris is responsible for civil and business management. Steward Sedkamp is responsible for the family's armed forces management. Steward Kedan is responsible for personnel and The management of the prisoner camp. When Papa Barek returns, he will be responsible for the production and manufacture of equipment. Steward Speer is in charge of agriculture, and the planting and storage of the family’s food will be handed over to you.”
"Once we defeat the Duke of Lukins again, the troubled times in the Northland will come. Without the suppression of the Northland Legion, those ambitious lords will emerge. We can only be neutral in the troubled times if we are prepared first." In an invincible position, lay the foundation for the family to expand the territory. Please everyone." Lorist stood up and bowed deeply to everyone.
Everyone stood up one after another and saluted Lorist: "My lord, we will serve you faithfully."
Lorist clapped his hands: "Okay, let's get to work. Jim and Reddy stay here."
Everyone withdrew from the tent. Jim was aggrieved and said, "My lord, why didn't you arrange an errand for me?"
Lorist smiled: "Have you endured it for a long time? I didn't arrange things for you because I have a task for you and Reddy to complete. Reddy, it was February when we left the northbound convoy, and now it's almost It's September and the convoy hasn't arrived yet. I'm worried. So I'll ask you and Jim to go find the convoy's whereabouts and find out what's keeping the convoy so long. Jim, you bring along some mercenaries who joined our family Go, just treat it as a team of mercenaries on a mission, pay attention to safety on the road, and get anything you need from Sedkamp. I wrote a few letters and you bring them to Schrader, Bodfinger, El and Terman, Yu Tell them, I miss them very much, and by the way, there is another letter for Schward and Alisa."
"Yes, my lord, we promise to complete the task." Jim and Reddy stood at attention and saluted.
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"The city is broken, we're going in!"
"Victorious!"
"we won!"
"..."
The cheers were deafening, and the guards beside them threw their sunshade hats into the sky excitedly.
The square formations below the hillside raised their flags and waved desperately, celebrating another victory. Shredder, who was riding a horse on the hillside, watched the flag of the original lord fall on the castle in the distance, and the Angry Bear flag representing the Norton family was planted on it and fluttered high. However, Shredder's expression was not good, and he was silent for a while and said to the guards beside him, "Go, go back to the big tent."
In the big tent, El was lying on a soft couch reading a knight novel. There was a thick bandage on his left thigh. It was a wound two months ago when he was shot by a silver knight with a lance during the battle. It won't heal within half a year.
Shredder came in with a dark face, and El asked curiously: "What's the matter, didn't you capture the city? Why are you so unhappy?"
"Ah..." Shredder sighed a long time: "I'm not happy at all, we still have to jump even though we know it's a trap, it's really annoying to be taken advantage of like this."
El was also silent. No one expected that the Antinac Kingdom, which was thought to be a smooth road, turned out to be full of thorns and thorns. The northbound convoy had to fight a bloody road.
Three months ago, the northbound convoy arrived at Benzburg, the border fortress of the Kingdom of Ridleys and the Kingdom of Antinak, which had already been occupied by the armored cavalry led by Bodfinger, when they heard bad news.
Shredder's original plan was to surrender Benzburg to the army of the Antinac Kingdom for defense, so that the northbound convoy could quickly pass through the Antinac Kingdom without any worries. But Bodfinger, who arrived at the former capital of the Krissen Empire and now the King City of Antinak, did not see Antinak I, the third prince. After some inquiring, it was discovered that the third prince was seriously ill in bed, and His Royal Highness was handling the current state affairs.
So Bodfinger went to meet His Royal Highness Derwick again, but His Highness refused to send troops to garrison Benzburg, and told Bodfinger that now the king ordered not to leave the royal city, and the various lords of the kingdom formed a territorial alliance to fight against the royal family, so There was nothing he could do to help the Norton family's northbound convoy.
