Looking at Morpheus and Drondo with a regretful expression on his face, Lorraine could only smile.
Then he spread his hands to show that he was really powerless.
This time the empire seized the opportunity and sent heavy troops to attack General Hadou in order to avenge its previous humiliation.
They have been waiting for this day for twenty years. Moreover, there will not be another twenty years for them to wait. No matter what, they must not fail and must win in one battle~!
Therefore, the Dukes of Lorraine and Julian selected the most capable troops in the empire. The minimum requirement was that the combat effectiveness of those troops should not be lower than Haddu's elite legion.
And many corps like the Second Corps, although they are also elites who have fought in hundreds of battles, are unable to do so because of the important locations where some corps are stationed, some incomplete structures, and some corps are in a period of repair, etc., etc., etc.
of reasons were put aside.
Lorraine knew in his heart that as the Second Army Corps guarding the Gyeonggi region, it was not selected by Commander Padres. It must be his reason.
Thinking of this, Lorraine nodded affirmatively and said solemnly: "The quota is now full, and the legions who have received the order are already gathering. The overall deployment has been decided and cannot be changed."
He paused for a moment, seeing that Morpheus wanted to intercede again, and immediately changed his tone and said with some complaint: "I said, in this case, why didn't your legion commander find a relationship earlier? Only now do you think of it?" Morpheus immediately said
Shi Shi let out a long sigh and said: "Hi~! Forget it, our legion commander was tricked by his comrades.
Some time ago, the grandsons of the Fourth Legion said that a major exercise mission was assigned to us. Considering that our legion has a large number of new recruits, and it does require some training and integration, the legion commander did not hesitate and accepted it.
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As a result, when we learned about the formation of the peacekeeping force, everyone was still training in the mountain ravine to the north. When we ran back, it was like this." Lorraine secretly laughed: These guys are fighting for a position.
It can be used for whatever purpose. However, the reason why the second legion was not assigned was also found. With too many recruits, the combat effectiveness will inevitably decrease.
"Please come early next time." Lorraine shook his head and said with a smile: "The peacekeeping force has been set up. Now there are only some legions that are still short of officers. Just replenish them before the expedition."
"Huh?" Morpheus and Drondo suddenly became interested and said, "They are short of people?" Lorraine didn't care. He pointed at the documents in front of him and sighed: "Yeah. So many troops are mobilized at one time.
, there are always some headaches and brain fever happening.
Some are captains who have gone for training, and some are newly added troops. The personnel situation is a bit chaotic, but there are not many shortages. There are about a dozen mid-level officers. I am about to ask them to recommend people." Morpheus rolled his eyes.
Turning around, he said cautiously: "Is this matter under your control, deputy commander?" Lorraine nodded and thought to himself: I want to ignore it, but no one cares about it.
Morpheus immediately jumped up and said quickly: "Thank you, deputy commander, I will go back and tell our regiment commander." After saying that, he saluted and immediately trotted out.
Watching Morpheus running out of his office, Lorraine suddenly felt an ominous premonition.
Sure enough, the next morning, Lord Luo had just sat down in his office, and before he had a chance to drink a cup of hot tea, Morpheus appeared in his office again with a middle-aged officer in his forties.
It is obvious at a glance that the middle-aged officer is a veteran of decades of service. He is tall and has a bronze face. Although he is only middle-aged, there are already many frowns on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. At a glance, he can tell that he has weathered the weather for a long time.
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And he simply walked towards that station, without getting angry or intimidating himself, and his momentum was astonishing.
Looking at Morpheus's brand-new captain's uniform, Lorraine was stunned for a long time, then pointed to his epaulettes and asked: "Why did you lose level three in just one day? What happened?
?" Morpheus bared his teeth in an extremely honest manner, smiled, pointed at the middle-aged colonel beside him and said: "This is the commander of our army, Colonel Quintustad."
The middle-aged colonel immediately saluted Lorraine with a bang.
