The horses and vehicles had been destroyed, and now they had to travel more than a dozen kilometers on foot until they passed the town of Nadu in front of them. This impossible task in the mouth of Lieutenant Colonel William was not difficult in the eyes of the other five, because their two legs had been tested for a long time and were full of power, unlike the official master, who had already been robbed of the body of a warrior by a corrupt and depraved life.

However, the next half-day or so trip was quite difficult for Qi Lang, and he and Felix were assigned to humanoid crutches and needed to take turns to serve Lieutenant Colonel William. Fortunately, the cousin trusted his nephew more, and he seemed to have a natural aversion to this oriental face, and on the relatively flat road, Qi Lang was still relatively leisurely, and he could follow behind Dodim and the others and listen to their discussion of the whole situation.

The three non-commissioned officers, Dodim, Quill and Maggie, all had a certain level of concern at the moment, and the trip to Senta City had gone too far and there were too many forks, which forced them to revisit this unprecedented joint military exercise.

Recalling their performance at the meeting, there was no doubt that there was something unusual about the non-commissioned officers of the Otto Empire. With a reputation as a war maniac and years of war in exchange for illustrious feats, Abscion's arrogance and arrogance are no surprise. However, judging from the experience of the past exchanges between the envoys of the two countries, the colonel general has never shown such insolence. Needless to say, such an excesses as humiliating the opponent's mastermind in public, even the ordinary envoys are polite.

In contrast to King Billy's relatively humble attitude, the military generals behaved so badly, and this strong contrast may hide a deep meaning that no one knows.

This certainly does not indicate that the military has broken away from the king's rule, as Abcion's relationship with Billy VI is well known. The main reason why he was able to defeat many veterans and become the supreme military commander of the Otto Empire as a young Zhuang faction was that he married Billy's own sister. He was Billy's most trusted confidant, not one of them.

Excluding this hypothesis, the performance of the military of the Otto Empire is even more inexplicable. While they had made adequate preparations for the joint military exercises, they had done their best to humiliate their allies at the meeting, and had hired savage Southern Islanders to ambush them, which had no effect on mutual trust. Perhaps Lieutenant Colonel William went back to King Henry and cried, which would lead to the complete collapse of the cooperation.

But Quill's reaction caught Dodim's attention.

As soon as Dodim put forward the hypothesis that it was difficult to carry out joint exercises, he preemptively objected: "You must think of a way for me to do this, and I must make this military exercise happen! I have to let that group of bastards see clearly, and I want him to know how capable I am!"

Dodim held his chin and thought for a long time, and the ominous premonition slowly formed a climate in his heart, and then came out unstoppably.

"That's probably what Absion really wanted!" Dodim said with a hard slap on Quill on the shoulder, "They want to provoke us on purpose, so that we can completely ignite our fighting spirit and devote ourselves wholeheartedly to this military exercise!"

"Could it be that they are ready to create some friction with us in the joint military exercises, so as to officially provoke a war between the two sides?!" Lieutenant Meggie added his opinion more boldly.

The reason why Meggie has the same assumption as Dodim is because she has anticipated the final attitude of her own higher-ups. In the usual manner of Lieutenant Colonel William, when he replied to King Henry, he would undoubtedly hide the ugly fragments of his humiliation and burden, and replace them with nonsense such as "the situation is good, and the Luhmann army will march forward".

If this is the case, the joint exercise will definitely be carried out as scheduled, but when the soldiers of the Spiral Front Army learn that the other side has such an attitude, they will undoubtedly be stimulated, completely abandon their original ideas, no longer hide their own strength, and engage in a real competition with the other side, and in this way, the possibility of contradictions will naturally be much greater.

Hearing Maggie's conjecture, Dodim and Quill's faces became serious at the same time - war is finally coming!

It seems that Billy's fox tail has been hidden for so long that even he has lost patience with himself, so he plans to abandon his original strategy and attack in the open!

The news of the start of the war was not terrible for the non-commissioned officers of the Spiral Force, on the contrary, they even looked forward to the early arrival of that moment. They are more worried about the long wait, because the cozy-seeking bureaucracy has firmly taken over the mainstream, and in another three and a half years, the vast empire will be softened internally, and the formidable Luhmann beast will pull itself out of its own minions.

But if the two countries do go to war, the situation is completely different.

The overall military power of the Luhmann Empire is indeed slightly inferior, but the gap is not irreparable, the key is the attitude of those in power, just like the top two boxers in the world, if they are both determined to fight well, I am afraid that no one will be able to emerge unscathed.

