Chapter 372: The Great War is coming

Alas, Lorist also sighed in the big tent, this war in the southern provinces is now more and more developing towards Armageddon, which no one expected. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Lorist regretted the most that after the Rock Legion arrived at the front line, he did not immediately attack the defensive front arranged by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, so that even if the casualties were heavier, he could still drive the border rangers of the Fisabrun family out of the southern provinces, instead of facing off against each other as now, and the enemy's reinforcements were increasing, forcing his side to take a defensive position.

The sentry tower tactics, originally just Lorist on a whim remembered the popular tower defense game in the previous life, originally just to cover the territory that has been controlled by the enemy scout light cavalry to easily detect intelligence, but I didn't expect the effect to be excellent, it has such a good restraint effect on the light cavalry, so Lorist vigorously promoted, using the establishment of the guard tower to connect his own side of the territory into a net, and the Angry Bear Knights and the three Flying Tiger Corps transferred by themselves are the spiders entrenched in this web, once the enemy is caught in the net, rush up and bite hard。

The construction of the sentry tower is also extremely convenient, dig the foundation, bury the stones, pour in the green vine glue juice to solidify, and then build the tower with ashlar or long stones on it, most of the northwest regions of the southern province are hills, it is convenient to quarry, the silver knights of the rock legion and the swordsmen of the silver rank are accustomed to these labor jobs in the family territory, and it is already a very skilled job to quarry with a sword with fighting spirit, ten silver knights can cut the stones needed to build a sentry tower in one day, which not only exercises the fighting spirit but also collects the stones, which is really the best of both worlds。

Then use rattan cement as a binder and repair, and after the construction of the watchtower is completed, several trenches are dug within 100 meters as protection, which can be completed in only ten days. Several watchtowers are now being built every day, and the territory under control is getting bigger and bigger, and from the map, one-third of the territory of the Southern Province has fallen under the control of the four alliances of the Northlands.

It's just that after building more and more watchtowers, Lorist realized that something was wrong, this is not a tower defense game, and building a watchtower requires guards. At present, a total of more than 170 watchtowers have been built, but the Rock Legion has already assigned more than 17,000 legions to guard the watchtowers.

When Lorist arrived at the front line with the Rock Legion a month ago, he was faced with more than 70,000 men from the two legions of the Fisabrun family, plus more than 30,000 barbarian cavalry who had come to participate in the battle, and a well-guarded defensive position. If it is a field battle, Lorist is not afraid of the 100,000 horses of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, but it is still not sensitive to let him lead the 60,000 horses of the Rock Legion and the more than 10,000 men of the Angry Bear Knights to attack the positions guarded by more than 100,000 enemies. So he ordered the three corps of the Flying Tiger Legion to be transferred to increase the attack power, and as a result, the three Flying Tiger Corps arrived at the reserve corps of the Fisabrun family, and they still surpassed Lorist by 30,000 or 40,000 in terms of strength.

The Pegasus Legion of the Philim family is exterminating bandits and horse bandits in the northwest region of the Southern Province, and the lack of tranquility in the rear is a taboo on the front line, originally Lorist wanted to wait for a month, and when the Pegasus Legion cleared the place, he also pulled to the front line, but he didn't expect that the number of participants recruited by the Fisabrun family from the grass barbarian tribe would be so large, and it was almost close to sixty or seventy thousand. So Lorist began to play with the watchtower, but after playing too much with the watchtower, he realized that he had scattered the forces of the Rock Legion on his side. On the side of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, reinforcements were added, and Grand Duke Sabaji personally led 20,000 elite infantry to reinforce him.

Seeing that there are more and more enemies in front of him, they are almost double the number of Norton family's armed forces. Lorist was also helpless, and now he had to concentrate on playing the tower tactics to the end, and he had to send messengers to Duke Kenmax and Count Shahin, asking them to send one corps and two corps each, so as to replace the Rock Legionnaires guarding the watchtower and maintain the integrity of their combat power to cope with the enemy's attack.

Headache, I was supposed to be the attacking side, but this time it became a defense, I originally wanted to divide the troops sent by the four central principalities and the forces of the Fisabrun family to break them down, but now they are getting together to grow stronger and stronger, and the evolution of the war has made all the original plans can be thrown into the bonfire, I really don't know how this war will develop, and Lorist can only see the tricks this time.

The curtain of the tent was lifted, and Bodfinger entered: "Your Highness, Count Philim has sent an urgent message, and it is said that the Knight of Bonavat has been seriously wounded. ”

"What did you say?" Lorist raised his head in surprise: "The Knight of Bonava is seriously injured? How is it possible, he is the commander of the Pegasus Legion, how can a legion be injured under the escort of the army, was it attacked by the troops or assassinated?"

