I Will Be The Crowned King

The next morning, Anson, who slept until he woke up naturally, was sitting by the window drinking coffee. On the table was a special Hantu meatball—a beaten raw egg mixed with bread crumbs, wrapped with minced beef **** and meatballs. seasoning and finally deep fried in butter until golden.

Although it's really delicious, Anson still doesn't quite understand why Hantu people, whose recipes are mainly fresh vegetables, fruits and seafood, like to eat such greasy things in the morning?

Having said that, the breakfast in Clovis City is mainly based on simple coffee and dry bread. The ingredients are often boiled eggs, light mixed vegetable salad or mashed potatoes... It is so light that it does not look like a heavy Clovis.

However, Anson has no research on food. In this regard, his views are basically the same as Lisa's - as long as it can be eaten and it is delicious enough, cultural symbols and historical background are all empty, no matter how big the name is. The chef put an extra handful of black pepper.

Insert a wooden skewer into the hot meatballs just out of the pan. The golden hot oil is mixed with the fragrant gravy and drips from the crack on the disc.

Gently sniffing the golden crispy skin and gravy wrapping, together with the aroma of butter and beef stuffing, An Sen raised the wooden stick carefully for fear of slipping it off, probed forward gently, and opened his mouth little by little. It catches.

at this time……

"boom!"

With a loud noise, a familiar figure suddenly slammed open the door from the outside—the excited Leon Francois appeared in front of Anson without warning.

"Dear cousin Anson, I'm back!"

The startled An Sen was shocked, his jaw joints tightened suddenly, the upper and lower tooth crowns faced the meatballs full of hot oil and scalding gravy, and he directly bit down hard...

Ten minutes later, the guilty little Leon kept apologizing while reporting the good news he had just received to Anson, who was covering his mouth with a painful expression.

Unsurprisingly, Claude Francois agreed.

According to Little Leon, he agreed to the whole plan within ten minutes after he handed the plan to his father; since the entire project was fully funded by Thun, it is expected to invest 50,000 gold coins and mobilize 10,000 The recruits are building a base for the Storm Division, which is expected to be fully operational within three months and completely completed within six months.

In addition, I don't know if it was a sudden conscience discovery - this should not be possible - Claude Francois also hopes to sign a new military agreement in addition to the previous agreement.

This agreement stipulated that Ansen Bach had the right to "recruit" Thun recruits of no more than 5,000 people in the form of "mercenaries"; the Francois family was willing to pay the full cost, including training, arming, and within a year. Four-fifths of the expenses, the remaining one-fifth is also advanced by the Francois family, and will be delivered after a year.

Not only that, these 5,000 soldiers are not even the upper limit of recruiting, but a quota; that is to say, if there is a loss due to casualties and other reasons in the war, Anson can continue to recruit recruits from White Tower City to fill all the vacancies.

And Anson Bach, or the obligation of the Storm Division, was to train the five thousand soldiers in a simple "Clovis style" and organize them into a qualified army, and deliver them "completely" a year later. To the Francois family"...that's all.

Well, to put it bluntly, Claude-François let 5,000 soldiers prepare their own food and lodging, work for him for a year, and don’t have to worry about work-related accidents at all. How many Francois families are missing? He added.

The only condition is that the 5,000-strong "Clovis-style army" who fought in the war must be handed over to the Francois family in one year.

Anson Bach can expand his troops into an infantry division without having to pay for a copper plate, from division commander to corps commander!

Of course, this kind of thing is still risky - even if the Storm Division is just a levy, it is an army completely subordinate to the Clovis Army, obeying the orders of the Privy Council and the royal family, and all officers have rosters and files.

Once the private recruitment of soldiers is exposed, it will be a huge stain on An Sen's resume. It is possible for him to be stripped of his military rank and all his positions, to be distributed or directly kicked out of the army.

But I don't know if the Archduke Thun already knew enough about the Clovis army, or if someone mentioned this consideration to him - these 5,000 soldiers were only nominally "allied" during the war against the Seven Cities Alliance. "Temporarily join" the storm division.

