Chapter 542: After the Great War

On October 10, 1780 in the universal calendar of the Gelinthia continent, the high-profile duel between the Storm Sword Saint Master Magroot and the new Sword Saint Northland Grand Duke Norton Lorist was held on the top of the Little Lonely Mountain in the Mana Hill Plain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAlthough there were no onlookers in this duel, the small lonely mountain top that was the scene of the duel left a trembling sword mark and the traces of the mountain rock being greatly damaged, so you can imagine how fierce and thrilling the duel between the two sword masters was.

Due to the fact that the Norton family forces defeated the business alliance forces on the battlefield at the same time, the Grand Duke of Norton, who had been fighting fiercely for most of the day, had no intention of continuing to entangle with the Storm Sword Saint, and took the initiative to retreat and leave the small lonely mountain. And the veteran Storm Sword Saint Master Magroot did not give the new Sword Saint Grand Duke Norton a chance to take advantage of in this duel, and saved the face of the two of them losing in the first meeting. But after the duel, the Storm Sword Saint held the Grand Duke of Norton's swordsmanship in high esteem in front of his disciples......

――――From the Memorabilia of the Continent of Gelintia

On October 10, 1780, the decisive battle between the forces of the merchant alliance and the forces of the Norton family in the city of Bluvia on the Falcan Plain was the first time in the history of the war on the continent of Guelinthia that a hot weapon appeared to determine the outcome of a decisive battle. The total strength of the commercial alliance forces in service is 340,000, and the Norton family forces and their allies have a total of 220,000 horses, which is inferior in terms of strength, but has a great advantage in long-range attack weapons.

Post-war reviews and campaign studies have shown that there was nothing wrong with the tactics and command of the Merchant Alliance's forces in this decisive battle, and even perfectly suppressed the Norton family's long-range attack tactics shortly after the start of the battle, creating good conditions for the implementation of large-scale assault and melee combat. But what the business alliance forces did not expect was that the Norton family forces took out two weapons of mass destruction, bronze artillery and explosives packs, which decided the outcome of the war.

Many survivors of the Merchant Alliance's armed forces who lived through the decisive battle used words such as thunderbolt from the sky, thunder from the sky, and earth-shaking when describing the impression of bronze artillery and explosives packs. There were also many people who said that it was simply a demonic weapon, only to see a flash of fire, a roar of thunder, countless small black dots covering the sky in their field of vision, accompanied by an unpleasant smell of burning. When you came back to your senses, you found that your comrades-in-arms, who were like brothers, were covered in holes and fell to the ground struggling for their lives. In such a situation, there are few people who do not collapse......

Explosives packets rained down from the sky, blowing over long-arm trebuchets and giant wooden shield carts, and for the thousand-man battle formations armed by the Business Alliance, they could hardly find any safe place to hide on the battlefield. If you gather a crowd to hold on, it is very simple, the Norton family will soon be armed with those bronze cannons with powerful mobility, and a few shotguns will be fired at a distance of about 200 meters, ensuring that the defensive battle formations that hold their positions and will not retreat will soon collapse.

This was a major defeat, and the business alliance forces suffered the heaviest defeat in this decisive battle, and the losses were basically the most elite armed forces of the various chambers of commerce. More than 70,000 casualties and nearly 200,000 horses have entered the Free Alliance's prisoner of war camps, and they will participate in the development and renovation of the Cristo Hills for the next ten years, silently dedicating their modest strength to atone for the actions of the Business Alliance.

For the commercial alliance forces, the biggest loss was not the more than 200,000 elite chamber of commerce armed forces, but the high-end combat assault team composed of fourteen great swordsmen and nearly a hundred golden swordsmen. This is the killer weapon that the business alliance armed forces are preparing to use to crush the Norton family's armed battle columns, using the cover of large-scale full-scale assault, these assault teams composed of great swordsmen and golden swordsmen stand out and enter the Norton family's armed battle columns, guaranteed to open more than a dozen openings, and then the army presses in, and victory is soon in sight.

This is a high-end combat assault tactic created by the Commercial Alliance Armed Forces for themselves, and with so many Great Swordsmen and Golden Swordsmen put into the front line, I believe that no enemy can block this fierce assault, and the Norton Family Armed Forces are no exception. It's just that what these great swordsmen and golden swordsmen didn't expect was that the target forty or fifty meters away could be rushed to in a few blink of an eye, but what was waiting for them was the muzzles of black holes. Many people only heard a loud noise, and then their whole body went numb, lost consciousness and lost strength, and soon felt the darkness fall......

Fourteen Great Swordsmen and nearly a hundred Golden Swordsmen all fell on the way to the charge, which was almost a fatal blow to the Business Alliance forces. No matter how elite the armed soldiers of the Chamber of Commerce are, they can still be recruited and trained, but these high-end combat power is not so easy, many of them are the painstaking efforts of various chambers of commerce that have spent a lot of money for decades, but in the rumbling artillery roar of the Norton family, these high-end combat forces are like the Chamber of Commerce soldiers around them, they fall, the corpses are mixed in a pile, and the blood is gathered into a river, and there is no difference between the two......

