Chapter 213: The Royal Capital

On May 4, 1772 in the year of the year 1772 of the Gaylintyan calendar, the Norton family of the Northlands dispatched 24,000 elite family troops to suddenly appear under the city of Windbri, the royal capital of the Iberian Kingdom, and surrounded the entire city. They claimed that the purpose of this expedition was to capture the king of the Iberian Kingdom, the second prince of the former Cresson Empire, Iberia, because he had despicably sent the Great Swordsman to assassinate the head of the Norton family, and accepted the title of Count of Norton from the Andinac royal family.

The guards of a brigade defending the royal capital laid down their arms and surrendered to Kaesong, first, the difference in strength was too great, the ratio of offensive and defensive forces was almost close to ten to one, and everyone knew that there was no chance of victory in the resistance. The second is that the equipment of the garrison can be called a generation difference compared with the Norton family's armament, especially when the steel crossbows on the 1,000 chariots are more than 200 meters away and the iron crossbow arrows fired are deeply inserted into the city wall, all the garrisons have lost the confidence to resist.

In the end, the Golden Knight, who claimed to be Tiger Ross, gave an ultimatum to the garrison to finally decide to surrender in Kaesong, because the Golden Knight said that if the garrison did not surrender, then even if they were killed in battle, the Norton family would not let go of their families living in the city, so if these garrisons want to resist, please think about their families first......

When he entered the royal capital to take over the city defense and strictly prohibit entry and exit, the second prince, who was hiding in the Rose Palace, had already learned the news of the Norton family's entry into the city. This was like a bolt from the blue for the second prince. The absence of the Great Sword Master of Calinan has made the second prince restless, and there is a faint sense of foreboding in his heart. But the second prince still believed that his teacher would not miss, after all, he was a half-step peak swordsman, and the biggest possibility was that he was injured a little during the assassination and found a place to recuperate.

As a result, the second prince did not expect it. The left can't wait for the return of the great sword master of Calinon, and the right can't wait for the news of the accident of the Norton family master, but waits for the news that the Norton family sent troops to retaliate for their capture of the royal capital. The frightened second prince killed the servant woman who came to report the news with a sword, stripped off her clothes and covered himself, and left the Rose Palace in hiding disguised as a woman and went to the slums.

Hiding in the slums was a good idea, and the second prince knew that the average aristocratic armed man had no interest in robbing these poor people who were stinking and penniless. They should be more interested in the looting of those commercial districts, commoner districts and aristocratic and wealthy areas. But the second prince underestimated the moral lower limit of the Norton family's armament, and money also needs people. Poor people like the Slums are the best human resources for the Norton family to develop the Northlands. As long as these paupers had a stable propertied life in the Northland, they would become the most loyal supporters of the Norton family.

So the second prince, who was dressed in the clothes of a servant woman but had a mustache, stood out as much as a chicken. Unfortunately, the Norton soldiers sent to the slums to relocate the slums did not know the famous Iberian king, and they were curious about the man dressed as a woman. Part of the speculation is whether this man is a pervert or not. Others speculate whether the person is a ...... among same-sex lovers

At this time, several exploratory Norton soldiers were ready to touch the two eggs under this guy, and the other soldiers who also had same-sex tendencies were excited and eager to try to pull this fellow friend into the next room for an in-depth exchange. Faced with the critical moment of chrysanthemum's insecurity, the second prince finally gave in, and he shouted that he was the king of the Iberian kingdom and demanded to be treated in the same capacity......

No one listened to him, as a king and the second prince of the former empire. His body is particularly well maintained, with fine skin and tender meat. Fair-skinned and smooth, for those soldiers with same-sex hobbies, this is simply a stunner given to them by God! These guys who are full of beastly desires have red eyes at the moment, and they don't care to listen to what he shouts. It wasn't until I had vented my desires and regained consciousness that I remembered that this dying guy on the ground seemed to have said something just now, and he was the king......

The second prince was presented in front of Tiger Rose and Malek in this way, and when he found a few nobles to confirm that the guy in front of him who was still bleeding with a smooth butt was the second prince, even Tiger Rose, who had always been very arrogant, was speechless, so he had to find a few pharmacists to pour healing potions on the second prince to save his life.

After receiving the news that the Norton family soldiers went out to the north to capture the royal capital of Windbri, the two border ranger regiments of the troops in Pydro City were quickly dispatched under the leadership of the great swordsman Viscount Christopher, and it took only three days and two nights to rush to the royal capital, blocking the Norton family forces in Windbri City.

