The white snow field has long since lost its cleanliness. There are ruined walls everywhere, burning villages and towns, corpses frozen into iron blue and large areas of blood. Occasionally, there are a few choked wailing sounds in the cold wind. With despair and grief. The formerly fertile and peaceful Mana Hill Plain was once again invaded by evil neighbors from the north, and blood stained the entire plain.
Among the seven cities in the Mana Hill Plain, Morente City is one of the biggest pearls, and the remaining six cities are fortress cities to protect this pearl. Angered by the commercial alliance's machinations and tricks last year, His Majesty King Ogesello I of the Antinak Kingdom led the army to make a comeback, not only regaining the provinces of Armenia and Marivia that belonged to the commercial alliance, but also almost wiped out the commercial alliance The most relied on main force, nearly 300,000 troops were wiped out.
This is the heaviest blow to the business alliance, and it is also a slap in the face of the business alliance, which claims to be the largest country in Galintia, so that everyone in the business alliance understands that a very simple The truth is, without a strong military strength, no matter how many gold coins, no matter how large the territory is, it cannot become a big country. On the contrary, in the eyes of the enemy, it is just a piece of fat.
Last year, the army of the Antinac Kingdom invaded the plains of Faliqiu and took down the three cities of Bruvik, Liete, and Credo. , the two provinces of Mawei Forint, caused a huge loss of people and materials to the business alliance. Since the second half of last year, the Chaser Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion once again looted five provinces around the Mana Hill Plain, robbing a large amount of food, grass and military supplies, which greatly delayed the business alliance's plan to mobilize troops to reinforce the Mana Hill Plain go down.
But the evil deeds done by the army of the Antinak Kingdom on the plains of Faliqiu and surrounding provinces angered the people of the entire commercial alliance. One of the six giants of the business alliance, the president of the Two-headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, Camberlet, issued a public declaration in Morente City, vowing that he would never let the Kingdom of Antinac rest in peace. He said that for two hundred years, the wolves from the north have been coveting the Faliqiu Plain, intending to annex the fertile Faliqiu Plain, but the industrious and brave people of the business alliance never want to be slaves. They yearn for freedom and equality. He paid a great price to drive this northern wolf from the Farichill Plains and protect his homeland.
Forty years of peace were paid for by the blood and lives of the ancestors of the people of the Merchant Alliance, but now the wolf of the north has regained his energy and came to invade the plains of Mana Hill again. I believe that the people of the brave business alliance will not be afraid of the sharp claws of the wolf. No matter how much blood we shed and the price we pay, we will still take up our bows and spears and fight this wolf to the death decisive battle. It's just that we will never forgive this evil wolf from the north with a tolerant heart this time. We will turn defeat into victory and go straight to the wolf's den. We will never stop fighting until we kill this evil wolf!
Chairman Camberwright's declaration won the applause and response of the residents of Morente City. Countless residents signed up to join the self-defense force recruited by the Business Alliance and the three newly formed garrison regiments. Soon the Business Alliance once again had nearly 100,000 troops, and they were sent to Thomas City, Gipsy City and Robert Via City, the three fortress cities that had not yet fallen, to resist the attack of the army of the Kingdom of Antinac and maintain Live in the commercial alliance's defensive line on the plains of Mana Hill.
"The business alliance thinks it's still more than a hundred years ago? Such old-fashioned defensive tactics are still useful? Bah!" The Second Highness watched more than ten catapults smashing the wall of a small fortress built along the river. The soldiers of the White Lion Army in winter clothes roared and rushed in, and soon there were dying screams and fighting sounds from the small fortress...
The reason why the Faliqiu Plain is so rich is inseparable from the water conservancy and irrigation facilities all over the plain and the intersecting artificial canals of large and small sizes. In times of peace, these artificial canals are the guarantee of a good harvest for irrigated fields and the water transportation for transporting goods and goods. However, when the war came, these artificial canals became a natural moat that the enemy could not cross. Coupled with the temporary fortress barriers, the entire Mana Hill Plain became a deep and wide defense network.
"Your Majesty, even if the Business Alliance knows that we can carry out raids in the cold winter, there is no way to come up with effective defensive measures. They can only watch us cross those artificial canals and ditches, smashing them with catapults Those fortresses that they think are fortified!" The person who said this was the confidant of the Second Highness, the Golden Knight Lippired, who is the commander of the first white lion army that is attacking.
