"Fool, you just think about the comfort in front of you, if you really let the West Odin Empire eat the East Odin Empire, according to the temperament of Ulaanba, what will it swell into? Will he continue to be satisfied with a piece of the Odin steppe? Maybe he wants to become a man who dominates the whole continent? When the time comes, do you think we alone will be able to resist it?" General Pedro sneered unceremoniously.

General Pedro's last sentence obviously hit the scars of the generals present, and they were filled with righteous indignation.

"Those bastards in the south have become more and more excessive over the years, and the amount of support materials is getting smaller and smaller every year, not to mention, you look at what kind of things have been sent? In the past, those prisoners of sin, we confessed, at least they were strong and strong, and they were sent to the battlefield for a walk, and they were more obedient than lambs, but now it is good, either they are deaf or stupid, or they are missing arms and legs, and they are all stuffed in our bloody forts, we want soldiers, soldiers who can go to the battlefield, not a group of cripples who eat idle meals. ”

"The year before last, there were 5,000 gaps in the source of soldiers that were not filled, and last year there were 8,000, and from this year to now, the total number of people received has not yet reached 10,000, and if it goes on like this, when the old man in our hands is exhausted, the broken blood fort will become an empty fort, and the air has a strong defense capability, and there is no one to defend, what is the use?"

"And in terms of equipment, there is no finished armor, we admit it, the craftsmen we have accumulated over the years are not bad, as long as we are given enough iron ore, we can build it ourselves, but the problem is that there is no way to transport enough iron ore now, we can't conjure up iron ore by ourselves, let alone add new armor, many armors that need to be repaired have not been repaired. ”

"Needless to say, in terms of food, except for little Sophia, who has a heart for us, and can still see the past, what are the other people who have sent us, ten catties of wheat must have five catties of bran, one catty of sand, is this something for people to eat? We are soldiers, soldiers guarding the border, in the eyes of those bastards, we are not even comparable to begging beggars. ”

"It's true that thanks to little Sophia all these years, she has lived with us and knows our difficulties here, but I heard that little Sophia has not had a good time recently, and the widows and children of the royal family are constantly jumping, attacking little Sophia The most powerful thing is the materials she sends to us every year, and when the little prince who is not close to us takes the throne, and then these maggots are making trouble from it, our greatest aid, I am afraid that it will be cut off by more than half. ”

"If that's the case, our lives will be even more difficult, and little Sophia might as well keep this regent all the time!"

"Don't say it's the soldiers below, even if we all feel cold, and there are some wolf-hearted guys behind us, what's the point of us guarding this side?"

"If it doesn't work, let's let go of the side and let those murderous people outside rush in, so that these bastards who have too many stable days will know who keeps them safe, so that they can live a stable life. ”

"Shut up, what nonsense are you talking about? How dare you have such a bold idea? No matter how much resentment you have in your heart, you can't say such bastard words, because it is a blasphemy against the soldiers who died on the battlefield, and it is a blasphemy against our sacred duty. ”

The complaint ended with a roar from General Esmond.

Sean watched the assistance of the other seven families of the Byron Alliance to the Broken Blood Castle decreasing over the years, and it only existed in a bunch of numbers.

The generals of the Broken Blood Castle have experienced it personally.

On the defensive line of the Broken Blood Fort, there are as many as 200,000 permanent troops, not to mention those who are in the training period.

With this output on the Broken Steppe alone, there is no way to maintain such a large army, and it must be done with the support of the entire Byron Alliance.

In fact, compared to its peak, the defenders of the Broken Blood Fort have been severely reduced.

During the Odin Empire, there were no less than seven or eight hundred thousand soldiers stationed on this line, including a package.

When Archduke Cedric first took over, the number of regular troops was no less than three hundred and fifty thousand.

It sounds like a lot, depending on how long their defensive line is and how strong the enemy they are facing.

The world only knows the Broken Blood Fort, as if the Broken Blood Castle is the only entrance and exit for the Byron Alliance to connect the Odin savannah.

But anyone who has ever been to the Broken Blood Castle knows that this is not the case at all.

The Broken Blood Fortress can only be said to be the largest gap, allowing the Orcs of Odin to pour in like a tidal wave.

In fact, the entire Fracture Mountain Range is not so dangerous, those small mouths are everywhere, and the Odin orcs want to infiltrate on a small scale, not too simple, but it is not suitable for the large-scale invasion of the Odin orc army.

After all, the Orcs of Odin used a large army, and they needed not only elite cavalry, but also a large number of herds to accompany them as military rations.

