Chapter 382: The Wonderful Queen

On November 11, 1778, 100,000 barbarian cavalry attacked the city of Pietro, and the bloody battle lasted for a day and night, the corpses piled up like a mountain, and the blood flowed like a river. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But with the desperate resistance of 3,000 defenders of the 23rd Battalion of the 5th Corps of the Norton Family Guards and 10,000 siege laborers, the city of Pedro was not lost. Until dawn, the grass barbarian cavalry finally had no choice but to withdraw back to the camp due to countless damage to their morale.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties in this battle, but the holding of the 23rd Guards Battalion laid a solid foundation for the strategy of the four Northland alliances to destroy the Iberian Kingdom and bring Winston and the Southern Province into their sphere of influence. It also gave the four alliances of the Northland the upper hand in the confrontation with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, the god of the steppe army. From this moment on, the Norton family of the Northland firmly suppressed the Fisabrun family, opening a new chapter for the opening of the Angry Bear Dynasty.

――――From the History of the Battle of Guelinthia: The Rise of the Bears Chapter ---- The bloody battle against the city of Pydro

“...... The 23rd Guards Battalion suffered 1,728 survivors after the war, most of whom were wounded, most of their weapons and ordnance were damaged, and the reserve soldiers composed of 10,000 laborers suffered nearly 4,000 casualties...... There were more than 12,000 corpses left behind by the barbarian cavalry, and it is estimated that there were no less than 20,000 casualties...... At present, I have arrived in Pydro with the 22nd Battalion of the Guards and the 1st and 4th Battalions of the Garrison, and at the same time, Viscount Edith has summoned 6,000 private soldiers of the nobles of Winston's traditional territory to come to reinforcements, the list is as follows......"

It was a letter eagle message from Baron Farea, and Lorist finally breathed a sigh of relief and let go of his heart. After defending the city of Pydro, most of the Iberian Kingdom's strategy has been achieved, as long as his side can capture Pobiriqi Mountain and expel the Fisabrun family from the southern province, he can end the work perfectly. Next, it was the turn of Duke Kenmez to use trade to suppress the Fisabrun family and force them to submit to the Four Northlands Alliance. As for going to the Northeast Prairie to fight the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, I'm sorry, Lorist has no interest in playing with the old fox with that leisure......

After a bloody battle for a day and night, he held on to the city of Pydro, and the 23rd Guards Battalion suffered nearly half of the casualties, which was a great achievement. Its commander, Edward Walker, was praised by Farrea and vigorously commended his achievements. Lorist really didn't expect that his illegitimate brother would have such ability, and he was very happy. For the current Norton family, even if they are illegitimate children, they still have the blood of the Norton family, and their success is also a great help to the family.

Now that Farea has arrived in Pierro City and taken over the city's defenses, with him there, he no longer has to worry about the safety of Pietro City. However, this battle also reminded Lorist that it was his carelessness that made the strategy almost fall short. In a strategic location like Pydro, a battalion of 3,000 guards was inadequate, and at least three battalions of guards were needed to defend it.

There are also big cities such as King Windbri, Vanades City, and Kebo City, and only one guard battalion is arranged to garrison it, which is indeed insufficient strength, like King Windbri, the 21st Guard Battalion of 3,000 people has become a security guard to maintain law and order and guard the city gates, and if there is really an enemy attack, it is impossible to defend the city walls on all sides...... It may be necessary to reform the establishment of the Guards Legion, which is indeed larger than the 75,000-strong Guards Legion, and it is scattered in three provinces, and it is not convenient to command......

