Chapter 695 New Support

When Catherine entered the tent, her fiancé was receiving an update from Schroeder.

Many faces that Catherine had never seen before were clustered around Paul. They were all wearing the uniforms of the Arda army. Judging from the patterns on their shoulders, they were all higher-ranking officers.

Hearing the noise, Paul raised his head, and their eyes met.

I should take the initiative, Paul thought, and walked around the table to his fiancée and held her hand.

Catherine subconsciously wanted to withdraw her hand, but stopped in time.

"It's so good to see you safe and sound, darling."

She had never been called such a name in front of so many people. Catherine's heart skipped a beat, and a blush appeared on her fair face.

She gave Paul a somewhat embarrassed look, reminding him of the occasion—although she would not have objected to Paul calling her that in private.

"Thank you for your support, Count Grayman."

Paul realized that he was a little intrusive, smiled sheepishly, and greeted Aofina, Klein and others behind Catherine one by one.

Everyone sat down around the conference table.

Paul talked about his entourage, "Katherine, there are many people who have accompanied me to Jingyao. You already know them, but there are a few new faces that need to be introduced to you. This is my artillery director, Bryce Al Colonel De, he was originally a knight who had served the Grayman family for generations. Because I brought almost all the cannons, he came with me."

The burly Bryce immediately stood up and paid respects to his future mistress.

"My logistics director Ron..." Paul introduced the people who were qualified to participate in the meeting one by one.

Later, he talked about the support he brought.

After Arda recruited a large number of soldiers to expand the army, the remaining four and a half battalions quickly became fully equipped, and they were all brought to the front by Paul.

At the same time, there is almost all the army's artillery force - 40 large and small artillery pieces, most of which are 4-pounders or 6-pounders. Including the artillery brought by Schroeder previously, the total reaches 60.

As well as corresponding logistics support personnel, there are more than 5,000 people in total.

The bulk of the logistical effort was ammunition. The total weight of gunpowder, shells, and bullets was more than 20 tons, and was carried by more than 40 horse-drawn carriages.

Even so, because the total number of Alda soldiers in the two groups is as high as more than 4,000, each person can only be allocated 50 rounds of ammunition, and each gun can fire about 30 rounds - embarrassingly, the gunpowder currently transported is not enough. In order to support these shells and bullets until they are all shot, they have to continue to be transported from the rear.

The new four battalions are all retired veterans. After a little restorative training, they can be put into the front line. The vast militia force takes on the important task of defending Arda itself.

And Schroeder talked about the power of the enemy for Paul.

"According to the latest intelligence, the orcs have invested between 15,000 and 20,000 cavalry in our direction. They are led by the orc general Callum."

"The orcs also have a large number of human soldiers, who come from many sources, such as those assigned by rebel lords, forcibly recruited locals, or those unincorruptible civilians who have taken refuge. There are about 20,000 people in this group, and most of them are infantry. ”

Paul frowned, "With nearly 40,000 enemies, the situation is very serious!"

The strength on our side includes about 10,000 troops from the Northwest Gulf Territories, 4,000 troops from Jingyao, 10,000 troops from Blackstone Plains, and a small portion from the adjacent Wild Elephant. The support troops were smaller in number than the orcs, and due to a series of previous defeats, most of the troops were demoralized and fearful.

He asked: "What is Callum like?"

Schroeder replied: "This is an ambitious orc. With his current status, he is not yet within the core circle of the king's tent, so Callum is extremely eager to conquer the northwest of the kingdom to establish meritorious deeds and win the title of Great Chief A. Barr's favor."

"Okay!" Paul said firmly, "I don't want to be the fruit on someone else's tree."

He stood up and looked around at the people around him one by one. "The claws extended by the orcs will stop here and be cut off."

Except for the generals from the northwest bay, many people felt that the young earl was talking nonsense. Although his troops had achieved a small victory, that victory was not enough to change the situation of the war.

"Count Grayman!" Duke Osman Alanburu from Blackstone Plains was worried. "I hope you will treat these aliens from the grassland carefully. Although I have fully experienced their ferocity before the battle in Sunset Valley. But when the battle actually started, I realized I had underestimated them.”

Duke Alanburu was lucky enough to survive Sunset Valley, but there was not much left of the 10,000 troops brought from the territory.

In the Duke's opinion, Earl Grayman has the confidence that he should have at his age, but young people's self-confidence often leads to disasters when they encounter problems that are actually beyond their ability to handle.

The key is that Paul Grayman is still Princess Catherine's future husband. The failure in Sunset Valley has cast a shadow on the reputation of Her Royal Highness. Although the direct cause of the failure was the rash advance of the Chinese army, as the nominal commander-in-chief, Catherine is bound to bear some negative consequences.

If her husband fails again...

"Thank you for your reminder, Duke. I will gather everyone's wisdom to formulate a suitable combat strategy after fully analyzing the enemy."

Paul smiled and nodded. He could feel that the old man was kind-hearted.

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At this time, he felt a slightly hostile look from a young man next to Duke Alanbru.

"Do you have any advice? Sir Montreat Tavares." Because they had introduced each other, Paul knew the identity of this young man.

"No, Earl Graman."

Osman suppressed his dissatisfaction.

He knew that he was responsible for a large part of the failure of Sunset Valley, so he had to keep a low profile at this time.

Even so, a guy younger than himself pretending to be mature and talking in front of him would still arouse some unhappiness in his heart.

What's more, this guy was going to marry Princess Catherine.

"Before I set off, Lake Heart Town received a telegram from Jingyao... I mean, a letter."

Paul took out a piece of paper, showed it to Catherine first, and then handed it to everyone to circulate.

"Prince Jasim has set off to the north to negotiate with the orcs?"

Everyone discussed the content of the telegram.

"What is the royal government thinking? At this time, they should send more troops to beat the orcs hard, instead of spitting at them."

Everyone didn't understand. Sending envoys to negotiate after failing once was a bit like begging for mercy.

Only Catherine and others from Jingyao felt bitter.

The reason for the negotiation was that the royal government didn't have many troops available. After all, there were Giles and Veblen in the south who had bad intentions.