CHAPTER XXXV. Military Council

"Now the enemy army is a full thirty kilometers away from us, although they dare not go ashore for the time being, but if this continues, it will be difficult to recover a large area, and what we need to do now is to let them withdraw their troops by themselves. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Romula tapped on the map of Kankula hanging on the wall, in which the seaside was marked with a red circle, indicating the enemy's location, and his own defense line was marked with a blue pen, so that the battle situation was clear at a glance.

"It is true that their navy is much stronger than ours, there is a first wave of invading forces... Lord Constantine said that the enemy general who was cut down by him is called Noval, there is a precedent for him, the enemy army should not send troops ashore at will now, now except for the fourth regiment of the 14th Army Corps, all of which are digging holes in the basin, everyone else has withdrawn from this area that will be attacked by the enemy, so it is not a matter of confrontation, Lord Constantine, they will not be able to hold out for too long without supplies. ”

Manov's worries are known to the officers, but how to solve it is a big problem, after all, the sea is the sea tribe dominant, if they want to wait for them to withdraw automatically due to insufficient supplies, it will take too long, and if the enemy's supplies arrive on the way, the wait before that will be in vain, so no one will propose this method, at this time everyone here has a sense of guilt in their hearts, the enemy is on the coast, but even if they fight hard, they can't fight back.

"But if you want the Sea Clan to withdraw its troops automatically, you can't do it except for diplomatic negotiations, or you can only send at least five times as many warships as the enemy, and even Lord Leon can't mobilize a navy of that size, and the final loss will be very large, the number of people is naturally enough, but the number of warships in the Kankula area is insufficient, so you must say that Your Majesty is moved." ”

"But Lord Leon was a prelude before, presumably twice this made His Majesty angry, and the biggest obstacle is not Your Majesty but a dovish high-ranking official like Luoan, even if Duke Chelfer and Marshal Dares are there, they may not be able to suppress them, you must know that before Your Majesty ordered the whole country to enter a state of combat readiness, but there is no legion that really gets permission to send troops, passive resistance is not Your Majesty's style, I suspect... Karan, who sat next to Romula, who had not been silent, said that as the deputy commander of the 92nd Legion, he was also a general himself, and he also touched on high-level affairs, and he hated doves very much like many generals, but Guano II wanted the two factions to balance each other, so they had nothing to do with Loan and others.

"I know what you suspect, it's very likely, you must know that it is too easy to misinterpret some orders with the rights of Luoan, the marshals of the previous emperor were unanimously opposed to allowing civilian officials to enter the military and political council, but at that time, the situation was just stable, and the military power had to be weakened, in order not to make the army too belligerent, and let the doves come in to check and balance, although it was necessary to do so at that time, but when the shortcomings began to be exposed, it was already too late for His Majesty to rectify it. ”

Hearing this, everyone also sighed, now the country is indeed stable and prosperous, but when encountering foreign enemies, there is a weak situation, when dealing with the Seven Nations Alliance led by the Kingdom of Kuhn, it is okay, but now in the face of the powerful Sea Clan, the army is restrained, the so-called doves are not pacifists, they are often just bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, in the eyes of the military, they are simply not enough to succeed and more than to lose.

"Now we must report this situation to Lord Leon, and let His Majesty issue a holy decree to the various legions as soon as possible, it is useless to rely on the distorted orders of the Military and Political Council, as for sending troops privately, now we are likely to start a full-scale war with the Sea Clan, and it is taboo to change commanders and soldiers before the war, I hope Your Majesty will not do this... Manov said that to be honest he felt a lot of pressure here, sitting here were the commander of the 92nd Army, the deputy commander, the chief of staff, and the chief of staff of the 14th Army, the four generals of the same rank, and he and Grant had to express their views on behalf of the military in the port of Cankula, and now even he felt a lot of pressure, let alone Grant, who could not interject on the sidelines.

"That's true, Commander Grant, do you have anything to say?" Romula also noticed Grant who hadn't spoken much at this time, although they felt that the titular commander of the Kankula garrison couldn't put forward any constructive points, but they still had to ask, this is a common problem of many elite legions in the Saran Empire, and it would make people feel very arrogant even if they didn't have malicious intent in the face of these officers of the city's subordinate troops who were far behind them.

"Ahem, everyone who should have spoken has already said it, what Commander Manov wanted to say just now is exactly what I wanted to say, it is better to let His Majesty make a holy decree," Grant hesitated, raised his head and said: " Recently, the cultists of the evil gods near the port of Kankula are still doing evil, and some robbers who are not afraid of death have also taken advantage of the fire to rob during this time, although His Excellency the Governor personally led troops to exterminate a lot, but these two threats are still serious, and so far there have been twenty-six confirmed victims of the victims, and when dealing with the Sea Clan, this matter cannot ignore the two threats of the evil god believers and robbers. ”

"Miss Chelfer, no, His Excellency the Governor personally led his troops to exterminate the cultists and robbers, is this too dangerous, but the Duke entrusted her to Lord Leon, if there are three long and two short, how can Lord Leon explain?" Romula said a few words, looked at Grant, who was silent, and said softly: " These two problems are indeed serious, but now the city defense troops are also on the battlefield and the Kanxi Fortress troops are also patrolling in various places, and the threat near the port has to be solved by your garrison, but they can't pull out now, if we don't stabilize the threat of the Sea Clan, we can't send troops back to clean them up, do you have information about their headquarters?"

"This is also... ”

"Yes, I know where the cultists are located. ”

Before Grant finished speaking, Hissari panted and pushed the door and walked in, the war was taking place in the port of Cankula, and it was understandable that she, the governor, was present at a military meeting, but Romula didn't look good when she saw this scene.

"Where's Helian?"

"I'm very sorry, I didn't know that His Excellency the Governor had such strength that I couldn't stop it, and I was willing to accept the punishment. Xilian kept bending down outside the door to apologize, and seeing that she was also sweating profusely and her clothes were scattered, it was obvious that she was not lying.

"So I'm not as weak as you think, and it's not Miss Cillian's responsibility, she's done her duty to keep me from leaving the room," Hisali stood in front of Sillian and met Romula's piercing gaze, hoping to prove her claim with good spirits.

"Well, then, as long as nothing goes wrong," Romula sighed, this meeting was indeed the custom for the governor to attend, and since she felt fine, it made sense for Hisali to hurry over, "You just said that you know where the cultists of the evil gods are, what's the matter?"