"There are seven large centaur tribes to the east of the Sassan Empire, and now that they have joined forces to launch an all-out attack on the Sassan Empire, we can collectively refer to them as the Centaur Khanate of West Padon. They are located on the western side of the northern wilderness, adjacent to the Sassan Empire, and have a section of the Paligdon River. Abbreviated as the Sidon Khanate. ”

Kite Fort, military hall, the guardians gathered around a large table to listen to the military analysis of the Ministry of War.

On the table is a large, easy-to-depict map. The grand knight in charge of the explanation has the same brown hair as the Marquis of Golon, his facial features are as deep as sculptures, his temperament is heroic, and his voice is loud. He was the only son of the Marquis of Goron and Princess Ingneille Auguste, the Deputy Chief of the Military Department of the Kingdom, the Deputy Head of the Knights of Glory, and Count Wenger August.

Wenger held a thin stick, drew an area on the large map, nodded, and said: "According to the information we know, the sphere of influence of the Sidon Khanate is roughly equivalent to that of the Sassanian Empire, and its comprehensive national strength is far inferior to that of Sassan, but her military mobilization ability is several times that of the Sasangian Empire...... Orcs are naturally strong, centaurs are all soldiers, male centaur warriors are good at using spears, they can hit targets within 280 meters with heavy obsidian spears, and female centaurs are excellent archers, they are usually responsible for guarding orc slaves, and can suppress slave rebellions. Excluding the old and weak cubs who could not fight, the Sidon Khanate could mobilize 400,000 male and female centaur warriors at a time, plus their enslaved servants, to an army of at least 1 million or more. ”

"However, the war potential of the Sidon Khanate was far from that of the Sassanid Empire. ”

Wenger paused, raised his head, and said, "Monster theory says that centaurs are strange in size, have poor self-production capacity, and they rely heavily on goblins and kobold slaves. An adult centaur warrior requires 15 goblins to feed. Goblins and kobold slaves were essential to the Sidon centaurs. If the Goblin Servants suffered too many losses, the decline of the Sidon Khanate was inevitable. In fact, the orcs were so inefficient in their material storage and transportation that they were not able to supply enough to sustain a full-scale mobilization war. ”

"Unless you have to!"

"The combined forces of the Sassanian Empire and the Knights of Radiance are stuck on the front line, and their supplies can last for 12 months. I doubt that the main centaur forces of the Sidon Khanate will be able to hold out for a 12-month siege. Wenger further explained: "The Orc slaves of the Sidon Khanate will definitely be severely affected by the production in the rear, even if they penetrate deep into the territory of Sassan, plundering human supplies and replenishing the front-line centaur warriors." However, the orc slaves were very poorly organized, and the longer the war stalemate, the more orc slaves escaped, and the more difficult it was to supply the front line. The Centaurs of the Sidon Khanate could not hold out for 12 months, and when they divided their forces to forage for food and gathered slaves, it was the time for the Imperial coalition to counterattack. ”

"My colleagues and I don't see the odds of victory for the Sidon Khanate, and all-out war is not for the Centaurs race, and their high mobility and surprise attack advantages are completely unplayed. Wenger shook his head in confusion and continued: "One thing is certain, the Sassan Empire will suffer unprecedented damage...... And the Sidon Khanate lost a large number of slaves, and it was not far from decline. ”

"The Sidon Khanate adopted the two-defeat and fearful style of play, which was basically self-defeating. Centaurs should have been forced to do this...... In other words, the centaurs of the Sidon Khanate have been reduced to the servants of the Orc King, and have to serve as the vanguard of the Orc Army's invasion of the human kingdom. ”

Wenger concluded: "From the current situation, our judgment is in line with that of Patriarch Friedes, the centaurs of the Sidon Khanate are only the first wave of attacks against the human kingdom, and they have the army of the orc king behind them. ”

Almost everyone now believes that the Sidon Centaurs have been conquered by some orc king, otherwise Friedes would not have raised the highest level of Red Beacon Alert.

