Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

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 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 come to the Imperial Military Headquarters. Although she could imagine what it was like from the film and television works before time travel, she still felt a little dizzy when she saw this quarrel, and she wanted to be rewarded. All of them were impaled one by one and their mouths were sewn 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 drew everyone's attention to Purfict's arrival. The navy general took the lead and came to Purfict and welcomed her: "Earl Brandlis, welcome to your arrival. ! You have worked hard along the way, are you exhausted after rushing back from the north? "

As he spoke, the Navy general wanted to drag Purfict to the Navy's camp, even though Purfict 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 told Purfict very rudely 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.

But it makes sense to say that this was left to her by Purficott's grandfather. After all, her grandfather used to be a major general in the Army. The Army's so-called legacy to her does not refer to military uniforms, but to the Brandless family's military experience. Connections, influence, and corresponding status.

These things have actually been cut off with the death of Grandpa Perfectcott and the fact that the Brandless family has no successors in her father's generation.

Purficott put on the military uniform again, which could be regarded as inheriting the influence of the Brandlis family.

Of course, the reason why Purficott can inherit all this is that she is now the Guardian of the North and the Earl of Pioneering. Without these, she would not have been able to inherit her grandfather even if she had grown up and inherited the title of the Brandlis family. These influences remain.

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 worth 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 mentioned before, the captain of Purficott'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 should be the same as a warship. 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 was trying to pull Purfict away. While openly and secretly mocking the other party for being unreasonable, he emphasized that Purfict was wearing an Army uniform. Her grandfather was also a major general in the Army.

This tug and pull made Purficott dumbfounded. Others have already beaten you at the door, but you are still fighting for this little profit?

But this is normal. After all, no matter which country it is, competition between sea and land is not uncommon.

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.

Purficott 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 use airships to transport a group of Steam Knights to the enemy's rear, and then launch a beautiful surprise attack to defeat their army at once." An army general explained the battle plan they had drawn up. , with a face full of confidence: "Based on the results of previous exercises, five steam knights are enough to defeat a Guards regiment head-on. We can now dispatch a knight regiment of one hundred and twenty steam knights, which are enough to crush the whole world." any enemy!

We want to use a brilliant victory to tell the French people that times have changed! The Victoria Empire can defeat them once, but it can defeat them twice! three times! countless times!

The future belongs to the Victoria Empire where the sun never sets! We will eventually rule the world! "

This general's attitude was fanatical, and this was also the consensus of all the generals present at the meeting.

After all, the power of the Steam Knights is obvious to all, and no one thinks that the coalition of France and other three countries can withstand the attack of an entire Steam Knight Order.

Both the navy and the army have reached a consensus on this point. Therefore, even though the empire is facing three opponents of the same level this time, these generals are not panic at all, and do not even think that the empire has the possibility of defeat.

Of course, with the support of steam knights and airships, the Victoria Empire is indeed unlikely to 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 these words came out, 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." Purficott took out His own plan, he said.

(End of this chapter)