The capture of Mount Popiliqi means the successful completion of the strategy to destroy the Kingdom of Iberia. Lorist stood on the cliff behind Bobilige, looked at the snow-capped snow field, and smiled in a happy mood. The old fox, Grand Duke Feisabrun, was finally locked in a cage. From this moment on, the path to hegemony of the Feisabrun family has been cut off by him, and they will no longer be a threat to the Norton family.
Perhaps the Hunting Cavalry Legion will continue to fight endlessly with the Border Ranger Legion of the Feisabrun Family in Muyeyuan Province. prepared to raid the city of Pedro. But the overall situation has been decided, no matter how hard the Feisabrun family struggles in the future, they will not be able to turn around. Even if they win a few victories, it will be an insignificant loss for the Norton family. In a few decades, perhaps the Feisabrun family will also become a member of the grass barbarian tribe on the northeast prairie...
Now it's up to the old fox, Grand Duke Feisabrun, to know who he is... Lorist thought triumphantly. Shi Huade next to him couldn't stand the cold, and tightened his cloak: "Your Highness, let's go back. What's so interesting about this snowy expanse, and the wind is so strong..."
The logistics camp was originally converted from a mountain bandit's cottage. The logistics director, Wario, ordered the soldiers to build him a very luxurious three-story stone house, but now this warm and big house has become Loris. The original owner, Volio, was huddled in the stinking cowshed with the lowly soldiers he had despised, and now they were equal prisoners of the Norton family. As a result, on the first night, the poor logistics supervisor was beaten black and blue in the dark, it was horrible...
Schward added a handful of pine charcoal to the fireplace to make the fire burn hotter, then poured mycos in a copper kettle and water and began to boil in the fireplace. Holding a hot cup of Mycos slowly in the cold winter is a kind of satisfaction and warm happiness from the bottom of my heart.
El stamped his feet twice at the gate, rubbed the slush off his leather boots on the carpet, and strode up to the second floor: "Your Highness, that Seria has already been brought."
The young Celia no longer looked high-spirited, and was brought in front of Lorist with a pale face, without saying a word or making a sound. Everything that happened in the past few days was a nightmare for him. First, the Rock Legion of the Norton family braved the blizzard and appeared in the back mountain passage of Mount Bobby Ridge, and captured the unsuspecting logistics camp with lightning speed, and then besieged The camps of the four regiments of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment in Qianshan blocked each camp with fierce long-range crossbow arrows, forcing everyone to rush out of the barracks to launch a counterattack...
After starving for two days, Bodfinger threatened to set fire to the barracks to force Galini Beloput, the commander of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment, to order the soldiers to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Rock Legion. Then everyone saw that the leader of Bailuoput's army committed suicide in public after surrendering. Before he died, he shouted that he was ashamed of his trust in the Grand Duke of Fesabrun. Atonement...
No one could come to the rescue in time. It happened so suddenly. The young Seria just looked at the commander of the legion. Bai Luopute, whom he honored as his uncle, fell down on the snow with blood splattering from his throat, stained red. A large piece of whiteness. He was completely numb, and just failed like this. There was no imaginary charge, no big scene of battlefield confrontation, no fierce attack and defense, nothing. Bobby Ridge Mountain fell, the third frontier ranger The Legion had surrendered to the enemy, and it was a fiasco, or a fiasco of total annihilation. The head of the army shouldered the shameful decision to surrender to the enemy, and apologized in public. What about myself, what should I do
Seria, who has been a prisoner for the past two days, is like a walking corpse, huddling in a corner without paying attention to anything, not eating or drinking, until today El found out and brought him in front of Lorist.
"Are you Fesabrun Seria?" Lorist asked, looking curiously at the young knight in front of him.
Seria didn't seem to hear anything, El patted him on the shoulder vigorously: "Hey, are you deaf, say you!"
Only then did Seria come back to her senses: "Ah, what are you talking about?"
Lorist smiled and asked again.
"Yes, I am Feisabrun Seria, I am a member of the Feisabrun family, you can do whatever you want, I am not afraid..." Seria suddenly became excited.
"No one wants to do anything to you. Please rest assured. Although the Feisabrun family is my enemy, we still abide by the traditions of the nobles and follow the rules of the knights. Now you are our captive. You are here to Ask something... ”
"I will never betray my family, stop wishful thinking!" Seria said with determination.
