I Will Be The Crowned King Chapter 158

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Without waiting for Claude Francois' messenger to arrive, the moment he sensed the rapidly approaching golden iris flag behind him, he decisively gave up the siege of the top tower and turned to face it.

Unlike other nobles - or quite the opposite - in his attitude towards the Empire, Archduke Aiden has always been cautious, even to the point of being overly nervous.

Because he knows too well how powerful the empire is!

It intersects with Thun, who is "across the mountain" with Clovis, and is dealing with the elf kingdom of Iser, who is constantly trying to infiltrate and colonize the vast land. amiable".

If it weren't for the support of the Kingdom of Clovis, if Thun hadn't made such a big concession (Mist was divided into three parts, and the whole of Carindia belonged to the Emmanuel family), if it wasn't for the attitude of the empire was too bad , there is no sign of wanting to surrender and betray at all, then...

Of course, there is no if in this world.

Archduke Aiden, wearing a three-cornered hat, a gilt black breastplate, and a fiery red cardigan, Victor Emmanuel rode his beloved white horse, standing under the banner of the thorns and flowers fluttering in the wind. Hill top.

This small unnamed mountain is located on the northeast side of the top tower, and there is a large forest to the south... It is diagonally in front of the only road leading to the fortress. To the east, you can overlook the entire hilly wilderness. In the direction of the top tower, you can completely ignore the enemy behind you.

This was the position where Archduke Aiden chose to face the return of the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

Holding a brass telescope, he stared at the horizon in the distance without saying a word, "waiting" for the guests who were about to visit.

Soon, in the position facing the east, billowing smoke and countless figures of various shapes were reflected in the polished mirrors, and they were quickly driving along the road to his position.

"It's a cavalry..." Archduke Aiden muttered to himself, showing a bit of joy in his indifferent expression.

According to the report of the scout, the enemy was coming along the road, in a fast marching manner, in the direction of the fortress of the top of the tower... and the speed was extremely fast.

This means that the 20,000-strong Imperial Expeditionary Force, the vanguard - especially the cavalry - is very likely to be out of touch with the main army.

For the Hantu Legion, whose combat power is "slightly inferior" and can only be attacked by defense, this is nothing but a good thing... Archduke Aiden resisted the corner of his mouth raised upwards, and put down the telescope with his right hand and pressed the hilt.

"Aiden - prepare for battle!"

"God bless Hantu——!!!!"

With the roar of Victor Emmanuel, the 20,000 frontier corps lined up on the hillside burst into a scream of killing; the flags of the thorns and flowers were erected in the rapid drum beats, and they showed their might in the strong wind.

"The 1st, 2nd... 8th Infantry Regiment, form a firing phalanx in units of battalions at the front of the hillside, and start the line!"

"All artillery pieces enter the preset artillery positions, lined up in a straight line, and the gunners are in place!"

"The cavalry mounts and prepares for the first round of raids!"

Under the careful preparation of Archduke Aiden, the frontier army on the hill quickly moved from alert to its position; the solemn-faced knights of the vast earth clenched the reins, and the terrified infantry shivered under the cursing of their superiors. Pull out the bayonet, how can it not be installed on the card slot...

In contrast, the Imperial Expeditionary Force, which is far away from the Frontier Corps, is unusually quiet.

what happened?

Looking at the enemy army that suddenly stopped advancing because it seemed to have discovered him, Archduke Aiden frowned slightly.

He originally thought that with the character of the Empire, after encountering the defenders, he would definitely ignore the 3721 and send the cavalry to carry out a round of strong fire reconnaissance to spy on his own defensive strength.

This is also the usual "feature" of the Empire... If the enemy is prepared, the highly mobile cavalry can also retreat calmly under the cover of artillery.

Of course, if the enemy is helping stinky fish and shrimps, the "fire reconnaissance" will become a full-scale attack, directly penetrating from the front, and throwing the finishing and cleaning of the rudimentary enemy to the infantry behind - the proud imperial knight, but not Care about what the scumbags think.

Regarding this point, Victor Emmanuel can be said to be quite clear; he used this "routine" to completely wipe out the ambush of the Mist Legion with only one round of attack.

But this time, the "Master Knight" on the opposite side seemed a bit abnormal.

After discovering the defenders on the hill, not only did they stop advancing, but they even dismounted from their horses while deploying a defensive formation, and began to build positions on the spot outside the range of the artillery of the Frontier Corps...

It seems that he is planning to wait for the rendezvous with the large army, and there is absolutely no sign of attacking immediately.

Looking at this group of extremely cautious knight masters, Archduke Aiden showed a little confusion under his frowning brows.

"I said, is this really okay?"

Arthur Herreid, who was riding on his own mount, held up his telescope and looked at the 20,000-hundred-thousand-soil army on the opposite hill: "Why do I feel a little dangerous?!"

"Oh... So the famous 'Dragon Roar', do you know what danger is?" The deputy commander of the expedition behind him, Bernard, with his right hand on his back, leisurely took out a pipe from his arms and bit it to his mouth:

"My dear Arthur, I thought that word had nothing to do with you."

