Chapter 480: Sober

On July 11, 1787, the king of the Kingdom of Antinac, Ogseiro I, gathered a million-strong army to recover the provinces of Swov, Portoorg, Cambona and Northwest (i.e., the Northwest Territories), and approached the borders of the commercial alliance, demanding that the merchant alliance return the Armenian provinces and Marivia provinces, two former provinces of the Cresson Empire, to the Duchy of Rum, determined to unify the empire again and revive the Cresson Empire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After the 100,000 reinforcements sent by the Business Alliance to Cambona Province were annihilated by the Norton Family's armed Flying Tiger Legion of the Kingdom of Antinac, they hurriedly reached an armistice agreement with the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in Central and South China, mobilized six main armed army corps of the Chamber of Commerce from the central and southern parts of the continent, recruited garrison troops from all over the country, and invited the Allied Kingdom of Qigeda to send reinforcements, and gathered more than 500,000 troops to confront the million-strong army of the Antinac Kingdom on the border front line between the two provinces.

On 13 August, the Merchant Alliance sent an envoy to the camp of the White Lion Legion in the Kingdom of Antinac, declaring its readiness to negotiate a peace agreement with Augesello I to settle the territorial dispute between the two countries. Augercello I was overjoyed, and in order to show his sincerity in the peace talks, he specially laid out a ten-mile peace road covered with white sand to welcome the arrival of the envoys of the commercial alliance.

Ogseiro I, who was bent on peace talks, did not expect that the envoys sent by the commercial alliance to negotiate a peace agreement was only a nominal pretense, but in fact, he secretly harbored evil intentions and sent the Tempest Sword Saint to accompany him, wanting to hold the king of the Kingdom of Antinac hostage in the negotiations, Augercello I, and the elite nobles of the kingdom to go to the capital of the commercial alliance, Moldon, to force them to sign a humiliating surrender agreement.

Even in the course of the talks, the Business Alliance suddenly sent troops to attack the garrison of the Andinac Kingdom army in five directions, hoping to achieve the goal of defeating the million-strong army of the Andinac Kingdom that had lost its command and adaptability in one fell swoop when Ogceiro I and the elite nobles of the Andinac Kingdom were held hostage by the Storm Sword Master, and remove its threat to the commercial alliance.

If all goes well, then the Kingdom of Antinac will no longer pose any threat to the commercial alliance for a hundred years, and even the entire kingdom's economy and commerce will be controlled by the commercial alliance. But what I didn't expect was that at the most critical moment, Norton Lorlist, the Grand Duke of the Northlands, stepped forward and fought with the Storm Sword Saint and lost both, the Storm Sword Saint was severely injured and fled in embarrassment, and it is reported that it will take more than three years to fully recover. At this point, the plot of the merchant alliance to hold Augeceiro I and the elite nobles of the Kingdom of Andinac hostage was shattered.

In the case of a surprise attack by the five-way army of the commercial alliance, the million-strong army of the Andinac Kingdom, which was unguarded because of the peace talks, suffered heavy losses and fled all the way. However, the Norton family's armed Rock Legion firmly held the forward camp position by virtue of its geographical advantage, and inflicted great casualties on the invading business alliance forces. The merchant alliance armed forces gathered 300,000 troops from three routes to storm the camp of the Rock Legion for nearly a month, and finally returned defeated, and the Rock Legion became famous all over the world.

Because the Rock Legion involved most of the offensive forces of the commercial alliance, Ogceiro I gained time to gather and reorganize the defeated army, after a month, Ogceiro I gathered more than 600,000 troops again to make a comeback, and Ogceiro I, who was enraged by the conspiracy of the commercial alliance, broke his will in public, and vowed to use blood to wash away the shame that the commercial alliance gave to himself and the Kingdom of Antinac, and the commercial alliance would not die. Not to be outdone, the merchant alliance gathered an army of 400,000 to fight fiercely in the provinces of Armenia and Marivia, and the two sides won and lost each other.

