On December 10, 1788 in the general calendar of the Galintia continent, the Kingdom of Antinac once again took advantage of the cold winter season to launch a surprise attack on the Mana Hill Plain. It took only four days for the leadership to clear the first fortress line of defense deployed by the Business Alliance, reaching directly under the city of Robert Via. With the catapult tactics mastered by the Kingdom of Antinac one step ahead, almost all the top leaders of the business alliance believed that within three days, the city of Robert Via, with less than 10,000 garrison troops, would fall...
A miracle happened. The defenders of Robert Via poured water on the city wall, turning the whole city into an ice city. No matter how many catapults the Antinac Kingdom mobilized, they could not break through the walls of Robert Via. The desperate Second Highness commanded the White Lion Army to launch several siege battles, but nothing was gained except the loss of soldiers and generals.
In the plan of the Second Highness, he originally planned to spend more than 30 days cleaning the small fortress barriers on the defensive fronts on the entire Mana Hill Plain, occupying the remaining three fortress cities, and approaching the city of Morente. Is there any bargain to take. If there is a loophole in the city defense, then occupy Morente City. If there is no advantage, coerce the top management of the business alliance to sign an armistice agreement. Of course, the armistice agreement this time must be in accordance with the wishes of the Second Highness. Anyway, the business alliance has plenty of money. If you don’t want to cede land, then just pay more...
It's not that the Second Highness doesn't want to continue to attack the business alliance, but that the nobles of the territories under him are a little homesick and war-weary after years of fighting. It has been almost three years since the Second Highness said that he was just sending troops for a tour, forcing the business alliance to agree to the request of the Antinak Kingdom with the advantage of millions of troops, until everyone was involuntarily involved in this war. With the strengthening of the resistance of the business alliance, many nobles in the territory have moved their minds, looking for various excuses not to go to the battlefield again.
In particular, the departure of the Norton family's armed forces caused the Second Highness to lose the most powerful armed forces under his command. He succeeded the Norton family's Armed Chaser Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion, and defended the Filim family's armed forces from the side business alliance to reinforce the Faliqiu Plain. Although the Pegasus Legion, the Border Ranger Legion and the Reserve Legion of the Feisabrun Family, the three light cavalry legions, although they repeatedly repelled the reinforcements armed by the Commercial Alliance, they suffered heavy casualties, and they have already proposed to the Second Highness to return to the territory. Requirements for rest.
Don't look at the Second Highness's swearing so loudly, why don't you stop flattening the city of Morente, in fact, he is already satisfied. Back then, the powerful Krissen Empire and the Commercial Alliance fought fiercely for more than a hundred years. How many times did they go to the city of Morente? However, he led a group of hastily assembled territorial noble troops to conquer the three fortresses of the Faliqiu Plain, and also regained all the territory of the former Krissen Empire. This feat can be left in the history books, and it is enough to proclaim the emperor again Restoring the reputation of the Cressen royal family.
Let’s talk about the nearly forty years of peace. The towns and villages on the Fali Hill Plain are all very rich, especially the three occupied fortress cities. The seizures are so rich that all the nobles in the territory can’t believe their eyes. . As the king of the Antinac Kingdom, His Royal Highness naturally occupied half of it, and the remaining half was shared by the nobles of the territory. However, the seizure of the Norton family's armed forces was not included, and they did not confess to the Second Highness. For the sake of Lorist becoming the Kingdom's Sword Saint, the Second Highness acted as if he hadn't seen it.
Now His Royal Highness is focused on holding a grand coronation ceremony in the imperial capital, making himself the resurgent emperor of the Krissen Empire, and restoring the Andinak Kingdom to the name of the Krissen Empire. However, before the truce, the Second Highness also hoped to gain an understanding of the war, hurt the business alliance once and for all, forcing the business alliance to admit defeat and sign an armistice agreement, giving the empire a few years to recuperate.
It was for this purpose that the Second Highness launched another surprise attack in winter, and specially mobilized the most elite White Lion First Legion, but unexpectedly, the road was blocked under the city of Robert Via, and a star shone in the snow. The ice city appeared in front of him, and all the siege operations were ineffective against the ice city, but caused thousands of casualties of the White Lion Army soldiers.
As the garrison chief of Robert Via, Cavalier Karitoke became famous because of the ice city tactics that successfully defended against His Royal Highness's winter raid and the catapult tactics. In particular, his experience as the Royal Knight of the Second Highness, who finally turned his back on the Second Highness and returned to the business alliance was published by the tabloids in Morente City and made a big splash, mocking the Second Highness for being blind and ignorant of talents. Even though the Second Highness had the upper hand on the battlefield, he was disheartened by this matter.
