Chapter 69 Troops

Count Corbilly was very angry, and the golden cup in his hand was crumpled into a ball by him, and all the servants and attendants held their breath, careful not to be like the unlucky bastard the day before yesterday, when the Earl accidentally made a little noise when he heard the bad news, and was smashed on the head by the Earl in a fit of rage, and returned to the arms of Mother Earth on the spot.

Count Corbilly unconsciously exerted his strength, and the golden cup kept changing various shapes, until the Earl was stunned by a small gem set in the gold cup, and he found that the gold cup had been pinched into a golden ball by himself. Throwing the golden ball on the table, the Count stood up, walked around irritably, and finally went out onto the balcony. Immediately, all the people standing on the side breathed a sigh of relief, it was so good, it was safe......

Earl Corbilly is sixty-three years old, but he still looks like a middle-aged man in his prime. Although the debauchery and fame of his youth have always caused the Earl to be criticized in aristocratic circles, these cannot ignore the Earl's genius in terms of vindictiveness. Not only is his own fighting strength a two-star gold, but he has also cultivated seventeen golden ranks and thirty-eight silver ranks among his many illegitimate children. If it was in the academy district of Moriente City, Lord Earl could earn himself a genuine gold vindictive badge with this achievement.

It was by relying on these illegitimate sons of the gold and silver levels of fighting strength that Count Cobilly was able to lay down such a large territory and sphere of influence, making the Cobilly family the most powerful family in the northwest region of the Kingdom of Ridleys. Seeing that he is about to go one step further and become the true ruler of this region and obtain the title of Grand Duke, how can he not make the Earl angry if there is a mistake at this time?

Since becoming friends with the eldest prince in the imperial capital more than ten years ago, Count Corbilly has been working for the eldest prince, from pretending to be a horse thief to plunder merchant travelers to participating in civil wars, Earl Corbilly sacrificed six gold and thirteen silver illegitimate sons for the eldest prince, in exchange for the title of the Grand Duke of the Northwest promised by the eldest prince. It's just that the Lord Earl must first integrate the nobles of the former Krisson Empire in this region and make them bow before the throne of the Great Prince before he can be canonized as the Grand Duke of the Northwest.

The northwest region of the Kingdom of Redlis is the canonized territory of the military nobles of the original Krisson Empire, although the territorial nobles here are nominally under the jurisdiction of the eldest prince, but these lords do not think very highly of the eldest prince, when the eldest prince raised the anti-flag to provoke a civil war, only a few of the territorial nobles here responded to the grand prince's call is proof. During the period when the eldest prince established the kingdom of Ridleys, the lords of this region only promised to transfer the tithes that originally belonged to the empire to the eldest prince when they sent representatives to the audience, and the policies of the eldest prince later formulated such as raising taxes and collecting grain and grass were resisted by the lords of this region more or less implicitly.

Count Corbilly also knew that his reputation was not very good in the Northwest Regions, and the Earl of Breeding Horses had a bad reputation for his illegitimate family, so that no territorial nobles in the Northwest were willing to marry the Koubili family. What the eldest prince demanded was that the lords of the northwest region must hand over twenty percent of their annual income to the kingdom, and the earl knew that it was impossible to persuade the lords of this region to agree to the prince's request, so it was better to use force to integrate the northwest region, after all, this area would be their own fiefdom in the future, and the fewer nobles in the territory, the better.

What went wrong? Earl Cockbilly stood on the balcony and looked out at the dusty city construction site in the distance. The new city in front of him was built by the Earl in imitation of the layout of the royal capital, and it will be the residence of the Grand Duke of the Northwest in the future, and it will also be the ruling center of the entire Northwest Region.

In the past, when the Earl stood here and looked at the new city, there was always a sense of pride and pride. A hundred years of life passed in a hurry. But the city that bears its name will endure for a long time, until it has endured thousands of years of wind and frost. When the whole city is completed, a huge stone statue will be erected for itself in the central square of the city, and the Count will ascend to the throne of the Grand Duke at the foot of the stone statue.

