Chapter 487: Kalitok

The white snowfield has long been unclean, full of broken walls, burning grange villages and towns, frozen iron-blue corpses and large blood stains, and occasionally a few choked cries in the cold wind, with despair and sorrow. The once rich and peaceful Falcan Hill Plain www.biquge.info once again invaded by evil neighbors from the north, and the entire plain was stained red with blood.

Of the seven cities in the Plains of Mana, the city of Morent is one of the largest pearls, and the other six cities are fortress cities that protect this pearl. His Majesty King Ogseiro I of the Kingdom of Antinac, enraged by the intrigues of the Merchant Alliance, who had been enraged by the intrigues of the Merchant League last year, led a large army to make a comeback, not only recovering the provinces of Armenia and Marivia, which had been annexed to the Merchant Alliance, but also almost annihilating the main force on which the Merchant Alliance depended, and nearly 300,000 troops were wiped out.

This is the heaviest blow to the business alliance, and it is also a slap in the face of the business alliance that claims to be the number one power in the Gelinthia continent, so that everyone in the business alliance understands a very simple truth, without strong military strength, no matter how much gold coins there are, no matter how big the territory is, it will not be able to become a big country, on the contrary, in the eyes of the enemy, this is just a piece of fat.

Last year, the army of the Andinac Kingdom invaded the plain of Falli, connecting the three cities of Bruvick, Leith, and Credo, and at the same time, the Hunting Cavalry and the Flying Tiger Legion armed by the Norton family in the north also captured the provinces of Gidlink and Maweiforin, causing huge losses in population and material to the commercial alliance. Since the second half of last year, the Cavalry Hunting Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion have once again sacked the five provinces around the Faliqiu Plain, looting a large amount of grain, grass and armaments, which greatly delayed the plan of the Business Alliance to mobilize troops to reinforce the Faliqiu Plain.

But the evil deeds of the armies of the Kingdom of Antinac in the plains of the Falis and in the surrounding provinces angered the people of the entire Mercantile Alliance. President Comberlet, one of the six giants of the Business Alliance, made a public declaration in the city of Moriente, vowing never to settle for peace with the Kingdom of Antinac. He said that for two hundred years, the wolves from the north had been salivating over the plains of Falka, intending to swallow up the rich plains of Fallihills, but the industrious and brave people of the merchant alliance did not want to be slaves, and they longed for freedom and equality, and paid a great price to expel the wolf from the Farichu Plains and protect their homeland.

Forty years of peace were bought with the blood and lives of the ancestors of the people of the Commercial Alliance, but now the wolf of the north has regained his spirit and has once again come to invade the Plains of Falimo. I believe that the people of the brave Business Alliance will not be afraid of the sharp claws of the wolf, and no matter how much blood we shed and how much it costs, we will still take up our bows and spears and fight this wolf to the death. It's just that this time we will never forgive this evil wolf from the north with a tolerant heart, we will turn defeat into victory and go straight to the wolf's den, and we will not stop our troops until we kill this evil wolf!

President Cumberright's proclamation won the applause and response of the residents of the city of Moriente, and countless residents signed up for the Self-Defense Forces recruited by the Business Alliance and the three newly formed garrison regiments. Soon the Mercantile Alliance once again had an army of nearly 100,000 men, and they were sent to the three fortresses of Thomas, Gypsys, and Roberto Via to defend against the attacks of the Andinac army and maintain the defensive line of the Mercantile Alliance on the plains of Falis Hill.

"The Business Alliance thinks it's still more than a hundred years ago? Such an old-fashioned barrier defense tactic is still useful?" The Second Highness watched more than a dozen catapults smash the wall of a small fortress built by the river, and the soldiers of the White Lion Legion in gray and white winter coats roared and slaughtered in, and soon there were near-death screams and fighting sounds from the small fortress......

The reason why the Faliqiu Plain is rich is inseparable from the water conservancy and irrigation facilities throughout the plain and the artificial canals that are large and small intertwined, in peacetime, these artificial canals are the water transportation arteries for irrigating the acres of land and transporting commodities, but when the war comes, these artificial canals become moats that the enemy cannot cross, and with the temporary construction of fortress barriers, the entire Faliqiu Plain has become a deep and wide defense network.

"Your Majesty, even if the Business Alliance knew that we could brave the wind and snow to carry out a surprise war in the cold winter season, it would not be able to come up with effective defensive measures. They could only watch as we crossed the artificial canals and ditches, and smashed the fortress walls that we thought were strong with catapults!" said this by a close confidant of the Second Highness, the Golden Knight Ripired, who commanded the attacking White Lion First Legion.

