Chapter 391: Admitting defeat

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The young Seria fell to her knees on one knee and wept silently, and in front of her lay the coffin of the body of Captain Galini Belott of the 3rd Frontier Rangers. After a lot of hardships, he stumbled all the way back to the castle in the grasslands where the ice and snow melted, and the unbearable sadness and the shame of the surrender of the whole army to the enemy made Seria feel shameless to face his family and His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun was not shocked or furious, he just circled the coffin, step by step, and finally sighed, reached out and stroked the stiff and cold face of Bailouput, and muttered to himself: "I have harmed you, old man." If I could have withdrawn back to my family's territory on the spot, you wouldn't have died. It's just that I'm too greedy, obviously the situation is unfavorable, and I hope to take advantage of the favorable terrain of Bobiriqi Mountain to bargain with the four alliances of the Northland in the future, but I didn't expect to lose you and your three border defense rangers......"

The Grand Duke's face finally showed a look of depravity, everything was not going well. Since he left the Pobiriqi Mountains and returned to his family territory, he united with various grass barbarian tribes in the northeast steppe to send troops together, and rushed to Makinohara Province to reorganize the half-crippled Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment, and then ambushed the Norton family's hunting army in the Northland, and persuaded the grass barbarian cavalry army of more than 100,000 to attack Pietro City.

At that time, Grand Duke Fisabrun thought that he was capable of turning the tide and changing the disadvantageous situation of the family. He didn't expect to turn defeat into victory in the war with the four alliances of the Northland, he only hoped to mess up the wishful thinking of the four alliances of the Northlands to capture the Iberian Kingdom, his thoughts were the same as those wayward bear children, anyway, I can't get it, and you can't think of it. Attracting the barbarian tribes to raid Winston Province is to make trouble for the four families in the Northlands, and make the situation as chaotic as possible, and no one wants to take advantage. Only in this way can the Fisabrun family make the four alliances of the Northland dare not underestimate and will not be wiped out.

It's just that I didn't expect that the army of more than 100,000 grass barbarian cavalry was unexpectedly anticlimactic, attacking a city of Pietro defended by only 3,000 people, and injuring 20,000 or 30,000 horses, the morale dropped greatly, and the morale was greatly reduced, and the defense was impregnable, and the grass barbarian army was perfunctory for more than ten days, and the patriarchs of the various grass barbarian tribes began to discuss the matter of withdrawing the army and returning to Wodong.

At that moment, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun really hated iron and steel, so he simply did not do two things and adopted the second plan, united all the grass barbarian tribes that submitted to the Fisabrun family, and raided the most powerful Crinubun grass barbarian tribe the night before the withdrawal. Then the Grand Duke of Fisabrun went back with the subservient barbarian tribe to divide up the inheritance of the Krinubi tribe.

The situation is already obvious, since the Fisabrun family will be suppressed in the family territory by the four alliances of the Northland, and they can't leave the Northeast Prairie, then they should sort out those powerful grass barbarian tribes on the grassland in advance, so as not to cause trouble to the family after the power of the Fisabrun family is reduced. By the way, you can also suck blood from these powerful grass barbarian tribes to make up for the loss of the family, anyway, the people who attack these powerful grass barbarian tribes are all grass barbarian tribes who are subservient to the family, and more seizures are given to some bones to watch dog eat dog, and the family has no loss, so why not?

At the end of last year, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was busy with this matter, and after settling the interior, he would think about dealing with the four alliances of the Northland, the prairie was vast and immense, and the Grand Duke was sure that the four alliances of the Northland would not easily set foot in his family territory, and the future confrontation would only take place in Makinohara Province. On the border between the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province, the armed forces of the four alliance families in the north are building defense facilities and digging trenches to cut off communication, and the Grand Duke concluded that the four alliances of the north are adopting the strategy of defending the south and attacking the east, which is gradually compressing the territory and living space of the Fisabrun family......

Therefore, the Pobirichi Mountain in the Southern Province has become the only strategic place where the Fisabrun family has an advantage, which can be attacked and defended, and can also be used to send troops to make the Southern Province chaotic, to defend the third frontier ranger regiment on the Pobiriqi Mountain, it is necessary to garrison several times the heavy troops, as long as the time drags on, no one in the four alliances of the Northland can stand such a huge war attrition, and then the Grand Duke of Fisaburun will sit on the table of peace talks and strive for some decent conditions for the family to end this lost war.

It's just that they didn't expect the Norton family to send troops in winter, and took a big risk to take a big detour through the Eastern Wilderness Province to capture Pobiriqi Mountain from the back mountain, forcing the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment to lay down its arms and surrender, giving the Fisabrun family a hard blow. Grand Duke Fisabrun did not blame the Commander of the White Lottes, who had already apologized for his crimes, and he could imagine that no one would be able to resist in that situation, and that not surrendering would only be a needless slaughter.

