Chapter 341: Occupation

On the map, the West Degrad province is a valley basin surrounded by the Liechgena Mountains and the West Verlink Mountains, like a gourd with a particularly large belly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but this valley basin is very large, enough to build a province, the bottom is near the sea, and there is only one exit, which is the main road controlled by the Sith Castle. This is probably why the Grand Duke of Madras placed his family's lair here. As long as there was one legion guarding the Sith Castle, the province of Sidgrad could not fall.

Just like in the strategy of the Second Highness, he instigated the four major families of the Northland to preemptively defeat the province of Delemke, but he never thought about how to conquer the province of Sidgrad, as long as it was enough to beat the Grand Duke of Madras into his lair, and it was wishful thinking to capture the Cith Castle. Not to mention the dangerous terrain, the most important thing is that the attack force on that mountain road cannot be carried out at all, and a hundred or so people go up in waves, which is not called attack, but killed.

When Lorist led a convoy north, he once captured the Sith Castle under the guise of a caravan and handed it over to the army of His Second Highness for defense. But then, when the Grand Duke of Madras dispatched the army of Seamounts, he only held out for a few days and then abandoned the Sith Castle and evacuated. This is because the Sith Castle is not external but not internal, with a front line of moats, which is difficult to overcome, but behind it is a smooth road, easy to attack and difficult to defend. This is also the reason why the old fox of the Grand Duke of Madras was afraid that the Sith Castle would fall into the hands of the enemy, so he trapped himself in the province of West Degrad and deliberately made the Sith Castle like this.

In recent years, the Grand Duke of Madras has vigorously expanded the Sith Castle, upgrading it from a humble checkpoint fortress to a triple castle fortress. The men and horses defending the fortress also changed from a squadron to a brigade. Even if there is a sneak attack again, the enemy can only capture the first important fortress, and the defenders can rely on the second and third defensive facilities to deal a fatal blow to the enemy. It was precisely because of his confidence in the Sith Castle that the Grand Duke of Madras sent his most elite Seamount Legion to the front line of the province of Delemk, so that he could give the Northland buns a blow to the head and drive them all down the river at the beginning of the next spring......

It is a pity that the Grand Duke of Madras did not expect the enemy to come from the sea in winter and land on Silver Beach. In addition to the 1,000 guards who defended the central castle, the city of Edrise, the capital of the current province of West Degrad, the inner and outer cities combined had less than 2,000 men, most of whom were militiamen who were forced to serve in the winter.

In such a cold winter, no one takes the duty of defense seriously, and there is a Sith castle in the outermost part, how can there be an enemy coming. If it weren't for the fact that these days were the days when the Grand Duke's Mansion held a welcome banquet, the nobles of the principality would come and go, and occasionally give a small amount of money to the militia squads guarding and patrolling the gate as wine money, maybe they wouldn't even be able to find a few militiamen who defended the city gate.

It takes a day to hike from Silver Beach to Edrith City, a horse-drawn carriage takes about ten hours, and a horse can take more than half a day. In front of Lorist is a map of the hides of the province of West Degrad, and his finger is pointing to the city of Adelis in the center of the map: "The city of Adrise, formerly known as Trafford, was expanded by the Grand Duke of Madras for eight years in honor of his eldest daughter, and named it after his daughter, and moved the family to the province of West Degrad, making it the nest of the Madras family."

The city of Adelis is protected by three walls, the most central of which is the central castle of the Madras family, where the Grand Duke of Madras and his family lived. Tonight's welcome banquet was also held here in the Grand Duke's Palace, which is the square building behind the innermost wall on the map, this large piece is the Grand Duke's Palace, which is also connected to the central castle behind. Between the middle wall and the innermost wall, it is called the inner district, and it is basically inhabited by relatives of the Grand Duke of Madras, merchants and wealthy people of the Duchy, and of course there are also other houses purchased here by the nobles under the command of the Grand Duke.

Between the outer wall and the middle wall is the outer part of the city, and most of the people living in the outer area are the families of the soldiers of the Seamount Legion, the servants who work for the central castle, the members of the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce, and the farmers who farm around the city. To put it mildly, the inhabitants of Adrith City are basically involved and related to the Madras family. The Grand Duke of Madras has been running the province of West Degrad for nearly forty years, and has indeed made the city of Adrith his family's home.

According to the interrogation of the captured captives of the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce in the fishing and salt fields last night, we found that the defense of Adrith City was very lax, and it was easy for us to breach the two walls from the outside to the middle. The only difficulty lies in the Central Castle, and while breaching the third wall, it is necessary to cut off the escape route from the Grand Duke's Mansion to the Central Castle, so as not to give the enemy a chance to resist when they flee into the Central Castle.

