Chapter 377: Two Bad News

Faced with the unusual geography of Bobiriqi Mountain, no one has come up with a way to overcome it. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Lorist was going to organize the family to climb the cliff at night to kill the defenders of the Fisabrun family while the enemy was unprepared, and cover the family forces to quickly pass the fork in the cliff, but this plan was opposed by almost every general under him. No one wanted Lorist to take such a risk.

Not to mention that these cliffs are forty or fifty meters high, and at such a height the slightest movement or negligence can turn into a catastrophe, let alone climb at night. Even if Lorist and they were able to climb the cliff smoothly, how many enemies would they face? 80,000! According to the old bandit's calculations, it would take half a day for the family forces to quickly pass through the fork in the cliff to reach the open area in the mountain, even if everything was unobstructed......

In other words, Lorist climbed the cliff to disperse the defenders above the fork in the road and was responsible for holding out for more than eight hours, which was not a task that could be completed at all. Lorist, in particular, they could not defend themselves at the risk of danger, but had to move at the same speed as the clan forces on the fork in the road below in order to be able to take care of them. This is even more cheating, because Lorist and they have a chance above, and the family forces below will not be able to escape, and if they are not wiped out, they can only be captured obediently.

Lorist is not a superman, and he knows this in his heart, even if he is a sword master, he can only retreat from a disciplined army of 10,000 people. It's very simple, no matter how powerful the Sword Master is, at most two or three thousand people will be overwhelmed by the remaining soldiers. Lorist was very sorry, he originally prepared a decapitation tactic, and he led people up the cliff to find trouble with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, as long as the old man was restrained or captured, maybe the 80,000 Fisabrun family forces would obediently lay down their weapons.

Of course, this is just Lorlist's fantasy, with the temperament of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, even if he falls into the hands of Lorlist, he will only fight to the death, and it is likely to give a death order for the Fisabrun family to launch an attack in order to die with Lorlist. They won't even face Lorist at all, and as soon as they find Lorlist, they will directly order the family forces to launch a counterattack......

Bodfinger said very reasonably, now we have the upper hand in terms of military superiority and family strength, whether it is a long-term confrontation or defending against the attack of the Fisabrun family's rangers, we are sure to win, not to mention anything else, just drag on for about a year, the four alliances of the Northland can easily support it, but the Fisabrun family is about to collapse due to lack of materials, after all, it takes a huge price to support an 80,000 family armed force in a state of war.

At present, the southern province has basically fallen into the hands of the four alliances of the Northlands, cutting off the trade route from the territory of the Fisabrun family to the four principalities in the middle, even if the Grand Duke of Fisabrun leads 80,000 family forces to occupy the Pobiriqi Mountain, it will not help, and the overall situation has been decided, no matter how much you jump, it is just a dying struggle. Since we have no intention of attacking the Eastern Wilderness Province, we can simply build a strong defensive line around the Pobiriqi Mountain, and the longer the time drags on, the more supplies of the Fisabrun family will be consumed, and the faster they will be defeated.

Lorist was a little unwilling, although Bodfinger said it lightly, but the Fisabrun family's occupation of Pobiriqi Mountain was indeed dragging most of the forces of the four alliances of the Northlands. In the original strategy plan for the Southern Province, after driving the Fisabrun family out of the Southern Province, build a castle fortress at the junction with the Eastern Wilderness Province to set up a blockade line, and Lorist was only going to arrange for the Rock Legion to be garrisoned, and then the Pegasus Legion of the Filim family could take over.

However, the current situation forced Lorist to deploy most of the forces of the four alliances of the Northlands here, which was almost twice as many men to guard against the forces of the Fisabrun family who occupied Pobiriki Mountain, leaving Lorist without a reserve of troops. Although the Norton family is wealthy, it is also a big burden for the Fisabrun family to consume materials for a longer time. It is believed that Baron Speer, who is in charge of the family's finances, will soon appear in front of him with a gloomy face.

Lorist felt a headache, but a dangerous geography like Bobiriki Mountain really couldn't order the family to attack, it was like ordering to die. The old guy has found a good place, and he has no choice but to do anything. After thinking about it, Lorist still took Bodfinger's suggestion, set up a defensive line first, and slowly dragged it down, and in the end, it would only be the Fisabrun family who couldn't stand it.

Lorist gave the task of defending the Fisabrun forces on Bobiriqi Mountain to the Rock Legion led by Bodfinger, and ordered the Pegasus Legion of the Filim family to assist. The Flying Tiger Legion led by Tiger Ross moved to the border line between the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province with the heavy armor corps of the Kenmis family, the light cavalry regiment of the Shaheen family, and the light infantry corps of the Shahin family, and established a blockade line according to the original plan.

