"Forward, forward, run, take small steps, breathe, keep up, just like you do in training!!"

He wears a lead-gray military coat with a leather belt and shiny brass buttons. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info straddles flintfire muskets, or rifled guns of high value. Behind his back was a full canvas bag - the flags of the new Circassian army and the white army fluttered high. Two lead-gray torrents rolled forward. From time to time they were overtaken by a twelve-pounder gun drawn by eight horses, or by cavalry units on tall horses and carrying carbines and sabers.

The effect of the long-term hard training is perfectly played at this time. William's White Legion, with an army of 6,000 men, marched quickly with a total of eighty guns. At a jaw-dropping pace of thirty kilometers a day, the march was made at high speed towards Holmsk, the kingdom of Holmgard.

Along the way, the White Legion's hussars, carrying orders issued by William and flags bearing the family crest of the Hereford family, gave orders to every village and town in which the army passed. Tell them: "Obey the oracle of the Lord of Radiance, and respect the natural authority of House Hereford over Holmgard." Serve the great ruler of House Hereford, Archduke Otto von Hereford as their master. ”

In a state of astonishment and bewilderment, the leaders of these towns and villages, the minor nobles and village chiefs, elders, mayors, or similar characters, were gathered at the first moment, and then forced by the sabers of the cavalry, to get down on one knee, with their hands on the Bible of the Church of the Radiant Lord, and to swear allegiance in front of Archduke Otto of House Hereford, and the portrait of William, the captain of the White Legion, and the banner of the Sword Cross of House Hereford.

After the allegiance ceremony, the cavalry shouted and left, and rushed towards another town or village as fast as they could—thanks to the efforts of the Cheka's intelligence officers, the vast majority of Holmgard's geographical and cultural information was in the hands of the White Legion. William even felt that he knew the country better than His Majesty the King in Holmgard.

Occasionally, there were people who did not know each other, who were sick in their brains, or who felt that they could hold on, refused to open the gates to the hussars, and even more refused to swear allegiance to the Hereford family.

In this case, the hussars would not be polite to them either.

Villages that are loosely defended and have little to no defense will be bloodied at the first opportunity. After a round of carbine fire, the cavalrymen would draw their sabers at the first moment and charge. Often, at this time, the young militia of the barely cobbled together village will disperse in a hurry. Then there are arson, looting and massacres.

"The Holmgards, who do not respect the great Herefords, do not need to exist in this world!" shouted such slogans, many of which had begun to revel half a year earlier when the light cavalry units of nomads and barbarians had begun.

After killing all the young men and robbing them of all the food and valuables, they would take the women and children south and return to their army.

The booty had their share, and the women and children were gathered together by the baggage troops, transported back to the large farms of Novgorod, and distributed among the unwives-free bachelors.

That's it, William's army marched at a speed that no one expected. When the people of Holmgard were immersed in a dream of safety and comfort, believing that the kingdom of Wende was about to go into a civil war, they launched this round of raids.

Completely unprepared. All the people of Holmgard, from the king's ministers and nobles, down to the common serfs. Everyone could not believe that William would launch an attack on himself when the situation in the Wende Kingdom was tense to such a level.

They were not mobilized and completely unprepared. Theoretically, the military force that could be concentrated could reach 20,000 troops was mobilized in the end with less than 5,000 men. The rest of the army was scattered across the kingdom, and the clever sensed something was wrong. Those who were slow to react did not even know that their country was under attack.

In half a month, the White Legion soldiers came to the city. Upon hearing the news, King Holmgard almost fainted.

The situation in the city of Holmgard is basically the same as in Novgorod. All are traditional, unmaintained, very dilapidated and fragile medieval walls. A wall of this caliber could not withstand the heavy artillery and armed sappers of the Hereford family.

So, although I really want to shrink my head and hide in my own palace as a turtle. But after weighing it, King Holmgard relentlessly sent all his Praetorian Guards out of the city to prepare for a meeting with the White Legion.

Five thousand against six thousand. The Holmgard army, which was not even superior in numbers, rightfully lost.

