483 Encounter with the Army of Light
With the knife in his hand, Lincoln's soldiers directly killed Ott, and Count Filly stood outside the door and heard Ott's screams, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red. In fact, at the stage of Count Philip, the pursuit of power is no longer very strong, and he plans to live on his own mountain city.
It's just that he didn't expect that he wasn't keen on power, but his son didn't think so. After all, in the eyes of Ott, he was only born a year later than his eldest brother, and he was stronger than his eldest brother everywhere, and even contacted the Prince of Andorra, as long as he ascended the throne as emperor one day, then the title of Count Filip would soon become the Marquis of Filip, and it was he who led the family to revitalization.
The primogeniture system avoided some succession disputes, but it also gave rise to others, most notably disobedience. The eldest son's strength makes the other sons feel that there is no hope, but once the eldest son is weak, this first priority is estimated to become the first most important position.
But basically, the eldest son has been given a resource tilt, so that he can easily crush the other brothers, as long as it is not particularly wasteful, basically few vassal kings have succeeded in seizing the throne. The European Middle Ages Duke is not very clear, but in ancient China, there were only a few people who could be named, such as Li Shimin, and even fewer vassal kings, and the only well-known one should be Ming Chengzu Zhu Di.
In fact, the European Middle Ages are similar, like Duke's eldest brother Baker, if he hadn't met a Duke who had traveled over and had hundreds of years of experience in later generations, he would basically be in an absolutely crushing situation. Even Prince Edward, who could only pretend to be a white fat man in Storm Castle before, did not dare to show his ambition at all. It was only when the external situation changed, and the French Empire no longer had the ability to control these territories, that Andorra found this opportunity.
But even so, if he really faced a battle with Prince Edward, Duke guessed that the Prince of Andorra should be far from Edward's opponent. Of course, this premise still has to be without external help.
In the direction of the city gate, the equipment of the Imperial Eleventh Army and the Alpine Army was originally half a catty and eight taels, and they now have an absolute psychological advantage, as long as they delay a little time and wait for the Prince of Andorra's army to come, these Alpine rebels will be wiped out. Moreover, usually within the scope of Gaoshan City, these Gaoshan troops could only stand aside in the face of them, which contributed to their psychological advantage.
But the Imperial Eleventh Legion didn't expect that the fighting will shown by the Alpine Army this time was simply not the same army as before, and almost all of them were not afraid of death. Moreover, in the past few months, the Gao Shan Army has accumulated too much resentment in their hearts, and everyone has a few enemies in the eleventh legion of the empire, and now they are all released, and their combat effectiveness will naturally soar.
Originally, the Imperial Eleventh Legion could barely resist for a while, but when the battle flag of the Storm Army appeared, the entire Imperial Army's city gate defense line collapsed, especially the silver lion flag, which was simply a death-like existence for the Eleventh Legion of the Imperial Army, whether it was the bloody battle of the Spartan Legion outside Andorra, or the chaotic soldiers who later punished and rectified the Eleventh Legion of the Empire, it can be said that the image of the killing machine of the Storm Army has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Eleventh Legion.
The degree of rationality of this battle even exceeded Duke's expectations before, basically the soldiers of the Imperial Eleventh Legion saw the storm army and surrendered to Duke, even if it was the commander of the Imperial Eleventh Legion, they did not hesitate to surrender to Duke. As for the reason why they surrendered so easily, it was actually very simple, one was because they really couldn't fight, and in this case, they were looking for death from the beginning with the Storm Army.
The second point is that they are all Imperial troops anyway, and they belong to the same state system as Duke. As long as he doesn't die, Duke can't do anything to kill them, so if you surrender honestly, maybe you can go home for a good year, all the soldiers of the Imperial Army have this idea, and naturally the war will be very easy. And surrender in this world is not a scandal, His Majesty the Emperor and the lord basically do not blame, almost from the beginning to the end of the battle at the city gate did not take an hour, the entire Takayama City settled down in an instant, and many citizens did not react to what was happening outside.
After clearing the Imperial Eleventh Legion around the city gate, Duke walked towards the City Lord's Mansion under the protection of the storm guards, Duke didn't know what was going on in the City Lord's Mansion at this time, but no matter what happened, the capture of the City Lord's Castle marked the Storm Army's official occupation of Alpine City.
However, when Duke and the Storm Guardians were halfway there, they found that the vanguard of the Storm Army was lined up in the middle of the road and did not continue to advance. Faced with such a situation, Duke felt a kind of doubt, but Allen's face was very ugly, because this time the first unit was a soldier from the first regiment of the Storm Army, and it was also Allen's direct unit.
As the first regiment of the Storm Army, it can be said that it is the big brother in the entire Storm Army, and it has always demanded itself in the most rigorous and brave style, and even many people in Storm Fort have regarded the first regiment of the Storm Army as Duke's personal guard, after all, they have grown up step by step from the old city main guard.
According to the battle plan formulated before, the first regiment of the storm army must directly clear all obstacles on the road from Duke to the alpine castle, and now the eleventh regiment of the empire is simply vulnerable, it is said that the second regiment of the empire has occupied the camp of the imperial army, why is the first regiment of the storm army still stagnant, this phenomenon makes Alan feel very dissatisfied, this is an unprofessional performance of the first regiment of the storm army!
However, Duke was not as angry as Allen, because he knew that the strength of his Storm Army would not be possible if it were not for special reasons. So Duke came to the front of the phalanx, only to find out that the reason why the first regiment of the Storm Army stopped was because the road in front of them was blocked by the Holy See Light Army.
If the other party is an ordinary army, let alone a lord's army, even if it is the imperial army directly under Emperor Fran, it is estimated that the storm army will not hesitate to meet and start a war with the other party. But the Holy See is different, not to mention that the other party is a powerful army of light, even if it is a few priests in the middle of the road, if you want to attack them, you have to consider very serious consequences, after all, the Holy See is the supreme existence in this world, once you take the initiative to start a war with the Holy See, the consequences are not something that a storm army general can bear, even Duke himself!