With a guide engine and a Tisru nuclear "dual-core propulsion", the Qiyao Aurora itself has surpassed all floating ships at its top speed, and coupled with the treasure effect of the Moonlight Ark that Lu Xi'an put in the captain's room, the entire ship is almost rushing at a high speed that is beyond the reach of all the flying creatures along the way. During this period, Lu Xi also took a trip back to Colorful Rose Island by the way, brought some supplies, spare weapons, and two "big toys" that he tried to make, and dragged the "pet" Panarsis who was living in the pet room in the dark.

The reason why he brought Panarsis is because even if this guy is in the herbivore system, his essence is a dragon that has lived for tens of thousands of years, and just his experience and knowledge can be of great help to the group.

At this time, Lu Xi was more or less aware. This time, when he went to the eastern border, he faced not only the legendary boss in the dungeon, but also tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of boundless enemy troops. Reality is not a lawn mowing game of Dark Glory Company, and in such a situation, personal strength is no longer the most decisive factor. The more thoroughly prepared, the better your chances of survival.

I just hope that this scrap wood house dragon will not let himself down.

Although it took a little detour to get home, it only took Lu Xi a month to rush from Elichar to the easternmost military base in the federal airspace, which is also the garrison of the Eastern Legion, Fortress Daroshur. In this expedition, the fortress of Daroshur is the backup and supply base for maintaining the front line of Blackman. In fact, according to the military plan taken out by the Ministry of Military Affairs, the entire Eastern Army Corps was the backup and general reserve of the expeditionary force.

It is the only unit in the whole Federation that has seen blood and can be counted as experienced in a hundred battles (although most of the combat experience is to suppress bandits). To be a nanny for the group of sons and brothers from the capital and the road specimen troops (in the language of the Eastern Legion), for the proud generals of the Eastern Legion. It must be a very interesting thing, right?

As a central commissioner of the Ministry of Military Affairs, of course. Lu Xi soon met Gary? Lieutenant General Agroll, who has the nickname "Ghoul King", seems to appreciate his commander of the Eastern Legion. If you do the math, the two haven't seen each other for three years.

"I have always been convinced that Major Belencaster, only the army, only the battlefield, is the stage where you can best display your strength and strengths. Now it seems that there is nothing wrong with this qiē. ”

"Ugh. But I have always felt that your Excellency, your Lordship, that you had made the idea at the beginning for the sake of the teacher's sake. Unruly, unruly, undisciplined, undisciplined people like me. Maybe a little bit of ability and cleverness, but for an army, it should be the least welcome type, right? ”

"Oh?" General Gary smiled playfully, "Three years ago, you were just a young magic apprentice. Well, maybe it's one of those very talented magic apprentices, but after all, he's still a young man with a lot of immaturity and immaturity. Now, years later, you're wearing a three-star wizard badge. When it comes to the strength of the spellcaster, I am by no means inferior to me, a veteran battle mage who has been on the battlefield all my life. In terms of rank and rank, you are now a Lieutenant Commander in the Federal Navy. First Operational Staff Officer of the Federal Expeditionary Force Command, Liaison Officer of the Military Affairs Department. Think of when I was twenty years old. What else are you doing? Oh yes. I have just entered the Dugubao Military Academy to start my second year of study, and as for the mage qualification, oh, I barely passed the fourth exam at the age of twenty-five. Young and young to have the status and ability that I have now, in my image, the Federation should have only had your teacher for nearly a hundred years, Orucello? Master of Berencaster, right? ”

"Young people who are the same age as me, but better than me, can now count five out, and all of them are cute girl papers." Lu Xi couldn't help but smile bitterly: "In addition, if you want to talk about the issue of rank...... Well, Your Excellency General, I personally feel that this is more of a role for office politics! To put it bluntly, aren't you called consequentialism? ”

"Consequentialism works most of the time. For example, this time, if our expeditionary fleet wins completely, it will be the wisdom of the Federation commanders and central decision-makers. No one will care whether this operation is unplanned or not, and there will not be a few historians and military scientists in later generations who will point out that we have actually committed several major taboos in military operations, let alone ordinary readers. ”

"Big taboo?" Lu Xi's eyes narrowed.

