Chapter 906, Mr. Holy Grail, Please Take One of Us~

After the face-to-face meeting, Kalad and Turas rested for a day and began to gather their troops the next day.

Lane named this army the Northern Front of Brittany, commanded by Callard, with Turas as deputy, and Beria as the general political commissar and commander of the Ugor Army.

The Northern Front began to gradually concentrate its troops. The Dukes of Britannia sent the strongest elite infantry regiments they had just formed to fight under Ryan. Most of these infantry regiments were 300-500 people in size and were relatively ordinary. Although the number of infantry regiments is small, almost all of them participated in the Great Expedition of Eight Peaks Mountain. At the same time, many of them also participated in the Great Expedition of Obiun. They gathered together in formation, fully armed, with great military appearance and murderous intent. , which was eye-catching and gave Kalad a lot of confidence.

Of course, the total cost of this group of armies is high. Fortunately, Ryan has money, and due to its small size, the Dukes also began to realize that although the Kingdom of Knights is mainly based on cavalry, an elite infantry is indispensable, so it is also necessary. Everyone is willing to pay to support them.

The first to arrive was the Belion Piggy Rogues. This legion disliked Duke Theodoric. Why? Because Duke Theodoric was really evil and never cared much about the life and death of his subjects, these soldiers deeply hated Duke Theodoric. However, the Duke finally relied on returning at the critical moment to kill the vampire. The pirate commander saved the duchy and won back a little prestige. Finally, the duke and the soldiers who had returned from the Eight Peaks Mountain expedition reluctantly reached a compromise. The duke would pay half of their military expenses and allow them to recruit new soldiers from serfs and free people. The Piggy Rogues are free to leave the Principality to participate in wars or accept commissions, and they only need to return when the Principality is in danger.

Then arrived the Palaon Swift Army, an infantry regiment known for its fast movement and accurate shooting in the mountains. They wore chain armor and were good at using muskets and hard bows to fight. They were very good at field battles and defensive warfare.

After that came the Mannann Guards of Bordeaux, the Unicorn Guards from Winford, and the Red Dragon Guards from Bastogne. These armies have also been tested for a long time and can deal with any difficulties calmly. Fighting elite.

After gathering these troops, Kalad then faced a large group of knights errant sent by the southern knight nobles.

Britannia's knights errant generally have three characteristics. The first is that they are young and reckless and have high ambitions. The second is that they are hot-blooded and do not obey orders. The third is that they are not good at fighting against the wind. They will win if they are overwhelmed by a wave of charges, but they cannot charge. There is a danger of morale collapsing.

Most of these knights errant have not been formal knights for more than ten years. Their hearts have long been filled with the passion for making achievements and the desire for the Holy Grail. Especially in recent years, Britannia has become rich in martial virtue. After winning consecutive battles, the brains of the knights errant were also covered with blood.

It is the autumn harvest season recently, and everyone is busy with the harvest. The knights errant are strictly ordered not to affect the harvest, so they have nothing to do all day long. They fight around, engage in various competitions, and seek to see the king of knights or the dukes all day long to get some money. The opportunity for promotion troubled the great nobles, and Ryan's proposal played into the hands of the dukes. Everyone almost couldn't wait to tell the knights errant to go find Kalad and gather them.

The knights errant from the south gathered together. Counting the knights' retinue, there were more than 5,000 people who had arrived in just a few days. Kalad was overwhelmed when he saw this scene, but the Great Holy Grail of the Holy Realm had no choice but to It took a few days to filter out more than a thousand people through certain criteria, and they quickly set off, planning to head north along the canal.

In September, during the autumn harvest season, Kalad, Turas, and Beria stood on the deck of the transport ship, watching the comings and goings of the Landuin Grand Canal, the bustling ships and the people along both sides of the canal. Dense villages, towns and even castles. Turras sighed towards Calard: "The Landuin Grand Canal has just been completed in the first phase. It is simply a miracle! A miracle given to Britannia by the lady!"

"Yes, since the creation of the Grand Canal, transportation costs have been greatly reduced. The north-south river irrigates and communicates the entire kingdom. Under the influence of the canal, more than a dozen towns and hundreds of villages have appeared along the Grand Canal. Village." Kalad also sighed: "It is really the lifeline of the kingdom."

"Such a big project cannot be accomplished without determination and ability." Turas sighed. The Holy Grail Knight looked at the sunny sky in the distance. The autumn sky was clear and cloudless, with many wild geese. He was flying from north to south: "I really can't imagine how your Majesty came up with the Bafeng Mountain National Debt and the Canal National Debt."

"Great people are always different. Your Majesty is the great savior given to Britannia by the lady. It is not surprising that he has any strange ideas. All we have to do is fully understand his meaning and implement it. "Beria was wearing a Breton military uniform but with the medal of Lieutenant General Kislev on his chest. He looked a bit nondescript but very imposing, and at the same time a bit eerie. This made Kalad and Tula Stu was not feeling well, but they soon noticed that behind Beria was an officer Kislev who was slightly fatter and looked a little unnatural: "Who is this?"