Schward, the commander-in-chief of the three artillery battalions armed by the Norton family, did not let all the guns fire together, but arranged four rounds, because all the guns used shotguns, one gun can block the space in front of more than ten meters or so, so one gun fires and the second gun is connected to fire, and there is a delay of a few moments in the middle, and after the four guns fire in turn, the first gun has been reloaded and can continue to fire. And this artillery firing tactic gave the heaviest and most tragic blow to the commercial alliance forces, and almost no survivors of the more than 30,000 warriors who rushed to the front.

This decisive battle under the city of Bruvia is known as the Roar of Artillery in the history of the Gelinthia continent, and it is also the first time that gunpowder has been used on a large-scale battlefield on land. In the following two or three hundred years, almost all the countries on the continent tried all kinds of means to obtain the secret of real gunpowder from the Norton family, and the most ridiculous thing is that the real artillery formula of the Norton family was circulated all over the continent in less than twenty years, but it was ignored by those researchers as a fake formula, because it was too simple and ordinary, and of course, there was a lack of nitrate, and it was impossible to verify the formulas of various gunpowder. At that time, researchers in various countries agreed that the Norton family had found an alternative to nitrate, so they had the ability to equip artillery on a large scale......

On his ninetieth birthday, Archduke Comberlet, president of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, granted his precious granddaughter's request, and spent several years dictating a memoir, which was compiled by his precious granddaughter. The memoirs reveal how the Business Alliance went from prosperity to decline and fell apart, and the one that President Cumberlet remembers most is the battle that took place under the city of Bruvia, because this war was a key battle in the decline of the Business Alliance.

After the war, there were many people who thought that the commercial alliance forces had no problem with tactics and command, and the only thing worth considering was that the Grand Duke Cumberlet, who was the commander of the commercial alliance forces at that time, seemed to be too anxious, and ordered the whole army to carry out a large-scale assault early, so as to find a fatal moment for the Norton family forces. However, in this memoir, Archduke Cumberlet said that at that time, he was forced by the threat of the strength of Norton Lorlist, the Grand Duke of the Northland, to defeat the Norton family before the duel between Norton and Storm Swordmaster was decided, and reached the fact that the new Archduke Norton, the Sword Master, had nothing to say.

In his memoirs, Archduke Cumberlet reflected on this far-reaching war, arguing that it was the covenant of the new Sword Lord, the Grand Duke of Norton, that disrupted all the prior arrangements of the commercial alliance's armed forces, so that more than 300,000 elite troops stayed in the camp for a month, completely losing the initiative on the battlefield. If time could be turned back, the Cumberlet Guild chose to withdraw its troops and fight a protracted war with the Liberty Alliance, rather than foolishly accepting the covenant, losing most of the elite troops of the Commercial Alliance's armed forces in World War I, and finally allowing the Liberty Alliance to replace the Commercial Alliance.

Regarding the Norton family's mass killer artillery and explosives packs, Grand Duke Cumberlet admits that this was his negligence, as the upper echelons of the business alliance were not unaware of the Norton family's armed possession of artillery. From the time when the Great Swordsman was sent to the Northland to search for the seriously injured Grand Duke Norton, he had suffered a big loss, and four Great Swordsmen were killed under the artillery, but at that time, the high-level of the Business Alliance were attracted by the design drawings of weapons and equipment obtained from the secret production base of the Norton family, and ignored this important information, because those Great Swordsmen who went to assassinate were hired by a lot of money, and they were not the reserve forces cultivated by each Chamber of Commerce themselves, so the deaths of several Great Swordsmen did not attract attention.

The second was the total annihilation of the Merchant Alliance's Armadada, in which the Norton family's lightning fleet played a role that could not be ignored, and the Armada was defeated by long-range artillery to be exact. But unfortunately, the high-level leaders of the business alliance who learned the news at that time had a wrong view, believing that artillery could only be used as a weapon when equipped on a sea ship, and that it could not be maneuvered on land because it was too large and bulky, so they unconsciously excluded it from the plan.

This is how the Merchant Alliance forces planned in advance in the decisive battle of Bruvia to deal with the Norton family's armed chariots, the steel crossbow and the catapult, the two long-range attack weapons, but they did not think about how to deal with the artillery and explosives at all. Archduke Cumberlet wrote a thought-provoking exclamation in his memoirs, because he had not experienced it himself, he always doubted the exaggerations of others, and it was not until he faced the predicament that others said that he understood and regretted the mistakes he had made......

