"See His Royal Highness the Prince."

The knight at the door suddenly shouted respectfully.

Everyone hurriedly got up and looked at the door with a pair of eyes.

At the gate, a burly, heavily armored figure strode over, the person who came was outstanding, heroic, and there was a faint shadow of Constantine II between the eyebrows.

The prince hurried to the conference table and sat down at the first place.

The nobleman who knew his identity immediately saluted and said, "See His Royal Highness the Third Prince." ”

Ryan suddenly realized and hurriedly saluted.

The corner of his eye kept looking at the other party: "It turns out that this is the third prince who has good military talent but is rumored to be suspicious, it does seem that he is a little less noble, and has a little more military atmosphere." ’

Although this flaw is obvious, it is undoubtedly much better than the eldest prince of military idiots.

It's just that His Majesty the king in the palace didn't let the eldest prince, who was the crown prince, come to gild the army, but instead sent the third prince, which is a bit intriguing.

The Third Prince Hansen. Konstantin turned around everyone, then pressed his hand and said: "Everyone, please take a seat, now on the battlefield, there are no three princes, only the governor of the coalition army." ”

"Yes, Lord Governor." Everyone naturally tried their best to cooperate, and then sat in their positions in a proper manner, raising their heads and not squinting.

After all, no one wants to leave any bad impression in the heart of the Governor.

Hexion first said a lot of unnutritious opening remarks, which were nothing more than some words to win people's hearts and the like, and it took a long time to get to the point.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the marshal has given us the task of capturing the Silver Wolf Fortress, which is located one hundred and fifty miles away from the Iron Fortress, and the surrounding annexed areas within the next three months.

The time is tight and the task is heavy, and the governor will personally lead the main army to besiege the Silver Wolf Fortress, and three more generals will be selected to be responsible for guarding the Iron Fortress, transporting grain and grass, and sweeping the annexed areas of the Silver Wolf Fortress. ”

Hexion pointed to the area marked on the map, and said in high spirits.

Hearing that Hexion was going to go to the battlefield in person, everyone present looked at each other a few times, and they all saw the worry in each other's eyes.

The sword has no eyes on this battlefield, in case this prince accidentally stumbles on the battlefield, can the vote present have good fruit to eat?

The answer is obvious, but it is difficult for everyone to speak, after all, His Royal Highness the prince is too suspicious, and no one wants to be a bird.

In the end, an old viscount with considerable prestige stood up and tactfully persuaded: "Your Highness, just leave the matter of attacking the fortress to us, you are the governor of the first army, and it is better to dispatch in the center of the ironclad fortress." ”

When Hexion heard this, his sword eyebrows suddenly stood up, was this questioning him? was about to get angry, but when he thought of the other party's identity and qualifications, he finally said coldly: "As a commander, I naturally want to go to the front line in person, and this matter is settled, no need to say it again." ”

This is really a bit of a shame, and the old viscount sat back with a black face.

Seeing this, everyone swallowed the words of persuasion, this prince is the prince is the eighth king to eat the scales - the heart is iron, or don't go up to be angry.

Hexion was very satisfied with the current state of everyone, swept around, and finally looked at the viscount at the end and said, "Viscount Norgai, you are responsible for transporting food to the front line. ”

Transporting grain is a drudgery that no one can look down on, after all, fighting a war is based on military exploits, and after winning the battle, the grain transport team can still drink soup and mix hard work.

If you lose, let alone drink soup, there is no northwest wind.

Viscount Norgai received the order with a black face, transporting food is generally done by miscellaneous troops, and the other party came up and directly ordered his general, isn't this saying that he is the one at the bottom?

Everyone looked at him sympathetically, but they smiled in their hearts, after all, someone took the bitter errand of transporting grain.

"Viscount Bluman, you are responsible for assisting in the defense of the Iron Fortress, this is our base camp, if something goes wrong, this governor will ask you."

Ryan suddenly felt that the rumors about the third prince were wrong, where is this suspicious and sick, and his heart is smaller, no, the old viscount who got up and persuaded just now was thrown here to sit on the cold bench.

You must know that this Viscount Bluman is not simple, he has fought for decades in his life, has made a lot of military achievements, and his military talent can be described as very outstanding.

