Chapter Seventy-Seven: Preparations for War

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In June 151 of the new calendar, the initial integration task was completed. At this rate, it would take six years at most for the Ilibi League to be integrated into a unified state.

In the same year, the decade-long Mingji crusade came to an end, and the Mingji clan, which had existed for 150 years in the New World, was completely wiped out. The forces that carved up the territory of the Mingji people either recuperated or fought over the territorial borders, and some forces even broke out into wars with each other because of this.

After ten years of recuperation, the Taeyong nobles have recovered and are ready to move. The local rebels of the Taeyong Kingdom became more active than usual, apparently trying to take advantage of the Taeyong nobles' counterattack to gain independence from the Taeyong Kingdom. Under the influence of the local rebels in the Kingdom of Tairong, the rebels in the Kingdom of Byron also became active.

According to the accurate data provided by Wei Xu, the rebels in the Kingdom of Byron have gathered more than 20,000 mercenaries, as well as about 10,000 of their own armed forces, and the total strength of the rebels should be between 30,000 and 40,000, including the lawless forces willing to join them.

The regular army of the Kingdom of Byron did not change much, the regular regiment remained twenty, but the musket regiment grew to three, and the total strength reached twenty-three thousand. The total strength of the city defense army fell to 50,000, of which about 10,000 were affected by the rebels, some of whom had already joined the rebels, and the rest were at risk of defecting.

Now the Kingdom of Byron has thoroughly figured out the situation of the rebel party in the Kingdom of Byrons, and has a certain understanding of the strength of the local rebel party in the Kingdom of Tairong. Wei Xu helped the Kingdom of Byron drag on for ten years, which is already quite a brilliant achievement. The Byrons could no longer afford to drag on with Wei Xu, so they had to be prepared for a rebellion.

According to the judgment of the Overseer, the invasion of the Tayrong nobles, the rebellion of the Tayrong Kingdom, and the rebellion of the Byrons Kingdom should begin after June 152 of the new calendar. At the beginning of the war, the number of rebels in the country should have been more than 110 percent of the current number.

The total number of invading troops of the Taeyong nobles should be more than six hundred thousand, and the total number of troops may exceed one million if you count the strength of the local rebels. The number of standing troops of the Taerong Kingdom is 200,000, and the two big cities of Chunshan City and Yaolin City can mobilize 300,000 people to participate in the war in half a year, and the total strength will not exceed 600,000 if you count the troops mobilized in other regions. In other words, at the beginning of the war, the Kingdom of Taeyong was at a disadvantage in terms of troops.

The Ilibi allies, other than the Republic of Bukin, can provide an expeditionary force of about 50,000 men in a month, and since the Ilibi are still in the process of national integration, the total number of expeditionary forces they can provide will not exceed 100,000, and the material support they can provide is also limited.

The princes of the Ira Empire were either digesting the results of the war, or they were at war. Emperor Ira's territory was too far from the battlefield to provide direct military support. The same is true of the Dugu Kingdom, which is friendly with the Kingdom of Egus, and only the Kingdom of Eugus can directly provide military support.

Ramogis could provide an expeditionary force of 50,000 men, but it would take at least a month to reach the front. Therefore, Maier will not directly ask Ramogis to support the battlefield of the Tairong Kingdom, but will first let the 50,000 expeditionary forces assist the Byronic army to quell the rebellion, and after the rebellion is settled, he will go south with the Byron army and the Bujin army to support the battlefield of the Tairong Kingdom.

After ten years of development, the Tairong goblins have gained a firm foothold in the territory of the original dynasty Xin Kingdom. They founded sixteen settlements with a total population of more than 20 million. These sixteen settlements all have the ability to produce new rifles and fixed integrated bullets, and the production capacity is amazing, and now the Tairong goblins in the territory of the former Chaoxin Kingdom can ensure that each person has a new rifle and sufficient ammunition.

The Bujin army stationed in the territory of the former Chaoxin Kingdom will not be transferred, but will continue to stay behind to protect the Taeyong goblins - to be precise, to protect the Taeyong goblins to establish a settlement here. In fact, the Taeyong goblins have never needed the protection of the Bujin army, whose role is to attract the attention of foreign spies and prevent foreign forces from detecting the existence of the Taerong goblin settlement. The sappers of the Bujin Army seal off all access points, and the cavalry on patrol will kill all foreigners in line of sight to prevent the Taeyong Elf Settlement from being exposed.

