On May 4th, 1772 in the Gallinte Aeon calendar, the Norton family of the Northland dispatched 24,000 elite family armed forces, and suddenly appeared under the capital of Windbury, the capital of the Kingdom of Iberia, and besieged the whole city. They declared that the purpose of their visit to the capital this time was to capture the king of the Iberian Kingdom, the former second prince of the Krissen Empire, Iberia, because he despicably sent a great swordsman to assassinate the head of the Norton family, and accepted Earl of Norton by the Antinac royal family.
A brigade of guards defending the royal capital put down their weapons and surrendered in a very sensible manner. First, the difference in strength was too great. The ratio of offensive and defensive forces was almost ten to one. Everyone knew that resistance had no chance of winning. The second is that the equipment of the garrison is inferior to that of the Norton family, especially the steel crossbows on the thousand chariots. At the last moment, all the guards lost the confidence to resist.
In the end, the ultimatum given by the Golden Knight who claimed to be Tiger Ross made the garrison finally decide to surrender, because the Golden Knight said that if the garrison did not surrender, even if they died in battle, the Norton family would not let go Their families live in the city, so if these guards want to resist, please think of their families first...
When entering the royal capital to take over the city defense and strictly prohibiting entry and exit, the second prince who was hiding in the Rose Palace had already learned the news that the Norton family had entered the city. This was like a bolt from the blue to the second prince. The absence of the great sword master of Calinan has already made the second prince restless, feeling faintly ominous in his heart, but the second prince still believes that his teacher will not miss. When I was injured, I found a place to recuperate.
As a result, the second prince did not expect that he would not wait for the return of the Great Swordsman of Calinan, or wait for the news of the Norton Patriarch's accident. Instead, he would wait for the news that the Norton Family sent troops to retaliate against him for capturing the capital. The frightened second prince killed the servant who came to report the news with a sword, stripped off her clothes and covered himself, disguised as a woman and left the Rose Palace in hiding, heading for the slums.
It's a good idea to hide in the slums. The second prince knows that ordinary nobles are not interested in looting these smelly, penniless paupers. They should be more interested in looting those commercial areas, civilian areas and nobles. wealthy suburb. But the second prince underestimated the moral lower limit of the Norton family's armed forces. Money also needs people. Poor people like slums are the best human resources for the Norton family to develop the Northland. As long as these poor people obtain a stable life as a propertied class in the Northland, they will turn into the most loyal supporters of the Norton family.
So the second prince, who was dressed as a servant girl but had a mustache, was as eye-catching as standing out from the crowd. It's a pity that the family soldiers sent by the Norton family to the slums to relocate these poor people didn't know the famous Iberian king. They surrounded this man dressed as women very curiously. Some of them guessed whether this man was a pervert, while others Then guess whether this person is the victim of those same-sex lovers...
At this time, several Norton family soldiers with the spirit of exploration were going to touch the two eggs under the guy to see if they were still there, and the other soldiers who were also homosexual tended to be very excited and eager to try, and were going to pull this fellow into the Have an in-depth exchange in the next room. Facing the critical moment when Chrysanthemum could not be protected, the second prince finally succumbed. He loudly declared that he was the king of the Kingdom of Iberia and demanded the same treatment...
No one listened to him. As the king and the second prince of the former empire, his body was well maintained, with fine skin and tender flesh, white and smooth. Their stunner! The eyes of these guys full of bestial desires were red at the moment, and they didn't care about what he shouted at all. It wasn't until I vented my desire* and regained my sobriety that I remembered that the dying guy on the ground seemed to say something that he was the king...
The second prince was presented in front of Tiger Rose and Malek in this way, and when they found a few nobles to confirm that the guy in front of him with his bare ass still bleeding was the second prince, even Tiger Ross, who was always carefree, was speechless, so he had to look for him first. Several pharmacists poured healing potions into the second prince to save his life.
After receiving the news that the Norton family soldiers had gone north to capture Windbury City, the capital of the king, the two border ranger regiments stationed in Pedro City were quickly dispatched under the leadership of the great swordsman Viscount Christopher. It took only three days. They rushed to the capital in two days and nights, and blocked the Norton family's armed forces in Windbury City.
Viscount Christopher was very sober. He did not launch an attack on the capital, but relied on the mobility of the rangers to trap the Norton family in the city. Perhaps his 20,000 rangers could not confront the Norton family armed forces with comparable strength. But Viscount Christopher believed that even if the Norton family armed forces wanted to retreat, he would not let the Norton family armed forces take away the wealth and supplies of the capital.
