When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 891: Battle of Dusk Bell Mountain (Sequel)

The morning breeze blew across his face. Andre Marseille, the first advisor of the Iron Fist Chapter, stood beside Valentyl and stared at the battlefield below the hillside.

The continuous sound of artillery shells breaking through the air and the whistling of lead bullets frightened the sheep and made them run in panic. The long-haired mastiff kept barking in the direction of the artillery sound.

On the flat ground in front of the manor at the foot of the hill, about two thousand troops were fighting.

If ordinary people were to see it, they would only see chaotic swords, waving flags and spurting blood.

But in Andre's eyes, everything is clear.

The flags, movements, and shapes of helmets, all these complex information combined together will make the originally complicated situation become extremely clear.

The clockwork cannon blasted the tent apart, revealing the vulnerable, unarmored knight.

The spearmen charged in three rows, stomping their feet in unison to launch [Thrust], piercing the bodies of several frightened and angry knights.

Not far away, there were holy gunners holding clockwork guns, using revolver fire to suppress all the fleeing soldiers who tried to escape from the main road.

These defeated soldiers came from the defeated border knights, and several flag teams of defeated soldiers camped overnight in this river valley village.

But unfortunately, the news of the Border Knights' defeat had already reached Andre through the Nauan River.

Andre mobilized overnight and formed a large net to wait for these unlucky knights to run into it.

"Don't kill those who kneel down! Don't kill those who drop their weapons!"

"Come out of the tent and put your hands behind your head."

"boom--"

Broken wood chips flew everywhere, the gutter broke, and water mixed with hay and horsehair flowed on the ground.

The terrified war horses stood up, jumped out of the stable, and galloped towards the gravel field.

Piles of war horses were rampaging in the camp, and clock bullets were rolling on the ground with a "clicking" sound.

The invisible mental shock and the lead bullets flying in the air knocked down the remaining soldiers in the camp one by one.

The knights held onto their horses' necks like stray dogs and charged left and right in the camp - not to kill the generals or seize the flags, but to escape.

"Valentyl." Andre suddenly said to Valentyl beside him, "Look over there."

Valentyl took a quick look and saw that two soldiers took advantage of the chaos to randomly stuff the amber gems from the knight's jewelry box into the ribbon.

It's stuffed so full that one or two will fall out accidentally.

Valentyl immediately said unhappily: "Your good soldier!"

Andre curled his lips and said, "I repeatedly stressed before the battle that fighting is fighting, and picking up things is picking up things, and the two things cannot be done at the same time.

Benny, who is that soldier, do you know him?"

Benny, the commander of the Fifth Corps, stuttered for a while: "I am the centurion of my corps..."

"You know more?" Andre remembered the names and appearances of every centurion of every regiment. He was just testing Benny. "Cut off their left hands and see who dares to take it again."

"You are so good, Andre. You only allow yourself to take it and not others?" Valentinel glanced at him sideways.

"I know when I can take it and when I should take it." Andre's eagle-like eyes were fixed on the soldiers who were stuffing gold and silver treasures into their crotches. "The war is not over yet, we can't take it and we shouldn't take it!"

Sweat dripped from the corps commander's temples. These two centurion commanders were obviously his capable men, so he was reluctant to cut off their hands.

"Mr. Andre..."

"What?" Andre opened his eyes wide, "You don't want to listen to me?"

Instead, Valentyl pulled his hand down: "Okay, let's judge the crime instead of the person. We must enforce the law. The lynching culture of the old imperial army is unacceptable.

Military judge, take the military police and arrest those two and deal with them as needed."

"Yes." The military judge waved to a team of military police, who trotted over there.

The corps commander nodded gratefully to Valentyl and followed the military judge.

Valentyl pulled Andre's arm and walked down the hillside: "Aren't you afraid that these corps commanders will have an opinion if you treat them like this?"

"Dare? I taught you step by step!" Andre shook off Valentyl's hand, put his hands behind his back and walked along the stream. "Besides, my position was given by the Pope. So what if they have objections?"

"You don't have to defile yourself. Your Majesty is not a stingy person." Valentyl followed Andre and walked to a broken stone wall. "I'm going to pee. Wait for me."

Andre untied his belt and said, "I want to take a dip too."

The sound of water dripping on the stone wall, Valentyl did not look at Andre beside him: "You underestimate me too much. The standardization of the military law of the Iron Fist Regiment can be promoted without your cooperation."

