Four days later, the main army that had gathered the Blue Fairy finally arrived at the foot of Korqin City, and Corincha personally greeted him at the city gate.

After more than a month of starting from the Silent Forest, the vanguard and the main force have once again converged and successfully completed the strategy of gaining a foothold in the territory of the druids, but everyone knows very well in their hearts that the next battle has just begun......

The soldiers of the two armies of the victorious division cheered heartily, and they were far away in a foreign country, as if they had seen brothers who had been separated many years ago in a foreign land, hugging each other and celebrating the joy of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

"Young marshal!" Korincha, who was still wearing bandages on his hands, excitedly stepped forward and hugged Higg tightly in his arms with one hand, crying bitterly, not knowing what to say.

Higg also said emotionally: "Luckily, I thought I would lose you!" I've lost Andrew, Gamble, and General Johnson, and I can't afford to lose you again! I really regret putting you in danger and almost making us never see each other again! ”

"No, it won't! The young marshal has been separated for more than 20 years, and he can still find us, it must be the princess who blesses us in heaven, and we will never be separated again! "Let me hold you a little longer, just like you did when you were a kid......"

Lan Xian'er watched the two hugging each other without any scruples, and she also cried with joy, and only this kind of scene for the rest of her life can really make people burst out of their true temperament. Lan Xian'er knows that everyone needs to vent such a temperament, and everyone's way of venting is different, no matter which one, no matter how exaggerated, it seems so real and emotional!

"Enter the city!" At Lufasi's order, the army stopped cheering and celebrated, and marched back into this small border city with a population of less than 100,000.

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The army rested for three days, and all the soldiers were happy, but for Higg, Lufasi, Korincha and other high-ranking generals, after a short period of happiness, they soon returned to reality, and the direction of the army must be resolved immediately.

In order to gain a foothold in the Druid territory, the expeditionary force paid a heavy price, 28,000 men went on the expedition, and now there are more than 17,000 left. Eight thousand dwarves, three thousand elven archers, two thousand phantom archers, more than four thousand sharpshooters, and more than 10,000 people lost! And these are all the elites of the Silent Forest, especially the Phantom Shooters and some dwarven warriors, who have really experienced a hundred battles in the Pamela Plateau, how can it not be distressing.

Standing up is the first step, and the next step is to solve the problem of how to stand firm.

"Young marshal, the military rations can last for a month!" Lu Fasi said.

"Didn't Thomas seize hundreds of truckloads of supplies?" Higg asked, "How can you only eat for a month?" ”

"Only one-third of that batch of supplies is military rations!" Lan Xian'er said, "Half of the baggage equipment is used, and the rest is medicine and other supplies!" Although our army has only more than 17,000 people, there are still more than 3,000 wounded soldiers, 6,000 dwarf slaves and prisoners, more than 13,000 captured soldiers and wounded soldiers, and 40,000 people open their mouths to eat. ”

"And the problem of military supplies!" Thomas said, "Although eight wagons of arrows were captured, 160,000 arrows were only enough to equip the whole army once!" ”

"What is the workshop doing, don't you make arrows?" Higg asked.

"Of course!" "But compared to the elven archers and phantom archers, the shortage of arrows is the special arrows of the sharpshooters, although the number of sharpshooters is not as large as the number of elven archers and phantom archers combined, but they consume more arrows, plus the iron and wood used to make arrows are in short supply, and the scale of the workshop is small, and the production is already very low!" ”

Higg asked, "Will this place be short of wood?" The mountains are all over the wilderness, don't you even dare to go out of the city to cut them? ”

Colin Cha said with a smile: "Young marshal, it is true that the mountains are full of trees, and there are also trees suitable for making arrows, but the trees that have just been cut down need to be dried to make arrows, spring has just passed, there is a lot of rain in early summer, and the water content of the trees is very large, and it takes a long time to dry." ”

Maria asked curiously, "Why not bamboo?" Bamboo is the best raw material for making arrows, and you can use it without how to dry it! ”

Colin Cha laughed: "This is not the south, and you can't see bamboo at all!" ”

"And the question of money!" Lan Xian'er said, "The money brought by the dwarves to help from the small treasury has basically been spent, and there is a big gap in military salaries and material procurement!" ”

The anxious Higg said: "If there are any questions, let's talk about them all!" ”

"And the problem of equipment and weapons!" Marissa said, "Those captives I am reorganizing, and they will soon be able to form an army, but their equipment is so poor that it does not match our current equipment system at all, and if you want to increase your combat effectiveness, you must change your outfits!" ”

"My Miss Maria, don't make a mess!" Higg said, "Now that you can't get all the equipment and materials of your own people, do you still have the heart to take care of those prisoners?" Use the original equipment for the time being, and talk about it later! ”

"Young marshal, I have a way to get you military rations and supplies, but you have to make equipment for me!" Marissa said.

"Really, how?" Not only Higg, but everyone looked at Marisa in amazement.

"Promise me first!" Maria laughed.

"What shall I promise you?" Higg said unhappily, "You have also seen the current situation, can I give it to you if I promise you?" ”

"I can also provide the raw materials for making equipment, but your craftsman must make them for me first, and I can even get some money!" Marissa continued with a smile.

