Chapter 420: War

Lorist was walking on the road to the province of Zixes, with a battalion of two thousand men. It has been ten days since the capture of Meishan Castle by the www.biquge.info pen & fun & pavilion, and Lorist has been entangled in trivial matters, without him, mainly to arrange for nearly 100,000 residents of Meishan Castle to go to the Northland It took so long. The inhabitants who had been driven from their homes had nothing and had been reduced to abject poverty, and their eyes were filled with hatred as they looked at the Norton family's armament.

Lorist was helpless, this was the war, he saved these inhabitants from physical and life damage, but could not appease their pain and resentment at the loss of all their possessions. At the same time, not only did they have to arrange food and lodging on the way to the Northland, but they also had to arrange vehicles for the old and weak women and children to travel, and they were so busy that they were not able to get out until Baron Camorra hurried in, and threw away these chores and went on the road lightly.

From time to time, the peasants of the nobles passed by with their rudimentary weapons and their booty, and when they saw the flag of the Norton family, they cheered and respectfully avoided the roadside to make way for the road. Lorlist's face sank, and he did not want to deal with these rabble, and in his opinion, these so-called friendly forces were in fact more hateful than the enemy.

He saved the lives of 100,000 residents of Meishan Castle, watching these guys ransack the entire Meishan Castle, they did not hesitate to dig three feet into the ground and demolish the entire house in order to find the belongings hidden by those residents, which can be described as omnipotent, and even prepared to set fire to the house after they finished searching. If it weren't for Lorlist's quick stop, maybe the entire Meishan Castle would have been burned to ashes. And they also said that this is the area they drew lots, and it is up to them how to deal with it.

Bastard, Lorist was angry and hanged a dozen veteran oilers who thought they were very reasonable, and only then did he stop this unhealthy trend. It's very simple, you set fire to your own area, and this fire is a piece of fire, and there are still so many people in the city who haven't come out, do these bastards want to set fire to their own people? In fact, many of these peasant soldiers are veterans of the Imperial Civil War, and they have long been used to doing such things, some of them because they don't want to vent their anger because they have not looted much property in the area, and some are just handy.

While Lorist was busy moving the residents of Meishan Castle, the aristocratic coalition army had already made a lot of fun in Meishan Province, and Meishan Castle was captured, but there were still many noble territories and towns and villages of the Sabaji Principality in Meishan Province, and these aristocratic coalition troops were not satisfied with the harvest of Meishan Castle and began to turn their attention to the entire Meishan Province. Thus, the catastrophe in Meishan Province began.

Compared to the traditionally disciplined Norton family, these aristocratic coalitions are simply bandits, killing people and setting fires, robbing and raping everything. Even because the Norton family wanted people, they even captured those captured villagers and wanted to sell them to Lorist. Originally, Lorist wanted to buy the suffering villagers, but he was stopped by the arrival of Baron Camorra.

Baron Camorra told Lorist very seriously that he could not buy it, and buying it would become an excuse to connive at these noble alliances to plunder the population, and that if we had prisoners to buy and sell, our family would become the same goods as those slave owners. This goes against our family's promise not to trade in human beings. The aristocratic coalition knew that if we didn't buy or sell people, they would only rob property and women. We can take in the villagers whose homes have been destroyed, so that they will be grateful to us in the Norton.

Lorist knew that Baron Camorra was right, and even though he was very sympathetic to the villagers who were suffering, he could only refrain from paying attention to them. Even if the Norton family forces were powerful enough to wipe out the entire noble alliance, there was nothing Lorist could do to stop what was happening in front of him, and he couldn't give this order. This is a war, a war on the continent of Gerinthia, and the actions of the noble coalition are commonplace, and it is normal behavior for them, on the contrary, the disciplined Norton family forces are very different.

Out of sight is pure, out of sight is out of sight, Lorist can only comfort himself like this. In any case, the aristocratic coalition is its own allies, and turning their faces for the atrocities committed by their allies against the enemy's people is something that only the *brain-dead* will do. Lorist could only pretend not to see anything and hurried to the province of Zixes.

Two days ago, Tiger Ross sent a messenger to report that Grand Duke Sabaji and his family had successfully escaped to the Duchy of Fakel, but because Grand Duke Sabaji used the method of gecko tail to survive every time, although he escaped, only four or five thousand people survived the First Legion of the Duchy under his command, and the rest of the troops were lost in order to stop the Flying Tiger Legion and the two light cavalry regiments led by Count Shaheen.

