Chapter 568 Chapter 530: Kaspersky Line of Defense

In the past few days, several major events have happened in the capital. At that award ceremony, the miracles displayed and the frenzied atmosphere at the scene made most people lose their minds, and taking advantage of this momentum, Prince Chen and Du Wei viciously announced the heir to the throne candidates. For Du Wei, this is simply a despicable act of "promoting superstition"!But Prince Chen appreciates it very much. Although some people had various doubts in their hearts afterwards, after all, not everyone is a fool and will be confused by Du Wei and Prince Chen.But... With the heavyweight ally Mr. Yago Doug, the chairman of the magic union - even the chairman of the mainland magic union declared that the miracle was a real miracle!It wasn't made by magic...

In this regard, who dares to stand up and say that his judgment is more authoritative than the chairman of the Magic Union? The fanatical superstition color gave Prince Charlie's succession a layer of sacred color. Objection or doubt worth mentioning. In short, on the square, Prince Chen has already read the old emperor's will, and has turned this matter into a "fait accompli"!The ears of tens of thousands of people present have heard the official announcement of the royal family, who can stop anything? So, behind is the funeral of the old emperor in full swing.The funeral was not too grand, but it was not too brief either. With a sufficiently serious ceremony, it ended His Majesty Augustine VI's rule on this continent.

Then came the succession ceremony of the new emperor. In the largest hall in the imperial city, Prince Chen personally held his son's hand and placed him on the throne.Seeing Prince Charlie wearing the crown, many dignitaries and ministers in the empire sighed in their hearts: What exactly does our regent want to do?Why doesn't he become emperor himself? Fortunately, although the ten-year-old child sat on the throne, the power of the empire was still in the hands of the regent.All decrees remain the same! As for our new emperor Charlie, he only needs to hold a court meeting every once in a while and sit on the throne and put on a show.As for the usual time, he can still continue his studies in the palace, and occasionally hunt on horseback.

Of course, he has a new job: learning magic! His Majesty Emperor Charles, worshiping the chairman of the Magic Union, Mr. Yago Doug, as his magic teacher, was soon revealed.As the chairman of the magic union, it is enough to be an emperor's teacher. It's just...it seems that this is not in line with tradition.Everyone knows that the royal family supports a team of royal court magicians. In the past, even if the children of the royal family were interested in learning magic, they only did it in the court. A detail worth mentioning is: At the ceremony for the succession of the new Emperor Charles, His Majesty Pope Paul XVI of the Temple of Light in the Mainland did not come to the scene in person according to the tradition!Instead, he was absent from the enthronement ceremony on the pretext of his health, and only sent the recognized successor of the Pope, His Excellency Archbishop Maximus, to attend the ceremony instead of him.

... "That's where we failed." In the church, in the prayer room of His Majesty the Pope, Opdis looked at the great Pope with a slight mocking tone: "Look, we all know that we need to be 'unity' now, so before you used Unity is an excuse to persecute and threaten the royal family. But now, they use 'unity' to threaten and persecute us! If they dare to do this, they are convinced that at this stage, we dare not turn our backs." Opdis looked at the old face of the Pope: "I'm sure, everything is the idea of ​​the Tulip Duke. It's ridiculous, you humans always like to care about some small profits. And this Tulip Duke, he sees it more than you Far."

The Pope looked at this "angel" who he hated more and more, and said coldly: "Oh, then Opdis, do you have any ideas?" "It's like what we did in the northwest, but unfortunately failed." Opdis said lightly: "At all costs, we must break the Tulip family and the royal family." "No matter how powerful Du Wei is, he is only a noble family. Even if he is powerful...I don't understand, respected angel, Opdis." The pope said coldly: "Why, you always have to deal with this People are so concerned! If Du Wei hadn’t been angered by your insistence and a series of actions, he wouldn’t have become so tough!”

