A few days ago, my father was hospitalized, and he had the operation yesterday, so today he is free to code at home. The incident happened suddenly, and I had no choice but to stop, and I can only express my apologies. In addition, I declare that there will be no eunuchs in this book. I have written so much that I have reached the second half of the outline, and I will definitely finish telling this story. It's my first time writing a book, so I don't have much experience, so please forgive me.
Chapter 370 Arrival
Five days later, the Scout Qingqi encountered the vanguard of the four northern alliances for the first time. A 100-man squad of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment was suddenly attacked by the same 100-man Scout Qingqi squad on the border between Southern Province and Winston Province. After leaving behind thirty-seven corpses, the scout squad of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment chose to retreat. In this attack of less than ten minutes, the four northern alliances took the lead with a score of 13 to 37. He won a game, and at the same time, it also kicked off the prelude to the offensive and defensive battle of the southern province in the history of the Galintia continental war.
The Archduke Feisabrun has already noticed from the information gathered in gathering the defeated soldiers who fled back in the past few days. This is not an attack launched by the four northern alliances on a sudden whim, but a premeditated operation to destroy the Kingdom of Iberia. . The last dozen or so guards of the Feisabrun family who fled back from Winston King City said that they found the flags of the three legions of the Norton family in the Northland and the flag of a knight order, as well as the Pegasus Legion of the Philim family. banner…
The Norton family's Rock Legion, Flying Tiger Legion, Guards Legion, and Bear Knights, plus the Pegasus Legion, the Archduke Fessabrun frowned. The Norton family has sent all the legions and main forces of their family to Wens Don Province, do they really want to fight to the death with the armed forces of the Fesabrun family? Or did Lorist actually receive His Royal Highness's order to directly attack the four central duchies after the destruction of the Iberian Kingdom
If it's the latter, Grand Duke Fesabrunn doesn't mind retreating and let the southern province sit and watch the four principalities of the central region and the four alliances of the northern region fight to the death. He would even secretly rejoice in his heart. His resentment is well known, and it is not surprising that he ordered his loyal family of the four alliances of the North to destroy the Iberian Kingdom by force, occupying Winston Province and the Southern Province to attack the Four Principalities in the Middle. The Feisabrun family's armed forces can completely attack when the two are exhausted from fighting, and give Lorist and the four alliances of the Northland a lesson with a horizontal knife, and reap the benefits of the fisherman.
But this wish in the heart of the Grand Duke Fesabrun was shattered two days later, and a few fast horses brought two not very good news. At the gap, the fortress city of Pedro was captured by the Flying Tiger Legion of the Norton Family in the Northland. A corps of more than 10,000 troops from the Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment deployed in Pedro City only ran out of more than 2,000 people. The second bad news is that Muyeyuan Province was robbed by Qingqi of the Norton family in the Northland, and the losses were extremely heavy. Nearly 20,000 people were plundered to the Northland. A corps fell into an ambush on the way to pursue and suffered heavy casualties. Bowley was shot with three arrows and died on the battlefield...
At present, there are only more than 28,000 troops left in the Fourth Frontier Ranger Legion. The deputy head of the Legion, Knight Ben Rice, reported the two bad news to the Grand Duke Fessabrun, and at the same time asked for help from the family, because several soldiers had to be stationed. The settlement point of the people, the Fourth Frontier Ranger Legion was at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the so-called Chaser Legion of the Norton family in the Northland. There were wars in Muyeyuan Province, and the Qingqi of the Norton Family Chaser Legion was like no one in the land. Some scattered herdsmen and herds of cattle, sheep, and horses were kidnapped and driven to the north, causing great losses.
Grand Duke Feisabrun threw the gold cup in his hand to the ground angrily. There is no need to think about it. There is no doubt that Lorist led the troops of the four northern alliances to target the Feisabrun family this time. It's just wishful thinking that the four families in the Northland are the diehard associations of His Highness the Second Highness and the four principalities in the middle of the country. Obviously, even if the four Northland alliances attack the four central duchies in the future, it will be pulling out the thorn in the back of the Feisabrun family. Besides, the war that the Grand Duke of Feisabrun is facing is about the life and death of the family. .. ... ...
But now the Grand Duke Fesabrunn can't separate himself. In the past two days, the Pegasus Legion of the Felim family has arrived in the southern province. , more than a dozen conflicts occur every day. Judging from the battle situation, the Qingqi scouts of the Pegasus Legion clearly have the upper hand. Crossed the warning line set up by the Pegasus Legion.
