"But my lord, what should we do about the food problem when our army takes over the Eighth Army and millions of urban populations" The adjutant heard Hasenranpo's words, and said in a hesitant tone, "Our army's military rations are already in short supply, and now with such a burden, our army will be in trouble even if it is good at fighting!" "Don't worry, it may not be bad!" Hasenranpo smiled at the corner of his mouth, " Don't forget, the north of Rusty is the grain-producing area of Beerus, where the distance from us is very short, and the round trip is only a few days, our army can first send someone to Bierus to mobilize military rations for emergency, I will ask the Ministry of Military Affairs for this, if a qiē shun lì, the food may be tight, but at least it will not be completely out of food, as long as we can drag this period of reprievment, our other reinforcements can arrive, and it is entirely possible to fight with the rebels in the northwest at that time!" "Beerus? The adjutant nodded, the Bilus region in the mouth of Hasenlambo is a famous grain producing area of the empire, every year, the grain and various specialties produced from here are important goods for the supply of Gallic Kyoto, in the three hundred years of history after the establishment of the Gaul Empire, there has been no foreign war, which can threaten this area located in the core hinterland of the empire, and can be appointed as the governor of the Beerus region, which has always been the fat difference among the internal affairs officials of the empire,

While the western part of the Gallic Empire was in the midst of fierce wars, the Bierus region was peaceful. In the mist and rainbow, the pointed roofs, round statues, white marble stones, wide and straight streets, and white paths carefully paved with cobblestones, no matter who looks at it, it is definitely an ancient, quiet, beautiful and warm city. The current governor of Beerus is the Duke of Adaleus,

This is a regional governor who is known for his penchant for red wine and women, although he looks very strong on the outside, with a height of 1.9 meters and a weight of more than 100 kilograms. With red eyes and a bearded face, the first impression left on most people is that this is a red bear from the northern wilderness.

In times of peace, the able-bodied Duke spends most of his energy sipping wine and cigars, or helping young and beautiful girls become real women. For the war, the Duke of Yadarius felt that it was simply impossible,

This is the hinterland of the empire, 1,400 miles from the borders of the empire. Straddling two heavily garrisoned provinces, even if the enemy invades, it is better to have fun in time than to spend energy thinking about such an impossible thing

However, these days, Duke Yataliu always felt that his eyelids were jumping, and he heard that the northwest rebel offensive was very fierce, and there were rumors everywhere that the southwest had been occupied by the northwest rebels. The borderline of the Rasti region was set on fire by half of the area, and the Empire's army suffered heavy losses in the Rasti region, which does not seem to be mentioned in the war reports within the Empire.

On the contrary, it means that the imperial army is marching forward, and the northwest rebel army is fleeing, and all the ministers are congratulating the emperor on the celebration day, which is prosperous and rich. The military is stronger than in any previous period

Duke Yadaliu was also going to Kyoto to attend the celebration, and even a month earlier, he had prepared a magnificent carriage inlaid with various precious stones for various gifts for the important ministers of Kyoto. There are also 40 beautiful maidens as gifts to the young Emperor Xià, these girls are carefully selected by him, after strict etiquette training, from any aspect of the look of perfect stunners, he heard that many local governors are doing this, the Emperor Majesty Xià has no queen, not even a concubine, if it is not timely to stuff in a few of his own people, it is really a joke of his own future.

But the order from Kyoto to let him stay in the local area seems to confirm the rumors, the northwest rebels will not really fight here, right? Duke Yadaliu was disappointed on the one hand, and he was a little hesitant in his heart, and the Kyoto side asked him to prepare for logistics and war, which made him a little uneasy even when he was enjoying women.

"If it's really like the war report, you still need your own province of Bierus to prepare for the war?"

This kind of thinking makes him feel that his favorite things to do have become boring. He had experienced wars, and that was when he was young, when he had just graduated from the Imperial Military Academy and was ordered to go to the southwest, and the war between the southwest and the Gangnon broke out the day after he arrived to report for duty, and in just a few days, everything that was beautiful and peaceful was broken

Large numbers of young men were forcibly drafted into the army, ready to face the test of their fate. Large quantities of supplies have also been forcibly hoarded, especially strategic materials such as grain and forage. The vast majority of shops were forced to close because they had no source of goods and no customers, and many residents began to feel the cruelty of the war, as supplies became scarcer and prices were rising. There is more and more news in the news that the Empire has an army that has won a great victory.

However, lists representing the casualties and missing persons were plastered all over the stone wall in front of the Consulate General's Mansion in the southwest, and each time hundreds of names were posted, densely packed and stretching into a patch, and their relatives were crying in front of the stone wall. Grief-stricken, the stone wall became a veritable wall of tears, and the cries of the bitter could stretch for two or three kilometers away, and it was there that a noble girl he had always had a crush on withered like leaves in the autumn wind in the chaos of war

If possible, Duke Yadalius hopes that he will not be involved in war for the rest of his life, and no one wants to experience that kind of hellish scene again.