"This is General Meretskov, the acting commander of the Ugor Army whom I appointed." Beria introduced calmly: "I am not an officer who is good at commanding, and I have never felt that I am. Meretskov is a proven military officer. He served as general and chief of staff during the reign of the previous Tsar Boris Bokha. It was he who drew up the military plans for the war in which Lys won the title of Red Tsar.”

"Nice to meet you, General Meretskov." Kalad took the initiative to extend his hand, and the Ugor officer smiled cautiously, and then took a step back behind Beria: " Hello, Lord Kalad, Lord Turas, it is an honor to meet you."

Beria smiled sinisterly, and General Meretskov's glorious deeds actually ended here.

After the Red Tsar Boris died heroically in the Troll Kingdom, he fell out of favor. Later, in the Winter War, Kislev suffered heavy losses. Meretskov, who participated in the formulation of the strategic plan, was also implicated. He was arrested by the Cheka. He was taken into prison and tortured, and one of his legs was broken, forcing him to admit that he was influenced by Chaos and reached an agreement with the barbarians, and was blamed for the huge losses.

Fortunately, there were many things happened to Kislev after that. In addition, this guy has always kept a low profile and has a low reputation. Everyone forgot about him. This guy had to spend several years in prison. Until recently, Beria suddenly realized that he was in military command. He lacked talents in this area, so as a former Cheka member, he remembered this outstanding commander who was still in prison, and took the initiative to report to Lane, asking for ways to get him out, and Lane approved.

What happened after that was very simple. It was just a matter of planning, stuffing money, and his contact with Cheka warden Bruna. Beria successfully staged a prison fight for less than five hundred gold crowns. incident, managed to get the general out.

Several years in prison taught General Meretskov to be cautious, obedient and approachable. Since being rescued by Beria, he has been grateful and has discussed and reported everything to Beria as soon as possible. .

Kalad also saw the state of the general. After chatting with Meretskov for a while, he immediately felt the uniqueness of the other party's tactical plan and strategic vision. Kalad felt very uncomfortable. , he thought to himself that the Czarina really didn’t know how to employ people! This is completely different from Ryan. Such an excellent general was tortured to the point where he is now cautious and cautious, not daring to speak loudly. How can he still have the grace and pride of being a general?

The ship continued to move forward, and it took a week to reach the Graysmoray River in Mousilon. Here in Mousilon, Kalad collected the already prepared Mousilon Coldstream Guards and Leon Nassar Ruf Ambition. group.

By the way, Urban, the chief engineer of the second workshop of the Mousilon Gun Factory, also came out to meet Beria and others. The Mousilon Gun Factory provided 24 artillery pieces for the Northern Front, including eight Yaori. Rocket launchers, eight dwarf organ cannons, five heavy cannons, and three special mortars. Chief Engineer Urban improved the mortars, making the attack trajectory of the mortars more accurate and difficult to harm friendly troops. At the same time, the shrapnel explosion damage and damage were strengthened. range.

At the same time, Urban also got fifty dwarf long-barrelled rune-fire guns. Then the former chief engineer of Kislev met his former prisoner Meretskov and laughed so hard that he burst into tears. : "You guys, Beria, are you planning to move all the Cheka prisons to Britannia?"

"Then I think I have to take a few more steps and take my time." Beria also made a joke with Urban. The great engineer now has a big platform that can perfectly display his talents. He is like a duck in water. It cannot be overstated. Urban is definitely responsible for the fact that the Mousilon Gun Factory was able to form large-scale production capabilities so quickly and continuously improve and upgrade war machines.

At the same time, the assistant Beria sent to Urban, a Ugor soldier named Tupolev who followed him for a long time, seemed to have been influenced by Urban. He changed from a monitor to one who studied with him all day long. A technical apprentice, Beria thought that he should quickly find someone else to monitor Urban.

Subsequently, the reorganized army reached a size of 6,000 and continued to march north.

On the way, Kalad and others also encountered an interesting thing. When they arrived in the northern part of Mousilon and were marching in the old territory of Lyonnasay, the army was stopped by a group of people holding weapons.

The leader was a big man, wearing a breastplate made by the empire, carrying a shield and a crossbow on his back, a long sword hanging on his waist, and a triangular iron helmet on his head, blocking the middle of the road: " Master of the Holy Grail! Master of the Holy Grail! Wait."

"Which section are you from?" Kalad was riding on a pure-blood elf warhorse. He frowned at the group of people and signaled the army to stop: "What are you doing?"

"We are all free citizens of Mousilon." Seeing that the Holy Grail Master was willing to listen to his words, the big man couldn't help but show joy on his face: "Master Holy Grail, you are the legendary Earl of Kalad, the hero of thousands of people. The brave man who liberated Mousilon defeated the unparalleled warrior who killed the Mad Duke Merovingian, right?"

