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Published at 28th of February 2022 06:31:53 AM


Chapter 396

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Facing the conference room now "bombed", gozewen had already expected such a scene, so he did not panic or immediately answer these questions. Instead, he silently turned his head and threw a look at the crown prince sitting next to him, that is, his son Gail.

While gozevin looked at Gail, Gail also looked at gozevin.

The father and son looked at each other.

After receiving gozewen's eyes, Gail cleared his throat and stood up: "everyone be quiet."

Gail's voice was not loud.

But after Gail's voice, the originally noisy conference room slowly quieted down.

"I know you have a lot of questions about the two plans to form the fourth Knight Order and rebuild the Michael Knight order. Now let me answer your questions one by one, and you can ask questions freely. "

As soon as Gail's voice fell, a fat territory aristocrat immediately raised his hand. After getting Gail's permission, he immediately asked in a hurry:

"Your Highness Gail! Why set up the fourth knights? Are the three major Knights no longer enough to protect us? "

"I'm sorry." Gail, with some bitterness on his face, shook his head, "only three knights are not enough to protect us. We urgently need to form a fourth knights."

"Everyone knows the knighthood of our empire."

"The order of Michael was stationed in the north and was responsible for the northern front; The Knights of Gabriel were stationed in the East and were responsible for the Rhine front; The order of Rachel was stationed in the South and was responsible for the southern front. "

"Although the three knights are responsible for different fronts and take different countries as imaginary enemies, we will not put all the knights on all fronts."

"Each knight regiment will assign some troops to garrison here in the imperial capital, which is responsible for defending the imperial capital and using it as a mobile force."

"Before the disastrous' 288 defense battle against the North 'two years ago, the cavalry of Gabriel with 300000 troops had 150000 troops in the imperial capital, and the cavalry of Michael and Rachel with 200000 troops were stationed in the imperial capital."

"Such a system has a great hidden danger."

"That is, when there is an emergency battle on the current line, we often miss our fighters because there are too few troops stationed on the front line."

"That's what happened in the '288 defense battle against the North' two years ago. In the North defense battle two years ago, it took a lot of time to transfer the officers and men of the 100000 Michael Knights stationed in the imperial capital to the north, so the defense battle was so fierce."

"After this' 288 year defense campaign ', the central government has been conducting review and reflection."

"If 200000 soldiers of the Michael knights had been stationed on the northern front from the beginning, this defensive battle would never have been so fierce!"

"Therefore, after the research and discussion of the Central Committee, we come to the conclusion that the current system of the Knights stationed in the imperial capital is no longer desirable!"

"We want to set up a new Knights' order, which is different from the three Knights of Michael, Gabriel and Rachel. It is not responsible for any front, it is only responsible for garrisoning in the imperial capital! The new Knights' position is' mobile forces'! "

"For this new knight regiment, the central government has also set a name. The name of this new knight regiment and the knight regiment specially stationed in the imperial capital is Uriel knight regiment!"

"So, to put it simply, the purpose of establishing this new Uriel order is to liberate the forces of Michael, Gabriel and Rachel! Let them no longer divide troops to garrison in the imperial capital, so that the three knights can concentrate all their combat forces on their respective fronts! So that the three knights can better deal with the imaginary enemies they are responsible for! "

As soon as Gail's voice fell, the originally silent conference hall began to be noisy again, and the people began to talk in twos and threes.

"Set up a special knight regiment stationed in the imperial capital... This plan seems good."

"Well, the original system of 'three Knights stationed in the imperial capital' does have many disadvantages."

"With a special knight regiment stationed in the imperial capital as a mobile force envoy, the three Knight regiments of Michael, Gabriel and Rachel can liberate all the combat forces stationed in the imperial capital. This is really a good plan... I support the formation of the Uriel knight regiment."

……

Just then, another man raised his hand.

The person who intends to ask questions this time is not a territorial aristocrat, but a local dignitary.

"Your Highness Gail, I want to ask. How many troops does the newly established Uriel Knights intend to form? "

"150000. By the way, the Uriel Knights mainly recruit troops in the west, while the Michael knights, which will soon start reconstruction, mainly recruit troops in the north. "

"According to our plan, the order of Uriel will recruit 150000 people before the coming of July next year. The Michael order, which now has only 70000 people, will also return to its original strength of 200000 before next July. As for the Rachel knights, who have just finished the two attacks of "Spring Awakening" and "summer wind" and have suffered nearly 50000 casualties, they should also restore their original strength of 200000 before February next year. "

As soon as Gail had finished his words, the local dignitaries who had just asked questions then frowned and asked:

"There are 150000 knights in Uriel, 300000 knights in Gabriel, 200000 knights in Michael and 200000 knights in Rachel. In this way, the military strength of our Imperial Knights will be as high as 850000... Including the local garrison, the military strength of our imperial standing army will be as high as 1.1 million... Your highness Gail, Can the financial resources of our empire support this million standing troops and such huge military expenditure? "

The standing army of the British Empire was divided into two types.

One is the Knights and the other is the garrison.

The Knights are the first-line troops of the British Empire with the strongest combat effectiveness. In the nearly 300 years of history of the British Empire, the war is basically handed over to the three major knights.

The garrison is the second-line force of the British Empire. Its combat effectiveness is very weak. The garrison is basically composed of old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers. The garrison is scattered in each city. Its daily task is only to guard each city. Unless the enemy comes, it will not participate in the battle.

The cavalry of Gabriel, which suffered tens of thousands of casualties in the rescue war of Lund Kingdom at the end of last year, has long recovered and returned to its original 300000 troops.

If, as Gail said, a new urier Knight Order with 150000 troops is to be formed, and the Michael Knight Order and the Rachel Knight Order are to return to their original 200000 troops in a short time, the number of standing armies of their empire will exceed one million, reaching an appalling 1.1 million.

As soon as the local dignitaries' questions fell, the people in the meeting turned their attention to Gail.

The question asked by this important local minister is very important and realistic.

Does the Empire now have the financial resources to support a standing army of 1.1 million?

Bathed in the confused and curious eyes of the people, Gail's mouth slowly tilted up and showed a strange smile:

"In recent years, thanks to the efforts of various ministers and knights, the national strength of our empire has rebounded year by year. Now the national treasury surplus and income are much better than before."

"But even so, to support such a huge standing army, the financial resources of the Empire are still a little tight."

"So -- I'm going to work hard for you who are the nobles of the territory. Every year we have to pay tribute to the central government and raise it a little more. From the current 40% to 50%. "

Speaking of this, the strange color of Gail's smile was a little stronger.




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