Chapter 418: Oath

His Royal Highness went back, he wanted to send Queen Sisi back to the imperial capital first, and then return to the southern province with the White Lion Legion, it was expected to take more than two months, so he scheduled the date for attacking the four central principalities in mid-August, and it was only May. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Southern Province had become a large barracks, with the Norton Flying Tigers and the Philim Pegasus being the first to take place, sandwiching the Fisabrun camps between the freed Third Frontier Ranger Legion. The Rock Legion is still deployed on the border between the Southern Province and the Eastern Wilderness Province, and is still on guard and garrison.

In this attack on the four central principalities, Lorist is ready to dispatch the Flying Tiger Legion, two Guards Corps and two Chasseur Regiments, the main force of the attack is the Flying Tiger Legion, the main purpose of the Guards Corps and the Chaser Regiment is to train in battle, and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and the other is to form a suppressive advantage over the two legions of the Fisabrun family in terms of strength to prevent them from any bad moves. Even though he was now in the same camp as the Fisabrun family, Lorist still didn't dare to let his guard down.

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun behaved peacefully during this time, even if he saw that the soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment who were released were equipped with tattered leather armor and those weapons like copper and iron, he only took a few deep breaths, endured it, and did not protest to the handover Shi Fatzi, and then moved into the barracks to eat and live with the soldiers of the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment. However, the great swordsman of Cindy found Princess Sirivia with a look of anger and said a lot of bad things about Lorist, forcing Princess Celevia to ask Lorist for thousands of better weapons as compensation.

Duke Kenmez still dispatched two heavy armoured corps this time, but they will join up with the White Lion Legion led by His Second Highness before coming to the Southern Province, while the family armed forces of Count Shaheen are all dispatched, and the 48,000-strong Saheen Legion has already set out, and it will reach the Southern Province in another ten days. This time, Count Shaheen is gearing up and preparing to make a big profit in the four central principalities. As for the two legions that the Fisabrun family was preparing to dispatch, in addition to the 3rd Frontier Ranger Regiment, which was freed, it is said that another legion has also set out. However, because there are too many things to carry, the trip is a little slow, and it is estimated that it will be in the southern province at the end of June.

In addition to the four alliances of the Northland and the Fisabrun family, most of the territorial nobles of the provinces of Dramke and Winston also came to the southern provinces with three or five hundred private armies, and the farthest were the territorial nobles from several provinces around the imperial capital, but they brought fewer people, the least with a dozen attendants, and the most with a hundred peasant soldiers. They dragged the cart all the way, and after gathering, there were nearly 10,000 troops. It's just that Lorist doesn't think they are here to fight, but more like they went to the Central Four Duchyes to rob.

To Lorlist's surprise, his lover, Miss Aridolly of Baron Diner's family, also brought more than a hundred peasant soldiers, and had a confrontation with them as soon as he entered the camp. As a rare female knight, it is inevitable to be molested when she enters a camp full of veteran oil, but this eldest lady of the Dina family is too fierce and directly uses force, resulting in one death and three injuries. Then the whole camp was in an uproar, and Lorist sent Tiger Rose to the bullet to find out that it was the eldest lady who was to blame.

Lorist had no choice but to send Shi Fat to compensate the casualties to suppress the matter, and the lady Diner refused to give up and asked Lorist to send troops to retaliate, because the one hundred and twenty-three peasant soldiers she brought with her suffered seven casualties after this riot. Lorist had no choice but to put her people in the garrison of the Guards, closed the door of the study, and severely punished her with family methods before she was honest.

By the twentieth of June, the second legion of the Fisabrunn family had arrived, and Lorist knew that His Highness and himself had been fooled when he heard the report of the Rock Legion stationed at the border. The legion that came this time was not the frontier ranger regiment that they thought they had, but the reserve legion reorganized by the Fisabrun family, a new reserve legion composed of 35,000 grass barbarian cavalry, and also brought 50,000 war horses and a large number of leather armor weapons, and the third frontier ranger regiment was re-equipped with war horses and equipment, and reproduced the demeanor of light cavalry.

Lorist scorned in his stomach, and he looked at the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, who was also looking at him, and smiled at him. Irrecently, Lorist turned around and ordered Tiger Rose to raise the combat alert level by one level and put him on strict alert. Originally, he thought that the Fisabrun family would send two border ranger regiments, and Lorist was still thinking about digging a pit for the Grand Duke of Fisabrun when attacking the four central principalities, so that he could lose more troops and let the Fisabrun family be armed, but now there is no need to think about it.

