"...I think we should abandon the Royal City of Polyvisia and withdraw immediately. This time our autonomous region military region dispatched two legions, not to help the kingdom conquer the entire eastern region, but to reinforce the kingdom itself and liberate the eastern region.
The invasion of the Kingdom by the National Alliance. So far in the war, we have done our best, destroyed two principalities, recovered newly occupied territories, and forced all Alliance troops to withdraw from the Kingdom.
From the purpose of sending troops to our autonomous region, we have overfulfilled the task. We have made the Hicks Kingdom no longer have a foothold in the eastern region, destroyed the Sea King Fleet, and made the Hicks Kingdom no longer able to intervene in the eastern region.
affairs. Moreover, we also made a surprise attack and occupied the Royal City of Polyvisia. I believe that the blow to the Kingdom of Nasseri will prevent it from recovering for decades. So I think we have taken advantage of it and it’s time to see it through.
receive."
This was General Belklin's speech at the decision-making meeting of the Thunder Legion. His views represented the opinions of many soldiers. Now that the Thunder Legion occupies the Royal City of Polyvisia, it faces the alliance army in the five northeastern counties and southwest counties of the Nasseri Kingdom.
The seven counties with a total of more than 700,000 troops were facing a crisis. The quick-legged Belklin's first thought was to run quickly, at least to bring back all the captured trophies, which was an astronomical amount of wealth.
, we can’t stay here to give the enemy an advantage...
But General Diavid firmly opposed this behavior of running away without fighting. He represented another part of the Thunder Legion's officers and soldiers who were extremely superstitious about their own combat power. So what if the enemy was outnumbered? What if the number of troops exceeded the Thunder Legion by ten times?
So what? Isn’t it just a problem that can be solved by firing ten more shots per person? There is no need to run. It feels embarrassing to say it...
Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and was having a headache due to the quarrel between his two younger brothers. Belklin was not a coward, otherwise he would not have gone deep into the Royal City of Polyvisia in a surprise attack alone. He just always liked to fight a sure battle,
He likes to use the minimum cost to obtain the greatest victory. Therefore, in his opinion, the Kingdom of Nasseri has been tortured by the Thunder Legion and is no longer able to turn over. The Thunder Legion should retire with success and return to the new occupation with rich captures.
land.
Diavid, on the other hand, is on the other extreme. He is too superstitious about the combat power of the Thunder Legion and thinks he is invincible. This can be seen from the fact that he led two light cavalry main field groups with more than 10,000 people and dared to attack the enemy's 100,000-strong army.
He came out, no matter what, he made a bold move first. In the end, he won a complete victory, and his own casualties were extremely light. Who can explain this? So when they heard that the enemy's army was approaching, the officers headed by him felt that this
The merits of war are delivered to your door. How can there be any reason to run away before fighting?
With one against ten, if this battle is won, it will definitely go down in history and glorify future generations. The main combat faction headed by General Diavid is gearing up, fearing that the enemy will not come, they believe that in front of the Thunder Legion
, there is no enemy that cannot be eliminated. This can be concluded from their famous saying that each person can solve all problems by firing ten more shots. They did not take this enemy army of more than 700,000 people seriously.
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Claude is actually very conflicted himself. The two thoughts of fighting or leaving have been swirling and deliberation in his mind. Compared with Diavid who is mainly fighting and Belklin who wants to leave, he stands in a higher position.
, look further and think more carefully.
If, as Belklin advocates, we should stop when things are good and go first, then it means that the Thunder Legion will give up the Polyvisian Royal City and the surrounding areas that are already in their hands, and all their previous efforts will be wasted. At the same time, they will almost give up on conquering Na.
The Kingdom of Seri, the sworn enemy of the Kingdom of Overas, is the best opportunity to perish. This is what Claude does not want to see.
The real source of the turmoil and war in the eastern part of Farea Continent lies in the struggle between the Kingdom of Ovilas and the Kingdom of Nasseri for dominance in the eastern region. Only one of them falls to bring long-term peace and stability to the eastern region. Otherwise, every two
In thirty years, war will inevitably break out between the two countries. In the past century, the two countries have had five wars. The last two wars involved all the countries in the eastern region, and the two countries have become mortal enemies.
