"Idiots, you are only thinking about the comfort in front of you. If the West Odin Empire really eats the East Odin Empire, according to Ulan Bazhi's nature, how will it expand? He will continue to satisfy a big Odin empire.

Grassland? Maybe you want to become a man who dominates the entire continent? Do you think we can resist it on our own?" General Pedro sneered unceremoniously.

General Pedro's last words clearly hurt the scars of the generals present, and they all said indignantly.

"Those bastards in the south have gone too far in recent years. The amount of support materials is getting smaller and smaller every year. Take a look at what they have sent to us. We recognize those criminal prisoners in the past. At least they are in good health.

Strong, send them to the battlefield and wander around, and they are more obedient than lambs. It's better now. Those who are either deaf or stupid, or missing arms and legs, will all go to our bloody fortress. What we want are soldiers, who can go to the battlefield.

Soldiers are not a group of cripples who live in idleness."

"The year before last, there was a shortfall of 5,000 soldiers, and last year there were 8,000. So far this year, the total number of soldiers we have received is less than 10,000. If this continues, when all the old men in our hands are used up, the Broken Mouth Blood Fort will be

It has become an empty fortress. It has strong defense capabilities but no one to defend it, so what’s the use?”

"As for equipment, there is no finished armor. We admit it. The craftsmen we have accumulated over the years are not bad. As long as we are given enough iron ore, we can build it ourselves. But the problem is that there is no iron ore now.

We have enough methods to transport them, but we can't conjure up iron ore ourselves. Let alone buying new armor, many of the armors that need to be repaired have not been repaired."

"It goes without saying about food. Except for little Sophia Liya, who is interested in us and can still see what she has sent, what other people have sent us. There must be five kilograms of bran in ten kilograms of wheat.

A pound of sand, is this something for people to eat? We are soldiers, soldiers guarding the border. In the eyes of those bastards, we are not even as good as beggars."

"It is indeed thanks to little Sophia Liya these years. She once lived here with us and knows the difficulties we have here. However, I heard that life has been difficult for little Sophia Liya recently. The old and young people of the royal family are...

Keep jumping around, the most powerful thing to criticize little Sophia Liya is the supplies she delivers to us every year. When the little prince who is not closely related to us comes to power, and these maggots are causing trouble, our greatest help is only

I'm afraid most of it will be broken off."

"If this is really the case, our life will be even more miserable. We might as well let little Sophia Liya continue to be the regent!"

"Not to mention the soldiers below, even if we all feel chilled, what's the point of guarding this side if there are some wolf-hearted guys behind us?"

"If it doesn't work, let's open the door and let the cruel people outside rush in. Let these bastards who have had too much stable life know who is keeping them safe and let them live a stable life."

"Shut up, what nonsense are you talking about? How dare you have such a bold idea? No matter how dissatisfied you are, you can't say such bastard words, because it is a kind of blasphemy to the soldiers who died on the battlefield.

, is a kind of blasphemy against our sacred duties."

This complaint ended with General Esmond's roar.

Sean saw that the assistance provided by the other seven major families of the Byron Alliance to Broken Blood Castle has been decreasing over the years, and only exists in a bunch of numbers.

The generals of the Broken Mouth Blood Castle experienced it personally.

There are as many as 200,000 permanent troops stationed on the defensive line of the Broken Blood Fort, not to mention those who are in the training period.

There is no way to maintain such a huge army based on the output of the Duankou Grassland alone. It must rely on the support of the entire Byron Alliance.

In fact, compared to its peak period, the garrison of Broken Mouth Blood Castle has been severely reduced.

During the Odin Empire, the total number of soldiers stationed on this line, including one pack, was no less than 700,000 to 800,000.

When Archduke Cedric first took over, the number of regular troops was not less than 350,000.

It sounds like a lot, it depends on how long their defensive line is and how powerful the enemy they face is.

The world only knows the Broken Mouth Blood Castle, as if the Broken Mouth Blood Castle is the only entrance and exit connecting the Byron Alliance to the Odin Steppe.

But anyone who has been to Broken Mouth Blood Castle knows that this is not the case at all.

The Broken Blood Castle can only be said to be the largest gap, allowing Odin orcs to pour in like a tide.

In fact, the entire Broken Mountain Range is not so dangerous. There are small openings everywhere. If the Odin Orcs want to infiltrate on a small scale, it should not be too easy, but it is not suitable for a large-scale invasion by the Odin Orc army.

After all, when the Odin Orcs mobilize a large army, they need not only elite cavalry, but also a large number of herds to accompany them as military food.

Without this, it would be difficult for them to fight a protracted war. Even if they invaded the Byron Alliance from other directions, they would still be a group of rogue bandits and could easily be surrounded and eliminated.

In fact, Broken Blood Fort is only the most important point on this defense line. The troops stationed here only account for one-third of the entire defense line, or even less. The rest are distributed along this line as a warning.

post.

The fewer warning posts they send out, the greater the possibility that a small group of Odin orcs will infiltrate, causing greater damage to the Byron alliance, and may even turn around to outflank them.

Let’s look at the enemies they face.

The news brought back by Captain Southall mentioned earlier that the Tiger Claw tribe alone had gathered more than 30,000 combat-ready soldiers.

The Tiger Claw Tribe is only one of the eight core tribes loyal to the Tiger Clan Royal Court of the Theodin Empire. Although there is a huge gap in strength between these tribes, the Tiger Claw Tribe can be ranked among the top three, but it is not too big.

If the disparity is too great, they would have been replaced by other tribes long ago.

If all the core tribes can respond to the call of the Tiger Clan Royal Court and they gather an army of 500,000 Odin orcs, it should not be too simple, because the Tiger Clan Royal Court itself has more than 100,000 Royal Court Tiger Guards to guard it.

