Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

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Chapter 320 The Narrative of Count Churchwick

"His Royal Highness, although I am the great swordsman of the Principality of Forundo, I don't know the details of the battle, but in the later stage, the little prince who assisted our little prince led his troops to besiege the city of Federica. Count Churchwick of the Principality of Handra participated in the planning of the entire war. He should be the person who knows the war best. Let's ask him to introduce it to everyone." said Limad Great Swordsman.

Grand Duke Feisabrun nodded and turned his eyes to Earl Churchwick: "The Earl can tell us about the course of this battle. As a soldier, I am really curious about the unexpected result of this battle. When His Royal Highness made a surprise attack and captured the city of Federicai, I always thought that the outcome was determined. I did not expect that the whole result of the two-year war would have changed so much. It is really amazing. As a personal experience of this war. Well, I believe Lord Earl must have a lot of thoughts..."

Earl Churchwick did not expect that he suddenly became the center of attention of the banquet. Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, he secretly cursed the Great Swordsman Limade, and he had to get up again and secretly looked at Lorris. With a special glance, he saw that Lorist was also curious, and he finally let out a sigh of relief: "His Royal Highness, although I participated in the whole process of this war, in fact, our four central princes were forced to form a coalition army. To fight against the Second Highness, we were originally just out of self-protection, but then the development of the war was unexpected. To be honest, the victory in this war was not what we wanted, but it forced us to go. Seize the victory..."

No one expected that Earl Churchwick would say such a thing, and there was an uproar in the hall. All that mattered was curiosity, but the little prince Dock of the Principality of Forundo gave a "hum", seemingly dissatisfied that Earl Churchwick had said such depraved words. Limad beside him The sword master and the golden knight were surprised. Instead, the Count Dalek of Sabaki Principality sat there with a sad expression.

Count Churchwick took a deep breath: "As we all know, the four central duchys have always been the mainstays of the former Christian Empire. The empire has 29 provinces, and the eight central provinces accounted for 40% of the tax revenue of the former empire. 5. In the age of empire, the eight central provinces under the leadership of the four grand princes contributed their efforts to the empire, whether it was a foreign war or an internal rebellion. After being unwilling to do so, they made outstanding contributions to the empire. In the 170-odd years of war, the eight central provinces have made the greatest sacrifices.

During the civil war of the empire, the three kings fought for the throne. In order to keep the essence of the empire, the four princes in the middle had to support the alliance to protect themselves. In this case, they also gave the three princes a huge amount of assistance, because he represented The orthodox of Christon's royal family. But then the rebellion of the Grand Duke of Madras caused an irreversible change in the situation, and the empire split into three kingdoms and seven principalities.

Although the four princes of central China established the principality, they immediately faced the invasion of the prince. We resisted the prince for two years. We were exhausted and suffered heavy losses. However, we finally won the victory and gained precious peace. It’s only been a few years since I recuperated, and I just recovered a little bit of energy. The Second Highness once again came to the city and made intolerable conditions to the four princes, forcing our four central princes to gather coalition forces again to protect ourselves..."

"Oh, what kind of conditions did the Second Highness offer to the four principalities in the middle of you?" Grand Duke Feisabrun touched the beard of his chin with curiosity.

"Transfer the title, and let the four princes bring their family forces to attack the Principality of Madras..." Count Chujwick replied.

Grand Duke Feisabrun was taken aback, and the beards in his hand were torn off by him: "Your Highness is crazy, how can you make such a condition? Isn't this forcing friends to be enemies?"

Count Churchwick spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "I don't know why the Second Highness made such a request to the four princes. Everyone knows that this is impossible. The eight central provinces are the four princes. The family territory and sphere of influence have been two or three hundred years old, and they are deeply rooted. Just as Grand Duke Faker declared, the blood of their family has been deeply integrated with this land, and no one can let them separate.

When the Second Highness rose to the Antinac Kingdom a few years ago, the nobles of our four principalities were very happy about it, and even placed their hopes for the restoration of the Christen Empire on him. For us, it is a kind of pride to be a nobleman of the Christian Empire. Our Grand Duke said that it doesn't matter whether he is the lord of the principality or not. As long as the empire needs it, he can cancel the title of the principality at any time and return to the embrace of the empire.

But none of us expected that the Second Highness came down. He defeated the prince and led 200,000 troops to the eight central provinces. He proposed such conditions to the four princes and moved the eight provinces to the Andi. The territories of the Nak royal family and required the four great princes to serve for the empire, and dispatch private armed forces to lead us nobles to attack the Principality of Madras, so that we can determine the titles and territories of our nobles based on our merits... …

Everyone then realized that in the eyes of the Second Highness, we nobles are all imperial rebellions. We were very sad, very angry, and sent a representative to protest to the Second Highness. But no one saw the Second Highness, only heard that he was very sick. At that time, we all thought that he was deliberately avoiding us. After returning, we were very angry, and unanimously asked the four grand princes to form a coalition to fight, and increase assistance to the nobles of the former Ridley Kingdom, using them to contain the army of the Second Royal Highness.

