Chapter 1077 (1/2)
”It's over. We have to go?”
In the ruins of duanjie mountain, the Byrne Knights orderly packed their bags, burped up the last drop of wine in the cup, hid the cooked ham in the saddle bag, and turned over to mount with satisfaction.
The Byrne knights who took a hot bath, changed their new shirts, ate and slept well expressed great satisfaction - except lanmallos, the Earl of Lake City.
”There was no welcome party, no Carnival dinner, no girl who changed her clothes and hid in the quilt - we have to go because of an order from the crown prince?” the dissatisfied lanmalos whispered:
”Holy Cross, we just won the invasion of demons and saved the Empire! Is this a courtesy to the heroes who save the world?”
”Yes.”
The count of white horse peak, regrell, stared at him: ”this is a courtesy to a knight who faithfully obeys orders - it is not you, not me, Lord Loren Turin who won the battle of blood skeleton valley.”
”None of these 10000 people can come back alive without our Duke!”
”You're unreasonable. If it weren't for the Duke, we wouldn't have gone to the place where we died.”
”The unreasonable man is you, you wooden head!” regrell's expression was very tangled - when he was on the battlefield, the guy kept shouting to obey the Duke; But when he left the battlefield, everything turned around.
Does every cavalry commander speak like this, but his head is straight, with the exception of himself?
”In a word, think more about those brothers who failed to come back alive from the battlefield. Think about them. What are you dissatisfied with?”
What's dissatisfied... Lanmalos shrugged: ”no... I'm just complaining for the Duke, and then more for ourselves - we won the battle of blood skeleton Valley and ended a demon invasion, but what did we get?”
”Prestige, respect... And your life!” regrell said bitterly, ”this is the battle of dignity for Byrne's reunification after the tenth generation. What else do you want?”
”Of course, when we get to the capital Golovin, you may really get what you want - those panicked noble lords and ladies, in order to get the protection of an earl with military power in his hand, I'm afraid you can marry your daughter without even bride price.”
”Oh, that sounds good... Wait?!”
Lanmalos, who had no time to be happy, suddenly changed his expression: ”what did you say, Timor Golovin? We're going to Timor? Didn't we all agree to go home?! I thought the war was over!”
Regrell silently put down his work, slowly looked back and looked at him with an expression like a fool, with an unbelievable face:
”Tell me, are we both attending the same military conference?”
”Yes!”
”The Duke presided over the task assigned by Eckert, Earl of fury castle?”
”Yes!” lanmalos said inexplicably, ”are you confused? I was right next to you!”
”Then why do you seem to know nothing about asking me this kind of thing - I also want to ask why the guy who shouted to make the rabbit look good next to me suddenly lost his memory!”
”What's going on?!”
…………………………
In front of the long table, everyone's eyes turned to the black haired wizard and the Countess of red blood Castle facing Brandon.
”As for the arrangement of guanbyrne...” Edward hesitated for a moment, and then slowly said, ”my suggestion is... Please return to the red blood castle for a rest.”
Huh?
Everyone was stunned, and even Charlotte couldn't help showing a surprised look.
According to common sense, at this time, shouldn't we mobilize more forces as much as possible - especially now that connord has died and Brandon has not been legitimately crowned, the only people who are really willing to show loyalty to him are the riders of Byrne's thirteen leaders except the East Saxons.
”Before you speak, please allow me to explain first.” Edward continued in a deep voice after stopping Charlotte who wanted to ask, ”I don't mean to ask Byrne to withdraw from this battle. Even if I want to, it's impossible.”
”In short, for three reasons.” Edward raised three fingers. ”First, morale.”
”The Byrne knights who have just experienced the battle of blood skeleton valley have more than half of the casualties. If they continue to fight, there is not only a risk of morale collapse, but also they urgently need to rest and recover their combat strength.”
”But in the next battle, there are no such conditions at all; so withdrawing them to red blood castle is the best option at present.”
”Secondly, it is out of the consideration of combat power distribution - 80000 Bain legions have been stationed in the imperial capital. From the strategic deployment, the strategic objectives that the Empire needs Bain to complete have been achieved, and there is no need for the Principality of Bain to do more obligations;
”It is not time for the final battle, and the war potential of the Principality of Byrne should not be exploited too much.”
”The third is logistics; the siege of the imperial capital means that the legions outside the imperial capital will no longer be able to get supplies from golovon, and the besieged Elven army is bound to cut off the supply transportation line of the West Saxon generation.” Edward said sternly:
”The next Byrne needs to undertake more logistics tasks - barley, wheat, pickled meat, alcohol, iron ingots... Unless Byrne can provide one-third to half of the war materials, we can't maintain such a huge army.”
The voice fell, and the stunned people looked surprised one after another, showing a somewhat frightened expression.
Logistics... Yes, that's the worst.
Once the various legions are assembled in Western Saxony, the total number of troops will exceed 200000 - even though most of them can be supplied from Eastern Saxony and the accompanying baggage team, this number is far from enough in front of 200000 people!
In the principality, only Byrne can provide such a large amount of materials, and organize a huge transport team to transport these materials to places where they are needed; Otherwise, there is no need for the enemy to attack, and these 200000 people can starve themselves to death.
”In addition, I learned from the soldiers who participated in the battle of blood skeleton valley that although Duke Bain defeated the eagle king, he was also injured - no other meaning, but my suggestion is that you'd better return to the red blood castle for a while to recover from the injury until...”
”Thank you for your concern, but you are too worried.”
Lauren, who remained silent all the time, suddenly interrupted him: ”I've been hurt by some skin and flesh, but I'm not too weak to hold a sword.”