More than 300 kilometers northeast of Metro City, in the city of Babral, the seat of the Governor's Palace of the Southwestern Province, the atmosphere was much more tense than usual.

Five days earlier, news of the fall of Metro had reached the city of Babral, and at first the people were not very concerned, believing that this bold enemy would be easily crushed by the Empire's army.

However, just yesterday, another shocking news came back, but the 50,000 troops sent by the Governor's Palace to Metro City had all fallen in Metro City, leaving only the Marquis Di Natale, the commander of the Yuan army, to escape alone.

The news immediately sent the people of the city of Babrar into a panic.

The fall of Metro City can be said to be that the soldiers of the empire carelessly underestimated the enemy, but the 50,000 reinforcements sent by the Governor's Office in the past were the elite troops of the Southwest Province, and now all of them have fallen in Metro City.

These enemies are so powerful?

"No, Lord Duke, this time the enemy is only much stronger than you think. The Marquis of Di Natale looked at the Duke of Governors, the Governor of the Southwest Province, and added with a serious face: "Don't say that the 50,000 reinforcements I led are not their opponents, I believe that even if all the troops of our Southwest Province pour out, they will not be able to help them." ”

Duke Charles stared at the Marquis de Natare for a long time with a calm face, and he still couldn't help but have a trace of surprise in his eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that he had spent many years with the Marquis de Natate, knew his character very well, and knew that he was not the kind of person who talked nonsense, let alone the kind of waste who deliberately exaggerated in order to hide his failures, he would certainly not have believed these words.

Are you kidding!

Even if the 30,000 garrisons of Metro City were wiped out, even the 50,000 elite soldiers he sent over were actually defeated...... Oh no. They didn't come back at all.

According to the report of the Marquis di Natale. Those damn New Flyer Chambers of Commerce escorts didn't take their 50,000 men seriously at all. Even attacking them is a waste of ammo!

As for this statement, the Marquis of Di Natale not only did not have the slightest intention of refuting it, but even said in front of him now, even if all the troops of the Southwest Province poured out, they would not be able to help the other party?

"According to what you say, shouldn't I fully surrender to those guys from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?" Thinking of this, Duke Charles couldn't help but ask coldly with a hint of mockery.

How could the Marquis de Natal not hear the meaning of Duke Charles's words, but he could only smile helplessly. He continued, "If the purpose of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is simply to crush all the resistance forces in our southwestern province, I believe they can do it. But...... Their purpose doesn't seem to be here. ”

Duke Charles frowned deeply: "Then what do you say their purpose is? At least it's true that they captured Metro City?"

"Lord Duke, with all due respect, if they are interested in capturing the city of Babral, we will not be able to resist it. They're just ......."

"Enough!" Duke Charles interrupted the Marquis de Dinata by slamming the table angrily. "I've had enough of your words to increase the prestige of the enemy! Now that these enemies have captured Metro City, do you want me to stay here and do nothing, and watch them do whatever they want?"

"Lord Duke, the truth is that we are not capable of resisting them......" Marquis di Natale spread his hands helplessly. "I think we have to admit that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce has now mastered a lot of powerful military magic machines that we simply can't match. The combat effectiveness of both of us is not at all on the same level. If you insist on fighting them, you can only die in vain. ”

"So we're here waiting for them to annex Metro City. Annexing the other cities of our Southwest Province one by one, and finally swallowing the city of Babral, swallowing the entire Southwest Province, and finally swallowing the entire empire?" Duke Charles said coldly.

"Of course not, I just ...... I just think ...... Lord Duke, let's report the specific situation here to the military department and leave it to the big people in the military department to decide, right?"

"You don't have to worry about this, I have already reported the situation of the large-scale invasion of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible, and I believe that it will not take a few days for the military department to respond. Speaking of this, Duke Charles suddenly scolded angrily and in a low voice. "If it weren't for those damn guys getting in the way, we would have built a magical communication network with the help of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce that could speak directly to Wimbledon, and we wouldn't have to wait days for a communication like this. ”

The Marquis de Nata opened his mouth, deciding to give up reminding Duke Charles that Duke Charles was one of those who hindered the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in helping to build the magical communication network.

"Then Lord Duke, we ...... now"

Duke Charles glanced at him and snorted coldly: "Of course we can't wait here for news from the military department and sit back and ignore Metro City. In three days, Di Natale, you will send 10,000 men from the Fifth Legion to Merro City to support. ”

The Marquis di Natale froze.

"The Fifth Legion?10,000?"

