Chapter 470: The Rainy Season is Coming

"Your Highness, the harvest of this capture of the royal city of Fedeliga is recorded here. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info "Malek placed a folder of vellum paper on the table.

This is the city lord's mansion in the inner city of the royal city of Federiga, and after the occupation of the royal city, it naturally became the residence and command center of Lorist. However, due to the fire set on fire by the president of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and the senior officials of the Chamber of Commerce before evacuation, almost half of the originally magnificent City Lord's Mansion was burned down, and only one-third of the intact houses were salvaged.

Lorist was standing in front of the window at the moment, and this fairly neat side hall had been arranged as his study, and it was also the office where he summoned his subordinates to discuss affairs. Several large pits had been dug out of the large area of ruins in front of the side hall, and many guards were searching the rubble in the pits and ruins with small shovels, and the gravel and rubble they had filtered were piled up into several small mounds next to the pits.

Lorist looked up at the overcast sky, sighed and turned to ask Marek, "Today is the 33rd of February, and the rainy season will come in two days." Maybe it will rain tomorrow, but have the refugees and prisoners been accommodated? It's hard to stay in the house for the next month......

Malek replied expressionlessly: "Your Highness, please rest assured. All the captives were gathered in the barracks in Xicheng District, where they were under the supervision of Lord Bodfinger. The city was defended by Lord Jost, and the refugees were relocated to their homes in the East Quarter, where they were emotionally stable and happy to serve our family's armed forces. During this month of the rainy season, their supplies and order will be in the hands of Lord Dorres. ”

"Is the garrison of our family's armed forces arranged?" Lorist asked again.

"It's okay too. Lord Tiger Ross has arranged the Flying Tiger Legion in the southern city and the Rock Legion in the northern city, and has already built temporary barracks. There will be no problems in surviving the rainy season. Malek said.

"You guys did a great job and were very attentive. Lorist complimented, walked to the table and picked up the leather paper folder, opened it and looked at it, a little surprised: "Well, the goldford we seized this time is only about four million?"

"Yes, Your Highness. "These goldfords were found in the vault, and I asked the people who took care of the vault, and they said that it was the reserve of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, and most of it was used to prepare for the salaries and benefits of the armed legionnaires of the Chamber of Commerce and the employees of various departments under the Chamber of Commerce for a year, and the rest was used in case of a shortage of funds."

The total value of all the supplies we seized this time is equivalent to nearly 10 million Kingford. But unfortunately, most of the grain and material reserve warehouses were set on fire when the Vethia Chamber of Commerce high-level fled, and our soldiers did not salvage much food, grass and armaments, and more warehouses stocked with various alloys that were expensive but useless for our current situation. ”

Not surprisingly, the Vesian Chamber of Commerce was the largest producer of weapons and armaments in the Business Alliance, with its own system of mining, refining, and forging, and it was natural that large quantities of expensive alloys were stored in warehouses during production and experimentation. It's just that these materials are useless things to the Norton family, and it is a long way to transport them back, not to mention the huge transportation costs of the weight and the amount of reserves.

For the Norton family, these high-value alloy materials are simply chicken ribs, and it is a pity to lose them, after all, they are worth millions of goldfords. But it's useless to ship it back, and it costs transportation. You must know that the Norton family itself has a refining and forging department, and the family-made equipment produced is not inferior to the weapons and armor produced by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, or even surpassed.

Lorist would love to find someone to sell him these alloys from the royal city of Federiga, but the problem is that it is difficult to find the right person to take over the alloy materials worth millions. His Royal Highness is a good candidate, but he also doesn't have that much money, and he is thick-skinned. Lorist was sure that if he wanted to transfer this batch of alloy materials to His Second Highness, he would ensure that he would get white bars instead of gold coins.

Pointing to the stacks of documents and materials piled up in the corner of the study, Lorist smiled bitterly: "In the past twenty days, I have carefully checked all the documents and archives that have not been destroyed by fire, but I have not found the production ratio information of those alloy materials. I suspect it's all burned. I don't know if Reddy and El have found clues about the material proportioning technician among the captives. I really want to know what material the big iron gate inside the north gate is made of......"

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, I don't have the right to ask about this, I don't know if Reddy and El have made any progress. Malek still had the same expressionless face.

"Oh, I forgot, I really shouldn't have asked you about this. Forget it, Malek, there were so many surprises in this siege that we couldn't realize our original plan. However, we have finally captured the royal city of Federiga and destroyed the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, and we have achieved both goals. Then the rainy season comes, and you will be responsible for all the distribution and jurisdiction of the supplies!" Lorist said, patting Malek on the shoulder.

