Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 302 Chapter [-]

In various senses, the orc army on the other side of the dust mountain is very similar to the bursting of the real estate bubble:
Everyone knows it's there, but the problem is that it can't wait.

Frost Maple Ridge, which is actively preparing for the battle, has been training intensively from November to December. Seeing that the wilderness is covered with snow and the New Year is approaching, there is still no sign of the orc attack predicted by the Imperial Army.

This inevitably made Xia Houyan feel extremely irritable:
If the orc troops really plan to wait until next spring to attack, it doesn't matter to Shuangfengling, but once the war develops in the direction of a protracted confrontation, it will delay the peak trade season next year!
The annual peak trade season is the biggest source of income for this wasteland territory!

In the eyes of an unscrupulous lord, the caravans traveling from north to south in the wilderness are just a bunch of delicate sushi, waiting to be picked up by Shuangfengling's chopsticks!
However, there is no use in haste.

The official Xiahou didn't even know where the orc army on the opposite side was, and he couldn't even send a set of women's clothes to make a move...

Sometimes he even doubted whether the news that Quentin's chief of staff said "there will be orcs raiding the southern border" is really reliable? !

The lord's restlessness is also well reflected in his style of handling the daily affairs of the territory these days:

The high-level officials of Shuangfengling watched helplessly, and the criticisms on the official documents of the territory became more and more irritable every day, and famous sayings such as "this lord is such a man" appeared one after another, and Lena Leslie, Alice Comstock, Welf, and a few chicks, ran to Horned Eagle Manor more and more frequently every night...

Until a few citizens who were "infuriated and busy venting their anger" because of the rumor lord were forced to write a self-criticism, and a clarification notice was posted on the democracy wall outside the Vincent Palace;
So Quanshuang Fengling knew that this matter was probably true...

However, although the lord's private life has become more and more lewd under the pressure, other matters in the territory are still operating normally - this is of course due to the well-organized management system of this wasteland territory.

Among them, especially the Frost Maple Ridge General Staff under the leadership of Sean Mountbatten, and the Igor Pioneering Army under Juan Clemente, fully demonstrated their excellent determination to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai without arrogance or rashness. force.

In fact, Shuangfengling's military system is different in the whole continent:
Whether it is humans, demons, or orcs, the core military power is completely in the hands of the supreme commander of the army. The "commander" of humans, the "leader" of orcs, and the "general" of demons are the ones who say the same in their own troops. ;

And the staff organizations of the major regimes, that is, the "Military Headquarters" of humans, the "Blood Council" of Orcs, and the "Hall of Priests" of Demons, have only the right to make suggestions on military issues, and have no right to make decisions. It has a weak restrictive effect—if it happens that Chief of General Staff Quentin and Grand Duke Rosario wear the same pair of pants, the entire army will completely become a general.

However, the situation in Frost Maple Ridge is somewhat special:

Juan Clemente, who served as the commander of Igor's pioneering army, was neither a professional soldier from a military academy nor a war god who had experienced hundreds of battles. It was purely because of the title of "Knight of Thorns" he won 800 years ago. , According to seniority, he became the commander of the pioneering army.

The death knight, who is loyal and superior in martial arts, is certainly a unparalleled fierce general who can block gods and kill gods and Buddhas, but he is indeed not suitable to be a commander in command of the three armies;
The most suitable position for Clement is precisely his job 800 years ago, the "knight" in charge of the battlefield.

Therefore, once it comes to the real battlefield command link, although Clement is the supreme commander, the deployment of the entire Igor pioneer army is actually completely subject to the highest instructions of the lord, and in accordance with Karen Le Pegue. , Sean Mountbatten and several other staff officers' instructions——

——Juan Clemente, the supreme commander in name, has actually become the "shadow commander" of the pioneering army who has no real power.

Of course, the death knight is actually happy:
The 800-year life in a dead house has already cultivated Clement's indifferent temperament that does not admire glory;

Going to battle to kill the enemy when there is a battle, and playing chess and abusing food when there is no battle is a true portrayal of Clement's happy life.

Therefore, when the "Frost Maple Ridge Staff Department" led by Sean Mountbatten was formally established, the authority of the entire pioneering army was directly handed over to this military department directly under the lord and independent of the pioneering army.