Anson, who signed the military agreement, was only temporarily serving as the commander of the Thun-Crowe coalition... This explanation barely makes sense, and it is not without precedent.

"Then guess, who is the commander-in-chief of these 5,000 Thun soldiers?"

Leon Francois smiled at Anson with excitement.

The answer is self-evident.

With the full support of Grand Duke Claude Francois, the "White Tower City Project", which received sufficient funds and manpower, was officially launched and put into vigorous construction.

Warehouses rose from the ground, and the existing roads were rebuilt and widened. The Brand family and the Iser elves have been operating in the White Tower City for a hundred years. Use these thoroughly and rebuild the damaged and old parts... Otherwise, 50,000 gold coins will definitely be unstoppable.

The most expensive part of the whole project is to open up the road from Baita City to Yingjiao City on the basis of the original road; as long as it is successfully completed, the operation speed of the supply line can be shortened by at least one day - because there is no need to make a detour to Jinshi first city.

It can be said that without Anson's guarantee, Claude Francois would never have dared to build this road; White Tower City is the southernmost territory of Thun. Once there is a road directly connected to Eagle Point City, it means The Clovis army can drive straight in, directly attack the hinterland of Thun, and within two days can turn Golden Stone City into an isolated city.

In Anson's plan, Baita City is not so much a military fortress, but closer to a large-scale logistics center and supply station. It undertakes functions such as transshipment, storage, and stable logistics for the front-line army. rear.

At present, all the intelligence and information about the Seven Cities Alliance comes from the simple data compiled by the little secretary, a map of the eighty-eighth year of the Saint calendar, and what Claude Francois told him.

To put it more bluntly, he has absolutely no understanding of the real situation of the Seven Cities Alliance.

In this case, sending troops rashly was an act of courting death—the previous adventure in order to capture Eagle Point City was mainly because it was an order from the Army, there was no room for bargaining, and the later it was taken, the worse it would be for him and even the Southern Army.

Now that the biggest trouble has been resolved, the entire Clovis focus is on Ludwig Franz, who is advancing eastward, basically ignoring himself and the storm division.

In other words, as long as Thun is still there and has not attacked Eagle Point City, the Storm Division has completed the task.

Since there is no task pressure, of course, the more fully prepared, the better - to collect intelligence, establish a logistics organization, plan the next strategic deployment... This all takes time.

It just so happened that the first arms trade from the August Armoury Factory to Thun had been completed. According to the first phase of the agreement between Anson and Claude Francois, the Grand Duchy of Thun bought the first batch of 50,000 gold coins. 20,000 rifles and paid in full.

Even if Archduke Thun got a 10% discount, Anson still made a net profit of 10,000 gold coins by purchasing on behalf of him, which was his stipend and salary as an army colonel for almost fifteen years.

And these are pure profits with no cost and no risk. The arms business is indeed the most lucrative industry in the world.

This is just a front-loading rifle. Do you want a rear-loading rifle with a faster rate of fire later? Do you want a cannon after buying a rifle? Field six-pounder and twelve-pounder infantry, twenty-four-pounder cannon and howitzer, forty-eight-pounder? Can't you buy an artillery piece without the ammunition car and the baggage car? I bought a car and a warhorse... uh, this seems to belong to the fist product of the empire...

But now that Thun has formed an alliance with Clovis, and with the turmoil in the Seven Cities Alliance, it is impossible to import war horses from the Empire - it is still necessary to go through Clovis' trade line.

Claude Francois obviously realized the problem. If all the weapons and equipment were imported, even the wealth of Thun would be completely devoured by the gold-eating beast of war.

The Francois family will owe the Rune family a debt that cannot be repaid for many years. Clovis will use this as a springboard to infiltrate Thun and even the Seven Cities Alliance.

Therefore, in the construction planning of the White Tower City, even a workshop for repairing weapons and a gunpowder factory were included, and a request for the introduction of production lines was made to Erich, the representative of the August munitions factory.

Erich, who did not dare to directly reject the big client, wrote to Anson to express his concerns - the Kingdom of Clovis can accept arms exports, but the control of the production line is very strict.

