Riding and Slashing

Chapter 253
To be honest, Emperor Marius was a gambler.

Because, what he did was actually equivalent to sending out all the cronies in his hands again.

At present, only half of the Immortal Legion has been disabled in the continuous battles remaining in Siyuan City.

If it wasn't for clearing up the remnants of the chaos around Siyuan City and maintaining the law and order of Siyuan City, I'm afraid the Immortal Legion would have been sent out by Marius...

Therefore, Emperor Marius appointed General Agathon as the marshal, and asked General Agathon, whose troops were also disabled, to go to Leyla Fortress to reorganize the manpower.

Agathon was driven away by Mario before to find Justus, but he went to the wrong place - he thought Justus was in Boshi City.

Before General Kryon controlled the Red Death in Boshi City, Justus did not come back after he went to Dilingang in order to give Kryon more space.

The reserve troops of the Immortal Legion, that is, the imperial guards, are also following Governor Justus in rebuilding Emperor Lingang.

But Ajiasong went to the right place to go to Boshi City - not long after he arrived in Boshi City, Emperor Mario was relieved by Li Ang in Brettwen.

Therefore, General Agathon naturally didn't need to go to Emperor Lingang to find Justus, but returned to Emperor Mario's side again.

Emperor Marius asked Agathon to go to Leyla Fortress, in fact, because Leyla Fortress was originally the residence of General Agathon.

However, at that time, the rebel army was already close to Siyuan City, the rebel army lost control in Boshi City, and the Snake Worship Cult besieged Emperor Lingang on a large scale. At this time, it was meaningless to stick to Leyla Fortress—the enemies all emerged from the interior here.

So at that time, Emperor Marius transferred Agathon back, abandoned Leyla Fortress, and allowed Agathon to regain the more important hub Marasburg at the time, thus quickly reconnecting the three major cities.

But now, the domestic war has subsided, and Emperor Marius has set his sights on the Principality of Desia, and Leyla Fortress is naturally more important at this time.

Besides, Leyla Fortress was controlled by Kairos a few days ago. Although Kairos is now focusing on chasing the Snake Cult, his current state cannot reassure Emperor Marius.

In order to prevent Kailos from becoming the second Sheila Youzas, Emperor Marius replaced the marshal with Agathon, and sent him back to Leyla Fortress again.

Unlike the Seven Fortresses of the Lion Kingdom, Leyla Fortress is not the kind of border fort that directly faces the enemy, but a connection hub between various military and political important places.

Three hundred miles to the east of the fortress is Boshi City, the cultural center, four hundred miles to the south is Siyuan City, the capital and political center, more than 200 miles to the north is Sava River Fort, which has been fighting with the Lion Kingdom all year round, and about [-] miles to the west is the Sava River Castle, which is fighting with the German Empire. The border of Xia Principality.

The Bacchus Empire had two such hubs. One was Marasburg, which Emperor Marius had told General Agathon to take back, and the other was Fort Leyla.

This kind of hub usually hoards heavy troops, because if there is a problem anywhere in the surrounding area, reinforcements can be sent from Marasburg or Leyla Fortress, and logistics supplies and various material transfers must also be transferred through it.

In fact, only the Bacchus Empire has such a transit hub in the entire Pendor Continent.

On the one hand, this is due to the different military systems. The various large armies of the Bacchus Empire are essentially dispatched by the state, not the private troops of the local lords.

In order to prevent the border lords from taking advantage of the high sky and embracing the emperor's troops from afar, causing the country's legion to gradually become the lord's private soldiers, it is necessary to build a midway fortress to keep a close eye on it. Usually, the person in charge of the Leyla fortress is the last emperor of all dynasties. Trusted General.

This is not distrust of border lords, after all, it is related to national security.In fact, even if this is done, there will still be problems. The rebels of Sheila Youzas actually bought the country's legion into his own followers in various ways.

On the other hand, it was mainly because of the lack of horses in the Bacchus Empire.

Since Siyuan City is located on the southern coast, it is far away from places like the Sava River Castle in the north.

However, the number of domestic cavalry is small, and there are relatively few carriages, and the efficiency of transportation and rescue is not high enough. Naturally, this kind of military transfer center is needed to shorten the distance of reinforcements, so as not to cut off the important places.

Just like not long ago, due to the fall of Marasburg, an important hub city, Siyuan City, Boshi City, and Emperor Lingang lost the connection channel, and the Bacchus Empire was directly cut into two halves.

Agathon's prestige in the army is indeed very high, and now he has the status of marshal again. After he returned to Leyla Fortress, there was no problem with the garrison in the fortress.

Even though many of these armies belonged to the Shadow Legion and were originally under the command of Kairos, Agathon, who was also from the Shadow Legion, still easily took over them and reorganized them in a very short time.

