Chapter 868

The Duchy of void is composed of seven territories.

Pandaliang, originally a baron territory, is a north-south territory in the shape of a narrow strip on the territory. Its tail is the north, which is the import and export of the wilderness: gorge rift valley. On the right side of the long and narrow territory of panda, that is, in the East, it is successively bordered by the Baron of yedby, the count of bobis and the Viscount of chilav. The territory of chilav is slightly larger, but it is designated as the Viscount because the territory is relatively barren.

From the map, the terrain of Lord chilav's collar is more similar to that of Baron panda, which is longer than that of Baron yadby and count berbis.

The Baron of yedby and the Viscount of berbis continued to the East, and the Marquis of tinchein. This territory has very rich resources, and now it is one of the most important economic sources of the whole empty principality. All taxes of this territory account for two fifths of the income of the whole empty principality.

From Baron yadby to the south, they were Viscount Dayi and Viscount soan.

The territory of viscount Dayi is like an ellipse. The first half, that is, the left half, borders Baron panda's territory, and the second half, that is, the right half, borders Viscount soan's territory. In fact, the Viscount of soan is also a relatively barren territory. This territory is more mountainous and can provide less resources for collection. Of course, it is better than the Viscount of chilav. On the map, this territory that looks a bit like a triangle is also bordered by the Viscount of Dayi, the Baron of yadby and the Marquis of tinguin.

The vast territory formed by these seven territories is the whole void principality.

Of course, it is the area of the empty principality recorded on the map of the kingdom of lane today.

In fact, on the internal territory Map of the void principality, the whole Great Rift Valley area in the head and tail snake plan formulated by the former pan continental chamber of Commerce Alliance extending from the gorge Rift Valley and the hundreds of kilometers of area radiated therefrom have also been included in the area of the void principality. Only from the internal territory of today's void principality, it is almost equivalent to one-third of the area of lane kingdom.

Bordering northeast of the county of the soan, former Viscount of the soan, was Earl of the dalessa.

The lion of thunder, as the vanguard of the crusade against the Marquis de Lohan's army, had crossed the border of the void principality and officially entered the territory of count Da lesha two days ago. The notice letter requesting the military right of way had been sent to the count three days before the thunder lion stepped into its territory, that is, one week before the official action of the Principality of void, all the Lords of the territory required for the military action of the Principality of void had received the official notice from the military of the Principality of void.

However, in the face of this circular letter sent by the void principality, so far no Lord has made a formal reply.

Logically speaking, let alone the territory of the same country, even if two allies with equal strength want to obtain the military right of way of the other party, they must get the official reply and confirmation of the other party before they can let the army pass through the other party's territory. Therefore, according to the rules, after the military right of way request of the void principality is sent out, at least the void principality can carry out the corresponding military action only after the Lords of these territories formally reply and allow it.

Otherwise, it will be regarded as an invasion.

If in the past, Sean would naturally act according to the aristocratic rules, and he would not act rashly without the formal reply of these Lords. To get these lords to agree to the military passage of the void principality is nothing more than to cede some interests, as long as they fill these guys' appetite - in short, it is a quarrel on diplomatic strategy.

In fact, the reason why these lords who received the notification letter of the military right of way request of the Principality of void did not make a formal reply was that they were sitting on the ground and waiting for the Foreign Ministry of the Principality of void to come to the door for consultation. Of course, it does not rule out the possibility that these lords also participated in the military action of secretly invading the void duchy six months ago. After all, it is not easy for thousands of troops to invade the void duchy unknowingly. At least there will be the secret cooperation of several lords and nobles.

Just because there was no corresponding evidence, Sean and other talents did not retaliate against these lords and nobles.

Lock a target to attack, Ryan kingdom will at least turn a blind eye, but if it is an indiscriminate large-scale invasion, Ryan royal family will certainly come forward. Sean didn't want to break his face with Ryan's royal family for the time being, so he had to deal with the Marquis who had been proved - Sean didn't believe that the LORD would really deal with things so cleanly.

