But if he was a cruel man, Edward only laughed when he heard such remarks.

Or rather, he didn't put any effort into these areas at all.

He has a very busy career right now.

After the war, a large number of tribal generals with superb martial arts and good physical fitness died on the front line, which made the traditional military system of the Wiegand tribe directly based on the verge of collapse.

Only in a tribe, soldiers who have grown up together since childhood, can be said to be able to assist each other, as for those who do not come from a tribe, they may not even be able to speak a few words clearly, and if they want them to cooperate sincerely, the problem of translation will be difficult to solve in the first place......

And after the decisive battle of the Great Prussians, whether the generals around him recognized it or not, he had already discovered that these Great Prussians were indeed a much greater empire than the Wiegand in all aspects of military, political, economic, and cultural.

It was also because of this that he had made up his mind to imitate the previous system of the Great Prus.

This is not only for the consolidation of his own position, but also whether he can take advantage of the internal strife in the empire to become a new empire on the border.

As stated in the envelope that Pruth gave him.

His opportunity only existed in the time of the war in the south, and the victory or defeat on the southern battlefield was not something he could directly manipulate, and all he could do was to completely change the loose and fragmented status quo of the Wiegand tribe in a few years.

"Let us rule and defeat the Great Prussians, or stop and let the Great Prussians defeat us. ”

And this type of reform is inevitably going to move the cake of those conservatives, which in itself is unavoidable.

If these people jumped out against him just when he was a knight, then when he seemed to be canonizing the Great Prussians as officials, nobles, and even generals, wouldn't these people jump upside down?

It was with these concerns that Edward had to throw them all on the front line of the battlefield.

It is better for them to die at the hands of the Great Prussians than at the hands of their own.

But for the knights in the camp, what Edward did was undoubtedly "good governance".

They had gone from being out of place at the beginning to trying to get in touch with the Wiegand tribal warriors, and after a period of communication, quite a few of them had even learned some Wiegand vocabulary.

If the war in the south is not affected, perhaps they will one day die of old age in what is now Edward's Tent.

If the Pruth had won the war, perhaps they would not have had the value of going back alive at all.

But in any case, the opposite of these internal affairs was the Northern War, which was still in full swing.

Pressed in a corner of the swamp, the Wiegand began their "second southward journey."

Starting from Dingbei City to Sea Castle, almost every piece of land of the empire has soldiers of the Wiegand tribe, and the remnants of the empire's legions are bleeding.

The legionnaires, who had lost their team organization, could not exert any advantage at all in a battle of three or five people, in a battlefield similar to a "street fight", and often the weegand warriors with high morale only needed to pay the price of one or two to defeat all three or five soldiers.

Some soldiers will choose to resist to the end, but many more will surrender on the spot in order to gain Edward's "mercy".

Yes, Edward was indeed "merciful".

While he was strict with his internal pressure, he demanded that the soldiers not raid the villages of the Great Prussians, and only allow the soldiers to attack when they encountered resistance.

There are some strange psychology in this.

They are always receptive to occasional overtures from their enemies, and they are furious at the once or twice offensive to their own people.

But in any case, the "pity" "protector of the North Sea people" Edward.

In the afflicted countryside of Prussia, there was indeed no great deal of resistance.

There were even quite a few Great Pruss warriors who were integrated into the Wiegand army.

It's just that Edward can't make these people into the same sequence as the existing Wiegand warriors for the time being, which will not only make the problem of uncommunication within his troops worse, but may even start a civil war before encountering the enemy.

But he couldn't fully trust these surrenderers, and if he used them alone, he might never get them back if he let them out.

After much thought, Edward still compiled them into a personal army, and gave them the name "North Sea Guard".

The number of this force soon rose to 1,000 men, and in the ever-expanding battlefield, perhaps they would one day become the main force in a war.

After all, the Weygans had already lost too much of their population before, and the consumption of a quarter of the population made every young man's labor force so valuable that Edward was extremely happy to let these soldiers return to the fields.

After solving the problems of the countryside, Edward was faced with a strong fortress built by the nobles of the Northlands.

Without controlling a major city in a place, it is never really a place to occupy the area.

But in the vast area with a limit from Dingbei Castle to Sea Castle, there were five such fortresses.

In a place like that, there must have been enough food for thousands of people to live for more than two years, thousands of weapons, and a large number of healthy people.

And this is also a small "conspiracy" of Pruth.

Yes, I promised you cities and territories, which is my duty as an ally, but you have to take these cities yourself.

These unruly vassals included three dukedoms, a powerful county, and a merchant city.

After the Emperor's forces were routed, they neither extended a helping hand to the Emperor's army, nor did they open the gates of the city to pledge allegiance to Prus.

Rather, it retains a "neutral" attitude.

Even if Prus mobilized the power of the entire kingdom, it would be difficult to say that he would easily defeat them.

Small towns always have a variety of methods such as fire attack, tunnels, and earthwork, but for slightly larger strongholds, these things are useless.

They are often built on arteries between linked territories, or in precipitous locations.

It only takes a few hundred soldiers for them to confront tens of thousands of soldiers, and although they are powerless to fight back, as long as they are well prepared and want to conquer them, they will not be able to win without sacrificing several times as many times as them.

