Chapter 781: Plunder

In that year's attack on the four central principalities, Lorist raided the Duchy of Sabaji with the family armed forces of the four alliances of the Northlands, and wantonly plundered the three provinces of Limad Province, Meishan Province and Zixes Province of the Duchy of Sabaji, plus the alliance of the territorial nobles and the Fisababulun family who took advantage of the fire to loot, these three provinces were like hell on earth, and nearly 800,000 people became the spoils of the victors and were forced to move to the territories of their families. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf it weren't for the arrival of His Royal Highness, maybe Zixes Province would have become a white land like Meishan Province and Limad Province.

Nearly a decade has passed since the war, but the provinces of Mai Son and Limad have not yet recovered and are sparsely populated. The serious problem of banditry in the central region is also closely related to the lack of effective supervision in these two provinces. Because His Royal Highness did not have any good preferential policies for the people's livelihood in order to reorganize the armament, but instead increased taxes to vigorously squeeze the peasants to obtain funds to support the army, bandits sprung up in the eleven provinces in the central region, and even many nobles who were dissatisfied with His Royal Highness also infiltrated it, which made it even more difficult to govern and pacify.

Especially after His Royal Highness trained 300,000 troops in the eleven central provinces and directly pulled them to the front line to deal with the commercial alliance, without the suppression of these 300,000 troops, some bandits and horse bandits became the climate with the support of some well-intentioned people, and the incidents of raiding homes and robberies and attacking the kingdom's governing bodies emerged one after another, and the eleven central provinces became the most chaotic areas of the kingdom. His Royal Highness also sent a corps to unite with the local territorial nobles to suppress bandits, but when these bandits and horse bandits could not deal with the bandits, they drilled into the mountains and forests of Meishan Province and Limad Province.

It wasn't until the Norton family armed forces were preparing to attack the provinces of Majik and Andruv occupied by the Commercial Alliance, that the military stations and logistics supply camps set up in the eleven central provinces were also attacked by these bandits and horse bandits, and Lorist ordered his eldest disciple Reddy and the Great Sword Master of Hus to lead the guard battalion to assist El's Guards to carry out large-scale cleaning activities in the provinces set up by the military stations along the way, and eliminated a large number of bandits and horse bandits, so that the bandits and law and order in the central eleven provinces were slightly separated.

However, with the outbreak of the Great War between the Kingdom of Andinac and the Merchant Alliance, the banditry in the eleven central provinces revived, and the trouble became more and more intense. And the three-year bloody battle in the Falcan Hill Plain exhausted the vitality of the kingdom and the nobles of the territory. Even if the Grand Duke of Handla, the Archduke of Forrendo, and the Duke of Shahin all returned to their family territories in the central region, they could only barely maintain the safety of their family territories, and could not do anything about the surrounding provinces.

After his return from the Plains of Faliqiu, His Royal Highness disbanded the remnants of the kingdom's armed forces and scattered these horses to various provinces directly under the royal family, preparing to form local garrisons to maintain order and local tranquility. However, due to the lack of funds, many plans are only on paper and cannot be implemented. Like these central provinces, the men and horses sent by the Second Highness only guarded the more important towns, and they could not help the troubles suffered by the villages around the towns.

Especially when the illegitimate son of the second highness, the knight of Vicus, was acting as the guardian of the imperial capital, because of the lack of cash, after issuing an order to collect taxes and not to pay in kind, but only cash, many peasants in these provinces in the central region were desperate because they could not afford the low price of food and could not afford to pay taxes and fees, so they took refuge in those bandits and horse bandits, set off a larger-scale riot, and even captured several towns.

If it weren't for the fact that His Royal Highness married a woman from the Fisabrun family as the new queen, relying on a large amount of funds and weapons provided by the Fisabrun family, he rectified the local garrisons in these provinces and suppressed this rebellion, I am afraid that this rebellion will bring greater trouble and more serious consequences to His Second Highness after it spreads.

Now His Royal Highness has reorganized the Tempest Legion with the local garrison corps of the central provinces that suppressed the riot, saying that it is to deal with those bandits and horse bandits, but it is a bit intriguing to arrange the garrison of the Tempest Legion in Meishan Province. Geographically, there is nothing wrong with this decision, and it even shows that His Royal Highness has a militarily sophisticated eye, after all, Meishan Province is a transportation hub from the northeast region to the central region, and it is strategically important, not only from the southern province to pass through Meishan Province, but even Yunge Shandra Province has a main road across the Bailu Lake swamp to Meishan Province.

For Lorist, the Second Highness's dispatch of the Tempest Legion and the White Lion Legion to block the two exits in the Northeast region did not have any effect on the Norton family, because the sea lanes could not be blocked by the Second Highness. But for the four alliances of the Northlands, the Second Highness's approach is to cut the connection between the three families of the Northlands and the Shahin family, especially for the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, which operates throughout the entire empire, this is even more fatal, which means that the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce will face the investigation and blackmail of these two legions after leaving the sphere of influence of the four alliances, and there will even be various accidents, which is intolerable to the four alliances of the Northlands......

