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Despite the casualties, Lake's vanguard army lost nearly half of its men and had to retreat to the rear to rest and replenish its troops.
When the coalition countries saw this, they thought the war had paused for a while and breathed a sigh of relief. However, they had just breathed a sigh of relief when Lake's rotating legions attacked again in full swing.
After several months of continuous attacks, except for a few large kingdoms such as Novak, the rest of the coalition countries fell under Lake's artillery fire.
Seeing this situation, those kingdoms that had not been attacked and were in the process of suppressing internal rebellions also stopped suppressing their own rebellions and led all members of their royal families directly into Lake to surrender.
Anyway, this land will belong to Lake sooner or later, so why should I bother to suppress the rebellion?
Let Lake worry about his own headache.
However, what happened next left these kings dumbfounded.
When Lake went to take over the territory, the rebellious city lords and legion commanders handed over their legions and walked into Lake alone to surrender.
The king angrily found them and asked them why they still started the war since they had already planned to surrender?
The city lord was not annoyed at all, and explained cheerfully - Surrendering with you and surrendering by myself are completely different.
When Zhang Mu, who was at the command center, found out about this, he laughed for a long time before stopping.
"Talents, all of them are talents." Zhang Mu wiped away the two tears from his eyes. "Let's put them aside for now. What matters most to us now is to chew the last few hard bones."
Hearing this, Domit's gaze moved to the last few areas on the map where Lake's flag had not yet been planted.
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Early in the morning, Novak sat on the threshold of the study, his arms resting on his thighs, looking at the rising sun in the sky.
After a while, the adjutant, fully armored, strode along the corridor to the door.
Novak looked up at him.
Yesterday he ordered his adjutant to protect the royal family members and secretly escape from the kingdom. They were riding on high-level magical beasts with extremely fast flying speeds. They should have been thousands of miles away by now, but the adjutant appeared right in front of them.
Was there any accident?
Novak looked at the adjutant's calm but guilty face and realized that it was not an accident.
"That's not necessary." He wasn't angry.
The adjutant lowered his head and said nothing.
Sighing, Novak stood up and asked, "Where are the king and the others?"
"We have arrived at the teleportation array."
The Sol Continent is vast. If only a few people are traveling far away, it is naturally impossible to rely solely on flying monsters. It will take a long time to fly there.
At this time, the teleportation magic circle came in handy. However, the materials used to set up the teleportation magic circle were very expensive, so expensive that ordinary kingdoms could not afford it.
Therefore, if one's own country does not have a teleportation magic circle, but wants to go to a very far place, one can only borrow the kingdom closest to him that has a magic circle.
"It's good to be here." Novak felt relieved, but for some reason he looked lonely.
When the adjutant saw this, he suddenly asked, "Marshal, do you regret attacking Lake?"
"Regret?" Novak said, smiling, "Of course not.
Lake is the descendant of the Ice and Snow Empire from ten thousand years ago. After they no longer hide their identities, they are claiming to be restoring their country. Even if we don't provoke them, will Lake let us go?"
"Speaking of the Ice Empire...why hasn't Lake changed the name of the country yet?"
"The only way to answer this question is to meet King Lake himself."
In fact, there is no deep meaning behind Lake's not yet regaining the name "Ice and Snow". It was simply that the second prince who became the king was caught off guard by this matter.
Zhang Mu and Avril, who remembered this incident, were busy with various things and didn't care much about restoring their original names, so they put it aside.
The adjutant asked casually. Seeing that Novak didn't understand, he ignored the question and turned to talk about the Lake offensive in recent days: "Marshal,
Lake's counterattack was very fierce. Except for a few kingdoms with slightly stronger strength, including ours, all other kingdoms have been conquered."
"It's only a matter of time. It's not worth being surprised."
"What about us now?"
"Moi sent a message a few days ago, hoping that several of our kingdoms would hold a meeting to discuss how to deal with Lake.
Um...or how to survive under the iron hoof of Lake."
The adjutant asked tentatively, "Do you want to go?"
"Why not? There is no better way now."
"When to set off?"
"immediately."
Chapter 385: Establishment of the Technical Department. Bloody Battle! Bloody Battle!
As the general offensive was imminent, Zhang Mu left the command center and entered the "world".
It’s not that he thinks his side has such a huge advantage that the outcome of the decisive battle with the coalition forces is no longer in suspense and he doesn’t need to keep an eye on it himself, but he trusts Domit’s ability.
To be honest, Domit's professional talent is indeed mediocre.
After decades of training, he was promoted to a senior knight. Compared with most professionals who are stuck at the intermediate level and cannot advance any further in their entire lives, he is barely outstanding. However, if he pursues the future, he will never reach the peak of his professional level in this lifetime.