But the Sava River Fort in the north has a very serious situation...

To be precise, there was another war at the Sava River Fort-at a time when war should not be provoked at all.

The lord of the Sava River Fort is General Titus, but this general was sent to the Amala Continent by Emperor Marius early in the morning, and the situation at that time really made it impossible to send another person to manage the Sava River Fort.

And the rebel army of Xilayuzas has been besieging Siyuan City persistently, and did not go to Sava River Fort.

This caused the Sava River Fort to be left alone for a long time, and there were not even enough troops stationed there.

Under such circumstances, the Sarleon Kingdom and the De'xia Principality would naturally have their ideas on this place.

The reason why King Ulrik did not respond to Alina's request for help was because his troops had already sneaked across the Sava River.

So he signed an armistice agreement with Alina, but he didn't announce the armistice agreement to the whole country...

Because he, like the former emperor of the old Bacchus Empire in the Amala Continent, sent troops to attack before the ink on the armistice agreement was dry.

But things like history are surprisingly similar, just like when the Barclay Empire and the Bacchus Empire planned to attack the Pandor Continent at the same time, the two sides fought first to share the cake - the Sarleon Kingdom and the D'Shar Principality They also fought together for the ownership of the Sava River Fort and the surrounding areas.

While Li Ang was fighting the Snake Cult in Bacchus, the Duke of Brennus of the Sarleon Kingdom and the Caliph Bahaman of the Duchy of D'Shar were fighting in full swing near the Sava River Fort.

Brennus' troops are relatively elite, but the Knights of the Lions are still being rebuilt, and the number of people participating in the battle is relatively small;

And Bahaman brought a large number of D'Sha Gazi raiders and more troops, but D'Shar's troops have never been very suitable for overseas operations. In terrains other than deserts, their combat effectiveness may not be fully utilized.

As a result, the two sides fought for nearly two months, each suffered heavy casualties, but no one gained any real benefits...

It wasn't until the news of Li Ang's occupation of Karen Deer Fort came that the Dexia people fully evacuated the Sava River Fort, but they encountered an ambush during the evacuation process, and Bahaman finally escaped, only taking dozens of people with him The guards returned to D'Shar territory.

And Brennus, who suffered heavy losses, also failed to get the Sava River Fort, and he was also ambushed when he led his troops to try to control the surrounding villages. Hui Lie Lion Realm...

——It was the same group of people who ambushed Bahaman and Brennus. General Titus just came back at this time, and he came back with the Phoenix Knights.

In fact, General Titus had returned long ago, but he encountered the enemy on the way—the infantry of the Legion of Dread.

There are actually a large number of infantry in the Legion of Dread. After all, most of the former Third Legion of the Empire were infantry, and the number of infantry in the Legion of Dread is more than that of the Python Knight.

These undead infantry are quite powerful. When they were still alive, they were elite fighters. They were the Spear Regiment of the Third Legion of the Guaccus Empire, which is a typical hedgehog-type infantry regiment that formed a dense phalanx with spears and large shields. .

But when Maltis brought the Dread Legion to Siyuan City, this infantry regiment was not with Maltis, otherwise Emperor Marius might not have been able to seal the Dread Legion into Siyuan City.

This is because this infantry regiment was separated from Martis at sea, and the separation was relatively far away.

In winter, the northern seas of the Pendor Continent will freeze, and the large area of ​​frozen ice will cause ocean currents to appear in the sea, and the ocean currents will always push towards the bay in the south of the Pendor Continent.

Therefore, in winter, there will often be monsoons and waves caused by ocean currents in the southern part of the Bacchus Empire, just like the wind and waves encountered by Leon's troops in Serendil.

If the dilapidated and dilapidated ships of the Dread Legion encountered wind and waves during the long voyage, it was indeed easy to have various problems.

In addition, General Titus was ordered to destroy the port of the Snake Cult in the Amara mainland in a timely manner. The other large forces of the Snake Cult did not go to sea, but Martis' fear legion came out alone in a broken ship.

After all, the undead army of the Dread Legion is different from ordinary people. They have no requirements for the safety of the means of transportation and whether the port is suitable—anyway, the undead of the Dread Legion don’t care about falling into the sea, they can climb up from the bottom of the sea...

The Dread Legion driving the dilapidated ships encountered the winter ocean currents off the southern coast of Pendor. As a result, the fleet, which lacked sails and was basically powered by oars, was scattered by the ocean currents and split into two parts.

Most of the python knights followed Martis and landed in Qiza, while the infantry of the Dread Legion was affected by the ocean current and drifted to the bay northwest of Siyuan City—this huge bay is the end of the ocean current in the southern sea area of ​​​​the Bacchus Empire. , in summer, this is the starting point of the reverse ocean current.

