"Your Highness, are our millions of troops just stationed here doing nothing?" Tiger Ross complained impatiently.
"What's the matter, can't stay longer?" Lorist asked with a smile while reviewing the documents on the table.
This is the Norton family armed camp, Lorist's central tent. After meeting with the army of the Antinak Kingdom led by His Royal Highness and the family armed corps of the nobles and princes of the territories, the army of nearly one million troops has been captured along the border of the Armenian Province of the former Principality of Rulm and has been captured by the Norton family. The territory of Marivia Province, which covered half of the province, set up camp. Although the momentum was extremely large, there was no large-scale battle. Even the scout cavalry was strictly forbidden by the Second Highness to enter the territory of the commercial alliance. There was an oddly peaceful atmosphere at the front.
In less than half a month, the bored Tiger Ross ran to Lorist's big tent to complain. He thought that His Royal Highness's so-called strategic plan to force the commercial alliance to return the provinces of Armenia and Marivia with millions of soldiers was really absurd. Now is obviously the period when the commercial alliance's troops are most scarce and empty. It will take some time for the main armies brought back from the southern part of the mainland by the six giants of the commercial alliance to reach the front line here. The Second Highness didn't take advantage of this opportunity to attack the Mana Hill Plain first, but missed the opportunity. For Tiger Ross, this was simply the result of his head being caught in the door.
"Hehe," Lorist explained with a smile: "You should know that this is a plan that was made at the beginning, not that our Majesty didn't know that we should invade the Mana Hill Plain, the purpose of the garrison here is to coerce the business alliance to agree to it." At the same time, it is necessary to avoid a real confrontation with the business alliance. What the kingdom needs next is a long period of recuperation, and it is not advisable to go to war with the business alliance. So don’t look at our million-dollar army, it’s all here to put on airs .You treat this period of time as a holiday for everyone."
"Even if you're putting on airs, His Majesty shouldn't prohibit our small troops from scouting and cross-border attacks, so as to put more pressure on the business alliance. Millions of troops gather here but dare not cross the border half a step. The business alliance will definitely laugh at us. They're all cowards and cowards." Tiger Ross said unwillingly.
"That's His Majesty sending a signal to the Commercial Alliance, indicating that we don't want to go to war with the Commercial Alliance. I believe that after a while, the Commercial Alliance will send envoys to discuss the conditions and requirements for signing a peace agreement."
Lorist waved his hand: "Okay, Ross, don't pretend to be a fool in front of us, I understand what you're thinking, isn't it that the lord of Malivia Province is rich and you want to make a lot of money?" A sum?"
"Hehe, hehe..." Tiger Ross scratched his head in embarrassment: "Your Highness, this, this is also for the sake of the family. You know that Bodfinger led the Rock Army to sweep the entire Campona Province, but only a few were captured. If It’s not that the young and strong captives who have captured 100,000 might suffer a huge loss this time. Who said that these territorial nobles in Campona Province are a bunch of poor people
But Malivia Province is different. Didn’t our Flying Tigers just win the field battle and capture more prisoners by accident in pursuit of the enemy? As a result, we randomly found a few lords to raise armaments and found them all Rich as hell. Thirty-eight nobles in the territory would actually have 2 million gold coins seized in cash, which is comparable to half of the gold coins reserved by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce. "
Well, more than a month ago, the three regiments of the Flying Tiger Legion, under the leadership of Tiger Ross, went to Campona Province to join forces with the Rock Legion led by Bodfinger. As soon as they entered Campona Province, they bumped into the business alliance. The 100,000 reinforcements from the Commercial Alliance were completely defeated by the Flying Tiger Legion, and even the Great Swordsman was defeated by the Steel Crossbow of the Chariot. Three were shot dead. In order to hunt down the fleeing enemy, Tiger Ross took advantage of the victory and led his army into Marivia Province.
Tiger Ross, who had just completed the task of cleaning up the territorial nobles in Puerto Org Province, habitually cleaned up the territorial nobles on the territory of Marivia Province occupied by the Flying Tiger Legion after the battle. Overjoyed. Compared with those territorial nobles in Puerto Org Province and the seizure of the territorial nobles in Campona Province reported by Bodfinger, these territorial nobles in Marivia Province are simply rich.
Let's put it this way, those territorial nobles in Puerto Org Province, after all, came out of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce. Although he was not considered rich, he still had a savings of 18,000 gold dollars, and Tiger Ross also captured hundreds of thousands of dollars in Puerto Org province.
