Tales of the Reincarnated Lord
Chapter 162: Cross the river
Chapter 162 Crossing the River, Crossing the River
On February 18, 1768, the forward force of the northbound convoy, led by Tiger Ross and the commander of the scout light cavalry, Yuri, went first to the Baron Shuras, the downstream ferry of the Mitoba River. In the territories, they have to build pontoons, settle camps, and respond to the convoys and refugee teams arriving later. ○
El also rushed to Kebo City to report to Lorist on this day. After recuperating in Nadgas City for a winter and just recovering from his injuries, he could not wait to hire a carriage and drove back with four guards. El brought two pieces of news to Lorist. One was that on the way back, he ran into a Royal Guard Corps sent by His Royal Highness. The number was about 10,000. They would arrive at Kebo City in two days.
The second news is that the Second Royal Highness is more than ten miles away from the city of Van Nades, that is, on the avenue leading to the fortress of Lychtana. A fortress is being built at a relatively dangerous mountain pass. He has mobilized four or five. Million laborers.
Lorist looked at the map, feeling a little strange.
Shi Fatty and Bodfinger, Terman and others talked a lot. Fatty Shi thinks that the soldiers of the more than 10,000 Royal Guards who are coming to Kebo City should have come to receive the city defense. After all, Kebo City is the center of Dlemque Province and a fortress city. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. After Riester made it clear that he refused to stay behind, it was impossible for the Second Highness to give up the city in vain. With ten thousand soldiers garrisoned, even the Second Prince's invasion would be enough to withstand a long period of time.
But why the Second Royal Highness had to build a fortress more than ten miles away from the city of Van Nades is unintelligible. As usual, he should vigorously strengthen the defensive facilities of Van Nades City and transform it into a fortress city. Just occupy the transportation hub of Van Nades City. Can grasp the initiative on the battlefield. Advance can be attacked. Retreat can be guarded, no worries in the future.
In the end, Bodfinger’s opinion is the most reasonable. He believes that the fortress built by the Second Highness should be to ensure a back road. In addition, it can also echo back and forth in the defensive battle, forcing the enemy to be unable to siege Van Nades. It is also possible that even if the city of Vanades is captured, the defending army can still ensure that the newly incorporated province of Yunga Chandra will not be attacked by the enemy as long as the defending army retreats to the fortress behind it.
Lorist recognized this opinion, but the convoy and the refugees are about to leave Kebo City and return to the family territory. It doesn't matter if you are upset here in the future. What everyone should care about is when they can cross the river and set foot in the north.
Two days later, the 10,000 soldiers of the Royal Guards sent by His Royal Highness arrived in Kebo City, and Fatty Shi handed over the city defense and 20 million catties of grain to them.
Unexpectedly by Lorist and others, the Royal Guards did not reinforce the city defense facilities. Instead, they began to tear down the city walls. It took them ten days to tear down all three and six walls. It was clean, and then a dozen towers were destroyed, and finally took the grain and left...
"My day..." Fatty Shi yelled: "That's a vicious calculation, he is using our team as bait..."
Lorist said with a sullen face: "We must speed up the transfer. Fortunately, we have set off a few days earlier. If it is to be delayed until now, it will be too late. Order the scouts to increase the inspection range and explore the territory of Dlemke province. The movement of the nobles. Especially the border with the Iberian Kingdom to the south. The materials and personnel left here are immediately transferred to the downstream ferry..."
No one thought that His Royal Highness would send troops to demolish the walls of Kebo City. He abandoned the fortress city of Kebo. There are more than three hundred miles from Kebo City to the lower ferry crossing of the Mitobluo River. With such a large fleet of vehicles traveling north, plus the drag of 100,000 refugees, it will take at least two or three months, not to mention Mituo. Bro River is in front, so many horses and vehicles want to spend more time crossing the river...
It is the end of February, even if the second prince led an army to invade Dremuq Province after more than a month, it would take up to 15 days to reach Kebocheng from the border. When he found out that Kebo City was abandoned, he had two choices. One was to set off for Van Nades City, and the other was to catch up with the northbound convoy and block the northbound convoy on the Mitoba River...
