When Ronan led his troops to arrive, Meluses and Trezeguet had already taken over the territory. The surrounding lords also discovered Ronan's army that had secretly lurked over to launch a surprise attack, and immediately moved to the west of Sword Gate Castle.
Leon, who lives in a neighboring marquis, sent the information.
With more and more soldiers delivering messages and more and more carrier pigeons, Meluses and Jackson finally couldn't stop them. Leon, who was resting, still received a surprise attack from Ronan, who had already broken through a wall at the border.
Territory.
At this time, Leon was drinking wine and chatting with several of his confidants on the stone table in the center of the courtyard of his house.
As soon as they arrived in the east, the nobles who had been following Leon in the war wanted to resign and return home immediately, but they were held back by Leon because of Ronan's possible pursuit, but Ronan gathered all his energy.
These two months have made the eastern nobles relax a little, except for a few nobles on the border.
Those nobles who want to take their troops to Leon cannot be stopped because Gaoling has clear regulations. The monarch is not allowed to recruit nobles to join the army during non-war periods. Therefore, they cannot say too much if they want to withdraw from Leon. After all, it is necessary to maintain the troops.
A lot of money and energy, but the monarch will not pay for the nobles, so those nobles are naturally unwilling to continue to spend it with Leon. After all, it is a lot of money and manpower. Most of those soldiers returned to their territories
Once the armor is taken off, he becomes a working farmer!
Nobles are not allowed to train large-scale soldiers privately. They can only prepare city guards or patrols for bandit suppression according to the actual situation of their own territory. Only the areas bordering the Eagle Kingdom have permanent soldiers for defense.
Although these two regulations slowed down the speed and intensity of gathering troops, they effectively saved the cost of training and maintaining professional soldiers and prevented local ambitious nobles from surpassing the royal family in strength.
Therefore, Leon only has the remaining troops belonging to the royal family that he brought when he supported the defense of Sword Gate Castle with him. Leon now has no income, and the expenses of these troops and daily expenses are still with him.
The expenses for food and clothing are all collected by the eastern nobles, and over time,
I'm afraid Leon can't keep those troops training like this anymore, and they will have to do some farm work and the like. After all, those nobles cannot support Leon unlimitedly. Once he completely loses his competitiveness, those nobles who are supporting him now will
They must be the most ruthless ones when it comes to eating his flesh and blood.
"Report! Letter from the west!" Leon's herald brought a pile of letters to Leon who was drinking. However, Leon did not read the letter immediately, but took another sip of wine. During this time, he
He is already a little decadent, because he now feels that it is impossible for him to defeat Ronan, and after the last defeat, the Eastern nobles now seem to be somewhat different from Leon.
Many nobles no longer want to continue fighting Ronan. First, Ronan is now at the peak of his power, and Leon's chances of winning are very low. Second, it is already very cost-effective for them to use their troops and money to fight. Even if Leon
After becoming king, it would be meaningless if they lost too much. Ronan was very kind to the outside world and rarely killed prisoners. Many nobles who later defected to him were not treated differently.
Therefore, many people feel that it is better to surrender directly to Ronan. Not to mention being promoted or something, it is very good to maintain the status quo, and many of them have even planned to betray Leon to gain
Some testimonials.
After taking a few more sips of wine, Leon opened the letter and read it at Barbosa's urging. As soon as he read the letter, Leon's initial drunkenness disappeared.
"Rodrit has launched an attack. His men have captured a territory on the southwest border and are currently stationed there!"
Leon said as he handed the letter to Barbossa, and then he said:
"This is our last chance. Some discordant voices have emerged among the eastern nobles. I'm afraid they will betray us soon. We no longer have the strength to hold on. This is our home court. We must
Use the home field advantage to deal with them, pass on the order, and mobilize all the defenders of Jianmen Fort. We must gather all available combat power to deal with them!"
"But once Sword Gate Castle is withdrawn, if the Eagle Men discover it, 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. Roderet's strength has been strengthened, and we are now weaker than ever before. External and internal troubles can be solved. If we don't come up with something
With all our strength, we might be directly swept away.
And if we fail, then we can directly lure those Eagles to break the agreement and attack. Even if I die, I won’t let that guy Roderite stay in peace!"
Leon said through gritted teeth.
"And that old fox Mayweather definitely can't watch us fail and be eliminated. He may want us to both lose, but he definitely doesn't want us to defeat each other, otherwise he will be left to face it by himself.
The pressure is on, so he is bound to send troops. At least he must maintain this three-legged state to make his strength the strongest before he can take action to kill one of the two of us."
"Then I'm going to gather the troops, and I'm drafting a recruitment order to see how much support the nobles have for us!"
Barbossa stood up and walked out, and Leon also waved his hand to signal the others to leave. He stood there with his arms and kept 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 not willing to admit it yet. After all, Leon is different from Ronan. Leon has no foundation.
He couldn't do anything without the support of the nobles, and after the defeat, those nobles no longer trusted him too much.
Ronan is different. The main force that Ronan relies on for his current position is his system troops and heroic generals. After all, the troops under the nobles and themselves do not have enough trust from Ronan. Ronan knows very well
Those nobles are greedy and repetitive. Once they lose power, they will be the snake that bites the farmers. Like businessmen, they only focus on profits.
Therefore, Ronan will only let them act as cannon fodder or do other unimportant things. Everything else that involves core priorities or needs to overcome difficulties will be completed by Ronan's own troops, and he will firmly hold the central power.