On October 23, the Norton family's armed Flying Tiger Legion and Cavalry Hunting Legion suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and they were invincible all the way. The forces of the merchant alliance were defeated in successive battles, losing more than 100,000 troops, unable to resist the advance of the Norton family's armed forces, and had to withdraw from the provinces of Armenia and Marivia, and retreat to the plains of Faliqiu.

During the retreat, the Merchant Alliance's armed forces were attracted by the Norton armed forces, ignoring Augercello I, who was watching from the sidelines. As a result, Ogseiro I took advantage of the light cavalry power of the Frontier Ranger Legion of the Fisabrun family, the reserve legion and the Pegasus Legion of the Filim family, and made a surprise attack, attacked the withdrawal ranks of the merchant alliance forces at night, intercepted the head and tail, and assaulted in the middle, and then the army covered the killing, and the merchant alliance forces were defeated, with heavy losses of 240,000 people.

After this battle, Ogseiro I ordered nearly 1,000 captured merchant alliance nobles to be slaughtered, and then marched to the Mana Hill Plain, opening the prelude to the bloody attack and defense of the Mana Hill Plain for two years. The commercial alliance was greatly damaged after this battle, and the internal turmoil began, known as the first power in the Gelinthia continent, but it was instantly beaten by the Antinac Kingdom to show the original form of military exhaustion, and the six giants and six chambers of commerce in charge of the commercial alliance could only barely maintain the defensive front of the Mana Hill Plain due to heavy losses in troops......

In the history of the war of the Gelinthia continent, because the commercial alliance violated the unwritten aristocratic tradition of not sending troops to attack during the peace talks, it began with the gathering of a million-strong army by Ogseiro I of the Antinac Kingdom on the border of the commercial alliance and ended with the defeat of the retreating army of the merchant alliance armed forces by light cavalry night raid.

In this war that changed the situation of the entire continent, the most legendary and controversial was Norton Lorlist, Grand Duke of the Northland of the Kingdom of Antinac, who challenged the famous Storm Sword Saint Master Magroot at the age of less than forty years old, and severely damaged the Storm Sword Saint in less than a quarter of an hour, although he was also seriously wounded, this battle made him famous all over the world. This is the only newly promoted Sword Master in the mainland in the past fifty years, especially since he is not yet forty years old, which is also the most questioned and controversial place.

In the records of the Sword Saint in the Gallinthia Continent for nearly a thousand years, the youngest to be promoted to the Sword Saint was sixty-eight years old, which was already known as the most amazing and brilliant figure in the past thousand years, he was Master Cameron, who was respected as the Cloud Saint more than three hundred years ago. But now Norton Lorlist, Grand Duke of the Northland, has broken this record, which is also questioned and disputed. You must know that His Royal Highness the Grand Duke is not yet forty years old, and it is said that what he cultivates is not the ancestral blood attribute fighting qi of the Norton family, but the cultivation secret technique of the Eastern warrior monks during the ancient magic civilization.

Regardless of whether His Royal Highness the Grand Duke was cultivating the orthodox Dou Qi inheritance or the cultivation secret technique of the lost Eastern Warrior Monk, it was undeniable that he fought with the Storm Sword Saint and severely damaged the Storm Sword Saint. Although His Royal Highness the Grand Duke was also seriously wounded, his ability to rival the Storm Sword Saint gave the Antinac Kingdom the courage and confidence to fight against the Commercial Alliance, and the Antinac Kingdom also had a Zhenguo Sword Saint. It's a pity that as soon as the Tempest Sword Master returned to Moldant City, he lived in seclusion and couldn't get his comments on His Highness the Grand Duke of the Northlands.

According to Lord Count Boled, the eldest disciple of the Storm Sword Saint, the Storm Sword Saint said that the Grand Duke of the Northland had indeed become a Sword Saint, and his domain was very strange, full of blood and murderous aura, just like a blood domain. It is conceivable that the Grand Duke of the Northland must be a bloody and vicious man. However, Lord Count Boled then said that the Grand Duke of the Northland was hit by the Storm Sword Saint in the chest, and the injuries were only more serious, and his recovery time would be longer than that of the Storm Sword Master. The Storm Sword God said that after recovering from his injuries, he would find the Grand Duke of the Northland to duel in order to repay him for the humiliation of being severely injured this time.