And a city that has been conquered seems so barren.

Apart from a few scraps of brass and iron, and a large crowd of people who were starved to the point of being skinny, the overcomers received little real benefit.

Even the protective facilities that the city can provide will inevitably become unusable because of the war.

With Edward's current strength, it would not be difficult to claim a few cities, but the real difficulty was the attitude of the victor after the decisive battle in the south after Edward and the local nobles fought to the death.

Without counting losses, those rich places have extremely large population bases.

When the time comes, when one of them, Pruus, or the little emperor Peris, wins the victory, and then leads the army back to the Northland, as long as he brings more than 10,000 elite soldiers, he can force Edward to spit out all the things he has eaten in the name of "Northland Recovery".

If we had been more resolute, we might have wiped out the entire Wiegand tribe.

"Wald, Valan, Nordcod, Valehia, tell me what you think?"

Although there was great hope for not reporting, Edward still asked with some reluctance.

Among these generals, in addition to the famous veteran Wald, Valethia was an attendant in one of his services, and was given the position of "commander-in-chief" because of his military exploits.

Valan and North Cod were the two tribal leaders in the Far North, and they were important allies during Edward's opposition to the "Famous Alliance", and similarly, in the decisive battle, they were also the only two tribal chiefs who firmly controlled their own army, and under their strong command, the more than 4,000 soldiers who were almost sacrificed in the strategy barely stabilized the front and finally survived.

All four of them were Edward's most favored generals, and they were the highest-ranking Wiegand people except Edward.

Compared with his father Thoreau, Edward knew that he still had a lot of shortcomings and shortcomings, and he was able to achieve great success, and it was also because of luck and his father's layout for him, and even his sister Young, who assisted him in his internal affairs, that he had today's great situation, which allowed him to call himself the "King of Wiegand".

Thus, although on the surface Edward was an authoritarian ruler, in reality he was always good at listening to the opinions of his allies, which led to his achievements.

"My king. "The first person to speak was the veteran Wald.

After witnessing Edward accomplish a series of "military miracles" that he could not even imagine, this fat man who had just passed middle age looked particularly old, and he often waited on Edward a little absent-mindedly, often making people a little confused.

"In my opinion, we should gather some troops and food as soon as possible, and stabilize our own soldiers and subordinates first. Step by step, we will conquer the largest area where our ancestors once ruled, relocate some of the bankrupt Prussian inhabitants to our land, collect their food, and prepare for their comeback with the stronghold of the Great Prussians, 'Elbe'. ”

After he said this, his head hung listlessly again, as if he had just borrowed a corpse to resurrect his soul.

Edward nodded slightly.

In his ranks, there is indeed a need for people who are stable enough to support his ideal "kingdom", and Wald's idea is conservative, but it is not unreasonable.

It's just that although Edward can understand, the other three commanders have a significantly different opinion.

Varan pursed his lips, still with a bitter and hateful face.

"My lord, I thought it would be too conservative to withdraw all the troops to the swamp now. ”

When he said this, he first glanced at Wald's expression rather cautiously, and saw that he was not unusual, and then continued.

"Our land is too barren. We have suffered for centuries for this, and even the worst land of the Great Pluses is more suitable for cultivation than the mud in the swamps. ”

"At present, you have 10,000 men under your account, and your country is relatively stable, and your soldiers and tribesmen all agree with your rule, and even the farmers of the Great Prussia consider you merciful. If we don't take advantage of this opportunity to take a step out of the swamp and increase our power by encroaching on a part of the land of the North Sea, even if we can continue to exist as an independent people, we will inevitably be blocked in the swamp by the Great Pruus. ”

"It would be better for us to take the smaller of the five strongholds, and then place heavy troops along these two Great Prussian strongholds for defense, and mobilize a large number of tribeamen to fill the land, so that our occupation is a given. The Great Pruss of the south must also be able to cast rat traps. Moreover, we have a secret agreement with Napraus, who promised three hundred li of land, and we should have their understanding if we took two hundred li of it. ”

After saying this, Varan looked at his colleagues again, and then straightened his face again, as if he had never said anything.

Edward, on the other hand, frowned a little casually at this point.

He motioned to North Cod, who seemed to have a draft of his abdomen, to continue.

After seeing Edward's eyes, Bei Kede smiled slightly, then flattened the eyebrows on his forehead, and said a little cheerfully.

"What do you have to hesitate about, my lord, the situation within the Great Prus is in disarray, in my opinion, neither Prus nor Perris should be afraid, the two of them, one is but a child, and the other is not a king, judging by the document he himself has handed over, he has openly ordered us to put to death the soldiers of their own people, and I want me to say that such a character will not last long!

The last person to speak was Valehia.

Compared to the rest of the generals, this young general, who was only from a noble background, probably preferred to kill the enemy on the battlefield rather than to maneuver in a large battalion.

Therefore, after everyone had finished speaking, he proudly gave his own reply in a loud voice:

"We don't have so many ideas, we just know what the master says, that's what it is, no matter what chance the king has, then I can only knock them down!"

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