The First Arrival Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Cold Winter Is Urgent
Ahuenburg was completely isolated.
Halma
Although the Count and Yi Ye were captured, fortunately, during the few days of recuperation, they recovered well from their injuries, and Count Asugan deserved such treatment. Fortunately, Yi Ye found Fatis and the others, as well as dozens of soldiers who were still alive. Yi Ye was planning an escape plan, which was supposed to be carried out as soon as possible, but the Count used a bag of dinar to get some news from the outside.
The garrison of Halma itself numbered more than 10,000 men, and "the garrison was constantly decreasing. "This is the most useful news that the Count has refined. This means that Salander is organizing an attack, and the destination is most likely Fort Ahuen. The Earl is very anxious, this is not an ordinary matter, but an event that can go down in history, you must know that if Sega is defeated in Fort Ahuen, the entire kingdom will fall into a state of leaderlessness, except for a few injured lords who did not participate in the war, the kingdom has no ability to organize defense at all, and it is not known what will happen to localism at that time, if the situation develops seriously, it is extremely likely that the country will be destroyed.
Count Azogan was allowed to walk around the prison as he pleased, but Dustam was not there and the prison guards took tips, which was allowed.
"I'm sure you can get out, in fact you've been planning for a long time, haven't you?" Count Asogan found Yi Ye.
"My lord, not yet."
"You're worried that your men won't be able to get out."
"It's true, living in this prison is really poor, the environment is too bad, we big men are okay, I'm only worried about Kress, she herself was injured and went into battle, and now she has only eaten some leftovers, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to survive, by the way, Kress is a little girl who has just come of age,"
"Now you do what you have to do, and I'm in charge of your men, and I think you should know what's going on."
Yi Ye nodded lightly, indeed, Saiga's safety was much more important than that of them.
"I believe in your abilities." The Count cast an affirmative look, and the last two words were heavy and powerful.
Yi Ye was shocked, "Could it be that he discovered something?" ”
"With great love, I'll get it done, I promise."
"Listen, this matter is not trivial, as long as you don't let Khan have an accident, I can give you whatever you want."
"Yes."
Count Azwagan was a smart man, and he might have discovered something about Yi Ye.
The huge, captive-filled prison has a few more people and a few fewer people, and no one notices. Yi Ye took advantage of the night to sneak out of the prison.
Although Yi Ye said that he had nothing but cloth clothes on his body, he still had "night vision" and peonies. In the night when he couldn't see his fingers, Yi Ye was brisk and agile, and he took away a bag of dinars from the prison warden.
Viruga
King Griffos and his generals were nervously analyzing the situation, and the expedition plan proposed by Lord Mateas did not pass, because Rhodok's long-standing tactics were mainly conservative, and the number of expeditions was very small, and each time it did not achieve good results. The kingdom of Rhodoc had very few cavalry, was rich in crossbowmen and spearmen, and was good at fighting in the mountains, but once out of the mountains, the overall combat effectiveness would drop sharply.
King Griffos was probably the lowest of all the rulers, because he was not the legitimate heir, and if anything, he was a temporary man to find in the East. And a large part of the reason why the Duchy of Rhodok was recognized as independent was to weaken Swadia, plus the Duchy of Rhodok did not stand out in terms of attack, and it did not give people any sense of oppression. Rhodok dared to refer only to himself as a "principality" rather than a "kingdom", which greatly reduced its influence.
More than half of the people disagreed with the expedition, but the decision was still in the hands of King Griffos, and as long as he gave the order, the generals had to come up with enough soldiers to go on the expedition, whether they wanted it or not. But King Griffos was still undecided, and the meeting was postponed for ten days.
Mateas is the lord of Veruga, he almost didn't scare him out of his illness when Swadia captured this place last year, although he knows that this is calculating Haraus, but he still has lingering palpitations, he is a very territorial person, he is in charge of Veruga, and only Veruga, the king did not give him more fiefs, the purpose is to let him manage this place wholeheartedly. Mateas was clearly not satisfied with this, and he was anxious to expand his territory in order to add another territory to himself.
At present, the threat from Swadia in the north has been reduced, and King Graceford is also considering whether it is time to change his tactics, Rhodok only has Aaron, Djerkhara, and Veruga, the main cities are more prosperous, and the surrounding area is a little flatter, which can produce enough food, but it is difficult to say about the other castles, because the terrain is difficult to self-sufficient, and they cannot build a large training ground, not only do they have problems with food, but even the territory is crowded, if they can open up another territory in the plains, the situation will be much better.
