Chapter 82

Bomari castle, now the rebel stronghold.

When the news of Prince Will's death came back to the base camp, King Newcastle, the Rebel Alliance leader of the three countries, was shocked to drop his wine glass.

"How could it be?"

Despite the presence of others around, Newcastle king ranthoft breathed out. He pressed the armrest, leaned forward, and asked hastily.

"The Duke of Buckingham is not dead?"

"Dead."

"Didn't the Grundy cavalry arrive?"

"They arrived"

"who was in charge of the battle? Who defeated will? " Asked lantovt anxiously, full of disbelief.

"Yes The king

The messenger replied with a pale face.

"The army led by the king himself has recaptured the castle and is now advancing towards bomari. It is estimated that it will arrive in five days."

"The king?"

Rantoft turned to his advisers and saw the same look of surprise in their faces. The hall was silent, and all the rebellious nobles who had been waiting for the good news looked worried and had their own thoughts. After a moment's silence, several people in the hall suddenly got up and left.

They were messengers from four other states in the north.

"These bastards who see the wind fall!"

Lantuofu te reluctantly smile to retain no effect, after the messengers left in a hurry, the smile on his face instantly disappeared, cursing in a low voice.

Rantoft, the king of Newcastle, is a middle-aged man with red hair and a moustache. He has a bright brain gate. His face is relatively rich, which is not compatible with the barrenness of the north. He always looks very kind and smiling. But people who know him well know that lantovt is cruel and ruthless, and the standard of action is only interest.

In the hall were also his allies, the generals of the states of Balboa and chavos. Lantovt turned his head and looked around the people in the hall. The haze of anger disappeared from his face in an instant, and he regained his smiling face: "my friend, I always know that will is too arrogant and timid, and now he deserves to live up to our expectations - this is not the first time he has been defeated by a hairy boy! "

As he said this, lantov sighed bitterly: "although he is my own brother, even if he comes back alive, I will hang him on the flagpole for the loss he has brought us this time."

They exchanged their eyes tacitly, and no one was the first to speak.

Honey sword is almost the pronoun of lantovt, who really believe his words, who is the biggest fool in the world.

"Order to go on --" lantovt took everyone's look in his eyes. He could not help but scold in his heart. "Because will's arrogance has brought great losses to the great freedom League, and because of his unforgivable fault, I formally deprive him of his title and territory."

As soon as the order came out, many people in the hall felt a slight chill.

Lantovt's heart is cold and vicious, far beyond people's imagination. His brother just died for him. His first reaction was how to minimize the impact of defeat on morale There is no doubt that when his order was issued, people would naturally attribute the defeat to Prince Will's arrogance, while lantovt, who deprived his dead brother of his title and territory, could gain a good reputation of "justice" at such a moment.

In this way, he can also stabilize the morale of the army shaken by defeat to a certain extent.

Now that Newcastle has set such an example, Balboa and chavos of the alliance have no reason to retreat.

At the end of the order, lantovt looked at the nobles in the hall.

"Now, let's talk about how to give your majesty a ride." He said briskly, with a friendly tone, "if he really leads his troops to bomari, we won't leave him forever, aren't we too ashamed of this kindness?"

The nobles in the hall looked at each other for a moment and began to express their opinions one after another.

Some people advocated to attack ahead of time, to defeat the king's central army before the king's two wings' reinforcements had finished their attack on the rebel area. Some people insist on sticking to Bomari and mobilizing support forces. There was a quarrel in the hall, and Prince Will's defeat was temporarily suppressed.

The final decision is to stick to the castle of bomari.

The time of Legrand's conscription system was only 40 days. After 40 days, Legrand's knights no longer had the obligation to obey the king. It's not so easy to capture a strong castle. It often takes months or even a whole year.

Baumari castle is definitely one of the castles that Legrand is very difficult to capture.

At the end of the meeting, lantovt drew a cross on his chest:

"in the name of God, we are in the battle of God."

After the rest of them left one after another, lantovt hurried to a gorgeous room in the castle. The room was even more decorated than lantovt's own.He took care of his clothes outside the room before knocking respectfully on the door.

With permission, lantovt went in and fell humbly to his knees.

"The merciful Lord is protecting Newcastle, who yearns for freedom. My Lord, bomari is in danger. Could you make an exception and kill the king of Legrand?"

Lantovt kowtowed and put his forehead on the cold rock floor.

He was as humble as a dog.

The fire is burning in the fireplace of the room. When most people in the north are hungry and cold, the room is as warm as midsummer. A figure was sitting by the fireplace.

A large part of lantovt's confidence in starting this rebellion came from that figure.

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January has passed, and the year wheel of February is spinning slowly.

The king looked at the layout of bomari castle in his tent.

The development of gunpowder is not enough to open the thick wall of the times, the siege is a thing that will take a lot of energy and a long time. Bomari castle, which was chosen as the base camp by the rebels, is definitely not a simple Fortress - in fact, it originally belonged to the rose family.

The construction of bomari castle can be pushed back to a thousand years ago.

It was the rose family. It was the strongest period of Legrand. The whole western continent was united. The royal family built strong fortresses and castles to defend the people. Among them, in the North rose royal family also left such a great building.

