That night, Emperor Perris's camp was subjected to an organized attack.

It all started in the evening.

A messenger from Sea Castle is a wake-up call to the Imperial Legions, who are still plundering the homeland of the North Sea Kingdom.

In the past, in the name of "not leaving a grain of grain for Edward", the Duke of Valicia and his subordinates wantonly connived at their subordinates to burn and plunder in the territory of the empire.

Such an advantage was to fill the gap in the supply of Emperor Peris.

This is how the quartermaster in the army commented on the soldiers' gains.

"Even if His Majesty the Emperor were to fight that rebel for a month, our supplies would be completely sufficient now. ”

But the downside of this is also obvious.

"Did the people of Pruss fly here?!" the Duke of Valicia gripped the courier by the collar.

A bruise broke down on his face.

Now he was in charge of 600 cavalry units of the Empire, and in addition to the 36 new heavy cavalry units, there were more than 500 light cavalry, and more than 300 light cavalry were sent to the countryside or some small county to "carry out tasks".

The number of soldiers who could be mobilized immediately was not even half of his cavalry corps.

And the infantry team of 6,000 men under his command was also sent out a third at this time.

If Prus were to fight the Empire now, four of his men would have been cut off from ten fingers.

"They arrived at least a week earlier than the Empire had estimated. ”

The man who could still keep his cool on the sidelines was the Duke of Merlister.

Due to his in-law relationship with a frontier duke in the Rhine Kingdom, although his territory was plundered by the Rhine Kingdom, he only lost some food at the moment, and the safety of his family, especially since his wife was a Rhine herself, was guaranteed by Prussia.

So he wasn't in a hurry to calculate.

After the defeat in the war on the Imperial front, his originally insignificant 4,000 peasant soldiers became an important military force of the Empire, so his position was also valued by the Emperor and he was able to express his opinion at such important conferences.

"In that case, their food supply should not be sufficient, if I were Prus, then I must first take the sea castle with a certain amount of savings and supplies, even if I have to pay a certain amount of troops to attack, I must also take it. ”

It was Cheya who made this statement.

Although his dukedom and even his earldom were lost, the emperor retained his position as duke in order to appease the veteran who had made meritorious contributions to the Northern Expedition, and promised him an "annuity" from the imperial treasury as a duke.

At the same time, he also mastered most of the new recruits of the empire from the North Sea.

Although the morale of his troops was poor, he still managed to have no less than 3,000 troops (new conscripts and deserted soldiers every day).

On the whole, the current Imperial Legion of Perris is composed of the three of them, "military giants".

Although the Duke of Valicia inherited the most elite army, the Duke of Merlister had de facto the support of the emperor and the bureaucracy, and saw him as the only senior southern officer who could balance the Duke of Valicia in the army.

As the only high-ranking general from the Northland, Duke Cheya was sympathetic to the low-level officers and soldiers because of his own tragic experience, and he also had a decisive influence in the current situation of the Imperial Army, where the soldiers of the Beihai Kingdom actually accounted for the majority of the people.

After listening to the analysis of the two colleagues, Valicia finally put down the messenger he had just grabbed by the collar and asked, "What do the two generals think?"

"The army was divided into two groups, and one assault force was organized to move south immediately, and the other army camped in the same place, consolidated the camp, gathered supplies and replenished the troops, and then slowly moved south. ”

As an excellent logistical type commander, Duke Merrist was quick to give his own answer.

This plan took into account the defense of Heidelberg and the current spoils of the Imperial Legion, and was a good idea that could be accepted by both the Emperor and Valicia.

It's just that Duke Cheya mentioned a little antisense before activating the hammer.

"I thought that Pruss would not just watch our army go about it. He said with a frown. "Judging from the Courier's report, Prus has a large cavalry force, and if we divide our troops in two ways, I am afraid that we will be at risk of being divided and routed. And, most importantly, at the same time that we received the letter, it was to be expected that Prussia's army had blocked the sea castle to the ground. ”

"The best way for us to break the siege is to fight him under the walls and then consider whether to enter the city or not. Instead of entering the city under the attack of the enemy's cavalry troops, then we will lose a large number of troops before we engage again. ”

Duke Cheya was quick to point out the shortcomings of this plan.

But it's a pity that he can't find enough solutions, so he can only continue to lock his brow.

After losing the territory, Che Ya looked much older, and he no longer had the confidence he had when he first set out to fight in the Northlands.

"From the point of view of supply, Lord Cheya, it is very likely that the Rhines are ill-prepared, and we should have been able to fight a decent defensive war, and then force them to retreat back to the Rhine Kingdom, and finally fight them from the land of the Rhine Kingdom. ”

"If so, is your plan a Prussian plan?"

Duke Merrist retorted.

Just like the previous forty years of uneventful career, he is now very eager to win two battles to make up for the regrets that existed in his previous life, and naturally expresses great dissatisfaction with Cheya's plan to take care of both ends of his life.

