Rise of the Empire Total War - Chapter 542

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On May 30, 1129 in the continental calendar, Richard visited the Amatlia stronghold.

On the way here, Richard had a whim to visit the ruined city of Tarosos. To his surprise, there were still people living in this land where countless souls were sleeping. They built one after another. A village planted grain to restore this land to life.

After talking, Richard learned the reason why they lived here. They were all Catonita Confederate soldiers who had participated in the Tarosos massacre. Because of their uneasy conscience, they stayed on the way back to their hometown after the war ended. Within the territory of Tarosos, he has lived here since then, becoming a new resident of Tarosos.

In the Tarosos massacre, Richard still had some impressions. It was that after the expeditionary army led by Charles was stubbornly resisted by the Tarosos people, it ordered the massacre and slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians in the entire city because of anger. There was still a lot of rumors about this matter, which caused heated discussions among the citizens of Nord City.

Looking back to Amatlia, the fourth army commander Rudolf Vrba led the military staff and officers above the regiment level to greet them. These soldiers who had been away from home for ten years stood in neat rows on both sides of the road. Seeing Richard’s carriage passing by, one after another raised their guns to salute, and at first glance they had received special training.

Woo-

In the sound of the melodious horn, Richard’s carriage stopped in front of Rudolph and the others. Then, a hand with several rings on his fingers stretched out and lifted the door curtain. Richard, in regular clothes, followed immediately. After pulling the curtain open, he walked out, stepped on the back of the servant serving as a meat cushion, and stood on a solid ground a few steps.

“Your Majesty Caesar.”

Rudolf Vrba took a step forward and saluted him. As soon as he finished his words, the officers behind him followed suit.

Listening to these greetings, Richard nodded slightly. He tilted his head to look behind him. Stephanie, with a tulle on his face, just led Elizabeth out of the carriage, and Frederick stood by Richard’s at some point. Behind.

“Introduce.” Richard took a step to the side, pulled Frederick to the front, smiling, and said: “This is my heir, Frederick Stuart, Duke of Cuban.”

“Hello, Your Royal Highness.” Rudolph said hello, touching his chest.

Then he pointed to Rudolf and said, “This is Rudolf Vrba, the commander of the Fourth Army.”

Hearing this, Frederick followed his chest and said: “It’s an honor to see you, General Vrba. I have often heard of you and the merits of the Fourth Army in Vienna.”

“It’s my honor, Your Highness.” Rudolph nodded.

After some conversation, Rudolph led Richard and his party into the Amatlia stronghold. The Amatlia Stronghold, as the main garrison of the Empire on the Osa Peninsula, was also the seat of the Fourth Army’s military headquarters. It was rebuilt and rebuilt in the past nine years. The city walls were heightened and widened, and a large number of For artillery, in order to increase the defensive ability, a three-layer shooting layer was opened inside the city wall, and the soldiers could use the shooting port to shoot outwards.

Inside the stronghold, the original castle was torn down, and a contiguous brick-and-wood barracks and arsenal were built on a wide area. The entire stronghold can not only accommodate more than 30,000 soldiers of the Fourth Army and thousands of artisans and priests who accompanied the army. And slaves, it can also allow nearly 10,000 additional soldiers to live.

This shows how large the stronghold after reconstruction is. In fact, in addition to the Amatria stronghold, the other major stronghold, Elia stronghold, has also been rebuilt, but its scale is not as large as Amatria. , It can only accommodate more than 20,000 people.

The Elia stronghold stationed soldiers from a brigade of the Fourth Army and more than ten thousand auxiliary soldiers, mainly to defend the food and munitions hoarded in the stronghold, as well as the artillery deployed on the walls.

The Richard family lived in the command post, and the surrounding defenses were taken over by the Imperial Guard. In order to ensure the safety of the royal family, the defense level of the Amatlia stronghold was also pulled to the highest level, the number of patrols doubled, and batches were taken. increase.

On the night of check-in, Rudolf held a welcome banquet for the royal family in the command post. Most of the officers in the stronghold were invited to the scene. The soldiers were also given a lot of wine and food. Everyone except the necessary guard soldiers They are all enjoying this rare wine—because of the legion’s drink restriction order, soldiers only have access to the wine during the Christmas and New Years days of the year. This shows how much their emotions will rise.

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The next day, Richard went directly to Rudolph’s command room after washing himself. Rudolph got up very early and was sitting in his own position as he imagined. He got up when he saw Richard come in. Welcome but was stopped by Richard.

“General Frba, you continue to work, I just came here to take a look.”

“Yes.” Rudolph replied, then sat back, picked up the military document and looked through it. Richard walked up to him and picked up a roll of military documents. The military documents he picked up happened to record border security. It said that border friction incidents have been gradually reduced recently, and it seems that neighboring countries have begun to restrain themselves. NS.

“General Vrba, what happened to the border friction described in the report you sent back to Vienna some time ago?” He pretended not to see it, and asked aloud.

“The border friction incidents have been reduced, Your Majesty.” Rudolf answered honestly, but then he mentioned something that was not in the military text: “The Kingdom of Tertuda, which is next to us, has reduced its relationship with me. The military’s border friction, but our spies found that they have a lot of military activities in their territory. Although I don’t know who their targets are, I still think that the defense level of the border should be raised and prepared for war~www .mtlnovel.com~oh?”

Richard glanced at him, silently put down the general text, and searched for information about the Kingdom of Tertuda in his mind. If I remember correctly, the Kingdom of Tertuda is located to the north of the Kingdom of Cyps, which is part of the The state of Sips bordering, partly bordering the imperial occupation area. Because the Sipus Kingdom is a vassal of the empire, the Tertuda people have never taken him to heart, and the frontier defense of the Sipus Kingdom is extremely weak.

The number of standing troops in the Kingdom of Tertuda is about 2,000. If the army is formally enlisted, more than 8,000 soldiers can be drawn. This is really pitiful, because the total army of their country is almost only one brigade of the Imperial Army. .

Even their combat effectiveness is not as good as a brigade of the Imperial Army.

Although they don’t know how brave they dare to fight the empire, Richard has never been afraid of war. Seeing Rudolph’s intention to go to war, he said: “You can mobilize a brigade to prepare for war on the border. Outside the Kingdom of Altuda, I think there must be other countries staring at us, so you must be prepared for multi-line combat.”

“Yes.”