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"The head of the Ninth Guards Knights of the Empire, Brigadier General Claude."

"Deputy Commander of the Imperial Constantine Legion, Lieutenant General Maxim."

The other party returned the salute, and the two sides shook hands before sitting down.

Claude first took a look at the lieutenant general. The other party seemed to be a middle-aged man who was not very talkative, but the most incredible thing was that at his age, he should be a famous general. He is a remarkable figure, but Claude has never heard of him before, and the imperial military has never publicized such a general.

As for the Constantine Legion, there is only one name in the book.

"I am the commander-in-chief in charge of this manpower replenishment. I am here to contact you in advance to answer your questions. Besides, there is another thing. It is His Majesty who sent a message that you are needed." Come out."

Maxim was indeed a person who didn't like to talk, and he threw out every sentence without any discussion or politeness.

"Your Majesty's order is the most important, you speak first."

Claude knows how to deal with such a person.

"Among the knights who signed up to go to the front line of Constantine this time, there is a person with a special identity-he is the second son of His Royal Highness Joachim. His Majesty the Emperor has some impressions of him, so he specially issued an order to say, I hope you can let him He changed his mind, even if he added to your knight order on the spot, don’t let the other party go to the front line of Constantine.”

Claude was taken aback. He hadn't heard anything about Joachim for a long time—since he destroyed the other party's plan to intercept and kill Ludwig, this person almost disappeared from the imperial capital, and he also Not interested in asking about a player who is out.

"What's the name of that knight?"

"Felix."

"I understand, I will pay attention to this knight named Felix."

Claude also became a little interested in this person. After all, he trusted the emperor's vision—well, except for things related to Augustus, but that didn't make the emperor blindly optimistic about him, and he also kept Luther. Vichy's spare tire.

So this Felix is ​​actually a spare tire that the emperor is more optimistic about?Judging from the fact that the other party is a knight and is still in the army, it is obvious that he is a person like Ludwig - but I don't know, is he a piece of char siu, or is he trying to use his status as an army?

"Okay, I'm done talking, now it's your turn to ask questions."

Maxim said briefly.

"Your Majesty's order is that you will personally send the supplementary mithril armor to the front line, so the entire Constantine has nothing to hide from you. All information that was originally not allowed to be disclosed to non-garrison generals will I can tell you. I will tell you everything, and I will say everything."

"Do you have paper documents?"

Claude came to the spirit immediately.

"No, Constantine does not allow any paper documents to flow out, not even the letters from the soldiers' homes."

The general's answer was categorical.

"Then... I would like to ask, is the war on the front line of Constantine so fierce? It is necessary to add [-] people at once?"

Claude could only organize his language and began to ask about the aspects he was interested in.

"No, although the battles on the front line are fierce, they are not frequent, and the casualties are not so huge. The reason why so many people are needed is that the Constantine front line adopts a garrison rotation system-that is, every four years. Soldiers withdrew and repaired it once."

"These 1 knights are not all used for manpower replenishment, most of them are responsible for rotation. After all, the empire has four knights stationed there. Encountering pollution and desecration, that's why the rotation system is in place."

Lieutenant General Maxim explained.

"Not all of these knights are going to the front line of Constantine for the first time. Many of them came back from the last rotation to rest, and this time they continued to garrison—even the commander. My trip this time is to replace the current one. The commander-in-chief of the Imperial Knights, as the new head of the Constantine Legion."

Claude nodded, which is a reasonable explanation for why the empire can maintain such a large and long-lasting garrison. The combination of volunteers and garrison rotation mechanism can alleviate the problem of war weariness to the greatest extent.

This is probably why the Constantine Legion can have its own replenishment channel, and it does not share a manpower slot with other armies of the empire. of.

"So that's the case... But the number of spare mithril armors prepared is so large, is it because the enemies facing the empire have a strong ability to break through armor?"

"That's not the case. The rotating knights have their own armor. Only one-fifth of the [-] armors are reserved for us. The rest are to be sent to the real front line, not to the We use."

Maxim still said flatly.

"The real front line, where is that?"

Claude's attention is highly concentrated

"In that endless dark cave, a steel fortress built by dwarves."

"Isn't that the Fortress of Constantine? Aren't you stationed there?"

"No, the Constantine Fortress is located outside the cave, and we are only responsible for the fish that slipped through the net, which is why the casualty rate of the Constantine Legion is not very high-we are not the main force of the battle. "

Claude's face is still calm, but his heart has already set off a turbulent sea. It stands to reason that the Mithril Knights should be the top of the group's combat power in this world, almost equivalent to the aircraft carrier battle group in his own world. It is directly linked to the national strength of the country!

