The vast land was desolate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Deguzorff sighed inwardly.

Of course, the scenery of the Paz Empire is still the same, and there is no difference from the past, and the desolation of Deguzorf actually means that the land is no longer inhabited.

Ever since Basbarn had established a strategy of defending the Franks, he had thoroughly implemented this strategy on the western frontier of Paz. Starting from the area bordering the Frankish state, all the defensive checkpoints, villages, small towns, and even some small towns that could not be held for a long time were abandoned, and all the personnel of these places were evacuated to the east, or directly into those large cities that could be held for a long time to help the defenders hold on, and the food and supplies in these areas were also withdrawn, and the immovable materials were burned, and the water sources were stolen or contaminated with poison to make them undrinkable by the enemy. Babasbar forcibly created a six-hundred-mile-wide no-man's land between Frank and Paz.

For the Franks to pass through this area, they had to carry at least twenty more days of food, even drinking water. Frank's 350,000 troops were needed to provide an extra twenty days of food for such a large army, which meant transporting 17,000 tons of grain and the corresponding meat and cheese, and the men and animals transporting the grain had to consume the corresponding rations. To make matters worse, even if these problems are solved, once the siege begins, the Frank army will still not be able to forcibly requisition the food of the local people for military purposes, and the days that the Frank army can besiege the city will be greatly shortened, all of which poses a problem for Deguzorf, as the commander of the Frank army.

In fact, Deguzorf has a problem that goes far beyond food supply. Due to the composition of the Frankish state, it took a considerable amount of time to assemble this large army. The furthest armies, including Deguzolf's own Hilda, traveled for nearly three months from their own country to their assembly in the border area. The kings of those countries that were relatively close to each other were obviously carried away by the instigation of the priests, and they sent troops to the border areas early without any scruples, and as a result, they waited in the border areas for a month. If you count them down, these questions are simply endless, and if nothing else, during the time when the army is assembled, there are more than 2,000 cases of female rape against local residents caused by idle and boring soldiers, and if it were not for Dguzolf's severe punishment of some of the murderers, this number may have multiplied several times. In the end, Deguzorf had to compromise, otherwise the Frankish army would have lost thousands of soldiers before he could set foot on enemy soil.

More than these tedious tasks, what was more of a headache for Dguzolf was his control over the army. Nominally, Deguzolf is indeed the supreme commander of this army, but in fact he is just the Grand Duke of Hilda, compared with the kings of the countries who lead the army, his status is still one level lower than them, and this coalition army cobbled together by the armies of various countries is not on the same level in terms of troop size, equipment, training level, good combat methods and even the ability to cooperate in combat, and some countries are even feuding with each other for many years, and it is not easy to blend them together without internal strife. It is a fool's dream to expect them to exert their due combat effectiveness.

In the case of Deguzolf himself, most of the countries that knew his real means were those with whom he had fought over the years, or who were deeply threatened by his militarily, and those countries held a grudge against him, and it was very unlikely that they would really obey their orders; The countries that were relatively far away from him were skeptical of his prestige, and they were in a state of distrust of Decuzorff's commanding ability, and it would be nice to be able to reluctantly accept his command.

It is no wonder that Deguzorf sighed so much when he was leading such an army to fight against Baibasbarn, who was bent on dragging the Frank army down on a long journey, because standing on the land of Paz, Deguzorf had the illusion that he was going to challenge the whole of Paz alone.

Of course, Deguzorf was not one to back down when faced with difficulties, otherwise he would not have managed the Duchy of Hilda from a small country with no name to the great power it is today. Even though he was leading such a problematic coalition, Deguzorf found its merits in it.

First of all, due to the large number of feudal countries in Frank's country, and there are many countries that are unfriendly to each other and even at war, so the ability of each country to collect intelligence is quite strong, which also cultivates a large number of excellent scouts and spies, using these talents, Deguzorf can obtain more and more accurate sources of intelligence than in previous battles; Secondly, in the process of fighting in various feudal countries, all countries attach special importance to the cultivation of elite samurai, so the warriors of the Frank Kingdom, especially the knights with titles, are almost all veterans of the battlefield who can fight habitually, and in terms of individual combat ability, they will definitely not lose to the warriors of the Paz Empire, and even slightly better. The only problem was that these samurai and knights were sparsely numerous, unlike the peasant soldiers who had been improvised into the draft. Deguzorf knew that most of these people were treasures in the hands of kings and lords of various countries, but he still used his incorruptible tongue to constantly lobby these kings and lords, and succeeded in digging out many talents from their mouths. He used these personnel to form a special force, which was constantly strengthened and trained during the march, so that they became the strongest army capable of exerting the combat power of the group, although the number of this force was only more than 2,000 men, but it became the most powerful fist in the hands of Dguzolf.

At present, the Frank army has penetrated more than 500 miles into the hinterland of Paz, and the first strategic line of defense set up by the Paz army is already close at hand, and Deguzorf knows that this line of defense is different from the cities he has encountered before, and he will truly appreciate the true strength of the powerful Paz Empire on the mainland trade route for the first time.

"Who's stronger?" Dguzolf sat on horseback and laughed at himself. He knew that his enemies were not Basban, but Arantran and Billudas, and that if he did not defeat these two Paswan horsemen, he would not be qualified to fight Basbane.