Just as Lorist pondered how to change the composition of the Guards, Schward walked into the big tent: "Your Highness, Baron Camorra of the royal city of Winderbury has sent a letter, saying that the queen of the Rose Palace is making a big noise again, claiming to go on a hunger strike to protest our rudeness and mistreatment of her, Lord Camorra hopes that Your Highness can come up with a way to deal with the queen as soon as possible, and don't let her cause trouble and trouble for everyone in the royal city." ”

Well, Lorist has to admit that this queen is a wonder, she doesn't care about the demise of the Iberian kingdom, and she doesn't care about the title of queen, what she wants is **** parties, balls and banquets, she only knows how to enjoy. Even if the royal city of Windbri was captured, she remained indifferent, even ignoring the war between her father, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and the four Northland alliances in the Southern Province, and only demanded that she must be given the treatment of a queen worthy of her status, and even bought a show to seduce Baron Camorra and Farea.

The problem is that although the queen is a beauty, she is about forty or fifty years old after all, and of course Baron Camorra and Farella are not interested in this old lady, and may be afraid of their own reputation. After being rejected by these nobles and officials in the Northland, the queen and her maids brought the soldiers standing guard in front of the palace into her dormitory, and the soldiers who were released the next day all walked out of the palace gate with big black eyes and pale faces, and their legs swaying...... Baron Camorra had been so encouraged by the queen that he wanted to cut her clean with a sword.

Of course, Baron Camorra only thought in his heart, killing a queen would cause an uproar in the aristocratic circle, no one wants to bear such a bad reputation, except for personal morality, after all, this queen poses no threat to anyone, and it is justified for her to ask for treatment in line with her status. Even if she is a captive, if you want to deal with her, you have to think about her father, no one wants to have a life-and-death feud with a third-level great sword master, known as the powerful duke of the steppe army god.

Lorist is also unwilling, even if he is now against the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, but he is not willing to take his anger out on a woman, the queen is not guilty except that she is a famous slut, although she is the queen of the Iberian Kingdom, but this marriage is a political marriage, and the feud between her and the second prince is also well known in the kingdom. But now that Baron Camorra has complained about this several times, it's time to come up with a disposal plan.

"Well, then, Schward, write a letter to Baron Camorra, and ask him to find a few knights and a hundred soldiers of the Fisabrun family from among the captives of the Fisabrun family, and we will release them, rearm them, and let them escort the queen back to the Fisabrun family's domain. By the way, tell him not to touch the queen's personal belongings, and if she doesn't have a lot of money, we can give her a fee, so that we won't be in trouble. ”

Lorist instructed, it is better to deal with it like this, send it out of the country, and everyone is clean. As for what trouble the queen will cause when she returns to the Fisabrun family, it is none of her business. Even those nobles will raise their thumbs and praise their benevolence and righteousness when they know about it......

"Yes, Your Highness, I am writing here. Schward said.

"By the way, Schward, El and Reddy, haven't they heard from them yet?" Lorist felt a little strange, and gave an order to El and Reddy a few days ago, asking them to find a way to get a few of the Fisabrun family armed on Bobiriqi Mountain, and ask the bottom of Bobiriqi Mountain to see how many men and horses the Grand Duke of Fisaburun had left to guard on the mountain. As a result, Eddie and Reddy took the order and never returned, and no news came back for several days.

Schward shook his head: "Your Highness, I really don't know, there was no news after Brother El and Senior Brother Reddy took ten guards away that day. They didn't bring the eagle with them, and in the past two days, I told the scout cavalry to pay more attention to whether there were any signs they left when they went out on patrol, but these scout cavalry came back and said that they didn't find anything......"

"Strange, where did they go?" Lorist thought, geusing his chin.

"Your Highness, will something happen to them?" Schward asked worriedly.

Lorist laughed: "It's impossible for something to happen, with Reddy's skills and El's ability, even if the Grand Duke of Fisabrun personally deals with them, it is impossible to leave them all behind, at least they can run back alone." What's more, they also brought ten guards, and they could escape back several people when they ran separately. I think something happened to them that delayed the trip, and maybe they'll be back in a few days. ”

At this time, Lorist remembered Daddy Mobinham's golden eagle, but unfortunately, it would take two or three years for Tagger to cooperate with Daddy Mobingham to train a group of eagles that could reconnoiter the enemy's whereabouts on the battlefield, otherwise the cavalry hunting army would not have been severely damaged in Makinohara Province this time. It was early to see that the old fox of Fisabrun had gathered the barbarian cavalry in ambush, and the hunting army would not step back into the trap......