"Dodim, if war starts now, how many troops do we have here that can be used in a short period of time?" asked Quell with a fighting spirit.

Dodim frowned and calculated in his heart for a long time, and finally gave Quill a relatively optimistic statistic: "Three hundred and seventy thousand." This was the sum total of the existing soldiers of the various city-states on the entire southern front, and of course, according to the usual practice of the White Cha Army and the Purple Feather Army in reporting empty salaries, this number should be subtracted by another 100,000. ”

"That's enough to knock them down!" Quill flicked his fist excitedly. As a commander who has always followed the progress of the war, Quill is of course well aware of the military strength of the Otto Empire. There are 270,000 troops on his side, and he will definitely have a certain numerical advantage over the Otto Empire. At this moment, the Otto Empire was attacking from all sides, and with the occasional resistance in the areas occupied in the early days, there was no way to mobilize a large number of men and horses in the short term to launch a frontal attack on the powerful Luman Empire.

"I think there is a little need to be careful," Lieutenant Maggie poured a basin of cold water on Quill at the right time, "The soldiers of the Otto Empire have been on the battlefield for a long time, and their combat ability and experience should not be underestimated, if they really transfer 50,000 elite soldiers to Absion, with the weak combat effectiveness of the White Cha Army, they will be defeated on all fronts in less than half a month." ”

"Don't forget about our Spinners, Maggie!" Quill argued, blushing, "I didn't expect that idiot Sid to have a good fight, but they could bite that bastard somehow. The difficulty of attacking is much more difficult than defending, even in the bamboo villages of those weak city-states in the southeast, Absion also paid a one-to-one price of casualties when attacking, not to mention that we are all tall and strong megalithic castles here. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, we seem to be off topic. Before Quill could further deduce the battle situation, Dodim spotted the problem in time, "We are just guessing the mystery behind this military exercise, and the other party taking the opportunity to start a war is just one of the possibilities, judging from the performance of the soldiers in Senta City, this day is not too far away." But have you noticed that this approach is obviously too roundabout, and Billy has always been straightforward in waging war, and he can tear up the peace treaty with any excuse. I have to say that if they really did plan to do so, even Billy himself would have laughed at himself. ”

"Could they have other ulterior motives?" ......Qi Lang finally couldn't help but interject behind him, but he bumped into Quill's fierce gaze, and after a little distraction, his original thoughts were disrupted.

Fortunately, Quill didn't take advantage of the victory, launched his thunderous scolding offensive, only snorted with his nose as a warning, and went back to join the discussion.

The three commanders of the Spinner Front Army argued all the way, and in the end they could not come up with a more reliable conjecture, but they were unified in their tactical thinking - to be vigilant and to deal with it carefully.

The Luman delegation returned to Shachi five days later, and the letter from the Otto Empire via the dragon monster arrived a day earlier. In his letter, Absion expressed his deep indignation at the attack on Lieutenant Colonel William, and repeatedly stated that he would send his elite troops to search for Badji who had infiltrated the mainland in a vast area in the south of the country, and strive to give Lieutenant Colonel William a satisfactory answer in the short term.

At the same time, he suggested in the letter that because of the many setbacks encountered in the middle of the joint exercise, if the Spiral Front Army really had difficulties, the cooperation could be cancelled -- this was obviously a radical method, Lieutenant Colonel William had already arrived at home, and Absion was still unrelenting, which was simply a bit too deceitful.

It is said that after Lieutenant Colonel William received this letter, his white face turned green with anger, and he personally replied to a long letter that was sprinkled with tens of thousands of words. Stripped away from all the empty nonsense, the content of the letter can be summed up in a short sentence: The will of our servicemen is firm, and the joint exercises must be held as scheduled.

As a result, the soldiers of the Whirling Frontier Army began to get busy, as if they were preparing for an unprecedented major battle, and everyone used all their energy, eager to sleep on the training ground.

Felix blew up the cowhide on his childhood playmate in Senta City, and after consuming more than three hundred primary spirit stones, he was finally promoted to a low-level warrior. Despite this, he was two levels behind Goui. This ironclad fact weighed him down a little, but no one could help him, because the matter of talent itself was unfair, and he was not destined to become a genius warrior like Gouy, whether he wanted to admit it or not.

In contrast, Gurf is much better at this. In the spiritual ability test presided over by Lieutenant Meggie, Gulf has actually reached the standard of a mid-level warrior, but he is too stingy and doesn't want to waste too many spirit stones, he wants to take it step by step and steadily improve with the most economical plan.