But according to Lieutenant General Maxim... the co-author is on the front line of Constantine, and the human side uses the Mithril Knights as line fillers?

So what is the establishment of your main Gundam division?

It can't be really Gundam, can it?

Those dwarves can still make this thing?

So Claude asked again directly.

"What you mean is that the combined forces of the Empire and the Theocracy to form the Constantine Legion is not the main force in the front-line battles—just to prevent the fish that slipped through the net, you need the Empire and the Theocracy to add up to eight secret troops. Silver Knights?"

The general nodded expressionlessly, fully agreeing with Claude's words.

"Yes, because there is no point for ordinary people to be there, they must be knights, and because low-level knights are also a bit difficult to deal with the enemy, they must be protected by Mithril magic nets, otherwise they will just die meaninglessly."

There was a hidden message in Maxim's answer, and the other party might not have noticed it himself, but Claude chewed it out.

The reason why the Mithril Knights were able to build the [Mithril Magic Net] was because there were enough of them to form a network with links between points—so a Mithril Knights wanted to fight in the form of a magic net. The combat organization is a long knight brigade, because only this number can barely make the power attached to the magic net fall on the knights.

So how many people are in a long knight brigade?

400 people.

This means that even if the fish slipped through the net, it still needs a long knight brigade to deal with it-even if it still needs the blessing of the magic net.

So are the dwarves who built that Iron Fort so fierce?

Claude's expression was a bit strange. Why did such a dwarf with abundant martial arts kneel down in front of his senior?

"Have you ever been to the front line?"

"No, I've never been there before—the empire's First Guards Knights were always responsible for transporting supplies, and only the court mages were responsible for transporting Mithril armor to the front line. All of us, including If you ride close, you are not allowed to step into that dark tunnel, otherwise you will be killed."

Claude felt a little strange: "Why is there such a military discipline? Isn't this suppressing the soldiers' desire to fight and patriotism? If soldiers are willing to go to the forefront to fight the enemy, it should be something encouraged by the empire Right?"

Maxim glanced at him and shook his head slowly.

"The reason why people who walk in will be sentenced to death is not because of military discipline. This is not military discipline at all, but the fact that the entire Constantine front line has tacitly accepted that people who step into the tunnel, if they come out, they will be punished." They will be killed immediately by us, and if they continue to go deeper, they will die at the hands of the garrison in front."

"Because ... the moment they walked in that tunnel, it wasn't them anymore, it was 'them.'"

The Burning World: Chapter 249 Chapter 230 Chapter [-] The tacit understanding of the two princesses

Claude looked at Lieutenant General Maxim with a serious face. There was no superfluous expression on the other side's face, as if he was really what he said, just stating a common reality, not something full of Strange and frightening stories of the terrible and the unknown.

Then the news that the other party can bring to him is also very limited. No wonder the emperor said before that he still needs to go to the front line of Constantine himself to know all the facts.

"So, if it's limited to the front line of Constantine, what is the relationship between our troops and the Theocracy?"

After Claude realized the limitations of the information from Maxim, he simply started to ask some political questions.

The lieutenant general of the empire was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect the other party to ask this question, he thought for a while before answering.

"It is an existence that can be completely trusted, and as a comrade-in-arms, hand over the back to the other party."

"Then what about the relationship between the Church and the National Army? Is it the same kind of full trust?"

"I'm not the commander of the Theocracy Army, so I don't know the real attitude of the other party—but if it's just in terms of combat, their attitude is the same. On the front line of Constantine, there is no room for intrigue."

Maxim said with certainty.

Claude nodded lightly. Although the Theocracy colluded with other races, believed in invasions, and liked to play dirty tricks, at least it wasn't completely rotten—at least it wasn't rotten from top to bottom.

Obviously, this Theocracy army stationed in Constantine is not the same creature as the Theocracy knights standing on the southern border of the empire. The opponent has not received any education about being hostile to the empire. This force belongs to the History Hall under the pope's command, so it must be an order from the pope.

This also made Claude a little more relaxed. After confirming that the pope is also the same as the emperor of the empire, it means that the other party is not purely against the sky, at least he knows the same foreign to the word.

"Also, unlike us, the Theocracy is responsible for manpower replenishment for the frontline."

Ok?

