Rise of the Empire Total War

On May 30, 1129 in the Continental Calendar, Richard arrived at the stronghold of Amatlia.

On the way here, Richard went to visit the former site of the destroyed city of Tarossos on a whim. To his surprise, there are still people living in this land where countless innocent souls are buried. A small village planted food to bring the land back to life.

After talking, Richard learned the reason why they lived here. They were all Catonita Allied soldiers who had participated in the Tarossos massacre. In the territory of Tarossos, he lived here and became a new resident of Tarossos.

Richard still had some impressions of the Tarossos massacre. It was the expeditionary force led by Charles who ordered the massacre out of anger after being stubbornly resisted by the Tarossians, killing tens of thousands of civilians in the entire city. This incident was still spreading, causing heated discussions among the citizens of Nord City.

Looking back at Amatria, the commander of the Fourth Army, Rudolf Furba, led the army staff and officers above the regiment level out of the city 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, they all raised their guns and saluted. It seemed that they had received special training.

Woo--

Amid the sound of the melodious horn, Richard's carriage stopped in front of Rudolph and the others. Then, a hand with several rings on its finger stretched out and lifted the door curtain. He walked out after the opened door curtain, stepped on the back of the servant who served as a pad, and stood on the solid ground a few steps.

Your Majesty Caesar.

Rudolf Vulba took a step forward and greeted him. As soon as he finished speaking, all the officers behind him followed suit.

Hearing these greetings, Richard nodded slightly. He turned his head and looked behind him. Stephanie, who was wearing a tulle on her face, just led Elizabeth out of the carriage, and Frederick stood beside Richard at some point. behind.

Let me introduce you. Richard took a step to the side, pulled Frederick to him, and said with a smile, This is my heir, Frederick Stuart, Duke of Cuban.

Hello, Your Royal Highness. Rudolph stroked his chest and said hello.

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

Hearing this, Frederick also stroked his chest and said, It's an honor to meet you, General Furba. I've often heard about the exploits of you and the Fourth Army in Vienna.

It's my honor,

Your Highness. Rudolph nodded and said.

After some conversation, Rudolph led Richard and his party into the stronghold of Amatlia. As the main station of the empire on the Osa Peninsula, the Amatlia stronghold is also the location of the Fourth Army's military headquarters. It has been rebuilt and rebuilt during these nine years. The city walls have been heightened and widened, and a large number of For artillery, in order to increase the defense capability, three shooting layers were opened inside the city wall, and soldiers could use the shooting ports to shoot outwards.

Inside the stronghold, the original castle was torn down, and a series of barracks and arsenals with brick and wood structures were built on the wide land. The entire stronghold can not only accommodate more than 30,000 soldiers of the Fourth Army and thousands of artisans and priests accompanying the army. And slaves, it can accommodate nearly 10,000 soldiers additionally.

This shows how huge the rebuilt stronghold is. In fact, in addition to the Amatlia stronghold, another major stronghold, the Elia stronghold, has also been rebuilt, but its scale is not as large as that of Amatlia. , can only accommodate more than 20,000 people.

Soldiers from a brigade of the Fourth Army and more than 10,000 soldiers from the Auxiliary Army were stationed in the Elia stronghold, mainly to defend the food, grass and ammunition hoarded in the stronghold, as well as the artillery deployed on the city wall.

Richard's family lived in the command post, and the surrounding defenses were taken over by the Praetorian Guards. In order to ensure the safety of the royal family, the defense level of the Amatlia stronghold was also raised to the highest level. increase.

On the night of check-in, Rudolph held a welcome banquet for the royal family in the command post. Most of the officers in the stronghold were invited to the scene, and the soldiers were also given a lot of wine and food. Except for the necessary soldiers on guard, everyone They are all enjoying this rare fine wine - because of the regiment's alcohol restriction order, soldiers can only touch fine wine during Christmas and New Year's days a year, which shows how high their emotions will be.

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The next day, Richard went directly to Rudolph's command room after washing up. Just as he imagined, Rudolph got up very early and was sitting in his seat working. When he saw Richard coming in, he quickly got up Welcome, but stopped by Richard.

General Furba, you continue to work, I just came to take a look.

Of order. Rudolph replied, then sat back down again, picked up the military documents and began to read them. And Richard walked up to him, and picked up a volume of military documents. The military documents he picked up happened to record border security. It said that border friction incidents have gradually decreased in recent days. It seems that neighboring countries have begun to restrain themselves up.

General Vulba, some time ago you sent someone back to Vienna to write about the border friction in the report. How is it going? He pretended not to see it and asked aloud.

Border friction incidents have decreased, Your Majesty. Rudolph replied honestly, but then he mentioned something that was not in the military text: Although the Kingdom of Turtuda, which is adjacent to us, has reduced the number of conflicts with us, However, our spies found that they had a large number of traces of military activities in their territory. Although they don’t know who their targets are, I still think that the defense level of the border should be improved to prepare for war.”

Oh?

Richard glanced at him, put down the general text silently, and at the same time searched for information about the Kingdom of Turtuda in his mind. If I remember correctly, the Kingdom of Turtuda is located to the north of the Kingdom of Sipes, and belongs to the A state bordered by Sipes, partly bordered by the Imperial Occupation Zone. Because the Kingdom of Sips is a vassal of the empire, the Turtuda people have never taken him seriously, and the border defense of the Kingdom of Sips is extremely weak.

The Kingdom of Turtuda has a standing army of about 2,000 people. If the army is formally recruited, it can pull out more than 8,000 soldiers. This is really pitiful, because their national army is almost only a brigade of the Imperial Army. .

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

Although I don't know how brave they are to dare to oppose the empire, Richard has never been a person who is afraid of war. When he saw that Rudolph was about to prepare for war, he said: You can mobilize a brigade to the border to prepare for war. Outside of Ertuda Kingdom, I think there must be other countries staring at us, so you have to be prepared for multi-front combat.

As ordered.