After hearing Fidel's analysis, each regiment commander fell into a state of thought for a moment, and even the "sharp claw" who seemed to speak without thinking was just looking at his steel claw, thinking about Fide's words. The head of the Church Order, Satnam, was originally embarrassed when he heard about the "Theoguna Empire", and now the opportunity for the alliance proposed by Feder was even more incredible to him, after all, such an alliance with other countries should be proposed by the archbishop or a pope-level person.

Archbishop Arthur Auerbach was the first to respond: "There is some truth in the words of the Chief Mission, and the Bishop thinks that this plan is feasible. As soon as the archbishop said this, most of the mercenary group leaders fell silent.

"If we want to borrow food from other countries, then we have to send envoys, and this task is very difficult. The Pope said, looking at Fidel who was on the side.

Envoy wouldn't be the one who made the suggestion, would Field's first reaction was himself, after all, he could smell this from the way the Pope looked at him.

"This person must be able to represent the sincerity of our Papal States, you think about it, the Holy Oguna Empire is friendly and neighborly with us, and we all have common enemies, it stands to reason that it should not be difficult for the envoys to go out to borrow food," the Pope still watched Fede say these words, and even the archbishop sensed that the Pope wanted to send Fide to be an envoy," The most important thing is that the other party can also use our country to deliver bread to the soldiers who are blocked by the Split Snow Mountain, so I suggest that the head of the Church Order, Satnam, complete this important task!"

Satnam and the archbishop immediately looked at the Pope, and the Pope's gaze was withdrawn from Feide's body at this time, looking at Satnam and his deputy head of the regiment, Rassad, "Of course, the Knights of the Church cannot be without a head for a day, and Deputy Head of the Church Rassad should be qualified for the position of temporary head of the mission." ”

The Pope was announcing the order alone, and the leaders of the other mercenary groups were dumbfounded, just as the Potato Mercenary Regiment had been appointed chief mercenary on that day. The archbishop frowned and listened to the Pope's orders, he could neither refute nor stop the other party's orders, he could only glance at Satnam and ask him to respond.

"Your Holiness the Pope may not know, Rashad is still young, and he may not be able to lead more than 40,000 people to arm the church, and His Holiness the Pope needs protection, and the City of Light also needs it."

"You don't understand what I mean, I'm not asking for Your Excellency's opinion, I'm ordering," the Pope suddenly looked serious, his hands lowered, "I believe that there is no one in the City of Light who is better qualified for this task than Captain Satnam. ”

Satnam swallowed a mouthful of spit and glanced at Rassad, who was standing at the edge of the tent, and the deputy head of the regiment, Rashad, nodded to his superior, indicating that there was no problem. He glanced at Archbishop Arthur Auerbach again, but he didn't say anything. Satnam immediately knelt down on one knee and pressed one hand to his chest, "The order of His Holiness the Pope, his subordinates will definitely be successfully completed, and the affairs in the regiment will take some time to hand over, if you can, in five days"

"You will leave tonight, and the food must not be delayed!" "and this time I will personally recruit those cultists with the archbishop, and the task of food logistics will also be entrusted to you, remember to deliver the food in forty days on time, otherwise our army will have nothing to eat." ”

In the face of the Pope's aggressiveness, the archbishop did not say a word, he did not even make a slight movement except to stare at the front of no one. Fidel, who was sitting on the sidelines, had already felt the tension, if it weren't for the tens of thousands of troops of Prince Amsoil stationed on the border between the two countries, the archbishop might have immediately launched a rebellion and brought down the pope who had always been disobedient to his will.

After the Pope said this, the whole tent fell into silence and silence, and no one dared to say a word again. Even the "Sharp Claws" are just fiddling with the steel claws on their arms. However, Riley, the chief knight, who walked in from outside, broke the silence of the crowd.

Riley walked up to the Pope and the Archbishop, knelt down on one knee and said, "The mercenaries of the other mercenary groups have been assembled and can march to the territory of the East Oguna Empire at any time. ”

The Pope nodded, he looked at Fei De and said, "Chief Leader, these more than thirty mercenary groups will be under your full management in the future, and the head of any mercenary group has something to solve and have questions, first report to Chief Leader Feide," he looked at the archbishop who was still sitting on the side, and continued, "Those friends of the mercenary union are the same, they must obey the command of the chief mercenary group." ”

In the face of such an arbitrary behavior of the Pope, the other mercenary leaders on the side of the archbishop were silent, while those who supported the Pope smiled and looked at the opposing leaders with disdain. Both Fearly and Coth are deeply aware of the terrible internal political struggle, and as an independent and emerging mercenary group, the best thing to do at this time is to remain neutral, after all, now is the most dangerous time for conflicts.