It only takes two years, two years, and your dream will come true! The Earl clenched his fists, and no one could stop him from realizing this dream, no one could. The current situation is very good, the aristocratic coalition has been defeated and has no strength to resist, and more and more territorial nobles are writing to themselves privately, willing to obey their orders. The Koubilly family's sphere of influence has swelled to the extreme, the surrounding lords have been wiped out, and the vast territory has become a silent wilderness with no one, except for those bandit mobs who dare to resist without knowing whether they are alive or dead.

Speaking of those so-called rebels, Count Corbilly remembered that the sweeping force must have been suffering from an old problem, and wanted to plunder when he saw the caravan, but as a result, until now he was still entangled with the caravan convoy, so that he forgot the order he had given to sweep the strongholds of the rebels in the western mountains, destroy all the cottages, and capture the people back to be slaves and slaves......

The Earl had no idea that all the troops he had sent out had been wiped out, and he thought that the two squadrons of lancers and five squadrons of garrisons were unbeatable in the northwest. It must have been that caravan convoy that captured the barracks and took advantage of the terrain, so the sweeping troops could not attack for a long time before no news came, probably because they were afraid that they would be angry, right? However, they sent a squadron of lancers and cavalry, and they also carried a large amount of grain and grass supplies, and I believe that there will be good news in a few days.

The Earl, annoyed and curious, wanted to see for himself the large number of wagons that could not be seen at a glance (the lancer who had come to report that the barracks had been occupied by the convoy had taken part in the second attack on the convoy.) Which chamber of commerce did the caravan belong to, and it was obvious that he didn't take himself as the earl in his eyes when he passed through the sphere of influence of the Corbilly family without notifying himself in advance, the controller of the Northwest Region.

It's just that the mob force and the caravan convoy fought together, giving those bedbugs who were jumping in the western mountains a chance to take advantage of the fact that these damn mob bandits actually took advantage of the lack of defense in the family territory to attack the castle of Burdock Manor, which was the old territory of the Corbilly family! If it weren't for the fact that a few people escaped and ran here the day before yesterday to report to themselves, he would not have known that the family's old territory had been ravaged by those mob bandits for five days.

At that time, the Earl did not believe the reports of the escaped lords, and ordered them to be severely rewarded. But the pariahs wept bitterly as they were beaten, and cursed and swore that they were telling the truth. The Earl finally sent a small team of lancers to the original family territory to check what was going on, but this morning the one hundred and twenty people of the lancer team only ran back to more than forty people, they reported that they met the arrow Josk and many horse thieves in the original family territory, it is estimated that there is a squadron as many, they were outnumbered and fought a bloody battle to find a way back, but the loss was very large, and now there are only these people left.

Divine arrow Joske, the shoulders of the Earl are still a little faintly cold at the mention of this name, that is the place where the long arrow shot by Josk penetrates, with Josk, needless to say, the illegitimate son of the golden rank who sits in the castle of Burdock Manor is likely to be more than lucky, so it is logical that the castle is captured. According to what happened to the lancer squad and the reports of the untouchables, the Earl estimated that there must have been more than a thousand horse thieves and more than 2,000 mob bandits in the original family territory, and these more than 3,000 people were equal to the total number of the rebels in the western mountains that he had heard, and it seemed that those rebels had already been mobilized.

Well, it seems that you are going to move, don't think that you are already old at sixty-three, no matter how old a lion is, he is still a lion, and he will not nest in the nest and become a sick cat. If these bandit mobs are not suppressed as soon as possible, as soon as the news of the family territory occupied by these bedbugs spreads, people will wonder if the Corbilly family is about to start going downhill, and even these mob bandits can't deal with it. The Earl swore to teach the bugs a profound lesson, and would not give up until he caught them and hanged half of them.

The city of Gerdos can dispatch a brigade of more than 2,000 garrisons, plus a squadron of lancers, and during this time, a squadron of lancers and two garrisons were formed, so it should be possible to leave two garrison squadrons and the disabled lancer squad to defend the city. If the lancer column at William Mills Castle was transferred back, there would be about 3,000 men. In addition, let the few nobles who have taken refuge in their own territory each send a squadron of troops, so that there will be an army of five thousand, enough to sweep through the western region, let alone deal with those rabble-like mob bandits. It was so decided, and the troops were sent out in three days.

Thinking of this, Count Corbilly commanded loudly: "Come, give me an order......

