Chapter 166: Ogcero's Counterattack

Just when Lorist led the family convoy that crossed the Mitobro River to the Northland, armed and unscrupulously robbed the Grand Duke, defeated the coalition of lords led by Duke Lukins, and transferred countless supplies, grain, grass, and personnel to the family territory like busy ants, the Antinac Kingdom resurged.

On April 25, 1768 in the Galintya calendar, the king of the Kingdom of Reidlis, the eldest prince of the former Krisson Empire, Chrisson Redlis, announced that the second crown prince of the Kingdom of Antinac, Ogessero, had imprisoned his father and abolished his brother, and was guilty of rebellion, reckless sword soldiers, bullying the country, etc., so he would raise 70,000 troops to crusade against the second highness to maintain the reputation of the former Krisson Empire royal family.

As soon as the announcement of the eldest prince came out, everyone who saw it laughed and lost their big teeth, this announcement was so familiar for some reason, and when someone looked for it, they found that this was the Antinac Kingdom during the imperial civil war, that is, the third prince of the regent of the Cresson Empire at that time, issued a proclamation to the eldest prince. This time, the eldest prince changed a dozen words and returned them to the Kingdom of Antinac as they were.

Although this announcement is a joke, the 70,000 wolf-like troops under the eldest prince who have been in battle for a long time are not vegetarians, and in less than ten days, the seven large and small fortresses arranged by the Kingdom of Antinac on the border between the two countries were all lost, and the Tempest Legion suffered heavy casualties, so they could only retreat step by step, relying on the manor castles of the nobles of the kingdom's territory to resist.

On the 32nd day of the fourth month of the fourth month of the Guelinthia calendar, at the cost of nearly 5,000 casualties among the Haishan legions under his command, the Grand Duke of Madras captured the Cith Castle, which was guarded by two brigades of the Royal Guards of the Kingdom of Antinac, opened the passage to the outside world of the province of West Degrad, and joined forces with the reinforcements of the Iberian Kingdom led by the second prince under the city of Venades.

At that time, more than 5,000 people from the two brigades of the Royal Guards of the Kingdom of Antinac, which was defending the Cith Castle, suffered only more than 1,000 casualties, and then hurriedly withdrew to the city of Vannades. Coupled with the fact that the defenders of the city had a total of 15,000 troops, everyone thought that His Royal Highness would use the fortifications already provided by the city of Venades to engage in a fierce offensive and defensive battle with the support of the Archduke Madras's Haishan Army and the Second Prince's Iberian Kingdom.

No one expected that the night before the Haishan Legion and the Second Prince's army had built siege equipment and were ready to attack the city the next day. The defenders of the Kingdom of Antinac defending the city of Venades quietly abandoned the city and retreated to the newly built mountain fortress more than ten miles away.

When the Grand Duke of Madras and the Second Prince found that the gates of Vannades were wide open and unguarded, there were several frictions between the two armies in order to seize this strategic location. In the end, the Seamount Legion seized two-thirds of the city, and the Iberian Kingdom support army controlled one-third of the city of Venades.

The Duchy of Madras and the Kingdom of Iberia then fell into an endless wrangling, with the two sides arguing over control of the city of Venades, as if the garrison of the Kingdom of Andinac was nothing in the fortress more than ten miles away.

Under the mediation of well-intentioned people. The Grand Duke of Madras finally reached an agreement with the Second Prince, and after paying a large ransom, the Iberian Kingdom reinforcements withdrew from the city of Vannades, leaving a third of the city under their control.

Immediately afterwards, the Grand Duke of Madras and the Second Prince led their respective armies towards the newly built mountain fortress of the Second Highness, and prepared to continue the attack to recover the province of Yungeshandra. After the Archduke Madras launched two unsuccessful attacks on the mountain fortress, the fortress sent a letter written by His Royal Highness to the Archduke Madras.

The general meaning of the letter is to remind the Grand Duke of Madras not to forget the existence of the hungry wolf of the second prince behind him when he resolutely resists the tiger of the second highness. If he insists on going his own way, His Royal Highness can withdraw his troops from the mountain road fortress. Even the fortress castle of Liechtana could be abandoned. It's just that I don't know if the second prince will forcibly occupy the mountain fortress and block the Grand Duke of Madras and the Haishan Army in Yungeshandra Province after the Grand Duke of Madras leads the Haishan Legion into Yungeshandra Province......

The Grand Duke of Madras broke out in a cold sweat after reading the letter, and then understood why His Royal Highness wanted to build a new mountain fortress more than ten miles away from the city of Venades, which was to annex the province of Yungeshandra, and in the future, the mountain fortress and the city of Venades would become the new border between the two countries......

