Chapter 460: Preparing for War

On September 15, 1786, the universal calendar of the Gallinthia continent, the capital of the Northlands, Angry Bear City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Having just returned from a holiday at Platinum Beach, Lorist immediately convened a high-level family preparation meeting after a two-day break.

“...... His Majesty's strategic intention is to attack from the provinces of Majik and the provinces of Andłóv and Portoorg in two directions, with our four alliances in the Northlands as one route. Along the way, His Royal Highness brought together the Archdukes of Fisabrun, Ferndo, Hansk, and Sabaji, their family armed armies, as well as the noble coalition forces, to garrison the two southwestern provinces and the province of Hansdemus.

His Royal Highness will be responsible for clearing the northwest and destroying the Duchy of Zthuram, then attacking the province of Cambona on three fronts, and finally attacking the provinces of Marivia and Armenia of the former Duchy of Rum, forcing the commercial alliance to negotiate with us with the power of a million-strong army to return these two provinces and achieve the strategic goal of unifying the empire. ”

Lorist clicked on the large map hanging on the wall with a small wooden stick: "Our King has set the date for the start of this raid war in December, which is the real reason why he wants our Norton family to arm in this war. In the winter when the blizzard is raging, only our Norton family armed forces can complete this raid mission, and with the help of the harsh climate, sweeping the two major provinces, no other armed force can do it except us!

From this point of view, His Majesty is also very self-aware, and it is not yet certain whether his so-called Buranli Raid Corps, which he has trained for three years, will be able to complete the task of clearing and raiding the northwest region. So, we have to be ready. Perhaps, after we have completed our mission to occupy the provinces of Anderwolf and Portoorg, we will continue to attack Cambona alone, and then go to the north-west to assist our Majesty in the destruction of the principality of Zthuram. ”

Shi Fatzi muttered and complained: "He threw the hardest bone to our family armament, and picked a piece of fat himself...... Your Highness, isn't it too much of a loss for us to help him complete the great cause of the unification of the empire by changing the jurisdiction of Makinohara Province with such great efforts......"

Shi Fatzi is right, the Norton family forces are responsible for capturing two provinces, especially Portoorg Province, which is the territory of the Vesia Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the Business Alliance, and the Vesia Chamber of Commerce has always been the largest weapon manufacturer in the Commercial Alliance, this war between the Commercial Alliance and the Central and South Kingdom Alliance, the Vesia Chamber of Commerce Legion did not go to the territory of the Chikde Chamber of Commerce, but returned to the Chamber of Commerce territory after defeating the Central and South Kingdom coalition forces that confronted on the border of the Business Alliance。

The high-ranking members of the Norton family present began to talk to each other, and expressed their dissatisfaction with the tasks given to the Norton family by His Royal Highness.

Lorist knocked on the table with a small wooden stick, stopped his subordinates' nonsense, and told them to continue to talk about it, they would have to pull the flag and rebel, who made these guys have no good impression of His Second Highness......

"Okay, don't complain, it's already a good result to be able to take jurisdiction over Makinoha Province from His Majesty's hands this time, and it's thanks to the great cooperation of Grand Duke Fisabrun that His Majesty has been fooled. Now I will talk about the task distribution of this expedition and the development goals of the family in the next few years, and I hope that you can do your best to contribute to the glory of our family. ”

Lorist looked at his subordinates present and began to roll call: "This time, I am going to let the Rock Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion go out together, first the Flying Tiger Legion will attack and occupy Anderwolf Province, and clear the hostile forces and resistance forces in the province, and then hand over Andervov Province to the Fisabrun family to deal with, and the Flying Tiger Legion will go to Pudoolg Province to support."

The Rock Legion went straight to the province of Puerto Org, and the soldiers were swift and occupied the royal city of Federiga, which was the stronghold of the Vician Chamber of Commerce. Occupying the royal city of Federiga, we are invincible, and the surrounding strongholds and the power of the Vethia Chamber of Commerce can be slowly cleaned up. When the Flying Tiger Legion arrives, we can clear the whole province and go straight to Cambona Province......"

Jost stood up: "Your Highness, I protest, why don't these family armed expeditions have any of our Chaser Legion?"

Lorist laughed: "Now that the province of Makinohara is under the jurisdiction of our family, the task of your cavalry hunting army is to take over the province of Makinohara and sweep away all the grass barbarian tribes that do not obey our family's jurisdiction in the grassland. However, there is no need to kill all the barbarians this time, the province needs people, and our family hopes to change the nomadic customs of these barbarian tribes, so that they can learn to graze at fixed points, build town settlements and bazaars, so that these barbarians can be transformed into our family's lords.

