Pendor Calendar 358 May.
Pande Continent The flames of war are rising again.
A few months ago, when Li Ang and Roland jointly called for the entire continent to unite to deal with heretics and demons, no country provided any effective support.
Not long ago, when Li Ang led various knights to march into Lion City, all the countries turned a blind eye.
But now, just as Roland is leading the knights to clean up the undead troops left by Kavala, all countries have launched an attack on Lion Territory...
Bacchus Empire dispatched an army to quickly capture Shield Wind Fortress, and launched a non-stop siege on White Deer Fortress.
Fieltzwe people occupied Cliff Bay and Enigma Castle, and the territory expanded rapidly. All the northwest of Lion Territory has fallen into the hands of Fieltzwe people.
The Raven Kingdom army dispatched and landed in the north of Eagle Claw Fortress - they originally planned to go to Cliff Bay, but Cliff Bay was too expensive The clan defected to Fieltzwe. The Rinya people did not want to fight with Fieltzwe and those Pirate Lord, so they turned and came to Northern Bay.
As for why they did not attack Lion Lake City but insisted on attacking Eagle Claw Fortress, it was actually because in the eyes of the Raven Crows, Eagle Claw Fortress was defenseless at this time - they planned to take Eagle Claw Fortress as a stronghold first, and then force Lion Lake City to surrender.
If Baudess didn't come to recruit new soldiers, then Eagle Claw Fortress really doesn't have much force.
Raven Kingdom believes that they do not have much equipment and baggage for a cross-sea attack, and there is no confidence in attacking Lion Lake City.
Eagle Claw Fortress should be very empty. If Eagle Claw Fortress can be easily conquered and siege equipment is manufactured during this period, you can try to force Lion Lake City to surrender.
In this way, time can be properly utilized while avoiding the loss of strength by storming a fortified city.
In fact, this is a reasonable strategic deployment.
However, Gregory IV probably didn't expect that this place, Eagle Claw Fortress, seemed to be really destined for him...
Eagle Claw Fortress, which was originally thought to have no defense and could be easily conquered, suddenly appeared with many troops defending the city, and they defended it extremely tenaciously.
Gregory IV had no choice but to transfer most of his troops to the vicinity of Eagle Claw Fortress, and build siege equipment on the spot while besieging the city.
But at this moment, several groups of "bandits" of unknown origin appeared in the north of Eagle Claw Fortress, and they all headed straight to the seaside, seemingly planning to escape from the battlefield by sea...
Those bandits moved quickly, cooperated tacitly, and were well equipped. They looked no worse than regular troops...
Gregory IV feels that Lion Territory people are indeed living in dire straits, there are so many bandits, and they really need an army of crows to save them...
But no one would believe that a few groups of small-scale bandits could cause any trouble to the Raven Kingdom's fleet. They were probably trying to escape Northern Bay, so Gregory IV didn't pay much attention to it and just asked the fleet docked at the seaside to be careful.
But what no one expected was that before the Crow Army had time to invade Eagle Claw Fortress, those "small-scale bandits" actually successfully robbed Raven Kingdom's fleet!
Yes...
The entire fleet, including dozens of large and medium-sized warships, most of them were taken away by these 'bandits', along with the food and fodder on board...
The remaining ships that were not taken away were all set on fire!
Gregory IV was dumbfounded when he heard the news. We haven't seen him in the past two years. Is Northern Bay's green forest hero already so fierce?
Don't you want to hide when you encounter a large army?
And he actually dared to attack the fleet?
There are more than 600 Raven troops left behind in the fleet!
What kind of bandits can defeat more than 600 fleet soldiers in a few days, and can also drive away most of the warships?
Are today's bandits so comprehensively capable?
Can you actually sail a boat?
Of course these people can sail a boat. This is the force that Baudess is planning to use to fight back to Filvia Island and regain the throne of Queen. From the beginning, Baudess has been preparing for future amphibious operations, so there are relevant requirements when recruiting new recruits, and they will also be trained in boat handling and swimming.
Moreover, this was originally a regular army, recruited by Amy and trained by Jocelyn. Everything was done in accordance with regular standards, the treatment was very high, and the morale was also very high - Amy and Baudess jointly vouched for it, and all the team captains were awarded the status of 'Ficavia Knight'.
In addition, this regular army has rich experience in playing bandits - they have formed a habit of robbing every day in the past few months, and they behave more like bandits than real bandits...
Especially when men and women are mixed together, anyone would think that these people must be in the woods...
"Amy Your Majesty, is this really possible? We only have four hundred people... There are only a dozen people on each boat, which is only enough to drive the boat away, and there is no way to fight. Moreover, they are not very skilled in sailing."
Baudess was at the helm of a three-masted battleship, and beside her stood Amy, who was carrying a musket.