The reserve corps is all finished, and it won't hurt the Fisabrun family in the slightest, anyway, there are many grass barbarian cavalry on the steppe, and as long as you have money, you can recruit and form it again. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun clearly wanted to save the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment and let the reserve legion go to the front line to charge. The tattered equipment he gave gave Archduke Fisabrun an excuse not to let the 3rd Frontier Ranger Regiment go into battle, which was really a miscalculation.

On 27 June, Lorist received a report from Tagger that the Four Central Duchyes had been aware of the movements of the Northland coalition and the Kingdom of Antinac, and had even known the approximate date of the August attack. At present, the Duchy of Handla, the Duchy of Falkel, and the Duchy of Forrendo have expanded their armaments, forming a 45,000-strong army each, and preparing to form a second army again. Moreover, the legions that have been formed by the three principalities are marching towards the Principality of Sabaji, and are expected to arrive in Limad Province around July 30, relying on the geographical environment to organize a defensive front to block the attack of the Kingdom of Antinac in Limad Province and form a tug-of-war, using attrition and long-term confrontation to resist the attack of the Kingdom of Dinac this time.

Looking at the intelligence of the Sabaji Kingdom, since the destruction of the Duchy of Melein, the Grand Duke of Sabaji transferred the capital of the Duchy to Meishan Castle in Meishan Province, and after the failure of reinforcing the Fisabrun family in the past few years, in order to prevent the four alliances of the Northland from taking advantage of the victory to pursue and form two legions, the second legion of the principality in Limad Province is 35,000 people, the first army of the principality is 45,000 people, and there is also a 12,000-strong corps in the Bailu Lake swamp to prevent the Second Highness from leading the army to attack from there.

Even though the Principality of Sabaji had a population of more than 800,000, it could not afford to have a standing army of nearly 100,000, so the Second Army of the Principality and the corps deployed in the Egret Lake swamp mainly relied on the support and sponsorship of the other three principalities. After receiving the news of the imminent attack of the Kingdom of Antinac, Grand Duke Sabaji asked for help from the other three principalities, and on the other hand, he called on the people of the principalities to defend the principality and their homeland, and organized the young and strong to establish various garrisons.

Meishan Province was a hereditary domain of the former Grand Duke of Melain for more than 100 years, and after the destruction of the four central principalities, all but a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl remained in the imperial capital. Although Grand Duke Sabaji moved the capital of the principality here, he did not fully grasp the popular will of the people of Meishan Province, so the entire preparation for war dragged on and the process was extremely slow. Now Grand Duke Sabaji can rely on the First Army of the Principality, which is the old foundation of the Sabaji family's armed forces, and Grand Duke Sabaji is ready to wait for reinforcements from the other three principalities to arrive before going to Limad Province together.

Lorist looked at the map of the four central principalities and pondered for a long time, and immediately sent someone to find the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, Count Philim and Count Shaheen came to urgently convene a military meeting. At the meeting, Lorist recounted the news he had received about the four principalities in the central region, pointed to the map and said: " At present, the reinforcements of the Duchy of Handla, the Duchy of Forendo and the Duchy of Fakel have not yet reached the territory of the Duchy of Sabaji, although the White Lion Legion led by His Majesty the King has not yet arrived in the Southern Province, but now the situation is urgent, I don't want to wait for all the legions of the four central principalities to arrive in Limad Province to fight a positional offensive and defensive battle with us, so I want to strike first and immediately send troops to the Duchy of Sabaji, and stop all the legions reinforced by the three principalities outside the territory of the Duchy of Sabaji, what do you think?"

There are three provinces in the Principality of Sabaji, the provinces of Limad and Meishan, both of which are the domains of the former Duchy of Melein, and one province is the province of Zikses, which is the hereditary domain of the Sabaji family. Originally, the neighboring province of Zixes, the province of Samorra, was also the territory of the Duchy of Sabaji, but when His Royal Highness was trapped in the royal city of Fedeliga, the former Grand Duke of Melain sent troops to Samora Province in order to rescue him, and fought with the armies of the four central principalities, and the province of Samora was in ruins. After the destruction of the Duchy of Melein, the Duchy of Sabaji monopolized the provinces of Limad and Meishan, and replaced the former province of Samora with the Duchy of Fakel.

