Unknown Knight

This strategy of isolating the inside and the outside was very effective. Until mid-May, even though the news of the change of owner of Kudan City had spread, it had not been affected by other aspects for the time being.

All contacts between the city and the outside world were basically cut off. Locally produced products were purchased by the territory's caravans at a price half a percent higher than in previous years, and the supply of goods for each merchant was also provided exclusively by the territory's caravans.

Not only that, the territory also carried out work-for-relief, recruited a large number of workers, and carried out projects such as cleaning and repairing city streets, reinforcing city walls, and building public places. This created an environment where everyone had work to do and everyone could earn money, and the economy became even more active.

In response to the production of Kudan City, Aix has also built two wood processing factories, a leather processing factory, and a leather goods processing factory. Once these factories are completed, combined with the original factories in the city, employment should not be a problem.

The eight noble families who surrendered, escorted by three hundred soldiers, selected a site for the village in the area from Shules to Aslum, built the initial simple huts, reclaimed the wasteland, planted crops such as barley and soybeans, and finally settled down completely.

Only then did Aix feel relieved and wrote a letter to King Yarogerk, saying that Voldratboye was seriously ill and unable to preside over the government affairs of Kudan City, and he entrusted him, his good son-in-law, to do it, and hoped that His Majesty the King would grant permission.

Along with the letter were two thousand silver coins. The meaning was very clear. He hoped that His Majesty the King would approve of his current behavior.

King Yarogerk accepted the money but did not give him any reply, which made Aix very worried and he did not dare to act rashly.

During this period, Aix also wrote a letter to Rodelaboye in Kulau City, expressing the same opinion as King Yarogerk. The old friend replied that there was nothing unreasonable in his behavior, but he should be more obedient and low-key, and pay attention to his personal safety.

This reply letter made Aix even more hesitant to act rashly. Until early June, various feedback information showed that the royal city of Rivadin had no intention of raising troops.

Aix decided not to endure it any longer. If he delayed for a few more months, another year would be over. He decided to send troops to Wocheze City to rescue his wife and her family.

According to intelligence, there are about 500 permanent troops stationed in Wocheze City, of which only about 200 are loyal to Borba, and the rest are relatives of the lord of Iaya and the troops of the attached nobles.

At first glance, the number of soldiers in Wocheze City is not large, but if Borba organizes a militia and recruits soldiers from nearby, it will be no problem to organize a force of 1,500 people.

In this case, even if Aix pulled all the elite troops in the territory over there, he might not be able to capture Wocheze City. Moreover, given the current political situation, he really didn't dare to do so regardless of anything.

After simulations by the Military Research Institute, the best strategy at present is to launch a surprise attack. However, sieges require infantry, and it is obviously not realistic to use infantry for a surprise attack.

Don't even think about using cavalry for a surprise attack. After capturing the city, Borba, feeling guilty, spent a large amount of money to form a cavalry team of 30 people and deployed a large number of scouts in the direction of Vigia.

Fortunately, due to the weather last year, Aix did not send troops immediately. After so much time, the vigilance of Wocheze City has faded, but patrols near the city have been maintained. This made the cavalry raid impossible.

Fortunately, Resarit and his men knew that this was Aix's concern and a task they must complete. During this period of time, they have been studying how to capture Wocheze City.

After a lot of deductions and data calculations by the research institute, as well as Aix's occasional fantastic suggestions and advice, a strategy of advancing both on land and on water was finally decided upon.

The specific implementation was to use the territory's large fleet to load food supplies and siege equipment, while the main force traveled light.

In this way, the large army of the territory will not be hindered by baggage during the march, and at the very least, it can achieve the effect of suddenly approaching the city, thus catching Borba off guard and preventing him from recruiting troops from nearby territories.

Fortunately, the trade route from the territory to Wocheze was very familiar. After some calculations, eight hundred elite soldiers of the territory set out from Kudan City. This force included one hundred light cavalry, one hundred heavy cavalry, three hundred heavy armored shield infantry and two hundred elite archers.

A day ago, twenty ships loaded with food supplies and siege equipment had set out in advance. The entire journey had been precisely calculated to ensure that the land and sea troops arrived at the same time. Because with the large army's land marching speed, it would take at least six days to reach Wocheze City, and they only carried seven days of food supplies.

In order to conceal their tracks, they also tried their best to avoid villages and castles and took a long detour. Fortunately, this unit was the elite of the territory, with impeccable training and overall quality that could not be compared with the armies of this era. Finally, on the afternoon of the sixth day, they arrived at the city of Wocheze.

Under Aix's command, Fatis led the cavalry to launch a surprise attack on the city gate, but when they were still fifty meters away from the city gate, the soldiers in the city had already closed the gate.

Seeing that the raid had failed, Fatis's two hundred cavalrymen did not retreat immediately, but instead split up and headed towards the city gate at the dock to block the attack.

Five or six riders took out their prepared wooden trumpets and ran around the city wall, shouting in broken Nordic:

"My fellow countrymen of Wocheze, I am Aix, son of Odin, your good friend, and son-in-law of the Lord of Iaia.

Borba is a rebellious son. Under the instigation of Eden, he actually committed treason and tried to seize his father's property. This time I am here to punish him.

This time I am leading a large army of 1,500 people, and we will definitely capture this city. I swear in the name of God Odin that I will not plunder the city after we capture it. I hope you will not assist Borba, this rebellious son."

These five or six riders ran back and forth around the wall of Wocheze three times, and their shouting was known to all the Nord soldiers on the city wall. Not only that, more than ten riders also ran around the wall, shooting more than a hundred arrows with letters of persuasion to surrender into the city as they ran.

The effect of the letter of persuasion to surrender was more obvious than that of a loudspeaker. In the letter, Aix named the Jarls who he had known at the dinner table, and told them that when he attacked the city, they would rise up again and overthrow Borba's injustice together.

These people have a pretty good relationship with Aix, and most of them have had business dealings with the city before. The key is that these people are powerful nobles with Nord warriors following them, and they control more than half of the military forces in the city.

Aix had no idea whether the letter of surrender would be effective or not, and he did not have any illusions about it, but it would definitely create a rift between Borba and the local Nordyar who were ostensibly submitting to him. This would be enough to reduce the resistance during the siege.

The dock was successfully occupied by Fatis's swift assault, and he immediately sent a signal to allow the ships cruising nearby to dock and unload supplies.

That night, Aix also lit a large number of torches in the camp to give the Nords in the city the illusion of large numbers and prevent them from acting rashly. He also sent cavalry to besiege the city and patrol in batches to prevent them from launching night attacks and leaving the city to seek reinforcements.