In Babulal City, where the Southwest Province Governor's Office is located, more than 300 kilometers northeast of Metro City, the atmosphere is much more tense than usual.
Five days ago, news of the fall of Mero City reached Babrar City. At first, people didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that this bold enemy would be easily crushed by the empire's army.
However, just yesterday, another shocking news came back. It was that all the 50,000 troops sent by the Governor's Palace to Metro City fell in Metro City, leaving only Yuan Army Commander Di Natale. The Marquis escaped alone.
This news immediately plunged the people of Babulal City into panic.
It can be said that the fall of Mero City was due to the careless underestimation of the enemy by the soldiers of the empire, but the 50,000 reinforcements sent by the Governor-General were the elite troops of the Southwest Province, and now they all fell in Mero City.
Are these enemies so powerful
"No, Your Majesty, the enemy this time is much stronger than you imagined." Marquis Di Natale looked at Duke Charles, the governor of the Southwest Province opposite, and added with a serious face: "Don't talk about me. The 50,000 reinforcements led by them are no match for them. I believe that even if all the troops in our southwest province are deployed, we will not be able to do anything to them. "
Duke Charles stared at the Marquis of Di Natale with a sullen face for a long time, still unable to help but have a hint of surprise in his eyes.
If he hadn't been with the Marquis of Di Natale for many years, and knew his character very well, and knew that he was not the kind of person who talks nonsense, let alone the kind of waste who deliberately exaggerates to cover up his failures, he would definitely not believe these words. .
What a joke!
It didn't matter that all the 30,000 troops stationed in Metro City were wiped out. Now, even the 50,000 elite soldiers he sent over actually returned defeated... Oh no, they didn't come back at all.
According to the situation reported by Marquis Di Natale, those damn New Flying Chamber of Commerce escorts didn't pay attention to their 50,000 people at all, and even attacked them as a waste of ammunition!
As for this statement, Marquis Di Natale not only had no intention of refuting it, but even said in front of him that even if all the troops in the Southwest Province were deployed, they would not be able to do anything to the opponent
"According to what you said, should I surrender to those guys from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce?" I thought of this. Duke Charles couldn't help but asked coldly with a hint of ridicule.
How could the Marquis of Di Natale not understand the meaning of Duke Charles' words? However, he could only helplessly smile bitterly and continued: "If the purpose of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is only to defeat all the resistance forces in our southwestern province. I I believe they can do it, but... their purpose doesn’t seem to be here.”
Duke Charles frowned deeply: "Then what do you think their purpose is? At least it's true that they captured Metro City, right?"
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, if they intend to capture Babral City, we will have no way of resisting them. They are really too..."
"Enough!" Duke Charles slammed the table angrily, interrupting the Marquis of Di Natale. "I've heard enough of your words that inflate the enemy's prestige! Now these enemies have captured Mero City. Do you still want me to stay here and do nothing and watch them do whatever they want?"
"Your Excellency, the fact is that we are unable to resist them..." Marquis Di Natale spread his hands helplessly. "I think we must admit that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has now mastered many powerful military magic machines that are beyond our reach. The combat effectiveness of both of us is not at the same level. If we insist on fighting them, we will only die in vain."
"So we are just waiting here for them to annex Mero City, and then annex other cities in our southwest province one by one, and finally swallow up Babrar City, swallow up the entire southwest province, and finally swallow up the entire empire? ?" Duke Charles said coldly.
"Of course not. I just... just think... Your Excellency, we should report the specific situation here to the military department and let the big shots in the military department make a decision, right?"
"You don't need to worry about this. I have already reported the massive invasion of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible. I believe that within a few days, the military will respond." At this point, Duke Charles suddenly whispered angrily. He cursed. "If those damn guys hadn't blocked it, we would have already built a magic communication network with the assistance of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce that can directly communicate with Wimbledon. Then there would be no need to wait for a communication like now. A few days."
Marquis Di Natale opened his mouth and decided to give up reminding Duke Charles. Duke Charles is one of those who hinders the New Flying Chamber of Commerce from assisting in building the magic communication network.
"Then, Your Majesty Duke, we are now..."
Duke Charles glanced at him and snorted coldly: "Of course we can't wait here for news from the military. And just sit back and watch Metro City ignore it. Di Natale, in three days, you will choose from the Fifth Army. Ten thousand people went to Metro City to provide support.”
Marquis Di Natale was stunned.
"Fifth Legion? Ten thousand people?"
