Sigmunt, however, was wrong.

This veteran with a good temperament believes that the pure are self-purifying, and the turbid are self-turbid, but unfortunately the environment he lives in is not such a world that distinguishes between right and wrong. Sigmund underestimated the danger of vilification, and shortly after the publication of the anonymous article, the court governor, Baron Steinmeier, again conveyed Emperor Charles's decree:

First, General Franz Engel was young and talented, and suggested that the cabinet appoint General Engel as commander-in-chief of the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

Second, Marshal Sigmund was too old and frail to be physically fit to go to the front line to direct the battle, so he was advised to stay in the Holy City to recuperate in peace.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that His Majesty the Emperor, who is deep in the palace, no longer trusts Marshal Sigmunt, and it is even very likely that Sigmund has rumors of an old friendship with Rudolf Kolas, and is worried that he will make decisions that are unfavorable to the empire at the front, so he clearly opposes his participation in the Eastern Crusade in the edict, which is called staying in the capital to "recuperate", which is a kind of surveillance and house arrest in disguise.

To everyone's surprise, Palatina, as Sigmunt's daughter, was not excluded from the Crusade, and was given the key mission of vanguard by General Engel.

Since he has replaced the position of his former mentor, there is no need to openly suppress his mentor's daughter and entrust Palatina with important tasks, but it can show his broad-mindedness and the principle of employing people without sticking to one pattern. This is called "convincing people with virtue"!

Palatina couldn't be sure what General Engel was having, but she was feeling a lot of pressure during this time. Deep down, she was very resistant to fighting Roland's army, but her father's embarrassing situation forced her to go all out, even if she showed a little sympathy for the Far Easterners on the battlefield, it would confirm the rumors in the domestic public opinion circles about "the marshal's father and daughter colluding with the Far Eastern rebel party", and once the news spread to the Holy City, the situation of her parents would become more dangerous.

Palatina, who was tormented on the eve of the expedition, finally could not restrain her inner impulse, and sent a magical text message to Roland on the eve of her departure, in which she expressed all her pain and helplessness, hesitation and depression in these few words:

"The hardest days have finally arrived, and I pray that I don't meet you on the battlefield."

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On February 12, 1625, in the middle of winter, the Holy Assanian Empire declared war on the kingdom of Koras, officially known as the "Far Eastern Rebellion Group", and the long-brewing crusade began!

The Imperial Crusade Corps is centered on the "Knights of Breaking Law" and the "Knights of Punishment". If you only count the regular knights registered in these two ace troops, in fact, the scale is not large, but only a divisional establishment.

The "Knights of Punishment" consists of three brigades, with a total of nearly 10,000 "Knights of Punishment", known as the "Iron Fist of God", with crossed maces and long swords as the emblem of the legion.

The "Knights of the Broken Law" also has three brigades, and there are no less than 10,000 "Knights of the Broken Law", known as the "Blade of the Gods", and the flag of the legion is painted with the Gemini zodiac artifact representing the imperial seal of the Assanian Empire - the "Holy Light Ball".

If the Imperial Expeditionary Force was only 20,000 cavalry, even if they were all elites, their strength would be superior to the "Knights of the Holy Guard" and the "Ranger Chassars" in the Far East.

However, the military establishment of the Yashan Empire was very different from that of the Far East, where all the people were soldiers, and still followed the "martial aristocratic tradition" of the feudal princely era, and the army only counted those formal knights who brought their own horses, armor and weapons, and most of them were from aristocratic families, and the retainers, attendants, servants and logistics personnel who followed the knight lord on the expedition were not counted.

Therefore, the number of troops mobilized by the Imperial Crusade is actually much more than the numbers on paper, for example, each official law-breaking knight and punishment knight also has two young retainers who serve as squires, so that there are as many as four divisions of light cavalry serving as knights' squires alone.

In addition, there are a large number of knights' private soldiers, recruited mercenaries, and temporarily recruited civilians in the army. These three-class characters, either voluntarily or forced to put on leather armor and pick up spears, came to serve as servants and soldiers. In peacetime, he is responsible for logistics chores such as laundry and cooking, and when necessary, he has to go to the battlefield to act as the vanguard of the knights. Although most of these servant infantry had low combat effectiveness and were inevitably suspected of being cannon fodder, they were equivalent to four infantry divisions, and counting the artillery, air force, and naval fleets, the total number of troops mobilized by the Imperial General Staff for this crusade exceeded 120,000, which was an unprecedented scale.

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On February 26, 1625, two weeks after the Holy Assanian Empire officially declared war on the Far Eastern kingdom of Kolas, the forward headquarters of the Imperial Crusade Corps was stationed in the fortress of Olevi that held the Ulino Pass.

In the evening of the same day, General Karl, commander of the garrison of the Olevy Fortress, hosted a banquet to entertain the generals who had come from the holy city, among which the most high-profile figures were, of course, the commander-in-chief of the Crusade Army, General Franz Engel, in addition to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Crusade and Commander of the Imperial Air Force, General Alvons Beck, and two young generals - Major General Palatina, Commander of the First Brigade of the "Knights of Discipline", and Baron Baron, Commander of the First Brigade of the "Knights of the Breaking Order".

Palatine and Bazel have similar backgrounds, originally belonging to the "minority" led by Marshal Sigmund of the Imperial Army, Bazel once regarded himself as Palatina's quasi-fiancé, but since Roland's visit to the Holy City of Assan three years ago, he had a close relationship with Palatina, rumored scandals, and humiliated the jealous Bazel in public, Bazel gradually changed his position and took the initiative to befriend the military radical generals, and became increasingly estranged from the Sigmont family.

Palatine was well aware of Bazel's transformation, and although she was a little regretful, she was also relieved to avoid the reckless man's entanglement. From the point of view of personality traits and style, Paladina can also fully understand Bazel's switch to Engel. The reason why this aristocratic young man from the royal family of Baoshihua came to the holy city of Yashan and joined the imperial military circles was that the primary purpose was to make meritorious achievements, and he was eager to show his talents in the war so as to obtain promotions.

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