Chapter 463: The Raid is in progress

In the distance, rows of log-made houses were burning in the fire, the white snow was strewn with stains and bloodstains, and there were muffled cries and screams in the wind......

The heavy snowfall had stopped for three days, and the gloomy clouds rarely showed a few cracks, and the clouds at the edge of the gaps were dyed golden by the sun, like pieces of iron armor trimmed with gold edges. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lorlist's face was gloomy, and the several family leaders standing next to him were also full of iron, because on the snow in front of them, there were one hundred and seventy-three corpses of the Flying Tiger Legion soldiers neatly arranged, and the corpses were lined up in three rows, with severed limbs and broken arms, blood and scars, which were so shocking under the reflection of the snow.

"Can anyone tell me what's going on, why would such a dilapidated manor cause so many casualties among our family soldiers?" Clarity's words came out of Lorlist's teeth, and everyone knew that anger was burning in his heart.

"It's my fault, Your Highness. Dores took a few steps forward: "None of us expected that this dilapidated manor without even a castle was Barony Abt, the Baron Abt who needed to be guarded against as prompted by Lord Tugger on the list, the deputy head of the Goshawk Mercenary Regiment that was ranked twenty-first in the Commercial Alliance in the past, and the golden mercenary Abt nicknamed the Golden Eagle.

A squadron of soldiers in charge of the vanguard scout found this dilapidated manor, and no one connected it with Barony Abt, and rushed in to prepare for a forced landing on the people in the manor, but was resisted by Baron Abt and his knights, and all the soldiers of the squadron who were the vanguard scouts were killed on the spot.

Baron Abt then prepared to call his garrison to resist, but did not expect our follow-up troops to come in such a piece, and they were all in a scuffle. The soldiers of our family suffered a total of four hundred and twenty-one casualties, of which one hundred and seventy-three were killed in battle, and more than seven hundred were killed and wounded on the side of Baron Abt, who and his knights and garrison were all awarded the ......"

The Norton family's armed forces are organized in a small squad of ten people, and the squad leader is a ten-man commander. Ten squads are a squadron, and the captain is a centurion. The winter combat regulations of the Norton family stipulate that a squadron that sets out as a scout in advance implements encirclement and vigilance when it discovers a target, strictly prevents it from being discovered by the target and leads to a breakthrough, and then launches an attack after the arrival of the follow-up troops, effectively annihilating all the enemy and not letting a single person slip through the net.

The Voliber Intelligence Investigation Bureau has already conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the territorial nobles of Anderwolf Province, and the spies who pretended to be various identities under various conditions have almost checked all the territorial nobles of Anderwerv Province, basically the private armed forces of the nobles of each territory, and the family knights have marked it very clearly on the intelligence, as long as the Flying Tiger Legion follows the list submitted by Tagger, it can ensure that the offensive plan to occupy Anderwolf Province will be carried out very smoothly, and the nobles of the territories canonized by these commercial alliances in the province will be wiped out。

The only mistake was that although the intelligence list submitted by Tagger listed Baron Abt as a key target, indicating that the combat effectiveness of the garrison under his command was not bad, and the approximate location of Barony Abt's territory was also marked on the map. However, the heavy snow in winter, and the three days and three nights of heavy snowfall turned the land into an endless snowfield, changing the geographical location and cognition made by the terrain, so the location on the map could not be clearly determined in reality, and it was often only after the victory of the attack that the captives knew what this place was.

This time, the squadron that was the first scout also made this mistake, the vast snow covered a small river as a geographical distinction, and when the scout squadron found that there were many wooden houses made of logs in front of it, the squadron leader did not realize that this was the Barony of Abt, and only thought that it was the territory of some poor nobleman.

Everyone knows that most of the nobles of the territory live in those stone-built castles, safe and sheltered from the wind, the fireplace is still burning, and the room is very warm. Therefore, the squadron leader of the scout squadron thought that this was just a warehouse for the nobles of a certain territory or a place for his servants to nest in the winter, so he assigned his soldiers to attack the wooden houses here in a squad mode. In his opinion, it should be very easy to occupy these wooden houses, and then get information from the captives, and the result is ...... I hit my head on the iron plate.

No one knew that the wary Baron Abt on the list of informants lived in such a humble log house, and the spies did not indicate this on the inform. When a squad of soldiers from the Scout Squadron of the Flying Tigers rushed into the larger log house and ordered the enemy to throw up their arms and not kill them, Baron Abt and his knights did not rest on their laurels like other nobles, but resisted immediately.

