Chapter 429 Measures

His Royal Highness's face was as gloomy as the rainy season that had just passed a month, and the news that Lorist had brought him had already made him not eat a good meal and sleep for three consecutive days, coupled with the defeat of the front's attack on the defensive positions of the Duchy of Handla. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info made him, a first-class great swordsman, get on fire and have a toothache, and his entire cheeks were swollen as if a loaf of bread was stuffed in his mouth.

Especially the pharmacist who had just left made His Royal Highness feel very angry, and he couldn't wait to split him with a sword. As the imperial physician of the palace, this pharmacist, after looking at the situation of His Royal Highness's teeth for a long time, he actually spread his hands and said that he could not do anything, because tooth pain is a neurological disease, and pharmacy has always believed that dental diseases are a big problem, which is not like other physical problems, which can be cured by pouring a bottle of medicine. There is only one best way to solve the problem of tooth pain, and that is tooth extraction. But after the extraction, there is a missing tooth in the mouth, and as for the filling, it is a fantasy, and no one knows what to do.

Of course, His Royal Highness refused to pull out his teeth, as the king of the Kingdom of Antinac, a tooth in his mouth would make the nobles laugh. The solution is either none, that is, to pull out a good tooth in the same position from the mouth of the dead man and fill the gap in front of the person, which is also the practice of many nobles who have extracted teeth. But when he thought of putting the dead man's teeth in his mouth, and then taking them off when he was eating, lest he accidentally swallow the food with the food...... His Royal Highness felt disgusted and refused the pharmacist's proposal.

The pharmacist had no choice but to refine a few bottles of heat-clearing and fire-relieving potions for His Royal Highness, but he did not guarantee whether this would be useful for toothache. The second highness is in terrible pain, if he can't speak well, he will reprimand the pharmacist, what kind of toothache is a world problem in pharmacy, the broken liver can be cured by pouring a bottle of medicine, how can the teeth be useless? What nonsense is that teeth are the crystallization of human bones, and they are different from physical tissues, obviously they are not good at learning, and they really shouldn't spend so many gold coins to worship him every year......

Looking at the newspapers of Morent City brought to him by Lorist on the table, the Second Highness felt that he was really unlucky, seeing that the exploits of the four central principalities to recover the eleven provinces of the empire were just around the corner, and the cause of the unification of the empire had seen the dawn, but the Fude Business Alliance, which was the biggest enemy in his heart, actually recruited a sword master. With this Storm Sword Saint Town, will he still be able to send troops to recover the provinces that have been occupied by the Commercial Alliance? If he gives up those provinces, can the territory of the empire still be considered complete? Can he still deceive himself into believing that he is a great monarch who has completed the revival of the empire?

Not to mention how anxious His Royal Highness was, Lorist would go to the front line to check the battlefield situation accompanied by Count Shahin. After the rainy season, Lorist spent more than half a month in Angry Bear City, until His Second Highness sent three messengers from the front line to urge him to go on the road, and then he was reluctant to take the Flying Tiger Legion to pull out, and by the way, he brought him several newspapers reported by the Ford Business Alliance in Moriente City......

After checking the defensive positions set up by the four principalities in the middle of the opposite side, Lorist finally understood why His Royal Highness urged him to come over in a hurry, originally he was still wondering, the mountain attack should be the work of the heavy infantry, and the Flying Tiger Legion is a cavalry, and there is a fart to come over. Now that I have a look at the battlefield, I understand that what His Royal Highness wants is not cavalry, but the two long-range attack troops of the Flying Tiger Legion, the chariot steel crossbow and the Thunderbolt Catapult Battalion.

When Lorist arrived at the front line, it was already May 21, and His Royal Highness led more than 200,000 troops to enter the Westwood Province of the Duchy of Handla after the rainy season, and occupied a quarter of its territory smoothly at first, but then it was stuck in the Veronny Pass, and failed several consecutive attacks, so he remembered to borrow the long-range attack ability of the Flying Tiger Legion to suppress the defenders' counterattack, so he kept sending messengers to urge Lorist to come over as soon as possible.

"It's not a good fight. Lorist said.

This is true, Westwood Province is a province of mountains and forests as the name suggests, and it is still a large province. Weiss means to describe the majesty of the mountains in the lingua franca, and the Yunduan Mountains of the Egret Lake Marsh originate in the province of Cambona and span five provinces in the province of Westwood. Although this is the tail end of the Yunduan Mountain Range, the mountains and forests are all over the place, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. At that time, the eldest prince raised more than 200,000 troops to conquer the four central principalities, but he was also blocked in Westwood Province, and after two years of confrontation, the troops were not good and lost the battle. However, at that time, the eldest prince attacked from the south to the north, and now the second highness is attacking from the north to the south.

