The Battle of the Successors of the County of Burgundy The northern battlefield came to a temporary stagnation due to the defeat of the city of Besancon. In fact, the Battle of Besancon was the end of the struggle between the old and new forces.
While the war in the north is temporarily extinguished, the local battlefields in the south are still continuing.
The army of Codor Province was defeated in the battle to support the Northland. Most of their troops followed Bernard's Thorne army and retreated to the border of Thorne Province, while the border troops in the south of Codor still maintained their positions. With high fighting spirit, Codor raided the southern part of the Earl of Longxia in early January, but they were blocked by the high mountains in the Longxia area. The army only burned, killed and looted at the foot of the mountains before returning in frustration before the Longxia mountain people army arrived.
The war is still raging in the barony of Sapp in the southeastern part of Codor.
A stone fort, a stone wall less than a hundred feet long, became a natural barrier for Kodor to march into Sap.
After attacking for nearly a month, Kodor's army has lost more than 130 people under the high wall of this canyon.
Kodor's army has not been in battle for a long time, and their stable and comfortable life has blunted the edges of their swords. These people do not know how cruel and tragic the battlefield is.
· Outside the stone wall of the stone castle, there were many corpses piled up within a hundred steps. The intact corpses had been dragged back and buried by the Kodor army. The remaining corpses could not be dragged away because they were either crushed into bloody mud by the huge rocks or turned into rotten flesh by the sharp stakes in the pit traps.
Felix is worthy of being an officer who fought under Art. He has learned all of Art’s tricks to deal with the enemy.
The Kodor people launched seven offensives after the war. In the first five attacks, Felix relied on the high walls of the canyon and deep pit traps to defeat the Kodor people. The canyon outside the stone castle was too narrow, and the Kodor people's siege equipment could not be used at all. They could only rely on a limited number of trebuchets. He and a siege tower tried to climb the city, but Sapp's army had already prepared many traps and pits in front of the high wall at the valley entrance. The siege tower could not move forward smoothly at all, and arrows kept shooting out of the stone wall. Behind the city wall, there were trebuchets that kept throwing rocks and kerosene.
During the sixth attack, the Kodor army attacked the army of the Longxia Territory and returned to support. Five hundred troops were added outside the Tiaoshi Fort. They drove a hundred serfs to push stones and soil, and filled the ravine leading to the Tiaoshi Fort with the lives of the serfs. Just as the three hundred Kodor soldiers rushed into the Tiaoshi Fort a hundred steps away with wooden ladders and huge shields, a wisp of wolf smoke rose. Before the Kodor people could react, huge rocks suddenly rolled down from the cliffs on both sides of the canyon.
The small stones are only the size of a head, while the large ones are half a person's height.
The boulders on the cliffs of the canyon were Felix's biggest weapon in defending the stone fort, and they were used at the most critical moment.
Sure enough, a burst of boulders rolled down and killed dozens of Kodor soldiers on the spot. Countless others were injured and maimed. More importantly, the canyon road outside the stone fort was blocked by boulders. Two hundred Kodor soldiers prepared for the rear formation and The three hundred attacking soldiers were blocked by rocks. Felix took the opportunity to personally lead the Sap defenders to open the city gate and massacre the Kodor people who were knocked unconscious. In that battle alone, the Sap army killed more than fifty Kodor soldiers.
Three days later, the Kodor army started their seventh offensive, but the fifth time was just a show. They used more than 300 soldiers to attract the front, and then sent more than a hundred elite soldiers into several teams to try to run from the mountain trails to the back of the stone castle. Unexpectedly, Felix had already ambushed the soldiers on those trails and set up traps, and the Kodor people left many corpses and returned in vain.
The battle between Kodor and Sap lasted for more than a month, and it did not stop until the heavy snowfall a few days ago. The Kodor people returned their army to a small town outside the canyon to set up camp.
The battle process of Tiaoshibao was exciting. If it were not for the fact that the main battlefields in the North and the East were often fought by thousands of people, the battle scenes would be even more thrilling. The battle of Tiaoshibao is really worth mentioning.
Although the Stone Castle was not the main battlefield, the news that Felix led the army to resist the Codor army still reached the headquarters of the Central Command of the Liberation Army. As the supreme commander of the Liberation Army, Flanders was very happy after learning about the military situation. He immediately ordered Felix to be promoted to the Burgundy Border Guard Knight and gave him the false title of Southern Border Military Adjutant as an encouragement. In order to relieve the crisis in Sapp, Flanders also dispatched two hundred mountain troops from the Earl of Longxia in the name of the Earl of Longxia to gather down the mountain to support Tiaoshi Castle...
Although the military achievements all belong to Felix, the commander of the Sarp army, the Battle of the Rock Castle was not all done by Felix and his Sarp army. In fact, at the beginning of the sixth defense battle of the Rock Castle, there were three actual commanders of the garrison, namely Felix, Bas and Simon.
Since receiving the emergency letter that the Baron of Sapp was attacked, the Baron of the Valley immediately dispatched thirty young peasant soldiers from Boulder Town and Beiguan Army Fort to rush to the rescue of Sap Castle. After the fifth attack, Cordore increased the troops, and Bass conquered the valley. The remaining civil affairs officers unanimously agreed and urgently recruited 50 peasant soldiers and 20 border guards to personally lead them to Fort Sap to support them. Along with Bass, they also supported Fort Sap with a large number of weapons and armor quickly produced by the Valley Weapons Workshop and ten instructors belonging to the garrison.
With the experienced and calm commanding Bass leading a group of instructors to sit in the stone fortress, Felix won a huge victory in the sixth defensive battle. Of course, Bass and Simon would not dominate the scene, so Flanders got the military intelligence report that Felix was the absolute number one. At the beginning of February, the first batch of troops who returned from the northern expedition finally returned to Tyniec County after a long journey, and stopped to rest at the Lane Manor, the fief of Art.