At the same time, he also smiled and explained: "Quintustad, the former commander of the army, I am now the captain of the colonel. General Padres asked us to report to the deputy commander. We must ask the deputy commander to report
We'll send the troops to the front line, please."
Lorraine was dumbfounded. In order to participate in the war against Hadou, these two guys actually demoted their military ranks, and Chief Padres actually approved it~!
Lorraine couldn't help but feel a headache, and sighed inwardly: No wonder Grand Duke Julius removed his claws and didn't care at all. These proud soldiers are really a bit too rogue.
At the same time, he felt a little bit of pride in his heart: these Ruman people were indeed hot-blooded men. In order to avenge their past humiliation, their desire to fight was so strong. In order to go to the battlefield, they were willing to demote themselves.
This kind of thing is simply unimaginable in other places.
He did know that in many other places, when they heard that there was going to be a war, many of those bastards deserted their posts and fled.
At this time, Morpheus clasped his fists at Lorraine and begged: "Please, please, Your Excellency, Deputy Commander. Just because we have drank wine together and walked around the yard, please give me a hand~!"
Lorraine couldn't help curling his lips, but since he had the special approval note from the chief, he couldn't refuse to give it to him no matter what.
Therefore, Lorraine had no choice but to sign documents and let them report to those legions that were short of men.
Then the two guys took the documents and went out triumphantly, causing a sensation among the generals waiting outside.
By the afternoon, the uniforms of more than a dozen company commanders had not been changed, but the colonels who had temporarily changed their military ranks, with Padres's approval, swarmed to Lorraine to ask for transfer.
This is one of the famous strange phenomena of the Rumanwei Expeditionary Force, the general's great demotion.
More than a dozen corps commanders ignored their generals and insisted on becoming officers in the peacekeeping force.
Since the imperial military also has a tradition of military families, when the father became an officer, he would naturally bring his son in. This would be passed down from generation to generation.
Therefore, after the formation of the peacekeeping corps this time, two corps even appeared. The son is the corps commander and the father is the captain. Such a strange phenomenon.
It was rumored for a while that it was for the sake of good conversation, which made the empire's senior officials very happy.
But Sir Luo had to have a headache because of this: his son was the commander of the regiment, and his father was the captain. Once he went to the battlefield, who knew whether the father would be happy for a moment and suddenly jump out and face his son's
Strategic planning and guidance.
When the time comes, there will be a terrible situation where there are two commanders, leaving the soldiers at a loss what to do?
But at this moment, he couldn't think of any good solution. He could only pray that those guys would be more honest. Of course, if something went wrong with General Hadou, it would be the best.
At the same time, he had a vague premonition that the empire was a little too optimistic about this war, and the army was also full of pride. This was not a good thing...
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Under the rising enthusiasm from top to bottom in the Ruman Empire, the war preparations of the peacekeeping expedition force are being prepared with extremely high efficiency.
When early summer comes, most of the peacekeeping force regiments have already reached their starting positions, and the remaining part will also move with the peacekeeping force headquarters.
In Lorraine's view, the days before the official expedition are numbered.
By this time, the atmosphere among the upper echelons of the Ruman Empire was becoming increasingly tense.
They are as restless as enthusiastic lottery players holding a lottery ticket bought with all their wealth and squatting in front of the TV waiting for the lottery results.
Everyone knows that this is a war that requires only victory and no defeat, and it must be won beautifully.
And their enemy is a peerless general who has never been defeated. Although his side has absolute strength, he still can't help but feel worried.
For some time now, everyone has been talking about this war, and everyone has simply become an angry amateur military expert and argued with each other about how to fight this war.
Some people were so confident that they led the country to recruit 300,000 elite soldiers and fielded two famous generals, one young and one middle. They thought that taking the heads of Amor and Hadu this time was like picking out a treasure.
Some people are worried. Amor and Hadou have always been accustomed to defeating more with less. He has defeated thirty thousand versus two hundred thousand, let alone one hundred thousand versus three hundred thousand. It seems that he needs to be careful in dealing with this.
