Chapter 365: Gathering Annihilation

"Report, just received a summons from the letter eagle. Your Highness, the three Frontier Ranger regiments of King Windbury have been dispatched, targeting Walker Town, and are estimated to arrive at about three o'clock in the afternoon.www.biquge.info Targer hurried into the tent and reported the latest military situation to Lorlist.

"Hehe......" Lorist smiled with satisfaction, and said to Count Philim, who was sitting next to him, "Archduke Fisabrun has been fooled. He may have thought that this was just an act of rebellion by Viscount Edith, who had just harvested the winter wheat, so Viscount Edith and their troops gathered in Walker Town to resist his transfer order, and it was understandable that the Frontier Ranger Regiment that arrived yesterday did not take Walker Town.

After all, the walls of Walker Town are hung with the banners of seven or eight territorial nobles, and the total number of defensive troops is about 20,000. The 10,000-strong Border Ranger Regiment attacked three times yesterday and injured nearly a thousand people, which is normal. Therefore, he sent the remaining three legions in the royal city, clearly to kill chickens and show the monkeys, and suppress the resistance of the territorial nobles such as Viscount Edith, so that the rest of the territorial nobles in Winston Province will honestly obey his orders. ”

Reaching out and grabbing the map, Lorist pointed and smiled: "Let's do what we have planned, Count Philim, your Pegasus Legion is in charge of the left, and Tiger Ross you lead the Flying Tiger Legion to attack from the right." Telman, you lead the Knights of the Furious Bear in circles and cut off their path, and I will lead the guard battalion to act with you. El, Reddy, each with a squad of men and horses to clear the scouts sent by the Frontier Rangers, make sure that the enemy does not escape. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. El and Reddy walked out.

"Your Highness, shall we attack as soon as we close the circle?" asked Count Philim.

"Yes, the night is long and dreamy, those three border ranger regiments must have a rest in the camp when they arrive in Walker Town, we will immediately launch an attack, first, we can catch them off guard, and secondly, they will be sleepy and tired after a day's walk, so that even if they want to break through, they will not be able to run far, which is convenient for us to gather and annihilate this border ranger regiment. After succeeding, clean up the battlefield and hand it over to Tiger Ross. He's going to set out tomorrow to attack the city of Pietro. We, on the other hand, will go to the royal city of Windbury overnight, so that we can directly take the royal city tomorrow morning. ”

"By the way, Targer, did the messenger say that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun himself went on the expedition?" Lorist remembered the most important thing.

"No, Your Highness, the news that the leader of these three Frontier Ranger regiments is the original commander, the Golden Knight Hermelison. He is a veteran under the command of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, who is deeply trusted by the Grand Duke, and has followed the Grand Duke for more than 30 years, with rich battlefield experience and a steady personality. Tugger replied.

"So the Grand Duke of Fisabrun is still in the royal city of Windbrie?"

"Yes, Your Highness, yesterday the news came from the royal city that the Grand Duke was going to form a garrison of 45,000 people, mainly the garrisons in the noble territories of those territories that he destroyed and the private soldiers left over from the nobles of the former southern provinces in the royal city, and will be responsible for the defense of Walker Town, Windbrie King City and Xihu Town in the future. ”

"Hmph......" Lorist let out a sneer: "It seems that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun has not realized that we have launched an attack on the Iberian Kingdom, so he is still implementing his plan step by step. It's a pity I won't give him any more time. In that case, let's first accept the heavy gift from this frontier ranger regiment he sent, and then go to the royal city of Windbury to pay a visit to this imperial military god. I'm looking forward to seeing the look of surprise on his face. Let's go!"

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

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"Strange, why do I always feel a little uneasy? Could it be that there will be some chaos on this expedition to Walker Town?" The head of the Fisabrun family's First Frontier Ranger Regiment, the Golden Knight Hemerrison, who was sitting on horseback, looked around with some suspicion.

