Approaching September, the third prince of the Locke Empire led a group of heavily armored cavalry to advance thousands of kilometers with a dignified momentum, breaking through the blockade of the Ophira Empire in one fell swoop. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The real confrontation between the two sides, which was in full swing and was stained with blood and fire, officially began.

As the nominal earl of the Ophela Empire, Griffith owns a fief that is not small in size.

This fief happened to be in the northern part of the Ophela Empire, adjacent to the Northerners.

After the last time Griffith left without saying goodbye, Griffith's fiefdom was in danger of being reclaimed by the royal family due to a long-term lack of leaders.

At that time, the fifth princess, Princess Dias Alexander, who was the nominal owner of Griffith, took the lead and came out to preside over all the affairs in the fief as Griffith's contracted master and partner.

For this reason, she even applied for a leave of absence from the College of Versailles, but had to drop out because she failed to meet the relevant conditions of suspension.

On the other hand, in order to save Prince Anta's face, he won over Griffith, an elusive master of weapons. Prince Anta's brother-in-law, the young and bold Phila Liu, with a wave of his hand, put Griffith's land under the jurisdiction of Prince Anta.

Prince Anta ruled a territory not far from Griffith's fiefdom, separated by several barren city-states and untouched mountains. With a wave of his hand, the Filip Six clan assigned all these lands to Prince Anta.

This greatly simplified the passage of Prince Anta's control of this land and related government decrees, and also provided a guarantee for Her Royal Highness the Fifth Princess to manage the Griffith fiefdom.

In this way, Prince Anta became Griffith's top boss.

It's just that I didn't expect that not long after Griffith left, after the above corresponding matters were arranged, the Ciri Empire united more than a dozen kingdoms around the Ophela Empire to launch a ferocious war of aggression.

The Ophira Empire and the Ciri Empire are both one of the three magical empires in the Hill Mountains, and before the Philip Six clan came to power, his father was not too brilliant because of his political talents—to put it mildly, even a little mediocre, resulting in the Ophira Empire's military and economic lag behind the Ciri Empire.

After the six clans of Filip ascended the throne, they worked hard to recuperate. One by one, the health laws were passed down from the palace, and the cancers left over from my father's reign, the corrupt officials, and the unhealthy warlord lords had begun to bear fruit in the years of weakening like soft knives.

It's just that there is too little time left for the wise and young emperor after all.

In 1793, more than a dozen kingdoms backed by the Cyri Empire launched an unprecedentedly large-scale war of aggression against the Ophela Empire.

In this context, Griffith responded to the call of the fifth princess, Didias, cut through time and space, and traveled through.

In the context of this all-people war, Prince Anta's fiefdom, which was close to the northern part of the empire, was affected by the war to a certain extent, including Griffith's territory.

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In a dense primeval forest overgrown with evergreen plants, Didias wore a dark light armor and rode a horse through the mountain paths.

Around her were five or six Imperial Guards, also lightly armoured, the last warriors to protect Dias as he traversed the pristine forest.

A month ago, the 4th Division of the Sakura Kingdom, which was attached to the Xiri Empire, broke through the edge defense line of the Ophela Empire, successfully broke into the interior, and raided Prince Anta's territory with lightning.

Due to its geographical advantage, Prince Anta's territory has always served as a transit station for the Central Army and a grain reserve base in the areas along the route, and has a pivotal position in the border resistance of the entire Ophela Empire.

After the 4th Division of the Sakura Kingdom broke through the Imperial Defense Line, the first thing it did was to carry out a covering blow and destroy Prince Anta's territory.

Fortunately, Prince Anta, who has always felt honest and even a little timid, has a different appearance and a belly with some military talent.

He knew that his territory was geographically significant in the early stages of the entire Imperial Army's rivalry, and once the opponent broke through the defensive line, it was likely to be the number one target.

Therefore, when the war first started, it was vigorously preparing troops and horses, and at the same time building, perfecting, and strengthening the defensive offensive.

He also made people hoard grain and grass in the vicinity, and in addition to the part of the central belt that was constantly supplied to the front, the area under Prince Anta's jurisdiction was in fact not short of food.

Such painstaking preparations played a somewhat effective role when the Fourth Division of the Sakura Kingdom broke through the blockade and attacked by surprise.

However, the fourth division of the Sakura Kingdom is the division of a hundred battles, and with the momentum of breaking through the border defense line of the Ophela Empire, it has captured a large territory under Prince Anta in a clever time difference.

Fortunately, the preparations made by His Royal Highness the Prince before played a certain role in delaying, and when the spears of the Fourth Division broke through the layers of defense lines in Prince Anta's city, they also lost their initiative and sharpness. gradually fell into the mud altar of Anta, which was carefully prepared to work at ease.

