"I have been thinking about how to deal with the border ranger army stationed by the Archduke Feisabrun in the Royal City of Windbury. If they defend the city, it would be our wish. At most, the Royal City will be smashed into ruins. No one Even the Grand Duke Fesabrun is useless to resist our family's ability to attack fortified positions. We will bury him together with the Border Ranger Legion in Windbury King City, making the King City annihilated by their entire army.
It's a pity that this is only the most ideal battle situation we hope for. The experienced Grand Duke Fesabrun is an old fox with an extremely keen sense of smell on the battlefield. If something goes wrong, he will squall thousands of miles away. It is difficult for us to track his whereabouts. I estimate that once the Grand Duke Fesabrunn learns that we have sent troops to Winston Province, he will not hesitate to abandon Windbury King City, evacuate all property and food supplies, and retreat under the threat of young and strong, leaving the old, weak and sick If it is left to us, even if we occupy Windbury King City, what we will get is a mess.
Grand Duke Feisabrun will continue to retreat in great strides, taking away all the materials and personnel he thinks are worth taking away. When we occupied Winston Province and continued to march towards the Southern Province, Grand Duke Feisabrun gained enough battlefield space to deal with us. He will use the mobility of the Border Ranger Corps to attack our logistics transportation everywhere, cut off the connection and support between all the strategic points we occupy, use the siege to consume our supplies and morale, and drag this war on. We are exhausted and unable to bear the huge consumption and battle damage day after day. "
This is a very large meeting room. After three consecutive days of New Year's celebration banquets, all relevant personnel, family senior knights and commanding knights gathered here to listen to Lorist's explanation of his upcoming Iberia. Arrangement and layout of Kingdom Raiders.
Today is January 3rd, 1778 in the Gallint Aeon calendar. Lorist officially launched the Norton family's chariot. The target: the Kingdom of Iberia, the main enemy, and the border ranger army of the Feisabrunn family. .
"According to the summary of various information, we estimate that the total strength of the Feisabrun family is about 240,000. Of course, it is impossible for the Grand Duke of Feisabrun to devote all his troops to the war with us. His The big and small Jinchuan areas need troops to be garrisoned. Donghuang Province is his family's nest, and it is impossible to give up. Coupled with the defensive forces in Muyeyuan Province, it is estimated that the troops that Grand Duke Fesabrun invested in Winston Province and Southern Province are about About 120,000 to 150,000. Perhaps, he will also recruit troops from the grassland tribes, and there will be tens of thousands of grassland captives serving for the Feisabrun family...
We don't care about the strength of the enemy, but this time we are dealing with a different enemy than we have encountered before. The most important point is that the enemy's mobility surpasses our family's armed forces. When we attacked the Southern Province, as the rear Winston Province, we had to fortify everywhere to protect the transportation channels for our logistics supplies. This is whether we can successfully occupy the Southern Province, cut off the Fesabrun family and obtain the four central duchies. The key to support.
When a lion fights a rabbit, it uses all its strength. In our original strategy plan, we concentrated on the Rock Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion, together with the Pegasus Legion of the Felim family, to push forward with a strong force advantage, and push the Border Ranger Legion of the Fisabrun family together. Expelled from Winston Province, then the Panshi Legion and Pegasus Legion marched into the southern province. The Pegasus Legion swept away the bandits and horse bandits in the southern province. Ditches and trenches, the strategy of chain cages was implemented in the southern province, a complete division, and the mobile guerrilla space of the Fesabrun family's border rangers was compressed.
The task of the Flying Tiger Legion is to wipe out the large groups of rangers that were harassing in Winston Province, protect the various materials and supplies transported to the southern provinces, and look for opportunities to occupy the most critical checkpoint at the junction of Winston Province and Muyeyuan Province The fortress city of Pedro, cut off the traffic link between the two provinces. As for the Chaser Legion stationed in the eastern part of the Northland, they are responsible for harassing Muyeyuan Province. I don't expect the newly formed Chaser Legion to be able to suppress the troops deployed by the Fesabrun family in Muyeyuan Province. Burning to the territory of the Feisabrun family, making Muyeyuan Province also a battlefield and involving the enemy's troop mobilization is a situation I am happy to see.
On the bright side, this attack plan is safe and stable, and we are confident enough to accomplish our goal. But the shortcomings are also obvious. With our superior military strength and strong combat power, the Duke of Feisabrun will only seek field battles or city defense battles with us after his brain was kicked by a donkey. Therefore, it is difficult for us to gather and annihilate the enemy or inflict heavy casualties on the enemy. We expected that the old fox, Grand Duke Fesabrunn, would most likely give up Winston Province, retain his troops, and exchange space for the initiative on the battlefield.