The Second Highness had tasted the sweetness in the raid on the Northwest Territories in the winter of the previous year, and at the same time, because of the richness of the seizure, he ordered that the batch of monster fur worth a million gold dollars bought from Lorist at a discount be made into one-piece pieces. The winter clothes were equipped for the First White Lion Army under his command. Their purpose was to also use the cold winter season to launch a surprise attack on the defense network on the Mana Hill Plain, trying to capture the remaining three fortress cities on the Mana Hill Plain in one fell swoop. Under Morante.
Although the Business Alliance has made some preparations to prevent the army of the Antinac Kingdom from launching a surprise attack in winter, they did not expect that the criss-crossing artificial canals on the Mana Hill Plain will freeze solidly in winter, and the former natural moat has become a smooth road. One by one, the fortress barriers isolated on the snow field were smashed into ruins by catapults. The soldiers of the garrison corps defending these small fortresses had nowhere to escape. They either fought to the death or surrendered obediently. It only took about ten days for the White Lion Army of the Kingdom of Antinac to break through the first line of defense formed by more than a hundred fortress barriers, and hit the city of Robert Via.
Calitok stood at the head of Robert Via's city, looking at the ruined fortress barrier in the distance, and the soldiers of the White Lion Legion who were gathering for a rest, his face was gloomy and very heavy. The city wall was full of tension, and every garrison soldier knew in his heart that in the afternoon, those nasty Antinac soldiers would launch an attack on the city under his feet, and no one could be sure that he would be safe by then. Get through this battle.
I used to be a member of the army on the opposite side, a general under the command of the legendary king of the Antinak kingdom, Ogethello I. But now that he is standing opposite him, he has become his enemy. In the eyes of that distinguished king, he is just a deserter. Karitok recalled the past bitterly.
Seventeen or eighteen years ago, Karitoke was still a very young student of Dawn Academy. Because of his admiration for Black Iron Locke, the legendary figure of the academy, he joined the swordsmanship club headed by Lorist, and soon became an elite member. And Chenxi Academy's apprentice swordsmanship teaching. At that time, he thought that he would soon become the next legend of the academy, and he was full of energy, with a bright future ahead of him.
It was Lorist's trip to the north that changed his life, and it was Fatty Shi's foolishness that made him give up his bright future at Chenxi College, and he was willing to follow Lorist to the north, planning to use his talent and blood to create a new world for his ordinary family. Born, let yourself become a member of the noble and extraordinary nobles in the eyes of your parents.
He suffered a lot on the northbound road, but he became radiant like a sharpened long sword. Among the thirty-six Dawn Academy students who followed Lorist to the north, I had already become a member of the ten-member council that could decide the itinerary of the convoy returning north, and even had considerable influence in the convoy's armed forces, responding to everyone.
Later, the convoy arrived at the Kingdom of Antinac, His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Antinac opposite. At that time, he was only known as the Second Highness. At that time, I was really moved by the talk, or I was dazzled by the dazzling name of Knight of the Royal Family, so I agreed to it like a ghost, and became one of the seven Chenxi Academy students who transferred to the Second Highness.
I remember that when I left the camp of the northbound convoy, Fatty Shi, Terman, Dolles, and Lummard, these former college friends, looked at me with contempt and disdain, which took a heavy blow to my self-esteem. , and became angry from embarrassment. At that time, I thought they were fools, so what if Lorist returned to the family territory to inherit the title, they hadn't become knights under the command of a small lord. But I am serving the future king, and my status is still a noble royal knight.
The imagination is so beautiful, but the reality is so cruel. After becoming a knight of the royal family, I realized that I was not valued by the Second Highness. On the contrary, the twenty-six knights who joined the Second Highness from the Norton family's northbound convoy, together with seven of their students, became the Second Highness's pawns in the formation of troops. In the battle to break through the border siege of the Principality of Madras and defend the Iron Guard Corps' breakthrough, two students who had joined His Highness the Second Highness for less than a month died in battle.
Then came the great victory of Liushuichuan, attacking the two southwestern provinces, Campona province, until the soldiers approached the city of Federica, forcing the eldest prince to cede the two southwestern provinces to the second highness, and established the great reputation of the new army god of Galintia. At that time, he wanted to cry but had no tears, because only himself and Sender were left among the seven students who took refuge with the Second Highness.
