Chapter Ninety-Five: Dark Chess
Due to the refusal of the Byrons family to marry the princess to the Eyrtic royal family, the Elt nobles believed that the Byron League had no intention of co-opting the Elt kingdom. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Most of the nobles thought that they should immediately turn their guns and join the anti-Byronic League, and only a few of them thought that they should join the Byronic League at such a time.
Why didn't the Byronic Alliance, which was ostensibly at a disadvantage, care about the important ally of the Kingdom of Elt? This behavior is clearly unconscionable. Although the Elts only have a population of more than 30 million, not even one-third of the Tairong people, but under this distraction, it will also change the tide of the war.
However, the Byrons family refused to marry the Elt Kingdom on the inexplicable reason of "not going against the will of the people", which means that they probably don't need the Elt Kingdom, and they don't even care about pushing the Elt Kingdom into a hostile camp. In the eyes of the Elt aristocracy, public opinion should be represented by the aristocracy or the royal family, or by powerful merchants, and the thoughts of ordinary people do not matter at all, because ordinary people can only follow the situation constructed by the upper class, and will not go against them.
It would be fine if the Kingdom of Byron was a republic like the Ilibians, or an aristocratic government with high civic power like the Tairongs, but the Byrons were a family of the Letins, and the government of the Byrons Kingdom was a highly centralized monarchy. In the eyes of outsiders, the Kingdom of Byron should be a hall of words for the Byrons family. Therefore, the reason "not to go against the will of the people", which seemed very legitimate in the eyes of the Byrons family, had another meaning in the eyes of the Elt nobles.
What exactly does the Byron family want to do?
The Ayrtic nobles, who had put forward opposing opinions, asked such a question. Judging from the development trajectory of the Byron family, this family is by no means a thing in the pool, and it is not possible to aim for dominating the world. It is impossible for such a family to risk their roots, so it is likely that the Byrons family has a secret weapon.
Now, once considered a weak and rare race, the Taeyong Elves have suddenly risen to become a powerful and mysterious race independent of the major races of the New World. With an abundance of new rifles and strong fortifications, they enclosed the other races of the New World within a limited confines, seemingly turning the world into a huge, complex Colosseum.
No one knows how many Taeyong goblins there are, no one knows why Taeyong goblins suddenly rose to prominence after more than a hundred years of silence, bursting out with suffocating power, and no one even knew what Taeyong goblins wanted to do. They refused to come into contact with foreigners, in fact, with the exception of the Ilibi, and anyone who came close to their "territory" was warned by gunfire and ruthlessly beaten into a sieve if they did not leave.
I don't know when the Taeyong goblins in the slave market have become extinct, and the new rifles are out of stock. At this time, the Kingdom of Byrons, which can casually take out hundreds of Tairong goblins to form a phalanx, is a little terrifying. The Elt Kingdom has an embassy in the city of Byrons, and their resident envoys have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the Bluestone Palace. According to the news they reported, the Kingdom of Byron may have more than 2,000 Tairong goblins, a number that no force or even any race can match.
Of course, in fact, there are far more Taerong goblins working in the Bluestone Palace than that. As far as people can see, the Taeyong elves who are in charge of their daily work are only a small part of them. At present, there are more than 10,000 Taeyong goblins working in the Bluestone Palace, of which only about 2,000 are in charge of maid work.
Regardless of the type of work they are responsible for, the Tayeon elves wear uniform uniforms and are all called "Tayeon fairy maids". But most of them are not real maids, but the defense troops of the Bluestone Palace. They will be stationed in the hidden defenses of the Bluestone Palace building according to their shifts, such as the Taeyong goblins with new rifles waiting behind the shooting holes in some walls.
The troops who change the guard will not take the weapons out of the defenses, but will hand them over to the companions who come to change shifts and leave the place of duty directly. Since the Taeyong goblins all wear the same costume, a large number of Taeyong goblin maids will appear in people's eyes during the shift change. Uninformed people would think that they were also ordinary maids, but in fact they were not maids, but full-time combatants.
