Warhammer Throne

June in 2520 of the empire calendar is destined to be another month of great change. Just as Ryan was making a vigorous expedition to Orbien, the empire also started a great change.

Emperor Karl-Franz, taking advantage of the third epic victory over the Black Fire Pass, announced the most drastic reforms of the existing military structure of the empire.

The existing military power of the empire can be summarized into three parts: the professional standing army, the semi-professional provincial army, and the local militia organization. Of course, this is the part controlled by the emperor. Some independent military organizations such as secular knights The regiment is loyal to the emperor but is not part of the military system of the empire. Others, such as the religious knights or the local church army, use another method, namely, the lofty conference chaired by the emperor to loyal to the emperor.

It can be said that the entire military structure left by the savior Ludwig to the empire is still very scientific.

However, even the best policies and structures will cause problems over time. As Karl Franz, who has served in the military, he is very clear about the problems within the imperial army.

Regardless of the corruption of logistical supplies and the decline in the combat effectiveness of the army, the imperial army itself has a trend of "aging". In the imperial army, the standing army's service life is about 15-21 years. Assuming a person starts to serve at the age of 16, then Fortunately, he must be 31 years old before he can retire.

But in fact, the emperor’s investigation in the army found that, let alone 31 years old, in the Imperial Standing Army and the Provincial Army, there are many veterans of forty or fifty years old. The average age of company commanders and empire captains is 45 years old. , And excluding all legends and strong above legends, the average age of imperial generals is as high as 50-55 years old!

It is true that the rich experience of veterans is a very valuable asset to the battlefield, but in fact, long service time can easily lead to corruption, morale, alcoholism, and cynicism. If veterans have served for seven, eight, or even ten years Unable to get promoted, they can easily gradually become strange creatures-they will not voluntarily participate in suicide missions, nor will they take unnecessary risks. They usually hang around and are addicted to alcohol, and only a few days after they get the military salary Squandering, working without effort when fighting, only when trapped or facing desperate situation, the veterans will suddenly burst out of powerful combat effectiveness, just to survive.

Even so, a large number of re-employed veterans still occupy a lot of places. Many of them do not do anything other than serving as soldiers, but most of them are the emerging civilian class and many self-employed farmers who do not like to serve. They tend to If you spend a sum of money to hire someone to serve on your behalf, then the veterans will receive a commission to re-employ, and the middle class will be exempted from military service. Everyone is happy.

But the result of this is that the army lacks recruits and vitality, while the reserve militia lacks training and decent equipment, which is embarrassing to be used at critical moments.

Therefore, Emperor Karl-Franz decided to continue to cross the river by touching Len. He studied in detail Len’s 6-8 year military service system, mandatory retirement age requirements, buying out military age, and letting veterans go to local provinces or village militias. The arrangement of the instructor or the captain, no matter how the emperor looks at it, feels wonderful, wonderful!

That's it!

Of course, to be fair, the emperor did not expect these things before, but has no conditions. One is that the prestige is not enough, and the electors and nobles will naturally resist, and the second is that the money is not enough. , That is to provoke mutiny.

Both of these problems have now been resolved. The first is the third victory of the Black Fire Pass, which brought the emperor’s personal prestige and honor to its peak. There are even legends that he was possessed by the emperor at that moment. The electors did not dare to face the emperor's edge now, and even Queen Emilia, who had just returned to Noor, expressed support for the emperor.

The second problem is that a large amount of money is needed. In this case, Karl Franz has the full help of the Dwarf Supreme King Thorglin.

The dwarves are now in very good condition. With the recovery of Bafeng Mountain, it took several years for Bellegar to repair the grand tunnel hub. Since then, the dwarf people's mountain kingdom has been unimpeded, and both business travellers and the army can travel in the mountain tunnels. , Which allowed the great dwarf kingdoms to restore the tradition of a large amount of trade and mutual aid.

At the same time, the dwarf exploration team that captured the Gambad Peak established an Akashi Mine, from which Thorgrin and his Eternal Peak can harvest unimaginable horrible wealth every year, and the treasury of the Supreme King gradually becomes richer, plus Thanks to the emperor’s outstanding performance in the Third Battle of the Black Fire Pass, the dwarven patriarchs’ meeting passed a war loan bill to the empire, and the new war loan will soon be sent to Emperor Karl-Franz’s treasury.

With prestige and money, the emperor could finally begin to carry out military reforms in the south of the empire as he wished. As for the north of the empire, the war continued, and the other was beyond reach. The emperor decided to go south and then north.

