Rise of the Empire Total War

With the death of the two usurpers Bandak and Jutian, Richard finally has no dissidents in the Kingdom of Ravana—oh, forget about the Prince of Baden who is still hiding in the inner city of Ravana. After clearing the battlefield, Richard led his army northward to join Admiral Sigurd, who occupied the outer city of the capital, and besieged the inner city.

In the face of Richard's soldiers pressing down on the border and the bad news of King Bundak's death, the entire inner city of the royal capital was in chaos. The distraught Prince Baden swore to inherit the throne and declared that he would resist until the last moment, but his generals But they don't think so. After Bandak's death, anyone with a discerning eye can see who the future ruler of the Kingdom of Ravana will be, and they don't want to be buried here with Baden.

Immediately afterwards, a military coup against the new king Baden was launched in the middle of the night. The officers who were unwilling to die with the puppet king led their soldiers into the Trizzi Palace and massacred the resisting guards. At the last moment of the battle, he committed suicide and died. His so-called king's career ended in just a dozen hours.

In the early morning of the next day, the officers who launched the coup held Baden's head and opened the gate of the inner city, surrendering to Richard.

Within half a month after the city of Ravana was pacified, the territory of the entire kingdom that still belonged to Bundak surrendered to Richard, including the Mafugat Territory whose lord was captured—unlucky to say, Mafuga Earl MacPherson was hit by a flying stone while shelling the Arkham Manor, and immediately fainted. When he woke up, he was captured by Richard.

For this notorious coward, Richard is not going to let him go back unscathed, at least he will use Stephanie to usurp his title as a national traitor and deport him from the country.

Just when Richard sent cavalry to greet Stephanie, who was still in Port Belle, back to the capital, Sophie, the Earl of Mabuku, who was returned to the fief, also sent an envoy to express his surrender to Richard. Since then, the entire Ravana Kingdom has been pacified, and looking around, there are no forces that are still resisting Richard.

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On October 20, 1111 in the continental calendar, Stephanie returned to the capital of Ravana. Looking at this city that had become depressed due to the war, she felt infinitely melancholy.

After this civil war, the military strength of the entire Ravana Kingdom was completely reshuffled. The Cork Land, which had been threatening the royal family in the past, was wiped out, and the Mafugat Land also lost all conscripts because they stood in the wrong team. The power of the royal family has long been destroyed, and only Mabuku is left surviving, but it can no longer threaten Stephanie who has Richard's support.

On the other hand, Richard, after the war with the Kingdom of Ramirez and the cleansing of the civil war, his military strength has rapidly expanded from the original nearly 5,000 to nearly 20,000 today, and he also has 12 cannons and 18 Catapult and Siege Scale. In addition, after occupying the city of Ravana, he also received systematic rewards.

[The host conquered a large city at the capital level of a kingdom for the first time, and now he is rewarded by the system. I hope you can achieve such a result again. (Note: The reward for conquering the kingdom-level capital is only obtained after the first achievement, and will not be issued in the future.)]

[You have obtained 30 chances to draw Holy Roman Empire troops, and this draw is free of maintenance fees.

You have obtained the qualification to draw arquebus soldiers and get 10 teams of arquebus soldiers (no maintenance fee), but due to the current level of technology, you cannot manufacture arquebus soldiers. 】

It is said that before the war, there are more supplies than before. Richard has a deep understanding. In fact, after stabilizing the Kingdom of Ravana, he will immediately raise troops to counterattack the Kingdom of Winster. This war will definitely be defeated by Winster. With the intervention of the kingdom's allies, the Republic of Cunha and the Principality of Klassey, and with the resistance of the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms, Richard could foresee the difficulty of the war.

And after getting another 30 chances to draw, Richard's winning rate has been greatly improved, and he can still lose the battle under the cheating rewards of the system. Stephanie spent the rest of her life together.

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After Stephanie returned to the capital,

Richard made preparations for the coronation ceremony and then used those 30 draws.

[Using 30 chances to draw Holy Roman Empire units, a total of 120 teams of Holy Roman Empire units have been obtained, confirm the summon? 】

Sure.

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[The summoning is completed, you will get Spear Sergeant x 8, Heavy Armor Sergeant x 18, Walking Imperial Knight x 10, Civilian Archer x 10, Civilian Crossbowman x 10, Giant Shield Crossbowman x 10, Hand Artillery x 2, Cavalry Sergeant × 8, chain armor knight × 10, imperial knight ×, 5, Teutonic knight × 10, crossbow cavalry × 6, arquebus × 5, heavy siege gun × 3, siege scale vehicle × 5, a total of 9722 soldiers. 】

There is no big difference from last time, but the number of people this time is smaller than last time. From a preliminary point of view, the reason for the small number should be the extra heavy weapons and arquebus soldiers.

Arquebus soldiers, as the name suggests, are infantry equipped with matchlock guns. The matchlock guns they equip have a metal hook. One end of the hook is fixed on the gun and can rotate around the axis. The other end holds a burning matchlock. Soldiers When firing, the metal hook is pushed into the fire door by hand, so that the matchlock ignites the black powder, and then the projectile in the gun chamber is fired. Because the fire rope is a hemp rope or a tightly twisted cloth strip, soaked in potassium nitrate or other salt solutions and dried, it can burn slowly, and the burning speed is about 80mm-120mm per hour. Once the hook is pressed into the fire door, the gun can be held with one or both hands, keeping your eyes on the target.

It is precisely because arquebus soldiers can aim at the target before shooting, which greatly enhances their shooting accuracy, but they can only shoot bullets by igniting black powder with matchlocks, making them unable to fight in rainy or humid environments. This is also a common problem with all muskets.

Although the matchlock gun has disadvantages such as slow loading speed, unstable accuracy, environmental restrictions, and failure to shoot due to failures, this does not affect that it is the most powerful weapon in this era. If a single matchlock gun is not accurate, then Take the company as a unit and shoot at the target. Just like the description of its unit: the arquebus soldiers fired extremely accurately at close range, making the enemy soldiers turn their backs. The bullets of this early musket can penetrate most of the armor, and the smoke and loud noise when fired make this terrifying weapon extremely shocking, making the enemy's army crumble.

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It was not until five days later that Richard finally saw the arquebus he had been looking forward to. The costumes of these arquebus soldiers already had the style of the Renaissance, and their helmets (maybe it should not be called a helmet, it is more like a hat) There are two bunches of bird feathers on the top, and the whole person looks from a distance, full of a feeling that is out of place with this era.

However, Richard had an idea, which was to make these arquebus soldiers the guard of honor for Stephanie's coronation ceremony, to show the power of a wave of musket salvos during the coronation ceremony, and to shock the nobles in the country.