Chapter three hundred and twelfth battle
Seeing this situation, I suddenly felt an inexplicable heartbroken. I slapped the table and stood up, shouting loudly: "What's the noise--"
The restaurant was silent, and only the remaining sounds echoed in the corner. Even Xiaotian in L'Oreal's arms did not dare to speak out at this time. The little guy was very sensible.
He let out a breath of discouragement and sat down slowly. He made his wife and children worry that it was not what any man wanted to see. Women and children have the right to worry, but men can't. However, it seems that it is too much to take off their anger on A Tu.
"I'm sorry, A Tu." After sitting down, he rubbed his forehead and said to A Tu.
"Master, you... don't say that, I was wrong. I..."
He raised his hand to stop A Tu. Don’t say that he is right, even if he is really wrong, he doesn’t know where he is wrong.
"Wow..." Xiaotian knew how to see the world very well, so he chose to vent his dissatisfaction at this time and started crying loudly.
He got up and walked to his wife L'Oreal, kissed her forehead, and then touched the two children. "Dear, take the children up first, don't worry."
My wife L'Oreal looked at me and seemed to want to say something, but in the end she pursed her lips and nodded and took the children away.
"Okay, now, tell me what happened?" After his wife left, she returned to her seat and asked Atu.
"The outposts at the border sent people to return the army of the Asians to come closer to them, and build pre-war camps at the border."
It's only worse. I haven't heard a good news recently. It's only worse. Now, the female Grand Duke of Yaxia has sent troops, but she has no explanation. That woman, while sending an army, seems to have nothing happened.
"Where are the people sent by the border outpost?"
"At resting, the man rushed back for five days in the heavy snow. His hands were frozen."
"Have you helped him find a doctor?"
"Mu has already gone to call."
He nodded: "Okay, did he say how many people from Yaxia have come?"
A Tu: "Five thousand. Now they are still building pre-war camps. There may be more in the back. But there are many horses."
"Well... I understand." After nodding, he turned to Bock and said, "Now, you have to bring bad news back to the Duke. You can go and have a rest first. You will set off tomorrow morning and return to the Stone Castle with my letter to the Duke."
"I understand, sir."
After leaving the restaurant, he took the letter from Mengniu's father-in-law back to his study.
In the letter, the father-in-law of the Magnificent Majesty also expressed his doubts about the behavior of the female grandfather of Yaxia, and once again told me that I must keep an eye on the Yaxia people. Of course, this was before he knew that Roland sent troops to the border of the Swan Castle. The merchants of Yaxia at the Swan Castle were not necessarily abnormal. There was no sign that Yaxia was going to start a war against Gotton, but now, the new news has confirmed that the Yaxia army is coming.
After writing a reply in the study, Boke and the others sent it back the next day.
After the Yaxia people were stationed at the border, there was no movement. In order to prevent accidents, I sent several groups of people to the border outpost to confirm whether the personnel at the border outpost had been captured by the Yaxia people. However, after those people came back, they all reported that the border outpost was safe and sound. The Yaxia people did not take any further action.
After a strange month of news that the border was sound every day, Bok came with the letter from his father-in-law of the Bull. The news this time was much worse than last time. The war had already started on Toss, and at this time the rainy season in the central part of the western continent had passed. The army of the Three Principals launched an attack in such a season is undoubtedly a very good choice. The terrain of the Tuss is not suitable for cavalry attacks. The Three Principals also realized this, and it can be seen from the composition of their army attack on Toss this time. Armed infantry was used in large quantities, and the Duomo Snake Duchy also carried more than twenty cannons. This made the battle to defend the city from the beginning particularly fierce.
According to the news from Toss, the Duchy of Double-Headed Snake opened the gap on the first day of the battle, but the Earl of Winter Wolf used heavy trenchers and combustion tanks to create a barrier belt to cut off the enemy's subsequent attacking troops, and eliminated the enemy troops inside who were preparing to expand the gap. However, the consumption of combustion tanks was also very large.
On the first day of the battle, the enemy lost more than 4,000 people in the gap, but the Weeping Willow Legion, which blocked the enemy's army, also suffered heavy losses. Four spear phalanx companies and four armed infantry companies went up to the gap, and nearly half of the gunpowder troops of the Duchy of Shuangshou Snake and several waves of enemy armed infantry impacts were lost. In other words, more than 1,000 people were lost in total.