No one wants to be the rebellion of the empire, but circumstances have to force the nobles of our four principalities to become enemies of the Second Highness. But the coalition forces of our four principalities only confronted the army of the Second Highness, and did not intend to provoke or initiate an attack. Unexpectedly, the Second Highness was really seriously ill. The army of the Antinac Kingdom without him was always defeated in the battle with the nobles of the former Ridley Kingdom, and was lured into a trap and swept away by the flood. With 70,000 people, the situation suddenly changed. It is said that at that time, the Second Highness rushed to the front line with illness to stabilize the whole situation.

To be honest, our four principalities gathered 200,000 coalition forces to confront the army of the Second Highness. Although there was no major battle, the price paid was very high. The five or six years of peace did restore some vitality to the four principalities in the central region, but the two hundred thousand troops of the Second Highness put the four principalities facing the greatest crisis and pressure, although the Second Highness drew tens of thousands of troops to wipe out the former Switzerland. The aristocratic coalition of the Kingdom of Delis, but the more than one hundred thousand troops stationed on the border between the Duchy of Fakel and the Duchy of Handra is a sharp axe hanging on the head of the eight central provinces, and no one knows when it will fall.

The eight provinces in the central part of the pre-imperial period had a population of nearly 3.5 million when they were most prosperous. They were the quintessence of the empire. Except for the Great Plain of Antares in the imperial capital, no province could match it. After the empire’s civil war, the population dropped to 2.8 million. Then the barbarian army led by the elder prince led the invasion of the four principalities in the central part of the country. Wars, natural disasters, man-made disasters, famines, plagues, in just two years The remaining population of the eight central provinces is less than two million, almost half disappeared..."

When talking about this, Count Churchwick’s expression was a little excited: "The four principalities in the central part do not want war, but we hope for peace. But the Second Highness brings not peace. He forces us to obey his orders and order us. In his chariot, disobedience is rebellion. The four central princes can only gather the coalition forces again to guard against the army of the Second Highness. However, after a year-long confrontation, we were forced to consume countless food and grass reserves, and the strong men were all on board. On the front line, the land in the rear has been abandoned in large quantities without farming, and now there will be famines in the eight central provinces this year and next..."

"Sorry, Lord Chujwick, can I ask, the four principalities in the middle of your country are so unbearable to consume 200,000 people. The two hundred thousand troops deployed in the Kingdom of Ridley consume the food and grass. Did you know where it came from?" Lorist interrupted his words suddenly.

"Oh, as far as I know, the army of the Second Royal Highness in the Kingdom of Ridley totals nearly 270,000, of which 150,000 are the first and third royal guards transferred from the Kingdom of Antinac. There are also 120,000 troops from the former Kingdom of Redlis, mainly deployed in the province of Campona. They surrendered to him after the Second Royal Highness made a surprise attack and captured King Federica. The Second Royal Highness had only transferred the Royal First Guard Corps. , And organized these surrendered troops to launch an offensive against the nobles of the Ridley Kingdom, but the effect was not very good. These surrendered troops repeatedly failed in battle, and the war was delayed.

Later, the 70,000 troops were swept away by the floods. His Royal Highness finally lost confidence in these surrendered troops. He transferred the Third Army of the Royal Guards from the Kingdom of Antinac to take full responsibility for the rebellion of the Kingdom of Ridley. The noble coalition forces swept and eliminated, and the Royal First Army and the remaining surrender troops maintained the oppression of the central four principalities. A total of 130,000 horses confronted our four principalities coalition forces.

Because of the previous surprise attack by the Second Royal Highness on the Royal City of Federica, he completely seized all the armaments and food materials prepared and stored in the Royal City by the prince. We estimate that the Second Royal Highness's more than 200,000 troops can consume eight months. Long. At that time, everyone thought that the war would end soon, and the Second Highness would win. But everyone did not expect that the nobles of the rebellious kingdom of Ridley would persist for so long and continue to strike at the Second Highness. Even if the Second Highness lost nearly 100,000 people, the consumption of so much food and grass after the winter passed by made the Second Highness unbearable.

At this time, His Royal Highness used three methods to deal with the consumption of food, grass and materials and to improve the morale of the frontline troops. The first method was that he issued a levy order, which was to collect their reserves from all the citizens of the Kingdom of Ridley. Grain, and then take a part of the porridge out of it to drink to the people who have been expropriated of the grain, and make every effort to ensure the food supply of the frontline troops. After this order was issued, His Royal Highness stood on the opposite side of all the civilians in the original Ridley Kingdom, and rebellion rose one after another...