At the same time that Brunswick was carrying out military reforms, Nuer's military reforms were also carried out immediately. With the assistance of Gelt, Frederick began to reform the military of Noor, taking the opportunity to cleanse and retire some veterans. They were replaced by young generals who were loyal to him, especially those young aristocrats who had studied with him and grew up with him in the Academy of Guns, Engineering, and Nur University.

Ryan’s eldest son has already planned, and when it’s almost time to launch a court coup, he will pack his mother, tie a ribbon, and put it in a gift box and send it to his father to continue to be her little maid. Noor will be her turn. I am in charge!

Hey hey, just kidding, my mother said that my father arranged to be 30 years old.

Then I will launch a coup at that time.

…………I am the dividing line of the great filial son…………

At the same time as the empire's fiery military reforms, Ryan's Obian strategy continued.

After the Battle of Hastings ended, the Chivalry army did not actually cause a devastating blow to the Orbien barbarians. Almost 20,000 people from the barbarian army fled to Concuata. Harold and Zaneck are facing difficulties. At that time, there was no dispute again but chose to unite temporarily and work together to fight against the powerful enemy.

In fact, Lion’s knightly army encountered a lot of difficulties on the way to march. The heavy rain in Obien was endless. The attacks of the local marsh monster war gang and the human skin wolf war gang made the logistics of the knight's army full. Troubled, the compass and the method of distinguishing the direction are difficult to miraculously work in the wind of chaos and the thick fog. The knightly army once lost its way and went in the wrong direction, and finally relied on Ryan to use his own psychic energy to open the Emperor Tarot to force it to find out. The direction so far.

Later, as he approached Concuata, Ryan learned a very troublesome news.

The Norskars, the **** Hagros, the champion of fear of abuse, led 12,000 people to land on the north shore of Obian, ready to come to support Harold and Zanek.

Ryan promptly asked Kalad to lead 18,000 people northward to meet the enemy, and at the same time, he led about 15,000 people in place to wait for Newland's reinforcements to arrive.

This was originally a god-given opportunity for Harold and Zanek. At this time, Concuata had gathered all the barbarian tribes on Obirn, with a total of about 22,000 barbarian soldiers and more than 32,000 barbarian militias, and they also With the cover of swamp, heavy rain, and fog, it is possible to achieve certain results whether it is immediately northward to pinch the Karad army or quickly surround the Ryan army.

However, at this time, he was defeated in the Battle of Hastings and lost his thigh pendant. Even Harold, who could not find two eggs (presumably all fell in the swamp), had lost the courage to fight against Ryan. He repeatedly refused Zan Aik's instructions to attack immediately, and made up his mind to stick to Kongquata.

Just a few days after Harold decided to defend himself, Karad successfully defeated the army of the horror champion **** Hagros at the eastern foot of the Beast Mountain. Karad learned that Rokosovsky was in Bagration. The tactics in the action, dividing the army into three, attacking from the third line and supporting each other at the same time, easily repelled Hagros and his Norsca army, and still on the chest of this incredible terror champion. A wound several centimeters deep was left.

But when Kalad was about to pursue and completely wipe out this barbarian reinforcement, the scout sent a terrible news.

A Chaos army of more than 20,000 people is slowly landing on the north shore of Orbien. Its commander seems to be the legendary original demon prince, Birac.

Kalad knew that something was wrong, so he led the army to retreat and tried to rendezvous with Ryan.

At this time, Ryan's army of chivalry had already arrived under Kongquata.

In the afternoon of late June, Ryan and the others patrolled Concuata, while the Calad army was still on the way back to join Ryan's army.

"What a big city fortress." François looked at the large city fortress in the middle of the southern part of the Beast Mountain, built on the mountainside and backed by the mountain peak. Such a huge fortress."

"The barbarians don't build a city. These are all ancient sages' handwriting. After the True Talkers withdrew from Orbien one after another, Concuata became the territory of these Chaos Barbarian tribes." Veronica is still a firefighter. In a red leather jacket, the female speaker frowned. She slightly estimated the height and width of the fortress, and even more bitterly: "This fortress is located on a mountainside of 400 meters. It uses a megalithic building. The city wall is 8 meters high and its internal structure. Complicated trenches, fortresses are readily available, and there are even rivers running through the mountains. This is the season of high waters, my dear, how are we going to capture such a strong fortress?"

