Lux's Magic Penetration Rod

In fact, if possible, Lux did not want to issue a general mobilization order at this time.

Forsbarrow has just taken off, and has not yet passed its development period. At this time, rashly participating in the war and appearing in the sight of most people in Demacia can easily cause unnecessary trouble.

However, from Demacia's standpoint, and with the order coming from Jarvan IV who was on the front line of Tobitsia, Lux, who had not yet planned to rebel, had no choice, and finally chose to give her speech in the spring in front of the public. Issuing a general mobilization order showed his attitude.

No matter what, the Noxians must be eliminated and driven away!

So, what order did Jarvan IV issue to Forsbarrow, a "backcountry" that usually does not appear within the kingdom's sight?

His order was to mobilize Galio, the Colossus of Justice, to participate in the battle. To this end, he specially sent a cooperative team composed of a mixture of fearless vanguards and logistics troops to perform the "pulling cart" task.

Apparently, Jarvan IV didn't know that Galio could move on his own as long as he was charged with magic.

Judging from the news sent back by Sona, this seems to mean that Jarvan IV plans to start a relatively proactive military operation. He believes that after the end of winter, the three legions in the north will be able to mobilize some teams to participate in the war. Toby The West Asian frontline will be able to try to launch active attacks and have a real encounter with the Noxians.

Moreover, according to the news sent back by Sona, Jarvan IV was not idle during the confrontation during this winter. Under his command, the Dauntless Vanguard and the Winged Legion always maintained a flexible posture. They continued to harass the Noxians in Tobitsia, and Noxus also sent out several legions to fight the elites of Demacia in the wild. Both sides were doing their best. Take control of the battlefield.

During this process, Jarvan IV consciously rotated the logistics support team, so that as many noble private soldiers as possible could see what kind of elite armed forces they were. After working on weekdays, Jarvan IV spent time with the soldiers. They even eat and live together, which is completely different from the noble style - in Sona's words, he is gradually becoming the true leader of the Demacia army.

What Sona said can also be seen from the performance of the "carriage team" sent by Jarvan IV. It was clearly a team composed of aristocratic private troops and fearless vanguards. Attribution, organization and logistics are completely different things, but when it comes to Jarvan IV it's time, almost everyone expresses support.

It is obvious that Jarvan IV is expressing his attitude of "standing with the army and soldiers" in this way, and is poaching overtly and covertly.

Regarding this point, the noble lords do not have too many scruples, because they are the ones who pay the private soldiers, and they have to work for whomever gets the money. They seem to think that as long as they master the food, pay and logistics, their private soldiers will be able to Nothing will go wrong.

The noble lords who lacked professional intelligence personnel did not realize that while Jarvan IV was frequently mobilized this winter, he also transported a large amount of food and wages from the fiefdoms directly under the royal family to the front line. It is true that the private armies of the nobles took the money of the noble lords. Yes, it is true that the private armies of nobles also obey the command of their lords, but if the royal family is rich and the elite armed forces directly under the royal family receive better treatment, once the royal family is willing to expand the scale of the elite armed forces, will these private armed forces still be willing to become private armies of the nobles?

Jarvan IV wisely avoided those nobles who knew something about commanding troops. On the grounds that "the right people do the right things", he specifically looked for private armies under non-military nobles to do logistics work and bullied them. It’s just that you don’t understand military morale!

Even during this process, Jarvan IV was able to explain to the soldiers that the two-crop tax was actually the royal family's wish to reduce taxes. It was your lords who were unwilling to let go, which led to an increase in your taxes. This was the actual situation, but In the past, the local lords had the right to speak. Now that Jarvan IV has personally come out to explain, many things can naturally be fully explained.

It is foreseeable that as the time comes, once Jarvan IV wins and his soldiers begin to be promoted, as long as he expresses his will, most of the noble private soldiers will be happy to turn around and follow Jarvan IV.

This is allegiance to the king, and everyone has no psychological pressure at all!

It is no exaggeration to say that according to the information collected by Sona and the intelligence team, Jarvan IV's behavior in Tobitsia was almost standard for a warlord planning to engage in military rebellion, but considering that he himself was the king of Demacia, ...Then this can only be understood as an act of centralization.

Of course, for Lux, it doesn't really matter what Jarvan IV is doing on the front line. What is more important now is that Jarvan IV's order has come, to transfer Galio to the front line, and for this order, Lux doesn't care. She couldn't refuse from any angle, so she issued Forsbarrow's general mobilization order.

After the general mobilization order was issued, Lux had a brief communication with Galio, telling him that he had to deal with the invaders next. The Archon would recharge him with part of his magic power, and then let the cart team pull him to the front line. Gather up your strength as much as possible and give the Noxians a good look.

