bookbashuk Chapter 280 - 130 - The Army Moves Out
Chapter 280 - 130 - The Army Moves Out
Chapter 280 - 130 - The Army Moves Out
January 1446, 1 in the sacred calendar, the birthday of the gods.
The ancient and prosperous Myria continent ushered in another new year.
Under the light of the Holy Light, people from different countries and races gathered together to celebrate the beginning of the New Year and the birthday of Lord Harald.
However, for the residents of the Northland, this year's Christmas of the Gods is destined to be less peaceful.
At the beginning of the new year, when people in most parts of the continent were celebrating festivals, Charlotte de Castel, Countess of Castres and Lord of the North, led an army of 5000 people northward to The rebellious Legolis family issues an ultimatum.
An army of more than 2 is not a small number in any principality of the New Moon Kingdom.
Although the Castelland is an earldom, in the eyes of many nobles, the degree of wealth and prosperity has actually exceeded the minimum standard of the principality in the conventional sense.
If there were many Siunet empires in the vassal states, the territory that could be mobilized in this way would have surpassed many small principalities long ago, and only in the powerful New Moon Kingdom of the Grand Duke, it would not be so conspicuous.
But even so, as a powerful force second only to the twelve principalities in the New Moon Kingdom, Castel's every move has attracted the attention of various forces, and has become a topic of discussion in salons and banquets among nobles.
Especially the protagonist of this rebellion, Charlotte, the Earl of the North who has been in office for less than a year.
"The Youngest Countess", "Pearl of Boulder", "Rich Charlotte", "The Saint Who Walks the Earth"...
All kinds of titles and titles made her the object of attention and discussion of many nobles.
Whether it is being the last heir of the Castel family, or Charlotte's promise to the holy royal court at the Boulder banquet, any one thing picked out is enough to make her a queen at the nobles' banquet. topic.
For a moment, all the lords of the New Moon Kingdom focused their attention on Castel, wanting to know how this young and beautiful countess would quell the rebellion in the territory.
In the eyes of many nobles, although the [-] troops are strong, Castel's rebellion is not simple...
Especially in combination with some bad rumors about the third prince Philip in the capital not long ago, and the ingenious timing of the military ban issued by His Majesty the King, some people who believe in conspiracy theories think that this countess, who is inclined to the church, It is likely to have been blacklisted by the Crescent Royal Family.
Of course, conspiracy theories belong to conspiracy theories, and the New Moon royal family didn't react much.
The New Moon King Louis V still held a large banquet in the court as in previous years, inviting his vassals to the banquet to celebrate the festival together.
The third prince Philip and his wife Eleanor, the Duchess of Boulder, who were supposed to come back from the territory to meet the king, were absent from the palace banquet.
Also absent is the current Duke of Violet, Hubert de Boit-Lint.
Although there are always a few big nobles who do not participate in the New Moon Kingdom's court banquet every year due to various reasons, but Bold and Violet did not participate, which still makes some nobles of the kingdom think about it.
After all, one of these two families is the lord of the Earl of Castel, the other is a close neighbor of Castel, and the third prince is the nephew of the Duke of Violet.
After combining the rebellion that happened to be everywhere in Castel and the ambiguous attitude of the Crescent Royal Family, it is hard for some perceptive people not to think of something.
However, this has nothing to do with Charlotte.
Banquets and information of this level are only mastered by the real elites of the kingdom. No matter how rich Castel is, as long as the leader of Castel is a vassal of Boulder for a day, then Castel It is impossible to step into the real high-level of the kingdom.
Naturally, this information has nothing to do with Castel.
Of course, Charlotte, who already knew about the conspiracy of the third prince through other channels, didn't need it either.
When Louis V entertained the ministers, she had already led the army to approach the main rebel army of the Legris family through the Earl of Tulip.
With the support of Earl Gaston, the Castel coalition forces through the Earl of Tulip do not need to cross the Dorne River at all. The army only needs to go around from the west to launch an attack directly on the rebels from the west.
The fellow nobles were amazed at the support of the Tulip garrison. After all... to allow [-] soldiers to enter the Earl of Tulip must take great risks and pressure.
At this time, those doubtful nobles finally believed that Earl Gaston, the commander-in-chief of Tulip, really planned to assist Castel in suppressing the rebellion.
And when Earl Gaston led the main force of the garrison to leave the fortress and join the coalition forces, the nobles of Castel became even more confident.
Unlike the Castel coalition army, which consisted of aristocratic levies and main forces, many of whom didn't even have armor and could only be regarded as peasant soldiers at best, the garrisons of the Earl of Tulip were all armored, and many of them were comparable to the regular army of the kingdom. Plate.
Although the number of soldiers is small, at most 3000, more than half of the soldiers' armors are engraved with complicated patterns.
That's enchanted armor.
Tulip's garrison has at least [-] extraordinary soldiers armed with enchanted armor, which is enough to deploy a minimum array of magic power on the battlefield.
In other words, the 500 people alone can be regarded as 5000 people on the battlefield.
And the remaining half of the soldiers, although not wearing enchanted armor, are all wearing armor, and... almost all of them are cavalry.
Elite, this is Boulder's elite!
Any nobleman of Castel who had seen the tulip garrison would have such an idea. In comparison, Castel's coalition army still looks a bit shabby.
That is to say, the private soldiers of the nobles and the [-] standing soldiers under Castel's direct control can support the field, and the equipment should be better. Although there are not enough enchanted armors, let alone the level of forming an array, at least... always The number of people is slightly larger than the army of the Tulip County.
Cavalry will be much less.
Although the New Moon Kingdom has always been famous for its heavy cavalry in Myria, and the New Moon Royal Family even has an elite enchanted heavy cavalry regiment with a population of over [-], but the Earl of Castel near the sea does not have many horse farms, and most of them are in the north.
Counting the accompanying noble knights and cavalry directly under the jurisdiction, Charlotte's own cavalry unit does not exceed 3000, and most of the [-] troops are infantry.
However, it is more than enough to counter the rebellion.
It's just a war at the county level, at best, it looks like a civil war in a small principality because of Castel's size.
But the earldom is an earldom after all, and it doesn't have many extraordinary resources. Maybe it has great potential for future wars, but Castel, which has always focused on the economy, has not developed much military power at this stage. The vast majority of the territory Most of the enchanted armors were even seized by Charlotte from the Castel Mine. In the eyes of higher-level lords, no matter how many people there are, they are still pecking at each other.
In a world with extraordinary power, army supplies are much more convenient.Especially for space magic, a few more mages in the same industry, plus the space equipment accumulated by noble families for generations, can save a lot of non-combat manpower.Because of this, Charlotte's march did not encounter many logistical difficulties.
After the army marched for a week, Charlotte finally saw the rebels stationed on the Dorne River.
"My lord, our scouts have already engaged the rangers of the rebels. However, the rebels seem to have no action for the time being. Do we want to send an envoy to issue a notice to persuade us to surrender?"
The fellow nobleman asked respectfully.
Charlotte pondered for a moment, then nodded:
"Go."
Although she did not report any hope, it seems that persuading surrender before the war is also the tradition of the nobles of Miria.
After receiving the order, the nobles quickly arranged for an envoy, but it didn't take long for the rebels to send the envoy back.
Or to be more precise, the heads of the envoys who persuaded them to surrender were sent back.
(End of this chapter)