Norton Lorlist, the Grand Duke of the Northlands, who was seriously injured after the battle with the Tempest Sword Master, also disappeared without a trace, and it is estimated that he should have recovered from his injuries. In the entire battle of the Alliance, the Norton family performed particularly well, the Rock Legion held the camp and turned the tide, the Flying Tiger Legion marched wildly, and the Hunter Cavalry gathered and scattered like the wind to attack everything. It can be said that it was the three legions of the Norton family that laid the foundation for the great victory of the Kingdom of Antinac over the forces of the Commercial Alliance.

After the Battle of the Alliance, it was rumored that the Business Alliance had organized a fifteen-member swordsman assassination team to sneak into the Northlands to assassinate Norton Lorlist, the mortally wounded Grand Duke of the Northlands. The Norton family's records do record many of the Norton family's armed encounters and the discovery of hostile swordsmen during that period. However, it is doubtful that during that period, the high-ranking officials of the Norton family, the family knights and the families and children of the Grand Duke of the Northland were not assassinated or injured, which shows that this is just a rumor. The main reason for this is probably that the Northland Grand Duke lost contact with the family after being injured and found a place to recuperate, so that the Norton family began to feel uneasy and eventually broke out into a civil strife.

Because of the family's internal strife, the Norton family's armed three legions that were conquering the Plains of Mana Hill embarked on a journey back to the Northlands. The army of the Kingdom of Antinac, which lost the help of the three armed legions of the Norton family, lacked stamina and was unable to conquer the three remaining fortress cities and the city of Moriente on the Falcan Hill Plain of the Commercial Alliance, so the bloody offensive and defensive battle of the Faldund Plain entered a brutal confrontation stage. Neither the Kingdom of Antinac nor the Commercial Alliance expected that in the next year and a half, both sides would lose two or three hundred thousand elite soldiers each on this blood-covered plain. It is a war without a final victor......

――――Excerpt from "The Rise of the Angry Bear Dynasty - Prequel: The Fall of the Empire" by Sir Andwerin Mismode, professor of literature and history at Dawn College, scholar of the Imperial University, and expert on the history of continental warfare, written in the universal calendar of the Gaylinthia continent from 2127 to 2131.

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"Where am I......" Lorist finally came to his senses and uttered a complete and clear sentence. It was pitch black inside the room, and outside the window was the sound of the rain that was pouring down.

Since he was seriously injured and comatose in a duel with the Storm Sword Master, Lorist felt as if he had a long, long dream, and he still remembered very few fragments in the dream, nothing more than drinking those very bitter and astringent medicines, and his whole body was in pain, sometimes he felt that the whole person was swaying as if he was on a stretcher, or in the carriage, his body was always in pain, sometimes the whole person seemed to be burned by fire, and occasionally he was awake for a while, and he had seen the blue sky, and he had heard the screams of fighting......

"Your Highness, are you awake?" a very familiar voice beside him was full of surprise, it seemed to be Reddy's voice......

"Reddy, where is this, why don't you light a candle?" asked Lorlist, a little confused.

"Your Highness, we are in the city of Kebo. We're sorry, but for your safety, we can't light candles right now......" Reddy hesitated, a little embarrassed in reply.

Lorist took a few deep breaths, his chest still aching, but the long sword he remembered inserting into his chest was gone. Soon he remembered all the things that had happened in his duel with the Storm Sword Master and everything that had happened before.

"Tell me what time and what kind of situation it is. "The eyes finally adjusted to the darkness, and faintly saw the shadows of the sacks piled high all around, which seemed to be in the grain warehouse.

"Your Highness, you have been in a coma for nearly six months, and you have been hanging for your life on healing potions and nutritional potions. Originally, His Majesty arranged for you to recuperate in the imperial capital, but more than three months ago, the Business Alliance sent more than a dozen great swordsmen to raid the palace to assassinate you, but you did not live in the palace as they thought, and the great swordsman of Munster, who was recuperating from his injuries, and another great swordsman named Joseph were killed in battle. The imperial capital was in chaos, and the Great Swordsman and I killed the three Great Swordsmen of the Business Alliance who came after us, took advantage of the chaos to rob you and ran out of the Imperial Capital, and rushed to Vandenas City with the guards.