As long as we lay down this territory and capture the Lord who was involved in the murder of anno, there will be all the answers Sean wants to know.

Because of this, Sean naturally couldn't wait to send troops after receiving the formal reply from the Lords.

Anyway, he has said that he is not asking for the consent of these Lords. The reason why he would send this notice according to the rules was simply to take care of the face of Ryan's royal family. Sean didn't care what others thought.

According to the battle plan, the lion of thunder, as a pioneer army, will go straight to the Marquis de Lohan.

The subsequent army was composed of steel wings, dark wings and the first cavalry regiment, and the logistics security line was guaranteed by Stalin's first infantry regiment and ardorf's mobile infantry regiment. As for the scarlet knights, the wings of guilt and the second infantry regiment, they will stay in China for the time being as a reserve force. Once there are heavy casualties on the front line and reinforcements may be needed, these three legions will move out at the first time.

This is not to say that William's plan was too cautious, but that the origin of the invading Legion was so mysterious that William had to make such careful arrangements - even if he knew that the Marquis de Lohan had no strength to compete with the empty principality, this time William would never let the enemy take advantage of it. Moreover, in order to prevent the enemy from using the trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain to invade the void duchy again, Clov's Cecilia guards will stay in the void duchy.

At the same time, William also asked Hella to secretly transfer the savage Legion back.

The savage legion, which is now completely controlled by Haila, may not work hard for the interests of the void principality, but if it is only used as a strange soldier and as a means of icing on the cake, there will be no problem. In particular, this time William will go to the battlefield as a front-line commander. Naturally, Haila is responsible for the internal security of the void principality. Therefore, it is not difficult to mobilize the barbarian Legion.

But for this reason, Sean will leave two holy land strongmen in the void duchy.

The two men are vinia pofeng and rotikabas. The former is responsible for Neil's safety, while the latter is responsible for Haila's safety.

As for the strong accompanying, there were Nolo, shefanio and Rena.

As for Ma ton, it was arranged by Sean to go back to the snow wind tribe to find Sarkozy. Snow wind, of course, that was the bracelet of all the essence of the tribal tree of life from the gray tribe, and the broken branches of a life tree of the gray crow tribe. At the same time, Sean asked Marton to tell saloggi. After he made salooqi the chief of the eye of the storm tribe, he immediately joined the wild Federation and attacked the Raven tribe together with the wild Federation.

Sean didn't forget that the Raven tribe was also one of the participants in the conspiracy against the void principality, but he still had domestic affairs to deal with, so he couldn't distract himself and set up troops to deal with the Raven tribe at the same time. Of course, another reason is that if Sean leads the army into the wilderness, it may also cause some other unnecessary troubles. If the wilderness Federation has a firm foothold, it naturally doesn't matter. But now the wilderness Federation still belongs to the underground secret alliance and doesn't tear face with the wilderness parliament, so the matter of dealing with the Raven tribe can only be handed over to the wilderness Federation.

This is the advantage of having allies.

Such a large-scale action of the Principality of void is naturally impossible to hide from anyone. It is almost the lion of thunder. While entering the leadership of count Da lesha, Sean's six allies and those enemies naturally received the news at the first time. However, the reactions of these people were surprisingly consistent, and all chose to wait and see the change - the main reason why Sean's enemies chose to wait and see the change was that they didn't know what Sean was going to do, so they responded to the change with the same.

Sean's allies chose to wait and see for their own reasons. For example, Florence wiles was dragged down by the third garrison in the broken Dragon Valley. In particular, as soon as the two legions of thunder lion and Cecilia guards left, Florence would be under greater pressure. If he had not been supported by a door rope at the top of the list of famous generals, I was afraid that the third garrison would return. Kos Hopson and Lonnie holder were dragged down by the restless * * * Kingdom, and the small-scale conflicts at the border in the last month almost topped the total of the past year.

