On the tenth day of the twelfth month of the year 1788, the Andinac Kingdom once again launched a surprise attack on the Mana Hill Plain during winter. Under the command of Ognesero the First (His Highness the Second Prince), the White Lion Legion only took four days to clear the first line of defense deployed by the Commerce Alliance and reached the city of Roberto. With the Andinac Kingdom's advanced catapult tactics, almost all the executives of the Commerce Alliance believed that Roberto City, which had less than 10,000 soldiers, would fall within three days …
But a miracle happened. The defenders of Roberto City poured water on the city walls, turning the entire city into a city of ice. No matter how many catapults the Andinac Kingdom mobilized, they could not break through the walls of Roberto City. The second prince was exasperated, and commanded the White Lion Legion to launch several attacks, but they gained nothing apart from casualties.
According to the second prince's plan, he was going to spend more than 30 days to clear the small strongholds on the defensive line of the Mana Hill Plain, occupy the remaining three stronghold cities, and bring his troops to Morrent City to see if there were any advantages for him to take. If there were any loopholes in the city's defenses, he would occupy Moronte City. If there were no advantages, he would force the executives of the Commerce Alliance to sign a truce agreement. Of course, this truce agreement had to be in accordance with the second prince's wishes. The Commerce Alliance had plenty of money, and if they did not want to cede territory, they would have to pay more …
It was not that the second prince did not want to continue attacking the Commerce Alliance, but that the nobles under him were starting to get homesick and tired of war after years of fighting. It had been almost three years since the second prince said that he would only send his troops for a stroll, and force the Commerce Alliance to agree to the Andinac Kingdom's request with the advantage of a million soldiers. As the Commerce Alliance's resistance strengthened, many nobles began to think of all sorts of excuses to avoid the battlefield.
In particular, the departure of the Norton Family's armed forces had caused the second prince to lose his most powerful armed forces. The Pegasus Legion of the Filim Family, who had taken over the Norton Family's armed forces to reinforce the Mana Hill Plain, as well as the Border Ranger Legion and the Reserve Legion of the Fisablen Family, had taken over the Norton Family's armed forces. Although the three light cavalry legions had repeatedly repelled the reinforcements from the Trade Alliance, they had also suffered heavy casualties. They had requested the second prince to return to the territory to rest and reorganize.
Don't be fooled by the Second Prince's vow that he wouldn't stop until he flattened Morrent City. In fact, he was already very satisfied. Back then, the powerful Christen Empire and the Commerce Alliance had fought for more than a hundred years. How many times had they reached Moronte City? Yet, he had led a group of nobles hastily assembled to conquer the three Stronghold cities in the Mana Hill Plains, and recovered all the former Christen Empire's territory. This achievement was enough to leave his name in the history books, and restore the Christen Empire's royal family's reputation.
Furthermore, after nearly forty years of peace, the towns and villages on the Mana Hill Plains were overflowing with wealth, especially the three occupied fortresses. The spoils of war were so rich that the nobles of the territories could not believe their eyes. As the king of the Andinac Kingdom, the second prince naturally took half of it, and the other half was shared among the nobles. However, the Norton Family's armed forces were not included, and they did not offer anything to the second prince. Seeing that Laurist had become the kingdom's Sword Sage, the second prince pretended not to see it.
Now, the second prince's thoughts were on returning to the imperial capital to host a grand coronation ceremony. He wanted to make himself the emperor of the Christen Empire, and restore the Andinac Kingdom's name to the Christen Empire. But before that, the second prince also wanted to put an end to this war. He wanted to hurt the Commerce Alliance once and for all, force them to sign a truce, and give the empire a few years to recuperate.
It was for this purpose that the second prince launched another surprise attack in the winter, and specially mobilized the most elite White Lion Legion. But he did not expect to be blocked at the foot of Robertovia City. A shining city of ice appeared in front of him in the snow. All the siege operations were ineffective against the city of ice, and instead, thousands of White Lion Legion soldiers were injured or killed.
As the main garrison commander of Robertvia City, the Knight of Carritoc became famous for his successful defense against the second prince's winter ambush and the Catapult Tactic. He was conferred the title of a Baron by the Trade Union. In particular, he was once the second prince's royal knight. His experience of betraying the second prince and returning to the Commerce Alliance was widely publicized by the tabloids in Moronte City. They ridiculed the second prince for being blind and not recognizing talent. Even though the second prince had the upper hand on the battlefield, he was humiliated because of this incident.
