The same views as Erwin Greco included Duke Edward who was commanding in Xiusnia and many generals near the front line. Although the equipment of the Guards did not choose high-tech weapons because the opponents were too weak, the command and communication of the army were ahead of the times.
Through the low-orbit communication satellites and a batch of radio equipment "leased" to the Hughes family by the group, as long as the Duke wants, he can hold a small meeting with the generals commanding the troops via phone or holographic projection at any time to decide new combat goals internally. .
Not long after Erwin handed the letter to the courier, the 2nd Infantry Division of the Guards Group C to which he belonged set off after lunch and dispersed in battalion units to attack the entire North Kingdom. A devastating blow to the military system.
This is a war that is different from traditional noble wars. All the military nobles in the Northland Kingdom who are responsible for commanding the army and providing soldiers have only one fate after being caught - shot.
If it were in the past, Edward might have considered sparing them because remote areas were difficult to rule, and would have garrisoned troops in the territory to keep a watchful eye on these nobles who would never be honest. But today is different from the past. With the strong support of the Stars Group, he is already capable of launching a radical extermination of the traditional aristocratic system.
He did not reject the arrival of the Guards. Not only did he not resist, but he treated them with courtesy. For some small and medium-sized nobles who received warm hospitality, Edward would cut off their fiefs and titles, and give them a small amount of money as a discount. Compensation allows them to live the rest of their lives safely as rich people.
But unfortunately, so far, there are very few nobles in the three surrounding countries who can do this, so perhaps more nobles died in this war than civilians. After the fat-headed and big-eared nobles were executed in front of the common people, civilians who had spent a few days with the Guards knew that the troops of the Hughes family were not private armies of nobles who would rob, kill, or set fire to people.
In order to integrate the limited forces together, some of the idle auxiliary troops were ordered by Edward to investigate the population of the occupied areas, folk customs and traditions and other information that could not be detected by satellite, so as to facilitate his subsequent migration of the population.
In the Duke's vision, after the spring offensive ends, the kingdom's newly added 30 million people will all migrate towards the kingdom, or gather in place to form the same city-centered development model as the current Shusland, using the shortest possible time. After taking time to consolidate their forces, they launched another offensive.
At that time, the neighboring countries will be destroyed.
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Yang Tianyi, who still didn't know that Edward had launched the spring offensive a month in advance, was in his office. Through the projection device, he got in touch with the Qien people who had not heard from him for a long time, and his number one general Jia Tu.
In fact, the other party had arrived at Vallao, the border planet of the Chien Empire, a month ago through a smuggling ship that had business dealings with the group. However, it was still quite far away from Chiennia, the capital of the empire, so Jatu actually In the past month, I was still in a state of rushing around while inquiring about news. I finally arrived at a colonial planet called "Fire Star" in the middle of the empire today.
The entire flaming planet lives up to its name. The dry and hot global climate and the desert environment that occupies at least 70% of the land area make it one of the most prosperous and developed colonial planets in the central zone of the Qien Empire. In large urban agglomerations around the world, there are more than one billion strange benefactors and hundreds of millions of alien races living here, dedicating their lives to the prosperity of the empire.
As a standard colonial planet, Mars not only has sufficient human resources, but also has no obvious bias in its industrial structure. Many industrial products can be self-sufficient. The only drawback is its heavy reliance on food imports.
A large part of this is due to the racial characteristics of the Qien people. As long as there is meat to eat, they will never be vegetarian. This can be seen from when Jatto was still in Fenhabenis. The meat he needed for a meal was more than what Haaland and Gano combined could eat in a day.
The huge amount of meat products intake gives the Qien people a strong body, strong energy and superhuman body recovery speed. But while it brings advantages, it also brings many problems.
Excessive energy and resilience make the Chien people aggressive and aggressive, so much so that even on Chiennia, the capital planet with the best security, the government's sentencing for fighting is very lenient. Unless there is serious disability or the death of a citizen, the imperial police basically turn a blind eye, and sometimes even join the melee with batons.
But the most serious problem is the source of meat needed by a growing population.
As Gujon Toulouse, a famous agriculturist in the Qin Empire and royal advisor to the Sazha family, said, it is not impossible to engage in aquaculture on desert planets, but the high cost of ecological farms and the poor taste of native desert animals have made all Large colonial governments shunned this unnecessary investment.
This has also led to the fact that the food sources of the entire Qian Empire basically come from small and medium-sized colonies with a more humid and mild climate. But the key point is that the Qian people who naturally prefer dry and hot environments do not want to immigrate to agricultural planets to graze for the needs of the empire. Or farming.
Even if the immigrants were treated fairly well, the citizens of the empire still preferred to let local indigenous people and slaves be responsible for food issues. If all you need to do is join the army and bully the backward natives to make your mouth full, who would be willing to be a farmer?
This problem is also very serious on the Blazing Planet, and it has become serious enough that the colonial government has to face it.
As a middle-ring planet in the empire's territory, they neither have the high priority of the inner ring nor the freedom of the outer ring. Therefore, when faced with the increasingly stringent slave collection standards of the Imperial Slave Traders Guild and the billions of big mouths in the colonies that are hungry for food, colonial officials must find new sources of slaves to prepare for the increase in production on the exclusive agricultural planet of the Fire Star.
The problem of the source of slaves is not difficult to solve. Although the high-quality slave-producing planets in the empire have been monopolized by the slave trade guilds and royal nobles, there are still many indigenous planets with clearly marked prices for them to plunder and plunder the population.
However, when slave resources are plentiful and scarce, before the slave-catching groups in each colony can capture the number they need, there is a high probability that various groups will fight each other because they covet the resources of other groups and the slaves. This is also the reason why many colonies would rather demote the Chien citizens who committed crimes into slaves than organize slave-catching groups.
Facing the large slave-catching groups from the colonies in the inner ring of the empire, the self-organized teams of these small colonies were no match at all, just like local militia and regular army facing off, with no possibility of winning.
And because in the Qien Empire, which values the law of the jungle, the defeated will not receive sympathy. In the end, these self-organized slave-catching groups were unable to harvest anything they really wanted, except for a meager compensation that was better than nothing from the victors.
All in all, the risks of forming your own slave-catching corps far outweighed the benefits - which is why the royal family and the slave traders' guild turned a blind eye to the internal strife in each colony, because they needed the colonial governments to "voluntarily" give up the power granted to them by the imperial constitution.
They wanted to keep the colony free of slaves and purchased them from the Slave Traders' Guild at a high price so that the Sazhar family could collect huge amounts of taxes to support the royal army and fleet.
And this is also the reason why Jia Tu came to Fiery Star.
The colonial government here finally woke up after years of high debts and realized that only by forming their own slave-catching groups could they get rid of the shackles given to them by the royal family and the guild.
But for a mediocre colony with almost zero military industry, if it wants to capture slaves more efficiently and win subsequent battles with other slave-catching groups, a reliable source of arms and weapons is naturally indispensable.
Jia Tu did not forget Yang Tianyi's purpose for letting him go home besides visiting relatives. One of them was that he hoped that he could find more sales for the group's high-quality arms and weapons.
Coincidentally, he has an old comrade who serves as a military adviser to the colonial government of Mars in Mars. As long as he "knows it with profit and uses it with money", it is easy to complete this task.
