At the end of December, just one day before the Christian Mass, the Count of Côte d'Or in the southwest of Burgundy announced its support for the Besançon court headed by Count Bernard and his son Robert, declaring the Liberation Army as rebels and Flanders as a traitor who committed regicide and seized the throne.
On the same day, before the news of Codor's surrender to Besançon had yet spread, the province of the Earl of Lucesne in the south of Besançon announced its support for the Jonah court and regarded Flanders as the legal successor to the Iron Throne of the County of Burgundy.
After watching the fire from the other side for half a year, all four provinces of Burgundy finally fell into civil strife.
It is no accident that Kodor and Lucesian belong to each other one after another. Codor Province is located in the south of Thorne Province. It has not been as powerful as Thorne Province since ancient times, and the Earl of Codor has always been under the pressure of Earl Thorne.
More than a month ago, the city of Besançon was under heavy attack. Bernard and his son Robert moved from Besançon to the city of Saône. As the war progressed, Count Bernard had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, so he took his son and condescended to run to the city of Códour to meet with the Count of Córdore. After that, Bernard visited the province of the Count of Códour many times.
On the afternoon when Codor announced his support for the court of Besançon, Crown Prince Robert transferred a prosperous city on the southern border of Saône Province and dozens of miles of surrounding fertile land to Count Codor in the name of the successor to the Iron Seat of the Count of Burgundy.
There is no need to explain the many transactions here.
Lucesein province is bound to belong to Flanders. Lucesein is located south of Besançon and adjacent to the province of Jonah. Now Flanders is about to capture Besancon. If Lucesein dares to fall to the west, Flanders's army will definitely move south to wipe out Lucesein's less than a thousand troops. What's more, the powerful Bishop Olof of Lucesein diocese has been mediating for the Count of Flanders and the court of Jonah.
The Count of Flanders and a group of nobles went to the city of Lucese in person to meet with the Earl of Lucese and promised to incorporate one county and three cities in the province of Saône into the earldom of Lucese after he succeeded to the throne. Lucese announced his support after receiving the promise from Flanders to cede the land and transfer it to the Earl of Lucese. Flanders...
The announcement of the reverse direction by Lucesien and Kodor caused a series of reactions. Many territories that were originally neutral and waiting have announced their support for their respective forces. Of course, most of these territories supported the nearest party.
Nearly the entire County of Burgundy has become a force of the two camps, east and west, except for one place - Tyniec County.
Viscount Pierre still has not chosen a side, he is tired.
The death of Ivrea, the Marquis of Burgundy, hit him hard. Pierre, who was absolutely loyal to Ivrea, also believed that Ivrea died at the hands of Flanders. Although he did not like Bernard and Bernard's niece (the Marchioness of Ivrea) at all, he could not accept the conspiracy of Flanders and Baldwin.
He was tired of the endless intrigues and struggles in this county. He had originally hoped that the Marquis of Ivrea would reward him with a decent fiefdom in consideration of his many years of service, but now it seemed that there was no hope.
Having no desires and demands means nothing. When all the forces in the entire county were looking for support, Pierre did not move at all.
However, Viscount Pierre's control over Tynets County was weak. A few years ago, Pierre had thought of using Tynets County City and several surrounding direct manor villages as a base to slowly control the entire county with the growing county troops. However, a guy named Art Wood Wells suddenly emerged and turned Tynets County into mud. However, that guy was also an ambitious and ruthless character, and he became a considerable force in just a few years.
Because of Art's existence, Tynets County has always been divided, so while Pierre was motionless in the county town, the castles, fortresses and manor villages in Tynets County have chosen their own camps.
Although Tyniec is poor and small, it is the direct fiefdom of Ivrea. Ivrea divided this direct fiefdom into dozens of pieces and successively gave them to the nobles of the county. Some of those nobles have become figures of the Bernard faction, and some have become the backbone of the Baldwin faction. Now that the entire county has chosen a formation, of course these fiefdoms that have begun to secretly support their respective forces have also been publicly announced.
