Chapter 496: The Discussion of Sending Troops

"Do you think our family should accede to His Majesty's request to send reinforcements?" Lorist did not make a decision in front of Duke Kenmeth and Grand Duke Fisabrun, but only said that he needed to think about it, and immediately after settling the two Grand Dukes, he summoned several high-ranking family members to discuss the request for help from His Royal Highness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Your Highness, since the business alliance doesn't know each other, let's go and beat them to the ground, and grab another big one!" The first to answer was Tiger Rose, don't think about this guy's answer, anyway, he is a war maniac, as long as there is a war.

"No, I don't think so, anyway, the life or death of the Second Highness has nothing to do with us. Even if they are defeated, I don't think the Business Alliance will reach out to the entire territory of our family's several jurisdictions. For the sake of His Royal Highness's dream and throne, I don't think it's worth it for our Norton family to arm and sacrifice loyal soldiers. Besides, Your Highness also said just now that the current battle situation in the Mana Hill Plain is like a flesh and blood mill, and if we go to reinforce the Second Highness, we may also fall into this big quagmire, and it will be difficult to get out of it when the time comes......"

The one who objected was Shi Fatzi, who had always had no good impression of His Second Highness, and even once said that the Norton family would develop better and faster without His Second Highness. It's just that Lorist is also very helpless, no matter how the ancestors of the Norton family are also the nobles who served in the Kerisson royal family and are famous for their loyalty to the empire, and their allegiance to the second highness is only because he is the only orthodox heir of the Cleison royal family, in this different world where the family's reputation is greater than everything, Lorist can't ignore this and make himself the rebel that Qianfu refers to.

Of course, Shi Fatzi did not oppose the reinforcement of the Second Highness because of the bad feeling in his heart, and his opposition was also justified: "Your Highness, next year is a very critical year for our family, the settlement of new immigrants, the construction of the palace project, the expansion of the patrol system, and the establishment of the armed forces, the rectification of the main legions of several families and the reduction of local garrison corps, it will take time to complete." What's more, our family territory has just gone through a turmoil, and people's hearts are undecided, which requires His Highness to be in charge of the Northland. Therefore, we can reply to His Royal Highness, please try to support it for another year, and after next year, it will not be too late for our family to send reinforcements to His Majesty the King......"

Lorist smiled dumbly, Shi Fatzi is expecting the Second Highness to be more unlucky, but the problem is not the matter of the Second Highness alone, and the bad luck is not that he is unlucky alone, but the nobles of the entire Antinac Kingdom who are unlucky together. Anyway, the Kenmax family, the Philim family, and the Shahin family are members of the four alliances in the Northlands, and Lorist can't sit idly by and watch his allies also fall unlucky with the Second Highness.

"Borg, what do you think?" Lorist turned his gaze to Bodfinger.

Bodfinger frowned: "Your Highness, you still have to send troops, in case Your Majesty the King really can't support the defeat and return, what I'm worried about is that the armed leader of the Business Alliance will drive straight in, and the troops will go straight to our family's jurisdiction, which will be a mortal threat to us, beyond the border is the enemy country, it is better to put the battlefield in the Mana Hill Plain."

But after all, the Plains of Mana Hill are too far away from our family's territory, and we have traveled thousands of miles to reinforce His Majesty the King, and it is very likely that our family's armed forces will also fall into that big quagmire, as Lord Baron Schrader said. Especially since the Business Alliance has obtained so many blueprints for weapons and equipment from our family, such as those catapults and huge crossbows, although they are not as powerful as our family's weapons, they can also cause huge casualties......"

"Your Highness, just because of such a despicable act as the Business Alliance sending a great sword master to assassinate you and steal the blueprints of weapons and equipment designed by our family, we should send troops to teach these merchants who don't know what to do or what to do. We will show these dastardly merchants that under the iron heel of our family's armed forces, no matter how many troops they have, they will only add to our glorious record of victories. ”

The new Hunter Legion Commander Farea stood up and said loudly, a little emotional. It is understandable that he has been serving as the commander of the Guards Corps all these years, and he is responsible for the tasks of local garrison and logistics support, and now he finally came across an opportunity to go to the battlefield, and he didn't want to let it go easily. Besides, this is also to avenge the despicable acts carried out by the Business Alliance against Lorist and the family territory, and only by giving the Business Alliance a profound lesson on the battlefield and beating them up can they understand that the angry bear of the Norton family is not an easy target for them businessmen.

"Well said!" Tiger Rose applauded Farea's speech, and it seemed that he was very happy to have one more main battle.

