Chapter 584: Peeping
"There is both luck and strength in this, how vast is the Miracle Peninsula? If the Broken Blood Fort wants to smash this place with less than 100,000 troops, the strength will inevitably be seriously insufficient, and the points will definitely be scattered, as long as you seize the opportunity and choke the main road, the Broken Blood Fort will break the city in front, and the main chief of staff of Brynn will set up an ambush on the escape road, and it is indeed possible to catch a big fish. The eyes of the main chief of staff, Kelman, were shining, and although he was thousands of kilometers away, the battle situation over there seemed to be close in front of his mouth.
The two main chiefs of staff are not only competitors, but also friends on another level, and they know each other's style and methods very well.
"Regardless of how Branne's main chief of staff did it, the focus now is, what should we do? hand over this honorable captive to the Broken Blood Fortress to deal with, or escort him back to our military leader?"
"That's right. Sean nodded and said, "There are many coincidental factors in the process of Branne's main chief of staff capturing the other party, it can be said that it is beyond everyone's expectations, the side of the broken blood fortress thought that the other party had absconded by taking advantage of the chaos, and now it should still be in the hands of Branne's main chief of staff, he did not hesitate to use the mountain eagle to conduct ultra-long-distance interrogation, just to ask how we decided this matter." ”
"Does this still need to be discussed? Of course, it is directly brought back to our territory, this is a natural bargaining chip, sooner or later it will be able to be used one day, don't tell me that you have no idea of fighting the East Odin Empire. Marshal McGee slapped his thigh and grinned without thinking.
In particular, the last sentence drew a smile from hawkish militants such as Marshal Tagore and Kelman's chief of staff.
Expansion is an instinct of soldiers, especially commanders with strong and heavy troops.
It was previously dragged by the undead Klein tribe and the Kentana barbarians, and it was forgotten.
Now that one enemy is a thing of the past, and one has become a catfish on the board, it is only a matter of time before it is eaten.
These marshals will have time to find new prey.
The exploration and development of the waters around the Danube Plain was a matter for the navy, and before the discovery of the New World, there was nothing for their army.
The Byron alliance will not be considered for the time being, not to mention that the two sides are in a state of honey blending, but in terms of strength comparison, the two sides are not on the same level.
That's right, the Eternal Night Commander is a combat skill system, a new weapon artillery, and it is possible to start the main battle race of the Kentana Barbarians, and the military strength will be doubled.
But it still can't change the fact that they are a small race, the 100,000 elite army that the Eternal Night Army Leader now has is the power of the whole army leader, once they are crippled and scrapped, they will inevitably collapse, and they will not do anything in a short time, but it is secondary, and then the entire Byron Alliance will turn into a wolf and want to gnaw meat from them.
Just look at the fate of the Kingsley family, the alliance of interests has always been this virtue.
When you are strong, all people are your allies, your good neighbors.
When you are weak, they will be the most ferocious wolves, the most brutal robbers.
On the contrary, it is the Byron Alliance, even if one army leader is crippled and scrapped, they have several other army leaders to support it!
Moreover, their population base is large enough that once the compulsory conscription order is implemented, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, will be gathered in a short period of time, although most of them are rabble, but they cannot support the large number.
In the part, quality can indeed overwhelm quantity.
But when the amount exceeds a certain level, it will overwhelm the quality.
In the face of the hundreds of thousands of Orcs of Odin, even the severed blood horseman, who is known as the first cavalry in the world, retreats differently and runs to the rear of others to make trouble.
This is why the Eternal Night Warlords have determined from the beginning to carry out a hidden economic invasion route against the Byronic Alliance, once they are designated as invaders, even if the invasion is successful by force, they will be branded as invaders, and they will not be able to wash their hands for the rest of their lives, and they will be caught in a race war from which they cannot be extricated.
Calculations come and go, and for a short time they have only one place to make an idea - the Odin steppe.
More precisely, the East Odin Empire.
If the East Odin Empire is in a complete state, even if it is in a state of sunset for all these years, the Eternal Night Commander will not dare to fight their idea in a short period of time.
Again, the population problem.
Although the East Odin Empire is vast and sparsely populated, it can't stand up to the vast area, compared to the Eternal Night Army, there are still many people, and all herdsmen can become soldiers, they can easily pull tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
Entrenched in a Kogel steppe, they were already cautious, lest a big tribe come to them on a whim and come to them for trouble.