Zhang Mu originally did not plan to appoint Domit to many important positions. After all, the personal strength of the commander-in-chief of the entire army should reach a certain level, at least enough to protect himself.
But something happened later that changed Zhang Mu's mind.
After Domit came into contact with military-related books, he fully demonstrated his talent. Not only was he far ahead of his peers in military flag deduction, but he also had a very quick and thorough understanding of the art of war.
And in the battle of Silent Forest with Lagu, he proved that he was not like Zhao Kuo.
High-level professionals are rare, but if you invest resources in their training at all costs, you can eventually train some of them. However, there are not many people who have the talent to be a marshal.
This thing depends purely on talent. If you can do it, you can do it. If you can't do it, you can't do it. Even if you spend a huge amount of resources on training, you can only barely make it to the bottom when you go online, which is not worth it.
Zhang Mu entered the "world" and went straight to find Joffrey, muttering to himself that he was lucky. If it weren't for Domit, he would not have found a suitable person to lead the entire army.
Arriving at the laboratory, Zhang Mu was about to wander around, but Joffrey, seeing him, immediately rushed over and shouted that a technical department must be established and must be formalized.
Zhang Mu was stunned and thought, isn't this the technical department?
Besides, if you want money, you have to give money, and if you want people, you have to give people, so why do you care whether it is done in a regular or not?
He asked curiously, and Joffrey immediately started complaining.
Zhang Mu did provide him with a lot of assistants, but all of them were from the rebels, that is, authentic farmers.
These people naturally did not know how to study magical weapons. Joffrey had tried to teach them, but he found that not to mention the various advanced versions of physics and magical knowledge, even a simple mathematical formula had to be explained repeatedly before they could be understood.
It is undeniable that they work diligently and responsibly, and obey Joffrey's orders very well, but these are not of much help to the research work.
What Joffrey needs is professionals.
It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have it now, he can handle it on his own.
What happens next?
You know, the types of weapons Zhang Mu brought are increasing, and each type has developed corresponding magical weapons. Joffrey is worried that he will die suddenly on the experimental table one day.
Therefore, the training of professional talents must be put on the agenda.
After listening to this, Zhang Mu felt a bit of a headache.
It is easy to find professional talents, there are plenty of them in Blue Star, but can they be used?
"Brother, I have an alien world, and now I need you to develop weapons. You can ask for any salary, do you want to do it?"
If Zhang Mu told people this, he would either be considered a lunatic or labeled a fraudster.
Joffrey understood his difficulties and asked thoughtfully: "I heard that you built several schools in Lake. Can you transfer some people from the schools to me?"
“Those students?
They... don't have to worry about leaks, they can be used. The problem is that when the school was built, the priority was to ensure the production of the arsenal, so the knowledge taught was very targeted. Uh, it is estimated that it will not be much different from the current assistants. "
Joffrey's face was dark: "Lord City Lord, you don't want the development of magic weapons to be too slow, right?"
"I'll find a way." Upon hearing this, Zhang Mu made the promise without hesitation.
After getting a positive answer, Joffrey happily continued to work, while Zhang Mu scratched his head and returned to Cotton City, sitting in the office thinking about countermeasures.
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"Marshal Novak, you are finally here."
Novak walked into the conference room and saw marshals from various countries wearing armor or magic robes sitting around the long table. Acquaintances among them stood up to greet them.
"Sorry, I'm late." Novak sat in the last empty seat.
The person at the main seat tapped the table with his fingers: "Now that everyone is here, let's start the meeting."
Having said that, everyone lowered their heads and you could hear a pin drop in the meeting room.
Novak glanced around and said, "Let me go first."
The silence in the conference room was broken, and everyone who felt depressed breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at him.
After a brief pause, Novak said, "Lake has launched a massive counterattack recently. Except for everyone present here, the rest of the kingdoms have already fallen."
Once someone starts talking, everyone will naturally follow the topic.
"According to the intelligence I received, Lake suffered heavy losses in attacking various kingdoms, but there is no sign of him stopping his attack. Instead, he continues to increase his troops, seemingly intending to wipe us out in one fell swoop."
"Obviously that's what Lake meant."
"The information I collected is similar to yours, except for one thing that is very strange."
"what?"
"Lake's offensive may seem fierce, but in fact the troops he dispatched are all made up of new soldiers, and no Saint-level soldiers have appeared on the battlefield."
Novak laughed: "Use us to train soldiers?"
"Arrogant!" someone slammed the table angrily.
The person next to him spread his hands and said, "It turns out that Lake is not arrogant at all. He made us breathless with just new recruits."
Everyone held their breath, the room fell silent again, and the atmosphere became stagnant.
Lake's elite forces are still standing still, they can no longer hold on. If Lake's entire army is mobilized, the fate of all countries is self-evident.