That's pretty much it, in order to defeat ...... No, it can't be said to be defeated. www.biquge.info The Lombards should also understand that even if His Majesty the Emperor tried desperately, it would never be possible to defeat the Britons...... But then again, the Lombards didn't think about defeating Briton either. They just wanted to keep the power of the Britons pinned. We will devote more energy to the struggle for hegemony on the mainland. They've had some gas.

In fact, in recent times, there have been various voices within many of the Lombardian states that want to go out and open up overseas colonies.

However, it is unfortunate that, firstly, these guys are immersed in the glory of the past, and at the same time they are soaked in the opulence of the bones. In short, it is not enterprising, and there is not enough motivation to move forward.

After all, they are rich people, and they can't go out and fight like the Asturians in the poor ravines, or the Britons on a desert island, sandwiched between three great powers, and they can't even breathe freely.

The second is that they want to fight, and now there is no place for them to fight.

The Lombards are still immersed in the glory of the past, relying on the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years, their connections and trade in the blue seas, and they consider themselves superior. The new Ocean Bar Owners have completed their rise and explosion.

Asturias occupied the Southern New World, Britton, and Frisia controlled the hub of the Spice Islands and extended its tentacles deep into the Far East. The Visigoths also fought with the Britons for every inch of land around the world......

It was then, in the face of the dwindling fortunes gained from the traditional trade routes, that the Lombards began to raise their heads and look around with astonishment. Then I found that the world had changed completely without knowing when.

The territory that should have been occupied by people has almost all been occupied. Flags were planted and sovereignty was asserted where it should not have been occupied.

It's too late to open up colonies now. If you open the world map, you can see that there are only some horns and horns in the Spice Islands, some worthless small islands in the Eastern Ocean, and some deserts and Gobi deserts and vast dense forests in the Green Continent.

In addition to the scraps that the powerful nations did not want, it would take them ten, if not a hundredfold, to acquire useful colonies. Their opponents will not be the scum that doesn't even know how to smelt metal. Rather, the era was at least feudal, and it was possible to pull out tens of thousands of powerful countries equipped with metal weapons, and at the same time with a large number of gunpowder weapons.

Or, simply, from the rest of the human world.

In any case, the development of colonies by the current up-and-coming countries requires more money, more manpower, and greater risk. It's like the Hereford family before...... After hearing that the Hereford family had followed the Britons and had succeeded in acquiring the territory of Neo-Gothic, which was not bad in terms of population and resources, and had a continuous source of cotton as a trade product, the monarchs of these small Lombard states were envious and hated and were about to come out of the water, but there was nothing they could do.

They couldn't afford to commit 20,000 or 30,000 troops across the sea to help quell a counterinsurgency war that seemed so difficult and almost impossible to win as the Hereford family did.

It's not that they don't have that capital.

Ferrara, Mantua, Modena, Tuscany...... Whichever state tried to make it possible to muster twenty or thirty thousand mercenary troops, and then appoint a similar general to lead it - but the problem was, first of all, they didn't have the guts. Second, they had nothing for the Bretons to rely on. In any case, something very exciting like this has no part in them anyway.

In this way, although the standard of living of these lords is still equal. They still have a lot of people, land, and wealth. But they all developed a sense of panic, urgency, and crisis - this came from the future, the prediction of the future life that was getting worse and worse, for the future, the feeling of precariousness, that inability to control their own destiny, made the dukes feel very unhappy......

Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why they chose to support Emperor Khalman IV at such a moment.

That's all in all, because there's a series of things like that. Emperor Kalman IV received a vital army of 50,000 men......

The number of the emperor's army exceeded one hundred thousand.

100,000 troops. In this era, both within the human world and for the two enemies of humanity, the Tartarya Khanate and the Ottoman Empire of the Dark Elves, are quite commendable figures.