From a strategic point of view, the Tempest Legion's placement in Meishan Province is a clever move. The Duke of Philim ordered his family to arm the Pegasus Legion to carry out a continuous attack on the bandits and horse bandits in Limad Province, which was a preemptive way to avoid attacks in the Southern Province. And because Meishan Province is related to the trade route of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce to the central region, the Philim family and the Shaheen family often jointly send troops to sweep up. To some extent, the trade route from the southern province to the province of Cribia, the family domain of the Duke of Shaheen in the central region, was relatively safe.

However, after the Tempest Legion was stationed in Meishan Province, this trade route was interrupted. This deepened Lorlist's guess, the Second Highness was the mastermind behind the assassination of Duke Kenmeth by the Great Sword Master, otherwise how could he set up this layout to interrupt the trade route against the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce again?

The real reason why Lorist angrily scolded His Royal Highness for being a fool was that although the Norton family had opened the door to wealth in the south-central part of the Gelinthia continent, the market of the thirty provinces of the huge Cresson Empire was also something he could not give up. As an agent, the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce orders goods from the Norton family territory every year with a total value of three or four million goldfords, and the annual income of one or two million has become a bond of interest to maintain the four alliances of the Northland. Therefore, Lorist simply could not tolerate the measures taken by His Royal Highness against the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce.

If His Royal Highness has a close and friendly relationship with the four alliances of the Northland, then he may be strongly welcomed by the four alliances of the Northland by deploying the Tempest Legion in Meishan Province, because the Philim family in the southern province may also be able to provide the Tempest Legion with food and grass and other armaments and materials to earn a fortune. But now that the relationship between the two sides is so tense, His Royal Highness let the Tempest Legion be stationed in Meishan Province, which is obviously ill-intentioned and ill-intentioned.

Because given the current situation in Meishan Province, the Tempest Legion is unable to obtain supplies on the spot, the Limad Province adjacent to the southern province is also destitute, and the poor economic environment of the two provinces on the other side, Zixes and Samorra, cannot provide some help to the Tempest Legion. All the armaments, supplies, and food needed by the Tornado Legion had to be collected from a few provinces further south, and then transported thousands of miles across several provinces to Meishan Province......

From the point of view of logistics and supply, Lorist did not believe that His Royal Highness claimed that the deployment of the Tempest Legion in Meishan Province was to exterminate the bandits and horse bandits. What kind of bandits would a legion that could not even guarantee the safety of logistical armaments and supplies would exterminate bandits? If it was really ready to suppress bandits, then the correct way would be to rely on the family territories of the Grand Duke Handra and the Grand Duke of Forrendo, start to sweep away the bandits and horse bandits in a few provinces further south of the central region, fight steadily and steadily, clean up one province by another, and then cooperate with the administrative organs to control and pacify the people of each province, and strictly guard the towns and villages, so that those bandits can be eliminated instead of rushing headlong to Meishan Province.

"Your Highness, Archduke Kenmax urgently reported that three days ago, a caravan of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce lost contact in Meishan Province when it left Yungeshandra Province to go to the central region through the Egret Lake Marsh Artery, and Archduke Kenmax has asked Archduke Felim to send a Pegasus Legion to assist in the investigation...... "Genolio finally sent the news that Lorist had been waiting for for a long time.

"Hehe, don't think about it, can there be anyone else besides the Tempest Legion who can swallow a large caravan of more than 3,000 people in one bite? Use the letter eagle to send a message to Farea, unite with the family legion of Duke Shahin, now you can do it, here notify Count Philim, let him send the Pegasus Legion to blockade Limad Province. Lorist gave the order.

After more than three months of hard work, I finally waited for the opportunity to do it. Lorist sent the Cavalry Huntsman to Crimea Province, Duke Shaheen's family domain in the Central Region, ostensibly to accept the invitation of the Duke of Shaheen to guard against bandits and horse bandits, but in fact he sent people to play the role of horse bandits to attack the logistics and supply lines of the Tempest Legion several times. The three months of the Tempest Legion, which was stationed in Meishan Province under the orders of His Royal Highness, were extremely difficult, and it was common to run out of food and salary, and the messengers sent out were always missing inexplicably, so it can be said that they had cut off communication with the outside world.

Under such circumstances, the large caravan of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce passed through Meishan Province and undoubtedly became a big fat sheep in the eyes of the Tempest Legion, not to mention anything else, it was necessary to get some grain and grass from this large caravan to fill the famine, and it was common to levy a generous donation and tolls. Although the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce is also a well-known Chamber of Commerce in the Empire, the Duke of Kenmax behind it has not been taken seriously by the officers of the Tempest Legion, especially the legion commander, who has already secretly obtained the secret decree of His Royal Highness, that is, to embarrass the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce of the four alliances in the Northlands, and no one will miss such a good opportunity.