Galio would naturally not refuse this mission - in the past hundreds of years, Galio and the mages of Noxus have been old rivals. Of course, the "old rivals" here are actually quite polite. That's because most of the time, Galio is holding the hammer of the Noxian magic group.

Now that he heard that he was going to defeat the Noxian invaders, the Colossus of Justice said that he would do his part, and he also looked forward to Lux going with him. In his opinion, Lux is also very powerful, and with her here, he will definitely be able to defeat those outsiders. The bad guy couldn't eat it and walked around!

Lux couldn't laugh or cry at Galio's invitation as a guest. She patiently explained many of the things he had to do as a commander, and told him that Forsbarrow had already mobilized. However, Galio was somewhat confused about these contents, and Lacus After talking for a long time, he finally could only understand that "little Lux is very busy and needs to prepare to fight the bad guys."

In the end, after Galio urged Lux ​​repeatedly, he was finally taken away by someone driving a large animal.

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After bidding farewell to Galio, Lux also began to prepare for the subsequent actions.

General mobilization is nothing new for Forsbarrow. Once there was any disturbance in the past winter, Forsbarrow would quickly enter a state of general mobilization to prepare for possible barbarian invasions.

But this was the first time that a general mobilization had been announced due to an invasion elsewhere. Many people in Forsbarrow curiously asked the clerks around them what they were going to do this time.

The answer they got was "Work hard. There is no need for all the people to be soldiers for the time being. We just need to prepare more military supplies for the front line and train the militia more."

This answer really made many people breathe a sigh of relief. In the past three years, Fosbairo has achieved leapfrog development. If there is a war involving all the people, I am afraid that the good days will be temporarily suspended - many Everyone is looking forward to the canal being built and officially opened to navigation this year!

While relaxing, some people also worry about "is this enough?" Compared with the past, Forsbarrow's life is much better. They don't want everyone to go back to the past overnight after the war really breaks out.

Regarding the above speculations, Lux finally prepared an "Open Letter to the Compatriots in the North", detailing the situation Demacia is facing now and what the North should do.

In the "Open Letter to Compatriots in the North", Lux first pointed out that what Demacia is currently facing is a just war against aggression, and the Noxians' undeclared war is a shameless and evil sneak attack. With the wolfish ambitions of Texas, they will not stop their aggression.

Later, Lux clearly pointed out that Noxus is a cruel military empire that does not seek development and puts violence first. In Noxus, everyone is fuel for the war machine. Since the establishment of Noxus, , they have been committed to territorial expansion, but never paid attention to internal development. The only way for citizens to pursue happiness is to join the army of external aggression and plunder other countries for their own use. This is undoubtedly a shameless banditry. If Demacia If the country falls, the citizens under its iron heel will also be forced to become fuel for the ensnared war machine, which affects all Demacians.

Therefore, even if Forsbarrow is not on the front line of the war, he should still contribute to the war. This is not for the status of the noble master, but for the consideration of the Demacians themselves, in order to prevent themselves from becoming slaves of the subjugated country, and for their own Future generations will not be dragged into a chariot of burning flesh and blood!

So, what should Forsbarrow do in this situation?

The answer is to perform their respective duties, work hard on production, convert some civilian facilities to military equipment, and wait until Fosbarrow's Northern Walkers and Lawkeepers join the battle, then fully support the front line!

In this part, for the first time, Lux relatively directly expressed the difference between himself and other noble lords - the Forsbarrow people went to the battlefield and were fully prepared for war, not for the illusory glory, nor for the merits that only belong to a few people. , but for the future of all Forsbarrow people!

For the future, this is a very empty slogan, but for the people of Fosbairo who have experienced three years of leapfrog development, this slogan is so real and visible.

When Lux came to Forsbarrow and gave her first spring speech as a joke, saying that she wanted to change Forsbarrow, most people in Forsbarrow paid more attention to the jokes she told.

But later, as Lux's promise came true, and as the Winter Speech became a summary meeting, the people of Forsbarrow now fully believed in Lax, and fully believed that Forsbarrow would have a new and better order.

In this case, if anyone wants to stop the Forsbarrow people, then they are the enemies of all the Forsbarrow people!

The Noxians are coming?

Then let them die without a burial place!

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With the issuance of the general mobilization order, Fosbairo and Xinfucheng quickly invested a large amount of manpower and material resources into armaments while maintaining the most basic production.

Under the organization of the Dharma Controller, the miners in Vero Village began to try to smelt rune steel using Forbidden Demon Stone as raw materials according to the method provided by Kalya. Steel mixed with Forbidden Demon Stone requires ultra-high temperature to melt, so Many legal practitioners also joined in the production.

This ore smelting production line newly established in Vero Village last year was originally prepared for the sintering of blue ocher. Now, with Lux's order, it has been turned into a furnace specifically for smelting rune steel. According to the weight of the smelted rune steel, Receive subsidies from Lux.

