The battle that took place in the Northland on March 17, 1771 in the universal calendar is called "The Slaughter of the Angry Bear" in the history of Galintia's continental warfare. The king of the Kingdom of Iberia, Chrisson Iberia, led a coalition of 100,000 northern nobles to conquer the disobedient Norton family. The two sides had a short battle in front of the Rock Castle. Only a small half of the 100,000 nobles left the battlefield beforehand. In addition, the rest of the army was wiped out. King Krissen Iberia fled the Northland with only dozens of personal guards.
In this battle, more than 51,000 people from the First Army of the Kingdom of Iberia participated in the frontal field battle, and 45,000 people were armed against the Norton family. The armed forces of the Norton family took the lead in launching a long-range attack with their 2,000 to 3,000 crossbows. Six consecutive rounds of shooting directly defeated the resistance will of the Iberian Kingdom's First Army. After more than 10,000 casualties, the entire army collapsed. The Norton family launched an armed pursuit, and finally won a complete victory.
Regarding this battle, the military scientists and experts who edited the history of the continental war have only eight words in their comments: surprise and win first. The Norton family's armed forces only took advantage of long-range weapons and launched an attack when the enemy was unprepared. However, due to the defensive formation, the First Army of the Kingdom of Iberia was always beaten under the long-range attack of a large number of crossbows and could not fight back. until the whole army collapsed. Looking at the tactical layout of this battle, both sides are lackluster, and there is nothing dazzling.
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Earl Kenmes ran over with two entourages on horseback, and greeted Lorist from a long distance: "Brother, this battle was so good, I finally got a piece of my heart." Sulked. The second prince actually put me under house arrest for a month and used it to threaten my family, but I was so depressed to death."
Since the more than 20,000 people armed by the Kenmes family did not evacuate the battlefield, but only set up camp on the edge of the battlefield with a neutral attitude, the cautious Malek ordered two chariot battalions to monitor and guard them, and the remaining three chariot battalions Only then did he devote himself to the action of chasing down the remnant enemy.
Lorist also laughed and went forward, and hugged Earl Kenmes who had jumped off the horse: "It's fine, I'm relieved to see you alive and kicking. Now I understand why I always reject the second prince." Invite, I can feel his ill intentions. If I go, I might not be able to return to the family territory like you."
The Earl of Kenmes gave a "bah" and said angrily: "Who would have thought that a majestic king would use such a rogue method. He is just like a local hooligan. It's really embarrassing to the nobles. I will never trust him again. gone."
Lorist smiled and said, "Don't worry, you won't be able to see him in the Northland in the future. Tomorrow, you will take a team and follow me to Gildusk City to do something."
"Uh..." Earl Kenmax was stunned, and after a long while, he waited and said: "Lock, Locke, you, you want to kill them all? Anyway, he is also me, our king, killing, killing the king is not a good crime ah… "
Lorist shook his head: "I'm not that unwise, I just want to drive him out of the Northland, catch him and send him off. If he died on the battlefield, it would save us trouble. Go to Gildusk The city is to witness the signing of an agreement between Baron Shaheen and Baron Felim, so as to save the two of them from having disputes in the future."
Earl Kenmes wondered, "What will happen to the two of them?"
"I divided the Grand Duchy into two halves, each of them got half. That's why the two of them ran so fast just now, I'm afraid that they will suffer if they arrive late." Lorist said lightly.
Hearing this, the habit of taking advantage of the small businessmen in Earl Kenmes broke out on the spot, and protested: "The two of them took too much this time. As your friend, I demand that they be treated equally. You also have to take care of our family... "
Lorist had a half-smile: "My friend, your Kenmes family has already monopolized the eastern part of the Northland, where do you want to extend your hand? Tell me yourself..."
"This..." Earl Kenmes was speechless. Now his family has occupied the entire eastern part of the Northland. Thinking about it, there is indeed no room for further expansion. At most, it will occupy two more territories to the west, and then fight with Fei The territories of Baron Lim are connected together. However, those two territories are very barren, and it would take a lot of money to invest in development if they occupy them, so it would be better to leave them as a buffer zone between the two.
"If not, divide up the dozen or so lords raised by you in the eastern part of the Northland. The old Northland lords will be sent to me, and I will be responsible for replacing their territories. The new lords will all be sent out of the country. In the future, the entire eastern part of the Northland will be owned by your Kenmes family, isn't that good?" Lorist made a suggestion.
"I want to go back and discuss with my father. If your suggestion is feasible, then I will deal with them as you said." Earl Kenmes replied after thinking for a while.
Four galloping horses came galloping in the distance.
It was Al who came back with two guards.
"Lock, oh no, my lord, look at the results of our two super steel crossbows..." With outsiders present, El still consciously addressed Lorist as an adult.
El and others came to the front, stretched out their hands and lifted a corpse on the fourth steed to the ground. There was a big hole in the chest and abdomen of this corpse, which was obviously injured by the iron crossbow bolt of the super steel crossbow.
