Chapter 385 Three Requirements

The capture of Mount Pobirichi meant the successful completion of the strategy to destroy the Iberian Kingdom. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoLorist stood on the cliff of the mountain behind Bobbiry, looking at the snow-capped fields, and smiled comfortably. The old fox of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was finally put in a cage, and from this moment on, the road to hegemony of the Fisabrun family has been cut off by themselves, and they will no longer be a threat to the Norton family.

Perhaps the Chasseur will still fight with the Fisabrun family's border rangers in the Makinohara Province, or the Fisabulun family will join forces with the barbarian cavalry to invade the southern province border, or the Grand Duke of Fisaburun will try his best to prepare for a surprise attack on the city of Pydero. But the overall situation has been decided, no matter how much the Fisabrun family tosses in the future, it will not be able to turn over, even if it wins a few victories, it will only be an insignificant defeat for the Norton family, as long as the import of materials and commodities is controlled, in a few decades, maybe the Fisabrun family will also become a member of the grassy tribe in the Northeast Prairie......

Now it depends on whether the old fox of Archduke Fisabrun knows each other or not...... Lorist thought triumphantly. Next to him, Schward was a little cold and couldn't stand it, and tightened the cloak on his body: "Your Highness, let's go back." What is there to see in this snowy expanse, and the wind is so strong......"

The logistics camp was originally a cottage of bandits, and the logistics director Volio ordered the soldiers to build him a very luxurious three-story stone house, but now this warm house has become Lorlist's trophy, and the original owner, Volio, is huddled in the stinky cowshed with the lowly soldiers he despised in the past, and now they are all prisoners of war of the Norton family on equal standing. As a result, on the first night, the poor logistics director was beaten in the dark and his nose and face were swollen, and he was miserable......

Schward added a handful of pine charcoal to the fireplace to make the fire burn harder, then poured Max water into a copper kettle and began to hang it in the fireplace to boil. Slowly tasting a cup of Max in the cold winter is a kind of happiness that feels satisfied and warm from the bottom of my heart.

El stomped his feet twice at the gate, rubbed the slush on his leather boots on the carpet, and strode up to the second floor: "Your Highness, that Seria has been brought. ”

The young Seria no longer looked in high spirits, and was brought to Lorist with a pale face, without saying a word, without saying a word. What had happened in the past few days had been a nightmare for him. First, the Rock Legion of the Norton family braved the wind and snow to appear in the back mountain passage of Bobiriqi Mountain, and captured the unsuspecting logistics camp with lightning speed, and then besieged the four battalions of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment in the front mountain, blocking each camp with fierce long-range crossbow arrows, forcing everyone to be unable to break out of the barracks to launch a counterattack......

After two days of starvation, Bodfinger threatened to burn the barracks and forced the commander of the 3rd Frontier Ranger Regiment, Gallini Belot, to order his soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender to the Rock Corps. Then everyone saw that the commander of the Belopt regiment had killed himself in public after surrendering, and before he died, he shouted that he was ashamed of his trust in the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, that he had not defended the hill of Bobirich, that he had not fulfilled the trust of the Grand Duke, and that he was willing to atone for his sins with death......

No one could come to the rescue, it happened so suddenly, and the young Seria looked at the Legion Commander like this, and the throat of Bailot, whom he respected as his uncle, splattered with blood, and fell headlong into the snow, staining a large area of white. His whole body was wooden, and he failed like this, there was no imaginary charge, no large-scale battlefield encounters, no fierce attacks and defenses, nothing, the Pobirichi Mountains were lost, and the 3rd Frontier Rangers surrendered to the enemy, which was a fiasco, or a fiasco in which the whole army was annihilated. The regimental commander took responsibility for this humiliating decision to surrender to the enemy, and apologized in public. What about yourself, what to do?

For the past two days, Seriya, who had been a captive, was like a walking corpse, and kept huddled in the corner without caring about anything, without eating or drinking, until today he was found by El and brought to Lorist.

"Are you Fisabrun Seria?" asked Lorlist, looking curiously at the young knight in front of him.

As if she hadn't heard anything, El patted him on the shoulder: "Hey, are you deaf, say you!"

Seria came to her senses: "Ah, what did you say?"

Lorist smiled and asked again.

