Tome of Blood

  Chapter 280-130-The army dispatched

   January 1, 1446 in the sacred calendar, the birthday of God.

  The ancient and prosperous Myria continent ushered in another New Year.

  Under the light of the Holy Light, people from different countries and races gathered together to celebrate the beginning of the new year and the birthday of Lord Harald.

  However, for the residents of the Northland, this year's Christmas of God is destined to be less peaceful.

At the beginning of the new year, when people in most parts of the continent were celebrating festivals, Countess of Castel and Lord of the North, Charlotte de Castel personally led an army of 25,000 people to the north, An ultimatum was delivered to the rebellious Legolis family.

  An army of more than 20,000 is not a small number in any principality of the New Moon Kingdom.

  Although the Castelland is an earldom, in the eyes of many nobles, the wealth and prosperity have actually exceeded the minimum standard of the principality in the conventional sense.

  If there were many Siunite empires in the vassal states, I am afraid that the territory that can be mobilized in this way would have surpassed many small principalities. Only in the powerful New Moon Kingdom of the grand duke is it not so eye-catching.

   Even so, as a powerful force second only to the twelve principalities in the New Moon Kingdom, Castel's every move has attracted the attention of various forces, and has become a topic of discussion in salons and banquets among nobles.

  Especially the protagonist of this rebellion, Charlotte, the Earl of the North who has been in office for less than a year.

   "The Youngest Countess", "Pearl of Boulder", "Rich Charlotte", "The Saint Who Walked the Earth"...

   Various appellations and titles made her the object of attention and discussion of many nobles.

Whether it is being the last heir of the Castel family, or Charlotte's promise to the holy royal court at the Boulder banquet, any one thing picked out is enough to make her a queen at the nobles' banquet. off topic.

  For a moment, all the lords of the New Moon Kingdom focused their attention on Castel, wanting to know how this young and beautiful countess would quell the rebellion in the territory.

   In the eyes of many nobles, although the 20,000 army is strong, Castel's rebellion is not simple...

Especially in combination with some bad rumors about the third prince Philip in the royal capital not long ago, and the ingenious timing of the military ban issued by His Majesty the King, some people who believe in conspiracy theories think that this countess, who is inclined to the church, It is likely that they have already been blacklisted by the Crescent Royal Family.

  Of course, conspiracy theories belong to conspiracy theories, but the Crescent Royal Family did not respond.

  New Moon King Louis V still held a grand banquet in the court as in previous years, inviting vassals to the banquet to celebrate the festival together.

   Instead, he was supposed to come back from the territory to meet his father, but the third prince Philip and his wife Eleanor, the Duchess of Polder, who attended the court banquet were absent.

   Also absent is the current Duke of Violet, Hubert de Boit-Lint.

  Although there are always a few big nobles who do not attend the New Moon Kingdom’s annual palace banquet due to various reasons, but Bold and Violet did not participate, which still makes some nobles of the kingdom think about it.

   After all, one of these two families is the lord of the Earl of Castel, the other is a close neighbor of Castel, and the third prince is the nephew of the Duke of Violet.

  Combining the rebellion that happened to be everywhere in Castel and the ambiguous attitude of the Crescent Royal Family, it is hard for some perceptive people not to think of something.

   However, this has nothing to do with Charlotte.

Banquets and information of this level are only mastered by the real elites of the kingdom. No matter how rich Castel is, as long as the leader of Castel is a vassal of Boulder for a day, then Castel It is impossible to step into the real high-level of the kingdom.

   And this information naturally has nothing to do with Castel.

  Of course, Charlotte, who already knew about the conspiracy of the third prince through other channels, doesn't need it either.

  While Louis V was entertaining his ministers, she had already led a large army to approach the main rebel army of the Legris family through the Earl of Tulip.

  With the support of Earl Gaston, the Castel coalition forces of the Earl of Tulip did not need to cross the Dorne River at all. The army only needed to go around from the west to launch an attack directly on the rebels from the west.

  The accompanying nobles were amazed at the support of the Tulip garrison. After all... It must take great risks and pressure to allow 25,000 soldiers to enter the Tulip Earldom.

   At this time, those nobles who had doubts finally believed that Earl Gaston, the commander-in-chief of Tulip, really planned to assist Castel in suppressing the rebellion.

   And when Earl Gaston led the main force of the garrison to leave the fortress and join the coalition forces, the nobles of Castel became even more confident.

Unlike the Castel Allied Forces, which consisted of aristocratic conscripts and the main force, many of them didn't even have armor, and could only be regarded as farmers and soldiers at best. The garrisons of the Earl of Tulip were all armored, and many of them were comparable to the regular army of the Kingdom. Plate.

  Although the number of soldiers is small, at most three thousand in total, more than half of the soldiers' armors are engraved with complicated patterns.

   That's enchanted armor.

  Tulip's garrison has at least 1,500 extraordinary soldiers armed with enchanted armor, which is enough to deploy a minimum magic array on the battlefield.

  In other words, the fifteen hundred people alone can be regarded as fifteen thousand on the battlefield.

  The remaining half of the soldiers, although not wearing enchanted armor, are all wearing armor, and... almost all are cavalry.

   Elite, this is Boulder's elite!

  Any Castel nobleman who has seen the Tulip garrison will have such an idea. In comparison, Castel's coalition army still looks a little shabby.

That is to say, the private soldiers of the nobles and the 1,500 standing soldiers under the direct control of Castel can support the field, and the equipment should be better. Although there are not enough enchanted armors, let alone the level of forming an array, at least... the total number of people It is more than the army of the Tulip County.

   Cavalry will be much less.

Although the New Moon Kingdom has always been famous for its heavy cavalry in Myria, and the New Moon Royal Family even has an elite enchanted heavy cavalry regiment with a population of over 30,000, but the Earl of Castel near the sea does not have many horse farms, and most of them are in the north.

  Counting the noble knights and cavalry directly under the jurisdiction, Charlotte's own cavalry unit does not exceed 3,000, and most of the 25,000 troops are infantry.

  However, it is more than enough to counter the rebellion.

   It's just a war at the earldom level. At best, it looks like a civil war in a small duchy because of the size of Castel.

But the earldom is an earldom after all, and it doesn't have many extraordinary resources. Maybe it has great potential for future wars, but Castel, which has always focused on the economy, has not developed much military power at this stage. The vast majority of the territory Most of the enchanted armors were even seized by Charlotte from the Castel Mine. In the eyes of higher-level lords, no matter how many people there are, they are still pecking at each other.

  In a world with extraordinary power, it is much easier to supply the army. Especially for space magic, a few more mages in the same industry, plus the space equipment accumulated by noble families for generations, can save a lot of non-combat manpower. Because of this, Charlotte's march did not encounter many logistical difficulties.

  After the army marched for a week, Charlotte finally saw the rebels stationed on the Dorne River.

   "My lord, our scouts have already engaged the rangers of the rebel army. However, the rebel army seems to have no action for the time being. Do we want to send an envoy to issue a notice to persuade us to surrender?"

  The nobles who accompanied him asked respectfully.

  Charlotte pondered for a moment, then nodded:

   "Go."

  Although she did not report any hope, it seems that persuading surrender before the war is also the tradition of the nobles of Miria.

   After receiving the order, the nobles quickly arranged for an envoy, but it didn't take long for the rebels to send the envoy back.

   Or to be more precise, the heads of the envoys who persuaded them to surrender were sent back.

  (end of this chapter)