Chapter 488: The Battle in the Mana Hill Plain

On December 10, 1788 in the general calendar of the continent of Gelintya, the Kingdom of Antinac once again took advantage of the cold winter season to launch a surprise attack on the Plains of Mana, and the White Lion Legion under the command of Ogseiro I (i.e., His Highness II) took only four days to clear the first line of fortress fortification deployed by the Commercial Alliance, and reached the city of Roberto Via. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoWith the catapult tactics mastered by the Kingdom of Antinac, almost all the top leaders of the business alliance believed that the city of Roberto Via, which had a garrison of less than 10,000 troops, would fall in less than three days......

In a miracle, the defenders of Roberto Via poured water on the walls, turning the entire city into an ice city. No amount of catapults mobilized by the Kingdom of Antinac could break through the walls of the city of Roberto Via. The enraged Second Highness commanded the White Lion Legion to launch several siege battles, but received nothing but losses.

In the plan of the Second Highness, he originally planned to spend more than thirty days to clean up the small fortress fortresses on the entire Mana Hill Plain, occupy the remaining three fortress cities, and come to the city of Morente to see if there is anything to be taken advantage of. If you find that there is a gap in the city defense, you will occupy the city of Morente, and if it is not cheap, you will coerce the high-level of the business alliance to sign an armistice agreement, of course, this armistice agreement must be in accordance with the wishes of the Second Highness, anyway, the business alliance has money, if you don't want to cut the land, then lose more money......

It's not that His Second Highness doesn't want to continue to attack the business alliance, but that the nobles of those territories under his command have been a little homesick and war-weary. It has been almost three years since His Royal Highness said that he was just sending troops to take a walk around and forcing the business alliance to agree to the request of the Antinac Kingdom with a million troops to everyone being involuntarily involved in this war.

In particular, the departure of the Norton family's armed forces has deprived His Second Highness of the most powerful armed forces under him, taking over the Norton Family's armed Chaser Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion, defending against the Flank Commercial Alliance's armed forces to reinforce the Fallimound Plain, as well as the Fisabrun Family's Frontier Ranger Legion and Reserve Legion, the three light cavalry legions, although they have repeatedly repelled the reinforcements of the Commercial Alliance's armed forces, their own casualties are also very heavy, and they have asked the Second Highness to return to the territory to rest.

Don't look at the second highness who swore so loudly, why not set foot on the city of Morent and swear not to stop, in fact, he himself has long been satisfied. At that time, the powerful Clisian Empire and the commercial alliance fought fiercely for more than a hundred years, and several times they fought under the city of Morent, but he led a group of hastily assembled territorial aristocratic armies, and even took down the three fortress cities of the Mana Hill Plain, and also recovered all the territory of the former Clisson Empire.

Coupled with the nearly forty years of peace, the towns and villages on the plains of Faliqiu were all rich, especially the three occupied fortress cities, which were so rich that all the nobles of the realm could not believe their eyes. As the king of the Kingdom of Antinac, His Royal Highness naturally occupies half of it, and the remaining half is shared by the nobles of those territories. However, the capture of the Norton family's armed forces was not among them, and they did not confess to the Second Highness. For the sake of Lorist becoming the Sword Saint of the Kingdom, His Royal Highness should not have seen it.

Now His Royal Highness's mind is focused on returning to the imperial capital to hold a grand coronation ceremony, making himself the Zhongxing Emperor of the Krisson Empire, and letting the Antinac Kingdom regain the title of the Krisson Empire. However, before the truce, His Royal Highness also hopes to understand this war, hurt the business alliance at one time, force the business alliance to admit defeat and sign an armistice agreement, and give the empire a few years to recuperate.

It was for this purpose that His Royal Highness launched a raid again in winter, and for this purpose, he also specially mobilized the most elite White Lion First Legion, but he did not expect that the way was blocked under Robert Via, and a shining ice city appeared in front of him in the wind and snow, and all siege actions were ineffective against the ice city, but caused thousands of casualties among the White Lion Legion soldiers.

As the commander of the garrison of Robert Via, the Knight of Caritok, he became famous for his successful defense against the winter raids of His Royal Highness II and his catapult tactics, and was canonized as a territorial baron by the Commercial Alliance. In particular, he once served as a royal knight of the Second Highness, and finally turned his back on the Second Highness to return to the business alliance, and his experience was widely publicized after being published in the big newspapers and tabloids of the city of Moronte, ridiculing the Second Highness for being blind and ignorant of talents. Even though His Second Highness had the advantage on the battlefield, he was disgraced by this incident.