Claude is unwilling to give up this opportunity. This is his selfish reason, because he knows very well that as long as the Kingdom of Nasseri is destroyed, he will gain supreme prestige in the Kingdom of Ovelas. Not to mention those old noble families
Whether the power has the right to point fingers at him, even Frederic I has to look at his face, and the benefits he can gain from this are self-evident.
In addition, just as Belklin advocated, it is not a simple matter to just leave. It is not possible to take away all the property worth more than 50 million gold crowns. Unless all the property owned by the Thunder Legion is
All the soldiers dismounted and became infantry, freeing up their mounts to pull carts and transport the loot, otherwise they would not be able to take away all the captured goods.
Of course, you can also distribute the trophies as rewards first, but this goes against the military regulations of the Dominion Military Region. The biggest question is, if each soldier carries those pots and jars of trophies with him, how much combat effectiveness can they maintain?
Lord would not make such a stupid decision to abandon his martial arts, and if such a precedent is set, it will have a very bad impact on legionnaires maintaining strict discipline and good style...
In addition, the prisoner camps with more than 100,000 people and the families of more than 200,000 prisoners who are under isolation and guarding in the royal city are also unsolvable problems. These are all things that Claude plans to use to enrich the overseas autonomous territory of Rocky Mountain State.
human resources, because the Provisional Royal Court and King Frederic I rejected the request of the overseas dominions to continue to recruit immigrants from the kingdom. They were strictly guarded against it and no one who was not related to the overseas dominions was allowed to become an immigrant. As a result, Rock Rock
Up to now since the Legion landed in Bailu City, there have been less than a thousand immigrants heading to overseas autonomous territories.
If the Thunder Legion were to abandon the Royal City of Polyvisia and move in, they would not be able to take away all the prisoners and their families. At most, they could only take away a small number of relatively high-status prisoners, such as some members of the Nasseri royal family and the nobles of the kingdom.
.If you want to take away all the prisoners, how much combat power can an army that escorts more than 300,000 prisoners and their families, and also escorts huge amounts of property, maintain? Not to mention being blocked by the enemy, there is an internal chaos.
Encountering a battle on the road will bring great losses to the Thunder Legion...
Therefore, it is impossible to take away all the captives and their families, but Claude would not be willing to release them. These prisoners and their families are die-hard loyalists of the Nasseri Kingdom. Don't expect the Thunder Legion to let them go if they are given freedom.
They are grateful to the Thunder Legion. You must know that their property has been confiscated by the Thunder Legion. Their freedom is equivalent to funding the enemy with more troops and grassroots officers with battlefield and military experience, which means that the Thunder Legion will once again be in a difficult situation.
In the predicament of being surrounded by enemies on all sides, the royal city and surrounding towns and areas once again lost control.
Claude believed that if he asked the senior officers of the legion how to deal with these prisoners and their families, the answer he would get would be the word "kill". Since they could not be released, then they would kill them all, and the Thunder Legion could also go into battle lightly.
Or just transfer in easily. But Claude doesn't want to take such a blame, because if he does, he will also be recorded in history and become a veritable bloody butcher.
In the two raids on the Royal City of Polyvisia and surrounding towns, although all resistance fighters armed with weapons were eliminated, the casualties of more than 100,000 people and rebels had already made Claude the Butcher of Polyvisia.
Although Claude did not kill any townspeople with his own hands, because he gave the order, the title of "butcher" was placed on his head.
But this is understandable, and Claude doesn't care about this title. The officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion destroyed the resistance militants. You can't just stand there without fighting back and let them kill them just because they are old people, children, or women.
.As long as they were enemies, all the old, weak, women and children were in the process of being eliminated. As for the town residents who did not resist, the soldiers of the Thunder Legion did not invade them, plunder their property, or molest their wives and daughters.
Military discipline in this era is unique and very strict.
It can be justified to eliminate the enemy on the battlefield, but if you attack unarmed prisoners, then Claude will immediately become famous throughout the continent, or become infamous, and bring disaster to the family's descendants. In the wars of various countries in the Farea continent, there are unspoken rules regarding prisoners.