Think about the huge materials and scale carried by the northbound convoy. With the greedy nature of the second prince, it is easy to figure out what choice he will make...
Lorester was full of fire. He was willing to hand over Kebo City to the Second Highness, and his original intention for taking out 20 million catties of grain was to hope that the Second Highness would send troops to hold on to Kebo City and block the second prince’s military front, so as to travel north. The convoy and the refugees bought time to cross the river safely and reach the Northland. But he really didn't expect the Second Highness to do such an excellent job. He simply abandoned Kebo City neatly and put the team in danger.
"My day!" Lorist sighed up to the sky. He was not afraid of the second prince's army. Armed with the current size and strength of the second prince's army, it is not impossible to resist the attack of the second prince's army or even defeat them. Can kill three thousand enemies, self-defeating eight hundred, why let his family armed to make sacrifices for the hegemony of the second highness? Even if he defeated the second prince, what benefits would he gain? Nothing. Maybe I even offended the second prince’s father-in-law, the powerful Duke Fesabrun...
Indeed, no one is a fool, neither Lorist nor the Second Highness. Lorist wanted to avoid the chaos. He was unwilling to take chestnuts for the second majesty. He just wanted to bring the convoy and the refugees back to the family territory for construction and development, and he was on his own. The Second Highness had to drag him into the water. He wanted to use the force of the Norton family's northbound convoy to buy himself time to prepare for the war. He even hoped that the convoy's armed forces and the second prince would suffer both losses in order to make his own fisherman profit.
Maniac is a maniac, not a fuel-efficient lamp! Lorist had to admit that he had miscalculated and should not pin the hope of holding on to Kebo City on His Highness. Now the second palace has taken a salary from the bottom of the pot, and he has been put on fire again.
"Come on, let the order go on..." Lorist gave a series of orders after a moment of contemplation.
"Order Bodfinger to lead the Heavy Armed Corps to the Crossing Estuary as soon as possible, take over all the affairs of the camp, arrange for the organization of manual logging and construction of defense facilities..."
"Order Rose, Terman. Pete each led the armored lancers. Knights. The archers went to expropriate the vehicles, sheepskin rafts and small fishing boats of the nobles in the Dremque province territory. The more the better. If there are rebels..." Lorist paused and spit out four words coldly: "Kill it!"
"Order Fareya, Malek led the garrison after the break, to maintain the order and security of the convoy and the refugees. Anyone who deliberately delays the trip and makes trouble will be killed without pardon!"
"Order the craftsman camp, no matter what method is used. Four or more pontoons across the river must be built as soon as possible, and the lack of materials and equipment will be levied by Ross."
Reddy stood behind Lorist and copied the order one by one on the hide paper, and then gave it to Lorist for signing. Pat burned the red beeswax and dripped it on the signature, and Lorist flipped the ring on the beeswax Stamp it. Finally Pat turned the hide paper with the command and put it into the small silver tube, dripped beeswax on the upper and lower interfaces of the small silver tube, and printed an angry bear badge, and then handed it to the guards to pass the order.
"We have to speed up, too. Before the end of this month, we have to move the grain in Kebo City anyway. Get out of here." Lorist turned his head and said to Fatty Shi.
Fatty Shi nodded.
……
Lorist arrived at the ferry crossing in the territory of the Baron of Shura on March 6th, except for nearly a thousand abandoned personnel who were driven out of the convoy and the refugees. All convoy personnel and refugees are coming to the ferry station camp in an endless stream.
Three pontoons have been built on the Mitobula River, and one more is built. A car camp was also set up on the other side, and the convoy personnel and vehicles that arrived earlier were crossing the river on two pontoons. There is also a relatively large pontoon bridge used to allow vehicles to unload the supplies and return after arriving on the opposite bank. The coachmen holding the pack horses all lined up carefully and slowly back from the pontoon bridge.