"Yes, I am Fisabrun Seria, I am a member of the Fisabrun family, you can do whatever you want, I am not afraid ......" Seria suddenly became excited.

"No one wants to do anything to you, rest assured, the Fisabrun family is my enemy, but we still adhere to the traditions of the nobility and follow the rules of knighthood. Now that you're our captive, you're here to ask something......"

"I will never betray my family, don't be delusional!" Seria looked resolute.

"Hehe......" Lorist laughed, motioning to Schward, who couldn't help but laugh next to him, to pour Seria a glass of Michels.

"No one asked you to betray your family, and we weren't interested in the Fisabrun family. Quite simply, you have lost this war, the end has been decided, and you are powerless to return to heaven. ”

"You are a sneak attack, I don't accept ......"

"Whether you accept it or not is your business, it has nothing to do with the overall situation. The only purpose of war is to win the war, and the tactics and means are irrelevant. Didn't your Grand Duke teach you the simplest of truths?Did your Grand Duke always openly set out his chariot and fight one-on-one with his enemies??If that were the case, the Fisabrun would not be worth mentioning...... Lorist said calmly.

"......" Seria blushed, knowing that he had said the wrong thing, the reason why Grand Duke Fisabrunn was known as the god of the steppe army was that he often used the weak enemy to carry out sneak attacks, ambushes, surprise attacks and other strategies to defeat the grass barbarian cavalry with many troops, and finally opened up the territory of the former Krisson Empire, making the Fisabrunn family the largest and strongest territorial nobles in the northeast.

"Have a glass of Michels, warm up first. Lorist said gently: "I have come to you this time to fulfill the instructions of your legion commander, Galini Belott. ”

"Legion Commander?" Seria asked, confused.

"Yes," Loris nodded, "Your legion commander made three requests to me before ordering you to lay down your arms and surrender, and I agreed to two. It's just that I didn't expect his character to be so strong, after we occupied the logistics camp, he knew that there was no chance of victory, and in order to save your lives, he ordered you to lay down your arms and surrender......"

"He, did he make a request of you?" Seria asked rhetorically, a little incredulously.

"He was a great knight, resolute and resolute, who took responsibility for his defeat, he was not a coward, but a knight and officer of noble character who was obsessed with honor, and I admired his courage to atone for his sins, and I felt sorry for the loss of a valiant knight of the Fisabrun family. Lorist stood up and said with a solemn expression.

In the continent of Guelinthea, suicide has always been considered to be a move made by the timid and the loser to avoid the difficulties they face, and no temple will encourage and allow suicidal behavior and tendencies, regardless of the god they believe in. Like knights and warriors who believed in the god of war, suicide was considered dishonorable, something only cowards and cowards would do. Just like the golden knight Chervani under Duke Lukins of the Northlands, after the defeat, he had the will to die, and deliberately died under the sword of Lorist in the duel for this reason, he could not commit suicide, and the soul of the believer of the god of war could not enter the kingdom of the god of war after committing suicide......

"Thank you......" Seria finally lowered her head, tears falling uncontrollably. He wept, wept bitterly, and the praise from his enemy, that is, Lorlist, finally opened his heart, and made him not feel entangled and saddened by his uncle Belopt's self-atonement, but on the contrary, he felt some pride.

After crying for a while, Seria stopped crying, and Schward sympathetically handed him a hot towel for him to wipe his face. After wiping his face, Seria straightened up and gave a knightly salute to Lorlist: "Your Highness Norton, can I ask our legion commander what three requests he has made to you?"

"Well, I'll say it if you don't ask, so please sit down and have some Michels. I've heard that you haven't eaten for two days, and I'm worried about your health, and if you continue like this, you won't be able to complete the mission given to you by your Legion Commander. Lorist gestured to the couch and motioned for Seria to sit down.

"At that time, your regimental commander made three requests to us, the first of which was that the news of the surrender of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment must be passed on to your Grand Duke, and I agreed, and he appointed you to return as a messenger, and this is his letter to your Grand Duke. It's just that the road is closed by heavy snow now, so he agreed to my offer to let you go back as soon as the rainy season is over. But now that he has atoned for his sins, I admire his courage. That's why I decided that you would escort his body back when you returned. You can choose twelve soldiers to be your escort, and we will provide the mounts and all the armament you need, as well as collect the remains of your captains, and give you carriages to keep you on your way......"

