The Knight's Journey to the Empire

On August 4878, 8 in the Knight Continent calendar, the Kingdom of Essex sent a large army to attack the Rodsaboye Fortress, the gateway to the open plains of the Kingdom of Midburg.

Among the troops participating in the war between the two sides, the number of ordinary soldiers exceeded 10, the number of upper-level knights exceeded 20, and there were also 6 powerful pillar knights.

The final result was: the Kingdom of Midburg was defeated and the Rodsaboye Fortress fell.

One of the pillars of the kingdom, Grand Patron Galleo, died in battle, and two other powerful pillar knights were defeated and fled; the commander of the kingdom's first standing army, the Central Guardian Corps, committed suicide; and the rest of the high-ranking knights who were killed in battle or captured, numbered more than one handful.

The Kingdom of Essex eventually captured the Fortress of Rodsaboye and won the final victory in the war.

Moreover, after capturing the Rodsaboye Fortress, the Kingdom of Essex dispatched the kingdom's most elite knightly order, the Knights of the King's Spear, without any delay, and marched straight into the open plains, heading straight for the capital of the Kingdom of Midburg, the city of Schindler.

Thus, the countdown to the fall of the Kingdom of Midburg officially began.

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On August 4878, 8 in the Knight Continent calendar, after a long journey of two and a half days, the [King's Hand Knights] of the Kingdom of Essex finally reached the city of Sindler and blockaded and surrounded this majestic capital.

The city gates of Schindler were closed and all passages were blocked, making it a "military island".

On August 4878, 8 in the Knight Continent calendar, His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Essex, Chris VI, led tens of thousands of infantrymen of the kingdom to the city of Schindler in person and reinforced the siege of the city, but did not attack.

On August 4878, 8 in the Knight Continent calendar, General Darcyclo of the Kingdom of Essex led an army to the west and forcefully captured Fort Antonio on Cartel Wealth Avenue, completely cutting off the important connection between the Kingdom of Midburg and the Principality of Glia, making the Kingdom of Midburg a real "turtle in a jar".

On September 4878, 9 in the Knight Continent calendar, the kings of the two countries sent envoys for the first time to conduct the first negotiation at the foot of the city of Schindler. However, due to certain contradictions during the negotiation process, the two sides ended up parting ways unhappily.

On September 4878, 9 in the Gregorian calendar of the Knight Continent, Eagle Castle, a strategic point in the west of the Kingdom of Midburg, was captured by the army of the Kingdom of Essex. Subsequently, the three counties in the west of the Kingdom of Midburg were completely occupied.

On September 4878, 9 in the Knight Continent calendar, envoys from the two countries negotiated again under the city of Schindler to discuss the defeat of the Kingdom of Middelburg.

Finally, the two sides reached a consensus and signed an agreement: the Kingdom of Middeburg was defeated and surrendered, His Majesty the King gave up the title and apologized to King Chris VI; the gates of Schindler City were officially opened to the army of the Kingdom of Essex...

On September 4878, 9 in the Knight Continent calendar, the news that His Majesty the King of Midburg Kingdom announced his surrender reached Fort McClellan in the east, which was still struggling to resist the attack of the Essex Kingdom army.

The next day, chaos and riots broke out in Fort McClellan. Eventually, Fort McClellan was opened from the inside by soldiers from the Kingdom of Midland, who raised the white flag in surrender to the army of the Kingdom of Essex.

However, it is worth mentioning that the Duke of McClellan, his important relatives, and some of his powerful confidants fled from Fort McClellan, and their whereabouts and fate are unknown.

At this point, the entire Kingdom of Midburg fell, and there was no more formal resistance.

And the Kingdom of Essex, after more than three hundred years, also incorporated this land that once belonged to the Essex Empire back into its territory.

