Public trial?You deserve it too!

The teenager patted Randolph and Georgie on the shoulders, signaling them to go back first, then turned and walked towards Heinrich.

The two walked into the tent belonging to Heinrich. The mage stretched out his hand and motioned Claude to sit down. The two looked at each other, and then the other broke the silence first.

"Mr. Karl... did you kill that elf?"

Claude was startled, nodded: "Yes, he killed the arbitrator."

Heinrich nodded, and the whole person seemed to relax a little.

"Mr. Karl told me that regarding the blood feud between him and the elves, every time he leads a team to the Eastern Front, he treats it as his last time leading a team, and every time he leaves a suicide note in advance, this time is no exception—— That's why I replaced the teacher's position so quickly, and rushed to the Eastern Front so quickly."

"Yeah, when Mr. Carl went to the battlefield, the smile on his face was as chic as if he was going to a banquet." Claude sighed, "I just thought it was a little strange at that moment. When it happened, I was completely shocked and speechless."

"After all, this is the teacher's long-cherished wish..."

There was no expression on Heinrich's face, but there were fluctuations in his voice.Tell Cloud that this man is not as emotionless as he seems.

"Mr. Carl told us many times before his death that this is the moment he has dreamed of all his life. If he dies for this, then he will have no regrets in his life, and he will not need any of us to avenge him—he will put an end to the chain by itself."

The boy was silent for a moment, then shook his head.

"It won't end. Before the elves are completely destroyed, this hatred will be passed on forever. Teacher Karl has fulfilled his wish, but his death will also give other people new wishes."

Heinrich nodded slightly.

"You are right, this vengeance will never end until the elves are completely destroyed."

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Although Heinrich said that the school year experience will continue, but the experience must have an opponent, otherwise it will become a simple long-distance training.

Dmitri is an old opponent of the empire. He really knows how the empire will react after this attack. The imperial army who has been beaten in the face will definitely launch a full-scale suppression like crazy. If his troops continued to launch raids as before, they would be like rabbits chased by dogs, with nowhere to go, so this was the reason why he withdrew all the infiltrating troops early.

This also led to the students' road of experience being as flat as a pool of stagnant water, without any waves, and they walked to the front-line fortress without any surprises or dangers along the way, and even the road was not damaged.

This changed the atmosphere of the team from grief to agitation. Obviously, everyone was waiting for the second attack. Now that the Eastern Front Legion has been fully mobilized, the new attack will inevitably make all the elves come and go— —But there was no response at all from the other side. Even the large-scale round-trip screening by the army yielded very little.

In the end, everyone had no choice but to give up their plan to take a bite and go back—after the elves decided to pretend to be dead, they were completely helpless. After all, no matter how angry a person is, as long as he has a little sense, he will not say anything If you want to go to the forest and fight the elves to the death.

Of course, if there are such idiots, Heinrich will let them know what cruelty is—revenge is fine, but you deserve a beating if you die.

However, among this group of people, one person's inner painting style is obviously completely different.

——Claude looked at the present where the empire had gained nothing, and nodded with great satisfaction in his heart.

[You seem very happy? 】

"I'm so happy, I'm so happy that tears filled my eyes—at least the emperor still understood the significance of this radar spell on the Eastern Front, and he didn't leak any words at all. When I saw someone who had learned this spell Heinrich, who patrols step by step with people every day, uses various traditional methods to find elves, and has no intention of using that magic at all, so I feel very relieved."

[Congratulations? 】

"Yeah, because I haven't dealt with smart people for a long time—of course, this smart person refers to teammates. It feels really good to have this kind of boss who can understand the situation and control the overall situation for me. Comfortable."

The young man obviously had a high opinion of the old emperor, so that even if the other party gave him a lot of fun, he felt more and more pleasing to the other party.

Because staying under the hands of the third prince was really tormenting, and Claude had really suffered from char siu for a long time. At least the ability shown by the old emperor now can fully prove that the other party got the throne entirely by his own efforts.

【I have a question. 】

"Precise play."

【...I can understand that this newly developed magic has considerable advantages over elves, but in the end it is just a simple magic, and there are no technical barriers.I think the elves will definitely have a way to learn the hand, right?And considering the gap between the number of mages in the elves and the number of mages in the empire, if this kind of jungle warfare is to continue, will the opponent be the more dominant side? 】

"It's absolutely correct. After both sides have mastered this magic at the same time, the growth rate of the elves in the jungle is actually far greater than that of the human army." Claude's voice was full of praise, directly affirming the system's guess.

