Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 417: No War on the Eastern Front

Under the arrangement of Grand Duke Rosario, the "Frost Maple Ridge Workers' Art Troupe" with mighty strength and martial virtues set up camp at the northernmost side of the Tumu Fort camp and settled down.

The reason why the scum from Frost Maple Ridge was placed at the northern end of the camp is actually a little bit of Grand Duke Rosario's careful thinking:
The imperial barracks, which stretched for several miles, were divided into two parts: the north and the south:
In the south, the Imperial Central Army under the Marquis of Lane Grant is stationed;

To the north, there are the Eastern Army under the command of Grand Duke Rosario and the soldiers of Rose City.

The Grand Duke was afraid that Ryan Grant, who was dissatisfied with the Duke of Shuangfengling because of the wandering mage, would take the opportunity to trouble the people of Shuangfengling, so when arranging the camps, he deliberately separated the camps of the two parties to avoid troubles.

However, after hearing the Grand Duke's explanation, Xia Houyan laughed dumbly instead:
In the face of a powerful enemy of the Federation, everyone is a brotherly army guarding the empire. If the commander of the central army, Marquis Grant, really had a conflict with his allies at this moment, he would be too mentally retarded——Of course Grand Duke Rosario is doing it for Shuangfeng. For the sake of Ling, but it is a bit too cautious.

Xia Houyan concluded from experience that a dignified commander of the Imperial Army should not be so boring...

……Bar?

After settling down the thugs from Shuangfengling with guns and clubs, Grand Duke Rosario smiled and invited Xiahou officials to enter the civil fort and visit the imperial army.

Xia Houyan was naturally happy to agree - this time he led his troops to the front line, he had never thought of going through life and death for the empire, to help the Grand Duke Rosario support the crowd, and to observe the imperial war at a close distance, this is the real thing:
Now that Grand Duke Rosario offered to invite him to visit the army as a military observer, how could he refuse?

Therefore, the lord of Frost Maple Ridge followed Grand Duke Rosario step by step and marched towards the Tumu Castle.Alice, who was in charge of protecting him, held the guard on the hilt of his sword by his side.

After entering the Tumu Fortress, all he saw along the way were soldiers from the Eastern and Central Armies who were armed with weapons and trained carefully. What surprised Xia Houyan was that even after two years of hard work, these imperial soldiers still did not recover from the pain of the war. After a setback, he shouted slogans with extra effort.

Looking at these imperial soldiers, Grand Duke Rosario also looked a little proud.He smiled and said to the senior official Xiahou:
"Behind this civil castle are Yongri City and Sanshuiwan. The children in the civil castle who are working hard to prepare for war are volunteers recruited locally by the empire in the East over the past two years, as well as those who have been occupied by orcs. Vengeful warriors. They trained hard, and I didn't organize a team to welcome you—there is too much red tape on the front line, which is not good."

"That's what you said." Xia Houyan stared at these imperial soldiers for a while, and laughed loudly, "In this way, it is the ceasefire agreement I made that prevented these imperial warriors from unleashing revenge on the federal orcs!"

Grand Duke Rosario's already slightly aged face suddenly became more bitter.

"Where." The Grand Duke said sadly, "Without your ceasefire agreement, we don't know where all our bones are buried now."

Grand Duke Rosario pondered for a moment, took an imperial army standard sword from an imperial corporal beside him, drew the sword out of its sheath, reversed the blade, and handed the hilt to Xia Houyan:
"Eliott, look, this is our elite unit, the main individual weapon used now is the Sword of Dawn."

I still have "Jacky Cheung's sword"... Xia Houyan rolled his eyes, took the long sword in the Grand Duke's hand, first inspected the smooth spine of the sword in the strong sunlight, then pulled out a few hairs and put them on the sword. On the blade, it was broken when blown, and they floated down to the ground one after another.

"The color is like frost and snow, and the box spits out lotus flowers! What a sword!" Xia Houyan, holding a sword flower in his hand, praised him-now he is no longer a bumpkin who just arrived in another world. With a little understanding, it is natural to see that these long swords are of great value.

Rosario watched the lord of Frost Maple Ridge wielding his sword for a while, and said with some emotion:

"The material used to cast this batch of standard sabers is the 'Qiming Steel' from the 'Tianhe Mine' seventy miles north of Rose City. In 300 years, I made my fortune and became rich by relying on these magical weapons bestowed by the Holy Spirit. Elliott, if the Burning Crystal Canyon falls, I would rather blow up that 'Tianhe Mine' than let it fall to the orcs hands."

"Blowing up mines, I'm good at this." Xia Houyan shrugged, and handed back the three-foot green point in his hand to the corporal of the Dongfang Army, "You won't believe me if I tell you, I have a mine in my hand, don't blow it up." It might all collapse..."