The Grand Duke of Feisabrun found himself dragged in the Southern Province. The Bear Knights of the Norton Family that he was most concerned about stopped strangely when they reached the Serhek Hill at the junction of Winston Province and the Southern Province. Instead, they set up barracks on the hills. What's going on, shouldn't they be directly forced to the camp of the third frontier ranger and ready to attack
The Fifth Frontier Ranger Legion will arrive in two days, and the Archduke Feisabrun has two legions with nearly 70,000 troops, but the Grand Duke doubts the combat effectiveness of the newly formed Fifth Frontier Ranger Legion. From the report of the scouts of the Third Frontier Ranger Legion, the Grand Duke can draw a conclusion that the combat effectiveness of the Pegasus Legion of the Felim Family is not much stronger than that of the Third Frontier Ranger Ranger, and even worse than the soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Ranger. The ferocity and dare to fight. It's just that they took advantage of the equipment, and also suffered a sword attack. The scouts of the Third Frontier Ranger Legion were gutted and died. But the scout light cavalry of the Pegasus Legion was only cut off from the breastplate, and was seriously injured but not fatal. This reminded Grand Duke Fesabrunn of what Lorist said that a copper plate is worth a copper plate of goods. The standard equipment purchased by the Sabron family from the Norton family is the lowest price...
If the Norton Family's Raging Bear Knights sent troops directly to the camp of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment and launched an attack, the Grand Duke Fessabrun was confident that with the camp's defensive facilities, the Raging Bear Knights would be beaten to death. Although the Raging Bear Knights were heavy cavalry, both in defense and attack, they greatly surpassed the light cavalry of the Third Ranger Legion, but attacking the camp was a difficult task, and Grand Duke Feisabrun had a way to deal with these canned human flesh.
It is not surprising that the Bear Knights were the first to arrive at the Duke of Fersabrun in the southern province as the armed forces of the Norton family. In the past, the Grand Duke was very concerned about the Norton family's armed forces. The Rock Legion is a heavy armored infantry, and it will take some time to rush to the southern province. The Flying Tiger Legion is Lancers, between light cavalry and heavy cavalry. They have already captured the city of Pedro, and they will not come to the southern province for the time being. The Guards Corps is a garrison force, and was sent to Winston Province to take over the defense of several strategic locations. Then the Angry Bear Knights, as the main force of heavy cavalry and field battles, was the first to arrive in the southern province.
What is Lorist thinking? Does he want to gather several legions of his own family and the Feisabrunn family to fight a decisive battle in the southern province? Otherwise, what does it mean for the Knights of the Angry Bear to stay at Serhek Hill? Garrison? This is impossible, the knights are for offense, not defense, but if the knights stay still, isn't this giving the Feisabrun family time to mobilize troops and condemn generals? Originally, the most correct approach was to attack without hesitation, drive the third border ranger regiment of the Feisabrun family out of the southern province, and cut off the possibility of the reinforcements from the four central principalities joining the armed forces of the Feisabrun family in the future...
Grand Duke Fesabrunn could not leave the southern province at this moment. He suddenly found that the current situation had become that he had to stick to the traffic route from the southern province to the four principalities in the middle, while the attacking four northern alliance families were not at ease. Not slow to do things on his own, he didn't pay attention to the heavily guarded camp of the Fesabrun family, which is located in the transportation hub of the southern province. Not only the Norton family's Angry Bear Knights set up camp on the Serhek Hill, but even after the Felim family occupied the northwest region of the southern province, in addition to setting up a strict blockade, they also launched an operation to suppress bandits in the northwest region...
What's going on. Grand Duke Feisabrun was a little confused. After looking at the map for a long time, Duke Feisabrun recalled that the northwest region occupied by Earl Felim was originally the old territory of the Felim family a hundred years ago, but now it has disappeared. It was a ruin, and it was deserted. Dare to mess around for a long time Earl Felim only wanted his family's old territory, no wonder the Pegasus Legion's cordon was placed on the edge of the old territory.
The Grand Duke of Feisabrun snorted, the southern province will soon become a mess, even if you occupy the old territory, what's the use? development? That's like throwing gold coins into the water, because there is nothing in the old territory of the Felim family, castles, fields, manors, and people, there is nothing you want, there are only wandering bandits and horse bandits, wanting to rebuild I don't know how much manpower, time and gold coins will be invested in opening up. And all the efforts will be in vain from the flames of war.
You must know that the old territory of the Felim family occupies a quarter of the southern province. Although it is located in the northwest region, don't look at the fact that the Pegasus Legion has the upper hand in the battle of scouts and light cavalry. The tactics of the Rangers will inevitably be affected in the Northwest. No matter how powerful the Pegasus Legion is, it is only a Light Cavalry Legion. As long as two of the Border Ranger Legion of the Feisabrun family are drawn, the Pegasus Legion can be beaten and fled. .
Let go of the Pegasus Legion of the Felim family first, and let them be proud for a while. Grand Duke Feisabrun thinks this way, the main opponent of the family should be the armed forces of the Norton family. The biggest reason why the Knights of the Wrath Bear stay at the Serhek Mountain is that the Rock Legion is not mobile enough. It will take a few days to get here, Loris It seems that he wants to motivate himself to come out for a field battle or a decisive battle...
Am I that stupid? Even if the Grand Duke Fesabrun was killed, he would not engage in field battles or decisive battles with the Norton family's armed forces. He used light cavalry to deal with heavy armored knights and heavy infantry. Only when his head was caught in the door would he make such a stupid decision. The Grand Duke's original plan was to use the strong walls of the camp and the numerous defensive facilities to resist steadily, consume the enemy's strength and morale, and then send out the rangers to harass and sneak attack the enemy's logistics supplies, eventually forcing the Norton family to retreat Leaving the southern province, leaving the border rangers with the opportunity and gap to break into Winston Province, and burn the flames of war to Winston Province.