The choice of formation for each territory in Tyniec County is very simple. However, they do not rely on the complicated vassal ownership relationship to join the formation. Their criteria for choosing the east or west are very special - they choose the east if they have good relations with the palace frontier baron and southern patrol officer Art Wood Wells. This force is headed by Baron Antayas of Andermatt Castle.
Of course, the forces that are at odds with Ater choose the Western Region. These people are mainly Baron Bazell who has turned into a withered skeleton and relatives and friends of the Dean family. Although after several years of hard work, the lords in Tyniec County who were at odds with Art were few and weak, but those people still had an unyielding desire for revenge and tried to get things back together. Anyway, even if they did not oppose the Eastern Territory themselves, they would not be able to end well, at least that damn Baron Art would not let them end well.
These people had already secretly smuggled their family members and property to the Western Territory for resettlement during the neutrality period, leaving a few "warriors" to fight to the end surrounded by enemies...
Tyniec County began to become restless, and forces of various sizes began to gather momentum, the most powerful of which was Baron Antayas of Andermatt Castle.
Antyas Berg, a guy who was sent to a cold and remote frontier.
Andermatt Castle is so far away and so poor that many people don’t even know its name, and it’s so poor that its residents don’t even have enough food and clothing to worry about.
However, this was the predicament of Andermatt Castle a few years ago, and today's Andermatt Castle has undergone earth-shaking changes. The territory of Andermatt is sparsely populated and thin, and it is difficult to feed people on those rugged lands. However, the situation has changed since Baron Antayas took advantage of Art's southern trade route.
Today, Andermatt has more than 800 citizens. Baron Antayas has 65 standing soldiers directly under his command, and the soldiers of several fief knights (peasants) under his command also exceed a hundred. Such a force can already occupy the entire territory of Tyniec County. However, the soldiers under Baron Antayas were not used for combat. Only a small number of them were used to defend the territory. The main task of the remaining soldiers was to act as guards to escort Baron Antayas's caravan to transport goods from South Korea. This was also the main source of salary for the soldiers.
Relying on the huge profits from the southern goods trade, Baron Antayas can still have a balance of more than 100,000 pfennigs every year, in addition to supporting the army, maintaining the caravans, and sharing the profits with the knight lords under his command. In addition to repairing and strengthening Fort Andermatt with the money he had saved over the past few years, he also recruited a large number of refugees and followed Art's advice to continue investing in caravans to expand the scale of transportation.
Baron Antayas, who had just tasted the power of being powerful, paid more and more attention to his relationship with Art. He had become Art's second largest reinforcement in Tyniec County. Art, who was fighting in the east of Yona this time, mobilized troops from the south to support the troops going north. Baron Antayas took the initiative to transport food and supplies for the reinforcements going north and sent his knight druid to lead 20 elite soldiers to go north together to fight for reinforcements.
After Lucesien announced to join the Western Army a few days ago, the increasingly informed Baron Antayas also announced to join the Eastern Territory. Although he has not yet received an order from the Yona Palace (this will have to wait a long time), he has already begun to assemble an army to plan a war against the Western Army in Tyniec County.
Of course, Baron Antayas knows who is the real ruler of Tyniec, so he has sent a horse to the valley barony to consult the administrator of Atre in the valley. Once he is allowed, he will personally lead the army to capture the "enemy" territory from Stone Town to Andermatt Castle...
On the last day of December, the province of Codor, which had just surrendered to the western border, began to take action. They formed an army of 800 people and began to march towards the Longchal region, the territory of the Earl of Flanders. At the same time, Chateau Sarpe, which had already announced that it would join the eastern border, became the focus of the Codor army's attack. An army formed by small lords from the neighboring counties of Codor and some merchants suddenly launched an attack on the border of Baron Sarpe...