Who says knights can't backstab

Chapter 697
Atsk Angers, the third son of an ordinary noble family in the surrounding area of ​​Salconan——the "suburb of the capital" near the province of Derek.

The relationship between him and his family is not harmonious. Although the family is small, it seems to have maintained the eccentric temperament of those stubborn nobles in the early years and treated him coldly.

So he left the Angers family alone in his early teens, with the meager financial support of his mother, to go to school in Solkonan.

The students of the academy always stick together, and the "poor boy from the countryside" has become a label for Atzke who has just entered the academy.

They are not the same kind of people, they can't play together.

Although the great philosopher "Terry Humon" once said: Beasts always travel alone, but cattle and sheep are in groups.But juvenile beasts and "violent" are absolutely not hooked.

People often need to belittle something in order to improve their sense of existence; or when they make a mistake, they need a blame; or simply vent their negative emotions——

And the poor boy from the countryside is undoubtedly the best bearer of all this.

The lone cub grew up in pain, until he endured and successfully entered the Solkonan Royal Military Academy with the highest score, and gained a firm foothold in it.

He soaked himself in the ocean of knowledge and kept his ears shut.After graduating, he traveled around the major legions.

With no identity background and no outstanding record in the army when he was a student, the certificate from the Solkonan Royal Military Academy can only allow him to be the captain of a small team. He lives a hard life and sees no chance of promotion in peaceful times. .

In the end, he resolutely chose to come alone to the far north of Amasir, the small place called Siliki, and prepared to spend the rest of his life in peace.

Until the young half-elf appeared.

This dusty pearl, therefore, shines again.

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On the city tower in the gradually dark night, Cyril faced the direction of the sea breeze, which was mixed with the bloody smell left by the day's battle.

"Atsk."

He said, "First of all, I admit that your analysis is correct."

"As you said, the strength of the people of St. Emma is far beyond ordinary. This is a war that cannot be used as a reference in previous wars. I don't know how many private armies of nobles, plus the royal family of St. Emma of St. Regular legion, this huge number will far exceed the capacity of our Siliki Army, Amasir Natural Guard Army, and the Fifth Legion Hammer Corps currently standing in the city."

"But like so many unusual ones, you're also ignoring the most important one 'unusual'."

He settled down, turned around, and found Atsk's puzzled eyes in the dimness.

"Why are there so many troops on the Adelaide Sea? Why are they even able to transport the Earth Dragon Legion by boat?"

"Because they should not have appeared on the naval warships in the Adelaide Sea, they appeared in the Adelaide Sea."

Atsk's pupils shrank——

"Teleportation magic."

"Yes, teleportation spells, and it's a large-scale teleportation spell beyond our concept. You should remember the trip I said to New Orway Port. They used the Consul-class as the coordinates and sent seven Providence-class dreadnought transport ships. , plus a heavy cannon called Min Cortius..."

"If we were to give up the Adler area to the O'Santa Emma—you should be well aware of O'San Ema's ability to defend."

"In the past, we continued to stretch the front line, disperse the troops of the Ao San Emma, ​​and defeated them one by one. This was based on the fact that the cities they occupied could not provide them with new sources of troops."

"But this time, we gave up the Adler area and retreated. What if they can directly deploy the portal in the Adler area?"

In the cold winter wind, Azike listened to the words of the young marquis, and before he knew it, the clothes on his back were soaked in cold sweat.

Yes, this time the Ost Emma was different from the previous ones. He analyzed all aspects, but forgot to analyze the root of the difference.

teleportation spell—

"Damn it, how did they develop such a perverted technology!" Atzke couldn't help cursing.

"So now you should be wondering, what are we going to do with the Adler region."

Azike took a deep breath and then exhaled, while adjusting his emotions, he quickly ran his thoughts through his mind, finally straightened up, and said decisively:

"Adler area, it can't be released, absolutely not."

