Chapter 475. Turmoil in the Lion Principality
In just a few days, the Order's logistical supply lines were devastated.
A large number of transport convoys from Lion's Fort and Lionheart City were all targeted by the light cavalry led by Rolf, and then took advantage of the slack of people at night to launch a surprise attack, without too much entanglement, throwing on the fire oil and running.
With the flames raging, although the personnel of the convoy did not suffer too many casualties, the materials were lost a lot.
Sometimes even people are slaughtered.
Outright banditry!
Wrong.
Although the Lion Principality is constantly filthy among the various nobles, there are actually not many real robbers.
It was all wolf dogs raised by nobles, and only at certain times would they attack the caravan wantonly, but as soon as the news from the master arrived, it was as if they were chained again, and they fell completely silent.
Therefore, the various forces of the Lion Principality are all dogs raised by nobles.
Pull out and bite if you need to.
No, you don't.
Then let me stay at home in peace.
As for the current Rolf, who unscrupulously began to commit crimes in the plains and various farms of the Southern County Territory, burning, killing and looting everything, it was simply unimaginable!
But because of this, the management of all levels of the Nanjun Territory, those nobles, didn't react at all!
Three days.
More than fifty of the farms of the Southern County Territory were burned by Rolf.
Even more than a dozen villages were burned, causing nearly 10,000 refugees to begin to gather towards Lionheart.
The entire Southern Commandery was in disarray, and with the fact that they were ready to raid, loot the convoys' food, and even disperse it to the refugees, Rolf made the situation even more chaotic.
They were all light cavalry, which made the Nanjun Commander Knights, who were accustomed to group charges and fight, all dazed.
This is where the irregular cavalry comes in.
Harass!
In addition to inflicting mobile strikes on infantry on the battlefield, in non-battlefield areas, it can also cause all kinds of troubles to the enemy, and even non-combat attrition, such as famine caused by lack of food!
Of course, there will be famine in the troops.
What's more, it is a force composed of more than 20,000 heavy cavalry, and the food required is an astronomical amount!
The daily consumption of food, people eat horses and chew, can withstand the consumption of 50,000 infantry, if before the start of the war, the need for food must surge, after all, it is necessary to ensure the physical strength of the troops in the short term, to ensure the continuous combat time on the battlefield!
Rolf's attack on the Knights of the Southshire was carried out in this way.
Strike at the grain road.
Harassment of traditional growing areas.
The peasants were driven out to become refugees, destroying the agricultural structure.
Or even blockade areas, strike transport lines, harass cities and troops that come to sweep.
In order to continue this battle that is about to continue, the enemy will be exhausted by constant harassment, and in this high-pressure state, it will collapse on its own, or go to destruction!
The noble infantry, which had already formed a defensive formation, did not care at all about the charge of the Knights.
The infantry armed with spears and spears that can form a phalanx is a hedgehog.
Want to attack and charge?
Joke!
Those members of the Knights will definitely leave corpses on the heads of sharp spears and spears!
Even if the weight and inertia of the war horse broke through a part of the spear phalanx, how could the cost performance of the two sides be proportional? A group of lowly Northern County leaders who recruited militia and hired peasants only received a few months of military training every year, and they could exchange the lives of this group of knights who had been trained all year round.
Just looking at it, I think it's worth it, not to mention that in order to break through the layered, almost dense defensive spear phalanx, unless at least five thousand knights or knight squires are killed, this can only be done!
The most important thing is that the word death.
Doesn't the death of 5,000 members of the Knights mean that everyone left is wounded?
This is still a conservative estimate, because among the more than 20,000 infantry, there is still a heavy cavalry of more than 3,000 people, including men and horses all wearing armor, and the elite level is no less than that of the knights of the Nanjun Territory!
If a battle does break out between the two sides, unless one of them falls!
The battle is going to be terrible!
But.
As it stands.
If the troops of the Northern County Commander really have to stand by and stick to the edge of the Southern County Territory in a defensive posture, then it is really like a hedgehog, so that the noble knights of the Southern County Territory have no way to say anything.
Even if the troops of the Northern County Commander move slightly, they can form some gaps and flaws.
That's the gateway through which the Knights stormed.
But the infantry of the Northern County Commander just didn't make any moves, and they still stuck in place.
Even the convoys didn't care, and even if those convoys brought in all kinds of supplies, even if the Nanjun Commander sent light cavalry to reconnoiter or raid, they were indifferent at all.
The biggest reason is that as the commander of the Northern County Command, Fatis doesn't care at all.
The advantage of the southern commander was the knights composed of heavy cavalry.
And not hussars.
The light cavalry, who wore rudimentary leather armor, or no armor at all, was only used for reconnaissance.
It is ridiculous to want to storm a convoy protected by pikemen, as long as the convoy is connected into a chariot formation, connected into a low wall, those light cavalry armed with spears or swords are useless.
After a few days, the knights of the Southern Commandery recalled their light cavalry.
It's not because it doesn't work well.
It's because more unexpected trouble is coming!
In the various farms deep in the Nanjun Territory, the slaves who originally belonged to the prisoners of war of the Yinpan Kingdom actually set off a huge uprising, killing many farm management, occupying the farms and beginning to rebel against the rule of the Nanjun Territory.
This was an extremely unexpected event, destroying the rest of the South-County Territory Farm almost in a short period of time.
A rebellion has broken out!
Except for the area around Lion's Castle and Lionheart, the rest of the place is a chaotic rebel army.
That's right, the captives of the Silver Plate Kingdom rebelled, calling themselves rebels, and instead of gathering in place, they scattered everywhere, destroying the farms of the southern county of the Lion Duchy, freeing more slaves, and plundering more peasants, making the civilians who originally lived in the villages rebels.
In just a few days, it has become a force of more than 20,000 people, which is even more ferocious than Rolf's light cavalry, almost sweeping everything like locusts, eating, drinking, killing, burning, and completely destroying the southern county territory!
The entire north bank of the Resniston River is in complete chaos.
Even the private armies of those nobles began to quell the rebellion with difficulty, but the effect was limited.
Everyone's eyes were involved in the rebels of the Northern County Leader, and they didn't expect that their side, those excellent slaves who were guarded, would also start a rebellion.
And because it was a rebellion set off by the captives of the Silver Plate Kingdom, they didn't pay attention to the mood of the country at all, and everything they encountered was burned down, including the original lush fields and forests, and even those villages, all of which were destroyed and razed to the ground.
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