Since the industry is currently lame and lacks professional blacksmiths, most of the rune steel cannot be forged into armor. Therefore, these rune steels can only be forged with hydraulic forging hammers and made into extremely luxurious "rune steel shields". In order to strengthen In order to improve the defensive power of these shields, the guardians also worked overtime to carve a large number of magic circuits on them to achieve the effect of magic buffering.

The fur industry also underwent reforms after the general mobilization. In addition to selling furs to make money, each household also received some low-priced military orders and needed to process special furs as required to use them as raw materials for drawing magic circuits.

These furs are special furs that have been accumulated in the Freljord trade over the past two years and are strong enough to withstand magic circuits. They come from various rare and exotic beasts in the Freljord, and from the Avarosa tribe. People used these furs in exchange for a lot of tobacco and a lot of tea.

Now, these furs have finally been taken out and officially started to be processed. The furry ones will be processed into hooded short windbreakers and provided to the mages who are about to form the War Mage Group; the non-furry ones will go through a special process. The nitrate and rune stone are nitrated twice, and then processed into leather armor for northern travelers to use.

Although due to Lux's generous purchase, most of the Northern Walkers can have a set of rune steel armor (the royal family will sell rune steel armor to noble lords to arm their private armies, which is also an important way of making money), but if they actually go to the battlefield, only With this set of armor of extremely average quality, it is obviously not enough.

Although this set of spare leather armor is slightly inferior in defensive power, it can be used as a light wear when marching. There is nothing wrong with it except the heat.

Compared with the mining and fur industries, the herb picking and planting industries have been greatly affected. First, all wound medicines have been included in the prohibited trade list, and they are purchased and processed centrally by Lux. Then, fragrant red sage and hazel antler are also unified purchased and unified. Carry on official trade.

As for business, Lux began to hoard a large amount of food, and had already sent a message to Ino, hoping that she would put aside matters related to Ionia and go to Vazuan to purchase arms as soon as possible. Byro or Demacia has a complete military-industrial system, but now she can only buy Hex revolvers and matching bullets from Vazuan - paying for them with hazelnuts at a sky-high price.

In addition, most commodities such as food and daily necessities in Fosbairo have begun to undergo comprehensive control. Hoarding of food, speculation and other behaviors are expressly prohibited, and the amount of food and supplies purchased by each person is limited. Although Fosbairo is now There have not been any call-ups due to material scarcity, but management and control need to be prepared in advance.

The Northern Walkers' daily rations increased, and so did the amount of training. Lux even specially organized several long-distance training sessions to get them fully prepared for war.

The Guardians were divided into combatants and non-combatants. The number of combatants who signed up for free was immediately filled up on the first day, so Lux had to conduct a screening process and eliminate those who were young, old, or in poor physical condition. , whose talents were not suitable for fighting, a mage group of three hundred people was selected, and under Kalya's personal plan, professional war mage training began; except for a few key working groups of non-combatants In addition, they were also assigned to various armament projects to prepare for war.

The burden on the clerks' shoulders suddenly increased. In addition to the simple communication of messages in the past, they finally began to formally contact the work of organizing actions, data processing, and task allocation. For a while, they even caused a lot of jokes and troubles. Fortunately, there was still time. It's too late, problems can be rectified now, even if there is some disturbance, it can be calmed down quickly with Lux watching.

The intelligence organization is operating at full capacity. The Freljord intelligence team needs to confirm that the north is absolutely safe, and the intelligence members with Sona need to keep an eye on the dynamics on the front line and maintain the smooth flow of information to provide the first step for Lux's decision-making. First-hand reliable information.

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Just like this, after the general mobilization order was issued, and following Lux's orders one after another, Fosbairo's train, which was rolling towards prosperity and development, suddenly changed tracks and rumbled towards the direction of war preparations. Spero was armed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Those who needed to participate in the battle were ready for battle, and those who did not need to be on the front line also contributed to the logistics of the war.

An unprecedented mobilization of military and civilian forces was launched in Forsbarrow. Lux, who was coordinating the overall situation, made all preparations and began to wait patiently.

She was waiting for Forsbarrow's chance to make a move.

Judging from the situation of the battle in Tobitsia, it seems that Jarvan IV and Swain are destined to keep her from waiting too long.

Kalya's Little Class·Runesteel Armor:

The manufacturing and sales of rune steel armor has always been an industry in the hands of the royal family. The royal family will sell ordinary styles of rune steel armor to lords everywhere for a fee to arm private armies. This is a very important source of income for the royal family.

As the new lord, Lux received 300 sets of armor as a gift from Jarvan III when she was granted the title, and Lux ​​bought the rest bit by bit herself.

The royal family thought that Lux used her family's money, but in fact, Lux used all her own earnings - Forsbyro was far richer than outsiders thought.