But Bodfinger swept up those lords in Campona Province and found that they were really poor. After nearly a hundred territorial nobles in the province were wiped out, they seized less than 200,000 goldfords. Generally, a baronial territory can be considered very rich if it can seize five thousand gold coins. However, the territory of Malivia Province occupied by the Flying Tiger Legion is less than one-third, and the Goldford accumulated by the thirty-eight nobles in the territories that have been swept away has reached as much as two million. What about redness
But when you think about it, you can understand that when the business alliance was planning to implement the lord system, the most distressing thing was the lack of canonized territories. Later, the Grand Duke Rulm was persuaded to join the business alliance and dedicated the provinces of Armenia and Marivia. Two more provinces have been conferred as the titles of the business alliance, and the first batch of conferred nobles are all rich and well-connected people. Among them are the presidents of second-rate chambers of commerce, industrial and mining owners, and the last batch of The mercenary captain who was canonized to Campona Province because of his meritorious service on the battlefield, the bitterness of the garrison chief is naturally due to his different wealth.
"Needless to say, you should stay calmly in the barracks during this time. Don't forget that you led the army into Marivia Province and caused me a lot of trouble. Our Majesty heard you You attacked Malivia Province and occupied half of the territory, but your face was blue. I was afraid that your rash move would cause an overreaction from the Commercial Alliance. You must know that he does not want to have a real war with the Commercial Alliance..." Lorist Without raising his head, he rejected Tiger Rose's proposal.
Lorist knew exactly what Tiger Tiger was thinking. Didn't he want to lead a team of troops to wipe out those territorial nobles in Malivia Province? The problem wasn't that His Highness the Second Highness had issued an order strictly prohibiting the plundering of nobles in the provinces of Armenia and Marivia, but that Lorist was worried that the tiger Ross would be harmed. You must know that in the glass war between the Business Alliance and the Trimble Kingdom, the stubborn Trimble VII paid a high bounty and launched a war of high-end combat power, and went to the Trimble Kingdom to rob those The golden mercenaries of the commercial alliance of noble territories and manor castles, the golden swordsmen died a lot.
Lessons learned from the past, the teacher of the latecomers. Lorist didn't want the business alliance to learn from Trimble VII. Tiger Ross had always been his confidant, and he was also the family's golden knight who was most likely to be promoted to a great swordsman. It was a big loss for the family to rob the nobles of those commercial alliances for a little gold coins and end up losing their lives. Before the peace talks are settled, this guy should stay in the barracks obediently.
"Alas..." Tiger Ross sighed, and was about to say something more, when the curtain was lifted and Genorio walked in.
"Your Highness, just now His Majesty sent a messenger to invite you to attend his banquet at night." Genorio reported.
"Alas..." This time it was Lorist who sighed. It has been more than ten days since the army of millions assembled. During these ten days, His Royal Highness held a banquet in the barracks every night and invited all the nobles to attend. Although the banquet did not talk about delicacies from mountains and seas, it was also very rich. It seems that the Second Highness captured a lot of money when he attacked the Northwest Region, and he was willing to spend extravagantly.
His Highness invited all the nobles to attend the banquet, nominally to win over goodwill, but in fact, he was talking about how he would govern the empire after he signed a peace agreement with the business alliance to unify the former Kerrysen Empire, and how he would let Kerry The Sen Empire has become the most powerful country on the Galintia continent, and it seems that the business alliance will accept his conditions and return the provinces of Armenia and Marivia.
It seems that His Royal Highness has started to make old mistakes again. It was the same after he took the city of Federica in a surprise attack. Drop the book. So His Highness suddenly swelled up, thinking that a unified empire was in front of him, and no one would dare to disobey his orders. At that time, he was seriously ill in bed due to the wind and cold, and he was confused and began to issue various orders. As a result, the nobles in the territory of Andover Province first rebelled, and then forced to rebel against the four central duchies, which were originally allies, and ruined the good situation. Once, even he himself almost lost the throne.
Now that he thinks that with an army of one million, the business alliance will definitely accept his conditions due to his strength, so he is arrogant again. However, in front of His Royal Highness Lorist, he was still very close as always. Although there was still deep fear under his eyes, on the surface he was extremely enthusiastic. He even often shared his arms at the same table and called him my brother...
Lorist knew very well that this was mainly due to the amazing performance of the Norton family's armed forces in this battle. Without the cooperation of the other three families of the Northern Alliance, the Norton family's armed forces made a surprise attack on the provinces of Andover, Puerto Org, and Campo. That province even occupied one-third of the territory of Malivia Province, regained three provinces, captured King Federica, removed the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, and defeated the 100,000 reinforcements sent by the Business Alliance . The unparalleled prestige of the Norton family's armed forces shocked the entire Galintia continent.
Compared with the Norton family's armed forces, the family's armed forces of other aristocratic grand dukes are all here to make soy sauce, or more precisely, they are here to consume the military rations saved by the Second Highness. Grand Duke Handra, Grand Duke Sabaji, and Duke Forundo, these three former Central Dukes have indeed been seriously injured by the Second Highness. Not only were they moved to a barren territory, but there was only one left in their hands. A garrison of 45,000 men. They naturally regard this only legion as more precious than their lifeblood, so it is understandable that they refused to implement the plan made by His Royal Highness to attack Campona Province.