Seria burst into tears again.

"The second request is that your legion commander ask me to agree to let your Grand Duke redeem the knights and relatives of the Fisabrun family who have been captured by us. Here I admit that I did not notice it for a while, and I fell into the big hands of your legion commander. I thought he was referring to the family knights of your 3rd Frontier Rangers and the relatives of the Fisabruns, but I didn't expect him to say that this request included all the members of the Frontier Rangers who had been captured by us. I am angry, but as a nobleman and knight, I will still obey my promise, and I will agree to grant freedom to the captive knights and your family members, as long as the Fisabrun family shows enough value to reflect the value of the captives. ”

Hearing this, Seria raised her head with some pride, as if she could be proud of the fact that Captain Bailouput had made Lorist a fool.

Still a kid...... Lorist smiled, why do you keep those knights of the Fisabrun family, as a knight, you can't betray the family, unless the family takes the initiative to give up on you. Otherwise, no one will look up to him if he betrays, and Lorist will not collect these betrayed knights, no one who has betrayed once will believe that he will not betray again, anyway, the Fisabrun family owns the big and small gold rivers, and it is a very good deal to exchange these captured knights for a large amount of gold.

"I have refused the third request, and your Legion Commander wants me to promise to let the Fisabrun family also redeem all the soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment, which is impossible. I will not allow your Grand Duke to redeem them and rearm them into legions, posing another threat to our soldiers. Although he tried to convince me with the fact that these soldiers were the main force of the Fisabrun family in suppressing the barbarian tribe, and the warm excuse that he hoped that I would let these soldiers go back to the family for reunion, I still could not agree to this request. But I promised him that only when the Fisabrun family was no longer our enemies would we release these soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment and let them return home to their loved ones. ”

Lorist looked at Seria and said, "I called you to tell you about it, you can go back now and select the twelve soldiers who will go back with you, you don't have to stay in the prisoner of war camp, I have arranged another barracks for you, your diet will be the same as that of our family soldiers, if you have other requirements, you can also ask me, I will do my best." ”

Seria stood up: "I have only one request, I hope that we don't have to wait until after the rainy season to get on the road, and next February when the heavy snow stops and we can hit the road at that time." ”

Lorist looked carefully at the resoluteness on his face and nodded, "As you wish." ”

Basically, it doesn't snow in February every year, but during that time the snow and ice are thawing, the roads are muddy and difficult to walk, and people and horses can easily slip and fall. However, since Seria insisted, Lorist didn't have to be a wicked person to refuse, anyway, it wasn't himself who suffered.

After Seria left, Bodfinger and Malek came to the door, and Lorist beckoned them to sit down and clicked on the map of the southern province hanging on the wall: "Pobiriqi Mountain has been recovered, and you now know the mission of the Rock Legion, which is to garrison the border of the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province against the invasion of the armed forces of the Fisabrun family and the barbarian cavalry. This is a long-term task that can take several years. The Rock Legion is the first of our Norton family, and no other legion can take on this task but you. ”

Bodfinger and Malek stood upright: "Your Highness, please rest assured, there is a Rock Legion here, and we will never let the Fisabrun family force cross our defenses." ”

Lorist waved his hand and asked them to sit down: "After recovering Pobiriqi Mountain, the border defense line of the Southern Province will have a strategic basis, and our family can transfer the Flying Tiger Legion back, and the troops don't have to be pressed here." Similarly, the heavy armoured regiments of the Kenmath family and the two light cavalry and light infantry regiments of the Shahin family could also go back. This border line of defense was handed over to the Rock Legion. Of course, Count Philim's Pegasus Legion will fully assist you, and you will be in command of the deployment in the event of battle. ”

"In addition, this time I will add two Thunderbolt Battalions to the Rock Legion to deal with the enemy's log shield carts, you can learn from the experience of the 23rd Battalion of the Guards guarding Pydro, and burn these shield carts with fire oil canisters and crossbow arrows, or just smash them with slings. I won't say more, I'll leave everything to you.

In a few days, I'll be heading back to the Northlands, where there's still a lot going on. After you take over the border defense line of the southern province, you must arrange and build all the defense facilities in strict accordance with the plan that has been made, and there must be no negligence, understand?"

Bodfinger and Malek stood up again: "Your Highness, we will not let you down. ”

...... (To be continued.) )