The time has entered August.
The news that the Lombards openly invaded the Burgundian Kingdom from the north again has been known to everyone.
The Palace of the Burgundy Kingdom made an urgent report to the Sovereign Kingdom of France as early as the first week of the war, and filed a complaint with the Church of Paris and the Holy See through Archbishop Olof, demanding that the Sovereign France and the Holy See give the harshest punishment to the Lombards for their criminal acts, and threatened to use all their strength to fight the Lombards to the end.
Conflicts among the southeastern states have lasted for hundreds of years. The entire European continent has long been accustomed to this, so the reaction was not big - the Holy See issued a symbolic condemnation order to the Principality of Lombardy, claiming that for the sake of the Holy Lord, the Lombards must as soon as possible The war was quelled and the troops were withdrawn southward; the French Kingdom took a tough stance. The Royal Court of Paris publicly reprimanded the Principality of Lombardy and sent a special envoy to the Lombardy Palace to deliver a warning from the King of France, ordering Lombardy to immediately withdraw its troops and compensate the tributary Burgundy for its losses. The Principality of Lombardy also repeatedly declared to the entire European continent that the conflict in northern Lombardy was by no means an act of the state. It was purely a personal grudge between Wadbury and Atwood Wells, and the Lombard court had no intention of getting involved.
However, the conflict that occurred in the southeastern mountainous area was too small, and they did not want to pay attention to it from the bottom of their hearts, especially when the Holy See was suffering and France was overwhelmed by the intrusion of the Normans in the north.
Compared to France and the Holy See, the states surrounding the Burgundy Kingdom are much more enthusiastic.
Provence was the first friendly country to stand up and publicly express its support for the Burgundy Kingdom and make a practical response. When Wadebury's army in Lombardy had just gathered to move north, Count Balian, who was stationed on the southeastern border of Provence, ordered his two thousand Provence border troops to prepare for war. At the same time, he also assembled eight hundred elite private soldiers in accordance with the agreement with Art, waiting for news of Art's assistance at any time. After that, Balian always paid attention to the battle that took place in the northern mountains of Lombardy.
Until half a month ago, Art personally visited the Provence court, went to the border to meet Balian, and borrowed eight hundred elite soldiers from Balian.
Unlike Provence’s covert assistance, the mountain friends of Wales took action immediately after receiving news of Lombardy’s attack on their ally Wells more than a month ago.
After a tragic natural disaster last year, the Mountain Confederation suffered a near-annihilation blow. However, the Earl of Wales and the Marquis of Burgundy provided generous help at the critical moment, allowing them to survive the most difficult days. The hard-hit Mountain Confederacy changed its development model. They found that the extremely hungry mountain people had terrifying fighting power. With the food they received as a guarantee, they attracted a large number of young and strong mountain people to join the Confederate army and formed several mountain mercenary regiments controlled by the Confederacy, with a number of nearly 10,000 people.
The original fighting targets of these mountain mercenaries were only the feuding Principality of Swabia, but due to the Earl of Wales, they also listed the Lombards in the south as targets of attack.
For a time, the hungry and brave mountaineers descended from the mountains like wild beasts and attacked the northeastern border area of Lombardy.
The reaction of the Swabians is intriguing. Two years ago, they attempted to form an alliance with the Principality of Lombardy to attack the Principality of Burgundy, but they ultimately broke up. Now that the allies are moving again, the Swabians have refused to join them. They hope that Burgundy and Lombardy will both fail, and then profit from them.
However, the Swabians could not stay out of the matter. In the second week after Art's mission to the Mountain Confederation, a mountain mercenary army of three thousand people arrived at the Swabian border...
The Wells Corps station, Beiguan Army Fort.
After more than a year of expansion and training, the First Main Regiment of the Welsh Legion has grown to 800 men (including 300 elite soldiers from the Mountain Confederacy).
