"Marshal, reinforcements have arrived now, when will we fight the enemy?"

Count Oran asked worriedly.

At this time, I ran over to ask, and there was obviously a suspicion of forcing the palace. He didn't want to do that if he could.

But people can't help themselves in the aristocratic circle.

As one of the nobles of Northern Xinjiang, if you want to mix in this circle, you must stand with everyone.

Forced by Hudson's deterrent, the new nobles did not dare to make a mistake, and the Earl of Oran, who had a special relationship with him, was pushed to the forefront.

The Earl of Oran had no choice, he had to do it. The others came over, and if they accidentally broke down, they might accidentally die on the battlefield at some point.

Members of the Coslow family can also become "representatives", but the status of those minor nobles is too low, and their words have no weight at all, and the most suitable person is only Count Oran.

"Your Excellency, you are so impatient!"

Hudson said angrily.

As soon as the reinforcements arrived, they ran over and urged him to send troops to fight the enemy in a decisive battle.

Since ancient times, those who violate the authority of the commander will not end well.

After so many years of fighting in the south and the north, Hudson is also used to seeing life and death, and his mentality has long been trained. The nobles of Northern Xinjiang are obedient, and if they do something, he will not be soft.

"Marshal, it's not that everyone is impatient, they really can't hold on!

In a hurry, we were forced to abandon most of our belongings, and the losses of the northern lords were great.

It's summer, and you can just build a grass hut. In a few months, what will happen to these millions of people? ”

Count Oran explained with a sad face.

Noble lords are not easy to be. While enjoying wealth, you must also bear corresponding obligations.

Organizing the retreat of the lords was only the beginning of trouble; After the evacuation is completed, the livelihood of the people in the territory must also be responsible.

In fact, in the process of evacuation, everyone has already paid a heavy price.

In the process of fleeing for their lives, not only did they lose a lot of property, but they also lost many lives, and nearly one-fifth of the people fell halfway.

This is also because the seven provinces in northern Xinjiang are all immigrants, and the proportion of the old and weak is relatively low, otherwise the losses will be even greater.

There is no choice, no matter how heavy the loss is, it is better than a group annihilation. In order to cover the retreat of the population, the kingdom's army also paid a lot of price.

In the continent of Aslanth, serfs also belonged to the private property of the nobility. According to the prevailing principle, whoever has the wealth will be guarded, and it is basically useless to count on the kingdom to bail out.

Except for the help of the kingdom's army during the evacuation process, the rest is basically handled by these noble lords themselves.

Hudson understood the mentality of the nobles of Northern Xinjiang very well, and every day he woke up thinking of countless mouths waiting to be fed, and no one could stand sitting and eating all the time.

Especially for some small nobles with limited family background, if the kingdom cannot recover the lost territory in time, the only way waiting for them is to sell the serfs.

It's easy to sell serfs, but it's hard to replenish them back. A territory without a population, even if it is recovered, has no value.

"Your Excellency, if the Hollisr family is in trouble, the Coslow family can provide you with some help, but this cannot be a factor affecting the decision to war.

The pain now is only short-lived. It may be a little cruel, but there is always a way to solve it.

If the kingdom is defeated, everyone's territory will be lost. Don't be under the illusion that the Terran Alliance will do it for us, times are different! ”

Hudson said calmly.

After taking the venture capital of investors, and now that the business is successful, it is natural to give people a return.

However, this is limited to the Hollisr family, and the other nobles in the northern land have nothing to do with him.

Hudson is not afraid of being provoked, and the Coslow family is also a victim, and the family's branches in the north have also suffered heavy losses with everyone.

If the collateral branches are unable to bear the loss, they can ask the family for help, and other nobles can follow suit.

Except for a few families who went to northern Xinjiang to develop, there are only a few grassroots aristocrats who have no family to support.

Compared with the entire aristocratic system of Northern Xinjiang, the proportion of these nobles is less than one-tenth of the total.

If you really count the losses, the biggest loss at the moment should be the royal family. Three provinces were lost at once, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were added to reach out for food.

Caesar IV was not in a hurry, proving that these losses were within everyone's tolerance.

After all, the kingdom's rich experience in being beaten is really able to temper people's mentality. The royal capital has fallen more than once, not to mention the loss of a few frontier provinces.

He opened his mouth, but in the end the Count of Oran still didn't say anything. It's good enough to be able to get this promise, and to continue this topic is to be annoying.

For the benefit of a group of colleagues, it is obviously not worth influencing the relationship with his son-in-law.

After hesitating for a while, Earl Oran, who seemed to think of something, said rather embarrassedly, "Hudson, I really need your help.

The other problems are easy to say, the key is that the price of goods in the north is inflating too fast, and a pound of rye can be sold for eighteen copper coins, which is about to catch up with the price of beef! ”

The change in title also means that business becomes private. The originally tense atmosphere was suddenly eased.

The influx of a large number of refugees has directly led to a sharp rise in prices in the north, especially the price of food.