The two-star Baron Abt, the three-star Knight Adrien, and the one-star Black Iron Chief Grigail, this scout team whose fighting spirit is nothing more than a bronze and black iron rank is like chopping melons and vegetables. And this scout squadron is now divided into various squads to attack each wooden house, and by the time they find out that something is wrong here, it will be too late. Baron Abt and Knight Adrien came out and began to gather a garrison, quickly killing the scout squadron.

Fortunately, the follow-up troops came quickly, Baron Abt had just eliminated the scout squadron of 100 people, and before he could figure out where this enemy came from, the follow-up troops had already arrived, and when they saw that their comrades were killed and wounded everywhere, they immediately launched an angry attack. Baron Abt, Knight Adrien and the garrison were drawn into another scuffle.

The Flying Tiger Legion soldiers in a squad of ten people could not stop the surprise attack of the golden mercenary Baron Abt, and they suffered a lot of losses at the beginning of the battle. But there were more and more follow-up troops, and the formation of a hundred people blocked the fierce charging Baron Abt and the knight of Adrian, and when a few hundred people were surrounded by a battle formation, the battlefield advantage was tilted towards the Flying Tiger Legion.

The arrival of the corps commander Dorus became the last straw that overwhelmed the scales, and Dorus, who was also a golden rank, because of the casualties of many of his soldiers, and even despite the surrender of Baron Abt at the last moment, he killed him with a sword without waiting for him to abandon his sword and beg for mercy. However, when Knight Adrien tried to break out of the siege and escaped, he was shot into a hedgehog by a steel crossbow mounted on a sled cart. As for Governor Grighel, he was wounded in the scuffle and became a prisoner.

"Golden Eagle Abt ......" Lorist stared at the corpse of Baron Abt who was sent to him, and his blood-stained face could vaguely tell that it was indeed the deputy head of the goshawk mercenary group who was in the mercenary guild of Morent City back then.

This should be an old acquaintance of Lorist. I remember that the first gold coins that Lorist earned in the Mercenary Guild were related to this Baron Abt. At that time, Lorlist, Shi Fatzi and a few friends pooled a sum of money to make a batch of backpacks to sell in the mercenary guild, and a few arrogant mercenaries came up with some small wallets to put down these backpacks, or this Golden Eagle Abt came out to help Lorist and them to relieve the siege, bought all the backpacks at a high price, and later made a batch of special orders.

At that time, Lorist had just lost contact with his family, and became a lowest-ranking bronze mercenary for the next semester's tuition and living expenses. I made a backpack to earn a few gold medals, but I didn't expect to be bullied by a few silver mercenaries. If it weren't for the deputy head of the Goshawk Mercenary Regiment, Abt came forward to break the siege, maybe Lorist and Shi Fatzi would have been beaten up.

More than 20 years have passed, and the Golden Eagle Abt, who is kind to Lorist, has become a hostile lord and died at the hands of the Norton family. Lorist let out a long sigh, but couldn't speak, just waved his hand, told Dores to bury him, and turned away.

On December 27, 1786, the Norton family's armed Flying Tiger Legion took advantage of a blizzard to raid and capture the province of Swiv, while the neighboring province of Portoorg, one of the seven giants of the Vician Chamber of Commerce, was unaware. Its capital, the royal city of Fedeliga, is decked out for the New Year's celebrations.

Due to the unexpected resistance in the Barony of Abt, which resulted in hundreds of casualties, Lorist deliberately slowed down the attack and ensured the smooth implementation of the plan to clear the whole province of Andwerv until January 21 of the new year, when the troops were under the royal city of Fedeliga.

"Your Highness, you are here. Boderfinger and Malek hurried up to meet them.

It is a large snow hut made of huge blocks made of snow, and when water is poured on it, it freezes into a solid whole, and when the snow falls from a distance, it looks like a very ordinary snow hill. And such igloos are not one, but are connected in rows, and if you don't get closer, you won't be able to find out that there is a large barracks hidden in this snow mound.

Walking into the igloo, there is also a tent built in the big tent, and there are eight braziers around the big tent, the smokeless charcoal in the brazier is red, and the curved ventilation pipe sends in gusts of refreshing cold air, making the big tent warm like spring, but not making people feel stuffy.

"How's it going?" said Lorlist, taking off his outer leather jacket and handing it to Genorio, beckoning everyone to sit down.