"Hehe..." Lorist laughed, and motioned for Schward who couldn't help but pour Seria a glass of Mycos.
"No one asked you to betray your own family, and we are not interested in the Feisabrun family. It's very simple, you have already lost this war, the outcome is set, and there is nothing you can do to recover."
"You are a sneak attack, I refuse to accept..."
"Whether you accept or not is your business, it has nothing to do with the overall situation. The only purpose of war is to win, and strategies and means are irrelevant. Didn't your Grand Duke teach you this simplest truth? Does your Grand Duke always show you openly and squarely?" Get off the horse and fight the enemy one-on-one? If that's the case, the Feisabrun family is not worth mentioning..." Lorist said calmly.
"..." Seria blushed, knowing that he had said the wrong thing. The reason why Grand Duke Feisabrun was known as the God of the Prairie Army was that he often used weak enemies and strong forces to carry out sneak attacks, ambushes, surprise attacks and other strategies. Defeating the savage cavalry with a large number of troops, finally opened up the territory for the former Krissen Empire, making the Fesabrun family the largest and strongest territorial noble in the Northeast.
"Have a cup of Mycos, and warm up first." Lorist said gently, "I've come to you this time to fulfill the entrustment of your legion commander, Galini Bailuopute, before committing suicide. "
"Legion Commander?" Seria asked suspiciously.
"Yes," Lorist nodded, "Your legion commander asked me three requests before ordering you to put down your weapons and surrender, and I agreed to two. It's just that I didn't expect his character to be so strong. After entering the logistics camp, he knew that there was no chance of winning. In order to save your lives, he ordered you to put down your weapons and surrender... "
"He, he made a request to you?" Seria asked in disbelief.
"He is a great knight, resolute and decisive, and he takes the responsibility of failure. He is not a coward, but a knight and officer with noble character who is obsessed with honor. I admire his courage to commit suicide and atone for his sins. I also feel sorry for the Feisabrun family losing a heroic knight." Lorist stood up and said solemnly.
In Galintia, suicide has always been considered as an act of cowards and losers who avoid the difficulties they face. No matter what god they believe in, no temple will encourage and allow believers to commit suicide. Like knights and warriors who believed in the God of Mars, suicide was considered dishonorable, something only for the weak and cowardly. Just like Chevany, the golden knight under the Duke Lukins of the Northland, he was determined to die after the defeat, and deliberately died under the sword of Lorist in the duel. This is the reason why he couldn't commit suicide. Believers in the God of War committed suicide After the soul is unable to enter the kingdom of God of War...
"Thank you..." Celia finally lowered her head, tears falling down uncontrollably. He cried, wept bitterly, the praise from the enemy, that is, Lorist, finally opened his defenses, so that he no longer felt entangled and sad for his uncle Bai Luoput's suicide atonement, on the contrary, he still had some proud feeling.
After crying bitterly for a while, Seria stopped crying. Schwader sympathetically handed him a hot towel to wipe his face. After wiping his face, Seria straightened his body and gave a knightly salute to Lorist: "Your Highness Norton, may I ask you what three requests our Legion Commander has made to you?"
"Well, I will tell you if you don't ask. Please sit down and drink some Mycos. I heard that you haven't eaten for two days. I am very worried about your health. If you continue like this, you will not be able to You have completed the mission assigned to you by your legion commander." Lorist pointed to the sofa and signaled Celia to sit down.
"At that time, your regiment commander made three requests to us. The first request was that the news of the surrender of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment must be conveyed to your Grand Duke. I agreed, and he appointed you as the messenger to go back. This is He wrote a letter to your grand duke. It’s just that the road is blocked by heavy snow now, so he agreed to my condition to let you go back as soon as the rainy season is over. But now he committed suicide and atones for his sin. I admire his courage. So I decided that you should go back Escort his body back when the time comes. You can choose twelve soldiers as guards, we will provide mounts and all the armaments you need, and at the same time, we have also collected the body of your army commander. You have a carriage so that you can go on your way..."
Seria burst into tears again.