Halma
Yi Ye could buy a good horse with these dinars, but he couldn't wait, the sooner the better, so he violently broke the chains with his bare hands, grabbed a random horse from the stable, and set off. The sleepy guards at the gates could not stop him.
Fort Ahuen is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Kugit is notoriously incapable of attacking the city, and Saiga, the siege equipment used by a dignified monarch or something captured from Svadia decades ago, can be said to be an old antique. It's not that Kugit doesn't have siege equipment, but they think it's too slow, which doesn't match the agile Kujits, and in addition, the rough craftsmanship of the Kujit masters makes these equipment more difficult to use, which alone dissuades many people. On the contrary, things in Swadia were still very flexible a few decades ago, and although they were very old and rattle to use, they were still a siege weapon.
Saiga's siege method was very simple and crude, having soldiers stand all over the siege towers, just shoot bows and arrows at the castle, and only then take the ladder to attack hand-to-hand combat until there were no more bows and arrows in their hands. But in the case of the suppression of the number of people, this method is quite efficient.
More than 1,000 soldiers stood on more than 10 siege towers, completely suppressing Fort Ahuen. Until there was no longer a small head on the city, Saiga ordered the installation of the ladder, which Saiga had already suppressed for a day.
In the east, the northern city wall has been placed with a large number of ladders, but there are no bows and arrows on them, which is undoubtedly the best time to attack the city. The best-equipped soldiers charged ahead, including Saiga's Khan Guard. The soldiers climbed the walls only to find that the guards were not dead, but had redeployed their defenses inside. But this was already a drop in the bucket, their bows and arrows could not penetrate the Kugit warriors, the warriors quickly took the city, and the large number of archers who followed them also began to land, as long as they stood up, it was over.
Sega's strong momentum recaptured Fort Ahuen, captured Dastam and Lord Hurathan, and saved some face. Saiga was going to be stationed here to discuss the next steps, but this battle only lost two Earls at the bottom, and had little impact on the overall combat effectiveness, so Saiga had the idea of retaking Fort Lundia or Halma.
Halma has already made a relatively big move, and the lords are gathering, although their goal is not clear, but if it is a counterattack on Fort Ahuen, Saiga will be very dangerous, and Kugit's ability to attack and defend the city is not strong.
Yi Ye quickly whipped up and ran in the direction of Ahuen, in order to deliver the news as soon as possible, he even forgot to buy enough food and didn't take his weapon. It's still quite dangerous on the road, and if you encounter robbers or something, you can't beat a group of people with knives with your bare hands.
Yi Ye was trembling with hunger, his stomach was rumbling, he didn't know how far Halmari Ahuenburg was, he only knew the general direction, but what he knew was that if he didn't eat something, he would definitely become a starving ghost. He dismounted and rested beside a few tall Masson pine trees, which ripened in winter and had now lost their taste, but which was already a good delicacy for a man who had not eaten for two days.
Yi Ye was leaning against the pine tree and enjoying this dinner, and the jujube red horse in front of him was also eating grass at a low level, but he didn't expect that he Yi Ye and the jujube red horse were quite fateful, and he chose it at random. However, what Yi Ye misses the most is the old traveling horse, the horse that sent him away and saved his life, although it may have been cooked and eaten by that Haikou a long time ago, but if he saw it again, Yi Ye would definitely recognize it. Its tail has been cut off in twos and is now almost a tailless horse, and it is easy to recognize it.
Yi Ye's body suddenly shook violently, a cold wind whistled by, and a little thick white snow drifted from Yi Ye's field of vision, and then more and more, falling on the ground and quickly accumulating a thick stack.
"Isn't this spring? Why is it still snowing? Yi Ye muttered to himself, and then yawned heavily.
"Lying ......" Yi Ye didn't finish speaking, and was piled up into a snowman.
The sudden heavy snow disrupted everyone's plans, up to the monarch and down to the cloth, and King Griffos was glad that he had not made an expedition, and Sega made a big mistake, and the snow was half a man's height in less than half a day, not to mention riding a horse, even a man could not move an inch.
Saiga sensed the crisis, the severity of the snow was far worse than being besieged by Salander's army, you must know that there were nearly 100,000 people stationed in this small city, food itself was scarce, and the road to transport food was cut off, which made the situation even worse, not only that, housing problems, health problems also gradually attacked, a large number of soldiers had no place to live, and they drove the aborigines here out of their homes under the pretext of military requisition.
It should have snowed so heavily in January, who would have expected it, I'm afraid Liu Bowen wouldn't be able to count it, after all, this is Calradia!