Judging from the map, West Degrad Province is a valley basin surrounded by the Lichtgner Mountains and the Severinck Mountains, like a gourd with a particularly big belly. It's just that this valley basin is very large enough to build a province, and the bottom is adjacent to the sea. There is only one exit, which is the main road controlled by Sith Castle. This is probably why the Grand Duke of Madras put his family's lair here. As long as there is a legion guarding the Sith Castle, the province of West Degrad cannot be captured.
Just like in the strategy of His Highness the Second Highness, he encouraged the four major families in the Northland to take the initiative to smash Dlemke Province to pieces, but he never thought about how to conquer West Degrad Province, as long as the Grand Duke of Madras was defeated. It is enough to retreat into the lair, and it is wishful thinking to capture the Sith castle. Not to mention the dangerous terrain, the most important thing is that the offensive force on that mountain road cannot be deployed at all, and a hundred people going up in waves is not called attack, but death.
When Lorist led the convoy northward, he pretended to be a caravan and captured Sith Castle, and handed it over to the Second Highness's army for defense. But then, when the Grand Duke of Madras dispatched the Seamount Army, he only insisted on defending for a few days before abandoning the Sith Castle and evacuating. This is because the Sith Castle is external and not internal, with a natural moat on the front, it is difficult to conquer, but behind it is a smooth road, easy to attack and difficult to defend. This is also the reason why the old fox, the Grand Duke of Madras, was afraid that the Sith Castle would fall into the enemy's hands, so he trapped himself in the province of West Degrad and deliberately built the Sith Castle like this.
In recent years, the Grand Duke of Madras has vigorously expanded the Sith Castle, upgrading it from a simple checkpoint fortress to a triple castle fortress. The troops defending the fortress also changed from a squadron to a brigade. Even if there is another sneak attack in the past, the enemy can only capture the first fortress, and the defenders can use the second and third defense facilities to deal a fatal blow to the enemy. It is precisely because of his confidence in the Sith Castle that the Grand Duke of Madras sent the most elite Seamount Legion to the front line of Dremke Province, so as to give the bumpkins in the Northland a head start in the spring of next year. strike, drive them all down the river...
It is a pity that the Grand Duke of Madras did not expect that the enemy would come from the sea in winter and land on Silver Beach. And now the capital of West Degrad Province, Edris City, in addition to the 1,000 guards guarding the central castle, the inner city and the outer city add up to less than 2,000 people, and most of them are militiamen who are forced to serve in winter .
In such a cold winter, no one took the responsibility of defense seriously. With the Sith Castle outside, how could there be enemies coming. If it weren't for the days when the Grand Duke's mansion held a welcome banquet, the nobles of the principality came and went, and occasionally rewarded the militia squads who guarded the gates and patrolled with a small amount of money for drinks, maybe even a few militiamen guarding the city gates could not be found. together.
It takes a day to walk from Silver Beach to Idris City, and it takes about ten hours by horse-drawn carriage, and it will take more than half a day if you go fast. On the front of Lorist was a map of animal skins of West Degrad Province, and his finger was pointing to the city of Alice in the middle of the map: "The city of Alice, formerly known as Trafford City, Madeleine In order to commemorate his eldest daughter who was born here, the Grand Duke of Las spent eight years expanding it, and named it Alice City after his daughter, and moved the family to West Degrad Province, making it Become the old lair of the Madras family.
The city of Alice has three layers of walls for protection, and the middle one is the central castle of the Madras family, where the Grand Duke of Madras and his family live. The welcome banquet tonight is also held here at the Grand Duke's Mansion, which is the square building behind the innermost city wall on the map. This large piece is the Grand Duke's Mansion, which is also connected to the central castle behind. The area between the middle city wall and the innermost city wall is called the inner area, and the residents are basically the relatives of the Grand Duke of Madras, as well as the businessmen and rich people of the Principality. Residential.
Between the outer city wall and the middle city wall is the outer area of Alice City. Most of the people living in the outer area are the families of soldiers from the Seamount Legion, servants who work for the central castle, and the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce. personnel and the farmers who farmed all over the city of Alice. To put it bluntly, the residents of Alice City basically have oblique ties and relationships with the Madras family. The Grand Duke of Madras has been running the West Degrad province for nearly forty years, and he has indeed made the city of Edelis his family home.
According to the news obtained from the interrogation of the captives captured by the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce in the fishing ground and salt field last night, we found that the current defense of Alice City is very lax, and it is easy for us to break through it by surprise. Two walls. The only difficulty lies in the central castle. While breaking through the third city wall, it is necessary to cut off the escape route from the Grand Duke's Mansion to the central castle, so as not to allow the enemy to escape into the central castle and have a chance to resist.