Grand Duke Rosario didn't listen to his nonsense, and took a few steps forward, pointing at the Griffon Airrider hovering in the air:
"Look at these griffin air cavalry again—there are only a thousand griffin beasts that have been successfully tamed in the entire empire, and the 'Lancaster Air Force Wing' of our Eastern Army accounts for a total of 210 of them. Three hundred. In the past two years, I have lost countless lands, but the only thing I am proud of is that I have successfully preserved the flesh and blood of this imperial air cavalry—now, the "Stuka Griffin Group" of the Central Army has followed the Wo Baron Wolfgang's entire army was wiped out, but the "Lancaster Air Force Wing" of our Eastern Army still has [-] eight Griffin Sky Knights. Without them, I really don't know how to deal with the orcs Ice Demon Mammoth."

Following the instructions of Grand Duke Rosario, Xia Houyan stared intently at the snow-white belly and yellow sharp claws of the aerial griffin, and greedily licked his lips.

For a long time, his regret for the military power of the territory is that apart from allowing wind magicians to temporarily lift people into the air, Frost Maple Ridge does not actually have any standing air power, and almost everyone has to rely on two legs. Fight each other on the ground.

The representative of the empire's air force, the Griffin Air Cavalry, has always been the exclusive arm of the regular army of the Empire. The major territories have no right to get involved. Raising and domesticating Griffin beasts without permission is also a felony written in the laws of the Empire.

Even if he is as strong as the Grand Duke Rosario, his Griffin Air Cavalry is also part of the Eastern Army, not his private soldiers in Rose City—once he resigns as the commander of the Eastern Army one day, "The Lancaster Air Force United Team" will also be returned to the Empire as it is.

In the war on the Haven Continent, whether it is the human griffin air cavalry, the orc's bipedal dragon knight, or the demon's dark moon air knight, they are not the main force in the battle, but often play the role of scouts in the air, fighting to death. The only thing is to throw a few incendiary bombs on the ground.

But Xia Houyan, as a foreign monk whose home is on Earth, naturally understands the importance of air supremacy better than these Hai Wen guys:
Among other things, the vine tree fuel oil, a specialty of the Land of Cracking Soul, is powerful enough to make General Li Mei feel ashamed after filling it into an incendiary bomb, but Shuangfengling suffers from the lack of suitable projection methods;

Xia Houyan actually asked the Manhattan Laboratory to find a way to build a prototype aircraft before, but the current progress is not optimistic-the mechanical engine powered by Fujimoto tree fuel is too complicated in structure, far beyond the capabilities of this group of aliens. The manipulative ability of rough men;
And if you want to use magic to drive the plane, not to mention the technical issues, the energy efficiency ratio can't compete with these magical beasts on the Haven continent that almost don't have to worry about battery life-griffins can not only use magic power to assist flight, but can also achieve flapping wings. Stop, on the battlefield, it is actually much more flexible than fixed-wing aircraft on Earth.

Therefore, if Frost Maple Ridge can have an extra griffin cavalry team, the improvement of the territory's combat power will undoubtedly be revolutionary.

Is there any way to abduct Rosario's Griffin team without anyone noticing?Xia Houyan stared at the belly of the griffin in the air, his mind full of wild thoughts.

The Grand Duke on the side didn't know that the upright young nobleman next to him had already started plotting in his heart, and he walked forward while explaining the existing military configuration of the Eastern Army.

Under the leadership of Grand Duke Rosario, Xia Houyan visited the "Cromwell Annihilator" array of the Eastern Army, the "Cleveland" War Knights, the "Scorching Sun Rose" mage group, and the "Unbreakable Fortified City" all the way. A brigade of heavily armed soldiers, and a whole regiment of "White Death" dwarf musketeers from the Chillbone Mountains in the north.

At the beginning, Xia Houyan still coveted the good things in the hands of the Dongfang Army, but later on, he became more and more frightened.

It has to be said that since the appeasement of the wasteland and the successive victories in several battles against the federal orcs, the Xiahou official himself is inevitably proud and complacent, and has a bit of a stinky thought in his heart that "the world is better than me", but at this moment seeing Luo Sario's elite soldiers and strong generals, he woke up instantly as if being poured by a basin of ice water:

The soldiers currently stationed in the civil fortress are the only remnants and defeated soldiers of the Eastern Army of the Empire after two years of hard fighting and bloody fighting, but their battles can still make Xia Houyan look fascinated—if they change In the heyday of the Eastern Army, Shuangfengling's poor family property was not enough to give Duke Rosario a gap in his teeth!

The orc division that Shuangfengling fought against before is not insignificant, but it can only be regarded as a pawn of the main federal force-not to mention, when facing the "Hammer of Purgatory" and "Pride of the God of War", Frost Maple Ling can be regarded as taking advantage of the right time, place and people to win the hearty victory that will shine in the annals of history.

