I Will Be The Crowned King Chapter 188

What does it mean to be a standing army for a levy?

In the army system of the Kingdom of Clovis, there are a total of four full corps; they are responsible for external operations, invading enemy countries and territorial expansion, suppressing rebellions internally, and responding to most emergencies. They are absolute elite forces.

They are directly under the royal family, have their own garrison at many strategic points in the country, and even have their own courts and administrative departments; except for the orders issued by the army and the decree of King Clovis himself, the magistrates to the Privy Council have no right to interfere with them. every move.

In addition to the establishment of the four major legions, there are so-called "non-staff legions"; the size of the troops is usually small, ranging from infantry regiments to dissatisfied legions, and basically each has its own independent designation.

These so-called "extrstaff corps" are generally responsible for garrisoning fortresses, border patrols, and maintaining city security. The total strength is about two to three times that of the four major corps, but they are scattered in various strongholds across the country and even overseas colonies.

The four major legions and the extrstaff legions together form the "Standing Army" of the Clovis Kingdom, also known as the "Royal Army".

This means that they have an absolutely independent establishment, have a budget allocated by the Privy Council, have their own station, have all-round support provided by the army logistics and administration, and will not be disbanded after the war.

But for the officers of the Storm Division, these are not the most critical - the real most critical place is the future!

As the second most senior organization in the Clovis Kingdom, and with only so many standing troops, the Royal Army has always faced the problem of not being fully employed.

A military academy graduate who has just completed his studies is not far from unemployment the moment he steps out of the school gate - only officers with no rank and no position, and nothing but allowances.

If during the war, these "unemployed officers" can still join the levy; but unless they can meet a boss such as the archbishop's own son, even if they have military exploits, they are the top officers, and it is basically impossible to promote.

Not to mention that as soon as the war was over, these levies would be disbanded and they would be out of work again.

Even if you are lucky enough to join the standing army, unless your background is strong enough, you will only be in the middle and lower ranks. For most officers in the standing army, the major is basically the limit of the vast majority. He can only hope that his immediate boss and his competitors will die as soon as possible.

It is for this reason that the officers of the general standing army have a higher status than the officers of other "unemployed" or conscripted corps, and are divided into three, six and nine grades according to the location and importance of the troops.

And the officers of any conscripted corps dream that the standing army will be expanded, and their troops will be the lucky ones to be selected and smoothly "regularize".

All in all, the officers of the standing army are on the staff, and their treatment and future are guaranteed; the officers of the unemployed and the conscripted corps are an out-of-staff group, belonging to the substitutes and occasional tools for emergency response.

In fact, Anson's initial wishful thinking was to completely "turn the storm regiment into a positive" after the Hantu War; as a result, he never expected that the "reward" offered by the Army this time was an infantry division.

An entire infantry division, from a levy that was disbanded on the spot after the battle became a standing army!

Under such a huge temptation, the Storm Division completed the assembly work with a speed comparable to the elite, and passed the withdrawal plan at the speed of light at the military conference, abandoned all baggage, and arrived at Baita City within ten days.

In the past, the storm division, which could only be united at the juncture of crisis, really broke out a huge subjective initiative from top to bottom for the first time.

"The plan is very simple, and there is only one purpose - that is to capture the royal court of the Iser elves before the southern army!"

With imaginative bounties and exciting slogans, the storm division embarked on a journey eastward.

Arrive at White Tower City within ten days, complete the rest and all changes in one day, and then pass through the Eagle Horn Pass within 20 days, attack the K Antler Fortress in the east, and besiege the royal court of the Elf King Iser.

Code name - Great Rotation on the Western Line.

At the same time, Akiba City, the southern army and the royal army of Iser are still in an endless confrontation in the Elven Kingdom of Iser.

Under the gloomy dome, the vast and magnificent Iser Mountains have become a purgatory on earth; the choking smoke and rotten breath spread and raged, and the fires dotted the earth, extending into the sky a dark column of smoke. .

The endless field is divided into three by two completely different flags, trenches, forts, fences, craters... Countless trenches are intertwined like cobwebs, like torn wounds and cracks, twisted and hideous.

And in the center of these "cracks", countless corpses were spread out on top of each other, including elves and human beings; the dried blood was poured and solidified on the scorched earth, and the torn limbs, bullet craters and embers formed a strange picture of.

The ashen-faced Ludwig Franz stood in the trench, looking at the pattern without saying a word.

Since the aid of the Thun Legion, the battle has been going quite smoothly.

After the remnants of the Janissary Guards were completely defeated, not only did the "coalition" formed by the elf lords disperse in a hurry, but the Elf Kingdom of Iser, which was originally united in front of the invaders, also followed the official thirteenth council. Rise to division.

Ludwig Franz, who was keenly aware of this, immediately led the army north and began to destroy the legions that were still loyal to the Elf King Iser one by one.

The turbulent situation and the disintegration of the command system, in the face of strong enemies and various contradictory orders, the Iser Elf Legion, who hastily responded to the battle, was defeated one after another like a snowball, and was driven by the Southern Legion to retreat to the rear. .

After an almost one-sided "collapse retreat", the Iser Elf Legion, with a total of 60,000 troops, finally gained a firm foothold in front of Akiba Castle, the northern fortress of the Iser Royal Court.

Facing the desperate situation where there is no way to retreat, the Iser Elf Legion, which has the advantage of location and military strength, launched counterattacks again and again; but they failed repeatedly, and even many completely desperate troops surrendered one after another, leaving less than two The 10,000-strong Southern Legion stood firm.

But for the Southern Legion, it is not as simple as it seems to want to completely eliminate this group of remnant enemies.