"My lord, let's take a rest in the manor castle," said Bodfinger, who came to meet him.
Lorist saw that Bodfinger was referring to the manor castle of Baron Shuras, and asked, "Where is Baron Shuras?"
"Who?" Bodfinger looked inexplicable.
"I'm talking about the local lord." Lorist said.
Bodfinger suddenly realized that he pointed to the ferry terminal with his hand: "Over there..."
Lorist turned his head and saw four or five corpses dangling in the wind on several tall wooden frames on the dock...
"Who did it?"
"Yuri and Rose," Bodfinger replied.
"Why?" Lorist asked.
"The lord didn’t let us build the pontoon, saying that the bank of the Baili River was his territory, and he had to pay for crossing the river if he wanted to cross the river. Yuri and Rose were angry, so they hung him up, and occupied him by the way. His manor castle."
Lorist was speechless, and he was a man who wanted to die by himself. Didn't he have eyes? The men and soldiers who didn't look at him were strong and strong. He thought it was the peace period of the former empire and no one dared to offend the nobles. When is the time to not retract back to the manor castle to guard against death, and even dare to come and ask for the cost of crossing the river, it is really worthy of money and death.
Yuri and Rose are not talkative masters. One followed Lorist and was one of the first starting teams of Dawn Academy, and the other was just given the title of Tiger by Lorist. In particular, the two of them went north with the motorcade and hanged more than a hundred lord and nobles in the Kingdom of Antinac, and their respect for the nobles has long since disappeared. Not to mention serious calculations, Baron Shulas belongs to the side of Grand Duke Madras, a hostile camp, and there is no pressure on Yuri and Rose to hang him.
"Forget it, take them down and bury them, after all, they are all old acquaintances, so it won't look good to hang up like this."
"Yes, my lord."
After ten days, Rose, Terman, and Pete came back. This was the third time they went out to collect the collection. The surrounding area had been collected a long time ago, so they ran a little farther and collected more than a thousand big vehicles. More than a hundred sheepskin rafts and dozens of small fishing boats, as well as more than two hundred large carriages full of supplies, were seized by them after they ransacked their homes after hanging three rebel nobles.
Lorester discovered that the sheepskin rafts, small fishing boats, and the Rock boats made during this period were enough to build six pontoons, and he stopped Ross's plan to go out and expropriate again, and arranged to bring those vehicles to Shi. The fat man speeded up the transfer of personnel, and while letting the soldiers rest for two days, he only needed to chop more wood to make rafts to speed up the process of building the floating bridge.
On March 18th, the dusty Yuri arrived at the ferry, and he brought a message to Lorist.
Galint Asian General Calendar March 12th, 1768. King of the Iberian Kingdom. Christen Iberia, also known as the second prince, led an army of 70,000, claiming to support the Grand Duke of Madras against the invasion of the Antinac Kingdom, and to attack the Andeanac through the province of Dremque in the Principality of Madras. kingdom.
This time the second prince borrowed three regiments from the border regiment of his father-in-law, Duke Fei Sablon. In addition, his own garrison and the private armies of the nobles of the realm brought together more than 70,000 troops and entered Dremke Province.
"My day, where did he get his rations, didn't he just start the harvest of winter wheat?" Loristech asked, and immediately understood: "Paralysis, one is better than one calculation. The second prince is looking at Drey The winter wheat that is about to be harvested in Muk Province comes, borrowing grain to fight with the enemy, and fighting against the idea of levying winter wheat to fill the army!"
But Lorester doesn't care about the second prince's army at all now. Five large and small pontoons have been built, and the sixth one is under construction. The convoy personnel and refugees who came afterwards did not need to wait in the camp at the ferry, they could cross the river to rest in the camp on the opposite bank.
The only thing that worries Lorist is that more than 120 million catties of grain reserves. Calculated by a four-wheeled carriage carrying two thousand catties of grain, 10,000 carts can only transport 20 million catties at a time. Run back and forth six times.