But this small achievement is not enough to put it in front of the regular army that really matters the life and death of the people in the battle of survival of the Imperial Federation.

If there hadn't been an epic battle in the Burning Crystal Canyon, how could the Frost Maple Ridge Expeditionary Force have entered the hinterland of the Federation like no one?The victory of the Igor family on the battlefield in the southern border was actually dragged out by countless soldiers from the eastern border with their own lives—this sounds cruel, but it is an irrefutable fact.

Xia Houyan, who was secretly fascinated by the strong family background of the regular imperial army, also noticed a special detail:

Every time the Grand Duke Rosario introduced a part of the armed forces of the Eastern Army, he would immediately tell the lord what to do with the remaining troops and important resources once the Burning Crystal Canyon fell and the orcs marched westward with drums:
For example, Grand Duke Rosario frowned and pointed out that the "Cromwell Annihilator" should stay at the top of the civil castle until the last moment. But it must never be taught to others—at the last moment, it is better to let the military police kill these siege engineers than let them be captured by the federal army;
For another example, when passing by the "White Death" dwarf musketeers, Grand Duke Rosario quietly told the lord that these legendary brothers from the north are the brother troops supported by the dwarves to the imperial royal family, and they must be the first to withdraw. Out on the battlefield - these dwarves would pose a considerable diplomatic problem for the Empire if they died in battle;
For another example, Grand Duke Rosario rubbed his hands on the heavy steel armor of an "Unbreakable City" soldier for a long time, and finally shook his head and sighed, saying that if these "Kingdom Heart" steel armor fell into the hands of orcs, it would be a mess. Big trouble, but soldiers are going to wear armor on the battlefield after all, there is nothing to do about it.

All in all, when Grand Duke Rosario talked about it all the way, Xia Houyan could hear a little taste of dying in the air, and he couldn't help being horrified.

Although the Grand Duke Rosario usually looks heroic and dry, in the heart of the veteran general of the empire, he may have already made preparations for the fall of the canyon and the shroud in horse leather.

However, although Grand Duke Rosario's tone along the way seemed to be entrusting an isolated will, Xia Houyan waited patiently for a long time. The commander of the Eastern Army of the Empire, however, never said the most crucial sentence "Your Majesty, you can let yourself go!" Pick"……

This made an unscrupulous lord who coveted Big Brother's inheritance unavoidably sigh.

……

To the southwest of Tumu Fortress, the camp of the Imperial Central Army.

Captain Greenspan stepped on a box containing the "Vulcan Burning Arrow", held the dark moon glass telescope in his hand, and looked at the group of troops in the distance.

Several Central Army non-commissioned officers on the side looked at Captain Greenspan expectantly, and when he put down the binoculars, they immediately leaned forward and asked impatiently:

"how is it going?"

Captain Greenspan put the binoculars back into his belt, picked up a black bottle of whiskey from the side, took a sip, and cursed:

"It looks like a bunch of trash, and I don't know what it is to be arrogant! Look at these wilderness bastards, they are all dressed up like a bunch of fucking actors! I don't know where they got the courage to put their yellow bird flag Pull it higher than a hanging!"

The non-commissioned officers of the Central Army on the side also said in one voice:
"Exactly! We sacrificed countless brothers here, and finally repelled the federal attack. As a result, these southern savages came here to pick peaches!"

"Damn, a family that once betrayed His Majesty the Emperor is so awesome!"

"The Igor family's useless gang must have killed a few orc stragglers in the south, thinking that they are great!"

"I'll go talk to them!" Captain Greenspan put down the bottle, and said loudly through drunkenness, "I have to tell these newcomers, who is in charge of the Burning Crystal Canyon!"

This group of central army non-commissioned officers were originally idle during the ceasefire period, just looking for something to talk about casually, but they were actually a little jealous of the Igor family's rise to fame in the past few months.Seeing that Captain Greenspan was really going to take the initiative to provoke trouble, they immediately lost their souls like a network keyboard man approached by a real person, and quickly stopped the drunken Captain Greenspan, saying incessantly:

"Wait! Wait! If you find fault in the past, Lord Marquis Grant will be angry!"

"Master Grant doesn't care about me!" Captain Greenspan sneered, "You don't know, because of the wandering mages in Lianhua Ridge, Lord Grant hates the bastards of the Igor family. Itchy! I'm going, that's also to vent my anger on Lord Grant! Make way!"

A group of non-commissioned officers were still in a daze, but Captain Greenspan had already pushed aside the soldiers blocking the way, and headed towards the camp of the Shuangfengling Labor Art Troupe step by step.

The rest of the non-commissioned officers looked at each other for a moment, then hurriedly picked up the guy and followed up.

(End of this chapter)