In the second week of December, the snow had been drifting for three full days, and as far as the eye could see, there was a vast land. Mobile

After all, it is difficult for soldiers to exert their combat strength in the ice and snow, and the transportation of military rations and baggage on the snow-covered roads is also a difficult problem to solve.

Predicting that the Swabian army would not make a big move until the snow melted, Art left the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Border Garrison Regiment and several Chinese troops in the abandoned village on the border between the two countries, and then he himself rode back to the rear with his guards in the snow.

At the rear of the border, there is still a Fort of Gennet waiting to be recovered, and the decision to recover Fort Gennet is not a whim of Art, but a helpless move.

With the Liberation Army pressing forward on the battlefield on the Western Front, it was only a matter of time before the capture of Besançon, once Flender captured the city of Besançon, which symbolized the rule of the Count of Burgundy, he would inevitably declare his succession to the title and the right to rule, and then he would be promoted to the rank of knight according to merit.

Art had accumulated some military exploits during his time on the Western Front, and in fact he was able to be pre-named viscount before going to the dangerous East Frontier alone.

However, as his power and strength expanded day by day, as the skulls under his feet piled up, Arter's ambition also swelled more and more.

If it is just barely holding the Swabian offensive in the east to prevent the east from eroding, and giving the Western Front the recovery army time to buy back reinforcements, it will be relatively easier, if you are lucky, you can also sit on the title of Viscount of the Frontier after the war, but it is estimated that it is only the title of a Viscount of the Frontier, and at most two manors or tens of thousands of Fennigh will be rewarded as a reward, after all, in this civil strife, compared with those armies who attacked cities and plundered land on the Western Front, this military merit of barely defending the territory is just a glimmer of brilliance, In the end, it was up to the Liberation Army to clean up the mess.

But if you can resist the enemy and the border outside the country and lead the army to recover the lost territory, such a military feat is dazzling enough, and the Earl of Yue is a little reluctant but it is not difficult to be awarded the title of viscount, and more importantly, a large number of officers under him can also be awarded the title of knight for merit.

With such an ambition as a driving force, and the huge amount of goods and materials harvested from the attack on Bouvan County some time ago, Art decided to take a risk.

As a result, the "rage" in Bouvan County was very fruitful, and Art immediately adjusted his plan and let Angus lead the elite First Infantry Corps back to Fort Gennet, which was occupied by the Swabians, and blocked Fort Gennet's communication with the outside world in advance.

Immediately, Art led the 2nd Infantry Regiment and several direct armies deep into the Swabian hinterland, intending to focus the attention of the Swabian army on the sharp blade that stabbed into the chest and abdomen, but a heavy snow interrupted Arter's plan, he did not dare to risk and stagnated the lone army in the enemy territory, the reason why he dared to lead the army to break through the enemy territory was because he had more than 40 chariots under his command, and he could pull the soldiers to move quickly and flee at any time.

After retreating to the border, Art continued to defend the border, putting pressure on the Swabians to attack again at any time, forcing the Swabians to concentrate all their forces on Wallonia or Fort Genet.

By this time, Art had crossed the Angus blockade of Fort Gené and arrived at Bramont City, an important stronghold in the rear of the Eastern Frontier Line.

For Art, Brammon has become a strategic support point for his offense and defense, and all the army's money, food, materials and soldiers' injuries and recuperation rely on Brammon's turnover and dispatch.

Art wants to regain Castel Genne, as well as Médière and Capredière (Note: These two cities are located on the southern edge of the mountains of Wallonia, and their strategic location is relatively secondary. These thousands of soldiers alone are not enough. After the loss of the three cities of Fort Genet, Médière, and Capredière, five or six hundred border defenders retreated to the rear, and there were still four or five hundred local lords' private and county soldiers at the rear of the border headed by Bramont to deploy.

These thousand or so people and the thousands of people under the command of Art, and more than 2,000 soldiers (these are all relatively professional soldiers) may be able to make a difference if they command and dispatch properly.

This is also the purpose of Art's return to Bramont in the snow.