"Well, it's me." Kalad nodded: "What's the matter? Is there a situation that requires our help, or is there something you want to report to me?"

"Hey, it's Mr. Kalad, it's really Mr. Kalad!" Cheers erupted from the free people. Only then did Kalad notice that there were more than a hundred free people in this group, and they all brought their own weapons and equipment. Leah couldn't help but frown when she saw this scene: "Your Excellency Kalad, it's important to march. Let's not waste time here anymore."

"It doesn't matter." Kalad waved, and Beria didn't know what to say when he saw this. Ryan made it clear that he was assisting Kalad, not supervising the army.

"Master Kalad, are you going to fight? Just take us with you!" The leader of the big man said with a smile: "We also have to contribute to the kingdom! We also have to fight! We didn't have the last expedition to Obien. Participate, I heard that the younger one from the old family made great achievements in the Great Expedition of Obien, and was directly promoted from a freeman to a glorious freeman, and was also selected into the Coldstream Guards!"

"Yes! We also want to fight. Master Holy Grail, take one of us!"

"We also want to join the Coldstream Guards!"

"If I serve in the military, I should have the opportunity to join the Old Guard!"

"Be confident and remove the should!"

"We also want to make a fortune and become masters! Sir Kalad, please be kind and accept us!"

The fervor of war filled the entire group of free people. They all looked at Kalad with longing and expectation. They were just waiting for the Sanctuary to give an order and they would immediately join the army.

Kalad was really dumbfounded when he saw this. The Earl suddenly realized that the situation was now reversed. Before Ryan came, the serfs and free people did everything possible to avoid war and conscription, but now it is completely the opposite. Ryan has opened up channels for upward mobility and After ensuring a fair share of the spoils, it was now up to any serfs and freedmen who were interested in changing the status quo to join the army, because only through this method could there be one of the few opportunities to transcend classes and a way to obtain a large amount of wealth.

And Lane did give Callard five knighthood indicators, that is, he could be awarded up to five knighthoods in this military operation.

"No, we are not here to recruit soldiers this time, but we have a mission." Kalad said loudly: "You should mind your own business and ensure the autumn harvest, which is your greatest contribution to the kingdom."

"But we have finished the autumn harvest. The people we came today are all early-maturing crops and finished the harvest early in the autumn. As soon as we heard that an army was passing by, we came immediately!" The free people shouted: "If we want to fight, forget it. Let’s be alone!”

"No, no! We have a mission!" Kalad quickly waved his hand: "This is an order! Okay, now get out of the way."

The freedmen had no choice but to get out of the way unwillingly. The big man at the head said angrily and angrily: "Oh, really, why don't you give me this chance? Why don't you give me back the Holy Grail? Why do I give you the shield of the kingdom? Why do you still defend your country? ? What about the devout female believers? You also want us to participate! Mr. Kalad, I wish you all your wishes will come true within three days~ We thank you~"

The knights errant glared angrily at the sinister words of this group of free people. If it weren't for the extremely high cost of killing a free citizen (compensation ranging from 200 to 500 gold crowns and fines + at least ten years of atonement on the Arabi expedition), the knights would have rushed forward long ago. After killing someone, the young and energetic knights-errant soon started shouting and cursing.

The freedmen did not dare to quarrel with the knights, but continued to be angry: "Let's disperse, make way for the knights, wish them a safe journey, it is best not to see anyone, go and come back soon~"

The army moved on.

And just when the Northern Front formed by Lane was preparing to go to the northern coast of Britannia to deploy defenses.

The north of the old world, the Norsca Mountains, and the city of Dulong.

The sound of alarm sounded almost throughout the Giant Mountains, and the Norscan dwarves were seizing the time to slaughter livestock, store food, close the fortress, and prepare for defense.

The Norscan Dwarf Lord (short for the Great King) Torgard-The Crimson One and his queen Svenna Torshi received urgent reports from a large number of forward sentries!

A Chaos army numbering at least 150,000 is gathering from the northern wasteland and marching south at an extremely fast speed, aiming directly at Dulong City and the high mountain passes of the Mourning Mountains!

Torgard-The Crimson was shocked by the news. The Norscan Lord immediately ordered all Norscan dwarves to enter combat readiness mode and prepare to hold on for a long time. At the same time, he immediately sent a dwarf messenger to inform Kislev of the high mountain. The defenders of the pass!

"Quick! Move quickly!"

A small boat took the Norscan dwarf messenger along the underground river in the Norscan mountains and along the dark rolling river channel that the Norscan dwarves spent hundreds of years digging to deliver information about the appearance of a giant chaos army. Arrive at Erengrad.

However, Mrs. Keesler disagreed: "The reaction of the dwarf is so slow! We have all known for a long time that Chaos is gathering an army. When did the news arrive, it was only delivered now."

"They are going to deal with the dark elves, what does it have to do with us? The dwarf is just slow!"

"It's gone, it's gone!"

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