The Sun King's Evidence

After waiting for several days, Imperial reinforcements arrived.

The Pyrotechnics Academy mercenary group carries more than twenty imperial-made heavy cannons, four Hellstorm rocket launchers, and a Hellstorm rapid-fire cannon.

Three musketry battalions, three infantry battalions and a team of dwarf butchers formed the main force of this Pyrotechnics Academy mercenary group. In addition, there was a team of pistol cavalry and a small number of imperial knights.

The commander of this army is the Imperial General Dietrich, a battlefield veteran in his fifties who serves in Nuer. Since Emmanuel returned to Nuer, Dietrich has sworn to Ai Manolly and her son Frederick swore allegiance.

The deputy general is Boris von Zhukov, who graduated from the Nuer Gunnery Academy. This is a man in his thirties. He wears very, very fancy clothes, very, very fancy, and his plate armor is all kinds of gorgeous. The decorations on his head are simply blinding. This middle-aged man is different from the Brittanians who like to have long hair. He only has a simple hair, and his chin is raised very high, revealing a short section. He has a goatee and a rather arrogant attitude.

These soldiers from Nuer are extremely well-equipped. Even the worst-equipped spearmen have a complete set of exquisite standard equipment. In addition to the spears in their hands, each of these soldiers is equipped with a spear produced by the Nuer Military Factory. The whole army is wearing black clothes and armor.

In order to hire this imperial army, the Brittanians spent a lot of money. In addition to a lot of gold coins, the Brittanians also placed many orders with the Noor Military Factory. It is said that this is the new Noor The Duchess's idea, Emmanolly believed that large-scale production orders were more effective than pure gold and silver. It not only brought profits, but also allowed military factories to operate at full capacity and solve a series of social problems.

The arrogant attitude of the imperial reinforcements caused great dissatisfaction among the Brittanians. The knights all looked indignant towards them. In the eyes of the imperial people, in addition to the knights, the Brittanians actually dragged a group of people with them. The naked country bumpkin and the mud-legged guy fighting together are quite funny.

However, Lawn, Hagen, Kalad and others who had conducted the Holy Grail expedition understood this situation.

This starts with the history of Noor.

The city of Noor was home to the Imperial Gunnery School, where most of the Empire's cannons, mortars and muskets were manufactured. Nuer is also the location of many ancient and famous schools in the empire. It is the academic center, industrial center of the empire, and an important town in the south.

In terms of technological and academic levels alone, even the imperial capital Braunschweig cannot compare with Nuer, and Nuer is also the hometown of the savior Ludwig. This city is famous for its reputation as the successor to Charlemagne As the greatest emperor of the empire, Nur is also a transportation hub and a major trading town. The dwarf fortress in the mountains continuously transports various commodities and goods. Rich people from the southern kingdoms and even Tileans flock here to trade.

Therefore, Nuer is wealthy, and the people here are also very civilized. Nuer's army has long been professionalized and often works as mercenaries for other imperial provinces. The per capita education level and literacy of the entire Nuer citizen class ranks among the highest. Crown of Empire.

"Brunswick is our capital, Nuer is the center of the empire, White Wolf City...well, it is a great city, but other places? They are all in the countryside."

——Wagoner, an unnamed Reik guard and engineering master in Nuer, said after drinking

To put it simply, the two cities of Braunschweig and Nuer are at the top of the contempt chain of the people of the empire. Because of this, Emperor Karl-Franz will not tolerate people he does not trust taking control of Nuer. Er, it was the emperor's wish that Emmanuel, who had a good relationship with himself and his family, return to Nuer, and Karl-Franz needed to control Nuer.

But precisely because of this, the professional ethics of this mercenary group is also very excellent. Imperial General Dietrich looked around the Britannia military camp with contempt, and finally said: "Laun Leo Convo Your Excellency?"

"Hello, our imperial brothers, fellow human beings on the other side of the mountain." Raun led the crowd to greet him. He took the initiative to shake hands with Dietrich and Boris von Zhukov: "Very welcome!"

"We come with the friendship of Duchess Noor, the beloved Emmanuel." Imperial General Dietrich said to Raun and others: "We sold our swords and guns to you. Pao, you just need to tell us how to deal with our enemies."

"very good!"

It was close to March, and the weather in Mousilon was still very cold. Everyone entered the big tent and sat down. Lawn first exchanged pleasantries, and he said with a smile: "I heard that Her Excellency, the Duchess Emmanuel, has gone through a lot of hardships. After all the hardships, I finally returned to Nuer. This is really a blessing for the empire and a blessing for mankind!"

"Well, so be it." Imperial General Dietrich sighed, and he said with some dissatisfaction: "If it hadn't been for your divinely chosen champion Ryan Malcador actually making our respected Baroness pregnant, we would have would be happier.”

