Feeling remorseful, Krautz asked Erwin, "How's the situation in the city?" ”

"Very bad." Lieutenant Colonel Erwin took over the drudgery of city policing, and was overwhelmed by the endless riots in the city, and his face was tired after a sleepless night, "Yesterday evening, the rebel airships openly appeared over the capital, dropping a large number of reactionary leaflets, and the mob in the city was instigated by the leaflets to become more and more lawless, setting fire everywhere to disrupt order, and secretly ambushed while the security team and the knights went to fight the fire, many brothers were attacked by the mob when maintaining law and order, and the total number of casualties has exceeded 100, and what is even more infuriating is that the security team is also unreliable, On the surface, he pretended to cooperate with the Knights to maintain order, secretly reported to the mob, led us by the nose and ran around, and was busy all night without catching a few mobs. ”

Klautz listened to Erwin's complaint and felt a deep headache, but there was nothing he could do. I don't want to admit it, but the harsh reality lies ahead: since yesterday's bloody clashes between the Knights and the people on the streets, they have become the least persona non grata in the city, as if they were in a dark jungle, where dangerous enemies lurk around every corner.

"We must change this passive situation as soon as possible, otherwise the tens of thousands of mobs in the city alone will bring us down before the rebels come in." Colonel Junius was the most active of all the people present, "The reason why the mob in the city is so arrogant is because there are rebels outside the city to support them, as long as we take the initiative to attack and defeat the rebels outside the city, the mob in the city will be deterred, and there will be no confidence to continue the trouble." ”

"The question is how sure we are of defeating the rebels." Lieutenant Colonel Erwin was more conservative.

Junius smiled confidently: "I have sent the Eagle Horse Knights to stealthily reconnoiter the rebels stationed at the station, and found that the main arrivals in the early stage were artillery and a few Kitland barbarian warriors, and there was no formation of the Black Guard heavy cavalry or the Ranger Chassar, which gave us an opportunity, now the enemy and us are equal in strength, but the rebel troops are mainly artillery, with poor mobility and lack of protection, and the main force of our army is the elite cavalry, giving full play to the advantage of mobility and taking the initiative to raid the enemy's artillery positions. On the other hand, if the two main cavalry divisions of the rebels are delayed to return in the army, the disparity between the forces of the enemy and us is huge, coupled with the frequent riots in the city, internal worries and external troubles, it will be difficult to hold the Fort of Atonement. ”

Klautz nodded slightly, basically agreeing with Junius's analysis of the current situation, but there was still a doubt: "Don't forget the enemy's air force, yesterday we suffered two big losses in a row because of this, first the vulture squadron sent to hunt down the rebel leader Yevgenia was ambushed and wiped out, and then the troops left behind at the station were also hit by the enemy air force and suffered heavy losses, according to the knight who fled back to the city afterwards, the enemy has a powerful magic airship, and a large group of giant eagles escort the airship, and do not remove the threat from the air, It will be difficult for our cavalry to successfully launch a surprise attack. ”

"Lord Knight, please rest assured that the rebel party has an air force, and we have it too, and it is stronger than the rebel air force!" Colonel Junius, as the deputy commander of the Knights, is also an air force instructor, and his main job is to be responsible for the training and operations of the vulture horse cavalry battalion, and has indisputable authority in the field of air combat, "I have sent people to scout the enemy's air force, the giant eagle is up to 100 heads, and there is only one airship, and our army's vulture horse knight has a reinforced battalion, and the strength is five times that of the enemy's giant eagle, even if it is compared to the individual combat strength, the vulture horse knight is not lost to the giant eagle, and the rebel air force will definitely not be able to stop the onslaught of our army's vulture horse cavalry battalion, as long as the enemy air force is destroyed, With air supremacy, we can calmly bomb the rebel artillery positions, and at the same time, the Knight Commander will lead the main ground forces to storm the enemy formation, which will surely defeat the rebels in one fell swoop, and the situation in the Far East will be completely reversed! ”

"Well said!" A smile finally appeared on Cluses' face, "Colonel Junius, the Eagle Horse Cavalry Battalion will be handed over to you to take full command, looking forward to your successful seizure of air supremacy on the battlefield and paving a smooth road to victory for our ground forces!" ”

"Victory will belong to the knights, just as the sun will rise in the east, and the light of our Lord will cover the land of the Far East and dispel all the forces of darkness!"

Colonel Junius stood up and saluted Krautz, and the battle plan, codenamed "Dawn", was decided.

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The social upheaval that erupted in the Far Eastern provinces of the Empire in September 1620 was the result of a combination of factors, the most important of which was the imperial government's long-standing misorientation of the Far East and the wrong policies pursued on the basis of this positioning.

It has been more than 300 years since Emperor Frederick VII issued an edict in 1265 AD to designate the Far Eastern Province, which was still a wild land at that time, as a place of exile for heresy. This policy was not a problem at the time, but today, the Far Eastern provinces have a population of more than 5 million, a large number of coal, iron and rare metal mines have been discovered, as well as the richest forest and water resources in the entire empire...... With so many important interests in the Far East, the empire is undoubtedly perpetuating a major decision-making mistake to position this territory of more than four million square miles as a mere penal colony for heresy.

Under the premise of this misposition, the imperial authorities were very stingy with their financial investment in the Far Eastern provinces, and seemed to decide that this land of exile was not worth the effort.

As the capital of the Far Eastern Province and a megacity with a population of one million, the municipal construction is miserable, and the dilapidated and dilapidated rural areas are completely lacking in the grandeur of a provincial capital. Successive governors of the Far East, including Philip, reported to the Imperial Cabinet to build a lockdown at the Fort of Atonement to strengthen the defenses, but without exception they were beaten back. The reason for the refusal was simple - it was not worth spending millions of dollars in penal colonies to protect those heretical criminals.

With the population and size of the Fort of Atonement, it is necessary to invest about 800 to 10 million gold dugas (imperial coinage units) to build a set of passable puzzles, considering the actual security needs, even if the imperial government refuses to allocate funds and mobilizes local citizens to raise funds, it is not impossible to make up this money after three or five years of accumulation, the problem is that everything in the officialdom must pay attention to a "correct procedure" - the central government clearly vetoed the project, you dare to engage in illegal fund-raising and self-construction, what is the intention? Is the feudal officials openly confronting the central government of the empire an attempt to rebel?