Who is this old man? But it must not be the second prince. The second prince does not have this chubby appearance, and he is at least ten years younger than the corpse. This old man looks like he is over sixty years old.
Before the triumphant El could show off, Earl Kenmes turned pale with shock: "Here, this is the great swordsman Ruins, you guys, how could you kill him?"
"Why not?" El was displeased: "This old man is as stupid as a pig, and he tried to intercept the super steel crossbow bolts we fired with his sword alone. Although the first arrow was broken by him, he immediately vomited blood , and then the second arrow arrived, the old man was penetrated, knocking down the banner of the second prince, so the second prince was stupid, those guards were afraid that we would launch this kind of crossbow arrow again, dragged the second prince and ran away, the result The whole legion collapsed..."
"Look, my lord, I worked hard to get these two super steel crossbows to be useful, but this guy said that this old man is a great swordsman, a great swordsman! Haha, one blow from my super steel crossbow, two The prince lost a great swordsman. Haha, it’s so exciting. You know, when I was looking for the two crossbows, the prisoner next to me told me that the old man was a great swordsman. I didn’t quite believe it. Haha, our Super steel crossbow, invincible in the world... "
"Shit*shit*luck..." Lorist cursed bitterly looking at El's smiling face like a chrysanthemum. If it was said before the battle that these two super steel crossbows would kill a great swordsman, Lorist would not believe it even if he killed Lorist, but now the facts are in front of him. The old man's body was thrown on the ground, no wonder El was as happy as a puppy, with an arrogant and complacent expression on his face.
In fact, no one expected that this Lu Yinsi great swordsman was really unlucky and wanted to die. The arrows fired by the first super steel crossbow shot at the side where the second prince was standing at the wrong angle, and should have passed over their heads without causing any harm. But this great swordsman Lu Yinsi didn't know what was going on in his head, maybe he thought it would be embarrassing for him to let a crossbow arrow pass over his head as a great swordsman, so he jumped up and drew his sword to block the crossbow arrow.
It's just that the great swordsman didn't expect the strength of the crossbow to be so strong. Although he burst open the crossbow, he had nowhere to rely on it in the air. With a mouthful of blood, the sword in his hand was blown away. The bad luck is here, the figure of the great swordsman was also flying obliquely to the side, just blocking the line of the second crossbow arrow, and the tragedy happened like this...
If the old great swordsman stood still, the arrows fired by these two super steel crossbows would not hurt anyone, but would only cause some scares. But luck is the most difficult thing to figure out, maybe it is destined that the old man will die today, so he moved and sent himself to a dead end. All the people present were terrified, this is a great swordsman, he died so easily, if there are two more, who can stop it? Not caring about anything anymore, a few guards took the second prince and ran away, and then the whole army collapsed...
"Hey, what are you doing! You are not allowed to climb up, come down for me!"
Lorist turned his head and saw that Earl Kenmes had already climbed onto the flatbed chariot at some point, fondling the super steel crossbow fondly. Obsessed with: "Sacred Artifact..."
Al below was pointing at him to get him down.
"Catch him for me!" El was angry.
Earl Kenmes was taken down by two guards.
"What are you doing?" Lorist said sullenly.
"Brother, my brother Locke, you have to sell me one of these two artifacts no matter what you say..." Earl Kenmes held Lorist's hand tightly.
"No talking." Lorist shook his head.
"Really?" Earl Kenmes pleaded.
"No, really." Lorist replied seriously.
"Alas..." Earl Kenmes also knew that Lorist, such a big killer, would not let go, so he had no choice but to give up resentfully.
"Why do I say you are sighing? I use these two things to deal with large monsters, and your family's territory has nothing to do with the barbaric plains. Why do you want these things?" Lorist became a little curious.
"Deal with the great swordsman!" Earl Kenmes gave an answer beyond Lorist's surprise.
"Do you know how many great sword masters there are in the Kingdom of Iberia?" Earl Kenmes asked.
"I don't know..." Lorist thought about it, "I know that there are two kingdoms in Antinac, both of whom are beside the third prince. The other Grand Duke Meilein is also said to be a great swordsman. As for the kingdom of Iberia, I only know I heard that the second prince has two beside him, but I don't know anything else."
Earl Kenmes stretched out a slap: "There are actually five great sword masters in the Kingdom of Iberia."
After finishing speaking, he kicked the old man's body on the ground: "But now there are only four. There are two great sword masters beside the second prince. One is his teacher when he was young, named Jialinan, but this old man wants to become a sword master. Holy, I don’t study the way of swords. I came to the Northland before the Chinese New Year, and I met him once. At the end of March, I escorted the Queen back to Windbury, the capital of the king. There is also this old man on the ground, his name is Lu Insi, it can be said that he is the younger brother of Jialinan, because Jialinan wanted to study the way of swordsmanship, so he entrusted him to personally guard the second prince."
