Chapter 114: Things are coming
However, things did not develop to the worst situation. When Purficott was about to leave to return to Langton, three cargo ships arrived at the camp in the fjord.
After receiving the news, in order to know what happened as soon as possible, Perficott took an airship from Eagle Beak Cliff to the fjord.
What she saw were three cargo ships loaded with supplies and soldiers, lined up end to end in a straight line, slowly unloading goods, supplies and people on the bow of a ship from the ground.
Perfect was a little confused when she landed, but then a group of people immediately came to her after learning of her arrival.
"Your Majesty, Earl, I am Her Majesty the Queen's special envoy. I have been ordered to convey Her Majesty's will to you and appoint you as the Guardian of the North." A middle-aged gentleman who was well-dressed and looked very "aristocratic" spoke first. , facing Purficott, he introduced his identity and purpose in a slightly reserved but humble tone: "Please call everyone together so that I can read out Her Majesty the Queen's decree in public, and give the appointment documents and related items of the Northern Guardian Handed over to you."
Hearing the words of the palace envoy, Purficott nodded slightly in surprise, but still said to him: "Please wait a moment, this is something that needs to be treated seriously. Please follow my steward to take a rest first, and I will discuss it with you in detail later."
"Follow your will, Lord Earl." The palace envoy didn't say much, after all, he was still around. There were several groups of people waiting to talk to Perfectcott, so naturally he wouldn't be so ignorant.
Under Foster's active reception, the palace envoy followed him and left.
After the palace envoys retreated, the remaining groups looked at each other, seemingly assessing their respective identities. In the end, two officers stood up and took the lead in speaking to Purficott. Introduce yourself.
One of them made a knightly salute to Purficott, and then said: "Hello, distinguished Earl, I am William Richard, the former deputy commander of the Fourth Knights of the Army, and a Grand Knight.
I, forty knights and thirty attendants were transferred to your command to form a new knighthood. Currently, I am the temporary leader of this knighthood. In addition, the knighthood has not yet been named. This is the current knighthood. The list of officers of the regiment, please let me know if you need to make adjustments."
With that said, William handed a list to Purficott.
The other officer also gave a similar introduction, except that he was from the 17th Guards Division and was the colonel commander of this division.
"Hello, Miss Brandless, I am Richard Brandless, your grandfather's distant aunt and nephew. You should have never met me." The person named Richard After the colonel and division commander introduced himself, he also pointed out his identity and tried to build a relationship.
However, Purficott did not have any special reaction to this. He just expressed his welcome politely, and then said: "I'm sorry, Grandpa Afu didn't mention you to me. You can come to me to talk to me in private later." .
For now, you guys can settle down your troops first, but I don’t think you’ve brought many people.”
Although there are three cargo ships coming outside, Obviously, it mainly carries various supplies, and the number of soldiers is not large. Purficott just looked down from the air, and estimated that the number is only about one regiment.
“This is your personal guard, formed for you by the generals of the military. Only one company followed you to the north before, and the others have been stationed at Brandlis Manor, responsible for guarding you. "The manor." Colonel Richard explained to Purphycott, and also explained why this guard came to Purphycott: "Her Majesty the Queen appoints you as the guardian of the North, and will be responsible for the 17th National Guard. After the Guards Division was assigned to your command, I specially dispatched an infantry regiment to switch defenses with your personal guards, so they followed me to the north.
As for the 17th Guards Division. Others are still in the colony, where they will spend the winter, arriving by land in the spring.
If you have new arrangements for them, the 17th Guards Division will obey your will. "Let them stay in the colony first. Even if they come here, there will be no place to settle them." "Perfect thought for a while and felt that there was still no need for the 17th Guards Division to risk winter snowfall to cross the northern border.
On the one hand, they really could only Crossing the still wild northern border on foot, they are likely to encounter wind and snow on the road as winter approaches, resulting in non-combat attrition.
This is Perficott. She doesn't want to see it, and she doesn't want to bother with it, because it's really not necessary.
On the other hand, it's because she really doesn't have the conditions to station a Guards Division here.
According to the military structure after the imperial military reform, a division usually has 6,000 to 8,000 men and is equipped with one or two artillery companies, and the Guards Division also requires a cavalry regiment.
Such a large force is obviously not something that can be accommodated by the forward base established by Purficott.
Even if she expands the forward base into a shelter, a Guards Division of 10,000 people is still not enough to accommodate.
So Purficott decided to put this force in the colony first, and then consider transferring them over after the construction of the northern border reached a certain level.
Colonel Richard naturally would not go against Perfectcott's wishes. After saluting her with a military salute, he took the initiative to step aside.
Although Captain William hoped that Perficott could name the Knights as soon as possible, he also knew that this was not something that could be decided easily, so he stood with Colonel Richard without saying anything.
As for the military affairs assigned by Purficott, they all have their own deputies, and their deputies can handle this kind of thing.
Perfect didn't pay attention and turned to look at the remaining people.
The remaining people were roughly divided into two groups. One group was a group of people who looked like alchemists, and the other group was Andrew and James.
Behind them, Oliver motioned to Perfectcott, but did not squeeze over.
Looking at the appearance of these two groups of people, Purficott had a rough idea of who these two groups of people were.
As for the group of alchemists, Purficott just asked them a few questions casually, letting them think about how to answer them first, then came to Andrew and James, and then asked them : "You two, I hope you brought me the news I wanted to hear. After all, you are nearly half a month later than expected."
"Sorry, Your Majesty the Baroness! We In fact, the task you assigned has been completed on schedule, but the cargo ship we hired encountered bad weather on the road, which caused the delay." Andrew hurriedly explained, and also asked Perficott: "The seventy you need. The set of parts has been shipped, do you want to check it? ”
(End of this chapter)