Chapter 458: The Legend of the Knight King (31) Arthur's Threat
When the news of Wernachar's defeat of Laventica reached Arti, the face of the defender Arti was as if he had been slapped in the face, extremely angry and terrifying. The pride and pride of these days, the arrogance of guarding Arthur and waiting for the other party to enter the net have all turned into slaps in the face and humiliation, and Artie Defender feels humiliated, from beginning to end.
"As a nobleman, I have never been so humiliated! Kill me out of the city! I will defeat Arthur! Defeat Arthur completely!"
Angered, Admiral Artie ignored the dissuasion of the side and insisted on leaving the impregnable Artie and going to Warnachar to face Arthur in person.
However, when Arty Defender put Arthur into Kouarti, Arthur made a lot of tricks and arrangements in the local area, and it was at this time that Arthur once again ambushed Arty's army, and the main force immediately returned from Vonachar to join the annihilation battle against Arti.
Therefore, following the disastrous defeat of the previous Deesde defender, this Arti defender also followed in his footsteps, and the better thing about the Desde defender is that the Arti defender barely escaped with his life, abandoned his army, and returned to Arti with his own guards.
After this battle, Arthur cleared the mobile forces of the enemy around Bangale, and at least until the end of the year, Deesde and Artie could not take the initiative to attack Bangale.
After the news of the battle broke, King Du Yuxiu I of Gosamodo sent envoys, on the one hand, to congratulate Arthur on the courtesy, and on the other hand, to issue an order to Arthur to capture Desde.
After receiving this military order, Arthur immediately sent an envoy to inform Du Yuxiu I, stating that there were three inconsistencies for the capture of Desdes: first, after the capture of Desdes, the defenders of Desde would be a lone army, and there was a risk that the rear route might be cut off at any time; second, the enemy's strength was large, and the protruding part was not called a nail, but a part that was easy to be flanked; and third, the terrain of Desde was complex and difficult to capture.
Arthur is honest, but Du Yuxiu I also has a hard time, at this time Laventica has captured Melochou (city), the capital of Salo Moncado has become the forefront of the defense against Laventica, and now the Aragon royal family has died in Moncado will never take a step back, and the pressure is very great. At this time, if Desde is captured, then it can pose a deadly threat to the Laventica transport route.
When he received this military order, many officers advised Arthur not to listen, and Gawain said: "According to your original plan, the Knight King, you will fight first, and first defeat Arti to threaten the Southern Han Mador Plain, instead of taking the savings of the Principality of Merochu and going directly to Desdes, and fight for a bloody battle in the Ham Mador Plain." ”
However, Arthur refused the request of his subordinates: "The lords are in trouble, and as a knight, I naturally have to do my best to rescue them." ”
So Arthur overrode the public opinion and began to prepare for the Battle of Deesde the following year according to the military orders of Du Yuxiu I, much to the chagrin of his subordinates.
In 1681 he spent this time in preparation, and after the autumn harvest of 1682, when the army was ready for food and equipment, Arthur launched his offensive against Desdes, known as the Battle of Desdes.
This time, Arthur didn't play much of the fancy, he knew that the defender Artie, who had suffered a loss once, would not be so easily fooled, so he played the siege against Deesde in a proper manner.
After besieging Desde for half a year, Arti Defender couldn't bear it, so he led his troops to attack again, trying to cut off Arthur's back road, but was ambushed and annihilated by Arthur and the Knights in Wernachar again. Artimori, who had suffered a loss, was not as miserable as the last defeat, at least he gathered the defeated army and fled back.
After this fiasco, Arty's defenders formed a dead understanding: Arthur's siege of Desde was fake, and he actually wanted to transfer Arti's troops. Therefore, for a period of time afterward, Arti only sent a few suspicious troops out to harass him, and then was beaten back by Arthur's border army.
One day in the tent under the city of Dested, Gawain found Arthur, and Nono expressed his doubts: "My lord, the morale of the soldiers is getting worse and worse, and the siege is becoming more and more ineffective, and I asked the veterans, and they all said that they need to increase their morale by plundering......"
Gawain's voice became quieter and quieter, because he knew that if there was anything that Arthur hated in the war, it must be the raids of the rebels, because Arthur admired honor the most, so he was extremely disdainful of this kind of dishonorless behavior. Because of this, Arthur was extremely disgusted with mercenaries, and since the outbreak of the war, Arthur has never hired mercenaries.
"An army fights a war by honor, the honor of defending the country and being loyal to the lord, an army that relies on raiding to maintain morale, can it be called an army? I think it's a rabble of mobs, right?" Arthur said to Gawain solemnly, he didn't expect Gawain, who was a knight of the Round Table, to ask such a question.
