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There has been enough bad news recently, the most elite Warcraft legion is gone again, and Pius VII almost didn't come up in one breath.

The anti-French war has been going on until now, and none of the parties has suffered any losses, except for the Holy See family who are being beaten.

Although the Holy See has been declining over the years, it is also one of the two top forces of the human race, but the performance gap between the two on the battlefield is too big.

The fall of Saintes Port can also be inferred that the main force was not in the country and was caught off guard by the Franks.

After all, they defended the holy mountain. Although the defense was a little bit difficult and the loss was a little bit big, they finally managed to hold on.

It's different now, the terrain dragon army, known as the most elite of the human race, was directly scrapped by the enemy in a single battle.

It would be too much to justify.

Being ambushed on their own territory, even if they say it, it can only prove that they are stupid.

"Pass down the order, immediately arrange for people to gather up the remaining defeated soldiers, and keep as many seeds as possible!

Inform the returning troops to be vigilant and to prevent the enemy from repeating the same tactics. "

Pius VII, who came back to his senses, hurriedly ordered.

The defeat has already been eaten, so it is necessary to minimize the loss as much as possible.

No one expressed any objection to the pope's caution.

Today is different from the past. After a series of failures, the confidence of the Holy See's senior officials in their own army has been severely lacking.

Theoretically speaking, they still have hundreds of thousands of main forces, enough to keep all the Franks' army behind, but everyone dare not bet.

If there is another big defeat, not only will the status of the top forces in the human race be lost, but even the positions of the second and third children will be robbed.

At least from the perspective of military strength, neither the Kingdom of Iberia nor the Kingdom of Alpha will take them seriously, and even some of the kingdoms below can compare with them.

As for the advantage of high-end power, it is a deterrent force and cannot be easily used.

Especially in the civil war of the human race, the restrictions are even greater.

Even if they dared to break the rules, at most they would sneak up on the black hand.

If the evidence is caught and brought to the Human Race Alliance Council for discussion, it will cost a heavy price.

This is completely different from Hudson leading people to do things in the orc prairie before.

When it comes to the outside world, the strong people of the human race protect the calf, and these regulations are mainly to protect the vitality of the human race.

……

Bad news always spread quickly, and the news spread to the whole continent just a few days after the end of the war.

There are those who are happy, those who are frustrated, and those who don't care. The reactions of all parties are different.

However, under these reactions, there is a consensus reached by all parties: the Holy See is a parallel importer!
There is no way, the collision of the two top forces, I thought it was a peak duel, but I didn't expect it to be a one-sided massacre.

If they can't even beat one of their partial divisions, it would be a joke to classify the Holy See and the Frankish Kingdom in the same category.

This kind of change, the most stimulating is naturally the anti-French alliance.

The absolute main force with high hopes failed to defeat the Franks, and the pressure fell on them.

It's too late to regret, and there is no child's play in politics.

Now that he has joined the anti-French alliance, even if there are mountains of swords and flames ahead, he must bite the bullet and go on.

There are many big forces in the anti-French alliance. Without the Holy See, there are several other kingdoms on top.

As the backbone of the alliance, Bordeaux VIII is mixed.

Without the Holy See adding to the chaos, the domination of the anti-French alliance went much smoother, at the cost of needing itself to be the main force.

This is not a prevarication by all parties, but a genuine helplessness.

All countries have sent troops in accordance with the covenant, but this is only in sufficient quantity, and the quality is still worrying.

Frankly speaking, there are actually a lot of elite soldiers sent by all parties this time, and they are quite capable of fighting on local battlefields alone.

After gathering together, the coalition's combat effectiveness is -1-1-1...

The generals of various countries can only command their own soldiers, and mutual cooperation is just a political slogan.

The most pitiful thing is that there are still people in the alliance who are interested in the Frankish Empire. Infiltrating into the alliance is a professional delay.

He was promoted to the position of leader all of a sudden, and what he took over was a mess. Bordeaux VIII was already in a difficult situation.

If it weren't for the dominance of the alliance and Ilibia's eagerness to unseat the Franks, he would have given up the fight long ago.

"How is the coordination of the coalition forces? When will we be able to launch a general offensive?"

Bordeaux VIII asked concerned.

In multi-party joint military operations, military command authority is the most unsolvable problem.Although the human race has experience in uniting and using troops against foreign races, in a racial civil war, many rules still have to be overthrown and restarted.

What complicates command is essentially human nature.

When facing alien races, everyone should think twice before cheating teammates. If you play too much, you will easily be charged with colluding with alien races. If the battle collapses, you will accompany yourself in it.

In contrast, the crime of colluding with the Franks is much smaller, at least it will not be condemned in conscience, and it doesn't matter if you lose a battle.

Referring to the previous human civil wars, the loser usually pays a ransom to settle.This time I suffered a loss, the big deal is to wait a few years to recover my strength and fight again.

