readx;? Man, as a social animal, has a good reputation that exists on a wide scale, and is sometimes more effective than any army or power. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since ancient times, the vast majority of those who have held high positions but are unpopular, these magnates possess unrivalled military power and wealth, are able to live a life of more than 10,000 people, and use their power to prohibit any objections. Although they are not as easily destroyed in the wrath of the people as some claim to think, for the human being is sometimes so cowardly and submissive that you feel terrible, one thing is certain, whether or not the families of these powerful nobles can last for two or three hundred years.

They are destined not to sleep.

It is almost impossible to count how many times the same mistake has happened in history, once a person or a family has become a powerful person, then over time they will be separated from the common people on all levels: first of all, the way of life and cultural level, the high mansions and courtyard walls are isolated from the people and live a completely independent life, and then all this will develop into ideas and even language, when a noble family and the common people no longer speak the same language, they really become the traditional sense of the aristocratic class。

But it was not a mistake until this point, after all, the noble life of the nobles was the object of the people's longing, and the luxurious costumes, huge mansions, and personal guards that they could see in their eyes would become the object of continued struggle. Almost every mistake that we speak of is that the nobles begin to cordon everything off, forbidding the commoners to try to live like them, surround themselves with armies and powers, and form an intertwined barrier with the rest of the nobility.

Fundamentally, they didn't do anything wrong, and it was an instinct to guard the interests of their family, after all, it was the family property that their ancestors had worked hard for generations. And most of the ordinary commoners will endure all this, after all, most people cherish their lives, and will not say things that should not be said and do things that should not be done at every turn - this is also a big reason why many unpopular noble families can survive for a long time.

But when they were in need of the support of the people, when they lost the power, the army, and the wealth that were the protective shells, the empty glory of the nobility had been isolated from the people for centuries, making it almost impossible for them to even gain the pity of the common people.

-- The peasants of the Dordogne welcomed their prince, and the word of mouth of the peasants, which had been passed down from the plains of Acasta in the north, had a tremendous influence on how much he loved his people and how rich his life had been. For two centuries, the Arvenella aristocracy had not paid attention to the gossip of the people, who believed that the people should say what they were allowed to say and do what they were allowed to do, without any idea of the existence of public opinion that would circulate in secret.

And at this moment, after the defeat, the more than a thousand knights under the command of Grand Duke Duran who were escorted into the city wall were finally seen, and they saw a scene they had never dreamed of. The peasants, who usually met them in their tall horses and rode in full costume to avoid them, cheerfully welcomed Edward, not by the official proclamation, but by the good reputation of popular opinion, which made everything almost a matter of course, and although there were casualties, although Edward actually attacked the marquisate, he did not need to start to control the bad speech of the people and suppress it by force like any occupation army, so as to avoid the angry people from besieging him.

"It's not fair!" cried one of the knights of Duke Duran, a young man, a man who believed in chivalry, who believed in himself as a heroic representative of the brave men who fought for these people—but who also ignored the fact that at the beginning of the battle they had forced the peasants to die for themselves.

The defeated southern nobles of Avenella fell silent, as ignorant as the young knight, clearly forcing the militia to fight to protect their interests, but in their hearts they were emotionally made up by all kinds of idealistic thinking that they were only a few fools who fought alongside him. When the vast majority of the nobles saw that the target of the cheers on this side was actually the attacker, they had a trace of indescribable complexity in their hearts.

The people are not so stupid, they all believe that seeing is believing. If it were only Edward's good reputation, they wouldn't have been so fanatical about the distance from the Plains of Acasta - anything good needs a bad to be contrasted to make people feel good, otherwise nothing more than empty rhetoric can convince anyone.

Edward was certainly a better nobleman, but his good people of Dordogne had never seen it. But they still welcomed him and his army, which showed not how good Edward was, but how bad the Marquis of Dordogne and their southern nobles were in the hearts of the people.

After all, why this is the case, most of the southern nobles of Avenella probably already know it in their hearts. But knowing that it takes more courage to turn your back on the entire aristocratic class, the whole entrenched system, and to gamble on whether the people will support you, than to face an entire army alone.

Edward was a better man than all of them combined, a true representative of chivalry.