... He himself could not hear these arguments about Du Wei. After the emperor's succession ceremony, Du Wei had already left the imperial capital. The last stage of the Kaspersky line of defense in the north of the mainland has finally been completed! For some unknown reason, the regent ordered Du Wei to be responsible for the acceptance of the most expensive military defense line in the empire. , Send a top-secret document jointly signed by His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Regent! Moreover, the regent gave Du Wei a task: to see if the line of defense is strong enough!In addition, the Northwest Independent Division has already headed to the north, where it will officially change its name!The designation of the Northwest Independent Division has since been cancelled, and they will get a new name: Imperial Air Force!

In fact, Du Wei's schedule was deliberately advanced two days. On the second night after the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, he set off in a carriage. Therefore, when the Northwest Independent Division, led by General Andre, made a long journey to Kaspersky's defense line, Du Wei himself had already arrived here first. In the past few months, after the military command has continuously issued one by one mobilization orders, in the north of the empire, the imperial army has been frequently mobilized, and the area where the army is deployed has also undergone tremendous changes.

The Northern Storm Legion, which had been stationed at the southern end of the Frozen Forest, had already completely retreated, abandoning the camp that was originally set up at the southern end of the Frozen Forest. All military supplies, food and grass, etc., had been brought back. Almost all villages and towns near the south of the frozen forest also started mobilization and relocation work as early as last year. It can be said that there are not many people living in the empire land that is 150 miles south from the frozen forest. For this reason, the Imperial Treasury paid more than one million gold coins for demolition and resettlement.

Most of the residents relocated to the southern part of the Kaspersky line of defense, and the empire made some compensation for a small number of people who lost their land. The territory of the Northwest Tulip Duke, the Desa province has always been sparsely populated, and many people were resettled. Migrated to the northwest, where they can get new land. Du Wei did another small favor to the Imperial Finance Department, but what he got was a large number of farmers who could cultivate. In the South, perhaps no one feels it. But in the northern land of the empire, it seems that there has been a tense atmosphere here a long time ago!

