Chapter 157 Military Meeting
When Purficott walked into the conference room of the Imperial Military Department, the navy generals were arguing with the army generals.
The members of the Noble Council formed two distinct groups with them, and then quarreled with the navy and the army at the same time.
This scene of multiple people quarreling really shocked Purficott. She had never seen so many people spitting at the same time.
This was her first time to the Imperial Military Headquarters. Although she could imagine what this place was like from the film and television works before time travel, she still felt a little uncomfortable when she saw this quarrel. My head was dizzy, and I wished I could stab them all with one shot, and then sew their mouths shut.
However, after repeatedly telling himself to be calm and not to be angry, Purficott activated his alchemy and took out the smoke in the air caused by the cigars and cigarettes smoked by these generals and congressmen out of the window.
The sudden movement of air made everyone notice the arrival of Purfict. The navy general took the lead and came to Purfict and welcomed her: "Brandlis Earl, welcome! You’ve had a hard journey, are you tired from rushing back from the north?”
As he said this, the navy general wanted to drag Perficott to the navy camp. , even though Purficott was wearing an Army uniform at this time.
Before she came to the military headquarters for a meeting, the army generals gave her a specially customized army uniform and a set of major general rank.
The Army was very rude and told Purficott that it was left to her by her grandfather and hoped that she could attend the military meeting in military uniform.
Of course Purficott knew that the Army was confusing the concept. As the guardian of the North, she had the military command authority in the North. When converted into military ranks, the rank of a major general was even a bit low.
However, it makes sense to say that this was left to her by Perfectcott’s grandfather. After all, her grandfather used to be a major general in the Army. What the Army said left her did not refer to military uniforms, but to Bradley. The Si family's connections, influence, and corresponding status in the military.
With the death of Grandpa Perfectcott, and the fact that the Brandless family has no successors in her father's generation, these things have actually been discontinued.
Perfect put on the military uniform again, which can be regarded as inheriting the influence of the Brandless family.
Of course, the reason why Purphycott can inherit all this is that she is now the Guardian of the North and the Earl of Exploration. Without these, she would have inherited the title of the Brandlis family step by step. It is impossible to inherit the influence left by her grandfather.
Especially now that the Navy is wooing her, this is further proven.
After all, the only connection between the Brandless family and the Navy is her distant cousin who is a lieutenant commander in the Navy. This is not worthy of the Navy's wooing.
Even if Purficott is the lord of the North, he is still not worthy of such a blatant attempt by the Navy to win over her, because there is actually not much interest entanglement between the Navy and the North, let alone wooing her as a lord. .
The real key to allowing the navy to pull people away in front of the army is actually the airship.
As I said before, the captain of Perfectcourt’s airship was transferred from the Navy; the shipyard that built the airship was also a naval shipyard, so from the Navy’s perspective, the airship Just like warships, they are all ships belonging to the navy.
As for the Army? Didn't they get their new toys? Don't come and compete with the navy for airships. They can't get the ships anyway. But the Army obviously can't watch the Navy pull people away. They still want to get more good things from Purficott!
So when the Navy was pulling people away, the Army hurriedly stopped him and intercepted the Navy general who wanted to pull Perfectcott away. While emphasizing that Purficott was wearing an Army uniform, her grandfather was also an Army Major General.
This tug-of-war made Purficott feel dumbfounded. Others have beaten you to the doorstep, and you are still here fighting for this little profit?
But this is normal. After all, no matter which country it is, competition between land and sea is not unusual.
The better ones are healthy competition, and the competition is nothing more than military spending and voice; but the more serious problems may be that the screws at sea and land have to be turned in the opposite direction.
Perfect has no intention of getting involved in the competition between the sea and the land. In her opinion, this is a meaningless thing. After all, the world is about to be destroyed. Who has the mind to think about these things.
She just got rid of the entanglement between the two parties, and then asked directly: "Have you come up with any response plan for this war?"
"Yes, we plan to fly The airboat transported a group of steam knights to the enemy's rear, and then launched a beautiful raid, defeating their army in one fell swoop. "An army general explained their prepared battle plan, his face full of confidence:" According to the results of previous exercises, five steam knights are enough to defeat a guard regiment head-on. We can now dispatch a knight regiment of one hundred and twenty steam knights, which are enough to crush any enemy in the world!
< br>We will use a glorious victory to tell the French people that times have changed! The Victoria Empire can defeat them twice!
The future belongs to the Victoria Empire where the sun never sets! We will eventually rule the world! ”
The attitude of this general is fanatical, and this is also the consensus of all the generals present at this meeting.
After all, the power of the Steam Knight is obvious to all, and no one thinks that Fran The coalition composed of Sri Lanka and other three countries can withstand the attack of an entire Steam Knights.
Both the navy and the army have reached a consensus on this, so even if the empire is facing three soldiers this time. Against a level of opponent, these generals are not panic at all, and do not even think that the empire has the possibility of defeat.
Of course, with the blessing of steam knights and airships, the Victoria Empire is indeed not in trouble. May be defeated.
But Purficott did not agree with this strategy. She glanced at the generals and noble councilors in the conference room, thought for a while and then said: "Those who don't know the Crisis Response Committee please leave temporarily. We have something related to the empire." Top secret matters need to be discussed. "
As soon as this was said, everyone present had different expressions. Those who knew roughly understood what was going on, while those who didn't knew looked confused.
However, under the auspices of the Duke of Gloucester and the Minister of Navy and Army, all those who were not qualified to know about the doomsday crisis were cleared out, and then the conference room was sealed.
"We must make a quick decision and use the shortest time to inflict pain and fear on them, so that they can sit down at the negotiating table obediently and be unable to cause chaos to the empire for at least the next five years." Ficott said this while coming up with his own plan.
(End of this chapter)