In the small muddy square of the village of Nesmerut, a group of knights in fresh clothes and angry horses stood quietly holding the royal flag.

When Wolfhorse appeared in the square, the group of knights immediately turned over from their horses, and one of the leading knights took off his helmet, carefully looked at the family crest on Wolfma, and asked, "You are Sir Wolfma?"

"Yes, I am. ”

Wolf Mar was a little unaccustomed to his current name, so much so that he was half a beat slower to answer.

Hearing this, the knight looked at Wolf Ma again, and after frowning at his dress like a serf in the country, he took out a military order with the seal of the king's office, and said:

"His Majesty the King has issued an order that this war orc emigration must send a thousand warriors with the army!"

...

As the kingdom's war announcement spread to the mainland, the area around Crewe City became more and more busy, and from the 25th of last month, all official roads in the kingdom began to prohibit private caravans and ordinary people from traveling together.

Soon after, the main official roads of the kingdom were crowded with soldiers, blacksmiths, carpenters, laborers, etc., and horse-drawn carriages loaded with materials such as grain, war horses, and iron tools lined up in front and behind.

On November 12, just as the entire continent was looking at Fort Kaval, the Principality of Suluk, which had just experienced a bloody battle with the undead legions, issued an announcement to the outside world: dissolve the national parliament of the principality and reorganize the national ruling office of the principality into the hall of lords.

Overnight, the merchant politicians of the Duchy of Suluk returned to the era of lords!

Three days later, on the afternoon of November 15, representatives of the citizens, merchants, and nobles of Iruk City took the oath that the Principality of Suluk had joined the Kingdom of Kruria, recognizing King Pedy Reagan's legitimate dominance over the Iruk Domain.

Although this is something that everyone expected, when it really happens, people still can't help but sigh: the Kingdom of Kruria has really risen!

...

Suke Plain,

When the Kingdom of Kruria was mobilizing for a full-scale war, the Confederation of Luluk was not idle, relying on the assistance of the orcs, Penny Reagan asked Woz Pedro to integrate and gather all the knights of the old empire, and countless veterans who had been discharged and returned home after the dissolution of the old empire were recalled.

After a month and a half of construction, the ruins of the city have long been cleared, and the defense of the city walls, which had been reinforced for three years, has been strengthened again in this month and a half.

Since then, the walls of this market town, which was originally only used for commerce, have been completely comparable to the height of Suk City, and the war trenches and watchtower buildings outside the city are connected one by one, and the crossbow attack line can tear all the troops that enter it to pieces.

Ten days ago, Penny Reagan had been in Tyre.

Now Penny has long been accustomed to military life, accustomed to falling asleep with the smell of sweat all over her body every day, accustomed to sleeping on a hard wooden bed, accustomed to getting up every morning to make rounds, and accustomed to chatting with soldiers with foul language.

Her original beautiful face, which had fascinated the entire Imperial Capital City, was slowly fading away from her softness, replaced by perseverance and courage.

After her daily routine rounds, Penny Reagan always habitually chatted with the junior officers of the battalions. Because she doesn't talk about military affairs and state affairs in the chat conversation with them, she likes such a relaxed and pleasant chat, but she only listens and rarely expresses her own opinions.

But today, Penny Reagan didn't have time for such a pleasant chat, and even her routine rounds ended halfway through. Because, their neighbor, the Principality of Suluk, was officially declared to be incorporated into the Kingdom of Kruria today.

This was not very important news for Penny Reagan, who did not want to waste the rare pleasant time of each morning, but the top brass of the Tyre garrison command was waiting for her, so that she had to participate in this high-level meeting.

"The annexation of Halok to the Kingdom of Kruria doesn't seem like a new thing, right?" Penny Reagan said what she wanted to say as she entered the conference room, as everyone watched, with as serious an expression as possible.

Because Penny Reagan lives in the barracks, the headquarters is also located in the barracks, and the conference room is actually a cowhide tent, and at most a soundproofing magic has been built.

