Chapter 419: The War Begins

On July 5, 1781 in the universal calendar of the continent of Gelinthia, the Four Northland Alliances of the Kingdom of Antinac and the Fisabrun family suddenly launched an attack on the Principality of Sabaji in the Central Four Duchies. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the 6th of July, the Flying Tigers armed by the Norton family launched a fierce attack on the garrison of the Second Legion of the Duchy of Sabaji in Limad Province, and the Second Legion of the Duchy finally collapsed after struggling to resist for half a day......

On July 9, the Legion of the Shahin family in the four alliances of the Northland and the noble alliance besieged Meishan Castle, and Grand Duke Sabaji saw that there were flags and bonfires everywhere outside the city, and roughly estimated that the enemy was no less than 100,000, so he fell into the bluff of Count Shahin, and did not dare to send the first army of the principality to fight with the enemy, so he trapped Meishan Castle and waited for reinforcements.

On 11 July, Count Philim's Pegasus Regiment and the Reserve Regiment under the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, as well as the 3rd Frontier Rangers, arrived in the province of Zixes, where they began to burn and plunder. The troops in Zixes Province were panicked, and wolf smoke was everywhere. The province of Samora, which is adjacent to the province of Zixes, and the province of Forward, which is adjacent to the province of Faker, were alarmed, and the three legions that had originally gone to the Principality of Sabaji for reinforcements hurriedly accelerated their pace and rushed to the province of Samorra.

Lorlist's surprise attack this time caught the four central principalities by surprise. For the four central principalities, they are most concerned about the movements of the Second Highness, and they don't pay much attention to the four alliances in the Northland, which is actually a blind spot for the spies they sent, and there is also the problem of the effectiveness of intelligence.

Since the four principalities in the middle sent troops to reinforce the family forces of the four alliances of the Fisabrun family in the southern province and the four alliances in the northlands, and fought a general battle, only to be defeated and fled in disarray, the four principalities of the central part and the alliance of the northland have been in a hostile position, so the Duchy of Sabaji, which is adjacent to the southern provinces, will form the second army of the principality and deploy it in the province of Limad, clear the wilderness, and cut off communications. The Earl of Philim in the Southern Province also sent the Pegasus Army to patrol the border, and the two sides were like enemy countries.

This resulted in a lack of information, and the spies sent by the four central principalities had to send secret reports about the four alliances of the northern lands from the southern provinces to the imperial capital, and then from the southwestern provinces to the Duchy of Handla, and then to the Duchy of Sabaji. Obviously they are two adjacent provinces, but it takes almost two or three months to pass on a secret report.

Three years have passed since the offensive and defensive battle in the Southern Province, and the information obtained by the Four Central Duchyes about the four alliances of the Northland is nothing more than the battle between the Fisabrun family and the Norton family, such as the Rock Legion conquering Puertorichi Mountain and setting up defensive positions on the border of the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province to pose as a long-term garrison, as well as the defeat of the Norton family's cavalry in the Makinohara Province led by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and the development and construction of the Philim family's family territory in the Southern Province, etc......

The Four Central Duchyes finally put their hearts down, compared to the Second Highness, the attention of the Four Alliances of the Northlands is not on the side of the Central Four Duchyes, they have been entangled with the Fisabrun family. It seems that until the two sides have decided the winner, they will not target the four central principalities. After understanding this, the four central principalities were very remorseful, and they should not have listened to the slander of the Fisabrun family because the four alliances of the Northland were the nobles of the Antinac kingdom, and sent troops to reinforce the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, which not only offended the four alliances of the northlands, but also suffered a big defeat, consuming the sixty or seventy thousand elite principality infantry.

In the past three years, the four central principalities have already relaxed their vigilance against the four alliances of the Northland, and in their opinion, with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun dragging the four alliances of the Northland on the northeast steppe, the four alliances of the north have no time or energy to deal with the four principalities in the middle. So they focused on the Second Highness again, they knew very well that the Second Highness's betrayal of the Central Four Duchyes was hateful, and they were staring at the Central Four Duchy all the time. For the Second Highness, who is known as the new generation of military gods, they don't dare to be careless at all.

Last year, the Second Highness's successful promotion to the first-class Great Sword Master frightened the four Grand Dukes of the Central Four Duchy, and then the Second Highness's visit to the Northeast made their eyes widen. Unfortunately, the Second Highness succeeded in persuading the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to return to the Kingdom of Antinac and prepare to accompany him to the Four Central Duchyes, and the news was sent to the Central Four Duchy by those spies in a big circle, and it was almost the end of May. It would take some time for the four central principalities to form their legions immediately, so that their reinforcements did not reach the Sabaji principality for a long time.

The military system of the four central principalities is basically that each principality has only one standing army, and the Principality of Sabaji is a special case. In the event of an enemy invasion, the principality will recruit young and strong, and expand the standing army into two legions in half, so that the combat effectiveness will not decline much by bringing veterans to new recruits. Then the two corps stayed on the front line and rotated after a period of time.