Bodfinger went to contact his former acquaintances in the White Lions, and the news he received surprised him. The current Antinac Kingdom is simply sitting on the crater. The third prince has been bedridden for about a year, and His Royal Highness, who relies on the kingdom's major lords, has become a toy in the hands of those territorial nobles. In the past, the three famous legions of the empire, the White Lion Legion, were disbanded. The Storm Legion took refuge in the Principality of Melain, and the Royal Guard Legion was reduced to only one brigade, barely guarding the royal family with the meager tax revenue from the imperial capital.
The imperial capital, which had a population of more than 500,000 people back then, now has a population of less than 50,000, and the bustling commercial streets are in ruins and deserted. In the kingdoms and duchies that were split from the empire, because the three princes represent the inheritance of the former imperial family, they have been suppressed and restricted by the Ford Business Alliance. The Kingdom of Antinac was established on the territory of the three most commercially prosperous provinces of the former empire, but without commerce, the output of agricultural food was not enough to feed a large population, and riots occurred frequently. The territorial nobles intensified the squeeze and exploitation of the people in the territory, and often fought for the territory.
The third prince's Antinac royal family has become a decoration, and what His Royal Highness said about the king's order not to leave the royal city is actually true. After receiving the news, Bodfinger went back to Benzburg to discuss countermeasures with Schrader. At this moment, they didn't expect that the news that the northbound convoy was carrying a large amount of supplies and wealth was notified to the Lords Alliance by His Royal Highness, and the proportion of spoils was set.
Shredder made up his mind to abandon Benzburg and lead the team on the road. Unexpectedly, after walking for five days, in a place called Qingyeyuan, they encountered the oncoming noble coalition forces.
This is a coalition of nobles with a strength of up to 30,000, composed of 37 territorial nobles in the Lord's Alliance. Their purpose is to come to rob. But after suffering a few small losses in the contact war, they changed their minds and required the northbound convoy to hand over two-thirds of its supplies and belongings before the convoy could go north.
Shredder immediately rejected the request of these lords and robbers, and the two sides began to confront each other in Qingyeyuan. At that time, the noble coalition army was 30,000, and although there were more than 50,000 troops in the northbound convoy, the family's armed forces were less than 15,000, which was almost double the number of troops.
After more than 20 days of confrontation in Qingyeyuan, the battle finally started. First, the coalition of nobles failed to attack, and then Shredder and Bodfinger launched a counterattack. What I didn't expect was that the 30,000 noble coalition forces collapsed as soon as they charged, typical silver guns with waxed gun shafts. As a result, the northbound convoy won the Battle of Qingyeyuan, and 17,000 prisoners were captured, with minor casualties.
Schreider and Bodfinger were delighted to find out that the protection family of their northbound convoy was so powerful. Shredder issued a ruthless order to retaliate against the thirty-seven territorial nobles. As long as they passed through the territories of these thirty-seven territorial nobles along the way, they all captured the castle, hanged the territorial nobles on the list by the side of the road, and killed all of them. Materials, personnel, food, etc. were brought back to supplement the consumption of the convoy.
Attacking the manors and castles of the nobles in these territories will not damage the strength of the armed force of the northbound convoy. Shredder first selects more than 3,000 people with skills from the 17,000 captives, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, and educated Then they divided the remaining 14,000 people into four death-defying battalions, and gave them simple weapons to drive them to attack the castles of the nobles in the territories, and promised to restore their lives after making military exploits. Freedom, you can also choose whether to join the convoy and bring their families north to live in the Northland.
With the assistance of the convoy's armed force, they successfully captured the manor castles of the first two lords who passed by, but an unexpected situation happened. Nearly 10,000 refugees gathered behind the northbound convoy. They hoped to get Asylum of the convoy, follow the convoy northward to the happy and peaceful life in the north that Shredder preaches.
When Shredder was dealing with the incident of the refugees following him, a group of people came to the camp of the northbound convoy. The leader was the second son of the third prince, His Royal Highness Ogesello, and he was accompanied by a black-haired female gold medalist. Knight, her name is Norton Chrisia.
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