Viscount Christopher was very conscious, he did not attack the royal capital, but relied on the mobility of the rangers to trap the Norton family in the city. Perhaps his 20,000 rangers would not be able to confront the Norton forces of equal strength. However, Viscount Christopher believed that even if the Norton forces wanted to retreat, he would not let the Norton forces take the wealth and supplies of the royal capital.

Five days have passed, the two sides are still facing off, and Viscount Christopher is not in a hurry at all. For him, the longer the time drags on, the better. One is that he knows that the food reserves in the royal capital Windbri City are limited, and most of the grain in Winston Province is in the hands of the lord, and when the Norton family forces in the city run out of food, they will collapse without a fight, then he can easily reap the victory. Second, he had sent a messenger to inform the Grand Duke of Fisabrun that in five or six days the Grand Duke would personally lead two regiments of border rangers to come to the rescue, and then the Norton family would be like a turtle in an urn, and would no longer be able to escape.

But Viscount Christopher did not expect that the Norton family forces in Windbury City suddenly went out the next day, putting on a posture of breaking through the whole army to seek a field battle. Viscount Christopher placed a regiment of border rangers on the front and another on the flank, ready to turn to both flanks after a little resistance, insisting on the tactical means of harassing and delaying the enemy's advance.

However, it was only then that the trumpets sounded around made Viscount Christopher realize that it were his two border ranger regiments that became the turtles in the urn. As the battlefield space compressed, the two border rangers were finally besieged by nearly 50,000 elite troops of the Norton family, the Shahin family, and the Philim family in a narrow space under the royal capital of Windbri.

Seeing that the three major families in the north were in no hurry to attack after encircling the two border ranger regiments. Instead, he kept digging trenches and connecting them, and Viscount Christopher knew that this time there might be more bad luck. Without the space to maneuver around the battlefield, the Rangers will not be able to exert their maximum combat power. In order to survive. Viscount Christopher personally led his troops to launch a decisive charge, hoping to open a passage to survive, but three breakthroughs were all suffered heavy casualties under long-range fire from chariots, steel crossbows and longbowmen, and returned defeated.

Looking at the Rangers, whose morale was extremely low, Viscount Christopher finally made a decision, he came to the battle formation of the three armed families in the Northland with a single sword, and asked for a duel. If he wins, he hopes that the three families in the Northland can let the remaining 14,000 or so Rangers live, and he will be at his disposal. If he loses. He told the rangers to dismount and surrender.

Although both Henneard and Baron Philim expressed their resolute opposition, Lorist insisted on agreeing to Viscount Christopher's request and personally went forward to compete with him in a duel.

As a first-class great swordsman, Viscount Christopher and Lorist were desperate to find that he was probably not the opponent of the young earl who was in charge of the Norton family. His swordsmanship is as cold as winter. Let himself feel as if he was in the ice and snow, the sword light is like a fluttering snowflake pervasive, seemingly light, but when the two swords intersect, it is as thick as the earth, which makes him involuntarily recall the feeling when he practiced swords with his adoptive father, Grand Duke Fisabrun, and now he finally believes the rumor that the second prince sent the great swordsman of Calinon to assassinate the Earl of Norton and was killed after the assassination failed.

Viscount Christopher, who had resisted more than 200 moves, was finally picked up by Lorist with his sword, and in frustration ordered the onlookers to dismount and surrender, and the remaining more than 14,000 Rangers silently obeyed Viscount Christopher's orders. Became a prisoner of war for the Norton family.

After eliminating the two Rangers, whom Lorist considered a nuisance, Lorist kept his word. Ordered two battalions of chariots and crossbows to assist the Shahins and Philim in raiding the lords' castles and manors. Lorist emphasized that the most important thing is grain and grass, and only with grain territory can it be stable, and the Norton family is willing to buy the grain looted by the two of them at market price.

After entering the royal capital, Lorist went to see the second prince who was still walking with his ass pouting for the first time. This is the first time the two have met, Lorist laughed dumbly after hearing what happened to the second prince, he knew why bother today, and now he is looking for his own fate, and he can't complain about others. Lorist ignored the second prince's cold serpent-like gaze, spat disdainfully, and walked away without even bothering to say a word.

In this capture of the royal capital of Windbri, Lorist gave several orders that seemed strange to the world, first, he was very respectful to the queen who still lived in the Rose Palace, and specially arranged for the family soldiers to be in charge of guarding. Second, except for the evacuation of a few warehouses belonging to the royal family in the city of Windbrie, there was no crime against the nobles and wealthy people in the royal capital, neither robbery nor extortion.