"I will let the troops in the rear build a temporary fortress on the front line of Adler-Utland, and the mages of the Green Tower will have to be recruited. The troops of Utland and Insaro will all be close to the Adler area... …Yes, when the Second Army was supported, they entered the Adler area directly from Insaro, and they wiped out the Ao San Emma who landed from south to north, and we besieged them from west to east.”

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, his eyes seemed to sparkle, and the speed of his speech became faster and faster:

"But the problem with this is that we need a solid fulcrum so that our troops can be unaffected and stably put into the battlefield..."

"This fulcrum obviously cannot be Rock Fortress, it is too small and can only be used as an important node of the defensive front." Cyril said, "So this fulcrum can only be..."

The two looked at each other and said the name almost at the same time:
"Hylia."

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It is difficult for future generations to describe the changes in the battle situation in words. Within three days, more than [-] Austrian Saint Emma troops poured into the territory of the Adler area from the coast of the Adelaide Sea. Small villages and towns in the Le area launched a fierce attack.

Hylia, Parkri, Dumen, St. Hytel, and Middenbrand, the five cities were besieged by the troops of Ao San Emma almost at the same time. Collapsing under the oppression of each other, they can only fight on their own.

But the countermeasures La Rochelle made are also amazing: apart from the legions in other regions of the kingdom dispatching to Amasir, Amasir's scattered troops did not rush into the Adler area to go to the Adler area. Relief for the five cities of the Adler region.

On the sidelines of the two areas adjacent to the Adler area, Etlandling and Insaro, more than fifty small fortresses were built within eight days, and a long wall was used as a seal, as if to enclose Adler. The Dreux area is included in it!

Later generations called this long wall enclosing the entire Adler area as:
The wall around the sea.

While the Silikie Army and the Amasir Natural Guard Army were advancing towards this "sea wall" at the fastest speed, the huge granaries at Fort Mandekers and Silikie began to move food and supplies to the city at the same time. Continuously transported to the front line.

The horse-drawn carriages promoted by the Boyle Chamber of Commerce have demonstrated amazing cargo transportation capabilities. Their warehouses are huge, and they travel faster than ordinary horse-drawn carriages. They transport enough military rations and Materials were hoarded in front, and even some city defense weapons were moved to the front.

In less than five days, the wall around the sea changed from a bare earthen wall to a "steel hedgehog" equipped with weapons capable of causing at least a certain amount of damage to a thousand-man army.

During this period, there were scattered troops of thousands of people from the St. Emma people who discovered the strange movements of the people of La Rochelle on this line. On the long wall surrounding the sea, at least three battles with a scale of 3000 people broke out. , all ended in the victory of the La Rochelle people.

11 month 24 day.

Tenth day of war.

Cyril, as usual, stood on the tower of the Rock Fortress, looking into the distance.

Hailia completely lost contact six days ago. Prior to this, Cyril sent a message to ask Hailia's garrison to defend Hailia with all their strength, and to prevent Hailia from being breached no matter what.

And the goal of the Aosheng Emma people is also very clear. When they blocked Hylia, they were not in a hurry to attack the Rock Fortress, which had become an intermediate fortress. They just built a series of fortifications on the plain. In order to block the idea of ​​​​the people of La Rochelle supporting Hylia.

The people of St. Emma seem to be sure that the La Rochelle people are short of troops, and it is absolutely impossible to rush to support Hylia rashly.They were even so arrogant that they let the cavalry who didn't play much role in the siege battle spread out on the plain near Rock Fortress, patrolling the road to Hylia at night like wandering ghosts.

Faced with such a provocation, Cyril and Atsk remained indifferent.

They just guarded the rock castle quietly, waiting quietly.

Cyril stood in the night, and didn't turn his head until there was a rush of footsteps behind him.A messenger ran up the tower panting, bowed and said, "Master Marquis, General Angers has something to discuss with you in detail."

He simply jumped off the tower and entered the meeting hall after three turns and two turns. Atsk was already waiting there, and a scout was already sitting on the chair in front of him.