So now the topography of the Principality of Sabaji is a long strip shape, with three provinces strung together. If Lorist and they can drive straight into the province of Zixes, they will be able to seize the initiative of the entire campaign, attacking the Duchy of Volendor to the south and the Duchy of Fakel to the west. The Central Four Duchyes will be very passive. The Principality of Sabaji could only retreat to the defense, and the reinforcements of the other three principalities could not come to the rescue, so they had to protect their own principality borders first.

The other three people present were all battle-hardened and knew in their hearts that Lorist's decision was the best choice at the moment. Count Philim and Count Shaheen don't matter, the family forces of the four Northland alliances will definitely take care of each other when they go into battle together. So they all turned their faces to stare at the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to see what choice he would make. If the Grand Duke of Fisabrun insists on waiting for His Royal Highness and the White Lion Legion to arrive in the Southern Province before launching an attack, let's wait for the reinforcements of the Four Central Duchyes to arrive in Limad Province before engaging in a long tugging and confrontation with them.

Archduke Fisabrun looked at the map and was silent, and after a long time raised his head and asked Lorist, "How do you want to attack?"

"It's very simple," Lorist pointed to the province of Zixes in the Duchy of Sabaji on the map, "Your Fisabrun family's reserve regiment and the Third Frontier Rangers, as well as the Count of Philim's Pegasus Legion, are light cavalry regiments, and they have driven straight into the province of Zixes, avoiding the castle fortress and reaching the province of Zixes. Blocking the border roads with the Duchy of Forrendo and the Duchy of Fakel can also be used for a small invasion of the two principalities, forcing them to reinforce the three legions of the Duchy of Sabaji to garrison the border line.

The armed legion of Count Shaheen's family, together with the private armed forces of the territorial nobles who came to participate in the war outside, waved troops in Meishan Province and trapped Meishan Castle, trying to create a feeling that the number of people was strong and the forces were strong, and there was no need to attack Meishan Castle, but only the first army of the Sabaji Principality was trapped in the castle. I believe that our surprise will be a surprise to Grand Duke Sabaji, who has received the news that we will attack in mid-August, and that we are now a month ahead of schedule, just in time to catch him off guard. In such a situation, Grand Duke Sabaji will only sit at Meishan Castle and will not come out to fight us in the field.

As for the Flying Tiger Legion armed by our Norton family, we will first deal with the Second Legion of the Principality of Sabaji deployed in Lima Province, and then go to Meishan Province to join the Shaheen Legion, depending on the situation, decide whether to attack Meishan Castle. In the meantime, I ask your three hussar regiments in the province of Zixes to be sure to involve the reinforcements of the other three principalities, and not let them come to the rescue of Meishan Castle. ”

Count Philim and Count Shaheen nodded their heads in obedience. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun, on the other hand, stared at Lorliste and after a while said, "I have two requests. The first is that you must not design and frame these two legions of our clan armed forces, and the second is that you must ensure that the supply of logistics and heavy supplies for our clan legions is as fair and just as their clan armed legions. You must swear by both of these in the name of the god of war and your Norton ancestors, and only then will we trust you and obey your commands......"

Lorist's waterfall sweat, red-faced, dared to be careful to beware of the Fisabrun family. It turned out that the Fisabrun family also regarded themselves as thieves and guarded themselves with fear. This is really a needle-to-wheat mang, don't say anyone.

"Okay, I can swear. Lorist refused to suffer: "Then you must also swear that you are sincere in submitting to the Kingdom of Antinac and attacking the Four Central Duchyes, and will not show mercy or rebellion because they were once allies of your family." Only after swearing in public will I promise to treat your family as fairly as I am, and I will not guard against or suspect you. ”

"Then I swear that you can withdraw the Rock Legion that has been placed on the border of our family's domain?" asked Grand Duke Fisabulun rhetorically.

"No, that's not the same thing as that. The Rock Legion is only a local garrison legion, and it has not participated in the raids of the four central principalities, what do you swear about them......" Lorist objected to implicating the Rock Legion.

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun and Lorist blew their beards and stared at each other for a long time, but in the end the two compromised with each other and swore together in public that they would cooperate sincerely in the battle against the four central principalities, not to calculate each other, to avoid disputes, and so on. Lorist was satisfied that he hadn't implicated the Rock Legion. And the Grand Duke of Fisabrun finally put his mind at ease, and he didn't have to worry about being secretly cheated by Lorlist......

"And one more question, what about the spoils?" asked Archduke Fisabrun.

Lorist thought for a moment and replied: "Whoever gets it counts, in order to avoid conflict, we can divide the area in advance for plunder, and everyone must not cross the line." ”

"Okay, we high-five. Archduke Fisabrun stretched out his hand and said.

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