The Veronny Pass, to be exact, is the end of the Yunduan Mountains, and the terrain is somewhat similar to the Pisber Pass where the city of Pietro in Winston Province is located, but it is much wider than the narrow Pisber Pass, more than ten miles wide. However, although the Weironi Pass is spacious, the terrain is still condescending, and it is extremely unfavorable for the attacker to attack on the back.

As you can see from the monoculars, the garrison of the Duchy of Handla still used trenches and earthen walls to defend the position, but there were many more arrow towers. There were still many destroyed and broken shield carts scattered around the defensive position, and there were still puddles of dark marks on the ground, which should be the blood marks left by the attacking soldiers, and there were many potholes and long linear grooves of different depths on the dirt slope......

"Look at the protruding parts on either side of the dirt slope. Count Shaheen reminded.

"What's that?" Lorist pointed his telescope at Count Shaheen's warning, and saw a row of strange tower-shaped wooden houses with long booms like artificial cranes.

"Trebuchet. Count Shaheen replied: "Your Majesty dispatched catapults to cover the attack of the White Lion Legion, but I did not expect that the enemy had already prepared, and the strange row of wooden houses with long arms above were actually used for stone throwing. Although they did not throw stones as far as our catapults, the terrain was superior, and the attacking forces of the White Lion Legion suffered a heavy defeat, with heavy casualties, and the catapults sent by His Majesty also lost a dozen or so. ”

Lorist understood, it seems that the Duchy of Handra has come up with a lever-type catapult, and the tower-like wooden house below may have been deliberately built to cover up the principle of lever-throwing stones, hehe, quite careful to keep it secret. Lorist counted more than forty wooden towers on one side, and nearly a hundred trebuchets on both sides.

"How heavy are the stones they fire, and where can they go farthest?" Lorist asked.

Count Shaheen pondered for a moment and replied: "The size of a human head, weighing forty or fifty pounds, should be able to be thrown two or three hundred meters at the farthest." At that time, the catapults sent by His Majesty were destroyed at this distance, and His Majesty was furious, saying that the catapults you gave him were all rags, and that they were not as far as the enemy's. Because when we were attacked by the enemy's catapults, our catapults also launched a counterattack as soon as possible, but the problem was that all the trebuchets fell in front of those trebuchets and could not destroy them, so we had to retreat. ”

Lorist snorted softly from his nose: ", he can say it." I don't want to think that we are attacking from the bottom up, and the enemy is on top, and the advantage of this terrain takes up most of it. Up and down to counteract, our catapults, of course, did not throw as far as the enemy. ”

"Well, His Majesty later figured it out, and he arranged a night attack, but the enemy was heavily garrisoned, and it also failed. The current form of the battlefield is the opposite of that of the Duchy of Forendo, which is our world during the day, and the garrison of the Duchy of Forrendo can only counterattack at night to recapture the positions we occupy during the day. But now that there are a hundred trebuchets on it, it is their world during the day, and we cannot attack at all. Count Shaheen said.

This is true, these hundreds of trebuchets are arranged on the dirt slope and are indeed a great threat to the attackers, as long as you enter the range of the sling, you have to be vigilant against the stones falling from the sky, in such a situation, there is no need to say anything about the efficiency of the attack and the certainty of victory.

"Second Highness didn't try to change places?"

"It didn't work. Count Shaheen shook his head: "This is already the flattest section of the Weiloni Pass, and it is also the most favorable terrain for our attack. We've seen the rest of the place, the hills are steeper, and some trails go around the hills, which are more favorable for the defensive side. After all, this section of the road in front of us is the thoroughfare between the four principalities in the central part of the country, and it can be regarded as the most spacious and least threatening area for our attack. It's just that we didn't expect that the Duchy of Handla had placed so many trebuchets on it and blocked us in this mountain pass. ”

"How are the forces of the Central Four Duchy distributed?" Lorist asked.

"According to the reconnaissance of our scouts and the confessions of the captives, the section of the mountain pass ahead is guarded by the Red Dragon Legion of the Duchy of Handla. The Red Dragon and White Dragon Legions are the two standing legions of the Duchy of Handla, each legion is 24,000 people, and each legion has two corps and a battalion, usually called the Red and White Double Dragon Legion, but it is divided into two legions as soon as it is expanded in wartime. At present, the Red Dragon Legion is four corps, each with 8,000 men and a logistics battalion of 3,000, with a full strength of 35,000 men, responsible for defending the Weiloni Pass.

