The king's writ, half speech and half command, was arranged to spread as quickly as possible through Legrand.
The public's surging dissatisfaction was finally suppressed. Everyone knows that General Sheehan was originally the most important general of the king. He had planned an assassination attempt against the king, but the king forgave him and appointed him as the general of his first personal soldiers, the Iron Rose. Since then, the king's attention to General Sheehan has been quite remarkable. Not only did he appoint him as the main general of the Chinese army during the northern rebellion, but Legrand also handed over the decision-making power of the southeastern defense line to him at the beginning of this battle.
Some people even joked in private that if General Sheen didn't have the iconic silver-haired blue eyes of the Rose family, it would make people suspect that General Sheen was also the king's other brother, otherwise how could the king love him so much.
And now, the cowardice of General Sheen has led to the occupation of the southeast coast by the Holy Army, which undoubtedly made the king furious.
Pursuing positions, titles and territories, these punishments conveyed the king's rage and determination - in the face of the lives of Legrand's people, he would not be biased even by the generals he valued the most.
The king even divided his most important general with punishment so severe that it could be called a pillar of shame, and General Sheehan, who led to the fall of the southeast coast, has died at the hands of the people of Bubas. Public anger It finally calmed down.
In the public writ, the king said: "In the name of the monarch of Legrand, I beseech all the people of Legrand, wherever you may be, to fight to the end the enemies who have invaded their homes. Legrand's future is in the hands of all of us. "In the face of national disaster, it has played an unprecedented appeal.
All over the country, inspired by "Legrand's future is in all of us", even half-aged children have taken up rudimentary weapons.
General Sheehan ordered the rose cavalry to evacuate Bubas, which led to the occupation of the southeast coast by the Sea Holy Army. One of the important reasons for such widespread and intense anger is that it made the Legrand people unprecedentedly aware of what if this time What fate will they usher in if the war fails.
He was slaughtered, plundered, enslaved, and lost his dignity.
The advance of the Holy Army of the Sea was blocked by the Kaya Mountains and the fortresses and castles of the Kyabang Kingdom. And when they scattered their troops to the towns and villages, as before, to supply themselves with looted materials, they found that everyone in this country was going crazy.
In the Holy Army of the Sea, the head of the countries of the Abyss Alliance, Verduane recorded the changes during this period in his personal diary. At the end of summer, they were still basking in their victories, and by the time autumn came, they had already felt the chill of the country on the edge of their blade.
"...we were dragged in this southeast, and our soldiers had little way of dispersing when they were scavenging. Because once a soldier was left alone,...the mobs would attack us. Although those people's weapons were clumsy, they had no Martial arts, but they don't begrudge their lives."
"Some of our soldiers have begun to panic, do we ourselves think that the soldiers are really devout people who fight to find the glory of the Lord? Lord! Don't we know what they are actually? How many poor ghosts, bankrupt households, thieves and robbers are mixed in the ranks of the Holy Army..."
"They didn't come to invite the idols to the roses. They came here through the Abyss Strait to make a fortune. If they don't even have their lives, what's the use of more money?"
"We have to figure out a way to fix this."
A few days after writing this diary, Wilduin was attacked by a team armed by townspeople when he was leading his soldiers to scrape the local forage.
The most disturbing thing is that among their attackers, a boy who had not yet reached an adult's chest was caught, holding the hilt of the broken sword in his hand, and looking at them with a completely different look. child.
"My dad died and my brother died, so I took up their swords."
The boy said that before he died.
War was supposed to be a stage for adults, but now children have also picked up guns and knives.
As Legrand King Purland said in his open letter:
The traitor should die, and the whole country will fight.
This is a real national war.
On the southeast coast, compared to the entire Legrand territory, this section is like a sealed territory, and every piece of land is watered with blood.
"no doubt."
Wilduane, who once commanded the soldiers to massacre the city and shouted "Cheers" when he captured the port of Kossoa, wrote the following line in his diary with trembling hands that night:
"This country is crazy."
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The summer is over and the autumn solstice is over. In what should have been the harvest season, the wind blew across the open field.
The Holy Land Holy Army landed, and Legrand's main army also arrived at the predetermined front line in the middle. The two armies were about to confront each other, and the frontal battle was imminent.