Director Kodan will become the governor of Makinoha Province and will carry out the family's plan for the development of Makinoha Province. Joe, your Cavalry Huntsman needs to assist Governor Kodan in his control of Makinohara Province, and the task is not easy. And the Hunter Legion is a light cavalry legion, and the Northeast Prairie is where you come in, although there is no threat from the Fisabrun Family Frontier Ranger Legion now, but you should not despise those grass barbarian tribes......"

Jost looked a little dejected: "Your Highness, it's really boring to compete with those grass barbarian tribes, I really want to participate in this raid battle, that's the big scene." ”

"Well, if you complete the task of receiving Makinoha Province by December, then I can allow you to bring a few people with me. Anyway, the grass barbarian tribe also needs to nest in winter, and the cavalry hunting legion only needs to be on guard and garrison. "Lorist thought about it and decided to give Jost a chance, he has been training the Hunters in the past few years, and it is considered hard, it is good to take him to be a guard by his side.

"Thank you, Your Highness. Jost was overjoyed, and pulled up El beside him: "Go, El, let's go and complete the task assigned to our legion by His Highness first." ”

"Sit down, no matter how anxious you are, it's not too late for you to leave after the meeting. Fat Shi was angry and reprimanded Jost twice, making him sit down reluctantly. Shi Fatzi then asked, "Your Highness, how many family forces are the Fisabrun family going to dispatch this time?"

Lorist thought for a moment and replied: "The Fisabrun family sent troops this time the same as last time, a frontier ranger regiment and a reserve regiment composed of grass barbarian cavalry, and they only keep two garrison regiments and one frontier ranger regiment in their family territory. However, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun revealed that he was going to draw men from the remaining frontier ranger regiment and two garrison regiments to form a new garrison corps of more than 30,000 men, which would serve as the garrison of this new Fisabrun family territory after we captured Swiv Province. ”

"Your Highness, will the Fisabrun family's dispatch of this new garrison to Andervav Province have an adverse impact on our logistical supply lines?"

Lorist shook his head: "No, in the agreement I have reached privately with Grand Duke Fisabrun, this garrison will not leave from Eastern Wilderness Province until after the rainy season, and it is estimated that it will arrive in Anderwolf Province around June and July next year." The reason why the journey was so slow was that they had to escort the relatives of the Fisabrun family to their respective territories to take up their posts.

This time, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was going to canonize a marquis, three counts, seven viscounts, and more than forty barons in the province of Anderwóv, and this newly formed garrison would be disbanded and assigned to those lords as garrisons when it arrived in Andervow Province. So it doesn't pose a threat to our family's armament. This is the main reason why the Grand Duke of Fisabrun asked us to purge them of the resistance and the local nobility of the entire province of Swiv. ”

"I see. Shi Fatzi nodded: "It seems that Grand Duke Fisabrun really wants to maintain a good relationship with our family. In this way, the Fisabrun family should not pose a threat to our expedition and the newly acquired Makinohara. But Your Highness, are we just doing the Archduke of Fisabrun for nothing without any gain?"

"Hehe......" Lorist replied with a smile: "Of course not, the total population of Ander Wolf Province is nearly five or six hundred thousand, and I promise that the Grand Duke of Fisabrun will not make a big move in Ander Wolf Province." After the occupation of the province of Andervow, the proceeds of the purged nobles and local powers will go to our family, and we will receive 100,000 immigrants, which we have agreed on in advance. ”

"But Your Highness, didn't you say that our four alliances in the Northland are all the way, so what are the benefits of the other three?"

"The three of them didn't make any profit. Lorist replied, "Although our four alliances in the Northlands are all the way, we are the only ones who carry out the winter raid to capture the two provinces, and the other three will leave to fight us after the rainy season." They were responsible for gathering forces to put pressure on the merchant alliance, and were prepared to participate in the war after the commercial alliance and His Majesty's negotiations broke down, just like the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and the noble coalition army. ”

"I still think that our family has suffered too much," Shi Fatzi complained: "No wonder Your Majesty is pestering His Highness, and he has to send troops to our family's army, and by doing so, he is tantamount to putting the burden of this raid war on our Norton family's armed body, and the other nobles are all standing by and watching, and they can't help anything." Well, in the unlikely event that this raid fails, I suspect that His Majesty will put all the blame on our family. ”

Lorist waved his hand: "We don't need to worry about him at this point, I believe that the combat power of our Norton family's armed forces is invincible, and no enemy can stop our attack." In fact, the lion's share of our gains are here. ”

Lorist used a small wooden stick to point to the location of Portoorg Province on the map: "The royal city of Federiga is the base camp of the territory of the Vician Chamber of Commerce, as long as we can capture this place, then the Vician Merchants will become our income no matter how many years of accumulation they have." I'm not just talking about money, I'm thinking we're going to harvest a lot of talent.

