I Will Be The Crowned King

When the panic-stricken Aiden soldiers saw the thorn flower flag flying, it was too late.

Hundreds of Thun breastplate cavalrymen who formed a cone formation and rushed into the Greenery Valley, like sharp knives pierced in the dark night, stabbed into the chaotic Aiden Legion fiercely.

There is no roundabout shooting, no fire cover, and it is the most direct, head-to-head cavalry charge!

Generally speaking, street fighting and street fighting in the city are the most unfavorable types of combat for cavalry to exert their power - the narrow and winding streets will greatly limit the effect of the charge, and the houses on both sides are natural bunkers; and the defenders only need to casually Arrange some bunkers or resist horses in the middle of the street, and expand the infantry line... The menacing cavalry is a huge living target.

And in fact, because it was too sudden and the heavy rain tonight, I received the news that Anson Green Valley was besieging the Aiden Legion, so Little Leon, who came here on his own initiative, couldn't bring too many troops in a short period of time.

Apart from the "Private Guard" composed of a few hundred cuirassiers—basically all members of the Grand Duke's Guards—he only managed to gather more than 2,000 infantry that he could muster at once.

Therefore, in fact, as long as the Aiden Legion did not act stupid and blocked the main road in the direction of the city gate before the cavalry entered the city, or simply gave away one or two infantry companies and let them stop the cavalry with bayonets, there would be less than 3,000 people. The reinforcements can't make any waves at all.

But tonight's battle has nothing to do with "regular"!

The entire southern city has been severely damaged in the previous battle, and large swathes of houses have been razed to the ground; the bunkers and barricades built by the Carindians and the Storm Division on the streets were also blocked by Aiden, who was suspected of being in the way. The Legion is almost destroyed.

As for the Aiden Legion, which has an absolute numerical advantage and high morale, it destroyed its own organization in round after round of disorderly charges and attacks; in the face of the sudden killing of the Thun cavalry, fundamental An orderly resistance cannot be organized.

So after only five minutes of fighting, Leon Francois, who led the Thun cavalry, smashed the Aiden legions that were fighting each other, rushed back and forth in the extremely chaotic infantry front, and ravaged the flies. similar enemy.

On the other hand, after seeing that Leon actually showed up on time—in fact, it was still three hours short of the appointment time—Karl, who finally breathed a sigh of relief, pressed the old heart that was about to rush out of his throat, and moved to every step. The regiment ordered a counterattack against the chaotic Aiden regiment, along with the Thun infantry who appeared after them.

After the balance of victory and defeat was constantly tilted towards Aiden, it was heavily pushed back by the sudden appearance of Leon Francois.

In the face of the storm division with a complete system and still maintaining a high degree of organization, the command is disordered, and the Aiden Legions fighting each other cannot even organize any effective countermeasures; the army in the back line can only watch the front army collapse. Then the line of defense that he had managed to organize was swept away by the defeated soldiers.

At the same time, the Thun cavalry, who were still driving straight in, no longer rushed forward, but slowed down a little, driving the rout soldiers to continue their advance.

The results of the Battle of Eagle Point City proved that, compared with lead bullets and bayonets, rout troops are more terrifying and destructive to an army; ten rout troops can cover fifty soldiers who are still hesitating. , fifty people can hold a hundred, a hundred can hold three hundred...

In the end, even if the remaining troops still want to organize a resistance, they must first have the courage to point the bayonet at their own people; and if the commander does not want to cause a mutiny or be shot by his own people, he usually does not have such courage. Yes, you can only run away with the flow.

Until they are overtaken, besieged, and annihilated.

During the storm, the Aiden soldiers who were scattered in pieces were immediately demoralized, and they rushed into narrow streets and collapsed houses to escape, or desperately fled in the direction of the northern city wall; even those knights and The nobles are still struggling to keep the troops around them from being coerced, and the collapse is only a matter of time.

So the battle changed from slaughter to one-sided pursuit, from pursuit to round-up, from round-up to slaughter - tens of thousands of Aiden's legions, surrounded by hundreds of exhausted cavalry and more than 4,000 storm divisions - The Thun coalition forces lost their helmets and disarmed and fled in all directions.

