Chapter 578: Border Defense
"The cabbage grown by myself still smells good. With so many people, only Yefeng is young. The rest are either aunties or grandmas."
"In addition, most people can't withstand a shot from Asuna."
Hearing the compliment, Asheena was so proud that her tail kept spinning like a propeller.
"It's expanded." Gehros put his hands on his hips, "Although I am only at the first level, I have a promising future."
Filomena said calmly: "My opinion is to kill."
"Ahem, don't be too outrageous." Field said with shame, "Don't underestimate ordinary combat power. Everyone has their own value. As a lord, they should be placed in the appropriate position."
To give a far-fetched example, are the Five Tiger Generals awesome enough? But Boss Cao can drive Liu Bei around with a lot of second- and third-rate generals and a lot of small soldiers.
Similarly, as the territory expands in the future, I will need many divine chosen ones to help with work, garrisoning, or as assistants to my lieutenants.
Otherwise, it would be a waste of combat power to have Asuna, Rosalia and the others stationed there at every turn.
"Those who can be contracted now will all be temporarily contracted. They will be restructured when they return to the Night Territory." Field arranged decisively, "The outstanding ones will be permanently contracted, and those who are too weak or have serious moral problems will be used as subordinates."
At this time, Griffin Imperial City.
The Queen was sitting on the Griffin Throne, listening to her subordinates report on this year's tax issues.
"Your Majesty, those unscrupulous people are becoming more and more resistant to paying taxes. We should increase the punishment. This will surely squeeze out more gold coins."
"Perhaps we should open up the resources and recruit more people to dig gold mines."
"Otherwise, we will make another northern expedition. The northern province has the largest copper mine in the empire. As long as we recapture the large copper mine, we will have a steady stream of copper coins."
"Absolutely impossible. The North cannot be recovered. No one can do it."
Everyone was having a heated discussion when suddenly the door of the hall opened and a minister crawled in and looked around in a panic, as if he had lost his soul.
"Your Majesty the Queen! News has come from the Fortress of Immortality..."
"oh?"
The Griffin Queen, who was originally bored, immediately sat up straight. She was ready to hear the good news that "the coalition of nobles had been annihilated."
She was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night at the thought of being able to take back the land immediately and inherit the family fortune that the nobles had worked hard to accumulate for thousands of years.
"Speak, don't hesitate." The queen raised her beautiful chin and urged the minister to continue.
"Our army was completely wiped out, and Fort No Fall was captured. The noble army led the army to support, but the single tree was defeated. The sixth-level divine choice "Feathered Serpent" died in the battle, and the Grand Duke of Ashes died in the battle. The son of the Grand Duke brought the sixth-level divine choice of the Ashes family, Surrender to Franvia."
"Immediately afterwards, the second and third main armies were surrounded and defeated by enemy reinforcements. Their vitality was severely damaged, and the number of casualties exceeded 50,000."
"???"
The entire hall was in an uproar. Two sixth-level divine choices and more than 100,000 troops were lost! Such a disastrous defeat is unprecedented. Looking at the Griffin Empire since its founding, it has rarely been such a disastrous defeat against humans.
It was even more terrifying than the last empress's death of the expeditionary force. After all, no sixth-order soldiers were killed in the expeditionary force.
The Griffin Queen was stunned and even laughed out loud: "What did you say? Are you kidding?"
"Your uncle, uh, Lord Fernando, as well as a large number of imperial officials and divine choices were captured by the enemy. The rebels offered a high ransom and allowed us to redeem them, and their envoys will be arriving soon."
"No way, no way!"
With a wave of her hand, the Queen swept the red wine and fruit beside her to the ground and said coldly: "You must not be a spy of the rebels. What happened? Tell me!"
"yes..."
After the minister finished detailing everything that happened, even Field came back to rescue him.
The ministers didn't know the Queen's plan, they just thought that Fernando underestimated the enemy and rushed in, and they complained and wailed.
"It's over now. How can we control the empire's land after losing so many troops?"
"Seek peace quickly. Don't the rebels want money and land? Just give it to them and that's it. The empire's land spans the Endless Sea and the Sea of Storms. That's about it."
"We should regroup our troops and spread false news to stabilize the situation in the empire."
Everyone was talking a lot and couldn't make up their minds.
"How could we lose? How could it be possible? Did she betray me? It's impossible."
After being stunned for a long time, the Queen's heart was filled with huge waves. When there were signs of rebels in the three major western provinces, she deliberately did not extinguish them, and even deliberately set fire to them. Because she planned to use the rebels to eradicate the dissenters of the nobles, and also to defeat the Franconians.
In addition, her relatives secretly converted the food that was in short supply due to famine in the province into gold coins!
After a long while, she woke up as if from a dream, slapped the table and said angrily: "No, continue to beat, you must beat those lowly bottom people hard."
"But, Your Majesty, we don't have many troops left to draw upon."
Despite the huge number of imperial troops, the large territory means that there are many areas to defend, and local troops are needed to deter the nobles.
"Are you willing to be defeated by farmers and slaves who don't have enough to eat?" The Queen was unhappy. "Don't forget how the rebels treated officials and nobles. Kill them all without exception."
"Also, it's OK to lose to the Franconians, but you can't lose to those slaves."
Everyone nodded: "Otherwise, it will most likely lead to imitation."
The Queen saw that the ministers were a little calmer, and immediately ordered: "Go to the defense lines of the elves and the subhumans, and each draw a sixth-level god-chosen and a 10,000-man army back. In addition, urge all places to recruit new soldiers and must fight back!"
"Your Majesty, if a foreign race invades, it will be another disaster. The high elves are extremely addicted to magic. Our country has rich magic core veins and is their favorite land."
"But the subhumans are brave but poor, and have coveted the fertile farmland of the empire for a long time."
The elves in this world are not the elves in the animations, who are stupid, useless and cute, and are often defeated by orcs, but war-crazy existence. The high elves claim to be the highest creatures, the biological children of the goddess, and the demigod bloodline.
Looking at humans is no different from watching a bunch of "defenses". They would rather have fun with the sacred beasts in the forest than look at humans.
And the elves are naturally close to magic, and their desire for magic power has reached the point where they can shout "Fuck, ice!"
The Queen pondered for a long time: "Then we will transfer two level 6 soldiers from the subhuman defense line, and leave the elf defense line unchanged."
"Subhumans are just bandits. They can only steal some food and daily necessities at most, and will not harm the foundation of the country. Let's make the people over there suffer."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Everyone took the order and immediately went to mobilize troops.
The Queen leaned on the cold throne and fell into deep thought: "I didn't expect that the noble coalition would come back to help. Am I really wrong?"