"The reason is very simple. As you said, the single combat ability of human beings is overwhelmingly insufficient compared with that of elves - which means that the opponent is the one who can spread radar everywhere, and With this kind of two-way position transparency, elves can do a lot more tricks than humans."

Claude doesn't need to say it very clearly, the system with countless knowledge reserves already understands what he means.

[In other words, the elves can use this magic to regain the initiative on the frontal battlefield—just like you used my scan to suppress the three teams, the elves can use projectile firepower to launch a full-scale attack on the human troops Suppression, using the range advantage to turn the Flesh Mill on both sides into a one-way non-injury consumption. 】

"That's right, and this kind of enemy who is not in the field of vision, the opposite blow can cause you considerable casualties. This situation is very easy to collapse the morale of the frontline troops, even if it is the current Eastern Front. Troops—after all, it is really a different matter whether you can see the enemy or not. If you let them fight with the elves, they can fight until the last soldier, but let them maintain order in the face of irresistible artillery fire. It’s really hard to do.”

Claude explained very calmly, as if he didn't care about this situation at all.

【Then why did you hand over this spell?Doesn't this give the elves a chance to come back? 】

"Totally wrong, you have completely misunderstood the real usage of this spell."

[The target of your spell is not an elf? 】

"No, no, the purpose of this spell is of course to target the elves, but it's easy to backfire on yourself if you don't use it well." Claude shook his head, "But I also have a way to counteract this kind of backlash, so use it to test it out. Whether the old emperor's side is the real dragon or the char siew is the right hand--because even if the empire gets rid of the game, I can still hold on to it."

【...I still don't understand, isn't the purpose of this spell to find hidden elves?Cleaning up those elves operating within the empire's control area and ensuring the smooth flow of logistics supply lines is already the limit. In any case, if the empire wants to win, it must launch an attack on the elves. 】

"That's the problem. Who told you that this spell is used to clean up the elves in the empire-controlled area? And who gave it to you, and if you want to win, you must attack?"

【? 】

"Why should I clean up these guys who have plunged into the empire's territory? Fighting in the jungle, the elves are dominant anyway, so why go to the jungle to fight-the walled area within the empire's Great Wall defense line, here is the only place to fight." It is the best place to fight elves!"

Claude sneered.

"Clean up the guys who have infiltrated, and then expose that the empire has the means to target the hidden abilities of the elves. What's the point? It's just to let the other party completely abandon the operation of troops in the empire, and concentrate on preparing for battle on their territory ——Isn’t this asking for trouble?”

"So there is no need to clean up at all! What I want is not a full-scale retreat of the elves, but a full-scale confrontation between the elves and us in our territory! As long as you master the speed well, start the internal battle at a 'slightly intense' level For patrol warfare, the elves must then send troops in for us to kill!"

【...So your purpose is to increase the cost of guerrilla warfare for elves?Isn't it to use this spell to ensure the logistics line and support the frontline battles, but to simply use it to hunt elves? 】

"That's right, the reason why the large-scale encirclement and suppression operation of the Imperial Army's eastern front was very small this time is because the elves have all shrunk their eggs, but this kind of large-scale shrinkage is impossible to continue, otherwise the meaning of the elves opening up the battlefield behind the enemy There is nothing left - they must have these elf warriors fight in front of enemy lines, wear down the logistics of the empire, and thereby reduce the frequency and intensity of the summer offensive."

"This is their only initiative, and something they absolutely dare not give up, so as long as the elves feel that the situation has not reached the point where they must abandon the battlefield in the empire-occupied area, they will definitely maintain the activity of this battlefield—you must know 27 Years ago, the empire severely punished the elven army in its territory, but now the other party still firmly regained the initiative and continued to fight the imperial army here."

A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Claude's mouth.

"As long as we prepare more than a dozen elite squads and mix them with the patrol team, we can hunt and kill the elves with mental calculations or carelessness, and this kind of casualties will only make the other party think that the empire will make a big move, thus forcing the elves to go crazy Put more troops here."