"Is the next assignment going on?" the Pope glanced at the archbishop, who had not spoken, and then at Chief Master Feyde and Grand Master of the Knights, Satnam, who seemed to be eager to get the matter all sorted out.

In the following time, the tasks of this attack on the East Oguna Empire began to be assigned, which were mainly divided into two parts: the church armed forces and the mercenary group. The mercenary group is divided into many special tasks, and the more than 30 mercenary groups are divided into several main parts.

The first part to be divided was the first mercenary group to march to the three cities of the East Oguna Empire as a vanguard. Due to the strong demand of the archbishop, more than 15,000 people armed by the church were mainly responsible for protecting the pope and the archbishop, as the core army of this military operation, responsible for coordination and control. Other church forces that have not yet been fully assembled will join in one after another, and of course a part will be assigned to handle logistics. Therefore, the tasks of the main force of the striker and reconnaissance were all handed over to the mercenary group, which was also the main task of more than 30,000 mercenaries.

The mercenary group in charge of the vanguard is planned to be divided into two parts, the first part is the mercenaries responsible for reconnaissance and advance infiltration into the territory of the empire. This part does not require many personnel, and it is expected that there will be no more than two thousand people, which means that one or two mercenary groups will be in charge. Since most of the mercenaries have no reconnaissance experience, it is planned that many members of the Dhaka mercenary group who once lived in the empire will be responsible for this mission. The first task was to gather information about the internal situation of the Eastern Oguna Empire - such as the routes of food transportation, the places where weapons and soldiers were stationed, and the reception within the cities.

Speaking of this, the head of the Knights, Satnam, said that he had sent some spies to infiltrate the East Oguna Empire half a year ago, and that he had recently sent more people. He had gathered information that three cities were preparing to riot this time, but he needed follow-up reconnaissance as to where the troops might be sent by the East Oguna Empire, how many people there were, and who led them.

The second part of the striker's task is to take down these three first cities. All three cities are medium in size, and the first two cities are at odds with each other, so they must be taken at the same time to get better fighters. Satnam's announced plan was to divide the forward mercenary group into two routes, first attacking both cities at the same time, and then joining forces to attack the third one when the city was controlled.

This plan was approved by everyone, and since these cities were already interspersed with the internal response of the Papal States, it should not be difficult to take them quickly, but the castle behind these three cities became the focus of everyone's discussion.

The castle was called Riverland Castle, and it was a large castle under the Divided Mountains of the Eastern Oguna Empire, managed by a man named Viscount Hollis. Since this is the edge of the Split Mountains, the River Castle with the Split Mountains behind it and three medium-sized cities in front of it has become a very important economic and trade base. There are several rivers that flow down after the melting of the snow and ice on the snow-capped mountains, which separates the three cities from the river castle, which is also the name of the river castle. When the Oguna Empire was not divided, it was an important location for north-south trade on the mainland, but because the castle was under the cover of the Split Mountains on both sides, the Western Oguna Empire did not make a detour to the Papal States to attack here. And now that it was about to take the three cities in front of it, Riverland Castle was the first and biggest obstacle.

Satnam had a sand-filled platform brought up, the one Koth had seen last night, with a map made of sand and small flags, but only the part of the Papal States bordering the East Oguna Empire. Satnam asked all the regimental commanders to leave their seats and learn more about the terrain in the area.

On this sand map, the specific locations of the three cities and the map between the rivers are clearly listed. What's more, the distribution of Imperial forces in this area is also marked. Although the Oguna Empire once had large mountain ranges in the middle, the main military force of the Empire with the plains on both sides was mainly cavalry, and the cavalry army marked on the map of this river castle was as many as eight.

"These eight cavalry corps are all regular troops of the East Oguna Empire, they are entrenched near Riverland Castle, four of them are directly under the orders of Viscount Hollis, and the rest are also well-trained troops," Satnam stood next to Fed, pointing his index finger at those small dark blue flags, "Each cavalry corps has at least a thousand men, that is, at least eight thousand cavalry here." ”

In addition to the cavalry, Fed noticed that in addition to the cavalry, there was a relatively large stone in the place where the riverbank castle was located.

"What is this?" asked Kess, pointing curiously at the stone.

"This is the weapon that guards the area between the rivers - 'Thunder'. ”