"You shouldn't have killed yourself, old fellow......" Archduke Fisabrun sighed again, stroked the cold face of the Legion Commander of the White Pop for the last time, and left the coffin.

"Arise, Seriya, you have done your duty, worthy of the honor of a knight of the House of Fisabrun. Tell me about your meeting with Lorlist, the Grand Duke of the Norton Northlands, and make every word you say clear, so that I can think about what he meant? Archduke Fisabrun made a gesture of lifting, and motioned for Seria to rise up and reply.

Seria wiped the tears from her face with her cloak, stood up, and recounted the meeting between him and Lorlist, trying to remember everything Lorist had said.

After a long silence, Grand Duke Fisabrun waved his hand weakly: "Seria, you have worked hard all the way, go and freshen up first and rest for a few days." I have taken your credit to heart, you are still young, and you are the hope for the future of our family. Cultivate well, keep in mind this experience and tribulation, the future of the family still needs the efforts of your younger generation......"

"Yes, I will definitely work hard to cultivate and serve the family. Seria excitedly saluted the Grand Duke and retreated.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk......" Grand Duke Fisabrun sat in the study and gently tapped the middle finger of his left hand on the table top, showing a wry smile while contemplating, Seria said that the scene of meeting Lorist, it is obvious that Lorist is conveying such a meaning to him, the general trend of the Fisabrun family has gone, now it depends on whether the Grand Duke of Fisabrun knows each other and admits defeat, and there is still a way to survive if he obediently pats the Norton family's sycophants, otherwise don't blame him for tearing his face and beating the water dogs to kill them all.

"Hmph, this sinister, cunning, vicious and unscrupulous boy, you don't want me to submit, don't want to bully the head of the Fisabrun family!" Grand Duke Fisabrun snorted heavily, filled his chest with anger. Returning Lorlist's description of him as it was, although neither of them had heard each other's slander, but at this moment it was indeed a heart, the only difference was that the old man was changed to a brat, and both of them regarded each other as their biggest opponents in life.

But it's useless to be angry, Grand Duke Fisabrun knows very well in his heart that his family is now a strong outsider, and the surrender of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment is a more serious blow to the family than the total annihilation of the First Frontier Ranger Regiment. The First Frontier Ranger Regiment can also claim that the four alliances of the Northland have designed an ambush with insidious and vicious design, and the legionnaires have fought bravely and unyieldingly to the death, and the entire army has been wiped out, after all, the four alliances of the Northland are undeclared and have taken the Fisabrun family by surprise.

But the Third Frontier Rangers were forced to surrender, and the family had to pay to send messengers to ransom the knights and their own people, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun believed Seria very much, and it was his own relatives that the dereliction of duty of his cousin Volio led to the destruction of the entire legion. But he couldn't help it when he was angry now, it was the decision of the family elders to put his relatives in charge of the logistics of the various legions, and they thought that only in this way could they take charge of the various legions and make them loyal to the Fisabrun family.

Not all members of the Fisabrun family are dedicated to the family, like his second daughter, the queen of the Iberian kingdom is bent on opposing her father, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun feels a headache when he thinks of the second daughter who has returned to his family territory. The good queen didn't do it, and she unexpectedly opened a brothel camp, which made her old face all lost. Now I have wandered around Jinchuan again, thinking that there is money in the gold mines there, and there will be a lot of money......

Grand Duke Fisabrun sat in his study for a long time, thinking about how to break the game. Next, the Fisabrun family is likely to endure humiliation and live a hard life in the family territory, and the four alliances of the Northland have cut off all external communication links in the family territory. At present, the family only has the Second Frontier Ranger Regiment in the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan Region and the Fourth Frontier Ranger Regiment defending Makinohara Province, with nearly 100,000 horses in the two legions, plus 20,000 ironclad garrison corps stationed in the Tiger Castle and more than 1,000 guards around him......

Although the Fisabrun family still has 120,000 family troops, it is still a little tight to defend the three huge provinces. Fortunately, at the end of last year, when sweeping away those barbarian tribes that threatened the family, Grand Duke Fisabrun selected nearly 20,000 barbarian cavalry from the subjugated barbarian tribes to prepare to form a new reserve army as a killer weapon to suppress the grassland. Then, even if it is jointly invaded by the grass barbarian tribe, the family still has the power to fight back. It's just that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the current family are okay to deal with the grass barbarians on the grassland, but it will not be enough to attack the defense line of the four families in the north.

