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The Grand Duke of Kavi came on a whim and suddenly made an untimely journey. This matter soon became a laughing stock in the inner circle of the empire. However, no one ran to Marquis Falshid to directly mock or insinuate his father's actions. Because doing so is like courting death.

Not to mention that the Marquis of Farshid now wears gorgeous costumes in the court, and is good at dancing among the nobles; and as an assistant to the prime minister of the empire, he is buried in the pile of documents. The two generations of Kawei and his son are real fighters, the kind who can single-handedly kill through a group of monsters and turn back.

The third generation may not be as dazzling, but it is also a trusted mid-level officer. And the fourth generation seems to be educated to become the devil king of the world, and other families who know about it are quite worried.

Simply put, this is a family of bastards, the kind no one wants to mess with.

However, this joke has only been circulating for less than a day, and it quickly turned into a shocking and unbelievable fact. It even shocked the emperor's imperial table.

The old emperor didn't slap the table, didn't yell at the top of his voice, he just said calmly but indifferently: "Which old thing has arrived at Heishuiguan, the news is correct?"

In order to create his amiable image, the old emperor's voice is warm, making people sound like a spring breeze, and he respects it. But when his voice cooled down, it was anger. Like a male lion, if it doesn't cry, it just stares at people with icy eyes, making people involuntarily fearful.

The leader of the imperial guards is now deeply immersed in this coldness. But because of his duties, he had to say: "Your Majesty, according to the report from the guard of the Black Water Pass, the Grand Duke did indeed enter the station at the Black Water Pass in the evening, waiting to continue his departure the next day."

"They have three horses per person, no, four horses per person? How did they act specifically, and how did they get to the position of Heishuiguan? In the past, it took at least seven or eight days to bring them over from the Duke of Kawei. They How do you do it now!" the emperor asked coldly.

When judging the combat effectiveness of an army, most people only look at whether the soldiers can fight and whether the generals are brave enough. But when it comes to the commander-in-chief of the old emperor, they care more about the speed of marching and the supply capacity of logistics.

This ensures that the troops under his command can quickly deploy defenses to key locations and maintain a certain degree of combat effectiveness. Otherwise, a luxuriously equipped heavy armored infantry may not have much fighting power left even if it moves to a place where it is ready to fight when it is thirsty and hungry and has no one to help and must march in full armor.

Since he was young, the Grand Duke of Kavi has particularly liked this configuration of one man and three horses. Such a configuration does not mean that only one horse is carrying people, and the other two are empty. Instead, one horse carried the knight, one horse carried the equipment and luggage, and the remaining horse was allocated to the knight servant who was not qualified to ride a horse.

In Midi's regular military practice, a knight will be accompanied by about eight soldiers. Including knight attendants, as well as conscripted militiamen. When these people are marching, they also have to carry the equipment of their knight masters and public supplies, and move forward on two legs.

The Grand Duke of Kavi's gameplay is to minimize the number of followers, that is, infantry, and everyone and supplies rely on horsepower to advance. When necessary, it will even spare no effort to run on horsepower. Instead of using the strength of the horses cautiously like most armies, they didn’t even dare to let the horses carry too much weight until the critical moment of the knight’s charge, for fear that the horses would lose strength prematurely.

In this way, it is destined that the size of his army cannot be too large, because the construction cost other than personnel is too high; and 'people' is the cheapest item here. Compared with those top elite troops, the combat power is not quite outstanding. After all, the horsepower is not always at its peak. But constantly rushing and attacking the enemy's weakness can make all the commanders who face him feel uncomfortable.

The location of the Blackwater Pass is on the most important valley pass in the territory of the vassals who are responsible for guarding before entering the territory directly under the emperor. It can be regarded as the only way for nobles from the east and north of the empire to go to the capital.

But the most important point is that in the past, it took seven to eight days to march from the Duke of Kawi to reach the Blackwater Pass. This time, the Grand Duke only took less than a day. At the same time, this means that in the past, it would take nearly a month for the Grand Duke to come to the capital, but this time it took only one day to travel one-third of the distance.

If this speed can be maintained, it will only take three days for the Grand Duke to go straight to the capital from his own territory.

If such data cannot arouse the understanding of others, then you can look at another number. Except for the border areas and the areas where magical beasts flourish, the lost nobles have quite a small standing army. A duke's guard has a maximum of 500 people, and every time it goes down one level, the number of guards will be reduced by another 100 people. Although the lowest baron may not be able to support a standing army of 100 people.

And these guards are not concentrated in one place. In most cases, they will be distributed to various defenses according to the needs of the territory. Only some elites were left to guard the lord.

When it comes time to fight, the militia must be called up to join the army. In addition to the attendants brought by the knights, they are mainly recruited from the common people, and most of the time the nobles are required to provide the most basic weapons and equipment. It is not surprising that an army can go from preparation to formation in as little as a month or as long as a year.

Being a grand duke can start from his own territory and arrive at the capital in three days. It means that he can enter other people's territories before any lord reacts and recruits a sufficient number of troops. The lords everywhere can only rely on the standing guard to resist the invasion of the Grand Duke.

Probably only the national capital is better, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com because the national capital is always guarded by the emperor's three guards of 30,000 people, and there are also private troops of nobles and nobles stationed in the capital. Even if the imperial guards among the three guards seldom act as an organization, at least there will be personal guards who guard the palace, and iron guards who will also guard the capital if they are not sent out. At least there are 20,000 people.

But the Grand Duke's marching speed still frightened many people, including the old emperor. They all tried to falsify this news and dig out more inside information from various channels. The first to bear the brunt, of course, is the successor of Grand Duke Kavi, Marquis Noonan Falshid.

And in this vigorous commotion, the most confused person was none other than the poor son who was always cheated by the careless father—Marquis Falshid. Although this is not the first time, it is rare to be cheated so thoroughly like this time. He was completely unprepared, and was suddenly put on the fire to roast.

The mansion of the Duke of Kavi is up and down, almost all of which are dealing with formal inquiries from various parties, or intrusions on the sidelines. It didn't stop until late at night.

Marquis Farhid, who was finally able to catch his breath, sat in his study. Although the light of the magic lamp did not illuminate the room as if it were daytime, it was much brighter than the candlelight.

After a day of exhaustion, the Marquis still didn't plan to go to bed. He dug out all the letters his father had sent during this period of time, and read them again. Especially the section with content about 'cars'.

In the past, I thought the compliment in the letter was just an old kid wanting to show off the new toy he just got. But if what is said in the letter, there is nothing false. Then he should re-examine what kind of impact the so-called 'car' will have on the future. As well as my own family, what position should I stand here.