At 3:55 in the morning, the Legion of Aiden was completely expelled from the southern part of the city; Leon Francois and Carl Bain reorganized their army in the center of the town and launched an offensive on the northern part of the city.

Compared with the South City, the North City, which has hardly experienced much war, is relatively well preserved, but at the same time it means that there are not many defense facilities here; so the infantry of the Storm Division and the Thun Legion launched a line to fight against the city. The main roads of the block were cleared one by one.

At 5:30 in the morning, when the last thousands of Aydin's troops who were still resisting retreated to the northern city wall position, the captured Duke Aydin officially appeared, declared defeat in public, and surrendered to the Storm Division.

The battle of Green Valley, from the moment Thun's thornbloom flag flew in this town, the fate of the Aiden Legion was doomed.

So it was sunny and the rain stopped.

The small, inconspicuous Luyin Valley finally ushered in peace on the morning of June 20 after a **** battle for more than half a month.

Or rather... a temporary peace.

The first thing the Storm Division, who won the battle of Green Valley, did after the battle was to liquidate Aiden.

"Because of the few traitors of the Principality of Aiden who worship the elven kingdom of Iser who have hatred for Clovis, they brazenly tore up the friendly pact signed by the Deputy Commander of the Southern Legion and the Duke of Aiden..."

"...At the same time, they induced the duke to make a misjudgment of the situation, and the shameless and friendly, peace-loving storm division launched a sneak attack without honor, causing the breakdown of trust between the two sides and serious loss of life and property..."

"...Fortunately, the wise and wise deputy commander discovered their despicable conspiracy and met with Duke Aiden in person at the first time; after hours of pleasant conversations, the two sides who had fully exchanged views finally resolved the misunderstanding... "

"... Duke Aiden deeply regrets all of this, and cherishes his request to Anson Bach that he must make up for all the losses the Storm division has received, in order to restore the friendship between Aiden and Clovis. "

"Such a noble and chivalrous act made me, François, who grew up listening to bad things about the Aidens, greatly changed my impression of the Emmanuel family!"

"It turns out that as long as the misunderstanding between them can be resolved and there is a platform for sufficient communication, the great cause of Hantu's unification is not an unrealistic fantasy, but is happening now and will be in the near future!"

"What really hinders the great cause of unification is not the division between the people of the vast land, but the interference and infiltration of the Yisel elves into the vast land in the past hundred years; only hand in hand with the Kingdom of Clovis to completely smash the Yisel elves. Shameless conspiracy, Hantu can win a bright future."

"I, Leon François, an ordinary Han native and a close comrade-in-arms of Anson Bach... firmly believe this!"

These "precious first-hand information" were sent to Sophia by Anson together with his own diary, which reassured the eldest Franz eldest daughter, who was a little flustered.

Although he did join the Rune family, he was still loyal to her.

As for Aiden's reckoning - since the two sides have now decided the outcome, the previous agreement is of course impossible to count; of course, it won't be like the Lacar family before, but the bleeding is certain.

The first thing to do is, of course, to fulfill the previous promise, that is, the Aiden Legion immediately cease fire on Clovis and Carindia, and withdraw from Carindia within a week. There is no room for change.

However, the Principality of Aiden must hand over at least 30 hostages to the Storm Division, and at least one of the direct blood relatives of the Duke of Aiden himself, as a goodwill to "make up for the mutual trust between the two parties"; of course, all the expenses of these 30 hostages are It must be borne by the Principality of Aydin.

At the same time, the Principality of Aiden must make up for the losses suffered by the storm division in this "disaster" and pay 50,000 gold coins in compensation - as before, it does not necessarily have to be cash, oil paintings, sculptures and other artworks, or luxury such as jewelry. goods, or the Church of Order is willing to transfer payment for the Principality of Aiden... Anson will not refuse anyone who comes.