The Earl of Kenmes said and kicked the old man's body again: "This old man is the most hateful. The second prince relied on his support to repeatedly tease the knights of the golden family under the nobles of the territory. He would not stop until he made others look ashamed. Greedy and lustful, the poor Viscountess Justin was forcibly taken away from me last time, and even forced me to give him a 10,000 gold dollar coupon. By the way, I have to check if the gold coupon is still on him... "
Earl Kenmes touched blood on both hands, but unfortunately found nothing.
Lorist turned his head to look at El, but seeing him smiling, he understood in his heart that the old man had already been touched by El.
After wiping the blood on his hands with the towel handed by his entourage, Earl Kenmes continued: "Except for the two next to the second prince, the remaining three are with his father-in-law, the Grand Duke Fessabrun. This is also the main reason why the second prince is afraid of the Grand Duke Fesabrun, because the Grand Duke himself is a great swordsman. There is also an important general under him, the family knight Viscount Christopher, who is also a great swordsman. The last one is a woman, It's called Sandy, I don't know what her first name is, she is Princess Sylvia's wet nurse, she seems to be the Grand Duke's lover, she had a miscarriage for some reason after she became pregnant, and it happened that Princess Sylvia's parents died young at that time , I hugged her to raise her, it is said that she loves Princess Sylvia as much as she has..."
"Now the eastern cable bridge built by our family leads to Makinohara Province under the control of the Grand Duke Feisabrun. Think about the border guards under the Grand Duke, and think about the three great sword masters. I have to sleep with one eye open." Eyes. If I have this big killer behind you, I will feel more at ease..." Earl Kenmes pleaded.
Lorist smiled and shook his head: "No, this thing really can't be left outside. But don't worry, after the second prince is driven out of the Northland, the Northland will have the final say on the four of us, as long as the four of us form an alliance No one can bully us. If one family is in trouble, the other three families will definitely send troops to help. Even if the Grand Duke Fesabrunn wants to deal with you, he has to consider whether the three of us agree or not. If you are not at ease, break the chain bridge, I will I don't believe that the Great Sword Master will fly over the sky to trouble your family."
"Uh, let's talk about that." Earl Kenmes also knew that Lorist was joking. Can the chain bridge that the family spent so much money to build be broken at will? Not a small source of wealth.
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Lorist stayed for another day, and ordered Bodfinger to lead three heavy armored battalions to set up a prisoner camp in the open space in front of Rock Castle, gather the prisoners, and send them to the Black Mire Swamp for development and labor after the battle was over. And forced El to drag the two super steel crossbows back to Rock Castle. After Earl Kenmes sent his 20,000 family armed forces back to the territory, he took the guard battalion and Earl Kenmes to Gildusk City.
After walking on the road for three days, the news came that the second prince hadn't been caught yet, and he didn't know where he fled. However, Baron Felim has raided and seized the Hendryford Cable Bridge checkpoint and Fort Fortress Castle in accordance with the agreement, and is now attacking the two towns and three manor castles that belonged to him. can win.
The former Grand Duke of the North had a capital, Gildusk City, a Hendry River Bridge checkpoint, and a Fortress Fortress Castle, in addition to three manor castles and seven towns. The Knights of Henned occupied Cherry Ridge Manor Castle and the town of Evanson, leaving two Manor Castles and six towns.
Except for one of the three manor castles that Baron Felim attacked belonged to the Grand Duke, the other two manor castles belonged to nobles in neighboring territories. Because the three manor castles were similar, Lorist was allotted to Baron Felim. Anyway, these territorial nobles all joined the second prince's coalition of northern nobles, and Lorist didn't mind having a bunch of them.
The Knights of Henned are going to occupy another manor castle and four towns in the Grand Duchy, as well as the city of Gildusk, the capital of the Grand Duchy. The messenger who came this morning reported that Baron Shaheen Henned is making more progress than Philly. Lord Baron Mu is much faster, and he has already controlled the city of Gildusk, and the other four towns and the manor castle are also under his control.
From time to time along the way, I saw the Norton family armed with groups of prisoners of war leading towards the Rock Castle. This made Lorist have to sigh that people's potential is really limitless. In just a few days, the soldiers who participated in the Northern Noble Alliance Army have all escaped to this place. Far away is coming.
In the evening, I just drank a few glasses of wine with Earl Kenmes in the camp, chatted for a while, and was about to rest, so I came here on a fast horse.
The messenger knelt down as soon as he entered the account: "Master Norton, please save our two adults!"
what happened
Lorist was shocked when the messenger said, "What? You said that the Tabek Golden Knight was captured by Princess Sylvia and taken into the Grand Duke's mansion? Henned was also arrested when he went to rescue him?"
"Yes, Baron Felim has surrounded the Grand Duke's Mansion with his troops and demanded that Princess Sylvia hand over the two adults. The princess refused, threatening to kill the two adults first if she launched an attack on the Grand Duke's Mansion. Now there is a stalemate Stop it. Baron Felim wants you to rush to Gildusk City to preside over the overall situation and rescue the two adults." The messenger replied weeping.
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