Since the province of Puerto Org became the territory of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, the population of the province has increased to about 800,000 under the careful management of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce. The Vicia Chamber of Commerce has also relocated tens of thousands of professional miners, forges, refiners and other technical personnel to the royal city of Federiga, and has basically relocated the entire Vicia Chamber of Commerce here.

You may remember that seven or eight years ago, our family wanted to open a trade route to the commercial alliance for the arms trade with various standard weapons and armor, but unfortunately our efforts were dashed by the Vicia Chamber of Commerce. As the largest armaments manufacturer in the Business Alliance, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce will never allow our family access to their exclusive armaments market. So whether in public or private, the Vesia Chamber of Commerce is the enemy of our Norton family.

Since he has become an enemy of our family, his only fate is destruction. In fact, regardless of whether Your Majesty will hand over the Makinohara Province to our family's jurisdiction, just one Vesia Chamber of Commerce is worthy of our family's armed action, which is why I am ready to dispatch the Rock Legion and the Flying Tiger Legion. Fighting snakes and fighting seven inches, as long as we capture the royal city of Fedeliga in one fell swoop, it will be equivalent to uprooting the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, he will no longer be able to become a climate, and the business alliance will also lose a giant ......"

Shi Fatzi asked, "Your Highness, does Your Majesty have any restrictions and requirements on how we should deal with the Podoolg Province and the Vicia Chamber of Commerce?"

Lorist laughed: "Your Majesty was stunned by the quarrel between me and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun over the affairs of Makinohara Province, and forgot about it. However, I think maybe he thinks that it is impossible for us to capture the royal city of Fidelica in one fell swoop, after all, the elite 48,000 soldiers of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce are stationed in the city, unlike the 3,000 defenders in the city when he raided the royal city, there were only 3,000 defenders in the city, and he probably thought that our family forces would hit a big nail in the head......

The second point is that Your Majesty has long promised the province of Portoorg to Grand Duke Sabaji as a family domain, so what we do with it has nothing to do with him, he doesn't care. It is also possible that he thinks that our Norton family will not dare to easily offend the Vicia Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the Business Alliance, even if he captures the royal city of Federiga, he will treat the people of the Vicia Chamber of Commerce with courtesy and respect. Hehe, he doesn't know about our grudge with the Vicia Chamber of Commerce......"

Laughed a few times and said, "So, after we captured the royal city of Federiga and cleared the province of Portoorg, the Rock Legion stayed behind and was responsible for relocating all the technicians. The population of Portoorg Province is more than 800,000 people, so I am going to move 500,000 people from this province to the Northlands, this is the best opportunity to increase the strength of our family, Baron Bodfinger, Baron Malek, you two are in charge of this, understand?"

The two captains and deputy captains of the Rock Legion stood up: "Yes, Your Highness. ”

Lorist waved for the two of them to sit down, turned around and pointed at the map on the wall with a small wooden stick: "Today is September 15th, and there are still three months before the heavy winter snow in December, but from the Northland to the province of Majik, there are nine provinces in between, including Winston, South, Limad, Meishan, Zixes, Forward, Perolina, Westwood, and Delamarc, plus Majik is ten provinces. If it weren't for the winter raids of our Norton family, aided by sleds and snowboards, just reaching the front line would have been a labor expedition.

Baron Camorra, with you as the master, and Sedecamp as your deputy, I hope to establish a reliable logistical supply line in these ten provinces within three months, with a rest supply depot in each province. His Majesty has given me permission on this issue, and our family will set up a camp at the location of our own choice to ensure logistics and supplies. In terms of security, Baron Farrea is in charge.

Baron Farea, I have drawn two corps from the 3rd Guards Regiment in Demke Province and two regiments from the 4th Guards Regiment in Winston Province to temporarily form the 5th Guards Regiment to guard the security of the logistics supply points of these ten camps, and each camp will be stationed with one Guards battalion, and the rest will be responsible for the escort of supplies and the vigilance and patrol of the routes, and maintain order and safety in the process of migration.

In addition, the 2nd Guards Regiment stationed in the southern part of the Northland was also drawn from two corps, one of which was to be taken over by the Flying Tigers after they left the Podorichi Mountains in the Southern Province, and the other was stationed in Majik Province to be in charge of the garrison after the Flying Tigers captured Andervov Province until the garrison of the Fisabrun family came to take over.

Also, the Order of the Angry Bears under the command of Baron Telman was transferred to the city of Vannedez in the province of Demk, just in case. After the rainy season, I received orders to decide whether or not to reinforce the front. With Chief Schrader still in charge of the family's administration, and Director Speer assisting in the resettlement of more than 500,000 new residents, is everyone aware of their responsibilities?"

All the high-ranking members of the family stood up and replied in unison: "Understand, Your Highness, I am willing to serve the family!"

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