This land was originally set aside and now does not belong to any country. The Kingdom of Byrons, the Republic of Bujin, the Kingdom of Tairong, and the Kingdom of Egus, which destroyed the Kingdom of Chaoxin, all have the right to own this land, but so far these four countries have not allocated this land, but have publicly stated that they will jointly send troops to protect this land. In the end, however, only the Republic of Bujin was stationed here, and the other three countries all withdrew their troops to their homeland, and none of them sent them here.

Therefore, the outside world can only wishfully believe that the other three countries have temporarily handed over this land to the Republic of Bujin for safekeeping, and as for what they think, only the parties themselves know. In the first few years, many factions sent spies here, most of whom were killed by the Bujin Army, and some of the surviving spies discovered the Taeyong elf colony, and then they died at the gunpoint of the new rifles.

The lucky few got important information and were not discovered by the Taeyong Fairies and the Bujin Army. But people have to eat and drink, and the Tairong goblin settlements are all located in the hinterland of the original Chaoxin Kingdom, which is very far from the border. After entering the territory of the former Chaoxin Kingdom, they lost their normal means of food supply.

Since the immigration port was sealed, the mounts could not enter, which meant that the spies did not have the means to move quickly. If you take the main road, you have to dodge the patrolling cavalry of the Bujin army, move at an alarming pace, find little food along the way, and risk starving to death. Walking in the no-man's land will not be discovered by the Bujin army, but you may starve to death, or become the belly of the beast.

Moreover, the speed of walking through no man's land is slower than marching while evading the cavalry of the Bujin army, and it may not be possible to walk ten kilometers in a day. At that time, the task of the spies will not be to spy on intelligence, but to survive in the wilderness. There are not many people in this world who are good at surviving in the wilderness, and even if they are masters of surviving in the wilderness, they dare not guarantee that they can survive 100% in the no-man's land.

So far, no spy has managed to defeat No Man's Land, and even if multiple people act together, it will not help. Because they have to go back and forth, which means that they have to challenge the wilderness twice in a row to survive. You can still bring some food with you when you come in, but you can't have food on them when you go out, and it will become more difficult to survive, and it's basically impossible to have survivors.

Since none of the spies sent here could return, the Bujin army blocked the roads again, and no one knew what was going on here. After a long time, rumors spread in the circle of spies, saying that the territory of the former Chaoxin Kingdom was a "dead land", and no one who went would end well.

The Ilibi people reach adulthood at the age of 12 and have a shorter growth cycle than other races. After ten years of recuperation, the population of the Republic of Bujin grew to three million, and the population pressure dropped sharply, allowing more soldiers to be mobilized for war. The Republic of Bujin was not to be integrated by the Ilibians, but to be incorporated into the Kingdom of Byron in its entirety, a process that would take up to three years, before which the Republic would be able to participate in any war with all its might.

At that time, the Republic of Bujin will mobilize 30,000 people on its own territory and go directly to the Kingdom of Byrons, first to help the Byronic Army quell the rebellion, and then together with the Byronic Army and the Regus Army, go south to support the battlefield of the Kingdom of Tairong.

It is worth mentioning that the Bujin army stationed in the territory of the former Chaoxin State has been transferred, and most of the soldiers stationed there now have not participated in the Chaoxin War. The transfer of garrisons began in the year when the Bujin Army began to be stationed, and the newly dispatched soldiers always went directly with their families, and for the soldiers who volunteered to stay there, the Bujin Republic would send their families there on their behalf.

The families of the soldiers lived in the various garrison camps, and over time, the garrison camps became simple settlements. The settlement of the Bujin people and the settlement of the Taeyong goblins have frequent interactions, and many Taeyong goblins and the men of the Bujin people have married. The Bujin people think the Taeyong goblins are cute, and the Taeyong goblins also think the Bujin people are cute, and both of them appreciate each other.

Taeyong elves are well aware of their shortcomings, they are not good at fighting, while the Ilibians are good at it. The Tajon elves hope that Mel will send the Ilibian non-commissioned officers and officers into their army, and let the Ilibian non-commissioned officers and officers lead them. Taeyong goblins are not good at fighting, but they are good at carrying out orders, so they can give full play to their combat effectiveness.

Maier consulted the Ilibians, who, unexpectedly, were opposed by the majority of the Ilibians. This is not because they are unwilling to lead Tayyong elves, but because Taeyong elves only have women, married Elibi women are not worried about throwing their husbands into the women's pile, and unmarried Ilibi women are worried that unmarried men who join the army will be snatched away by Tayyong elves.

