Chapter 322: Reinhard Kingdom Defeats
To this day, although the Three Forks River region is an enclave of the kingdom, it has not been in the first order of the kingdom's development for a long time.
But the location of this place is very important. To the east, it can form an alliance with the trading city of Wells Port to protect itself, to the north, it can be used as a nail in the grassland, and to the south, it can monitor the movements of the Kingdom of Amon, the Kingdom of Orcs, and the Kingdom of Centaurs.
More importantly.
The Three Forks River region is also one of the ancestral lands of the Reinhardt royal family.
In the great changes thousands of years ago, the Reinhardt royal family lost the Polek fiefdom and fled north to the grassland, preserving their vitality and strength in the Three Forks River region.
Then they developed step by step, and finally went south to Polek and rebuilt the country.
The Three Forks River region has always been directly governed by the Reinhardt royal family and directly managed by the Grand Duke of the royal bloodline.
The Kingdom of Hasoradi dared to fight without declaration, angering the entire kingdom!
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Year 3624 of the Elf Dynasty.
Under the surging public opinion, King Speed Reinhardt put aside the struggle for power with the church, dispatched the kingdom's army, and marched north to the grassland to attack the Hasoladi Kingdom.
However, because the grassland was too vast, the kingdom's army gathered hastily and had not fought for a long time, and the generals leading the army were not familiar with the grassland.
They marched on the grassland for a month, and when food and supplies were running out, they were attacked by the Hasoladi Kingdom's army, and Reinhard's kingdom army was defeated!
Because it was on the grassland, except for some extraordinary nobles who escaped back, the rest of the army was annihilated!
The news of the army's defeat shocked the entire kingdom again. This time, the Reinhardt royal family and the kingdom's nobles became serious.
In the past peaceful times, because of the blood of the Lord of Judgment, the Reinhardt royal family has always been known as the royal family of the gods.
The Arona royal family of the Kingdom of Dawn in the south is also called the royal family of the gods because of the blood of the Lord of Dawn.
These two families are considered to have the noblest blood among mortals.
Therefore, they have been living well and developing smoothly in the past few thousand years.
But this time, because of the departure of the Lord of Judgment and the Lord of Dawn, the Heaven Mountain is empty, and the defeat of the Kingdom of Reinhard has shown the world that the God-born family is not invincible.
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Because of defeating the army of the Kingdom of Reinhard heading north, the morale of the army of the Kingdom of Hasoladi was boosted!
In the 3627th year of the Elf Dynasty.
The Kingdom of Hasoladi went south again and attacked the Kingdom of Reinhard.
But this time, they were repelled.
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In the 3633rd year of the Elf Kingdom.
The King of the Kingdom of Hasoladi, Mikto Hasoladi, found out the secrets that had been buried in the Behemoth Court of the Prairie for thousands of years.
The Behemoths were the earliest intelligent races that came down from the Ice Plateau.
In the Ice Plateau, in addition to the Behemoths, there are many races of huge bodies, which are all naturally powerful arms.
So the Hathoradi Kingdom slowed down the frequency of foreign wars, only sending elite troops to defend the Three Forks River area, and occasionally fighting with the Reinhard Kingdom to maintain pressure.
Their only energy was on conquering the large races of the Ice Plateau.
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Elf Dynasty 3655.
King Speed Reinhard of the Reinhard Kingdom lost the Three Forks River area, and lost more than won in decades of foreign wars, and never recovered the lost territory, and his prestige declined year by year.
And because he was entangled with the church while fighting the Hathoradi Kingdom, he caused dissatisfaction among the royal family and the nobles of the kingdom.
This year.
Speed Reinhard's younger brother Helet Reinhard launched a coup, deposed his brother's throne, and ascended the throne of King Reinhard.
This is the first king in the history of the Reinhard Kingdom to seize the throne through a coup.
Fortunately, he did not kill his brother and retained the last bit of affection of the Reinhard family.
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The 3656th year of the Elven Dynasty.
Helet Reinhardt married the daughter of a great noble lord of the Silver Moon Elven Dynasty, and sent envoys to make friends with the neighboring Kingdom of Emon, consolidating diplomatic relations.
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The 3637th year of the Elven Dynasty.