Time flies quickly, three months have passed in the blink of an eye. This period of time was very peaceful, except for the occasional sneak attack and night attack on the defensive position of the Rock Legion under construction by the Fisabrun family armed forces on the hill of Bobiriqi, and there were no major clashes and engagements.

Seeing that it was already November and the weather was getting cold, Lorist wondered how the Fisabrun family on the hill of Bobiriqi was going to nest for the winter. The mountain is not as good as the mountain, and people can really freeze to death in winter. Lorist made several close reconnoiters, but found no sign of construction on the mountain, and called the old bandit over to inquire about it, and made sure that there were no large caves on the mountain, thinking that perhaps the Fisabrun family had built a large camp on the mountainside, and he could not see it.

But in this way, maybe it would be a good idea to launch a raid in the winter, considering that those soldiers of the Fisabrun family probably won't stand stupidly on the cliff and get frozen, and it's easy to be negligent about the defense of the fork in the road below, so when the snow closes the mountain, you can use skis to quickly break through the fork in the road to catch them off guard, and the Norton family forces have always insisted on winter training, and the steel crossbow is mounted on the sled, as long as a corps breaks into the Pobiriqi Mountain, it can change hands......

The more Rolist thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was good, and he was about to gather his generals to discuss it well, but he saw Shi Huade rushing into the camp in a panic: "Your Highness, Your Highness......"

"Calm down, what are you panicking, the sky hasn't fallen, you have to make sure that the landslide is in front of you and your face does not change, where have you practiced your kung fu on weekdays?"

"No, Your Highness, you see, the two new secret reports from the family territory are urgent!" Schward spread out two pieces of gray-white silk as thin as cicada wings on the table, and the silk was densely covered with words, which should have been sent by Xinying just now.

Loris looked at it, and felt that his head was a little blinded by a "buzz", and hurriedly picked up the silk to look at it carefully, the more he looked at it, the paler his face became, and there was a thought in his heart, day, fooled, this old guy of Fisabrun is really as treacherous as a fox, and he cleverly came to a golden cicada shell, he thought he was on the Bobiriqi Mountain, but he didn't know when he transferred to Makinohara Province, these two heavy blows really hit the key point of the Norton family, but at present, he has no troops to adjust......

The two silk letters sent by Schward were full of bad news, the first of which reported that the Chasseur had suffered heavy losses in the province of Makinogahara, that the commander of the regiment was seriously wounded by the commander of the Arrow, that of the deputy commander Yuri, and that the commander of the Third Corps, Pitt, had been killed in battle. The three corps were reduced to more than 30,000 men, and the cavalry hunting regiment could almost be said to be disabled, and now it has completely retreated to the eastern part of the Northland, and the Makinohara, which originally occupied most of the province, has been recaptured by the Fisabrun family......

The battle report briefly described the reasons for the defeat of the Chasseurs, since the Chasseurs defeated the Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Fisabrun family under the leadership of the Arrows Josk, they have occupied most of the area of Makinohara Province, and the Fourth Frontier Ranger Legion can only retreat to the east of the Sochus River to defend the river, and two-thirds of the Makinohara Province has become the territory of the Chashara Legion. In accordance with the pre-war instructions, the Chasseurs carried out a method to weaken the Fisabrun family, and all the lords of the Makinohara Province and the cattle and sheep grazing were forcibly relocated to the eastern part of the Northlands.

The 3rd Cavalry Corps and two chariot steel crossbow battalions, which had just been formed three days ago, carried out the task of sweeping the eastern grassland border of Makinohara Province under the leadership of the corps commander Pete, and the force of 21,000 people was more than enough to complete such a task, but they did not expect to be attacked by countless grass barbarian cavalry, and finally were trapped on an unknown high ground and had no choice but to release the letter eagle to urgently ask for help. Yuri, who received the letter for help, hurriedly led the Second Chasseur Corps to the rescue, but he didn't expect that this was the strategy of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to encircle the point and send reinforcements......

If it weren't for the arrival of the 1st Cavalry Corps led by the Arrowjack Josk, the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry Corps would have been wiped out. Pete had already been killed in battle, and Yuri was seriously wounded. Josk fought his way out of the siege with the remnants of his army, but he suffered heavy losses and fell from his horse because he blocked the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and sacrificed six or seven family silver knights to save him with great difficulty.

The battle report said that the number of besieging barbarian cavalry was estimated to be as high as about 100,000, and the surviving soldiers of the Chasseur Legion recalled that there were grassbarian cavalry everywhere, and the more they were killed. Moreover, the huge shield carts they had built of logs made the chariot steel crossbows useless, and all the Chasseur soldiers had to fight the barbarian cavalry in hand-to-hand combat. In addition, the Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Fisabrun family has been restored to full strength, but most of the brutal cavalry have joined this legion......