Of course, it is still twenty or thirty years before Archduke Cumberlet writes his memoirs, Lorist has left the city of Bruvia and returned to the mountain villa on the top of the hill of Bryn in the city of Morent, and all the power of the war and aftermath affairs has been completely delegated to the high-ranking knights of the family, such as the Tiger Ross led the Flying Tiger Legion to once again enter the provinces around the Falis Plains of the Commercial Alliance, and the latest report says that the enemy is invincible, and the enemy has fled.

Shi Fatzi assisted the Freedom Alliance's Ledos in dealing with nearly 200,000 prisoners of war, and several of the Freedom Alliance's city defense corps happily turned into swaggering caretakers, directing these prisoners to build a winter camp dormitory on the Falcan Hill Plain, while looting the personal belongings of these prisoners of war. El commanded the Guards Corps to dispose of the vast quantities of military materiel captured on the battlefield and in enemy camps, escorting prisoners of war to burn and bury the bodies of the war dead.

Schward ordered an artillery battalion to follow the cavalry regiment commanded by Farea and lead the White Lion Legion to the province of Mawefulim of the Commercial Alliance, with the simple purpose of preparing to make some extra money. After all, the White Lion Legion can't go back empty-handed after such a trip as reinforcements, so several family knights discussed it at the top of the family, and they had to go to the territory of the business alliance to go around and scrape some oil and water back, anyway, the business alliance is now like a beautiful woman who has been stripped naked, she has no power to resist, and she is embarrassed not to go, and Tiger Ross has also set an example for everyone......

Not to mention how the Norton family forces and the White Lion Legion of the Antinac Kingdom ravaged the several provinces of the Commercial Alliance in the Falcan Plain, anyway, the final result was that these provinces had no ability to resist, and they were scraped three feet high and almost uninhabited. The Norton family wants everything, and even catches people clean. Tiger Ross said that the fortress cities at the front of the Mana Hill Plain were empty all over the world, and if these people were captured and given land and houses, they would become die-hard supporters of the Freedom Alliance in a few years, and when the business alliance invaded again, they would take up arms for their own interests and fight to the death against the invading enemy.

It wasn't until the winter of 1781 that the rainy season arrived, and the Norton forces and the White Lion Legion withdrew their troops back to the Falcan Hill Plain, and the few surrounding provinces located in the Falcan Hill Plain turned out to be a rare empty area, which was really a strange thing in the densely populated south-central part of the continent. The Norton family and the White Lion Legion made a lot of money, and they were satisfied enough to escort a large team of captives back to the Plains of Falis Hill, causing countless administrative troubles for the Free Alliance.

Lorist met with a group of noble captives escorted by the Knights of the Angry Bear at Brin Heights, such as President Peterson, one of the Seven Giants of the Business Alliance, this old acquaintance of Lorist was unlucky, and when he escaped, an explosive bag fell beside him, he was stunned, and then his mount fell and crushed him underneath, and when several of his attendants hurriedly returned to save him, he was surrounded by a team of light horsemen of the outflanked Hunter Legion, so President Peterson became Lorlist's guest.

Serving the Max milk tea drink brought by Genolio, uh, this is a new invention of Genolio, put the tea leaves into the pot of boiling Max and boil together, and then add milk, it becomes a cup of milky drink. In fact, it was Genorio who was in a daze that day, and when he was boiling Michels, he thought he was making tea, and added tea leaves, and found that it was a pot of brown weirdness. Reddy tasted it and said, "Add some more milk and see what it can become," and milk tea appeared in the history of beverages in the continent of Guelinthia.

President Peterson didn't have the heart to pay attention to what he was holding now, he looked at Lorist with emotion, a small teacher in the Dawn Academy back then, but now he has become a famous sword master in the whole continent, the Grand Duke of the Northland, and the head of the Norton family. How much the business alliance suffered at his hands. Nearly 20 years of ups and downs have made this young man he knows grow into a generation of Tianjiao and a giant. The only pity is that he personally decided to sever the friendly relationship with the Norton family back then, and turned from a friend to an enemy. There is no way, the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, as one of the seven giants of the business alliance, must obey the overall interests of the business alliance.

Lorist only faintly recalled the friendly exchanges with the Peterson Chamber of Commerce back then, and then told President Peterson very bluntly that after this war, the business alliance has been greatly damaged, and if it does not change course, the Norton family forces will not mind chasing and fighting, resulting in the death of the business alliance. It's just that the Norton family forces have long stated that the purpose of participating in this war is only to achieve peace in the Plains of Falka......

Lorist seemed to have forgotten that his family forces were burning and looting on the territory of the Business Alliance at this moment, and he clearly told President Peterson that the only way out for the Business Alliance at present is to send an envoy to sue for peace as soon as possible, and sign an armistice agreement with the Free Alliance and the Kingdom of Andinac as soon as possible to restore peace in order to hope to survive, maybe the Business Alliance will have a chance to rise again in a few decades, otherwise it will only be destroyed.

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