It's not an exaggeration to say that rye prices are catching up with beef. The price of rye in the northland is indeed close to the price of beef in the southeastern provinces, and you can buy three pounds directly for fish and meat.

"Well, that's really a problem. Later, I will interview the five dukes of the Northlands and try to persuade them to come forward to curb prices.

However, this may not be effective, and the most important problem at the moment is the destruction of the port, resulting in a serious decline in capacity.

The situation on the battlefield is unclear, and no one can say exactly when the war will end.

Keeping the refugees in the Northland is also a heavy burden financially, so it is better to send them back to their hometowns first, and then let them come after the war.

Your Excellency, you can convey this suggestion to the lords. It's up to them to listen or not, anyway, I can't guarantee that the war will end in a short time.

Even if the orcs take the initiative to retreat and give up the land, I will not go to regain the lost territory until the logistics of the army are solved! ”

Hudson said firmly.

In order not to make a farce, he simply broke everyone's illusions. The current battlefield in northern Xinjiang seems to be a military problem, but in fact it is a logistical problem.

Only by nesting in the current position can the kingdom be able to meet the material consumption of the army. Once it is out, there is no guarantee.

Even if the battle is won, there is no way to expand the results. In that case, it's better to simply spend the orc army.

The consumption of the kingdom's army is huge, and the consumption of the orc army is not small. The productivity of the Alpha Kingdom is no less powerful than that of the Orc Empire.

At this moment, the kingdom has blockaded the orc empire on both land and sea at the same time, almost eliminating the smuggling trade, and it is difficult for the orcs to continue to obtain supplies from the outside world.

Of course, if they can make it through the Forest of Despair, they can also go to the Ice World to do business with the tribes of the Ancient Relic.

But just buy food. If there was a surplus of food to sell, not so many of the ancient remnants would have evolved into omnivorous creatures and switched to eating fresh grass and leaves.

Unless all the orcs switch to eating soil, as long as it drags on for a year or two, there is no need for the kingdom army to attack, and the orc army itself will be dragged down by logistics.

If you can drag the enemy to death, then there is no need to attack. Hudson, who had already made great achievements, is now not bad at defeating the orcs.

Not taking the initiative to launch Armageddon does not mean doing nothing. Directly fight hard to attrition, and the kingdom will also suffer heavy losses.

It was not easy for the treasury to be rescued from the brink of bankruptcy, and if the war dragged on for a year or two, the treasury of the custodian kingdom would go bankrupt directly.

In fact, Hudson and others were not waiting for the collapse of the orc army, but the completion of the expeditionary legion's rest and replenishment.

To deal with the orcs in the nomadic era, an elite cavalry is too important. Hudson didn't want to use infantry against cavalry in the vast prairie.

……

The years of torment are always long. It's been another two months, and the kingdom's army is still cowering in the city, ignoring any provocations from the orc army.

In the beginning, under the propaganda of the officers, the morale of the orc soldiers was high, thinking that the Terrans were afraid of them.

But gradually the situation changed, no matter how high the morale was, there were times when it was discharged, and the pressure on Duke Daniel was increasing day by day.

At the military conference, discontent grew among officers of all ethnic groups, and more and more people criticized the strategy he had adopted.

Several emperors who originally supported him, under internal pressure, gradually wavered in their positions.

"Marshal Daniel, we have retreated for five hundred miles, and the enemy still has no movement, and it is not a way to withdraw like this!"

The Eagle Emperor said helplessly.

The enemy did not take the bait, no matter how much they were arranged, in the end they were all reduced to useless work.

The heavy logistical pressure has overwhelmed all ethnic groups. Even if the five royal families were to unify the distribution of materials, they would not be able to meet the needs of the army.

But the orc army did not dare to disband.

This time is different from the past, and the combined efforts of the five major royal families can barely suppress the enemy. Once dispersed, that's when disaster begins.

If they don't want to be broken by the Alpha Kingdom one by one, they can only hold on.

If it weren't for the existential threat, after recovering the lost territory, they would have disbanded the army and gone home to have a baby.

Knocking on the Alpha Kingdom without any substantial benefits. Dominate the continent, this dream has long woken up.

"There is no way, the internal pressure cannot shake Hudson's determination, and the defense of the Alpha Kingdom is too tight. I sent troops to try several times, but I didn't find any flaws.

Breaking through head-on, there is almost no hope. If you borrow from the Duchy of Moxi and attack the Alpha Kingdom in a roundabout way, there is some hope.

It's just that with the current military strength of the empire, it is too dangerous to divide the troops. In the unlikely event that a roundabout attack fails to break through quickly, it is likely to lead to a major rout of the remaining army.

If everyone is willing to take the risk, we can design a detour to see if we can lure the enemy's main force out of the city walls. ”

Daniel explained with a solemn expression.

In the battle between the strong, the simpler the better, the tactics. Tricks with bells and whistles will only make the situation worse.

Allowing the refugees to evacuate in front was originally a heart-attacking tactic he prepared, but unfortunately the nobles of Northern Xinjiang were not as "combative" as he expected.

