Chapter 869 (1/2)

In a room with a huge floor to ceiling window six meters high, four people in luxurious clothes sit on both sides of a long table.

There are young people, middle-aged people and old people. Among the eight, three are even women. Two are relatively young, about 24 or 5 years old, and only one middle-aged woman is about 50 years old; The other five were men, a young man about 25 years old, three middle-aged men about the same age as the middle-aged woman, and an old man about 60 years old.

In this room similar to the conference room, there are many elegant decorations, and even the decoration is dominated by classical beauty and elegant beauty, revealing an introverted luxury temperament everywhere. Moreover, this elegant and noble atmosphere full of introverted luxury can be seen everywhere in the whole castle. Even the servants serving in the castle also reveal a spirit that is difficult to see in ordinary aristocratic families.

Whether from the decoration, furnishings, the spirit of servants, or the clothes of these obviously extraordinary nobles, all reveal the prominence of the family.

In fact, the family does have a prominent surname.

Simon.

The Simon family is an ancient family with the same long history as dabion. The origin of this family started with outstanding military achievements. After two generations of expansion, when it was passed on to the fourth generation of family owners, the family motto changed from development to conservation, and began to develop in business. After several generations of efforts, the Simon family became a very prominent ancient family in the kingdom of dabion at that time. Their family style gradually got rid of the nouveau riche atmosphere when they started the family and the later merchant atmosphere, and began to become introverted, but the edge of this prominent family did not disappear, Instead, it grew stronger.

Even later, the Simon family finally succeeded in standing among the top nobles in the kingdom of dabion.

Climbing from ordinary nobles to real nobles, and then prefixed with strength, no one knows the hardships of the competition family.

Although the Simon family was not very high in the ranking of many powerful Marquis of the kingdom of dabion at that time, their family heritage would not be underestimated even the seven Dukes of dabion at that time. In particular, the head of the Simon family at that time always adhered to the principle of neutrality, which made the Simon family a hot pastry in the Dabian aristocratic circle with fierce competition for various interests at that time. Many Dukes wanted to win the family into their own faction.

Unfortunately, the war between Ryan and dabion broke out later. Because of the geographical location, the Simon family was divided into the northwest theater.

After that, even when dabion became history, the Simon family also threw themselves into the arms of the New Kingdom, the kingdom of Ryan. In the war in the northwest theater at that time, the strength of the Simon family was relatively intact, and the speed of turning the rudder was fast enough. Therefore, when the war was over, the Simon family not only retained the noble title, but also did not weaken its territory and title. It was still a powerful Marquis family.

However, after switching to the command of Ryan Kingdom, the Simon family appeared to be a lot of low-key.

But this low-key day only lasted for more than two years, and the Simon family once again entered the vision of the whole aristocratic circle. But this time, it was not the aristocratic circle of the kingdom of dabion, but the vision of the two major factions inside and outside the great wall of the whole kingdom of Ryan and many other aristocrats who had not yet obtained the fief.

Because the Simon family is now the owner of the Marquis de Lohan.

Best Simon, now the current owner of the Simon family, is the Marquis de Lohan.

It was noon, and the bright sun was shining through the huge French window. However, some of the conference rooms that should have been warm because of this are still cold. Even if the fireplace has been used, a large number of firewood makes the flames in the fireplace burn particularly vigorously. The eight people in the conference room still feel a chill.

At this time, all the big and small nobles who knew the situation in the whole Lane aristocratic circle felt the same cold as winter.

For nearly three months since the Duchy of void sent troops in April 1878, the army of the Duchy of void has crossed six territories, including three Earl leaders, two Viscount leaders and one Baron leader. Among the five territories traversed, count Joseph tamen, the Lord led by count Da lesha, tried to intercept the thunder lion with his own military skills. As a result, he took root in a famous military noble for at least two or three hundred years. The tamen family was completely wiped away by the thunder lion, just like the waves washed up on the beach and then slowly ebbed, The whole tamen family disappeared into history.

Hundreds of people of the tamen family, men and women, young and old, died under the butcher's knife of the lion of thunder.

The famous defensive fortress led by Da lesha was almost dyed red by blood, and the flag of the tower family, which had been flying for hundreds of years, was also replaced by the flag of the void principality. However, different from the black background of the previous void flag, the background of the void flag inserted in the tamen family is bright red. Even the wing representing the attack and shelter of the Connery family is also painted with a slightly lighter red than the background.