This spectacle of the commander being emptied, and the staff taking over the role, even gave rise to a unique political joke in Shuangfengling:

One day, the painter of Shuangfengling created an oil painting called "Commander Clement Playing Chess";

What is surprising is that on the screen, there is actually a scene of a young officer drawing a battle plan on a map.

The audience asked: "Who is this young officer?"

The painter replied: "This is our esteemed Chief of Staff Sean Mountbatten."

The audience asked again: "Where is Commander Clement?"

The painter replied: "Commander Clement is playing chess!"

Even these days, with the expansion of the pioneering army, the staff department, which was initially carried by Sean Mountbatten, has gradually become difficult to support;

Therefore, Xia Houyan not only sent Alan Hotelling, who was familiar with the terrain of the wilderness, to Mountbatten's deputy, but also specially selected a group of smart and capable young political commissars, and placed them in the staff department as consultants.

——It is conceivable that once the war starts, the staff department, which is in charge of almost all military affairs in Shuangfengling, will definitely be very busy.

And Xia Houyan witnessed the expansion of Shuangfengling's staff organization, and then looked at the gray shoulder collar full of Germanic style that he designed for the pioneering army officers...

Ya can't help but feel a kind of historical emotion of reviewing the present and recalling the past.

Thankfully, despite the growing size of the General Staff, it was unlikely that the department would grow so large that it would jeopardize the balance of power in the Domain.

The reason for this is of course due to the fact that Sean Mountbatten is a pure consultant who only seeks to display his talents and does not seek power and status, and he is also grateful for the lord who sits in the middle:

The entire Frost Maple Ridge and the entire Igor family are able to have what they are today, all because of the Xiahou officials who pulled them out of the desperation of the infected area at the beginning, and earned one gold coin after another!
So in this land of broken souls, as long as the lord says "one plus one equals three", the guy who insists on "one plus one equals two" will absolutely not be able to survive!
His powers as Lord are unlimited!

In addition, Sean Mountbatten's staff is also restricted by two important departments in operation:

One is the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Mayor Joel:
All the financial expenditures of Shuangfengling will eventually have to pass under the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the accountants of the Vincent Palace. As long as Mayor Joel does not nod, the entire Igor pioneer army, including the staff, will not be able to survive. Even the military salary funds of a copper plate cannot be obtained;
The second is Tom Lawrence's pioneering army political department:
This department that belongs to the Pioneering Army in name has actually trained and educated almost all the political commissars in the Pioneering Army, and the latter is not only the command core in group battles, but also an important source of new junior officers——

——Whoever masters the theory masters the masses. This principle is also true in the Igor Pioneering Army.

And this kind of perverted and extremely weird military system, which seemed quite absurd to the serious soldiers of the empire, actually operated extremely smoothly and efficiently in Shuangfengling.

During these months of active preparations, the Pioneer Army not only maintained drills and daily tasks as usual, but also conducted three military exercises outside the Dongbingku.

Different from the previous bandit suppression wars, the enemies in this territory are real orc elite soldiers. It is doomed to fail to rely solely on the crushing tactics of the past that rely on the quality of individual soldiers and excellent equipment:

The orcs of the Glorious Federation are no longer the Wuxia Amon who drank blood hundreds of years ago. The quality and equipment level of the elite orcs may not be inferior to Igor's pioneering army.

Xia Houyan personally watched these three military exercises with obvious combat orientation.

To his delight, the performance of the three arms far exceeded his previous imagination.

The first unit is the crossbowman.

In the past, the Igor pioneer army was really troubled by the extreme lack of long-range firepower, and even had to let the soldiers pick up slings to fill up the urgently needed projectile firepower——

——This is mainly because the military training system of Frost Maple Ridge is too primitive, and it does not have the ability to train archers continuously and on a large scale like the regular army. Even Chris Mann is the only person who can serve as a bow and arrow instructor in the entire territory.

However, military assistance from Lord Paulus, the commander of the Confederate Army, filled this gap well:

The influx of a large number of imperial standard military crossbows has allowed a large number of soldiers to carry out crossbow arrows on the battlefield for long-range shooting with only a light training. Certain anti-heavy armor, anti-magic, anti-warcraft abilities;

It is true that the number of archers in the pioneering army is still very small, but this matter cannot be rushed after all——

——It is a huge improvement to have a group of new crossbowmen in the formation and no longer have to throw stones with slings.