The Marquis de Natale almost thought Duke Charles was joking.

This so-called Fifth Army Corps is actually the most backward regiment in the regular army of the Southwest Province, and it can be regarded as a regular army corps, but in fact, the main task of this corps is to be responsible for logistics, engineering and other miscellaneous work, and it has no combat experience at all, and it is not even a miscellaneous soldier with almost no combat ability who is not even fully equipped with weapons.

Not to mention that only 10,000 people were sent, even if the entire Fifth Army of more than 40,000 people were sent to Metro City, the result would only be worse than the situation encountered by the previous 50,000 reinforcements.

"Why? don't you understand?" asked Duke Charles, narrowing his eyes, to the Marquis de Natate. "Do you want me to repeat it again?"

The Marquis de Natal opened his mouth, and just wanted to ask the Duke of Charles what his considerations were to send out the 10,000 men of the Fifth Legion as reinforcements, but suddenly caught a glimpse of the strange look on Duke Charles's face, and his heart suddenly lit up. Understood.

"Yes. Lord Duke. I understand. But you only gave three days, isn't that too urgent? I think it will take at least five days...... No, it will take at least a week to prepare. After all, the enemy is very strong, and if you are not prepared, you will not have much chance of winning. ”

Duke Charles smiled with satisfaction, shook his head slightly, and replied, "No need. The people of Metro City can't wait that long, and the bigwigs of the military department can't wait that long. Three days will do, and I am sure that in three days the military department will react. ”

Where did the Marquis de DiNatale not understand what Duke Charles meant. He immediately nodded and responded.

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A week later, when the Marquis de Dinata led 10,000 soldiers of the Fifth Legion, who could not even maintain a complete marching formation, slowly and leisurely came to a place five kilometers outside the city of Melo, and the first batch of 50,000 reinforcements who had remained here and had been encamped for ten days converged, the news immediately reached the city of Melo.

"Hey, it seems that these nobles of the Candela Empire are really not stupid, and they know exactly what they should do. ”

Captain Hart simply glanced at the information and immediately turned his attention away from it.

"Is there any movement in other areas? For example, the Candela Imperial Military Department has not reacted yet?"

"Hey. Just three days ago, a bunch of idiots from the Candela Imperial Army were still arguing. I don't believe they'll be able to come up with a result in the next three days. The vice-captain on the side, Newnes, said with a disdainful expression.

"So it's not all good for a country to be too big, you see, it's so hard to make any decision right now. Unfortunately, I really hope that they will be more courageous and able to come up with a countermeasure this morning. Otherwise, I'm going to get rusty if I stay here. Captain Hart sighed.

"Not really. It's not about you, I'm bored to death these days. Nyun-hee complained similarly.

In the past few days since they conquered Metro City, perhaps because the city lord Earl Demps fell under their control, no one in Metro City would come out to lead the rebellion, so the people in the city were extremely honest, and there was no sign of turmoil at all, so that the escort team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which had already prepared for this aspect, did not even use a set plan.

Of course, according to intelligence, the Demps have not been very kind to the people of their territory, and even last year there was a small riot that killed and injured more than a thousand civilians.

In this case, perhaps the Candela Empire civilians in the city will think that it is a good thing that Earl Demps has fallen into the hands of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

Captain Hart even believed that if they didn't think about the purpose of this operation now, but for the purpose of occupation, then as long as they drove away the tens of thousands of Candela Empire troops outside, they wouldn't need to waste much effort to really take Metro City.

After all, when it comes to buying people's hearts, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a unique advantage that no other force can match.

That is, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can easily lead the economic development of a region, significantly improve the living environment of the vast majority of people, and let them live a good life.

These people of the Candela Empire have little loyalty to their lords, and their concept of the Candela Empire as a country is even weaker.

If there are people who can give them a much better life, it will be easy to gain their loyalty.

This has been achieved by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in Bonta City before, and many times in the Principality of Stantin.

Now the employees of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are generally very loyal to the Chamber of Commerce, and their willingness is to follow the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to make life better and better.

Compared to continuing to stay under the lord and live a life where you can't even eat casually, who doesn't know how to choose?

Of course, before considering these problems, there is one of the biggest obstacles that must be resolved, and this is the main purpose of the Elder Brother's personal arrangement of this operation.

Perhaps sensing Captain Hart's thoughts, one of the guards in charge of communications suddenly ran over and reported loudly to Captain Hart.

"Report to the captain, there is a large number of high-energy reactions coming from the northeast!" (to be continued......)