Chapter 616: The Beginning of Take-off (12) The Rabble (continued)
If you can't beat it, how can you beat it? Huls is not an immortal epic that specializes in combat types, and the walls of the Nara Fortress are only surrounded on one side, so it can be said that it is as stable as Mount Tai.
In this case, according to military common sense, the best way should be to use the mage legion to carry out long-range spiritual bombardment, but does Hulse have such a legion?
The mage legion can not be conjured up by casual movements, there must be enough mage reserves, coupled with training day and night, in order to bombard the spiritual power to the target they want, instead of exploding directly in their own camp, and these things, one is to have a strong government, and the other is to have a large amount of money, and now Huls has no one.
In the past, Siber had the existence of this kind of troops, but unfortunately the mage legion was stationed in Naro and Uke, and was firmly controlled by the Philippine argon, and Sibo was not allowed to establish it at all, and now when the war broke out, this measure was powerful, and Huls couldn't make up a mage legion, so he could only look at the Naro fortress and sigh.
Another way is to use siege guns for bombardment, but Sibo has no siege artillery technology, whether it is a gun carriage or a spiritual cannonball, there is no one.
At this time, Ruiying Maiqiu came to the door again, and their merchant very considerately declared that he was willing to build a siege cannon for Huls, but he needed Huls to use funds to buy it. However, the cost of siege artillery is not expensive, and it is very difficult to maintain the army and repay the interest on the loan, so how can there be funds to buy siege guns?
Don't worry, isn't there a money lender from our Rui Ying Mai Qiu? As long as Hulse mortgages these resources and taxes to us, we can continue to lend to you, and you can use these loans to buy our siege artillery, how about it?
Hearing this suggestion, Huls felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly, but there was no way, he had to swallow his anger and agree to this group of wolf-like businessmen, because this was the only way out Huls could think of.
"If you put your things on the mortgage and borrow them like that, even if we win the war, what will be left of Sibber?" asked one of Huls's followers, and Hulse could only answer him with a helpless sigh, "I don't know." ”
In short, by constantly mortgaging Siber's state-owned property and tax rights to Rui Ying Maiqiu, Hulse brought a steady stream of support (of course, the gold coins of the loan were returned to Rui Ying Mai Qiu after a circle), so that Hulse had the capital to continue fighting.
So Rui Ying Maiqiu sent professionals to help Hulse build siege artillery. The siege cannon is a super-large magic weapon, and the interior itself has a working magic circle, and it requires a large number of spiritual equipment to operate from the structure to the ammunition, which is why it is very valuable, and the construction time is also very long.
In this way, the year 2338 came, and at this time, Siber's finances were even more difficult, and Hulse keenly found that if the situation continued like this, I am afraid that the money borrowed from Ruiying Maiqiu would not even be able to repay the interest, and what should Siber do at that time?
In this regard, Hulse can only numb himself, let himself not think about this problem for the time being, and do not discuss it with the group of nobles, who refuse to pluck a bird feather except to blame Hulse.
At this time, Hulse suddenly understood why many military operations in ancient times were accompanied by large-scale plunder, perhaps defeating Naro, defeating Uke, and plundering Uke's wealth was the only way to repay his debt to Ruiying Maiqiu, so he had to win this battle, and if he didn't win, there really would be no future.
Fei Argon allowed Ruiying Maiqiu to help Hulse build the siege artillery, and in this way, in the summer, the siege cannon was finally built, and the bombardment began to be launched towards the Naro fortress.
As soon as the cannon sounded, Hulse's experience of this sentence was so profound, when he knew how much money he spent on building siege artillery, the terrifying roar of the siege gun was no longer fear in Hulse's ears, but the heart-rending sound of broken money, and the distant shock wave was not spiritual power, but the money that Hulse squandered.
The siege artillery was bombarding, the Naro Fortress was also on the defensive, and the mage legions of Filipino argon were holding up a sturdy defensive array. After all, Huls still bought too few siege guns, and the shells were gradually bottoming out, but the fortress was not moving.
Seeing this, Huls was also ruthless, summoned all the generals, and demanded that the artillery shells be cleaned up at one time, and all the troops took advantage of the final bombardment to launch a decisive charge.
"The state of our country does not allow for continued consumption under the city, we are not qualified to fight a protracted war with the Philippine argon, tomorrow's charge, either we capture Naro, or we lose the war!"
Before the decisive battle, Huls informed the nobles of the army of this news, which caused strong dissatisfaction among many nobles, but Hulse insisted on his opinion and executed a nobleman who claimed to absolutely disobey Huls's "disorderly orders" on the spot, so as to suppress the dissatisfaction and prepare for tomorrow's raid.