"It has nothing to do with you." Andre looked down at the bird. "I have to show my attitude, both for those below and for those above. It's not enough to please His Majesty alone. There is also the Cardinals' Conference." "You are still so power-hungry." Valentel shuddered and pulled up his pants. "Do you want to wear red clothes (to be a cardinal in front of the king)?"

"I want to wear red clothes, but I don't want to be in front of the emperor. The water is too deep. You can do it, but I can't control it."

This Andre, he thinks the political situation of the Holy See is some kind of royal court. Is the Holy See Building the devil's lair?
Valentyl wanted to refute, but knew Andre would not listen, so he simply skipped the topic and started a new one: "Do you know what the situation is now?"

"I know." Andre finished peeing intermittently and pulled up his pants. "Mengse fought well and ate a lot, so he just left us some leftovers.

But I, Andre, am not a greedy person. I will accept the loss if there are leftovers."

"Are you the one who suffers the loss?"

"I'm willing to suffer a loss." Andre laughed, "But an honest man can't always suffer a loss, Reverend Valentyl."

"I will apply to let the Iron Fist Regiment carry out the plan to attack the Thorn Garden. It depends on whether Your Majesty agrees." Valentyl was used to Andre's double-faced character and guessed it right away.

"I'm telling you, you're from the Iron Fist, sent by the old rebels. How can you be so tactful?"

Valen Taylor knew that Andre was addicted to picking up things and wanted to go to the Thorn Garden to satisfy his addiction.

The strategy of "poking a hole in Genesis" that Horn had originally proposed has now been largely completed, and it can be said that the road ahead is now clear.

Defeating the Border Knights released the fighting power of Upper River County, which was equivalent to freeing up Horn's hand.

This hand can finally launch a counterattack against Leia.

Horn personally brought his most elite guards to Upper River County just for this counterattack.

He wants his army to march into the garden of thorns!
The Thousand Valley War in 1446 destroyed a group of Thorn Garden's national mercenaries, equivalent to one-third of the elite infantry's combat power.

The war and floods of 1448 destroyed the nobility and military system of the Stonehenge Plain.

In 1449, the Osra family came out with their army in full force, and the interior was already quite empty.

And at this moment, the road leading to the Garden of Thorns is unobstructed!
What is the Thorn Garden? It is one of the few, if not the only, gold and silver rich mining areas in the northern part of the East Continent.

Andre drooled at the thought.

Once the army entered the Thorn Garden, could the Osra family not come to help? Would he dare not come to help?

The Border Knights sent 20,000 troops, and used 5,000 of the Iron Fist Regiment to contain the 9,000 troops of the Thorn Garden.

After several battles and slow blood loss, Jinigis was left with only over 50,000 troops.

By the time the two newly formed regiments of 9,000 men were deployed to the battlefield, Horn's forces would be close to 40,000.

As one gained strength while the other lost, and as the two sides slowly bled, their strength became closer and closer.

Gathering a large army at this time would either force King Jiji to retreat to Leia and cause financial collapse, or it would be a strategic decisive battle between King Jiji and Qianhe Valley.

This is the ultimate goal of a series of measures and campaigns in Upper River County.

"It's a pity that we let the Grand Commander Emeric escape." The two of them had already walked down the hillside.

Valentyl smiled and said, "It's not a pity. Your Majesty meant not to kill them all. Besides, we gave him a Red Knight and relevant evidence and confession."

"Can he trust his confession?"

"People will believe what they want to believe." Valentyl is gentle and introverted, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have means.

Andre stopped Valentyl, and a team of gendarmes in front of him carried two centurions away quickly.

The two were greeted with four lashes of lash and demoted to deputy captain of a centurion.

Just as we reached the edge of the battlefield, this small battle was already coming to an end.

However, among the captives, the two officers discovered a different figure.

"Who is this?" Looking at the beast-skin knight curled up on the ground, Valentyl's heart suddenly beat rapidly.

Andre squatted down and said, "This face looks like a Norn. Is he a mercenary?"

"No, sir Andre." The ranger captain handed over a handkerchief with a golden gate tattooed on it. "It's the emblem of Papani, the Duke of the Golden Gate in Xiongbao. These are the family's private soldiers."

Valen Taylor and Andre looked at each other and remembered the worst possible scenario that Horn had mentioned.

"Don't be..."

Andre shouted at the ranger, "Gather all the rangers immediately and scout eastward until you reach the border with the Norn Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)