And Athena, now the Archduke of the Principality of Garrod, naturally can't send troops at will. Another reason is that her principality is in the hinterland of Garrod fortress, almost four months away from Sean's empty principality. When she sends troops, I'm afraid the war is over. Besides, she could not send troops directly without the consent of the other Lord when applying for military passage like Sean.

As for hutch boulder and Byrne Baidi, even if they want to support Sean, they also have to pass the military right of way. Moreover, the two of them could not take the posture of strong attack, because the Lords bordering the two territories were either Marquis of strength or marquis of real power, and it happened that these people were on the opposite side of Sean and others. They belonged to the faction of Duke roha kalch, another Duke of Ryan Kingdom. They would not sell hutch boulder any face.

Therefore, in a way, even if Sean's six allies of the Ryan Kingdom want to support Sean, they are powerless and are restrained.

But fortunately, Sean never thought about asking these allies for help from the beginning.

Arnold's blood feud, that's the blood feud of the void duchy. Sean is not weak enough to take revenge and need help from others.

After entering the Earl of Da lesha, the lion of thunder did not take a cautious attitude. Under the leadership of Alfred, the whole Legion moved forward in a straight line and was ready to cross the Earl of Da lesha. Generally speaking, even if the military right of way is obtained, the army advances as close to the border as possible, and will not choose the way of crossing. Therefore, this move of the thunder lion is a naked contempt for count Da lesha.

What's more, the count hasn't replied to the empty principality's request for military access.

Therefore, on the fifth day when the thunder lion entered the leadership of count Da lesha, the count had completed the gathering of private troops in the territory, and then stopped on the advance route of the thunder lion.

The lion of thunder is an infantry regiment combining light and heavy infantry, so it is not equipped with horses. Even Alfred, as a commander, has never been used to riding horses. So when count Da lesha looked down on Alfred on a tall horse, the arrogance of the count was clear. Even when he glanced over the thunder lion and found that the Legion was sometimes of any race, the arrogance of his face turned to contempt.

In his opinion, the so-called thunder lion is just a miscellaneous army. How can there be so many races mixed together in the real powerful team. Therefore, he directly thought that the external description of the fighting power of the thunder lion was exaggerated. As for saying that the thunder lion is one of the three most elite legions under the Duchy of void, the count scoffed. In his opinion, if the so-called main force and elite Legion are of the same level as the thunder lion, then the Duchy of void would not be worried.

No wonder the count guessed so.

Count Joseph tamen, Lord of the Da lesha, was born into an orthodox military family in the northwest aristocratic circle of dabion.

In the war in the northwest theater, the count also had many brilliant military performances. One of his greatest achievements was that he led his army to raid the logistics supply line of the army of Ryan kingdom in the form of suicide attack late at night, forcing Ryan army to suddenly fall into an isolated situation deep behind the enemy. At that time, if it had not been for the lack of strong people in the holy land on the dabion side, which led to the direct killing of angel nugus by Devin, the war history of the northwest theater would have to be rewritten by Joseph tamen.

So in fact, the count of Da lesha is also a very capable Lord, not a straw Lord.

In particular, in more than one year and nearly two years after the end of the war, the Lord developed the army with almost dozens of people back into a quasi class IV army with a scale of 10000. It has to be said that the Lord's ability is really strong, especially in military affairs. If he was given more time, it would not be impossible for him to train a fourth level elite army again.

So it is understandable that the LORD did not take Alfred seriously.

But Alfred doesn't care.

The lion king is in a very bad mood now because he has been delayed by the Lord and his army for more than ten minutes.

How could Alfred be in a good mood when he was wasted ten minutes for no reason. So the way he looked at Joseph tamen naturally became very bad, even gloomy and fierce.

"Good eyes." Joseph naturally saw Alfred's eyes and immediately sneered.

At this time, the two armies were about one kilometer apart, but the commanders of the two sides did not order the war, but chose pre war negotiation. Therefore, in fact, Alfred and Joseph were only about 30 meters apart, and only their respective Guard regiments came with the two commanders.

"I don't have time to talk to you about this nonsense." Alfred said in a deep voice, "you should have received the notice."