The last is the "oral agreement" between the two parties, which must now be fully implemented - Victor Emmanuel promised that if the Storm Division had any need, the Principality of Aiden would provide no less than 8,000 Allied troops (servant troops). ) and coordinated operations.

These 8,000 people will be handed over to Ansen Bach himself in the form of mercenaries, and Ansen has absolute command, except that they cannot attack Aiden, theoretically can lead this army to do anything.

Of course, this is really only theoretical.

In all fairness, this condition is many times better than the treatment of Carindia, or even the Grand Duchy of Thun; this is of course because Anson does not want and is unable to completely destroy the Duchy of Aiden.

On the other hand, it is because Aiden is indeed not rich, not to mention Carindia, even compared with Thun. Although the empire is huge, it does not have much trade with Han soil, and most of the It was all taken away by Carindia. Aiden, a landlocked country, did not have much oil and water to squeeze.

In the end, even though this time the secret alliance between Aiden and the Iser elf was exposed, in a sense this might not be a bad thing.

After all, as the western gate of the vast land, the "gatekeepers" the Emmanuel family and the Yisel elves that bordered the empire were still allied with the Thirteenth Council representing the old gods, which was ten thousand times stronger than the alliance with the empire.

………………

"So you really just let that Duke Aiden go?"

Carl Bain held a cup of hot coffee, looked at the deputy commander with a sullen look, and complained a little: "He almost killed you... Well, he almost killed me too."

"No way. After weighing the pros and cons, this is already the best solution."

Anson looked helpless: "The guy who instructed the elf caster to assassinate me ran away before we rushed into the camp, even if we ask more about this guy, it won't give us much information; this kind of useless will offend allies. things, he won't do it."

"There is no point in asking for more and more. There are less than 5,000 storm divisions, and it is very difficult to even occupy a Carindia, let alone control the western gate of the vast land of Aiden - unless the Empire is to be destroyed. Put it in, or killing Aiden would be a thankless thing for us."

"What's more..." Anson suddenly paused: "Don't you think that if we continue to stay in Luyin Valley, something will happen later?"

"Behind?" Carl raised his eyebrows and immediately understood what he meant:

"You mean Port of Carindia?"

Anson nodded slightly: "Fabian has been there for a few days, and if he continues to dawdle with the Aiden, I'm worried that the Carindian nobles may have other ideas."

Since they can surrender to the Storm Division because Clovis is strong enough, then on the other hand, once they find out that the Storm Division is not invincible, even if they are at a stalemate with the Principality of Aiden, changing a "new master" will not work. Not completely impossible.

For example...

"That's why you have to rush back immediately?" Carl sipped his coffee:

"Take advantage of the victory in Luyingu, to shock those guys who are particularly good at making their knees touch the ground?"

"That's what it means... Oh, and let them know that although the Principality of Aiden has been defeated, its power still exists; if Carindia wants to remain independent, it must continue to rely on us." Anson said without hesitation:

"In a way, that's one of the reasons why Aiden must continue to exist."

For such a small country that is rich and has little power~www.readwn.com~ The best way to keep them loyal is of course to find a sufficient threat nearby; the threat should preferably have some strength, but not too strong. As for not being able to handle it...so that they have to rely on the protection of outsiders.

Of course, this kind of loyalty is absolutely unreliable, and things will definitely happen over time; but Anson doesn't need them to be "loyal" for a long time - as long as he obediently doesn't make trouble while cutting the leeks, it will be perfect.

"The most important thing is that you don't think we beat the Ayden people to death in Luyin Valley, and almost lost our lives; but these Carindian nobles can swagger and hide in the rear, and everything is possible. Wasn't it... particularly uncomfortable?"

Anson suddenly stared at Carl, and said meaningfully: "I don't know what you think, I'm uncomfortable anyway, and I'm very uncomfortable - this is clearly the territory of the Carindian people, why should we work for them? "

"Uh... you mean?" Carl didn't quite understand what Anson meant.

"I mean I'm suddenly a little regretful - I promised that as long as Carindia pays one-fifth of a year's taxes, it's only 800,000 gp; not enough, far from enough!"

"One hundred and eighty thousand!"