"Come, pass the order, send double the scouts, and expand the reconnaissance distance to thirty miles. ”

"My lord, what's wrong with you? Walker Town is only a hundred miles away from the royal city, and it will only take half a day to speed up the horse. We set out in the morning and found nothing along the way, and in two hours we will be able to reach Walker Town and join up with Lord Udinese, and we will have a good night's rest tonight, and tomorrow we will be able to capture the town of Walker, which is guarded by the rabble, and we will soon be able to complete the task assigned by His Highness the Grand Duke. It's an easy errand, how do I feel like you're facing a great enemy?" asked the second corps commander and Hemerrison's deputy, the Golden Knight Marquesh.

"I don't know why, I always feel that something is wrong in my heart on this expedition, and I have a heavy feeling, just like when I followed the Grand Duke to raid Jinchuan, as if I was facing a big war. But when I thought about it, I just couldn't figure out what was wrong. The rebellion of the nobles of the territory such as Viscount Edith this time has long been expected by His Royal Highness the Grand Duke.

It's just that they didn't expect that they would gather seven or eight families and gather nearly 20,000 garrisons, which made Lord Udinese suffer a small loss. It seems that these territorial nobles want to prepare for a defensive war with us by relying on the winter wheat they have just harvested and do not worry about grain and grass, and they want to delay the war and force His Royal Highness the Grand Duke to make concessions. But I think when our legion arrives in Walker, the rebellious realm nobles will regret it. Although we are light riders, our ability to attack is not weak. The Hemerrison knight laughed.

"My lord, I may understand why you are worried. Knight Marquez said solemnly.

"Oh, let's hear it. ”

"Originally, there were forty-seven traditional territorial nobles in Winston Province, but then the dead ghost king, the second prince of the empire, sold titles in order to raise military funds, and added more than a dozen territorial nobles to Winston Province. Although they later fought with the nobles of the southern provinces and were wiped out by a dozen or so families, there were still fifty-six territorial nobles left.

Last year, His Highness led us to exterminate twenty-three families, and thirty-three more territorial nobles were forced to accept His Highness's order to move to the southern provinces. Now that Viscount Edith has gathered a total of seven or eight lords to defend Walker Town, then there are more than twenty remaining realm nobles who must be watching our expedition this time.

If we successfully capture the town of Walker and eliminate these seven or eight rebellious lords who rebelled against the orders of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, then the rest of the territorial nobles will obediently follow the orders of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and move to the Southern Province. But if the war drags on and Viscount Edith defends the town of Walker, then perhaps the remaining nobles of the realm will be ready to move, and it is likely that they will secretly stab us in the back, and then Winston Province will fall into a large-scale rebellion. I guess that's what worries adults. "The knight of Marquez has a very detailed analysis of the situation he is facing.

Knight Hemerlison nodded: "Your analysis makes sense, but what I'm worried about may be that those realm nobles we thought were still on the sidelines have been secretly organized, and they may secretly communicate with those rebellious lords who are guarding Walker Town, and suddenly appear behind us to attack at the most critical moment of our attack on Walker Town." In that case, we won't be able to conquer Walker Town, and we won't be able to complete the task that the bus has given us, and I think that's probably what I'm worried about. ”

"My lord, in fact, we can fight steadily, didn't the Grand Duke say yesterday that he would bring the reserve army here next month? If you are in the case of the situation you mentioned, and all the nobles of the Winston Province are involved in the rebellion, then we can entangle them and give them a nest when the reserve army arrives. Knight Marquez said viciously.

At present, the five frontier ranger regiments formed by the Fisabrun family basically have one-third to one-half of the cavalry of the barbarian tribe joining them. However, the cavalry of these grass barbarian tribes can also be regarded as naturalized grass barbarians, basically able to speak fluent lingua franca, and some can also read and write letters, and they are no different from imperial soldiers after staying for a long time. On the contrary, the reserve legion, except for the imperial soldiers and family knights appointed by the Fisabrun family as junior officers, is basically composed of the most elite grass barbarian cavalry.

