Chapter 964 (1/2)
”I see. Go down.”
After hearing the statement of Knight Byrne who sent the letter, Charlotte, sitting in front of the round table, stroked her forehead with an expression of irrecoverable fatigue.
”By the way, go to the wizard's Union and invite your excellency Ayn Rand to come and say there's something urgent to discuss.”
”Yes!”
Knight Byrne was ordered to leave. Before leaving, he couldn't help glancing at the letter on the table.
Four identical letters were as like as two peas, from Poe, Arles, Alleman and Emperor's University.
At the moment when she learned that Loren Turin had become commander-in-chief of eboden, Charlotte's first reaction, in addition to being angry, was that this was not a private compromise between Loren and connord, but an agreement reached by all forces.
Because of this, the other dukes and the heavenly palace of the imperial capital must have known about eboden earlier than themselves; If Loren can promise this, it means that these people should also have made commitments such as ”providing reinforcements”.
So the Countess of red blood Castle immediately sent messengers to these four places in the name of Duke Byrne - not only could they not see that they had just received the news, but also urged them to send reinforcements to support eboden as soon as possible.
The first news came from the Duke of veltz of elmond and the Archduke of Bowie's machete.
On the day before the letter was sent, seven thousand elite foot soldiers of El mans had set out from the capital of the principality and embarked on the journey to eboden - unlike other principalities, there were almost no cavalry in El mans with many hills and mountains in the territory, and the small El mans were also a nation that was extremely bad at riding horses.
The Archduke of El mans did his best to quickly assemble 7000 troops from the fragmented mountains of El Mans.
While Sally Ka Jonah nodded quite forthrightly and agreed immediately. Five thousand Hussars led by little Boye rushed across East Saxony to help Loren.
The information of the heavenly palace is very treacherous - according to the information collected by Lina desallion and Dalton kand, the imperial Legion has actually been reorganized, but there is no sign of development.
On the other hand, Connaught I has built a complete logistics system along the entire route of the gem River, which can supply 200000 troops at any time, not like he is ready to give up eboden; I'm afraid only he himself really knows what he wants to do.
The information from Arles was not beyond Charlotte's expectation. The brazen and ungrateful bandit leader of Archduke Arles had no sign of preparing to send troops for rescue at all; The reason is that Arles broke out civil strife again. He must put down the rebellion first.
Even if he was willing to send troops, Charlotte did not dare to do so - the Arles were a gang of robbers, allowing their troops to pass by Byrne was not enough to add chaos!
As for lottel, it was the only principality in Charlotte that did not send envoys; She also knew a little about the relationship between Loren and Duke Reuven Fred, the private alliance between the two principalities.
Moreover, eboden is connected with lottel, so it is also the only principality that will definitely send reinforcements. Otherwise, eboden will be finished. The next stop is yingshou castle!
All the reinforcements that can be found have been found, and the rest are either unreliable or can not be expected at all; Under such circumstances, Charlotte naturally thought of her own army.
The 100000 Bain army had been reorganized before Loren set out and could be assembled at any time - it would not be impossible if the conscripts of the principalities were added in the follow-up, and the whole country would contribute 200000... It is not impossible.
But after several round table meetings, all the suggestions of everyone except the youngest earls were very positive.
There are two reasons - from Byrne to eboden, and from the southernmost to the northernmost end of the Empire, it is absolutely too late to start at once.
It is useless to mobilize only a few elite to rush for help. Moreover, the 2000 Bain knights and demon hunters who went to the imperial capital with the Duke of Bain are the top elite forces of Bain.
The other is who leads the army.
Although Loren has been trying his best to bring Byrne's military system closer to the imperial Legion system, there is no time to change much in just three years - the only thing that can make all Byrne Knights loyal is the Lord of Byrne, and no one else can!
Of course, this is not absolute. When necessary, some count with high prestige can also be recognized by other knights - for example, Eckert, count of fury castle, as president of the knight college, can barely restrain others; Or Charlotte, the successor of the Turin family, can temporarily obtain the power of unification in the name of the family.
But count Eckert was far away in eboden, and Charlotte herself had a fatal defect - she was a woman, and the Byrne Knight never believed in a woman on the battlefield.
Moreover, if you leave, you will abandon the principality and live up to Loren's trust in yourself.
Duty and responsibility struggled in Charlotte's heart.
On the other hand, bishop Weber, Lina desallion, court steward Charles... Even Dalton kand, did not agree to send troops to eboden.
The reason is similar to that of the round table parliament, but it is more out of trust in Loren - since he has not disclosed it from beginning to end, it shows that he does not want Byrne's power to be invested in the war.
To prevent Byrne from being forced to join the war in his own way; On the other hand, if Byrne was worried about his Duke and gave up his power in a hurry, he would be used by Emperor connord.
Compared with the wrists of Eckhardt II, the ”strategies” of emperor connod I still belong to the category that can be seen through. Most of them are simple and crude, full of conspiracy of Legion style.
According to Dalton kand's understanding of his apprentice, since he refused to say, it proved that he wanted others not to know - or pretended not to know, at least try to remain silent until he made his next decision.
From this point, Dalton's ”self righteous” evaluation of Loren is not too much.
The corner of her mouth overflowed with a bitter smile, and Charlotte shook her head.
But what about yourself?
No matter how high sounding words are, they are the same hypocrisy when facing themselves - in the final analysis, it is just that Byrne's position in his heart is higher than that of Loren Turin.
Byrne and Turin cannot lose another Duke, but they cannot lose the opportunity to rise again... At least, they must not lose it in their own hands!
With some complicated emotion, Charlotte got up slowly and looked around the empty round table hall.
”Huh? Ain... Why haven't you come yet?”
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”What the hell are you doing?!”
Charlotte exclaimed.
Standing in front of the floating city of horn castle, looking at the little wizard who is ”fully armed” and packing her bags, the Countess of red blood castle can no longer keep calm, and her face is full of disbelief.