"When the expeditionary force passed by the fortress of Daroshure, I naturally came into contact with them. Down to the ordinary soldiers, up to the command level, and even Marshal Conrad himself, all of them were proud and complacent, and looking at their mental state, it was as if they were not going to war but to go on an outing. ”

"Expect the enemy to be light, this is a big taboo."

"I asked the military staff of the fleet command in the hope that they would have a very detailed military plan, but there was nothing. Their plan was very monotonous, just thinking about throwing army troops into the city of Blackman, and then with the cooperation of the fleet, they would fight a decisive battle with the main force of the undead orcs in the Plain of the Blackman River, destroying the enemy's living forces at once. What if the orcs and the undead didn't show up under the Black City, but instead used the forest and the Namoan Mountains behind it as a cover to harass the deserted farms on both sides of the river? If...... They have more threatening plans, so what can we do? However, the staff departments, which are mainly 'elite talents' who have graduated from military academies, do not even have an emergency plan. ”

"It's normal! We haven't fought a big battle for many years, and the command and staff have long been rusty. Besides, the so-called elite talents, we all know how high the threshold and tuition fees of the military academy are, and most of the graduates are sons and daughters who do not go out of the door of wealthy businessmen. It's not that you can become a military strategist by reading a few books and writing a few articles, but the key problem is that those brainless boys really think so. Lu Xi shrugged: "All in all, the goal is unknown, this is indeed the second taboo." ”

“…… Sherman, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force? Marshal Conrad, this is also a hidden danger. ”

"Huh? Why is that? This old man...... Well, I haven't seen this sir though. But I've also heard of his name. In the Battle of the Xilin River 30 years ago, the battleships under his command successively defeated sixteen ghost dragons and the lich and necromantic knights riding on them. This prevented the collapse of the military formation of our ally, the Kingdom of Goting. In addition to this time, he also commanded several Black Flag Winged Bandit Clearance Battles and support operations against those small countries on the Five Finger Peninsula. Oh, and by the way, the Battle of Bhandah, which was once in the Bay of Yangji, defeated the army of hundreds of giant sea beasts and tens of thousands of amphibious soldiers of the Dark Naga with the strength of six battleships and ten cruisers. In short, although this commander is not a military god who has won a hundred battles, he is also a famous federal general! ”

"yes, but that's a thing of the past. The last time Marshal Conrad was on the front line to take command of the troops, which is what you call the Battle of Bandah, that was also 25 years ago. Now him. I'm 75 years old, and I've wasted too much time in the glitter of Elichar and the squeeze of central power, and I don't know how much ...... of courage and courage I had left."

"However, if you follow the wind evaluation, whether it is the genre or the gate valve faction, it has a very good influence on that chief. Even among the people, his reputation is very good, and he is almost the least attacked central-level high-ranking official in the entire Federation. ”

"It is true that Marshal Conrad was indeed a good man of great decency. The older you get. The more you know the truth of being kind to others...... I think that's probably why the Federation chose him as the commander-in-chief of the military operation. You must know that in our expeditionary fleet, I am afraid that there are nearly two-thirds of the troops and warships. It's a private soldier belonging to the arcanopy of each Arcan! Perhaps, there is only one neutral and good old man who has a good relationship with each family. can barely reorganize this five-in-one into a whole that can be called an army. ”

"Isn't that a good thing, in a sense? The prestige is huge, and the wrists are tough. A great commander who can integrate all the factions into an iron army is naturally the best, but this kind of figure is hard to come by. Since I can't find it. Isn't choosing a good old man who can reconcile yin and yang the only and most appropriate choice? ”

"The key question is that this is just for now...... The best option. This expeditionary fleet seems to be so powerful and invincible, but as I said before, more than half of them are private soldiers and private warships of the nobles. Their commanders are the heirs or even the heads of the families of the Alpha Gate Lords, and although they carry the rank of federal officer and receive the salary of the Federation, they are not professional officers like us who are really forbidden by order. ”

"Yes, I should be this kind of person......" Maybe he felt that the atmosphere was too strict, so Lu Xi smiled and said a joke that seemed out of place.