The defense facilities of the Bluestone Palace are usually rotated every six hours, with four shifts per day. The Taeyong goblins on duty usually work one shift during the day, one shift at night, and rest the next day, that is, two days of work for twelve hours, and a changing cycle requires four shifts. The number of permanent personnel required for the defense facilities of the Bluestone Palace is about 1,400 people, and the number of people in the fourth class is about 5,600 people.
In addition to the Taeyong goblins on duty in the defense facilities, there are also full-time weapons depot guards, also four shifts, with a total of 1,200 people. In addition, there are mobile units on standby, also in four squads, totaling two thousand people.
The daily needs of the Tairong goblin are relatively low, and there are no special desires, as long as you take care of food and shelter, and you can have a little more free time, and the requirements for salary are not high. As of the end of July 157 of the new calendar, the average monthly salary of the Taerong goblins working in the Bluestone Palace was only 20 Wen Taerong money. By the beginning of the 160th year of the new calendar, this number had dropped to 15 Wentai Rong money. By the beginning of the 165th year of the new calendar, this figure had dropped to 10 yuan of Byron Stone (about 8 Wentairong coins), and after the second currency reform, it became 120 yuan of imperial legal tender, until now.
In other words, from the beginning of the 162nd year of the new calendar, the average monthly salary of the Taeyong goblins working in the Bluestone Palace has not changed. It is said that these salary cuts were all proposed by the Taerong goblins, because they couldn't spend so much money, and it was useless to save them, it was a pure waste, so they repeatedly asked for salary cuts.
Back to topic. The Alt nobles, who put forward the opposite opinion, believed that the Byrons family must have hidden their trump card, and this trump card must be related to the Tajon fairy. Since the King's Guard, equipped with new rifles, had only appeared a few times during the suppression of the rebellion in the Taerong Kingdom, and they had fought tailwind battles, the outside world had received very little information, and it was even impossible to determine its combat effectiveness. What is certain, however, is that the Kingdom of Byron had at least 2,000 new rifles and a relatively large amount of ammunition.
The Elt nobles did not believe that the Byrons had reached some kind of agreement with the Tajon elfs, but that they had mastered the way to capture the Tajon goblins, so they could have so many Tajon goblins and new rifles. If the kingdom of Byron actually had a larger number of new rifles, say, 10,000, the Elt nobles thought that number was exaggerated, but they were prepared for the worst.
If the Kingdom of Byron has 10,000 new rifles and has more ammunition, then in a one-on-one situation, the Kingdom of Elt may not be able to defeat the Kingdom of Byrons. Because the Kingdom of Byron produced advanced muskets and installed new rifles on a large scale, this configuration was "ultra-modern" in the new world at that time - that is, it surpassed the level of modern science and technology, and its combat power absolutely crushed the conventional troops. Even if the number of troops is limited, it is not a problem to gain superiority on a local battlefield.
These Elt nobles made a series of tactical assumptions, saying that if the Byronic League held the front and dragged on for ten or eight years, the newly established behemoth "Ilibi Kingdom" would definitely be able to afford it, and with the support of the wealthy Byron Kingdom, the Tairong Kingdom and the Egus Kingdom would also be able to afford it, and as for the other ancient kingdoms, their existence was only used to delay time, and even if they defected, it would not be a big deal.
But can the anti-Byrons coalition coalition be able to afford it?
It will not be easy for an alliance with an extremely complex internal situation and an unprecedented scale to maintain an alliance within a decade. If you want them to join forces and fight with the Byrons Alliance, this kind of thing can only be thought about, and it is impossible to happen in reality. As long as the Byrons League drags on long enough, this anti-Byronic League siege will collapse on its own, and then the Byronic League can break it down one by one.
If Maier hadn't been trusted by the Tayon Elves, the Elt nobles would have guessed the strategic intentions of the House of Byrons, as that was their original plan. It's a pity that the current Byron family already has the ability to directly defeat the anti-Byron alliance, and there is no need to fight with the enemy.
