Rows of log houses in the distance were burning in the flames. There were pools of smudges and bloodstains all over the white snow, and there were bursts of depressive howling and screaming in the wind...
The heavy snow that had been falling for three consecutive days had stopped, and a few gaps were rarely exposed in the gloomy clouds. The clouds at the edges of the gaps were dyed golden yellow by the sunlight, like pieces of iron armor trimmed with gold.
Lorist had a gloomy face, and the senior family members standing next to him also had ashen faces, because on the snow in front of them, the corpses of 173 Flying Tiger Legion soldiers were neatly arranged, and the corpses were listed They formed three rows, stumped limbs, broken arms, and bloody scars, which were so shocking under the reflection of Bai Xue.
"Who can tell me what's going on? Why did such a dilapidated manor cause so many casualties to our family soldiers?" Lingling's words came out from between Lorist's teeth. The anger in my heart is burning.
"It's my fault, Your Highness." Dolles took a few steps forward: "None of us expected that this dilapidated manor without even a castle was the Barony of Abt, and Lord Tagle was on the list. Baron Abt, who was reminded to be on strict guard, was the deputy head of the Goshawk Mercenary Group, which was ranked 21st in the Mercenary Group in the Commercial Alliance, and the golden mercenary Abt, nicknamed the Golden Eagle.
A squadron of soldiers in charge of the vanguard found this dilapidated manor, and no one connected it with the Baron of Abt. The resistance of the knights under him caused all the soldiers of the squadron as the vanguard to be scouted to die on the spot.
Then Baron Abbott prepared to summon his garrison to resist, but he didn't expect our successor troops to come and fight together. The soldiers of our family had a total of 421 casualties, of which 173 soldiers were killed in battle, while Baron Abt had more than 700 casualties. Baron Abt, his knights and garrison have all been awarded …”
The organization of the Norton family's armed forces is that ten people form a small team, and the team leader is ten husbands. Ten squadrons form a squadron, and the captain is a centurion. The winter combat regulations of the Norton family's armed forces stipulate that a squadron that sets off first as a scout will encircle and guard the target when it discovers the target, strictly preventing it from being discovered by the target and causing a breakout, and then launching an attack after the follow-up troops arrive, effectively annihilating all Enemy, let no one slip through the net.
The Volibear Intelligence and Investigation Bureau conducted a detailed reconnaissance on the territorial nobles of Andover Province. The spies who used various conditions to pretend to be various identities checked almost all the territorial nobles of Andover Province. Basically, the private armed forces of the nobles in each territory, and the family knights are clearly marked on the intelligence. As long as the Flying Tigers follow the list submitted by Tagle, they can guarantee the offensive plan to occupy the province of Andover. It will be carried out very smoothly, and all the nobles who have been conferred by these business alliances in the province will be wiped out.
The only mistake is that although the intelligence list submitted by Tager listed Baron Abt as a key object of strict defense, it shows that the garrison under his command has a good combat effectiveness, and the territory of Baron Abt's territory is also marked on the map. Approximate location. However, the heavy snowfall in winter, the blizzard for three days and three nights turned the land into a boundless snowfield, which changed the identification and cognition of geographical location based on terrain, so the location on the map cannot be clearly determined in reality. , It is often only after the attack is successful that the captives can learn where it is.
The squadron that was the lead scout this time also made this mistake. The vast snow covered a small river that was identified as a geographical location. I didn't realize that this was the Barony of Abt, I just thought it was the territory of some poor nobleman.
Everyone knows that most of the nobles in the territory live in those stone castles, which are safe and windproof. There is still a raging flame burning in the fireplace, and the room is very warm. So the squadron leader of the scouting squadron thought that this was just the material warehouse of some territorial noble or the place where his servant Wodong was, so he assigned his soldiers to attack the wooden houses here in small groups. In his opinion, it should be possible to occupy these wooden houses in a short period of time, and then get information from the captives, but in the end...hit his head on the iron plate.
No one knew that Baron Abt, who was outlined in red pen on the information list and needed to be vigilant, lived in such a simple log house, and the spies did not indicate this in the information. When a small squad of soldiers from the scout squadron of the Flying Tigers rushed into the larger log house and ordered the enemy to put up their hands and throw their weapons and not kill them, Baron Abbott and his knights did not act like other landed nobles. He was caught without a fight, but resisted immediately.
