Lord: Start with the Pioneer Knight

"What! There are so many people. Where did they land from?" The face of the governor of the Laba Region became very ugly. He couldn't believe what was happening in front of him and asked angrily and loudly.

"Mr. Governor, please calm down."

"The situation is unknown at the moment, but we should be able to get a reply from the Navy soon." Tasker responded calmly and calmly.

The Governor of the Rab Region realized his gaffe, tried to calm down his emotions, and then asked again: "So, how many troops can you assemble in the next three days?"

After Tusker pondered for a moment, he gave a number: "About 20,000 people."

Hearing this number, the Governor of the Arab Region could not help but widen his eyes and stared at Tasker in disbelief, as if he wanted to get more explanations and answers from him.

"My Lord Governor, in order to form an expeditionary force, the Grand Duke took away 30,000 people from the Arab Army, leaving less than 6,000 people. Even if more than 4,000 soldiers were later recruited, the existing strength is only just over 10,000."

"The city defense army apparently numbered eight thousand, but in fact there were only five thousand. The number may be lower than I expected. Let's count it as five thousand. Maintaining the city's defense requires at least three thousand, so we can only draw Two thousand people left.”

"There are more than a thousand criminals held in the three dungeons. They can be armed. This counts as a thousand people."

"By transferring the garrison troops from the three surrounding important towns, we can get 3,000 people."

"Recruit a group of desperadoes from adventurers and mercenaries, about a thousand people."

"There is a shortage of another three thousand, and some small nobles have been recruited along the way, but they are not of much use."

After listening to Tuckers' report, the Governor of the Arab Region sat weakly on the wooden chair.

Although he is a mediocre person who relied on his sister to rise to power, he can still judge the crisis of the situation in the Arab region.

Thirteen years ago, under the auspices of the Church of the God of Beasts and the Church of the God of Giants, after the Grand Duke of Brela of Brela and King Lince of the Kingdom of Arland signed an alliance agreement, the two sides shook hands and made peace, ending the century-old dispute between the two countries.

From a broad perspective, the Arab Region has become a special inland area. The coastline is patrolled and guarded by naval fleets. Naturally, there is no need to maintain too many troops on land. First, two legions of 60,000 people were transferred to the western border of the principality. To guard against the Teton Kingdom's eastward advance, half of the Arab Army was subsequently separated and incorporated into the royal capital's garrison.

As for the two noble legions that were originally semi-standing armies, they were also disbanded at the moment the covenant was signed. If an expeditionary force had not been formed to support the Church of Storms, the Rab Region would have been able to assemble at least 100,000 troops in a short period of time.

"General Tuckers, the top priority is, what should we do?"

"My Lord Governor, for the current plan, we can only divert the disaster eastward and lead the opponent to the Haina area of ​​the Kingdom of Arland."

"Use this time to report the matter to the Grand Duke and request reinforcements."

"In addition, we should strengthen the city wall, gather the army, defend it tightly, delay time, and wait for reinforcements."

"In this way, even if you have no merit, you will never have a fault."

"General Tuckers, I'll leave everything to you." The Governor of the Laba Region brightened up, looked at him, and said with heartfelt gratitude, "In this Laba Region, all the personnel and materials you like, Call them at will. If any noble family refuses to cooperate, I will come to talk to you personally. "

"Yes, Governor."

The Governor of the Arab Region sent Tasker to the gate of the Governor's Palace, but the worry in his heart still lingered.

"No, I can't just sit there and wait for death."

The commander of the Third Fleet, Hiroyan, has an old relationship with his sister, so it shouldn't be a problem to borrow thousands of elite troops from him to help defend the city.

Just as he said, the Governor of the Arab Region returned to the study and asked the noble daughter who had not yet left to spread out the parchment for him. After composing his words in his mind, he came to the desk, picked up the quill, and began to write a letter. .

…

The border area between the Grand Duchy of Brela and the Kingdom of Arland is located under a towering tree in the forest. With the intelligence collected by the reconnaissance team, Verin understood why there were no troops in the border area.

"Let's talk about it. Which one should we attack first, the Grand Duchy of Brela or the Kingdom of Arland?"

Hebrew stood up and impatiently suggested: "My lord, according to the report of the Black Rock Army, most of the noble soldiers guarding the cities in the Miami Province of the Arab Region are old, weak, sick and disabled. It can be foreseen that most of the soldiers here will All the force was transferred to form an expeditionary force to support the Church of Storms.”

"My subordinates believe that we should attack the Grand Duchy of Brela and capture Miami Province first to gain a foothold."

"In addition, this place is close to the sea, so we can send a message to the Teton Kingdom to organize a navy to attack this place. With the two sides cooperating with each other, it will be easy to occupy the Rab region."

"That's reasonable. It seems you've grown a lot during this time." Weilin looked at Hebra, nodded with satisfaction, and praised.

Hebrew chuckled, and then sat down, waiting for his master's decision.

Verin looked at the leader of the Star and Moon Knights and asked, "General Devon Hill, what do you think?"

"Lord, I think we can attack the Haina area of ​​the Arland Kingdom first and occupy this area before the Woodland Alliance troops do."

"In the Arab region, as General Hebrew proposed, we can send a message to the Teton Kingdom and ask it to send its navy. The two parties will cooperate tacitly to capture this area."

"After the fall of the Storm Church, the next target is the Grand Duchy of Brela. In order to resist the army of the Kingdom of Teton, the Grand Duke of Brela will definitely not withdraw troops from the western border, and the army of the capital will not be withdrawn. So we are only facing the armies of several nearby regions."

"Please make the decision."

Welin waved his hand to signal Devonshire to sit down, and then asked several other people.

The proposals of the people were different. After comprehensive consideration, Weilin decided to divide the troops.

The main force of the 15th Army attacked the Haina Region of the Kingdom of Arland and occupied the Haina Region before the Forest Free Alliance.

In addition, a detachment was sent to stay in the Laber Region of the Grand Duchy of Brela to nibble villages and towns, grow and develop, and when the navy of the Kingdom of Teton landed, it would be the time to capture the Laber Region.

After consideration, Weilin's Thousand Castle Army stayed, let Hebrew lead this army, and let Barrett, the master of arcane, assist and protect his safety.

As for the Ice Bear Knights, it was temporarily handed over to Devonshire for custody.

Before the division of the troops, Weilin called Hebrew into the tent and told him to think more about everything and not to trust easily, but also not to hesitate, and not to lose sight of the big picture when it was time to make a decision.

The next morning, Weilin ordered the army to raise the flag and march towards the direction of the Kingdom of Arland.