Chapter 238.
Chapter 238 – Striking Out
Chapter 235
Located between the Potteries and the Adderall Territory, Biddle Castle was a fortified castle, and the owner of the castle, Baron Brett Shawn, was one of the bannermen of the Kent Family. After the conflict between the two major factions in the Northwest Bay erupted, Earl Morley Malcolm and Viscount Dylan Johnston combined their forces to surround Biddle Castle at the first opportunity.
Viscount Sean had already made preparations in advance, storing large quantities of food within the castle and refurbishing the defense apparatus, recruiting and training a large number of troops. With these preparations, he commanded the garrison of the castle to hold the castle and repeatedly thwarted the attacks of the allied forces.
Morley Malcolm and Dylan Johnston had no choice but to turn to the other lords of the alliance, which led to Price Parker’s letter to the lords.
Naturally, those in Biddle Castle did not sit idly by and flew pigeons to the Earl of Kent, asking him to gather the forces of all the allies to relieve themselves.
Gradually the military forces of both sides began to converge on the place.
In a village near Bido Castle, the members of the Anti-Kent Alliance chose this place as their temporary command headquarters.
“If you ask me! We should send war letters to the opposite side right now and make an appointment with the enemy to fight squarely tomorrow!”
In one of the largest houses in the village, a young man hammered the table slightly impatiently.
“Don’t be in a hurry! Let’s see what the opposite side will do first, so that we can respond to any changes!”
Morrie Malcolm spoke up, complaining that Winifred Heller’s son was so belligerent, unlike his father who advocated “non-violence”. I heard that Earl Heller had wanted to wait and see this time, but it was only because of this young man jumping up and down and actively encouraging several elders in the family that the Heller family got involved. The family is involved in this.
This is not, this time to bring troops over is also this brat, his father will not be his empty right.
Earl Malcolm also wants to end the war in front of his house as soon as possible, pull out this thorn in the side of Bidor Castle earlier, but in the case of the enemy reinforcements are pressing on the situation, have to be cautious for the top.
The others in the room also agreed with Count Malcolm.
“Hmph!”
Derek Heller grunted in dissatisfaction, in his opinion, these old guys were just too conservative and their brains were a bit rusty.
“I would like to remind you all that spring plowing will begin soon, if we don’t let the soldiers go home and plant the land as soon as possible, we won’t be able to harvest the food to come in the fall!”
Price Parker, who was sitting at the top, said, “Nephew Derek, we naturally know in our hearts what you said. That’s why I gathered everyone here, hoping to defeat the Kent family in one battle and avoid the war going on for years and years. Since we have to decide the winner in one battle, then of course we have to maximize the chips on our side.”
Derek asked, “We’ve already gathered over 6,000 men, what more leverage do we need? What are you waiting for?”
“Waiting for the people from the Greiman and Garnard clans, they still have more than 1,000 people who haven’t arrived yet, with them our chances of winning will be even greater!”
Derek had a disdainful look on his face, “I’ve heard that the Gleiman family doesn’t even have a single knight, how can they help if they come?”
Earl Parker shook his head, “A mosquito is meat even if it’s small, besides, you can’t underestimate them, are you confident that you can rely on your own family’s power to eliminate the pirates of the Northwest Bay within a few months?”
Derek tossed his hair, “Hmph, it’s just some peripheral pirate groups left behind after Edward left, what’s so difficult about eliminating these rabble.”
The people in the room looked at Count Parker with some embarrassment.
As the initiator of the alliance, Price Parker felt somewhat offended.
He slammed the table vigorously and said in a dignified voice, “Raise your hands if you think we should wait for Greiman and Garnard’s men to arrive before going to war!”
Except for Derek Heller, the others in attendance raised their right hands. Count Parker nodded with satisfaction and turned to Derek, “Nephew Derek, it looks like everyone thinks so, do you still want to stick to your opinion?”
Seeing that not a single person supported him, Derek was very angry in his heart, he forced down his anger and asked, “Alright, I respect everyone’s opinion. But when will the people from the two families, Gladman and Garnard, arrive, and if he doesn’t come for a month, do we have to wait as well? But then the Kent’s family also took the initiative to call!”
Earl Parker saw that this kid was a little bit softened, his tone also eased down, twirling his beard, he said, “You don’t have to worry about that, I’ve already received their express horse message, their team is already on the way, and they should be able to arrive tomorrow afternoon.”
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At this moment, Bitburg is showing the last moment of tranquility before the big battle, the allied side has gathered more than 6000 people, and set up camp in the east of the castle, isolating Bitburg from the reinforcements of the Kent family.
The Kent family’s men had also gathered nearly 5,000 people, setting up camp not far to the east of the allied forces, waiting for the arrival of their followers. Given their presence, the coalition army stopped attacking the city, and the defenders inside Bitburg had less than 1,000 capable soldiers, and were unable to form a pincer attack with their own reinforcements.
Both sides were adding the last gasp to their armies, waiting for the moment to polish the sparks.
At noon the next day, Earl Parker was studying how to fight the upcoming battle with the others, when suddenly a soldier stumbled in.
“Lord Parker, my lord!” The soldier seemed a bit panicked.
The Earl glared at him in dissatisfaction, “What’s the panic? What happened?”
“Viscount Derek Heller he …… Viscount Lord led his own troops to fight over to the opposite side!”
“What?”
Price Parker and the others in the hall were shocked and angry, and the Earl had the soldier repeat himself to make sure he hadn’t heard correctly.
“This boy! Why is this boy so reckless!”
Thought he was honest yesterday! Didn’t realize it was all an act!
The soldier who came in to report the news added, “It seems that the enemy’s barracks caught fire and caused a riot, so the Viscount thought it was too good to lose and led the attack!”
“Oh?”
Earl Parker immediately led the crowd to rush out of the house to look to the east, the reporting soldier was right, several columns of smoke rose in the east, obviously on fire!
He hammered his palm, “Ugh! Didn’t he think about what if it was a trap? Maybe they’ve already ambushed him in the barracks!”
There was no time to lose, whether it was a trap or not, one had to do something.
He looked around the crowd and made an immediate decision, “Gentlemen, gather the soldiers together according to the formation we discussed and trained before, approach the enemy’s barracks and receive Viscount Derek Heller.”
“Yes!”
The others responded and then immediately dispersed to gather their respective troops.
(End of chapter)