The Ilibians were monogamous, and because of the war, the proportion of men was always lower than that of women, so that some women could not marry men of their own tribe. Men should get married, women should get married, and unmarried women always have to get married. Due to the lack of male population, many Ilibi women have to marry foreign men, which leads to various problems.

Due to the great difference between Ilibian and foreign cultures, most Ilibian women are reluctant to marry foreign men. In fact, most Ilibi men are also reluctant to marry foreign women, because the body proportions of the two sides are too different, and various problems will arise. However, the body proportions of the Tairong goblins are similar to those of the Yili people, and because of the psychology that the domestic flowers are not as fragrant as the wild flowers, many Yili men think that the Tairong goblins are more cute than the women of the tribe, which directly increases the difficulty of the Yilibi women marrying the men of their own tribe.

The non-commissioned officers and officers in the Ilibi army were the best among the men of their own tribe, and the unmarried non-commissioned officers and officers were the objects of competition among the women of the tribe. In their opinion, sending unmarried non-commissioned officers and officers of their own clan to the army of the Taeyong goblins is like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, and they can't get out if they enter, so they will oppose this matter.

In desperation, Maier had no choice but to abandon this plan for the time being. But before he could tell the news to the Taeyong goblins, the Ilibi people changed their minds again. The Ilibi women say they don't hate Tayyong Elves and that if Tayyong Elves really need non-commissioned officers and officers, they can give it a try.

In fact, the approach of women in Ilibi is not contradictory. They oppose sending non-commissioned officers and officers to Tayyong Goblin's army, but they are afraid that Tayyong Goblins will rob their men. If they are willing to become non-commissioned officers and officers, they have to be trained by their own men, which greatly increases their chances of contact with their own good men, so they will change their minds.

Thus, on September 1, 151 New Calendar, 3,000 unmarried Bujin women who volunteered for non-commissioned officer training began to receive non-commissioned officer training, and 500 wives of Bujin Army officers who volunteered for officer training began to receive officer training. The Taeyong goblins were very happy when they learned of this and sent many gifts to the Bujin people who were stationed in the territory of the former Chaoxin Kingdom.

From this time on, the "Elibi-Tayrong Goblin Military System", in which Ilibi women served as non-commissioned officers and officers, and Tayyong goblins served as soldiers, was established, and it has not changed to this day.

When all parties were preparing for the war, Yiyu, who was already dangerously old, was persuading Yijuan, who had already given up remarrying, to go on a blind date.

“…… So no matter what, you have to find a man so that you can have something to rely on. I heard that last month, the wife of the mayor of Shangjin City, passed away, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you! ”

"I'm going to marry you. As long as Fang Er is doing well, it doesn't matter if I marry someone or not. ”

Yijuan's son was originally called "Lai Zifang". After he returned to Yijuan, the surname "Lai" could no longer be used. However, he refused to change his surname to Xiaohu, saying that his mother would have to change his surname again after getting married, which was very troublesome. "Zi" is the word used by Lai's family, and it is also not wanted. The word "Fang" is the name Yijuan gave him, so only this word can be left. Yijuan wanted him to change his name to "Shengfang" according to the rules of the Xiaohu family's Tengzi series, but he refused. He also refused to use the name "Zifang" and asked Yijuan to call him "Fang'er".

When Wei Xu was in Byron City, Fang Er always pestered him to name himself. Fang Er is not Wei Xu's son, if he gives Fang Er a name, something will definitely happen.

"Humph! If I marry, I will marry, don't you regret it? ”

Yiyu looked reluctant, but in her heart she was willing. Because her age is already dangerous, it would be a shame if she couldn't marry until she was thirty years old.

In fact, she came to persuade Yijuan today, not really trying to persuade her to marry Dai Yong. She heard the news when she was listening to Yishan and Ulis chatting, when Yishan said that she would arrange a blind date between Dai Yong and Yijuan, and said that Dai Yong was so good that he was a man worthy of being entrusted for life. Hearing this, Yiyu was moved.

In fact, in the past ten years, Yishan has arranged many blind dates for Yiyu. But Yiyu always thinks that her marriage should be in her own hands, no matter how good a man Yishan chooses for her, she will refuse. It wasn't until a while ago that she heard the maid of the Qingshi Palace talking about herself, saying that if she couldn't marry again, no one would want her, and she became anxious.