Odo, the deputy commander of the Wells Legion, was also the commander of the first division. However, after the war in the south broke out, Odo was ordered to go south to command the battle, so Att handed over the first division to Angus, the deputy commander of the legion and the commander of the southern garrison.
Angus' ability to manage the army is slightly inferior to Odo, but he is good at battle battles and army training.
After the Battle of the Successor, the Wells Legion has not experienced a major battle for a long time. Don’t think that they have been idle in the past two years. In fact, whether it is Odo Angus or Kazak, they all fought step by step from the lowest level of the soldiers. They understand that the swords in their hands must remain sharp at all times.
So in the past two years, all the officers and soldiers of the Welsh Army have spent their time in pain. The soldiers naturally undergo cruel training day after day, and the officers not only need to participate in military training, but also participate in boring military academy studies.
Hence aside, if we were to select the most knowledgeable army in Europe, I am afraid no one would dare to compete with the Welsh Army...
At present, the Welsh Army has completed its pre-war reorganization.
After the expansion, the First Division of the Welsh Army was expanded to five companies of 800 men. In addition, there were 120 heavy armored infantry companies, 200 crossbows, and 100 cavalry directly under the legion. In addition, the original chariot team and the newly formed grenadier company Combined, the number of soldiers is one hundred. In addition, there are fifty soldiers from the Baggage and Heavy Department (the rest are conscripted laborers and military miscellaneous servants), and the supervisory team, Chinese army officials and earl guards affiliated with the Chinese army command camp and Ate's personal, totaling one hundred and fifty.
These 1,500 men are the main combat force of the entire Welsh Army.
Yat still has three legions (at the regimental level) in his hands.
As the second combat force, the Southern Border Guard Corps is stationed in Sap Castle, Tyniec City and Andermatt Castle respectively. Sap Company and Andermatt Company are actually the lord's private soldiers and hardly require Art's support, but they absolutely obey Art's orders.
The third combat force is the Welsh Garrison Corps under Bass. This corps has 300 standing peasants and soldiers (including patrols, security teams, garrisons in directly affiliated territories, border outposts, and standing peasant soldiers distributed in all villages and forts throughout the province of Wales, etc.). It also has a reserve regiment in the southern lakes. During the war, the Welsh Garrison Corps was the largest corps.
In addition, the Western Garrison Corps, which is stationed in the city of Beaune in the western border of Burgundy all year round, can also be regarded as an army under Art's command. However, because it is supported by the palace and guards the western border, Art will not mobilize it easily.
It is precisely because of this that the Western Territory Guard Corps has the weakest combat power.
“…According to your military order, the 800 infantrymen of the First Division and the teams directly under the corps will depart from Beiguan at noon tomorrow and go to Wellsburg (Workshop District) to station. The Sap Company and Tyniec Company of the Southern Xinjiang Garrison Corps arrived in Beiguan yesterday and are stationed at the training ground outside the pass. Andermatt Company has sent people to report , has arrived at Jushi Town. "
"The Southern Xinjiang Garrison Corps will be stationed in Beiguan for half a month to gather and train."
"After the Southern Xinjiang Garrison Corps completes its training and goes south, the Wells Garrison Corps will send troops to Beiguan and Tyniec County and take over the internal defense of Wells Province."
"In addition, the Count of Belliang of the Principality of Provence will send eight hundred elites from the border post to Wells Province within this month to fight with us. However, they will be stationed directly in Wellsburg and will not be permanently stationed in Beiguan."
"Everyone, this is the general status of the various departments of the Welsh Army."
H In the military meeting hall (military academy lecture hall) of Beiguan Army Fort, Angus, deputy commander of the Welsh Army and commander of the Southern Xinjiang Garrison Corps, introduced the military situation in the entire Wales Province to all officers above the company captain.
"By the way, let me add one more thing. This morning we received news from the palace of Besançon that the Marquis will draw two hundred elites from the Palace Guards to help us..."
Happy Lantern Festival, brothers!