Chapter 174: The 'Conspiracy' of the Civil War
There was no grass outside the walls of Norgrod, and the ruins of the wall could no longer provide the slightest protection for Norgrod.
In order to capture Nogrod as soon as possible, Krylov III paid a great price, and the battle loss ratio of the 'Ceremonial Mage Regiment', which the Kolo Kingdom was proud of, was only about five.
This ratio was so terrifying that three days after the storming of Nowrod, Krylov III had the 'Ceremonial Mage Regiment' withdrawn and reworked his tactics.
Not a professional soldier, but a militia - it almost costs only five lives to replace a mage, and after the death of more than a dozen mages, these mages in the hands of Krylov III are now unable to use large ritual spells.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that something is not quite right with the combat effectiveness of those militiamen, because even with farm tools in their hands, they are still able to exchange the lives of five people for a mage of the 'Ritual Mage Regiment' when Krylov III sent a cavalry regiment to attack.
They are too 'fearless of death', how can ordinary militiamen be so unafraid of death?
If it is an ordinary militia, they only need to kill a few, or even kill, they only need to let them see the knight charge, and they will immediately flee.
Not only is he not afraid of death, but he also has a tacit understanding, coupled with the fact that it is completely a 'life for life' style of play, such a 'militia' is really wrong, so the mages dissected the corpses of the militia left on the battlefield, and really found traces of magic transformation in their bodies.
But the problem is that there are very many militias on the battlefield, and although their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of professional soldiers, they can use life-for-life tactics to kill mages, which is almost like being created to deal with the existence of 'spellcasters' on the battlefield.
From the traces of transformation on the corpses, it can be found that these militiamen are not temporarily transformed, and if they are temporary, then it will cost a lot of money, but Vallo cannot have so much money.
Even if they have so much money, it is impossible to have so many magic materials and mages, and so many transformations at one time, even if all the mage groups in the kingdom do it, they may not be able to succeed in the transformation at one time.
This shows Adolf Valho's wolf ambitions, which he had long planned to rebel and had been preparing for many years.
Except for the undead, they really haven't seen any more fearless beings than these militiamen, it is as if they have been directly erased from their feelings, and there is nothing left in their minds about the 'assigned task'.
However, after this battle, Adolf Valho's plan failed, and no one would support him again, such a cold-blooded person, even his cronies would feel chilled, right?
Although for the nobles, no matter how many of these 'mud legs' die, they will not be sad, but they still want these 'mud legs' to work for them!
They are typical 'want the horse to run fast and the horse not eat grass', but how can there be such a cheap thing in the world?
Those militiamen only had farm tools in their hands, and Krylov III really couldn't understand why Adolf Valho would choose to transform these militias instead of transforming professional soldiers?
It's not like the 'Adolf Valho' he knows!
Adolf Valho, the man who had inherited the ducal title when he had just returned to Greenland from the wind, was an 'ambitious' man, and he was sure of this at the first sight of him.
He is an ambitious man, he likes dignified duels, and likes to use 'Yang Mou', because 'conspiracy' is almost useless once it is recognized, but Yang Mou is different.
I had a few encounters with him, but at first it was only after I tried my best to 'lose slightly', and it was only in the next few encounters that I barely managed to draw after I figured out some of his details.
It was only at the Congress that I won once.
Because of his past experience, Krylov III was a little confused.
The court mages said that these militias would have to be transformed over a long period of time to accumulate this number, and that it must have been before Adolf Valho 'suffered from Lost Soul'.
Will he do that?
'Just to inflict casualties' on the 'Ritual Mage Regiment', the cost of creating so many militias who are not afraid of death can be said to be very high.
The existence of these militias is almost as if they were created to stop them from attacking 'Nogrode', that man, Adolf Valho!
If you put yourself in the shoes of 'Adolf Valho', would he have such a negative approach?
After a little thought, Krylov III had already come up with a conclusive answer - no, he would not!
This could not have been done by Adolfo Valho!
Krylov III was already convinced, but it was useless either.
He still didn't dare to send the 'ceremonial mage group' into battle, although those militias who were not afraid of death were not strong, and basically had no advantages except that they were relatively strong and not afraid of death, but only these two were enough to defeat two or three noble private soldiers or seven or eight militiamen.