Higg looked at Marisa in surprise again, hesitated for a while, and said, "Okay, I promise you, as long as you give me raw materials, bring me food, I will make equipment for you, and I will make you as many raw materials as you get!" Hey, now, you can say that, right? ”

"Okay, it's a deal!" Marissa said, "You don't know where the food and raw materials are because you don't know the druid's state system!" ”

"What system?" Everyone opened their mouths wide, and they couldn't figure out what the relationship between the need for grain and raw materials and the state system was.

"I know that your tax system in Erathia is collected by officials appointed by the imperial court, and then some of them are transported directly to the imperial court, some of them are transported to the warehouses designated by the government, and then most of them are distributed immediately, but do you know what is going on with the taxes of the druid realm? Druid cities, there are no city owners, officials, every city is controlled by many druid families, those dwarves and elves are all druid slaves, druids are actually slave owners, they collect money and materials from dwarves and elves, part of it is directly transported to the court, part of it is shipped to the larger slave owners who govern them, and the rest is for their own enjoyment. They all have their own private armies to maintain control of their territories. Because the druids' territory was all jungle and mountainous areas, transportation was extremely inconvenient, and autumn was the harvest season, and after they completely requisitioned all the supplies from the slaves, it was already winter and it was snowing. Unless the distance from the imperial court is very close, otherwise, they will not choose to send the supplies out at that time, and in the spring, the snow is beginning to melt, the roads are muddy, and the traffic is extremely inconvenient, so the ideal delivery season is just in the summer, that is, now! ”

"You want us to go out and find the convoy and rob it?" Corincha asked in surprise.

Maria smiled and said: "General Kolincha, I don't know if you go to rob or not, but I know that the materials in Korqin City must not have been shipped out yet!" ”

"You want us to do something to Horqin City?" Thomas asked, "We've just taken the city, won't that cause a revolt from the citizens?" ”

"Who is resisting?" Mary asked rhetorically, "Are the slaves who were forced to pay heavy taxes and had a problem even eating?" Or those druids, those big slave owners? I dare not say that we have copied the property of the great slaveholders, and the townspeople will applaud, but I can guarantee that no one will help the druids! It was precisely because our people could not bear this kind of domination that they were forced to move to the vicinity of Marishin in the Forest Country a few decades ago, and I know these enslaved people all too well! ”

"General Marisa, is this what you mean, or is this what Benjamin meant?" Higg snapped into words.

"Young marshal, is there any difference?" Marissa said, "Originally, His Majesty formulated a bottom-up recovery plan, and in the end, it was also to let the dwarves and elves no longer be enslaved, whether it was the forest country or the druid territory, it was the same! Now that we have established ourselves and have a government and an army, then for this army to grow and this regime to be stable, we must have the support of the majority, who is the majority, not druids, but dwarves and elves. How can I get their support? The enemy of our enemies is our friends, and if we fight the druids of the slave owners they hate, they will naturally stand with us, and this is the recovery from the bottom up! Although the druids actually control their territory, the lowest elements here are elves and dwarves, thousands of elves and dwarves, and only by standing with them can we truly stand firm! ”

Higg laughed, "When did Benjamin enter the druid?" ”

"Your Majesty didn't say you wanted to enter the druids?" Maria wondered why Higg would suddenly ask the whole thing.

"Hehe, in the Forest Country, he has no place to stand, what else is he doing there?" Higg smiled, "As the heir to the throne personally chosen by His Majesty Cross, Benjamin's hand is really good, so wonderful!" ”

Marisa asked with a puzzled face, "Young marshal, how do you say this?" ”

"If we win over the elves and dwarves in the Druid territory, we need one more condition, and that is the Elven King!" Higg said, "In the name of the elven king Benjamin, all the elves and dwarves can be awakened to resist, and the rebellion army planned by others can only be rogues, at most called the rebels." In the current situation, it is impossible for Benjamin to do anything in the forest country, he wants to recover the forest country, the best way is for me to help him gain a foothold in the druid, and then he will pick peaches in the name of the elf king, hahaha! General Marisa, I was grateful that he sent you and three hundred Pegasus warriors to help me, but now that I think about it, he is helping himself! ”

Mary said in surprise: "These Majesties didn't tell me, I just reinforce the young marshal according to his wishes, and then take advantage of the situation to win over the elves and dwarves here!" I swear, I did just do what I was told, and I didn't pick peaches as the young marshal said! As for whether Your Majesty is hiding something from me, I don't know! Young marshal, with His Majesty's relationship with you, he won't hide anything from you! ”

Higg laughed: "Just because you didn't do it doesn't mean Benjamin doesn't think so!" I would be surprised if Benjamin had told me openly and honestly! What is my relationship with Benjamin, friend, or nephew? Auguston can even kill his own biological father Cross, in the face of power and interests, what are friends and nephews? I would have to impress him if he did this, because it was in the way of a king, and it was in the interests of both of us! It's just that my friends won't have to do it in the future! Don't worry, even if he picks all the peaches by then, I have nothing to say! ”

Mary didn't know when she came up with a sentence: "How lonely the king has been since ancient times, where did he have any friends?" It's just whimsical! ”

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