Chapter 518 Miscalculation

Lotist walked up and down the city wall in frustration. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is the seventeenth day of the Norton family's armed occupation of Moriente City, seven days ago, Lorist received an urgent report from the scout light cavalry, the merchant alliance forces have returned to the army to pounce on Moriente City, the forward force is nearly 100,000, and the follow-up troops are more than 200,000, the momentum is huge, it seems that Moriente City will soon usher in a bloody offensive and defensive battle.

For the next four days, Lorist and the top brass of the two legions worked almost sleeplessly, preparing for all the affairs of the defensive operation day and night, and after paying a huge amount of materials and gold coins, they finally relied on the assistance of the residents of Morente City to complete the work of clearing the shantytowns and slums outside the city, and then dug trenches and fortified them, and the walls were very busy.

When everything was in order, the city of Morent also ushered in the first batch of attackers, and the vanguard troops armed with nearly 10,000 business alliances came unorganized, throwing away their armor, holding all kinds of white flags with their bare hands and flocking to the city shouting: "Okay, okay, give me something to eat......"

"Open the door, we surrender ......"

"I'm going home, don't fight ......"

The Lorist and Boderfinger leaders who were at the head of the city at the time almost lost their big teeth, and no one could figure out what was going on. If it is a ruse, it is obviously not, who has ever seen the lure of the enemy act like this, running out of breath and out of breath when he sat down in front of the city gate and refused to get up......

It wasn't until El took someone out for a check-and-cross-examination that he realized what was going on. Seriously, these 10,000 men and horses were the lucky ones of the Merchant Alliance's armed vanguard troops, who returned to the army to regain the city of Morent, and set out with only five days' dry rations. The top brass of the business alliance told them that the cities of Gypsys and Thomas had also fallen, and that the capture of these two cities would naturally have sufficient logistical supplies.

Since these 100,000 or so horses were recruited by the city of Morente, they were worried about the safety of their families and rushed on the road. However, they were all infantry, and no matter how fast they went, they could not reach Gypsys until they had eaten their dry rations. But the city of Gypsys had been abandoned by Lorlist, and they had taken the entire city without bloodshed, only to find nothing, except for bricks and stones, and they could not find anything to eat or use, so they had to drink water to fill their stomachs.

So they pinned their hopes on the city of Thomas, two fortresses just a day's walk away. However, at noon they were attacked by the Flying Tiger Legion and the Hunter Legion on the march. The 100,000 men were tired and hungry, and they collapsed on the spot, and the 10,000 men ran relatively fast, and luckily escaped from the cavalry. It was only after they ran out that they found that there was no way to escape, and they were worried about their families in the city of Morente, so they ran over and surrendered after the last discussion.

Lorist couldn't laugh or cry, and it was in vain that they had worked hard for days. A day later, several cavalry brigades of the Flying Tiger Legion and the Chaser Legion also arrived with a large number of prisoners, adding another hundred thousand mouths to the city of Morente to consume food. Fortunately, Sambarwood and Uncle Torrin had already brought grain and grass from Hilowas, and for a while there was enough food and grass to feed the more than one million people in the city of Moriente.

Tiger Ross, the commander of the Flying Tigers, and Farea, the commander of the Cavalry Hunting Legion, also arrived with the cavalry escorting the captives. As soon as Lorist asked, he knew that the 100,000 horses and horses of the armed vanguard of the Commercial Alliance were somewhat disconnected from the follow-up troops, and the two-day itinerary was opened in the middle, which could not play the role of echoing back and forth, which allowed the Flying Tiger Legion and the Hunting Cavalry Legion to take advantage of the opportunity to raid and encircle and annihilate the 100,000 people first.

Tiger Ross and Farrea said that their two cavalry regiments would continue to harass and raid the more than 200,000 follow-up troops of the Commercial Alliance, delaying the enemy's return to the city of Morente. After a hurried discussion of military strategy, the two of them set out on the journey with the cavalry brigades that escorted the prisoners.

However, two more days have passed, and there is no more information from the follow-up forces of the Business Alliance. Lorist couldn't help but guess in his heart what was going on, even if the follow-up troops of the Commercial Alliance were afraid of the annihilation of the 100,000 men and horses of the vanguard and shrank back, then Tiger Ross and Faria should also send a messenger to send a message back, it is better than waiting on the city wall every day, waiting is the most anxious......

In the distance, three wisps of smoke and dust rose up, and three majestic horses rushed in like the wind. The knight at the head shouted loudly: "Urgent, urgent from the front, open the city gate quickly!"

Lorist opened the battle report written by the Hunter Legion Farea, and almost jumped when he saw it: "What, the follow-up troops of the 200,000 men armed by the Commercial Alliance did not come to the city of Morent at all, but instead turned to the province of Maweforin! What are they going to do? Give up the recovery of the city of Morent? Even the plains of the Falis Hill have been abandoned?"