Those militias are not afraid of death, but the aristocratic private soldiers and the militia on their side are afraid of death, as long as those militias who are not afraid of death rush to the battlefield, as long as they can kill more than a dozen people in exchange for lives, then the courage of the people on their side will be frightened, where is the courage to do it?
When the time comes, there will be another fierce charge that is not afraid of death, and the formation will almost disperse.
But if you encounter a cavalry regiment or some powerful veterans, those militias are basically useless, and can only sit and wait to be slaughtered.
"I'll go!"
In the tent in the center of the camp, the nobles were constantly arguing.
They don't have to go to the battlefield themselves, they just need to stay in the safe rear and say 'charge me', but no one wants to spend their own forces to take 'Nogrod'.
The main body of this army is the 'noble private soldiers' and the 'professional soldiers', in addition to a few 'mercenaries', and the rest are the 'militia'.
Many of the peasants who responded to the lord's call and took farm tools did not even have a decent sword or a decent leather armor at home, their 'weapons' were farm tools, and their 'armor' was linen.
They were the militia of the nobles who 'it doesn't matter if they die'.
The aristocracy didn't care what happened to the militia, but they cared about how their private soldiers were.
Nobles without 'force' will die quickly, although they don't care much about the life and death of their private soldiers, they only care about whether they have enough force.
Nogrod couldn't attack it, and these selfish nobles who were led by the sad wind to lead the army to win one victory after another suddenly lost their original arrogant appearance, and began to shirk their responsibilities to each other, and even when discussing how to attack Nogrord, the original 'leading soldiers' Wu Yong didn't know where to throw it away.
What a shame!
Just as Krylov III was about to speak to put an end to the disgraceful behavior of these nobles, the Knight of Tosolo spoke.
Immediately, everyone present looked at him.
It had also been questioned before why the Knight of Tosolo did not allow the army of the Tempest to participate in the battle, and the Knight of Tosoro's answer at that time was:
"After days of fighting, my boys are tired and they need to rest. ”
Therefore, for three days in a row, the army of the Sorrowful Wind Leader did not set foot on this battlefield.
Originally, the Tosolo knights were just going to see how Vallo's men defended Nogrod, but the result was very disappointing to him, this kind of victory that was completely piled up with human lives was meaningless, just defending for the sake of 'defending', not defending for the sake of 'victory'.
They're just stalling for time!
Knowing the enemy's intentions, the knight of Tosolo took the opportunity to stand up, "I'll go! Nogrod couldn't take the attack, and the successive battles and successive defeats made the soldiers have some other ideas. After this fight, we will have some rest in Nogrorod. I took people to break down the walls of Nogrod, but we will not attack immediately, and then we will still have a 'truce' for three days, and at this time it is not appropriate to rush to attack. ”
The words of the Tosolo knight were already clear, and Krylov III heard them very clearly.
The Knight Tosolo is reminding Krylov III, and most importantly this is a 'quiet' reminder!
So when the nobles refuted the Tosolo knights, accusing him of why he didn't just attack Nogrod, Krylov III stopped them.
"That's it!"
Krylov III looked at the Knight of Tosoro and said, "Knight Kem Tosoro, we will respect the sovereignty of the Duchy of Sorrow, if you and your army want to rest, please don't care about us!"
"Thank you Your Majesty for your generosity. ”
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Five days later, Nogrod was captured.
That evening, the news had already reached the Marquis of Elfaro.
The Marquis of Elfaro's left hand rested on the jar, and he thought with his cheeks in mind.
Adolfo Valho has ceased to speak in recent days, and his soul has begun to enter 'death'.
Marquis Elfaro didn't expect that those militiamen who were not afraid of death would fight Krylov III in the city, and they didn't stop Krylov III's footsteps, which made him further realize the power of the Sad Wind Leader.
There were no well-known generals in the kingdom, and no nobles could fight well except for the Duke of Valho, and the knights under their command could not even give a slight opinion, so the Marquis of Elfaro naturally did not think that it was the credit of those nobles to be able to capture Norgrod.
"Is the sad wind collar......"
Originally, he didn't want to face the Sorrowful Wind Leader so soon, but now the situation doesn't allow it - there are too many accidents!
It's even too much for him to bear, and he has to stop these accidents from happening, or his plans will definitely go wrong.
Looks like he's going to need to deal with the Grim Wind Leader!