"I didn't reply." Joseph said faintly, still condescending.

"We didn't ask for your advice." Alfred's voice was still low, and his face had become very impatient. "Just let you know, if you don't intend to let your army go..."

"Ha ha, what a big tone!" Hearing Alfred's words, Joseph was really angry, and even the guard soldiers around him looked angry. "I'll see what you can do if I don't agree with you passing through my territory!"

"Not much." This time, Alfred's voice became indifferent. "Under the blood flag, never die."

"Ha ha, it's up to you not to die!" Joseph shouted angrily, pointing his whip at Alfred.

This time, Alfred did not answer, but showed a grim smile, and then turned around and led his guard group back to the thunder lion. Watching Alfred return to the thunder lion without saying a word, Joseph's anger was even stronger. However, he also knew that Alfred was determined to go to war, so he and his guard returned to the array at the first time to prepare for the battle.

Sure enough.

When Alfred returned, the whole lion of thunder began to move towards Joseph's legion.

But this time, the formation began to change quietly.

The thunder lion heavy infantry with impact shield walked in the front, while the light infantry went to the rear of the Legion and put in the corresponding formation. The archers in the thunder lion Legion are about 100 meters behind the Legion, but everyone is ready to shoot at any time. Alfred and his guard regiment stood at the front of the regiment as usual.

As the thunder lion gradually approached, the sound of neat footsteps began to become a thunderous roar. At this moment, the thunder lion was like thousands of troops galloping, and the momentum of the whole Legion began to rise continuously.

Seeing that the momentum suddenly became unusually strong and strong, a tragic atmosphere of slaughter began to diffuse, and Joseph menta, who had always put a look of contempt on his face, became dignified. In his regiment, the breathing of all the soldiers began to become thick, and even many people began to tremble. For a time, their momentum was taken by the lion of thunder.

Joseph knew he couldn't go on like this, so he raised his right hand, turned his fighting spirit and shouted in a deep voice, "Archer, get ready! Aim at the archers behind the enemy's phalanx. "

Suddenly, the Legion behind Joseph heard a sound of bowstring pulling.

Joseph turned over and dismounted. He knew that if he continued to sit on the horse once the war began, he would be a living target.

The air became unusually stagnant.

The distance between the two armies is only 500 meters, and the distance between the two archers is 600 meters.

"Ready!" Joseph's voice sounded, and his raised right hand did not fall.

The distance between the archers on both sides is only about 400 meters.

Joseph's legion is a combination of riding and walking. Although there is no heavy infantry to act as a solid defensive front, Joseph, who is already good at field operations and attacks, naturally does not need this kind of arms that he considers to be cumbersome. At this time, he placed a square array of 5000 infantry on the front line, mainly 3000 sword and shield soldiers with Park knives and light shields, supplemented by 2000 long spearmen; At a later point, the same 3000 archers are responsible for long-range strike. The standard range is 300 meters. However, if it is precision strike, it must be ensured that the range is within 150 meters.

You know, the 150 meter parallel angle precision strike is very excellent in the archer arms.

As for the last 2000 soldiers, they were light cavalry on both sides of the square, 1000 on each side. Training cavalry is more difficult than training infantry, even if it is only light cavalry, so Joseph usually makes these two thousand light cavalry responsible for flank harassment and containment, and finally cleaning the battlefield and harvesting the enemy.

When Joseph felt the powerful momentum of the thunder lion, he knew that the army was still a little strong, but in his opinion, it could not be compared with the army trained by himself. Of course, he didn't want to be a big one. He was not lucky that he had such excellent command and combat ability. So Joseph was waiting. When he had to wait for the other archers to enter the range of 300 meters, he immediately launched the first wave of arrow rain, and let the light cavalry on both wings attack at the same time. After the second wave of arrow rain, he planned to attack the front line of the thunder lion.

He knew very well that the archer's strike effect against heavy infantry was not good, but the attack of the second wave of arrow rain. Joseph's idea was not to kill the enemy, but to hurt and contain the enemy. He is confident that once the light cavalry attacks, the front infantry array of the thunder lion will change and protect the archers in the back, so what he wants is to make these infantry unable to protect the archers in the back!