But Lorraine and Grand Duke Julius were full of confidence in victory, which also infected many people, especially Emperor Rudelun.
Grand Duke Julius spent the whole day drinking, watching plays, or looking for people to chat with.
Although Lord Lorraine is very busy, he can occasionally find time to accompany his girlfriends to visit the most prosperous commercial street in Ruman City and spend a lot of money.
Seeing how relaxed these two professionals were, the amateur felt a little confident.
Everything is almost ready, Lorraine can relax a little now.
After handing over the paperwork to the secretaries outside, Lorraine closed the door and prepared to open a bottle of golden Royal Salute and enjoy some leisure time while letting Vera's nèn little hands pat her back.
At this time, Catherine and the others should still be sweeping the streets in Rumain City. After accompanying them on a shopping street, Lord Lorraine made up his mind not to suffer this fate again.
Spending money is nothing, just twenty or thirty thousand, and it is not in the eyes of Lord Lorraine now. But every time Catherine and the others picked up a piece of clothing, they caught Lorraine and asked: "Does this look good?"
Of course Lorraine had to answer well.
Then they will ask, "Where does it look good?"
At first, Lorraine even flattered his girlfriend, but no one asked him that. Lord Lorraine soon ran out of words.
Then he was surrounded by them, and it was really a life worse than death.
Vera is better. She is not interested in shopping at all, and even dislikes it very much. In Vera's opinion, trying on the clothes in a store one by one is simply thankless, tiring and not fun.
Naturally, Vera was sent by Catherine and the others to supervise Lorraine. Although there were only male secretaries outside, this area was where the imperial government agencies gathered.
There are many gentlemen in the Military Affairs Department, but in the Finance Department, Propaganda Department and other departments, there are groups of beautiful young secretaries.
If you can be an official in a ministry-level unit, who wouldn't like to have a young and pretty female secretary, just for the good scenery in the office? Otherwise, why would you want to be an official? You might as well join the army like Lord Lorraine.
It was okay in the first few days, but later everyone knew that after Lord Lorraine started working here, those young and beautiful secretaries would always find an excuse to come to the Ministry of Military Affairs.
By the way, Lord Lorraine is really handsome.
This situation was quickly learned by Catherine and the others through Leo's big mouth. These girls felt bad intuitively, but they were reluctant to give up the rare shopping opportunity. Ruman City is known as the center of the continent, where all the people from all over the world are gathered.
Mainland products lead the fashion trend.
In order to prevent the slightest mistake, this glorious and great task fell on Vera's head.
Catherine and the others dressed Vera up so beautifully that she could not compare with those "little rascal girls" whom Catherine said were "scatty".
Make them feel ashamed and dare not step through the door of the Military Affairs Ministry again.
Vera is also not idle here in Lorraine. For a fee, a gold coin is counted for a pound on the back, a gold coin for a shoulder squeeze, a gold coin for rubbing the head twice, and a gold coin for holding a cup of tea three times.
Vera was as busy as a little bee, circling around Lorraine. Her originally smooth and jade-like forehead was also covered with a thin layer of sweat, but she still enjoyed it, just counting the things that fell into her pocket.
Gold coins, happiness has narrowed the originally bright eyes into two crescent moons.
Lorraine was finally free from those complicated official duties and could relax a bit.
He put his feet up on the window sill, sipping the wine in the glass, and resting his head on Vera's plump, soft and elastic arms, enjoying Vera's considerate massage service.
He had just taken a sip from the wine glass when the door of the room banged and someone kicked it open. Lorraine was so frightened that she almost fell off her chair.
Lorraine said angrily: "Didn't I say don't disturb me?"
"Huh? I'm the boss." Leo shouted loudly and rushed in.
Behind him, Xiaobai also shouted "Ouch" to indicate his presence.
Lorraine looked at Leo strangely and said, "Why don't you take advantage of Nicole's absence to modify your account books and forge tax returns? Why are you running around?"