Williams slapped the table and said sarcastically, "It's really ironic that the Knights of Radiance show the head of Orogar! If the legendary Centaur were still alive, the men and horses of the Sidon Khanate would not have resisted for only a year and surrendered to their new masters." He paused, retracted his mocking expression, and asked, "Not all legendary orcs can become the king of orcs, and centaurs are the most difficult orc race to tame. The centaur warriors of the Sidon Khanate ran to the easternmost part of their territory to resist the human guesses of the invaders, and they only lasted less than a year before surrendering to their new masters, and they were able to maintain their full military strength and launch a self-inflicting assault on the human defenses...... Don't you think it's too weird?"

"Did the centaurs resist the so-called invaders, and did they have a so-called orc king?"

The regent asked the doubts that were hovering in everyone's minds, and everyone was silent, and after a while, the Marquis of Goron spoke: "Maybe there is an orc king, or maybe not, but we can't put the fate of the human kingdom on the gambling table and bet that there is no orc king." ”

"If there is an orc king, it is the worst outcome. It can subdue wild centaurs in a year and prompt them to launch a near-suicidal all-out assault on the Sarsangian Empire...... What does this mean exactly? Needless to say, everyone knows the severity of the consequences. ”

"Assuming that there is no Orc King, there will be at least one Legendary-level Orc Grand Patriarch on the east side of the Sidon Khanate. ”

Marquis Goron took the stick from his son's hand, pointed it on the eastern side of the Sasan Empire on the map, and continued eastward, saying, "The centaurs of the Sidon Khanate, and their neighbors to the east, are located in the western part of the northern wilderness. This location is not ideal for orcs. Powerful orc tribes should occupy the central region of the northern wilderness, which is not only rich but also far from the threat of the human kingdom. ”

"If Orogar were still alive and united the centaur tribes of the Sidon Khanate. What will it do?"

Wenger replied, "Orogar will lead an army of centaurs to the east, defeat the orc tribes along the way, and enslave them until they reach the heart of the northern wilderness and ascend to the throne of the orc king." ”

Goron nodded, and the thin wooden stick returned to the defense line of the Sassan Empire, and said, "Before they go east, the threat from the back must be dealt with, the threat from the Sassan Empire. That's why the Knights of Radiance want to defeat the Blackhoof tribe and kill the Lord Maorogar. The Great Orc Chiefs on the eastern side of the Sidon Khanate faced the same problem, except that their threat came from the Centaurs of the Sidon Khanate. ”

Williams bowed his head and said, "If His Highness Golon's guess is true, then the legendary orc patriarch will ask the centaurs of the Sidon Khanate to attack the defense line of the Sassanian Empire, so that they will be defeated and injured, and they will not be able to threaten their lair." Otherwise, it would have conquered the Sidon Khanate first. The Sidonians will either be beaten and turned into slaves before attacking the Sassan Empire, or they will attack the defenses of the Sassan Empire first to break the threat from the rear and save them from being enslaved by the orc chiefs. ”

In other words, the Sassan Empire will clean up the orc monsters that have invaded the hinterland and reconnect to the supply lines of the coalition army, and the Sidon centaurs will choose to retreat to the lair and fight the human alliance in the field. ”

The regent smiled and said with a relaxed expression, "This is the best result. ”

"Why do you want to use a human point of view to figure out the thoughts of stupid orcs?" Princess Roland said in a soft voice, half-lying on the table, looking at the map, "Perhaps, the Sidon centaurs thought they could win...... In my opinion, their offensive tactics are simply brilliant and terrifying. They first evacuated the territory of the Blackhoof tribe, inducing the human coalition to abandon the steadily advancing encroachment tactics, mobilize a large number of materials and people from the rear, and seize the time to build a new defense line, resulting in the emptiness of the original defense line. Then, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the human army, he concentrated his forces and launched a thousand-mile surprise attack on the human pioneer leader, taking the imperial coalition army by surprise. However, in the face of Textier's bait, they were able to restrain their desire to hunt, and instead of pursuing the tenant civilians fleeing towards the rear, they trapped the human army in three new cities, allowing Terstil's intention to lure the enemy deep and cut off his rear route was completely shattered......"

In order to cover the retreat of tenants and civilians, the main cavalry of the Radiant Knights and the Sassan Empire chose to stick to the imperfect defense line, so that they were trapped in the new city by the centaur army, cutting off the supply line. This is a whitewashed rhetoric by the church.

The brutality of war is not only directed against the enemy, but also against itself.