After the war, many war scholars and experts commented in the history of the Galintia Continental War that the Kingdom of Antinak had mastered winter raid tactics and catapult tactics, making the cold winter a war assistant for its victory. But where there is a spear, there must be a shield. The ice city tactics of the Commercial Alliance perfectly restrained the winter raid and catapult tactics of the Antinak Kingdom, making the battlefield advantages of these two advanced tactics come to naught...
In January of the new year, when His Royal Highness led the White Lion Army to continue to compete with Robert Via Ice City, Tagle and Reddy came to the hunting house again to report the situation in Winston Province to Lorist. At present, Baron Camorra has accepted Lorist's appointment and is responsible for handling all immigration matters. The two regiment leaders of the Rock Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion, Bodfinger and Tiger Ross, who have arrived in Windbury King City, have expressed their obedience. Order, the Hunting Cavalry Legion still didn't come back halfway.
At the same time, the operation of borrowing food from the nobles of the surrounding provinces was carried out relatively smoothly. Except for a few families who were forcibly borrowed food because they were unwilling, most of the other nobles in the territory willingly lent a large amount of food reserves , Winston's food shortage has been alleviated. It's just that Baron Camorra asked Lorist in his letter how to arrange the millions of immigrants after the rainy season. Since Winston Province has conferred a large number of territorial nobles, it is impossible to find so much wasteland for reclamation...
Lorist once again issued instructions to Baron Camorra, asking him to move 500,000 immigrants to Muyeyuan Province after the March rainy season, build a fortress-style city in Muyeyuan Province, and carry out reclamation. At the same time, the head of the Jost Army of the Hunting Cavalry Corps was ordered to be responsible for the security of these settlements, and to protect these settlements from being harassed by the wild rangers.
In addition, let Baron Camorra choose 100,000 handicraftsmen from the million immigrants to arrange in Windbury King City and Pedro City, as a propellant for accelerating the development of commerce and handicraft industry in these two cities. There are 500,000 more new immigrants in Makinohara Province, and their needs for living materials and business exchanges between the two places are enough to revitalize this deserted business road. As for the remaining immigrants, Lorist asked Baron Camorra to arrange for them to renovate the water conservancy and transportation road facilities in Winston Province, and let them move to the family territory after Lorist recovered his strength and quelled the rebellion in the Northland.
After Tagle and Reddy left, Lorist began to practice peacefully again. After the snow melted in February, the rainy season in March, and the winter wheat harvest began in April, Lorist's strength had recovered to the level three Great Sword The pinnacle of the teacher. Lorist believed that after another two months of hard work, he would be able to become a Juggernaut again and open the field of blood killing.
In June, Aristoli finally became pregnant again as she wished. Well, Lorist spent all his efforts during the three days of the New Year. Instead, at the end of May, when Aridoli took Triek and the maids up the mountain to collect big red mushrooms, she and Lorist had a fling in the mangrove forest, and Arridoli won the bid at once. It can be seen that there are no rules for giving birth to children, and everything depends on luck.
On June 17th, Tager and Reddy came again, but Reddy went to the wooden castle to find his little lover Suni Lulu to talk about the old days, and Tager told Lorist a news, Second Highness It was defeated in the field battle between the Mana Hill Plain and the Commercial Alliance armed forces, and is currently retreating to Credo City to defend against the attack of the Commercial Alliance armed forces. However, although they won the battle, the loss of the Commercial Alliance was greater than that of the Second Highness. damage.
Lorist was very curious about how this war happened, and Tagle told him a dumbfounding fact that this war was not organized, but a chaotic one. Neither His Royal Highness nor the top management of the business alliance thought about such a big field battle. They thought it was just a small conflict. It was only after the scale became larger that the two sides realized that it was out of control and had to throw everything in their hands. The armed forces fought a battle. The Second Highness felt that he was at a disadvantage and withdrew his troops to Credo City and began to deploy defensive lines.
The Second Highness was not reconciled to the failure of the winter raid on the Ice City. He decided to wait until the rainy season was over before launching an attack on Robert Via City, to see what else the deserter Karitoke could come up with to resist the attack of the catapult. It's just that the Second Highness forgot one very important thing, that is, after the rainy season, all the artificial canals and irrigation ditches on the Mana Hill Plain have long since thawed, and have become insurmountable river obstacles again.