Bodfinger shook his head: "I don't know, the messenger doesn't know how the Bonava knight was injured, he also heard from others, you can read the letter first." ”

Tearing open the letter handed over by Bodfinger, Lorist hurriedly scanned it and knew in his heart: "It turned out to be for the iron ore matter, it seems that I have to go and solve this problem myself." ”

"Iron ore, what iron ore?" asked Bodfinger.

"Oh, look at the letter. Lorist pointed to the letter on his desk and said, "In the Andlek Hills on the border of the Southern Province and the Winston Province, there are two iron mines, one large and one small, both located in the old domain of the Philim family. At that time, the second prince signed an agreement with the Vicia Chamber of Commerce of the Fude Business Alliance to sell the two iron ores to the Vicia Chamber of Commerce for thirty years. Now that the Iberian Kingdom is gone, and the second prince is dead, the agreement they signed naturally cannot be counted on the heads of our four alliances in the Northlands. Count Philim sent people to recover the two iron mines, but unexpectedly, the Bonavat knights who led the team were seriously injured by a great swordsman stationed in the iron mines. The great swordsman also spat out wild words, saying that if he wants to recover the iron ore, he must first ask the sword in his hand if he agrees, and the Visia Chamber of Commerce will never hand over the iron ore or something......"

"Didn't Count Philim let the Pegasus Army attack the iron mines?" asked Bodfinger without reading the letter.

"It's attacked, but the iron mine is on the hillside, the terrain is dangerous, there is no way to besiege it, and dozens of people go up to deliver food. So I have to go and do Count Philim a favor, because his future income from the family domain will basically depend on the output of these two iron ores. ”

Lorist had to go, the four alliances are now fighting together, the Count Philim family did not have a great swordsman being bullied and the family's golden knight was seriously injured, and Lorlist, as the boss, had to be angry for the younger brother. It only took five or six days to go back and forth, and the matter was resolved quickly, and the first-level great swordsman of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce was beheaded by a sword owl in less than three moves under Lorist. The remaining managers and technicians of the Vician Chamber of Commerce were all captured, and then the surviving ones who shouted that the Vician merchants would never let you and the like go on the gallows became very honest and answered all questions, and soon let Lorist and Count Philim figure out the situation of the two iron mines.

Unexpectedly, the Vesia Chamber of Commerce really invested a lot of money in these two iron mines, not only updated the mining equipment, but also set up an iron ore refining field and a forging field in the valley between the two iron mines, and there were nearly 10,000 sets of forged standard plate armor in the warehouse of the forging field. According to the confession of the steward, these standard plate armors were all customized by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, a total of 50,000 sets, and were to be shipped to the royal city of Windbri to equip the newly formed garrison army. But because the royal city fell too quickly, and the newly formed garrison army was gone, these standard plate armor that had been completed were piled up in the warehouse.

In addition to these 10,000 pieces of standard plate armor, Count Philim's biggest gain is the hundreds of technicians and blacksmiths in the refining and forging yards, with these personnel, the refining and forging yards can continue to manufacture weapons and equipment and iron farming tools, so that the development of the old territory of the Philim family will be smoother and faster. In addition, more than 13,000 captive miners were rescued from two iron ore mines.

Count Philim also wanted these miners to continue mining, but was stopped by Lorist: "You are stupid, these miners are loyal to the Philim family with a little kindness to take care of their injuries and bodies, haven't you always complained that there is no place to recruit, these miners are good recruits, you can set up a small garrison corps by recruiting some, and you are not short of weapons and equipment now, with an iron ore refining field and a forging field, you can produce your own equipment." ”

"But who's going to mine?" Lorlist's suggestion made Count Philim very impressed, but he frowned again at the thought that no one was mining.

"Mining? This doesn't require technology. Aren't there a lot of captives of the bandits and horse bandits that the Pegasus Legion exterminated, as well as the barbarian captives we caught on the front line, these people are strong and strong, and they are all thrown into the mines to mine. In addition, there is a good regulation on how many mines to dig every day, and only when this condition is reached can there be food, and those who do not meet it deserve to starve to death. Lorist said viciously.

"But, there aren't enough captives now, and the total is less than two thousand at most. ”

"Don't worry, not much now doesn't mean not much in the future. Don't you see the enemy's big camp, with a hundred thousand troops and sixty or seventy thousand barbarian cavalry, when this battle is over, you will think that there are too many prisoners in the mines. Lorist confidently answered Count Philim's question.