The sun rose as usual, and with the final roar of the siege artillery, Hulse, with the power of his immortal epic, took the lead in rushing to the front, and launched a decisive charge towards the fortress that was still shrouded in black smoke.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Naro Shou General Pihem stroked his palms and laughed: "The rebels have reached the end of their rope, and the time for our major counterattack is not far off. ”
Hulse's charge lasted for a whole day, and when the sky was red by the evening sun, the nobles' private soldiers finally collapsed, although they were the last to enter the reserve, and the private soldiers, led by the native nobles, frantically retreated, and soon overwhelmed the Overseers, and brought the entire army of the front with them.
Finding that the rear army had been defeated, and Huls, who had knocked down the wall by himself, also knew that something was wrong, so in order to avoid being caught, he could only gather the remnants of the army and return to the camp together.
After returning to the camp, the generals immediately quarreled, Hulse accused them of being the first to rout, but they accused Hulse of issuing random orders and consuming all the valuable military resources here, and finally the quarrel broke out in the camp, and several nobles died on all sides, and finally the army rushed in, so that the brawl gradually stopped.
But there was such a terrible brawl that the relationship between the two sides completely fell to the freezing point, and the nobles of different factions let their private soldiers guard their own camp, as if the worst enemy was in the camp.
In this way, the operational system of the army was paralyzed for 2 days, and the reason why it was not paralyzed on the third day was not the success of Huls, who was trying to bridge the relationship between the parties, but the fact that Pichem led the army to launch a counterattack against Sib.
Pichem has been in Naro for 2 years, and most people have almost forgotten that Pichem can come out too! So today Pichem has brought a surprise to Hulse.
Then came an irreparable rout, in which Pichem with only a small number of elite troops, like a pig, slaughtered Huls's mighty army to the point of losing its armor and failing to form an army, and was driven all the way for more than ten miles, during which countless people died by desertion, diving, stampede, and cannibalism.
After this great defeat, the coalition army completely collapsed, and countless nobles returned to their hometowns with their own armies without saying goodbye, leaving only Herslone to lead a direct army to return to Urdoch alone, where he was warmly received by some nobles, so that thousands of deaths died before he regained control of Urdoch.
Seeing that Pichem had created such a brilliant victory, and that the materials lost in the process were so cheap (compared to the materials lost in the formal war), the voices of the government and the opposition sarcastically mocking Pichem fearing the enemy like a tiger disappeared, and the overjoyed Philippine Patriarch Willibroad II directly canonized Pichem as the generalissimo and was fully responsible for the pacification of the Siber rebellion.
Pichem did not send troops immediately, but issued a notice to the nobles of Siber, claiming that the rebels would be severely punished, and that it was useless to beg for mercy if they wanted to be forgiven, and that the only useful thing was to take Heers' head and transport him to Naro.
The fiasco at the Battle of Naro in 2238 made all the forces lick their wounds, and Pichem did not have a strategy to march immediately, ensuring that the forces of Siber would not join forces immediately, which gave the two or five boys a chance, and many Sydneysiders and nobles were attracted by this condition.
By the year 2239, a Sydneysider army had been organized against Hers, and many nobles in several other cities tried to borrow the heads of Herse, with the exception of Dima and Uchichencha, who remained neutral.
However, these people are really cowards, although they have torn their faces with Hulse, they dare not drive away the tax collectors set up by Urdoc in their hometown, because these tax collectors were sent by Ruiying Maiqiu.
The Sydneysider nobles who had fought against Hulse gathered from the north and south to attack Hulse under the city of Uldoch, and then Hulse found that it was not that he was too wasted, but that the nobles who were his teammates were too wasted, and when they became their enemies and left their homeland for an expedition, it was their turn to slash them like Pichem.
So the nobles were defeated again, and many nobles were captured, so Hulse came to visit according to the list, and extorted a large amount of wealth.
Then after the autumn harvest, Huls, who had food, carried out a crusade against the nobles of Didong in the name of revenge, and Fu Didong, who belonged to the southern province, was weak, and Uchichencha in the south did not participate in the crusade against Huls, so Uchichencha did not have to worry about Huls's revenge.
After some fighting, Hulse broke through Fu Didong, executed the nobles who opposed him the most, and supported the nobles who were friendly with him.
Uchichencha in the south also sent envoys and agreed to cooperate with Huls's work, but Huls generously relieved Uchichencha of many taxes, at least much lower than Fu Didong, in exchange for the great joy of the Uchichencha nobles.
Slowly, Hulse found himself slowly getting started with politics. When Huls discovered this, so did Pechem, and in the spring of 2340 Pichem led his army out of the fortress and pounced on Siber like a tiger descending from a mountain.