Chapter 16 The Civil War of Albion 2 Intercepts and Kills Reinforcements
When Haotian took the army of 7,000 Grent and the army of 5,000 Toristines to take the lumberyard and 10,000 troops, Willus was not idle. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the Grent family and fifteen thousand soldiers who were transferred out and hidden in the people, commanded by him, on the day the civil war began, Willus appeared at the easternmost point of Albion and issued a proclamation.
The gist is as follows: I, Willus, are not dead, I am back, my loyal courtiers the Grunt will help me to defeat the rebels who have rebelled and usurped the country, and all the people who welcome the rule of my Albion, open the gates of the city to welcome me and the soldiers of the Grunt family. Those petty nobles who were coerced by the rebels to rebel, as long as they surrender to me quickly, I will not be blamed for the past. There are four families that I must exterminate, the House family, the McGan family, the Marni family, and the Pace family, who have been our big family for generations, and they do not want to serve the country, and they also set off a rebellion, which led to the death of my father and teacher in battle, and they will not be forgiven.
Such notices are plastered on bulletin boards in cities and towns.
The populace rejoiced, and the nobles were uneasy.
When Willus appeared outside the manor and city lord's mansion with the soldiers of the Grent family, the little nobles with only dozens or hundreds of soldiers looked at the thousands of Grent soldiers behind Willus, and they all reluctantly chose to surrender. Cities and villages declared their independence from the Republic of Albion and returned to the rule of the Kingdom of Albion. If the territory of the continental republic of Albion is represented in blue, and the territory of the kingdom is represented in red, then the originally completely blue land appears in red patches, connects into lines, converges into clusters, and becomes larger and larger.
It had not been a year since the fall of the kingdom, and the people of the kingdom had supported and respected Willus, so when Willus returned to restore the kingdom, the people of the kingdom were happy to show their support. If the republican system had been in place for ten or twenty years, and the people were content with the status quo, Willus's influence might have been greatly reduced.
In any case, with the support of the Grent family's forces, the kingdom of Albion is recovering little by little.
Except for the territories of the five major families, the territories of the other minor nobles basically broke away from the republic and returned to the kingdom.
The news of Willus' return soon spread from all over the country and reached the ears of the four major families.
The Mani family and the Pace family are uneasy.
The McCann family was furious, they had been friends with the Grunt family for generations, and now the Grunt family was on the side of Willus, and they didn't even say hello. This is betrayal.
The House family is as stable as a mountain, and sends letters to the other three families to discuss the extermination of the Willus and Grunt families. On the surface, there are still 20,000, 10,000, 5,000, and 5,000 armies left in the homeland of the four major families, and there are 40,000 combined; The Grunt family, with the help of Willus, had only 10,000 troops.
However, the three families did not receive a reply, and the House family has now received a letter for help from the lumberyard defenders.
The lumberyard was attacked by 10,000 Grent family soldiers? Now they are stalemate.
The Grunt family had a total of 30,000 troops, 20,000 joined the expeditionary force, and 10,000 attacked the lumberyards. So where did the army that followed Willus to reclaim those minor noble realms come from?
The lumber yard shipyard is the foundation of my House family and cannot afford to be missed. However, the royal capital could not be left without soldiers and horses, so he sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to rescue the lumberyard. House thought about it and made such a decision.
In his thinking. He believed that it was very likely that the lumberyard had 10,000 defenders and 10,000 enemy troops in a stalemate, and that the addition of 5,000 troops should help the lumberyard defenders win. After taking out the enemy forces in the lumberyard, he will gather his army in the royal capital, and when the time comes, he will join the forces of the other three families and march to the location of Willus, completely destroying the last bloodline of the royal family of Albion.
After borrowing the letter from the House family, Mani and the Pace family seemed to have found the backbone, and led their respective armies to the royal capital, to stand on the same ship as the House family.
However, the McGhan family did not lead troops to join the three major families, but sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Grent family's mines. For a time, the various mines of the Grent family were in smoke and fell one after another, and letters asking for help were sent to the Grent family.
Grent couldn't hold back and wanted to lead troops to rescue his own mine, but the troops that could be mobilized were all under the command of Haotian and Willus. The 10,000 McGans are now scattered across the mines, allowing them to wreak havoc until the other families are wiped out.
