Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 432 on the front line

Since he decided to adopt the strategy of confrontation and non-fighting and waited for the civil disturbance in the Principality of Handra, the Second Highness immediately summoned the nobles and legion leaders of the various territories under his command and redistributed the forces of the more than 300,000 troops. First, the camp was retreated fifty miles, moved to the border of Westwood Province and re-established. However, the military camp Dazhai established this time needs to establish defensive positions and guard towers to prevent sneak attacks by the enemy.

In addition, Dazhai is divided into two, the two heavy armored regiments of the Duke of Kenmez and the Flying Tiger regiment of the Norton family. The Pegasus regiment of Earl Felim is arranged on the left, blocking the Duchy of Handra to the Duchy of Fakel Main roads and directions of Kribia Province. As for the White Lion Corps, the Third Border Ranger and Reserve Corps led by Archduke Fisabrun are placed on the right. Behind them is the Pedrona Province of the Principality of Forlundo. Two big villages, one on the left and the other on the right, are like two sharp knives on the ribs of Westwood Province, making the Principality of Handra, as the defender, very uncomfortable with this new situation.

If the Second Highness does not move the camp, then the task of the Red Army Corps of the Principality of Handra to defend the Weilongni Pass is to defend the defensive positions of the pass, and the first defense of the Forundo Principality is placed at the end of the Yunduan Mountains on the left. The Legion and the Green Forest Mountain Legion of the Fakel Principality located on the right side of the Matenemadi Mountains can also carry out sneak attacks or flanking attacks on the camp when the enemy is unprepared, involving the Allied forces of the Andeanak Kingdom. But now that the big camp has retreated fifty miles, the defending side does not know which direction the Second Highness's next attack will be. The three legions on the front line may be attacked.

In order to find out the purpose of the Second Highness's retreat, the defending Principality of Handra sent many scouts down the mountain to investigate. However, the fifty li that the Second Highness retreats is the plain area. This is the place where the light cavalry gallops horizontally and horizontally. All the scouts who descended from the mountain were attacked by the light cavalry. Except for surrender, it was a dead end. All of a sudden, the scouts sent by the defense had suffered heavy casualties. Few lucky ones can report back what they have detected.

Standing up and not attacking is not stopping the war, but putting continuous mental pressure on the defensive enemy without taking the initiative to attack, and finally forcing the enemy to collapse without being able to bear the pressure. His Royal Highness did this very well. Although he retreated fifty miles, he ordered the two regiments of the Flying Tigers of Lorester and Archduke Feisabrun to use the mobility of the cavalry to suddenly appear in the enemy's three defenses from time to time. In front of the position, make a feint attack, so that the defender dare not relax.

After arranging the layout of the two front-line camps, the Second Highness handed over the affairs of the front-line to Lorist and Grand Duke Fesabrunn to handle separately. It was nothing more than one person in charge of a large village, and continued to maintain pressure on the defense to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall. The attack and so on, and he himself led the family army of Count Shahin back to Pedro City. In the next two years, the summer residence of Pedro City will become the base camp of His Royal Highness II, where His Royal Highness II will handle the newly occupied three principalities, eight provinces and various affairs of the kingdom, and preside over the development of the eight provinces. And construction to provide sufficient armaments for the frontline army.

Looking at the various flags flying in the distance, the Duke of Kenmes, who came to see off the Second Highness, turned his head and said to Lorist: "Henned is too stupid. This time he didn't get any benefits from his Majesty. He was stupid. He was treated as a thug by your majesty. I bet your majesty is going to take the nobles of the Principality of Forlando when he returns to Pedro this time, and Henned is the knife in his hand."

This time he agreed to cooperate with the Second Highness in adopting a non-attack strategy to deal with the four princes in the central region. The Grand Duke Fei Sablon asked for a legion’s weapons and equipment and a quota of 50,000 immigrants after the capture of the Duchy of Handra. The Duke of Kenmax took In two years, the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce passed the tax-free pledge of the entire kingdom. Count Philim asked thirty thousand young men after the war to open up the southern province. Lorist received another three-year tax holiday for family and jurisdictional territories. It's just that Earl Shaheen was too straightforward, and once again asked His Royal Highness to assign himself a province rich in mineral resources as a family territory after the war, without any specific rewards.

"Stupid is stupid." Lorist said: "Henned went to be a knife for His Majesty this time, but it was actually the compensation that His Majesty gave him. Now all of our troops are placed here, and all the logistics needed are Long-distance transportation is required, which is indeed very expensive. Although the Principality of Forlando has not endured the damage of the war much, its accumulated food, grass and armaments have been almost consumed. Although the harvest of winter wheat is not without a small supplement to your majesty, Can't support the army for how long.

