After Becoming The Tyrant

The king's writ, which was half speech, half command, was arranged to spread as quickly as possible throughout Legrand.

The public dissatisfaction surging like boiling water was finally suppressed.Everyone knows that General Sean was originally the general most favored by the king.He once planned to assassinate the king, but the king forgave him and appointed him as his first general to fight Iron Rose.Since then, the king's attention to General Sean has always been quite eye-catching. Not only did he appoint him as the chief general of the Chinese army during the Northland rebellion, but also Legrand handed over the decision-making power of the southeastern defense line to him at the beginning of the current battle.

Some people even joked in private that if it wasn't for General Sean not having the signature silver-haired blue eyes of the Qiangwei family, it would really make people suspect that General Sean is also the king's other brother, otherwise how could the king love him so much.

But right now, General Sean's cowardice caused the southeast coast to be occupied by the Holy Army, which undoubtedly made the king very angry.

Chasing 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 for the generals he valued the most.

The king even divided his most important general by such a punishment that was so severe that he was nailed to the pillar of shame, and the general Shinn who caused the fall of the southeast coast has died at the hands of the people of Bubas. The public is angry Finally calmed down.

In the public writ, "I, in the name of King Legrand, request all the people of Legrand, no matter where you are, to fight to the end with the enemies who invaded their homes. The future of Legrand is in the hands of all of us." "In the face of national disasters, it has played an unprecedented appeal.

All over the country, inspired by "LeGrand's future is in the hands of all of us", even half-grown children took up crude weapons.

General Sean ordered the Rose Iron Cavalry to withdraw from Bubas, causing the Sea Holy Army to invade the southeast coast. One of the important reasons why it aroused such widespread and intense anger is that it made the Legrand people clearly see this time as never before. If the war fails, what fate will they usher in.

He was massacred, plundered, and reduced to slavery. Since then, he has no fixed home and lost his dignity.

The advance of the Sea Holy Army was blocked by the Keya Mountains and the fortresses and castles of the Keya State.And when they scattered their troops to the cities and villages to replenish themselves with plundered supplies as before, they found that everyone in the country was going crazy.

In the Holy Army of the Sea, Verduan, the head of the countries of the Abyss Alliance, recorded the changes during this period in his private diary.At the end of summer, they were still immersed in their victory, and when autumn came, they had already felt the chill on the blade of this country against them.

"...We were dragged in the southeast area, and our soldiers had almost no way to disperse when they were raiding. Because once a soldier was left alone,...the mob would attack us. Although the weapons of those people were clumsy, They have no martial arts skills, but they don't spare their lives."

"Some of our soldiers have begun to panic. Do we think that the soldiers are really pious people fighting to regain the glory of the Holy Lord? Holy Lord! Don't we ourselves know what they are actually? How many poor ghosts, bankrupts, thieves and robbers are mixed in the ranks of the Holy Army..."

"They didn't come here to invite the god statues to the roses. They came here through the abyss strait just to get rich. If they lose their lives, then what's the use of more money?"

"We've got to figure out a way to sort this out."

After writing this diary, within a few days, Verduin was attacked by a team armed by the townspeople when he was leading the soldiers to collect local food and grass.

The most disturbing thing is that among those who attacked them, a boy who had not yet reached the chest of an adult was caught, holding the hilt of the broken sword tightly, and the eyes that looked at them were no longer child.

"My dad died, my brother died, so I took their swords."

That's what the boy said before he died.

War should be a stage for adults, but now children have also picked up swords and guns.

As Legrand King Purlin said in his open letter:

The traitor should die, and the whole country will fight.

This is a real national struggle.

On the southeast coast, compared to the entire Legrand territory, this section is like a sealed territory, and every piece of land is filled with blood.

"no doubt."

Verduin, who once commanded the soldiers to massacre the city and still raised a glass and shouted "Cheers" when he captured the port of Kossoya, wrote the following line in his diary with trembling hands that night:

"The country is crazy."

………………

After summer and autumn solstice, when it should be the harvest season, the wind blows across the open fields.

The Holy Land's Holy Army landed, and Legrand's main force also arrived at the predetermined front line in the central area. The two armies were about to confront each other, and a frontal battle was imminent.

In the combat conference room in Yoring County, the staff officers are arguing fiercely. What is different from the past is that not only senior generals are standing in the combat conference room.In the words of a veteran, it is "the people who participate in the discussion of war decision-making seem to have everything."