The skin does not have hair, and it will be attached. The main forces of the human coalition have been wiped out, and where can the tenant civilians go?

Once the high-ranking knight becomes rational, it is almost ruthless. Grand Master Stirr and Emperor Frederick knew very well that a war of annihilation against hundreds of thousands of centaurs could not be waged. Using tenant civilians as bait, they tried to disperse the Centaur army and penetrate into the heart of the Sassan Empire alone. Although the old defense line in the rear of the pioneer leader was empty and lacked bows, arrows and crossbows, the defense system was complete, and the fortresses, castles, camps, and sentry posts were connected by roads to form a three-dimensional defense network. Centaurs can't climb walls, can't go up ladders, they don't even bring enough supplies for thousands of miles of raids, and their own herald system is very chaotic, once they fall into the human defense network, it is easy to be divided and surrounded by the war beast cavalry from the rear, and break them one by one. The garrison of the old line was underarmed and limited in number, and they could not cope with the military operations of the Radiant Knights and the War Beast Cavalry, but they still had the ability to open and close the door. The main cavalry of the Sassan Empire took over these fortifications, and the entire defensive network was activated, which was able to assist the beast cavalry in strangling the wandering centaur raiders. At this time, it will be difficult for the Centaur army, which lacks supplies, to withdraw, and if it is not completely annihilated by the humans, it will definitely suffer heavy losses.

However, the hunter-loving centaurs were not fooled in the face of the unarmed tenant civilians who fled in panic!?

Is this still a wild and unruly centaur?

"The centaurs didn't get hit, trapping the main force of the human alliance in three new cities, and that's not all!"

Roland raised his voice and said, "We thought that the Sidonians would gather goblin minions and build supply lines to help besiege the human coalition forces. But they are surprising. They pinned down the main force of the human alliance, drove millions of orc slaves, penetrated deep into the empty hinterland of the Sassan Empire's defense, plundered and destroyed, cut off the connection between the frontier and the rear of the empire, and instead made the human alliance a lone army. ”

"Tsk, the Sidon centaurs lure the enemy, run thousands of miles, besiege but not attack, cut off the enemy's backup, and feed the war with war...... I think the centaurs' grasp of the fighter is too clever and accurate. Roland smacked his lips in admiration, changed his words, and said: "If it were me, I would never scatter all the baggage troops into the enemy's rear hinterland when the situation is unknown!"

"How do they know that the hinterland of the Sassan Empire is empty?"

Victor said in a cold voice, "It's like someone is trolling them off." ”

"Who is it that has tipped off the centaurs and led them into an all-out war with no chance of victory?" Roland straightened and turned his gaze to Victor's handsome face, his green eyes like a bottomless pool.

Sylvia chuckled and said, "Maybe it's not human?"

Not human?

The four Guardians of the Kingdom exchanged glances with surprisingly calm expressions. Williams was silent at his realization. Wenger had not yet reached the realm of the Earth Knight, and lacked knowledge of the unknown, so he bowed his head and said: "The goblin is very smart, and the legendary orc patriarch may be a big goblin." It is said that the goblin patriarch is good at taming beasts and is able to enslave powerful beasts and orcs. As long as it domesticates a few flying birds, it can detect the reality of human defenses...... Perhaps it used its ability to tame beasts to induce centaurs to cause the Sidon Khanate to start an all-out war with the Human Empire, but it didn't know that behind the Sassang Empire was the entire human kingdom, and those orc slaves who went deep into the hinterland of Sasang would scatter and flee once they were killed by human reinforcements, and it was impossible for the centaurs to collect them and plunder human materials, so the attempt to replenish the front line naturally failed. ”

"As long as we send an army to take over the defenses of the Sassanid Empire and wipe out the orc slaves wandering around, the main force of the Centaurs of the Sidon Khanate will definitely not survive first. ”

Wenger said worriedly, "The Goblin King shouldn't have a white ape beast in his hands, right? If there is, then it's bad......"

Roland rolled his eyes, pouted, and said, "What's the use of guessing? Shall we go and see? Who are you going to send to fight? Anyway, I am definitely going to go." As she spoke, she bared out her little tiger teeth, her fierce gaze sweeping over the faces of Williams and Marquis Gorlon.