Gawain's face also turned red, and he lowered his head in shame, the teachings he received from Arthur were the same as the teachings of the gods, they were the most beautiful and correct beings, and it stands to reason that they should not be wrong. But after so many years of fighting, and the age is gradually increasing, Gawain feels that there is a great gap between what Arthur said and the present world.
Arthur was worried about not being able to capture Desdes, while Anghow VI, who seemed to have the upper hand on the other side, was also worried about the situation in Laventica.
However, after the outbreak of the Third East Coast War, in order to make it easier to command the army, Angwu VI handed over the country to his son as regent, and he himself used Gugdomaki in the former Hammador Restoration District as the commander-in-chief and temporary royal palace.
With the deterioration of his physical condition, Angwu VI began to be anxious, he was extremely hopeful, and the laurel of destroying the achievement of Sharo could be placed on his body, so that he went to Valhalla after his death, and could proudly tell his ancestors and ancestors about his achievements.
However, the tide of battle always went against his own wishes, which made Angwu VI emaciated. Since the Duchy of Hanmador was only a conqueror and the foundation of his rule was not solid, the conquest was quite smooth, but when he marched into the Duchy of Sharo, it was really fatal, and it took a lot of effort to conquer the city of Melokhu.
In addition, the ally that was brought in before, the Duchy of New Cassage, has also become more and more dishonest, whether it is providing reinforcements or providing military postures, it has become procrastinating, and there is a shortage of pounds and two, which makes Angwu VI extremely angry. But now that Gosamodo had been forced into the camp of Sharo, Angwu VI really did not dare to continue the new Duchy of Cassage.
In Angvu VI's view, the capture of Macondo would bring the end of Sharo's resistance, and by that time, the war would be over, ending with a great victory for Laventica. But the battle is not going well, and that nobleman with a laughing heart, Arthur!
Arthur's military operations in recent years have brought great pressure to Angwu VI, when Gosamodor entered the war, Angwu VI made a strategic move to destroy Sharo first and then attack Gosamore, which required troops and material resources to be continuously transported to distant fronts.
However, Arthur's military campaign with Bangalore posed a great threat to Angvo VI. If Desde had been captured, Sindada would have been captured.
And where is Sindado? Located in the east of Dested, all the logistics to Macondo have to pass through Sindado, and this city can be said to be the lifeblood of Laventica's strategy against Moncado, which must not be lost!
And what if Arthur captures Arti? It would also be bad, because Arty's South Han Mador Plain was the main battlefield at the beginning of the Third East Coast War, and after more than eight years of war, it was almost a white ground and devastated.
In the past few years of operation, Laventica has only built Artie to defend against Arthur's invasion, and the city after Arti has basically not been repaired much, and it has remained damaged, which has led to a result, that is, last year, in 1682, the city after Arti was actually attacked by the Warcraft.
The god of fish is above, a city that can't even defend against the hordes of demonic beasts, how can he be expected to defend against Arthur? Angwu VI clearly knows that as long as Arthur breaks through Arty, with Arthur's method of governing the army, he will be absolutely invincible in the South Han Mador Plain.
What is Arthur's way of governing the army? Why has the South Han Madol Plain remained in such a dilapidated state for the past few years? It is because Laventika used this place as their pasture and allowed the army to plunder here to maintain morale - after all, the Liberation Zone was a grain transportation route, and it could not give those troops a disaster.
So in this case, after Arthur entered the South Hammador Plain, some of the Hammador people were willing to be the leading party and voluntarily formed a leading army to fight to the death with the Laventica army.
The Southern Han Madol Plain was conquered, and Angwu VI was actually not too distressed, anyway, it was also choked by calamity, and it was unable to collect much tax. The reason why Angwu VI feared the fall of the Southern Han Madol Plain was that as long as Arthur captured the Shrike, he could threaten Sitiju.
Where is Xitiju? Half of the logistics that Laventika transported to Sindaudi departed from Xitiju, and it can be said that Xitiju is also an important lifeline of Laventica.
After all, Laventica is a country in the territory of Laventica, and his base is in Laventica in the south, not in the east coast of the north.
For the Laventica, the East Coast was only a place to plunder their wealth, so their wealth here would be transported back to Laventica to satisfy the appetites of the domestic elite and prove that the war of conquest was a good deal, and then it would be transported to the front and thrown into the ongoing war.
"We must change our strategy, first annihilate Arthur's mobile army, destroy his forces that threaten the grain routes of Laventica, and then attack Moncado," the gray-haired Angwu VI decided, "Be quick, be quick, I must fulfill my long-cherished wish before I ascend to heaven." ”