Volume 7 Mortals and Gods Chapter 785 The War Begins
At the end of daylight today, the Knight King of Batoria summoned the Grand Master of the Holy Grail Knights, the Grand Master of the Guardian Knights, and several of his most trusted ministers into the palace to begin discussing matters in the south.
The Southern Holy Empire's 150,000 coolies spent one month and 20,000 dead, and more than half of the forest to the north had been opened.
The Holy Empire's army marched straight in, sweeping the area within a hundred kilometers on both sides of the central mountain range.
Suddenly, countless powerful monsters that had lived in the forest for many years became victims of the Holy Empire's army.
The Holy Empire has completed the reorganization of its legions and replenished its troops. At this moment, a total of 300,000 troops are staring at the north.
The Holy Empire has basically completed the occupation and plunder of the west coast of the Crimson Principality. Various war preparation materials needed for the northern campaign have been piled up, and the garrison force composed of local people has also been formed.
The entire west coast area of the Crimson Principality was divided into three areas, three new teaching provinces were established, and the appointment of main officials was basically completed.
This naturally means countless opportunities for profit distribution, so the archbishops enthusiastically devoted themselves to this struggle to divide the fruits of victory.
Over the past few months, after countless negotiations, threats, plots and compromises, the major forces of the Holy Empire finally completed their competition for the three newly established teaching provinces and initially determined the interest pattern.
Archbishop Richelieu unexpectedly became the biggest winner. He recommended members of his Inquisition and carefully selected candidates for every position.
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The Inquisition is almost filled with the core children of the major families in the Holy Empire. Therefore, whenever Richelieu is interested in a position, he will look at which faction and family members are vying for this position, and then place the Inquisition in the Inquisition.
Recommend to the corresponding members
Many archbishops were caught off guard by Richelieu's recommendation.
Often when Richelieu receives a letter of recommendation, the candidate who is most active in vying for the position will choose to withdraw on his own.
After all, those who are willing to take up positions in such remote religious provinces are all descendants of these local branches of the family. How can they compete with members of the Inquisition?
These positions were not something that the members of the Inquisition could value originally, but Richelieu told them that this was just a springboard, and the geographical location of the west bank of the Crimson Principality was important, and there was a lot of waste waiting to be done.
The results come out at a good time.
In the future, these three ecclesiastical provinces will be the brightest pearls in the crown of the Holy Empire.
In contrast, although it may seem easier to make achievements by following the army in the northern expedition, that direction has gathered all the famous generals and ministers of the Batoria Empire and the Siriel Empire, so it is actually very difficult to get ahead.
What's more, the Holy Empire's army is on an expedition and fighting against the great empire in the north. No one dares to say that they will win.
Of course, the northern empire is now suffering from internal and external troubles, and its national strength is no longer what it once was, but after all, the foundation laid over many years is there, and it cannot be underestimated at all.
After Richelieu's instigation, most of the members of the Inquisition accepted their new positions and took office.
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One by one, they were gearing up to do something in this land that was still dripping with blood and smoking.
There is never a shortage of opportunities to build a new world from the ruins.
However, a small number of those who were extremely fanatical about the war, as well as those careerists who were confident in their superior abilities and committed to shining a dazzling light in the Northern Expedition, chose to stay in the Northern Expedition.
Richelieu also spent a lot of effort on these people and made proper arrangements for them one by one.
Some of them were recommended to the Holy Knights. Of course, these people had good relations with the military faction.
Others were assigned to serve in the Templar Order.
At this moment, Richelieu's Templar Order had more than two thousand elite warriors. Due to their outstanding individual combat capabilities, they had become a force capable of determining the situation on the local battlefield.
But the thing that troubled Richelieu the most was that he never had anyone under his command who could be regarded as a talented person in terms of military strategy.
With no choice, he even had no choice but to recruit a more loyal subordinate to prepare the entire Templar Order.
But he still couldn't find a suitable talent to take over the position of leader of the Templar Order, causing this position to remain vacant to this day.
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After thinking about it, the only one who could suit his liking was Jeanne d'Arc.
However, Joan of Arc was not interested in these military strategies at all. She just spent her days practicing, so it was impossible to help Archbishop Richelieu.
Over the past month, Richelieu had been troubled by the selection of hundreds of positions. Fortunately, he still had a careful and useful subordinate who could take care of him in this regard.
It's just that this subordinate is a talented person in politics, but he is also useless in leading troops.
Whenever this happened, Richelieu couldn't help but suffer from a deep headache.
Today, the Knight King of the Batoria Empire convened the imperial ministers to discuss the relationship with the Siriel Empire.
At this time, the war between the Hillier Empire and the Holy Empire had been going on for several months. The army of the Hillier Empire, which was obviously superior in military strength, had repeatedly sought opportunities for decisive battles with the Holy Empire army. However, the commanders of the Holy Empire army resolutely avoided fighting and wandered around.
In mobile warfare, the strength of the Xirel Empire army was continuously eroded.
This battle made the world truly realize the terrifying combat power of the Holy Empire.
During the months of war, powerful and meritorious legions from the Holy Empire emerged one after another:
The Knights of Light, the Legion of Angels, and the Knights Templar all make Cyril soldiers famous and fearful.
As long as the main force of the Xirel Empire is defeated in the decisive battle that will come sooner or later, then the major legions of the Holy Empire will be recognized by the entire continent.
Another piece of less conspicuous news was quietly circulated among political figures from various countries in the mainland.
It is said that in the late spring and early summer, an elite 1,000-man light cavalry regiment from the Hillel Empire tried to raid a military supply center behind the Holy Empire's front line. As a result, the Holy Knights were resting in that town, and since then this light cavalry
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Such a battle report is a far-reaching message in the eyes of those who care about it.
In the past hundreds of years, although the Holy Empire had a military force comparable to that of half a continent, its transcendent status and large number of believers made such a huge force almost useless.
Even if the Holy Knights were dispatched to suppress the pagan movement, there were only a few times in history.
Since the defeat of the three northern empires a hundred years ago, the Holy Empire's power in the south has not only remained unaffected, but has expanded rapidly.
In fact, the kings of many countries in the south are believers of the Church of Light.
Regarding wars between believer countries, the Holy Empire's attitude has always been to stay out of the matter and not interfere.
And if the news of the destruction of the Xirel Empire's light cavalry regiment this time is true, it means that such a behemoth as the Holy Empire has finally given up its hundreds of years of non-intervention in the secular world and begun to officially intervene in national wars!
As long as he thinks of the mighty Pope and the millions of fanatic warriors behind him, I am afraid that the king of any country will be restless.
This war is burning fiercely and fast, and we don’t know how long it will continue to burn and how many countries it will affect.
The changes in the south soon changed the north as well.