Chapter 392 Ten days! Toka saved Rapid City!
Standing in the corner of Shengsun's study in the Holy Hall, Hal Jin stared down at his toes in boredom.
Sitting on a simple armchair cushioned by wheat straw, Horn handed the last letter to Duvallon: "This is for Shilov, tell her that I am fine and will be back soon, Tell her not to worry."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Du Valon hurried out of the study with a stack of letters in his hand.
Horn then waved to Halkin and said, "Why are you hiding so far away? It's not like you don't recognize me."
"Hehe, you are a descendant of a saint. Looking at your face is blasphemy to me."
"Yes, yes, the more you say it, the more outrageous it is." Horn had a disgusting expression and pretended to cover it up. Halkin's mouth.
Halkin naturally smiled and saluted Horn: "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"
Withdrawing the smile on his face, Horn entered into a working state: "What is the current situation of the armory in Ashheard Town?"
"Currently, each armorer can complete a pair of armor in four days, including a breastplate, a brimmed helmet, and a neck protector. Pieces." Halkin opened his mouth.
Contrary to Horn's impression, high-tech products such as armor are not made by blacksmiths as in many previous novels, but by specialized armorers.
Making armor is a delicate job. An armorer must not only be able to master the forging skills of a blacksmith, but also be able to process leather, carve, sheet metal, assemble and rivet, and even design and draw.
An armorer needs at least five to eight years of apprenticeship to start his career. It has always been a high-paying and high-end profession.
The difference between a blacksmith and an armorer is like that between a carpenter and a furniture carpenter. They are both higher-level professions.
“What is the monthly output of the Ashheard Armory Workshop?”
"80 to 100 sets can be completed every month, depending on the yield." Halkin continued to explain, "Because armorers make armors by hand, sometimes nearly 30% of the armors and semi-finished products need to be reprocessed. "Rebuild."
"How many sets of defective products, semi-finished products and unqualified armors are currently in the warehouse?" Horn pressed a geographical map on the map and looked at it. while asking.
“There are 95 sets, some of which were in the backlog before, and some of which have not been shipped this month.” Halkin, who is a businessman, is very sensitive to numbers and reported the numbers without thinking.
"Put them all forward and send them to the two regiments of new guards. We will set off at noon tomorrow." As he spoke, Horn snapped his fingers, and the secretary next to him immediately prepared a draft The warrant was placed on the table.
After checking it over and confirming that it was correct, Horn quickly signed and stamped it and handed it to Halkin: "When you leave, ask the ordnance workshop to send out a few courageous ordnance masters to accompany the army on the expedition."< br>
"Yes, Your Majesty." Halkin stroked his chest and bowed, picked up the warrant and walked out of the room.
However, Horn's work was not over yet. After Halkin, he successively received seven or eight prominent figures and public officials, large and small.
While receiving the reception, the quill pen in his hand kept moving.
According to the reports of these people, Horn signed five or six warrants, such as the "Mule and Horse Recruitment Order", "Night Martial Law Order", "Jihad Bonds Additional Issuance Order", and "Boots and Gaiters Recruitment Order"
< br>It wasn't until late at night, when the high silver moonlight shone through the blinds on the candles that were about to burn out, that Horn straightened his aching back.
On the table in front of him was a strategic plan map filled with various red and blue logos and offensive lines.
“After squeezing here and there, there are still only 5 days left.”
Rubbing his temples, Horn took a sip of cool black tea to suppress his sleepiness.
From Heitao Town to Xiaochi City, if you don’t take the previous Guair Avenue and take King’s Avenue instead, it will be about 140 kilometers, which is closer than Joan of Arc to Xiaochi City.
The current marching speed of the Salvation Army infantry is about 20 kilometers per day. At this speed, it takes about 7 days to arrive.
But this was obviously not enough. In the letter sent by Catherine in Rapid City, it was clearly stated that they could only last another two weeks.
If you take the Koike Castle route at normal marching speed, it will take 7 days to reach Koike Castle and 3 days to go north by land and water by boat, which will take about 10 days.
It seems that there is still a lot of room to spare, but in fact it is not because three days have passed since Catherine sent the letter and when Horn sent troops.
So Horn actually only has 11 days at most. The Church and the Juannos are currently at odds with each other in Caxia County, but the Blago Monastery is fine. The nobles dare not provoke the huge monastic system behind them.
But Xiaochi City, which is the base camp of the Juanno faction, is different. Thousands of noble coalition forces are marching towards Xiaochi City.
It takes time to defeat the noble coalition, and it also takes time to mobilize the ships to go north. After a lot of tossing, according to the estimates of Jeshka and others, it will actually take more than two weeks to arrive.
So Horn sent Jeanne and asked her to set off with almost all the cavalry, arrive at Xiaochi City within 2 days, ensure that Xiaochi City was not lost, and then recruit ships and horses on the spot.
When Horn was sitting in the Holy Advent Hall, all the legions except the third and fourth Guards recruit egg legions were already heading towards Xiaochi City.
They must reach Xiaochi City within 5 days, defeat the enemy within 2 days, and reach Beechburg, an important town outside Rapids City, within 3 days.
Then, while containing the main force of the enemy, morale and organization were restored.
According to this timetable, it means that the twelve infantry regiments of the two major groups of the Salvation Army need to travel at least 28 kilometers every day.
It is equivalent to increasing the original traveling speed by at least 40%.
Although hundreds of horse-drawn carriages have been mobilized for transport, many people still have to wear 10 kilograms of armor to march 140 kilometers in five days.
You must know that in the Shenai Empire, marching at a speed exceeding 25 kilometers is considered a forced march or even a forced march.
This is different from Horn's previous fortress advance. The fortress advance tactic will set up inns along the way. Horses can be replaced and replenished with forage along the way, and excess manpower can be sent back on site.
This time they were on an outing, and they didn’t have much time to set up a post station, but they had to do it.
Horn returned to Fort Joan to mobilize a large number of mules, horses and skitarii to go out with the Third and Fourth Guards Corps.
They will first arrive at Black Pottery Town, meet up with the mules and horses provided by the Ibe knights, carry seven days of food with them, and speed up to catch up with the ten infantry regiments ahead.
Then they continued to use mules and horses to help carry armor and food, trying to arrive early and quickly defeat the aristocratic coalition in Xiaochi City.
Arrive at Beechburg within 10 days, and you can even have one day of error tolerance.
But can Rapid City really survive these two weeks?
If Rapid City surrenders early, Horn will be stuck in Beechburg, unable to get up or down.
If Rapid City can survive, can our side really defeat the Kasha County noble coalition within 2 days?
Although I have full confidence in the Salvation Army, if the other party drags on time and takes three to five days to solve it, then the plan will still fail.
It's too tight, the time is too tight.
The last time he sent a letter to Rapids City was half a month ago. He vowed that he would have no problem holding on for another six months, and also asked him to fight the Ibe Knight slowly and not to be anxious.
Why did the situation take a turn for the worse after just one week, and it seemed like I couldn’t survive even half a month?
Is it possible that they would have lied about such a life-and-death issue before?
Will a fire have such serious consequences? Or did something happen that he didn't know about?
Putting down the quill, Horn let out a breath.
War is simply the most thrilling gamble in the world. It has more variables than any other gambling game.
And all I can do is probably try my best not to make mistakes and persist until the last moment.
"You have eaten up all the blood and tears, but I, the fake saint grandson, have taken away all the fame and fortune." Turning around, seeing the blood-covered cloud hanging on the wall, Horn chuckled and used an iron The spoon pressed out the candlelight.
“But I can’t let your death be in vain.”
(End of this chapter)