Without this, it would be difficult for them to fight a protracted war, even if they invaded the Byron Alliance from other directions, it would be a group of rogue bandits, and it would be easy to be encircled and suppressed.

In fact, the Broken Blood Fort is only the most important point on this defensive line, and the troops stationed here only account for one-third of the entire defensive line, or even less, and the rest are distributed along this line as a guard post.

The fewer guards they scattered, the more likely it was that a small group of Orcs of Odin would infiltrate, and the more damage they would do to the alliance with Byron, and it would even be possible to turn around and outflank them.

Look at the enemies they faced.

As the news brought back by Captain Southil had already been announced, there were more than 30,000 combatable soldiers gathered by just one Tiger Claw tribe.

And the Tiger Claw Tribe is only one of the eight core tribes loyal to the Tiger Clan Royal Court of the Theodin Empire, although the disparity in strength between these tribes is very large, the Tiger Claw Tribe is an existence that can be ranked in the top three, but it will not be too different, otherwise it will be replaced by other tribes long ago.

If all the core tribes can respond to the call of the Tiger Clan's royal court, they will gather an army of 500,000 Odin orcs, it is not too simple, because the Tiger Clan's royal court itself has more than 100,000 royal court tiger guards to defend it.

Not to mention the countless scattered small and medium-sized tribes below, once the royal court issued an all-out war summoning order, they would bring their own weapons, horses, and food, and under the leadership of their own chiefs, they would respond positively.

When the time comes, it will not be difficult to gather an army of seven or eight hundred thousand.

Even if it is pigs, cattle and sheep, seven or eight hundred thousand gathered, it is overwhelming and boundless.

Not to mention the seven or eight hundred thousand strong Odin orcs, even if most of them lack military training, but their innate physical advantages are there, coupled with their innate spell-like abilities, every adult Odin orcs has a combat power that is not inferior to the knights of the Byron Alliance.

They were originally made as tools of war, and in this respect, they do have a unique advantage.

Only one West Odin Empire has such strength, not to mention the East Odin Empire, which is twice as large as it, and the army that can be gathered is only much more than them.

Of course, these are just theoretical figures.

The two major Odin empires want to gather troops, but they have to be limited by a vast area, and the two royal courts want to send all the war summoning orders, and they can't do it in a year or two.

Even if it is sent, there is no way to synchronize it.

They can't just sit there and wait for the soldiers of the scattered little tribes to gather, can they?

If that were the case, the battle would have not yet been fought, and the army that had gathered together would have eaten them up first.

The common method of warfare used by the Orcs of Odin is that the location of the war summoning order issued by the royal court is not a rallying point, but a war point, for example, the target of their attack is the Broken Blood Fortress.

They directly designed this place as a rallying point, and the royal court gathered the forces of several core tribes and killed them directly, joining up with other tribes along the way.

The result of this usually becomes a refueling tactic, with other Odin soldiers arriving while fighting, and sometimes even long after the war has ended.

This was caused by a delay in information, not only with the Orcs, but also with the Byron Alliance, at least until the Flying Eagle Messenger of the Eternal Night Army was sold on a large scale.

It is not uncommon for the Orcs to gather in large armies, but usually it is not man-made, but a natural disaster.

The large-scale natural disasters that broke out at the same time would make the soldiers of the Odin orc tribe, who had no way to live, invariably go south, trying to break through the broken blood fortress and go to the south to loot to help their tribe continue.

Eventually, a horrific horde of troops will converge, and the Odin orcs army will reach a terrifying number.

Such coincidences are few and far between, and have occurred only three times throughout the history of the Byronic Union.

But every time it was a crisis, it brought heavy losses to the defenders on the front line of the Broken Blood Fort, the most cruel one, the defenders of the Broken Blood Fort did not survive seven out of ten, and by the time the reinforcements of the Byron Alliance heard the news, the Broken Blood Fort had been broken and changed hands several times.

Both inside and outside the city were filled with soldiers from both sides, especially in the direction of the Odin steppe, where all kinds of corpses were piled up like mountains.

Only a few died in the war, and most died of freezing, starvation, and disease.

It's not for nothing that the Broken Blood Fortress is called a place of bones by the Orcs of Odin.

The war between the two sides lasted for more than 300 years, and countless Byron Union soldiers were buried here, as well as many more Odin orcs buried here, and this is also known as the closest land to death.

This is also the main reason why Archduke Cedric actively pursued the policy of replacing defense with offense after coming to power.

The shrinking forces are a little stretched to defend such a long border, and it is necessary to clench your fists and destroy the enemy before they can grow stronger, so as to reduce the pressure of their cluster attacks.

