January 1, 1446 in the holy calendar, is the feast of God’s birthday.
The ancient and prosperous continent of Miria ushered in another new year.
Under the illumination of the holy light, people from different countries and races gathered together to celebrate the beginning of the new year and the birthday of the Lord Harald.
However, for the residents of Northland, this year's Christmas Day 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, Charlotte de Castres, Countess of Castres and Lord of the North, personally led an army of 25,000 people to the north. , issued an ultimatum to the rebellious Leglis family.
An army of more than 20,000 is not a small number in any principality in the Crescent Kingdom.
Although the Castel Territory is an earldom, in the eyes of many nobles, its wealth and prosperity actually exceed the minimum standard of a principality in the conventional sense.
If it were the Siyonite Empire with many vassal states, the territories that could be mobilized in this way would probably have exceeded many small duchies. Only in the Crescent Kingdom where the grand dukedom is strong, it would not be so eye-catching.
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But even so, as the largest force in the Crescent Kingdom after the twelve principalities, Castor'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, Earl Charlotte of the North, who had been in office for less than a year.
"The Youngest Countess", "The Pearl of Boulder", "Rich Charlotte", "The Saint Who Walks on the Earth"...
Various titles and titles made her the object of attention and discussion among many nobles.
Whether it is being the last scion of the Castel family, or the promise Charlotte made to the Holy Royal Court at the banquet in Boulder, any one thing singled out is enough to make her become a queen at the banquet of the nobles. Topic.
For a time, almost all the lords of the Crescent Kingdom focused their attention in the direction of Castel, wanting to know how this young and beautiful countess was going to quell this rebellion in the territory.
In the eyes of many nobles, although the 20,000-strong army is powerful, Castor's rebellion is not simple...
Especially combined with some bad rumors about the third prince Philip in the royal capital not long ago, as well as the clever timing of the military ban issued by His Majesty the King, some people who believe in conspiracy theories believe that the countess, who is leaning towards the church, It is very likely that he has been on the New Moon Royal Family's blacklist.
Of course, conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories, and the Crescent Royal Family had no reaction.
Crescent King Louis V still held a grand banquet in the palace as in previous years, inviting his vassals to the banquet to celebrate the festival together.
However, the third prince Philip and his wife Eleanor, Duchess of Boulder, who were supposed to come back from the territory to meet their father and attend the palace banquet, were absent.
Also absent was the current Duke of Violet, Hubert de Boit-Lint.
Although there are always a few big nobles who do not attend the New Moon Kingdom's annual palace banquet every year due to various reasons, Bold and Violet did not attend, which still made some kingdom nobles think about it.
After all, one of these two families is the lord of Earl Castel, the other is a close neighbor of Castel, and the third prince is the nephew of Duke Violet.
Combined with the rebellion happening everywhere in Castell and the ambiguous attitude of the Crescent Royal Family, it is difficult for some keen people not to think of something.
However, this has nothing to do with Charlotte.
This level of banquets and information can only be mastered by the real upper-class dignitaries of the kingdom. No matter how rich Castel is, as long as Castel is a vassal of Bold, then Castel will It is impossible to step into the real high-level of the kingdom.
Naturally, this information has nothing to do with Castel.
Of course, Charlotte, who had already known about the third prince's conspiracy through other channels, didn't need it either.
When Louis V hosted a banquet for his ministers, she had already led an army to take advantage of the tulips
The Earldom is approaching the main force of the Gris family rebels.
With the support of Earl Gaston, the Castel coalition forces that used the Earl of Tulip did not need to cross the Dorne River at all. The army only needed to bypass the west side and launch a direct attack on the rebels from the west.
The fellow nobles were surprised by the support of the Tulip garrison. After all... being able to allow 25,000 soldiers to enter the Tulip Earldom would inevitably involve taking great risks and pressure.
At this time, those doubtful nobles finally believed that the original commander-in-chief of Tulip, Count Gaston, really intended to assist Castel in countering the rebellion.
And when Count Gaston led the main force of the garrison to leave the fortress and join the coalition forces, the confidence of the nobles in Castres increased even more.
Unlike the Castel Allied Forces, whose main force was recruited by nobles, many of whom did not even have armor and stomachs and could only be regarded as peasant soldiers at best, the garrison of the Tulip Earldom were all wearing armor, and many of them were comparable to the Kingdom's regular army. and plate armor.
Although the number was small, with a total of only three thousand at most, more than half of the soldiers' armors were carved with complex patterns.
That's enchanted armor.
Tulip's garrison consists of at least 1,500 extraordinary soldiers armed with enchanted armor, enough to spread a minimum array of magic energy on the battlefield.
In other words, these fifteen hundred people alone can be regarded as fifteen thousand people on the battlefield.
Although the remaining half of the soldiers did not wear enchanted armor, they were all wearing armor, and... almost all were cavalry.
Elite, this is Boulder's elite!
Any Castel noble who has seen the Tulip garrison will have this idea. In comparison, Castel's coalition forces still look a little shabby.
That is to say, the private soldiers of the nobles and the 1,500 standing soldiers directly under the jurisdiction of Castel can support the field, and the equipment should be better. Although there are not enough enchanted armors, not enough to form an array, but at least... in general. The number of people is slightly larger than that of the Tulip Earldom's army.
There will be much less cavalry.
Although the Crescent Kingdom has always been famous for its heavy cavalry in Miria, and the Crescent Royal Family even maintains an elite enchanted heavy cavalry regiment with more than 30,000 people, there are not many horse farms near the sea by Earl of Castel, and most of them are in the north.
Counting the accompanying noble knights and the cavalry from the demesne, Charlotte's own cavalry did not exceed 3,000, and the vast majority of the 25,000 army were infantry.
However, it is more than enough to suppress rebellion.
It's just a war at the county level. At best, it looks like a civil war in a small principality because of Castor's size.
But after all, the earldom is an earldom, and it does not control many extraordinary resources. It may have great potential for future wars, but Castel, which has always focused on economy, has not developed much military power at this stage. The vast majority of the territory has Most of the enchanted armors were even captured by Charlotte from the Castel mines. In the eyes of higher-level lords, no matter how many people there are, they are just like novices pecking each other.
In a world with extraordinary power, it is much easier to supply the army. Especially for space magic, having a few more mages in the same field, plus the space equipment accumulated by noble families for generations, can save a lot of non-combat manpower. Because of this, Charlotte's march did not encounter many logistical difficulties.
After the army marched for a week, Charlotte finally saw the rebels stationed on the banks of the Dorne River.
"Your Majesty, our scouts have engaged the rebel rangers. However, the rebels seem to be inactive for the time being. Should we send an envoy to issue a notice to persuade them to surrender?"
The nobles accompanying him asked respectfully.
Charlotte pondered for a moment and nodded:
"Go ahead."
Although she didn't offer any hope, it seemed that it was also a tradition for Miria nobles to persuade them to surrender before war.
After receiving the order, the nobles quickly arranged for the envoys, but it was not long before the rebels sent the envoys back.
Or to be more precise, they sent back the heads of the envoys who persuaded them to surrender.