Claude suddenly became suspicious.

"You mean...people from The Church can step into the dark cave?"

"No, the four knights stationed outside are not allowed to enter like us, but every time they are responsible for escorting the entry, in addition to the people of the court mages, there is also an armed force from the Holy Kingdom—and every time the people who come out , only the imperial court mages."

Maxim shook his head and explained to Claude.

"So the frontline manpower supply should be filled by the Theocracy, which is why the Empire has prepared so many mithril armors. The main directions of the two sides are different. The Theocracy is responsible for the supply of food and manpower, while the Empire is responsible for supplying food and manpower. Mainly responsible for materials."

"Then we are going to the Theocracy this time because we want to use the Theocracy's channel for transportation?"

Maxim nodded: "Yes, we all crossed the entire Adriatic Sea by sea, landed in the Dardanelles, and then headed for Constantine."

"The Dardanelle region... I remember that it should be close to the elves?"

The darkness in the Sunshine Knight's heart flashed - the Theocracy will not leak the news like it did on its own study tour, so that the empire will prepare such a huge material transportation?

Forget about anything else, but those [-] mithril armors are really the lifeblood...

"Indeed, but don't worry, the people stationed there are all dwarves. Once those long ears set foot on their territory, they will be chased and cut off."

Maxim actually fully understood Claude's worries. Obviously, the empire was not really unprepared for this.

Are dwarves...another unknown question that interests me.

Claude didn't continue to ask any more questions. What the emperor said was right. It doesn't make any sense for a blind man to feel an elephant here. Instead of raising more questions with questions, it's better to go on a field trip by yourself.

There were no polite words, he just said that he had no problem, and Maxim immediately got up and left without any delay.

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No matter how busy Christina is during this period, she will return to the manor for dinner, but basically she will not be able to make it in time for the dinner, so naturally, Leticia will not sit here when she eats—but because of [Talking about visiting Claude is responsible for "accompanying" him...

As Christina said before, she will not make it difficult for Claude in front of Letitia, so... Claude said that the two of them are really just talking about government affairs.

However, tonight, Christina unexpectedly caught up with the dinner time, but because the princess occasionally felt cold during this period, she has not dined with other people, so there are only three people at the dinner party tonight.

"Claude, the diplomatic procedures have been completed, and the transfer and collection of materials from the empire have also been completed, so you will go out tomorrow."

Christina said seriously.

"Thank you, Your Highness. I will definitely live up to my mission and not shame the image of the empire during this trip."

Claude said very formally, but there was still a trace of worry on the face of Letitia sitting next to him, but it quickly disappeared. When Claude looked over, her face was incomparably trust.

"Claude will definitely be able to complete the task."

she said with a smile.

"Of course, my princess."

Claude also responded to this trust with a smile.

Not right, very wrong.

Christina pinched the table knife in her hand. She always felt that the relationship between these two people was very familiar during this period of time. How familiar was it? It was a bit like the relationship between his father Ludwig and Princess Diana. …

Every time Ludwig went to war, the princess sent him off with trusting and proud eyes like this, but when the other party really left, she just stayed in the bedroom, staring at the portrait on the wall in a daze, every time her father After sending back a few letters, Diana always read them countless times and kept them in one of her most cherished boxes.

And now, Leticia and Claude gave her this feeling—the feeling of being an old married couple, relying on each other.

According to the book, it is clear that the relationship between Claude and her should only be in the period of passionate love, but why are he and Leticia so close?As if already integrated into each other's life?

No, when did she fall behind so much?

"Did anything happen before? Letitia, you seem to have changed a lot."

Christina asked with some surprise and suspicion.

"Hmm...probably because I couldn't hold back at that time, and expressed this feeling, as well as my love for Claude, in one breath."

Leticia blushed a little. She was embarrassed to say that it was because of Claude's estrangement that she asked her fiancé for a kiss in a flash - fortunately, Claude only kissed her forehead in the end. Otherwise, she doesn't know how to end it.

"Did you...do anything?"

Facts have proved that Miss Christina didn’t miss any of the messy books that Claude reviewed the system before. She looked at Xia Fei’s sister, and she was in a bad mood. After confessing their love to the princess, both of them hated the short life of the good time, and went to the real spring night.

Her home was stolen?

"...Just, just...that, that..."

After Christina discovered the abnormality, Leticia was so shy that she wanted to bury her head in the dinner plate.

"It's just a kiss. Leticia is not yet an adult. We will discuss other matters after we get married."