After receiving the exact news that His Highness was preparing to attack the four central principalities through the southern provinces, the Duchy of Handla, the Duchy of Fakr, and the Duchy of Forrendo all mobilized for battle, expanded the legions and sent a second legion to the province of Limad. At the same time, he kept a close eye on the movements of the Second Highness. In the eyes of the four central principalities, the Second Highness wants to return to the imperial capital, and then transfer back the White Lion Legion from the border of the two southwestern provinces to the southern province, and the arrival of the marching army will be August, and the attack will definitely be in mid-August. At that time, the reinforced legion had already arrived in Lidmar Province to set up a defensive front, waiting for the White Lion Legion to come and break the blood.

So the Central Four Duchyes are not in a hurry, everything is going according to plan. They really didn't expect that Lorist would suddenly attack fifty days in advance without waiting for the arrival of His Second Highness. This made the four Grand Dukes who got the news almost dumbfounded, didn't it mean that His Royal Highness and the White Lion Legion had just entered the province of Dramke? Aren't they united with the two heavy armoured regiments of Duke Kenmeth? Judging from the process of this infantry rush, it would take them at least a month to reach the southern province, why did the noble alliance of those northern lands and the armed forces of the Fisabulun family start to attack at this time? Aren't they afraid of the thunderous wrath of the Second Highness?

When the news of the front line reached the ears of the Archduke Falkel and the Archduke of Florendo, they were really anxious, and the two light cavalry regiments of the Earl of Philim and the two light cavalry regiments of the Archduke of Fisabrun had frequently entered the territory of their duchy and plundered villages and towns, and it was said that they were not only demanding money and goods, but even the inhabitants were forced to relocate. On the one hand, the two archdukes scolded the Fisabrun family for their ingratitude, and on the other hand, they urgently recruited young men to form an army to garrison the border and set up a defensive line, and at the same time asked for help from the grand duke of Handla. At this time, none of them cared about Grand Duke Sabaji who was trapped in Meishan Castle.

It's just that most of the armed forces of the four central principalities are infantry and lack mounts, and one of the main reasons why they were willing to send troops to support the Fisabrun family was to get a sufficient and stable supply of war horses. It's a pity that this plan was ruined by the four alliances of the Northlands. Lorist wanted to cut off the trade route of the Fisabrun family to the Central Four Duchyes, but what he didn't expect was that the way for the Central Four Duchyes to get war horses was also destroyed.

Even if there were some war horses in the four central principalities, most of them were in the hands of the territorial nobles, and there were not enough war horses to establish a large-scale cavalry arm, and as a result, in the face of harassment, guerrilla and plunder, the garrisons of the Duchy of Fakel and the Duchy of Forrendo were in a passive situation in the face of harassment, guerrilla and plunder. The situation did not end until the three reinforcement corps formed by the three principalities arrived at the borders of the province of Samora.

However, the reinforcement of the three legions stabilized the border of the Duchy of Fakrol, while the Duchy of Volendor on the other side suffered, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and the Count of Philim discussed, leaving the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment to contain the three reinforcement corps arranged on the border of the province of Samora, this side led the reserve corps and the Pegasus Army from the Principality of Volendor Governor Friward drove straight to the capital of the Duchy of Volendo, under the city of Pedro, for a while, the wolf smoke of the alarm spread throughout the Duchy of Forrendo, the Grand Duke of Forrendo took care of the other, while holding on to the various towns and important places of the Duchy, while urgently asking for help to the Grand Duke of Handra and the Grand Proclamation of Fakr。

After defeating the garrison of the Second Legion of the Principality of Sabaji, Lorist ordered the Flying Tigers to continue their attack, destroying all the castle fortresses and capturing the village fortresses in the province of Limad. At the same time, the two chasseur regiments accompanying them were ordered to carry out a province-wide search and arrest operation, whether it was a rout or a resident, and all of them were captured and handed over to the two guards regiments and escorted back to the north.

It took more than half a month for the Tiger Ross to lead the Flying Tiger Legion to Meishan Castle and join the Shahin Armed Legion. At this time, the entire province of Limad had been hastily cleaned up by Lorist, leaving only devastated ruins, and there was no trace for thousands of miles......

Grand Duke Sabaji, who was trapped in Meishan Castle, finally decided to break through. Although Meishan Castle is called a castle, it is actually a city with the castle as the center of expansion, the population of the whole city is nearly 70,000, plus those residents who have fled into the city have exceeded 100,000, although there are enough manpower to guard, and the stored food is enough for so many people to eat for a year, but the Grand Duke Sabaji who is trapped in the castle is very uneasy. In the past twenty days, he did not sit idly by, and often sent troops to fight with the besieged Count Shaheen's family armed legions, but he did not get any advantage in the hands of Count Shaheen.