No matter how vulnerable the enemy's combat effectiveness is, the number of people in offensive and defensive battles will always be an advantage that cannot be ignored; coupled with the lack of rest in long-term battles, soldiers will inevitably get tired, and the originally stable supply line has gradually advanced due to the excessive speed. began to become unstable.

Although the objective conditions began to become unfavorable, it did not dispel Ludwig Franz's determination to completely destroy the remnant enemy.

If at first he only hoped to force the surrender of the Elven Kingdom of Iser, with the outbreak of the civil war, Ludwig had more and bolder ideas.

He wants to completely rout, or completely smash all of Iser's military might.

As a non-human kingdom on the southeast side of the Clovis Kingdom, no matter whether the relationship between the Iser Elf and the Empire is good or bad, she will always be, and will always be an obstacle to Clovis' expansion.

From the level of race to culture and even trade, there are too many irreconcilable contradictions and disputes of interests between the two sides.

In this case, instead of just forcing the opponent to surrender, it is better to completely disintegrate her military power and ensure that there is no threat to Clovis in the next five to ten years!

As long as the elven kingdom of Iser is completely defeated, no matter what the outcome of the final war in the Vast Lands, Clovis will be able to free up a large number of troops from the east to fight the empire's full-scale attack.

If successful, this is likely to become a turning point in the hegemony of the world order!

But at such a critical moment, Luther Franz... Archbishop Clovis... his beloved father, even asked him to withdraw his troops as soon as possible to besiege the royal court of Iser Elf?

What are you kidding? !

Intervening in the civil war of the Elf Kingdom of Iser, what benefit does it have to Clovis at all? Could it be that the Elf King who believed in the Ring of Order would be weaker in his external attitude than an Elf King of the Old God School? !

After the Battle of Thundercastle and the Clovis Rebellion, Ludwig, who originally believed in his father, has become increasingly unclear about what his "all-knowing" father is fighting for. abacus?

Is what he said "everything is for the benefit of the family and the Kingdom of Clovis" is it true, or is it just an excuse to deal with himself?

Ludwig frowned.

"I said, it's impossible!"

Behind the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant Colonel Roman with a gloomy face put his hands behind his back, and said coldly to the eager Draco Wilters: "It is impossible for the Southern Legion to leave the enemy in front of him and retreat immediately to besiege King Iser. Court - how many times do you want me to repeat it?"

"Don't need it once!" Staring at his eyes full of desire for survival, the sweaty novelist desperately squeezed out a pleasing smile:

"But this is really important - if the Thirteenth Council really controls the Elven Kingdom of Iser, then it's really over, it's over!"

"why?"

Roman said coldly, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes: "If I remember correctly, you were on their side before, didn't you?"

"Yes, I was wrong, really wrong!" Draco raised his hands to express "surrender":

"And now I have decided to make up for my mistakes, I must stop the Thirteenth Council, and I must let the Kingdom of Clovis stop them - only by doing this can the losses be minimized!"

"Why?" Roman, with a frosty face, repeated his question.

"Why why?" The novelist asked sincerely:

"Why must the Thirteenth Council be stopped, or why must the Kingdom of Clovis do it?"

"All!" Roman said decisively.

"No problem!" Draco shrugged. "The answer is the same anyway."

"Then why split into two?"

"Because I generally don't answer questions that no one else asks -- except friends." The novelist's face showed a sincere smile:

"The answer is also very simple, because although the enemy we have to deal with is the old gods of the Iser elves, the real enemy is not them."

"It's not them... Who is that?"

"It's waiting for this day to come, until the crazy guys." Draco smiled, but his voice became more and more calm:

"They... let's assume for a moment that there is such a group of people that 'they' run the world in the shadows; and have tried several times to come to the table, and all efforts have failed."

"Suppose in a certain country a group of old powers are ready to rebel against their king; let's say that the king happens to be 'their' supporter, so there is a group of extraordinarily good, extraordinarily well-meaning foreigners who intend to support these old forces, despite some kind of To a certain extent, it is actually a hostile relationship, do you think these foreigners are doing the right thing?"

The novelist chuckled, but his eyes were always on Ludwig's back not far away.

Assuming... Roman frowned slightly: "You mean..."

"No no no..." Draco interrupted him immediately:

"I'm a novelist, I'm just telling a 'hypothetical' fictional story without any reference or moral in it."

"Suppose... this group of old forces obviously overestimated their own strength and knew nothing about foreign affairs and internal affairs; assuming that they not only failed to overthrow the king in the first place~www.mtlnovel.com~ even made the situation develop in a more dangerous direction already."

"Assuming that their apparently suicidal behavior gave 'them' an opportunity to step out of the shadows to the front again and truly control the world."

"Assuming that 'they' really started to do this, do you think those kind-hearted foreigners before should continue to help these old forces?"

"Of course not!" Roman said without hesitation:

"Since the worst result is that 'they' manipulate the world, even if they can't really stop it, they shouldn't help the tyrants; what's more, it seems that the rise of these old forces is also related to these foreigners; if this is the case, then they You should even stop it.”

"Well said, I think so too!" Draco, who was smiling all over his face, his eyes became more and more meaningful:

"Since it was our fault, we should make amends."

"Not for profit, not for friendship, but for purer, nobler reasons - just like every story, there must be a particularly pure reason that sets the tone of the whole story and becomes its center, to be The real theme of this work."

"Of course, darker and more profound settings seem to be popular recently, but I don't like it very much. As a novelist, I'm still used to being more... um... positive."

"While in Clovis City, I once told another story with our mutual friend Anson Bach, which was a little more complicated; this new story is actually a little simpler."

"And for this simple, 'what-if' story, its themes are..."

"save the world!"

Chapter end