After the banquet, I lay alone on the bed and lamented my life! In addition to lamenting my own experience, I found it even more difficult to accept the result that I was eventually schemed against. . . Although this result was what I wanted to see. . . . .
Originally, I should be able to enjoy my life peacefully, but in fact, in order to eliminate hidden dangers, I still have to be busy. In addition to rebuilding the defense system for the Kingdom of Yan, I also have to conduct a large-scale cleanup of those who may pose a threat to my current identity. Of course, the first to bear the brunt are the East Continent coalition forces returning from the West Continent. I don't want those warriors who have fought with me dozens of times to point out my original identity in public.
I reached out and took out the note that Marit handed to me. I stared at the data on it in a daze. 720,000 troops from the Mocaster Empire, 30,000 magicians from the Yaen Kingdom who had fought with me before (the rest of the magicians had been shipped by sea in advance or returned to the Yaen Kingdom directly via long-distance flights), 400,000 troops from the Kastek Empire, 100,000 troops from the Senke Federation, including one Berserker Division...
Headache, I immediately felt a headache when I saw these data... 1.25 million troops, this is not something that can be swallowed up easily. With only 50,000 troops of my God's Legion, there is no way to swallow up 25 times the enemy's troops. And using the troops of the Kingdom of Yan was something I had never thought of. After all, during this war between humans and beastmen, it is unacceptable for me to provoke a civil war like this. Even if I can shut up most people and calm down the opposition in the country, and then
Do I have to use the Iron Fortress to attract the attention of the coalition forces, and then let them attack me? No, that won't work either. Not only will it expose the Iron Fortress, but it will also be more difficult to do nothing to cause annihilation to that army. After all, what I need is the annihilation of that army except the East Continent Army.
Slowly, after being puzzled for a long time, I had to give up the decision to make this plan in a short time. After all, it would not be possible for that army to officially return to the Western Continent in a short period of time. Not to mention whether they could break through the blockade of more than one million orcs, even the time they spent on the road would not be enough to complete the journey within ten days or half a month... Slow down, orc army... Thinking of this, I immediately outlined a brilliant plan in my mind...
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After outlining the plan, I immediately passed it to Queen Yaen, who was a hundred miles away, at noon the next day, and asked her to make some efforts to cooperate with this plan.
At the same time, I also started another round of armament replacement in the Holy City. A large number of new magic armors were equipped to the God's Legion, and the replaced equipment was divided between several remnant armies and the God's Legion. At the same time, in the God's Legion, there was an additional super-staffed magic artillery unit, consisting of 20,000 soldiers and 5,000 carriages loaded with a new generation of magic artillery. (1,500 artillery pieces, the rest are logistical supplies and ammunition. You can think of them as large-caliber mortarsī)
After this unit was formally incorporated into the God's Legion and trained for a week, the news I had hoped for finally came from the front. That was that Queen Yann and Emperor Mokast issued an order together, ordering the Western Expedition Coalition to no longer return to the Western Continent and join the domestic resistance against the orcs, but to shift their target to those orcs who blocked the Andrel Canyon. The final instruction was to delay the enemy and kill as many enemies as possible!
When the news was confirmed, I had to give up the happy time I had enjoyed for more than a week, and prepare to say goodbye to Princess Marit temporarily and prepare to go to Andler to close the net.
"What? Xiang is going to go to the war himself? Can't the generals under you, or Lord Victor, go in Xiang's place? Yiya, didn't you say that Xiang's subordinates are all great?" After hearing the purpose of my visit, Princess Marit, who had just driven the maid out of the room, immediately became very unwilling, and even instigated Yiya to speak up, trying to get someone else to go to the war in my place.
"What's wrong? Didn't Her Royal Highness the Princess tell me last night to get away from her as a bully? How come she changed her mind in less than a day? Could it be that the Princess can't bear to leave me?" Since there were only three of us in the room, Iya, Princess Mariette and I, I didn't try to avoid suspicion and directly brought up Princess Mariette's words from the night before to tease her, and then I held both of them in my arms.
"I don't miss certain people! I'm just worried that the country will be treated badly without those sinister villains, so I just reminded them..." Although she refused to admit it verbally, after these few days of contact, plus my previous understanding of Princess Mariette, I know that she is indeed worried about me. In the midst of two armies with a strength of one million, there is a force of less than 100,000. In the eyes of everyone, this is a mortal army.
"Princess, it's because this battle is too dangerous that I'm worried about Xiang. I have to go out in person to feel at ease! Think about the hundreds of battles our Xiang has fought in the past. Has he ever been hurt at all? In the end, weren't the troops against him suffering heavy casualties? You can let him go without worry. As soon as there is a result, Yiya will let Shen Qiang and others clean up the mess and let the princess' baby return to the Holy City to reunite with the princess immediately..." Seeing Mariette's aggrieved face, I immediately winked at Yiya, and the latter immediately explained to Princess Mariette.
"Yiya, you are such a heartless person... If I hadn't promised to let you stay with Xiang, and promised not to be jealous of you and Xiang being together every day. But you actually want to take this opportunity to monopolize him... No, I want to go this time too, to Andreel with you!"
"Puff!" I just took a few sips of the tea on the table, and Princess Mariette's last words made me spray like a can. Although I thought I knew Mariette, I never dared to imagine that Mariette, who had always been rational, would make such a request. After all, she was the only heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Yan.
"No, absolutely not..." Before I could open my mouth, Iya, who was frightened by Princess Mariette, immediately stammered and began to object. But soon, Iya stopped talking, because Mariette had already cast her eyes at me angrily.
"Okay, but you must obey me completely from the time you set out until you return to the Holy City, otherwise I will immediately send you back to the Holy City or the capital. Can you agree to this condition?" Without much thought, I unexpectedly agreed to Princess Mariette. Because I know my own situation. After all, my main purpose this time is not to directly participate in the war, so the danger is not as it appears on the surface. In addition, after mastering the magic of teleportation, I am no longer worried about the safety of a few people in the army. After all, as long as I have a few minutes, I can instantly teleport those who need protection to a safe place.
However, when the head of the guards sent by Queen Yaen to protect Princess Marit learned of this, this move immediately shocked the high officials in the Holy City. Although on the surface, the reason for my expedition was to assist the coalition forces in dealing with the orcs, all the high officials in the Holy City were worried about Princess Marit going with the army.
After all, the over one million beast troops are not vegetarians. Although they have suffered serious blows in terms of supplies and morale, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. No one has absolute confidence in relying on the same number of human troops to deal with the orcs in the plains and mountainous areas. (To be continued)