It can be said that the entire Duchy of Sabaji has now fallen, and apart from a few castle fortresses and well-garrisoned towns in the province of Zixes, there is nothing left to resist the armed forces of the four alliances of the Northlands and the Fisabrun family. Even the Grand Duke of Sabaji has fled to the Duchy of Fakel, and the Duchy of Sabaji has existed in name only. The castles, forts, and towns had no choice but to surrender or perish after the arrival of the Flying Tigers.

With the help of three legions that were ready to go to Sabaji for reinforcements, the Duchy of Fakr finally secured the situation on the border of Samora Province, established a relatively intact defensive line, and stopped the invasion of the three light cavalry regiments of Pegasus, the Reserve Legion, and the Third Frontier Ranger Legion. However, the Duchy of Forrendo was more difficult, not only the province of Forward had become a smooth road, but even the province of Perorina, where the capital city of Pedro was located, was full of beacons and was often invaded by light cavalry.

Fortunately, the Duchy of Handra built two new legions and sent them to the Duchy of Forendo, and the Grand Duke of Farkel also desperately recruited two legions, one was sent to Samora Province to replace the reinforced Principality of Forrendo, and the other went directly to Pedro City to support, which was regarded as a shot in the arm for the Grand Duke of Forrendo, plus the two new legions recruited by the Grand Duke of Forrendo, the five legions of nearly 200,000 people set up a defensive line in the province of Forward, and finally blocked the unfavorable situation of the light cavalry coming to the capital city overnight, and the two sides began to confront.

Lorist was also satisfied with this situation, and now the initiative of the war was in his own hands. The Four Duchy of the Central, oh, can only be called the Three Duchy of the Central Continent now, and they suffer from the fact that they do not have a strong cavalry force, unable to resist the attacks and harassments of the highly mobile light cavalry, and even suffer repeated losses. Although both the Duchy of Falkel and the Duchy of Forrendo had already established defensive lines, nearly 300,000 troops had been invested. But it was defended in two directions. The four alliances of the Northlands and the forces of the Fisabrun family occupy the province of Zixes, and can gather their forces to attack in one direction at any time, and the principality of Falkel and the principality of Forendor can only passively defend and counterattack.

Lorist decided to take a breath, there was no need to let the light cavalry attack the well-defended positions in this good situation, and now he could wait for His Royal Highness to lead the White Lion Legion to the front line. The report from the rear said that His Highness, having heard the news of the capture of the Duchy of Sabaji, had quickened his march and entered the southern provinces, but it would take at least thirty days to reach the province of Zixes. It's just a good time to let everyone take a break and solve their respective loot problems casually.

To be honest, the capture of the Principality of Sabaji did not have much to gain in terms of finance, the four alliances of the Northlands and the Fisabrun family. The Earl of Shaheen was already considered good, and seized about three hundred thousand gold fords worth of property. And the Norton family has captured several towns and castle fortresses alone, and they have also gained more than ten to two hundred thousand. The Earl of Philim and the Archduke of Fisabrun received comparable, less than a hundred thousand gold fords. On the contrary, there was a coalition of more than a hundred nobles, who looted everywhere, and each family had ten thousand or several thousand gold fords.

Occupy the Duchy of Sabaji, the biggest harvest is manpower and grain and grass, in addition to the Norton family needs manpower to fill the Northland, the Philim family also needs manpower to develop the southern provinces, even the Earl of Shaheen has gathered more than 3,000 families of three or four to prepare to bring back to the family territory. They were all influenced by Lorlist, and paid special attention to the relocation of the whole family when relocating these residents, only in this way would these new immigrants adapt to the new environment more quickly and become loyal subjects under the rule of each family.

To Lorlist's paradox, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was doing the same thing, but he was more cruel in his ways, and he discarded all the old and weak with only men and women, so that the periphery of his prisoner camp was full of gray-haired old men, begging for their family to be reunited, and crying and pleading.

When the Grand Duke of Fisabrun approached Lorist and asked him to give him an order for the Rock Legion guarding the border of the Southern Province to clear the way so that the Fisablun family could take the booty back, Lorist sighed deeply, and he told the Grand Duke of Fisabrun that he was very reluctant to let them bring these young captives back to the family territory, because it was all to strengthen his family. But because he swore to treat everyone fairly and justly, he would still order the Rock Legion to open its borders. However, he only had one request, to reunite the families of those young captives, and not to break up their families even if they moved.

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun nodded and left, and Lorist immediately saw the gates of the prisoner camp of the Fisabrun family open, and the old men gathered outside rushed in, and the cries began to be replaced by thanks. Lorist then wrote a warrant for Genorio to send to the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. When he sat down, he suddenly slapped his forehead and came to his senses, and he fell into the trap of the old fox of Fisabrun.