Because Adrith City is the home of the Madras family, I hereby make a special order. As a member of the Norton family, it is shameful to bully civilians and the weak. But in the course of the capture of the city of Adrith, if civilians stand in the way or spontaneously resist, then I allow you to use thunderous means to deal with these enemies with a decisive punishment! Otherwise, if someone instigates these civilians to resist our occupation, it will cause us countless problems and even affect our subsequent actions. Got it?"

The knights of the clan standing around Lorist replied, "Yes, my lord. ”

Lorist asked Schward, who was behind him, and then said to the family knights, "It's about five o'clock in the morning. According to the captives of the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce, they had to leave at seven o'clock so that they could reach Adelis City around five o'clock in the evening and hand over the fresh seafood they had caught to the steward of the Central Castle. El, you can take someone to pretend to be a cargo officer from the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce, take those stewards back, and pass through the outermost wall. ”

"Yes, my lord, I promise to complete the task. El replied.

Lorist laughed, "If we had traveled on foot, we might not have made it to Adelis City today. But we had skis and could even get to Adrith City faster than the horse-drawn wagons in the winter snow. The only trouble is that from Silver Beach to Adrith City, you have to pass through six farmsteads of the Grand Duke of Madras. If the people of the farm find out about the whereabouts of our army, I am afraid that they will light up the wolf smoke and report to the city of Aderice. So, Malek. ”

"Here, my lord, please command!" said Malek.

"I'll leave the six farms along the way to you, and my request is that they don't send any news. ”

"Yes, my lord, don't let these six farms send any news. Malek said.

"Pachko ....."

"Your Excellency, please order. ”

"Your task is to take a battalion of men and horses to seal off this place, the main road from Adrith City to Sith Castle, as long as this place is locked, then even if someone escapes from Adelis City, they will not be able to pass the news to Sith Castle. That way it won't affect our follow-up. ”

"Yes, my lord, I see. Pachko said.

"Borg, it's up to you next. The surprise attack on Adelis City is up to you. I'm just going to deal with that second-level great swordsman named Chrissas next to Grand Duke Madras. After the capture of the Grand Duke's Palace, we must find the seal of the Grand Duke of Madras, which is very crucial for us to take the Cith Castle, the city of Vandenas and the city of Kebo, and we must not afford to lose it. ”

Bodfinger nodded: "Don't worry, my lord, I won't let you down." ”

"Okay, now it's more than an hour until seven o'clock, let's go down and prepare, get ready to set off on your own, no need to wait for my orders. This attack on the Duchy of Madras is under the responsibility of Borg, and everything is based on his command and orders, do you understand?"

"Yes, sir. ”

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The ensuing operation went very smoothly, and El led the guards who infiltrated the city to easily control the gates of Adelis City, and took the vanguard of the Rock Legion in, and it only took more than half an hour to control the entire outer city wall. At this time, snowflakes began to fall in the sky again, and the sky was dark, which brought a lot of cover to the Rock Legion's occupation of the city walls.

It was funny that after occupying the entire outer city wall, I found that there were very few captured prisoners, and when I asked, I realized: "After the snow, the patrolling militia basically slipped back, and no one wanted to be frozen on the city wall." ”

Immediately afterwards, El also used the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce's horse-drawn convoy to transport seafood, pretending to be late, and cooperated with the Rock Legion commanded by Bodfinger to occupy the middle wall again. I almost went wrong when I wanted to repeat the old trick and sneak attack on the third city wall, and a few people rushed to the road, scolding the horse convoy that transported seafood from afar, why did it come back now, and it was almost impossible to catch up with the welcome banquet, so let the horse convoy hurry up to the backyard of the Grand Duke's Mansion and so on......

Running to the front and discovering that El and the guards were not their acquaintances, they were all stunned, and one of them quickly turned around and tried to run back to deliver the letter. El had no choice but to order the men to be cleaned up. Fortunately, three died, two were caught, and none of them ran away, and no one noticed it in a short time. Hurriedly dealt with the scene and cleaned up the corpses, and at the same time briefly interrogated the two captured, only to know that it was because the convoy transporting seafood had not arrived for a long time, and the person in charge of the Black Pearl Chamber of Commerce was in a hurry, and sent the five of them to guard the city gate, and they met on the road......

Leaving a carriage and four guards carrying the corpses to guard the captives, El led the convoy directly to the backyard of the Grand Duke's Palace, and the guards of nearly 100 people were divided into two teams, one team attacked the central castle directly when Bodfinger led the army, and the other team went to the gate of the third wall to prepare for the arrival of Bodfinger and Lorlist.

In fact, it was still very easy to attack the central castle and the Grand Duke's palace, and the so-called nearly 1,000 guards of the Grand Duke of Madras were still less than 200 in the guard position, and in the face of the endless stream of soldiers of the Rock Legion, these guards only resisted for less than ten minutes before surrendering.