Considering that the letter eagles used by the family now have been trained for five or six years before they have achieved initial results, it is understandable that it takes such a long time to train a group of flying eagles that can distinguish and reconnoiter the enemy on the battlefield. He had already made a promise to Father Mobingham that as long as such a group of flying eagles could be trained, the title of a territorial baron would not be able to run. I'm sure Daddy Mabinham will do his best. There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need for suspicious people, since I entrust this matter to them, I believe that they can do it well.

However, if there is still no news of El and Reddy after a while, he may have to trouble Daddy Mobingham and borrow his golden eagle to find the whereabouts of the two of them.

"Your Highness, we have defended the city of Pietro, didn't we still say that the mountain barbarians would attack the family territory in the Northland?" Schward was writing a letter here, and he remembered this incident again.

"Don't worry, it's okay. Lorist laughed, "The mountain barbarians never come down the mountain to attack and plunder when winter comes. Now the mountain barbarians of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range are busy stockpiling supplies for the winter, and every winter is a life-and-death threshold for them. They don't have the kind of winter clothing and training that our family forces have. Even when it's cold, we can still move around in the snow with our skis. If the Mountain Barbarians really want to attack our family territory, it should be next spring. At that time, we have returned to the family territory to prepare for it, and we will let these mountain barbarians who came to attack have a good memory. ”

"Yes. Schward nodded and continued to write.

After more than ten days, there was still no news of El and Reddy, and just as Lorist was about to send a message to Tagger asking him to borrow the Golden Eagle of Daddy Mobinham to look for it, he received a letter from Farea, and the barbarian army under the city of Pietro finally withdrew.

Since Farrea took over the defense of the city of Pietro, the barbarian cavalry launched several attacks on the city of Pietro in the past ten days, but each time it was in vain and the loss of men and horses. And each attack was not as fierce as the bloody battle of the day and night, and even the last few times were even more anticlimactic, the first wave of attacks was frustrated and killed some people, and then it was almost a game, just shouting and not charging, hiding outside the range of the steel crossbow, and staying up until the horn of the retreating soldiers sounded, and then retreated with relief.

In the letter, Fareah mentions a situation in which the night before the withdrawal of the army, the camp of the barbarian cavalry was suddenly in chaos, with flames, shouting and neighing, and fierce fighting and shouting, as if a great battle had taken place. It looked like the camp had really been attacked. Faria thought that there were no extra troops from the four alliances in the Northland to sneak attack the camp of the barbarian army, and he was very worried that this would be a barbarian trick, so he did not move, and in the morning, he found out that this was a real attack, the barbarian camp had been burned, and there were corpses of the barbarians everywhere, at least thirty or forty thousand, and the remaining barbarian cavalry had disappeared without a trace.

Although Lorist was curious about what had happened to the barbarian camp, he also knew that it was impossible for his army to attack the camp. The good news was that the siege of Pydro forced the barbarian army to withdraw, which was a remarkable victory.

The news of this victory was accompanied by an escort sent by Baron Camorra from the royal city of Windbrie, who escorted the queen to the camp with her many maids and a hundred carts. Baron Camorra did not come, but wrote a letter to Lorlist, in which he said that in order to return the queen to the Fisabrun family's domain, he had to accede to several of the queen's somewhat outrageous requests, such as asking the queen to take all the furniture from her dormitory, which was the reason why the convoy was so large, and there was not even a toilet left in the dormitory......

There are also more than 300 maids of the queen, Baron Camorra thinks it is a pity, anyway, these maids are the same as the queen, and originally wanted to send the queen away and use these maids to form a brothel camp to serve the family army, but then I thought that these maids were originally from those nobles who had lost power or perished, and they were afraid that they would cause chaos to the family, so he promised the queen to take them all away.