Malek stood upright: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will definitely do my best to complete my duties." But the biggest problem now is the grain and grass, and I have already sent someone to budget it, and the grain and grass that our family forces carry and salvage from those burning warehouses will be enough for us to survive the rainy season if the supply is reduced slightly. But after the rainy season, we are faced with a shortage of food. ”

"As long as you can survive the rainy season. Lorist nodded: "After the rainy season is the harvest of winter wheat, and that large wheat field outside the city is enough to provide food for all of us for a while. And when the weather is clear, Tiger Ross will lead the Flying Tiger Legion to sweep away all the territorial nobles canonized by the Vician Chamber of Commerce in Portoorg Province, and then there will naturally be the seizure of grain and grass materials. At the same time, Bodfinger also had to lead the Rock Legion to attack Cambona Province, so that he could meet the enemy with food.

When the weather clears, the logistics and supply teams of Anderwolf Province will also escort a large number of supplies, and at the same time, the Chasseur regiment of Chosk will also arrive here, and they will escort more than 100,000 immigrants to the Northlands. If the population of the royal city of Federiga is subtracted from these 100,000, the food pressure will naturally be reduced, and the captured and newly harvested winter wheat will be enough for our family's daily consumption for several months. ”

What Lorist hated the most was that when the high-ranking officials of the Vesia Chamber of Commerce abandoned the city and fled, they really set fire to the trade area and the grain and grass storage warehouse in the south of the royal city, just like the messenger said, once the city fell, the city would be set on fire, and the royal city would never be left intact to the Norton family. Since the high-level officials of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce can do what they say, then Lorist is not willing to break his word. After capturing the high-ranking members of the Vesian Chamber of Commerce who had fled, he insisted on killing the high-ranking members of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and their relatives, regardless of the status and influence of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce in the business alliance, resulting in the removal of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce.

When the grain and grass warehouses caught fire, Lorist immediately gave up the pursuit and led the guards directly into the firefighting operation, and the efforts of two days and three nights only saved one-third of the grain reserves, and after the capture of the royal city of Federiga, the total number of people in the city was nearly 280,000, and the supply of grain and grass did begin to be tight. So for the next ten days, the Norton armed forces held captives in various parts of the royal city in search of food hidden under the ruins.

After Malek leaves, Reddy and El arrive. After the newly formed miner garrison of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce laid down their arms and surrendered, Lorist gave Reddy and El the task of screening the technicians and useful talents among the captives. Judging from the looks of the two of them, it was clear that the task was well accomplished.

"Your Highness, this is the list of one hundred and seventy-eight people in all. Most of them are technicians, and some are technical managers. Their families are fortunate not to die in battle, and we are confident that by moving them to the Northlands, they will be able to integrate into our family territory without any problems. El reported.

"Your Highness, we have also found the material refiner who cast the Great Iron Gate, his name is Motila, forty-seven years old, single. According to those who knew him, he was a technical maniac obsessed with refining and synthesizing materials. Reddy had another piece of good news for Lorlist.

"Oh, how did you find him?" said Lorlist.

"This one, he ran out on his own. Reddy laughed, "When we were in the prisoner camp to ask someone, this Mortila suddenly rushed over and hugged one of the guards, and we were all startled. At first we thought we had been attacked and almost cut him down. But then we found out that he hugged the guard because of the steel armor he was wearing, and when he looked at the armor we were wearing, his eyes lit up, and we thought he was crazy, but when we asked the person next to him, we realized that he was really a technical maniac, and he forgot everything when he touched the material he was interested in. We heard that the two large iron gates at the north gate were also cast from the materials he provided, so we brought him back directly. Your Highness, do you want to meet him?"

"What is he doing now?" Lorist was genuinely curious.

"He held on to our armor, and when we brought him back we threw him a spare steel handarmour, and now he was studying it in a room, and he didn't care about giving him food, but only paper and pen, as if to deduce the steel ......ratio of that handarmour," Reddy guessed after a moment's thought.

"Forget it, let him study the steel handmail there. As soon as the rainy season is over, send him to our family's iron ore refining base and hand him over to Master Sid, telling him that this person is a valuable talent and should not be left behind. Lorist said.

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

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The mountain road was stained with blood, and the corpses were lying on the road one by one, and their corpses were either stuck with feather arrows or large pieces of bones collapsed, which were wounds hit by heavy objects.