Five days have passed, and the two sides are still confronting each other. Viscount Christopher is not in a hurry. For him, the longer the delay, the better. One is that he knows that the grain reserves in Windbury, the capital of the kingdom, are limited, and most of the grain in Winston Province is in the hands of the lord. When the Norton family in the city has no food, they will collapse without a fight. Can easily reap the victory. The second is that he has sent a messenger to inform the Grand Duke Fesabrun, and in five or six days the Grand Duke will personally lead two border ranger regiments to support them. By then, the Norton family will be like a turtle in a urn, and they will no longer be able to escape.
But Viscount Christopher didn't expect that the Norton family's armed forces in Windbury City would suddenly mobilize the whole army the next day, posing as if the whole army broke through the siege and sought a field battle. Viscount Christopher placed a frontier ranger regiment on the front and another on the flanks, ready to turn to the two wings after a little resistance, insisting on the tactical means mainly aimed at harassing and delaying the enemy's journey.
However, it was only after the horns sounded from all around that Viscount Christopher realized that it was his two frontier ranger regiments who became the shackles. With the compression of the battlefield space, these two frontier ranger regiments were finally besieged by nearly 50,000 elite troops of the Norton family, the Shaheen family and the Philim family in a narrow space under the capital of Windbury. .
Seeing that the armed forces of the three major families in the Northland were not in a hurry to attack after surrounding the two border ranger regiments, but instead kept digging trenches to connect them, Viscount Christopher knew that this time there might be a bad luck. Without the battlefield space for maneuvering and turning, it is impossible for the Rangers to exert their maximum combat effectiveness. In order to survive, Viscount Christopher personally led the troops to launch a desperate charge, trying to open a passage to survive, but the three breakouts suffered heavy casualties under the long-range shooting of the steel crossbow and longbowmen of the chariot, and they were defeated. .
Looking at the rangers whose morale was extremely low, Viscount Christopher finally made a decision. He came to the armed battle formation of the three northern families alone and asked for a duel. If he won, he hoped that the three northern families could fight. Let the remaining more than 14,000 rangers survive, and he is at his disposal. If he was defeated, he dismounted the rangers and surrendered.
Although both Henned and Baron Felim expressed firm opposition, Lorist still insisted on agreeing to Viscount Christopher's request, and personally stepped forward to have a duel with him.
Viscount Christopher and Lorist, who are first-class great sword masters, found desperately that they might not be a match for the young earl who is the head of the Norton family. , the light of the sword is like dancing snowflakes that permeate every hole, seemingly light, but when the two swords intersect, they are as thick as the earth. This reminds him involuntarily of how he felt when he practiced swords with his adoptive father, Grand Duke Feisabrun. Now he finally believes that the two swords The rumors that the prince sent the Great Swordsman of Calinan to assassinate the Earl of Norton did not succeed but was killed.
Viscount Christopher, who had resisted more than 200 moves, was finally thrown away by Lorist, and in frustration he ordered the rangers onlookers to dismount and surrender. The remaining 14,000 rangers silently Obeyed Viscount Christopher's order and became a prisoner of the Norton family.
After annihilating the two Ranger regiments that Lorist regarded as a confidant, Lorist kept his promise and ordered his two Chariot Steel Crossbow Battalions to assist the Shaheen Family and the Felim Family respectively to mop up the The castles and estates of those lords. Lorist emphasized that the most important thing is grain and grass. Only with food can the territory be stable. The Norton family is willing to buy the grain that the two of them robbed at the market price.
After entering the capital, Lorist immediately went to see the second prince who was still walking with his butt up. This was the first time the two met. After hearing what happened to the second prince, Lorist couldn't help but laugh. He knew why he had to do what he did today. The current fate was all his own fault, and he couldn't blame others. Lorist ignored the second prince's cold, serpent-like gaze, spat in disdain, didn't even bother to say a word, and walked away.
This time to occupy the capital of Windbury, Lorist issued a few orders that seemed strange to the world. First, he was very respectful to the queen who still lived in the Rose Palace, and specially arranged family soldiers to guard it. Second, apart from evacuating several material warehouses belonging to the royal family in Windbury City, no crime was committed against the nobles and rich people in the capital, neither robbery nor extortion.
Third, this time the Norton family did not relocate all the commoners in the capital as before, but forcibly relocated tens of thousands of poor people and some commoner craftsmen in the slums, and even some nobles lamented that the air in the capital was a little fresher. The Norton family's forcible relocation of those lowly poor people is really a good deed. It has done a great deed for the king and deserves to be commended.