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Lorist also pointed on a map: "Here, and here, these places I marked, Yuri, you must send someone to be stationed, these are the best observation points to monitor the road from Gerdos City to the castle of Burdock Manor, as long as Count Corbilly sends troops, we will definitely take this road, so that we can be prepared for battle." Josk you did a good job yesterday, eliminating half of the lancer squad, and you didn't rely on the family's armament. But those cottage people have lost a lot, right?"

"Well, they've lost about two hundred men, and if I hadn't passed by with a small group of light cavalry scouts, they might have been crippled. But I left them all the weapons and equipment of the captured lancers, and they were glad and grateful for our righteousness. Joske said.

"That's why I'm saying you've done a good job, and now that the news has reached the ears of Earl Corbilly, he'll definitely send troops. We have decided to confront him in this place, and if we don't have these copycats to cheer us on, our family's armed forces alone will be too weak, and maybe Earl Corbilly will stare at our convoy with a hot head, and we will lose a lot even if we win. ”

"Where is the family convoy led by Knight Schrader now?" Lorist asked.

Bodfinger pointed to a point on the map: "Here we are, we will be at Burdock Manor Castle tomorrow afternoon, and I have asked the Ross Knight to meet him with a squadron of heavily armored lancers." I believe that this journey will be safe, so you can rest assured. ”

"How can I be relieved before the convoy arrives, everyone has been a little tired in the past two days, Yuri, your light cavalry scouts should strengthen their reconnaissance and control of the surrounding situation, turn a blind eye to what those copycat people are doing, and don't clash with them because you are not used to seeing something. Lorist said.

"Yes, my lord, I'll keep my soldiers on the lookout. Yuri replied.

"Bear with me, when the convoy arrives, we will gather those cottage people, gather those villagers who are in distress, send the horsemen to enforce military law, and if there is no advice, we will kill a few chickens and make an example of the monkeys." In the past few days, we have not had enough strength in our hands, so we can only endure it first. Lorist smiled wryly and shook his head.

To tell the truth, some of the rebels are worse than bandits, robberies, murders, rapes and other incidents in Count Billy's family territory, this is inevitable, understandable, after all, these cottage rebels and Count Billy are on the opposite side, and now they occupy his family territory. But it would be too much to transfer the hatred of Count Corbilly to the innocent villagers. As the Knight of Joske said, several of the cottage forces fled as quickly as they saw Count Corbilly's army, and now they showed their might with the unarmed villagers, and became so tormented that even Yuri's hussar scouts could not stand it, and there were several clashes.

"Joske, how is your squad of archers?"

"My lord, it's hard to find people, you have to have superb riding skills, you have to have a talent for archery, and you have to awaken your fighting spirit, so far I have only made up a dozen people. Josk complained.

"Take your time, I'm sure the archers will show their might on the battlefield in the future. Lorist smiled and comforted.

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The next day, Shi Fatzi led the family convoy to Burdock Manor Castle, and the people shouted and neighed and cheered.

At night, in the spacious hall, Lorist was talking to the map: "Today, Knight Yuri came with news, he found that several nobles of the territory who had taken refuge in Count Kobili were converging towards Gerdos City with their men and horses, which shows that Count Kobili has gathered men and horses to prepare, and it is likely that troops will be sent in these two days." We are short on time. Tomorrow a full day's rest, and the next morning Bodfinger arrived here with a squad of heavily armored lancers and three squadrons of spearmen, and set out with Telman's squad of knights and Doreth's chariot squadron. ”

"The Manor Castle is defended by two squadrons of spearmen, with Knight Schrader in charge. Marek Knight, you will lead the team to inspect the territory tomorrow and gather those villagers, who have also been tormented by those cottage people and horses in the past few days. You have those copycats obey our orders according to the agreement, and they all assemble at Bodfinger. If there is a ...... who does not listen to orders"

Lorist was a little murderous at this moment: "Rose Knight, you should know how to do it......"

A bloodthirsty smile appeared on Rod Wells' face: "Know, my squadron of heavily armored lancers will let these bastards know what it means to be untrustworthy. ”

"Very well, Mr. Tim, you don't need to be in a hurry, as a loyal ally of the Norton family, you just need to let your soldiers rest and recuperate. When our men and Count Cobilly's army face off, I'll let you be your guide to attack the city of Gordos. Lorist said.