Lorist glared at him, and Tiger Rose immediately put his hand down and sat upright, but he began to use his eyes and head swing to signal Genolio, who was standing by the door, to bring him another bottle of fruit wine, replacing the empty bottle in front of him.

"Director Speer, what do you think?"

"Your Highness, I think Lord Bodfinger is right, rather than letting the Commercial Alliance defeat the combined forces of His Majesty the King and the nobles and spread the flames of war to the provinces around our family's domain, it is better to put the battlefield in the Plains of Mana Hill, and to spoil the territory of the Commercial Alliance. Therefore, I think that the family can agree to His Majesty's request for reinforcements, because if the province of Yungeshandra develops according to the family's development plan, it will also become a place where the family's future financial resources will converge. Speer said that the old god was there.

Hey, Lorist couldn't help but look at Director Speer, who had always been a miser, and it was really surprising that Director Speer, who had always been a miser, had such a long-term vision.

"Of course, since His Majesty the King asked our family to send reinforcements, he only promised to include Yungeshandra Province as a new jurisdiction of our family, and did not give us other rewards and subsidies, so our family also needs to bear the cost of the family's armed troops, such as logistics supplies and casualty compensation, etc., which will be a large amount of money and a great burden on the family. Therefore, I hope that this dispatch will make up for the loss of the family by looting more goods on the territory of the Business Alliance, as Lord Tiger Ross said......" Director Speer continued his thoughts as he touched his chin and goatee.

Lorist rolled his eyes on the spot, knowing that this old guy didn't have such a good vision, and dared to feel that he was dazzled by the large amount of property captured by the Flying Tiger Legion and the Hunting Cavalry Legion last time they swept across the five provinces of the Manahill Plain, and he wanted to do it again, it was simply a dream! When he started the discussion, he deliberately asked Tager to make a report on the situation of the battle on the Faliqiu Plain, and he didn't hear it in his ears? In a year and a half, the Merchant Alliance armed forces and the Antinac Kingdom under the command of His Second Highness* The fierce battle of the army has already turned the once rich Mana Hill Plain into ruins, and even if you want to plunder, you have to have a place to plunder!

"Your Highness, I think so. Director Speer noticed the unkindness of Lorlist's gaze, and hurriedly remedied: "Since the battlefield of His Majesty's army and the armed forces of the Commercial Alliance is around the city of Bruvick in the Plains of Falis Hill, then our family forces can bypass this location and go deep into the other provinces of the Commercial Alliance to plunder, on the one hand, it can relieve the pressure on His Majesty, and on the other hand, it can also loot property and reduce the burden on the family, isn't it the best of both worlds?"

Lorist was amused by Director Speer's words, and thought about it, but was that possible? Knowing that Director Speer was a military idiot, he really couldn't imagine that the idiot was like this. Why bother to think of asking him for his opinion.

Although Shi Fatzi is the top administrator of the Norton family, he is no stranger to the military, and seeing that the Speer steward self-righteously said the so-called best of both worlds, he couldn't cry or laugh for a while, so he simply pulled the map of the business alliance in front of him and explained to Director Speer: "Director Speer, your idea is not valid, and the consequences of doing so will only be worse." ”

"Last year, the Flying Tiger Legion and the Hunter Legion were caught off guard by the commercial alliance, which is why they had such great results. Because at that time, it was the Kingdom of Antinac that took the initiative on the battlefield, and His Majesty the King commanded the troops to attack the remaining fortress cities on the plains of Manihill to prepare to attack the city of Morente, and the commercial alliance was concerned with holding the city of Morente as the first priority.

You must know that when the Flying Tiger Legion and the Cavalry Hunting Legion swept through the five provinces of Mana Hill Plain, they often encountered resistance and lost more than 20,000 people. You have also heard the report of Lord Tagar just now, after the Flying Tiger Legion and the Chasseur Legion returned to the Northlands, His Majesty the King sent the Pegasus Legion of Lord Philim and the Reserve Legion of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and the Frontier Ranger Legion to take over the task of clearing the provinces and intercepting the reinforcements of the Commercial Alliance.

But by now, the three light cavalry regiments have lost almost half of their men, and the entire battlefield space has been compressed by the reinforcements of the commercial alliance, and it is no longer possible to conduct mobile guerrilla operations. The Merchant Alliance is a step-by-step approach that weaves a defensive network across the five provinces adjacent to the Mana Hill Plain. They also used defensive positions with deep ditch ramparts, combined with crossbows and catapults, so that the light cavalry regiments could not use their mobility to penetrate deep behind enemy lines.

