Chapter 1,329 The Princess
Let’s talk about the situation of the Empress Saint Alegria.
When the late emperor was still alive, the princess named Kono was not a popular candidate to succeed the emperor. She has no particularly outstanding performance in political affairs. Her personal martial arts skills are okay, but she is not the material to be a general. He has never actually led troops to fight a war or been on the battlefield in the Plains of Oz.
In terms of strength, there are so-called hard power and soft power. The military power in one's hands and one's own martial arts can all be classified as hard power. Soft power refers to the size and number of supporters and followers. They may not necessarily be won over, but they may also come to seek refuge on their own.
However, no matter what kind of strength, the princess Keno can be rated as unqualified. There are some outstanding items, and that is the martial arts that are least needed to be an emperor.
If you have the courage to gather a few brothers to become adventurers and wander around in a daze, without any real skills, it is very likely that you will get out and never come back. But which emperor personally went to kill him? If there is a real need, it will probably be a situation where the rebels are knocking on the door and everyone is the enemy.
But when other people who are qualified to succeed to the throne make big mistakes, things are different.
Some princes and princesses offended the interests of the noble class, and they tried to use their political strength to intervene in disputes between nobles. Don't ask about right or wrong, just recognize your position and protect your own people.
If you have good skills and can really overpower the opponent, then forget it. It just doesn't work, and the result is just to irritate the other party. In addition, when the matter was not completed, even one of his own people showed dissatisfaction, and finally ended up with an unpleasant end.
Some commit crimes blatantly and leave behind irrefutable evidence.
If the target is an ordinary person and can suppress the matter by means, then forget it. But trying to poison one's own brother only to have his deeds exposed is something that cannot be rectified.
If it is just a mistake, the supporters will not give up. The biggest reason why this prince was abandoned was that he was too stupid!
Who would point directly at the nose of the person being poisoned in public and curse, "I worked so hard to poison you, why are you not dead yet?" Who dares to stand next to him after such words are said out loud? As a result, he was excluded from the selection of the successor to the throne. IQ problem, there is no way to save it.
As for the unlucky guy who was poisoned, he didn't escape, he just wasn't poisoned to death.
A person who has lost half his life is so weak that it is no surprise that he can kick his legs at any time. Of course, such a person cannot succeed as emperor. If he just takes over and then dies, then those who invested in him will lose their money.
There are also those weirdos who have no interest in power and only love beauty and art. This kind of person has no ambitions, and can be said to be the most ideal person to be loyal to someone who wants to support the leader. The premise is that this guy doesn’t get killed by Hualiu disease...
The worst thing is to use magic to turn yourself into a human or a ghost. Body modification is a big taboo for the ruling class such as the aristocracy. It can be done secretly. Once it is made public, it is equivalent to putting oneself in the position of an enemy of the world and will not be accepted by everyone. Even if the original status is not deprived, still trying to win over supporters is just wishful thinking.
Therefore, when the former empress died, the throne was vacant, and the selection of a successor was imminent. After a large number of the originally promising successors failed due to various problems, Princess Keno, who had just returned to the royal family as an adventurer and had not made any big mistakes, became one of the nobles because of an accident. within the field of vision.
That surprise was actually a victory. What the Greco family chamber of commerce manager told Lin was actually just propaganda data from the empire. Lin just listened to the story as a reference. However, the real situation is:
The "quasi" princess of Kono, who was criticized for never having been to the battlefield in the Plains of Oz, took her loyal guards on a trip in order to obtain the official title of princess. It's just that her supporters are all small nobles, so she can't recruit many troops. In the eyes of others, she is just above water.
Because of her father's low status, those nobles had never looked at this inconspicuous princess-to-be. Going to the battlefield in the Plains of Oz feels a bit like fulfilling an obligation.
Although the Karlsruhe Empire did not have a compulsory military service system, there were no clear regulations in this regard. However, the experience on the battlefield of the Plains of Oz has become a must for those nobles who want to obtain a formal title, so the potential princess of Connaught has to go through this.
Although there were few supporters and not many troops, it was certainly impossible for a princess-to-be who came from a royal family to let her troops go to the battlefield like beggars, wearing sackcloth and holding pitchforks. Therefore, the royal family will still give them the support that should be given.
Even if it's not much, it still depends on who you compare with. Compared to the Royal Guards, that's really not much. But compared to the private troops of ordinary nobles, it was a huge sum of money. After all, in ordinary troops, soldiers are soldiers and officers are officers. There is a gap between the two. The resources that the quasi-princess has obtained, the lowest soldiers are equivalent to the standards of knights, which is the level of nobles.
Keno had never thought about recruiting a luxurious army for himself, at least the magician couldn't afford it. But based on the characteristics and areas of expertise of his friends, he made a choice that was different from the choices made by other royal families who went to the front line to get gold.
