Rise of the Empire Total War

"General Wood Keane was killed, the entire army was wiped out, and the despicable rebel Ingiarde is marching towards Aosta!"

"The inexplicable ogre has crossed the Erme Roma Valley!"

"Ingiald Arnold has taken the city of Poens!"

"Inguiard Jarre approaching Aosta!"

...

Since the news of Wood Keane's death reached the city of Aosta, there will be new battle reports to the capital every few days. The name also changed accordingly.

King Anders is very aware of all this, but he has no mind to pay attention to it. There are only about 800 soldiers left in the city defense army of Aosta City and the Royal Guards. Facing the menacing noble rebels, he doesn't know if there is any possibility of counter-killing.

Wood took away all the standing army of the royal family and the levies provided by the nobles who were still loyal to the royal family. However, these troops were wiped out in the battle of Manan City, making King Anders and the nobles unable to resist the rebel offensive.

"Your Majesty, the vanguard of the rebels has arrived less than fifty miles away from the city of Aosta."

A voice brought King Anders back to reality, he raised his head lazily, and cast his eyes on the person who came, it turned out to be his loyal military chief.

"Hubbard, there should be an uproar in the city by now." King Anders ignored the military situation reported by the other party, but asked about the affairs in the city.

"..."

Hubbard was silent. He considered the words in his stomach, and he didn't know how to start them. Anders vaguely understood something when he saw his appearance, and said with a soft snort, "If I guessed correctly, those people They should be discussing how to welcome Inguiard and my Asa."

"No, Your Majesty the King..." Hubbard's complexion changed, and he waved his hands to defend himself, but was interrupted by the old king, who coughed lightly and slowly got up from the throne. Hubbard hurried forward to help holding Anders' hand.

"Hubbard, Earl Cuban of the Kingdom of Ravana promised Yulea that he would lead an army to assist us, but until now there has been no sign of reinforcements." Anders said with a trace of bitterness on his face, "However, given the current situation, I'm afraid even if the reinforcements come, they won't be able to recover."

"No, Your Majesty, we can still hold on to the city of Aosta until reinforcements arrive."

"..." Just as Anders was about to speak, the alarm bell sounded suddenly from outside the window, resounding over the entire city.

"This is..." The faces of the two changed drastically at the same time, and Anders walked out of the room with Hubbard's support, and walked towards the exit of the palace. The guards he saw along the way all had serious expressions, holding weapons and shields in formation The procession ran to the gate,

The two walked out of the gate of the palace together with the imperial guards, and at this moment, a soldier ran over quickly, half-kneeled in front of the old king, and reported: "Your Majesty, an army holding a banner of Oriole's Tail has arrived. Outside the city, they, most of their army are full-body iron-clad monsters..."

"A monster in full iron armor?" Hubbard frowned and realized that the matter was not simple, and asked, "What do those monsters in full iron armor look like?"

"They..." The soldier recalled the scene he saw not long ago, and his body couldn't help trembling slightly, "Those monsters are tall, their upper body is human, but their lower body has the body of a deer, no, it is bigger than the body of a deer .They also wore armor made of iron and steel, and held thick and long conical objects in their hands."

"What is that?" King Anders and the military chief Hubbard looked at each other, and they were terrified of the armored monster that the soldiers were talking about.

Although there was fear in his heart, Anders couldn't show his pride as a king, so he pretended to be calm and ordered the soldiers to lead the way, and then led the assembled guards to the city wall.

An hour later, under the leadership of Richard, the army holding the Orioles flag,

Drive slowly into the city of Aosta.

The knights riding tall horses in the Kuban army felt the fearful eyes of the defenders from Aosta City. Although they felt strange, they still held their heads high and drove their horses on the paved road. From time to time, their eyes hidden under the helmet masks curiously observed the capital of the Farnic Kingdom, and observed the soldiers and residents of the Farnic Kingdom.

"Earl Richard, thank you for lending a helping hand when the kingdom is in crisis." King Anders, who was walking in the front, said gratefully.

"Your Majesty, it is my honor to fight alongside you." Out of etiquette, Richard did not ride on the horse, but dismounted and walked with one of them.

"Earl Richard, if you can quell the rebellion in Ingiard, the Kingdom of Farnik must be your most loyal ally when you counterattack the Kingdom of Winster in the future."

Regarding King Anders' promise, Richard smiled slightly and was noncommittal. He changed the subject and said, "Your Majesty, before doing this, we should first consider how to repel the rebels."

"Ah, yes." King Anders nodded, looked around, and found that this was not a suitable place to talk, and said: "I will explain everything to you when I return to Alrea Palace."

...

Located in the Alrea Palace on the Alrea Mountain in Aosta, King Anders did not talk nonsense after bringing Richard to the meeting hall, and went straight to the point and said everything he knew about the strength of the noble rebel army. come out.

In the battle of Manan, although the battle was won by night attack, the tenacious resistance of the royal army still caused heavy casualties to the noble rebels. Even so, Ingiard still chose to march towards the city of Aosta. And the army under his command, in addition to the troops directly under him, the troops sent by various noble allies also totaled nearly 2,500 people.

In the army of nearly 2,500 people, there are more than 500 elite armored infantry, more than 800 conscripted militiamen, and the rest are conscripted from the land without military training.

Compared with the military power of the noble rebels, the only combination of the Aosta City Defense Army and the Guards that King Anders can rely on is much more pitiful. The Royal Guards still have 600 soldiers, but the City Defense Army There were only two hundred people left (the rest went out with Wood Keane). If Richard hadn't arrived in time, although the combination of these eight hundred people could hold on to the city, they would never be able to counterattack.

And now that Richard is here, he brought along elite feudal knights at the same time—many knights under his command were doomed that he would not be able to stand behind the strong wall with the Royal Army, but chose to find a flat battlefield and make a final decision with the enemy decisive battle.

What's more, the Farniks have never seen cavalry, and they have no experience in preventing cavalry charges. Richard's powerful cavalry will definitely let these ignorant islanders see the power of cold weapon tanks.