"Yes, Your Highness, when Lord Farea-sama ordered me to come to deliver the letter, I received an urgent battle report from the Flying Tiger Legion, the three garrisons of the Business Alliance armed forces left behind in the city of Robert Via, and the three garrisons of the city of Credor and Lite sent an envoy to the Flying Tiger Legion to ask for surrender, and Lord Tiger Ross has already gone to receive the three fortress cities. If this were the case, the report would have been delivered soon...... "The Courier provided another startling message.

"What the hell is going on here? What is the business alliance up to? Abandon the other half of the army in order to save 200,000 horses? Is this possible, it's too big. Or is it because the destruction of the 100,000 men and horses in the vanguard forced its follow-up troops to change their decision to recover the city of Moronte and divert to the province of Maweforin in order to save the more than 200,000 horses? Why did the troops that remained surrender? That is also more than 100,000 horses......" Lorist was puzzled. But in any case, it is always good that the city of Moriente is spared a war.

Another day passed, and Lorist received the battle report from the front line again before he realized what had happened: "Damn, this is purely a disaster moving eastward, the business alliance is to save their elite Chamber of Commerce armed legion to give up those miscellaneous soldiers, this is premeditated, and then transfer the burden of feeding more than 200,000 mouths to our Norton family, these more than 200,000 captives will consume a lot of food...... But why would the Merchant Alliance give up on recovering the city of Morente?

In his war report, Tiger Ross reported that the garrison of the three fortified cities had surrendered due to a lack of food and logistical supplies, as the follow-up forces of the Merchant Alliance had taken up most of their supplies when they set out, leaving them with less than five days of food and grass. Fearing that the coalition of the nobles of the Antinac Kingdom, who had fought with them for two years, would kill them after they surrendered, they chose to surrender to the Norton family.

Tiger Ross asked Lorist to send a batch of grain and grass to the three fortress cities on the front line as soon as possible, because the 100,000 captives were now eating dry food carried by the Flying Tiger Legion soldiers, and now the Flying Tiger Legion soldiers were all half-starved. At the same time, the situation that all three fortress cities had fallen into the hands of the Norton family was discovered by the Second Highness, who sent an envoy to demand the takeover of the three fortress cities.

Alas, this side is so busy that your majesty the king should not make trouble for us, okay, Lorist immediately wrote an order for Tiger Ross to justifiably refuse the request of His Royal Highness. There were seven fortress cities in the Plains of Falis including the city of Moriente, and the Second Highness occupied only one city of Bruvick. If those three fortress cities are handed over to him, I am afraid that this second highness who is very happy will not leave, and I am afraid that it will add trouble to the future peace talks.

At the same time, Lorist also asked Tiger Ross to borrow a batch of military rations from the three allies in the Northlands and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to tide over the difficulties, and the more than 200,000 horses and horses who fled with the Merchant Alliance now can't get away. On his side, he immediately sent the Rock Legion to receive the three fortress cities, and when Bodfinger and the others arrived, Tiger Ross led the Flying Tiger Legion to escort the surrendered garrisons back.

After finishing all this and explaining that Bodfinger led the Rock Legion to set off, after thinking about it carefully, Lorist personally wrote a letter to His Royal Highness, the content of which was that the Norton family forces had defeated the Invincible Armada of the Commercial Alliance and landed in the city of Moldent, and now the change in the battle situation on the front line is because of the reaction of the forces of the Business Alliance after discovering the fall of the city of Moldon. It seems that they must have abandoned the city of Morente and the plains of Falli, and withdrew their troops back to the province of Maweforin.

In his letter, Lorist unceremoniously asked His Royal Highness not to act rashly and destroy the hard-won good situation. Because Lorist is ready to use the city of Moriente and the plains of Falis as bargaining chips to negotiate with the business alliance to stop the war between the two countries, restore peace, and sign an agreement. So Lorist hopes that His Royal Highness should do whatever he wants, for example, if he hasn't returned to the imperial capital for so long, he should go back to see the queen who has been in the empty house for three years......

At the same time, Lorist assured His Royal Highness in the letter that this time he would negotiate with the business alliance in the name of the Norton family and himself, the Sword Master, so that even if anything happened, he could bear it. If the peace talks fail, it is not too late for His Second Highness to come out again to clean up the mess, it is much better than His Second Highness coming forward and being fooled again. Of course, if the peace talks are successful, it will naturally require His Royal Highness to come forward and sign a peace agreement with the business alliance, etc......

After sending a few guards to deliver the letter he had written to His Second Highness, Lorist sighed and began to wonder what the Commercial Alliance was up to, could they really ignore the city of Morent?

