rise of empire total war

Chapter 88 Richard's Army
"The Kingdom of Ramirez invades! Sauronburg falls! Luwen City is besieged!"

Following the footsteps of Maximilian's messenger, the news that the Ramires invaded again after four years spread throughout the city of Ravana, catching King Lawrence off guard in the Trichy Palace.

The new king, who has just succeeded to the throne, has no experience in dealing with this kind of situation. Before that, all wars were dealt with by the old king Halaus and his younger brother, the former military chief Bandak. He only needed to stay in the capital Here to deal with the government affairs during the king's absence.

However, now, King Haraus has been dead for several months, Bandak has also been dismissed from the position of military governor because of his suspicion, and the new military governor he appointed is an earl Ade who is loyal to the royal family and has a fief near Ravana. Ryder, the Earl of Adelaide is now 54 years old (in the Middle Ages when medical conditions were not advanced, 54 years old can be said to be an old age). Although he also participated in the confrontation led by King Harlaus four years ago, The Ramirez people did not have any outstanding results in the war. They can only be said to be quite satisfactory.

"Your Majesty the King." Earl Adelaide stood in the meeting room of the Trizzi Palace, looked at the disturbed Lawrence and said, "Now that the Ramires are invading, we should recruit the nobles of the kingdom to send troops, especially Earl Richard, the lord of Luwen City, after all, his territory is under siege, I think he needs to do more."

"I'm afraid the nobles of Bundak's faction won't send troops." Boris said in a low voice, "Even if they will send troops, they will send a small number of untrained peasants and soldiers to deal with them. We can really rely on ourselves. army."

"Indeed." Oslita, who has become the diplomatic chief, nodded, "Richard's strength has improved rapidly in the past four years. We can put him in charge of commanding the war against the Ramirez people as a test. He has never shown the strength.”

"Will he be willing?" Lawrence asked, frowning.

"If we promise him Sorenburg, which has already fallen, I believe he will be very willing to go."

"What? Promise Sauronburg to him?" Lawrence and others were shocked. Military Director Adelaide immediately said: "If you grant Sauronburg to Richard, his strength will be further enhanced. By then we will What should I use to fight him?"

"He's with us, Adelaide." Lawrence frowned slightly, and said with some displeasure.

"Even if we stand together now, who knows if he will have other ideas in the future?" Adelaide did not change his opinion, he argued, "Don't forget, there is also a royal blood in his body." Bloodline, he also has the right to claim the throne of Ravana!"

"..."

After being pointed out by Adelaide, several people were silent for a while. They all knew this in their hearts, but they didn't want to imagine Richard launching a war under the pretext of claiming the Kingdom of Ravana.

Each of them had a hunch that if Richard wanted to do this, there would be no way to stop him with their power.

"Let Richard lead the army to Ravana first, and then we will make terms with him."

In the end, it was King Lawrence who made the decision. Although he chose to believe in Richard on the surface, the seeds of doubt in his heart had already been planted, and one day they would take root and grow into towering trees.

……

When Richard got the news that Luwen City was under siege, it was already the afternoon of the second day after Lawrence and others finished their meeting.He dismissed the Luwen city envoy who was half kneeling on the ground, and then summoned Magnus, who issued the order to assemble the army through Magnus, whom he appointed as the military governor of the county.

In this expedition, Richard did not intend to hide his strength. He sent all the feudal knights and feudal knights on foot.Half of the heavily armored sergeants were assembled, and then 10 squads of spear militia (1120 people) and 8 squads of crossbow-wielding militia (720 people) were mobilized, totaling 3210 people.

He didn't dare to take away all the soldiers. It was better to leave five teams of heavy-armed sergeants as a precaution.

It is said that when you use your troops, you will regret having fewer troops. Only now did Richard understand this truth. After gathering all the troops, he thought he was invincible (are you invincible?), but he realized that these troops were simply not enough. Years ago, these soldiers could still compete with a weaker kingdom, but now there is no comparison.

After counting the army and giving the soldiers another day to prepare, Richard led the army to set off by boat. As before, they first landed at Bell Port, then continued forward, and finally arrived at the city of Ravana.

"Earl Richard, welcome to Ravana City."

Outside the gate of Ravana City, Prince Boris and Osrita had been waiting for a long time. When they saw Richard, they greeted him together.

There is nothing to be courteous about.Richard instantly sensed something was wrong, but he didn't say it clearly, and with a smile on his face, he got off his horse and greeted the two of them, saying, "Uncle Burris, Uncle Osrita, I'm here."

"You came in time. His Majesty the King is having a headache from the war in the east. I believe your arrival can relieve him." Burris said, looking at the army behind Richard without trace, but this look was He was taken aback. Richard's army was so dense that he couldn't see the end at a glance, and everyone was so imposing that they looked like tigers and wolves!
After the shock came the surprise. Burris knew that Richard's true strength would not let him down, but he didn't expect that he would be so powerful. God knows how Richard developed in the past four years.

"Well." Richard nodded, and let Condora, who had been following behind him, command the army to station outside the city, and then followed Boris and the two of them to the city gate with only two general guards.While walking, Burris introduced what they knew about the war in the East. Richard listened, but his brows could not help but frown.

"It seems that the battle is not good." Richard thought to himself, the Ramirez army numbered close to 3000, although there would be some losses in the fortified battle of Leuwen City, but they were destined not to lose too much, and Richard There are only more than [-] soldiers under his command, not even half of the enemy.

If the quality of Ramirez's soldiers was not high, Richard might still have the confidence to win an epic victory with less and more, but four years of hard work and courage have generally improved the quality of Ramirez's soldiers. There are a lot of them, and their combat effectiveness may be comparable to the system's mass-market spear militia.

That's hard.

(End of this chapter)