There was indeed nothing wrong with Waterman's idea, and Dane had neither the intention nor the power to annex the two countries of Florence and Puldry. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the one hand, the size of these two countries is not small. Combined, they may be smaller than Cindelare, but their population is almost three times that of Hindlaire. Forced annexation is bound to provoke a strong reaction from these two countries. Moreover, even in the form of a blitzkrieg, these two countries can be defeated before they can fully unleash their war potential, and the population base of these two countries is a little too large.

Dane didn't want to face the threat of the Holy Empire while exhausted by the rebellions raging in the occupied territories.

If you have too much appetite, you can easily push yourself to death.

Peace talks are the only option.

But how to negotiate peace is another different matter.

In Dane's vision, the Florentines and Pudri had to pay their fair share for provoking this war.

War reparations, trade openness, more political and economic tactics in favor of Hindlaire, these are all as they should be. However, one of the goals that Dane hoped to achieve was to cut the county of the bull out of the hands of the Florentines.

Directly annexing the Bull County is unrealistic. But finding a way to turn the region into an independent country is not out of the question.

Allen adhered to the idea of Dane and was appointed by Prime Minister Verina to serve as an executive officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an outstanding graduate of the Department of Administration of Sindlaire National University last year, and went to meet Waterman for this purpose.

And at the moment, in Sindelare, the city government of Shawan Harbor. Dane and Verina were sitting in the mayor's hall of the city hall, talking about the peace talks.

"There's news from Executive Allen's side, and Count Waterman's position has softened. According to his assessment, if we could gain an advantage in what we were talking about, the Count of the Bull would not mind raising his title to another level, let alone becoming the head of an independent state. ”

Dane laughed and said, "That's great." After the independence of that bull, there was an extra buffer between us and the Florentines. Moreover, if he becomes independent, it will inevitably arouse the strong hostility of the Florentines, and he will have to rely on our support to remain independent. That big granary can be regarded as indirectly under our control at that time. ”

Verena nodded, the idea that Dane had earlier to divide the Count of Bulls was indeed quite politically wise.

However, there is another very difficult problem in this matter. Verina said: "However, the current Bull City is still under the control of the coalition forces. The time for the peace talks has also been set, and it will be October 10, which is still 13 days away. In these thirteen days, we must break through Bull City. Otherwise, if Bull City is still in the hands of the coalition forces at that time, it will be too difficult to divide this territory purely through negotiations. ”

This is indeed a difficult point.

After the coalition retreated to Bull City, the strength of the coalition army had expanded to 70,000 men. Although, among these 70,000 people, the quality of a large number of soldiers is actually not too high. However, it is worth mentioning that the Duke of Florence's Guard, Puderi's Silver and White Guard, the two ace troops, have also entered the Bull City. At the same time, the 1,000 Victorian knights were a very difficult team to deal with.

On the opposite side of them, the Pehins group, the King's Guard, the Komyrya Legion, and the White Wolf Legion, only 40,000 people in total, plus the Frontier Legion led by Major General Paran, which has been expanded to 10,000, and the 20,000 soldiers of the garrison corps sent later, the number will reach a similar level as the other side.

In such a situation, it is no wonder that Pexinsi did not dare to act rashly. If it is messed up, not to mention whether the loss will be big after winning the war, it is even two words whether it can win the war.

If you want to defeat the enemy on the Bull City defense line as soon as possible, you have to think of some other way.

Dane thought for a while and said, "In this way, let Pandorf stop guarding the wasteland pass, and only one or two thousand garrison legions will be left in that city, maintain law and order, and continue to manage the army." Let his Fourth Legion rush to the territory of the Duchy of Florence as soon as possible, and listen to the command of Pesin. ”

"At the same time, let the Yellow Dragon press into the port of Tarence in Florence, they blockaded us for half a month, and they have to teach them a lesson, and at the same time give them a little more pressure. Moreover, you can also do some landing combat postures, so that the Florences and Pudri people will not be too rampant to increase their troops in Bull City. ”

"Okay." After recording all of Dain's orders, Verina proposed, "Lieutenant General Delin's Fifth Legion is still stationed in Beast Blood Castle and Ice Cave City. That's 20,000 people, and half of them are the elite who walked out of the training base in White Wolf Castle. The defense pressure in the east is not very great, and the orcs in the wasteland have not been able to recover from the last sweep, and as for the direction of Ice Cave City, after two years of sweeping by Lieutenant General Delin, there are not so many bandits. In the east, it seems unnecessary for us to maintain such a strong garrison. Do you think you want to take some of the troops from this army and put them in the hands of Admiral Perhins? ”

"Don't." Dane directly refused.

Verina is right in everything, the Fifth Legion in the east of the kingdom is strong, but there are no strong opponents around, so it seems a bit of a waste to keep the elite legion in the east.

Normally, the mobilization of elite troops from the Beast Blood Castle to the hands of Pernsy is a very significant help to the strength of the Perhin Group.

If there is no threat of the Cursed Church.

A year ago, the legendary green dragon Kapnos, the dragon of Broken Dragon Peak, came to the island of Cormyra to warn Dane, and he has not forgotten it.

The green dragons should have issued such a warning to most of the forces in the secular world. It's just that, it seems, there aren't many people who take the green dragon's warning to heart.

But at least Dane remembered it.

If things are really like what Capnos said, once the Broken Dragon Peak is lost, the first place where the Hindlaire Kingdom will have to face these cursed church forces that have rushed out of the dark jungle is the Beast Blood Castle.

If you don't send more troops to the Beast Blood Castle, where will you transfer people from? Forget the idea.