The face of the Second Highness was as cloudy as the rainy season that had just passed for a month or so. The news Lorist brought to him had already prevented him from having a good meal or sleep for three consecutive days. The defeat of the attack on the principality's defensive positions. It made him, a first-level great swordsman, get burned, his teeth ached, and his cheeks were swollen as if a piece of bread had been stuffed into his mouth.
Especially the pharmacist who just left made the Second Highness very angry, wishing to chop him off with a sword. The pharmacist, who is the court physician, looked at the condition of His Royal Highness's teeth for a long time, and said that he was helpless, because tooth pain is a disease of the nervous system, and pharmacy has always believed that dental diseases are a big problem Well, this is not like other physical problems, which can be cured by pouring a bottle of medicine. There is only one best way to solve the problem of tooth pain, and that is tooth extraction. But after the extraction, there is a missing tooth in the mouth. As for filling the tooth, it is a fantasy, and no one knows how to do it.
Of course, the Second Highness refused to pull out his teeth. As the king of the Antinac Kingdom, the lack of teeth in his mouth would make the nobles laugh. The solution is either to have nothing, or to pull out a good tooth in the same position from the mouth of the dead to fill the gap and present in front of people. This is also the practice of many nobles who have had their teeth pulled out. But when he thought of putting the dead man's teeth in his mouth, and taking them out when eating, so as not to accidentally swallow them with food... The Second Highness felt disgusted and firmly rejected the pharmacist's proposal.
The pharmacist had no choice but to prepare a few bottles of heat-clearing and fire-relieving potions for the Second Highness, but he did not guarantee whether it would be effective for toothaches. The Second Highness is in pain, if not for his inability to speak well, he would have scolded the pharmacist, what toothache is a worldwide problem in pharmacy, a broken liver can be cured by pouring a bottle of medicine, How come the teeth are useless? It is nonsense to say that teeth are the crystallization of human bones, which are different from flesh tissues. They are obviously not good at learning, so they really shouldn't spend so many gold coins every year to enshrine his...
Looking at the newspapers of Morente City brought to him by Lorist on the table, the Second Highness felt that his luck was really bad. Seeing that the achievements of the four duchies that perished in the central region and regained the eleven provinces of the empire were just around the corner, the cause of the unification of the empire had come to an end. Dawn appeared, but the Ford Business Alliance, which was the biggest enemy in his heart, unexpectedly recruited a sword master. With this Storm Sword Saint Township, can he send troops to recover the provinces occupied by the business alliance in the future? But if those provinces are abandoned, can the territory of the empire be considered complete? Can I still deceive myself and think that I am a great monarch who has completed the revival of the empire
Regardless of how anxious the Second Highness was, Lorist, accompanied by Earl Shaheen, went to the front line to check the situation on the battlefield. After the rainy season, Lorist lingered in Bear City for more than half a month, until the Second Highness sent three messengers from the front line to urge him to go on the road, and then reluctantly led the Flying Tiger Legion to set off, and by the way, Mo Lun Special City published a few newspapers that the Ford Business Alliance recruited a Zhenguo swordsman to report and brought it to him...
After checking the defensive positions set up by the four duchies in the middle of the opposite side, Lorist finally understood why the Second Highness urged him to come here. At first, he was still wondering, the mountain attack should be the job of the heavy armored infantry, and the Flying Tiger Legion is the cavalry, so come here There is a fart. Now on the battlefield, I realized that what the Second Highness wanted was not cavalry, but two long-range attack troops, the Chariot Steel Crossbow and Thunderbolt Catapult Battalion attached to the Flying Tiger Legion.
It was already May 21st when Lorist arrived at the front line. After the rainy season, the Second Highness led an army of more than 200,000 troops to attack the Westwood Province of the Duchy of Handela, and successfully occupied a quarter of it at the beginning. One's territory, but then got stuck in the Weilongni Mountain Pass, and failed several times in a row. Then I remembered to use the long-range attack ability of the Flying Tiger Legion to suppress the counterattack of the defenders, so I kept sending messengers He urged Lorist to come over as soon as possible.
"This is a difficult battle," Lorist said.
This is true, as the name suggests, Westwood Province is a province of mountains and forests, and it is still a large province. Weiss, in the common language, means to describe the majestic mountains. The Yunduan Mountains in Bailu Lake Swamp start from Campona Province, span five provinces and end in Westwood Province. Although this is the end of the Yunduan Mountains, the mountains are covered with forests, and the terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. At that time, the eldest prince sent more than 200,000 troops to conquer the four principalities in the central part, but was also blocked in Westwood Province. But at that time the Eldest Prince attacked from south to north, but now the Second Highness is attacking from north to south.