"You have to understand that this kind of casualty can be covered up by the phrase 'the Imperial Army on the Eastern Front is about to make a big move' to cover up its rationality. And the real meaning of this spell lies in this, to slash the elf's wound inward , Bloodletting the opponent in a more intense way, this is the real core of urbanization - the battle damage is all delivered by the opponent."

[Indeed, in order to retain the possibility of victory, the elves must ensure that they have enough troops in the empire-occupied area. Possesses very accurate detection means. 】

"Yes, this is the real usage of the detection spell, and it is also the best tactic to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses. There is no need to compete with the opponent for the number of mages and the strength of the army-what is our advantage? Our advantage is the fortress and physical strength. Quantity! All tactics that can take advantage of these two advantages are good tactics.”

"That's why the elf king committed a big taboo. It is precisely because he wants to win that he loses more and more. Now, his desire for victory has blinded his eyes, and he can't see the elves' advantage at all. What is it?"

Claude lay comfortably on the bed.

"So why do you want to attack when you have an advantage? As long as I don't want to win, I can't lose. Then slowly, the balance will tilt towards you-because the opponent will soon start to panic."

[...Your strange talk can always be proved by facts. 】

"That's because it's a proven truth."

The boy closed his eyes peacefully. Today is another joyous day for brainwashing children.

It is estimated that I will move this weekend, and the day after tomorrow I promised to make a ranking for a big boss in the py group, so there must be an update on Sunday. As for whether there will be a second update, I don’t know. It depends on whether I am tired or not.skirt~

All Beings Are Children: Chapter 142 Chapter 130 Shadow Fleet

"Randolph, I'm looking for you—study so hard?"

Claude greeted Randolph who was reading his notes with a smile. The other party put down the book full of elf tactics and empire counter tactics, rubbed his eyes, and showed a tired smile.

"It's the captain. I don't want to learn like this, but one of you has a photographic memory, and the other has been familiar with it for a long time. Only I have to learn from the beginning, and I can only work harder. Captain, what can I do for you?"

There are no more trials now, the elves have completely given up on continuing to make trouble in the recent period, and the empire has no plans to launch an attack this summer, so in just a few months, there has been no peace at all. The elves have a chance to fight, and the students are already a little idle in the Odessa Fortress.

Heinrich has already sent the plan modification application back to the imperial capital, hoping to return to the north as soon as possible, and advance the internship plan in the North Sea Fleet.Because at this time, the knights in the northern border of the empire are taking advantage of the warm summer weather to completely wipe out the remnants of the orcs in the grasslands and mountains. The fortress was posing no threat - the school year experience certainly didn't make it necessary to return to the North.

But what is puzzling is that His Majesty the Emperor has not given any clear answer so far. He just let Heinrich continue to lead the team to stay in Odessa and let the students continue to follow the jungle warfare veterans on paper. The meaning of entering the North Sea Fleet.

Claude has some guesses - after all, his weight is too heavy. In the eyes of the emperor, he is afraid that the other party will fight for the failure of this year's students. Safety.After all, a dead genius is no fart, and the Navy, in every sense of the word, has an apparently ridiculously high mortality rate.

Not to mention that the Imperial North Sea Fleet is still being suppressed by the Merchant Alliance. If this is an oversight, the entire ship and the entire ship will not be able to make a fuss.

Claude guessed that the emperor should be struggling with what to do now, tempering is necessary, but it is obviously meaningless to take unnecessary risks, especially the chilling fact revealed by this elf attack——placed in the The spies within the empire can basically even get the academic year experience route arrangement of the Imperial Military University.

——And the other party can leak it to the elves, can't they leak it to the business alliance?As long as the Merchant Alliance takes another hand, or even gathers some pirates to launch a surprise attack on the students of the empire, in that vast sea, the results that can be achieved are obviously much more terrifying than the elves.

In order to verify his guess, Claude approached Mr. Randolph, who was inquiring, and sincerely asked what news the other party called "my high-ranking father" had inadvertently given him.

"In the previous years, the training of the North Sea Fleet was usually done by us in the Baltic Sea. The Imperial Navy would prepare a few ships for us, assign them positions, and then go to other ships to learn from the old officers, usually patrolling and escorting. Or beat the canoes of the orcs. After three months, return to the assigned ship, lead the fully equipped sailors, serve as their respective internship positions, command the warship to go to the North Sea to fight, and fight with the merchant alliance—er, the pirate war.”