After the war, many war scholars and experts commented in the history of the Galinthea Continent that the Andinac Kingdom had mastered the Winter Surprise Attack Tactic and the Catapult Tactic, allowing the cold winter to become an aid to their victory. But where there is a spear, there must be a shield. The Commerce Alliance's Ice Tactic perfectly restrained the Andinac Kingdom's Winter Surprise Attack Tactic and the Catapult Tactic, causing the advantages of these two advanced tactics to disappear …
In the first month of the new year, just as the second prince led the White Lion Legion to continue the battle against Robertovia City of Ice, Tagger and Redi once again came to the hunting house to report to Laurist about the situation in Winston Province. At present, Baron Camorra had accepted Laurist's appointment and was in charge of all immigration matters. The Monolith Legion and Flying Tiger Legion's Bofinger and Ferocious Tiger Roth had already arrived at the capital of Windbri and had already expressed their obedience to the order. The Hunting Cavalry Legion had yet to return.
At the same time, the operation of borrowing rations from the nobles in the surrounding provinces was progressing smoothly. Apart from a few who were forced to borrow rations because they were unwilling, most of the nobles were willing to lend large amounts of rations from their reserves. Winston's food shortage had been alleviated. However, Baron Camorra's letter asked Laurist how to arrange for the millions of immigrants after the rainy season. Winston Province had already been conferred a large number of nobles, and it was impossible to find so many wastelands to reclaim …
Laurist once again issued an order to Baron Camorra, requesting him to move 500,000 immigrants to Muyeh Province after the rainy season in March. He was to build a fortress city there and begin to reclaim the land. At the same time, he ordered the Hunting Cavalry Legion's Commander Joost to be in charge of the safety of these settlements and protect them from the harassment of the grassland barbarians.
In addition, he asked Baron Camorra to choose 100,000 craftsmen from the million immigrants and place them in Windbri and Pidro City. They would be the propellant to accelerate the development of commerce and craftsmen in these two cities. There were now 500,000 new immigrants in Muyeh Province. Their daily necessities and trade between the two places were enough to revitalize this desolate trade route. As for the remaining immigrants, Laurist asked Camorra to arrange for them to repair the water and transportation infrastructure in Winston Province. Once Laurist's strength had recovered and he had quelled the rebellion in the north, he would then move them to his family's territory.
After Taggle and Redi left, Laurist began to train peacefully again. The snow melted in February, and the rainy season came in March. By the time the winter wheat was harvested in April, Laurist's strength had recovered to the peak of a level 3 swordsman. Laurist believed that after two more months of hard work, he could once again become a sacred swordsman and reactivate the Sanguinary Domain.
In June, Aridoli finally got pregnant as she wished. Hmm, Laurist's efforts during the new year were in vain. On the other hand, at the end of May, when Aridoli brought Trieck and the maids up the mountain to collect the Big Red Mushroom, she and Laurist had a fling in the mangrove forest. In the end, Aridoli won the bid. From this, it could be seen that there were no rules to giving birth. Everything depended on luck.
On the 17th of June, Taggle and Redi came again. However, Redi went to the wooden castle to find his little lover, Sunirulu, to reminisce about old times. Taggle told Laurist that the second prince had been defeated in a field battle against the Trade Union's armed forces in the Mana Hill Plains. Currently, he had retreated to Creedor City to defend against the attack of the Trade Union's armed forces. However, although they won the battle, the Trade Union's losses were greater than the second prince's. This was a victory that was won with human lives. Both sides suffered a total of 160,000 to 170,000 casualties, and the Trade Union's armed forces accounted for two-thirds of the casualties.
Laurist was very curious about how this battle had happened. Taggle told him a truth that he did not know whether to laugh or cry. This battle was not organized, but a chaotic one. The second prince and the upper echelons of the Trade Union had never thought of such a large-scale field battle. They thought that it was just a small conflict, but as the scale grew, both sides realized that they could no longer control it. They had no choice but to use all their armed forces to fight it out. The second prince admitted that he had suffered a loss and retreated to Creedor City to set up a defensive line.
The second prince was not satisfied with the failure of the winter raid against Ice City. He decided to wait until the rainy season was over before launching an attack on Robertvia City. He wanted to see if his deserter, Carritok, could come up with a way to resist the attack of the catapults. However, the second prince had forgotten a very important thing. After the rainy season, all the artificial canals and irrigation ditches on the Mana Hill Plains had already thawed and became river obstacles that were difficult to cross.