And the land under the jurisdiction of the Earl of Griffith is part of this mud altar of war.

With the arrival of the Fourth Division of the Sakura Kingdom, Her Royal Highness Princess Didias has led the army in her territory and the 1,200 cavalry under her command, ready to resist to the death.

She is a little girl who has just become an adult for a year, and she naturally does not understand military or political matters.

But fortunately, before allocating the territory, the Philip Six clan considered Griffith's identity and specially allocated relevant government and military talents for him.

To tell the truth, these royal people are indeed very capable, even if they are not controlled by the lord for a long time, they can govern the territory in an orderly manner.

The downside is that these people are loyal to the royal family and will become the emperor's eyeliner by your side.

The city under Griffith's jurisdiction is called Bonun, and this town, mountains and forests within a radius of hundreds of kilometers are also within its jurisdiction.

However, when the war broke out suddenly, Didias, under the advice of the relevant personnel, collected all the peasants and hunters outside the city of Braun into the city. And took away the food they had accumulated for the winter, burned down the houses.

The Sakura Kingdom has come with great momentum, but the daily expenses of these tens of millions of soldiers are also astronomical.

The castles around the city of Braun were mostly poor people and tiger hunters, and the architectural style was simple, which could not stop the invasion of the Fourth Division at all. On the contrary, it is better to take the initiative to give up at the right time and clear the wilderness. Destroy and burn all the food and the places where the army can live.

The adult timber that could be used to make siege equipment was dismantled and brought into the city, and all the large pieces or those that could not be taken away were burned.

On the battlefield, everything is never done. There are many similar damage tricks, so when the army pressed the city, although Didias was so nervous that her face turned pale, she had been preparing accordingly before, and now she also had 'work' to do, so she didn't feel particularly panicked.

However, the division of a hundred battles, killing people and destroying the momentum of the border guards, is also not something that the border guards of the peaceful people of Boyang City can resist.

Even with the 1,200 heroic elite light cavalry of Didias, on such a battlefield where tens of thousands of people are often made, a thousand or so people are only enough to fight in the water.

After several contact attempts between the two sides, Didias defended the city under the advice of the relevant military personnel of the city of Braun, and resolutely did not fight again.

This situation persisted for several days, and the 3rd and 7th regiments of the 4th Division of the Sakura Kingdom besieging Braun Castle were separated, leaving a small number of soldiers to call for battle in front of Braun Castle every day.

The main force secretly rushed for hundreds of miles, and by surprise, they defeated another city under Prince Anta, Feilun City, in one fell swoop.

The city of Feren was originally part of the Free City, inherited by a hereditary viscount from the old earl. Because after hundreds of years of systematic development, in terms of prosperity and the layout and solidity of the city, it is not comparable to the emerging Braun City.

The persimmon should be pinched softly, and the book of war makes it clear that there has never been a battle in which the weak defeat the strong, only a battle in which the weak attack others are short.

Most of those seemingly miraculous miracles of winning more with less, excluding some parts caused by luck, are this kind of tactics of concentrating superior forces and fighting more and less locally.

Therefore, the 3rd and 7th Regiments of the 4th Division, in the strategic rehearsal of the people, should have attacked the city of Braun first, and in fact, the other side did exactly that.

Once the city of Braun is broken, and the distance between it is not more than a hundred miles, the city of Faerun, which is facing each other in attack and defense, will become an isolated city, and it will be much easier to do at that time. It is no exaggeration to say that if there is enough time, the Fourth Front Army will surround and not fight, which will be enough for Feron City to drink a pot.

But what no one expected was that the commander of the 3rd and 7th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Sakura Kingdom was in harmony with his soldiers and made preparations with both hands.

After several encounters with Porun City, he found that it was difficult to capture it for a while, so he turned his spearhead and ordered his subordinates to feign an attack on Porum City to attract the attention of Porum City and Feiren Castle.

On the other hand, he rushed for a hundred miles and took advantage of the night to decisively attack Feilun City.

This Feilun City was caught off guard, lost the opportunity, and was occupied by the vanguard elite of the Third Regiment. After a bloody battle, finally before the city gate, two or three strong men hugged the thick door bolt together and lifted it violently......

Having lost its fortified city, the Faeron army was a flock of lambs to the slaughter in front of the battle-hardened Fourth Division. Although the latter reacted in time to enter the street fighting in the city and burned the hoarded grain and grass, the city of Ferenjian eventually fell.

The fire, which had been burning all night, lit up the entire western sky as bright red as the sunset, and it was then that the Didas and his gang, who lived in the city of Melon, knew about the plan, but it was too late.