In the local governor's palace, the scene of drunken dreams and deaths is also playing out at this moment, the smell of red wine and cigars blends together, intertwined into an enticing smell, seeping through the cracks of the sealed window paper, slowly wafting away in the cool night breeze.

At the door of the hall, there are knights in full armor, and luxurious carriages are parked in Quang Binh, if it were not for the symbolic army patrols along the way, no one would think that it was just the scene of a military meeting, but that is, compared with the sabre-rattling of the front line and the solemnity of the regular army, the military meetings of the local army are often linked to banquets and banquets

In the spacious ballroom, the low and mournful dance music echoed softly, but there was no one dancing on the dance floor, only a few beautiful dancers dancing on the stage next to the dance floor, their graceful figures. In the interior of the Gallic Empire, there were unified dance academies, acrobatic academies, and even martial arts academies, most of which recruited students from commoners and minor nobles, mainly to provide entertainment for the big nobles.

A nobleman wearing a local army uniform. With wine glasses in their hands and a smile on their faces, they stood with someone they knew, and next to the dance floor, there were only six small round tables, and next to each small round table there were only four carved mahogany armchairs, almost all of which were full.

More than 100 local officers attended the military conference this time, which is why local military meetings are often very banquet-related, and there are too many people. Regardless of whether they are in office or in a vacant position, they are all famous and famous nobles in the region, and many of them are connected to the big families in Kyoto. Even the local governor did not dare to offend these people at will, so instead of treating them severely, it was better to gather everyone together like a banquet, and everyone should discuss happily. Anyway, there will never really be a war, it's just a matter of entanglement of interests. "Have you heard? This time, even the Sixth Army of the Imperial Tiger Army has been dispatched!" "There is a lot of discussion among the local officers, the recent wars in the western part of the empire are all within the scope of blockade, but as a border area with Rasti, there is still some understanding of the battle situation in Rasti, "No, is that rumor true, our Emperor Xià has mobilized an army of 200,000 this time to wipe out the Northwest rebels in one fell swoop?" "It's hard to say, after all, the Northwest Rebels are too unpopular!" I heard that the Eighth Army has suffered heavy losses this time!" The door of the banquet hall was pushed open, and a thin old man walked in, dressed in a straight local military uniform, with more than a dozen medals representing outstanding military achievements hanging on his chest, looking very tough and mentally very strong, and his eyes were shining in his sunken sockets, "Be quiet, it's Lord Tannik!" The nobles who were talking in a low voice closed their voices,

This old man's name is Tannick, a veteran general who retired from the first-line army only three years ago, previously served in the Second Army of the Reich, and was the commander of the third infantry regiment, and is a real war-hardened figure, because his body is getting old, his body is difficult to support field combat, and he was transferred from the first-line army to the local army to serve as the head of military affairs in the Bierus region, and it is said that this person has a close personal relationship with the Duke of Lazaret, who is now the deputy minister of the military department of Gaul.

Compared to the local governor, Duke Yadarius, Tanik was much thinner, but he was a true soldier.

In the past twenty or thirty years, he has repeatedly fought on the battlefield, and his body is full of scars and scars. Although he has outstanding military achievements, but he is very self-disciplined, if it is not for special circumstances, he rarely appears in a regional military meeting similar to a banquet, he has his own local military conference room, strict like the regular army, once a local officer because he was a minute late, he was ordered to be whipped with a leather whip ten times according to the military order, for most lazy local officers, Tanik is simply a devilish figure, but the local officer also has a place to rejoice, that is, this Tanik military officer is still very partial to local military affairs。 "Alright, everyone be quiet!"

Seeing Tanike coming, Governor Ya Daliu asked a few dancing girls to retreat, and when everyone was quiet, he waved his hand to his adjutant "Bring up the order from the Ministry of Military Affairs!" The adjutant hurriedly came in and handed over an order, Duke Ya Daliu opened the order in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and handed the order to Tanik, who was in charge of military affairs, "Your Excellency, take a look, the latest order is very bad for us!"