One hundred Welsh Legion soldiers, more than thirty wounded soldiers, and a caravan carrying a large amount of loot and supplies slowly drove into Lane Manor.
Ledoan, the "good bandit leader" who was originally stationed at Lane Manor, is still assisting in the defense in Bramont City. At this time, twenty peasant soldiers led by Valley Warden Scott are stationed at Lane Manor.
Long-distance marching is more strenuous than fighting on the battlefield, so when the army returning south arrived at Lane Manor, everyone relaxed their heartstrings. As soon as many soldiers announced that they were repairing on the spot, they immediately fell down in the manor's cowshed and stables and snored loudly.
Leading the team back south were commercial officer Salter and army commander flag captain Bangada.
The soldiers and caravan attachés fell to the ground, but as commanders, Salt and Bangada did not dare to rest.
After arriving at Lane Manor, they still had to store all the supplies in the warehouse and send people to guard them, and they also had to properly arrange the wounded soldiers who were still fragile.
Fortunately, the garrison officer Scott was a very capable official. He took the initiative to take over the heavy burdens on the shoulders of Salt and Bangada. He personally led his peasants and soldiers to prepare food and soup for the team while packing up the barracks for the wounded soldiers and arranging medical treatment. He also took the initiative to lead the peasants and soldiers to unload the carts of supplies and carry them into the warehouse.
By the time I finished all my work, it was already dark.
Scott led Salt and Bangda into the Lane Manor Mansion, and asked the kitchen to deliver a sumptuous dinner to the two of them alone. The three of them gathered in front of the fireplace of the mansion, devouring the food and asking each other about their respective situations.
“...These are just the supplies we gained from the Swabian war. We also recaptured more than 1.7 million Fenni gold and silver from the Swabian bandits. It was with this more than 1 million Fenni that your Excellency gathered two thousand troops in the east to recover Geneborg. When we left, Your Excellency had already begun to recover two other important towns. According to Your Excellency’s outstanding military achievements in this battle, I’m afraid it won’t be long before we leave.” You can be promoted to Viscount."
"Perhaps it is possible to have the title of an empty earl in the border areas!"
Sart had a piece of rotten meat filled with oil and water in his mouth, and kept making gestures in the air with the wooden spoon in his hand. His excitement was palpable. Although he was not a member of the army, it was an honor to experience a national war in person.
Compared to the extremely excited Salt, Bangda was in a much lower mood in the army. He just sat silently in front of the fireplace and ate delicious pea meat mashed wheat paste. From time to time, he picked up the roasted bacon and took a few bites.
"Brother Bangda, you don't have to be sad. I will definitely send the body of Brother Pats back to the valley for a proper burial and erect a stone tablet on his grave." Scott saw the body of Captain Pats of the Wells Legion in the carriage transporting the wounded soldiers. Bangeda's best brother died in the eastern battlefield, which made Banganda very depressed.
Bangda still didn’t want to speak and just buried his head in the food.
Sart saw that Bangada was not in a high mood, so he changed the subject, "Brother Scott, what's going on with the Southern Caravan of the Continental Trading Company now? I've been delayed in the North for too long, and I haven't heard about the situation of the Southern Caravan for a long time."
Scott straightened his expression and calmed down, "At the end of December last year, the European trading houses were hit in Provence. The Provence merchants who had recovered from their injuries began to work together to squeeze out the troops we had just established on the eastern front of Provence. A Continental trading house that has established a foothold. "
"A fire broke out in a southern goods warehouse in Kitzby and killed a warehouse keeper. Fortunately, the southern goods we stored in the warehouse were transported to the border post the day before. The station was delivered to Baron Antayas."
"The southern goods transit shop in a castle between Kitzby and Aosta was also harassed by local gangsters. They claimed that our business had taken away the livelihood of the locals. The city of Aosta further south is slightly better, but the tax official of Aosta has proposed to increase our taxes."
“The trade routes leading to the Kingdom of France from the east were also becoming increasingly unblocked. In early January, while the snow was still heavy, Madeney wanted to send a batch of southern goods that had been stored for a long time to the French border for sale, but the goods were seized by the border defenders. Later, Madeney went to your friend on the border and spent a lot of money to redeem them. ..."
Scott is a high-level official in the civil affairs system. Although he is not in charge of commerce, he is also aware of the plight of the Continental Commercial Bank. Scott said a lot, which can be summed up in one sentence - the war in the North, Art's expedition, and Salt's absence, the Continental Commercial Bank's support is weak.
Sart slammed the wooden bowl in his hand and spilled the soup and wheat paste all over the floor, "I knew those bastards would take advantage of our civil strife to attack us!"
"Yes, the Continental Trading Company has not made much profit for two consecutive months. It can barely maintain the operation of the trading company by relying on the only southern goods trade channels."
"Last month, the old butler asked the Lawrence brothers to go south again to temporarily take over the Continental Trading Company. Along with Lawrence, there were several apprentices from the parish school and the shop steward Kenem who was urgently recalled from the city of Lucesien. The old butler asked Lawrence and the others to find them. Viscount Balian, I hope he can help me."
Saart nodded, "The old butler did the right thing. The Continental Trading Company has Viscount Balian's share, and he will never see the bacon in his bowl being snatched away by others. Your Excellency asked me to return to the south in advance to stabilize the Continental Trading Company. He said that the North will be calm for a while, and he will arrange the layout for the Continental Trading Company as soon as possible while the war is not over..."
While the three of them were chatting, a soldier pushed open the door and came in, "My lords, the civil affairs officer of the valley sent someone to send an order to the army returning south to send fifty soldiers to Fort Sap as soon as possible to support..."
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