To tell the truth, in addition to being the most powerful of all the legions under the command of the Fisabrun family, the reserve regiment is also the most famous for its indiscipline and disobedience to commands, and often causes some trouble. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun transferred the reserve army to Winston Province in order to prevent the four northlands from attacking the Iberian kingdom.

"No, Marches, what we need most now is time. Knight Hemerrison shook his head: "The year before last, the four families of the Northland suddenly destroyed the Duchy of Madras, and helped the second highness Augoseiro regain the throne of the Kingdom of Antinac. His Royal Highness was greatly shocked by this, and immediately planned and prepared a defensive strategy against the four alliances of the Northlands.

Generally speaking, it always takes more than two or three years from the beginning to the end of a war to recuperate and regain combat strength. It's a pity that we can't know how much the four alliances of the Northland have lost in this war, His Royal Highness estimates that it should take two years, which is already an overestimate of the combat power of the four alliances of the Northlands as much as possible, after all, it is a war to destroy the country.

However, when we learned that the Kenmax family and the Shahin family, among the four major families in the Northland, had carried out a territory exchange and moved out of the Northland, His Royal Highness finally breathed a sigh of relief, he thought that in two or three years, the alliance of the four major families in the Northland should not make a move against the Iberian Kingdom, and the replacement of the territory was a troublesome matter, and at the same time, in order to confuse the four major families in the Northland, His Royal Highness also prepared to send an envoy to the Northland in June and July, and once again ordered a batch of goods worth two million gold fords from the Norton family and the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce.

Therefore, His Royal Highness is currently implementing the plan of fortified and clear fields in Winston Province, preparing to make Winston Province the main battlefield to resist the four alliances of the Northlands in the future within two years, we need time to build Walker Town, King Windbury City and Sunlake Town into a very defensive fortress castle, as long as we control and defend these three strategic points, with the mobility of our border ranger regiment to carry out guerrilla warfare and harassment warfare against the family forces of the four alliances of the Northland that will invade in the future, we can drag them down and force them to withdraw after exhaustion.

If our attack on Walker Town does not go well, and the remaining twenty or so nobles of the realm also start to rebel, Winston Province will be in flames, and as long as the war drags on, it is likely to attract the action of the four major families of the Northland. Maybe they haven't recovered their strength, but the problem is that our Fisabrun family is not ready, and if we fight in Winston Province and the four families of the Northland Alliance, it will have a big impact on our family's strategy. What I am most afraid of is to arouse the suspicion of the four alliances of the Northland, so that His Royal Highness the Grand Duke's plan and arrangement cannot be implemented. ”

Knight Marquez nodded with a serious expression: "So we must fight Walker Town this time and win it quickly, and we must win neatly, so that those territorial nobles who are watching or preparing to rebel are caught off guard by watching Walker Town fall by us, and watching us hang the seven or eight territory nobles led by Viscount Edith, so that they will obediently obey the orders of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and move to the Southern Province." And we can effortlessly integrate the territory and personnel they left behind, and successfully complete the tasks assigned to us by His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, right?"

The Hemerrison knight praised, "That's it, you're right. Oh, the scout is back, see what he has to say. ”

In the distance, a scout rode like a light horse, and when he was about to get closer, he grabbed his mount and reported loudly: "Report to your lordship, there is nothing unusual within thirty miles around, and we have found nothing." ”

The Hemerrison knight waved his whip: "Hard work, continue to be vigilant, and report back immediately if you find anything." ”

"Yes, sir. The scout rode away again.

"Order, speed up the march, and get to the town of Walker early. Knight Hemerlison gave the order to the herald beside him.

At about half past two in the afternoon, the three frontier ranger regiments led by Knight Hemerrison and Knight Marquez rushed to Walker Town, and Udinese, the commander of the Third Corps, who had already camped in front of Walker Town, came to greet him: "My lord, the camp has been arranged, do you want to rest first?"

"Don't worry, Udinese, you can tell us about yesterday's battle first, and then take us to see the defense of Walker Town. Knight Hemerlison waved his hand and gave orders to the guards beside him: "Go and ask Lord Kalichuk and Ben Prick to come over, and go with us to see the situation in Walker Town and discuss the attack plan." ”

"Yes, sir. The guards hurriedly rode away.