His Royal Highness tasted the sweetness of the raid on the northwest region in the winter of the previous year, and at the same time, because of the rich capture, he ordered that all the monster skins worth millions of gold fords purchased from Lorist at a discount were made into one-piece winter clothes and equipped with the First Legion of the White Lion, the purpose of which was to also take advantage of the cold winter season to unexpectedly launch a surprise attack on the defensive network on the Falmound Plain, trying to capture the remaining three fortress cities on the Falcan Plain in one fell swoop, and the troops were under the city of Morent.

Although the merchant alliance made some preparations to prevent the army of the Andinac Kingdom from launching a surprise attack in winter, they did not expect that the artificial canals crisscrossing the plain of Falcan Hill would freeze solid in winter, and the former moats would become smooth roads, and the fortress walls isolated on the snow fields were smashed into ruins one by one by catapults. The soldiers of the garrison defending these small fortresses had nowhere to flee and either fought to the death or obediently laid down their arms and surrendered. It only took about ten days for the White Lion Legion of the Kingdom of Antinac to break through the first defensive line formed by more than 100 fortress walls and hit the city of Robervia.

Standing at the head of the city of Robertovia, looking at the fortress walls that had been smashed into ruins in the distance, and the soldiers of the White Lion Legion who were gathering to rest, his face was gloomy and very heavy. Tension abounded on the walls, and every soldier in the garrison knew in their hearts that in the afternoon the abominable soldiers of the Kingdom of Andinac would attack the city beneath their feet, and no one could be sure that they would survive the battle unscathed.

He was once a member of the army on the other side, the commander of the legendary King of the Kingdom of Antinac, Ogseiro I. But now that he was standing opposite him, he had become his enemy. In the eyes of His Majesty, the noble King, he was just a deserter. Caritok bitterly recalled.

Seventeen or eighteen years ago, Caritok was a young student of the Dawn Academy, and because of his admiration for the legendary figure of the Academy, Black Iron Lock, he joined the Sword Fighting Society with Lorist as the president, and soon became an elite member and a trainee swordsman instructor at the Dawn Academy. At that time, he thought that he would soon become the next legend of the academy, and he was full of spirits and a bright future was in front of him.

It was Lorlist's northward journey that changed his life, and it was Shi Fatzi's flickering that made him give up his bright future in Dawn Academy, and he was willing to follow Lorist to the north, ready to use his talent and blood to give himself a background in his ordinary family, and make himself a member of the noble and extraordinary aristocracy in the eyes of his parents.

He was through hardships on the way north, but he was like a sharpened sword and became brilliant. Among the thirty-six Dawn Academy students who followed Lorist to the north, he had already become a member of the ten-member council that could decide the itinerary of the northbound convoy at that time, and even had a lot of power in the convoy armament.

Later, the convoy arrived at the Kingdom of Antinac, His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Antinac on the other side, and at that time he was only called His Second Highness, and he valued himself so much that he persuaded himself to join his command in every possible way. At that time, he was really moved by what he said, or he was dazzled by the dazzling name of the royal knight, and he actually agreed like a ghost, and became one of the seven students of the Dawn Academy who switched to the Second Highness.

I remember that when I left the camp of the northbound convoy, Fat Smith, Telman, Doles, and Renmerd looked at me with disdain and disdain, and my self-esteem was hit hard, and I was annoyed. At the time, I thought they were fools, like Lorlist, even if he returned to the family domain to inherit the title, they were not knights under the command of a small lord. And he is serving the future king, and his status is still a noble royal knight.

The imagination is so beautiful, but the reality is so cruel. After becoming the knight of the royal family, he found that he was not reused by the Second Highness, on the contrary, together with the seven of them, the twenty-six knights who defected to the Second Highness from the Norton family's northbound convoy became the pawns of the Second Highness when arranging the troops, breaking through the siege of the border of the Principality of Madras and defending against the breakthrough of the Iron Guard Legion, and two of the students who had only defected to the Second Highness for less than a month were killed.

Then came the great victory of the Liushui River, attacking the two southwestern provinces and the province of Cambona, until the army came to the royal city of Federiga to force the eldest prince to cede the two southwestern provinces and laid the great reputation of the new military god of the Galinthia continent for the Second Highness, but he wanted to cry without tears, because the seven students who took refuge with the Second Highness were only himself and Sende.

