Chapter 552: The Changing Situation

Lorist began to design the earthen grenade, which was very simple, that is, the granules of gunpowder in those explosive bags were poured out, divided into three or four parts, and put into the small clay pots collected, and then the ignition rope was inserted, and a so-so earthen grenade was completed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Although the power of the info explosives pack is large, after all, the volume is a little larger, and each person can carry two or three to finish. It's not a matter of weight, it's a hindrance to movement, and if a rocket is fired somewhere during a fight, the explosive pack becomes a suicide kit, and Lorist becomes a joke.

Several homemade grenades were tested, and although they were not very powerful, they were enough to meet Lorlist's needs. The only thing to note is that the ignition rope must be thrown out immediately after burning a third of its length, so as to ensure your own safety. However, El looked at these earthen grenades, and he hoped that such earthen grenades could be equipped with the Guards Legion, and whether it was in siege warfare or defensive warfare, the soldiers would have one more weapon to win.

Lorist reluctantly told him that the gunpowder produced in the family domain could not meet such a requirement, and it was already difficult to ensure the gunpowder needs of the North Sea Fleet and the three artillery battalions, and there was no excess gunpowder share to make such homemade grenades to equip the family legions, which dispelled the fantasy of the Guards soldiers holding homemade grenades to kill all sides on the battlefield.

Reddy said, "Your Highness, since you have these small clay pots, then the raid on Mount Lindsetton will be left to me, and you don't have to take any risks." ”

Lorist shook his head: "The raid on Lindsetton Hill City is not to blow people up with these earthen grenades made of small clay pots, it is just a harassment operation." Our aim is to destroy the city's long-range assault weapons, and ensure that the artillery battalion can pass through the avenue on the small stone hill in front of the side wall to reach the gate of Mount Lindsetton and capture the castle at the gate. If you are the only one, you will probably be entangled in a bitter battle by the great swordsman sitting in the mountain city, and it will only become a harassment war in the end. And if I go, I'm sure there won't be a few great swordsmen who will appear in front of me, so that we can have time to destroy those long-range attack weapons. ”

Lorist was right, in fact, he took Reddy, El and six strong and agile family knights each carrying about twenty small clay pots on their backs to climb up the cliff at the back of Lindseton Hill City under the cover of night, the enemy guarding in the mountain city was just as he expected, after discovering that it was him, the new Sword Master, led the raid, that none of the great swordsmen and golden knights dared to rush up to close combat, the only resistance was to order those garrison soldiers to rush up and entangle them, and then use longbows or crossbows to carry out large-scale covering shots without distinguishing between enemies and enemies, intending to force them out of the city。

But Lorist opened up the field of bloodkill, whether it was the covering shot of the longbow or the concentrated fire of the crossbow of the defender, it was easily accepted, but the garrison soldiers who rushed up suffered heavy casualties. After repeated attempts, no garrison was willing to rush up to their deaths, and even if the commander forced them with his sword, they could not be allowed to take the initiative to charge. Lorist's raiding team attacked from this side wall to the side wall facing the avenue, and immediately destroyed nearly 200 crossbows placed on the two walls.

Then came the grenadier show, where Reddy, El and the six knights lit the ropes on the small clay pots on the city walls and smashed them everywhere, and the garrison assembled under the city was blown up by these earthen grenades. Although the earthen grenades made of these small clay pots were not powerful enough to kill a large area in a single explosion, there was no problem in injuring a dozen or so people, and the screams and howls of the wounded garrison soldiers were heard everywhere, and the whole mountain city was in chaos.

When Lorist and the others descended the city walls and attacked the location of the trebuchet in the city, the thunder of artillery rang out at the gates of Mount Lindsayton. The garrison of Lindsetton Hill probably understood that the general situation was gone, and they opened the other two gates to the east and scattered, and in a short time only the wounded soldiers who were crying and wailing were left everywhere in the mountain town, and there were also fires in several places suspected to be warehouses, which were probably set on fire by the retreating garrisons.

The mountain town of Lindsayton, which was regarded as a natural danger by the Business Alliance, fell into the hands of the Norton family's armed forces. Lorist was busy all night, and after handing over the aftermath to Schward, he found a room and fell asleep. Although he was a sword master, he was tired enough after opening the Blood Killing Realm. No matter how you say it, Juggernaut is also a human, not a Hulk or Superman. Opening the Blood Killing Domain on the city wall and receiving all the incoming feather arrows and crossbow arrows is also a big burden for Lorist, especially after consuming the opening time of the Blood Killing Domain, Lorist feels very tired and tired.