The two-star Gold Baron Abbott, the three-star Silver Adrian Knight, and the one-star Black Iron Steward Gregory, against this scout team whose grudge cultivation is only Bronze Black Iron Rank, it's like cutting melons and cutting vegetables. generally. And this scout squadron is now divided into various teams to attack each wooden house separately, and it is too late when it is discovered that something is wrong here. Baron Abt and Knight Adrian came out, and immediately began to recruit the garrison, and quickly killed the scout squadron.
Fortunately, the follow-up troops came very quickly. Baron Abt had just wiped out the scout squadron of one hundred people. Before he knew where the enemy came from, the follow-up troops had already arrived. Immediately launched an attack angrily. Baron Abbott, Adrian Knight and the garrison were involved in another melee.
A small group of ten soldiers from the Flying Tiger Legion could not resist the surprise attack of the golden mercenary Baron Abt, and suffered a lot at the beginning of the battle. But there were more and more follow-up troops, and the formation of hundreds of people blocked the fierce Baron Abt and the knights of Adrian.
The arrival of Dolles, the commander of the regiment, became the last straw that overwhelmed the balance. Dolles, who is also a gold rank, even ignored the intention of surrender expressed by Baron Abbott at the last moment because of the casualties of many soldiers under his command. Abandoning the sword and begging for mercy, he killed it with one sword. However, the Adrian knight was shot into a hedgehog by the steel crossbow mounted on the sleigh cart when he wanted to break out of the encirclement and escape. As for Chief Gregal, he was injured in the scuffle and became a prisoner.
"Golden Eagle Abt..." Lorist stared at the corpse of Baron Abt who was sent in front of him. From his blood-stained face, he could vaguely tell that it was indeed the high-spirited baron in the Mercenary Guild of Morente City. The deputy head of the Goshawk Mercenary Group.
This should be an old acquaintance of Lorist. I remember that the first gold coins that Lorist earned in the mercenary guild were related to this Baron Abt. At that time, Lorist, Fatty Shi and a few friends raised a sum of money to make a batch of backpacks and sold them to the mercenary guild. A few arrogant mercenaries wanted to find some small wallets for these backpacks. It was the Golden Eagle Abu Te came out to help Lorist and the others, and bought all the backpacks at a high price, and later customized a batch.
At that time, Lorist had just lost contact with his family, and became a lowest-level bronze mercenary for the next semester's tuition and living expenses. The purpose of making a backpack is to earn a few Goldfords, but I didn't expect to be bullied by a few silver mercenaries. If it hadn't been for the deputy head of the Goshawk Mercenary Corps, Abbott, to come forward to make a rescue, maybe Lorist and Fatty Shi would still be beaten up.
Twenty years later, things changed and people changed, but the golden eagle Abbot who had been kind to Lorist became a hostile lord and died at the hands of the armed forces of the Norton family. Lorist sighed deeply, but couldn't speak. He just waved his hand and asked Dolles to bury him properly, then turned and left.
On December 27, 1786, the general calendar of the Galintia continent, the armed Flying Tiger Legion of the Norton family used the cover of a blizzard to raid and capture Andover Province, and Viking, one of the seven giants of the neighboring business alliance, The province of Puerto Org, the territory of the Western Asia Chamber of Commerce, didn't know it. Its capital, Federica, is decorated with lanterns and festoons, and is preparing to celebrate the new year.
Since hundreds of casualties were caused by unexpected resistance in Baron Abbott, Lorist specially slowed down the speed of the attack to ensure the smooth implementation of the cleaning plan for the province of Underoverf until New Year's Eve On the 21st of the month, the soldiers came to the city of Federica.
"Your Highness, you are here." Bodfinger and Malek hurried up to greet him.
This is a very large snow house, made of huge snow cubes piled up, poured with water on it, it freezes into a solid whole, and after the heavy snow falls, it looks like a very ordinary snow mound from a distance. And this kind of snow house is not one, but connected in rows. If you don't get close, you can't find that there is a big barracks hidden in this snow hill.
Walking into the igloo, there is a big tent built inside, and there are eight braziers around the big tent. The smokeless charcoal in the brazier is burning red, and the curved ventilation pipe sends in bursts of refreshing cold wind. , making the inside of the big tent as warm as spring without making people feel stuffy.