Helet Reinhardt announced that he would retake the Three Forks River area. He assembled a coalition of the kingdom's elite knights and the kingdom's noble army, and divided them into two routes.
One route crossed the grassland with cavalry, and the other route passed through the Kingdom of Emon, and the two routes advanced together to attack the Kingdom of Hasoradi.
However, things did not go as planned.
The cavalry corps that crossed the grassland was blocked by the cavalry of the former grassland royal court defeated by Hasoradi, and failed to reach the Three Forks River area in time.
The army that passed through the Kingdom of Emon successfully arrived at the Sancha River area to launch an attack, but was blocked by the army left behind by Hasoladi. They could not defeat it for several months. Seeing that the soldiers began to be tired of war and the problem of insufficient food supply began to appear, they had no choice but to withdraw!
This time, the kingdom's army went on an expedition to the Sancha River area, but the large amount of food and supplies consumed returned in vain, so that some of the kingdom's nobles no longer supported the king to continue to launch a war to recover the Sancha River area.
After all, the Sancha River area is a land directly under the royal family, and it has nothing to do with these territorial nobles.
The various great nobles of the kingdom rarely make arrangements in the Sancha River area.
In desperation.
Helet Reinhardt had to temporarily give up the war to recover the Sancha River area.
Although he had already cursed those short-sighted kingdom nobles in his heart.
But what comforted him was that the Sancha River area was not lost on his watch, but the "political achievements" of his unlucky brother.
However, he soon stopped laughing.
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The year 3679 of the Elven Dynasty.
After decades of conquest.
The Hathoradi Kingdom finally conquered a small half of the ice plateau.
This part of the ice plateau is in the warmer southernmost area, and further north it is too cold.
Even the Hathoradi Kingdom has difficulty going further north.
However, even in the southernmost part of the ice plateau, there are still a large number of large creatures living.
They conquered dozens of frost giant tribes and formed an army of thousands of frost giants.
At the same time, there are some Behemoth tribes that can also pull out nearly a thousand Behemoth beasts.
There were also a large number of huge direwolves, dire cattle, and ice giant elephants over twenty meters tall, all of which were conquered by the Kingdom of Hathoradi and formed an army of giants.
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Year 3685 of the Elven Dynasty.
The Hathoradi Kingdom led its army southward. The powerful Hathoradi army was caught by surprise by the giant army and captured the three northern counties of the Reinhard Kingdom in one fell swoop.
These three counties are all the lands of the Prairie Royal Court that the Reinhard Kingdom has gradually expanded northwards for thousands of years.
Hundreds of kingdom baronies, dozens of subcounties, nine counts and one marquis were occupied.
A large number of nobles of the kingdom died in the battle, and a large number of knights died.
Only a small number of the kingdom's nobles fled back to the royal city of Polak.
This is a rare defeat!
What alarmed the nobles of the kingdom even more was that after capturing the three northern counties, the army of the Kingdom of Hathoradi did not stop and continued southward, preparing to capture King Polek's City in one go and destroy the Kingdom of Reinhardt.
Fortunately, at the last critical moment.
The northern noble lords of the Kingdom of Emon, the Elf Dynasty, and the Church Knights of the Western Holy City all sent troops to support them, preventing Hasoladi's army from reaching the gates of Polek City.
This battle.
The Reinhard Kingdom was completely beaten, and the whole world saw the power of the Hathoradi Kingdom.
A human kingdom in the far north has the same strong fortune as the Goblin Empire and the Troll Empire in the past.
King Reinhardt, Helet Reinhardt, was afraid of the powerful power of the Kingdom of Hathorady, and once considered moving the capital to the west coast.
But the contemporary Duke Pendragon dissuaded him.
"The south of the west coast is the territory of the nobility, and the north is the sphere of influence of the church. When the king goes there, no city can stay. After that, who will listen to you?"
Helater Reinhard heard this and painfully realized that it was indeed the case, so he had no choice but to stop thinking about it.
But he still sent his youngest son to the southern part of the kingdom to develop territory near the western mountains of Flanders and the northern mountains and forests of the dwarf mountain kingdom.
He sent his second son to the southernmost part of the West Coast Kingdom's territory to compete for the fishmen's territory and expand the territory.