"I knew that you definitely wanted to teach me a lesson..."

Arthur, who was muttering, pouted, and threw the binoculars into the bag on the saddle: "Anyway, my sister can't control you now, if she is here, you must... Hey! There, use a little more strength, you dig It's a trench, not a toilet!"

The "Knight", who was found to be lazy, was shocked, and without looking back, he quickly dug two shovels hard, causing the surrounding dust to fly.

Around him, there were almost five or six hundred Imperial infantrymen in cavalry uniforms and wearing ill-fitting breastplates, who were equally struggling with shovels in their hands, building bunkers and trenches on the rugged, cold and hard mountains.

Such terrain is naturally unsuitable for building fortifications, and their location is still a major traffic road; even if they can be built into a perfect defensive position, the effect can be quite limited.

So the reason for them to do this is very simple - apart from the less than 600 "Knights" on the position, the "Pioneer of the Imperial Expeditionary Force" in front of them has no other troops, let alone the so-called reinforcements.

In order to convince the Hantu Legion that they had come out in full force, the Imperial Expeditionary Force completely wiped out the Mist Legion in charge of the outpost at the forward position, and by breaking them into pieces, they raided the defenseless Barren Stone Fortress in the back. .

According to Casper's next plan, it should be to use the opportunity of the raid to cut off the supply line of Hantu's "300,000 army", and then send a small force to attack the Iron Bell Fort and disturb the rear of Hantu.

However, the enemy's "cautious" degree exceeded his expectations. A large number of fortresses were arranged at the positions of the main traffic roads, and heavy troops were sent to guard them.

After a fierce quarrel, the expeditionary force, which was worried that it would cause too many casualties, did not attack the fortress group on the Eastern Front that looked very strong and was stationed by Carl Bain with the reserve army.

Caspar Hered, who was the next best thing, had to lead the expeditionary force to "retreat in a hurry" after the "frustrated" attacking the Barren Stone Fort, and even left a lot of unnecessary baggage in order to speed up the march.

The purpose is to lure the Hantu army out of the city and conduct a decisive battle at the "chosen" location of the expeditionary army.

But because they failed to take the Barren Stone Fort, before completely annihilating the main force of the Hantu Legion, the Imperial Expeditionary Force had to solve a small problem - the 20,000 Hantu Frontier Legion besieging the top tower.

Otherwise, the "invincible" Imperial Expeditionary Force runs the risk of being cut off and trapped on both sides.

Kasper Herrid had two options.

First and foremost, as Claude Francois speculated, he would return to the top of the tower at full speed to defeat the Archduke Aiden and his frontier army.

With the combat power and mobility of the expeditionary force, it is not difficult to do this; of course, in such a hasty battle, a certain degree of casualties are inevitable, and time is also racing against time. Immediately turned around to face the main force of the Han Tu army.

This is the wishful thinking of Claude Francois-since the combat effectiveness of the Han soil army is very poor, then the combat effectiveness of the expeditionary army should be weakened to the limit as much as possible.

Taking a ten thousand steps back, if you still can't win the battle... The expeditionary force with heavy casualties is no longer able to fight, and Hantu, who is still alive, can win a little bit of "symbolism" with the support of the Clovis Kingdom. victory.

And Kasper Herrid made a slightly risky decision.

A small-scale army was sent to the top of the tower, pretending to return to aid to deter the siege Archduke Aiden, and temporarily restrain the opponent's actions;

"...And we are the army that is responsible for attracting firepower and deterring the Duke Aiden on the opposite side. We shoulder the important task of buying time for Commander-in-Chief Caspar Herrid and wiping out the main force of the Hutu Legion."

Bernard lit his pipe and chuckled at Arthur, who was still a little nervous. Lonely."

"How to do it?!" Arthur pointed to the dense thorn flower flag on the opposite hill:

"The cavalry is fine... But as long as they leave that hellish place and let the infantry press up, we have to retreat!"

"That's the most critical part of this mission." Bernard said solemnly: "We have to create an illusion for the enemy to make them feel that we are very dangerous and dare not leave their 'safe' position."

"So we're just betting to see if the other side has the courage to rush up." Arthur gasped:

"As long as we can bluff them temporarily, even if we win?"

"Great! I found out so quickly, you really surprised me." Bernard nodded in approval:

"It seems that it was the right decision to bring you here to experience. You have made more progress in this month than in the previous twenty years. Juliana would be very happy to know that - although she has always been against me doing it. ."

"You are showing off your power in front of me." Arthur rolled his eyes:

"Try it while my sister is around, my wonderful brother-in-law Bernard!"

"I won't, because I love her and respect her, and that's against chivalry."

Bernard blew out a smoke ring indifferently: "And here is the army, pay attention to your name, Captain Arthur Hereid."

"As ordered, Bernard's 'deputy' commander!" Arthur pouted again: "Louis, what do you think?"

Almost as soon as his voice fell, Bernard, who was indifferent, looked at the young knight with a dignified expression, always staring at the southeast direction, through the drifting smoke.

