More than three hundred kilometers northeast of Meiro City, in Babral, where the Governor's Office of the Southwest Province was located, the atmosphere was much more tense than usual.
Five days ago, the news of the fall of Meiro City reached Babral. At first, the people didn't pay much attention to it. They thought that this bold enemy would be easily crushed by the Empire's army.
However, just yesterday, another shocking news came back. The fifty thousand troops sent by the Governor's Office to Meiro City had all fallen in Meiro City. Only the commander of the Yuan army, Dinatale Marquis, managed to escape alone.
This news immediately caused the people of Babral to fall into a panic.
The fall of Meiro City could be attributed to the Empire's soldiers underestimating the enemy. However, the fifty thousand reinforcements sent by the Governor's Office were the elite troops of the Southwest Province. Now, all of them had fallen in Meiro City.
These enemies were powerful to this extent?
"No, Your Grace. The enemy this time is much stronger than you think."
Dinatale Marquis looked at the Governor of the Southwest Province, Duke Charles, and added with a serious expression, "Don't say that the fifty thousand reinforcements I lead are no match for them. I believe that even if all the troops of the Southwest Province were to go all out, they still wouldn't be able to do anything to them."
Duke Charles stared at Dinatale Marquis for a long time with a sullen expression. He couldn't help but have a trace of surprise in his eyes.
If he hadn't known Dinatale Marquis for so many years and understood his character very well, he definitely wouldn't have believed these words. He knew that Dinatale wasn't the kind of person who would talk nonsense and deliberately exaggerate to cover up his failure.
What a joke!
Forget about the thirty thousand troops stationed in Meiro City being wiped out. Now, even the fifty thousand elite troops he sent were defeated and returned … Oh no, they didn't even return.
According to Marquis Dinatale's report, those damn Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards didn't put their fifty thousand people in their eyes at all. They even treated attacking them as a waste of ammunition!
Dinatale Marquis didn't have the slightest intention of refuting this statement. He even said in front of Duke Charles that even if all the troops of the Southwest Province were to go all out, they still wouldn't be able to do anything to them.
"According to what you said, should I just surrender to those New Flyer guys?" Thinking of this, Duke Charles couldn't help but ask coldly with a hint of mockery.
How could Marquis Dinatale not hear the meaning in Duke Charles' words? However, he could only give a helpless bitter laugh before continuing, "If the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's goal is to defeat all the resistance in our southwest province, I believe that they can do this.
But … their goal doesn't seem to be here. "
Duke Charles frowned deeply. "Then what do you think their purpose is?
At the very least, they captured Meiluo City, right? "
"Your Grace, Your Grace, Your Grace, Your Grace, Your Grace, Your Grace, Your Grace..
They're just … "
"Enough!" Duke Charles slammed the table angrily and interrupted Dinatale Marquis' words.
"I've heard enough of your flattery of the enemy!
Now that the enemy has taken over Meiro City, do you still want me to stay here and do nothing while they do whatever they want? "
"Your Grace, the truth is that we don't have the ability to resist them …" Dinatale Marquis spread his hands helplessly.
"I think we have to admit that the New Flyer has now mastered many powerful military magic machines that we can't even hope to reach. Our combat strength is not on the same level at all.
If we insist on fighting them, we'll only be sending ourselves to our deaths. "
"So we're just going to wait here for them to take over Meiro City, then take over the other cities in our Southwest Province one by one. Finally, they'll swallow Meiro City, swallow the entire Southwest Province, and finally swallow the entire Empire?" Duke Charles said coldly.
"Of course not, I just … I just feel that … Your Grace, we should report the specific situation here to the military and let the big shots in the military make a decision."
"You don't need to worry about this, I have already reported the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's invasion. I believe that in just a few days, the army headquarters will react." After saying this, Duke Charles suddenly cursed in a low voice in an angry voice.
"If it wasn't for those damn fellows hindering us, we would have built a magic communication network with Wimbledon with the help of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. We wouldn't need to wait several days for a call like this."
Marquis Dinatale opened his mouth, but he decided to give up on reminding Duke Charles. Among the people stopping the Frestech Chamber of Commerce from building the magic communication network, Duke Charles was one of them.
"Your Grace, we're now …"
Duke Charles glanced at him and snorted coldly. "Of course we can't just sit here and wait for news from the military and ignore Meiro City.
Dinatale, three days later, pick ten thousand people from the Fifth Legion and go to Meiro City to provide support. "
Dinatale Marquis was stunned.