The Marquis of Di Natale almost thought that Duke Charles was joking.
This so-called fifth legion is actually the last legion in the regular army of Southwest Province. It may be regarded as a regular army legion, but in fact the main task of this legion is to be responsible for logistics, engineering and other miscellaneous work. They are just miscellaneous soldiers with little combat experience and almost no combat ability without even complete weapons and equipment.
Not to mention sending only 10,000 people, even if the entire 5th Army, more than 40,000 people were sent to Mero City, the result would only be worse than the situation encountered by the previous 50,000 reinforcements.
"What? Don't you understand?" Duke Charles narrowed his eyes and asked the Marquis of Di Natale. "Do you want me to repeat that?"
Marquis Di Natale opened his mouth and was about to ask Duke Charles what considerations led him to send out the mere 10,000 men from the fifth legion as reinforcements. However, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the strange look on Duke Charles' face and suddenly My heart lit up and I understood.
"Yes, Your Majesty the Duke, I understand. But you only gave three days. Isn't it too urgent? I think it will take at least five days... No, it will take at least a week to prepare. After all, the enemy is very powerful, and if you are not prepared properly, you won’t have much chance of winning.”
Duke Charles showed a satisfied smile, shook his head slightly, and replied: "No need. The people of Metro City can't wait that long, and the big shots in the military can't wait that long. Three days is enough. , I believe the military will respond in three days.”
The Marquis of Di Natale still didn't understand what Duke Charles meant, so he immediately nodded and agreed.
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A week later, when the Marquis of Di Natale led the 10,000 soldiers of the Fifth Army who could not even maintain a complete marching formation, they slowly and leisurely arrived at a place five kilometers outside the city of Mero. He still stayed here and had set up camp. When the first batch of 50,000 reinforcements, which had been stationed for ten days, gathered, the news immediately spread to Mero City.
"Hey, it seems that these nobles in the Candela Empire are not fools. They know exactly what they should do."
Captain Hart just glanced at this information and immediately turned his attention away from it.
"Is there any movement in other areas? For example, there has been no response from the Candela Empire Military Department?"
"Hey, just three days ago, a bunch of idiots in the Candela Empire's military headquarters were still making noise. I don't believe they can come up with a result in these three days." Vice-captain Newnes looked disdainful. typical.
"So not all benefits come from having a country that is too big. You see, it is so difficult to make any decision now. Unfortunately, I really hope that they can be bolder and come up with countermeasures this morning. Otherwise, I'm going to get rusty if I stay here any longer." Captain Hart sighed.
"That's right. It doesn't matter if it's you, I'm bored to death these days." Niu Enxi also complained.
In the past few days since they captured Mero City, perhaps because the city lord, Earl Demps, fell under their control, no one in Mero City would come out to lead the resistance, so the people in the city were extremely honest, and there were no signs of unrest at all. , so much so that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort team, which had been prepared for this for a long time, did not even use a prepared plan.
Of course, according to intelligence, the Dempsey family has never been very kind to the people in the territory they rule. There was even a small riot just last year, so more than a thousand people Civilians were killed or injured.
In this case, perhaps the civilians of the Kandra Empire in the city would think that it was a good thing that Count Dempsey fell into the hands of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Captain Hart even believed that if they did not consider the purpose of this operation now, but aimed for occupation, then as long as they drove away the tens of thousands of Candela Empire troops outside, they would not need to waste much effort to conquer the United States. Luocheng is truly in the bag.
After all, when it comes to winning people's hearts, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has a unique advantage that no other force can match.
That is, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can very easily lead the economic development of a region, significantly improve the living environment of most people, and allow them to live a good life.
These people of the Candela Empire have no loyalty to their lords, and they probably have even less loyalty to the country of the Candela Empire.
If there was someone who could give them a much better life, it would be easy to gain their loyalty.
This was achieved by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in Bonta City before, and many times in the Principality of Standing.
Nowadays, the employees of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce are generally very loyal to the chamber of commerce. Their willingness to follow Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will always make their lives better and better.
Compared to continuing to stay under the lord and living a life without even being able to eat at will, who wouldn't know how to choose
Of course, before considering these issues, one must first solve the biggest obstacle, which is also the main purpose of the president's personal arrangement of this operation.
Perhaps sensing Captain Hart's thoughts, a guard in charge of communications suddenly ran over and loudly reported to Captain Hart.
"Reporting to the captain, a large number of high-energy reactions are coming from the northeast!" (~^~)