Sometimes Lorist is very suspicious that the realm of the Sword Master should be related to the spirit, just like after opening the bloody killing field on the city wall, whether it is a dense covering feather arrow or a powerful crossbow arrow, as long as it is close to the range of the bloody killing field, it becomes incisive, whether it is the trajectory or the target, it is vivid and clear under the induction of Lorist. As a result, Lorist easily picked it up with his sword or blocked it, which protected Rhedier and the others unharmed. Therefore, after the opening time of the Blood Killing Realm was consumed, Lorist felt extremely tired.

Lorist slept until the afternoon of the next day, and when he woke up, he felt extremely energetic, and tried to open the Blood Killing Domain, and found that the range of the Domain had expanded by another meter or two. It's a pity that the last time I had a shallow exchange with the Storm Sword Saint, although I knew some of the basic system knowledge of the field, I couldn't discuss it more deeply, and it was impossible to understand these things with the Storm Sword Saint, even if the two sides had made peace, they couldn't have a deep friendship. Maybe when you return to the family territory in the future, you can do some experiments on your own to come to a conclusion.

Lorlist's thoughts were interrupted by Malek's arrival, who had come to report on the capture of Mount Lindsayton. Although the fleeing garrison set fire to the evacuation process, the fire was quickly extinguished by the Norton soldiers who entered the city, losing only a few granaries and a warehouse of armaments. Now that the various legions of the coalition army have arrived in the mountain city, Malek has come to ask if he can continue the offensive as planned.

Lorist waved his hand: "Since this battle has been entrusted to you to command, you don't have to worry about whether I am present or not, you just have to give the order, what to do I trust your decision." ”

Malek then changed his original plan, and the Flying Tiger Legion and the White Lion Legion went to capture the province of Serunica under the leadership of Reddy, because from the wounded soldiers who were captured, Malek received news that the Merchant Alliance had reassembled the two legions as the main force of the newly formed Merchant Alliance, and the battle report said that they would soon come to support, and Serunica Province was the place they would definitely pass through.

Malek hopes that the Flying Tigers and the White Lions will intercept and defeat the two newly formed legions of the Commercial Alliance in the province of Serunica, and completely break the courage of the Commercial Alliance and the Norton family forces to fight in the field. As long as the business alliance can turn into a shrunken turtle, then the Norton family forces can use artillery to blast open those turtle shells one by one and reduce their own casualties.

The Guards and the Armed Legion of the Free Alliance continued their assault on Feltumba Province in an effort to seize the Mayflower Merchant territory as soon as possible. As for the remaining provinces of Tenarigue and Cassilodara, it is completely possible to occupy the provinces of Feltemba and Serunica before marching, which is much safer than the original plan of attacking the provinces of Serunica and Tenarigue by attacking from three sides.

Three days later, Malek appeared in front of Lorist with a serious look and a battle report, which had just been received and sent by the Guards Legion. The war report said that the towns and villages in Feltemba Province where they had arrived found that the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce had completely evacuated Feltonba Province, abandoning their own Chambers of Commerce territory, and taking with them everything they could take with them and the people who were willing to follow them to evacuate. Now many towns and villages seem empty, except for some old people, women and children who are unwilling to leave their homes, the entire territory of the Chamber of Commerce can be said to be empty, and the attack of the Guards Regiment is simply an armed march, and there is no enemy at all.

Lorist was a little surprised, he didn't expect the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce to have such an efficient mobilization ability and determination, and in just a few days, he made the decision to abandon the territory of the Chamber of Commerce and evacuate completely, and he also had such a strong organizational ability to mobilize most of the people to evacuate with them. After a brief discussion with Malek, Lorist made the wrong decision to order Elma to lead the Guards to attack Tenarigus Province and block the Mayflower Chamber's way of evacuating troops.

On the map, the territory of these four provinces is somewhat diamond-shaped, and after the occupation of Feltonba, the provinces of Seruniga and Tenarigue in the north and Cassiloda in the south. Lorist naturally believes that the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce's evacuation goal must be to return to the territory of the Commercial Alliance through the province of Tenarigue, because to the north is the territory of the former Trimber Kingdom, and now the territory of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, which is the center of the Commercial Alliance.

Lorist thinks that the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce will definitely go north to return to the territory of the Business Alliance and join other chambers of commerce to keep warm. What is there in the south, although there are more than a dozen provinces with large territories, most of the people who have been ruined by business alliances are struggling to make a living. If the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce goes to the southern provinces of Fang, it must be a brain disease, because they have to face the betrayer Chikde Chamber of Commerce who is about to break away from the business alliance, as well as those central and southern kingdoms that are eyeing the southern provinces of the business alliance.