"Don't call me Your Majesty, I have abdicated... and we are pirates now..."
Amy looked around, touched a scarf and tied it on his head, indicating that he had successfully changed jobs.
"Ahem... You will have to be called His Majesty sooner or later... But, are we really going to Longsong Port like this? There is no way we can capture Longsong Port..."
Baudess was a little nervous. She knew the situation of her own army. A group of recruits who had only trained for a few months took advantage of the terrain to suddenly attack the Raven fleet at night. This was considered a fluke - the Raven people never thought that bandits would seize the ship. Most of the remaining Raven soldiers were on the coast.
They were indeed very careful and patrolled day and night in two shifts...
But Amy asked Baudess to lead the troops directly to the Raven people's warships, and then drove away all the ships that could be driven away. They also used gunpowder to start fires and burned other ships that could not be driven away.
There was not much fighting between the two sides at all. The Raven people's fleet was actually stolen by Baudess's troops...
This is entirely because I have become accustomed to being a bandit in this area in the past few months. I am familiar with the environment and have a tacit understanding when robbing...
But robbing a familiar place is completely different from attacking Longsong Port across the sea. It is impossible for these new recruits to attack Longsong Port - they have no ability to attack any city.
"Don't worry, Baudess... We know that we only have four hundred people, but the Crow people don't know... If you see two three-masted warships and thirty two-masted warships, how many troops do you think this should be?"
Amy seems very calm. After being the king for more than a year, Amy's temperament has become quite calm. After all, he is a person who has seen strong winds and waves.
"According to common sense, there should be more than three thousand people..."
Baudess replied.
A three-masted ship is manned by only about a dozen people, but during combat the standard crew is usually more than 150 people;
A two-masted warship usually carries about a hundred people.
When I say three thousand people, I actually mean less. If it is a short-distance landing operation, sometimes extreme loading is carried out-that is, the load of materials such as food and drinking water is reduced, and most of the space is used to load people. Then more than thirty warships can carry four to five thousand people.
"So, we can definitely call ourselves an army of four thousand... hum! We can walk sideways in the inner sea of Lion Lake!"
Amy tightened his turban, wiped some ashes on his face, then touched an ax and held it in his hand. "Baudess, do I look like a fierce pirate now?"
"It's not like... you are too good-looking..."
Baudess shook his head honestly, took off Amy's scarf and tied it on his head.
Indeed, Baudess, wearing a headscarf, is really no different from those Vanskery female pirates...
This thing mainly depends on temperament - Baudess looks a bit stout, and after being deprived of the throne by his own sister, he is angry and looks more fierce.
Moreover, she can fight with water, and throwing axes and throwing spears are also weapons she is good at.
"Baudess, actually you are not suitable, the pirate leader still needs me..."
Jocelyn got out of the cabin and wiped his beard.
Amy's eyes lit up. "Aha, indeed, Jocelyn is the best candidate...Baudess, you should dress up as a Valkyries--I heard that some women from Fieltzwe established Valkyrie Sisterhood, and they used a unicorn head as their coat of arms. It just so happens that your coat of arms is also a unicorn..."
Speaking of which, when Jocelyn was in the Li Ang team, he had been playing a vicious role - at that time he was Bannerlord, wearing two layers of black heavy armor, wearing a Twilight Knight helmet with double horns on his head, and riding his Jatu beast. He looked exactly like the kind of devil who would eat children.
But this time, Jocelyn put on his black hood, carried a big axe, and braided his beard into two strands - this is the style commonly used by Fieltzwe and those Pirate Lord...
As a result, a "large-scale pirate gang" emerged.
At the same time, the entire fleet also began to collectively change flags, replacing all the Raven Territory flags on the mast with the unicorn battle flag - this is the heraldry of Baudess, with a blue background and a pattern of a white unicorn raising its front hooves.
As for Valkyrie Sisterhood, which was newly established in Mistveil City last year, its coat of arms is a unicorn's head - which also happens to be a blue background with a white pattern.
This is actually not a coincidence. The color scheme of blue and white represents the birth of the sea, and the unicorn is the symbol of the feminist god Ficavia. Most all-female teams will use unicorn-related patterns as their coats of arms.
However, although King Vidis did build a new Valhalla in Mistveil City, Valkyrie Sisterhood was not actually created by King Vidis - Fieltzwe is a male-dominated society after all, and Vidis has been busy with the war and has no time to build any women's knights.
Since Fieltzwe was dragged into the quagmire of war in the west of Lion Territory two years ago, the continuous war has forced King Vidis to send many pirates to fight in the hinterland of the mainland.
Vanskery pirates' military discipline is indeed very poor. Their usual fighting method is to plunder again and again. They are not good at such long-term and continuous wars.
At the same time, the pirates were actually at a disadvantage when they fought in formation on land.