It is the embodiment of the true "aristocratic spirit" that has long been lost somewhere, or perhaps never existed in reality, only between fantasy and verbalism.

It is noble and desirable, and under its effect the whole army is like a whole, and the sword is invincible.

The army that the first Grand Duke of the South had gathered in terms of size and could fight hard was defeated, and not only that, but on another level, the knights felt like they were.

Go down in flames.

......

It's already May, and despite the tactics of Henry and the strategic command of Archduke Lesky in the great battle two days earlier, the hard-fought battle that Edward least wants to see still has taken a heavy toll on it.

The results of incomplete statistics this time the armies of the North and the South together lost a total of 800 heavy cavalry - this number alone may not be much, but the army went with elite knights, and armor and weapons could be quickly crafted as long as there were wealthy craftsmen, and these knights, who had been trained since childhood, were difficult to retrain quickly.

The same is true for well-trained and heavily armed knights, and the damage to the militia is even greater. More than 17,000 were killed, more than 18,000 were seriously injured, and nearly 30,000 others were slightly injured. Except for those who died directly from the cavalry on both sides and the frontal clashes, the vast majority of the other minor and serious injuries were actually the result of friendly injuries and stampede caused by the chaos of the battlefield.

It should be mentioned that more than eighty percent of the casualties were forcibly recruited by the Princes' coalition forces, not the northern army. A complete command system with experienced longbowmen veterans as the press, a mix of mercenaries and militia as the vanguard, and a sergeant as the squad leader is reliable and effective. With the exception of hand-to-hand combat in frontal collisions and the cavalry charge of Grand Duke Duran, the number of friendly injuries killed in the chaos of collective action was rare, if not uncommon.

Compared with the coalition militia phalanx that was forced forward by the Marquis of Dordogne, the Northern Army, although slightly immature, still had a reliable system framework and achieved remarkable results. Edward's initial fears of demoralization naturally dissipated when he entered the realm with a welcome and unanimous cheers - no one wanted to be a hero, and the cheers and praise of others lifted the spirits of the soldiers who had fought the bloody battle.

......

"They're growing. Henry's voice suddenly sounded next to Edward, who was looking out the window, and he turned his head to look at the sage, stunned for a moment, and then nodded.

"Using this army as a template, I want to set up a standing army for Avenella. As with the legionary system that existed in the Empire of Laman in the past, the fighting power of an orderly and honorable army is astonishing......" Edward said, and Henry replied sharply again: "You are challenging the very existence of the aristocracy. ”

"Those who are willing to follow me are already here, as for the great nobles of the South who would rather drown their class...... I have betrayed even my own loved ones, and I will not be merciful to anyone who stands in the way of the future of this country. Edward, who had matured a lot, replied to Henry, and the sage stared at him for a long time before slowly nodding his head: "I hope you can remember the original intention at this moment, Your Royal Highness, I have seen too many young people with enthusiasm and ideals who begin to corrupt after they really take power, and I don't want to see you follow the same path." ”

He said this, and Edward looked back and smiled, "At that time, the gentleman will come to stop me, won't he?" ”

"Who knows. Henry shrugged his shoulders and stepped aside.

......

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

After defeating the Princely Coalition and officially taking the territory of the Dordogne, the soldiers of Edward's Northern Army had to stop and recuperate, even though the situation was still very urgent and needed to race against time to get to the royal capital.

They were not an invading army, the Marquis of Dordogne, who had fled in the chaotic battle, had fallen into the water and drowned because of the plate and cotton armor on his body, and his body was finally found by soldiers who followed the horses left nearby to find traces, and Duke Duran, who had stubbornly not said a word since his surrender, was also placed under house arrest by Edward.

In addition, the corpses of the dead need to be cleaned and buried, the wounded need to be treated, and there is also a need for supervisors to control the soldiers who stay for a short time - mainly mercenaries - not to pick quarrels and provoke trouble. There was so much that needed to be done, but fortunately, the nobility of the north had grown a lot in all respects since the victory over Sivalier more than a year ago, so that the security and a series of conditions in the Dordogne territory had been greatly improved in the current situation of a large influx of foreign people in the city.