The 6,000 soldiers under his command are all the elite of the Southern Legion, a proper main force, but now they have an errand to defend the city, which is not much better than transporting grain.

Viscount Bluman's face was already as black as the bottom of the pot, if it weren't for the fact that the backstage behind him was not hard enough, he would have thrown his face and left, how could he continue to suffer his bird anger here.

When he met his eyes, Hansen was secretly refreshed, if he wasn't worried that he would deliberately retaliate by letting him transport grain, he would definitely throw him into the grain transport team.

In his opinion, sitting on a cold bench in the fortress is already cheap for him, and this is the consequence of questioning him.

Up to now, there is only one who is close to eating leftovers, Hexion looked around, and his eyes finally fixed on Ryan's body, there is no way, the people present are the youngest of Ryan, and it is difficult not to notice him.

"You're Viscount Black, aren't you? It's up to you to lead your troops to clean up the annexed areas around the Silver Wolf Fortress, and the Governor will give you three months as well. ”

What Hexion wanted was to take the fortress as a big credit, and the rest was just scraps for him, and he didn't care about it at all.

If he wants to attack the fortress, he naturally has to take the most elite troops with him, and Ryan is the kind of second-rate army that is useless in his opinion, just throw it aside to pick up garbage and eat.

This order may be dissatisfying to others, but it is simply not too suitable for Ryan.

This third prince is not a good person at first glance, or the farther away from him, the better, fighting under his command, how do you look at how you are not down-to-earth, what if you let yourself be cannon fodder?

It's still a good errand, although the income is low, but the risk is also low, just to hone the rookies under your command, and the most important thing is to have autonomy.

Seeing that the meaning of the third prince is to let Ryan fend for himself, so that there are no unnecessary constraints and Ryan can play freely.

Although he was happy in his heart, Ryan still pretended to be unconvinced and received the military order, his current acting skills have reached the peak, and no one present saw the flaw.

After the meeting adjourned, Lane returned to the temporary station and conveyed the order, and the troops rested for a few days before preparing to move.

Due to the different combat objectives, he did not need to follow the large army, and when the main force began to besiege the fortress, he led the team to attack the surrounding cities.

Seven days later, more than 40,000 troops went out from the north gate of the ironclad fortress and raided the silver wolf fortress, which had already been prepared, and the battle was at a stalemate.

On the same day, Lane led nearly 10,000 men of the Ninth Army from the west gate of the ironclad fortress, and divided the troops into two roads in the middle of the road, and the main general Lane led an army straight to Tumen City, where there was a large granary and a large amount of grain was stored, which must be taken first.

Adjutant General Allen led an army and attacked the city of Batur, which is an important transportation hub, extending in all directions, and occupying it can radiate the surrounding area in a short time, and the strategic location is very important.

Since Ryan deliberately attacked later than the main force led by Hexien, by the time they led the army to attack, Tumen had already sent a force to support the Silver Wolf Fortress.

Ryan's speed was fast and ruthless, and he directly took advantage of the mage squad in the army, fought fiercely for two days and nights, and took this granary at the cost of nearly a thousand casualties.

It's just that after attacking the city, the remnants of Andes soldiers set fire to the granary, and although the rescue was timely, nearly half of the reserve grain was lost.

Even so, the remaining food here is enough to feed the entire army of 60,000 people for a long time.

It was smooth sailing on his side, and Alan also took Batur City without any danger, and a large amount of materials stored in the city that had not yet had time to be transported also fell into Ryan's pocket.

According to the laws of the kingdom, the loot captured on the battlefield was at Lane's disposal.

After Ryan asked Alan to take out a portion of the reward army, the rest was unceremoniously put into his pocket.

In a short period of time, the Ninth Legion has already won two key cities, and the gains are not small, which can't help but make Ryan feel more and more happy.

Fortunately, Jean assigned himself here, if he attacked the fortress, it is estimated that he would not even touch the city gate building in such a short time, let alone the loot.

After a few days of rest, the army used the cities of Tumen and Batur as springboards, and began to clear the surrounding targets, from the city to the town, and pushed them sideways, with little respectable resistance.