After all, the more territory we occupy, the more scattered our troops will be and the more places we will garrison, and the mobility of the Border Ranger Legion is much higher than that of our family armed forces, which will cause us to be on the passive defensive side. The Grand Duke of Feisabrun can use their mobility to gather troops at any time to fight more, but at a certain time, it will put our garrison troops at a disadvantage in terms of strength. If the Grand Duke Fessabrun breaks up his Border Ranger Legion and cruises in Winston Province on the scale of the regiment, not only will all our troops stationed in important places be trapped, even the transportation of logistics supplies will be difficult. are at risk. "
Lorist tapped the large map of Winston Province hanging on the wall with a slender stick: "This is our original strategy plan, and it is also the main reason why we arranged the Flying Tigers in Winston Province. The purpose is to ensure the safety of the transportation channel. However, because of Viscount Eddis's participation, I saw the opportunity to annihilate the border ranger army that Grand Duke Feisabrun arranged in Winston Province.
If the Border Ranger Legion in King Windbury can be annihilated, and then the city of Pedro can be captured, then Winston Province will no longer have to worry about being harassed and attacked by a large group of Rangers. We can see from the map that, except for Pedro City, a traffic hub city in Winston Province, which is connected to Makinohara Province, the junction of the other two provinces is the steep Pispel Mountains, which stretches all the way to the Southern Province. And Pispel mountains and rivers cannot be crossed by the army. As long as we can annihilate this border ranger army, not only can we cut off an arm of the Grand Duke of Feisabrun, but even Winston Province can become our safe rear .
According to the information reported by the spies arranged by the Volibear Intelligence and Investigation Bureau in Windbury King City and the information brought to us by Viscount Eddis. We can conclude that Grand Duke Feisabrun is also consciously making arrangements to welcome our attack. At present, the Grand Duke Fesabrun has purged the nobles in the royal city, and then extended his hand to the traditional territorial nobles in Winston Province. Twenty-three territorial nobles have been wiped out by the border rangers. "
Lorist pointed to Viscount Edith who was sitting beside him, motioning for him to stand up and continue talking.
Viscount Eddis was a little excited. He didn't expect that the four of them would be able to participate in such a confidential strategic arrangement meeting of the Norton family. This was a great trust in them. At the same time, he also learned that the four major families had already turned their attention to the Kingdom of Iberia. At this moment, he secretly rejoiced in his heart that the four of them joined forces early.
"Honorable Your Highness and Your Excellencies, as far as I know, the Grand Duke of Feisabrun issued an order to all the nobles in the traditional territories of Winston Province more than two months ago, requesting allegiance to him, and all family territories Moved the title, and cut the titles and territories of most of the nobles in the territory on the grounds that the civil war among some lords caused the Iberian Kingdom to be in turmoil. This move was dissatisfied and resisted by most of the lords. But I did not expect , the Grand Duke of Feisabrun had been prepared for a long time, and the Border Ranger Legion under his command quickly attacked and wiped out 23 territorial nobles who resisted him within two months.
The four nobles like ours, who were powerless to resist and could only be forced to endure, received the transfer order before May, that is, after the winter wheat was harvested, they took their families and no more than 1,000 people and the garrison to go there. The new family territory in the southern province, everything in the original family territory was handed over to the envoy sent by the Grand Duke Fesabrun to receive it. This is what drove the four of us to a dead end, and is the real reason we came to serve the Nortons.
I received an envoy from the Grand Duke of Fessabrun, and under my hospitality, the envoy revealed that the Grand Duke of Fessabrun began to prepare to abandon Winston after he learned that the four major families in the North had destroyed the Principality of Madras. Province, he regards this place as a battlefield for dealing with the four major families in the Northland. The most ideal situation is to block the two chain bridges leading to Winston Province and Makinohara Province in the North, or even destroy them. In this way, it is only necessary to deploy troops to defend against the enemies from the small mountain range of Hinderson. In view of the powerful family armed strength of the Norton family, the Grand Duke of Fessabrun decided to clear the entire Winston Province, taking advantage of the vast area and the super mobility of his family's border rangers and the strength of the four major families in the Northland that will invade in the future. Armed with a good guerrilla.
The envoy also said that the Grand Duke Fesabrunn planned to move all the young and strong people in Winston Province to Donghuang Province and Jinchuan Province to fill the shortage of manpower in the family territory, and the rest would be concentrated in Windbury King City and Jinchuan Province. I want to go to several fortress towns and let those places become the logistics base for the attack and supply of the Border Rangers, so the envoy suggested that it is best for me to obey the order of the Grand Duke and move to the southern province. After completing the layout of Winston Province, the Grand Duke of Feisabrun will suppress bandits in the southern province and vigorously strengthen the commercial and trade exchanges with the four principalities in the middle... "
After the presentation, Viscount Eddis nodded to everyone before sitting down.