After a burst of artillery bombardment from the White Legion, the formation of Holmgard's army was in disarray. And then the main infantry units of the White Regiment did not even come forward. It was only the newly formed cavalry regiment that rushed forward, a flurry of carbines and then a charge, and the Holmgard army collapsed - the formation was scattered, the training was badly undertrained, and the demoralized Holmgard musketeers did not even fire a single buckshot. It was not even thought of forming dense arrays, bayonet arrays, or hollow phalanxes to deal with cavalry.

They just panicked, screamed, and then aimed their muskets at their opponents and pulled the trigger - many forgot to set the gunpowder, many forgot to win. Quite a few people forgot to put the projectiles, and some people put a bunch of projectiles into the barrel, which caused the bore......

All in all, only a dozen of the 1,000 Holmgard musketeers who were placed in the front row, modelled on the Goths' new army, managed to fire a single shot. Hussars who died under such a "musket volley", not a single one.

In this way, the Holmgard army, which lost less than a thousand men, and was probably in the early 4,000s, trampled on each other, suffering numerous casualties. Only a few were actually hacked to death by the swords of the cavalry. And the soldiers and officers who were lucky enough to escape back into the city were even rarer.

When King Holmgard learned of the defeat, he fainted again, and when he woke up, he shouted for an escort, and when he understood what was going on, he prepared to give weapons to the townspeople to organize the militia. However, after he really calmed down, he still made the most correct choice, which was to surrender to the Hereford family's army. If nothing else, His Majesty will spend the rest of his life in a dungeon.

Starts on March 10 and ends on March 26. The half-month Holmgard War came to an end. William and his White Army won a complete victory. The last independent state of the Slavites came to an end.

-- If this news spreads, then it is only natural that William's reputation will be even better. Plus before, the successful attack on Novgorod with the White Army, as well as the merits against the Centaur Khanate. The world will no longer see him as an incompetent man sheltered under the wing of Archduke Otto. It's real, see him as a first-class player!

But the news didn't get out.

The news that several other Archdukes of Wende learned was that Archduke Otto led an army of 20,000 troops to Holmgard and won a complete victory!

Both in terms of the number of troops, and in terms of commanders. The Hereford family is sending out false information.

Archduke Henry, who got the news, was dumbfounded, and then scolded Archduke Otto for being unreliable-seeing that the civil war in the Kingdom of Wende was about to break out, why did he choose to attack Holmgard at this time?!

In contrast, Archduke Dietrich and Archduke Vyal were elated - Archduke Dietrich felt that Archduke Otto was making his position in this way - despite his verbal declaration of his support for Henry's coronation. But that's just a verbal promise. Neither he nor his army had any intention of intervening in the Wende Civil War.

"Very well! Since Otto is not in the war, then I will win this war! I will definitely be crowned King of Wende!" Archduke Dietrich was in high spirits, and then led his army of 20,000 to the south, ready to share with Archduke Henry.

And what Vyal of Turov had in mind was different from that of Archduke Dietrich. He saw a greater opportunity - after the strong rise of the Hereford family, the Grand Duchy of Turov, which was adjacent to the Hereford family, felt great pressure.

Grand Duke Vyal was very worried that the invincible Grand Duke Otto and his new Circassian army would invade Turov south on a whim and swallow the weakened Turov in one gulp.

"Take advantage of this opportunity, you must strike a solid blow at the Hereford family!" With this in mind, the Grand Duke of Vial led the 10,000 troops that had already been assembled, crossed the Vistula River as fast as possible, and then headed north, heading towards the heart of the Hereford family, the Duchy of Mystia.

The Grand Duke of Vial made up his mind to wreak havoc in Mystia, killing all the people and burning all the towns, villages, and farms. Destroy all factories and bridges. He wanted to destroy all the gains of the Hereford family for four years. So that they can't turn over in ten years!

Because only in this way can Turov be safe, and only in this way can the war potential of the Hereford family be destroyed to the greatest extent that this high-speed war machine can be stopped. Interrupt the expansion of the Hereford family!

"I'll win!, no matter what Otto's idiot thinks. But as long as he is not there, then there is nothing to fear!" thought the Grand Duke of Vyard, who was on his horse.

It should have been the happiest period of his life.

Until he ran into a new army of eight thousand Circassian led by Grand Duke Otto.