By the time Artser and his men arrived in Bramont, the caravan led by the European Merchant House and the enemy trade in the east had been in Bramont for a day, and they had loaded the gold, silver, and valuable goods that Art had "forced" from the city of Buvan onto the caravan wagon, ready to set off for the south.

Art ordered the caravan to halt its movement south, as he wanted to put the gold and silver money to work immediately.

At noon on the third day of the return to Brammon, groups of men and horses of different sizes rushed through the snow to gather in Bramont City and enter the Hall of Lord Bramont.

Just two days ago, a dozen herald cavalry teams in groups of two scattered around Brammon with a military order.

These orders were issued by a military officer who was also the military officer of the Border of the Province of Jonah and the commander-in-chief of the Border Garrison Corps of the Province of Yonah. Wood? Signed by Baron Wells, the content of the military order is very simple, summoning all the subordinate lords, army commanders and palace appointed officials of the two counties east of Jonah (some of which have become enemy-occupied areas) to gather in Bramont City to obey the order, in order to make the military order more credible, Viscount Bramont Jon and the court military adviser Sir Banting have stamped their own heraldic lacquer seals on the military order.

However, a military order from the appointed military officer of the province of Jonah and the commander-in-chief of the border garrison of the province of Jonah could not have brought the lord officers and officials of all ranks to the city, and the fundamental motivation for these people to come in spite of the snow was the last sentence of Art's military order, which was to discuss how to distribute millions of pfennigs, and those who came would be rewarded.

In this world, there is nothing but God and money that have universal attributes.

In the side hall of Lord Brammon, Art was chatting with the court's military advisers.

“...... Sir Banting, Jonah's court has asked you to do your good offices on my behalf, and if I can persuade Jonah's court to send an elite army to the east to help, I will be grateful for it. ”

"Ron, bring me what I have for Sir Banting." Art waved his hand to Ron, who was standing in the gate, and Ron carried a brocade box in and placed it on the wooden table in front of Banting, the court's military adviser.

Art opened the brocade box, which contained gold cakes and silver coins and jewels made of pearls, agate, enamel colors, glass and other raw materials, "Sir Banting, you came to the East to lay down the same outstanding military exploits that can be knighted, this time I am determined to recover the lost territory in the East, if I can successfully recover, your name must be on the military merit book." ”

"Here are 50,000 finnighs worth of gold and silver jewels, and you have returned to Jonah's court with them, and I hope you will use them to secure a reliable reinforcement for the army in the east against the reconquest of foreign enemies. Twenty days! I'll give you twenty days at most, and I'll pay for the reinforcements as long as Jonah is willing to send troops to support them!" ”

Yate hopes to mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized, and the soldiers and civilians of the two counties, nine forts and twenty fortresses in the east must be the main force, but one more support army will have a better chance of winning.

Banting was also a little excited, in order to accumulate enough outstanding military exploits, of course he hoped that Art would toss as hard as possible, anyway, he didn't need to fight, "Lord Art, for God, for Burgundy, I will do my best!" I will at once return to the city of Jonah with my retinue in the snow, and I will come to your aid with as many soldiers as I can in twenty days. ”

Banting said as he closed the brocade box, hugged it in his arms, got up and walked out of the side hall.

"Have the lord officers from all over the country arrived?" Art asked Ron.

"All the lords of Bramontshire have arrived, most of the independent lords in the north of Bramont have also arrived, and several castle fortresses a little closer to Glaru County in the south have already sent people here, but Lord Viscount Hereth and the castle fortress south of Geraru City are estimated to have to wait for a while." Ron replied.

The war that Art is about to launch is basically dominated by the east and the north, so he doesn't expect the southern part of the army, "Wear armor for me!" ”

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In the dark and wide hall of Brammon, lords and officials of all ranks arrived from all over the world, and the servants of Viscount Jonn kept carrying the prepared hot food and wine on wooden trays for the hungry and cold lords and officials.

There were already thirty or so people in the hall, some of them were viscounts and barons, some were knights and lords, some were castle magistrates, some were retreating border commanders, and some were even just squires and village elders, all of whom had come from all over the country after learning of the urgent military order, and most of them were attracted by the words of "dividing" the millions of pfennigh and the rewards of those who came.

