Travel through time and become a member of the Warhammer Empire

"Support the arrogant High Elves or the cruel Dark Elves? This is a difficult question."

In just a few words, Karl Franz understood all the information that Windlow had mentioned.

"If the Empire could intervene while the High Elves and Dark Elves were both suffering, would they take Ulthuan as an Imperial colony, and then use the slow nature of the elves to replenish their troops to quickly gather forces and take down Naggaroth?"

"Hahaha, just kidding, but I did think so."

Carl's tone didn't sound like a joke, at least he was thinking that way when he said it.

But the emperor was no ignorant peasant; he certainly knew about the existence of elves and their terrifying power.

The Empire was only able to defeat some of the Dark Elf pirates that invaded the coastline.

There is no chance at all in naval battles and invasion wars, and the Empire is no match for the Elves in terms of national strength ranking.

Even a severely injured elf could easily stop the Empire's invasion.

So the only thing to consider now is betting.

"My personal feeling is to support the high elves. After all, their economic model is healthier. If the dark elves unify the elves, I don't know who the so-called Witch King of the dark elves is, but as long as he rules all the elves, then the elves will inevitably become militaristic and start wars all over the world, which is not good for the empire."

After thinking for a while, Carl gave his answer, which first came from cultural identity.

Almost all of the empire's large cities developed on the ruins of the high elves. Their cultural origins are similar, and human writing and language are also imitated from the elves.

The second is the help the High Elves gave to the Empire five hundred years ago. Teclis helped the Empire train the first batch of magicians and made great contributions in the fight against the Everchosen.

Finally, the high elves have already infiltrated the empire's powerful circles and chambers of commerce. For their own interests, the empire's powerful circles and chambers of commerce will also speak on the side of the high elves.

Windlow now had his own answer, and he could only support the high elves.

But the word "support" is definitely not just verbal encouragement. Carl wrote out a series of investment plans with a stroke of his pen.

Windlow became a licensed merchant of Rickland and even the Empire, or he could become an imperial merchant group.

Far away from the empire, the president of the Imperial Merchant Corps enjoys the same power as the Imperial Elector.

Windlo was very familiar with this matter. Just like the border princely territories, the empire would always grant special permission to some people to establish kingdoms and recognize the legitimacy of their identities.

In essence, there is no harm to the empire, it is equivalent to angel investment.

This is a transfer of power, which means that as long as Windelo leaves the empire, he will have extremely high independence and exercise the power of an elector abroad.

This avoids the problem of having no command in the event of an emergency, but also means that such a merchant group will ignore any command from the empire.

The Empire currently has two overseas expeditionary forces.

Hunter Marshal Marcus was sent by Emperor Karl Franz to Lustria for a treasure hunt.

Vokma led many followers of Sigmar to Nehekhara, preparing to seal all the Books of Nagash.

And now a third force will be formed, that is, the Imperial Intervention Force, which will go to support the high elves in their fight against the dark elves in the name of the empire.

Considering the elves' long and arduous battle line and duration, Windlow still has a long time to prepare.

The door opened, and Mousse and Izexi, who were arguing inside, stopped and looked over at the same time.

Now is the moment to decide the direction of the entire campaign: to help the dark elves or the high elves.

It was obvious that a smile appeared on Mousse's lips in the end. It seemed that the emperor and the imperial nobles also knew which side to stand on.

Faced with this situation, Izehi could only shake his head. It was not like the high elves were unable to defeat the dark elves.

And for the High Elves, the biggest enemy is neither Chaos nor the Dark Elves, but the Phoenix Court within and the elven gods who have not appeared for a long, long time.

Since the empire had already decided on the direction of support, she had no choice but to accept it.

An expeditionary force quickly gathered at the port of Altdorf. They were all a group of ordinary people who felt that there was no way out in life.

They have no morale and no fighting power. Just as Karl Franz said at the beginning, they are just cannon fodder for the high elves.

Although Windlow had the title of overseas elector, anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was a trick to fool fools.

Just like the year-end bonus your boss gives you is earned by you yourself.

However, looking at the provincial army soldiers on these ships, they are not cannon fodder.

There is no garbage in this world, only treasures that are not placed in the right place.

No matter what, at the moment, Windlow is the supreme leader of an expeditionary force. How much he earns depends entirely on his luck.

Thinking of this, he immediately commanded the fleet to continue heading upstream of the Reik River instead of sailing directly to Ulthuan.

Since it is an investment adventure, you must increase your investment.

The fleet sailed up the river and arrived at Nuln, the largest industrial city in the empire.

All the money earned at the time was invested by Windlow in purchasing armaments.

Muskets, mortars, and giant cannons, all of which were bought by him and loaded onto the ship.

Some retired or penniless imperial artillerymen also joined the fleet to serve Windlow.

After doing all this, the ship returned and headed towards the outlet of Marienburg.

Finally, when they were about to leave the old world, Mousse completed the formation of all the soldiers.

That's right, the expeditionary force that Karl Franz invested in Windlow didn't even have an organization. Fortunately, there was a dark elf dread lord here, so they would not be in a scattered state when encountering the enemy.

All the personnel have been counted, and there are a total of four swordsman formations, two spearman formations, two artillery formations, and two musket formations.

There were only about 870 soldiers and 130 non-combat personnel on the four ships.

In total, the team size is 1000 people.

With such a small number of people, let alone participating in a large-scale battle, they would probably be completely wiped out in a direct battle with the dark elves and the high elves.

It is obviously foolish to want to go directly to the battlefield. No matter whether they encounter the dark elves or the high elves navy, they will overturn all four ships.

If they went directly to the port of Lothern and announced their purpose, they would certainly be looked down upon by the high elves, as they did not want any reinforcements from the Empire.

As for where the ship should go, Windlow thought about it for a long time and finally came up with the answer.