This sentence is slightly exaggerated, but it is generally not wrong.

With the permission of the king, the people who can participate in the discussion include not only the general, but also the leader of the spy organization, the minister of the Legrand Transportation Department established by the king before, the member of the local people's sentiment committee commonly known as "Black Wing", and the crazy military designer. , a Royal Academy scientist with a head full of numbers... For traditional generals, this is a very strange thing.

But their king had been a tyrant before, and his wayward temper did not seem to have changed much now.

In this war, the king forced his officers to quickly accept a new model of military planning by means of what can be called coercion.In the past, there were too many temporary intentions after the temporary war was launched in the combat plan of the war in the past.But this time the king was determined to ask his officers to theoretically draw up different combat plans for each war they were about to face, and these combat plans also took into account many factors.

He even made the Royal Academy's accompanying mathematicians involved in the war do their best to calculate the consumption and distribution of their supplies and weapons...

In previous wars, it can be said that most of the time, the army did not have the concept of "logistics system", and this aspect was often confused.But this time, the group of mathematicians and quartermasters were using their hair to try their best to sort out the mess. [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 wanting to jump the city wall.

However, I am not used to it, but everyone rarely complains.

Because the king has always been with them, spending sleepless nights after another next to the battle map.

Although the king's arrangements carried a sense of "tyrant" arbitrariness, he didn't seem to have the idea of ​​being an autocratic tyrant from beginning to end in marching and fighting.

Except for some critical and unexpected moments, he will make the most decisive choice with an irrefutable attitude-the choice is often proved to be correct afterwards, at least it can obtain the greatest benefit.At other times, he plays more of a role of listening to many ideas and then giving his own evaluation and opinions.

His military talent is particularly amazing, and he can often point out the biggest loophole in every seemingly "perfect" combat plan sharply and mercilessly.

Under normal circumstances, monarchs who are too young often do not receive any preferential treatment from experienced veterans.Although they must maintain a surface of respect, this does not prevent the generals from secretly suspicious and worrying.If a monarch who is too young wants to establish his own prestige, there is no better choice than leading the army to achieve exciting victories, and who can guarantee that every monarch is an outstanding military strategist?

However, the king is not among them.

The king is like Henry the Mad King, Charles the Lion King, William III...they have excellent military talents at a young age, the counterattack outside the city of Tru, the final word of the change of the rose, the last stand outside the city of Benz, and the rebellion in the Northland The perfect flat land... Apart from his status as a monarch, this series of dazzling achievements is enough to make any general respect him.

Sometimes, the generals couldn't help but speculate whether the heroic souls of the entire Qiangwei family were passed down from generation to generation. Throughout the epics of the Qiangwei family, monarchs with outstanding military exploits emerged frequently at a young age.When the generals of other countries face the monarchs of their own royal families who have inflated self-confidence and poor actual ability, I am afraid that they will envy the generals of Legrand.

The veterans are keen to listen to the king's opinions, and they are also happy that their opinions can be listened to by the king in a serious manner-although, he may not necessarily adopt them.

"I think the Templar Knights should take the Kava Plain, their marching speed is faster than the Eternal Legion..."

"But Pope Theolde is here in person. The Knights of the Temple are the most elite troops. It is impossible for them to leave the vicinity of the Pope..."

The battle meeting room was chaotic and noisy.

The king stood in front of the combat map, pressed his hands on the table, and looked at the map in thought without saying a word.

After they successfully wiped out the main force of the Eternal Knights and destroyed the vanguard of the Holy Land Holy Army, the king recovered several cities that were previously controlled by the Holy Army with the support of several cities.This was of great help to the initial stage of the frontal war. Without Jolling County, which is a pre-planned station with a unique geographical location, even if Theolde wanted to make a quick decision, the speed of progress had to be slowed down.

The significance of Jolin County to the Holy Land Holy Army is that it is the junction of the tributary of Doma and the main river. With Jolin County, the Holy Army can transport supplies by water.This is the safest transportation route in the case of Legrand's foreign operations.

But now, this transportation line was blocked by the king in advance.

Right now, the most important thing for them is to judge where Pope Theold's first big move will be after landing in Legrand.

The author has something to say: [1] About the logistics of the Middle Ages, it is mentioned in the explanation of war looting in Chapter 151, you can look it up