Randolph looked rather strange when he said this.

"Pirate war?"

Claude's expression was also a little subtle, he seemed to understand the operation.

"Yes, I don't know very well about this. It is probably because there were pirates at the beginning, and then the plundering was irrelevant. They also played this kind of tricks during the infighting of the business alliance, but they stopped doing it later. Then relying on the previous friendship, basically recruited the pirates, and then let them go to rob the empire."

"However, the North Sea Fleet obviously has an advantage in dealing with pirates. After cleaning up several ports, the Merchant Alliance tore up its face and directly dispatched the Armada Fleet, which immediately blocked the empire's suppression and pirates became rampant again. Bian was probably red-eyed. His Majesty the Emperor at that time directly issued a private plunder license-as long as his family was brought to live in the military port, and he promised not to harm any civilians and soldiers of the empire, everyone could place an order with the Imperial Shipyard. Warship, recruit sailors."

Randolph was probably afraid that Claude would be too naive to understand the twists and turns, so he spoke very straightforwardly.

"Then the scene turned into the North Sea Fleet fighting the Armada, and the pirates and privateers plundering each other's merchant ships." Claude pretended to have a sudden understanding expression, "So this is the so-called 'pirate war'? The two sides actually They all tacitly supported the act of robbing the other party's merchant ships, and they fought very fiercely in private?"

This completely explained the emperor's entanglement. After all, he was going to fight a naval battle. Obviously, if the opponent got the detailed information, the students would die and there would be no scum left. Even if the empire would consciously Let the students avoid formal battles, but no one can tell what will happen in the vast sea.

"Yes, because the Merchant Alliance is an archipelagic country after all. Compared with the entire continent, there is a huge gap in minerals and land. Therefore, various smuggling behaviors emerge in endlessly, not only the Breton family, but almost the entire empire. There are smuggling practices along the coast—after all, the territory of the empire is still too big, especially in the relatively remote Iberia region."

Randolph's tone was somewhat helpless.

"Like the Duke of Brittany, he has a background and is close enough. Both the Armada Fleet and the Imperial Fleet are under martial law, and the pirates can't get in. In other places, it's a mess, because There is also no way to define the gap between the empire and the merchant ships of the merchant alliance, so in the end pirates and privateers are completely confused, not to mention the types of warships, which are completely varied and completely unclear."

Claude nodded, and now the last piece of the puzzle has been put together.

Maybe Randolph hasn't realized it himself. After all, these things are almost on the surface, and it is a situation that everyone is used to—but who is Claude?Can this operation be hidden from him?

To put it bluntly, this kind of person is called a military god, who can see through all disguises. To put it bluntly, he is a war madman. He can smell the smell of war in any small trace, and he can use anything to consider it as a layout.By judging others by himself, he immediately discovered what kind of tricks the empire was playing.

"Tsk, the business alliance is coming to an end. The layout of the empire has already been hidden from almost everyone—no, it is enough to kill the other party if it is hidden from the business alliance."

【You mean the privateer?But to be honest, privateers can actually do very little in this era, right?In this era of short-range shooting, suppressing and jumping gang battles, compared with pirates, the regular navy has a natural suppressive force in terms of organization. In small-scale battles, the pirates may still have some room for maneuver, but the rise to In the battle of the fleet, it is useless to fight alone like a privateer, right? 】

The system's voice carried obvious doubts.

【If the empire wants to carry out the strategy of hiding soldiers among the people, this kind of behavior is too obvious, and the other party is obviously using pirates as a countermeasure.Whether you want to rely on privateers to suppress the import of goods from the Merchant Alliance, or use the other side as a means to fight against the Armada, it's a bit powerless, right?Unless these privateers are all pretending to be the army - but it is impossible to hide it from the other party for a long time, after all, it is completely two disciplines]

"That's right, it's okay for the army to pretend to be a privateer once in a while, and it's impossible to replace them in large numbers, otherwise it would be too obvious. And such a sea force, after exchange with the pirates, can spare some ships to raid supplies Ships and ports are already the limit. If you want to overthrow the Armada, you still need a regular navy—things like privateer licenses are just for others to see, making others think that the empire is desperate to jump over the wall. And the real The ultimate move, Randolph has already told me in detail."