Large tracts of villages and towns began to relocate, and every household was moving south.In small cities one by one, soldiers were demolishing the city walls and transporting usable stones to the south to supplement the Kaspersky line of defense, and farmland... Anyway, there are not many farmlands in this cold area. The grain that can be harvested should be harvested as soon as possible, as for the others, they should be set on fire! This is a typical practice of "hardening the wall and clearing the field"! The soldiers below knew it very well, and the low-level officers knew it well. Although everyone didn't know why they did this, when the strict military orders were suppressed, these elite main battle corps of the empire showed extremely high discipline! The Kaspersky line of defense, as the most expensive military line of defense in the empire, is located in the northern border of the empire continent, about 150 to 200 miles south of the frozen forest. The terrain here has been carefully selected. To the west of it is a branch of the Power Horse Mule Mountain Range, with jagged peaks that are dangerous enough.And a natural river leading to the sea in the east, after nearly two years of excavation, has been excavated into a huge and wide artificial river!Moreover, go deep into the belly of the mainland! Once the war comes, the empire's navy can even drive directly from this river to the inner belly of the mainland, and attack the land on the river! And the Kaspersky line of defense, this line of defense is not just a city wall in the simple sense of imagination. The main body of the Kaspersky Line of Defense is composed of three huge military fortresses, one on the east, one on the west, and one in the middle!Each military fortress is built according to the standards that far exceed the first-level military fortress of the empire. The military forts on both sides are slightly smaller, but they are enough to accommodate more than 100,000 troops!The large amount of weapons and materials stored is enough to support one hundred thousand troops in the fortress for a year even in the event of a major war! The main fortress in the middle is the most important thing. The city wall here is a diamond-shaped design with the strongest defense!The lowest place is as high as fifteen meters!The average height has reached more than 23 meters! Moreover, the most outrageous thing is that the city gate is not on the ground!But... in mid-air!The city gate is about five meters high from the ground! According to the design, outside the city gate, there is a ramp only about four meters wide and fifty meters long!If you want to enter the fortress, you can only go up this ramp and enter the city gate! This kind of design makes it so that once the war comes, the enemy attacking the fortress can only march up along this ramp if they want to break through the gate, and the ramp with only a width of four meters will force the enemy to invest too much at once. The troops attack the city gate! Even if you want to hit the city gate with a crash car, it will be very difficult for you to push the crash car up the ramp! Imagine, during a war, if you want to break through the city gate, you have to let a large number of soldiers, pushing and crashing cars, go up a 50-meter-long ramp—and it’s still uphill!At the same time, on the city wall, there are still hot oil and water, dense arrow rain, huge stones... Just thinking about it, you will feel that this thing must be an extremely difficult bone!Very hard very hard! Moreover, on the city wall, there is a tower about every ten meters or so. The tower is built with the strongest monolithic boulder. Even if it is directly hit by the enemy's trebuchet, it will not collapse immediately. Sufficient ability to withstand blows. In each tower, set up a huge ballista for naval warships! On the continuous city wall, there is such a ballista at a distance of ten meters. Such a spare no expense to build, of course cost Du Wei a lot of gold coins! And needless to say, the guy from Delanshan Warcraft has also put in a lot of effort in the weapon business. The three fortresses on the east, west, and middle were all built according to this standard.And between the three big fortresses, there is an auxiliary line of defense, and there is an open passage behind... The passage is wide enough for carriages to pass through!Once the war starts, if one of the fortresses is in short supply, then through this passage, you can get assistance directly from other fortresses! "It's a line of defense that is simply impossible to breach." The one who said this was Lord Rostock, the head of the Storm Legion and the old general of the Empire.The old general who joined the army with Du Wei's father, Earl Raymond, made such a judgment based on his rich experience. "Such a line of defense, even if you give me a million troops, I'm not sure of breaking through it." Du Wei looked at General Rostock beside him, listening to the other party's sigh. The head of the Storm Legion, who has served the empire for many years, is a true soldier of the practical style.He has a strong prestige in the imperial military, and at the same time, he is also a friend of the Rowling family. Moreover, when Du Wei came here to inspect this line of defense, as a special minister who was appointed by the emperor, Du Wei had a distinguished status, and General Rostock personally accompanied him here. But the other legion leader, the head of the newly established Thor's Whip Legion, and Du Wei's political enemy, Alpay, did not come to accompany him in person. It seemed that that guy put on airs in front of Du Wei, and knew that the relationship between the two was stiff, so he simply hid in the commander's mansion in the fortress under the pretext of being busy with military affairs. In fact, Du Wei has been here for a day, and he hasn't seen General Alpay yet. When Du Wei arrived here last night, General Rostock also came to greet him. It is said that Alpay "just happened" to inspect other barracks last night and was not in the city. See you or see you.Du Wei didn't care either. Hearing General Rostock's admiration, Du Wei felt a little uneasy, so he looked at the old general's face and said seriously: "General...there is no unbreakable fortress in this world, and there has never been one." Standing on the city wall, Du Wei has seen enough. This line of defense is indeed worthy of the huge amount of gold coins I cast, it is indeed worth that price, and it is hard enough and strong enough! The army stationed in it is also the most powerful Storm Legion in the Empire, and the Thor's Whip established on the basis of the Storm Legion. As for the Northwest Independent Division transformed into the Imperial Air Force, after arriving here, it will be stationed south of the line of defense, where there is a newly built "air force base". "Master General." Du Wei looked at Rostock and smiled, "I brought a top-secret document, which is only authorized to be read by you and General Alpay. Of course, you should read it." After that, you have the right to disclose the matter to your trusted confidant generals. His Royal Highness means that this is a very important news, and we are worried that the disclosure of this news will cause instability in the army, so we have to be careful, now Now is the time to test your control over the army, this news may be shocking, it may make people panic, but what we need is... to stabilize the morale of the army!" As he said that, Du Wei patted his chest: "This document is in my arms. We can go back to the Commander's Mansion now. I have seen enough. I am very satisfied with this line of defense." Rostock was silent for a while, and lowered his voice: "Du Wei, is there going to be a war? I understand that the empire has done so many things, and it is obviously preparing for a huge war. But the only thing I don't understand is , who is our enemy? Are there any enemies in the north of the mainland? Is it to deal with those monsters? I have already found many contacts to inquire, but even my old friends in the imperial headquarters have no idea about this matter. I don't know." "This top-secret document I brought can answer your questions... There is indeed a war, a big war!" Du Wei smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, only seriousness.