It's more of Louis Bernard's whims than the plan of that old **** Casper.

Avoid the main traffic roads, make the most of the advantages of the empire's high mobility and high organization over Hantu, and turn the entire Aiden into a battlefield. This...

Is he really just a rookie who has just been enlisted for less than a year and has been beaten up in Thundercastle and Eagle Point City?

"Not quite right."

Squinting Louis looked at the distant hills, whispered to himself, and was heard by Arthur with sharp ears:

"What?"

"It's been almost half an hour, scouts... they haven't come back."

"Scout?" Arthur was stunned, thinking hard about the key words in his best friend's words:

"Is this a long time?"

"You mean they might have found something?" Bernard immediately understood what he meant, and subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife around his waist vigilantly:

"The frontal line of defense is a pretense, Duke Aiden has discovered our falsehood?!"

Louis thought for a while, then slowly shook his head: "I don't know, but in that case he should have..."

Before he could finish speaking, a scout rushed over and stopped in front of Bernard and knelt down on one knee; the deputy commander, who was about to speak, had to turn around and took the note from the other party.

When he turned around, the plain expression was already extremely difficult to see.

Looking at the deputy commander and brother-in-law who suddenly lowered his face, the curious Arthur couldn't help but ask:

"What's up?"

With a gloomy face, Bernard glanced around, and after confirming that no one else was paying attention, he cautiously moved between the three of them, and grabbed Arthur's collar with a "bang!"

"Tell me, where did you meet the Clovis?"

"This... Didn't I tell you everything at the beginning?!"

"tell me!"

"Ugh, Salted Village!"

"Can you be sure?!"

"Yes!" Arthur, who was a little scared, nodded again and again:

"I was deceived once, and I only found out the name of the place after I came back!"

"They really weren't after you?"

"Not really! Otherwise we wouldn't be able to get everyone back alive...well, almost everyone."

Louis stepped forward and pressed Bernard's fist on Arthur's collar: "What happened?"

"The Clovis, the mercenary of Claude Francois..." Bernard gritted his teeth:

"They're here!"

"We seem to have been exposed."

Looking at the imperial cavalry who were building their positions at the foot of the mountain, Fabian said with an ugly expression: "It seems that there is no action for the time being, but it should be just a disguise."

"Probably have to wait until the reinforcements arrive, or when we take the initiative to expose, directly use cavalry to overthrow us on the road?"

"Then what should we do?!" An army captain next to him was horrified:

"withdraw?"

"No, absolutely not - at least not now!" Fabian, with a serious expression, directly denied the subordinate's idea:

"We only have one storm regiment, not even a thousand people, and it is very likely that it has been exposed. There are hundreds of cavalry in the outpost alone. It is hard to say whether there is still the main force behind the Imperial Expeditionary Force."

"It's almost suicidal to retreat before you figure this out!"

Fabian said coldly.

He originally thought that following the map given by Leno Emmanuel, it was fast enough to "cut the shortcut" lightly, and in any case, he could reach the fortress of the Climbing Tower before the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

But he never imagined that the enemy was faster than him.

And it was a coincidence that he grabbed a step away and blocked his way!

Shouldn't the Imperial Expeditionary Force be besieging the Barren Stone Fort? Why did it appear on the road to the top tower, and why did the frontier army not besiege the top tower but confront the enemy?

A heavy-hearted ex-Guardian officer ~www.mtlnovel.com~ finds himself in a dilemma.

If you want to continue to move forward, then there will inevitably be a conflict with the outpost of the Imperial Expeditionary Force; although the opposite Archduke Aiden serves as foreign aid, it is difficult to say whether the other party can send reinforcements at the first time, or "cautiously" not moving like a mountain, Stand firm.

But if they retreat... it would be like taking the initiative to show their cowardice, exposing the fact that there is only one infantry regiment on their side, and the force is empty; in front of the imperial knights who come and go like the wind, their two-legged group will definitely not be able to outrun four-legged.

If there is still the main force of the Imperial Expeditionary Force behind, the storm regiment with less than 1,000 people will be wiped out!

What to do... what exactly?

Isn't there any way to not only make the opponent dare not act rashly, but also let the opponent know of his existence without starting a war, so that he can get in touch as soon as possible... eh? !

Fabian's pupils shrank suddenly.

He looked at the battlefield in front of him, looked at the enemy in front of him, looked at the "friends" facing each other in the distance, looked at the forest, hills, roads...

He... suddenly remembered the battle of Eagle Point City.

How did the storm division win that battle and come to Kaicheng without injury?

"Lieutenant Colonel..." The army captain next to him looked at the officer's drastically changed expression, thinking that he was too nervous and out of control: "Would you like to go down for a rest, I can..."

"No, I'm fine."

Raising his hand again to interrupt his subordinates, the commander of the Grenadier regiment gave him a familiar smile and patted him on the shoulder: "Tell the soldiers to stay where they are and build their positions."

"Array, position?!"

"Yes, start right away; oh... You can ask the logistics person for me again, just say the batch of military flags ordered by the deputy commander before, is there any left?"

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