Veroney Pass, to be precise, should be the end of the Yunduan Mountains. This terrain is somewhat similar to the Pispel Pass where the city of Pedro in Winston Province is located, but this place is narrower than the Pispel Pass. It is much wider, more than ten miles wide. However, although the Weilongni Mountain Pass is spacious, the terrain is still condescending, and it is extremely unfavorable for the attacker to be in a state of upward attack.
It can be seen from the binoculars that the defending garrison of the Principality of Handra still used trenches and defensive positions built with earthen walls, but there were many more arrow towers instead. There are still many destroyed and broken shield vehicles scattered around the defensive position, and there are still dark marks on the ground, which should be the blood marks left by the soldiers who attacked, and there are many potholes and depths on the slope. Different long and linear groove marks...
"Look at the protruding parts on both sides of the slope." Earl Shaheen reminded.
"What's that?" Lorist turned the direction of the binoculars to the place Earl Shaheen reminded him of, and what he saw was a row of strange wooden houses with tall towers with long booms like artificial cranes.
"Catapult." Earl Shaheen replied: "Your Majesty dispatched a catapult to cover the attack of the White Lion Army. Unexpectedly, the enemy had already prepared for it. The strange row of wooden houses with long arms on it turned out to be used for catapults. Although they The stone throwing distance is not as far as our catapults, but the terrain is superior and condescending, the attacking troops of the White Lions suffered a disastrous defeat, with heavy casualties, and the catapults sent by His Majesty the King also lost a dozen of them."
Trebuchet? Lorist understands. It seems that the Principality of Handela has produced lever-type stone-throwing equipment. The tower-like wooden house below may have been deliberately built to cover up the principle of the lever-type stone-thrower. Hehe, I am quite careful. confidential. Lorist counted it, and there were more than forty wooden towers on one side, and nearly a hundred trebuchets on both sides.
"How heavy are the stones they launch? Where can they be thrown?" Lorist asked.
Earl Shaheen thought for a while and replied: "The size of a human head, weighing forty or fifty catties, should be able to throw it as far as two or three hundred meters. At that time, the catapult sent by His Majesty was destroyed at this distance, and His Majesty the King was furious." , said that the catapults you gave him were all junk, and they were not as far as the enemy's. Because when attacked by the enemy's catapults, our catapults also launched a counterattack immediately, but the problem is that all the catapults fell on the They passed in front of those trebuchets and couldn't destroy them, so they had to retreat."
Lorist snorted softly through his nose: "Bad stuff, thanks to him being able to say it. I don't even think about it. We are attacking from the bottom up. The enemy is on the top. The advantages of this terrain account for most of the advantage. Up and down offset, Our catapults certainly don't go as far as the enemy."
"Well, His Majesty the King also figured it out later. He arranged for a night attack, but the enemy was heavily guarded, and it also failed. The current battlefield format is reversed from that of the Duchy of Forendo. It will be our world during the day, Fu The garrison of the Principality of London can only counterattack at night to regain the position we occupied during the day. But now that there are hundreds of trebuchets on it, it has become their world during the day, and we cannot launch an attack at all." Shaheen said the Count.
This is true. These hundreds of catapults placed on the slopes are indeed a great threat to the attackers. As long as they enter the catapult range, they have to be wary of the stones falling from the sky. There is no need to talk about the efficiency of offense and the certainty of victory.
"Second Highness, didn't you try another place?"
"It's useless." Earl Shaheen shook his head: "This is already the flattest section of the Weilongni Pass, and it can be regarded as the most favorable terrain for our attack. We have also seen the rest of the place, the mountain is steeper, and some mountain roads Surrounding the hills, the side that is more conducive to defense. After all, the road in front of us is a thoroughfare between the four principalities in the middle, and it is also the most spacious area that poses the least threat to our attack. It’s just that we didn’t expect the Principality of Handra to arrange it on it. So many trebuchets have blocked us at this mountain pass."
"How are the troops of the four principalities in the middle distributed?" Lorist asked.
"According to the reconnaissance of our scouts and the confession of the captives, the front section of the mountain pass is guarded by the Red Dragon Army of the Principality of Handra. The Red Dragon Army and the White Dragon Army are the two standing legions of the Principality of Handra, and each army is 24,000 The establishment of thousands of people, each legion has two corps and one battalion, which is usually called the Red and White Ssangyong Legion, but it is divided into two legions when it is expanded during wartime. Currently, the Red Dragon Legion has four corps, and each corps 8,000 people plus a logistics battalion of 3,000, a full staff of 35,000 people, responsible for defending the Weilongni Pass.
