The Black Scepter

>Fording Empire.

With the help of Connor, Christina, the divisional governor of the “night watchman”, has expanded the territory to an extremely impressive extent. Even after the end of this winter, she can be ranked in the top three in the territory of the Fording Empire The position of the great lord.

For Christina, who used to rely on her husband's prestige and struggled to survive the day after her husband's death, she did not dare to think about these things.

However, the expansion was successful again and again, and the power expanded again and again. When the lords nearby bent down and lowered their heads to themselves, as a female lord, she couldn't help feeling that her life was really ups and downs.

But when wealth, status, and power all flow to oneself like mountains and rivers, no matter how restrained Christina was before, her inner selfish desires and self-confidence inevitably swell.

Why are you willing to be a chess piece?

Why did you make so much effort yourself, but in the end it is not necessarily your own?

When a person's contribution is not directly proportional to the return expected in his heart, anxiety and indignation can involuntarily fill the soul.

At this moment, in the luxurious and even luxurious lord's hall, Christina refuted Connor's tone for the first time-"Express the third batch? I really thought the concentrate is so easy to dig? My miner has already Three people are exhausted, and the hundreds of people who continue to go down in the mine may rebel! Now I want to increase the supply? This is impossible!"

The floor underneath is covered with thick bearskin, and Christina is wrapped in a long fur coat. After entering the winter, the indoor fireplace is burning quietly, and the fire is shining on the house. Everything can only be described as "luxury" Items, from solid wooden chairs and tables to decorative swords on the walls and even the magic rings on Christina's hands, are not top-notch goods.

Connor, who stood in front of her, seemed to always wear that dark robe. He holding his back slightly did not change his expression in the face of the fierce remarks of Christina, but whispered after the female lord expressed her opinion. Tao: "The order was not made by Lord Murphy."

This sentence is comparable to the ban on curse, which made Christina's originally angry expression seem to be frozen in an instant.

She learned that the watchman had not failed in the war that had just ended, but as for more details, she had not received any other letters to elaborate.

"What do you mean?"

"Admiral Ashkandi's personal letter, she requires that no matter the fine iron texture or ordinary iron ore, the third batch must be supplied within two weeks," Connor repeated the content of the letter like a machine, and emphasized a sentence- — "Her signature is the'big consul'."

The great consul, Christina is not stupid, which means the change of "night watchman".

But why is this happening?

Is something wrong with Murphy?

She looked up. Connor seemed to know her doubts and shook her head. "I don't know what went wrong, but the order is the order. I don't think Lord Ashcandy will be more merciful than Lord Murphy." "

The vampire didn't have the guts to explore the reason for this-this is the consciousness of the subordinates. Some things, don't know or don't know, if you have to figure it out, maybe you'll lose your head.

The fine iron arrow, this is the third time Ashcandi has urged Christina to speed up mass production. The actual combat effect of this arrow has been tested and found to almost increase the attack power of archers by more than 30%, naturally becoming Ashcandi focused on the needed military supplies.

Arrows of the same volume, forged by ordinary iron ore, are 20% thicker and 30% weaker than refined iron, but too hard refined iron will cause fragility and fragility, so after improving the shape of the arrow, the penetration is stronger and more The precision iron arrows with quasi-heads bring even more terrifying lethality to the longbowmen's clusters.

In the past, the ability to shoot a warhorse at 300 meters was upgraded to a group that shot through heavy armor at 350 meters-don’t underestimate the extra 50 meters. For the army, this may represent the addition of hundreds of people. Casualty figures.

Even from a certain point of view, this kind of innovation in combat readiness can make a unit of arms directly become a lethal strategic weapon from the "conventional arms"-when the strategic weapon is a long archer instead of a powerful mage, it means a The military tactical style has been completely changed.

Christina may be playing politics, but she is not aware of the importance of such superior combat supplies. In a sense, this is like adding a stirrup to a cavalry who could only throw a gun, so that he can double on horseback. With a weapon in hand, the female lord did not know that she might be creating a terrible army for Ashcandi. What she thought most at the moment was that if the miners rebelled, they would cause themselves to A series of problems that may occur such as the decline of prestige in the territory.