The confrontation between the Franks and the Holy See was already the most brutal civil war in human history, and there were still a lot of prisoners.

In private, the two have negotiated the ransom price.In addition to the tragedy of ordinary soldiers, noble officers waited until the end of the war and paid the ransom to go home.

It's quite funny to say that if you become a deserter, you will be held accountable, but if you become a prisoner, nothing will happen.

"Your Majesty, things are a little troublesome!

With the full coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all parties have now prepared to establish a joint command, and we have successfully obtained the largest say.

The main problem now is: everyone is worried that after we launch an offensive with all our strength, the Franks will not be able to withstand the pressure and will withdraw their troops from the Papal State.

We have also communicated with the Holy See, and they promised that they would hold back the Frankish army in the territory and prevent them from coming back to add chaos to the coalition forces.

However, the reputation of the Holy See has collapsed in recent years. The stronger their promises, the less people believe them.

Some countries even proposed: first contain the main force of the Franks, and wait for the Papal War to end before fighting the enemy to avoid being taken advantage of! "

Earl Midford replied helplessly.

These are the sequelae of the Battle of the Holy Mountain!

The Kingdom of Ruthenia, which was originally infiltrated by the Holy See and almost completely controlled, realized that the boss was weak, and found that he could still struggle, so he decisively gave them a wave of backstabs.

The effect was very obvious. With the efforts of the Ruthenians, the time for the Alliance to attack the Frankish Empire was dragged down.

"Let's launch a general attack as soon as possible. After suffering such a big loss, the Holy See should not dare to mess around this time!"

Bordeaux VIII thought for a while and said.

The fisherman's profit also needs the support of strength.With the performance of the Holy See army on the battlefield, it does not have the strength to be a fisherman at all.

Compared with the Holy See, it is actually aliens who are more worthy of vigilance.It's just that the world of alien races is no worse than that of human races.

Because of productivity, this wave of epic natural disasters has a greater impact on alien races.

The autumn harvest was not as expected. After winter, many people of foreign races were caught in a food crisis. However, the rich and powerful of the foreign races did not take the suffering of the bottom people seriously.

The accumulated social contradictions have created opportunities for the development of cult organizations, and each of them is busy suppressing internal rebellions at the moment.

In contrast, the performance of the human race is much better.While serfdom restricts the development of productivity, it also increases the ability to resist risks.

If there is not enough food to eat, the serfs can still be sold off. Now there are several big forces in the market, and they are openly buying serfs.

Serfs have very low desires, as long as they can eat, they have no motivation to make trouble.

Following the cult, mainly bankrupt freemen.

This is not enough to stop the smart nobles, as long as they react quickly enough and sell them as serfs in advance, the problem will be solved.

Once the thinking pattern is opened, there will be money everywhere.The original crisis of suppressing the cult rebellion was turned into a business.

An interesting scene appeared. The refugees in the southern continent who were coerced by the cult basically all went to the Frankish Empire and the Kingdom of Iberia, and less than one-tenth went to the Kingdom of Alpha.

The refugees from the Central Continent were diverted to the Alpha Kingdom and the Principality of Moxi.

When the person who caused the problem is gone, the problem will naturally be solved.The massive cult rebellion, with the reduction of reserve forces, has gradually entered a low period.

Even if the evil gods work hard to output, unfortunately, the power they can feedback is still limited.

The believers who were forcibly promoted, after experiencing a large number of killings, many people can no longer control their own power, and directly become lunatics.

There are advantages and disadvantages, the influx of a large number of foreign population, the biggest problem is the increase in food consumption.

Added to the war that just broke out, several countries that wantonly bought serfs, the current life is actually not very easy.

As the commander-in-chief of the front line, Hudson has made many protests to the Kingdom government on the food issue.

The military rations on the front line are naturally guaranteed, but they are still far from the one million tons of military rations that Hudson requested.

The nobles of the kingdom have tried their best. Because of the large amount of support for the development of the Near East, the grain reserves in everyone's warehouses are not so abundant.

After leaving what they need, the amount that can be provided to the front line is far less than the previous two wars.

Of the four logistics charging treasures, three were busy with the civil war, and one also purchased a large number of serfs, which consumed a lot of food.

In this context, in addition to the promise of the Principality of Moxi: to provide 30 tons of food to the Alpha Kingdom within a year, it is more up to the Alpha Kingdom to find a way to solve it.

30 tons of grain sounds like a large number, but if it is actually transported to the front line in the Near East, there will be [-] tons left, which is due to the outstanding performance of the logistics department.

Land transportation has always been very expensive.This is also the core reason why countries abandon the human sea tactics and take the quality route instead.

Hudson calculated that with the current strategic material reserves on the front line, it is not bad for a defensive battle. If you want to go all the way into the depths of the prairie, you are looking for death.