In the Middle Ages hundreds of years ago, if an emperor had an army of 100,000 under his command, he could properly walk sideways in the human world. It will become a new hope for the unity of the entire human world, and at the same time, it will become the object of common fear and jealousy of other countries.

But, alas, this is not the same as it used to be. Nowadays, no country can mobilize tens of thousands of troops through gritted teeth. Which of those powerful countries cannot mobilize an army of 100,000? Therefore, the current army of 100,000 is almost the army that a powerful force has taken out after a comprehensive mobilization. While very impressive, it is not invincible......

It's just that, in the information that William obtained, His Majesty the Emperor seems to have distorted these two concepts.

I don't know if it's to embolden myself or to intimidate the enemy. Or maybe both. All in all, in William's opinion, at least the first concept of His Majesty the Emperor is quite good.

Further, after obtaining these 50,000 troops, the army under the emperor's command became even stronger. At the same time, his men, the monarchs of the small states, and even the Lombards who gave him this aid became more respectful of the emperor.

However, it is of little use.

William calculated for a moment, and then suddenly came to the pleasant conclusion that the Emperor's army of more than 100,000 men was of no use now, for the Emperor's enemies had been largely destroyed.

Now, the only nominal enemies of the emperor are Frisia and Briton. After an emergency mobilization and conscription, General John Churchill reassembled an army of 40,000 men - less than a third of the Emperor's strength.

General John Churchill, however, had the advantage of being on the defensive. They could use the fortresses throughout Frisia to resist. He redeployed some of these 40,000 troops to garrison various fortresses, and he could easily wear them off against the Imperial Army, which was three times more powerful than him.

Relying on this time, the Britons were able to quickly mobilize an army equal to the Emperor's strength to fight the Emperor. At the same time, William would also stab the emperor in the back.

That is, the emperor could not move Frisia at all now. He must save these hundreds of thousands of idle troops to eat for nothing. Instead of driving them to attack the fortress line of Frisia, save themselves some bread and imperial gold marks.

Therefore, William finally judged that the emperor's tactic was to garrison. He would be garrisoned in southern Loterania, or a little more narrowly in the region of Great Moravia. Wait for the Hereford family to turn against the Britons army. And then there was a battle in a dignified manner. On the basis of the victory in this war, peace talks with the Bretons were conducted.

William had even thought of Kalman IV's plan for peace talks—since he could not defeat the Britons completely, he would never offend the Britons too much. And the money, materials, land, population that he lost in this war......

A series of resources, most of which had to be taken from another defeated country, the Hereford family. If one is not careful, he may swallow the entire kingdom of Wende...... Well, maybe it's not likely.

After all, if that were the case, then Kalman IV would have become too strong. However, an industrially developed and populous Shilonsk should be within the acceptable range of the Britons. It's not once or twice that these bastards have sold their teammates. Sacrificing some of the Hereford family to get them to end the war, William was sure they did it.

In this way, the Hereford family suffered heavy losses, but the roots are still there. Although the emperor was replenished, he suffered heavy losses and could not recover in a while. The Bretons suffered the least losses. You can also continue to play left and right in front of the two imperial forces, and continue to balance or something.

When you think about it, it's a very pleasant thing. And William also thought that this was the best thing that Emperor Kalman IV could achieve.

But. Things weren't as simple as William had imagined.

January 16, 1742. After getting the latest information sent back by the Cheka, William finally understood one thing, that is, I am afraid that there are really no good people in this world, and the moral bottom line of human beings is getting lower and lower, and they are becoming more and more dishonest with each other. Even a big head like Kalman IV, who is full of majesty and looks magnificent, has learned to play yin-

While Wilhelm thought what would happen to the Emperor's army of 100,000, the Emperor's army of 100,000 did not do anything - he still had less than 20,000 troops on the border of Lotternia, and the remaining 100,000 troops, under the personal leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, were advancing at the fastest speed towards Wroclaw, the capital of the Hereford family and the capital of the Kingdom of Wende.

The Emperor struck first and declared war on the Hereford family.