"Your Majesty, we really can't attack it, the mountain road is too slippery during the snow season, the enemy is condescending, and there is a well-protected castle, we have lost three hundred-person squads, but we haven't even touched the edge of the castle......" Lippired stood in front of the Second Highness with his head down, as the most trusted golden knight of the Second Highness and the most elite armed force of the Kingdom of Antinac, the commander of the Blizzard Raid Corps, led three thousand people to attack a small castle of less than a thousand people, but lost his troops, making him ashamed and ashamed.

His Royal Highness also had an iron blue face, looking at the small castle erected on the edge of the cliff at the end of the mountain road, and his mood was also extremely depressed. After launching a winter raid on the northwest region at the end of December last year, the good news spread one after another, and it was invincible along the way. First of all, he cleaned up the garrison corps that the bullshit Grand Duke Zturam had deployed in the border fortress, and brought this legion of more than 28,000 people to a good start.

Immediately afterwards, His Second Highness led the Storm Raid Corps to sweep through most of the Northwest Region, eliminating more than thirty of the nobles of the territory canonized by the Commercial Alliance, while the Blizzard Raid Corps under his command lost less than a thousand people. It was at this time that the enemy finally discovered the surprise attack of His Second Highness, the alarm bell rang for a long time, the beacon fire was ignited, and the wolf smoke was everywhere.

At that time, His Royal Highness thought that the enemy's general trend was gone, and there was no other way but to surrender. His Royal Highness was very proud and decided to capture Grand Duke Zturam and torture him before putting him to death.

Back then, this Zturam was still a count of the kingdom of Redlis, and his territory was in the province of Andlviv. Because of his opposition to surrendering to His Royal Highness, he gathered nearly 10,000 people to fight against the kingdom's counterinsurgency army, and set up a conspiracy to lure the counterinsurgency army into a trap, and a flood wiped out the 70,000 counterinsurgency army of His Second Highness.

His Royal Highness hated this Grand Duke of Zthuram to the core, and when he was defeated in the royal city of Fedeliga, this Zturam took refuge in the commercial alliance and was named the Grand Duke, and also ceded the province of Hansdermos from the newly enthroned Queen Kerry, and united with the northwest region to establish the Duchy of Zturam as a buffer state between the commercial alliance and the Kingdom of Antinac.

Later, with the help of the Norton family's armed forces, the second highness overthrew the usurping Queen Kerry and re-ascended the throne, and let the Norton family armed to recover the province of Hansdermos. The Grand Duke of Zturam was well acquainted with him, and withdrew his forces to the northwest, allowing the Nortons to recapture the province of Hansdemous for the Kingdom of Antinac without a fight.

For the next few years, the Grand Duke of Zturam stayed in the northwest very peacefully, and did not make any provocative moves against the Kingdom of Antinac, and his garrison was very aware of the current affairs, staying ten miles away from the border line, and guarding against the danger to avoid clashes with the Royal Guards who guarded the border of the province of Hansdemoth.

It's just that no matter how the Grand Duke of Zturam behaves harmlessly, he is still a thorn in the heart of the Second Highness, and he is uncomfortable if he does not pull it out. His Royal Highness used the winter raid this time in order to catch Grand Duke Zturam by surprise, and with the help of the harsh winter, he had no way to escape, and became a defeated general of His Second Highness's subordinates, so that His Royal Highness could take revenge......

But His Royal Highness did not expect Grand Duke Zturam to arrange the alarm system in the northwest region so well, and as soon as he received the alarm, he prepared for a decisive battle in his own castle. His Royal Highness laid siege to the castle of the Grand Duke of Zthuram until mid-February, when it was broken with the help of a belated catapult. Unfortunately, Grand Duke Zturam ran away again, and in February, the snow melted, and the blizzard raiding corps of His Second Highness could not use skis, so Grand Duke Zturam fled to this small castle on the edge of the cliff with more than 300 cavalry.

The mountain road was rough and slippery, and the attacking soldiers would fall if they were not careful, so much so that several times they were repulsed by the castle's defenders with bows and crossbows and rolling logs, and suffered heavy casualties.

"If the catapults can come by and we will be able to take this little castle under the cover of the shield carts!" said Lippied, unwillingly.

His Royal Highness shook his head: "Now the road is muddy and difficult to navigate, and it will soon be the rainy season again, and the catapult can't come right away." Let's do this first, don't worry, he can't run, let's collect our troops first, choose a high ground nearby and set up camp, and then we will attack after the rainy season. By that time this traitorous thief will still fall into our hands......"

"Yes, Your Majesty. Lippired said.

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