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Chapter 1025 - 1025 137 Exchange Places Vote for Monthly Ticket_2

1025: Chapter 137, Exchange Places (Vote for Monthly Ticket)_2 1025: Chapter 137, Exchange Places (Vote for Monthly Ticket)_2 After Daniel’s identity was confirmed, pleas for mercy rang incessantly in his ears.

The panicked group of Leopardmen had already lost their composure, bereft of the ability to think straight, only bowing their heads and begging for mercy.

“Enough!”

“If you want to live, give me a reason to spare you.

Those common excuses that everyone uses, you don’t need to mention those again.”

Duke Daniel’s expressionless words made the group of Leopardmen hastily stop their pleas and start thinking about strategies for survival.

“Marshal, we were truly forced into this!

The Empire’s requisitions for grain keep increasing, and our tribe’s storages are depleted.

If we don’t find a way to obtain resources from the outside, we simply won’t make it through the winter.

It just so happened that these Boar People sneaked into our pastures, attempting to cause damage, so we took action against them!”

The middle-aged Leopardman’s explanation was evidently inconsistent.

One moment he mentioned a shortage of grain, the next he spoke of the Boar People causing destruction – he forcibly tangled two unrelated matters together.

While the speaker may have been thoughtless, the listener was not.

At this moment, in Duke Daniel’s mind all that remained was the phrase “heavy requisition tasks.”

For this war, the Orc Empire had invested everything they had, pushing all available resources to the limit.

As the frontline continuously advanced, logistical pressures also increased day by day.

Now that the frontline had reached a stalemate, it turned into a war of attrition.

Initially, burning the enemy’s supplies forced Alpha Kingdom to make a painful decision, abandoning seven provinces of the Northern Border; but now it was the Orc Empire’s turn to be anxious.

As the Commander of the Army, Daniel was only responsible for warfare, while the logistical efforts were managed by the five Emperors, but that didn’t mean he was unaware of the hardship of the Empire’s logistics.

The pressure on the frontline inevitably cascaded to the rear.

Due to the abundance of different species within the Orcs, the allocation of strategic materials to each species was not consistent.

The Five Royal Clans could not act against their own people, so they had to shift the burden, originally falling on their clansmen, onto the vassal races.

Within the same species, there was also a distinction between the elites and the fringe tribes.

When allocating shares, it was inevitable that some tribes would suffer.

This burden trickled down, and the fringe tribes, who had no political voice, assumed a load far beyond their capacity to bear.

“Take these blathering fools out and behead them.

Make their heads into drinking vessels and display them across the great plains as a warning to unruly tribes!”

Duke Daniel ordered decisively.

Some problems were not his to solve; even if what the middle-aged Leopardman said was all true, he could not lift the lid on this issue.

Otherwise, the entire Orc Empire would be thrown into chaos.

Countless tribes would start rebelling, resisting the unfair grain requisition tasks allocated by those above.

If the problem couldn’t be solved, then the only option was to eradicate those who presented the problem.

By neither seeing nor hearing, one could behave as if nothing had occurred.

…

In Lutesya, after several complications, the countries finally reached a consensus on forming the Allied Forces.

However, at this moment the countries of the Central Continent were already mourning, as the scenes once witnessed on the Northern Continent replayed on their lands.

A pain cut close to the bone is always the best catalyst for empathy.

Only now did they understand the suffering of the Northern Continent nations, but it was all too late.

In just half a month, the Black Forest Kingdom had lost two more provinces, and the other front-line nations each suffered their own losses.

“What is the Military Department even good for?

Fighting on the front lines has turned out like this; even sending a bunch of pigs would result in a better performance than you!”

Alexander V roared furiously.

The twenty-five thousand troops sent by the Kingdom, along with the three hundred thousand mustered by the two provinces, shattered upon contact on the battlefield.

Aside from a few Noble Castles still holding out, the two northern provinces of the Kingdom had been completely overrun.

Count Nicholas, who was being scolded, kept his head down without a word.

Honestly, it wasn’t his fault.

The reinforcements the Kingdom had sent were hastily assembled recruits, and the forces from the two provinces were mostly conscripted men, with less than a tenth of them being elite.

On paper, there was an army of five to six hundred thousand.

But who was to lead them, in reality, was unknown.

The enemy attacked before this mismatched group could complete its troop deployment.

As soon as contact was made on the open field, a major defeat ensued.

This loss sparked a collapse in morale, and the various garrison forces also became unsettled.

With the promised reinforcements suddenly gone, the already low-spirited garrison forces crumbled with the swiftness of lightning.

“Your Majesty, the Military Department is not wholly to blame for this.

The enemy has not fought by the book; upon invading the Kingdom, they immediately called out ‘no killing those who surrender.’

In the battles that preceded, the Elf Army did not slaughter captives, but rather sent them back home directly.

Without the threat of death, the frontline defending forces lost the courage to fight to the death.”

Chancellor Duke Milton interjected a few fair words.

These things did not need investigation; simply by looking at the number of refugees flooding into the country, one could tell whether the enemy had engaged in racial slaughter.

All wished to live rather than die.

When the Elf Race combined political tactics with military strategy, the disorganized front line naturally couldn’t withstand them.

“Hmph!”

“Even if they couldn’t defeat the enemy, they shouldn’t have collapsed so quickly, right?

Such performance from the military is a disgrace to the Kingdom!

Don’t forget, previously the Alpha Kingdom’s Expeditionary Army decimated the Ancient Heritage Alliance, also dealing with an entire Elf Legion on the side.”