Ryan and Allen went all the way north, they were cool, but the main force attacking the Silver Wolf Fortress fell into a stalemate, and after more than a dozen battles in half a month, none of them attacked the city wall.

Because he had long expected that he was the target of the attack, the commander of the Silver Wolf Fortress had previously transferred troops from nearby cities to defend the fortress.

The defenders, who had only 10,000 or so, swelled to nearly 30,000.

To be honest, in terms of numbers, the expeditionary force actually did not have any advantage, after all, the fortress was extremely strong, and it was difficult to take it without doubling the force.

The originally ambitious third prince was frustrated in the first battle, and he was irritable for a while, but fortunately he didn't get dizzy and made some wrong action orders.

But it is not a way to go on like this, after all, he only has three months, although he can't finish it on time, the Grand Duke of the North won't do anything to him, but he can't accept it.

Finally able to get in touch with military power, this is the only capital he can compete with his eldest brother for the crown prince in the future, if he can't make achievements this time, then he doesn't have to covet that throne anymore.

As a result, Hexion began a non-stop harassment tactic around the clock, feinting to attack the fortress with a small number of troops each time, but pretending to be suspicious in the rear, so that the enemy could not figure out the truth and could only respond passively.

If they go all out, then their energy will not be enough, or in a few days the people will collapse, and then the fortress will naturally fall in a fight.

If they don't take it to heart and defend the city with a small number of troops every time, then the suspicion will come true.

This tactic was not clever, but it was effective, and it did make the Silver Wolf Fortress tired at first, but they soon found a way to crack it, and the battle was once again deadlocked.

At this time, Ryan and Allen had already led the team to sweep most of the targets on the map, which can be described as full of gains, making Ryan feel unreal, which is also too unchallenging.

Now that he has delegated all the next goals to Allen and the rest of the legion commanders, even several staff officers who accompany the army have also been given the opportunity to experience actual combat.

Ryan himself sat in the city of Tumen and began a vigorous liberation movement.

The Kingdom of Andes is a country with clear classes, which is similar to the system of a certain third brother of Blue Star, and low-level people will never have the opportunity to cross classes in this country.

A good example of this is Karn, who is wanted by them, who does not even have a surname and is at the lowest level of the kingdom, that is, a slave.

In the kingdom's system, he and his bloodline can only be a slave, even if he has a combat talent, a slave can only be a slave.

And there are many people like Karn in Andes, especially in this border city, which is known for its bitter cold.

Ryan, now to be their savior, is willing to take up arms and submit to him, and if he does it, Ryan will integrate him into the servant army and fight him.

If you don't want to, it's simple, Lane releases them all, preaches democratic ideas to them, feeds and clothes them, and treats them as human beings.

He then gave them rations and sent them all back to the city controlled by the Andes.

Naturally, he is not full of food and has nothing to do, and if you want to say that these slaves who are used to being oppressed directly take up arms and rebel, this is obviously embarrassing for them.

However, after such an operation like Ryan, things are different.

When they return to the city controlled by the Andes, their status will not change, and they will even become lower, and they will be further exploited by the nobility.

Fish kept in a fish tank can only understand the preciousness of freedom after experiencing freedom.

At this time, the theories that Lane preached to them before will take root like a seed, and as long as one person stands up, more people will stand up.

Lane doesn't know how effective it will be, but it's just a convenient thing, and it's not bad to be disgusting and disgusting Andes, after all, he really doesn't have a good opinion of this country.

In the past two months, he has almost freed more than 100,000 slaves, and it can only be said that they have indeed become numb, and out of so many people, less than 5,000 are willing to take up arms.

Ryan picked and choose, and finally left 3,000 men into the servant army, and the rest of the people, Ryan did not waste it, gave them some food and weapons and let them go.

Originally, it was just a casual action, but a few years later, it was this inconspicuous team that set off a bloody storm in the Andes Kingdom, and finally made this ancient kingdom fall apart.

Of course, this is all for later, and now Ryan is currently watching the latest instructions of the third prince, which reads: "The Silver Wolf Fortress has been broken, please General Black lead the army to join the siege." ”

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(End of chapter)