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On October 4878, 10 of the Knight Continent calendar, after the Kingdom of Essex had largely cleared up the chaos in the Kingdom of Midburg and mobilized sufficient soldiers from the country to be stationed in various parts of the occupied Kingdom of Midburg, Chris VI raised another 1 troops in the city of Schindler and marched westward to conquer the Principality of Glia.

These 10 soldiers traveled through the three western counties of the former Kingdom of Midburg, crossed the Antonio Fortress, and walked along the Cartel Wealth Avenue in the Barinas Mountains, and finally arrived at the "eastern gateway" of the Principality of Glia - the White Stone Fortress.

Obviously, the Kingdom of Essex wanted to take advantage of this opportunity, with its mighty power to destroy the country, to conquer the Principality of Glia in one fell swoop, to completely recover the territory of the Essex Empire, and to restore the sacred glory of the Essex Empire.

We will not discuss the specific events that followed, and will turn our attention back to the County of Ganise after the Rodsaboye Fortress was breached.

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On August 4878, 8 in the Knight Continent calendar, the news that Rodsaboye Fortress was breached by the Kingdom of Essex soon spread to Ganise County along with the battle reports from the front line.

This important news immediately caused an uproar in Ganise County.

Because no one expected that among the three important defense nodes in the second defense line of the Kingdom of Midburg, the Rodsaboye Fortress in the middle would be breached first.

After all, in the Rodsaboye Fortress, there is the First Standing Legion, known as the strongest legion in the kingdom - the Central Guardian Legion; plus the remaining troops of the Kingdom's Second and Fourth Standing Legions that retreated from the first defense line.

It can be said that the Rodsaboye Fortress is the one with the strongest military force among the three important defense nodes.

But the most powerful Rodsaboye fortress was actually the first to be breached, which is enough to show how shocking the news was.

In the city of Ganise, His Royal Highness Prince Mercristin, Countess Katis, and Soren all had different reactions after receiving the information about this matter:

First up is His Royal Highness Prince Mercristian.

After receiving the news that the Rodsaboye Fortress had been breached, he could no longer remain calm. He immediately ran to Countess Katis in a panic and frankly said that he accepted the conditions mentioned before.

Seeing his impatience, Countess Katis originally planned to embarrass him by detaining half of the supplies, but Soran spoke out to stop her.

Because of the current situation, Soran was really afraid that Prince Mercristian would suddenly become desperate and choose to fight them to the end and die together.

Therefore, it is not worth it and not suitable to gamble for such a small profit.

Next is the Countess of Curtis.

After she received the news that the Rodsaboye Fortress had been breached, she also became a little impatient.

Therefore, Countess Katis also found Soran as soon as possible, saying that she wanted to board the ship and leave Ganise County directly and head to the [Angliss Islands].

However, Soran could understand Countess Katis.

Because of the terrain, the road from the Central County of the Kingdom of Midburg to the County of Ganise is mainly located on the riverside plain on the south bank of the Marko River.

The terrain of this area is also flat and open.

Therefore, if the Kingdom of Essex wanted to send a group of knights to attack the County of Ganisse at this time, they could also march straight in and attack the city of Ganisse directly.

But Soran also persuaded Countess Katis not to worry.

Because as soon as Soran heard that Rodsaboye Fortress had been breached, he conducted a careful analysis of the next strategic deployment of the Kingdom of Essex.

So he finally came to the conclusion that the army of the Kingdom of Essex would first advance westward to capture the Antonio Fortress on Cartel Fortune Avenue, thereby cutting off the main transportation route connecting the Kingdom of Midburg and the Principality of Glia.

The basis for Soran to make such a conclusion is mainly based on two points:

The first was the expeditionary force sent by the Principality of Glia to the Kingdom of Midburg to assist in the defense of the Kingdom of Midburg.

Today's expeditionary force did not lose many soldiers because it participated in the war for a short time.

So when the Winston River defense line was breached by the Kingdom of Essex, most of them withdrew to Eagle Castle and continued to help the Kingdom of Middleburg resist the attack of the Kingdom of Essex.