"Bevis, long time no see." Cyril stepped forward and said.

That scout was exactly the scout captain Bivis who was promoted by Cyril during the northern border war to deliver information to the rest of the noble private army.

Now he is the chief scout of the entire Siliki army, and when he heard Cyril's voice, he immediately stood up and saluted Cyril: "Master Marquis, I have brought good news."

"Has the line of defense been completed?"

"Most of them have been completed, and only a few parts have been impacted by the people of Ao San Emma and are still being repaired. The Boyle Chamber of Commerce is transporting the city defense weapons, and it will take some time." Bivis said Here, I couldn't help laughing out loud, "You don't know how exaggerated their expressions were when those Ao San Emma chased our scout troops to the front of the line of defense and found a door of magic crystal crossbows facing them—— "

"It's good that the defense line is completed." Cyril nodded, "How is the assembly of the troops going to Hylia?"

"The brothers are all vying to support Hailia. After fighting for a long time, a total of 5000 people have been dispatched, and they are gathering at the node closest to Rock Fort."

"5000 people... counting our team here, isn't it too much?"

"Not many." Azik had been staring at the map, and now he raised his head and said, "Including the troops of Rock Fort, there is still a certain gap between the number of [-]. And the people of Osan Emma besieged Hailia The number of people is definitely more than [-]—if it is not that the new line of defense needs enough troops to garrison, I even want to call up some more troops."

"The question now is how much support the Adelaide sea can give to the people of St. Emma." Azik reached out and touched the ocean outside Hylia, "My lord, did the elves give you an answer?"

"The latest information from the Sea Peach Clan shows that there are not many ships in the sea outside Hylia, but there are three naval cruiser-class gunboats, which can deal enough damage to the people of Alma. Covering role." Cyril replied.

These days, they squatted in Rock Fort, of course, they didn't do nothing.

Don't forget that Rock Fortress has a special geographical location. It is on the only way to support Hylia - and the reason why it is the only way is because the forest is on its north side, and the complex terrain is not enough for Massive troop passes.

But don't forget, who are the allies our young Marquis Amasir has—

It is the elves, dwarves, unicorns, treants, centaurs, the entire deep forest council, and the people under the shelter of nature.

In the past few days, Cyril asked the elves to obtain information for him, gather troops, and prepare to lift the siege of Hylia together.

"In other words, if we can't take down the troops who besieged the city of Hylia in one go, as long as they retreat to the coast, they can get the protection of the gunboat." Azike frowned, "Those Although the gunboat can't threaten Hylia's city wall, it can cause enough damage to our troops."

"And what we want is to wipe out the Ao San Emma people. We must not be dragged by them to a place where they can be supported by gunboats."

"However, a city has four walls, and our numbers are already at a disadvantage. It is impossible to attack the people of St. Emma on all four walls at the same time—even if Hylia's garrison actively cooperates, we cannot take it down in one go. All Ulster Emma's troops."

"Besides, this is not a small-scale battle with hundreds of people, but a large-scale battle with tens of thousands of people..."

What Azike said was bloody, clearly pointing out the difficulties they are now facing in trying to rescue Hylia.

"Three gunboats, plus some transport ships..." Cyril pondered, "Where did the main fleet of the Ost Emma go?"

"According to the intelligence of the scouts, since their troops launched a full-scale attack on the Adler area, their fleet's position should of course be in a more central place where all the troops can give feedback in time."

Atzik casually clicked a spot on the Adelaide Sea, "It's probably at this location."

And Cyril stared at the position he was pointing at, and after a few seconds of silence, he spoke slowly:
"So... they are on the sea outside Hylia, so there should be no other reinforcements?"

"Yes, but we don't have a boat either..."

When Azike said this, he suddenly closed his mouth.

Cyril looked at him and nodded slowly:

"Atzke, we have boats to use."

(End of this chapter)