Leo paused for a moment, then waved his hand and said dejectedly: "Forget it, that bitch Nicole found out. Someone must have leaked the secret, otherwise Nicole wouldn't even know the details I hid, but in the end it's
I haven’t traced anyone yet.”
Lorraine chuckled and said, "You gain wisdom after every experience. With your current level as a little gangster, there is still a long way to go to fight against Catherine."
Leo said in a rather sleepy tone: "I obviously hid it very secretly~! Let's forget about it for now." At this point, he waved his hand vigorously, and then said: "The spy we sent to Almohad is back.
, there is important information.”
Lorraine suddenly became energetic, straightened her clothes and said, "Let's go to the intelligence room."
In the center of the intelligence room is a huge sand table, showing the terrain of the Almohad.
Hanging on the wall is a map of the continent as big as the entire wall.
Archduke Julius and Chief Padres were already sitting inside. Opposite them was a wealthy middle-aged man, in his forties or fifties, dressed like a wealthy businessman, with a fair complexion.
Seeing Lorraine and Leo walking in, the middle-aged man bowed and said: "CIA agent, Zero One-Six, meet the chairman."
Leo immediately gave a tingxiong, fully expressing himself as a chairman, snorted heavily, and then said: "You have worked hard too. What's going on?"
The spy said: "That's right, our spies in the south of Almohad heard an important piece of information.
Fifteen days ago, Amor and Hadou invited the governors of three neighboring provinces in the name of a banquet. They made a sudden move at the banquet and imprisoned them all. At the same time, they also sent out troops and completely incorporated their
power."
Archduke Julius and Padres both frowned.
Lorraine was startled when he heard this, and sighed: "This old guy is very cruel~!"
The secret agent said: "There were no problems in the entire recruitment process, and none of the governors of the three provinces resisted. We speculate that Hadou may have planned it for a long time." Of course Lorraine knew that while he was busy, Amor and Hadou
He won't be idle either.
Now the whole world knows that Archduke Julius is coming to conquer Amor and Hadou to avenge his previous hatred. Of course Amor and Hadou also know about it, and he will do his best to save his life.
Grand Duke Julius said "hmm" and said slowly: "In other words, Almohad and Hadou have now occupied four provinces. Haha, half of Almohad."
The secret agent said: "Yes, Your Highness. The number of troops directly controlled by Hadou is expected to reach 110,000. And..."
Lorraine said: "Just tell me if you have anything."
The spy said: "We also found out that Hadou's second son once showed off to his lover that they had a strong backer behind them. However, it cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary.
However, from all the intelligence we have collected, there is no indication that any external force has ever been in contact with Amor and Hadu. Moreover, Amor, Hadu's second son, likes to brag. So we have doubts about this information.
Lorraine and Grand Duke Julius looked at each other and thought to themselves: This is a place worth noting, and Hardou's son would not have missed the target.
Lorraine said in a deep voice: "Zero One-Six, you have done a good job in mobilizing all our strength to find out what this reinforcement is about. I will give you any support you need. After that,
Your number will be advanced by one." The secret agent's eyes immediately lit up, he leaned back and said, "Yes, sir. I promise to complete the mission." Archduke Julius tapped the armrest with his fingers, frowned and murmured
: "It's a trouble, but it's just a trouble, Hadu... he's scared~!"
A few days later, accompanied by the sound of military music, tens of thousands of soldiers lined up in neat queues and walked through the streets of Ruman City with heads held high.
On both sides of the street were Ruman people welcoming the peacekeeping troops on their expedition.
"Boys, go kill Hadou~!"
"Come back alive~!" "..." "Emperor Rudelun personally led all the officials and nobles in Ruman City to go out of Ruman City to see off Grand Duke Julius and Lorraine.
After being sent all the way for twenty miles, Emperor Rudelun finally shook Archduke Julius's hand and said: "When you come back victorious, I will build you the most beautiful triumphal arch in history."
Archduke Julius patted his brother's hand, smiled casually, and said, "Then you should start preparing now." Then Archduke Julius patted Lorraine on the shoulder and said, "Boy, we're off to war."