Not to mention taking the initiative to fight out and occupy a larger territory.
But with the surge of troops in the Western Odin Empire, the situation has clearly changed.
The East Odin Empire has been completely crippled, and the West Odin Empire obviously cannot stay here for long.
This Eternal Night Commander has been analyzed and studied at some military meetings a long time ago, and there are many reasons.
The biggest factor is related to the vastness of the Odin steppe.
Let's put it this way, the Odin Prairie stretches from the Kentana Icefield in the east to the tip of the Miracle Peninsula in the west, a straight-line distance of more than 5,000 kilometers.
From the Broken Mountains in the south to the tundra wasteland in the far north, all belong to the Odin savannah, and no one has measured how wide it is, but one thing is certain, it will definitely not be less than a thousand miles.
In other words, the overall area of the Odin Prairie was no smaller than that of all the Byronic League leaders combined.
With such a vast area, it is so difficult to control.
Even if he gave Sean such a vast empire, he stared dryly and couldn't do anything.
Closed transportation and backward means of communication will become the biggest problem of rule.
When it takes months for a country to travel from the south to the north, and a large army movement takes years to prepare, the so-called rule is a joke.
The successive royal kings and military leaders of the Byron Alliance, it is not that no one wants to complete the unification of the entire alliance, but every time it ends without a problem.
On the surface, it seems that all kinds of human factors have hindered them, but if we trace back to the source, we will find that what really restricts them is the political system and backward scientific and technological means.
Even if they did force them together, they would only be glued together, and the rift would still exist, and it would be very fragile, and the slightest wind and grass would break off, forming a larger, more difficult to repair rift.
Their control is centered on their force, and the farther away they are, the lower their influence is.
This is the case in the Odin Empire now.
The West Odin Empire has indeed smashed the East Odin Empire now, which does not mean that it has completely conquered them.
If these hundreds of thousands of troops of the Theodin Empire could stay here for more than ten years, or even decades, to suppress all the resistance forces, there might be hope of completely subjugating them.
If the army immediately turns back to the West Odin Empire and the Miracle Peninsula, as soon as they leave, the remnants of the East Odin Empire will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, which is completely predictable.
It is impossible for the conqueror of the Theodine Empire not to be aware of this, but their current situation is not for them.
Hundreds of thousands of people eat horses and chew horses, which is a huge number, at the beginning, they could barely maintain their support by plundering the tribes of the East Odin Empire, but now the entire East Odin Empire is broken.
Last year's best season for grazing was in a state of war, and the herd was severely reduced, and they may be able to sustain them this winter by killing and plundering uncontrollably, but there is absolutely no way to sustain them from staying here this year.
Not to mention, the core area of the Western Odin Empire, the Miracle Peninsula has been blown up by the Broken Blood Horse with black powder, all the large cities that can be broken have been broken, and most of the granaries have been burned.
There's no way they can sit idly by.
Now they have one more reason to come back, and their queens have been taken prisoner.
As soon as the army of the Theodin Empire withdraws, the opportunity for the Eternal Night Army to lead will come.
They are powerless to deal with the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western Odin Empire, but it is still no problem to bully and bully the fragmented East Odin Empire that has been beaten.
Even if some tribes remain in the West Odin Empire, the Eternal Night Commander can muddy the situation on the East Odin steppe by uniting the remnants of the East Odin Empire.
Fishing in troubled waters has always been what they do best.
"The queen of the Theodin Empire is indeed a natural bargaining chip, and at the same time a natural bomb, according to the character of the tiger of the Theodin Empire, this matter will definitely not be settled, once we know that our queen is in our hands, I am afraid that it is not a compromise, but a crazy wave of troops to attack, right?" Marshal Erikson expressed his concern.
This concern is not unfounded, but is based on the character analysis of the Eternal Night Leader's character of the Black Tiger Ulan Barri, the supreme ruler of the Theodin Empire.
This man is indeed a man of a generation, self-disciplined and temperate, and although he is the head of a country, he is not addicted to luxury, and is said to spend more than sixteen hours a day on government affairs.
A ruler who has been in government for too long usually represents two possibilities.
One is that there is a problem with the entire political system, and every situation needs to be handled by the supreme ruler.
The other is that the supreme ruler has too much desire to control everything and wants to control everything in his own hands.
The state of the Theodin Empire, both.