Looking at the thunder lion still moving forward slowly, Joseph's mouth gently raised, revealing a sneer: what elite army, but so!

But Joseph's smile soon stiffened!

Because when the archers behind the thunder lion stepped into a distance of 400 meters, they had shot the first wave of arrow rain. The infantry square in the front row stopped at this time and did not advance again.

For a moment, Joseph cursed angrily.

He knew that he underestimated the enemy!

The attack of the first wave of arrow rain, naturally, was not against the archers in Joseph's back row, but all fell on the infantry square in Joseph's front row.

Alfred's idea is not to kill the enemy, but to hurt the enemy and morale!

Those sword and shield soldiers may be able to raise their shields to parry, but the long gunmen in the front row are unlucky. Those who were close to the sword and shield soldiers were lucky. The long gunmen who were a little farther away immediately fell down like cutting wheat. For a moment, the cry rang out on the battlefield.

"Damn it!" Joseph cursed loudly, "cavalry attack! Attack The sword and shield soldiers raise their shields for defense, and the whole army advances Archer, shoot freely! "

The cavalry troops on the left and right sides of the phalanx immediately attacked after hearing Joseph's order. Without Joseph's orders, they also knew what their attack target was. At this time, time became extremely valuable. In particular, they had seen that the archers were drawing out their arrows again and ready to start the second arrow rain attack. Therefore, these cavalry did not care to maintain their formation and rode their horses one after another.

At the same time, the spearmen immediately gathered up the formation, hid under the protection of the sword and shield soldiers, and then began to move towards the thunder lion. However, they did not dare to gallop like cavalry, but moved forward carefully, fearing that the enemy's archers would attack them again. As for the archers, like the cavalry, they knew what they should do at this time, so their first wave of arrow rain fell towards the front line of the thunder lion to prevent them from retreating and protect the archers.

Without Alfred's order, all the thunder lions consciously began to raise their shields to resist the falling arrow rain. Compared with the one meter long square shield of the sword and shield soldiers, the shield area of the thunder lion is much larger. Even if those humans can't lift the impact shield, it's not difficult for bear people and Tauren to lift it. Therefore, under the sound of Jingling for a time, the bow and arrow attacks from the enemy are naturally blocked.

Alfred, watching the cavalry wings on both sides running in disorder, sneered and waved his hand again.

As the thunder lion of the brotherly legion, he is also the most skilled shotgun who knows the steel wing. Therefore, when these cavalry approached a certain distance, the light infantry behind the heavy infantry threw out all the javelins they had already prepared for the first time, and in an instant there was a wailing sound of horses; But this is not the end. The archers in the rear also split about at the first time, and then directly shoot out the second wave of arrow rain.

But this time, the target of these archers was no longer the cavalry on horseback, but the running horses.

A moment later, there was another sound of people overturning.

When the second wave of arrow rain was shot, the second wave of javelin throwing from the light infantry of the thunder lion followed.

This time, the enemy cavalry on both wings immediately caused chaos.

Joseph's heart began to bleed when he watched the cavalry on both wings destroy more than a third without making any achievements, and fall into chaos! At this time, his eyes were red. He could no longer care about anything and immediately ordered a strong attack. This has completely entered the white hot war situation. Even if he has many tactical changes, he can't keep up with the rhythm. Therefore, at this moment, the only thing he can do is to hope that the cavalry commanders on both wings can immediately stop the chaos and continue to attack the back of the thunder lion, and the only thing they have to do is to cooperate with the cavalry on both wings to launch a fierce attack.

Watching Joseph lead the enemy to attack, Alfred snorted coldly. At the same time, Alfred also led the heavy infantry of the thunder lion to charge Joseph's sword shield and Spearman.

Only from the perspective of momentum, it is undoubtedly the lion of thunder, which is more shocking.