The atmosphere in the tent suddenly became strange. Emmanuel, who also held the Duchess of Nour, the Elector of Brescia and the Duchess of Wesenland, was made pregnant by the winner of the Fairy of the Lake Selection, Ryan Macado. This was simply not true. Not a secret.

The nobles of Nuer complained a lot about this in private. The proud and wealthy imperial nobles did not think that this child was inferior. After all, Ryan's great deeds and high prestige were there. What they complained about was that Ryan did not marry Aiman. Noli is a wife, and this child is an illegitimate child! Although Emperor Karl announced that he recognized this child as Emmanuel's first heir, it was still not pleasant to say it out. At least the nobles of Nuer often suggested in parliament that Emmanuel should find a new husband or Asked Ryan to give up his marriage to Sulia and marry Emmanuel instead.

Emmanuel completely ignored these proposals. The duchess's governing method was to never leave her elector's palace. However, she showed extremely excellent internal affairs capabilities, attacking political opponents while consolidating her authority.

Her actions of protecting civilian interests, combating aristocratic forces, increasing jobs, and curbing chaos and corruption earned her a good reputation in Nuer, and the citizens gave her a new title, "The Beloved Lady."

Kalad couldn't help laughing after hearing this. He and Ryan had a good relationship, so it didn't hurt to smile.

Lawn's expression was subtle. The regent of the kingdom knew that the relationship between him and Lane was actually very strange. They were both friends and rivals, colleagues and contenders for the throne. They both had the same demands for reform and represented taking different positions.

Thinking of this, Lao En did not pick up the topic anymore, and after a few more pleasantries, everyone started to get down to business.

"There is good news!" Lawn was very excited when talking about this matter. He introduced the situation of the battle: "According to the intelligence from the scouts, the undead army that came to support Richard's Castle was a remnant army. This undead army The army was clearly outnumbered and lacking cavalry.”

"This shows! The main force of the undead must have been held back. It is very likely that the undead are still besieging the Spire Palace! After hearing that Richard's Castle was besieged by us, we sent a part of the army to come back for reinforcements." Lawn said immediately He came up with his own plan: "We give priority to destroying the reinforcements! When we besiege Richard's Castle, the undead will definitely be forced to fight with us outside the city!"

"Then we will satisfy them! Wait until the undead reinforcements arrive! We will form a formation outside the city to fight the undead!" Raun announced his plan.

"A decisive battle with the undead? But we are dragging an army of more than 17,000 refugees!" Kalad raised his own question: "These refugees, let alone fighting, will collapse immediately when they see the undead, causing the entire front to collapse. Rout!"

"I know." Lawn nodded calmly.

"You know you still plan to fight the undead?" Kalad asked.

"Yes, the undead are our disadvantage. When fighting the undead, as soon as these refugees collapse, they can easily trigger a series of reactions from the army and lead to a collapse." Raun put his finger on the map: "But, Under the right conditions, disadvantages can also be turned into advantages!”

"In this battle, our disadvantages are undoubtedly revealed, but our advantage is that we have a large number of knights. How to reverse our advantage to win, we need a plan." Lawn seemed to have a plan: "Everyone, please Listen to me, sometimes refugees will not be a burden to us, but will be the key to winning this war..."

.........I am the dividing line that determines victory and defeat......

Two days later, Mahhubard led the undead army to Richard's Castle. On a small plain outside the castle, the two armies began to confront each other.

Mousilon's Viper and his subordinate Mad Duke Merovingian gathered together with the vampire lords Belites, Hal Harris and others to discuss how to fight this war.

"The only things we need to pay attention to are the more than 3,000 cavalrymen under Lawn Leo Cornwall." Mathubad's face was very calm: "There are also 5,000 reinforcements from the empire. Apart from this, I really don't understand how Why did the Retanians go into battle with nearly 20,000 refugees?”

"It is said that the situation in Lyonnais is very bad. It is a helpless move for Raun to bring 20,000 refugees to the battle." Belites replied loudly: "And he actually placed all 20,000 people at the front of the battle line. ? It’s incredible, doesn’t he know that once these serfs collapse, it will easily cause the entire front to collapse?”

"The tactics of the knights are all like this. First let the serfs go up to carry them, and then choose the opportunity to charge. It has not changed for thousands of years. This is not surprising." Merovingian said with a sneer: "What we have to do is to defeat these more than 10,000 people first. Serfs, and then forced the Imperial Army into danger, so that Raun and his chivalrous brothers had to support the Imperial Army, and after losing the opportunity to charge, he had to retreat!"

"Very good! Let's do it like this!" Mathubad nodded and adopted Merovingian's tactics.

