Chapter 157 Northbound Worry-free

Lorist was very tired, first to kill the post in one go, then to kill the longbowmen of the Iron Guard Legion and the soldiers who operated the crossbows of the garrison, and finally killed five silver knights, already exhausted. That's why he asked Pat to command the ironclad spearmen who arrived later to force the enemy to take the position.

Although he was tired to death, Lorist still waited in the big tent at this moment, and there were still some things to deal with, especially El fell down the hill, which has not yet been found, which makes Lorist even more worried.

The clothes on his body were soaked with blood, and they were half-dried by the wind on the mountain, and they were very uncomfortable. As soon as he returned to the large tent rebuilt in the barracks at the bottom of the mountain, Lorist ripped off all his clothes and put on a battle robe on his bare upper body and anxiously waited for news.

Yuri, Telman, and Bodfinger walked into the tent.

"My lord, the enemy's five thousand reinforcements were all wiped out, and two or three thousand prisoners were captured alive, and the golden knight who led the team was killed by Lord Bodfinger. Yuri gave an update on the situation.

"Borg, well done. Lorist praised.

Bodfinger smiled and shook his head: "If you don't win or not, if the golden knight doesn't hit the first three arrows, I'm afraid that I will still be entangled." ”

Loris nodded: "Are there many casualties?"

Telman stepped forward: "Seven Silver Knights were lost, and the rest of the casualties were in the hundreds......"

There was a moment of silence in the tent.

After a long time, Lorist sighed leisurely: "Collect their remains, cremate them and bring them back, their destination is in the tomb of the martyrs in the family territory." It is the resting place of the warriors who died for their families......"

"Yes. My lord. Telman replied solemnly.

Yuri asked hesitantly, "My lord." I heard that Brother El ......"

"I fell under the hill and was already looking for it. Now that it's almost dawn, there should be news soon. Bread Hill is not a mountain, it's just that high, don't worry, El will be fine......" Lorist comforted Yuri, and comforted himself.

"By the way, Yuri, you have a heavy task. The road to Venades City must be completely closed and blocked, and no news from here must be allowed to pass through. Remember what I said last time, that it is up to you scout hussars to turn the enemy blind and deaf. Lorist patted Yuri on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I'll tell you if I have news from El, believe me, he'll be fine......"

"My lord, I understand, rest assured, our scout hussars will definitely complete their mission. "Yuri is standing upright. Very serious answer.

"Borg, you're in charge of the rest of the plan. Let's try to see if you can pretend to be the Iron Guard to attack Vannades. If the action goes well, after blockading the city of Vannades, we will go directly to the Sith Castle, and only by capturing the Sith Castle can we trap the Seamount Legion of the Grand Duke of Madras in the province of Sidgrad, so that our northbound convoy will not have to worry about being intercepted by the Seamount Legion. ”

"If the plan doesn't go well...... Lorist said with a frown, "Vannades City must be taken so that our convoy and displaced people will not be blocked in Yungeshandra Province." Yuri's scout light cavalry wants to blockade the whole of Venades, and Borg, you command the ironclad lancers and archers to engage and feint against the guards, and when the heavy armoured corps and chariot teams arrive, you can storm and take the city of Venades.

If the sneak attack on the Sith Castle does not go well, then let Ross lead two ironclad cavalry brigades to confront the castle, even if the Haishan Legion arrives, they will not dare to fight with us in the field. Otherwise, I'd like to see how a legion that excels at foot and water warfare can compete with our clan's iron cavalry......"

Lorist's plan was to immediately command the clan forces to capture the city of Vanades and the Cith Castle after taking the bread post, and ensure the smooth passage of the convoy and the displaced people to the north.

The troops that were about to depart were Yuri's scout hussars, Pete's squadron of archers, and Rod Wells's three battalions of ironclad lancers, with Bodfinger as commander-in-chief. As for the spearmen under the command of Boderfinger, the rebuilt heavy armoured corps and the chariot of Dorus followed.

Lorist was left with Telman's Knights and the Guards of the General Battalion, who would remain here for a few days to assist His Highness in completing the siege of the fortress and the cutting off of the water in Liechndana, while Fat Man was responsible for leading the convoy and the outcasts to begin their journey north along the clearing below the bread hill under the escort of the garrisons of Faria and Malek.

"So be it, stay safe and have a nice trip. Lorist said.

"Yes, thank you, sir. Bodfinger and Yuri saluted and stepped back, they were about to leave.

"Let's go ahead and have a look, why haven't we found it yet?" said Lorlist, a little anxiously to Telman who had stayed behind.

As soon as he got out of the big tent, he didn't go far when he saw a guard hurriedly running in front of him: "My lord, I found it, Lord El is still alive......"

Ruhl is dead, with a huge crossbow bolt stuck in his chest.

Luckily for El, he was not injured by a crossbow arrow, but was knocked down the mountain by Ruhl. At that time, he didn't realize any danger, two steps away from the top of the post, and Ruhr, who was about to go up, suddenly collided with Ruhl in front of him, and he also wanted to hug Ruhr, but both of them were carried away by crossbow arrows. Forty or fifty meters of height fell down, he hurriedly transported his fighting spirit to protect his body, first fell on the big tree below and then fell to the ground, the whole person fell into seven meat and eight vegetarian pieces, and the internal organs were very seriously injured, but the small life was saved, but he had to lie in bed for three or four months.

