After Gray received the order, Archduke De Rooney appointed him as the military coordinator of the Southern Territory on the 26th. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Military Coordinator was a temporary title, but with great power, meaning that in times of war he was the highest military governor in the entire South, with the exception of the Grand Duke.

Soon, this order was issued throughout the South, and while Gray gained power, it also meant that he would bear the corresponding responsibility, and from this moment on, Gray would be responsible for the lives of more than 3 million soldiers and civilians in the South.

Gray didn't even have time to attend the departure ceremony outside Cook, this time Grand Duke De Rooney led nearly 100,000 soldiers to reinforce the northern battlefield, and the canonization of knights alone could form an entire brigade.

These 100,000 troops are almost all the regular soldiers in the south, and the army takes away nearly eighty percent of the military supplies in the south.

There were not many troops in Gray's own territory, Corwin led a garrison, Harrens led a garrison, and Seku led 2,000 soldiers, a total of 12,000 men, including 7,000 light infantry, 2,000 archers, and 3,000 cavalry.

However, the cavalry with too simple equipment, in front of the torrent of orc infantry, is like using a bamboo spear to pierce the plate armor made of steel, which is simply looking for death.

The common people did not know what was going on, and some even thought that after the death of the king, Grand Duke De Looney was going to lead an army to support his sister Queen Dibert and help his nephew, Prince Sinda, ascend to the throne.

The lower-ranking soldiers did not receive any relevant orders, but they heard that they were going to the Middle Kingdom, and the specific mission would not be known until they arrived at the specific location.

In fact, even if Gray told his subjects now that the orcs had come in, they wouldn't believe it, after all, this place was more than a little bit far away from the orcs, and if the orcs wanted to fight the south, they would have to cross the northern border and the Middle Kingdom, or go west, through the narrow western territory.

If this is the case, the news of various orc invasions is already flying in the sky by now, and a special announcement is needed there.

No one would choose to inform the civilians at this time, and if it caused panic among the civilians, the entire southern communication line would be filled with all kinds of fleeing civilians, and in this way, the official roads would be paralyzed, which was not conducive to the rapid mobilization of troops.

And what Gray lacks most now is time, and he wants to dispatch the entire southern territory to join this war as quickly as possible.

In Gray's plan, evacuating civilians is what should be done in the last three days, and how many civilians can be evacuated in this time can only be decided by the goddess.

For the past few days, Gray has been in his study, and all the knights and important officials who led the troops led by Harrence were summoned by Gray to his castle.

Every hour that passed, an order was issued from this study to all the regions of the West.

For the past two days, whenever Gray has time, he will keep staring at a map of the western seas that he got from the Earl of Lockton, he does not understand naval warfare, but he still has a general strategic concept.

There were few ships in the south, only about 200 small sailing ships, which were equipped with a medium-sized bed crossbow at the stern and a heavy hammer at the bow, and the main mode of combat of these ships was to ram the enemy hulls.

If such a sailing ship were allowed to ram at super-fast speeds and hit the weakest points on either side of the enemy's warship, then the only fate that awaited the enemy was the destruction of the ship.

The navy soldiers were mainly armed with bows and arrows and rapiers, and the sailors were not in the habit of wearing equipment, and they were even shirtless when they fought.

The main task of this navy in the south is to encircle and suppress the pirates in the nearby waters, and in the waters near the south, they can be regarded as a relatively powerful naval force.

However, if it were against the goblins' warships, it would be a matter of days, if they were to deal with the goblins' warships, the goblins had used their accumulated wealth to develop large sailing ships, but they used them for commercial trade, but it was only a matter of days to convert them into warships.

Once such ships are used in warfare, then, at sea, they will be invincible, judging by the depth of the draft of such ships, it is possible for them to transport thousands of troops.

However, to transport an army of 50,000, it would take more than fifty sailboats, and with the current level of manufacturing, even with the handicraft technology of the goblins, they could make up to ten ships in their entire commercial kingdom.

As a result, the remaining orc warriors could only be transported in small sailing boats.

With such a large-scale fleet, there will definitely be situations where the end and end cannot be connected when sailing on the sea.

Thinking of this, Gray couldn't help but think in his heart: can we first fight a small-scale blocking battle at sea, attack one point of the enemy with a superior naval fleet, and destroy some of the enemy's living forces?

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Sir Demps Gale was the head of a mercenary group ten years ago, and unlike other mercenaries, his mercenary group mainly traded at sea and protected the merchant ships that came and went.

Or capture pirates and get some bounties from local officials.

He was now the commander of the navy in Seka City, and the sailors liked to call him Colonel Demps, the colonel he used to call in the mercenary regiment, and he brought that title to the navy.

The city of Seca City navy used to give the local citizens the impression of a group of scruffy, drunken gamblers, but since Colonel Demps was discovered by Grand Duke De Rooney and entrusted with the task, the city of Seca City's navy has changed dramatically.

The locals say that the navy of Seka City is their hero, and they fight valiantly all the time, making all the pirates in the nearby seas fearful.

In the taverns of Seka City, you can always hear locals recounting the glorious deeds of their navy, and in this port city, as long as you wear the uniform of a naval officer, you will always be favored by the young ladies of all families.

There is no doubt about Colonel Demps's ability, at least in his ability to manage the navy and command naval operations.

The Colonel's daily routine was very regular, he was not married, but he had a lover before, but his lover had died in a naval battle ten years earlier, and he had his current position because of that naval battle.

He used to be as scruffy as the other sailors, but since the death of his lover, he has become as clean as she is, and at the same time he hates pirates, and he has vowed to eradicate all pirates in his sight!

He felt that everything he could get now was a reward from God. So, he was a very devout theist, and he believed in Mary, the god of the sea.

The colonel's prayer every morning became a must-do for him, and on the continent of Ailan, faith is free, they have no fixed sect, they only follow the choice of their heart.

On the morning of the 29th of March, while the Colonel was praying, he received a handwritten order from Viscount Cage, now the Military Coordinator of the Western Frontier, and on the 27th he had received a notice from the Archduke de Rooney, and he had been waiting for the order from above.

But the colonel did not expect that the first order he waited for would be the order of Viscount Cage, he did not know much about the young commander, but he was very attentive to this order, and he had a feeling of brightness.