"When?" asked the old emperor hurriedly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Bartley said calmly: "Late yesterday afternoon, the Romanian rebels took advantage of Neiying to open the city gate and conquer Salzburg in one fell swoop, the Salzburg garrison stationed in Salzburg was completely annihilated, and the Guards B 14 squad and the Guards B 15 team that retreated to the place had broken through and retreated in the direction of Noyde. ”

Although Bartley rushed out in a hurry, he did not look surprised, because he had already received the news last night, and he rushed over to see the information, just to see the verification seal on the information.

Now that he had finally confirmed the verification seal and knew that this information was true, he informed the ministers present of what he knew, and Hansen also added at the same time: "Director Duncan is now personally watching this matter, and as soon as there is new information, he will definitely report it to His Majesty as soon as possible." ”

The old emperor had not recovered from the shock for a while, and just yesterday Linton swore to himself: "The Romanians cannot reach Salzburg, and he still has 30,000 regular troops in the territory of Lower Poland, which can completely stop the Romanian advance." "Now the Romanians have penetrated 500 kilometers into the territory of the empire, what a slap in the face!

The old emperor finally had a little feeling that he had been fooled at this time, he turned to Linton, and asked in a bad tone: "Prime Minister, didn't you say that the rebels in Romania are not large in number and can't fight Salzburg?"

Linton was already sweating on his forehead, but he immediately had an idea and said: "Your Majesty, the Romanian rebels are approaching Salzburg, so they have greatly increased their troops from Romania itself, and now they control the whole of Hungary and most of Austria, and they have built three strong defensive lines on the line from Vienna to Budapest, and they have blocked the troops of our Polish territory in the Vienna area, and now they cannot advance an inch. ”

The old emperor looked at Bartley, who slowly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, most of what the Prime Minister said is true, since the Romanian rebels occupied Budapest and Vienna at the beginning of this year, there has been no sign of attacking north, but since May, Don Quixote, the leader of Romania, suddenly led 3,000 men to break through to Salzburg, which made us scratch our heads for a while.

After more than a month of reconnaissance, Director Duncan believed that there was a disagreement within Romania about the direction of the attack, and that their second-in-command, Braucić, seemed to be more interested in attacking Adenborough, and that this disagreement led directly to Don Quixote's breakthrough into Salzburg was a lone force.

But since Don Quixote's attack, our fragile southern defence has been no better than paper, so Braucić has put aside his prejudices and sent more troops to Vienna and Budapest, first protecting Don Quixote's flanks.

Now that Don Quixote has captured Salzburg, Brauchitsch is likely to send more troops to Salzburg, and the situation in our south is precarious. Here I would like to impeach the Earl of Linton, who, as an important member of the Linton family, was only concerned with the security of his own territory, and did not oppress the Romanian rebels in Vienna enough, so that Don Quixote could calmly advance westward. ”

This Earl Linton is the younger brother of the Marquis Linton, since the younger brother of the Marquis Linton was promoted to the earl, he split from the Linton family and became a side branch of the Linton family, his territory is the Slovak region of Lower Poland, and the Czech region of Lower Poland is still controlled by the Marquis Linton's own family.

As a new aristocracy that grew up from the commoners, this pattern of rapid fragmentation was probably adopted by most families, which helped to quickly increase the influence of their own families.

The Marquis Linton hurriedly bowed to the old emperor and said: "Your Majesty, my brother has indeed done something wrong in this matter, I have already written to him fiercely, he has mobilized a large army to increase the pressure on Vienna, strive to break through the Vienna defense line, and threaten Don Quixote's rear. ”

"Well, the Prime Minister can still be anxious about what I am anxious about, and after the treatment of the Earl of Linton is temporarily suppressed, let him fight well in the front, and make sure to make a breakthrough within two weeks, and we will wipe out Don Quixote's small army in the Salzburg area in the shortest possible time. The old Emperor gently brushed Earl Linton's question over.

Bartley wanted to say something, but the old queen mother suddenly interrupted him, and after seeing the old queen mother, she didn't want to dwell on this matter, she said: "I think today's court meeting is here, the palace selection will be held in the afternoon, and I and Vivian and the officials of the Ministry of Rites will be in charge, the emperor and the military will discuss the southern rebellion as soon as possible, emperor, do you think it is good to arrange it like this?"

"Very good, according to the arrangement of the ancestors, all the ministers will stay in the palace for lunch, and in the afternoon, the personnel above the head of the military department and the intelligence department, as well as the prime minister, will stay, and we will discuss the counterinsurgency in the south.

The head of the Ministry of Rites and above went to the palace with the old lady and the princess to carry out the work of selecting the horses in the palace, and the rest of the people were busy with their own work after lunch. After the old emperor finished speaking, he got up and walked to the apse first.

