Toris really deserves to be the fifth bishop of the Ancestral Temple, after seeing Richess's situation, she only released a calming first-level magic to stabilize her spirit, and after a good night's sleep, she regained her sanity, although Riches's sanity returned to normal, but the long-term mental disorder still needs a period of time to recuperate to fully recover.

After she got better, Celine took the initiative to inform Rycheth of her plan to drink Ouyang Yu, Rycheth lay on the bed and held Ouyang Yu's hands, the tenderness on her face was replaced by resentment, she gritted her teeth and said: "Vidnina, please help me bring that uncle of mine, Kaul's head, to me! As long as you help me fulfill this wish, I am willing to give you the throne of the Kadesh Kingdom!"

Ouyang Yu replied solemnly: "Your Majesty Riches, please rest assured, I will definitely bring his head to you, but I will not ask for your throne, it belongs to Ariel or Sila, and I am also here to avenge Father Wood and Mama Sharon!"

Riches looked deeply into Ouyang Yu's eyes for a long time, nodded, let go of her hand, closed her eyes tiredly, and fell asleep.

Two months have passed since Duke Simon's announcement, the crusading army has been assembled, all preparations have been basically completed, and Queen Riches, who has recovered a little, accompanied by Ouyang Yu, has made a crusade and a speech encouraging the morale of the army and the people, and then the crusading army marched towards the north amid cheers.

The total number of the crusading army is more than 30,000 people, roughly composed of three parts, one of which is the strongest combat effectiveness of the Kadesh Southern Army, which belongs to the regular army establishment, the commander of this legion has long been controlled by Duke Simon in the hands, the number is 10,000, and the other is the private soldiers and mercenary groups of the nobles in the south, the training level of these private soldiers and mercenary groups is different, the equipment is different, and it is led by the nobles themselves, although the number is a little more than 10,000, but they are not subordinate to each other, the command is inconvenient, and the actual combat effectiveness is not high.

The last one is the armed peasants who were forcibly conscripted, these poor peasants usually have to work hard for the lord, and they have to be called up to be cannon fodder in wartime, if they can survive how much they can get a little reward, if they are unfortunately killed, the lord will only symbolically send a little pension to the end, and this little pension will go through layers of deduction before it reaches the hands of the relatives of the deceased, and when it comes to the hands of the relatives, it is often not one in ten, so for the conscripted farmers to fight with the wind, once the battle falls into a stalemate or a hard battle, these farmers are the fastest one, and the combat effectiveness can be completely ignored。

Ouyang Yu looked at the farmers with yellow faces and thin muscles wearing tattered clothes, holding equally tattered wooden shields and rusty iron swords, sharpened wooden sticks or dung forks walking in front of him, and asked Duke Simon beside him suspiciously: "Lord Duke, why do you want to recruit these farmers? They don't know how to fight, and it's summer now, what should we do with the farmland in your territory? Won't the output be reduced if there is a shortage of so many laborers?"

A tall and thin nobleman beside Duke Simon said with a smile: "Your Highness, let me answer this question." ”

The tall and thin nobleman, surnamed Kalua, with the title of count, continued: "We have recruited these peasants because they can consume some of the enemy's arrows and strength for our soldiers, and when it comes to reducing grain production, it is inevitable, but when we defeat the northerners, we can just snatch the grain from them, ha......ha

"Haha......ha×ha

"Not only will they be robbed of their food, but also of their gold and women!"

"Yes, that's right! Hahahaha......!"

Count Callua's words were echoed by all the nobles around him, including Duke Simon.

Snatching grain, money, and women? Three-light policy? Are you muddy little devils? If these nobles are robbed of the northern nobles unscrupulously, then how will Queen Ryches rule the Kadesh Kingdom in the future, and those northern nobles will not hate her to death, and in turn they can only use the southern nobles more and more. The military power is controlled by the southern nobles, I am afraid that another Kaul will be born, even if there will be no new usurpation, Queen Ryches will be hollowed out, and then these southern nobles will definitely do whatever they want and turn the Kadesh Kingdom into a miasma, which is not what Ouyang Yu wants to see.

Ouyang Yu held back his anger and said: "No, your losses will be compensated twice as much after the war by my mother, Her Majesty Riches, and the nobles of the north must not rob their property at will." ”

"It's ....... "The surrounding nobles looked at each other, after Kaul usurped the throne, he tried his best to suppress the nobles in the south, what are the benefits of the northern nobles, all of them are rich, the southern nobles have long been envious, jealous and hateful, and they all thought that they could grab a good handful of the northerners in this war and make a fortune, but their nominal leader 'Prince Andy' did not allow it, which made them dumbfounded, how much can the queen's reward be? It would be nice to be able to give a few hundred gold coins, which was completely different from what they had imagined, so they all looked at the actual leader, Duke Simon, hoping that he would come forward to help say a word.