This means that the tamen family died under the blood flag revenge.

If the downfall of the tamen family only allowed the nobles of lane kingdom to see Sean's determination, then the next Viscount Ryder and Earl Medan led the whole Lane aristocratic circle to clearly see the madness and bloody of the void principality.

Viscount Ryder, regardless of strength or family background, is naturally impossible to compare with the tamen family. However, viscount Ryder also has a great advantage, that is, the territory has a mountain city built near the mountain. The city is built in a mountain range across the whole Ryder territory. If the thunder lion wants to cross Ryder territory, it must pass through the mountain city. Otherwise, it must bypass the mountain range and pass through the territory next to Ryder territory.

Faced with the fierce lion of thunder, viscount Ryder simply closed the gate of the whole mountain city and declared a state of war.

Under Alfred's request for military right of way, the Viscount refused directly, and shot a wave of arrow rain as a counterattack and warning.

Then, the result was not like what Viscount Ryder imagined. The thunder lion took a detour. They simply camped directly in the mountain city and began to go up the mountain to cut down trees and make siege equipment. Seeing this scene, viscount Ryder only felt dizzy, so he had to rush around for help, and the nearest to Viscount Ryder's leader was count Medan - in fact, count Medan's leader was also the territory that received the request of the void principality for the opening of military access this time.

Therefore, at the request of viscount Ryder, count Medan immediately led the reinforcements to the mountain city, ready to resist the attack of the lion of thunder.

After confirming the arrival of count Medan's reinforcements, the lion of thunder did not attack the city blindly. After all, at this time, the enemy in the city had almost reached 20000 people. If you count the forcibly recruited residents in the city, you can almost gather up a force of about 50000 people. The lion of thunder now has only more than 9000 troops, so it is naturally impossible to take the city, so Alfred ordered to wait for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements, and also stepped up the production of siege equipment.

Naturally, viscount Ryder and count Medan could not allow Alfred to make siege equipment here. Therefore, several wars broke out between the two sides. More than 3000 people were killed in the thunder lion, and the coalition of the two nobles left almost 10000 people. However, the scale of this mountain city is quite large, and the resident population is almost more than 100000. Taking into account the mercenaries and floating population stationed in the city, it has almost reached 150000. Even if women, children and the elderly are only young and middle-aged, it has nearly 100000 living forces.

After losing successive battles, viscount Ryder began to forcibly recruit those mercenaries and the young people in the city to the battlefield. In this way, the thunder lion was completely suppressed by the cannon fodder naval warfare of viscount Ryder and count Medan, and the casualties of the thunder lion surged to 7000, almost not far from withdrawal. However, the alliance of viscount Ryder and count Medan was obviously not easy. 120000 troops, including the regular army and cannon fodder, were forcibly consumed as much as 40000. Although almost 35000 people were cannon fodder, it was still an extremely tragic loss.

However, before their coalition forces completely eliminated the lion of thunder, William led the steel wings, dark wings and the first cavalry regiment to the battlefield, then directly began to establish the defense front line, and directly called the scarlet knights, the wings of guilt and the second infantry as reserve forces. In the face of three new legions, count Medan and Viscount Ryder could only return to the mountain city and defend it. At the same time, they also asked their allies for help.

With the full cooperation of the void, William, who is in command, certainly does not know what count Medan and Viscount Ryder are doing. But he didn't mean to stop at all, but let them ask for help. This is not that William is too conceited, but that he wants to know who is involved in the conspiracy against the empty principality. In the absence of sufficient evidence, naturally, he can only take this way of spreading a net.

Even if the nobles who received the letter did not lead their troops, it was enough to know which nobles received the letter. Next, just let the void investigate these nobles who have received the letter of help. William doesn't believe that these nobles will leave no clues. As long as there are clues, even a hint, William can find out all these guys.

So outside the mountain city, William waited for a full month. When the scarlet knights, the wings of guilt and the second infantry were all here, the nobles who received count Medan's request for help still didn't send troops.

So William decided not to wait, but to attack the city.

On May 22, 1878, the siege of the mountain city led by Viscount Ryder officially began.