Tales of the Reincarnated Lord

Chapter 463: Raid in progress

Rows of log houses in the distance are burning in the fire, and pools of dirt and blood are scattered on the white snow, and there are waves of suppressed crying and screaming in the wind...

The heavy snow that had been falling for three consecutive days had stopped, and the gloomy clouds had rarely exposed a few gaps. The clouds at the edges of the gaps were dyed golden by the sun, just like those pieces of iron armor with gold rims.

Lorist had a sullen face, and several senior family members standing beside him were also full of sullen faces, because in the snow in front of them, there were neatly arranged the remains of 173 Flying Tiger Legion soldiers. The bodies were listed. There were three rows, with stumps and broken arms, blood scars, it was so shocking under the reflection of Baixue.

"Who can tell me what's going on? Why would such a shabby manor cause so many casualties of our family soldiers?" Lingling's words came out of Lorist's teeth, and everyone knew him. Anger is burning in his heart.

"It's my fault, Your Highness." Dolles took a few steps forward: "None of us expected this dilapidated manor without a castle to be Baron Abbott, and Master Tagle was on the list. The Baron Abbott, who needs to be guarded closely, was the deputy commander of the Goshawk Mercenary Corps, who used to rank 21st in the Mercenary Corps in the Business League, and was nicknamed the Golden Eagle Abbott.

A squadron soldier in charge of the first scout discovered this dilapidated manor. No one connected it to the Baron Abbott collar. They rushed in to prepare to make an emergency landing in the manor. As a result, they encountered Baron Abbott and The resistance of the knights under his squadron as the first scout killed all the soldiers on the spot.

Then Baron Abbott was going to summon his garrison to resist, but he did not expect our successor to come and fight together. There were 421 casualties among our family’s soldiers, of which 173 were killed in battle, and more than 700 were killed and wounded by Baron Abbott. Baron Abbott, his knights and garrison have all been given the lead. ..."

The Norton family’s armed forces are organized as a team of ten people, and the team leader is the ten captain. The ten teams are a squadron, and the captain is a centurion. The Norton family’s winter operations regulations stipulate that when a squadron set out first as a scout finds a target, it implements encirclement and vigilance to prevent being discovered by the target and cause a breakthrough, and then launch an attack after the follow-up troops arrive, effectively annihilating all Enemy, let no one slip through the net.

The Volibel Intelligence and Investigation Bureau has conducted detailed investigations on the territorial nobles of Anderwolf Province, using various conditions to pretend to be secret agents of various identities to investigate almost all the territorial nobles of Anderwolf Province. Basically, the private armed forces of the nobles in the various territories, and the family knights are very clearly marked in the intelligence. As long as the Flying Tigers follow the list submitted by Tagel, they can guarantee the offensive plan to occupy the Androff Province. It will proceed very smoothly, and will wipe out all the nobles in the provinces canonized by these business alliances.

The only mistake was that although the information list submitted by Tagger listed Baron Abbott as a key target of strict defense, it showed that his garrison was quite effective, and it also marked Baron Abbott’s territory on the map. Approximate location. But the heavy snow in winter, the three days and three nights of blizzard turned the land into an endless snowfield, changing the discrimination and cognition of geographic location based on terrain, so the location on the map cannot be clearly determined in reality. , It is often only after the offensive victory can we know what this place is from the captive’s mouth.

This time, the squadron that was the first scout also made this mistake. The vast snow covered a small river as a geographical location. When the scout squadron found that there were many wooden houses built with logs in front of it, the squadron leader did not I didn't realize that this was Baron Abbott, but thought it was the domain of a poor nobleman.

Everyone knows that most of the noble gates of the territory live in those stone castles, safe and windproof, the fireplace is still burning with raging flames, and the room is very warm. So the squadron leader of the scout squadron thought it was just a material warehouse for a nobleman in the territory or a place where his servants nestled in winter, and he dispatched his soldiers to attack the wooden houses here in small groups. In his opinion, it should be possible to occupy these wooden houses in a large block, and then get information from the captives. As a result... they hit the iron plate.

No one knew that the alert Baron Abbot, outlined in red on the intelligence list, lived in such a simple log house, and the spies did not indicate this on the intelligence. When a small group of soldiers from this scout squadron of the Flying Tigers rushed into this larger log house and ordered the enemy to raise their hands and throw their weapons and abandon their weapons, Baron Abbott and his knights were not like the nobles in other realms. He was caught with nothing, but resisted for the first time.