Because Alice City is the home of the Madras family, I am hereby issuing a special order. As a soldier of the Norton family, it is shameful to bully civilians and the weak. But in the process of capturing Alice City, if there are civilians blocking the way or spontaneously resisting, then I allow you to use thunderous means, and these enemies must be dealt with decisively by killing them as an example! It doesn't matter whether they are garrison soldiers or old and weak women and children. Otherwise, if someone incites these civilians to resist our occupation, it will bring us countless troubles and even affect our next actions. do you understand? "
The family knights standing around Lorist stood at attention and replied: "Understood, my lord."
Lorist asked Shi Huade behind him, and then said to these family knights: "It's around five o'clock in the morning. According to the captives of the Black Pearl Merchant Guild, they must set off at seven o'clock, so that they can start at around five o'clock in the evening." Rush to Alice City, and hand over the fresh seafood you caught to the steward of the central castle. El, you take someone to pretend to be the delivery personnel of the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce, and take the stewards back to pass the outermost city wall Just do it."
"Yes, my lord, I promise to complete the task." El replied.
Lorist laughed: "If we had to go on foot, we might not be able to make it to Alice City today. But we have skis, and on the snowy field in winter, we can even get there faster than El's wagon. Alice City. The only trouble is that from Silver Beach to Alice City, there are six farms of the Grand Duke of Madras. Raise smoke and call the police on Alice City. So, Malek."
"Here, my lord, please order!" Malek stood up.
"The six farms along the way will be handed over to you. My request is not to let them send any news."
"Yes, my lord, no news from these six farms," Malek said.
"Pachko..."
"My lord, please order."
"Your task is to bring a battalion of people and blockade here, the main road from Alice City to Sith Castle. As long as this is locked, even if someone escapes from Alice City, they will not be able to block it." Pass the news to the Sith Castle. That way it won't affect our follow-up actions."
"Yes, my lord, I see," said Pachico.
"Borg, it's up to you from now on. You will be responsible for the surprise attack on Alice City. I'm just going to deal with the second-level swordsman named Chrysas next to the Grand Duke of Madras. After capturing the Grand Duke's mansion We must find the seal of the Grand Duke of Madras, which is very crucial for us to seize Sith Castle, Vandenas City and Kebo City in the future, and we must not lose it."
Bodfinger nodded: "My lord, please rest assured, I will not let you down."
"Okay, there is still more than an hour before seven o'clock, go down and get ready, you don't need to wait for my order when you are ready. The attack on the Principality of Madras is in charge of Borg, and everything depends on him Do you understand the command and order of the master?"
"Yes, my lord."
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The next operation went very smoothly. El led the guards who sneaked into the city to easily control the gate of Edris City, and received the vanguard of the Rock Legion. It only took more than half an hour to control the entire city. Peripheral walls. At this time, snowflakes began to float in the sky again, and the sky was dark, which provided a great cover for the Panshi Legion's occupation of the city wall.
The funny thing is that after occupying the entire outer city wall, it was discovered that very few prisoners were captured. After asking, I found out: "The patrolling militia basically slipped back when the snow fell, and no one wanted to freeze on the city wall. "
Immediately afterwards, El also used the wagon convoy of the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce to transport seafood to pretend to be late, and cooperated with the Rock Legion commanded by Bodfinger to occupy the middle city wall again. He wanted to use the same old trick to attack the third city wall, and almost something went wrong. A few people rushed over on the road, and they yelled at the carriage transporting seafood from a long distance. Why did they come back now? The convoy hurried to the backyard of the Grand Duke's Mansion and so on...
When they ran to the front, they were stunned for a moment and found that El and the guards were not people they knew, and one of them turned around cleverly and wanted to run back to deliver the letter. El had no choice but to order his hands to clean up these people. Fortunately, three of them died, two were caught, and none of them ran away, and no one noticed when they did it and went around for a short time. He hurriedly dealt with the scene and cleaned up the corpses. At the same time, he briefly interrogated the two captured, and found out that it was because the horse convoy transporting seafood had not arrived. The person in charge of the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce was in a hurry and sent the five of them to the gate of the city. Watching, and finally met on the road...
Leaving a carriage and four guards carrying corpses to guard the captives, El led the carriage directly to the backyard of the Grand Duke's mansion. Nearly a hundred guards were divided into two teams. After attacking the central castle, another team went to the gate of the third city wall to prepare for the arrival of Bodfinger and Lorist.
In fact, it is still very easy to attack the Central Castle and the Grand Duke's Palace. The so-called guards of the Grand Duke of Madras with nearly a thousand people are still guarding less than 200 people. After resisting for less than ten minutes, they disarmed and surrendered.
