Chapter 879 [0876] A Familiar Decision

Mobilizing civilian forces is not an easy task.

Although Demacia has a relatively efficient administrative system, if the entire task of coordinating the city construction is handed over to the clerks, then other internal policies of Demacia will have to be suspended for a short period of time.

Although the expansion of Fosbyro to the three towns of Fucheng seemed very smooth, that was because the three towns of Fucheng were right next to Fosbyro, and they only needed to be expanded.

But now, in the construction of Yiming City, in addition to the most basic earth and stone, most of the relevant materials need to be transported from afar, and the subsequent shops and personnel settlement must be studied. In this case, the best way is undoubtedly to accept the participation of civilian forces from the beginning of the city construction.

In order to plan clearly what degree of civilian forces should be accepted to participate in the city construction, the three giants of the North, in addition to internal discussions, also consulted many famous architects, and referred to the tax details of the three towns of Fucheng in recent years, in order to actively participate in the people, and at the same time, the Demacia government must have absolute control.

The balance is not easy to grasp, so in addition to the pre-prepared plan, Sona is also responsible for organizing urban planning experts to discuss and set up a construction planning team.

This team is responsible for reviewing whether the design plan of the building is qualified, and on the other hand, it is also responsible for checking and confirming the specific construction direction of Yiming City at the front line.

If something goes wrong, this team will be the one who puts the brakes on.

However, although the investigation and preparation have been done long ago, when Yiming City really began to accept the construction plan, the enthusiasm of merchants from all over the country far exceeded the initial expectations.

No, it should be said that it is not just merchants from all over the country who are so enthusiastic.

In Fosbiero, in addition to shipping merchants and industries such as mining that are extremely dependent on nearby raw materials, industry associations of other industries almost all heard the news at the first time, and it seems that they all intend to establish their own footholds in Yiming City as soon as possible and acquire some land.

For this reason, some people and organizations even borrowed money specifically, even if they owed money for construction, they had to set up the scaffolding first.

It seems that everyone is worried about falling behind.

Why are they so eager to invest in the construction of Yiming City?

This is very interesting, but in the final analysis, it is for profit.

Although the profit of Yiming City is still uncertain, on the one hand, the government represented by Her Majesty Laxana is quite credible, and on the other hand, they are worried that the profit of continuing to transfer industries to the south will not be enough, so after the construction of Yiming City began, many smart guys focused their attention on this side.

It is a foregone conclusion that some industries will be split up and sent to the south.

However, most industry practitioners are unwilling to go to the south to open up the market and start over, but they can't resist the government's splitting and reorganization, and they can't even directly protest.

In this case, the construction plan of Yiming City was officially proposed, and many people who were worried that their industries would be forcibly moved to the south simply set their sights on Yiming City.

From their perspective, the development potential of the southern Demacia Plain and the Tobysia River is probably not as good as that of Yiming City. Although Yiming City is located on the southern foot of the Green Tooth Peak, and the surrounding area is now sparsely populated, it is not difficult to find that the area where Yiming City is located is the eastern gate of the pulse.

Without any national defense pressure, Yiming City will be a natural and advantageous eastern trade export port.

Therefore, when the Yiming City construction plan was formally proposed, many industry practitioners immediately thought of the possibility of Yiming City's subsequent development, and then prepared to carry out large-scale development.

This is also a pleasant surprise. After all, Lux did not really link the issue of industrial transfer and Yiming City construction in advance.

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As a large number of civilian forces poured into the construction of Yiming City, when one detailed construction plan after another received a positive response and the construction of Yiming City reached the actual construction stage, Fosbyro, who had been a little bit old due to the industry split, became active again.

Many people saw the opportunity.

And through the experience of Fosbyro in the past ten years, it has been proved that many times, people only need an opportunity.

In the excitement of the whole people of Demacia, thousands of miles away in Noxus, Darius finally completed the assembly and training of the army.

Darius, who has rich combat experience in the northern war group, even personally participated in and asked about the relevant work. With the arrival of a large number of cold-resistant clothes, the assembled Noxian war group finally prepared to go to Freljord for battle.

These war groups are very important forces within the new Noxian Empire. Darius relied on such a force to quell the internal rebellion of the Immortal Bastion.

Now, they are about to participate in a war in Freljord as a projection of the will of Noxus for the sake of the Diggerburg and the miners.

Even though many people in these five war groups are direct or indirect Noxian patriots, the morale of this team is more or less lost when they think of leaving Noxus and marching to the ice desert.

And this is the meaning of training.

During the training, Darius not only emphasized the significance of this operation to Noxus, but also needed to emphasize the fairness of this operation. At the beginning, the soldiers did not know what was going on, but as the training progressed, their every move became more and more orderly.

For this operation, Darius initially planned to command it himself.

But since he is now the commander-in-chief of Noxus, and the traitors in the south have now shown their intention to expand the army and prepare for war, and there are still many hidden corners in the Immortal Bastion that have not been cleaned up, he still couldn't go out in person in the end.

In this case, Draven finally became the commander of this army.

To be honest, no matter from which angle, Draven is not an excellent commander.

Compared with the rigid, resolute and courageous Darius, Draven's head is not ordinary iron.

He prefers straightforward actions and straightforward attacks.

Therefore, it is very important to equip Draven with adjutants and staff.

The adjutant must be careful enough, and the staff must be able to hold back the hot-blooded Draven - after listing these two requirements, Darius directly had his own candidates.