Bodefinger put a floor plan of the royal city of Federiga in front of Lorist, and his face was serious: "Your Highness, this is a hard battle, and the royal city of Federiga is very difficult to fight. ”

"How?" asked Lorlist.

"In that year, after the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and the Four Central Duchyes defeated His Royal Highness to capture the Royal City of Federiga and seize the province of Portoorg as its Chamber of Commerce territory, a large-scale expansion and rectification project was carried out on the Royal City of Federiga, so the old urban plans and defense layout drawings were basically useless.

During this time, we used telescopes to reconnoiter the royal city of Federiga from all directions, and found that the city was roughly divided into five areas. In the middle is the inner city, where the original palace is located, and now there is a high wall. The eastern district is a high-class residential area, the southern district is a commercial area, the western district is where the barracks and arsenals are located, and the northern district is supposed to be a slum area.

The old Federiga royal city has nearly 200,000 residents, but after the surprise attack of the Second Highness, as well as the joint siege battle of the Vesian Chamber of Commerce and the four central principalities, the remaining residents of the city should be less than 100,000 people. After the expansion of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, the old city residents largely settled in the North End, making a living as petty traders and servants.

The Vecia Chamber of Commerce seems to have made the royal city of Federiga its fundamental focus, and in addition to directly administering the mineral resource gathering areas of the province of Putoolg, it divided the cultivated areas of the province of Puerto Org and canonized thirty-seven territorial nobles. The garrisons of the various fiefdoms are not to be worried, but the trouble is that the castles of the nobles of each fiefdom have set up beacon alarm stations.

This may be the result of the Second Highness's surprise attack on the Royal City of Fedeliga, and the Visia Chamber of Commerce has already taken precautions against this. Every ten days, the castles of the fiefdom nobles and the beacon alarm stations of the mining and iron-refining bases are lit by the way, and I suspect that they may be sending some message. In order to avoid being alarmed, we did not attack the feudal lords who were entrenched in the royal city of Federiga, so as not to be detected by the Vician Chamber of Commerce entrenched in the royal city of Federiga.

At present, there are 45,000 legions of the Vecia Chamber of Commerce in the royal city of Federiga, and there is a city defense reserve of 18,000 people. According to the information transmitted by Lord Tagar, there are four great swordsmen in the Visia Chamber of Commerce, one second-level great swordsman in Moriente City, one first-level great swordsman serving in the Chamber of Commerce legion, one first-level great swordsman guarding the royal city, and a second-level great swordsman guarding the president of the Chamber of Commerce. However, except for the Great Sword Master next to the President of the Chamber of Commerce and the Great Sword Master serving in the legion, the other two Great Sword Masters were newly recruited by the Vesia Chamber of Commerce.

In the past 20 days of reconnaissance, we found that most of the residents of the royal city of Federiga have the ability to go out in winter, although the cold and warm clothes on their bodies are very different from the style of our family, but it does not affect their activities, and the defense on the city wall is much tighter than that of other castles. Every two hours, patrols patrol the city walls. This means that we can easily be spotted by the defending enemy during the attack, which will cause our clan soldiers to suffer more casualties.

So we are now stationed at a distance of nearly twenty miles from the royal city of Federiga, so as not to be discovered by the enemy. In addition, the Rock Legion has sent three corps to bypass the royal city of Federiga, blocking the eastern, southern, and western gates, forming an encirclement. Wait for the Flying Tigers to arrive before launching an assault on the royal city of Federiga. ”

Bodfinger pointed to the map of the royal city of Federiga on the table and explained to Lorist what he had discovered, and finally said, "Your Highness, there is no other way to take this royal city than a strong attack. I am even worried that during the siege, once the Vesian Chamber of Commerce senses that the situation is not good, they will vigorously organize nearly 50,000 miners to take up arms to resist our attack, which is almost equivalent to adding an additional legion. ”

Lorist pondered for a while and asked, "Can the secret passage that Second Highness used to highlight the royal city still use?

Bodfinger shook his head: "Your Highness, I sent someone to find it." The map that Miss Krisya gave us showing the secret passage to the royal city of Federiga is indeed authentic, but the passage has been discovered and buried by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, and we can no longer enter the secret passage. ”

Lorist shook his head helplessly: "Then let's do this first, in two days, when the Tiger Ross leads the Flying Tiger Legion to arrive, we will discuss how to attack the city." ”

......