According to the troops, Haotian's 7,000 soldiers and horses were left in the lumber yard after the first battle, and after the battle, there were more than 6,000 and 5,000 Toristine troops under the command of Gandalf, leaving 3,000 to guard the more than 8,000 troops in the lumberyard where the weapons were confiscated, and the remaining 8,000 were ambushed on the way to the lumber yard in the royal capital waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
The reinforcements of the Five Thousand Houses family marched from the royal capital in a hurry, and about twenty miles out of the royal capital, a large number of enemy troops poured out of the mountain roads on both sides. The enemy shouted and killed, and before they could rush down, a large fireball and wind blade of magic fell in the formation of the House family's army, and hundreds of people fell after a wave of magic, frightening hundreds of people around the magic landing site.
Immediately afterwards, the Toristin longsword soldiers rushed to the front and fought with the soldiers and horses of the House family.
Fifty college magicians and three thousand Grent archers hid in the woods beside the road, and the middle and rear parts of the House army continued to release magic and bows.
Under the threat of long-range strikes, the House family reinforcements desperately crowded forward, but under the stubborn resistance of the Torlistine longsword soldiers, they could only continue to strangle on the front line of the confrontation between the two armies, unable to move an inch.
The troops behind the front line continued to lose their lives in the blows of magic and bows and arrows, and suffered heavy casualties, and the morale of the army was broken, and it was not feasible to charge forward, and the reinforcements finally broke up and scattered in all directions.
The archers did not stop them, and the soldiers in the dense places were constantly shooting. The lone soldiers of the House family saw these archers, and also saw the dozens of long knife soldiers in front of the archers, and fled into the distant woods without looking back.
As soon as the deserters appeared, the reinforcements of the House family slowly broke down, and the soldiers in the front and the Torristeen longsword soldiers fought hard, and both sides lost a thousand lives; But two thousand soldiers escaped in the middle and rear sections, and one thousand soldiers were shot to death, a thousand soldiers were killed by magic, and another thousand soldiers stood in place in a daze, and it was not to escape.
"We are the allies of the Crown Prince of Willus, and now that the Crown Prince of Willus wants to return to the country, as long as you surrender, you will not be blamed for the past." Haotian opened his mouth to persuade him to surrender.
The soldiers of the Thousand Houses family looked at the mages and archers who were hidden in the mountains and forests on both sides, hesitated and then silently threw away their weapons, raised their hands and surrendered.
Haotian nodded slightly, leaving five hundred long sword soldiers to guard the thousand prisoners, and Gandalf marched with the remaining six thousand or five hundred troops to the plain five miles outside the royal capital and set up camp.
It was already the afternoon of the second day of the civil war, and the curling smoke rose from the plain outside the royal capital, and the sunset above the sky was particularly vivid.
The House soldiers saw the enemy and informed House himself.
When House saw this group of enemy troops, he thought that the reinforcements sent might be more than lucky, and his heart was angry, and he fell in front of him. Carried back to the palace by his subordinates to rest, and lying on the large bed in the former king's bedroom, House woke up at night.
The wives and sons of the guards around them looked excited.
"Have the McGhan, Mani, and Pace family arrived?" House stared straight at his second son.
Little House replied, "The five thousand troops of the Mani and Pace families have entered the city through the back door. However, the McGhan family was delayed. The Grent soldiers outside the city had not moved. ”
"Really?" The House family counted the armies of both sides, and there were still fifteen thousand on their side, and the enemy army was only six or seven thousand. In addition, it is to defend the royal capital, and it is almost impossible to attack without three times the number of troops. For the time being, there is no problem.
"Grunt, this traitor, Willus promised him any benefits, and how dare he betray us and betray the Republic. Bastard, don't think about attacking Torristeen at this time, write a letter quickly, call all the people of the expeditionary force back, attack inside and outside, and wipe out the Grent family on the plain of the royal capital. House decisively.
And Mani, Pace, the McGan family, and other small families also planned to do the same, and at the time of the civil war in Albion, it would be good to have a little more strength, and they had already written to send a letter to the expeditionary force.