Tamara.

The former stonemason lady who grew up with Draven can not only hold back the impulsive Draven and calm him down temporarily, but also be careful enough to reconcile the relationship between Draven and other war leaders.

Therefore, Draven is the commander-in-chief, Tamara is responsible for coordination, and equipped with special staff analysis. This is the headquarters Darius prepared for this northern expeditionary force.

In Darius's opinion, there should be no problem with this configuration.

Although Draven only has experience in small-scale battles and no experience in commanding large troops, who else has experience in this area in Noxus, which has experienced many internal purges and civil strife, except himself?

After picking and choosing, I am afraid that only Darius himself is qualified to crush Draven in these aspects, and others - even more professional officers - are at most the same as Draven.

Considering that the burned Delverhold has much worse defense capabilities than before, if Noxus wants to have a stable backyard, it is very important to ease relations with the Freljord barbarians. In this case, it is better to send Draven, who is not stable enough, because at least he is completely trustworthy.

Moreover, according to the military system of Noxus, although Draven is the well-deserved commander-in-chief and commander of the expeditionary force, he will not personally command other teams except the direct guards of the headquarters. The core of the war group system is that the war group leader is the first person in charge of the war group.

Therefore, Draven, who does not hold any war group leader position, is destined to be a seal representing Darius's will from the beginning. In a sense, he is Darius' tool to control the legion.

Draven should also have command tasks.

But not much.

The most important thing is that, in Darius's view, the target of this trip is not Demacia - what is the "Rakstak Plain" they are going to attack? Although Darius has not seen this ice field with his own eyes, he is very clear about the characteristics of the Freljord people.

These northern barbarians are useless in building cities. Their defense is either the constant harassment and delay of large-scale cavalry, or a simple pass relying on dangerous terrain. In terms of attacking, Freljord has no room for attacking.

This relatively simple "low-end game" is enough to let Draven be in charge.

Even compared with the command issue, Darius is more concerned about the will of Noxus represented by this action - although in essence, this action is to ease relations with Freljord, to take back Delverhold, and to exchange for miners, but in fact, no matter what, this expedition is somewhat forced.

In this case, Darius naturally hopes to regain some ground after winning the victory, so that this military operation to the north will have more meaning besides helping the Freljord barbarians.

Following this idea, Darius and Lux ​​thought of the same thing when determining the action plan.

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There are two passages from Noxus to Freljord.

The first is to go through the Ironthorn Mountains, go directly north, enter the East Freljord Wasteland, and then turn west to go to that Rakstak.

The second one is interesting. The Noxian army can go directly west first, walk through the Dalmor Plain, and then enter the Black Forest area, and then turn north from here and enter Freljord directly from Tuk'gul.

Considering the marching distance alone, the former is undoubtedly closer.

But marching is never a simple distance measurement. Now that the most critical Delverhold in the Ironthorn Mountains has been reduced to ruins, although the first route is shorter, most of the supply lines are in the Freljord.

Although according to the agreement, the Freljord Frostguard tribe will provide "as much material support and supplies as possible" to the Noxian reinforcements, as long as they have brains, the Noxians will not completely leave all the supplies to the Freljord people.

Even if the army can rely on the Frostguard tribe for supplies at ordinary times, Noxus must have a stable and exclusive supply channel behind the army.

The biggest problem with the first route is that this backup supply line is completely located in Freljord. When Delverhold cannot be used as a distribution center for supplies, the Noxian army taking this route does not even have a supply distribution center that is relatively close to Freljord.

In contrast, the second route seems to be a little more roundabout.

This route is interesting. Although its end goal is the same as the former, the army marches in the country until it goes north to Tukugul and walks out of the Tukugul Gorge.

The advantage of marching in the country is that the army will not be tired and the supply channel is relatively stable, while the disadvantage is that the Freljord people may not provide material assistance for the part of marching in the country.

If that were the case, the two routes could still be considered to have their own advantages and disadvantages.

But soon, when Darius tried to "think like Swain", the balance in his heart finally began to tilt towards the latter.

The army crossed the Dalmore Plains, walked through the Black Forest, and went north through the Tukugul Gorge. Perhaps this can be considered as a military display?

Think about it, when the Black Forest Federation had just surrendered and the Ironthorn Kingdom of the Delverburg was completely destroyed, the Noxian army of five main warbands passed through Dalmore. What kind of deterrence is this?

Darius is quite confident in the five warbands he trained. He believes that with the military appearance of these five warbands, after passing through, they will definitely make the people of Noxus feel at ease and make those separatists feel frightened.

This will not only help improve the stability of Noxus, but also be a deterrent to those traitorous separatists.

As for the extra food and grass consumed...

Although Darius has tried hard to learn from Swain, he is still not sensitive enough to the internal figures. After confirming that the tax revenue can support such an expedition, his heart finally began to stir.

In addition, the scouts who went to the Delverhold to investigate brought back news that the city was destroyed and many fortresses in the Ironthorn Mountains were damaged to varying degrees. At this time, Darius had already determined that the Delverhold now only had a defensive function and could no longer serve as a bridgehead for attack and suppression.

So, in this case, if the army could go north to Tukugul after passing through the Black Forest and leave a semi-permanent military fortress in the Tukugul area, it would be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone!

With this idea in mind, Darius finalized the army's marching route - just like Lux's plan, leaving Tukugul.

I haven't finished writing the extra chapter yet. I don't understand the knowledge in the field of fashion design at all...