By the Storm Wind Legion and the Eagle Legion taking the capitals of the two provinces, Ellis City and Entel City, while the ace legion, the Lion Legion, was heading straight for the king city of Shiloh, Odis City. Odis City was located in the center of the two provinces, and the Lion Legion encountered the most resistance, so the Storm wind Legion and Eagle Legion were going to immediately gallop in after taking the two provinces to break down the king city of Shiloh as a means of truly overthrowing this kingdom.
"This attack on Phalanx City is just a springboard, the other brigades of the Second Corps have also almost purged and occupied the surrounding towns and cities, and the Corps Command has sent a message requesting that we head to Bimor City to rendezvous as soon as possible." The Baron continued.
"Bimor City...." Whispers came from the tent at once, it seemed that everyone here was no stranger to this city, it was the center city of an count's territory and the final obstacle for the Second Corps to meet up with the rest of the Eagle's Legion.
"Are they in such a hurry already? Isn't there still two months to go..." First Squadron Leader Monte said in disbelief. At this time, their brigade was still a long way from Bimor City, and there were at least three or four other towns on the way, moreover, as the center city of a count's territory, if that count's brain wasn't broken, he must have gathered a large number of armed forces. Monte didn't want to fight a hard battle again so soon. He believe that the baron also does not want.
The baron looked at him, and then looked around the rest of the tent, gently knocked on the table, the whispering stopped, everyone looked at the baron. The baron was silent for a long time, frowned and finally said in a deep voice "Our country can't hold on any longer, we must end the war as soon as possible." Everyone immediately stared, each thinking.
Baron Kyle have their own people in the royal capital, naturally clear, although the drought ended more than a year, but the domestic labor shortage, especially young adults, the male to female ratio is about to reach 1:3, the fields are cultivated by the old, weak women and children, although barely self-sufficient, but the army consumption is almost can not be sustained, this is only one aspect, the loss of population, the war losses, the huge foreign debt, the Kingdom of Garrel is just a small kingdom, can not support the consumption of such a long period of time. It can't support such a long-lasting consumption.
Since the Baron had spoken the truth, Monte, as the Baron's wise counselor, also concurred "In that case, we need to take Phalanx City as soon as possible."
"Phalanx City is at least a baron's territory, I'm afraid it's not too good to take it without all the preparations." Since they decided to take Phalanx City, the people here were no longer formal and began to discuss. "Besides, our battalion is still incomplete, isn't it."
The main content of this meeting was to decide on the candidates for the two squadron commanders of the battalion, and after discussing it for so long, the discussion finally came to the main business. But it involved the replacement of official positions, they were only squadron captains, they were not qualified to decide, they could only listen to the baron's assignment.
"Yes, the battalion is still short two squadron leaders so far, do you have any recommendations?" The Baron asked calmly with his head slightly bowed. It had been discussed many times before over this issue, but each time it was inconclusive, and this time a decision had to be made on the candidates.
"I think this lad from Naima is good, he can do the job." The one who spoke was the squadron leader of the third squadron, the one he recommended was also a squad leader of his squadron, his squadron was crippled last time, the vice squadron leader was dead, the squadron leader chosen this time was, not surprisingly, a fill-in to his squadron, he preferred that the one who came to be a know-it-all and could take his lead.
"How about Jelson, five year veteran, good strength leadership." This time the one who spoke was the deputy squadron commander of the fourth squadron, their squadron was even worse, less than a third of them survived the battle of the Felmer Grand Canyon, the squadron commander was directly killed in battle, he was currently acting as the squadron commander. Most of their squadron were new recruits, and he desperately needed a veteran to help him lead them, and the person he recommended was not from his own squadron, but from the first squadron. He also wanted to remove the word "acting", if another squadron to his squadron as a deputy squadron commander, he is not afraid of being decentralized, their squadron squadron captains are all brothers who survived with him, they all listen to him.
"How about Fogini, a strong kid..."
"Where's Gibb, the guy's a veteran, and has it covered."
All six squad leaders in the tent offered their favorites, and York, of course, still mentioned Caesar, whom he described as calm and driven.
"All be quiet." Baron Kyle at the head of the table rubbed his brow and tapped the table with his index finger, sure enough, it was this kind of scene again, the previous times were also this argumentative and inconclusive. "This time take a vote."
As expected, the few people here all glanced at each other unspokenly, whenever they met a disagreement in the barracks, or a major event, if the Baron Lord didn't decide personally, and the rest of the people didn't have a unified opinion, the Baron would choose to vote. It was said that this was the parliamentary voting system that the Baron had learned while studying in the Omoore Empire when he was young.
A bunch of crude men didn't raware of the fairness and justice of this system, they just felt that the Baron was doing this in a very humane way, and didn't have as big of a stance as the other nobles, and the reason why everyone in this tent was so convinced of the Baron was evident.
So from the Baron's left hand side of the Will Knight began to vote, the six squadron captains proposed a total of six squadron captain candidates, two of them lucky to be promoted. The favorites were Naima and Jelson, they were after all the three and four squadron captains who picked the men themselves, and those present who were acquainted with each other may give support to it, and it was not as if the others had no chance, and there was a good deal of support for Gibb and Caesar.
The Will Knight abstained from voting as usual, in this kind of vote of power change, the Will Knight almost always abstained from voting in order to avoid suspicion, the reason is that the Will Knight is also a nobleman, he is a Noble Knight enthroned by the Baron, it is said that the Will Knight family has been the vassal of Baron Kyle's family for generations, the Will Knight's ancestor was once a soldier of Baron Kyle's ancestor, and came to the Del Province to fight along with the Baron Kyle ancestor in those years.
The Baron Kyle family also lived up to the Will family by making him a hereditary noble knight. Early on, we knew that the Garrel Kingdom, in order to prevent the big nobles from cutting off the country, stipulated that the upper nobles could only divide the nobles of the two classes below them, and there was only one quota. That is to say that only barons are qualified to divide the nobility, albeit the lowest class of knights. By analogy, a Viscount can divide a Lord, a Count can divide a Baron, and a Marquis can divide a Viscount. Moreover, the noble domains divided by the great nobles need to be spent by the great nobles themselves. So it can be seen that the Will Knights family is deeply trusted by Baron Kyle's family.
As for the Duke, there is no Duke in the Garrell Kingdom, hundreds of years ago the Garrell Kingdom was still a small Duchy, and the current King's ancestors were only Dukes, so the Royal Family is well aware of the Duke's ability and influence, and at the beginning of the Garrell Kingdom's founding the first King of the Garrell Kingdom warned his descendants not to divide the Dukes.
And the Will Knight family also lived up to the support of Baron Kyle's family, almost every generation had a middle-ranked Knight Squire level powerhouse born, so much so that this generation of Will Knights had even advanced to a high-ranked Knight Squire, with astonishing battle power.
After Knight Will, there was the vote for Squadron Leader Monte, and the votes were cast in order up to the Vice Squadron Leader of the 4th Squadron on the right. As for Soren, most of the people present habitually ignored him, as Soren, like the Baron, hardly participated in this type of voting.
Caesar, because he was proposed by York, the second squadron leader, was right in the middle of the six as the third voter.