It was only a few days after returning to the front camp that Lorist was in a mess by the situation of the scout's light cavalry return, and the reinforcements from the four central principalities arrived, estimated at more than 60,000 men and horses, and countless four-wheeled trucks full of supplies.

There are 10,000 people, boundless, not to mention more than 60,000 horses. Mixed with countless four-wheeled wagons, it was like a huge long dragon that converged along the avenue to the large camp of the armed family of the Fisabrun family. For three consecutive days, the men and horses and the convoy of the four central principalities were completed. The Angry Bear Knights and the three Flying Tiger Legions waited on one side for three days, unable to find a chance to attack. The treacherous Grand Duke of Fisabrun sent almost all the frontier rangers and tens of thousands of barbarian cavalry at hand to build a tight defensive line against a sneak attack on the reinforcements and material convoys of the four central principalities.

Lorist looked at the grass barbarian cavalry roaring by the side of the avenue in the distance, and stopped Telman's request to lead the Knights of the Angry Bear to attack the convoy: "It's useless, you go to the hands of this old fellow Fisabrun, he can grind you to death with just tens of thousands of grass barbarian cavalry, even if your armor is strong and defensive, but your war horses are not resistant to long-term raids." As long as your horses are tired, then you heavy knights are fish that have fallen on the shore, and there is a way to clean you up. Let's go back, the old guy will have a lot of troops in the future, and it is likely that he will turn from defense to offense, so we need to be more vigilant. ”

There were more than 32,000 people in the 3rd Frontier Ranger Regiment of the Fisabrun family, 45,000 men and horses in the 5th Frontier Ranger Regiment, 18,000 men and horses in the Reserve Legion, about 70,000 barbarian cavalry participating in the battle, plus 80,000 elite infantry in the four central principalities. The number of enemies Lorist faced had reached twenty-four or five-thousand. And now they are facing 60,000 people from the Rock Legion, 45,000 people from the three corps of the Flying Tiger Legion, and 15,000 people from the Angry Bear Knights, but among them, 3,000 regular heavy knights and 6,000 knight attendants are the main force of the battle, and the remaining 6,000 are horsemen and servants, who are responsible for the logistics of the Knights, and have no combat effectiveness.

However, Count Philim also arrived at the front line with two corps of the Pegasus Legion, a total of 20,000 light horses, and the two corps of 24,000 men sent by Count Shaheen will take more than ten days to arrive, and it is still unknown whether Duke Kenmeth's 15,000 men can arrive next month, after all, the distance is a bit far. Now it is the four alliances of the Northlands, with the Norton family armed as the main force of 140,000 horses, facing off against the Fisabrun family forces and the reinforcements of the four central principalities of 2440,000, a difference of almost 100,000 horses.

Lorist frantically carried out the sentry tower tactics to the end, and some of the wide terrain on the front even built a group of sentry towers, and the soldiers of the Rock Legion dug the trenches around the sentry towers day and night, turning them into insurmountable ravines.

Ten days later, the horn of the large battalion on the opposite side sounded, and countless infantry and barbarian cavalry poured out of the battalion, and the first offensive and defensive battle in the southern province began.

In fact, the first offensive and defensive battle in the southern provinces lasted only one day, and the four central principalities dispatched 20,000 elite infantry, and the Fisabrun family armed the Third Frontier Ranger Regiment and 30,000 grass barbarian cavalry, and they laid siege to more than ten guard towers in a wide area ten miles away from the left side of the large camp arranged by Lorlist, and Lorist dispatched a Flying Tiger Regiment and three chariot steel crossbow battalions to respond.

It's just that this attack on the watchtower is just a tentative operation between the four central principalities and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, trying to find the weakness of the watchtower tactics arranged by Lorist in this operation, and the 20,000 elite infantry who launched the attack did not suffer much damage, and the casualties were only about two or three thousand, but the barbarian cavalry who cooperated with the battle lost about 10,000, mainly because they did not obey the command and did not know how to advance or retreat, and finally were defeated and fled by the Flying Tiger Corps.

Lorist stationed on the hill solemnly watched the enemy collect his troops back to the camp in a very orderly manner, although the losses on his side were slight on this day's battle, there were still three individual watchtowers that were set on fire by the attacking enemy, and nearly two hundred soldiers guarding the watchtowers were lost. As long as the attacking enemy is willing to pay one or two hundred casualties, he can still reach the underscore of the watchtower, and then set fire to the watchtower with firewood and kerosene or smoke it into. The outside of the watchtower is made of stone, but the inner compartment is made of wood and wooden floors, and it is still afraid of being burned.

Although the enemy retreated this time, he will soon come back next time, and with the experience of this attack, the enemy will have more ways to target the watchtower next time. Tougher battles await you later. That's what Lorist thought.

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