Lüders in spring is always in love with the atmosphere.

Although Charlemagne is always labeled as "debauched" and "estrus all year round" by other people, no one can deny that spring in this flower capital is especially easy for young men and women to fall in love, even foreigners. On the banks of the Seine, in the arcades, in the parks, and in the suburbs of the city, intimate men and women can be seen everywhere, and the taste of hormones is fermented throughout the royal capital.

However, this law does not seem to have had an effect on Roland.

Lift, swing down.

Lift, swing down.

Every swing of the sword did not drag the mud and water, and it was clean and reminiscent of calm water.

"Abominable ......"

The corners of his mouth overflowed with irritability, and the pure atmosphere dissipated, Roland grabbed the towel and wiped it randomly, just put the wet towel on his head, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and said nothing.

How could things have come to this - this question has been bothering him for nearly a week.

While in Albion, he knew something terrible had happened, prompting Alfheim to change his steady policy. He made a lot of assumptions, but he never imagined that it was actually an armed conflict between the principality and Albion.

It's just too dramatic.

It's like a dreary opera where the plot has reached a dead end, and suddenly a mechanical séance with special props descends to make the plot make waves again.

This abrupt dramatization made Roland think of his adoptive father for the first time, and wondered if Li Lin was secretly playing tricks and single-handedly provoked this conflict, but he was quickly denied by himself.

Li Lin will never engage in whims at the strategic level. He is not a gambler. Even if he is also betting on the fortunes of Alfheim at the moment, it is also an action based on an analysis of the situation and making full use of his own resources. He is not likely to do something like the one that threatens to collapse his entire strategic plan.

So although there are still doubts, Roland prefers to believe that this is an accident caused by various factors, and he no longer dwells too much on this problem, and the sudden change caused by this accident really gave him a headache.

There are accidents every day in the world, but under certain conditions, quite terrible results can be induced. For example, on June 28, 1914, the bullet fired by a Serbian youth in Sarajevo. It directly led to a world war with more than 30 million dead and wounded. And set the stage for the next more brutal world war. Even though that's not the direct cause, who cares about that?

Now that the sunken cruiser of Albion and the hero of the principality, Kolchak, have been forgotten, almost every capital of human nations has a light-hearted atmosphere, as if the impending war was just a minor episode in the "glorious age of wealth and progress". Almost all of them were immersed in what Roland seemed to be inconceivably patriotic.

In Lundinum. Queen Elizabeth told the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were about to depart. "Before the leaves fall", they will return home. Large and small hotels and cafes are full of happy faces, and when you hear military music playing. People stood and clinked glasses.

In St. Petersburg, Crown Prince Nikolai appeared on the balcony of the Winter Palace, and the enthusiastic subjects cheered, and then they knelt together in front of the future Tsar and sang the national anthem "Mother Goddess Bless the Tsar". With a stroke of the pen, the elders who have always been stingy passed the military budget of tens of millions of gold coins.

In Lapland, people poured into Helsinki Square, where groups of young soldiers marched to the front amid shouts of "Rus must perish" and patriotic songs such as "You wait, you wait, orc mongrel".

At Lüdes, the atmosphere was chilling.

Almost overnight, countless podiums appeared on the streets, each with a spitting creature roaring hoarsely.

"To hell with the long-haired mongrel!"

"It's time for jihad, all of humanity is demanding that we act!

"The United Principality of Rus' does not have a sufficient amount of gold to compensate for the insults suffered by the human camp, or to pay back the precious lives of those who died in a dastardly sneak attack. ”

- It's crazy.

Roland's head hurt again.

Lose your marbles. It was the only feeling he had. The Charlemagnes hated the United Rus' Duchy as much as the Kingdom of Albion. It stands to reason that they should have enjoyed the duel between the Albion Pirates and the Furry Bear Bandits, and happily watched the two bastards fighting in the mud pit. But now he was as hysterical as Albiang, with a posture of impatience to jump in, as if it was not Albion who was attacked, but Charlemagne.

Why is this happening?

I am afraid that a popular slogan among the military can best explain the reason.

"We can't miss this bus!"

This great opportunity could not be missed - the army, navy, Titans, the crown prince, the second prince, the important ministers, and the commoners all thought so. Many people believe that with the combat effectiveness of Charlemagne's army in the "Seven Days War", there is almost no suspense about defeating the principality army. Once the most powerful opponent of mankind is defeated, Charlemagne can naturally become the leader of the human camp, and no country can compete with it, and the day is not far from realizing the ideal of "eight Hong and one universe, dominating the world".

Under these high-sounding reasons, there are also the calculations of different political forces.

In the face of the aggressive attitude of their rivals, the crown prince and the army must do something to prove themselves. The war with the principality was a great opportunity: the crown prince had been commanding the northern front for a long time, he and his staff were familiar with the local environment and the way the orcs were fighting, and the new army had completed its training and the guns and ammunition were ready to go to the north.

Under such favorable conditions, they will not fail and cannot fail.

The other forces had a similar idea of fighting a war with the principality, expressing themselves, seeking benefits from it, and if possible, trying to find opportunities to attack their opponents.

What a bunch of superficial idiots.

Roland, who has never liked to swear, cursed in his heart, although he is not without understanding the human heart, but when he looks at such a human society, a strong sense of powerlessness will come up from the bottom of his heart.

How could they assert so lightly that they could defeat the United Principality of Rus', did they really know the strength of the other party?

In fact, he also did not know the details of the principality, and it was impossible to infer the current level of strength of the principality based on his travels to the principality in those years, and it was impossible to make a comprehensive and detailed assessment of the outcome of the war.

But one thing is very clear: if a certain person and a certain battalion intervene in the war behind the scenes, I am afraid that the outcome of the war will be difficult to predict.

After all, they have that motivation and strength.

It is foreseeable that Yalfheim's policy must be to promote the localization and prolongation of the war. In other words, without the intervention of a third party, if the strengthened human coalition forces are allowed to fight together, then the coalition forces may defeat the principality, and the result will be that the elven camp will face the human camp with a sudden increase in population, territory, and resources, and the plan to "rejuvenate Gilmania" will be severely hindered, or even completely defeated. However, it is also impossible for Alfheim to risk getting involved in a full-scale war too early and directly send troops to aid the principality, which will not only lead to a full-scale confrontation with the human camp, but the principality is also very likely to be ungrateful and betray the elven camp at an appropriate time to seek peace with the humans. And if the Duchy defeated the human alliance, it would be unimaginable to go south to conquer the human kingdoms with a large population that could replenish resources from overseas colonies. Humans will form a new coalition and continue to fight the principality until the winner is finally decided, or both sides are bleeding at the same time. Therefore, as long as the humans and orcs each have a bridgehead or an important strategic hub to attack the other's hinterland, while maintaining some balance in the performance and numbers of their weapons, then the war will be confined to these points, and neither side can reconcile nor defeat the other, which is in the favor of Alfheim.

To put it simply, it was Li Lin's original strategy that made the various forces restless, making them need V.E Company more than other forces to toss the ball. While weakening the opponents, you can also obtain huge arms sales orders.

It is precisely this that is Roland's biggest headache.

There is nothing more troublesome for those who adhere to the line of moderation and reformism than the realists who treat life and other good things as numbers and act on consequentialism. (To be continued......)