She asked her partner in the same adventure team, the heavy armored warrior, to organize a small team of heavy armored soldiers. The hunter used a replica of the repeating crossbow bought from the tower owner of the Great Sage's Tower, and also organized a small team of long-range soldiers. force. Both teams serve as escorts and follow him in and out of the battlefield.
Keno spent the remaining funds on the dragoons. The point is that every dragoon is equipped with a new weapon-a ship-cutting knife! Also from the Tower of the Great Sage, a new weapon design from the hand of the magician.
However, dragoons are inherently high-level arms and are expensive to set up. The serrations of the ship-cutting knife are all dragon scales. Even if the empire can trade the scales shed by the dragons from Dragon Island, the price is much cheaper than elsewhere. But when the quantity required is large, the total price is still considerable.
Thanks to the small nobles who supported the quasi-princess Keno, and Keno himself selling everything to prepare, three squadrons of dragoons were formed, with a total of 300 people.
Because today's battles on the battlefield in the Oz plains are all centered on the competition for food and fertile land. In short, ground troops dominate. Those who want to show their achievements will vigorously form long-range troops for attack or defense.
Although the dragoons are considered the ace unit of the Karlsruhe Empire, they are not suitable for appearing on such a battlefield. But the princess-to-be did this, and everyone guessed that maybe the princess-to-be was just here to take a look at the battlefield. After waiting for the harvest festival to pass, you can take such a noble army back to Neuquén and receive the title of princess with peace of mind.
As everyone knows, Keno and her friends have their sights set on an opponent that few people challenge - the airship of the Haider Empire.
As the Haider Empire's only means of supplying supplies to the Tianguan military fortress, the appearance of airships is the intelligence that the Karlsruhe Empire is most concerned about. If the other party has an abnormally large accumulation of materials, it will be a prelude to the expansion of the scale of the war. As long as you are a qualified commander, you cannot fail to guard against this.
For the Haider Empire, instead of using a large fleet to transport supplies at one time after a long interval, it is better to continuously transport small batches of supplies to the front line. The two have fundamental differences in terms of morale on the front line. The latter's method of supplying supplies is like saying that the empire has not forgotten the soldiers on the front line, and resources from the mainland are endless.
In addition, small-batch, high-intensity transportation and supply missions are beneficial to the combat training of airships, and also exercise the command's dispatching capabilities. It provides considerable flexibility for the mobilization of frontline personnel, the evacuation of the wounded, and the exchange of intelligence.
Besides, there was no forum before. If the Central Committee of the Haider Empire wants to know the news about the Tianguan front line, it can only do so by sending letters. The speed and reliability of the airship are also crucial.
Therefore, the number of airship fleets that the Haider Empire shouldered the task of transporting and replenishing was not large, no more than five squadrons, that is, the size of five airships. However, the frequency of arriving at Jietianguan is quite dense, and one wave can be seen every two or three days.
In the same situation as the Dragoons, the airships have no significance in the battle for the Plains of Oz. Although dispatching airships can bring huge advantages, when compared with strategic results, you can find that dispatching airships to fight such a bad war is a loss-making business. Therefore, as far as the Haider Empire is concerned, airships are only used to ensure the completion of the supply transportation mission and are not used to fight bad wars on the front line.
Secondly, Midi does not yet have air control, and even has certain height restrictions on air defense. This is an attack method limited to the ground, and opponents that are too high cannot hit them at all. Besides, the "air force" of the Lost Land does not have many air-to-ground attack methods. The strength of the airship is unique, so most of the Lost Land simply give up the defense of the sky.
Under various conditions, the beginning of a 'brilliant' victory happened one autumn morning. That day, there was heavy fog.
The three squadrons of dragoons carrying ship-cutting knives covered their bodies in the fog and flew to the sky above Jietianguan Fortress. The route of the airship that performs supply and supply missions is fixed, so the dragoons stay in a backlit position.
One thing that is hard to imagine is that the traditional airship detection method still relies on visual inspection! Therefore, the dragoons, who were backlit and hidden in the search, were not discovered by Haider's supply airship fleet.
Although the airship legion of the Haider Empire is known as the trump card, the airships in the legion are built in different years. There is no saying that when new models come out, the entire army will be upgraded. Some airships built more than a hundred years ago are still in use today.
According to the rules recorded by the Karlsruhe Empire, the airship fleet carrying out the supply mission should be mainly old-type airships. The flotation devices of these airships are giant propellers perpendicular to the hull, which are characterized by making considerable noise. So from a distance, you can first hear the sound of the airship and then see its silhouette.
Since it was a routine mission, the airship's advantage as an aerial fortress, as well as the strength of the nearly a hundred magicians on board, made them very reassured about this voyage, even to the point of being negligent.