Chapter Forty-Seven: A Strange Welcome Ceremony
Just when the visiting mission was quietly observing this side of the human world, Leon and his party from the Duke's Palace were also secretly observing the mission.
As the general manager of Leon, who is accustomed to seeing big scenes, he is still very familiar with the army on the imperial side. Not to mention, there are two legions directly under the Duke's Palace.
They were the 34th Frontier Corps for mountain operations and the 45th Composite Corps for plain operations. The combat effectiveness of these two legions is also a top existence in the entire Imperial legion sequence.
And looking at the entire empire, there are two legions in their own fiefdom at the same time, except for the Duke of Bourbon, there is no one else.
If a team of 1,000 men is arbitrarily drawn from these two legions, and the escort of the visiting mission in front of you will have a confrontation. It is difficult for the Leon boss to have confidence in his team.
The thousand-person escort team in front of him is reasonably staffed and well-equipped, and it is unsurpassed.
It's a team armed to the teeth, and it's a standard synthetic team. Whether it's the wolf cavalry who comes and goes without a trace, or the grumpy dwarven musketeer, or the handsome elven warrior, it is not comparable to the human soldier.
I hope it's just for window dressing. Otherwise, this configuration will be rushed, plus the huge population base of all ethnic groups in the 100,000 mountains. It is estimated that the Empire's side should prepare the southwest defense line immediately. If there are more than a dozen or twenty legions stationed along the edge of the 100,000 mountain, everyone will not want to sleep in peace in the future.
Thinking of this, Grand Administrator Leon became more and more polite to these people. At least before arriving at the Duke's Palace and handing over this hot potato to others, he had to be twelve points careful to serve.
Therefore, in the past few days, the visiting mission has been taken care of by the Grand Administrator. Even on the side of the grumpy dwarven musketeers, Grand Governor Leon has made a lot of friends.
At present, we have finally arrived in Minsk, the capital of the province of Haierland, and the Duke's Palace has sent a team to greet them early. However, looking at the size of the greeting procession, it seems that the Duke's Palace is deliberately dealing with the impact of this visit in a low-key manner.
Although the size of the team that came to greet us was relatively small, the standard was still very high. As the Duke Lord's representatives, the two of the Duke's children appeared in the greeting procession.
Eric is the eldest son of Lord Duke, and has just assumed the position of Commander of the 45th Synthetic Legion. Avril is the Duke's only youngest daughter, who has just graduated from the Imperial Royal Academy and returned to the family fiefdom last month.
As soon as the two teams got closer, a small spark collided. I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, but the greeting team brought by Captain Eric this time was completely served by his own personal guard.
What's even more bizarre is that the greeting procession still drove in a standard marching procession. The scouts who were wandering around collided with the wolf cavalry on the Mission's side of the guard as soon as possible.
Although they all maintained the necessary politeness to each other, the murderous aura that erupted from each other before still made the whole greeting process seem so gunpowdery.
Receiving the warning from the wolf cavalry, the entire mission escort stopped and set up a defensive formation at the first time. Except for the cavalry units that were in charge of the guerrillas from their own formation, the remaining infantry team surrounded the members of the mission in a defensive circle in an instant.
The outermost dwarven pikemen and elven warriors formed the first line of defense on the periphery, and the dwarven musketeers and elven longbowmen quickly completed the preparation of long-range strikes under the cover of the perimeter soldiers.
I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but the Grand Governor of Leon did not express any opinion from beginning to end. Just standing there motionless and watching the bunch in front of me get nervous. This is the seat of the Duke's Palace, where no one eats bear's heart and leopard gall to attract the attention of the mission.
The only explanation is that these guys are nervous, or they are severely insecure.
When the wolf cavalry of the brigade also disappeared into the jungle in the distance, a team of people waving the flag of the Duke's Palace appeared at the end of the road in the distance.
Although the number of people is only a thousand, the reflection of the metal makes everyone see at first glance that this is a regular human army.
No wonder these guys are nervous, and here they are in formation and sending out guerrilla teams. It turned out that the crisis had already been discovered, and people deliberately put on an attitude.
The greeting team led by Eric came quickly, and as soon as it appeared, it came to everyone's eyes in a blink of an eye. After all, an army is an army, even if it comes with a mission of peace.
Outside the range of the bow and arrow, the entire guard also formed an attack formation that was not too small or small. Everyone nervously held the weapons in their hands and looked at the hedgehog-like military formation not far away.
In the same way, the turtles hiding in the turtle shells were also looking at the cavalry team in front of them unconvinced.
Because it is the personal guard of the legion leader, the equipment level of the entire team is also very high. On the tall horses, all of them sat assault cavalrymen in full armor.
Compared to heavy cavalry in full body armor, assault cavalry has better mobility. And compared to the light cavalry, which is the fastest first, the assault cavalry has better protection.
Looking at the light armor made of stainless steel on the cavalry, everyone in the turtle shell looked at the Calais patriarch with ill will. Let this dwarven old man make up his mind that the quality of the steel supplied to the human side must be preserved when he returns.
Seeing the two groups standing in place like cockfights, Grand Governor Leon knew it was time for him to play. If it doesn't break out later, the first unlucky person will definitely be himself.
After saying hello to Captain Lin He and squeezing out of a gap in the way, the chief steward quickly rode his horse in front of Eric.
After seeing his own young master and young lady in turn, Leon hurriedly introduced the details of the opposite side. After listening to the introduction of his own manager, the Captain Eric walked towards the turtles with his sister, and stunned the guys on the other side.
Fortunately, Lin He and the others were thick-skinned, although they also hurriedly got out of the way to meet them. But the entire formation did not relax in the slightest, and if anything happened, the dwarven musketeers and elven longbowmen guaranteed that they would be able to cover any area within range at the first time.
As for whether the regiment leader and his party can escape under the indiscriminate firepower attack, it depends on the regiment leader's own creation.
The two groups soon came together, and the distance was just right, just the edge of the fire strike of both sides. This made the general manager of Leon very speechless, and said that he would greet him, but now he feels so awkward no matter how he looks at it.