The Yunduan Mountains on the left are defended by the 1st Garrison Army of the Principality of Forondo, and the Matenemadi Mountains on the right are guarded by the Green Forest Mountain Army of the Principality of Faker. The rest of the troops did not appear in our In front of us, we are facing nearly 130,000 people from these three legions. "Earl Shaheen has a clear understanding of the situation on the battlefield.
Lorist pointed at the Matenemadi Mountains and Rivers, which were filled with white mist in the distance: "Our Majesty the King has no idea over there?"
Earl Shaheen smiled bitterly: "Of course I fought, but it almost ruined an elite light infantry scouting brigade of our family. The mountains and rivers in Matenemadi are steep, there is no road to pass through, and the biggest feature is that there are many streams and deep ditches. It can be said that it is difficult to move an inch. The Green Forest Mountain Legion of the Principality of Faker only occupied a few strategic points and made it difficult for us to fly. I sent an elite scout brigade into the mountain to find the way, but only about 300 people came back people… "
"Isn't the Nibaraku River past the Matnemadi Mountains and Rivers leading to the Dramak Province, the hinterland of the Principality of Handra? The Second Highness never thought of sending out a surprise army to break into the enemy's back and disrupt the situation in the Principality of Handra. ?” Lorist made another move.
"It's useless, Grand Duke Fesabrunn suggested it, but he almost ruined a light cavalry regiment." Earl Shaheen sighed: "The Principality of Handela has long been prepared. Grand Duke Fessabrunn summoned craftsmen to make Countless wooden rafts were about to go down the river to the province of Dramac, but the Principality of Handra pulled three iron chains to block the river at the bend of the Matenemadi mountain and river.
In order to achieve the unexpected surprise effect, the Grand Duke Fesabrunn did not send anyone to reconnaissance, for fear of attracting the attention of the enemy. As a result, on the day when the troops were dispatched, the rough cavalry of the Reserve Legion went straight down the river, but were blocked by iron chains at the bend. The enemy on guard on the bank quickly called for reinforcements, took the opportunity to shoot rockets and projected fireballs on the river, and poured kerosene on the river, burning into flames. There was a sea of fire, and finally the reserve army was defeated, losing nearly ten thousand horses..."
Well, the Grand Duke Fesabrunn was unlucky enough. He lost almost one regiment and was burned, but he didn't even touch the enemy's fur. Lorist gloated for a long time, remembering that he had made a promise in front of the Second Highness that he would definitely find a way to capture the front position, and then he frowned again.
I really have a mental illness, why did I laugh at the Second Highness at the welcome banquet and they were trapped here, so I had to force myself to bring the Flying Tigers over. Then, provoked by the words of His Highness the Second, he couldn't take it anymore and drank too much wine, so he slapped his chest and said that he would definitely find a way to capture the defensive position at the mountain pass. Well now, put yourself in check...
"Henned, take me around again to see if there are any loopholes in the defense of the four central duchies." Lorist said to Earl Shaheen.
Three days later, the heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine presented by the pharmacist finally took effect. Although the tooth still hurts, the swelling on the cheeks of the Second Highness has subsided and he can speak well. The depressed Second Highness held a military meeting to discuss how to break through the current predicament and break through the defensive position at the mountain pass.
"Lock, last time you said that there must be a way to break through the Weilongni Pass in front, did you come up with any good ideas in the past few days?" His Royal Highness was the first to say to Lorist. Who told this guy to be unwilling when he brought the Flying Tiger Legion over? He complained at the welcome banquet that he was busy moving refugees for three months last winter, and he also helped him relieve the mountainous area of the Principality of Forondo. The threat of the legion behind the army, he has helped so much but there is not enough rest time, at least he should make up for the winter vacation or something. He also said that he would not be able to fight without the Flying Tigers of the Norton family, and depressed himself to death.
At that time, Grand Duke Fessabrun stood up and wanted to explain how well-defended the defensive position of Veyroni Pass was, but Lorist laughed and said that there is no foolproof defense in this world, but we have not found a weakness. I seized this opportunity and pinned down this guy, and then this guy rarely volunteered to find out the weakness of that defensive position. Maybe it was because this guy drank a few more drinks at that time, it was really rare. However, this guy gave him those newspapers before he left to let him know that the Ford Business Alliance had recruited a Juggernaut Zhenguo, which made him have a toothache for so many days...
If this guy said that he hadn't figured out how to attack the defensive position of Weilongni Mountain Pass, then I must laugh at him bitterly, who told this guy to speak out. The Second Highness thought so.
Lorist raised three fingers: "Your Majesty, forgive me for my ignorance. I only came up with three solutions after understanding the situation on the battlefield these days."
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