The rebel army in the South County Territory is very powerful, but currently the only troops capable of suppressing the rebellion are the Grand Duke Cameron of Lion Castle, the troops directly commanded by his subordinates, the city defense army in Lionheart City, and scattered in various manors in the South County Territory. The aristocratic private army here, and of course the 20 knights stationed in the north of the South County Territory.
But what is strange is that the troops directly under the Grand Duke of Lion Castle did not dispatch, and the city defense team of Lionheart City, which was indirectly controlled by many top nobles, also did not dispatch, not even the private troops of those noble manors.
Only the noble army of the South County leader composed of 20 knights chose to divide the troops.
15 knight orders are still stationed here.
The remaining 5 knights, with 500 knights and 4,500 heavy cavalry, withdrew from the frontline battlefield, and used the high mobility of the cavalry to reinforce the increasingly severe hinterland of Nanjun territory in the rear, ensuring that the rebel army could be defeated like a thunderbolt.
Otherwise, hundreds of farms and dozens of villages in Nanjun will be destroyed by the spreading chaos.
To know.
These farms and villages are the cornerstone of South County.
The materials that the Principality of Lions rely on to produce are two seasons of grain harvested every year.
And the fertile land in the South County Territory, coupled with the excellent weather that is not frozen all year round, almost turned Lionheart City, a commercial city on the Reese Niston River, into the largest food production base in all human countries!
I don't know how many forces send fleets to import large amounts of food every month.
If there is a change in Nanjun's territory.
Then there will be regional famines in the entire human countries.
This is definitely not a joke. Although both sides of the Reese Niston River are excellent food growing places, it depends on the situation. The places in other human countries are not so good, especially after the development of river transportation, many kingdoms rely on the South County. The import of food from China has added to the importance of this place.
At the beginning, the Yinpan Kingdom launched an aggressive war against the Lion Principality because of the top-notch agricultural land in Nanjun. However, because the war lasted too long, it affected other human kingdoms and finally subsided.
Of course, this is inseparable from the tenacious resistance of the Lion Principality.
But there are also prerequisites.
With the strength of the Yinpan Kingdom, it is completely possible to carry out a second annexation.
The reason why there is no attack is because other human kingdoms mediate.
Not only because of the war's impact on food, but also because of the worry about the national power that will expand after the Yinpan Kingdom annexes the Lion Principality, a famous food production place.
The current strength of human countries is almost the same.
They are also intertwined.
Once the strength of a kingdom increases sharply, the impression is that all the human kingdoms on both sides of the Reese Niston River, in order to ensure that their own interests and safety are not violated, the annexation plan of the Silver Plate Kingdom is doomed to fail.
It's just that this doesn't mean that the Lion Principality won't suffer from civil strife, especially heir disputes!
This is a common problem among human nations.
Or.
As long as there is power and heirs, there will be battles for the throne!
The current rebellion in the northern county can be regarded as this kind of struggle. For the nobles, this is still a result that is barely acceptable, and even pinches their noses to agree.
But this group of rebels who were once captives and are now slaves dare to resist their rule
It's just asking for death!
There is no reason at all for them to survive!
As the second son of the Grand Duke, Kant organized troops here just to win his own position, or his own internal struggle within the aristocratic system, completely different from these slaves who rebelled and called the rebel army.
These slaves are completely planning to overthrow their rule, with an attitude of turning the table!
This is also the reason why the nobles were in a panic.
most critical.
It was still those serf rebels who destroyed the Nanjun Territory too thoroughly.
Burned, killed and looted, the damage caused was more vicious than that of Rolf and the light cavalry. Not only did they destroy a lot of farms that belonged to the nobles, but even burned many villages that belonged to the Grand Duke.
The fields were directly razed to the ground, and even the sown wheat seedlings were all destroyed.
The serfs vented all their tyrannical emotions angrily.
And when emotions are stirred.
After everyone had eaten and drank enough because of the robbery, their eyes were even redder, and they wanted to completely return all the torture they had endured in the Principality of Lions to those who had tortured them!
Even a group of civilians in the Principality of Lions were humiliated by these turned serfs.
They even tend to become rebels together.
The innocent are often innocent.
In front of these insurgents who were red-eyed, any civilians who wanted to stay out of it were brutally killed.
Uprisings and rebellions in the feudal era were often accompanied by blood and fire, as well as a large number of withered lives and corpses all over the ground, plus a large number of destroyed infrastructure, including the ensuing plague and famine!
This is why the nobles anxiously mobilized the knights to return to counter the rebellion.
There can be no accidents in Lion Castle.
Lionheart City still needs stability because it relies on the Reese Niston River.
As for the manors of the nobles, it is because of their own interests that they will not spare extra troops to counter the rebellion.
But even with 5,000 members of the knight order, a total of 5 knight orders, they can still solve the 30,000 rebels who have snowballed, and even collapse the so-called rebel army at the moment of contact.
Even if there are captives from the Silver Plate Kingdom as the main force.
But so what
After losing ten years, these captives could not organize an effective defense at all.
Perhaps the memories and experiences of the past are still there, but after ten years of life as serfs, how could these slaves resist the powerful knight order? The most important thing is that these serfs may not even be able to bring armor!
This is the thinking of the Knights, and it is also the common thinking of most nobles.
Certainly not Rolf's opinion.
He has already contacted these rebels.
As a light cavalry soldier, he was like a ghost wandering in the Nanjun territory. He easily came to the territory of the rebel army and made his own decisions, barely reaching an alliance with the rebel army.
And when he looked at the nearly ten thousand prisoners of the Yinpan Kingdom inside, wearing all kinds of leather armor or iron-inlaid leather armor, daggers or handaxes hanging from their waists, and spears in their hands, he could not help but raise his brows slightly. The weapons that used to belong to the self-defense of the villagers, armed militias or conscripted militias have been mastered by the rebels.
Although most of the soldiers were armed with pitchforks and dung forks, and covered with leather made of cowhide or sheepskin, the real elites, the prisoners of the former Silver Plate Kingdom, were no less than ordinary regular troops.
It can be seen that the captives of the Yinpan Kingdom had prepared for ten years.
Perhaps they had long wanted to set off a rebellion.
Just been waiting for an opportunity.
And now, it is a good opportunity for these captives to thoroughly disrupt the Principality of Lions and step onto the stage!
PS: For Liu Cheng, who recommended a friend's "Battle for Hegemony from a Deserted Island", the most important thing is not to use the system he carries with him to fight for hegemony, to open it. An awesome life, but how to survive on this deserted island... Character is still guaranteed, there are 3 million words to complete this novel
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