This is bad news, without the province of Makinobara, the cavalry army has suffered heavy losses, then the fortress city of Pietro City at the gap in the mountains and rivers of Winston Province and Makinohara Province will lose its shelter and protection, if the victorious Grand Duke of Fisabrun leads the barbarian cavalry to directly attack Pietro City and capture this city, then Winston Province is simply like a helpless girl trembling in front of the gangsters, if the city of Windbrie also falls, then all the efforts and sacrifices of the four alliances of the Northland will be in vain, and there is no other way but to withdraw the army back to Winston Province for a counteroffensive, and then the situation that has settled down in the southern province will return to the original state, the Fisabrun family will reconnect with the four central principalities.

The old guy is so powerful! Lorist is in a dilemma at this moment, the southern province can't draw troops, and the 80,000 troops of the Fisabrun family are gathered on the Pobiriqi Mountain, containing so many people from the four alliances of the Northland, if you return to the army, I am afraid that the blockade line that has been gradually built up in the past three months will be easily broken, after all, the Fisabrun family has now been locked out. And what Lorist was worried about was that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun would give him another strategy, and when he brought his troops back to reinforce him, the old man used a horse gun and led the barbarian cavalry to sweep through the southern provinces, and the result was equally bad.

"Where's Baron Farea?" Lorist remembered Farea, the commander of the Guards.

"This ......" Schward opened a notepad and quickly looked it up: "Your Highness, Lord Farea, seven days ago, inspected the castle fortress under construction on Seheik Hill, and after leaving, he returned to King Windbrie, and on the way to continue to inspect the construction of Xihu Town, and now he should return to King Windbrie." ”

"Immediately release the letter eagle and give Farea a command to hold on to the city of Pedro no matter what the cost. Then send a message to Count Shahin, informing him of the current state of the war, and asking him to send another family army to the aid of the city of Pydro. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. Schward turned and hurried out of the account.

Lorist let out a long sigh, "El, Reddy. ”

"Your Highness......" El and Reddy appeared in front of Lorist.

"Hear me, the old guy gave us a hard blow. Now I'm giving you a task, find a way to get me some people to live on the mountain, I want to know how many people are still armed by the Fisabrun family who are guarding the mountain, and how many people that old guy has taken away. Also, how are they going to spend the winter in the mountains?"

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

After El and Reddy were gone, Lorist sat down and picked up the second silk letter. This is a warning letter written by Tagger himself, and it is not good news, the letter says that the mountain barbarian tribe of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range is about to move, and it is very likely that the target of the captivity is the territory of the Norton family.

The Barbarian Tribe, that is a pain that Lorist does not want to touch in the bottom of his heart, and his past experience in the Barbarian Tribe, which made Lorist deliberately avoid some affairs related to the Barbarian Tribe. Although he had only been in the mountain barbarian tribe for a few months, Lorist also knew some information about the mountain barbarian tribe, such as the mountain barbarian tribe adjacent to the Norton family's territory, what is it called, the Habi Baba mountain barbarian tribe was competing with a big mountain barbarian tribe in another area for the position of "Big Strong Bason", so he didn't pay much attention to the movements in the Norton family's territory.

In the first few years after returning to the family domain, Lorist built a small watchtower fortress at the junction of the two mountains of the family territory and the Demon Dragon Mountains, and hired a mercenary group called Five Swords to defend it. Later, he escaped the pursuit and went to the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, and after he came back, he gave the sentry tower fortress at the junction of the two mountains to the five-sword mercenary group, so that it gradually developed into a small mercenary town exploring the Demon Dragon Mountain Range. It is said that the small town also intersected with the Shanban tribes, and became a source of exchange of goods and materials for the Shanban tribes.

Tagar's warning letter was the news from the small town that the mountain barbarian tribe was about to attack the Norton family territory and loot supplies, and the people in the small town were panicked, and many residents had withdrawn from the family territory. In addition, the person in charge of the trading point of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce in the eastern region of the Northland, which is responsible for purchasing and trading the materials of the mountain barbarian tribes, also wrote a secret letter, saying that the mountain barbarian tribes who are friendly with the trading house have revealed that a group of grass barbarians has come to the mountains, and their purpose is to hope that the various mountain barbarian tribes can unite to attack the territory of the Norton family......

Needless to say, it must have been the work of this old fellow Fisabrun. One move after another, worthy of being the prairie god of the year. Lorist pondered with a gloomy face, whether he should return to the family territory to stabilize people's hearts. The mountain barbarian tribe is not to be feared, and there are so many guard battalions in the family territory to ensure that nothing is safe. The only thing to worry about is whether Pydro City can hold on, which is the key to whether the Fisabrun family can turn around.

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