Therefore, in the camp camp, except for a few main officers who were gathered around a military map, most of the others could only be crowded on the periphery. This creates a very crowded feeling, which Penny Reagan hates, but she still stands straight by the map with her chest puffed out and wearing marshal's armor to receive everyone's attention.

Perhaps due to Qingxiu's influence, Penny's first sentence was not very polite, and the other meaning of the sentence she asked was: This is not an important matter, is it?

However, the generals present are all old fritters who have been up and down for many years, and it is not too simple to resolve this embarrassment.

Immediately after Penny Reagan's words landed, someone chimed in:

"I heard that Cove Rambo sold Elook for a good price. ”

"Pedy Reagan promised to give him a place to retire, and I heard that he was also given another place to pay for his journey!"

"I bet it must be a nice place. ”

"But maybe that nice place is full of knives on the ground, and when Cove-Rambo steps into it, it's immediately shattered. ”

The generals' teasing tone is casual, but also occasionally with their characteristic black humor, which immediately defuses the embarrassment caused by the Penny Reagan problem.

"Cove-Rambo, a typical political opportunist, but his path has come to an end. Woz-Perrod whispered that his life out of prison didn't seem to make him any better, that he was thinner than before and that his hair was almost white, making him look like he was about to die before he was fifty.

"We don't care where he goes, and we don't need to. "The Secretary of Defense, Karene Sibo, as the specific commander of this war, is more serious than anyone else," the annexation of the Iruk Territory to the Kingdom of Krulia means that Peddy Reagan may visit Elok City at will. ”

"According to the scout's military report, the Kingdom of Kruria has gathered more than 150,000 troops, and the supplies of this army have almost covered the eastern plains of the Iruk Territory. Karen-Sibo looked around at the generals very seriously, "Coupled with the army of the Mage Tower and the Misha Kingdom, as well as the troops that were already assembled on our southern defense line, it is conservatively estimated... Pedy Reagan's personal expedition is followed by at least 200,000 troops!"

Karene Sibo's serious and serious words made the originally relaxed atmosphere in the tent become solemn, and after the laughter from the teasing just now came to an abrupt end, the sound of heavy breathing began to echo in the tent.

"It seems that this battle is not very easy to fight. When the commander of the Sixth Mixed Legion (formerly the Hades Town Legion) Bivis spoke, his hands rubbed back and forth as if it was very cold, "However, just because it's not good doesn't mean that you can't fight... The town of Tyre that we occupy is located at the junction of the Sook Plain and the Iruk Plain, and the nearby terrain is mostly mountainous valleys and dead ends, and the only way to access it is through Tyre. ”

"In such terrain, it is simply impossible for an army of 200,000 to be fully deployed. As a commander who had commanded several large-scale operations here, he knew the terrain well, and he quickly sketched an arc-shaped defensive line, "We only need to set up a strong defensive line around the town of Tyre, and fight a war of attrition with the army of the Krulian Kingdom within the line to delay time, and we can completely consume them under the walls of Tyre." ”

Seeing that the generals were all looking at him, Bivis spoke in a louder voice, "With the resources of the Suke Plain, under normal circumstances, it is enough for us and the Kingdom of Kruria to consume for three to five years..."

"A few years ago, the elven coalition besieged the town of Tyr, and the empire thought that it could use the resources of the Suker Plains to stop their attack here, but in the end, the people of the Suk Plains paid a heavy price. Woz Pedro unceremoniously interrupted Bivais, "I still think we should be looking for more power, such as... Orcs and Highland Steppes. ”

"The Orcs have just finished the Civil War, and the Kingdom of Cruria is more important to them than we are, and they are supporting us now just because they don't want to see Pedy Reagan too strong, and as for Andy Barrett in the Highlands, he doesn't even dare to see us. Bivis looked at Woz Pedro with a look of disgust, "Also, a few years ago, the elven coalition besieged Tyre Town, and we originally had a chance to win the battlefield war, because some people disrupted Duke Nick's arrangement in Tyre Town for their own selfish interests. ”

"At that time, if we could have adhered to the 'defensive counterattack' strategy formulated by Duke Nick's cabinet at the beginning, it would have been impossible for the elves to invade the Suke Plains!" Although several years have passed, Bivis is still haunted by the war with the elven alliance in Tyre, and he always believes that the incompetence of Woz Perrod caused the loss of the war.