Later, Lorist came to the imperial capital to present the captured rebellious second prince of the empire, the king of the Kingdom of Iberia, to the Second Highness. I met myself and went to the Paradise Party held by Princess Kerry together. He told Lorist about his disappointment under the Second Highness, and Lorist persuaded him to come back, saying that he would be responsible for everything. It's just that I thought of the disdainful eyes that Fatty Shi and the others looked at me when I was parting, so I hesitated again.
In the end, Sender did not escape the ending of death on the battlefield. He was frostbitten when the Second Highness crossed the Yunduan Mountains and Daxue Mountains to surprise King Federica, and then he was injured and sacrificed in the longbow of the palace guards because he couldn't dodge when he captured the palace. Down. I was finally disheartened, and left the Second Highness without saying goodbye, and returned to Morente City.
After returning to Morente City, I found that not only myself, but also the entire business alliance had changed. The Lordship System was implemented, and a large number of territorial nobles were conferred, and the kingdoms that perished all over the world took their land by force. And I wanted to come back to be a freelance mercenary, but I didn't expect that the mercenary industry in Morente City had already declined. I want to go to the colleges in the college area to find a teaching job again, but I find that the colleges can't recruit students. Not only have many colleges been closed, but the remaining colleges are also reducing their teaching staff so that they can last longer.
What happened to the world? It's changing so fast, it's hard for me to adapt. Karitoke felt very confused at that time, stayed at home for nearly a year, and became a full-fledged otaku. If it wasn't for the fact that Karitoke's parents were a pair of very philistine residents of Morente City, his elder brother was afraid that the younger brother would go home to snatch the property that his parents would leave in the future. The gold coins I earned over the years will stay until I grow old.
When Karitoke's parents knew that their second son had become a gold-ranked knight, they were overjoyed, and then threatened him with death in front of Karitoke, and finally forced Karitoke to become his father's servant. The golden guard of that third-rate chamber of commerce, and his father got his wish, so he became a steward of that chamber of commerce.
The world is changing, things are changing. He finally confronted the Second Highness. Karitok smiled wryly and looked again at the battle flag of the White Lion Legion fluttering in the cold wind in the distance, and at the seven pale faces around him. This is the eight commanders of Robert Via City, including him, and the other seven are all thugs or guard leaders from various second- and third-rate chambers of commerce who have never been on the battlefield. Their fighting spirit cultivation is above silver. It's just that I haven't experienced much battle.
Karitoke is now the head of the eleventh corps of the second garrison regiment newly formed by the Commercial Alliance. He has eight thousand-man brigades under him. Except that he himself is also the captain of the first brigade, the 8,000-man corps is nothing more than It seems to be composed of the residents of Morente City who have been dazzled by their blood and the guards of various chambers of commerce. Their mission is to stick to the city of Robert Via. People are in the city, and the city is destroyed.
"There is nothing to be nervous about. Our city walls are much stronger than those small fortresses. Those catapults are not so easy to destroy our city walls. And I have calculated that the launch distance of those catapults is only two to three hundred meters away. The shooting range of the siege crossbow. If the enemy launches an attack, we can use several siege crossbows to deal with a catapult. As long as those catapults are destroyed, the enemy will not be able to attack our city..." Card Ritok said that on purpose to ease the hearts of his subordinates.
"I didn't lie to you." Kalitok encouraged loudly: "The catapult is nothing to be afraid of. Do you know why I let you put sandbags on the city wall? It is to resist the attack of the catapult. As long as we hide in these behind the sandbags, then the throwing stone will have no effect unless it hits us directly on the head. You don’t believe your luck is so bad, do you?”
"Yes, but the catapult will smash our city wall and open a hole for the enemy to rush in..." said a pale-faced commander.
"I've expected this. If the city wall is broken, we can throw these sandbags down to fill the hole." Karitoke replied calmly.
"I, we are dead, still, let's run away..." A guy was about to collapse.
"Bastard! Where are you going to escape? How do you escape in the ice and snow? Besides, can you run as fast as the two wooden sticks under the enemy's feet? If you talk nonsense to shake the morale of the army, I will kill you with a sword!" Angry, he was about to step forward and give that guy a slap to wake him up. In this situation, he had no other choice but to defend desperately. I never thought that there was a thin layer of ice on the ground, and I almost slipped and fell with a "chiliu".
"Who the hell poured tea on the ground!" Calitok was furious, and then his mind flashed, and he suddenly remembered the experience that Lorist had said about watering and building an ice city to resist monsters.
Karitok turned his anger into joy: "Yes, I have a solution. Don't try to break our city wall with catapults!"
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