Third, this time the Norton family did not relocate all the civilians in the royal capital as before, but only forcibly relocated tens of thousands of poor people and some civilian craftsmen in the slums, so that some nobles also sighed that the air in the royal capital was fresher, and the Norton family forcibly relocated those lowly poor people was really a good deed, and it did a great deed for the royal capital, which deserves to be commended.

The only thing that embarrassed these nobles was that the young Earl Norton had a very small heart and a great sense of revenge, so he erected a pillar in the central square of the royal capital, and then hung the cross with the corpse of the great swordsman of Calinan on it, and hung it on it to let the sun and rain shine, and also hung a wooden sign underneath, saying that Calam, as a third-level great swordsman, obeyed the instructions of the second prince and went to assassinate the lord, which was really despicable and shameless, etc. This made those nobles and wealthy people who were once proud of having a third-level great sword master sitting in the royal capital feel like they had been slapped in the face.

On 19 May, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, who had led two Frontier Ranger regiments to the aid of him, received the news that Viscount Christopher had been defeated and captured, and that the two Frontier Ranger regiments under his command had been wiped out. At the same time, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun also sent a messenger to the royal capital to ask for an audience with Lorist.

Lorist met with the messenger and explained that the dispatch was only aimed at the personal feud between the second prince and the Norton family, and that the Norton family had no intention of destroying the Iberian kingdom, so he treated the nobles of the royal capital with courtesy without the slightest offense. Then he personally took the messenger to meet Her Majesty the Queen of the Rose Palace, and confirmed that the daughter of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, Her Majesty the Queen of the Kingdom of Iberia, was living at ease, and was even in the mood to hold a grand ball with the nobles of the royal capital.

However, Lorist also refused two of the Courier's demands, one of which was the ransom of Viscount Christopher and the 14,000 Rangers who had been captured. Lorist thought that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun would only be able to send someone to negotiate the ransom after they had withdrawn their troops back to the Norton family's territory, and that it was not appropriate to discuss the matter now that the family's armed operations were not over.

The second request is about the life and death of the second prince, and Lorist firmly disagrees with handing over the second prince, but can guarantee that the Norton family will only imprison the second prince and will not kill him, because the Norton family does not want to bear the reputation of killing the king. As for the absence of a king in the Kingdom of Iberia, Lorist showed that it was not his responsibility. He was only a count of the Kingdom of Antinac, and he had a personal vendetta with the second prince, and he would not meddle in the internal affairs of the Iberian Kingdom......

The Courier had never heard such a brazen statement, and was immediately stunned by Lorlist's cheekiness. The messenger who replied angrily rebuked Lorist, all the misfortunes of the Iberian Kingdom were related to the Norton family, the Duke of Lukins in the distance, and the second prince in the nearest......

Lorist shrugged and retorted, the Norton family has always guarded the Northland frontier for the former empire, and they have been conscientious, and they don't want to cause trouble to anyone in the troubled times, but the Grand Duke of the Northland and the second prince are not able to provoke themselves, so the Norton family has to fight back. But now to discuss these is to say that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law is reasonable, and there is no need to spend these tongues and tongues.

As for the fact that there is no king in the Iberian kingdom, Lorist came up with an idea, isn't the son of the king and queen in the hands of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun? When they withdraw the army, they take the second prince away, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun can push the child to the throne, and he himself becomes the regent, so that he can control the real power of the Iberian Kingdom, except that he does not provoke the four great families of the Northland, then everyone can live in peace.

After the messenger left, Lorist stayed in the royal capital for another ten days before leading the family forces on a journey back to the Northlands. The family armies of Baron Shaheen and Philim were so happy to loot that they swept away almost two-thirds of Winston Province, and the endless supply of grain, grass, goods and other carriages transporting supplies was connected into an endless river of vehicles on the road. In addition to these, they also coerced nearly 200,000 civilians to move to the Northlands, all of whom were lords of Winston Province......

A day after the Norton family withdrew from the royal capital, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, who had maintained a tacit understanding, led his army to recover the city of Windbri. When the three families of the Northland spent two months carrying the materials and relocating the personnel back to the Northland, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, who was in charge of the ruling power of the Iberian Kingdom for the first time, finally couldn't stand the endless quarrels and quarrels, and threw the ruling power to his daughter, Her Majesty the Queen of the Iberian Kingdom, and returned to the family territory of the Eastern Wilderness Province to escape.

This time, the three Northland families cooperated to rob Winston Province one by one, and except for the harvest of the royal capital Windbri City, which was owned by the Norton family alone, the rest of the looted materials and civilians who moved to the Northland were all divided equally by the three families. Lorist threw the rations, food, and hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the care of Tiger Rose and Marek, and hurried to the Rock Castle with the battalion of guards, for Miss Theresti was about to give birth......

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