Later, Lorist came to the imperial capital to present to His Royal Highness the captured second prince of the empire, the king of the Iberian kingdom. I met myself and went to the park party held by Princess Carrey together. He told Lorist about his unwillingness under the command of His Royal Highness, and Lorist persuaded him to come back, saying that he was responsible for everything. It's just that I remembered the disdainful eyes that Shi Fat looked at me when I was leaving, but I hesitated again.

In the end, Sender did not escape the end of the battlefield, and was frostbitten when the Second Highness crossed the Yunduan Mountain Range and the Great Snow Mountain to attack the royal city of Fedeliga, and then died under the longbow of the palace guards when he was unable to escape the palace with his injuries. He was finally disheartened, and left the Second Highness without saying goodbye and returned to the city of Morente.

After returning to the city of Moldon, he found that not only himself, but also the entire commercial alliance had changed, implementing the lord system, canonizing a large number of territorial nobles, destroying the surrounding kingdoms and forcibly occupying their lands. And I originally wanted to come back and be a freelance mercenary, but I didn't expect that the mercenary industry in Morent City had long since declined. I wanted to go back to the college in the college district to find a teaching messenger, but I found that the college could not recruit students, not only many colleges have been closed, but the remaining colleges are also reducing the teaching staff so that they can last longer.

What's wrong with the world, it's changing so fast that it's hard for me to adapt. Caritok felt very lost, stayed at home for nearly a year, and became a complete otaku. If it weren't for the fact that Caritok's parents were residents of the very philistine city of Moriente, his brother was afraid that the younger brother would have come home to rob his parents of the property they would leave in the future, and perhaps Caritok would have stayed at home with the gold he had earned over the years until he was old.

When Caritok's parents were overjoyed to learn that their second son had become a gold-level knight, they forced them to die in front of Caritok, and finally forced Caritok to become the golden guard of the third-rate chamber of commerce where his father served, and his father became a steward of that chamber of commerce.

The world is changing, and things are not people. I finally faced up with the Second Highness. Caritok smiled wryly and looked again at the banner of the White Lion Legion waving in the cold wind in the distance, and then at the seven pale faces around him. This is Robert Via, and the other seven of the eight commanders including him are all thugs or escort leaders of various second- and third-rate chambers of commerce who have never been on the battlefield much, and their fighting spirit cultivation is above silver, but they have not experienced much of a big battle.

Caritok is now the commander of the Eleventh Corps of the newly formed Second Garrison Regiment of the Commercial Alliance, with a brigade of eight thousand men, in addition to himself being the captain of the First Brigade, these eight thousand troops are nothing more than the residents of the city of Moriente who have been carried away by the blood and the guards of various chambers of commerce, their mission is to hold the city of Robertvia, the people are in the city, and the city is ruined.

"There's nothing to be nervous about, our walls are much stronger than those little fortresses, and those catapults don't destroy our walls so easily. And I calculated that the firing distance of those catapults was only two or three hundred meters away, which was exactly the firing range of the crossbows of our garrison vehicles. If the enemy attacks, we can use a few siege cart crossbows against a catapult, and as long as we destroy those catapults, the enemy will not be able to capture our city......" Caritok said deliberately to ease the hearts of his men.

"I didn't lie to you. "There's nothing to be afraid of catapults, you know why I put sandbags all over the walls?" just to fend off the catapults, and as long as we hide behind them, it won't do anything if they don't hit us directly." You don't believe you're so unlucky, do you?"

"But the catapults will smash our walls, and open a ...... for the enemy to rush in," said a pale-faced commander.

"I expected that. If the wall is smashed, we can throw these sandbags down and fill the hole. Kalitok replied calmly.

"I, we're dead, let's run away...... one guy is about to break down.

"Bastard, where are you going to escape, how are you going to escape in the ice and snow, and besides, are you running as fast as the two wooden bars under the enemy's feet? If you talk nonsense and shake the hearts of the army, I will kill you with a sword!" I didn't think that there was a thin layer of ice on the ground, and I almost slipped with a "swish".

"Who's going to be pouring tea on the ground!" Caritok was furious, and then his mind flashed, and he suddenly remembered the experience that Lorist had said before about watering and building an ice city to defend against demonic beasts.

Caritok turned his anger into joy: "Yes, I have a way, the catapult doesn't want to smash our walls!"

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