The second class is the magician.

The nineteen elf mages brought by Calvino Spiritual Song master suddenly decorated the magic wasteland of Shuangfeng Ridge into a magic holy place where the elements shine brightly;

Together with Master Laurie, Lena Leslie and Wilson, and several original magicians in the territory, as well as a few wandering mages who have come to Frost Maple Ridge these days, a small Frost Maple Ridge can take out 30 people The above mage team!
This is definitely a luxury configuration that can make most territories vomit three liters of blood!
What's more, there is still a master lord hidden in the territory, who is powerful in necromancer magic and is arrogant...

With magicians, of course we should make good use of them. At the behest of the lord, the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" was officially established with Master Laurie as the part-time head and Spirit Master as the deputy head!
This Igor family's own mage group actually got its name from the elemental specialization of the two heads:

Although Master Laurie majored in spiritual magic, his old line of work was wind magic when he was young, and Calvino Spiritual Master was a water magician who was proficient in ice and snow magic. A blizzard as cold as Siberia—plus the fact that the two captains were from the north of the empire, the name "Northern Blizzard" was extremely apt.

However, the lord always feels that this name is unlucky, as if he is ready to run away and jump to the game industry at any time.

In the "East Bingku Military Exercise", this newly established territorial mage group immediately showed strong professionalism:
Except for the two magisters, the low-level mages successfully built a grass-roots version of the "Evans protective barrier" according to the previous training:
The eggshell-shaped translucent sky that opened above the heads of the mages in Frost Maple Ridge can consume the magic power in the mages' bodies to counteract elemental attacks. It also means that Frost Maple Ridge finally has the ability to resist the enemy's elemental attacks. The embarrassing "magic undefended" state.

In addition, the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" also successfully practiced how to use the low-level spells of the mages to shoot intensively, cover the spiritual master to sing long high-level spells, and give the final word to the battlefield-this tactic was exactly in the first place. In the Kemal Manor, the classic technique used by the magic elites of the Empire to kill the Scarlet Flame Vulture.

Although Xia Houyan felt that the hastily formed "Northern Blizzard Mage Corps" might not be able to cooperate so seamlessly on the battlefield, but the magical fireworks blooming over the writer's studio in Dongbingku, after all, are quite beautiful, aren't they?
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The third unit that shocked the lord was the undead creatures in Shuangfengling.

This secret force named "Yan Mo Blade" is composed entirely of undead creatures made by the lord. Currently, it includes the death knight "artificial man No. [-]" and eighteen elf ghosts. Centralized command in the West.

For reasons of confidentiality, "Yan Mo's Blade" did not participate in the large-scale military exercise in Shuangfengling, but conducted a small secret exercise under the watchful eyes of a few high-level officials after the pioneering army exercise——

——Although under the education of the Political Department, most pioneer soldiers have the materialistic concept of "whether it is taboo or mainstream, good magic is good magic if it is beneficial to the people", after all, Xia Houyan dare not let an army of undead appear rashly in front of people.

However, just this short secret exercise still shocked the high-level leaders of the territory for a whole year.

The undead creature pulled up by the lord with master-level magic, its combat power can literally throw ordinary zombies and ghosts out of the street;

During the exercise, the football king Messi didn't even make a move, and the "artificial man No. [-]" didn't have time to deceive the target. A small piece of woods that was the target of the exercise was eaten by eighteen ghosts like locusts in just five seconds. It became a bone-chilling, resentful no-man's land——

——If the opponent is replaced by an orc force, just this surprise attack by the "Blade of Yan Mo" is enough to carve out a death zone out of thin air in the enemy's formation!
What's more, ghosts without a physical body can still pass through the entity, and enter the army as if they are no one. Sean Mountbatten suggested more than once that the "Yama Blade" can be sent on the battlefield to pass through the small soldiers. Insert the enemy's headquarters, and perform a beheading operation in broad daylight!

As for the actual combat power of the death knight "Artificial Man No. [-]", there is basically no need to say more - how fierce is this heavily armored undead warrior? Gained enough experience.

All in all, after watching the three military exercises, Xia Houyan, who was full of confidence, said to Vilf that night, which was exactly the same as his expectation for the invading orc army:
"Are you enough people? The main skills are ten!"

(End of this chapter)