After the war, many war scholars and experts commented on the history of the war on the continent of Gelinthia that the Kingdom of Antinac mastered the tactics of winter raids and catapults, and made the cold winter even its war assistant to victory. But where there is a spear, there must be a shield, and the Ice City tactics of the Commercial Alliance perfectly restrained the winter raid and catapult tactics of the Kingdom of Antinac, making the battlefield advantage of these two advanced tactics come to naught......

In January of the new year, when His Highness led the White Lion Legion to continue the battle against Robert Via, Tagger and Reddy went to the hunting house again to report to Lorist about the situation in Winston Province. At present, Baron Camorra has accepted the appointment of Lorist to deal with all immigration matters, and the two captains of the Rock Legion, who have arrived in the royal city of Windbrie, and Bodfinger and Tiger Ross of the Flying Tiger Legion, have expressed their obedience, and the Hunter Legion has not returned halfway.

At the same time, the action of borrowing grain from the territorial nobles in the surrounding provinces was also carried out relatively smoothly, except for a few families who were forced to borrow grain because they were unwilling, most of the remaining territorial nobles were willing to lend a large amount of reserve grain, and Winston's food shortage has been alleviated. It's just that Baron Camorra's letter asks Lorist how to arrange the more than one million immigrants after the rainy season, and it is impossible for the nobles of Winston Province to find so much wasteland to reclaim due to the large number of territories canonized......

Lorist again issued instructions to Baron Camorra, asking him to relocate half a million immigrants to the province of Makiyahara after the rainy season in March, and to build a fortress-type city in the province of Makinohara and carry out reclamation. At the same time, the commander of the Chasseur Legion, Jost, was ordered to take charge of the security of these cantonments, and to protect them from being harassed by the brutal rangers.

In addition, Baron Camorra was asked to select 100,000 craftsmen from the million immigrants to be placed in the royal cities of Windbri and the cities of Pietro, as a propellant to accelerate the development of commerce and crafts in these two cities. There are 500,000 new immigrants in Makinohara, and their necessities and trade between the two places are enough to revitalize this deserted trade route. As for the remaining immigrants, Lorist asked Baron Camorra to arrange for them to renovate the water and transportation road facilities in Winston Province, and then let them move to the family territory after Lorlist's strength was restored and the rebellion in the Northlands was quelled.

After Tagger and Reddy left, Lorist began to cultivate calmly again, melting snow in February, the rainy season in March, and after the winter wheat harvest began in April, Lorlist's strength had recovered to the peak of the third-level great sword master. Lorist believed that after two more months of hard work, he would be able to become a Juggernaut again and open up the Bloodkill Realm.

In June, Aridorie finally got her wish to have a big belly again, well, the three days of the New Year's Lorist were in vain. On the contrary, at the end of May, when Arridolly took Triek and the maids up the mountain to collect large red mushrooms, she and Lorist had a love affair in the mangrove forest, and as a result, Arridori won the bid. It can be seen that there is no law in the birth of a child, everything depends on luck.

On June 17, Tagar and Reddy returned, but Reddy had gone to the Wooden Castle to catch up with his young lover Suniruru, and Tagger told Lorist that His Highness had been defeated in the field battle between the Plains of Fallimound and the Merchant Alliance, and was now retreating to the city of Credo to defend against the attack of the Merchant Alliance. However, despite the victory, the losses of the Business Alliance were greater than those of His Second Highness, and it was a victory that cost human lives, with a total of 1670,000 casualties on both sides, of which the Business Alliance forces accounted for two-thirds of the damage.

Lorist is curious as to how the war had happened, and Targar tells him the fact that the war was not organized, but a chaotic war. Neither His Royal Highness nor the high-level leaders of the Business Alliance thought that it was just a small conflict, but after the scale became larger and larger, the two sides found that they could no longer control it, and they had to put in all the armed forces in their hands to fight it. The Second Highness considered himself a loss, withdrew his troops, arrived at the city of Crido, and began to set up a defensive front.

Not relenting after the failure of the Winter Raid on the Ice City, His Highness decided to wait until the rainy season had passed before attacking Roberto Via to see what his deserter Caritok could do to fend off the catapult's attack. It's just that His Royal Highness forgot one very important thing, that is, after the rainy season, all the artificial canals and irrigation ditches on the Falcan Hill Plain have long since thawed, and they have once again become river obstacles that are difficult to cross.