The many lords in the hall discussed loudly as they enjoyed their hot meals. Boar hunting and mistress beauties are of course the eternal topics of conversation for this group of men, but the central topic of discussion today is the million-puff in military orders.

When the lords and officials learned that the Eastern Military Officer had really gone to Swabia and looted more than a million pfennighs of gold and silver, everyone was boiling, which meant that the "carving" of the million pfennighs was not a lie.

In the midst of the commotion, Yat, dressed in shiny plate chain armor, and Viscount Jon, dressed in a viscount's regular uniform, walked into the lord's hall with a retinue of guards.

Everyone in the hall stood up and greeted Viscount Jonn and Baron Arte.

Viscount Jörn was the magistrate of Brammon County, and most of the area was theoretically under his jurisdiction, except for a few important forts on the border and three or four independent territories (the private domains of other lords), so the lords in the hall were very polite to Jörn.

Arter's reputation in the eastern part of Jonah is even greater, not to mention that in recent months he has led his army to fend off the Schwabian offensive on the Walloon and Gene lines, and his "prominent" exploits in Talmud Fort a few years ago alone are enough to attract attention.

Jon sat in the main seat of the hall, and Art sat beside him.

Viscount Jonn cleared his throat and quieted the halls.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have summoned you with a military order for the safety of the entire Count of Burgundy, and for a military merit that will make you glorious for life."

Viscount Yorn put everyone in a circle with one sentence, didn't he say that he would share the money, why did he have to worry about the safety of the country and military merits.

Jon glanced at Art beside him, turned his head to the puzzled people and said, "Let Baron Art tell everyone about it."

Art nodded, got up and pinched the hilt of his sword, "Guys, to put it simply, I called everyone here for two things - to divide the money and fight!" ”

"A few weeks ago I stormed the Swaning country with my army and plundered the whole of Bouvan County, and captured more than a million puffins of gold and silver, all of which I had in my possession."

The hall was full of buzzing in an instant, in recent years, the war in the eastern border of Yona has not stopped, and the border lords have a very hard time, every time they just take a breath, Swazi himself will come to wreak havoc, and the lord's family really has no surplus food.

Now that a million pfennigh has suddenly run out for everyone to divide, this makes the lords very excited.

However, the heavens will never fall from the free refined wheat bread, and the lords know it in their hearts.

"It's very simple to take this million fennig from me, there is only one condition - gather an army and fight with me!" With millions of pfennigh as the base, Yate doesn't have to talk much.

"The Western Front has almost captured Besançon, and our Eastern Front also needs military exploits that can be taken, so I plan to regain the lost territory, first of all, Fort Gennet, which is the most important place in the Eastern Defense Line except for Fort Wallonia, and now it is under the iron hooves of the Swabians, I just want to crush the Swabians in Fort Gennet and recapture the castle that belongs to us from Swabians."

"I already have a thousand elite soldiers under my command, and it may be enough to storm Fort Gené. But the defenders of Fort Genet were not the deadliest threat, for the Swabians still had an army of 1,000 men stationed in the city of Ao Nang......"

"In a week's time, I will gather another thousand elite soldiers to attack Fort Gené. All of you here are lords and officials with soldiers in their hands, and I am willing to pay to hire soldiers from you. Ten pfennigs per day for heavy cavalry, five pfennigs per day for light cavalry, three pfennigs per day for elite soldiers, one pfennig per day for ordinary soldiers, and half a copper coin per day for miscellaneous military labor. ”

"These money are directly given to you for military expenses, if you kill the enemy on the battlefield and make a meritorious service, there will be another reward, and the spoils captured by killing the enemy on the battlefield will also belong to each other."

"There are only two requirements, one is that the recruited army must be elite; Second, all armies must bring their own weapons, armor, and horses. ”

"You will provide the men and horses, but I will supply the food and grass during the army's conscription...... I will regain the lost land for the Count of Burgundy with a million fenni! ”

The hall roared ......

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