Now the territory of the original Chaoxin Kingdom has trained four Tairong fairy legions, with a total strength of 160,000 people, they are fully trained, fully equipped, well supplied, and their morale is high. At this stage, no enemy army can match such a pure ultra-modern army head-on, even if Maier only sends a Tairong elf legion to fight the Elt Kingdom, no army or city can withstand the attack of this army, not even the city of Lodon, which has exhausted the Tugu coalition army in the first place.
After the integration of the "Ilibi Country", there will be more Tairong elf settlements and Ilibi people to cooperate. As time goes by, more and more Tayjung elf legions will be established according to the Elibi-Tayron elf military system, and the anti-Byron alliance siege network will only get worse and worse.
Unfortunately, the reasoning of these Elt nobles was not supported by the majority, so in the end, the Elt Kingdom decided to tear up the military alliance treaty and join the anti-Byronic alliance siege network, which had a greater chance of winning and was more "sincere".
The Elt nobles of the minority faction thought that the decision of the majority faction would destroy the Elt kingdom, so they secretly sent people to the kingdom of Byrons, wanting to contact Leah, and take her back to China with outstanding ability, but was ostracized by the royal family, and support her as the new king. These Eltic nobles were convinced that the Byronic Army had a trump card, and that this trump card was enough for them to put Leah, who had become a "pro-Byronic faction", to the throne.
Such an idea is no different from a madman in the eyes of a normal person, because on the surface, the probability that the kingdom of Byron has a so-called trump card is very small.
If they really have trump cards, why not use them in counterinsurgency wars?
The question of the majority leaves the minority speechless. They are also puzzled, since the kingdom of Byron hides its trump card, why not use it in the counterinsurgency war? If they had used their trump card in the Battle of Chishuihe, they would have won more beautifully. The Tayrong nobles would be feared by them, and even submit directly, so that the Byrons family would have the support of the two main races.
After discussion, the minority believed that the Byrons family should be afraid of the tree and lead the siege network. This explanation is reasonable, but it is a pity that the Elt Kingdom has already made a decision at this time, and the words of the minority have no effect.
When the messenger came to the kingdom of Byrons, he knew that he could not enter the city of Byrons, and he also knew that the people of the kingdom of Byrons would not believe him. So he deliberately went to the branch of the Supervision Council in Limi City to steal information, and was caught by the people of the Supervision Council. After being arrested, he simply spit out all the domestic information, and then explained his intention.
The Inspectorate attached great importance to this matter, and they immediately sent someone to confirm the information from the secret line of the Elt Kingdom, and then escorted the messenger to the headquarters of the Inspectorate in Byron City, and handed it over to the current president of the Inspectorate, Leah. Eliah's knowledge of the kingdom of Elt, and she was immediately sure that what the messenger said was true when she saw the report. However, as the head of the intelligence department, she can't judge the information based on her own subjective impressions, and she has to wait for the secret line of the Elt Kingdom to send back confirmation information before taking action.
On November 9, 157 of the new calendar, a confirmation message was sent back from the dark line of the Elt Kingdom. They said that the information provided by the envoy was completely true, and although it was not yet certain that the movements of the Elt royal family were confirmed, the Elt army had been fully mobilized, and it was obvious that it was strategically deployed in the direction of the Byronic Kingdom.
After receiving the confirmation information, Leah immediately took the messenger to meet Myer. Leah has no interest in the throne of the Elt Kingdom, and she doesn't want Hamel to be the king of the Elt Kingdom, because Hamel doesn't want to be a monarch at all. After seeing some of Mel's hole cards, Leah was already convinced that the Elt Kingdom was no longer their opponent, and it would not be a problem for the Byron Kingdom to directly annex the Elt Kingdom by force.
As long as the Kingdom of Byron annexes the Kingdom of Elt by force, Hart, who has been designated as the crown prince but has not yet known himself, can replace Hamel as the king, so that all the burden will be borne by Hart. Harml only needs to choose a position within the obligations of the royal family and live the life he wants.
She brought the envoy to meet Mair in order to give the envoy the illusion that "Leah wants to be king", so that the nobles who supported her would be relieved to mobilize the troops. When the war breaks out, Leah can use this dark chess at a critical moment to allow the Byronic army to achieve the most brilliant victory at the minimum cost.