Lorist was still awake when he saw El, with a pale face and a bitter smile: "Why am I so unlucky, I was just right from my injuries for more than three months in the last battle of Aonohara, and this time I have to recuperate for another three or four months....... alas......"

Lorist breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "You will be injured every time you fight, hehe, okay, take care of your injuries, don't worry about other things, I will deal with it." ”

El's injuries were internal organ shock and displacement, so he needed to recuperate, whether it was a carriage or a mount, it was forbidden. Lorist had no choice but to have him carried back to Nadegas City, find a house for El to recuperate, and ordered several guards to stay and take care of Eyre. Wait until El heals from his injuries before returning to the Northland with them.

Settle down El's whereabouts. Lorist returns to the main camp. Tell Reddy to get a bucket of bath water and take a bath to wash off the dried blood stains on his body and hair.

Then Lorist fell asleep half-leaning in the tub......

I slept soundly, and when I woke up, it was already the next morning.

Lorist found himself lying in bed, knowing that it was Reddy who had moved him over. Stretching and greeting, Reddy came in from outside, "Your Excellency, you're awake." Yesterday afternoon, His Royal Highness waited for you until the evening, and when I saw that you were still asleep, I had to leave, and I think he would come over later......"

Just as Lorist struggled to fill his stomach. His Royal Highness Rd. Sure enough, he was very happy to see that Lorist had woken up, and refused Lorlist's invitation to dine together, as long as he had a glass of wine, he waited patiently for Lorist to finish breakfast.

In fact, it was not important for His Royal Highness to find Lorlist, he just heard that Lorist single-handedly killed the soldiers of a brigade of the Iron Guard Regiment stationed on the bread post and felt incredible, as a master of the golden two-star fighting spirit, the Second Highness could naturally sense the strength of the black iron fighting spirit of Lorist. He only values Lorlist's outstanding strategic planning ability and strategic arrangement, and has always been dismissive of Lorlist's fighting strength.

Although he was envious of the number and ability of the gold-level and silver-rank knights under Lorlist, the Second Highness only thought that it was Lorlist's ability to win people's hearts that made these subordinates follow him with all their hearts. This time, sensing the strength of Lorist's black iron fighting spirit, the Second Highness thought in his heart that Lorist might be the first to charge, but it was definitely impossible for him to go up the mountain with a single sword. It is suspected that the rumors were concocted to create the impression that Lorlist, the new head of the Norton family, was wise and powerful.

After Lorist had eaten breakfast, he and His Second Highness went down to the bread hill again and looked down from below. Everywhere there was a busy scene of labor, and countless men were digging trenches and building walls of the crossbows of the fortress of the fortress in Liechdan three hundred meters away. An encirclement centered around the fortress of Liechtana was gradually taking shape.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow we can set out up the hill to cut off the water from the fortress. His Royal Highness said excitedly.

"The Iron Guards in the fortress are not attacking and harassing?" Lorist asked.

"I came out once yesterday afternoon, but I was shot back by our crossbowmen and longbowmen, and lost two or three hundred men. When they saw that we were prepared, they prepared to defend the fortress and not come out. We'll see what they do when the water runs out. His Royal Highness said with a smile.

In the evening, Lorist received an urgent report from Boderfinger that the city of Vannades had been taken. Bodfinger has closed the city of Vannadis, and is now leading people to attack the Sith Castle, preparing to repeat the old trick, pretending to capture the city gate when the caravan passes, believing that the garrison of a squadron of the Sith Castle will not be able to withstand the fierce attack of the two brigades of ironclad spearmen.

Lorist asked, and found that the successor heavy armor corps and the convoy had set off for the city of Venades this morning, and it was estimated that they would be able to arrive tomorrow evening, so he was relieved, and when the defensive front besieging the fortress castle in Liechtana was completed tomorrow, the convoy and 100,000 displaced people could go north and return to the family territory.

In the afternoon of the next day, His Royal Highness personally took two golden knights and more than a dozen silver knights, and a squadron of longbowmen climbed up the foot of Liedon Mountain, went around in a circle to find the waterfall waterhole that provided water for the fortress castle of Liechdana on the slope of the mountain below, and used the Douqi Imperial Sword to open another opening in the waterhole to drain the stagnant water, and found a buried water inlet pipe to block the water inlet, and then took a golden knight down the mountain. The remaining soldiers blocked the Iron Guards in the fortress and crossed the column to break through the hill and the opening and intention.

On the third day, Shi Fatzi began to march north with the convoy and the displaced people across the border. When the Iron Guards in the fortress citadel of Liechidan saw the convoy and the displaced people making a large circle along the open space below the bread hill and up the avenue to the city of Vannades, they realized that their attempt to keep the convoy and the displaced people out of the border had failed, but they did not realize that they were dead.