"Don't try to stop me!"

"Wenger is willing to work for the captain!" The deputy head of the Glory Knights was overjoyed, and said loudly and straightly: "The Glory Knights are ready to go at any time!

Marquis Golon glared at his young son, and rebuked Roland with a majestic expression: "Don't mess around! I will take the Swift Dragon Knights to the Sassan Empire. ”

"Old man, what are you going to do?" Roland slammed the table and shouted unceremoniously, "You can outrun a golden-rank centaur as an earth knight?"

The eldest princess's words were not good, but they meant the tactics adopted by the reinforcements of Gombis. The Golden Knights of the Earth Elemental Affinity are immune to knockback and sagging, they are good at attacking head-on attacks, and although their speed is not slow, they are just not slow, and they definitely can't outrun the Golden Tier Centaurs. Goron led the army to battle, once he encountered the elite of the centaur, he could not escape, and the Knights of the Swift Dragon would not run, so he could only fight a tough battle with the centaur. The female knights of the Angry Waves were good at guerrilla fighting, and Roland's army used guerrilla warfare methods, which could better preserve the strength of the Gambis reinforcements.

Anyway, there is no shortage of reinforcements from the human kingdom with a golden knight affinity for the earth element, and they will fight head-on, let them fight.

The Marquis of Goron gave Roland a deep look and said no more.

Williams said with a tangled expression: "I ......"

"What are you, you also want to take people to death?" "Princess Roland clasped her hands on her chest and squinted at her uncle, the regent who was afraid of a word had no temper.

"But the other kingdoms are the king's own ......," he said reluctantly.

Sylvia smiled slightly and said, "Williams, your hope of advancing to the Golden Rank is not on the battlefield. ”

Williams was silent, but his heart became more and more entangled. Fighting against centaurs is dangerous, but responding to the call of the red smoke beacon is a knight's romance. The pure blood of the Auguste family is free and romantic by nature, and he likes too many things, so far he has not been able to clarify the path to the gold realm, and it is not an opportunity to lead the army to the battle.

Wenger August smiled and became more and more erect.

Roland's eyes widened, and he said, "You also stay." ”

The expression of the deputy of the Knights of Glory suddenly dropped, and he looked at his father as if asking for help.

Ignoring his son's plea for help, Goron asked Victor, "What does Your Highness mean?"

"I've just taken the position of Guardian, and I've encountered so many things......" Victor smiled self-deprecatingly, and said with a straight face, "I must remind you that Gambis is also the front line, the front line against Ant-Man. And ant talent is our henchman...... It's been 9 years since the last ant tide, and no one is sure when the next ant plague will break out? Will Ant-Man's mother take action herself? I hope that there is no necessary connection between the disaster that happened in the Sassan Empire and Ant-Man, but the church is ready to siphon out half of the clergy of Gombis to support the Sassan Empire. And we don't know how long the war to aid the Sassan Empire will be, and we must retain most of our strength to deal with the threat of Ant-Man. ”

Victor looked around the audience and said with a grim expression: "The Sidon centaur raided the Sarsanid Empire's pioneer territory, and there are many suspicions...... But I make one thing clear, this is not only an all-out war to defend the human kingdom, but also a war to defend the tenant system! If Gambis can't implement the tenant system, can't form mercenary regiments, and can't implement the fictitious feudal system, how can we cross the river and expand south?"

The cold gaze fell on Williams, and Victor said slowly: "Your Highness August, the people who stay behind in Gangbis are not easy. We must prove to the lords and the clergy that the tenant system in Gambis can send mercenaries to the front in a steady stream, and even if there is a king of orcs behind the Sidon centaurs, we can not only defeat it, but also hold the Centaur Hills line!"

Williams said solemnly with a solemn expression: "I understand. ”

Sylvia's eyes flashed, and she bowed her head and said, "His Royal Highness Goron and I stayed behind to guard Gangbis, and Princess Roland and His Highness Randall led the army to support the Sasan defense line. ”

Roland glanced at Victor and said in a crisp voice, "I agree...... In my capacity as the Supreme Military Commander of the Kite Castle, I order that the Knights of Glory and the Knights of the Swift Dragon will be merged, and the Marquis of Goron August will take over the post of Head of the Knight of Glory and take over the post of Supreme Military Commander of the Knight of Kite Castle. I led 100 Glorious Knights and 300 elite cavalry from the Minsk Fortress 30 days later to the front line of the Sassan Empire to fight the orc invaders. I ask the families to send a squad of elite knights to assemble in the fortress of Minsk and go with me. ”

"Mr. Golon, this is my last order to the Ministry of War, you won't veto my will, will you?" asked Roland with a grin at the Marquis of Golon.