The facts also tell me the answer to a question I encountered when fighting in the south. When facing the defects of the phalanx when facing the enemy's medicine troops, the thick ball could easily break the defenses of other Geden phalanx soldiers. The cannons could even tear a long hole in the phalanx. Fortunately, long-term training is still effective, at least they will not be broken by the cannons. After paying the price of more than a thousand people, they finally blocked the gap.
In this case, the command of the Count of Winter Wolf is still qualified, and there is no condition for cavalry to be deployed. Heavy Geden catapults cannot be placed on the city wall, so he can only rely on a few Geden's cannons on the horse surface of the city wall to attack the opponent's local cannons. If it were someone else or I, it would not be guaranteed that they could do better than him.
After more than 4,000 people were blocked by the Count of Winter Wolf at the beginning, the Tosland war broke into a stalemate. However, every day, both sides died dozens or hundreds of people, but the enemy did not launch a larger-scale attack. Interestingly, when the Count of Winter Wolf used all kinds of tricks in the gap area, the enemy turned to move the target to the four city gates. As a result, the siege hammers broke through the Hakumu City Gate and found that there was not a passage to the city. Instead, there was a pile of earth and rocks. The city gate hole was completely blocked like the ancient city guarding in the previous life. Then a barrel of oil was down on the city gate tower and the people in the door followed the brick kiln that was burning bricks.
"Han, come back with L'Oreal and the children, and the Swan Castle Legion. I will transfer the Condor Legion to Swan Castle..." This is what Fengniu father-in-law wants to explain to me in the letter.
"This is my mistake. I had miscalculated the intention of Yaxia's widow before. It was only now that I thought about what the female grand duke of the north of the ice and snow country was going to do. This made us miss the opportunity to attack the coalition forces of the three principalities at the beginning. Similarly, this is what Yaxia's female grand duke wants to see. It can be said that I lost to her in the beginning, but the matter was not over.
The terrible widow entrenched around us like a poisonous snake. She was not planning to attack Swan Castle directly, she was waiting for me to make a mistake. Her army stationed on the border of Swan Castle can treat them as friendly forces, and also as our enemies. It depends on the development of the Toss war in the east, and we can divide her plan into several situations:
First, we were unable to block the army of the Three Principals in Toss. As I arranged in advance, the Gordon army returned to the Stone Castle and recalled the Swan Castle Legion and organized a counterattack with other legions. In this way, the woman would send her army to easily seize the Swan Castle, and would appear in a grand manner with us in an allies to discuss with us to help us resist the Three Principals Alliance.
The second type is that our army is stalemate with the enemy Yu Tos, and she will also send people to discuss with us, discussing our return of the Swan Castle in exchange for their assistance.
The third way is to push the border between Gotton and Asha to the stone fort when we use all our troops to fight against the three principalities or be in a weak position. Finally, we negotiate with the three principalities to retain a stone fort that surrendered to the widow.
Fortunately, when the bad news was everywhere, guessing that the widow's true intention was undoubtedly the best news now. Han, come back with your army and go to Toss with me. We need to teach the three principalities a lesson, and also warn the widow who is entrenched in the east to peek at the Swan Castle.
Of course, a victory may not be enough to get us out of the situation, so I have already made a decision that I will talk to you in person when you meet me.”
It is worthy of being the father-in-law of Mengniu. After reading his letter, he seemed to have moved away the huge rock in his heart. The experience of holding the highest power of a country for a long time is there. Although I guessed it a little late, I can still recover it now. In fact, the father-in-law of Mengniu is already doing this. If it were me, I don’t know where the country would be taken after falling into the trap in this situation.
I had always thought that Roland, the female grand duke of Asaha, was waiting for the subsequent army to assemble and attack the Swan Castle. Now it seems that I don’t know her so well, and the speculation of the Maverick’s father-in-law is more in line with Roland’s way of doing things. She would not use the army to attack Swan Castle as foolishly as Yun Xiang III. If her plan is completed, it would be much easier to seize the Swan Castle. And it would also make the Stone Castle owe her a favor.
I haven't heard of any heirs of the princes of the Western Continent who are fools. I can't guarantee that I will do much better than them in the future. This requires a process, long-term experience in that position, and... it also requires some luck. However, I also believe that I can do it, at least, an excellent monarch is guiding me.
Now……
He opened the door and walked out and said to Atu, who was guarding the door: "Call Jacques... and come to us."
Chapter completed!