Chapter 303

Chapter 303.

In the Fougeres region in the south, the counter-insurgency army led by the Grand Princess of the Kingdom of Aldo, Catherine, and the rebel army of the Greedy Wolf, Giles, confronted each other in this area.

The main force of the kingdom’s army arrived at Fortress of Thorns in March and joined up with the defenders who were holding on to the area. Catherine immediately launched an attack on the army of the rebel general Samar, winning successive victories by virtue of sheer numbers.

The situation in the Thorn Fortress area was reversed, and the kingdom’s army in turn surrounded Samar’s rebels.

At the critical time, Scott and other wizards accompanying the army once again played a role, they used enchantments and drugs to organize a death squad, and fought to kill the weak points of the royal army, after breaking through, the death squad again took on the task of breaking the back and covering the main army’s southward retreat.

After losing about one-fifth of his troops, Samar led the army to retreat to the region of Fougeres, and combined with the main force of the rebel army that was traveling north to support them, blocking the kingdom’s army from continuing southward.

Archduke Giles had swept away all the forces that disobeyed him in the south and could finally turn his attention to the north.

The size of the king’s army was around 50,000 men, and the rebel army had more than 40,000 men, although the difference was not very significant, the weaponry of the king’s army was superior to that of the other side, especially the troops directly under the royal family, and almost everyone was clad in armor. The number of knights in the ranks of the king’s army was even greatly greater than that of the rebels.

However, from the actual results of the engagement, the fighting strength of the rebels was surprisingly equal to that of the royal army.

In the opinion of many generals under the Princess’s command, there are many things that happen to the rebels that are not in line with common sense, which are reflected in the following aspects.
Superior detection ability, when their own troops enter the battlefield, if there is no woods or other cover, always be the other side first detected and pre-arranged battle formation.

Unbelievable protection ability, a wallet protection is comparable to metal armor, is the rebels mastered the super advanced manufacturing process?

Unusual fighting fanaticism, that can really be fanatic ah, fight to fight completely do not want to die, the Holy Knight in the Church with faith protection can not do so. Luckily, this bunch of crazy people’s discipline is incredibly poor, they don’t know what it means to cooperate at all, they only know how to charge and kill in a brain. Could it be the barbarian soldiers recruited by Giles? It was observed that these bloodthirsty maniacs tended to fight without distinguishing between enemy and self.

The last one that was more difficult to deal with was the longbow, there were a large number of longbowmen serving in Jarls’ forces, and when the battle started the arrows fell like rain, making the king’s army troops suffer a lot.

The only thing that the kingdom’s army could pose an overwhelming advantage over the rebels were the cavalry units, or more accurately, the knights’ ranks.

In addition to the knights directly under the royal family, there are also a large number of noble sons from the northern territories, thanks to the good family background, they have been practicing martial arts since childhood, skilled in bow and horse, and also provide their own weapons and armor, after a little bit of bonding to form a powerful cavalry team. Since the outbreak of the rebellion in the south, countless noble knights who aspire to excellence have joined Catherine’s command, and they have used their rifles and swords to accumulate fame and wealth for themselves.

Of course, it would be even better if they could capture the heart of Her Highness while making a name for themselves.

Before June, both sides were engaged in a tug-of-war in the region of Fougeres, with me attacking and you defending one day, and me defending and you attacking the next, with each other winning and losing. After entering June, the rainfall in the south increased steeply, and the number of engagements was greatly reduced.

Fortaleza, the transportation hub city of the Fougeres region, is where Catherine has placed her command.

Today was another rainy day, and the entire city was shrouded in a steady drizzle. Catherine had just finished her gathering with the generals, and as the crowd dispersed, a few of the top brass in the army consciously stayed behind. According to the usual practice, if there was no special arrangement, the next would be the time for them to discuss the war situation with the princess.

The crowd followed Catherine out of the hall to a smaller room.

The most important topic was, of course, the near-future Jarls Rebellion. From the beginning of the attack and defense of the Thorn Fortress, the higher-ups of the kingdom’s army had noticed a number of bizarre aspects in the rebels, and after coming into contact with the main force of the Jars, it was even more obvious that these unusual aspects directly affected the success or failure of the war.

“Perhaps there really is some kind of mysterious power helping Jarls.”

Duke Dodge spread his hands helplessly.

Catherine frowned, she couldn’t help but think of the fire that turned the grain warehouses of the royal capital into ashes last year, and all the information she had found out at that time was also baffling.

Moreover, according to the captive’s statement, there was indeed a mysterious figure in Giles’ army, called the “Holy Cleric”, who could pray to the gods to let the soldiers gain extraordinary power.

This is reminiscent of the legendary sorcerer.

The people at the meeting whispered, a strange atmosphere spread in the meeting room, although reason told them not to think, but we all grew up listening to all kinds of strange stories about wizards.

In the meeting Klein cheered up the crowd present, “So far no unsolvable difficulties have been encountered, the enemy soldiers will be stabbed to death by swords and spears no matter how crazy they fight. No matter how high the protection on them is, they can’t stop the damage of blunt weapons. As long as we don’t mess up ourselves and match reasonable tactics, we are able to defeat them with our strength in numbers. The only thing that’s harder to deal with is still the longbowmen, Jarls has obviously been planning for the rebellion for a long time, he has trained a large number of longbowmen in the folklore, and they can be used as soon as the battle breaks out by pulling them directly onto the battlefield.”

This was indeed a rather scratchy problem, in the rainy environment of the south, the cavalry’s prowess was very limited on the soft ground, and as the knights struggled to advance through the mud, the longbowmen were able to shoot a rain of arrows with impunity to harvest lives.

While the people are talking, the female knight Ofina puts forward a suggestion: the lords of the Northwest Bay use two unheard of powerful weapons in their disputes – the thunder hammer and the fire crossbow, of which the thunder hammer is so powerful that it can kill and injure the enemy from a mile away, which sounds like it is simply the nemesis of the longbowmen, can we purchase this kind of weapon in large quantities in the name of the kingdom’s army? Can we purchase a large amount of these weapons in the name of the kingdom’s army to restrain the rebels’ longbowmen?

Ofina had previously been in the royal capital to raise provisions and recruit soldiers for the southbound army, and at the same time was tasked by Catherine to monitor the situation in the Northwest Gulf – mainly to protect her sister who had run away from home, so she had a relatively good understanding of some of the situations in the Northwest Gulf.

Most of the people were shaking their heads at Ofina’s suggestion, did the gang of unseen country lords in the Northwest Gulf understand what war was? There were also Northwest Lords who led their armies during the recovery of Jingyao, blind arrogance, poor equipment, and indiscipline were their general image.

Of course there were some good generals and troops among them, such as Baron Andrew from Baldin and Viscount Ja’aiis from Emden, whose military qualities and the troops under their command were very good. Baron Andrew’s excellent performance had even been honored by Her Highness Catherine. But you can’t take an example as a generalization, they can be said to be rare among the Northwest Lords, and the army under their command can only be said to be short and compact.

In the minds of most of the top brass of the kingdom’s army, the [War of the Troglodytes] that broke out in the Northwest Bay at the beginning of the year was nothing more than a bunch of peasants engaging in armed combat. Maybe whoever had the brains to invent a few strange weapons and kill a few more people was then blown up to be godly and invincible.

(End of chapter)