"Fifth Legion?
Ten thousand people? "
Dinatale Marquis almost thought that Duke Charles was joking.
The so-called Fifth Legion was actually the last legion in the Southwest Province's regular army. Although it was considered a regular army legion, in fact, the main task of this legion was to be responsible for logistics, engineering, and other miscellaneous work. They had no combat experience at all, and even their weapons and equipment were not complete. They were just miscellaneous soldiers with almost no combat ability.
Not to mention ten thousand people, even if the entire Fifth Legion sent forty thousand people to Meiro City, the situation would only be worse than the fifty thousand reinforcements.
"What?
Don't you understand? "Duke Charles narrowed his eyes and asked Dinatale Marquis.
"Do you want me to repeat it again?"
Dinatale Marquis opened his mouth and was about to ask Duke Charles why he sent ten thousand people from the Fifth Legion as reinforcements. However, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the strange expression on Duke Charles' face. His heart suddenly lit up and he understood.
"Yes, Your Grace, I understand.
However, you only gave us three days. Isn't that a little too rushed?
I think it will take at least five days … No, it will take at least a week to prepare.
After all, the enemy is very powerful. If we don't prepare properly, we won't have much chance of winning. "
Duke Charles showed a satisfied smile and shook his head gently. He replied, "No need.
The people of Meiro City can't wait that long. The big shots in the military can't wait that long either.
Three days is enough. I believe the military will respond in three days. "
Dinatale Marquis understood what Duke Charles meant. He immediately nodded and agreed.
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A week later, when Dinatale Marquis led ten thousand soldiers of the Fifth Legion, who could not even maintain a complete marching formation, to a place five kilometers away from Meiro City, they met up with the first batch of fifty thousand reinforcements who had stayed here for ten days. The news immediately spread to Meiro City.
"Hey, it seems that the nobles of the Kandla Empire are not fools. They know what they should do."
Captain Hart only glanced at the intelligence report. He immediately shifted his attention away from it.
"Is there any movement in other areas?
For example, the military of the Kandla Empire hasn't responded? "
"Hei, just three days ago, the idiots of the Candra Empire's army headquarters were still arguing. I don't believe that they can come to a conclusion in just three days." The vice captain Newnes on the side said with a look of disdain.
"That's why it's not all good for a country to be too big. Look at it now. It's so difficult to make a decision.
Unfortunately, I really hope they can be more daring and come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible.
Otherwise, if I continue to stay here, my body will rust. "Captain Hart sighed.
"Isn't that so?
If it's not you, I've been bored to death these days too. "Newton also complained.
Over the past few days since they had taken Meow City, perhaps it was because the City Lord Count Dempus had fallen into their control, but no one in Meow City dared to resist. So the citizens of the city were very obedient and there were no signs of unrest at all. The Frestech Chamber of Commerce guards who had already prepared for this didn't even need to prepare a plan.
Of course, according to the intelligence report, the Dempus Family had never treated the citizens of the territory they ruled well. There had even been a small riot last year. As a result, more than a thousand citizens were injured or killed.
In this situation, perhaps the citizens of the Kandla Empire would think that Count Dempus falling into the hands of the New Flyer was a good thing.
Captain Hart even believed that if they didn't consider the goal of this operation and just focused on occupying the city, as long as they drove away the tens of thousands of Kandla Empire soldiers outside, they wouldn't need to spend that much effort to truly take Meiro City.
After all, when it came to buying people's hearts, the New Flyer had a unique advantage that other powers couldn't compare to.
That was that the New Flyer could easily lead the economic development of an area, clearly improving the living conditions of most people and letting them live better lives.
These citizens of the Kandla Empire didn't have any loyalty to their lord, so their concept of the Kandla Empire was even weaker.
If there was someone who could let them live better lives, naturally it would be easy to obtain their loyalty.
This was something that the New Flyer had done in Banta City and had done many times in the Principality of Constantine.
Now that the New Flyer's employees were all very loyal to the company, they were willing to follow the New Flyer to make their lives better and better.
Who wouldn't know how to choose when compared to staying under the Count's rule and not being able to fill their stomachs?
Of course, before considering these problems, they had to take care of the biggest obstacle first, which was the main goal of sir chairman personally arranging this operation.
Perhaps it was because he sensed the thoughts in captain Hart's heart, a guard in charge of communication suddenly ran over and loudly reported to captain Hart.
"Reporting to the captain, there are large amounts of high energy reactions coming from the northeast!"