"The second request is that your legion leader asked me to agree to let your grand duke redeem the knights and relatives of the Feisabrun family that were captured by us. Here I admit that I didn't notice it for a while, and I went to a big boss of your legion leader. Dang. I thought he was referring to the family knights in your 3rd Frontier Ranger Regiment and the relatives of the Fesabrun family, but I didn't expect him to explain that this request included all the Frontier Ranger Regiment. Members of our captives. I am very angry, but as a nobleman and knight, I will still obey my promise. As long as the Feisabrunn family shows enough worth to reflect those captives, I agree to grant those captive knights and the liberty of your family members."
Hearing this, Seria raised his head proudly, as if he could feel very proud that the leader of the Bailoput Army had tricked Lorist.
I'm still a child... Lorist laughed, why keep those knights from the Feisabrun family? As a knight, you can't betray the family, unless the family voluntarily abandons you. Otherwise, no one would think highly of him if he betrayed, and Lorist would not gather these betrayed knights. No one who betrayed once would believe that he would not betray again. Anyway, the Feisabrun family owns the big and small Jinchuan, and with these captured It is a very good deal for the knights in exchange for a large amount of gold.
"I refused the third request. Your legion commander hopes that I will allow the Feisabrunn family to redeem all the soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Legion. This is impossible. I will not allow your Grand Duke to take them away. Redeemed and rearmed to form a legion again poses a threat to our soldiers. Although he tried to use these soldiers as the main force of the Feisabrun family to suppress the grass barbarian tribe, this is righteousness and I hope I can let these soldiers go back. This is a warm family reunion. But I still can't agree to this request. But I promised him that we will release these soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment and let them go back to the Family reunion with loved ones.”
Lorist looked at Celia and said: "I called you here to tell you this, you can go back now and choose the twelve soldiers who go back with you, you don't have to stay in the prisoner-of-war camp, I have given you Another barracks has been arranged, and your food and treatment will be the same as our family soldiers, if you have other requirements, you can ask me, I will do my best if I can."
Seria stood up: "I only have one request. I hope that we don't need to wait until after the rainy season to go on the road. The heavy snow will stop in February next year. We can go on the road at that time."
Lorist carefully looked at his resolute face, nodded, "As you wish."
Basically, it doesn’t snow anymore in February every year, but at that time, the ice and snow thawed, the roads were muddy and difficult, and people and horses could easily slip and fall. But since Seria insisted, Lorist didn't have to be a villain to refuse, anyway, he wasn't the one who suffered the most.
After Seria left, Bodfinger and Malek came to the door. Lorist called them to sit down and clicked on the map of the southern provinces hanging on the wall: "Bobby Ridge Mountain has been recovered. Next, you have to deal with the rock. The mission of the Legion has also been understood, that is, to be stationed on the border of the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province, to resist the invasion of the Fisabrun family armed forces and grass barbarian cavalry. This is a long-term mission and may take several years. Rock The legion is the first legion of our Norton family, and there is no other legion that can take on this important task except you."
Bodfinger and Malek both stood at attention: "Your Highness, please rest assured, with the Rock Legion here, we will never let the Fisabrun family's armed forces cross our line of defense."
Lorist waved his hand and asked them to sit down: "With the recovery of Mount Bobby Ridge, the southern province's border defense line will have a strategic backing, and our family can bring back the Flying Tiger Legion. Here. Similarly, the heavy armored regiment of the Kenmes family and the two light cavalry and light infantry regiments of the Shaheen family can also go back. This border line of defense will be handed over to the Rock Legion. Of course, Earl Felim's Pegasus Legion will I will do my best to assist you, and you will command and deploy them when the battle is about to take place."
"In addition, this time I will add two Thunderbolt Sling Battalions to the Rock Legion to deal with the enemy's log shield vehicles. You can learn from the experience of guarding the 23rd Battalion of the Guards in Pedro City and burn them with fire oil tanks and crossbow arrows. A shield car, or just throwing stones directly. I won't say much, and I will leave everything to you.
In a few days, I will be leaving for the Northland, and there are still many things to do there. After you take over the border defense line of the southern province, you must arrange and build all the defense facilities in strict accordance with the established plan, without any omission, understand? "
Baldfinger and Malek stood up again and stood at attention: "Your Highness, we will not let you down."
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