"Uh......" dressed in oily hair and powdered face, like a fifty-year-old dandy-looking second-level great swordsman of Chrissas, brandished his gorgeous and unusual sword, which was more like a ceremonial matching sword, and only parried six or seven moves in front of Lorist before he was pierced through the chest, and he unwillingly kicked his leg and hung up.

This happened in the hall where the Grand Duke's Mansion held a welcome banquet, in front of the Grand Duke of Madras and dozens of nobles of the Duchy, as well as countless ladies and ladies dressed in fancy clothes, Lorist killed the second-level great swordsman who jumped out, and this bloody scene made a dozen or so delicate ladies and ladies faint in horror on the spot.

Lorist touched his nose a little embarrassed, and then heard the voice of the Grand Duke of Madras: "Who are you?"

"Norton Lorlist, Grand Duke of the Northlands, House of Norton. Lorist replied.

"Grand Duke of the Northlands, I remember the Norton family is not the title. The Grand Duke of Madras said skeptically.

"That's right, I have just accepted the promotion decree of His Majesty Ogseero, Second Highness, who canonized the Northland to me and promoted me to the rank of Duke. ”

"I see...... Ogseiro is still alive, and he is in the Northlands. The people of the Business Alliance also said that he was dead...... So what are you going to do with me?"

"Hehe, Your Highness, it's not up to me to decide what to do with you. I will send your family to Your Majesty, and it is up to Your Majesty to decide whether you live or die. Lorist said.

Grand Duke Madras collapsed on his seat like a deflated ball, and laughed miserably: "Haha, I already know what happened to me." But I have one more question, how did you get here? Did the garrison of Sith Castle betray me?"

"Your Highness, I don't know if the garrison of Sith Castle has betrayed you, because we are from the sea. Lorist replied.

In this way, the city of Adelis fell into the hands of the Rock Legion, and at this time, the nearly 100,000 residents of the city did not realize that they had changed masters, and the aftermath was taken over by Bo Finger. Lorist unceremoniously occupies the bedroom on the top floor of the Grand Duke of Madras in the central castle, opens a bottle of wine and pours himself a drink, admiring the snowflakes falling outside the window, looking down on the snow-covered city.

Then there was an incident, and the faithful Bodfinger was worried that his lord would not be able to sleep, so he chose two unemployed beauties from among the captured ladies to come to bed. This was a matter of no choice for the captured noble ladies, and it was a common rule among the nobles, who might be able to save their families from punishment by currying favor with the victors. It's just that they didn't expect that it was Lorist who was going to serve him, and when Lorist killed the Great Swordsman of Chrisas in public, the two beauties fainted.

So when he saw Lorlist, the two beauties were panicked, one fainted again, and the other was incontinent on the spot, which made Lorist lose face and become angry, and asked Schward to ask someone to pull the two beauties out. As a result, the incontinent beauty fainted when she thought Lorist was going to kill them, and the beauty who had just woken up hugged Lorlist's thigh and begged for mercy......

A good Chinese New Year's Eve night was so noisy for most of the night, and Schward was tired for most of the night, he had to monitor the servant to clean the floor, and moved a large bath bucket for Lorist, and boiled the hot water before withdrawing. Because Lorist finally decided to punish these two beauties personally. As a result, in the middle of the night, I heard these two beauties begging "Don't, it hurts, it hurts, don't want anything", and they didn't quiet down until early in the morning.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the first day of the new year that Lorist appeared in front of everyone, and said to Boderfinger with a dark face: "Don't make an example." ”

However, the two beauties were left behind by Lorlist, and their family was pardoned.

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In January 1777, the Rock Legion of the Norton family of the Northland landed from Silver Beach to raid the West Degrad Province of the Duchy of Madras, occupying the capital city of Adelis and capturing the Grand Duke of Madras and dozens of Duchy nobles. Later, the commander of the Rock Legion, the Golden Knight Bodfinger, used the seal of the Grand Duke of Madras to attack and occupy the Sith Castle and the city of Vannades. On 23 January, the city of Kebo also fell into the hands of the Rock Legion. From this day on, the Duchy of Madras is history.

On 17 February, civil unrest broke out in occupied Adrith City, and nearly 100,000 residents took to the streets to protest the Norton family's sneak attack, demanding that the Nortons get out of the way and return the Grand Duke of Madras to them. At that time, there were only 10,000 Rock Legions stationed in Adelith City, and the Golden Knight Marek, who was in charge of the garrison of the city, ordered to suppress the riot and open a killing spree, and nearly 30,000 residents of Adelith City were killed that day, and 40,000 people were captured. The iron-hearted and expressionless Marek was called "Iron Mask" because of this incident.

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