Glory Riding and Cutting

When Ronan led the troops to arrive, Meriuses and Trezeguet had already captured the territory, and the surrounding lords also discovered the Ronan army who had sneaked up and made a surprise attack, and immediately rushed to the west of Jianmen Castle. Leon, who lived in a Marquis territory on the side, sent information.

With more and more soldiers sending letters and more and more carrier pigeons, Meriuses and Jackson finally couldn't stop it. Leon, who was resting, still received a surprise attack from Ronan, and he had already broken through an area occupying the border. Territory.

At this time, Leon was drinking mulled wine on the stone table in the center of the yard of his house and talking with his confidants.

As soon as they arrived in the east, those nobles who had been fighting with Leon wanted to resign and return home immediately, but they were held back by Leon because Ronan might pursue him, but Ronan recharged his batteries. The past two months have made the eastern nobles a little more relaxed, except for a few nobles on the border.

Those nobles who want to take troops away from Leon can’t be stopped, because Gaoling has clear regulations that the monarch is not allowed to recruit nobles to join the army during non-war periods, so they can’t say too much if they want to withdraw Leon. After all, maintaining troops requires A lot of money and energy, and the monarch will not pay for the nobles, so those nobles are naturally unwilling to continue to spend with Leon. After all, it is a lot of money and manpower, and most of the soldiers returned to the territory Once the armor is taken off, he is a working farmer!

Nobles are also not allowed to train large-scale soldiers without permission. They can only prepare city guards or patrols for bandits according to the actual situation of their own territories. Only places bordering the Eagle Kingdom have permanent soldiers for defense.

Although these two regulations slowed down the speed and strength of the assembled troops, they effectively saved the cost of training and maintaining professional soldiers and prevented the local ambitious nobles from surpassing the royal family in strength.

Therefore, Leon only has the remaining part of the royal troops that he brought when he supported the defense of Jianmen Castle at this time. Leon has no income now, and the expenses and daily expenses of these troops are still with him. The expenses for food and clothing are collected by the nobles in the east, and if it takes a long time, I am afraid that Leon will not be able to maintain the training of those troops. It is bound to let them do some farm work and the like. Restricting the support of Leon, once he completely loses his competitiveness, those nobles who are now supporting him must be the most ruthless ones to eat his flesh and blood.

"Report! A letter from the west!" Leon's herald brought a stack of letters to Leon who was drinking, but Leon didn't read the letters immediately, but took another sip of wine. It's already a bit decadent, because he now feels that it is impossible for him to defeat Ronan, and after the last defeat, the eastern nobles are now quite close to Leon.

Many nobles no longer want to continue fighting with Ronan. One is that Ronan is now in full swing, and Leon's chances of winning are very low. Second, it is already very low cost-effective for them to spend their troops and money to fight. Even if Leon It doesn't make any sense if they become kings if they consume too much. Ronan is very kind to the outside world, and he rarely kills prisoners. Many nobles who defected to him later were not treated differently.

Therefore, many people feel that it is better to surrender directly to Ronan's subordinates. Not to mention being promoted or something, it is very good to be able to maintain the status quo, and many of them even planned to betray Leon to get Some votes.

After drinking a few more sips of wine, Leon opened the letter at the urging of Barbosa and read it. As soon as he read the letter, Leon's original drunkenness disappeared.

"Rodrite has launched an attack. His subordinates have captured a territory on the southwest border, where are they stationed now!"

Leon said while handing the letter to Barbossa, and then he said:

"This is our last chance. Some discordant voices have emerged among the nobles in the east. I am afraid they will betray us soon. We have no strength to drag on. This is our home field. We must Use the advantage of the home field to deal with them, and send the order to draw all the defenders of Jianmen Castle, we must gather all available combat power to deal with them!"

"But once Jianmen Fort is withdrawn, if the Eagles find out, they will definitely not miss this opportunity!" said a knight.

"It doesn't matter, the Eagles won't find out in a short time, and this is already a last-ditch battle. Rodrite's strength has been strengthened, and we are now weaker than ever before, and both external and internal problems have been resolved. If we don't take out With all the strength, we are afraid that we will be swept away directly.

And if we fail, then we will directly lure those Eagles to break the agreement and attack. Even if I die, I won't let that guy Rodrite take Gaoling safely! "

Leon gritted his teeth and said.

"Furthermore, that old fox Mayweather definitely can't watch us fail and be eliminated. He may want us to lose both, but he doesn't want the two of us to defeat each other, otherwise he will be left to face it. The pressure is on, so he is bound to send troops, at least he must maintain this three-legged state to make him the strongest before he can shoot and kill one of the two of us."

"Then I'm going to gather the troops, and I'm writing a call-up order by the way, to see how much those nobles still support us!"

Barbosa got up and walked out, Leon also waved his hand to signal the others to leave, and he kept his arms there, thinking about something.

In fact, they all know that since the day they were forced to return to the east, they have no chance, but they are still unwilling to admit it. After all, Leon is different from Ronan. Leon has no roots. With the support of the nobles, he can't do anything at all, and after the last defeat, those nobles don't trust him too much.

Ronan is different. The main force of Ronan's current rise is still his system troops and hero generals. After all, the troops under the nobles and themselves do not have enough trust from Ronan. Ronan knows that those The greed and repetition of the nobles, once they lose power, they are the snakes that bite the farmers back. Like businessmen, they only focus on profit.

Therefore, Ronan will only let them serve as cannon fodder or do some other unimportant things. All other core points or problems that need to be overcome are completed by Ronan's own troops, and the center's power is tightly held. in their own hands.