Not to mention that there are countless small and medium-sized tribes scattered below. Once the royal court issues a call for all-out war, they will prepare their own weapons, horses and food, and under the leadership of their chiefs, they will actively respond.

It will not be difficult to gather an army of 700,000 to 800,000 by then.

Even if there were seven or eight hundred thousand pigs, cattle and sheep gathered together, it would be overwhelming and boundless.

Not to mention the 700,000 to 800,000 strong Odin Orcs. Even though most of them lack military training, their innate physical advantages and natural magic-like abilities make every adult Odin Orc

Possessing combat prowess that is not inferior to that of the Byron Alliance's retinue knights.

They were originally created as war tools, and they indeed have unique advantages in this regard.

Only the West Odin Empire has such strength, let alone the East Odin Empire, which has a territory twice its size. The army it can gather is only much larger than them.

Of course, the numbers mentioned here are only theoretical numbers.

If the two Odin empires want to gather troops, they are limited by the vast area. If the two royal courts want to send all the war calls, they will not be able to do it within a year or two.

Even if it is sent, there is no way to synchronize it.

They can't just sit there and wait for soldiers from scattered small tribes to gather, right?

If they really do that, the army that has gathered together will eat them up and collapse before the battle can begin.

The common war method used by the Odin Orcs is that the location of the war call order issued by the royal court is not the assembly point, but the war point. For example, the target of their attack is the Broken Mouth Blood Castle.

They directly designed this place as a gathering point. Wang Ting gathered the troops of several core tribes and rushed directly to this place, joining other tribes coming along the way.

The result of this is usually to add fuel to the fire, and while fighting, other Odin tribe soldiers arrive, and some even arrive long after the war has ended.

This is caused by information delay. This situation exists not only with the Odin Orcs, but also with the Byron Alliance. At least it existed before the large-scale sale of the Flying Eagle Message of the Eternal Night Army.

It is not uncommon for Odin's orc army to gather, but it is usually not man-made but a natural disaster.

A large-scale natural disaster that breaks out at the same time will cause the soldiers of the Odin orc tribe who have no way to survive to go south in unison, trying to break through the Broken Blood Fortress and plunder the south to help their tribe continue.

Eventually gathering into a terrifying wave of soldiers, the Odin orc army will reach a terrifying number.

Such coincidences are rare. Throughout the entire history of the Byron League, this situation has only occurred three times.

But every time, there was an extreme crisis, which brought heavy losses to the defenders on the front line of the Blood Castle. In the most cruel time, the defenders of the Blood Castle were out of ten. When reinforcements from the Byron Alliance arrived after hearing the news,

The Broken Mouth Blood Fortress has been destroyed and has changed hands several times.

Soldiers from both sides piled up inside and outside the city, especially in the direction of Odin Steppe, where all kinds of corpses piled up like mountains.

Only a few died in battle; most died of freezing, starvation, and illness.

The Broken Mouth Blood Castle is called the Boneyard by the Odin orcs, not without reason.

The war between the two sides lasted for more than three hundred years. Countless Byron Alliance soldiers were buried here, and more Odin orcs were buried here. It is also called the land closest to death.

This is also the main reason why Archduke Cedric actively implemented the policy of replacing defense with offense after he came to power.

The shrinking military strength is somewhat stretched to defend such a long border. We must clench our fists and eliminate the enemies before they develop and grow, thereby reducing the pressure caused by their group attacks.

But what I didn't expect was that while doing so relieved the pressure on the Blood Castle, it also made the great duke families of the Byron Alliance pay less attention to the Blood Castle. The supplies that supported them shrank faster, making their situation even worse.

, they can only attack more crazily. While suppressing the enemy, they are also plundering the opponent's wealth to maintain their own consumption.

This is an out-and-out vicious cycle.

This kind of thing would make anyone feel resentful.

They fought bloody and bloody battles at the front, while others sat back and enjoyed the results. At the same time, they were unable to secure even the most basic supplies. What did they want?

The generals of Broken Mouth Blood Castle silenced their voices one after another. Although Archduke Cedric did not speak, he already exuded a dangerous aura. Under his calm eyes, hidden was rolling magma that could erupt at any time.

Soon the sound of needle dropping could be heard in the military conference room.

"Have you said enough?" Archduke Cedric asked coldly, his eyes like an awl slowly scanning the faces of each general. Those generals who had just complained could not help but avoid them.

His gaze and no one dared to respond to his words.

"Now that it's all said and done, I'll also share my thoughts." Archduke Cedric did not get angry, but said calmly, "You only saw the inaction of those nobles and nobles, but why?

Didn’t you see those ordinary citizens who, in order to support us, would rather eat rice bran and dig out the little grain they have to support us? Why didn’t you see the old father who was thousands of miles away walking on foot?

In a few years, I will send my only son into your hands and let him do his part in guarding the border?"

"What we guard is never those wolf-hearted people, but those kind-hearted ordinary people. When you said these irresponsible words, did you touch your conscience? Don't you feel pain? Are you worthy of those who have sent us so much love?

Are you a person with high hopes? We are here not only for the glory, but also a responsibility. This is the responsibility that the Strachey family has inherited for hundreds of years, and it is also your responsibility, even if there is no more soldiers and armor in the future.

, not a single meter or millet has been transported here. As long as I, Cedric Strachey, am still standing, I will stay here, not for glory, not for responsibility, but only for the people who trust me."

There was no impassionedness or roaring, only endless plainness. He was just stating a fact.

But just like this, the generals were all excited, and all the dissatisfaction in their hearts was instantly washed away.
To be continued...