Under normal circumstances, the "nobles of the seven provinces" work together to exert pressure, and any commander will be affected.

The battle failed, the auxiliary tactics of baiting the enemy failed, and when he proposed to lure the enemy again, Duke Daniel no longer had much confidence.

The seemingly calm battlefield has been played many times by both sides. He saw Hudson's plan, and Hudson saw through his plan.

Under the circumstance that no one can fool anyone, what the two sides are competing for is comprehensive national strength. Whoever can't afford to make the first move will be in a passive position strategically.

This kind of defeat not only did not defeat Daniel, but instead inspired his fighting spirit, but it hit the confidence of the orc empire's top brass to win.

Hudson's title of "No. 1 General" was propagated by them for political purposes, and there were too many lies to say, which inevitably affected them.

The "slaughter" of the enemy finally became a reality, is there anything more cruel than this?

"Then try it, as long as you can lure the enemy out of the decisive battle, it will be worth paying a certain price.

If we don't hit the Alpha Kingdom hard, we won't be able to sleep well!

Marshal Daniel, you don't have to be too much of a burden either. The situation on our side is unfavorable, but the allies are making good progress.

In the Central Continent, the alliance formed by the Elves and the Ancient Relic Alliance has defeated the Terran alliance and is about to complete the rendezvous with the Stone Humans.

If things go well, the sphere of influence of the Stone Man Clan, the Troll Clan, and the Three-Eyed Clan will be connected with the Elves and the Ancient Relic Alliance.

According to the plan of the elves, they will also open up the passage with the dwarves and cannibals in the future, as long as we defeat the Alpha Kingdom, the entire alliance will be connected in the future, completely changing the passive situation of the alliance's strategy. ”

Beamon Emperor Alex agitated.

Playing politics is different, even if everyone knows that the elven army is making good progress, after his rendering, everyone's emotions are still excited.

If the territory of the interracial alliance can be connected together, and everyone can communicate with each other and develop together, the situation will be completely different from the current situation.

Not to mention immediately pulling the human race down from the position of the hegemon of the mainland, at least everyone's extinction crisis is gone.

The bloody slaughter of the Frankish kingdom in the orc kingdom frightened all races, and no one wanted to follow in the footsteps of the orcs one day.

The biggest reason why the alliance of elves and ancient relics can go smoothly is that the stone-man clan, the three-eyed clan and the troll clan are all desperately dragging down the enemy's main force at any cost.

"Report!"

While the orcs were rejoicing, the urgent battle report outside the tent interrupted everyone's good mood.

"Your Majesty, big things are not good!

From the rear came an urgent report that three days earlier an enemy army had landed at Port Bimon (Port New) and had entered the savannah......"

Before the herald could finish speaking, Daniel snatched the military report and immediately checked it.

The more he looked at the above content, the more surprised he became. After recovering Port Beamon, they did not destroy the shipping lanes for the future economic development of the Orc Empire.

Just such a small mistake, I didn't expect it to cause big trouble. Tens of thousands of Terran cavalry landed from the port of Bimon and launched a frenzied slaughter on the steppe.

Not only did the garrison garrison in Port Beamon extinct, but the orc tribes nearby also fell with blood mold.

The young and strong are all fighting on the front line, and the old and weak who stay in the rear are not opponents of the enemy at all.

What angered Daniel the most was that the enemy had landed two days earlier, and they had only now received the news, which was a full three days away.

On the battlefield, three days is enough to change a lot of things. An uncontrolled enemy army would come in and cause unimaginable damage.

The losses mentioned in the war report were vague, but Daniel knew that the actual losses were far greater than the war report described, after all, the game was lagging behind.

There were troubles in the rear, and the impact on the large armies at the front was enormous. Angry, Daniel gritted his teeth and said, "Hudson! ”

At this moment, he already regarded Hudson as the great enemy of the wolf's life. He did not plan in advance that the enemy would attack from the sea, which became his biggest mistake since joining the army.

"Five Your Majesty, the current situation is critical, in order not to shake the morale of the troops on the front line, we must immediately block the news!"

After Daniel's reminder, the five emperors also realized the seriousness of the problem. The old nest has been served by others, who is still in the mood to fight!

It's just that the war thing is not allowed to bring family members. Even if the nomadic race can carry livestock, the farming race of the orcs cannot carry the field.

Even if you forcibly take your family, water and food are a big problem, after all, there are too few orcs who can eat soil.

"Marshal Daniel, give the order! What to do next, just implement it according to your ideas. ”

The Bear Emperor was the first to speak.

At times like these, this is not a good time to fight for command. How difficult Hudson was, he felt it the most. Encountering such an enemy, the Bear Man Emperor thought that he was powerless.

If you can't do it yourself, let someone else do it. Daniel and Hudson faced off for three or four months, and although they didn't achieve any impressive results, at least they didn't suffer much.

Of course, the urgent war report just received does not count. Otherwise, it is not a matter of suffering, but of blood.