Chapter 460: All for the Union

Chapter 454 – Everything for the Alliance

“These days more and more members of the Northlands Noble Alliance are falling to the North Pass Border City Alliance, because compared to our lovey-dovey and not giving any promises, the other side is giving much more generous conditions, so generous that it doesn’t seem like it’s true.” Maya placed the information on the table and said to Howard.

“There are always people with unrealistic fantasies, even if they are used as cannon fodder.” Howard had already known the other party’s intention after carefully looking over the intelligence about the Northern Pass Border City Alliance’s preparation for conscription, so he said.

“Looks like we need to fight a proxy war first.” Maya was not surprised by the Northern Pass Border City Alliance’s approach, and likewise intended to draft troops on the spot in order to deal with the other party’s cannon fodder regiments, as only then could she free up her hands to deal with the enemy’s main regiments.

Such a decision was cruel but effective, except that continuing like this would consume a large amount of the population of the Northlands Noble Alliance.

However, I’m afraid that even the Northland Noble Alliance wouldn’t care about this, because under the two powerful alliances going to war, it would be good if they could survive.

“For some reason, the other side seems to be considering defeat.” Howard said to Maya after putting down the intelligence and refining his projection of the war.

“Oh, considering the problem of failure before the war has even officially started, should I say that the other party is far-sighted or overly pessimistic.” Maya picked up the black tea and took a sip and said.

“From being so spirited when they set out to being so apprehensive now, the other party has obviously encountered something during this period of time, otherwise there wouldn’t have been such a drastic shift in their thoughts.” Howard was also a commander, so he knew that a shift in thought this big must be seeing a reason for failure that was hard to ignore.

“It doesn’t matter what the other side encountered, the moment they marched out, the end was already doomed.” Maya said lightly, to which Howard nodded approvingly.

The strength of the territory in the end how strong, even the territory’s highest status representative of the two men of one civil and one military are not very clear, just by virtue of what they know, to solve the three major forces to monopolize the Northland although some difficulty, but not impossible to do, so the mentality has been very calm, and the response is very calm.

Both sides of the army formally stepped into the northland noble alliance, and began to divide the troops to seize the city, as for resistance, basically no, when the enemy is surrendered is the code of conduct of the noble alliance, a lot of people to the two sides have written a surrender letter, so the vote of the burden is not at all, even the alliance army guarding the border obediently surrendered their weapons to wait for the integration, can be seen to have more cooperation.

In fact, this is because the Noble Alliance has been living under the nose of the two tigers, the tigers do not open their mouths and still dare to jump a little, an opening, in addition to lying flat what else can be done, at least so that they do not have to die, they are also for the Alliance.

So the noble alliance also want to be open, anyway, can not fight, why not surrender early, and in order to stabilize, treatment and so on certainly will not be bad, but do not know how naive their ideas.

If it is a normal war, in order to maintain the stability of the occupied territory, give some preferential treatment benefits and so on is certainly no problem.

The problem is that the strategic goal of both sides is not to occupy the noble alliance at all, but is unlucky to be in the middle of the two, so it became the first victim of the conflict between the two sides.

Because of the territories taking the lead, plus the two super spies that were planted decades ago, it was easy to obtain the six layers of land of the Noble Alliance, while the Border City Alliance, which was desperately dispatching troops to run and occupy the land, only had four layers.

Thus the Northland Noble Alliance was split into two, belonging to both sides, and the borders were redrawn to look like they were going to be resolved peacefully.

The whole process was clean and crisp and did not erupt into too much conflict, which made the upper and lower ranks of the Noble Alliance that was the target of the split breathe a sigh of relief, although it was split up, at least the people were still alive and there was no loss of wealth, so they rushed to organize banquets to please the two Taishang Emperors in an attempt to gain more benefits. But it seemed like it was over, but in reality it had just begun, otherwise what were both sides doing so much preparation for.

The territory hadn’t lured the Border City Alliance’s army out to let them share the cake, and the Border City Alliance wouldn’t just sit back and watch as the Glory Alliance, their archenemy, slowly digested the shortage of population after obtaining it, so while it seemed calm, they were both actively preparing for war.

Because of the same in the north, coupled with frequent trade exchanges, the glory alliance and the noble alliance is relatively close, after the occupation, both sides of the discussion, although the territory to take the initiative, but the conditions given is not bad, at least for the surrender is not bad.

Recognize the title of the nobles in the Northland, allowed to retain wealth, but the territory must be replaced, and at the same time do not allow the formation of an army.

This is to treat them as pigs, especially the replacement of the territory, almost equal to start from scratch, which makes the nobles who enjoy today’s status and wealth how willing.

But now they have completely lost the ability to resist, and can only fight for better conditions through constant tug of war and a succession of banquets and gifts, which is also what they are good at.

When this side was softly persuaded, the Border City Alliance’s action was much cleaner and more efficient, a banquet would wipe out all the noble councilors in the occupied area, followed by a copy of the family, taking over the army and administration, with a look of premeditation, making the escorted noble councilors all confused, wondering how the Border City Alliance’s people could change their faces so fast?
The promises that they had made were not fulfilled, but they also took them all down in one fell swoop, this is not going to be a human being anymore!

In fact, it wasn’t that the Border City Alliance didn’t want to adopt a soft approach, retaining the value of the occupied land as much as possible was the way to maximize profits, but Cross had already changed his strategy from pure occupation to dealing with the Glory Alliance as a big enemy, so he wouldn’t change it even if he had to pay a huge price for it.

Originally, this change in strategy was not accepted by the Border City Alliance War Council, after all, doing so would not only lose out on huge future profits, but would also result in huge battle losses for the army.

But after seeing the evidence shown by Cross, as well as Master Eugene’s comments, the War Council fell silent, and ultimately acquiesced to Cross’s next action.

What was the price of acquiescence, Cross knew very well, that is, nothing happened if he won, and if he failed, he would wait for his reputation to be tarnished.

“Since you have made up your mind, then go ahead and do it.” Master Eugene was actually not in favor of a full-scale war with the Glory Alliance, but he couldn’t convince his peers, and naturally he couldn’t convince Cross to talk to the War Council, so he was only going to do what he needed to do, but he wouldn’t sit back and watch when it was time to show his attitude, or else he wouldn’t have testified for Cross at the War Council.

“All for the sake of the Alliance.” I don’t know if it was because he gained strength from Master Eugene’s words, but after taking a deep breath, Cross began to continuously give orders to get the huge legions under his command to move.

The wealth obtained from the raids was sent back to the Border City Alliance by Cross without reservation, in exchange for military supplies in the war reserve warehouse, and more reserve corps, while also giving a portion to the professional corps as a way to express his goodwill, as their full support would be needed in the upcoming war.

With this wealth surrendered, all of Cross’s actions went very smoothly, and the war council didn’t give him any constraints, so he began to boldly force conscription.

(End of chapter)