[... Is there such a big gap between us? 】

"I said that you are still a child when it comes to being a war criminal."

Claude calmly appeases the somewhat skeptical system,

"Come on, this time I will teach you step by step, how to organize the army and prepare for war under everyone's noses. First, let's order a Meyford ticket... cough cough cough cough, not this one, let's continue to talk about the imperial navy—the four rules of the navy What are legs, remember?"

[Number of elite sailors and captains, advanced tactics, cutting-edge warships and production capacity. 】

"Let's not talk about the complementary things of cutting-edge warships and tactics for the time being. This thing can really achieve dimensionality reduction strikes, such as the ship-borne wind knight play I prepared-but if it weren't for me, the empire would at least be Can stand on the same starting line as the business alliance, right?"

[That's right, in the absence of a technology gap, these two Shang Empires can keep up with Shang Shangmeng. 】

"Let's talk about production capacity first. The method of privateering ships is really good. With this method, you can cover the eyes of the business alliance while accumulating skilled workers. And this kind of excuse will make the other party subconsciously think that the empire is stupid. This has exposed its own weakness—it has abundant production capacity but does not supplement the North Sea Fleet to strengthen its combat power, so it can only show that the empire is facing the dilemma of insufficient number of recruited and trained sailors and captains.”

Claude bid farewell to Randolph, and while returning to his tent to fish, he continued his work of preaching, accepting karma and dispelling doubts.

"And in this way, it is possible to use these shipyards on the surface as a disguise, and open new production lines without anyone noticing-the other party will think that under the current situation, the empire is full of ships and people, so it is completely impossible to build New shipyard."

[...Indeed, under such circumstances, the Merchant Alliance can misjudge the empire's warship production capacity.But the biggest problem has not been explained, that is, the number of captains and sailors. The premise of valuable production capacity is that people wait for the ship. 】

[Whether it is in this era where gang wars are the mainstay, or various tactics in the future, the party that loses in naval battles will often lose most of the warships and skilled sailors. The latter is obviously more deadly. So if the empire can't solve the problem of the depth of the navy's manpower slot, it doesn't matter how high the production capacity is, because they have no room for failure. 】

"This is about to talk about a problem that many people ignore-the current situation is that the merchant alliance is supporting pirates, and the empire is supporting privateers. Both sides are obviously plundering unscrupulously. The regular army sometimes acts like this, and in this terrible environment, what will happen to the sea routes?"

[Because the empire is a continental country, it does not rely much on sea transportation. A fierce battle at sea like this... will completely squeeze out the empire's maritime merchants, because the other party cannot bear the cost of sinking the ship at all.After all, the choice of sea transportation is to value the cargo capacity and low transportation loss. Once the probability of being attacked rises, the sea merchants will go bankrupt quickly-because the profits of such goods that rely on quantity to win are not even enough to pay for the escort warships. 】

"That's right, this is actually raising Gu, because the business alliance must sail. In order to deal with the increasingly powerful pirate gangs, the various chambers of the business alliance will gradually merge with each other. The strong ones are getting stronger, and the weak ones are very weak. They will be eaten soon, which is also in line with the nature of the other party's merchants. In addition, the imperial maritime merchants are completely unable to sustain themselves and closed down one by one to make more space for them, so the other party is naturally very willing to see this situation of."

Claude will definitely be there.

"As for the empire, it is obvious that the empire will never allow its own maritime merchants to withdraw completely, otherwise it will lose price competitiveness in goods that can be shipped by sea, so it must start to vigorously support its own maritime merchants, such as military procurement , such as providing escort, and another example-supporting the other party to have armed merchant ships."

【! 】

"Yes, that's what you think." Claude grinned, "Sea merchants are the real means for the empire to hide soldiers from the people, because it is impossible for ordinary sea merchants of the empire to survive on such seas. All the maritime merchants that exist now must be backed by empires, and it can even be said that they are squadrons of the North Sea Fleet!"

[...But there are still problems, right?The sailors escorting the caravan are indeed more organized than privateers, but in terms of command and dispatch, they cannot be merged into the North Sea Fleet to fight. At most, they are separate squadrons. There is no coordination at all, but it is easy to be broken one by one. 】

"So, didn't you hear how Randolph explained to me just now, how the students of the military university participate in the internship?"

Claude's smile inexplicably became a little gloomy.