On the left of the Yunduan Mountains is the first garrison regiment of the Duchy of Forrendo is defending, and on the right of the Matnemadi mountain is stationed the Green Forest Mountain Legion of the Principality of Fakel, and the rest of the troops did not appear in front of us, and we are facing these three legions of nearly 130,000 people. "Count Shaheen has a clear understanding of the situation on the battlefield.

Lorist pointed to the mist-filled Matnemadi Mountains and Rivers in the distance: "Our Majesty the King didn't have the idea over there?"

Count Shaheen smiled bitterly: "Of course I did, but I almost destroyed an elite light infantry scout brigade of our family. The Matnemadi Mountains are steep and there are no major roads to pass, and the biggest feature is that there are many streams and deep ravines, which can be said to be difficult to walk. The Green Forest Mountain Legion of the Principality of Falkel has only captured a few strategic points to make it difficult for us to fly. I sent an elite scout brigade into the mountains to find a way, but only about 300 people returned......"

"Isn't the Nebaraku River, which passes by the Matenemadi Mountains, to the province of Delamak, the hinterland of the Duchy of Handla?

"It didn't work, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had proposed, but he almost buried a light cavalry regiment. Count Shaheen sighed, "The Duchy of Handla has long been on guard. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun gathered his craftsmen to make countless wooden rafts and prepared to go down the river to the province of Dramak, but he did not expect that the Duchy of Handra pulled three iron chains at the bend of the river near the Matnemadi Mountain.

In order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun did not send anyone to reconnoiter at all, for fear of startling the snake and attracting the attention of the enemy. As a result, on the day of the departure, the barbarian cavalry of the reserve corps went straight downstream, but was stopped at the bend by iron chains, and the enemy who was on guard on the shore hurriedly gathered reinforcements, took the opportunity to launch rockets and projected fireballs into the river, and poured fire oil on the river, burning into a sea of fire, and finally the reserve corps was defeated, losing nearly 10,000 horses......"

Well, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was also unlucky enough, losing almost a corps of troops that were burned to the fire, but not even the skin of the enemy was rubbed. Lorist gloated for a long time, remembering that he had packed the ticket in front of the Second Highness and said that he would definitely be able to come up with a way to capture the position in front, and then his face became sad.

I really have a sick brain, why do you laugh at the second highness at the welcome banquet They are trapped here, and they have to be forced to die and force themselves to come over with the Flying Tiger Legion. Then he was provoked by the words of the Second Highness, and he couldn't stand this anger and drank too much wine, so he patted his chest and said that he would definitely be able to come up with a way to capture the defensive position of this mountain pass. Now, let's stop myself......

"Henned, take me around again to see if there are any holes in the defenses of the Central Four Duchy. Lorist said to Count Shaheen.

After another three days, the heat-clearing and antidote medicine presented by the pharmacist finally took effect, although the teeth were still very painful, but the cheeks of the Second Highness had already been swollen and could speak well. His Royal Highness, who was depressed, convened a military meeting to discuss how to break through the current predicament and break through the defensive position of the mountain pass.

"Locke, last time you said that there must be a way to break through the Veronny Pass in front, have you come up with any good ideas in the past few days?" the Second Highness was the first to say to Lorist. Who asked this guy to come over with the Flying Tiger Legion reluctantly, and complained at the welcome banquet that he was busy moving refugees for three months last winter, and he also helped himself remove the threat of the mountain legion in the Duchy of Forendo behind the army, and he helped so much but didn't have enough time to rest, at least he should make up for the winter vacation or something. He also said that without the Flying Tiger Legion of the Norton family, he would not have fought on his own, and he was depressed and half dead.

At that time, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun stood up to explain how well defended the Vironny Pass was, but Lorist scoffed that there was no foolproof defense in the world, but we had found no weakness. I seized this opportunity to stop this guy with words, and then this guy rarely volunteered to find out the weakness of that defensive position, maybe this guy drank a few more glasses at that time, it was really rare. However, this guy gave himself a few newspapers before leaving, and let himself know the news that the Fude Business Alliance had recruited a Sword Saint Zhenguo, which caused him to have a toothache for so many days......

If this guy said that he hadn't figured out how to attack the defensive position of the Weironny Pass, then he must laugh at him hatefully, who made this guy ashamed. His Royal Highness thinks so.

Lorist raised three fingers: "Your Majesty, forgive me for being a shallow learner, and I have only come up with three ways after learning about the battlefield situation in the past few days." ”

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