On the fourth day, the Iron Guard Corps of the fortress castle in Liechndana was shocked to find that the castle was cut off, and when they sent people up the mountain to check it, they were met by the longbowmen guarding the mountain, and then they realized that all back roads had been cut off, and the fortress could no longer hold on for a long time.

On the fifth day, the Iron Guard Corps in the fortress of Liechdana, with more than 5,000 men in two brigades, launched three tentative attacks on the defensive positions surrounding them, and all of them were bloodied in front of the Royal Guards of the Kingdom of Antinac, which was waiting for them, and reluctantly retreated to the fortress.

This afternoon. Lorist received another good news from Boderfinger. The Sith Castle has been successfully attacked. Now three brigades of ironclad spearmen, squadrons of archers have settled in the Sith Castle, and the gates of the province of Sidgrad are locked.

Lorist was overjoyed, and the northbound journey was worry-free......

On the night of the sixth day, the entire army of the Iron Guards of the fortress of Liechdana went out and launched a night attack on the defensive front. They concentrated all their efforts on storming a point in the northern position, striving to complete the breakthrough.

Defending the northern position were the two brigades of the newly formed Royal Guards Regiment of His Royal Highness, who did not expect such a frantic struggle of the Iron Guards. It's almost like taking human life to fill in a way out. With the reckless investment of these Iron Guards, all the squad leaders and squadron leaders of the Royal Guards of these two brigades were killed, and the two captains were also killed and wounded, and the remaining recruits finally collapsed, and the defensive position was torn open by the Iron Guards......

Just when the soldiers of the Iron Guard Legion thought that they were expected to break out, Telman, who had just arrived on the orders of Lorist, led the knights to give them a blow in the head, and it was a massacre to surprise these infantry with knights and no ranged weapons in a flat clearing. Nearly 10,000 Iron Guard soldiers finally withdrew to the fortress, and most of them were wounded.

On the seventh day of the siege of the fortress citadel of Liechdana, there was a dead silence in the fortress. And His Royal Highness and Lorist were busy cleaning up the battlefield and saving the wounded. The night raids in the era of cold weapons were the most brutal and tragic. The Iron Guard Corps left nearly 5,000 corpses on the battlefield, as well as hundreds of wounded soldiers.

And less than 1,000 soldiers of the two brigades of the Royal Guards Regiment who defended the position survived. All the officers were killed in battle, including several knights and cadets who had left the convoy to defect to His Royal Highness. Telman cried very sadly, there were two old students who died in the war who were still elite members of the Sword Club of Dawn Academy, and they were Telman's old friends and subordinates.

Eight days later, the remaining 3,000 or so Iron Guard soldiers in the fortress of Liechnda finally opened the gate of the castle and sent a messenger with a white flag. The messenger staggered in front of the Second Highness, and his thirsty mouth only knew that he said, "Water, water, water......"

His Royal Highness's men and horses successfully occupied the fortress of Liechdana, but the funny thing was that the two thousand men and horses who went to the fortress each carried a wooden barrel into the fortress, and the barrel was filled with clean water that had just been brought from the Egret Lake.

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On October 24, 1767, the remnants of the Iron Guard Legion of the Duchy of Madras, known as the world's most defensive ability, raised the white flag and surrendered to the Second Highness of the Kingdom of Antinac, Ogcero.

The short duration of the offensive and defensive battle (only 12 days even in the confrontation), the huge results (the total annihilation of the defenders), and the light casualties (less than 5,000 casualties on the attacking side) shocked the countries of the mainland. The Second Highness Ogseiro also became a rising military star in Gelintya because of this battle.

The cause of this battle was that a convoy of nobles from the direct domain of the Andinac royal family carried a large number of displaced people to return to the family territory of the Northlands, but was sent by the Grand Duke of Madras to block the border and refuse the convoy and displaced people to enter the territory of the principality.

Process: His Royal Highness first let 30,000 people of the Royal Guards Legion reach the border to confront the Iron Guard Legion, secretly built a pontoon bridge and ordered the re-formed White Lion Legion to smuggle across Egret Lake, and attacked the camp of the Bread Gang Iron Guard Legion, making the fortress castle of Liechtana lonely, and took the opportunity to order the Royal Guards Legion to besiege the fortress and establish a defensive line, and finally cut off the water source of the fortress, making the attack and defense different, forcing the Iron Guard Legion, which is known as the world's first defense capability in the fortress, to take the initiative to attack the defense line, and finally destroy it completely.

At the same time, His Royal Highness ordered the White Lion Legion to storm all the way, raiding the city of Vanades and the Cith Castle, trapping the main army of the Duchy of Madras, the Haishan Legion, in the province of Sidgrad, laying a good foundation for the annexation of the Principality of Madras by the Kingdom of Andinac to the province of Yungshandra.

In the pen of various military experts of the continental countries, this battle is called the Miracle of Egret Lake.

Note: Because Lorist ordered the family armed forces to change into the standard equipment of the White Lion Legion, in the eyes of military experts from various countries, the Norton family armed forces became the White Lion Legion reorganized by the Kingdom of Antinac. (To be continued.) )