Chapter 229 Odin’s Iron Cavalry (two in one, please subscribe!)
Stand high and see far.
Long before the hot air balloon successfully took off for the first time, Bruno had already realized the important role that hot air balloons played in scouting the enemy.
By cooperating with the telescopes produced by the Idar Glass Workshop, the soldiers standing in the hanging basket are able to observe the ground conditions ten thousand meters away, allowing their own army to formulate reasonable response strategies as soon as possible.
Therefore, ever since the reliability of the hot air balloon was verified, the planning and formation of the Idar Air Force gradually became clearer in Bruno's mind.
With the griffins, the Griffin Knights are equivalent to fighter planes on Earth, while the hot air balloons can act as reconnaissance planes and bombers.
Although Bruno has always been cautious about this magical world, until now, Bruno has never heard of the existence of a branch of the military similar to the Air Force on this continent.
Moreover, during the war between the Odin Empire and the Norman Empire, no traces of flying monsters were found.
This means that the long-range magic from the mage can be said to be the only threat that can fight back against the hot air balloon soaring in the sky.
Once faced with a magical attack, the soldiers standing in the hot air balloon basket would be doomed to die.
But at the same time, since the mage took a long time to chant the spell, the artillery of Idar Territory could make an effective counterattack in the following time, thus interrupting or even destroying the second wave of attack from the enemy! Since the day when the news was received, the reconnaissance balloons of Idar Air Force have been flying over the sky of Soran Territory again and again, so as to find the traces of Odin as early as possible.
That’s right!
In the sky above Solon Territory! This indirectly led to the old Earl Solon almost spitting blood when he saw the hot air balloons with the Stuart family emblem painted on them floating in the sky above Solon Territory.
Perhaps... it was because of too much bloodletting on weekdays? Although he didn't know how the Idar people made such a magical thing fly into the air, as a noble, he could look at the problem relatively rationally, and he didn't kneel on the ground and wait for the baptism of the "God of Light" like the common people in Soran Territory whose average cultural level was only prenatal education.
"The Idar people next door can fly in the sky. All Idar people are children of destiny bathed in the grace of God!"
The Idar CIA's propaganda offensive has become increasingly sophisticated, so... ever since the hot air balloons belonging to the Idar Air Force began to float in the sky of Soren Territory, this news has spread throughout the streets and alleys of Sorenburg, making countless civilians yearn for the noble territory not far away.
This also allowed Idar Territory to naturally recruit a wave of manpower in the winter, which accelerated the construction of Stonehenge and further enriched Idar Territory's labor resources.
Since there was no handy intelligence network and they were not alert to the war between the Odins and the Northern Frontier, most of the nobles in the eastern part of the empire were still immersed in their own comfort zone, so...
As soon as he saw the hot air balloon floating over his territory, Earl Soren felt as if he was stripped naked and paraded through the streets. Not only was he being slapped in the face over and over again, but the cycle was endless.
Damn Lord Idar! Damn the Stuart family! Earl Soran, who had no soldiers, could only curse on the terrace of his lord's castle at this moment, and he had to control his volume at all times to avoid being caught by the Idar soldiers floating over his lord's castle and then fleecing Lord Soran.
After all... Bruno has almost plucked all the wool out of Soran's collar...
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Ever since the monarch of the Odin Empire, Areo O'Sullivan, signed an armistice agreement with the second prince Rez... uh, no, now it should be called the 44th Emperor of the Norman Empire, Rez Alexander, Areo O'Sullivan could not contain his inner excitement and sent a troop of Odin cavalry to the eastern part of the empire to take over the ceded territory.
Because those lands that are right in front of them and almost within their reach are so coveted!
Especially for the Odin people who were extremely short of land and food, those lands suitable for farming were simply delicious delicacies in front of them, and they always wanted to take a big bite as soon as possible.
Therefore, the Odin cavalry that went to the eastern part of the Norman Empire to take over the territory this time were all members of Areo O'Sullivan's royal clan, and were led by Areo O'Sullivan's cousin, Odin leader Raymond O'Sullivan himself! The first person to eat crabs often gets the largest share of the benefits.
As an empire evolved from barbaric tribes, the Odin Empire still retains a large number of nomadic tribes within the empire, so...Alio O'Sullivan naturally wants his tribe to enjoy the biggest piece of the pie! After all, only if the royal tribe is strong enough, can Alio O'Sullivan hold his position firmly, and can rely on the power of his tribe to control the entire Odin Empire and make his tribe stronger.
The generals of the other tribes could only watch O'Sullivan's tribe finish enjoying their cake before they could go up and get a share.
This is the tradition of the Odin people. Only the strong can survive, and... the strong become stronger and the weak become weaker. Those weak tribes have long been turned into dust under the wheels of history!
There is a saying that goes, your enemies are often the people who know you best.
In the Odin people's cognition, the local nobles of the Norman Empire were extremely cowardly. They regarded the dignity of the nobility as everything. They were greedy and stingy, and they longed for power but had no ambition to make progress.
Although they possessed enormous wealth, their military strength was extremely weak, so... Raymond O'Sullivan's trip was purely to plunder wealth and declare sovereignty.
If it were anywhere else in the Norman Empire, holding such an idea would undoubtedly be extremely correct, because most Norman nobles were indeed like this.
However, this is the eastern part of the empire, the eastern part of the empire with Idar Territory! Who could have imagined in advance that in this remote and desolate but vast land suitable for farming, there would be a lord from another world?
It's like a "pure and kind" wolf mixed in among countless huskies, and no one will realize it until the veil is officially unveiled.
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An Odin cavalry consisting of thousands of soldiers was slowly marching along a road that ran east-west across the entire Valens Plain.