His Royal Highness was dumbfounded, although the fortress walls next to these canals were smashed into ruins by the catapults of His Second Highness, but the most important thing at present was to build bridges over these rivers to prevent his army from being divided by these rivers. But while the Second Highness's legions were building these bridges across the river, reinforcements from the Commercial Alliance finally arrived in the city of Robert Via, and there were more and more of them, and the barracks were arranged outside the city.

When the number of the merchant alliance's armed forces outnumbered the strength of His Royal Highness's army, skirmishes inevitably occurred. At this time, His Royal Highness found that he had already ridden a tiger, and the reinforcements of the commercial alliance on the opposite side had exceeded 100,000, and the reinforcements were still coming. On his side, there are only more than 50,000 troops of the Second White Lion Army and more than 20,000 people of the two heavy armored corps armed by the Kenmax family, and they have fallen behind in terms of strength. As a last resort, His Royal Highness had no choice but to let the nobles of the territory in the large camp behind rush over with their family forces to reinforce him.

When the number of troops on both sides exceeded 100,000, it was discovered that the criss-crossing water network of the Falcan Hill Plain had become an obstacle for both sides, because these artificial canals and ditches had divided the camp of the army into small pieces. Since the rainy season has just passed, the river is abundant, and if these rivers are to be filled, the result is that the river overflows and the barracks become a muddy field, so the only way to connect the two banks is to build wooden bridges.

Because His Royal Highness is considered to be the upper reaches of the canal, I don't know if the nobleman came up with an idea, that is, to prepare a large number of fireboats to go down the river, and prepare to let these burning fireboats burn the wooden bridge built on the river in the commercial armed camp. It's really just disgusting stuff and doesn't do much to the outcome of the war. The first commercial alliance was unarmed and burned two wooden bridges and several tents on the shore, with no casualties.

But the Business Alliance could not bear this loss, and sent personnel to retaliate one night a few days later. More than a dozen good swimmers sneaked into the barracks arranged at the very ends of the second highness along the river, and threw them everywhere with canisters of kerosene, burning down a large area of the camp fortress, and nearly 100 soldiers were killed in the fire.

So the two sides pinched each other back and forth, and the nobles of the territory who suffered losses called friends to take revenge on the enemy. The funny thing is that the troops on both sides are in full swing, and the continuous participation of relatives and friends on both sides makes the scale of the battle bigger and bigger, and the top brass on both sides in the middle do not know that their men have fought to the death.

When the high-level leaders of both sides received the report, they found that most of their armed forces had been involved in this conflict, and at this time no one could withdraw, and whoever retreated first was unlucky, and the enemy was likely to collapse the whole army as soon as he pursued and killed. In the end, the Second Highness gritted his teeth and threw all his troops into the battlefield, and the commercial alliance forces were obviously one step slower, which allowed the second highness to seize the opportunity and caused heavy casualties to the commercial alliance forces on the battlefield.

This great battle because of the conflict lasted three days and two nights, if the battlefield space on the Falcan Hill Plain divided by the crisscrossing water network is regarded as a grid on a chessboard, then this war is often occupied by the forces of the commercial alliance, and the grid next to it is the victory of the troops of the Second Highness, and the two sides are across the river except for archery or shouting at each other, no one can go to the other side......

His Royal Highness was the first to put all his troops into the battlefield, and he was also the first to recruit troops to leave the battlefield. There is no way to fight this war, and he simply cannot command and control the situation on the battlefield. I can see it but I can't hear it, and I don't know how many bends and how many rivers I have to turn and cross when I send heralds, and maybe I will die halfway through.

The battle that took place under the city of Robert Via ended with more than 60,000 casualties among His Royal Highness's troops and more than 100,000 soldiers killed and wounded by the merchant alliance's armed forces. However, although the commercial alliance forces suffered heavy casualties, they gained the initiative on the battlefield and turned from defense to offense, and no matter how heavy the casualties were, they could make up for it. However, His Royal Highness began to go on the defensive because of this battle, and the casualties of more than 60,000 soldiers were already a pain in the bones for the Antinac Kingdom, especially more than ten territorial nobles died on the battlefield, which made many people begin to retreat in their hearts.

"It's time for us to go, too. Lorist said.

"Your Highness, are you totally well?" Targer jumped.

Loris nodded, "Let's go, it's time for us to go back to the Northlands, there is still a group of rebels waiting for us to go back and clean up." ”

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