Always feel as if something is wrong? Lorist walked up and down the city wall very depressed.
This is the seventeenth day since the Norton family armed forces occupied Morente City. Seven days ago, Lorist received an urgent report from the scout Qingqi. , There are still more than 200,000 follow-up troops, and the momentum is huge and menacing. It seems that Morente City will soon usher in a bloody offensive and defensive battle.
The enemy attacked the land with heavy troops, and for the next four days, Lorist and the high-level officials of the two legions were almost non-stop, day and night preparing various matters for defensive operations. After paying a huge amount of supplies and gold coins, they finally relied on Mo With the assistance of the residents of Lent City, the work of cleaning up the shantytowns and slums outside the city was completed, and then they dug trenches and set up fortifications, and they were extremely busy clearing the fields.
After everything was in place, Morant City also ushered in the first batch of attackers. Nearly 10,000 business alliance-armed vanguard troops swarmed in unorganized, throwing away their helmets and armor, holding all kinds of weapons with their bare hands. The same white flags flocked to the city and shouted: "All right, give me something to eat..."
"Open the door, we surrender..."
"I'm going home, no more calls..."
At that time, Lorist and Bodelfinger, who were at the head of the city, almost lost their teeth in shock, and no one figured out what was going on. If it's a trick, it's obviously not. Who has ever seen someone who lures the enemy can act so well, running so out of breath that he sat down in front of the city gate and refused to get up...
It wasn't until El took someone out to check and interrogate that he realized what was going on. Seriously speaking, these ten thousand troops are all the lucky ones of the armed vanguard of the Commercial Alliance. They returned to the army to recover Morant City, and they only carried five days of dry food when they set off. The senior executives of the business alliance told them that Gipsy City and Thomas City had also fallen, and the capture of these two cities would naturally have sufficient logistical supplies.
Since the hundreds of thousands of horses were recruited by Morente City, they worried about the safety of their families and hurried on the road. However, they were all infantry, and no matter how fast they walked, they could hardly reach the city of Gipsy after the dry food was eaten. But the city of Gypsies had been abandoned by Lorist, and they found nothing after they occupied the entire city without bloodshed. Except for bricks and stones, they didn't find anything edible and usable, so they had to drink water to fill their stomachs.
So they pinned their hopes on Thomas City, the two fortress cities were only a day away. It's just that at noon they were attacked by the Flying Tiger Legion and the Hunting Cavalry Legion during the march. The 100,000 horses were tired and hungry, and collapsed on the spot. These 10,000 people ran faster and escaped the encirclement of the cavalry fortunately. It was only after they ran out that they realized that there was no way to escape, and they were concerned about their family members in Morente City, so they ran over and surrendered after a final discussion.
Lorist and the others couldn't laugh or cry, they had worked so hard for several days that it was all in vain. A day later, several cavalry brigades from the Flying Tiger Legion and the Chaser Cavalry Legion also escorted a large number of prisoners to arrive, and added 100,000 food-consuming mouths to Morente City. Fortunately, Sambawood and Uncle Torin had already transported food and grass from Shilovas Island. For a period of time, there was still enough food and grass to support the population of more than one million in Morente City.
Tiger Ross, the head of the Flying Tiger Legion, and Farea, the head of the Chase Cavalry Legion, also arrived with the cavalry escorting the captives. When Lorist asked, he found out that the 100,000 troops of the commercial alliance's armed vanguard were somewhat out of touch with the follow-up troops. It took two days of travel in the middle, and they couldn't achieve the effect of echoing back and forth. This gave the Flying Tiger Army and the Chaser Army an opportunity But taking advantage of it, the first raid surrounded and wiped out these 100,000 people.
Tiger Ross and Farea stated that their two cavalry regiments will continue to carry out harassment and raid tactics against the follow-up troops of more than 200,000 horses armed by the Business Alliance, delaying the enemy's return to Moriente City. After a hasty discussion on the military strategy, the two embarked on the journey with the cavalry brigade escorting the prisoners.
However, two days have passed, but there is no more information from the follow-up troops of the business alliance. Lorist couldn't help guessing what was going on in his heart. Even if the commercial alliance's follow-up troops shrank back in fear because the striker's 100,000 troops were wiped out, Tiger Ross and Farea should send messengers to send a message. Come back, it's better than waiting on the city wall every day, waiting is the most anxious thing...
Three wisps of smoke rose in the distance, and three steeds came galloping like wind. The leading knight shouted loudly: "Urgent report, urgent report from the front line, open the city gate!"
Lorist opened the battle report written by Farea of the Chaser Legion and almost jumped up: "What, the 200,000 follow-up troops armed by the Commercial Alliance didn't come towards Morente City at all, but diverted Go to Maweforint province! What are they going to do? Abandon the recovery of Morente City? Even the Faliqiu Plain?"