We thought that Telman's Knights were still stationed in Vandenas City, hoping that they could help protect you, but when we arrived, we found out that the Knights had been sent by the family to Makinohara Province. At this time, the Great Sword Master of the Business Alliance also tracked down. In order to lure them away, the Grand Swordsman and Genorio rushed to the Northland with a brigade of guards. And I hid you in a grain cart and secretly arrived in Kebo City. It's the rainy season for the New Year and we've been here for a month and a half now. ”

Reddy's words revealed a bit of a lot of information, and Lorist pondered for a while before she figured it out.

"Didn't Your Majesty go after the Storm Sword Saint after I passed out in a coma?" asked Lorlist.

"I went, but when I was about to catch up, the army of the Business Alliance had already been killed, several White Lion Legions had collapsed, and everyone was in a hurry to flee for their lives, and Genorio and I retreated with you and the guards. Later, His Majesty said that he would save you no matter what, let the wounded Great Swordsman of Munster take us back to the Imperial Capital, and let the pharmacist of the Imperial Capital treat you. I originally wanted you to live in the palace, but the evil lady queen of the Fisabrun family said that she wanted to avoid suspicion and would not let you stay. You can only be placed in an earl's house next to the palace. I didn't expect to avoid the assassination of the business alliance in this way......" Reddy looked happy.

"Your Majesty didn't return to the imperial capital?"

"No, this time the million-strong army was defeated, and our family's Rock Legion held the camp position, giving His Royal Highness Time to collect the defeated soldiers, and His Majesty went back with the army a month later, and he has not returned to the imperial capital on the front line. Later, Lord Bodfinger sent the Great Swordsman of Hus back to the imperial capital to protect you, bringing news that His Majesty had cut off his hair in front of the army, and vowed to fight the business alliance to the end to wash away the shame of being deceived. ”

Well, now His Royal Highness is busy, and I don't know when the battle with the business alliance will end.

"You just said that Telman and the Knights were not in Vandenas City and were transferred to Makinoha Province, why? What about the Chasseur Regiment in Makinoha Province? Is something wrong?"

"This, this is because His Majesty led an army to attack the Business Alliance, and the Knights stayed in Vandenas City with nothing to do. At the same time, it is said that the commander of the Jost Legion was furious when he heard that you were seriously injured, and he did not obey the order of the family to take care of himself with the Hunter Legion and the Tiger Ross with the Flying Tiger Legion to attack the commercial alliance to avenge you, and the Makinohara Province was empty, and the family had to transfer Lord Telman and the Knights to garrison you. Reddy had some expectations for Ai's answer.

"Play the piano!" Lorist snorted through his nose. But he himself would be hiding in the granary, and there was nothing he could think about. Jost has always been only close to himself, and when he hears that something has happened to him, he must take action, which Shi Fat can't stop. And Tiger Ross is over-eyed, and he doesn't take Shi Fat in his eyes at all except for his own orders. I hate myself for being here now, otherwise these two guys will obediently come back and admit their mistakes.

"Does anyone else know about me here?" asked Lorlist.

"Your Highness, only three people know. Now there is only one battalion of guards in the city of Kebo, 3,000 people. In addition to me, the commander of the guard battalion and his personal guards knew. The commander was Sherikov, who came from our guard battalion, and his personal bodyguard was his cousin, who was responsible for bringing us food. However, after the rainy season, it is the time of the winter wheat harvest in the province of Delemke, and there will be a grain cart delivering the winter wheat at that time, and there will be a lot of people, and if someone finds out that Your Highness is here, I am afraid that it will attract the attention of the Assassins......"

"Let's change places, we can't go back to the Northlands right now, there must be someone watching over there. In April, we disguised ourselves as farmers who delivered grain and went to Barony Dina. Lorist thought for a moment and said.

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