Lorist recruited Bodfinger and asked him to lead the heavy armored regiment across the river to take charge of the defense of the camp on the opposite side. More and more materials and personnel crossed the river. There were only Terman's Knights and a squadron of scouts and light cavalry garrisoned, which could not complete the security guard mission of the camp well.
Bodfinger was worried that he would not be able to defend against the attack of the Second Prince's army after he crossed the river with the heavy armored regiment.
Lorist smiled, now there is no need to worry about the second prince’s army. Because the second prince wanted to collect military rations, it was impossible to chase the northbound convoy with ease. Even if it comes, it is a small unit. There are three teams of Ross's armored lances sitting here, and small-scale wanderers come here just to deliver food.
"By the way, after you cross the river, knock down the town on the opposite side, and call the viscount, what is the name of the viscount, um, maybe the viscount of Dahufu should hang me at the gate of the city." Lorist ordered.
"Why? My lord, it's just a broken town." Bodfinger was curious. Since the motorcade crossed the river to build a pontoon bridge to transport supplies to the camp, the broken town over there has been very disciplined, honestly guarding itself behind closed doors, and not even a single person came to interrogate it. Even after Terman led the Knights across the river, he didn't bother to take care of this broken town.
"The messenger sent by your convoy before crossed the river to rest in this broken town, but was accused of being a horse thief who was robbed and killed by the garrison, and only five ran out. When I crossed the river last time, the viscount was sent to the ferry to charge The garrison was hanged, and today you just go and pound the thief’s den for me.” Lorist explained.
"Yes, yes, my lord."
Bodfinger led the heavy armored regiment and immediately after crossing the river, he launched a charge against the broken town by the river, and took the broken town with zero casualties. Half an hour later, Bodfinger grabbed the horse and hurried back anxiously.
"My lord, there are not many people in the town. It is said that the lord Viscount Davof took the garrison and the young man to attack the Norton family in response to the call of the Duke of the North, and he has been gone for almost a month... …"
"What are you talking about?" After hearing the news from Bodfinger, Lorist almost jumped up. Duke Lukins was so heartbroken that he came up with the idea of the Norton family again?
"Order Yuri to dispatch the light cavalry immediately to inquire about the news in the North, and ask Jim to bring a small team to get in touch with the family and see what's going on? He is a mercenary and he knows the situation in the North. . Pat, you go with you too." Lorist calmed down and felt that there was no need to worry~www.readwn.com~ The wall defense of Rock Castle Lorist knew well, easy to defend and hard to attack. Besides, he can rest assured that Josk, the magic arrow, is in charge. Another passage leading to the interior of the family territory has been cut off because of the burning of the cable bridge. Grand Duke Lukins called on the lords of the North to lead troops to attack the Norton family territory. There was no other way but to break the rock castle. Just relying on the peasants and soldiers of the lords in the north want to capture the Rock Castle? Hehe, that's a joke.
Lorist felt that the situation should be inspected first, and all the materials and personnel had to cross the river before making any plans. This time, it must be good, to slap the **** prince's face fiercely, again and again, and again and again, really when he can only passively defend and be beaten.
Fatty Shi still used the transfer method of Baili Yiying Camp, and finally delivered the remaining supplies, convoy personnel and refugees to the ferry before the end of March, and immediately began crossing the river.
On April 3rd, the last wave of scout light cavalry who inspected the second prince's army also rushed back. They brought back news that the second prince's army was busy cutting winter wheat and suppressing the resistance of the nobles in the Dremque province territory. At present, there are no ten nobles in the territories in the southern region of Dremque. All the hapless nobles who were hanged on the gallows by the second prince are all charged with one crime, that is, fornicating with the Andinac kingdom and resisting to rescue Madras. The Grand Duke’s friendly army, the Iberian Kings team led by the Second Prince.
Galint Asian calendar April 5, 1768, Lorist, as the last person to cross the river, set foot on the ferry and ordered the destruction of six pontoons. At this point, the northbound convoy and the refugees finally all reached the Northland Plateau.
……(To be continued.)
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