Chapter 452: Defeat and retreat

Time passed day by day. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Every week, the latest news will be accompanied by the herald's galloping horses from the front line to Lidney.

And these good news that are flying like pieces of paper in the sky have always kept the public opinion in the north in an extremely high state!

The Light's march is irresistible!

Many young people with ambitions and ideals want to sign up for the army and shed their blood to spread the glory of the Holy Light.

As the center of power in the north, Lidney is like a new year every day.

The army at the front has won, and there is no better news for them.

It's just that compared to the north, which is under the joy of the sky, the Scorching Sun City at this time is completely shrouded in slaughter and dullness.

With a series of defeats on the front lines and the threat of assassination from that group of mysterious people in the city, the Vulcan Cult suddenly announced that it would no longer set foot in the mortal world, and even the court mages who had spent a lot of money on the royal family and nobles were secretive about this war.

After the rumors of the conflict with the gray-clothed Sword Saint were rumored to be by the Huiyue Mage Zabri, the world evaporated, but I am afraid that it will probably not end well.

It seems that the scales of victory have tipped and the people of Enomosen have been in extreme depression for a time.

What defeat means, no one will be unclear.

And the conference hall of the Scorching Sun Palace was also dead silence at this time, and the solemn atmosphere made it difficult to breathe.

A big man who was once high and powerful now has a gloomy face, and the news that the Pettheine line has been broken by the Northern Coalition has just come back from the front line, so that they who were still discussing how to defend just now felt that they had been slapped in the face!

Even the big guy in the command department patted his chest five minutes ago to ensure the strength of the Petseine line, let the cavalry from the north attack casually, and if he was captured within a year, he would voluntarily resign and retire.

Words spoken, water spilled.

The gray-haired Marshal Pate sighed and rose from his chair to break the dead silence in the chamber.

His voice was hoarse under his throat, and he bowed his head slightly to Rudolf IV, "Your Majesty, I am to blame for such a thing, and I will submit my resignation to you tomorrow morning." ”

The Petsein Line was a long line of defense built many years ago by the Peter family to prevent the northern cavalry from moving south.

This ancient line of defensive build-up can even be traced back to the founding days of Marshal Pate's great-grandfather, Enomosen.

A few hundred years earlier, it might have been an impregnable line of defense, but now, Enomosen, who had not clashed with the north for hundreds of years, had almost abandoned this ancient line of defense, and only began to reactivate it when it retreated.

But it was breached so quickly, not only Marshal Pate, but everyone in the conference hall was unexpected.

Originally, they had planned to drag out the war until winter, and the army in the north would definitely choose to stop in the face of supply problems, but now it seems that their plan is about to fall through.

Not only did the plan fail, once Pettheine was breached, it would be like the enemy knocking on his door, and facing the northern army would be the flat hinterland of Enomosen!

Having tasted the power of the northern cavalry, they were undoubtedly extremely pessimistic in their hearts at this time.

Once the war enters the field stage, what kind of strength should they use to contend with the hundred-man Holy Knights?

A hundred of them were all dressed in mysterious creations, and the group of silver peak knights was shocking, and it was hard to imagine what kind of existence could stop them except for the thick city walls.

Rudolph was silent for a long time, looking at the gray-haired Pate, his voice was low, "It seems that your Excellency's promise of one year cannot be fulfilled, you sit down first, we will talk about the matter of submitting your resignation later, and now we have to think about how to deal with the swarming Northern Coalition forces." ”

Pausing slightly, "Lord Albizi, you led the army to attack the north back then, do you have any good advice on this matter?" ”

Marshal Pate, who was old enough to be the uncle of Rudolf IV, sat down with his head lower and without saying a word.

Pazzi cleared his throat, took his right hand with his chin propped up from the armrest of the leather chair, and cleared his throat, "Your Majesty, when I led the army to fight in the north a few years ago, the first impression that the army over there gave me was that their cavalry was very powerful, especially the heavy armored cavalry used by the northerners, judging from the current state of the soldiers, if it was in the mountains before, I would be very confident that I would force them back to the Buck Fortress, but now ......"

Although Pazzi said it very implicitly, the implication was already very obvious, relying on the fortress could not withstand the pace of the attack of the northern coalition, let alone fight them on the vast plains.

"But we don't have no way, we can test them first, if the cavalry of the Northern Alliance advances quickly, then the supply will inevitably become a headache for them, and we only need to evacuate the civilians there to the south in advance, and then clear the wall and hold on to a central city like Tuligar, so that we can delay them for at least a month..."

Before Pazzi could finish speaking, an impatient nobleman suddenly interjected, "Your Excellency Albizi, can we only defend blindly like this? What does a month's delay mean? With all due respect, if the kingdom is difficult to resist on a frontal battlefield, can you Principality of Albizi stay out of it?"

Pazzi glanced at the person who spoke, and then said, "A month is enough time for us to find the support of the Principality Alliance, and the ambitions of the Northern See will certainly not be limited to us, and I don't need you to remind you of this, Your Excellency Bergeris." ”

Rudolph lowered his head and pondered for a while, if he couldn't deal with the cavalry in the north, then it would be impossible to have an advantage in the frontal battlefield, before starting the war, he had considered the strong combat effectiveness of the northern cavalry, but he never thought that the gap between Ainomosen's soldiers and them was so big.

They felt that such a plan was very feasible, and now that it had come to this, they had no better choice.

"If you don't have any other better advice, then go according to Lord Albizi's plan. ”

Everyone in the conference hall was silent, acquiescing to Pazzi's proposal.

It's just that the representative of the DuPont family, who was fortunate enough to be invited to attend this meeting, looked at Pazzi's eyes flickering, and the side knock of the conspirator some time ago appeared in his mind.

A turnaround?

Or is it that this Albizi has long been in collusion with the Northern See, trying to put an end to the Scorching Sun royal family, which has ruled this region for hundreds of years and has begun to decay.

It's like a big gamble that will put all his net worth on the ground, if the Northern Curia can succeed, then Albizi will ascend to the sky in one step!

But if it fails and the matter is revealed, I am afraid that the once powerful Albizi will fall from the top to the bottom in an instant under the wrath of the Scorching Sun royal family and the great nobles of the entire country!

While thinking about this matter, this Morrick Dupont's eyes narrowed slightly, the envoy he secretly sent to the north should be on his way back by now.