Of course, even if our family's Flying Tiger Legion and Cavalry Hunting Legion go deep behind enemy lines, they don't care, but will use these deep ditch barriers to cut off the retreat of our family's armed forces, consume our troops, and then trap us alive with the strategy of strict defense and death by the army when our family's armed forces do not get enough supplies and baggage.

Therefore, even if we send the Flying Tiger Legion and the Cavalry Hunting Legion to the surrounding provinces of the Mana Hill Plain again, the Business Alliance will not be in a hurry, and will even seek to defeat the coalition of His Majesty the King and the rest of the territorial nobles first, and capture Bruvick City. ”

Shi Fatzi said very simply, what he meant was to look at the map, half of the large area from the central to the southern part of the Gelinthia continent was already the territory of the Commercial Alliance, and even the Titanini Mountains were surrounded by the Commercial Alliance. In addition to the Falcan Hill Plain and the five provinces around it, there are more than thirty provinces behind it. This is the reason why the business alliance can become the country with the largest territory on the mainland, which is their biggest support.

The commercial alliance can make full use of sufficient human and financial resources and material resources to fight with the Kingdom of Antinac until the Kingdom of Andinac is overthrown. Last year, when His Royal Highness led the army to attack the commercial alliance, he relied on the commercial alliance and did not react, but now the commercial alliance has carried out a nationwide mobilization, and those provinces in the south of the mainland have continuously sent reinforcements to the front line of the Faliqiu Plain, it is easy for a province to recruit more than 20,000 poor young people, and thirty provinces are 600,000 troops, no wonder the Second Highness is in a hurry to ask for help.

Fat Shi's explanation made Director Speer a little embarrassed, but everyone present had a bad look on their faces. Even Tiger Ross and Farea, who were fighting with one force, their faces were very heavy. For the Norton family, the Business Alliance is an incomparably large giant, a formidable foe that is difficult to take down. Whether it is high-end combat power or armed forces, as well as financial and material resources, it is not comparable to the Norton family, even if it is the entire Antinac Kingdom.

However, if the Second Highness is not reinforced, after the Second Highness is defeated, it will be the turn of the Norton family, as Bodfinger said, it is better to put the battlefield on the Plains of Mana Hill than to burn next to the territory under the jurisdiction of the family. What's more, from the perspective of interests, the various goods produced by the Norton family's territory are now marketed to the entire Andinac kingdom through the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce, in case in the future, even if the business alliance does not invade the Norton family's territory and jurisdictional territory, the Norton family can't play with themselves behind closed doors. In another ten years, even if Lorist is a sword master, he will not be able to suppress the strategic advantage of the business alliance over the Norton family's territory.

This is also where Lorist feels very difficult, it is necessary to send troops to reinforce His Royal Highness, but he can't throw the Norton family into that big quagmire. If the business alliance forces are determined to consume it, even if it can afford to consume it at five to one, the Norton family forces can't keep up!

"Your Highness, I've thought about it, there is no better way than to attack here, and maybe force the business alliance to admit defeat and sign an armistice and peace agreement with the kingdom. Malek stood up, strode over to the map, and pointed to the location of the city of Moriente, and said aloud.

"Impossible!" Tiger Ross blurted out: "We can't hit the city of Moriente at all, Lord Tagger has already introduced the battle situation in the Mana Hill Plain, except for a road leading directly to the city of Moriente, the Mana Hill Plain is full of artificial canals and irrigation canals, and now many tunnels have been dug and countless fortress walls have been set up. Coupled with the abundant forces of the Merchant Alliance and the countless catapults and crossbows, we will not be able to cross the Plains of Mana Hill to reach the city of Morente, and that avenue has six well-defended fortresses, and unless we capture them one by one, we can only fly over them to attack the city of Morente. ”

"We don't attack the city of Morent by land. Malek said: "As Lord Tugger introduced just now, the city of Moriente is the base camp of the commercial alliance, and the general logistics supply base, whether it is grain, grass or armament supply, is set up in the city of Moriente. Even the reinforcements sent by the southern provinces and the kingdom of Chigeda were transported by sea to reach the city of Moriente in the shortest possible time.

In that case, why don't we attack the city of Moriente by sea?Lord Sambarwood has always boasted that his family's North Sea Fleet is invincible, and His Highness has always thought so. Then we will dispatch the North Sea Fleet to destroy the invincible fleet of the commercial alliance in the Zangjin Bay, as long as the Invincible Fleet is destroyed, then our family forces can land in the Tibetan Golden Bay just like they landed in the Haneyabada Islands. You know, on the side of the Golden Bay, the city of Morente doesn't have any walls......"

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