The good thing is that after the war, they can be exchanged or redeemed. The bad thing is that some countries trade captives as slaves, or punish them with hard labor, etc., but no country will openly massacre captives.
Claude is planning to transport these captives and their families to the Rocky Mountain State in the Overseas Dominion to allow them to mine for a living. This is normal operation and no one can make irresponsible remarks. But if these thirty people are transferred because of the
If he kills more than 10,000 prisoners and their families, if all is done, they will be condemned by all the countries in Farea and reviled by righteous people. Even in the overseas autonomous territories, Claude's reputation will plummet, and no one will like him.
A bloody butcher who ordered the killing of prisoners and innocent family members...
Claude doesn't want to be on the cusp of such a storm. His senior officers are saying kill because they are in different positions. They only need to consider the current situation of the Thunder Legion and what is most beneficial to the Thunder Legion.
, there is no need to consider the opinions of others and the consequences of massacring prisoners and their families. As for Claude who made the decision and gave the order, it is natural that Claude will bear the blame.
You can't kill, you can't let go. The best solution is for the Thunder Legion to defeat the more than 700,000 enemy troops approaching the Royal City of Polivisia and completely destroy the Kingdom of Nasseri. In this way, everyone will be happy, and the Thunder Legion will have enough time.
Transporting huge amounts of property and captives to overseas autonomous territories and keeping them safe. It's just a beautiful idea, but Claude himself has no idea whether it can be realized...
Diaverde's strategy is to make a wave of reckless moves no matter how many enemies there are. Claude cannot be as reckless as him. You must know that the enemy's army of more than 700,000 is not all like the Nasser who was defeated in a rush.
The eighteenth standing army of the kingdom is so useless. At least the more than 400,000 men and horses in the seven southwest counties have all retreated from the mainland of the Kingdom of Overas, and have rich combat experience. From Claude's perspective,
Come on, these more than 400,000 enemy troops are the real powerful enemies. Their combat strength is similar to that of the Guards Corps of the Kingdom of Ovelas.
Although the more than 400,000 enemy troops were severely defeated by the Rock Army in Ambriz County, they were in the Kingdom itself. They were busy with expeditions and had no strong fighting spirit. In addition, the rabble of the two principalities were holding them back, and the Rock Army also used
The new artillery and long-barreled rockets caught them off guard, which caused them to suffer a major defeat. But then they performed very safely in the process of evacuating the kingdom's mainland, and even defeated the Red Dragon in the battle of Ibiniste Plains.
The legion suffered a small loss, forcing the three major legions of the kingdom that were chasing behind them to maintain a tacit understanding with them and send gifts out of the country.
Although the Rock Legion won a great victory in Ambriz County, they also consumed half of their ammunition reserves. If the alliance army can discover this, they only need to launch attacks continuously, entangle the Rock Legion, and take advantage of the strength of their troops. They only need to be ruthless
At the cost of another 200,000 casualties, the Rock Army would be in a predicament of running out of ammunition, and would not even be able to hold Ambriz County.
Fortunately, the alliance army did not understand this. They were intimidated by the powerful combat power of the Rock Legion and the power of new weapons. In addition, the news of the demise of the two principalities, the enclave of the Kingdom of Hicks was recovered, and the Nasseri
The news that the Kingdom's Royal City of Polyvisia was also captured by the Thunder Legion in a surprise attack caused the Alliance army to withdraw its troops and return to the Kingdom of Nasseri to avoid being cut off. Their army of more than 400,000 troops was finally besieged in Ovi.
Kingdom of Lars.
If the Kingdom's Royal Guards, Red Dragon Legion and Griffin Legion can keep chasing behind the more than 400,000 alliance troops and give these more than 400,000 troops some distraction, then Claude will not yell at the temporary
The old aristocratic families in the royal court and the senior officers in the Kingdom's Army Department are so shameless.
Who would have thought that after the three major legions of the kingdom sent the Alliance troops out of the country as gifts, the Guards Corps returned to the capital, leaving the Red Dragon Legion and the Griffin Legion to build defensive fronts in the border counties, said to be to prevent the Alliance troops from coming back...