In other words, the boat carrying the infantry of the Dread Legion has actually passed through the waters of Siyuan City, and has traveled a long distance...

But they have never been able to land because of the Phoenix Knights brought by Titus.

After General Titus was ordered by Emperor Marius to attack the Snake Cult port in Amara Continent, he brought the Phoenix Knights back from Amara Continent, and when they were about to return to the waters of Siyuan City, they encountered a Ocean currents washed over the Dreadlegion fleet.

They didn't know that this was just the infantry of the Dread Legion, so they followed all the way, trying to prevent the Dread Legion from landing.

It was actually a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the Legion of Dread at sea—this undead army was really powerful after landing, but those broken ships were simply vulnerable at sea.

So the fleet of the Phoenix Knights intends to take this opportunity to kill the Dread Legion at sea.

After all, the Phoenix Knights did not bring horses when they came to support from the Amara Continent, and they did not plan to fight the Dread Legion on land without horses.

Unlike the Dread Legion, normal horses are not suitable for large-scale boarding for ocean voyages.

The horses of the Dread Legion are all undead, neither running wild nor frightened, and there is no problem in the loading bay.But live horses take up quite a lot of space, and it is easy to die of illness on board.

General Titus led the Phoenix Knights, and indeed killed the half of the fleet carrying the infantry of the Dread Legion at sea, but it took a long time for this. Even after the Siyuan City was relieved, they came from Vida near the bay. village landing.

Just because Siyuan City had already been relieved of the siege at that time, General Titus did not go to Siyuan City at the first time, because he soon heard that there was a war in his territory after he landed in Vida Village, and two groups of foreigners ran to his territory fight……

General Titus couldn't bear this kind of situation. He was a fierce general with a bad temper. In addition, Vida Village was not far from Sava River Castle, so he took the Phoenix Knights to Sava River Castle. Hurry up, just bump into Caliph Bahaman who is retreating.

To be honest, the reason why Bahaman was ambushed after leaving the Sava River Fort's jurisdiction was probably mainly because he brought too many horses...

Seeing Bahaman's troops withdraw from the Sava River Fort's jurisdiction, the Phoenix Knights naturally realized that these desert tribe's cavalry must have attacked General Titus' territory before...

The people of the Phoenix Knights are indeed very loyal. General Titus helped them destroy the port of the Snake Worship Cult on the continent of Amala. Too many horses...then definitely deserve a vote.

So Bahaman was ambushed by the Phoenix Knights unsuspectingly, causing heavy casualties, and most of the horses became the mounts of the Phoenix Knights.

And then, Titus planned to take the Phoenix Knights back to the Sava River Castle to improve supplies, and ran into Brennus who was searching the village under his own rule.

Brennus's habit of looting wherever he went has killed him this time...

Although Titus himself sometimes scrapes the land, he obviously cannot accept his own land being scraped by others...

And the Phoenix Knights are a team with a sense of justice, and they don't want to see such looters, so they made another vote.

The Phoenix Knights with their horses are indeed very powerful, and Brennus did not expect to encounter such a strong enemy in the village. After being charged by the Phoenix Knights for several rounds, Brennus had no choice but to run away .

But sometimes people are really fickle. After several big victories in a row, General Titus is probably a little bit drifting - he has defeated the Legion of Dread and the most powerful lord of the D'Shar Principality and the Sarleon Kingdom in a row. Might be a little wobbly.

During the continuous battles on the two continents, Titus has formed a deep friendship with the Phoenix Knights. The Phoenix Knights only know him so far, so they will naturally follow him to fight.

And suddenly with such a strong army in hand, and has maintained a winning streak, and has not suffered any major losses—under such circumstances, General Titus began to have some other ideas.

For example, self-respect for soldiers.

For another example, taking advantage of the Phoenix Knights now in his hands, he took the opportunity to expand his strength.

It was quite normal for him to have such thoughts. If he went to see Emperor Marius now, he would probably not be in command of the Phoenix Knights anymore, and he would become an ordinary general again.

It is estimated that it is inferior to Agathon and Kryon in terms of the degree of attention and specific strength, and there are two or three governors with higher status...

But what if he keeps holding the Phoenix Knights in his hands?

Even... What if he could use the Phoenix Knights to lay down more territory of his own?

Is it possible to become the governor of the Bacchus Empire?

His Majesty the Emperor has always been the smartest person, and Governor Levius has always had a bad record. Just because his family controls the Shadow Infantry, he has always been able to occupy the high position of Governor...

So, what if he held the Phoenix Knights in his hand for a while longer and tried to turn it into his own private soldier?
If you want to keep the Phoenix Knights in your hands, the best way is of course not to let the war end...

(End of this chapter)