The order, which had just arrived from the Rasti region, called for the Beerus region to be put into combat readiness and to form a garrison of 20,000 men, which would need to be sent to the Rasti region if necessary to be dispatched by the front-line commander Hasenlimpo. At the same time, the order also requires us to mobilize all the resources and forces of the entire Bierus region to support the operations of Hasenlimpo on the front line, including the replenishment of personnel and the supply of logistics. Throughout the battle, "Are we responsible for all the supplies? Isn't Hasenranpo of the Sixth Army a little crazy? He, Hasenranpo, is a corps commander, but it doesn't mean that he is a local governor, and he doesn't have the authority to give such orders" Tannick, who was worthy of being an experienced officer, quickly read the point from this order, "This is exactly what I was worried about!" Yadalius looked at Tannick, his face was also unnatural, and he frowned and said" Although the Bierus region is not a front-line combat province, it also has more than 20,000 standing local troops, so it is not a problem to form a garrison. However, it is difficult to say that the entire province is required to support the battle in the Rusti region, but the Rusti region has two main battle legions of the empire, close to 200,000 imperial troops, which is not something that a province can afford independently, so I can't understand what His Excellency the commander of the legion means?" "As the defense of the empire, the Rusti region has always had its own grain reserves! As far as I know, these stocks should be enough for the front line" Tanik said with certainty, "That's not necessarily!" Duke Yadaliu flipped the report in his hand with a gloomy expression, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, "It's not a secret in the local army to store food in the region." And I don't think the Rusty guys didn't do that, either!, and according to what we've gotten in the Rusty area, the Northwest rebels burned most of the new grain in the Rusty area, you know, what that means...... "Shh, no, that's not killing people!"

Tanik glanced at the letter in his hand again, took a deep breath of cold air on his emaciated face, and his face suddenly turned slightly pale, no wonder. As the commander of the legion, Hasenranpo will be so eager to give orders beyond the level, it is really 100,000 urgent,

Although he has not been in office for a long time, he has stepped into the quagmire of the local army. And he is also the highest military commander of the local army, so he naturally knows a little about the cats inside. With an army of 200,000 trapped in a land without food, how can this battle be fought?

There must have been a problem with the Sixth Army, "That's why I'm bringing you all here!" Duke Yadarius didn't react as much as Tarnik, as the head of the native nobility. The first thing that came to his mind was to take care of the interests of his homeland, and this year the grain income of the province of Beerus was average, as a province directly under the authority of His Majesty the Emperor. Three-quarters of Beerus's grain had to be handed over, and what could be left behind was only enough for dozens of nobles, and it was tantamount to taking on the battle of 200,000 troops at once, which was tantamount to directly pressing a pair of barbells weighing 100 catties on the shoulders of a young child

Although the commander of the legion did not put much pressure on the governor of his region, he had to be very cautious when he thought that Lastie was involved in His Majesty the Emperor this time.

It seemed that he was still worried about something, and after thinking bitterly for a while, Duke Yadaliu said with a little hesitation, "This matter must be of the same mind to all of us, if one person has a problem, everyone will be sad, and the confiscation of property is considered light, for fear of becoming a scapegoat for some people, and everyone will die at that time!" "Then what do you want to do?"

A trace of pain appeared on Tannick's face, as a soldier, he knew what his current attitude meant, but thinking of the terrible consequences caused by this incident, he couldn't help but hesitate, this matter is too involved, once it is exposed, how many local troops in the empire, the tumbling heads must be counted in thousands, Hasenrampo! What do you want to do?

"After all, this is an order personally signed by a regimental commander who is fighting, if we don't carry it out at all, we will disobey the military order, if we do, we will be ruined even if we are ruined" Duke Ya Daliu said with a resolute face, "So we have to delay,

This time, please lead the army and delay as much as possible on the road, so that the army can set off first. Set off with great fanfare, but walk slowly, you can spend more time on the road, and watch as you go. We can pretend that we are halfway there, only to suddenly remember that we don't have enough rations with us, so we send someone back. Then the army returned to escort, coming and going, that is, half a month, we are local troops, the requirements cannot be too high, there is no real combat experience, it is inevitable to make some mistakes...... And in the past half a month, we have collected a lot of local food, and we can help a little bit!"

"And what if the Rusti line collapses?" said Tanik, looking ugly

"Ahem, do you think that in half a month, the 200,000 imperial army will be defeated by the Northwest rebels?"

Duke Yadaliu deliberately pretended to be surprised, and the meaning on his face was like saying, this is too joking! explained, "Lord Tannick is thinking too much, let's just make a show and try our best to reduce the number of support, and it doesn't mean that there is no support at all! After all, relying on our strength can't be all on our shoulders, this is also what everyone means, after all, everyone is a soldier of the empire, will they ignore the life and death of the imperial army?" Yes, we are also soldiers, so naturally we will not sit idly by, but we must do what we can" The local officers below hurriedly complied, "Okay, I'll do my best!" Tanik was under the eager gaze of everyone, and finally only nodded helplessly, and when he saw that he was loose and agreed, everyone showed a happy look on their faces together, "Okay, what are you still delaying here, come, play music, let's start the banquet!"

Duke Yadaliu smiled luxuriously, shouted to everyone who had been waiting for a long time, and the melodious music remembered again that countless girls in beautiful dresses walked into the entrance like flowers and butterflies, drunk and dreaming of death, where there was still who remembered that the front-line soldiers were still starving (to be continued......