The second prince was dumbfounded. Although the fortresses beside the canals had been smashed into ruins by the second prince's catapults, the most important thing at the moment was to build bridges across the rivers to prevent his army from being separated by the rivers. However, while the second prince's army was building these bridges, the Trade Union's reinforcements had finally arrived in Robertvia City. Their numbers were increasing, and their barracks were set up outside the city.
When the number of the Trade Union's armed forces exceeded the second prince's army, small-scale conflicts were inevitable. At this time, the second prince found himself in a difficult position. The reinforcements from the Trade Union's armed forces had already exceeded a hundred thousand, and the reinforcements were still coming. On his side, there was only the White Lion Second Legion of about fifty thousand men and the two Heavy Armor Divisions of the Kenneth Family armed with about twenty thousand men. They were already at a disadvantage in terms of military strength. As a last resort, the second prince could only order the nobles in the barracks behind him to rush over with their armed forces as reinforcements.
When the number of troops on both sides exceeded a hundred thousand, they discovered that the crisscrossing water network on the Mana Hill Plains had become a hindrance to both sides. This was because the artificial canals and ditches had divided the army's barracks into small pieces. As the rainy season had just passed, there was plenty of water. If these rivers were to be filled up, the water would overflow and turn the barracks into a muddy land. Therefore, the only way to connect the two sides was to build wooden bridges.
As the second prince's side was considered to be upstream of the canal, one of the nobles came up with the idea of preparing a large number of fire boats to go downstream and burn down the wooden bridges built by the Trade Union's armed forces. This was actually just a disgusting trick, and had no effect on the war. For the first time, the Trade Union's armed forces were not prepared. Two wooden bridges and a few tents on the shore were burned down, but there were no casualties.
However, the Trade Union's armed forces could not afford to suffer such a loss. A few days later, they sent people to retaliate. More than ten good swimmers sneaked along the river into the barracks that the second prince had set up at the two ends. They threw cans of kerosene everywhere and burned down a large area of the barracks. Nearly a hundred soldiers were buried in the sea of fire.
Therefore, both sides began to fight each other, and the nobles who had suffered losses called their friends to retaliate against the enemy. The funny thing was that the two armies were fighting like a raging fire, and the families and friends of both sides continued to join in, causing the scale of the battle to grow larger and larger. In the middle, the higher-ups of both sides did not know that their subordinates were fighting to the death.
When the higher-ups of both sides received the report, they found that more than half of their armed forces had been involved in the conflict. At this time, no one could withdraw. Whoever retreated first would be the unlucky one. Once the enemy chased after them, it was likely that the whole army would collapse. In the end, the second prince gritted his teeth and threw all his troops into the battlefield. The Trade Union's armed forces were obviously one step behind, which allowed the second prince to seize the initiative and cause heavy casualties to the Trade Union's armed forces on the battlefield.
The war because of the conflict lasted for three days and two nights. If the battlefield space on the Mana Hill Plain, which was divided by the crisscrossing water nets, was seen as a grid on a chessboard, then this grid was often occupied by the Trade Union's armed forces, while the grid next to it was won by the second prince's troops. The two sides were separated by a river, and apart from shooting arrows and shouting at each other, no one could reach the other side …
The second prince was the first to throw his troops into the battlefield, and also the first to gather his troops to leave the battlefield. There was no way to fight this war. He could not command or control the situation on the battlefield at all. He could clearly see, but he could not hear. Who knew how many turns and how many rivers he would have to cross if he sent messengers over, and he might even die halfway.
The battle that took place under the city of Robertvia ended with the second prince's troops suffering more than 60,000 casualties, and the Trade Union's armed forces suffering more than 100,000 casualties. However, although the Trade Union's armed forces suffered more casualties, they gained the initiative on the battlefield. They turned from defense to offense, and no matter how many casualties they suffered, they could still be replenished. On the other hand, His Royal Highness had turned into a defensive stance because of this battle. The casualties of more than 60,000 soldiers was a huge blow to the Andinac Kingdom, especially the deaths of more than 10 nobles in the battlefield. This made many people want to retreat.
"We should go too," Loriste said.
"Your Highness, are you completely recovered?" Tagger jumped up.
Loriste nodded. "Let's go, we should return to the north. There are still a bunch of rebels waiting for us to go back and deal with."
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