"If you are worried that your soldiers from the north will be scattered by a force of light cavalry, you can leave your troops behind. I trust that the elite forces from the core of the Empire will be able to withstand their attacks. ”

"Compared to the heavy cavalry attack, the light cavalry is just a child's trick. They were not good enough to ride their horses and use their weapons flexibly. ”

"And their fragile armor can easily be knocked down by the simplest weapons of the infantry. I don't really see any threat. ”

He casually patted a wooden stake beside him and said, "Our infantry is in formation and stands in a row, then it is as if there is no difference between the stakes, how can they be scattered by a mere light cavalry." ”

"I think it's not because some people have lost miserably, that's why they have such a strange idea. ”

After hearing such sarcasm, Duke Cheya still did not speak, but only owed himself in the direction of the emperor.

Everything he has now comes from the emperor, so it is useless for him to say anything, he can only put forward a little opinion, and his little opinion often has the overall situation to take care of, so he is used to such days.

Perris was still thinking about the fiasco of the previous active attack, so he was somewhat naturally resistant to Cheya's plan for a decisive battle under the city.

But the rebellion of Pruss in this period also made him angry, and the thought of the old man he had never met made his heart flutter with a fire.

Although the recent war had a negative tendency, they had greatly weakened the Wiegand people, and in the end, it was the rebellion of Prussia that really bogged him down.

"The loss of Sea Castle means that my army is a lone ......"

"Therefore, anything that might throw away Sea Castle cannot be allowed!" Perris said in a loud voice.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that his mind was clearer than ever, as if he had opened some mechanism.

"Well, let's neutralize the two options. I and the Duke of Merlister, who is in the main battle, and the Valician Commander will go first, leaving the Duke of Cheya to continue to gather the remnants of the army?"

"Now we just need to take as many infantry as possible, hold the sea castle, force back the rebel thief, and then wait for the baggage in our rear to arrive on time. ”

"At that time, the troops entering the city were all light cavalry, and there were large infantry regiments out to meet them...... As long as we send supplies into the city in batches, won't that solve all the problems?"

Although the three generals felt that there was always something wrong with this plan, they did not have the military talent to dare to oppose the emperor's opinion.

Thus, the legions of the empire were urgently mobilized at dusk.

More than 10,000 infantry reluctantly bid farewell to their looted property, and then set out on the journey overnight.

They set out at dusk, repairing only a short time during the night, so that they could reach Sea Castle at dawn the next day.

And fate played a joke again with such an army.

Midnight identity, everything is silent.

Soldiers who had marched for six hours were allowed by their commanders to recuperate in place for four hours, during which time they completed a series of regular preparations such as lighting fires, setting up camp, and so on......

By that standard, they wouldn't have to take any more time to recuperate, because it would take them far more time to do it than they should have been.

The young Imperial Legion captain took off his helmet.

Les, the recruit boy who joined from Abbasquia with all his blood, has now gone from an unemployed citizen to a standard Imperial veteran.

He picked up his own set of equipment from the corpses of his comrades, including spears against cavalry and arrays, swords for melee combat, and of course, the shield.

In short, it looks like it has all the qualities that a veteran should have.

Taciturn, but extremely sensitive.

Unlike the farmers around him who had just been driven to the battlefield, he clearly had a keen eye for the battlefield.

And this experience eventually allowed him to survive several battles and battles that he had encountered before.

Before it was completely dark, he had noticed the terrain around him, with small hills dotted over the flat frozen soil and trees on both sides of the road.

In order to find a warmer place to rest, the general decided to put his troops at the back of a small hill.

If anything he could be reminded of in this way, it would be a damn war.

"If at this time, suddenly an enemy army appears...... We will have no way back. ”

And it was at this time that the sound of horses' hooves sounded as if to confirm his prophecy.

He shook his head sharply, then drew a sword from his waist.

"Enemy attack, !!"

The soldiers who had just been lying down groped their way out of the darkness and picked up their weapons.

Tonight's winter has no bright moonlight and no starry sky, which makes the world look extremely gloomy, and even the air is noticeably heavy.

In the distance, several gas torches appeared in front of the road extension, reflecting a light.

A middle-aged man in gorgeous armor looked at the scene in front of him with some surprise, and behind him, hundreds of knights in gray-black armor, in the dark night, they seemed to be the rising stone peaks on the hillside.

With his four-fingered left hand, he pulled out a sword from his bosom.

He grinned and pointed ahead.

"I have long for the blessings of the gods, hoping that the glory of my ancestors will bless me in my great cause. But God never loved me once. ”

"And now, I no longer fear the gods, but the heavens have given me such a good opportunity. ”

With his mutilated palm slowly reaching forward.

At this moment, Emperor Perris, with the help of his attendants, had just jumped out of the carriage, wearing a set of soft coats for sleeping, and swaggered through the chaotic infantry group, and after half a day's work, he groped his way up a horse.

The emperor's personal guards had barely put their ranks in order, but many more soldiers had completely lost their organization. They were scurrying around, shouting loudly, getting no orders and seeing no message.

The mountain, collapsed......

Hundreds of black iron horsemen stepped into the formation first, followed by three thousand light horsemen rushing at full speed.

From the morning onwards, they galloped all the way, only in the evening they hastily changed horses at the foot of the castle of the sea.

At this moment, they were in extreme exhaustion, but it was better than the hurried infantry.

The infantry in the forward positions were almost at the touch of a button, and their dispersal led to the fact that more soldiers were bogged down......

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