Under Alfred's leadership, the thunder lion's heavy infantry square was like a sharp knife stabbed into butter, mercilessly cutting the infantry square of Joseph's Legion directly. Seeing that his infantry array was almost cut by the thunder lion without resistance, Joseph was so angry that he almost gushed blood directly, because the performance of the thunder lion completely subverted the performance of a Heavy Infantry Corps.

You know, the Heavy Infantry Corps has always been famous for its slow movement speed and strong defense ability. Cutting the military array is not the patent of infantry, but the patent of cavalry, especially heavy cavalry - on the battlefield, the role of heavy cavalry is to cut the military array and combat morale. What is really used for battlefield harvesting is the cavalry responsible for attacking.

However, under the command of Alfred, the heavy infantry of the thunder lion completely showed the style of heavy cavalry - not only did they run fast, but also easily cut their own infantry array without difficulty. What made Joseph vomit blood was that after cutting and breaking his infantry array, the thunder lion heavy infantry divided into two groups - the first group rushed towards his Archer array without turning back, and the latter group turned around and began to wrap dumplings towards his infantry array!

What's more, the lion of thunder light infantry array that didn't follow the charge threw the last javelin at its own infantry array. Within a distance of less than 100 meters, watching these barbarians, tauren, bear and many other races famous for their strength throw javelin, how can they resist with the defensive ability of the square shield of the sword shield soldiers.

So in an instant, there was another terrible cry!

With this scream, a new round of horse wailing and the scream of cavalry death also sounded on this battlefield again.

Then Joseph saw that when the third wave of arrow rain was finished, there were less than 1000 cavalry on the left and right wings, and they were less than 100 meters away from the bow and arrow array of the thunder lion. This should have been a very happy news for Joseph, but when he watched the archers drop their bows without hesitation, then take out their long guns and swords, and then attack these cavalry, Joseph knew that his two thousand cavalry were finished.

Of course, he also knew that more than two thousand cavalry were finished.

The archer array, which was rushed into by the thunder lion heavy infantry led by Alfred, was also finished. Because the archers he trained are not like the archers of the lion of thunder. They can be directly used as infantry by dropping their bows and arrows and picking up their long guns and Swords - in the normal division of arms, the situation of archers facing close quarters is basically linked to the term "regiment destruction".

And himself and the remaining 4000 infantry?

Joseph looked around at his soldiers who were surrounded and were being eroded and reduced. Joseph suddenly felt extremely ironic. More than half an hour ago, he looked down on the army of the lion of thunder, but only for more than half an hour, he was facing the end of the total army, which seriously hit Joseph's self-confidence. After all, he always thought that his military talent and ability were very strong.

But facts have proved that he is the one who really "is nothing more than that".

"We surrendered!" Joseph shouted in a deep voice, "we surrendered! Stop your attack! "

But in the face of Joseph's roar, the thunder lion was ignored, and the crazy attack continued.

"We surrendered! You can't keep attacking! I am willing to pay the ransom! " Joseph continued to shout.

But this time, someone finally responded to him. It was only the response, but it was not the voice Joseph wanted to hear.

"Under the blood flag, never die!"

"Under the blood flag, never die!"

The roar of the thunder lion resounded throughout the battlefield.

Hearing this cry, Joseph's face turned white, and even his regiment completely collapsed at this moment. Even if Joseph wanted to regroup, he was completely unable to return to heaven.

At this moment, Joseph really regretted such provocation to the lion of thunder.

……

On April 16, 1878, a fierce and short white-edged battle broke out between the thunder lion led by count Da lesha and count Da lesha, Joseph tamen.

The war between the two sides lasted an hour and 23 minutes.

The lion of thunder killed 78 people, slightly injured 369 people and seriously injured 121 people.

Count Teresa's legion, a total of 10000, was destroyed.

Count Teresa, Joseph tamen, was killed on the spot.

Then, the lion of thunder marched in under the leadership of count Da lesha, and the tamen family was destroyed.

At this point, the whole Ryan Kingdom finally clearly saw the determination of the void duchy this time.

Under the blood flag, never die!