The Grand Duke of Madras hesitated, and among the three provinces of the principality, Yungeshandra was the most barren province, with not much arable land. It is full of hills, swamps, forests and small hills. If this province is lost to the Kingdom of Antinac as compensation, I believe that the Second Highness will have both the lining and the face. It will definitely be a satisfying truce, but for the Grand Duke of Madras, it will be a loss of a package, otherwise stationing a legion to defend the border between the two countries will have to rely on the two provinces behind to provide logistics and replenishment of blood transfusions. This is also a large expense for the Grand Duke.

If the province of Yungeshandra was ceded to the kingdom of Andinac, the Grand Duke of Madras would lose face but win peace. The most important for the principality were the grain-producing province of Delemk and the commercial center of Vannades. Now that the city of Venades has been recovered, most of the province of Delemke has fallen into the hands of the second prince, although there is a guarantee that the second prince will not forcibly occupy the province of Delemke, but the Grand Duke of Madras, who knows the temperament of the second prince, does not believe it very much, not to mention that every day there are messengers from the territory nobles of Delemke Province who complain to the army of the second prince. The second prince did not restrain himself, and it was clear that he did not take himself as the grand duke in his eyes.

The Grand Duke of Madras, who was holding the letter from His Royal Highness, believed in the judgment in the letter, and if he tried to recover the province of Yungeshandra, then the Second Highness would withdraw his troops from the fortress of the mountain road and follow up with him until the fortress of Liechdan, and the second prince would forcibly occupy the fortress of the mountain road behind him, and then everything would be over, and the principality of Madras would cease to exist.

So the next day the Grand Duke of Madras and the second prince had a meeting, and the Grand Duke asked the second prince to recover the province of Yungeshandra for him, on the grounds that the second prince led an army to support the Duchy of Madras, but he did not even have a battle with the army of the Kingdom of Antinac, and he kept following behind to fight soy sauce, which is a little unreasonable.

The second prince is not a fool, he came to support the Grand Duke of Madras to make a profit, first, to forgive the debts of the two countries, secondly, to obtain a thank you money from the Grand Duke, and to see if he can take advantage of the chaos to occupy the province of Delemke. Now he hated why His Royal Highness didn't defend the Sith Castle and blockade the Grand Duke of Madras in the province of West Dgrad, so that he was defeated and occupied half of the province of Delemke.

If both the province of Demke and the city of Fanades fall into the hands of the second prince, then the Grand Duke of Madras is gone. Because he simply could not afford to pay the ransom for the province of Dramke and the city of Vannades, the province and the commercial city would become a place of wealth for the second prince......

Therefore, the second prince was very unhappy, and he was even more unhappy when he heard that the Grand Duke of Madras had asked him to attack the mountain fortress and recover the province of Yungeshandra. He rejected the Grand Duke's proposal in one fell swoop, emphasizing that he was leading a support army from the Kingdom of Iberia. It's here to support, not to play forward. It was only after the army of the Grand Duke Madras in front of them had been defeated that it was their turn.

The Grand Duke of Madras wanted to draw his sword and slash this shameless and cheeky second prince, and took advantage of the fire to rob and said so eloquently, but remembering that he was in the second prince's military camp, he forcibly endured this breath and left. The second prince also said happily to his subordinate generals: "If you want us to die, there is no way to ......."

Then the second prince really couldn't find the door. No one would have imagined that in the middle of the night, the Grand Duke of Madras would lead his army to attack the second prince's military camp at night, and the 30,000 horses brought by the second prince would be defeated and the army could not be formed. The more than 30,000 horses of the second prince, except for a few nobles such as the second prince and some knights, who were rescued from great difficulties, the rest of the troops were all gone.

This is known as the "Dawn Attack", when the troops of the Principality of Madras suddenly attacked the camp of the Iberian Kingdom Support Army, which was originally an allied army, in the early hours of May 7. The unsuspecting Iberian Kingdom support army of 30,000 men was wiped out, and the second prince who led this army escaped by breaking a hole in the barracks fence under the cover of several guards.

This sudden turn of events left everyone who followed the war scratching their heads as to why the Grand Guild of Madras and the Second Prince had turned against each other. The Grand Duke of Madras openly accused the second prince of harboring evil intentions and trying to secretly frame himself to annex the Duchy of Madras.

And the second prince, who fled back to Demke Province, was even more furious, when had he suffered such a big loss, and the private army of more than 20,000 territorial nobles who followed him to support was swept away, not to mention, even a border guard corps lent to him by his father-in-law Fisabrun was also wiped out. And before he could cry out first, the Grand Duke of Madras had already spewed blood, and the wicked people sued first. Accusing himself of a series of crimes made the second prince speechless......

If you want to blame, you can only blame the second prince's ordinary character, no one believes him. On the one hand, they believed in the words of the Grand Duke of Madras, and accused the second prince of the false accusation of nominal support and cover-up.