After thinking for a long time, Grand Duke Fesabrun decided to temporarily ignore the unfavorable situation in the war in Makinohara Province, and wrote a letter to promote the deputy commander of the Fourth Frontier Ranger Legion, the family's golden knight Ben Rice, to the commander of the army, telling him that the current In the face of the current battle situation, the family can't find support troops right now. If they can't hold on, they will withdraw all the people in the northern part of Muyeyuan Province to the east bank of the Sochus River, relying on the geographical advantages of the Sochus River for defense and defense. Wait for the battle situation to become clear, and the Feisabrun family regains the lost ground after gaining an advantage.
The Sochus River is a river originating from the Pispel Mountains. It runs across the Makinohara Province and flows to the prairie. It is the most important water resource in the Muyehara Province. Whether it is irrigation or grazing, the banks of the Sochus River are pasture fields. The most fertile essence of the original province. It's just that the location of the Sochus River is not in the middle of Muyeyuan Province, but more towards Donghuang Province. This order of the Grand Duke of Fesabrun is almost equivalent to giving up two-thirds of the territory of Muyeyuan Province, and only requires the disabled Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment to hold the eastern part of the Sochus River. In the Grand Duke's heart, the war facing the southern province is the most important and crucial.
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On the 32nd day of the fifth month of the general calendar in Galintia, the Rock Legion finally arrived in the southern province.
Lorist was also very helpless, because the damn road was full of potholes, and the journey that was originally scheduled to arrive in twelve days was abruptly delayed to twenty-six days. Without him, the Rock Legion acted as a road construction team during the march, and built roads while marching. Otherwise, even if the Rock Legion arrived in the southern province on time, there would be no way for the large amount of logistics and supplies to follow due to the condition of this road. Provide adequate supplies and support for frontline consumption.
Lorist finally understood why the second prince and the nobles of the southern province didn't talk about returning to the southern province after they evacuated, and competed with the nobles of the traditional territory of Winston in King Windbury. It turned out that not only the southern province was in ruins, but even the national road connecting the two provinces was overwhelmed. Perhaps small caravans can barely pass, but it is very difficult for large-scale transport convoys to pass. To put it bluntly, this national road is even more difficult to navigate than a dirt road with many pedestrians.
However, time delay is also beneficial. Firstly, the Flying Tiger Legion led by Tiger Ross successfully captured the city of Pedro, and secondly, it wiped out the stragglers in Winston Province. Basically, it can be said that Winston Province has been firmly controlled by the family. hands. Followed by Josk and Yuri's Chaser Legion, which attacked Makinohara Province from the eastern part of the Northland, and dealt heavy damage to the Fourth Frontier Ranger Legion. Josk also killed its leader Golden Two-Star Knight Bao with three arrows in an ambush. Kerry, who got off to a good start with the Chaser Corps, is currently taking the initiative in the confrontation with the Fourth Frontier Ranger Corps, suppressing the Fourth Frontier Ranger Corps into a panic.
After Winston Province and Windbury King City fell into the hands of the family, all follow-up arrangements were carried out in an orderly manner. Baron Camorra has presided over the transfer of all the supplies hoarded in Gildusk City in the Northland to Windbury King City. In addition, the military supplies, food, grass and property seized from Windbury King City surprised Lorist. It is an unexpected gift package to think that the proceeds obtained by the Grand Duke Fesabrun from eliminating the nobles of the southern province and the traditional domain of Winston province will all fall into the hands of the family.
As for the four battalions of the Fifth Guards Corps led by Baron Farea, they also went to Walker Town, Pedro City, Windbury King City and Xihu Town to start defense and build castle fortresses. The 25th Battalion is following the Rock Legion to the Southern Province. The Serhek Hill has been built into a strong camp by the Bear Knights, which will greatly reduce the construction of the castle fortress of the 25th Battalion of the Guards.
It's just that the original lightning attack plan was interrupted by this damn road. Lorist planned to drive the Fisabrun family's armed forces out of the southern province, and then the Rock Legion set up camps at various strategic locations and dug trenches to connect them. The plan to shrink the ranger's battlefield space was thrown into the bonfire. According to the current situation in the southern province, it seems that there will be an offensive and defensive battle with the Grand Duke Fesabrun. Although he was on the road, the scout Qingqi kept sending news from the front line. It can be seen from the arrangement of Grand Duke Fesabrun that the old guy obviously wanted to rely on the defense depth of the camp to wait for the attack of his family's armed forces. This consumes the strength and morale of one's own family's armed forces. After all, attacking is much more difficult than defending.
It's a pity, old man, you've got the wrong idea. Lorist smiled triumphantly, watching the thunderbolt catapults pass by the repaired road smoothly, hehe, old guy, you will soon be able to taste the power of these offensive weapons of the Norton family. Times have changed, it's time for you old military god to step down.
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