Chapter 269: Slack Border Troops

Chapter 264 – Slack Border Army

After crossing the border and stepping into the territory of the empire, Owen, who had buried his head in the northern land for several years, was not as excited or intimidated as he had imagined.

Now he is no longer a small shrimp in the beginning of the dispensable, with Hydra now in the north of the power, even if the emperor wants to get rid of him also have to first consider the gains and losses, not to mention that he is not no retreat or means of retaliation, and really put up a fight, the empire will not be good, which is to have the confidence of the system.

As for other forces, in addition to the head of the Devil and the Church of Flesh and Blood, no one is willing to offend a remote location but has the potential for development of the enemy, the best way is to become friends, even if it is only a superficial friend.

Owen gathered himself and appreciated the difference between the Empire’s territory and the Northlands, this journey seemed to first understand why the Empire’s borders didn’t push northward.

The main thing is that there is no more geographical advantage after the border, the entire Northland is empty and flat, there is no danger to defend, even if hundreds of thousands of border troops are scattered out, there are holes everywhere, not very meaningful.

And now the empire’s border is selected according to the terrain, is not a straight line, curved but everywhere dangerous, people and animals are difficult to travel is the natural danger, so only need to build in the key points of the pass or stationed troops patrol can be able to save a lot of manpower and material resources, and even hundreds of thousands of border troops can be assigned to the three lines of defense, to create more depth.

Thinking back to just see as tall and wide as a small mountain, and a huge number of border troops, Owen shook his head, in accordance with common sense, even if he set up 100,000 firearms army out, want to capture the empire’s borders is not an easy thing, after all, the empire is not no firearms, so far, the pass is still placed in a large number of heavy artillery.

The only thing that is worth celebrating is that although there are a lot of Transcendent Professionals in the imperial border army, because of the long years of not encountering foreign enemies, resulting in the overall laxity of martial arts, and at the same time, the discipline is loose, in this case, the combat power can not even be played out by 30%.

Although Owen is not good at military, but his eyes are not blind, he can see that many of the soldiers’ equipment is probably ancestral, just barely keep the shape, used to fight is simply too long.

This point is known to everyone, the problem is that there is no war for many years, who will allocate funds to this area, used for corruption is not better.

As for the armament storehouse, huh, look at this look, estimated to exist only on paper, how the real situation, the warehouse rats with the upper echelons of the border army are well aware of.

Soldiers so, the officer is even clocked in to work are lazy to come, patrolling is better, three or five days will always come to a trip, the officers guarding the pass is much more comfortable, one around the commercial entertainment is not a lack of, two in the body of the male in the pass is safe enough, so ten days and a half months to see people is common.

As for the army’s training is from top to bottom are perfunctory, only maintain a few elite as a facade, the rest of the majority of hanging a place or directly eat empty pay.

Owen estimated, hundreds of thousands of border troops, excluding logistics and auxiliary soldiers, the real soldiers have 100,000 people are difficult to say, elite to more estimates, at most one or two million, this figure is far lower than the number of the Empire’s border troops declared.

This number is far lower than the number of imperial border troops. In the past, there were still barbarians in the north as a threat, but since the battle twenty years ago, even the shadow of the barbarians could not be seen, so their existence has become meaningless.

And after twenty years, it was time for them to be retired even if they had served for a long time.

After losing that group of veterans who were the only ones with war experience as the backbone of the army, the current Border Army was just a sham, and it was questionable whether it even retained the ability to go on expeditions.

Expedition is not hiking, even if there are only thousands of people, it’s still a big test for logistics, not to mention tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in the army.

After leaving the readymade station, just marching and setting up camp can make many people cry.

However, this is none of Owen’s business, although there is no idea of taking down the empire and becoming the emperor, but as the military group closest to the territory, naturally the weaker the better. Thinking of this, Owen’s mood is much lighter, and agreed to the private party invited by Ferrier and Solari.

In fact, the purpose of this party Owen had already expected, it was to embrace the group.

In the Northland, even with the influx of so many dragons, they were still the triumvirate, but in the Empire, they were nothing.

Not to mention the fact that only the three of them belong to the true nobles of the Northland, while the others are all outsiders who came here to pick peaches, it would be strange if they can mix together.

However, Solari was afraid that he didn’t think that Ferrier was also one of his people, Owen smiled and brought Char forward to the appointment.

As soon as the three of them met, Ferrier’s familiar attitude when facing Owen made Solari feel a little bad, and the next conversation proved that his hunch was right.

All two to one, there can still be what to talk about, so the three people’s small group quickly determined who is the boss, who is the second, who is the third, to which Solari can only bitterly smile.

But Solari didn’t have the intention of backtracking, because Owen’s strength was indeed the strongest, just those elite soldiers brought to let him understand this, not to mention that he just realized that the strong and unimaginable maid was actually a legendary warrior.

What’s the point of arguing, Solari thinks highly of himself, but he knows what he’s doing.

In addition, although not like the envoy group to confirm that the other side of the origin is not extraordinary, but Solari still have a sense, and vaguely feel Owen inexplicable bottom.

The most important thing is that Solari understands Ferrier this woman, the strength is not a few times stronger than her, don’t think she can have any good attitude.

Three people small group just became, the next day Owen saw the Marquis of Burgasus slightly meaningful eyes, obviously from Solari and Ferrier’s attitude towards him perceived what, but Owen just smile back, after all, understand all understand, who will not directly open mouth to ask.

In fact, Owen’s three people’s embrace is not an example, but a beginning, because the other people of the sealed group are trying to communicate with each other, but the composition between them is too complicated, unlike Owen’s three people so simple or not have the choice of space, so want to succeed in the alliance is still early that.

Because of the official road, and most of the cavalry, the envoy group and the sealed group traveling speed is not slow, a day can travel more than a hundred miles.

This is not the open and desolate north, even if it is the border of the empire, there will not be a lack of towns along the official highway, plus the special envoy’s privilege, all the way through, just rush is, of course, fast speed.

So fast rushing, Owen even want to explore the surrounding information are not convenient, can only first patience.

But so rush, even if riding a horse and carriage can not carry, when the border, gradually close to the hinterland of the empire, the speed of the special envoy group slowed down, all the way followed by the sealed regiment naturally also slowed down, Owen had time to sort out the harvest along the way.

(End of chapter)