In the operational conference room in Yolin County, the staff officers were arguing fiercely. Unlike before, it was not just the senior generals who stood in the operational conference room. In the words of one veteran, "the people involved in the discussion of war decisions seem to have everything."
This sentence is a little exaggerated, but generally correct.
With the permission of the king, not only the generals, but also the heads of the spy organizations, the ministers of the Legrand Transportation Department previously established by the king, members of the local public affairs committee commonly known as "Black Wings", and crazy military designers. , the number-brained Royal Academy scientists... Strange things to traditional generals.
But their king used to be a tyrant, and his wayward temper doesn't seem to have changed much now.
In this war, the king used coercive means to force his officers to quickly accept a new model of military planning. In the past war plans, there were too many temporary intentions after the war started. This time, the king was determined to ask his officers to theoretically formulate different operational plans for each war they were about to face, and these operational plans also took into account many factors.
He would even have the Royal Academy's accompanying mathematicians involved in the war do their best to calculate the attrition and distribution of their supplies and weapons...
In the past wars, it can be said that most of the time, the army did not have the concept of "logistics system", which was often a confused account. And this time, the group of mathematicians and quartermasters were doing their best to sort out the mess with their hair. [1]
May the soul of Legrand bless these poor people, and hope that they will not be tortured to the point of going crazy and want to jump over the city wall.
However, it is quite unaccustomed, but we rarely have any complaints.
Because the king has always been with them, and spent one sleepless night next to the battle map.
Although the king's arrangements have a "tyrant" dogma, he does not seem to have the idea of being a dogmatic tyrant from start to finish on the march.
Except for some key unexpected moments, he will make the most decisive choice with an irrefutable attitude - one that is often proved correct after the fact, at least to the greatest benefit. At other times, he is more of a role that listens to many ideas and then gives his own evaluations and opinions.
His military flair is astonishing, often sharp and relentless in pointing out the biggest flaws in every seemingly "perfect" battle plan.
Under normal circumstances, too young monarchs often don't get any preferential treatment from experienced veterans. Although they had to maintain a superficial respect, that didn't stop the general's private suspicions. If a monarch who is too young wants to build his own prestige, there is no better choice than leading his army to a rousing victory, and who can guarantee that every monarch is an outstanding military strategist
However, the king is not among them.
Kings like Mad King Henry, Lion King Charles, William III... Like them, they have excellent military talents at a young age, the counterattack outside the city of Tru, the final word of the change of roses, the last battle outside the city of Banz, the rebels in the north. Perfectly flat... Apart from his status as a monarch, this string of dazzling achievements is enough to make any general respect him.
Sometimes, the generals couldn't help but speculate whether the heroic soul of the entire Qiangwei family was passed down from generation to generation. Throughout the Qiangwei family's epic of kings, there were many monarchs who had outstanding military exploits at a young age. When the generals of other countries faced the poor monarchs of their own royal family who had inflated their self-confidence and actual ability, they would probably be envious of Legrand's generals.
The veterans are keen to listen to the king's opinion, and they are happy that their opinion is taken seriously by the king - although, he may not take it.
"I think the Knights Templar should take the Kava Plain, their marching speed is faster than the Eternal Legion..."
"But Pope Siold is here, the Knights Templar are the most elite troops, and they can't possibly leave the vicinity of the Pope..."
The battle room was chaotic and noisy.
The king stood in front of the battle map, with his hands on the table, and looked at the map in thought without saying a word.
After they successfully annihilated the main force of the Eternal Knights and destroyed the vanguard of the Holy Army of the Holy Land, the king recovered several cities that were previously controlled by the Holy Army with the help of several cities. This has been of great help to the beginning of the frontal war. Losing the unique geographical location of Jolin County, even if Siold wanted to make a quick decision, the speed of travel had to be slowed down.
The significance of Jolin County to the Holy Army of the Holy Land is that it is the junction between the tributaries of Doma and the main river. With Jolin County, the Holy Army can transport supplies by water. In the case of foreign operations like Legrand, this is the most secure transportation line.
But now, the transport line was blocked in advance by the king.
Right now, the most important thing for them is to judge where Pope Siold's first big move will fall after landing at Legrand.
The author has something to say: [1] Regarding logistics in the Middle Ages, it is mentioned in the explanation of war looting in Chapter 151, you can find it