"Uh..." The second-level Chrysas great swordsman, who was dressed up like a fifty-year-old dandy with a greasy hair and a pink face, swung his gorgeous and abnormal sword, which was more like a ceremonial sword, and only parried six times in front of Lorist. After seven strokes, he was pierced by a sword in the chest, and he kicked his legs unwillingly and died.
This happened in the hall where the Grand Duke's mansion held a welcome banquet. In front of the Grand Duke of Madras, dozens of nobles from the Principality, and countless well-dressed ladies and young ladies, Lorist killed the one who jumped out. A second-level great swordsman, this bloody scene made a dozen delicate ladies and young ladies faint in shock.
Lorist touched his nose in embarrassment, and then heard the voice of Grand Duke Madras: "Who are you?"
"Norton Lorist, Duke of the Northland, the Norton family." Lorist replied.
"Grand Duke of the Northland? I remember that the Norton family doesn't have this title." The Duke of Madras said suspiciously.
"That's right, I just accepted the promotion order of His Majesty the Second Highness Ogesello. His Majesty granted me the Northland and promoted me to be a Duke."
"So that's how it is... Ogesello is still alive and has arrived in the Northland. People from the Business Alliance also said that he is dead... So how are you going to deal with me?"
"Hehe, His Royal Highness, how I treat you is beyond my control. I will send your whole family before His Majesty, and it is up to His Majesty to decide whether to live or die." Lorist said.
The Grand Duke Madras collapsed on his seat like a deflated ball, and laughed miserably: "Haha, I already know my fate. But I still have a question, how did you get here? Could it be Sith?" Has the castle's garrison betrayed me?"
"Your Highness, I don't know if the garrison of Sith Castle has betrayed you, because we came from the sea." Lorist replied.
In this way, Alice City fell into the hands of the Rock Legion. At this time, the nearly 100,000 residents in the city hadn't realized that they had changed their masters, and Bodfinger took over the aftermath. Lorist Howe unceremoniously occupied the bedroom on the top floor of the Grand Duke Madras in the central castle, opened a bottle of fine wine and drank it himself, admiring the snowflakes flying outside the window, overlooking the snow-covered city.
Then an embarrassing thing happened. The loyal Bodfinger was very worried that his lord would not be able to sleep alone, so he chose two innocent beauties from among the captured ladies to come to bed. For the captured noble ladies, this is helpless, and it is also a common rule among the nobles. They may also save their families from punishment by pleasing the victors. It's just that they didn't expect that it was Lorist who was waiting for them. When Lorist killed Chrysas Great Swordsman in public, the two beauties fainted.
So when they saw Lorist, the two beauties panicked, one fainted again, and the other became incontinent on the spot, which made Lorist lose face and become furious, and made Schwader call for the two to be taken away. The beauty pulls out. In the end, there was another misunderstanding. The incontinent beauty thought that Lorist was going to kill them both and fainted from fright, while the beauty who had just woken up hugged Lorist's thigh and begged for mercy...
On a good New Year's Eve, there was such a commotion for most of the night, and Shi Huade was also tired for most of the night. He had to watch the maid clean the floor, and he moved a big bathtub for Lorist, and he went out after heating the hot water. Because Lorist finally decided to personally punish the two beauties. As a result, in the middle of the night, I heard these two beauties begging "No, it hurts, it hurts, don't need anything", and the noise didn't calm down until early morning.
It wasn't until the afternoon of the first day of the new year that Lorist appeared in front of everyone, and said to Bodfinger with a dark face: "I'm not an example."
But those two beauties were kept by Lorist's side, and their families were pardoned.
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In January 1777, the general calendar of the Galintia continent, the Rock Legion of the Norton family of the Northland landed from Silver Beach and raided the West Degrad province of the Principality of Madras. Grand Duke Derras and dozens of duchy nobles. Then the head of the Rock Legion, the Golden Knight Bodfinger, used the seal of the Grand Duke of Madras to attack and occupy the Sith castle and the city of Vanades one after another. On January 23, Kebo City also fell into the hands of the Rock Legion. From this day on, the Principality of Madras has become history.
On February 17, civil unrest broke out in the occupied city of Alice. Nearly 100,000 residents took to the streets to protest the Norton family's surprise attack, demanding that the Norton family get out and return the Grand Duke of Madras to them. At that time, there were only 10,000 people in the Rock Legion stationed in the city of Alice. The golden knight Malek who was in charge of guarding the city ordered the suppression of the riots and massacres. Nearly 30,000 residents of Alice City were killed that day, and their blood flowed like a river. Forty thousand people were arrested. Malek, who issued the massacre order with a heart of stone and remained expressionless, was called the "iron face" by the world because of this incident.
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