There are still three or four months before the next grain harvest here. In such a long time, no matter how capable your Majesty is, he cannot produce grain. In addition to arranging farming to encourage production, the cost of relying on logistical transportation of grain and grass is too high and expensive. , So the best way is to clean up those territorial nobles in the Principality of Forando. It is estimated that your majesty can easily get a year's salary of 300,000 troops. And in the process of this execution, are you still worried that he can't drink the soup? Your Majesty will open his eyes and close his eyes if he gets two or three hundred thousand Golden Ford. "

Earl Felim snorted a little displeased: "This guy is *shit* lucky. I hope he won't be taken over by your majesty."

"Haha..." Duke Kenmez hurriedly finished the game. After all, Earl Shaheen is related to him, and his cousin is now the hostess of the Shaheen family: "Don't worry, Henned is a little stupid. He still knows very well that our four Northland families are connected together, and your majesty is only using him. It is impossible to win him over. Besides, your two families are different from the end of last year because they wiped out the nobles in the Principality of Fakel. His Majesty was furious. I guess that your Majesty’s idea of ​​hitting those territorial nobles is also inspired by the two of you..."

Count Felim was speechless. At the end of last year, the migration of refugees and the raid against the nobles in the Principality of Faker was indeed a bit unnatural, but Lorist was plausible: "You don’t understand our plight at that time. I gave us 150,000 food and grass for 15 days, but wanted so many refugees to move to Windbury King City. Is it possible? Not to clean up those noble lands where they can eat and wear. And we helped your Majesty clean up the law. The instability in the Principality of Kerr saves him from having to do it himself. He is furious without thanking us, which is simply outrageous..."

The Duke of Kenmez and Earl of Philim laughed together dumbfounded, that is, Lorist, and his Majesty couldn't help it. His Royal Highness is also considered majestic, but he always suffers when he encounters Lorist. Even the remaining three of the four Northland alliances have taken a lot of advantage from the Second Highness.

Lorist was actually upset. Why did His Royal Highness dismiss the aristocratic coalition forces, but refused to allow him to return to the North, and he called himself to preside over the affairs of the front line. They all adopted the strategy of confrontation and non-attack. What matters? It is unlikely that there will be a major battle in the future. Just leave the small matter of maintaining the offensive pressure on the defense position of the Principality of Handra to the Tiger Rose, why leave yourself here...

Lorist felt that he had fallen into the pit he had dug this time, and if he wanted to stay here for two years, he felt that life was better than death. However, seeing that Archduke Feisabrun was also left on the front line by the Second Highness, he felt more psychologically balanced. People are all like this, if a person is unlucky, it is pain, and seeing someone accompany him with unlucky it becomes happiness.

If you think about it carefully, Lorester thinks that the arrangements made by the Second Royal Highness for himself and Grand Duke Fesabrunn are really interesting. If the two of them are returned to the family territory, maybe Lorester will start the Feysabrun family's idea again. . This is also no way, who is called Beidi Sijia Zhoubian is just such a bully. Moreover, the Fesabrunn family was so close to the Second Highness, Lorist didn't want such a threatening force to stay next to the family territory, and would never hesitate when he could suppress it.

Although the Second Highness is hostile to the Northland Four Alliances, he is far away, and he has to be measured as a king. It is impossible to directly break his face and fight against the Norton Family. Therefore, even if the Second Highness suffers a loss, Lorist will do it. Very clever, as long as the Second Highness does not get the handle, no one can take him. The other Second Highness must be concerned about the strength of the Norton family. Even if you want to turn your face, you have to think about what you can't eat...

Now the Second His Royal Highness has forced Lorester and Grand Duke Fesabrunn to stay on the front line to prevent them from returning to their family territory. He has also given them the right to make decisions on the spot, and it is obvious that both of them will stop, don't return to the family territory. Do you just fight each other? Now that the kingdom is engaged in the final battle against the four principalities in the central part, the Second Highness does not hope that the Norton family and the Fesabrun family will have any more twists and turns, so as not to affect the battle on the front line.

You all rush to the Principality of Handra, staying under my nose, don't make any trouble. It seems that His Royal Highness understands very well in his heart that although the Fei Sablon family has signed an armistice agreement with the four Northland alliances, it has been annoyed by the great Duke Fei Sablon surrendering to him and the strong support of the Fe Sablon family to him. With Lorester, no matter who is the head of the Norton Patriarch, he will not allow the Second Highness and the Fesabrun Family to form a flanking attack against the Norton Family. As long as there is a chance, Lorist will definitely not let the Fesabrun family go. As for the armistice agreement, just tear it off. If you want to start a war, you will never find a good excuse.

If only Lorester was left without Grand Duke Fesabrunn, then Lorester would definitely not stay at the front line at ease, maybe he would take his family's arms and leave without saying goodbye. But if only Archduke Fesabrunn does not stay in Lorester, then Archduke Fesabrunn can't stay here at ease. Perhaps after a while, he will hear the news of the uprooting of the Fesabrun family territory by Lorest. So only if two people stay on the front line, everyone can rest assured, and they can contain each other. This should be the calculation of the Second Highness, he himself can stay in the summer palace in Pedro City, and he can effectively restrain the two from having major conflicts and contradictions.