If the Kingdom of Essex still wants to continue attacking the Principality of Glia and recover the territory that previously belonged to the Kingdom of Essex, then it will absolutely be impossible to allow the expeditionary force of the Principality of Glia to return to their homeland.

Otherwise, the difficulty of the Kingdom of Essex's subsequent attack on the Principality of Golia will be greatly increased.

Moreover, if the expeditionary force of the Principality of Glia returned to the Principality of Glia.

So who can guess for sure whether the Midburg Kingdom troops located in Eagle Castle will go back with the kingdom when the kingdom is about to be destroyed?

The second is that after cutting off the connection between the Kingdom of Midburg and the Principality of Glia, it can also prevent the war refugees of the Kingdom of Midburg from fleeing in the direction of the Principality of Glia.

You must know that in this era of backward productivity, population is also an extremely important resource.

Now that the Kingdom of Essex has been conquered by the Kingdom of Midburg, it will certainly not just watch the population slip away in vain, and may even allow it to become an obstacle to its attack on the Principality of Glia.

As for the vast land in the east of the Kingdom of Midburg, in the eyes of the Kingdom of Essex, it is just a turtle in a jar.

Even if those people wanted to escape, they knew where to escape, so no matter how much time passed, they would eventually fall into the hands of the Kingdom of Essex.

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In the end, the facts were just as Soran had expected. After breaking through the Rodsaboye Fortress, the Kingdom of Essex surrounded the city of Schindler without attacking it.

Then he sent his troops westward as quickly as possible to capture Fort Antonio, then southward to besiege Eagle Castle, and finally, after solving the problem in Schindler City, he marched eastward to capture the four eastern counties.

During the nearly half a month of traveling back and forth to the Kingdom of Essex, the three transport fleets of the County of Garnese worked at full capacity and made more than several trips between the two places.

This also once again transported more than 5,000 citizens and a large amount of supplies to the [Angliss Islands].

Of course, it is worth mentioning that when Soran asked Countess Katis to keep calm and not be anxious, he did not really mean to ask her to "not be anxious".

Soran asked Countess Katis to send a large number of scouts and spies to gather intelligence in the direction of Central County.

Once there is news that the Essex Kingdom's army is moving eastward, these scouts and spies will report immediately.

So when the eastward-moving army of the Kingdom of Essex just entered the territory of Ganise County, Soran and his men had already received the news.

So everyone had packed up everything, and finally destroyed all the information about the [Anglican Islands Immigration Plan] that they could find and could not take away. Then, without any hesitation, they boarded the ship that had been prepared long ago, left the port of Ganise City, and headed for the [Anglican Islands].

So the city of Garnese that was left to the Kingdom of Essex was just an empty city.

Because before leaving, Soran and his men did one thing: they expelled all the residents in Ganise who could not be taken away, and did not allow any of them to stay in the city.

The purpose of doing this is to reduce the chance of their whereabouts being exposed and buy them more time to escape.

As for the troops of the Kingdom of Essex heading eastward, they will most likely not delve into the cause of the matter.

They were so happy that they could not contain themselves because they were able to capture a magnificent county town without any casualties and achieved such a great feat!

Moreover, after the Kingdom of Essex occupied the Kingdom of Midburg, the focus of its attack naturally shifted to the Principality of Glia in the west.

Therefore, they probably would not pursue the sudden disappearance of Countess Katis too much, and just assume that she hid because she was afraid.

After all, no matter what, Countess Katis is just a countess, and a woman at that.

At the same time, they also investigated the strength of Countess Katis and knew that the only person she relied on was a Pillar Knight who had been promoted not long ago.

So with this little strength, no matter how much the other party struggles, she won't be able to make any waves under the current trend.

Moreover, the troops stationed in various occupied areas by the Kingdom of Essex are no pushovers.

If the other party really wants to cause trouble, you still have to think carefully before doing so!