In addition, Lord Camorra also reported that in order to let the queen go, he had to give the queen 100,000 gold fords as her annuity for several years, which allowed the queen to get into the carriage and set off. At the same time, because of the large number of vehicles and belongings carried by the queen, the ten knights of the Fisabrun family and a hundred soldiers who were released were probably unable to ensure the safety of the convoy, so he had to send the second battalion of the garrison to escort them all the way, and now the mission was completed when they were sent to the camp where Lorist was......

Lorist had to be busy entertaining the arrival of the queen first, no matter how aristocratic it was, a feast was inevitable. Although he was an enemy of the Fisabrun family, and the Iberian Kingdom was destroyed by Lorlist's own hands, and even the former king was personally captured by Lorist and given to His Royal Highness, but the nobles were all graceful, even if the queen could be regarded as a prisoner of the Norton family, she had to be well entertained.

At the reception banquet, the queen did not treat Lorist as an enemy of life and death, on the contrary, she was very grateful to Lorist for capturing the second prince and allowing her to live a comfortable life for a few years. This allowed Lorist to finally see the queen's strange and heartless. However, Lorist still got into trouble, and the queen did not care about the destruction of the Iberian Kingdom, but was very concerned that she would lose the annuity in the future, and cried and asked Lorist to compensate.

Lorist tactfully reminded her, didn't Baron Camorra provide a sum of 100,000 gold fords? The queen said that that was enough, she had an annuity of 20,000 gold fords a year, and Baron Camorra gave 100,000 gold fords, which is five years, and she was still young, less than forty years old (in fact, forty-six), and at least twenty or thirty years old, so how would she live the rest of the five years......

Lorlist's Khan was the best this time, so he had to say that he was willing to do his best and give her another hundred thousand gold merits, which made the queen stop her grief. But maybe Lorist was too good at talking, and the queen received 100,000 gold dollars and 200,000 gold dollars before she was willing to leave, Lorist was angry and didn't give it, and the queen was in the barracks.

Soon Lorist regretted it, Baron Camorra also wanted to form the queen's maids into a prostitute camp to serve the family, but he didn't expect the queen to recruit *prostitutes* directly in the camp. A lady-in-waiting for a night, a kingford, and ten for the queen to accompany herself. Although the queen is a little older, she is not bad, and she also has the title of queen, for ordinary soldiers, spending ten goldford can be a queen, this is a cow that can boast for a lifetime, and would rather borrow money than kill the queen once. So the queen's business prospered, and she responded flawlessly......

Lorist's face turned white, this is the front line, during the war, all legs are as soft as noodles, how can this be true. There was a desire to rectify military discipline, but it turned out that these soldiers and knights who went to find the queen did not violate the family military rules, they all went to the queen when they were not on duty, and they did not leave the camp, which is not easy to punish......

As for the queen's side, Lorist didn't dare to go over, and in the past it was likely that she was entangled by a few naked maids, and the last time Bodfinger went to arrest those soldiers, he almost made a fool of himself in public......

I can't turn my face now after treating the queen for so long, although it sounds strange that the queen is selling this in the barracks, but after all, it doesn't hinder anything, on the contrary, it pleases the soldiers, which sounds like a good thing......

In the end, Lorist thought he was unlucky, and sent another 200,000 goldford over to send the queen away. An armed brigade of the Fisabrun family, sent to meet him on Mount Bobirichi, had been waiting in front of the main camp for nearly ten days.

The queen was reluctant to leave for them, and begged that if they were allowed to stay in the camp until next spring, she would rather not have the two hundred thousand gold fords. Lorist said to himself, you better leave early, if you stay in the camp until next spring, then all the salaries of our family's armed soldiers will go into your pockets......

Well, the queen is more powerful than the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, at least the Grand Duke of Fisabrun did not extort 300,000 gold fords from me...... Looking at the distant convoy, Lorist thought so in his heart.

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