"The war was not as simple as you might think, and the war was lost because of the sudden betrayal of Mondstadt Jean, which led to the fall of Fort Norma, which put the city of Suker in two fronts. Woz-Perrod was obviously also very concerned about the battle of Tyre, and when he heard Bivis's words, he immediately argued with him with a red neck, "The defeat of the Empire is not because of war, but because..."

"Both, so many of us are here, not here to listen to you explain the failure of the Empire. Penny Reagan's hard words stopped Woz-Perrod and Bivis from suddenly erupting into an argument, and the hint of warning in her tone was undisguised.

"I'm very sorry, Commander-in-Chief!" the two men had no extra explanation.

Penny Reagan didn't want to delve into the matter either, and after the two of them shut up, she motioned to Karen Sibbo next to her to continue the topic just discussed.

"The arc line of defense proposed by General Bivis, as well as the future war of attrition, are actually issues that we have been considering. "But I think it's too dangerous to just set up a defensive line on the periphery of Tyre, because it means that if we make a mistake in the long war of attrition in the future, the army of the Kingdom of Kruria will reach the walls of Tyre." ”

"So, I personally suggest that we should extend the battlefield as far out as possible in the early stage..."Karen-Sibo's finger slowly crossed the map, sliding towards the perimeter of the narrow defensive line south of Tyre, "The area from the southern defense line to the town of Tyre is mostly a land of rivers and mountains, if we can seize the dangerous positions in these areas as much as possible, and destroy the official roads and bridges along the way, we can buy at least three months to half a year of buffer time for this war." ”

"It's a pity that Bowenwright on the other side thought of this before you, and his army had already occupied the main communication artery to the outskirts of Tyre half a month ago, and established the corresponding guard tower stronghold. Fipott Bob stood in the middle of the crowd in a very low-key manner, he was now the commander of the 10th Mixed Regiment (Kwyn Town Legion), wearing very simple armor and gray battle robes, when everyone looked at him, he looked at Karene Sibo and said, "If this is your plan, you have to hurry up and make a decision, because Pedy Reagan could come to Arok City at any time." ”

"Wait!" Penny Reagan looked at Karene Sibo very seriously, "You mean you want to take the initiative now and attack the various guard towers that the Kingdom army has set up in the southern area of Tyre?"

"We have to push the front forward as much as possible. Karen-Sibo's eyelids twitched slightly, knowing that she might touch some of the bottom line of the lady in front of her, she didn't care about the gazes of the surrounding generals, revealing her most humble side, and explained: "When General Bivis was outlining this line of defense just now, it suddenly made me think of the current situation in Ether Town, we don't actually have to retreat within the city walls, because the kingdom army opposite is not strong at the moment, and they have to deal with the undead legions in the territory of El Luk. ”

Penny Reagan's question just now was actually just aimed at Karene Sibo, and she was a little moved by the other party's suggestion, but she still turned her head to look at Woz-Perold next to her and asked, "What do you think?"

"A tentative attack is possible," Woz-Perrod said cautiously, "Director Sibo is right, at this moment Bowenwright does not have enough troops to fight us head-on, otherwise the kingdom's army would have been in the city. ”

"If the front can be pushed forward as much as possible, it will indeed be beneficial to the future offensive and defensive war of Tyre. Bivis is reluctant to echo Woz-Perrod's words, but he is not the kind of person who only looks out for his own interests, "My proposal is a bit conservative compared to that of Director Sibour. ”

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