But what I didn't expect was that this certainly relieved the pressure of the Broken Blood Fortress, but also made the Grand Dukes of the Byron Alliance pay less attention to the Broken Blood Castle, and the materials that supported them shrank faster, making their condition worse, and they could only attack more frantically, suppressing the enemy at the same time, they were also plundering the other party's wealth and maintaining their own consumption.

It's a vicious circle out there.

This kind of thing, who is put on it, is also a stomach full of resentment.

They are sweating and bleeding bloody battles in front, and while others are sitting and enjoying their achievements in the back, they can't guarantee even the most basic supplies, what are they trying to do?

The generals of the Broken Blood Castle were silent one after another, although the Grand Duke Cedric did not speak, but his body had already exuded a dangerous aura, and under his calm eyes, there was a hidden rolling magma, which would erupt at any time.

Soon in the military conference room, the sound of falling needles could be heard silently.

"Enough is enough?" Archduke Cedric asked coldly, his gaze like an awl slowly swept over the faces of every general, and the generals who had just complained couldn't help but avoid his gaze, and no one dared to respond to his words.

"Since that's all I have to say, I'll also share my thoughts. Archduke Cedric did not get angry, but said calmly, "You only see the inaction of those lords and nobles, but why don't you see those ordinary lords, in order to support us, they would rather eat chaff vegetables than cut out the only little food to support us? Why don't you see that the old father, who is thousands of miles away, has been on foot for several years to send his only son to your hands, so that he can do his part to guard the border pass?"

"We are guarding, never those wolf-hearted people, but those kind ordinary people, when you say these irresponsible words, have you touched your conscience? Don't you feel pain? Are you worthy of those who have high hopes for us? We are not only here for that glory, but a responsibility, this is the responsibility of the Strachage family for hundreds of years, and it is also your responsibility, even if there is no soldier or armor in the future, not a single meter and a mile are transported here, as long as I Cedric? Streich will stand for a day, and I will stay here, not for glory, not for duty, but for the sake of those who trust me. ”

There was no impassionedness, no roaring, only endless blandness, he was just stating a fact.

But it was precisely like this, but it made those generals boil one by one, and the dissatisfaction in their hearts was washed away in an instant.

Oh, yes.

The actions of those lords and nobles did make them feel disgusted, but many ordinary lords, especially those who had been harassed and harmed by the Orcs of Odin, thought of their good fortune and spontaneously sent food here every year to send their own children to join the army.

The help they provided was so small compared to what the Broken Blood Fortress needed, but compared to what they personally had, it was all they had.

That's what they need to protect, that's what they need to fight for.

As long as there is one such person still around, they should not complain.

"Not for glory, not for duty, but for those who trust us, as long as there is a breath of life left, we will endure to the end. One after another, the generals stood up and took the oath.

"Sit down. "Archduke Cedric waved his hand," You are all brought out by me, what is your character, I have no doubt, even if you have complaints, you will not do that kind of crazy thing, but those maggots in the south, in recent years, have indeed done a bit too much, Lao Tzu does not have the same general knowledge as them, they really think that Lao Tzu is already old and dizzy and unable to move, and when the year is over, Lao Tzu will bring people, one by one to visit them, if they don't spit out the part that should be given honestly, without borrowing the hands of those barbarians, Lao Tzu can also destroy them. ”

When the last sentence was spoken, Archduke Cedric was domineering and full of strong self-confidence.

The eyes of the generals of the Broken Blood Fort turned bright one by one, and they grinned and laughed.

"Your Majesty, if you had said that, would we still have to complain?"

"Your Majesty, you should have done this a long time ago, as long as Your Majesty came out, you would definitely squeeze out their. ”

"What do we want that thing for? yes, we want fat, and it's better to let them fill in the gaps from previous years. ”

"You are greedy enough, as long as they can supply half of the share stipulated in the Great Declaration, we have the ability to make those barbarians unable to eat and walk around. ”

"Forget about the other supplies, the Tiger Mount, the Thousands of Miles Running Thunder Horse, the Flying Eagle and the Blade Throwing Cart, we must get more, these are all rare good things, which can produce immediate results and greatly improve the combat effectiveness of our existing soldiers, I heard that these things are all from a family, what is the Eternal Night Army Leader, isn't their call to become the Ninth Army Leader very high? It is best to be able to promote this, we can ask them for supplies in a proper manner. ”

"You are more greedy than the other, the Ninth Army Leader is so easy to become? People are not stupid, the territory is all fought by themselves, and a big burden will fall down as soon as you turn your head, this matter is not so easy, I think this matter is more suitable to make a deal with the other party through Little Sophia, I heard that she has been very close to Little Sophia recently. ”