Raymond O'Sullivan rode on a tall and strong northern horse, constantly looking around.
If Marshal Portia Mariano of the Odin Empire is a veteran warrior and the wisest commander of the Odin Empire, then Raymond O'Sullivan, a member of the royal family, is the most powerful young general in the Odin Empire.
He has been the first warrior of the Odin Empire for three consecutive years and is a rising star in the Odin Empire's military.
At the same time, as the cousin of Areo O'Sullivan, the monarch of the Odin Empire, Raymond is also one of Areo O'Sullivan's most trusted generals.
Although there were many disputes among the tribes, the harsh and difficult living environment created extreme unity within the Odin tribe, avoiding a lot of unnecessary suspicion and fear.
After all...only when the tribe is strong enough can Ario O'Sullivan secure his position and gain more benefits for his tribe, and this is also an extremely good positive cycle.
The slightly cold winter wind blew across his face, and the temperature close to zero also made the soldiers riding on their horses feel a little chilly.
But for these soldiers who were born in the bitter cold of the Far North, such coldness is completely acceptable to them.
Moreover, even though there was a cold breeze blowing across his cheeks from time to time, Raymond O'Sullivan's heart was still hot.
here,
The Vals Plain, which originally belonged to the Norman Empire, is about to become the territory of the Odins! And further away, the vast land in the east of the Norman Empire is about to become the possession of the Odins! Nothing is more admirable than expanding territory. With this fruitful victory, not only did Ario O'Sullivan gain great reputation, but even the name of Raymond O'Sullivan was known by more people.
Raymond O'Sullivan became a little impatient when he thought of the huge wealth hidden in the castles by the noble lords and the beautiful and dignified southern girls (for the Odin people, everything south of the Armanches Plain is the south).
"Lord Raymond, look!"
Suddenly, an Odin rider beside Raymond pointed to a place not far away and shouted loudly.
Raymond looked in the direction the soldier pointed and saw a towering lord's castle looming in the morning mist.
He took out the schematic diagram of the noble lords in the eastern part of the empire that he had obtained from Areo O'Sullivan, and pondered over the words that he actually did not understand for a long time. Only then, with the soldiers' gentle reminders, did he know which nobleman's residence was the castle standing not far away.
The greatest noble family in the eastern part of the empire, the supreme ruler of the Valens Plains—Marquis of Valens, Terraji Hastings!
"Taraji Hastings? The Hastings family?"
When he heard the name, Raymond's eyes seemed to sparkle with fire.
He had never heard of this name, but he had heard of this family! Most of the nobles who were enfeoffed in the eastern part of the empire were newly promoted nobles in the past hundred years, and among these newly promoted nobles, most of them had military merits.
For example, the first Earl of Idar of the Stuart family was awarded the vast but barren fiefdom of Idar because of his considerable merits in the Third Barno War (between the Kingdom of Basel and the Norman Empire).
The reason why the ancestors of the Hastings family were able to obtain the most fertile and rich land in the eastern part of the empire, the Valens Plain, was because of the great achievements they made in the war with the Odins! In that battle, the first warrior of the Odin Empire at that time, Olemei Malik, the emperor of the Odin Empire at that time, was killed. This also directly led to the rapid decline of the Malik tribe, the most powerful tribe in the Odin Empire at that time, and the O'Sullivan tribe successfully usurped the throne! Although the Hastings family's record has been a great help to the O'Sullivan tribe's success in a certain sense, for the Odins, the Hastings family is a family that once brought great pain to the Odins!
So, when Raymond O'Sullivan heard that this was the territory of the Hastings family, he couldn't help but feel angry.
He wants to make the Hastings family prostrate themselves before Odin's cavalry, restore the glory that belongs to the Odin people, and avenge the former Odin Empire!
Thinking of this, Raymond no longer cared about Areo O'Sullivan's suggestion of a peaceful takeover. He drew the dagger from his waist and shouted angrily: "Brothers, kill all the descendants of the Hastings family and avenge Odin's shame!"
"Kill!"
Following Raymond's order, the Odin Iron Cavalry, which had been moving slowly, seemed to suddenly step on the accelerator to the bottom.
Dust flew everywhere, shouts of killing resounded through the sky, thousands of Odin's cavalrymen brandished sharp weapons on their horses, and the tall and majestic Northern horses flew out like arrows from a bow.
There were only a few thousand cavalrymen, but they ran with the momentum of tens of thousands of people. The cavalrymen stared with bloodshot eyes, as if they wanted to crush all obstacles in front of them into dust.
The pot-bellied Marquis of Valens, Terraji Hastings, had already seen the swaggering Odin cavalrymen on the top floor of the lord's castle, but...even though the achievements of his ancestors were obvious to the world, the former glory of the Hastings family also made him intoxicated.
But if Taraji Hastings really had to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and go onto the battlefield, regardless of whether he could stuff his big belly into his armor, it would already be a blessing in disguise if he didn't get scared to pee.
The Hastings family's butler had repeatedly reported to him the agreement reached between Rez Alexander and Areo O'Sullivan, but as the saying goes, you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep.
Taraji Hastings believed that the noble Hastings family would never fall victim to such a dirty deal, so he always regarded this news as groundless rumors.
Until he saw with his own eyes the Odin cavalry not far away... he was dumbfounded.
Terraji could only hope that these Odins would pass by him quickly, but things did not go as he wished. Those wolf-like Odin cavalrymen turned their horses and rushed towards his castle...
"Quick! Someone come quickly, quickly... drive them away!"
Taraji Hastings was already stammering with fear, and he sat down on the ground, shouting desperately.
After thinking about it, I decided to just post the two in one. I don’t have any today…
(End of this chapter)
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