Ulan Bari's desire to control is far above that of ordinary people, reaching a distorted level, and sometimes even a cow or a sheep is eaten by wolves, and he will personally lead people to exterminate this wolf pack.
Among the Orcs of Odin, such a thing is seen as a kind of good talk.
But Sean, in the eyes of the high-level leaders of the Eternal Night Army, this is a sign of chaos in the ruling mode, and it is clear that a small team of cavalry can solve the matter, and the supreme ruler personally goes out on horse, isn't it picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons?
It's understandable if it's done occasionally, in order to build your reputation.
The energy that Ulan Bari spent on this obviously exceeded this category, and the only explanation was that his personal desire to control was too strong.
This kind of person is usually accompanied by a stubborn and self-serving character, and once it is identified, it will spare no effort to implement it, which often leads to the emergence of another personality trait - good joy.
This is vividly demonstrated in the policy towards the East Odin Empire.
The West Odin Empire's invasion of the East Odin Empire this time is of course rare in the world, but in terms of harvest, it is really not ideal.
The grassland is not a town, and there is no way to send troops to garrison it all year round after the occupation, and the soldiers and peaks have poured over, that is, in the past, and how the tribal herdsmen should graze and how to graze at that time has not had much impact.
Most of the cattle and sheep captured from the East Odin Empire were wiped out by this army, and the only thing that could be called harvest was those prisoners of war slaves, who transformed them into their own national power, and needed to bring them back to their own tribes to be considered successful.
This kind of harvest was stabbed in the back by the Broken Blood Castle, and most of the damage caused by it was neutralized.
If it were Sean, he would definitely adopt a way of encroachment, using more than ten years or even decades to encroach on the territory and population of the East Odin Empire little by little, and wait for all the people and land to belong to him, and the other party would have to perish if he wanted to.
At this point, the black tiger Ulaanbari obviously has an age advantage, but he didn't choose to do it, isn't it a great achievement?
How can such a person, when he has absolute superiority in military strength, easily accept the coercion of others?
When the time comes, it is more likely to face his monstrous anger.
Even without Bran's letter, the Eternal Night Warlord had speculated that the Theodin Empire would launch a military retaliation against the Broken Blood Keep, and now the possibility is soaring.
Kelman's main chief of staff showed a sly smile and said: "Who said that the whole world knows about this matter? Since it is a secret capture, of course, it is secretly transported back and secretly imprisoned, and the queen of the Theodin Empire is missing, whether she is killed or captured, who do you say is the first object of suspicion in the Theodin Empire? At that time, even if you are looking for trouble, you have to go to the broken blood fortress, instead of making trouble with our small military leader in a corner of the country, isn't it? Distance is the biggest protective layer between us." ”
"If the capture process is really such a top secret, there is indeed a lot of room for manipulation here, otherwise, it is better to directly hand it over to the Broken Blood Castle to dispose of it and save trouble. The chief of staff of the main Hebrew army nodded approvingly.
The main role of the queen of the Theodin Empire is still in the future, not now, the Eternal Night Warlord does not have the strength to compete with the Theodin Empire for the time being, at best, it is to beat the side drum for the broken blood fortress, and by the way, tear a few pieces of meat from the East Odin Empire to eat.
"The question is how to transport this special captive back? Once you return to the Broken Blood Fortress, even if it was originally secretly captured, it will be difficult to keep this secret anymore, after all, our people are just guest houses, is it possible to let them leave the Broken Blood Fortress and travel directly from the Odin Steppe? Not to mention the danger, once you do this, it is easy to arouse all kinds of suspicions, especially in the Broken Blood Fortress. Field Marshal Erikson frowned and asked another conundrum.
"Transporting one or two captives thousands of miles is a problem for other military leaders, but it is not a problem for us. When Kelman's chief of staff said this, his eyes looked at Sean.
"You mean, let the lord personally go out and transport it by air?" Marshal Erikson pondered for a moment, "this is indeed a solution, what do you marshals think?"
"This is indeed a solution!"
"This method works. ”
The other marshals nodded in agreement, all agreeing on the feasibility of this method, and finally looked at their own lord to see his decision.
"There is no difficulty in transporting it back by air, the core question is, whether a queen is worth it for us to go to this troubled water, what kind of benefits can it bring to us, and what kind of hidden dangers will it bring to us. Sean did not make a decision easily, but systematically concluded, "Let's analyze one by one, first of all, the hidden dangers. ”
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