"Everyone heard it, the Grand Duke Fesabrun is not a fuel-efficient lamp. When we were counting him, he was also counting us. Winston Province was originally a populous province of the former Krissen Empire, with a population as high as More than 1.5 million. It is a pity that the successive years of imperial civil wars and the tyrannical expropriation of the second prince later, of course, we also pushed back and absorbed nearly 300,000 to 400,000 immigrants from Winston Province in the past ten years... "
When Lorist said this, some of the sensible people sitting there laughed. The methods used by the Northland to absorb refugees from Winston Province in those years were not very aboveboard.
Lorist also smiled and continued: "We estimate that the current population of Winston Province is about 400,000. Apart from the 60,000 to 70,000 people in Windbury City, this part is basically the nobles of the traditional territories. Landlords. Like Viscount Eddis, he vigorously develops the commerce and production of his family territory. At present, there are more than 30,000 people in his family territory, and Viscount Schindler, Baron Claus and Baron Wade The total number of people in the territory is nearly 40,000. This is due to the prosperity of Walker Town, Viscount Eddis’s business. The second is that they gathered many refugees during the war to open up wasteland and farm. Wens like them There are not many traditional territorial nobles in Dunton...
The Grand Duke Fesabrun is now thinking about the nobles of these traditional territories. Obeying his order and moving to the southern province will also benefit him from sweeping up the bandits in the southern province in the future. These new territories of the nobles who have been transferred can provide him with The rest of the bandits' troops and the supply of supplies, and the connection of each new territory can effectively prevent the bandits from fleeing. Of course, these lords were mainly killed by gangs, which also reduced the troubles of the Grand Duke in the future. Few of the nobles who were forced to transfer from Winston Province would have a good impression of the Feisabrun family.
The Grand Duke Fesabrun wanted to relocate the young and strong from Winston Province to fill the manpower shortage in his family's territory, and this was absolutely impossible for him to succeed. Lord Baldfinger, Lord Malek..."
The two newly promoted nobles named by Lorist stood up.
"The Rock Legion led by the two of you will set off for Walker Town, the original territory of Viscount Eddis in three days. I will let Viscount Eddis, Viscount Schindler, Baron Klaus and Baron Wade assist you. It is winter now, and roads are blocked by heavy snow. The Archduke Feisabrun and his border ranger army stationed in the royal city never expected that we would act at this time. Your task is to take the original territory of Viscount Eddis and the four of them. All the people moved to the Northland, and then pretended to be their people and raised the banner of rebelling against the Grand Duke of Fesabrun after the rainy season in March after harvesting the winter wheat.
Viscount Eddis and his four families can gather a standing force of five or six thousand, plus they can form a force of 20,000 by selecting young and strong people from the vassals. In order to eliminate this rebellious lord's armed force, the border ranger army stationed in the royal city of Grand Duke Fesabrun will definitely be dispatched. As long as they leave the Royal City, we can encircle and annihilate them in Walker Town, and then we can easily receive the Royal City of Windbury. "
"As you order, Your Highness." Baldofinger and Malek sat down after exerting their strength.
"The most important key to this arrangement is not to arouse the attention and suspicion of the scouts of the Border Ranger Legion. This requires the cooperation of you, Viscount Eddis."
"Your Highness, please rest assured, I will guarantee that there will be no omissions." Viscount Eddis said.
Lorist nodded: "If there is no March rainy season after winter, I even want to send troops to besiege Windbury King City and trap the Duke of Fessabrun and his border rangers in the city. It's a pity that this is the case. The weather is very difficult for our family soldiers to carry out siege warfare, and there is no way to transport the catapults. When the rainy season comes, it is even more unfavorable for us to be outside the city, and it is easy to cause large-scale epidemics...
So I want to lure this border ranger army out and lure them into a tight encirclement for field battles. Earl Felim, your Pegasus Legion and my Flying Tiger Legion are both ready to go after the rainy season, sneaking to the vicinity of Walker Town, and waiting for the time to encircle them, understand? "
Count Felim stood up: "Don't worry, Your Highness."
"After annihilating this Border Ranger Legion, you will directly march into the Southern Province with the Rock Legion, and immediately close the traffic arteries between the Feisabrun family and the four central duchies. If the four central duchies and the Feisabrun family If the armed forces come to attack, the family legion of Earl Shaheen and the Flying Tiger Legion will go up to support in turn. We must hold the strategic point of the southern province in our hands. This is to eliminate or force Feisab The key to the Lun family submitting to us." Lorist said viciously.
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