The two-star Baron Abbott, the three-star silver Adrian Knight, and the one-star Black Iron Master Grigor, confronting this scout team with a vindictive cultivation base of only bronze and black iron ranks, it’s just cutting melons and vegetables. general. And this scout squadron was divided into teams to attack each wooden house, and it was too late when it was discovered that there was something wrong. Baron Abbott and the Adrian Knights slew out, then began to recruit a squadron, and quickly killed the scout squadron.

Fortunately, the follow-up troops came quickly. Baron Abbott had just eliminated the hundred-man scout squadron. He hadn't figured out where the enemy came from. The follow-up troops had arrived, and his colleagues were killed and injured. Immediately launched an offensive angrily. Baron Abbott, the Adrian Cavaliers and the garrison were involved in a scuffle again.

The soldiers of the Flying Tiger Legion of ten people couldn't stop the attack of the golden mercenary Baron Abbott. They suffered a lot from the beginning of the battle. However, there were more and more follow-up troops, and the hundred men blocked the ferocious baron Abbott and the Adrian Knight. After a few hundred men battled around, the battlefield advantage tilted toward the Flying Tiger Legion.

The arrival of the regiment commander Dolles became the last straw to overwhelm the balance. Due to the many casualties of his soldiers, Dolles, who was also a golden rank, even ignored the surrender of Baron Abbott at the last moment. Abandon the sword and beg for mercy and kill it with one sword. However, the Adrian Knight wanted to rush out of the heavy siege and was shot into a hedgehog by the steel crossbow mounted on the sled when he escaped. As for Chief Grieger, he was wounded and became a prisoner in the melee.

"Golden Eagle Abbot..." Lorist stared at the corpse of Baron Abbot, who was sent to him, his blood-stained face faintly could tell that it was indeed the one who was in the Mercenary Guild in Morente. Deputy commander of the energetic Goshawk mercenary group.

This should be considered an old acquaintance of Lorist. I remember that the first gold coin Lorist earned in the Mercenary Guild was related to this Baron Abbott. At that time, Lorester, Fatty Shi and a few friends pooled money to make a batch of backpacks and sold them to the mercenary guild. A few brutal mercenaries came up with some small purses to buy these backpacks, or this Golden Eagle Aibu I came out to help Lorist and the others, bought all the backpacks at a high price, and later customized a batch of them.

At that time, Lorist had just lost contact with the family and became a bronze mercenary of the lowest rank for the tuition and living expenses of the next semester. The purpose of making the backpack was to earn some Golden Fortune, but he did not expect to be bullied by a few silver mercenaries. Had it not been for the deputy commander of the Goshawk mercenary group Abbott to come forward to relieve the siege, maybe Lorist and Fatty Shi would still be beaten up.

More than twenty years have passed in a flash, but the golden eagle Abbot, who was kind to Lorist, has become a hostile lord and died in the hands of the Norton family. Lorist sighed for a long time, but couldn't speak, but waved his hand, let Dolles bury him well, and turned away.

On December 27, 1786, the General Calendar of the Gailentian continent, the Norton family armed flying tigers took advantage of the cover of a blizzard to raid and capture Anderwolf Province, and one of the seven giants of the adjacent business alliance, Wei Puerto Olga, the territory of the West Asian Chamber of Commerce, did not know it. Its capital city has been lit up with lights and festoons and is preparing to celebrate the New Year.

Due to the unexpected resistance in the Baron Abbott, which caused hundreds of casualties, Loriste slowed the speed of the attack specially to ensure the smooth implementation of the cleaning plan for the province of Anderworth until New Year’s Day. On the 21st of the month, the talented soldiers were on the verge of getting under the royal city.

"Your Highness, you are here." Bodfinger and Malek hurriedly greeted them.

This is a very large snow house, made of huge blocks made of snow, and it freezes into a solid whole when it is poured with water. It is just a very ordinary snow hill from a distance after the heavy snow. And such igloos are not one, but are connected in rows. If you don't get close, you won't be able to find that what is hidden in this snow mound is actually a big barracks.

Entering the igloo, there is also a big tent built by a tent. There are eight braziers around the big tent. The smokeless charcoal in the brazier is red, and the curved air duct sends in bursts of refreshing cold wind. , So that the big tent is warm like spring without making people feel bored.

"How's the layout?" Lorist took off the outer jacket and gave it to Genorio, then called everyone to sit down.