Duke Simon first looked at the nobles around him with red eyes, and then said lightly: "It's too early to talk about this before you even see the face of the enemy, let's talk about it after the complete victory, but Your Highness, everyone present is loyal to the queen, don't chill their hearts for those rebellions." ”

"Bastard!" Ouyang Yu scolded in his heart and said: "Please rest assured Duke Simon, Her Majesty the Queen will never treat those who are loyal to her badly, just tell you, it's too early to talk about this, let's wait for the queen to sit on the throne again, I hereby assure you with the right of inheritance in the future, Your Majesty will definitely give you satisfactory rewards and rewards, if you don't get satisfactory rewards and rewards, I will give up the right to inherit the throne forever!"

Ouyang Yu's oath made the surrounding nobles completely settle down, if the oath made in front of so many people really can't be done, it will be absolutely impossible for the 'Prince Andy' in front of him to ascend to the throne in the future.

"Hmph!" a smile appeared on the corner of Ouyang Yu's mouth, you should go to 'Prince Andy' in the future.

After two days of marching north, the crusading army came to the fortress of Kaul at the Kala Pass on the north-south dividing line, and the soldiers loyal to Kaul on the fortress had already unsheathed their swords and bows, and were waiting for them on the walls of the fortress.

The crusaders camped ten kilometers from the city wall and rested for a day, and early the next morning, the earth-shattering drums sounded, and the 35,000-strong army marched out of camp and set up formation in front of the fortress.

Duke Simon, dressed in special armor that was fatter than the others, rode on a black horse and shouted: "Today will be the moment recorded in the history books! The puppet king Kaul usurped the throne, oppressed and tortured the people, and even more brutally killed our beloved Duke Antonio! Now in order to overthrow the rule of the puppet king and avenge His Majesty Riches, I order! The attack begins!"

"Oh ......!" the soldiers shouted in cheer, and then marched towards the fortress with the beat of the military musicians' drums.

At the forefront were the more than 10,000 armed farmers, behind them were the noble private soldiers and mercenary regiments who served as overseers, and behind them were the 10,000 regular troops pushing various siege equipment.

"Shoot these southern hillbillies!" After the farmers at the front came within range of their bows and arrows, the officers on the city walls gave the order to start shooting.

"Whoosh ......!"

"Ahhhh......h

The 2,000-strong archers shot a rain of arrows, and the unprotected farmers suffered heavy casualties, and the farmers who tried to escape were all killed by the private soldiers and mercenary groups in the rear, and had no choice but to brave the rain of arrows to continue to rush to the city wall.

Under the rain of arrows, the peasants approached the city wall more than ten meters high, and they laboriously added up the siege ladder on their shoulders, and then rushed up step by step against the stones dropped from the city wall.

"Throw the oil and burn their ladder!"

Hundreds of burning oil canisters were thrown from the city wall, and these oil canisters fell to the ground and shattered, and the burning oil in it splashed everywhere, and the peasants who were splashed with the fire immediately burned all over their bodies and ran around screaming, or rolling around on the ground to try to extinguish the fire, but all this was in vain, instead of extinguishing the fire, the fire was transmitted to the nearby companions, causing more damage.

The first siege was over in just over twenty minutes, and the crusading army found nothing but a few hundred corpses, but the first was only a tentative attack, and all the nobles did not take this defeat to heart, and after a short rest, the second attack began.

This time the Duke of Simon made some adjustments, the archers and catapults of the regular army were sent up, and a thousand sword and shield soldiers covered two thousand archers and thirty catapults slowly approached the city wall and stopped a hundred meters.

Once again, the peasants were urged to the battlefield by privates and mercenaries, and in terror they cautiously approached the walls again with their tattered wooden shields.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Shoot the arrows to suppress!"

Arrows rained down almost simultaneously from the walls and under the walls, and the trebuchets of the raiders began to load the gravel, and the winch men pushed the winches with great difficulty, and the soldiers in charge of loading loaded baskets with gravel the size of a water chestnut fist into the throwing baskets, and after a long preparation, thirty catapults were ready.

"Put!"

"Tom tom tom ......!" one arm after another bounced violently under the action of torsion, and the overwhelming rubble flew towards the city wall.

"Ah...... Ahhhh......h Ahhhh......h Ah......h

"Aim at their catapults and put!"

Fifty trebuchets on the walls, larger and more powerful than the crusaders, reoriented themselves and threw one millstone-sized boulder after another.

Fifty stone projectiles roared towards the catapults of the raiding army under the effect of gravity, smashing three on the spot and killing dozens of soldiers who operated them.

After a few rounds, most of the thirty catapults were destroyed, and even the nearby archers were killed and wounded, and the suppression under the city walls was lost, and the defenders on the city walls gave the most casualties to the besieging troops, and the casualties of the crusading army skyrocketed.

"Let them withdraw. Duke Simon said to the herald beside him.

So the second attack ended, Duke Simon decided to end today's attack and ordered to return to the camp, and immediately after returning to the camp, he sent people to make more catapults, and also ordered to increase today's food to boost morale.

On the third day, more than 160 catapults made overnight lined up under the city walls, and with the sound of the horn of attack, the third attack began.