In other words, she has put the consciousness of "being a chess piece" behind "being a lord".

"Then what shall we do next? The team of Holy Gabriel has entered the border of Fording. The command of His Majesty the Emperor has no way to openly disobey him. Should I take the army in the territory to attack Balice?

Christina sat exhausted in a large armchair, rubbing her eyes and rubbing her eyes, and said: "The lunatics of Holy Gabriel, but this time, they rushed towards Barrich with all their strength. The snow could enter the Balice border before it was too late. The lords here had begun to retreat collectively, and all of them did not dare to express their positions like turtles. I think it has nothing to do with the Queen of Ingeway. "

"She used the marriage method to marry all of her royal children to Fording, which is indeed difficult to resist, but this has nothing to do with what we are doing at present." Connor also has no excessive ways in this case. , "Now you can't be an enemy to His Majesty first, negative treatment is equally undesirable, you can only take all the troops to follow, as for how to act after arriving in Balice, I think Lord Ashcandi will have a conclusion. ."

He narrowed his eyes and said in a slightly undetectable voice: "It is not something that the strongest lord can be tamed directly by Lampard's few armies. This is not something that an individual can do with strong strength."

Christina, who has broken her heart for the various orders of the “night watchman”, is very upset. This feeling of sitting on Baoshan but unable to use her own preferences is very sullen, but reality always let her choose again and again. Compromise.

"According to what you said, I really don't know what it is used to make so many arrows. If it is used to make armor, it will be enough to arm a squadron."

She sighed unwillingly and didn't understand Ashkandi's intentions.

longbow.

Murphy gave Klenze a hand to prove that his testimony on the ground was not unreal.

The actual number of Ashkandi’s subordinate units, that is, all of Hegel’s long-range units that used longbows, actually exceeded 13,000.

Will its existence be the next strategic weapon to change the pattern of the mainland? Or a chicken rib that still makes soldiers become lambs to be slaughtered when they encounter a charge at close range?

No one knows.

Christina, Connor, Hegel, Ilindal, and even Murphys all take it for granted that Ashcandi increased the amount of arrow production in order to allow the Longbowmen to occupy an important position in the next battle, but in fact The woman in a black robe who always brought depression to all her subordinates in the territory did not even go to the barracks where the Longbowmen were.

In the previous battles, cavalry and infantry damaged more than a thousand people, and the power of the nobles in the territory was weakened by more than half. However, after Hegel became the new lord, all nobles who belonged to all the territories of Hegel in the new round Under the conscription order, he contributed over 50,000 infantry, 8,000 knights, and 20,000 engineer soldiers.

Of course, these soldiers are on the way of gathering, and it is not easy to gather across the entire East Bali to Lampard territory, but it is enough to show how vast the territorial control Hegel had before-and this is just the beginning. ~www.novelmtl.com~ All the other lords of East Balice collectively expressed their willingness to join the Fording army who came to "find trouble" and the "Jihad" army of the Gabriel empire at the call of Hegel Fight to death.

This time, it means that the reserve that Ashcandi's followers can keep up with has increased to about 70,000.

Balice, who is strong in national strength, made preparations for the war when the early winter was approaching, but the emperor of Sibalice still had no action. That is to say, Ashcandi, the highest leader, now has under his hands There are more than one hundred thousand directly commandable soldiers and 70,000 standby soldiers, and what she is about to face is the joint forces of Fording and Sacred Gabriel that exceed the first batch of more than 70,000.

The follow-up troops of the sacred Gabriel have at least three batches of a total of 90,000 people, and the number of forces with Fording's own country has far exceeded the total strength of East Ballice.

This should be the war with the largest number of wars on the mainland in decades. The total number of participants in the border war that had just ended in the past was less than half of this war. The next war will only start in less than a year. The originally calm continental landscape seemed to be hit by the storm.

The guy who called the storm was standing in front of the head of the Brest family with ease, talking and laughing.