Not only that, the Church of Order, which "controls all truth", is also extremely sensitive to the behavior of "technology diffusion", because this is also one of the ways the Church controls the entire world of order.

In the forty-seventh year of the saint's calendar, after the merger of the Qiuzhen Sect - also known as the Ivory Sect - and relying on the legacy of St. Isaac, the Qiuzhen Sect's ivory tower research institute and the Church of the Church, the Church of Order completely monopolized all cutting-edge research. And technology.

Among them, the most famous one, and the one that has the greatest impact on Clovis and even the entire order world, is the steam core manufacturing technology.

Therefore, if a parish wants to obtain a technology, the most direct way is to apply and report to the church, otherwise it is easy to be labeled as "apostate" and "blasphemy" - no matter how small, no longer It is worth mentioning that it must also be applied, because this is the bottom line of the Church of Order.

But Anson didn't take it seriously, wrote a letter to comfort Mr. Erich, and told him that he might as well agree if the price was due; of course, Thun couldn't get it so easily.

The reason is also very simple - since Claude Francois dared to say this, it proves that he must have asked the local church in Thun for instructions, and he has been approved.

There is no need to worry in Clovis, the Rune family will definitely be able to get the permit certificate.

Moreover, the production line of a front-loading rifle is not complicated. If Claude Francois really wants to get it, it is not as difficult as it looks, and it is the same from whomever he buys.

Finally, and the most important part, is a mere production line, which is really a drop in the bucket for Thun, who is about to unify Hantu, and it can relieve the pressure of his half-hand workshops.

If you think about it in a positive direction, the production line will also increase Thun's demand for high-quality raw materials; after all, if the material for the barrel and bolt is not good enough, the rifle is a large firecracker - and he can earn him another amount of material money.

On the other hand, regarding the sudden addition of the 5,000 Thun army and their commander, Leon Francois, the Storm Division expressed emotional stability and had no objection at all.

In addition to the fact that the Storm Division did not have many troops, it was indeed too thin to attack an infantry division of the Seven Cities Alliance. More importantly, these soldiers were not included in the loot distribution list.

Since these soldiers have no interest in themselves, there is one more cannon fodder that attracts bullets on the battlefield, so why not do it?

And just when Anson and the Storm Division received the 5,000 recruits led by Leon in an orderly manner and built their own logistics base, they got the spoils of the Guards Corps, plus 20,000 rifles from the August Armory Factory~www.wuxiaspot.com ~Claude Francois, whose strength has been greatly enhanced, is also executing his plan in an orderly manner.

In order to prevent the lands besieging Thun from being aware of the movement of the White Tower City, 6,000 Guards and 10,000 recruits led by Henares went to the border, and confronted the army that was invading Thun along the hills and rivers. Show the enemy's weakness.

At the same time, Archduke Thun, who is full of justice and patriotism, once again sent letterheads and invitations to all the rulers of the Seven Cities Alliance, proposing to hold a meeting in Golden Rock City to discuss how to deal with Clovis and the Empire, Iraq The war between the elves of Ther.

In his letter, Claude François first reprimanded those shameless villains who had treachery and invaded Thun, swearing that they would definitely seek justice.

Then he changed the conversation and said that the current Seven Cities Alliance must put aside their hatred, unite, and re-establish an alliance in order to maintain their independence in the midst of great power disputes.

"As long as the Seven Cities Alliance can be united again, and the vast land returns to peace and prosperity, Thun can temporarily put aside his hatred and work with you to defend the vast land south of the Dawn Mountains, so that she can unite and unite, and become the leader of all the vast land. A proud and proud country of the natives..."

So the noble Archduke Thun concluded.

Unsurprisingly, this letter was a piece of waste paper and was ignored by everyone—no ruler stood up to answer the call, and the Seven Cities Alliance was completely dead in name only.

Claude-François's goal was also achieved.

"Tell my dear nephew Anson Bach, and let him go south to attack immediately - all the spoils of this battle, Thun will not take a penny; I just need to pay back, and I will give back double!"

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