The defense is more than enough, the offense is insufficient, this is the current situation of the Fisabrun family. What's more, the Second Frontier Ranger Regiment guarding the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan areas is absolutely immovable, and the gold mines in the Greater and Lesser Jinchuan areas are the guarantee for the rise of the Fisabrun family, and many of the elders of the family have suggested that the center of the family be relocated to Gimchuan Province, but the Grand Duke of Fisabrun rejected this proposal considering that Jinchuan Province is far from the central territory of the former empire and is worried that the Fisabrun family will be marginalized.

"Go and call me for Celivia. Grand Duke Fisabrun instructed the attendants outside the study.

It can be said that the person who hurt Lorist the most in the war against the Fisabrun family was Princess Celevia, who was bent on marrying Lorliste and went on a hunger strike because of the refusal of the Grand Duke of Cisabrun. But poor Cilivia never expected that her lover would make an undeclared war against her family, leading the family forces of the four alliances of the Northland to sweep through the Iberian Kingdom, beating her grandfather, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, to the brink of defeat, and fleeing all the way back to the family territory, causing heavy losses to the family.

When the Great War broke out last May, the First Frontier Ranger Regiment was wiped out, the city of Windbrie fell, and the news reached the castle of Tiger Castle that the Grand Duke had fled back to the Southern Province, Princess Celivia had a hard time. Some of the family members of the First Frontier Ranger Regiment who knew or were worried about the whereabouts of their loved ones began to secretly curse Princess Celivia as a broom star, and she was unlucky wherever she appeared. In the past, when she went to the Northland, the second prince was defeated by the Norton family's armed forces, and the 100,000-strong army was wiped out. Now she is going to marry the Norton family, and as a result, the Norton family forces have swept through the Iberian kingdom......

After the news that the four principalities in the middle sent reinforcements to join forces with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, the curse became schadenfreude, everyone believed that the alliance of the four northlands would soon be defeated, and some people even said in front of Princess Celivia that soon the boy of the Norton family would be captured by the Grand Duke and become the shepherd slave of the Fisabrun family, and then Princess Cilivia would not have to marry so far away, and she could see her lover every day in her family territory......

But soon the news of the defeat of the coalition army reached the family territory, which was simply a living slap in the face. So ridicule and schadenfreude turned to swearing. Princess Celivia suffered a lot of grievances and accusations from her clansmen, and her whole person lost a lot of weight.

"Celevia, you're thin again. Are those people making things difficult for you again?" asked the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, looking lovingly at Princess Celevia.

"No, grandpa, it's okay, I'm used to it. ”

"I'm sorry, Celivia, it's none of your business. This war didn't happen because of you, either. We, the Fisabrun family, want to rise and dominate the northeastern region of the former empire. In the same way, the four alliances of the Northlands are also going to rise, which is why they are at war with our family. It's an inevitable competition, and none of us can escape it. Grand Duke Fisabrun said with deep feelings.

Princess Celivia nodded, silently, on one side was the person she loved, and on the other side was her family, she was caught in the middle of the two ends of the gas, and she was almost numb.

"I want you to go to the Norton family in the Northlands. Said Grand Duke Fisabrun.

"What did you say?" Princess Celivia looked up in surprise.

"There is no way," said Grand Duke Fisabrun with a wry smile, "our family has been defeated, the overall situation has been decided, and there is no power to return to the sky. I hope you go to the Norton family and have a good discussion with that kid, don't be so ruthless, and cut so much meat on the Fisabrun family, after all, the Fisabrun family is the main force of the former empire to suppress the grass barbarian tribes on the northeast steppe, without the Fisabrun family, the grass barbarians will harass and invade the imperial border all the time. Let that kid think about it. ”

Grand Duke Fisabrun let out a long sigh: "Celivia, Grandpa regrets that he shouldn't have rejected that kid's proposal to you, otherwise maybe this war wouldn't have happened." At this point, it's too late to regret it. You went to the Northland this time, mainly for three things, one is to redeem the captured family knights and clansmen, and the other is to let the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce restore the supply of salt and living materials to the family territory. The last point is to find a way to convince the boy to allow us to redeem the soldiers of the 3rd Frontier Ranger Regiment who have surrendered, and we need them to deal with and suppress the barbarian tribes of the steppe. ”

After a pause, Grand Duke Fisabrun said a little bitterly: "Celevia, you go and pack your clothes and luggage, and bring as much as you can, I will allow you to stay there and not come back this time......"

"Grandpa, you ......" Princess Celivia was stunned, didn't mean it......

"So be it, I'll be ready with the escorts and negotiators, and you'll leave as soon as the rainy season is over. Archduke Fisabrun did not look at Princess Celevia, turned and waved his hand and walked out of the study, disappearing outside the door.

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