Genolio and Tagger walked in with a large stack of papers, but neither of them looked good.

"What's wrong with you two guys, crying and sad?" Lorist laughed.

"Your Highness, the seizures in the inner city and the trade area have been counted......" Genolio ignored Lorist's question, and instead said with a serious face.

"Oh, let's hear and see how much our family can get in this time. Lorist's mood became happy, after all, he didn't intervene in this war this time to do good deeds, and the materials and wealth stored in Morente by the major chambers of commerce of the business alliance are the proceeds of the Norton family's troops this time, and I believe that this capture will not disappoint him.

Jenorio replied with a wry smile: "Your Highness, this seizure is a bit unsatisfactory, we only found more than four million gold fords in the trade area and the inner city, and there are also a batch of materials worth tens of millions, a small part of which are expensive luxury materials, and there are many jewelry treasures, which are estimated to be worth millions of gold fords. There's nothing else to ......

"What do you say? Is that all?" Lorist jumped up: "This is impossible! How can Morent City only have such a small profit? This is a commercial metropolis with a population of more than one million, and the Jinford that circulates in the market alone is as high as several million pieces every day, not to mention that the warehouses of the Chamber of Commerce of the Business Alliance in Morent City are all stacked with rare treasures from all over the mainland, how can there be only such a small harvest......

If it was another place that captured the city, there would be so many seizures, then Lorist must be overjoyed, but this is the city of Moldent, how can there be only such a small profit? At this moment, Lorist wondered if someone was cheating, hiding from the world and embezzling a lot of loot, and he didn't believe that he had captured so much after capturing the city of Moldant.

"Your Highness, what you said was more than ten years ago, and the current city of Moriente was not a commercial city at all, and its current commercial influence was not as great as that of St. Maned, the royal capital of the Kingdom of Chigeda. Since the implementation of the lord system of the commercial alliance and the glass war with the kingdom of Trimber, the countries in the central and southern parts of the country have adopted a policy of cutting off trade routes and canceling commercial contacts for the commercial alliance, and the status of Moriente City as the first commercial metropolis on the mainland has plummeted, and there is no longer the bustling scene of people coming and going and caravans more than ten years ago. Genolio's calm words punctured the good impression that Lorist had left in his memory of the city of Morente.

Kindness...... It seems to be like this, otherwise the various colleges in the academy area would not have closed their doors one by one because they could not recruit students, and the Dawn Academy would not have gone far to the north to start again. It seems that the information sent by the knight of Remed from the city of Moriente in the past also said that the commercial market of the city of Moriente is becoming more and more dense and shrinking, and it has not seen a single caravan from outside for several years. Now almost all the commercial markets in the city of Morent are in the hands of the various chambers of commerce, and like a cake, all the shares have been distributed, and there is no room for any interference.

It seems that a few years ago, Tagger had set up a plan to establish a new chamber of commerce in the business alliance, and it would take a few more years to slowly build this small chamber of commerce into an influential large chamber of commerce in the city of Morente. Unfortunately, this plan was approved by Lorlist, but it was found that there was no possibility of its realization.

Because just like the situation reported by the knight of Remed, all the industries in Moriente City are monopolized by various chambers of commerce, whether it is people's livelihood or armaments, they are controlled by the chambers of commerce. Even if you come up with a new product or business, it won't long be the case that a related chamber of commerce will come to you and force you to transfer the nascent industry to them, and you can imagine the consequences of not agreeing.

"Your Highness, since the implementation of the lord system by the Business Alliance, those chambers of commerce have their own chamber of commerce territories, and they have basically transferred the chamber of commerce's warehousing and production centers to their chamber of commerce territory. They set up production workshops and chamber warehouses on their own chamber of commerce territory, and the commercial street of Morent City is more like their exhibition shop, although there are many goods and raw materials in the warehouse, but the number is not much.

Moreover, since the war between the business alliance and the alliance of the south-central kingdoms, the commercial market of Moldant City has become more and more deserted in recent years, and most of the warehouses are stocked with useless loot that are ready to be sold or living materials related to the livelihood of millions of residents in Moldant City, and it is rare to find any valuable reserve items. This is not the warehouse of a few chambers of commerce, as is the case with almost all chambers of commerce that have shops in the trade area......" Targar explained further.

Lorist patted his forehead, he seemed to regard the city of Moriente as the city of Moriente when he was still studying as a mercenary, but he didn't think that more than ten years later, the business alliance annexed seven countries around because of a glass war, and the expansion policy was resisted by the rest of the countries in the central and southern regions, cutting off trade routes and canceling commercial exchanges, and after several years in a row, the business alliance was forced to take the war in the hope of opening trade routes, in this case, as the capital of the business alliance, there was naturally no good result, and the commercial city could still be called a commercial city without commercial contacts and transactions？

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