The second method is to confiscate the property of the nobles of the Ridley Kingdom for military use, and all confiscated properties are used to reward the soldiers who have won. Although this method has restored the morale and combat power of the frontline troops, it has forced all the neutral aristocrats to the side of the rebellious aristocrats. The rebellious aristocrats who had been forced to desperate by the Royal Third Guard Corps immediately had reinforcements and A large number of fresh troops added, and they began to have contacts with the 3rd Royal Guards Corps, and even won several small battles.

The last way is to transport food from the Kingdom of Antinac to the emergency. Only because of the long distance, the loss of manpower and the looting by the rebellious nobles, one hundred kilograms of grain was transported to the front line and the remaining less than twenty or thirty kilograms. As a result, the troops stationed on the front line can only be half hungry, and the food in the camp can only be stored for three days.

Grand Duke Faker, the coalition commander of the four central states, was keenly aware of this fighter, and unexpectedly sent troops to the province of Campona in the Ford Business Alliance, and cut off the transportation from the Kingdom of Antinac to the Kingdom of Ridley. After the food was passed, Grand Duke Fakel ordered us to collect a batch of cattle and sheep, slaughtered them, and threw them into a cauldron to boil. So the troops of the one hundred thousand and two of His Royal Highness who were confronting us collapsed by themselves due to hunger. "

"I still have a question. Why did the nobles of the former Kingdom of Ridley, that is, the nobles of the Andriff province, so desperately opposed to the Second Highness? As far as I know, the nobles of the Androff province and The prince has always been at odds, and they have also formed an alliance to fight against the prince’s violation of their interests. As the second highness who conquered the Kingdom of Ridleys, he should understand this very well. If he wants to put down the Kingdom of Ridleys, he The help of these nobles is needed. What makes these territorial nobles and the Second Highness become enemies of life and death, do you know the reason? Count Churchwick..." Lorist looked at Count Churchwick and asked. .

"Uh..." Count Churchwick thought for a while and replied, "I should know some reasons. I have met with a few nobles in Anderwolf Province. According to them, the Second Highness offered their surrender. The condition is to reduce and transfer the seal, and ask them to hand in atonement money, as they used to follow the prince to rebel, so they fell apart. Originally, these territorial nobles only wanted to deal with the Second Highness in an uncooperative way. Who knows that the army of the Second Royal Highness directly raised the butcher knife, and several noble families were destroyed. In the end everyone had to raise their flags to resist..."

Lorist smiled bitterly, it was sheer dizziness. His Royal Highness really thought he could get it with hundreds of thousands of troops in hand. Having already suffered from the losses of the nobles in the Androff Province, I did not expect to turn around and try the same trick on the four principalities in the central region. As a result, he turned his friends into enemies. This is really his own death.

Relocation and reduction are indeed the best way to weaken the strength of those territorial nobles, but it also depends on what the situation is. You can only implement this strategy when you have absolute control over the situation. The Second Highness thought that the 200,000 army was in control of the situation and decided to implement this policy. He was too impatient to show that it was self-defeating.

"By the way, Earl Churchwick, did you not find the whereabouts of the second majesty after you conquered the city of Federica?" Earl Kenmax asked ~www.readwn.com~ no, no one found the second majesty. Whereas, he disappeared without a trace like the great prince. In fact, after the four principalities of our central part disintegrated the more than one hundred thousand troops on the border, they wanted to stand by and don't want to have any conflicts with the Second Highness. But the next incident angered everyone in the Four Principalities. His Royal Highness actually used our coalition forces and his army to stand off at the border to let Prince Melayne’s army into the territory of the Sabaj Principality from behind, burning, looting and looting. Due to lack of precaution, a large number of territories fell, and nearly 10,000 women and children were killed.

At this time, the business alliance sent representatives, and the four princes who were finally angered decided to send troops to increase the cost of the royal city. Each duchy sent 20,000 troops, and the rest went to the Principality of Sabaki to deal with the invading Grand Duke Melaine. Of the army. On July 21st last year, our army surrounded the city of Federica and asked His Royal Highness to leave the city and surrender. We guarantee his safety. But this proposal was rejected by a golden female knight guarding the city..."

"Golden Horsewoman?" Lorist sat up straight.

"Well, there are five tigers and six golden warriors under the second Royal Highness. They are the most trusted subordinates of the second high. Yihua is the golden female knight. Her name is, her name is, her name is Nuo... ..K...Christia..." Earl Churchwick's face suddenly changed drastically, and he looked at Lorist secretly, and his body trembled a little.

……(To be continued.)

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