After the Second Highness and they left, a few days later, the Duke of Kenmez and the Earl of Philim had to say goodbye to Lorist. They were good, with a big heart, and directly handed their clan armaments to Lorist’s command, and then packed lightly on the road. One was going to deploy the Snow Salt Merchant’s commercial network in the eight newly occupied provinces, and the other was going back to the southern province to supervise the family. The development of the territory, anyway, His Royal Highness did not have any requirements for them to be forced to the front line, and he was relieved to hand over his family armaments to Lorist, so there was no need to worry about becoming cannon fodder. Just like the Earl of Kenmes said, our four families are one, and you can rest assured if you give your command...

Well, they got bored as soon as they left Lorester. Although Earl Felim said that he would be back in two months, Lorester still felt bored, so he simply put his mind on the three of the Duchy of Handra. Go up the defensive position. Isn't it said that their trebuchets are condescending and powerful? They can use the principle of leverage, but the trebuchets are not as far away as their own trebuchets. So Lorester found a group of craftsmen to make a dozen huge lever trebuchets, placed them in front of the three defensive positions, threw stones from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, and slammed them straight into the defensive position on the slope.

Lorist's movement was too loud, and as a result, the Second Highness in Pedro City was also alarmed. Pegasus rushed to the front line to watch the trebuchet. Lorist didn’t care either. Don’t look at throwing this crude trebuchet far away, but it’s not accurate at all, and it’s troublesome to operate. Each throw requires a dozen soldiers to pull the lever and install it. Heavy box, the frequency of stone throwing is too slow...

However, His Royal Highness and Grand Duke Feisabrun were already shocked by Lorester. Such a simple trebuchet can be seen at a glance. A huge log frame, a long tough wood as a lever, is framed on a wooden shelf. A weight box is hung on the upper tail, a leather pocket is placed on the head of the lever and a stone the size of a human head is placed, and the tether on the head of the lever is cut with a single cut, and the heavy weight box can be used to hang down and lift the lever high. , And then threw the stone to the defensive position on the hillside five to six hundred meters away...

This was really an unexpected surprise for the Second Highness. He happily asked if Lorist could make more trebuchets to smash the defensive positions, and then take the opportunity to attack the defensive positions of the mountain pass?

Lorist shook his head and told him bluntly that this thing was useless. Look, the slings of the same size and weight thrown by the same trebuchet can be separated by one or two hundred meters. No one can control the accuracy of this sling. . So it's okay for this thing to harass the enemy. If you want to take the position with this, don't think about it. It's good luck to cause a little casualty to the enemy.

His Royal Highness left angrily, but before leaving, he drew this lever-style sling pattern. Lorist didn't care. Anyway, if His Royal Highness wanted to use this sling to deal with the Norton family, it would be a joke. This lever type trebuchet is huge and heavy, and it is extremely inconvenient to move. When the bronze artillery of his family appeared on the battlefield, this catapult could only become a target for artillery fire.

Lorist regards this crude giant trebuchet as a means of harassing the defensive position, and does not care much about the effect of the trebuchet, but no one can stand the garrison of the three principalities on the defensive position, because this thing is unscrupulous, no one. I don’t know where the next stone will be thrown. The soldiers entering the defensive position look up at the sky every day, lest they don’t know where to drop a stone and let their heads bloom...

In this way, the generals of the three garrison regiments discussed a way~www.readwn.com~ and then used a night attack to successfully descend the mountain to break the vigilance and torch the dozen or so giant trebuchets. So Lorist became angry and began to order the craftsmen to rush to make these trebuchets. He also paid out his own pockets as a reward, made a giant trebuchet that was twice as large as the original, and again harassed the defensive position.

This time the stone throwing Lorist changed his tricks. Instead of throwing the head-like stones, he shattered the stones. A large pack of fist-sized stones was thrown over as if it were raining stones. The range of the blow was large, although not It was fatal but smashed the garrison soldiers on the defensive position to the blood.

Several garrisons couldn't stand it anymore and went down the mountain again to sneak attack. But this time when he hit the iron plate, Lorist had quietly transferred the Flying Tiger Corps' chariot steel crossbow regiment to ambush aside, and a heavy rain of steel crossbow shooting caused heavy losses to the garrison that attacked down the mountain. There was only one. A small part of them fled back to the mountain cleverly.

Then Lorist was inspired by the kerosene carried by the garrison soldiers who sneaked down the mountain. A large amount of kerosene came from the rear and was thrown in a clay pot. Then he threw the burning stone, and soon the front of the defensive position was lit up. The raging fire. It can be considered that the garrison soldiers on the defensive position were properly prepared, and soon covered the kerosene and burning ground with sand, without letting Lorist take the opportunity to make a sneak attack.

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