The reason is simple, the Earl of Shaheen adopted the method of deep ditch ramparts to besiege the castle of Meishan. Meishan Castle has gates on only three sides, and the Shaheen family's armed regiment is configured with two light infantry regiments and two light cavalry regiments. Count Shaheen had two light infantry regiments set up two defensive camps in front of the two flank gates, and the front was guarded by the noble coalition forces. Their mission was to hold their camp in the event of an attack by the 1st Legion of the Principality of Sabaji, while Count Shaheen personally counterattacked with two light cavalry regiments.

He used his bluff to confuse Grand Duke Sabaji for a few days, and during this time, Count Shahin urgently set up three camps. By the time Grand Duke Sabaji came to his senses, the camp had been built. Grand Duke Sabaji once sent three corps of 30,000 men to attack the camp on the north flank, but under the flanking attack of two light cavalry regiments led by Baron Shahin, they were beaten and lost more than 5,000 men.

So Grand Duke Sabaji never had the idea of attacking again. Although Grand Duke Sabaji is a first-class great sword master, his great sword master is not a true talent and a successful promotion, but he used countless precious medicinal materials and heavenly materials and earth treasures to forcibly improve his realm before being promoted to a great sword master, so he is very sorry for his life, and he will never lead his troops to charge into battle, and even a two-great sword master who is guarding him will not be sent into battle, otherwise he may make Count Shaheen suffer a big loss.

Trapped in Meishan Castle for more than 20 days, Grand Duke Sabaji also sent a lot of messengers and spies to ask for help, but there were few chats when they came back, and only two or three of the dozen people who went out and came back, and the news they brought back was very bad, especially the news of the Duchy of Falkel and the Duchy of Forendo made Grand Duke Sabaji fall into the abyss. The Duchy of Falkel was able to hold its borders, and the Duchy of Forendo was unable to protect itself, and it was clear that they could no longer afford to come to their rescue. There is only one dead end in Meishan Castle. Therefore, when Grand Duke Sabaji found out that the Norton family's Flying Tiger Legion had arrived in the city, he had only one thought, to get out of danger as soon as possible......

Tiger Ross never expected that he was going to let the Flying Tiger Legion rest for a day, and then attack Meishan Castle the day after tomorrow. As a result, in the middle of the night, the gate of Meishan Castle suddenly opened, and the 1st Army of the Principality of Sabaji attacked from the gate on the south side, while sending a corps to attack the camp in front, while the large army bypassed the camp and fled to the province of Zixes. Tiger Ross and Count Shaheen had just laid down and heard the alarm, and thought that Grand Duke Sabaji was trying to attack at night, and sent people to support while keeping people on guard, but it took an hour before they felt wrong, and then some soldiers reported that the gates of Meishan Castle were open, and the camp that was attacked immediately after that also sent people to report that the large army of the Duchy of Sabaji had run around the camp.

Suddenly enlightened, Tiger Ross and Count Shaheen hurriedly led their cavalry in pursuit of the fleeing Grand Duke Sabaji, and at the same time sent men to occupy the castle of Meishan and sent messengers to report to Lorlist. Meishan Castle would fall into the hands of no one expected it so easily. Lorist hurriedly rushed to Meishan Castle with a cavalry legion without stopping.

Lorist arrived at the right time, and the tension in front of Meishan Castle was about to be fired. The reason is simple, Tiger Ross with two regiments of lancers and chariot steel crossbow regiments and Count Shaheen with two regiments of light cavalry pursued Grand Duke Sabaji and the first army of the principality, leaving one regiment and two light infantry regiments of Count Shaheen to occupy Meishan Castle. At this time, the coalition of more than 10,000 nobles who assisted in the siege of Meishan Castle was gone, and they asked to enter Meishan Castle to harvest their due spoils. Because there was no one who could call the shots, the aristocratic coalition was stopped outside the city gates, so they were very angry and began to curse and clash with the soldiers guarding the city.

Looking at the aristocratic coalition who shouted "Enter the city, grab the money, rob the women!", Lorist quickly cut through the mess, gathered all the territorial nobles, and quickly distributed the spoils. The Norton family wants people, and Count Shaheen wants wealth. Quite simply, the entire city was taken away by the Norton family. All the property in the central castle of Meishan Castle, that is, the palace where Grand Duke Sabaji lived, belonged to Count Shahin, and all the residential areas in the city were divided into areas for these nobles to draw lots, and which one was drawn and which was which, and they themselves went in and swept it, and everyone was left to fate how much money they obtained. Lorist will send a huntsman to patrol the patrols, and anyone who crosses the line and stirs up trouble will be severely punished......

Although some nobles were indignant that there were no women for them to vent to, they were forced by the threat of Lorlist's strong strength to finally agree to this more fair distribution demand. As the draw ended, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Regiment and the Chasseur Regiment began to drive the residents of Meishan Castle out of the city along the streets. Soon, the whole city began to hear mournful cries and shouts......

Lorist closed his eyes and said to Genolio, "Go and tell the inhabitants that we are saving them by driving them out of the city." If they fall into the hands of those aristocratic coalition forces, they will cry without crying......"

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