That's bomari castle.

After the initial "war of divine punishment", Legrand was divided into hundreds of countries, big and small. During that period of chaos, bomari castle was the castle that all the states in the North tried hard to win. Like a series of other rose Royal castles at that time, it can be called the technical peak of castle construction at that time.

Over the long period of time that followed, bomari castle had many different owners.

Sadly, since the "war of divine punishment", no second rose family has set foot in bomari Castle again.

At the beginning, William III once attacked the place less than 20 miles away from bomari castle. However, due to the domestic rebellion, he had to transfer his army immediately after accepting the surrender of the king of Newcastle.

Now, what the king will take back is such a castle engraved with the shame of the rose family for so many years.

It is a dusty pearl on the crown of the rose family.

"It's hard to attack directly."

General sheen was also looking at the map of bomari castle, frowning.

The king also looked at the castle.

As a pearl on the Rose Crown, bomari castle is exquisitely designed, and has been carefully maintained and repaired by later generations in so many years.

There are a series of impregnable fortifications outside the bomari Castle - a black stone fortress stands on the wetland formed between the two tributaries of the Lacey River, and the other isolated island in the trunk of the Lacey river is opposite to the wetland fortress in the center of the river. There is another fortress on that island, and the two fortresses are linked by a pontoon.

Behind these external barriers is the main city of bomari castle, which is divided into two parts by the huge external moat. One part is the outer base of the triangle, and the other part is composed of internal defense and central defense. On the left and right sides of the castle are rolling hills. [1]

if the king wants to capture the castle, he must first break through the series of external defenses.

The siege is bound to take a lot of time.

It's not unusual to besiege a castle for a year in a war. But the king can't afford the time.

The arrival of February not only means that the long winter is about to pass, but also means that another more serious thing, that is, more than half of the 40 days of compulsory military service has passed.

Obviously, it was impossible for the king to spend his precious time of conscription on the long siege.

You know, after the conscription, if you want the knights to continue to fight for themselves, then the king will have to pay another price. It is absolutely not the king's wish to give the nobles new privileges.

He had to take the strong castle as quickly as he could.

Even so, he had to make sure that the army lost as little as possible.

This is a difficult problem.

"Waterways Castle, inner and outer city.... " The king sketched slowly on the map. He looked up at general Hearn and said, "who is in charge of the military defense of bomari castle?"

"There are three." General Sheehan replied, "in order to consolidate the anti Rebel Alliance, lantovt gave way to the control of bomari castle, which is now under the joint responsibility of the representative generals of the three states. The external military defense is controlled by the state of Balboa, the outer base is the state of chavos, and the central and internal defense is the responsibility of rantovt's own cronies. ""Shared responsibility?"

If the king thinks about it, he suddenly smiles.

"Lantovt did a good thing at last."

The king had an idea.

"Get in touch with general Edmond and let him March at full speed." At the king's command, he began to write.

From the beginning of the war to the present, there is an army that has never been used by the king - the army of angar state.

Once they leave the angar state and lose the protection of the terrain, it is difficult for the angar army with simple leather armour to gain the upper hand in such a siege. Therefore, the king did not put this important reinforcements into the battlefield, but let them follow count Henry who marched. On the one hand, he stabilized the victory for count Henry, on the other hand, he also waited for the opportunity.

Now it's time for the king to wait.

It's time for angel's army to join the war and become an important move for the king to attack bomari castle.

While the king was writing a letter, a messenger came in in a hurry.

He sent a letter from the Rose Palace to General John.

Hearing his cousin's letter, the king's hand faltered. He put down his pen and looked at general sheen.

General Sheehan understood and got up to leave.

Only the king was left in the account.

The king looked at the letter on the desk and finally reached for it and unfolded it.

It was a long letter, but not a word about the death of the Duke of Buckingham. General John said only two things in his letter.

"I have prepared my iron gloves. When you return, please allow me to be your defender." When General John wrote this line, his handwriting was stable, but before the word "become", he once altered it and crossed out the word "replace".

Another thing General John mentioned was that he had received a letter from Philip III.

The situation in Brescia is more complicated than what they predicted, and now it is difficult for Legrand to go all out to inquire. But there are some key messages in the letter from Ferri III.

But the fact that Ferri III is not dead is good news in itself.

"I hope he will live longer."

Until he saw this, the king said faintly.

He answered the letter.

“…… You are my defender. "

………………

The king's letter to angel's army soon arrived.

This time, angel and his men were old acquaintances of Legrand, general Edmund.

When he led the army all the way, he felt that he and his cousin were like gamblers, a gamble on angel's future - his cousin burned the secret letter from the holy court and chose Legrand. None of them knows what the outcome of this gamble will be.

However, when he heard that the Duke of Buckingham had died and the king had won the battle of banks, general Edmund's heart suddenly calmed down.

A hunch:

they are right again.

After reading the king's letter, general Edmund raised his head and ordered:

"go ahead at full speed and attack the city of Balboa."

The author has something to say: [1] the structure of bomari Castle refers to the part of gellard castle.