Chapter 280 130 The Army Is Dispatched

Chapter 280 -130- The army is dispatched

January 1, 1446, Holy Calendar, God's Birthday.

The ancient and prosperous Miria continent ushered in another new year.

Under the shining of holy light, people from different countries and races gathered together to celebrate the beginning of the new year and the birthday of the God Lord Harald.

However, for the residents of the North, this year's God's Birthday is destined to be less peaceful.

At the beginning of the new year, when people in most parts of the continent were celebrating the festival, the Countess of Castel, the Lord of the North, Charlotte de Castel, personally led an army of 25,000 people to the north and issued an ultimatum to the rebellious Legris family.

More than 20,000 troops are not a small number in any principality of the Crescent Kingdom.

Although Castel is a countship, in the eyes of many nobles, its wealth and prosperity have actually exceeded the minimum principality standard in the conventional sense.

If it were the Western Unite Empire, which has many vassal states, the territory that could be mobilized in this way would have exceeded many small principalities. Only in the Crescent Kingdom, where the Grand Dukedom is strong, it would not be so eye-catching.

But even so, as a major force in the Crescent Kingdom second only to the twelve principalities, Castel's every move has attracted the attention of various forces and has become a topic of conversation in salons and banquets among nobles.

Especially the protagonist of this rebellion, Charlotte, the Earl of the North, who has been in office for less than a year.

"The youngest female countess", "the pearl of Borde", "rich Charlotte", "the saint walking on the ground"...

Various titles and names have made her the object of attention and discussion of many nobles.

Whether it is as the last heir of the Castel family or the promise Charlotte made to the Holy King Court at the Borde banquet, any one of them is enough to make her a topic of discussion at the banquet of the nobles.

For a time, the eyes of the lords of the Crescent Kingdom were almost all focused on Castel, wanting to know how this young and beautiful female countess would quell the rebellion in the territory.

In the eyes of many nobles, although the 20,000 troops are powerful, Castel's rebellion is not simple...

Especially combined with some bad rumors about the third prince Philip in the capital not long ago, and the clever timing of the military ban issued by His Majesty the King, some people who believe in conspiracy theories even think that this countess who is inclined to the church is likely to be on the blacklist of the Crescent Royal Family.

Of course, conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories, and the Crescent Royal Family has no reaction.

Crescent King Louis V still held a banquet in the court as in previous years, inviting vassals to the banquet and celebrating the festival together.

On the contrary, the third prince Philip and his wife, Duchess Eleanor of Borde, who were supposed to come back from the territory to meet their father and attend the court banquet, were absent.

Also absent was the current Duke of Violet, Hubert de Boit-Lint.

Although there are always a few nobles who do not attend the annual court banquet of the Crescent Kingdom for various reasons, the fact that Borde and Violet did not attend the meeting still made some nobles of the kingdom think about it.

After all, one of these two families is the lord of the Earl of Castel, and the other is a close neighbor of Castel, and the third prince is the nephew of the Duke of Violet.

Combined with the rebellion that happened to be everywhere in Castel and the ambiguous attitude of the Crescent Royal Family, it is difficult for some perceptive people not to associate something.

However, this has nothing to do with Charlotte.

Banquets and intelligence of this level are only mastered by the real upper-class dignitaries of the kingdom. No matter how rich Castel is, as long as Castel is a vassal of Bolde, Castel will never be able to step into the real upper echelons of the kingdom.

And these intelligences are naturally not related to Castel.

Of course, Charlotte, who had already known about the conspiracy of the third prince through other channels, did not need it.

When Louis V was entertaining his ministers, she had already led the army to pass through the Earl of Tulip and approached the main force of the Legris family rebels.

With the support of Count Gaston, the Castel coalition army that passed through the Earl of Tulip did not need to cross the Dorne River at all. The army only needed to bypass it from the west and launch an attack directly on the rebels from the west.

The nobles who were traveling with him were surprised at the support of the Tulip garrison. After all, it was bound to be a great risk and pressure to allow 25,000 soldiers to enter the Earldom of Tulip.

At this time, the nobles who had doubts finally believed that the commander-in-chief of the Tulip side, Count Gaston, really intended to help Castel quell the rebellion.

When Count Gaston led the main force of the garrison to leave the fortress and join the coalition, the nobles of Castel became more confident.

Unlike the Castel coalition, which was mainly composed of noble conscripts, many of whom did not even have armor and could only be regarded as peasant soldiers at best, the garrison of the Earldom of Tulip was all armored, and many of them were armored and plate armor comparable to the regular army of the kingdom.

Although the number of people was small, only 3,000 at most, more than half of the soldiers had complex patterns engraved on their armor.

That was enchanted armor.

At least 1,500 of the Tulip garrison were extraordinary soldiers armed with enchanted armor, enough to open a minimum magic array on the battlefield.

In other words, these 1,500 men alone could be counted as 15,000 men on the battlefield.

Although the remaining half of the soldiers did not wear enchanted armor, they were all wearing armor, and... almost all of them were cavalry.

Elite, this is the elite of Bolder!

Any Castel noble who has seen the Tulip garrison will have such an idea. In comparison, Castel's coalition army still looks a little shabby.

That is, the nobles' private soldiers and the 1,500 regular soldiers directly under Castel can hold the scene. They are better equipped. Although they do not have enough enchanted armor, let alone to form an array, at least... the total number is more than the army of the Earl of Tulip.

The cavalry is much less.

Although the Crescent Kingdom has always been famous for its heavy cavalry in Miria, and the Crescent Royal Family has a corps of more than 30,000 elite enchanted heavy cavalry, there are not many horse farms in the Earl of Castel near the sea, and most of them are in the north.

Including the noble knights and the cavalry of the direct jurisdiction, Charlotte's own cavalry does not exceed 3,000 people, and most of the 25,000 troops are infantry.

However, if it is just to suppress the rebellion, it is more than enough.

It is just a war at the level of an earldom. At best, because of the size of Castel, it looks like a civil war of a small principality.

But the earldom is an earldom after all, and it does not have many extraordinary resources. Perhaps there is great potential for future wars, but Castel, which has always focused on the economy, has not developed its military power at this stage. Most of the enchanted armor in the territory was even seized by Charlotte from the Castel mine. In the eyes of higher-level lords, no matter how many people there are, they are just chickens fighting each other.

In a world with extraordinary power, military supplies are also much more convenient. Especially for space magic, a few more wizards in the same field, plus the space equipment accumulated by the noble family for generations, can save a lot of non-combat manpower. It is also for this reason that Charlotte did not encounter much logistical difficulties in her march.

After the army marched for a week, Charlotte finally saw the rebels stationed on the banks of the Dorne River.

"My Lord, our scouts have engaged the rebel rangers, but the rebels seem to be taking no action for the time being. Should we send an envoy to issue a notice of persuasion?"

The noble who was traveling with him asked respectfully.

Charlotte pondered for a moment and nodded:

"Go."

Although she did not have any hope, it seemed that persuading surrender before the war was also a tradition of the nobles of Miria.

After receiving the order, the nobles quickly arranged for the envoy, but not long after, the rebels sent the envoy back.

Or to be more precise, they sent back the heads of the envoys who persuaded them to surrender.