The only thing that embarrasses these nobles is that the young Earl Norton has a small mind and a strong desire for revenge. He erected a pillar in the central square of the king's capital, and then hung the cross on which the body of the Great Swordsman of Calinan was nailed. Go up, just hang it on the top to let the sun and rain drench, and hang a wooden sign underneath, saying that it is despicable and shameless for Galinan, a third-level swordsman, to obey the second prince's order to assassinate the lord etc. This made those nobles and wealthy people who were once proud of having a third-level great swordsman in charge of the capital feel as if they had been slapped in the face, and felt a burning pain.
On May 19th, the Archduke Fiesabrun, who led two border ranger regiments to support him, received the news that Viscount Christopher was defeated and captured, and the two border ranger regiments under his command were completely annihilated. Staying at Xihu Town, which is a hundred miles away from the capital of Windbury, stopped moving forward, and instead arranged a defensive front. At the same time, Grand Duke Feisabrun also sent a messenger to the capital to ask for Lorist.
Lorist met with the messenger, and first explained that this dispatch of troops was only aimed at the personal grievances between the second prince and the Norton family. No offense at all. Then he personally took the messenger to meet Her Majesty the Queen of the Rose Palace, and confirmed that the daughter of the Grand Duke of Fesabrun, Her Majesty the Queen of the Kingdom of Iberia lived at ease, and was even in the mood to hold a grand meeting with the nobles of the capital. dance party.
But Lorist also rejected the messenger's two requests. One was about the ransom of Viscount Christopher and the captured rangers. Lorist believed that only after they withdrew their troops and returned to the Norton family's territory, could Grand Duke Feisabrun send someone to discuss the ransom. Now that the family's armed operation has not yet ended, it is not suitable to discuss this issue.
The second request is about the life and death of the second prince. Lorist firmly disagrees with handing over the second prince, but he can guarantee that the Norton family will only imprison the second prince and not kill him, because the Norton family does not want to bear the reputation of killing the king. As for the issue of the Iberian Kingdom having no king, Lorist stated that it was not his responsibility. He is just an earl of the Kingdom of Antinac, and he has a personal grudge against the second prince. He will not interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Iberia...
The messenger had never heard of such a brazen statement, and was immediately stunned by Lorist's cheekiness. The messenger who recovered from God angrily reprimanded Lorist, all the misfortunes in the Kingdom of Iberia are related to the Norton family, Duke Lukins is far away, and the second prince is close...
Lorist shrugged and retorted that the Norton family had been guarding the frontiers of the Northern Lands for the former empire. Fight back. But discussing these things now is to say that the public is right, and the mother-in-law is right, so there is no need to spend such energy.
As for the absence of a king in the Kingdom of Iberia, Lorist came up with an idea. Isn't the son of the king and queen in the hands of the Grand Duke Fessabrun? They took away the second prince when they withdrew, then Grand Duke Feisabrun could push the child to the throne, and he himself became the regent, and he could control the real power of the Iberian Kingdom. Apart from not provoking the four major families of the Northland, then everyone Then we can live in peace.
After the messenger left, Lorist stayed in the capital for another ten or so days before leading the family's armed forces on the journey back to the Northland. The family armed forces of Baron Shaheen and Felim's family robbed with great joy, and almost wiped out two-thirds of Winston Province. The road became a continuous river of cars. In addition to these, they also coerced nearly 200,000 civilians to move to the north. These civilians are all subjects of various lords in Winston Province...
One day after the Norton family armed forces withdrew from the capital, the Archduke Feisabrun, who maintained a tacit understanding, led the army to recover Windbury City. When the three Northland families spent two months moving materials and relocating personnel and then retracted to the Northland, Grand Duke Feisabrun, who was in charge of the ruling power of the Kingdom of Iberia for the first time, finally couldn't bear the endless quarrels and wrangling. The ruling power was thrown on his daughter, His Majesty the Queen of the Kingdom of Iberia, and he went back to the family territory of the Eastern Wilderness Province to enjoy himself.
This time, the three families in the Northland robbed Winston Province in partnership, and all of them made a lot of money. Except for the harvest of the royal capital, Windbury City, which belonged to the Norton family alone, the rest of the looted materials and civilians who moved to the Northland were all Divided equally by the three. Lorist threw the allotted property, food, and hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the care of the tiger Ross and Malek, and led the guard battalion to rush to the Rock Castle, because Miss Teresy was about to give birth...
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