"Mantra Talker is an enemy!" François was also very upset. The old man stepped across the dirt road, took out his binoculars in the rain, and looked at the fortified walls of Concuata and the densely packed barbarian guards from a distance. The army, the old man is very reluctant to fight this kind of aggressive warfare. He put down his binoculars: "Your Majesty, there are more barbarians than us. Even if most of them are militias, they can still play a significant role in the city defense. ."

"Your Majesty, so, I will rush to try tomorrow with someone to see how strong the defense is." Marshal Dawu said: "Let my Musilon army try first."

"No, Da Wuqing, you don't need to go." Ryan frowned also, he felt that he was pitted by Fugen.

Fukun did not say that Concua Tower was such a strong fortress on the mountainside with a megalithic structure! Ryan thought that Concuata was just a typical Norsca settlement.

However, as one of the world’s best military strategists, Ryan did not complain about it. Because of the special nature of Orbion Island, there was too little information available. The understanding is only limited to "the city fort that was once the mantra, behind it was occupied by Birac".

"Your Majesty, what do you do now?" Bertrand looked at such a strong city fortress. The sixth marshal carried Taer's bow behind his back. The Taer emblem on his forehead was shining: "I saw it, on the mountain. Every corner of the country is full of barbarians, and their number is only a lot more than ours."

"Your Majesty, can we consider a long siege?" François thought of an idea: "How many barbarians still have to eat?"

Ryan lowered his head to think for a moment, and finally nodded slowly.

It is meaningless for Chaos Warriors or the existence of Chaos Warriors and above to eat, and the same is true for Barbarian Champions or Barbarian God-Blessed Warriors.

However, the civilians of the barbarians, including ordinary barbarian soldiers, still have to eat. In the long years, the northern barbarians have developed a special skill. They only need one-half to two-thirds of normal humans. Food can survive, but even so, they still have to eat.

"At present, the storm is unrealistic, maybe we need to think of something." Ryan thought for a few seconds: "First let the army camp, wait for Kalad and the others to come back and all the artillery and materials from Newland's side are transported. "

"Yes!"

The good news is that although Concua Tower is a strong city, it does not occupy a large area and the city is crowded with people. Ryan made a little estimate and decided to encircle the entire Concua Tower before making plans.

The knightly army began to camp under Ryan's orders, and began to make a fence using Obien's relatively abundant trees to enclose Conquata.

The defenders in the city tried to break out of the fortress and destroy the Breton walls and camps. However, the volleys of the muskets and the outflanking of the two wings of the knights caused heavy losses to the barbarian cavalry. Approximately more than 1,000 cavalry fell on Konkwa. At the gate of the tower, urinating blood constantly, the painful Harold made up his mind and gave up going out of the city.

It seemed that the barbarians of Obien were about to wait and die. Just when Ryan ordered to enclose the city through a wall, Karad who rushed over brought Ryan a very bad news.

The **** reinforcements of Hagros had been repelled, but the scouts reported that the original demon prince Bilak’s 20,000 Chaos Army and Demon Army had landed on the northern shore of Obian! With the defeat of Hagros, there were 31,000 people on this road!

Ryan had not had time to digest the contents in the future, and he received an emergency military situation from Marshal Boderek.

The World Walker Legion is approaching the east bank of Orbien! Wanderer Ulfric’s 25,000 reinforcements are approaching in a fleet of thousands of Norscarron ships!

When the Poseidon fleet was about to stop the Ulfric long ship fleet, another terrible news came.

The Earl of Noctus of the Undead Ocean Empire suddenly led his undead navy to appear on the side of the Poseidon Fleet. The undead and Chaos have formed an alliance. After a large-scale naval battle was tied, the Undead Fleet and the Norscar Dragon Ship did not count the cost. The ground blocked the route to Orbien, and the Poseidon fleet led by Bo Derek suffered a lot and was forced to retreat in the direction of Curona.

Then came the report from the west side scouts that the 28,000 vampire pirate army of Earl Nocturnus had landed on the west bank of Obien, ready to join the siege of the Chivalry army.

This was carefully designed by Yan Qi, and he was lying in ambush on all sides.

"Kongquata, it is destined to be the fall of the Sun King!"

There was not much time left for Ryan. Ryan made a decisive decision and ordered another 18-kilometer-long outer wall to be built on the outer circle of the siege camp for defense. All the owners, artillery, and supplies of the city were transported to the city of Conquata at an accelerated rate.

The Sun King Ryan, who is extremely determined, intends to fight the enemies inside and outside the city at the same time under the city of Kongquata.