Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Wesker hasn't looked very good lately.

The two words "read" were extremely sarcastic, making Wesker want to rush to the gray-collar worker and beat him down immediately.

But when he saw the letters sent by the adventurers, Wesker laughed out loud again.

It was obvious that Jefferson was controlled by the gray-collar workers upstream, but Wesker, as Lind thought, had no intention of rescuing him and even circulated the letter widely among the coalition forces.

Now, there is one less person to share the cake, but there is one more piece of cake.

Excited, Wesker opened another bottle of champagne.

Although Jefferson knew the Union forces' assembly time, attack time and marching route, Wesker was too lazy to change them and would just attack as the time came.

Because each route is the result of repeated bargaining by each noble.

Who will attack which side and who will attack first were all decided by the nobles. If you have to put it simply, it was a bit like betting on which direction, place and time Lars's rebels would escape from, and the nobles were betting on who could catch Lars's people at the time and place they bet on.

As the leader of the coalition, Wesker even received a lot of money for this. How could he return the money after receiving it?

This is certainly not because Wesker does not attach enough importance to this war, but that is the way it is in this era. Even as the leader of the coalition, Wesker has no power over the coalition. The situation is even worse than if my vassal's vassal is not my vassal, because Wesker has no right to command even the army of his own vassal.

Even if they had the power to command, the training methods and command systems of the various nobles were completely different. Not to mention the weapons of the various armies, even the military system was not unified, and logistics were also managed separately. Therefore, the coalition's logistics team was ridiculously large.

This is not the most outrageous thing. The command systems between different branches of the same family can be completely different. If there is a competitive relationship, several branches will give their military systems all kinds of messy names just to look more powerful than the other.

Wesker was able to arrange such a coalition force in an orderly manner, and even command who should go first and who should go later. He is a rare talent.

No wonder the Lars family was able to suppress the nobles in the North for hundreds of years. Being able to completely unify the military system within the family was already a dimensionality reduction attack in this era.

Of course, the nobles also knew the shortcomings of their own military system, and the problems were even more than that.

Most of the people recruited by the nobles were local farmers and idle people, and small nobles basically did not keep professional soldiers.

However, these people have hardly received any training, their combat effectiveness is extremely low, their quality is extremely low, and their desertion rate is frighteningly high.

Those who can execute military orders are already elite troops.

But these are not problems, because these people are just cannon fodder in the war - this term did not exist in this era, but it will exist soon.

No noble would care about the life or death of these ordinary soldiers. The purpose of their existence is to serve the professional in the team.

This is also the tactic passed down by the Capetian Kingdom, where professionals lead ordinary soldiers to cooperate in battle. However, this tactic has gradually been distorted and corrupted during the long inheritance. The professionals and ordinary soldiers, who were originally supposed to have a comrade-in-arms relationship, have gradually become a clear relationship between superiors and subordinates, or a master and slave relationship.

Those soldiers all provided their own weapons and equipment. Those with leather armor and a pitchfork were considered well prepared, and those wearing chain mail would be directly granted military positions. However, it made no difference whether the equipment was good or bad, as they were all consumables used to fill the gaps.

The real core is still the professionals in the team.

However, even in terms of professionals, the entire army is still very abstract, and it is not uncommon for a soldier to be ordered around by three or five professionals from different forces.

The nobles' level in this regard is no less than Reina's behavior of letting three or five knights manage one serf.

It is normal for a soldier to suddenly become a member of another noble army during a battle.

Of course, ordinary soldiers are not without benefits. For example, when privateering, professionals will also help. Although most of the privateering has to be handed over to the professionals, soldiers who use the professionals' skins can also grab more things than before.

You ask why privateering is necessary? Sometimes even if the nobles win the war, they won't pay their salaries. Who would work if they didn't privateer? This is even the main source of income for some armies. Soldiers with professionals are often more terrifying than bandits.

After waiting for several days, Wesker finally waited for the last nobleman.

"I'm sorry, I was afraid that my son wouldn't be able to eat foie gras on the way to the battle, so I asked the ice professional to prepare frozen foie gras for me for a long time, but it turned out to be late."

This nobleman obviously came with his family, so he took a long time to prepare.

"It doesn't matter. The others have just arrived."

Wesker acted like a leader and accepted the nobleman with a smile.

This is not an exaggeration. Many people had to wait until the last minute to complete the assembly. It was not uncommon for them to bring their families with them. In fact, there were even many noble families who had not come. They would only join in when the army was halfway through the journey.

This is a war that will change the ecology of the western North, and it is also a feast for the gluttons. This war has swept almost all the nobles in this land.

After all, Doug Lars and Wang Duke had both announced that anyone who participated in the campaign against the Lars family would be rewarded. Because of this statement, all the nobles brought almost all the people in their families who could go to the battlefield.

Even though these nobles knew that these rewards were not much and were mostly honorary in nature, who doesn't have dreams? If they caught some big shot, wouldn't they be able to rise to prominence from then on?

What's more, there are also bards who write epics for themselves. Who doesn't want to leave his or her own name in an epic?

But there was no rush before setting off. Wesker and his allies watched the performance of the bards led by Lucanus before they set off with satisfaction. The advancing crowd was huge, and everyone was talking and laughing. Some nobles were too lazy to ride horses and just got into the carriage with their wives in their arms.

This was a war whose outcome was already determined, and it would be a perfect footnote in one's resume, everyone thought so.

The entire expeditionary team was filled with an atmosphere similar to that of a spring outing, with even accompanying bands and bards playing musical instruments and singing.

The main function of these bands is to ensure that the 50,000 troops can confirm each other's positions and do not get separated from each other.

Wesker, wearing a brand new red cape and his coolest armor, looked at the endless army stretching in front and behind with high spirits. This would be the perfect starting point for his epic.

"Can you win?"

The Royal Capital Envoy who was following Wesker asked.

"It will win."

Wesker declared victory.