The second prince was furious, and since he had simply broken the jar and broken it, he declared that he would not share the sky with the Grand Duke of Madras, and while resuming the men and horses from the country, he allowed the two border guards stationed in the province of Delemke to start burning and looting. It is even more evil, doing everything.

On the one hand, the Grand Duke of Madras was preparing the defense and armament of the city of Fanades and the Cith Castle, and on the other hand, he recruited men and horses to call on the nobles of the principality to work together to form a defense army, and resolutely drive the second prince of the hungry wolf and the Iberian robbers out of the territory of the Duchy of Madras. The two sides forgot about the mountain fortress garrison of the Kingdom of Antinac. Fought in the province of Demke.

Just when the situation in the Duchy of Madras was changing, the fortress of Plimao in the south of the Kingdom of Andinac was finally captured by the army of the Kingdom of Redlis led by the Great Prince, and the commander of the Tempest Legion of the Kingdom of Antinac, the Golden Knight Nedrum and 5,000 Tempest Legion soldiers died heroically on the battlefield, and they made the Great Prince pay the price of nearly 20,000 casualties in order to capture the fortress castle.

However, after capturing the fortress and castle of Pulimao, the road to the former imperial capital was smooth and unimpeded. The eldest prince led more than 30,000 soldiers and horses non-stop and headed towards the imperial capital.

In the Liushui River, a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, the eldest prince and more than 30,000 horses fell into the trap of the Second Highness, who had been waiting here for many days, and nearly 70,000 soldiers of the Royal Guard Corps surrounded the eldest prince. They did not attack the besieged prince and his army, but only occupied favorable terrain and fortified them, preparing to trap the prince and more than 30,000 men and horses who had been cut off from logistical supplies in the encirclement and starved to death......

The victory of the Liushui River, the Second Highness used the newly expanded 70,000 soldiers of the Royal Guards Regiment to take advantage of the favorable terrain to adopt the method of building a fortress and defending the fortress, and it took more than a month to eliminate more than 30,000 elite soldiers and strong generals who followed the eldest prince to conquer the south and the north with 20,000 casualties. The eldest prince threw away his armor, changed into a tattered peasant clothes, and took two guards to climb the mountains and escape.

On July 3rd, the 70,000 troops of the Kingdom of Redlis led by the eldest prince had been lost, and His Royal Highness led 40,000 soldiers of the Royal Guards to counterattack into the Kingdom of Ridlis.

On August 15, under the royal city of Federiga, the kingdom of Redlis and the kingdom of Andinac signed an armistice, and the eldest prince ceded the two southwestern provinces to the kingdom of Andinac as compensation for the provocation of the army.

On August 21, the Battle of Kebo ended, which took place under the city of Kebo in the province of Delemque, Duchy of Madras, and the battle between the 50,000 lords led by the Great Engineer of Madras and the 40,000 troops of the Second Prince's invasion of the Duchy of Madras, came to an end, and both sides suffered heavy losses, and the Second Prince was forced to retreat from the Duchy of Madras with the remnants of his troops and horses.

After recovering the province of Delemque, the Grand Duke of Madras insisted on signing a peace agreement with the Kingdom of Andinac, despite the opposition of his lords and knights, ceding the province of Yungeshandra to the Kingdom of Andinac in exchange for an understanding between the two sides and a five-year alliance agreement.

After that, the Grand Duke of Madras built defenses in the two provinces of the Principality, not only building several fortresses and castles on the border between the two countries bordering the Iberian Kingdom, but also building a row of defenses on the banks of the Baili River in the lower reaches of the Mitobro River, the former Barony of Shuras, prohibiting the crossing of the river, completely separating the Northland from the Duchy of Madras.

In the Continental Wars, the battle that lasted for nearly a year from the attack of the Royal Guards and the White Lion Legion of the Kingdom of Andyras on the fortress citadel of Liechdana in the Duchy of Madras in October 1767 to the signing of the peace agreement between the Duchy of Madras and the Kingdom of Andyras in August 1768 is collectively referred to as the "Counter-Attack of Ogessero".

In this series of wars, it fully demonstrated the excellent strategic ability and military command skills of Orgosero, the second crown prince of the Kingdom of Antinac, which not only integrated the turbulent kingdom and planned to make the Grand Duke of Madras and the second prince infighting, but also defeated the Grand Prince, forcing the Kingdom of Redlis and the Duchy of Madras to cede land and sue for peace, doubling the area of the Kingdom of Andinac and becoming a regional power.

His Royal Highness thus became famous, and became famous throughout the Gelinthia continent, and was known as the most outstanding military master of the new generation.

...... (To be continued.) )

PS: My daughter is sick and takes care of me at home, and I finally rushed out a chapter, and I ask for your understanding if the update is late