Chapter 112 The Day War Comes (Part 2)
Chapter 111 The Day War Comes (Part 2) In fact, Duke Yersin Paris of Dorin had long anticipated the ongoing lack of effort by the private army of nobles from the southern part of the empire.
If it concerns their own interests, they will all rush to curry favor with me.
But if it has nothing to do with them, they will run away one by one.
Duke Dorin knew that the nobles were a group of people who only pursued profit and avoided harm.
But Duke Dorin always thought that these nobles had at least the most basic intelligence! Without the skin, where will the hair be attached! Could it be that those nobles in the southern border of the empire thought that they could remain unscathed when the war in the north failed?
Oh! Naive!
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In the past, these private armies of the nobles were not so important. After all, at any time, the imperial soldiers directly under the Emperor were the main force of the war.
But this time, although the emperor of the empire also took countermeasures and began to mobilize troops on a large scale in the territory of the Norman Empire, none of these troops went directly to the northern border! ! ! The disputes between the royal family and the Regency Council have never stopped in these years, but they have never intensified like in recent years! The current emperor Raphael Alexander has long been dissatisfied with the five old guys in the Regency Council. After all, the more the power of the Regency Council expands, the more the emperor's power will be suppressed.
However, no matter how he guessed before, Duke Dorin would never have expected that the imperial soldiers under the emperor would actually want to abandon the northern border of the empire directly and fight the Odin people in the interior of the empire! In this way, the nobles of the Regent Council, especially the nobles in the northern border and the interior of the empire including Duke Dorin, will suffer extremely huge losses! Even lose the capital to gamble with the emperor! In Duke Dorin's opinion, if the imperial soldiers gathered at the northern border from the beginning, no matter how brave the Odin people were, they would not be able to defeat the large number of imperial soldiers...
After all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even though the Odin Empire has developed rapidly in recent years, its national foundation is difficult to compare with the Norman Empire, which has occupied the rich land on the continent and has been recuperating for many years.
So…
What the Norman Emperor Raphael Alexander is doing now is a blatant conspiracy!
You guys fight first, and I'll watch from the side. After you nobles from the northern border have fought to the death with the Odin people, the imperial soldiers will come in to clean up the mess!
In this conspiracy, perhaps countless civilians will be abducted as slaves by the Odins, and countless wealth will be plundered by the Odins, but Raphael Alexander can use this opportunity to take back the imperial power he has always dreamed of!
A complete and exclusive authority belonging to the emperor!
Faced with the temptation of this power, Rafael Alexander could afford any loss! However... this plan of killing one thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of his own would lead to a complete failure if he was not careful!
Thinking of this, Duke Dorling couldn't help but shudder.
If the Norman Empire's soldiers were unable to resist the Odinites' offensive after the fall of the North...
Doesn't that mean that I will become a duke who loses his fiefdom?
If something like this really happened, I would probably become a laughing stock! So, at this moment, Duke Dorin had no other choice. All he could do was to do his best to stop the Odin people's offensive and consume their manpower.
Before, Duke Dorin had no confidence at all in stopping the attack of the Odin people. After all... Portia Mariano, the commander-in-chief of the Odin Empire, was a famous general who had experienced many battles and was known as the first warrior of the Odin Empire!
However, according to reliable intelligence obtained by Duke Dorin a few days ago, this veteran warrior of the Odin Empire was actually dismissed by the young king of the Odin Empire just before the war was about to begin!
Not only that, it is said that the young king even gave himself the title of the supreme military commander of the Odin Empire.
Not only Duke Dorin, but in the eyes of most nobles in the Norman Empire, this is simply a joke! In this world, how can a king give himself an official title? So, after the magical operation of King Alio O'Sullivan of Odin, Duke Dorin actually had some confidence!
Maybe, if I try my best, I can really keep these brainless Odin people out! Of course, if I can resist the invasion of Odin people with the noble private army I have summoned, that would be the best outcome, but if I can't...
From now on, the over-expanded power of the Regency Council might really be taken back by more than half...
It was under the threat of the Odinites that the nobles in the northern border of the empire unexpectedly united.
Under the lobbying of Duke Dorin in the imperial capital of St. Lawrence and the mobilization of Duke Eric in the northern border, the nobles in the north of the empire finally formed an offensive and defensive alliance.
The private armies of various nobles were disorganized and stuffed into various fortresses to fill the shortage of manpower in the major fortresses.
At the same time, many nobles opened their vaults that had been sealed for many years and transported carts of gold coins and grain to the fourteen fortresses on the border, hoping that the soldiers could keep the barbarians from the north out of the border of the empire.
That is, with the full support of various noble territories, the number of Norman Empire's garrison troops in the northern border finally reached more than 30,000 people, barely enough to fight...
On May 28, 537 New Calendar, Areo O'Sullivan, the king of the Odin Empire, officially launched military operations against the Norman Empire. Tens of thousands of Odin soldiers launched a fierce attack on the fourteen fortresses located in the northern border of the empire.
Although the Odin Empire had an absolute advantage in numbers, the Norman Empire's soldiers, with the support of the nobles from the northern border and the strong walls of the fortress, actually withstood the first wave of Odin's offensive! However... the good situation did not last long.
On June 7, 537 of the new calendar, an Odin cavalry with a total number of more than 10,000 people, led by the former Marshal of the Odin Empire, Portia Mariano, marched from north to south through the Monster Forest full of secrets and traps, in the astonished eyes of everyone, and directly bypassed the Fourteen Fortresses in the North Frontier that the nobles of the North Frontier had painstakingly built for many years, and went deep into the heart of the Norman Empire, heading straight for the Dolin Territory.
On June 8, 537 AD, Dolin Territory fell.
On June 12, 537 of the new calendar, all fourteen fortresses in the northern border of the Norman Empire fell, and the 20,000 imperial soldiers and nearly 10,000 private armies of the nobles guarding the fortresses were completely wiped out!
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I have too many classes today... How about I just update once first... I'll make it up another day... Oh oh oh ~ No more.
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