Bodfinger placed a plan of the city of Ferderica in front of Lorist, with a serious face: "His Royal Highness, this is a tough battle, and the city of Ferderica is very difficult to fight."

"How do you say?" Lorist asked.

"At that time, the Vyssia Chamber of Commerce and the Four Duchy of Central China defeated the Second His Royal Highness, captured the Royal City of Federica and seized the province of Puerto Olga as its Chamber of Commerce territory, and carried out a large-scale expansion and rectification project on Royal City of Federica. The city plan and defense facility layout drawings are basically useless.

During this period of time, we used telescopes to survey the Royal City of Federica from all directions and found that the city was roughly divided into five areas. In the middle is the inner city, where the former palace was located, now there is an extra high wall. The east area is a high-level residential area, the south area is a business district, the west area is where the barracks and arsenal are located, and the north area is supposed to be a slum area.

The old Federico had nearly 200,000 residents in the city, but after the surprise attack of the Second Highness and the joint siege of the Weysia Chamber of Commerce and the Four Central Duchys, there should be less than 100,000 residents left in the city. After the expansion of the Wissia Chamber of Commerce, the old city residents basically live in the North District, earning a living by doing small businesses and servicing labor.

The Wissia Chamber of Commerce seems to have made the city of Federica its fundamental focus. In addition to directly governing the mineral resource collection areas of Puerto Olga, all the farming areas in Puerto Olga have been divided and canonized thirty-seven. A nobleman in the territory. The defense teams of the fiefs are not enough to worry about, but the trouble is that the castles of the nobles of the fiefs have established beacon warning stations.

This may be the result of the surprise attack of the Second Royal Highness in the past. The Wissia Chamber of Commerce has already prepared for this. Every ten days, the castles of these fiefdoms and the beacon warning stations of the mining and iron training bases would light the beacon in turn. I suspect they might be delivering some information. In order to avoid being stunned, we did not attack the fief lords around after setting up the encirclement of Federica, so as not to be detected by the Vysian Chamber of Commerce entrenched in Federica.

At present, Federica has 45,000 members of the Weysia Chamber of Commerce in King City, as well as a city defensive team of 18,000. According to the information transmitted by Lord Tagle, there will be four great swordsmen in the Wisiah Chamber of Commerce, a second-level great swordsman in Moriente, a first-level great swordsman serving in the Chamber of Commerce Corps, and a first-level great swordsman guarding. In Wangcheng, there is a second-level great swordsman guarding the president of the Chamber of Commerce. However, with the exception of the Great Sword Master next to the President of the Chamber of Commerce and the Great Sword Master who served in the Legion, the other two Great Sword Masters were newly recruited by the Wissia Chamber of Commerce.

During the reconnaissance for more than 20 days, we found that most of the residents in the city of Federica have the ability to go out in winter. Although their cold-proof and warm clothing is very different from our family’s style, it does not affect them to go out. Activities, and the defense on the wall is much tighter than other castles. A patrol team will patrol the city wall every two hours. This means that we will be easily spotted by defended enemies during the offensive process, which will cause more casualties to our family soldiers.

Therefore, all of our stationed places are nearly twenty miles away from Federica Royal City~www.readwn.com~ to ensure that we will not be discovered by the enemy. In addition, the Rock Legion has sent three corps to bypass the Federica Royal City, blocking the East Gate, South Gate and West Gate, forming a circle of encirclement. Wait for the arrival of the Flying Tigers before launching a strong attack on Federica Royal City. "

Bodfinger pointed to the map of Federica’s King City on the table to introduce the situation he had detected to Lorist, and finally said: “Your Highness, there is no other way to capture this King City except assault. I am even worried about it. Once the Vicia Chamber of Commerce notices that the situation is not good during the siege, it will vigorously organize nearly 50,000 miners to take up arms to resist our attack, which is almost equivalent to adding an army to them."

Lorist pondered for a while and asked, "Can the secret passage that the Second Royal Highness protruded from the royal city be used? Can we use that passage to enter the city to initiate a surprise attack?"

Bodfinger shook his head: "Your Highness, I sent someone to find it. The map that Miss Kristia gave us and marked the hidden passages of the King City is true and credible, but the passage has been protected. The West Asia Chamber of Commerce found and buried it, and we can no longer enter the secret tunnel."

Lorist shook his head helplessly: "Well, let's do this first. After two days, when Tiger Ross leads the Flying Tiger Legion, we will discuss how to attack the city."

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