Anyone can tell that the old emperor is not satisfied with today's results, especially for Romania to fight Salzburg, which annoys him even more than the Linton family after his daughter is not married, you must know that Salzburg is stuck at the junction of the Hengduan Mountains and the Central Mountains, and it is this type of land that protects Berlin from being easily attacked by the German Empire from the south.

This central mountain range is almost half of the entire territory of the Frankish Empire, and to the west is the Frankish plain, where Berlin is located in the east, and the central mountain range divides Lower Poland into Czech and Slovak regions along the Salzburg-Linzi line, where it is hidden underground.

If you want to attack Berlin, you must either go out of Vienna-Budapest, go north to Bardänave, bypass the northern foot of the central vein from Warsaw, and attack Berlin from Poznan, or go west out of Salzburg and go north to Linzi and advance from Prague in the Czech Republic to Dresden, so as to threaten Berlin.

Now that Salzburg has fallen, and the Bohemian Independence Group in the Czech Republic is rebelling, they are marching south to attack Linzi, preparing to conquer Linzi and join Don Quixote's Romania.

Even if they could not defeat Linzi, the Bohemian rebels could march west into Bavaria, and the Romanians, with the cooperation of the Bohemians, could pass through Bavaria, take Potsdam from Leipzig, and then attack Berlin.

This westward route is much easier than the northbound route, because after passing Salzburg, there is a plain with a flat river, and the north has to bypass the central mountain range, so Salzburg has always been an important stronghold of Frankish business.

This stronghold fell at the hands of the small Romanian rebels before it could withstand the onslaught of the German soldiers, how could this not make the old emperor angry? Not flapping the table on the spot was already a great face-saving thing for these ministers.

The lunch in the palace is naturally lackluster, no one can eat anything delicious, who knows if the eating guy on his shoulder will be able to keep it after eating, now is an extraordinary period, the southeast gate of the empire has been opened, and there will be no more to eat in the afternoon.

There may be exceptions, and the people of the Ministry of Rites ate happily, and while they ate, they discussed how to arrange for the group of guys who wanted to rely on the princess's skirt to get to the top in the afternoon, and how much hard-earned money they could get from it.

In the afternoon, let's not talk about the bigwigs in the military department, they only have quarrels and scolding on the street, let's take a look at how to choose a horse.

The unmarried children of the various families who had been waiting at the gate of the palace since the morning finally waited for their performance time, just after 10 o'clock in the morning, this square was washed by a group of black clothes from the external operations department of the National Security Bureau, and was taken away by the twenty or thirty people, but the princess's husband did not scare many people, only a few really unclean guys behind him sneaked away, and most of them waited until now under the scorching sun and endured hunger.

As soon as they lined up in four rows and walked into the palace, they found that they were not taken to the main hall, but to the hall where the crown prince usually learned etiquette.

These imperial handsomes were asked to line up outside the hall, and each of them also got a small trumpet card, and they didn't dare to stand there for a moment, just like that, they were still picked out by those inner servants in the council hall, so that these future imperial pillars who were usually high and regarded themselves very high were at a loss.

The old queen mother and Vivian sat down in the hall, and immediately an official from the Ministry of Rites came over to hold fragrant tea to them, and then the secretary of the Ministry of Rites whispered in the old lady's ear: "Queen Mother, can you start?"

"Let's start!" the old lady nodded slightly.

The old queen mother and Vivien picked up the materials of the first person on the table, and there was a shouting sound outside, Vivien opened the cover of the file, only glanced at it and threw it aside, the magic image on it was a dwarf black.

And the one who came in was even more unsightly than the magic image, and this one was actually complacent because he was ranked first, and as soon as he came in, he introduced himself: "My name is Erik George de Manini Leiden, the second son of the patriarch of the Leiden family, and now the palace keeper of Potsdam......

Unexpectedly, for this selection, this person dared to travel 2 or 300 miles overnight, and ran back from Potsdam, which makes people praise him for his dedication, or make people praise him for not being self-aware.

Anyway, Vivien was not interested at all, and before she could finish introducing herself, she shouted, "Next!"

The old queen mother patted Vivian lightly next to her and whispered, "Xiaowei, necessary etiquette!" Vivian only pouted and stopped talking.

And the old queen mother said to the Leiden boy who was standing there with an embarrassed face: "You are very good, I believe that you will become an outstanding person in the empire, please go home first and wait for news!"

Erik Layton walked out dejectedly, his heart was dripping blood, this position had cost him 200 Imperial Diamonds to get it, but he came out in less than three minutes after entering.