"Yes, Your Highness, when Lord Farea ordered me to deliver the letter, I received an urgent battle report from the Flying Tiger Legion. The armed forces of the Commercial Alliance stayed behind in Robert Via City. The Tiger Legion sent an envoy to request surrender, and Lord Tiger Ross has already gone to take over the three fortress cities. If it is true, the battle report will be sent soon..." The envoy provided another surprising news.
"What the hell is going on here? Docking the tail to survive? What is the business alliance planning? In order to save 200,000 troops, they abandoned the other half of their troops? Is this possible? The destruction of 10,000 horses forced its follow-up troops to change their decision to take back Moriente City, and transferred to Maweifulin Province to save the more than 200,000 horses? Then why did the remaining troops surrender? That is more than 100,000 horses... " Lorist was puzzled. But in any case, it is always a good thing that Morente City avoided a war.
Another day later, Lorist received another battle report from the front line before realizing what had happened: "Damn it, this is purely a misfortune, the Merchant Alliance gave up those miscellaneous brands in order to preserve their elite chamber of commerce armed corps." Bing, this was premeditated, and then transferred the burden of feeding more than 200,000 mouths to our Norton family. These more than 200,000 captives will consume a lot of food... It's just why the business alliance armed forces gave up on taking back Morente What about the city? Do they have any other purpose?"
Tiger Ross reported in the battle report that the garrison troops who stayed behind in the three fortress cities surrendered because of lack of food and logistics supplies, because the follow-up troops armed by the Business Alliance swept away most of the supplies when they set off, leaving them only Grain for less than five days. They chose to surrender to the Norton family because they were afraid that the noble coalition forces of the Antinac Kingdom, who had fought bloody battles with them for two years, would kill them after they surrendered.
Tiger Ross asked Lorist to deliver a batch of food and grass to the three fortress cities on the front line as soon as possible, because these hundreds of thousands of captives are now eating the dry food carried by the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Legion, and now all the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Legion are half state of starvation. At the same time, the fact that the three fortress cities had fallen into the armed hands of the Norton family had been discovered by the Second Highness, and he sent envoys to request to take over the three fortress cities.
Sigh, this place is so busy that you, His Majesty the King, don't make trouble for us, okay, Lorist immediately wrote an order for Tiger Ross to justifiably reject the request of the Second Highness. Among the seven fortress cities in the Faliqiu Plain, including Morente City, His Highness the Second Highness only occupied one city, Bruvik City. If the three fortress cities were all handed over to him, I'm afraid that the overjoyed Second Highness would not leave, and this would add trouble to the future peace talks.
At the same time, Lorist asked Tiger Ross to borrow a batch of military rations from the three allies in the Northland and the Grand Duke Fessabrun to tide over the difficulties. The more than 200,000 horsemen of the Chaser Legion who escaped after the Commercial Alliance could not get away. I immediately dispatched the Rock Legion to take over the three fortress cities, and when Bodfinger and the others arrived, Tiger Ross led the Flying Tiger Legion to escort the surrendered garrison back.
After finishing all this and explaining that Bodfinger led the Rock Legion to set off, after thinking carefully, Lorist wrote a letter to His Royal Highness, the content was that the armed forces of the Norton family had defeated the Armada of the Merchant Alliance and had landed In Morente City, the change in the frontline battle situation is due to the reaction of the commercial alliance armed forces after discovering the fall of Morente City. It seems that they should have abandoned the city of Morente and the plains of Faliqiu, and withdrew their troops back to the province of Maweforin.
In the letter, Lorist very bluntly asked the Second Highness not to act rashly and destroy the hard-won good situation. Because Lorist is going to use Morente City and Faliqiu Plain as bargaining chips to discuss with the business alliance the important matter of signing an agreement between the two countries to stop the war and restore peace. So Lorist hoped that the Second Highness should do what he should do, for example, if he hasn't returned to the imperial capital for such a long time, he should go back to see the queen who has been alone for three years...
At the same time, Lorist assured the Second Highness in the letter that this time, he would come forward to negotiate with the business alliance in the name of the Norton family and himself, the Juggernaut, so that even if any mishaps happened, he would be responsible for them. If the peace talks fail, it will not be too late for the Second Highness to come out to clean up the mess. It is much better than the Second Highness to come forward and be fooled again. Of course, if the peace talks are successful, the Second Highness will need to come forward to sign a peace agreement with the business alliance, etc...
After dispatching several guards to deliver the letter he had written to the Second Highness in haste, Lorist heaved a long sigh, and then began to wonder what the business alliance was planning. Do you ignore it? You must know that this is the number one commercial metropolis in Galintia, and it is also the capital of the commercial alliance.