A smile of relief appeared on Golon's face, and he nodded and said, "When you return in triumph, the position of head of the Knights of Glory will still be yours." After a pause, he put away his smile and said solemnly: "In the name of the supreme military commander of the Kite Castle, I appoint His Royal Highness Roland August as the chief commander of the Cambis reinforcements, and control all the generals of the Cambis reinforcements except for His Highness Randall. I request His Royal Highness Williams August, Regent of Cambys, to issue a decree of war in the kingdom and to gather the armies of the families to assemble at the fortress of Minsk. ”

Fifty days later, the first main reinforcements of Cambis departed for the Church's designated assembly place, the Whitewater Fortress of the Kingdom of Dordor . Kite Fort dispatched 10,000 elite cavalry, and the reinforcements of the major families must not be less than 2,000 cavalry, totaling 20,000 people. ”

Williams took out the scroll of the War Edict, lay down on the table, filled in the relevant contents with a quill pen, took out the regent seal stained with ink, and covered it heavily, then passed the War Edict to Sylvia, motioning for her to look at it.

"We have no opinion. ”

Sylvia and Victor each used the Guardian Seal to leave their own mark on the edict.

Williams picked up the war edict in effect, shook his head and smiled: "We only send 20,000 cavalry, and it is estimated that the church will not be satisfied." ”

"Cambis has also sent a Legendary-rank Highness and one of the strongest Golden Female Knight today. Roland curled the corners of his mouth, said triumphantly, and then quickly added: "Sylvia is not a female knight of the Golden Rank. ”

Victor didn't care about Roland's self-promotion, and said with a pun: "Support leather armor and weapons as much as possible, and arm the Sarsan militia and mercenaries, they are the main force in this war." ”

The regent laughed and said, "What I'm saying is that we do our own thing. ”

Victor and Sylvia left the military hall, boarded the carriage, and headed for the Duke of York's house.

The two of them were speechless all the way, and when they arrived at the private lounge of the mansion, Sylvia waved off her attendants and complained to Victor: "My dear, our dignified descendants of Gombis can only send 2,000 cavalry, just like Wellington and Nimes, it is really a shame. ”

Victor said absentmindedly: "Wellington they can send more cavalry, Marquis Goron is to save face for you." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Victor immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing. Sure enough, Sylvia's slender willow eyebrows had already stood up, pinching the soft flesh on his waist ribs, and gritting her teeth to correct: "He's saving face for us!"

"Uh...... That's right, it's us. Victor hurriedly remedied: "Their cavalry is not as good as His Highness in the Centaur Hills. ”

Elite cavalry is not something that can be trained in a year or two, and the York family's fanged legion was lost nearly half in the first Ant-Man War, although it has been replenished and the scale has reached 4,500 people, but the elite level of the soldiers is inevitably reduced. Now, the Centaur Hills had just promoted the first-level Source Blood Secret Method, and the family army was in short supply.

Sylvia said arrogantly: "I don't care, the centaur hills must recruit 5,000 mercenary soldiers." They don't know how to ride horses, and they have to climb to the Sassan Empire for me!"

Victor was stunned for a moment and asked, "Sharpen the mercenary army with centaurs and orc slaves?"

Sylvia smiled faintly and said, "Don't dare to fight the orcs, what's the use of us raising them? ”

Victor was silent for two seconds, frowned, and said, "I have the illusion that this all-out war launched by the Sidonians seems to be aimed at destroying my tenant system. ”

Sylvia's blue eyes deepened, and she said calmly, "It doesn't matter if it's an illusion or not...... If this war is lost, the tenant system will be over. ”

"And the criterion for winning or losing a war is not the defeat of the centaur invaders, but only whether there is a wave of refugees in the Sassan Empire. ”

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