His Highness the Second Highness was dumbfounded. Although the fortresses beside these canals were smashed into ruins by His Highness's catapults, the most important thing at present is to build bridges on these rivers to prevent your army from being destroyed by these rivers. give split. But when His Royal Highness's Legion was building these bridges across the river, the reinforcements from the Commercial Alliance finally arrived in Robert Via City, and the number increased, and the barracks were arranged outside the city.
When the number of commercial alliance armed forces exceeded the strength of the Second Highness's army, small-scale conflicts inevitably occurred. At this time, His Royal Highness found that he was already on the verge of riding a tiger, and the reinforcements armed by the opposite business alliance had exceeded 100,000, and the reinforcements were still coming in a steady stream. On my side, there is only a Second White Lion Army with more than 50,000 troops and two heavy armored regiments with more than 20,000 troops armed by the Kenmes family. They have already fallen into a disadvantage in terms of strength. As a last resort, the Second Highness had no choice but to ask the territorial nobles in the camp behind to bring their family armed forces to come over for reinforcements.
When the strength of both sides exceeded one hundred thousand, it was discovered that the criss-crossing water network on the Mana Hill Plain had become an obstacle for both sides, because these artificial canals and ditches divided the army's camp into small pieces. Since the rainy season has just passed, the river has sufficient water. If these rivers are to be filled, the result will be that the river overflows and the military camp becomes a piece of mud. Therefore, the only way to connect the two banks is to build wooden bridges.
Because the Second Highness's side is the upper reaches of the canal, I don't know that nobleman came up with an idea, that is, to prepare a large number of fire boats to go down the river, and prepare to let these burning fire boats burn down the commercial armed camps built on the river. wooden bridge. This is actually just a disgusting thing, and it has no effect on the battle situation. For the first time, the armed forces of the Commercial Alliance were unprepared, and two wooden bridges and several tents on the shore were burned down. There were no casualties.
But the armed forces of the business alliance couldn't afford it, and sent personnel to retaliate one night a few days later. A dozen or so good swimmers sneaked into the military barracks arranged by the Second Highness at the extreme end along the river, threw kerosene cans everywhere, burned a large area of the camp, and nearly a hundred soldiers died in the flames.
So the two sides pinched each other like this, and those territorial nobles who suffered a loss called their friends and friends to retaliate against the enemy. What's ridiculous is that the troops on the two sides were fighting like a raging fire, and the continuous joining of relatives and friends on both sides made the scale of the battle bigger and bigger, while the top leaders of the two sides in the middle didn't know that their subordinates were fighting to the death.
When the high-level leaders of both sides received the report, they realized that most of their armed forces had been involved in the conflict. At this time, no one could withdraw. Whoever retreats first will be unlucky. Once the enemy chases and kills, the entire army may collapse. . In the end, the second highness gritted his teeth and threw all his troops into the battlefield. The commercial alliance's armed forces were obviously a step behind. This allowed the second highness to seize the opportunity and caused heavy casualties to the commercial alliance's armed forces on the battlefield.
This battle due to the conflict lasted for three days and two nights. If the battlefield space divided by the criss-crossing water network on the Fali Hill Plain is regarded as grids on a chessboard, then this war is often This grid was occupied by the armed forces of the Commercial Alliance, while the next grid was won by the troops of the Second Highness. The two sides were separated by a river except for shooting arrows and yelling at each other. No one could get to the other side...
The Second Highness was the first to put all the troops under his command into the battlefield, and also the first to call the troops to leave the battlefield. There is no way to fight this war, he simply cannot command and control the situation on the battlefield. You can see it but you can't hear it. When you send messengers, you don't know how many turns and rivers you have to cross. Maybe you will die on the way.
The battle that took place under the city of Robert Via ended with more than 60,000 casualties for the troops of His Highness the Second Highness, and more than 100,000 casualties for the armed forces of the Commercial Alliance. However, although the commercial alliance armed forces had greater casualties, they had gained the initiative on the battlefield and turned from defense to offense. No matter how heavy the casualties were, they could still make up for it. However, the Second Highness began to turn on the defensive because of this battle. The casualties of more than 60,000 soldiers were already traumatic for the Antinac Kingdom. My heart began to retreat.
"We should go too," Lorist said.
"Your Highness, are you fully recovered?" Tagle jumped up.
Lorist nodded: "Let's go, it's time for us to go back to the Northland, there is still a group of rebels waiting for us to go back and deal with them."
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