Due to the existence of a large number of noble children, there were all kinds of petty theft and fights in the territory, and the marquis's army either did not deal with it, but if it was dealt with, it would definitely be biased towards the noble side, so the people were frightened when they walked on the road, for fear that suddenly a nobleman would see that he was not pleasing to his eyes, and after beating himself, the guards would say that it was their fault and put them directly into prison.

The security patrols sent out by the northern army after the entry of the army, composed of civilian longbowmen and knights, in just two days, they had come to control their own people not to make trouble, because of the impartiality of the matter and not the people, the arrest of many gentlemen who wanted to escape by relying on aristocratic relations deserved great respect.

Coupled with the supply convoys from Ashenir, the Dordogne, conquered by Edward's army, no longer had customs duties or anything like that, news spread rapidly to Ecasta through ravens and carrier pigeons, and a large number of merchants who smelled business opportunities and artisans and mercenaries who wanted to find jobs, as well as other people of all stripes began to move in this direction - but let's focus on the present first.

The reason why they chose to stay temporarily under such a tight time situation is that in addition to maintaining local law and order to lay the foundation for the subsequent affairs of national governance, it is also a great factor that can be relieved by not letting the soldiers be overly stressed because of continuous fighting.

But the most important thing is probably the supply and deployment of the entire army.

The deeper you go into the center, the more difficult it is to replenish this unprecedentedly large army of 100,000 people. The affluent Plains of Acasta could certainly provide them with sufficient support, but even if they reached the Dordogne, even if they took a faster waterway, it would take at least ten days and half a month to replenish the supplies, and it would obviously be even more serious if they went any further. The result of the excessively long supply lines is a decrease in the tolerance rate, and the Nella Forest Corridor is very large and vast, just as they sneak up on the rear of the Gonghou Coalition infantry, opponents can also take a detour to attack their supplies, and once they are disturbed, even if it is only a few days late, the starving soldiers will be greatly reduced in combat effectiveness, and even begin to lose their numbers.

Therefore, in order to move on, they must no longer be able to rely on supplies from Acasta.

However, the Dordogne was not as wealthy as it was, although it also had a huge amount of grain production farmland on the flat land, and it was not easy to supply such an army, so the Northern Army stayed in the Dordogne for a while, recruiting more logistical personnel and supplies, while waiting for a huge supply from Ashenir.

As Dolddogne went further on, until he entered another Grand Duke's realm of true power, there were only two viscounts and a dozen knightly realms left on the long journey, and few of these realms could afford to carry the burden of an entire army, so they had to be prepared to carry a large number of supplies with them before they set out.

After the Dordogne, which existed as a relay station, was defeated, the supply line could be cut in half at once, and after the garrison that was assigned to be left behind and the main force to continue southward, while waiting for the arrival of supplies, Edward's side was not idle. On the other side, Charles was dispatched to lead 800 heavy cavalry, and the lightly armed and high-speed cavalry scouts were sent to the two viscounts and the attached knights to see if they could be subjugated to avoid any extraneous branches, and at the same time, they could also report to the base camp about the operation of the main force of the southern army on the royal capital.

Time passed slowly, and by mid-May, when supplies from Acasta finally arrived, they had brought not only the supplies they needed to advance, but also a large array of weapons and equipment emblazoned with the South-City Alliance.

It was a gift from the Flex family of Rosemary, and since Arvenella did not have its own port, it had been held by the side of Sivalier for a long time, but fortunately Sivalier was also in civil strife, so the merchants still managed to transport them across the border to catch up with the supply shipment and send them over.

A large number of weapons and armor were like charcoal in the snow, adding considerable combat effectiveness to Edward's army, and what these things meant His Royal Highness naturally knew in his heart that after handing over a valuable royal family badge to Inagi, who was the leader of the caravan, this small merchant family in the south was completely tied to the same ship as Avenella.

Time passed, and the Northern Coalition Army, which had greatly improved its combat effectiveness and spirit after being replaced with brand-new weapons and armor, set off again on 16 May.

Only this time it was in front of this army with high morale and successive victories.

is one.

conquered the once invincible Third Kingdom of Luoan.

Absolute formidable enemy. (To be continued.) )