The current situation is: every time the battle line advances three hundred miles, the logistics consumption of the army will increase by [-] to [-]%.

This is still the result of a flat river. If it is replaced by a mountainous area with winding roads, the consumption of materials will be unimaginable.

The current Hudson, nominally commanding an army of 200 million, actually has less than 60 combatable soldiers.

If it weren't for the blessing of shipping, this ratio would be even more disparity.

After defeating the Orc Empire in history, the Alpha Kingdom never expanded to the prairie. It was not because the high-level leaders of the kingdom had no ambitions, but the national strength could not support it.

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"Marshal, according to the intelligence from the front line, the main force of the orc army has gathered in the area above Xueyue Lake.

They are currently probing in the border area, trying to find the weak point of our defense line, and the day of launching a full-scale offensive should not be far away.

Considering that there is a cursed land buffer below Xueyue Lake, it is unlikely that the enemy will station a large army inside for a long time. The plan of the staff department is: focus the defense on the top of Xueyue Lake.

This area is flat and plain, but the front line is only more than 400 miles away, and further up is the world of ice and snow with mountains and mountains, and the road is not suitable for the deployment of large troops.

Orcs who lack cold-proof equipment should not foolishly go to the cold.The center of gravity of this war is most likely to be the front of more than 400 miles.

Compared with the troops invested by the enemy and us, the front line is not long.Even if a full-scale attack is launched, the enemy will not be able to invest too many troops at one time.

The kingdom has already built many fortresses, and the difficulty of defense is not too great.It can be said that it is very unwise for the orcs to attack at this moment.

If you wait until the beginning of spring next year, after the ice and snow melt, then the number of offensive fronts you can choose will greatly increase.

Combined with the current situation of the Orc Empire, the enemy's motive for launching this war is very likely to be a war of attrition.

Reduce the excess population through war to ensure that all ethnic groups have enough food for the winter, and by the way consume the strength of the kingdom.

As the defensive side, we also have one of the biggest advantages-the water army in the lake.

There are millions of orcs in the army, and drinking water is a big problem.The only place in this area that can provide them with sufficient water is Xueyue Lake.

However, the orcs do not have a water army, and the frogmen, an amphibious race capable of water warfare, have pitifully low combat effectiveness.

......"

In the headquarters, Jose, who served as the army staff officer, pointed at the position of the small flag on the sand table and kept analyzing.

The surrounding generals listened very carefully. Everyone knew the situation of the enemy and us, but not everyone could sort it out systematically.

After all, before the establishment of the military academy in Hudson, the inheritance of military knowledge in the Aslant continent depended entirely on the inheritance of ancestors from generation to generation.

How much one can absorb the dry inheritance of experience depends entirely on one's understanding.Many things are memorized by rote, and it is difficult to use them flexibly without going through the tempering on the battlefield.

Compared with the generals, Hudson was obviously distracted.Insufficient food and materials, it is inevitable that the alien race will kill each other.

Although the orcs are a little dirty and carry a little more virus in their bodies, if they are extremely hungry, they can make do with it.

Especially when it comes to amphibious races, images of "boiled frogs, steamed frogs, braised frogs..." appeared in Hudson's mind.

In fact, fighting the orcs is not the most exaggerated.The Sea Clan invasion in the history books is the seafood meeting.

It's just that marine life carries a lot of poison, and a little carelessness can send people away.Unless it is a last resort, no one will attack these corpses.

"There is no big problem with the big strategic policy. However, the details still need to be optimized, especially the serious shortage of troops in the reserve team.

On the battlefield, soldiers are precious and fast, and we cannot expect reinforcements from the kingdom.It is very likely that by the time they arrive, the fighter plane will have already passed.

Since the enemy wants to fight a war of attrition, then we will help them and slowly consume them with the help of defensive fortifications.

They have the final say when the war starts, and when the war ends, you cannot listen to them.

Mage Marek, the next thing you need is your group of magicians.

Distribute the trained necromancers, wizards, poison masters... to various fortresses. They don't need to kill the enemy, just let the corpses under the city walls be stained with poison.

It is not even necessary that all the corpses are poisonous, as long as some corpses are poisonous.The more concealed the better, it is best not to let the enemy know that it is poisonous at a glance.

Except for these mages who are proficient in poisoning and cursing, they need to be busy, and no one else can be idle.

I will call the Academy of Magic and the Academy of Arcane Arts and ask them to make a batch of poison, and the magician group will be responsible for releasing it.

For example: let the wind magician blow the poison powder to the enemy camp; or let the water magician rain poison on the enemy..."

A series of coquettish operations, everyone who listened was dumbfounded, it turns out that magic can still be played like this.

Seemingly inconspicuous little operations, if you really do it, you will definitely suffer a big loss if you are caught off guard.

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