It's just that I didn't expect this Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce to refuse the request of the Tempest Legion, and generally the correct way to deal with this situation is to refuse the passage of the caravan since it refuses to pay tolls and dedications, then refuse the passage of the caravan, and the caravan's choice is two, either pay and get through or go home. But the Tempest Legion was already starving, how could it be possible to let go of the fat sheep in their eyes, and immediately rushed up and moved, killing and wounding nearly a hundred people before entrapping this caravan of the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce into the barracks.

It was only at this time that the commander of the Tempest Legion and the higher-level commanders calmed down and realized that this was a big disaster, and the most important thing was that they had already made a move, and many people were killed and injured on both sides. The Tornado suffered nearly a hundred casualties, and the caravan lost even more in the resistance. If it was a small caravan, the commander might have ordered the mouth to be extinguished, and the corpse could be thrown into that valley to deny death. But the total number of caravans of this Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce is as high as three thousand, which is not something that can be done by simply extinguishing the mouth, and now this caravan can only be imprisoned in the barracks before reporting to His Majesty for disposal......

It's just that as soon as the Tempest Legion sent a messenger to report to His Second Highness, it ushered in the attack of the Hunter Legion, the Shahin Clan's armed forces, and the Pegasus Legion. Under the bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces armed by the Norton family, the soldiers of the Tempest Legion quickly collapsed, either laying down their weapons and raising their hands in surrender or fleeing in all directions, but eventually became prisoners under the tight blockade of the Huntsman Legion and the Pegasus Legion.

This was the biggest scandal in the New Cresson Empire in 1784, and the Tempest Legion, one of the three major legions of the Empire, was originally responsible for sweeping away the bandits and horse bandits in the empire, but no one expected that this Tempest Legion would turn into the largest bandit gang, they had captured a large caravan of more than 3,000 people from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, and were also preparing to kill people. Fortunately, the armed forces of the four alliances in the Northland, who rushed to the news of the caravan's disappearance, came to the rescue in time and stormed the barracks before the caravan members were killed.

If it weren't for the encounter of this caravan from the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, if the four alliances of the Northland attacked the Tempest Legion, His Royal Highness would definitely declare the four alliances of the Northland as rebels with great fanfare, and called on all the nobles of the empire to unite to eliminate the rebellious gang led by the Norton family. Even if he can't win the fight, it's good to vent the anger in the heart of His Second Highness, and even use the pressure of public opinion from the nobles of the whole empire to force Lorist to agree to the harsh demands put forward by His Second Highness when the two sides are negotiating......

It's just that this time the Tempest Legion was caught, and all the personal and material evidence was complete, and it was not the testimony of a unilateral caravan, and a few simple-minded legion officers thought that they had the support of the Second Highness to confess everything the Legion had done, especially the letter to the Second Highness reporting the incident, the messenger was intercepted halfway, and the letter fell into the hands of the Pegasus Legion. The handwriting and personal seal of the Tempest Legion on the letter, as well as the seal of the Legion commander of the Tempest Legion, are all available, and it has become a fact that cannot be quibbled, even if His Royal Highness wants to defend it, he can't defend it.

Duke Kenmax wrote the captivity into a novel-like proclamation, accompanied by the confessions of the officers of the Tempest Legion, the oral accounts of the survivors of the caravan, and the report letter written by the leader of the Tempest Legion to His Second Highness, etc., and countless copies were circulated everywhere, and almost every Imperial nobleman had a copy, and even sent it to the Freedom Alliance. His Royal Highness was furious, and it is said that he smashed every piece of furniture in his bedroom, but in the end he had to come out to clean up the mess, and wrote a letter of apology to Duke Kenmeth in his own handwriting, admitting that he had misused people and mistrusted villains.....

For the Second Highness, this raid on the Tempest Legion is a fatal blow, not to mention the great drop in prestige, the Annihilation of the Tempest Legion that was finally formed is equivalent to the fact that there is no longer the existence of imperial armed forces in the eleven provinces in the central region, and the bandits there will continue to continue, but at present, the Second Highness has no more funds to reorganize the armament.

Lorist was very happy, this time he slapped the second highness in the face, and the second highness had to swallow this dumb loss. It's not that no one noticed what the Tempest Legion officers said in their confessions that they had decided to make caravans because of the Legion's shortage of supplies, but the following interrogation is very interesting, why is the Legion's logistical supplies short? Again, why didn't the Tempest Legion sweep away the bandits and bandits who were attacking the supply routes? The Legion officer was speechless......

His Royal Highness was also speechless, he also couldn't claim that the purpose of deploying the Tempest Legion in Meishan Province was to target the four alliances of the Northland, this was something that everyone knew well, and it would be even more embarrassing to provoke it. So he turned a blind eye to the more than 30,000 captured soldiers of the Tornado Legion, as if there had never been such a legion. Of course, it was impossible for Lorist to raise such a group of rice buckets for nothing, and with a wave of his hand, the Tempest Legion was sent to the newly established province of Panshan to serve hard labor.

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