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What is this? Can't we cross the border to pursue the enemy? The enemy has trampled on most of the territory of the Kingdom of Ovelas, and now the three major legions of the kingdom have withdrawn but they don't even dare to pursue them across the border. This clearly shows that they are sitting back and watching the Thunder Legion besieged by the enemy's army.
Claude knew very well in his heart that fighting would fulfill the wishes of those bastards in the royal court. They wished that the Thunder Legion would fight alone. No matter they won or lost, they would suffer heavy casualties. Not only did it reduce a powerful combat force in the overseas autonomous territories,
It also reduced the voice of overseas autonomous territories in the royal court.
But if they move in without a fight, Claude believes that those bastards in the royal court will throw a large basin of sewage at them after the Thunder Legion evacuates. He and the Thunder Legion will be blamed for being cowardly and timid and fleeing when they see the enemy.
On the heads of the officers and soldiers, it is even possible to fabricate something. If the Thunder Legion can hold on and wait for reinforcements, the three major legions of the Kingdom will follow up and respond internally and externally. They will bloom in all directions, counterattack and surround the enemy and annihilate all the alliance troops. The Kingdom of Nasseri will be destroyed.
The final victory lies out...
Without the enemy chasing behind them, the alliance army of more than 400,000 people is marching towards the Royal City of Polyvisia. According to their itinerary, it will only take more than half a month to reach the area under the jurisdiction of the Royal City. It can be said that
, there is not much time left for Claude to think about it. Whether to fight or go must be decided within these few days.
But what makes Claude curious is that the more than 400,000 alliance troops from the seven southwest counties are approaching the royal capital, but the more than 300,000 troops from the five northeastern counties have not moved at all. They stayed at the station, and
He did not continue to build defensive facilities and positions, nor did he intend to join the alliance troops coming from the southwest. Claude had no choice but to order a capture operation to try to find out what was going on with the enemy.
There is also good news. The ocean-going cruise fleet once again escorted a large number of transport ships to the port of Florik. Six local garrison regiments from overseas autonomous territories came ashore. They will be stationed in major strategic towns in the two perished principalities.
Maintain local order and security.
At the same time, transport ships have also delivered a large amount of ammunition. General Albert is gathering troops directly under the Thunder Legion headquarters to escort these ammunition to the Royal City of Polyvisia, but it will only take more than twenty days to arrive.
The number of troops directly under the headquarters of the Thunder Legion is only one reinforced independent field regiment and four logistics guard battalions. Together with the logistics civilian administrative officers, medical department and other auxiliary personnel, there are only more than 15,000 people. However, the large number of people they transported over
With the ammunition, Claude finally had some confidence in holding on to the royal city. However, before waiting for the arrival of General Albert and the others, what Claude needed to consider was whether to take the initiative to delay the journey of the more than 400,000 alliance troops.
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Another good news is that the Rock Legion has left the royal capital and is preparing to cross the Odin Mountains to come for reinforcements. But they are infantry, not light cavalry legions like the Thunder Legion. It is expected that it will take one and a half months to reach the Royal City of Polyvisia.
.General Bolognik and General Buechlin sent a falcon message, hoping that Claude could hold on until they arrived...
Needless to say, this time he couldn't leave even if he wanted to. Claude decided to let Belklin's 1st Division take the initiative to delay the Alliance army's journey, at least until General Albert's men could deliver the ammunition.
Arrive at the Royal City. But before the first division attacks, Claude actually gets unexpected news.
"What? The three legions of the Alliance Army of the Kingdom of Nasseri raised the flag of Prince Vedario. The enemy army did not march towards the Royal City of Polyvisia, but stayed in Gioviervo County, stationed on the spot and
Start building defense facilities?”
Claude, Belklin, and Diaverde looked at each other in confusion. No one could figure out why the more than 400,000-strong alliance army went crazy and suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. However, Prince Vedario, who escaped last time,
It's not surprising that he appeared in the alliance army. What's surprising is that he would gain the support of the three Nasseri Kingdom's standing legions so quickly...