It was obvious that the scenes of separation of flesh and blood were specially made by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun for himself, and the old fox was also worried that Lorist would not let go of the border and let them cross, so he came to such a show. Otherwise, he would have driven away all the old people gathered outside the camp, how could he have allowed them to make noise outside. If he wanted to abandon these old men, then those young men would hate the Fisabrun family deeply even if they were relocated to the family territory, and it was impossible for that old fox not to know such a simple truth. The purpose of separating the young man from the old man was to gain sympathy and let Lorist let them cross the border......

Lorist smiled bitterly, forget it, there's no need to fight the old fox. No matter how much he wanted to increase the strength of the Fisabrun family, he couldn't keep up with the rapid development of the Norton family. He has already occupied the right time and place, and if he can still be turned over by the old fox, it is better to find a flagpole and kill him. Compared with his own vigilance against the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, it was obvious that the old fox was more afraid of himself, which can be seen from the fact that he had to swear to himself before sending out the army, not to dig a hole and not to frame their family forces.

Originally the hereditary domain of the Sabaji family, the province of Zixes is also an agricultural province, with a flat and vast terrain, which is the most suitable battlefield for the ability of cavalry. With the news that the Flying Tiger Legion had conquered those castles, fortresses and towns, and El led a cavalry army to force down the 12,000 men and horses of the Sabaji Principality stationed in the Egret Lake Marsh, it can be said that the Principality of Sabaji has been destroyed except for the flight of the Grand Duke.

The war was so brutal for the Principality of Sabaji, and the devastation suffered by the three provinces of the Principality was unparalleled, not only in terms of the loss of property, but also in terms of the looting and forced relocation of manpower. Before the war, the population of the Principality of Sabaji was about 800,000, but after the war, there were less than 300,000 survivors in the three provinces, and in addition to the residents of the Principality of Fakel who were killed, killed and fled to the Principality of Fakel, almost half of the inhabitants were relocated to the family territories of the four alliances of the Northlands and the territories of the Fisabrun family. As a result, for two decades after the war, the economy and development of the three provinces were slow to progress.

On the 7th of September, the belated Second Highness finally arrived in the province of Zixes, leading the White Lion Legion and the two heavy armoured regiments of the Kenmax family, and entered the garrison.

After resting for three days, His Royal Highness convened a military meeting to discuss how to attack the Duchy of Fakr and the Duchy of Forendo, and now the situation on the battlefield is very clear, the Duchy of Fakr and the Duchy of Forendo are strictly defended, and the Kingdom of Antinac is in an offensive posture, holding the initiative on the battlefield, and attacking wherever it wants. Whether it is the Principality of Fakel's border defense line in the province of Samora, or the defensive position of the Principality of Forendo in the province of Forward, as long as one line of defense is breached, it will lead to the capture of the other principality.

If the eight garrison corps placed on these two defensive positions are eliminated, then not only the Principality of Fakr, the Principality of Forendo, but even the Principality of Handra will be close at hand. For the three central principalities, this crisis is more dangerous than the invasion led by the great prince Redlis more than ten years ago, especially the Duchy of Sabaji was almost destroyed, and it was also penetrated into the hinterland of the principality by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Antinac, and the three principalities were in a weak position in terms of terrain and combat power.

His Highness wanted to keep only one light cavalry corps to pin down the three garrisons of the Duchy of Fakel, and then concentrate all his forces to break through the defensive line placed by the Duchy of Volendor in the province of Forward. Although there were as many as five garrisons on this line, this line was longer, flatter, and more suitable for cavalry assaults.

His Royal Highness was going to use the White Lion Legion and the two heavy armoured corps of the Kenmax family to break through somewhere in this defensive line and make a hole, and then the reserve legion of the Fisabrun family, the third frontier ranger regiment, the Pegasus regiment of the Philim family, the two light cavalry regiments of Count Shahin, and the Flying Tiger Legion led by Lorist all went deep into the Duchy of Forrendo along this opening, and then copied the Duchy of Fakel and the Duchy of Handla, and decided the victory in one battle.

His Royal Highness said that now the three principalities are like eggs, and the only harder shells are the two lines of defense in front of us, and as long as we break a hole in them, we can eat the delicious yolk inside. I firmly believe that the offensive power of our troops and the armed forces of your families is unmatched and invincible. Invincible, invincible, invincible, I believe that the four principalities in the central part will soon become history, and I wish you all invincible and make outstanding contributions to the unification of the empire.

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