Chapter 181: Chapter 85: Siege of London! The Scholar On the small island of Great Britain, seven kingdoms are truly too many.
Duncan plans not to let the Seven Kingdoms Era emerge and intends to crush them all in one go.
King Arthur relied on the Round Table Knights and fought twelve battles to finish the war. Duncan plans to push directly to the enemy’s homeland in one breath. As mentioned before, King Arthur is just a struggling figure in this era, and the Anglo-Saxons have given her a hard time. Duncan doesn’t mind lifting the burden off her shoulders casually.
Eight thousand troops divided into three routes!
Duncan instructs Severus to lead three thousand men, directly invading Berkshire from Hampshire, with Kulin and Galavin as vice commanders. Kvito leads another three thousand from Hampshire to attack South Saxe, with Balton and Edmundson as vice commanders.
He personally leads two thousand cavalry, with Clegane as his deputy, driving straight in and pressing down on the city of London.
Don’t be fooled by this arrangement; it looks like a great battle.
But in fact, Duncan controls five counties, challenging the territory of a dozen controlled by the Anglo-Saxons. The battle stretches from one county to the neighboring county, and the Saxons don’t dare face them head-on, concentrating a large force around London.
Because during the imperial urban expansion, London developed the fastest with the largest territory, having built real city walls, they can rely on city defenses to fight a war of attrition with Duncan.
Might sound demeaning, but in reality, currently, only London has a proper city wall defense system on the entire island of Great Britain.
This is also the reason why the Saxon invasion took a lot of effort to capture London.
Eight thousand war soldiers.
Duncan, to gain some Legendary Level, didn’t bring the British Militia war group from the rear, because if he gathered ten or twenty thousand troops to attack the Kingdom of Kent, there’s truly no Legendary Level to it. The taverns wouldn’t dare boast about it.
Others fight wars hoping to boast the more troops the better, claiming fifty thousand with just a few tens of thousands.
Duncan goes the opposite way, the fewer troops he announces, the better. All elite troops, aiming to win with fewer against more, to see if he can squeeze a bit more Legendary Level.
No choice.
It’s getting harder for him to acquire Legendary Level. Without putting himself in a ’winning against odds’ status, it’s truly tough to earn some Legendary Level.
In fact, King Uther is also a bit muddled about this.
Originally, he had some lord troops engaged in overseas expeditions, but for some reason, people returned, but not all of them. Even those who returned had odd attitudes, surprisingly advising King Uther to join forces to attack the Saxons.
Duncan attacks territories below on Great Britain’s island, while those people encourage King Uther to recover places like Cheshire, and if it reaches Yorkshire, all the better.
At this moment, King Uther is still hesitating, but Severus has already seized Berkshire directly.
Battle reports come in.
The Barbarian Race foreign legion made great achievements, a strong rush broke the enemy, Galavin even directly persuaded some to surrender, and Berkshire was effortlessly captured.
Loyalty!
These Barbarian Race foreign legion fought fiercely, wielding axes against their own kind flyingly, just a strong rush completely defeated the enemy, quickly overtaking the wooden walls, and there was even a Barbarian elite heavy ax-soldier achieving both the first climb and flag capture achievements simultaneously.
No surprise.
Soon he will be commissioned by the Governor as a genuine noble knight, lifting his entire family into another class.
Envious, aren’t you?
Life exchanged for battle merits.
This Barbarian warrior named Conor received three arrows and two knife wounds, yet still fought bloodily, slaying five or six enemies, rumored to have bled half a bucket, yet continued to bravely kill enemies, standing firm until allied forces again climbed the walls.
This matter is said to have alarmed the Governor!
According to recent military reform’s battle merit system, first climbing in battle, breaking through formation, slaying generals, capturing the flag, are all first-class among four battle merits. Capturing any during a critical battle immediately changes one’s fate, directly accomplishing class crossover.
Not much to say, even if retiring on the spot, you’ll spend the rest of your life as a small landlord.
This Barbarian warrior named Conor leapt three ranks, directly from ordinary foreign heavy infantry to one of the leaders of the Barbarian Race foreign legion, with these battle merits, his seniority is as hard as it gets, instantly becoming one of the army’s prepared leaders for nurturing.
Of course, he’s a brave general, not a commander, suitable as a vanguard, a true commander needs certain cultural foundation.
Kvito listened to this and became a bit anxious too.
Balton originally wanted to make a name for himself, for a moment he personally took to the battlefield, leading elite veterans of the Britannian Imperial Legion, launched a strong attack, directly using siege ladders to capture South Saxe, only a day later than Severus.
In just three days.
Duncan-led troops captured two cities, encircling London from both sides, and successfully met near the Thames River.
"These are all good lands!"
At this point, Duncan’s cavalry troops have been reaching London for two days, the main force of the Kingdom of Kent is strictly defending and shutting the gates, seemingly intending to rely on the walls to engage him in prolonged battle. These Saxons plundered many places, they have abundant resources, and if they hold out, can defend for a long time.
In Duncan’s sight ahead, are pieces of cultivated fertile land, making others around him can’t help but have eager expressions.
Everyone, used to hanging around poor areas near Cornwall, where have they seen such good land.
The Empire has been developing for almost four hundred years!
All the essence of Great Britain is concentrated in the regions around London, completely different from the barren Cornish countryside, here you can even build large estates, large farms, and also easily divert canals for irrigation, there are even neglected vineyards nearby.
It can be said that in setting the British Province these past few hundred years, all developmental focus was on London here.
"All wasted."
"If we capture London quickly, we might still be able to grab some sowing season!" Clegane remarked with admiration.
This is truly his homeland.
Giving such fertile land to the Saxons is utterly disgraceful and does a disservice to our ancestors.