In order to reduce casualties, many Vanskery Pirate Lord follow tradition and let some women serve as 'Shield Maiden' to provide them with protection.
These 'Shield Maiden' are part of the mythology of the Vanskery people, that is, women who are allowed to go to the battlefield. They are not professional warriors, just women who have gained the trust of pirates - in fact, most of the women were robbed by pirates.
These women fought during the day and stayed with them in bed at night. They were occupied by these pirates on the battlefield and in bed at the same time. They were actually poor people and were essentially slaves.
From the year before last to last year, the long-term battle has resulted in an increasing number of Shield Maiden.
Later, some Shield Maiden met Heroine Warriors at Longhowl Fortress.
These Heroine Warriors have been following Inna. Under Inna, they are professional soldiers with dignity and are treated the same as male soldiers.
After Inna knew what happened to those Shield Maiden, he asked Heroine Warriors to help them. Of course, Inna mainly wanted to get more support, and he hoped that those Shield Maiden could become his helpers.
After Li Ang disappeared, Inna was in a two-sided situation. For the Lionheart Kingdom, he was a regicide, and no one except Li Ang dared to trust him.
As for Fieltzwe, Inna was born from Lion Territory, and his adoptive father Calamity Seeker Gondor publicly supported Li Ang and attacked Dawn Knight Order...
However, Inna holds Heroine Warriors in his hands, and Calamity Seeker Gondor is so famous that no one provokes Inna while the war continues.
Although Inna still occupies Longhowl Fortress, Longhowl Fortress is a white land with almost no residents, so there is nothing to worry about. At that time, most of Fieltzwe's troops were deployed around Longhowl Fortress, but no one caused trouble to Inna.
However, with so many troops surrounding Longhowl Fortress, Inna cannot develop...
Inna still has a sense of crisis. He knows that there are too many restrictions on his future development as a regicide, so he has been actively looking for opportunities, and what happened to Shield Maiden is a good opportunity for him.
Most of the time, the reason why enslaved people have a desire to resist is not because the oppression is too heavy, but because there is comparison and the emergence of reliable leaders...
After getting help from Inna and Heroine Warriors, Shield Maiden began to join forces and finally carried out resistance.
On a very ordinary night, they served the tired leader and pirates as usual, and late at night, they killed the pirate leaders in their beds.
Later, they united with the help of Heroine Warriors and formed a powerful force.
After that, they came to Mistveil City, intending to teach King Vidis a lesson - this was Inna's idea. He believed that Shield Maiden had been enslaved, and Vidis should bear the greatest responsibility.
In fact, Inna mainly hopes that King Vidis will retreat.
To be honest, Inna is indeed worthy of the nickname of "provoking"...
After all, Inna was young. He naively thought that as long as Fieltzwe retreated, he would be able to resettle the refugees in Longhowl Fortress - at least he knew that having a population in the territory meant he had capital.
But the situation at that time was not something that King Vidis could just retreat if he said retreat...
At that time, the two armies of the Bacchus Empire had been stirring up trouble everywhere. If Vidis dared to withdraw, Agason would probably take Imperial First Legion to pursue Mistveil City. Lionheart Kingdom might be free by then, but the quagmire of war would become the hinterland of Fieltzwe.
At that time, Vidis was already in dire straits - the war had lasted too long, and Fieltzwe had been plundered by the Bax fleet in many coastal cities before. Vidis was facing a series of debts in Mistveil City.
The arrival of these Shield Maiden made Vidis's hairless head even more bald - Mistveil City did not have any troops to suppress these women who came for revenge, and there were not enough dinars to recruit troops.
However, Vidis's bald head is indeed due to his extreme intelligence. Faced with these women who were called by the 'provocateurs' to pick fights and cause trouble, King Vidis used another method to gain their understanding - he represented All the nobles of Fieltzwe signed Valides Charter, granting these former Shield Maiden the title of Valkyries (Valkyrie), that is, "The person who decides life and death."
Moreover, he also gave Mistveil City's newly built Valhalla to these women, and publicly announced that Inna was still the legal lord of Fieltzwe.
In other words, Vidis organized these Shield Maiden into a recognized legal knighthood, gave them a lofty status, and hired them with houses, food and equipment to fight for Fieltzwe.
Vidis is still very good at adapting to changes.
Since then, many Heroine Warriorss under Inna have also become members of 'Valkyries'. They took Mistveil City's Valhalla as their base, officially became professional warriors, and used the unicorn representing women's rights as the emblem of the knighthood.
At this time, the defenders of Longsong Port discovered that a huge fleet with the unicorn flag appeared in the distance outside their own port...
The fleet was far away and few details could be seen, but the flag and scale were obvious. Longsong Port immediately panicked - could it be that Fieltzwe was launching a large-scale attack?