"You're not that kind of person, Major Berencaster." The general shook his head and said, "You have an unruly side, but you are not an ignorant person. You know very well what it means to be in a very large group to enforce and prohibit each other. However, those people did not necessarily understand. In the eyes of these nobles, their personal achievements and honors are more important than anything else, and the country and the army are just tools and stepping stones for them to realize their personal ambitions. If the war reaches a certain stage of frenzy, do you think that a good old man like Marshal Conrad will really be able to restrain these crazy noble children? ”

“…… Well, the generals are not in unison, which is indeed one of the taboos of soldiers. ”

"And then, there's one last question. Our country, at present, lacks readiness for all-out war. The general stood up and walked to the window of his office. Outside the window is a huge warehouse area, where transport ships from all over the Federation are bringing in the supplies that keep the army fighting. The scene did look unusually busy and spectacular.

"Looks like it's enough to feed a country, isn't it?" The general stood by the window, his voice a little muffled.

"It's true, but it's just an illusion." Lu Xi also walked slowly to the window, just glanced at it, and roughly estimated the total amount of goods currently hoarded in the warehouse area: "More than two hundred warships and transport ships, fifty thousand military personnel, well, if you add the ten thousand soldiers stationed in Black Man City and nearly one hundred thousand immigrants." The material here, I'm afraid, can only support three to five months at most. ”

"So, we have to count on the end of this war in three or five months. But what if it doesn't end? The general asked, "There have been so many things this year, and the autumn harvest of the newly cultivated farms in Black Man City must not be able to be counted on, and the civil war in Auckland ...... Well, although the two factions have not officially started a war yet, we can already consider that this civil war has begun. When the war starts, how much food will be available to us? As for our new ally, Virginia is not a big grain producer in the first place. I can't imagine what will happen to those soldiers who fought bloodily when the country can no longer support the supply on the front line. ”

"The security is uneven, and the rear is unstable...... Indeed, this is also a must-lose situation. Lu Xi sighed: "Speaking of which, we have really been forced into a very embarrassing situation." ”

"But no matter how embarrassing it is, the Black Man City and the grain producing areas in the Black Man River Basin are the foundation of the Federation's future strategy, and there is no room for failure. Therefore, even a brilliant and far-sighted leader like Lord Russell had to approve this unplanned expedition. The general sighed: "Anyway, the above is my speculation. I can only hope that everything is just imagination. Taking 10,000 steps back, although the fleet is facing the pressure of the orcs and the undead joining forces, the worst-case scenario is that the Black Man City is washed in blood, and the Federation's plan to expand the ground is aborted...... At least the fleet should be able to sustain a tactical victory. ”

"The pressure of the two sides joining forces? Is this weird? We've pretty much put everything on the table, what are the Nords doing, who have just become allies? Even if you can't send a large army to support it right away, you can always do something in the Great Lakes to attract the attention of the orcs, right? Lu Xi asked with a frown.

If it was Artoria, who was full of discipline, she wouldn't be so cunning for her teammates, right? Could it be that her family is doing something bad? Indeed, with the manipulation of that ghost father and that group of sisters and brothers, this kind of characterless thing is not impossible to do.

"Oh, I forgot, you've been on the ship all this time, so you shouldn't have heard from it yet...... This is the classified information that has just arrived, the Nikiantes have rebelled. These minorities can be said to be the most rebellious people in the Northern Empire. Although this rebellion is only a disease of scabies for the Virginian Empire, we will have to face the combined forces of the undead and orcs alone, at least for a long time. (To be continued......)

PS: Okay, it's two more shifts, but why is there really a feeling that it's about to burn out? When are you going to smash me for the count?