"How is the arrangement?" Lorist took off the outer leather jacket and handed it to Genorio, and called everyone to sit down.
Bodfinger placed a floor plan of King Federica in front of Lorist, with a serious expression on his face: "Your Highness, this is a tough battle, and the city of King Federica is very difficult to fight."
"How?" Lorist asked.
"After the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and the Four Principalities in the Central Region defeated the Second Highness and captured the King City of Federica and seized Puerto Org Province as its territory of the Chamber of Commerce, it carried out a large-scale expansion and rectification project on the King City of Federica, so those old ones back then City plans and defense facility layout drawings are basically useless.
During this period of time, we used binoculars to conduct reconnaissance on King Federica's city from all directions, and found that the city was roughly divided into five areas. In the middle is the inner city, where the former palace was located, and now there is a high wall. The east district is a high-end residential area, the south district is a business district, the west district is where barracks and arsenals are located, and the north district is supposed to be a slum area.
The old city of Federica had nearly 200,000 residents, but after the surprise attack by the Second Highness, and the joint siege by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and the Four Central Principalities, the remaining residents in the city should be less than 100,000. After the expansion of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, the old city residents basically lived in the North District, making a living by doing small businesses and serving hired labor.
The Vicia Chamber of Commerce seems to take the city of King Federica as its fundamental focus. In addition to directly governing the mineral resource collection areas in Puerto Org Province, it also divided up the farming areas in Puerto Org Province. Thirty-seven A landed nobleman. The garrison of each fief is not a concern, but the trouble is that the castles of the nobles of each fief have set up beacon warning towers.
This may be the result of His Royal Highness's surprise attack on King Federica's city back then, and the Vicia Chamber of Commerce has already taken precautions against it. Every ten days, the castles of these feudal nobles and the beacon fire warning towers of those mining and iron bases will light the beacon fires one by one. I suspect that they may be conveying some kind of message. In order to avoid alarming the enemy, we did not attack the fief lords around after setting up the encirclement of King Federica's city, so as not to be noticed by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce entrenched in King Federica's city.
At present, there are 45,000 members of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce Legion in King Federica's city, and a city defense team of 18,000 members. According to the information passed by Mr. Tagle, there are four great sword masters in the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, one second-level great sword master is in Morente City, one first-level great sword master is serving in the Chamber of Commerce Legion, and one first-level great sword master is guarding In Wangcheng, there is also a second-level great swordsman guarding the president of the chamber of commerce. However, except for the great swordsman next to the president of the chamber of commerce and the great swordsman serving in the legion, the other two great swordsmen were newly recruited by the Vicia chamber of commerce.
During nearly 20 days of reconnaissance, we found that most of the residents in King Federica have the ability to go out in winter. Although the cold and warm clothing on them is very different from our family's style, it does not affect them going out. activities, and the defense on the city wall is much tighter than other castles. There are patrols patrolling the walls every two hours. This means that we are easily spotted by the defending enemy during the offensive, which will cause our family soldiers to suffer greater casualties.
Therefore, the places where we are stationed now are nearly twenty miles away from the city of King Federica to ensure that we will not be discovered by the enemy. In addition, the Panshi Legion has sent three corps to bypass King Federica's city, blocking the east gate, south gate and west gate, forming an encirclement circle. Wait for the Flying Tigers to arrive before launching a strong attack on King Federica. "
Bodfinger pointed to the map of King Federica on the table and introduced the situation he had detected to Lorist, and finally said: "Your Highness, there is no other way to capture this city except for a strong attack. Once the Vicia Chamber of Commerce realizes that the situation is not good during the siege, it will vigorously organize nearly 50,000 miners to take up arms to resist our attack, which is almost equivalent to adding a legion to them."
Lorist pondered for a while and asked: "Can the secret passage that the Second Highness protruded from the king's city still be used? Can we use that passage to enter the city and launch a surprise attack?"
Bodfinger shook his head: "Your Highness, I sent someone to look for it. The map that Miss Chrisia handed us that marked the secret passage of King Federica's city is true and credible, but that passage has been maintained. The Western Asia Chamber of Commerce discovered and buried it, and we can no longer enter that secret passage.”
Lorist shook his head helplessly: "Let's do this first. After Tiger Ross leads the Flying Tiger Legion to arrive, we'll discuss how to attack the city."
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