Therefore, Lorist believes that the retreat of the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce must be in Tenarigue Province, and the Province of Cerunica has been attacked by the Flying Tiger Legion and the White Lion Legion, and it is impossible for the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce to throw itself into the net, so the only way to return to the territory of the Northern Business Alliance is Tenarigue Province. Only then was the order given for the Guards to attack Tenarigue Province to intercept the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce's evacuation troops, and as a result, it is conceivable that the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce's evacuation force left Cassiloda Province smoothly and reached the southern provinces. When the Norton forces finally occupied the province of Cassilodara, they got the news that they could not catch up.

After another five days, the Flying Tiger Legion sent the good news with the messenger eagle, and the Flying Tiger Legion and the White Lion Legion used the strategy of ambush and pursuit to annihilate and defeat the two newly formed legions of the Commercial Alliance in one fell swoop, and completely drove the enemy out of the province of Serunica. It can be said that the province of Cerruniga has also fallen into the hands of the Norton family's forces......

Over the next two months, the Norton family armed the four provinces, conquering the noble territories canonized by the business alliance one by one, and the only regret was to break away from the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce. By this time, Lorist had received news that the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce had withdrawn troops to the southern provinces. However, as expected by Grand Duke Nicholas, the president of the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce, the Norton family's armed forces were beyond the reach of the southern provinces, and they were unable to mobilize troops to pursue the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce, so that the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce was lucky to escape.

The Commercial Alliance may have thought that the Norton Family Armed Forces would also plunder these four provinces like the Mana Hill Plain in the five provinces, so they reluctantly retreated to the territory of the Commercial Alliance, vigorously built defensive facilities, dug trenches to cut off road traffic, built sandbags and bombarded them with fire artillery, and also recruited personnel to expand the garrison to prepare for invasion, and carried out war propaganda to resist the invasion of the Norton Family's armed ambition wolves on the territory of the Commercial Alliance, and was always ready to give the invaders a head-on attack......

What the Business Alliance didn't expect was that the Norton family moved so quickly, and in September they had just occupied the entire territory of the four provinces, and on October 1, they announced the restoration of the Grand Duchy of Syktor, the Kingdom of Mokbi, the Grand Duchy of Kabasi, and the Grand Duchy of Sanmaria, and the territory included the newly occupied four provinces and the five provinces that had become white lands around the Falcan Plain. On the same day, the sixteen remaining kingdoms and Grand Duchyes of the south-central continent announced the conclusion of alliances and mutual assistance agreements with the four newly restored countries and the Free Alliance, signing the Agreement of the Twenty-One States of the South-Central Continent of Gelinthia, and announced that they would send troops into these four countries to jointly defend against possible future invasions......

The business alliance is like a slap in the head, obviously the enemy is the Norton family armed and free alliance, as well as the Kingdom of Antinac, how can it suddenly become those sixteen countries in the central and southern regions? With the arrival of the alliance forces of the Central and Southern Kingdoms in these four countries, the armed forces of the Norton family and the armed army of the Free Alliance and the White Lion Legion began to withdraw their troops back with rich booty. The Business Alliance had not yet recovered from being an enemy to a coalition of the Central and Southern Kingdoms, and two pieces of news from the southern part of the continent in November caused Archduke Cumberlet to vomit blood on the spot.

On 1 October, the Chiked Chamber of Commerce declared its independence from the Merchant Alliance as the Kingdom of Chikde, and at the same time dispatched two armed legions to occupy the five provinces that had previously belonged to the Merchant Alliance. On October 10, the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce, which had been evacuated to the southern provinces, also announced its independence from the business alliance and became the Mayflower Kingdom, swallowing the business alliance in the remaining seven southern provinces in one gulp. At the same time, the Storm Sword Saint, who had broken away from the business alliance, did not know how much he had accepted from the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce, and he announced the protection of the Mayflower Kingdom, which in one fell swoop dispelled the idea of those kingdoms in the central and southern regions of the territory of the seven provinces occupied by the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce, and allowed the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce to gain a firm foothold in the southern part of the continent.

After declaring their independence from the Mercantile Union and the establishment of an independent state, the Mayflower Chamber of Commerce announced an alliance agreement with the Kingdom of Chikd to help each other fight against any invaders against the two countries. At the same time, it was announced that special envoys would be sent to the Free Alliance and various countries in the central and southern parts of the country to reach an armistice and peace agreement with the former adversary. The Governor of the Liberal Alliance, Ledos, publicly welcomed the envoy of the Mayflower Kingdom to the city of Morent for peace talks......

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