The battle started. At this time, Mathubad's strategy was to use three bloodthirsty bat wolves and a large number of bloodthirsty sky ghosts, tomb demons and tomb ghouls to attack the Brittanian army head-on. These giant beasts released their anger and roar. As they approached, because Raun placed more than 17,000 refugees at the front, these refugees lost their minds immediately when they saw the terrifying undead beasts. Losing their fighting spirit, their formation wavered.

However, to Mahhubard's expectation, these refugees did not collapse quickly. On the contrary, someone among the refugees immediately gave orders loudly, and the large group of refugees quickly separated to both sides in an orderly manner under the leadership of a small number of knights errant and sergeants. Although the scene was quite chaotic, the refugees still retreated to the two corners in a generally orderly manner: "What?! How is that possible!"

Lawn, who was standing in the center of Britannia, smiled.

This was the result of several days of training that he and the knights had spent teaching the refugees how to retreat.

After the refugees retreated in an orderly manner, the undead monsters attracted by the delicious meat immediately lost control. They screamed and roared and rushed towards the refugee groups on both sides, killing a large number of refugees who had no time to escape, and tasted the delicious food. When they were looking for fresh meat, these undead behemoths also completely forgot about Mathubad's order to directly capture the Britannian army. They fought independently and rushed everywhere. The irrational guys fought for fresh meat. Basic order has been lost.

At this time, what was waiting for these undead monsters was the elite mercenary group from Nuer, and the undead monsters had already entered their range.

"Fire!!!" Boris von Zhukov, the deputy general of the mercenary regiment, ordered loudly. Three musket battalions, more than 20 cannons and Hellstorm rocket launchers opened fire together. The dense rain of musket barrages and flying bullets filled the sky. The incoming artillery fire drowned all the undead monsters in the blink of an eye!

The Pyrotechnics Academy mercenary group from Nuer has already calculated the optimal range under the measurements of engineers. The artillery controlled by them can accurately kill undead behemoths, bloodthirsty bat wolves and tomb demons as if they have eyes. They fell one after another, and the bloodthirsty ghosts did not dare to get close to the ground amid the dense barrage.

The undead monsters were soon on the verge of defeat, and Mahhubard had to immediately order the zombie army, the skeleton warrior army, and the tomb guard army to follow.

"Activate the Hellwind rapid-fire cannon!" Seeing the large group of undead infantry gradually approaching, Imperial General Dietrich immediately ordered.

"Start the Hellwind rapid-firing cannon!!!" Nur's elites immediately launched a powerful war machine from their position. This war machine spun and spit out a huge tongue of flames, slapping everything in front of it, every barrel There were at least a dozen or more small shells inside, and now they were all pouring out.

The nine barrels of the Hellscream rapid-fire cannon are divided into three groups and controlled by a central rotating crank to fire in turn. The unlucky target aimed at it will be subject to non-stop horrific fire and be swallowed up by a hail-like rain of lead bullets.

In an instant, the entire undead forward was covered in flesh and blood, and hundreds of undead were instantly beaten to a pulp under a wave of attacks.

The advance of the undead army was blocked by the powerful power of Nur's war machine, but they still approached the coalition's military formation. Following the orders of Raun and Dietrich, the Brittanian serf infantry regiment Joined the war with the Imperial Halberd Legion.

At this time, there was no longer any strategy, and the entire battlefield turned into a slaughterhouse of flesh and blood. The imperial army, the Brittanian sergeants, and the serf infantry regiments stood side by side to resist the attack of the undead army.

The war lasted from morning to afternoon, and the coalition forces began to tire. The imperial halberdiers and the Brittanian serf infantry regiments gradually retreated under the attack of the undead tide.

However, Mahhubard, who was commanding the undead army to continue attacking, subconsciously felt something was wrong. He immediately ordered the entire army to retreat. The undead army withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner under Mahhubard's order.

When Raun led the knights to defeat the Black Knights on the flanks and tried to outflank the undead's retreat, waiting for him were the soldiers who were cheering for victory on the plain near Richard's Castle. The undead army had already withdrawn from the cloth. The Retanian siege.

"This battle! We won!" Although it was a pity that they could not completely encircle and defeat Musilon's undead army, the knights from the north were still proud of this victory.

Cheers filled the plains, praising Lawn's victory.

This is a perfect reflection of his outstanding military talent and outstanding command ability by the Kingdom's Regent Lawn-Leo Cornish.

With this victory, Lawn proved that he is fully qualified and capable to compete with the chosen champion of the Fairy of the Lake, Ryan Makado, for the knight throne.

Ten kilometers away, Mahhubard, who was slowly retreating, also smiled.

"Let you win a small victory first, Lawn."

"But it's not over yet, I know how to defeat you."

Mousilon's serpent took out a letter stamped with the ring of Theodoric, Duke of Belion.

"Go and send a living man to carry this letter to the Breton camp."

"The way to defeat the Bretons is in this letter."

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