The 1st Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Fisabrun family had a total of 46,000 men, divided into four regiments and one logistics baggage detachment. Hemmelrison was the Corps Commander and Commander of the 1st Corps. Gold three stars. And the knight of Marquez is the deputy commander of the corps and the commander of the second corps, with two gold stars. Udinese, the Golden Knight, is the commander of the Third Corps and a two-star Golden Star. As for Kalichuk, who Knight Hemerison just ordered the guards to invite, he is a three-star knight of silver, serving as the commander of the fourth corps, and Ben Prick is also a silver knight, with a two-star silver rank, and he is the head of the logistics baggage detachment.

Although the Knight of Hemerlison is the commander of the legion, he is very polite to the two silver knights, Karicuk and Ben Prick, without him, except that the surname of these two silver knights is Fisabrun, they are distant relatives of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and they are also members of the Fisabrun family.

"My lord, I arrived here yesterday morning, and after setting up camp, I launched three attacks on the town of Walker in the afternoon, and the second and third times I took the city with flying horses, but the enemy was outnumbered on the walls, and we failed because there were too few people on the city. The Udinese Knights were disappointed to report his three defeats yesterday afternoon.

Pegasus throwing rope is to take advantage of the characteristics of the defense side of the city wall is not high, when the rider throws a hanging rope to hang on the wall, and uses the speed of the horse gallop to throw himself on the head of the city to seize the city wall, which is the elite of the grass barbarian tribe The best skill of the grass barbarian tribe, many imperial soldiers of the border ranger regiment have also learned this skill.

"What is the strength and condition of the garrison on the city walls?"

"Basically, they are all strong, estimated to be about 20,000. Except for five or six thousand veterans who are veterans of war, the rest are estimated to be strong laborers who have just been selected. They had a wide variety of weapons, and I saw many of the guards on the city walls holding scythes and other agricultural tools, and even saw women on them. The armor was very tattered, and most of them wore tattered leather jackets. But there were three or four hundred longbowmen among them, and they were responsible for half of our casualties. The Knight of Udinese replied honestly.

"My lord, I found that the walls of Walker Town are no more than five or six meters high, and they are also very thin. We can hit the wall tomorrow with a log-throwing tactic, and I'm sure we'll be able to bring it down soon. Lord Udinese has suffered from a lack of troops, and we now have the entire legion, and tomorrow if the walls are destroyed, these rebellious nobles will be finished. "Knight Marches is keenly aware of weaknesses in Walkertown's defenses.

"Very good...... "Hemmelrison nodded in approval, and was about to say something when a whimpering horn echoed in the distant sky, interrupting what he was about to say.

"What's going on?" the Hemerrison knight was startled, and he didn't even know that his whip had fallen.

In the distance, a dozen scouts galloped towards as if they were desperate, shouting in a tearing voice: "Enemy attack! enemy attack...... It's the Norton forces of the Northland and the Philim families attacking......"

The Hamerrison Knight's face turned pale and muttered, "This can't be ......"

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April 26, 1778 in the universal calendar of Galinthia. The four Northland Alliance families, led by the Norton family of the Northlands, gathered in the town of Walker in the province of Winston of the Iberian Kingdom and gathered and annihilated the First Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Fisabrun family.

Yes, the commander of the 1st Frontier Ranger Regiment, the golden three-star knight Hemerlison, was killed, the deputy commander and the commander of the 2nd Corps, the golden two-star knight Markes, was killed, and the 3rd Commander of the Golden Two-Star Knight Udinese was killed. The commander of the 3rd Corps, the silver three-star knight, Kalychuk, surrendered to the Norton forces. The First Frontier Ranger Regiment suffered more than 28,000 casualties and surrendered and captured more than 16,000 people, none of whom escaped the net. In the history of the Gallinthia Continental War, this battle is known as the Battle of the Annihilation of Walkertown.

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