Genorio and Tagle walked in with a large stack of documents, but the faces of both of them were not very good-looking.
"What's wrong with you two, you are crying?" Lorist laughed.
"Your Highness, the seizures in the inner city and business districts have been counted..." Genorio ignored Lorist's question, and instead said with a serious face.
"Oh, tell me, let's see how much our family can earn this time." Lorist's mood brightened. After all, he did not intervene in this war to do good deeds. The major chambers of commerce in the business alliance The materials and wealth stored in the Morant line are the profits of the Norton family's dispatch of troops this time. I believe that the capture this time will not disappoint me.
Genorio replied with a wry smile: "Your Highness, the seizure this time is a bit unsatisfactory. We only found more than 4 million Jinfords in the business district and the inner city. There is also a batch of materials worth tens of millions. One of them is A small part is expensive luxury materials, and there are many jewels and curios, which are estimated to be worth millions of gold dollars. Apart from these, there is nothing else... "
"What did you say? That's all?" Lorist jumped up in shock, "It's impossible! How could Morente City only have such a small amount of income? This is a commercial metropolis with a population of more than one million. There are millions of Gold Fords in circulation on the Internet. Among other things, the warehouses of the chambers of commerce in the business alliance in Morente City have piled up rare treasures from all over the mainland. How could there be only so little harvest... "
If other places captured the city, Lorist would be overjoyed, but this is Morente City, how could there be only so little profit? At this moment, Lorist wondered if someone below was cheating and embezzling a lot of spoils. Even if he was killed, he didn't believe that only so much was captured in the capture of Morente City.
"Your Highness, what you said was more than ten years ago. The current city of Morente is not a commercial city at all. To put it bluntly, its current commercial influence is not as good as that of San Manede, the capital of the Kingdom of Chigda. Great. Since the commercial alliance implemented the Lordship System and the Glass War with the Trimble Kingdom, various countries in the central and southern regions have adopted a policy of cutting off commercial routes and canceling commercial exchanges with the commercial alliance. Morente City is the largest commercial metropolis in the mainland The status of the city has plummeted, and there is no more people coming and going, bustling caravan scenes more than ten years ago." Genorio's calm words pierced Lorist's memory of Morant City. good impression.
Hmm...it seems to be like this, otherwise the colleges in the college district wouldn't close their doors one by one because they couldn't recruit students, and Chenxi College wouldn't go far away and start over again. It seems that in the information sent by the Knights of Rummard from Morente City before, they also said that the commercial market of Morente City is getting denser and shrinking, and it has not seen a foreign caravan for several years. Now almost all commercial markets in Morente City are in the hands of various chambers of commerce. Like a cake, all the shares have been allocated, and there is no room for them to step in.
It seems that Tager had set up a plan a few years ago to establish a new chamber of commerce in the business alliance, and then spend a few years to slowly cultivate this small chamber of commerce into an influential large chamber of commerce in Morente City. It's a pity that this plan was approved by Lorist, but it was found that there was no possibility of realization.
Because, just like the situation reported by the Knights of Rummard, all industries in Morente City are monopolized by various chambers of commerce, whether it is people's livelihood or armaments, there are chambers of commerce. Even if you conceive of a new product or a new line of business, associated chambers of commerce will soon come to your door and force you to transfer this nascent industry to them. You can imagine the consequences of disagreement.
"Your Highness, since the commercial alliance implemented the Lordship system, those chambers of commerce have their own chamber of commerce territory, and they have basically transferred the warehousing and production centers of the chamber of commerce to their chamber of commerce territory. They have set up production on their own chamber of commerce territory. The warehouses of workshops and chambers of commerce, while the business street of Morente City is more like their exhibition shops. Although there are a lot of goods and raw materials in the warehouses, the quantity is not large.
Moreover, since the business alliance had a war with the coalition forces of the Central and South Kingdoms, the commercial market in Morente City has become more and more deserted in recent years. It is rare to find any valuable reserve items for the livelihood of tens of thousands of residents. This is not the warehouse of a few chambers of commerce, almost all chambers of commerce with shops in the business district are in this situation..." Tager further explained.
Lorist patted his forehead. He seemed to regard Morente City as the Morente City when he was still studying and working as a mercenary. The war annexed seven countries around the world, and the expansion policy was jointly resisted by the rest of the central and southern countries, cutting off commercial routes and canceling commercial exchanges. After several consecutive years, the business alliance was forced to take war in the hope of opening up commercial routes. Such a situation Naturally, Morente City, the capital of the business alliance, has no good results. Can a commercial city be called a commercial city without business contacts and transactions
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