The armed forces of the Kenmes family, the armed forces of the Felim family, and the armed forces of the Shaheen family, three of the four alliances in the Northland, seem to have no energy after the Norton family armed as the backbone. Even Lorist Equipped with perfect siege weapons, catapults and long-range attack repressive weapons, chariot steel crossbows, they are also unwilling to let their family armed legions attack the well-defended castle fortresses in Campona Province, lest the family soldiers be killed. to damage.
The rest is the Grand Duke Feisabrun. With the close relationship between the Feisabrun family and the Second Highness, the Grand Duke Feisabrun will naturally contribute to the Second Highness. He also brought two legions this time. The cavalry corps and the reserve corps add up to a total of 90,000 troops. Several grand dukes said that the queen is a member of the Feisabrun family, so it should be the Feisabrun family armed to attack the castle fortress on the border of Campona province. As a result, Grand Duke Fesabrun cursed, did anyone use light cavalry to attack the city? That is to send them to death, be careful of the grass barbarian cavalry of the reserve legion to make a mutiny for this!
The seven princes were unwilling to send troops and began to kick the ball. In the end, Grand Duke Sabaji had an idea. Isn’t there someone else? This time, the nobles from the territories also came to join in the fun, forming an allied army of hundreds of thousands of nobles, let them take the lead. The seven grand dukes unanimously agreed to this very wise proposal, so they called all the nobles of the territory who came with troops to discuss.
No one is a fool. When they heard that the task of attacking the castles and fortresses in Campona Province fell to their heads, all the nobles in the territory united to protest. Isn't this a joke? As the Grand Duke of the kingdom, you command tens of thousands of family armed legions. It is unreasonable for you not to attack but let us small nobles with only two or three thousand family private soldiers as cannon fodder! We are going to sue you before His Majesty...
This is the truth about how Bodfinger found out after sweeping the entire Campona province that the noble dukes deployed in the two southwestern provinces did not launch the attack as planned. Bodfinger went to the garrison camps in the two southwestern provinces, only to find that the seven archdukes and the lords of the coalition of nobles were still arguing over who should be the vanguard to attack Campona. Baldfinger said he was dumbfounded at the time.
Of course, the plan of the three-way army arranged by the Second Highness to attack the border of the Campona Province and then reunite with the commercial alliance also had his own reasons. He overestimated the combat effectiveness of his Blizzard Raiders. The mobility between them is underestimated. The last point is that he didn't pay attention to Grand Duke Zithuram in the northwest region. Not to mention that he underestimated the enemy, he also suffered a big loss from Grand Duke Zithuram. However, it can be regarded as completing the task of recovering the northwest region.
After the meeting, Lorist naturally despised the scumbag fighting power of the seven grand dukes and nobles' allied forces. Of course, he also ridiculed the Second Highness a few words. The plan was well planned, but none of them completed it according to the plan. Fortunately, they were thick-skinned and didn't care about it. Just like the Second Highness declared, the greatest victory was to complete the meeting as planned, and they began to hold banquets and revelry for this.
Lorist had a lot of things to do, so he didn't bother to take care of them, he plunged into the big tent and was very busy. The Flying Tiger Legion captured more than 60,000 captives after defeating the 100,000 reinforcements of the Business Alliance, as well as the generous capture of 38 noble territories in Malivia Province and the forced relocation of more than 100,000 people. The 100,000 young men and their families who were captured in Campona Province were swept away by grid, and all these had to be escorted back to the north by troops. The logistics supply and rest supply stations along the way must be considered properly, and long-distance carriages must be purchased to assist in transportation. These are the trophies of the Norton family, and even the Second Highness couldn't use his brains...
"Forget it, tell Your Majesty, I still have things to do, so I won't go to the banquet tonight." Lorist said.
Genorio came back after a while.
"Your Highness, Your Majesty said that he chose a captured Earl of the Commercial Alliance, and asked him to send a letter to the six giants of the Commercial Alliance, proposing the conditions of our kingdom, asking them to send people to discuss the realization of peace between the two countries. That The count will leave tomorrow morning after attending the banquet at night. His Majesty asked if you want to go to the banquet to meet the count?"
Lorist waved his hand impatiently: "Never mind, tell Your Majesty that everything is up to him. What's good about an earl, isn't it just to send a letter? Your Majesty just wants to pull me over to be armed by the Norton family." Just to frighten that poor earl. Just say I'm unwell and I won't go to the party."
"Okay, Your Highness, I will report back to Your Majesty right now."
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