Advent Day is a major festival for people in this world. In ancient times a long time ago, people regarded this day as the critical point between the old and the new year. Later, with the improvement of the calendar, Advent Day in the old calendar lost this role, and the first day of each year in the new calendar was postponed to about a week after Advent Day.
But Advent Day is still the most important day. In addition to its strong traditional factors, it also has a layer of religious meaning - legend has it that this day is the day when the archangel Windsor led five hundred archangels to come to the world. At that time, humans were still at the level of slash and burn farming and knotting ropes to record events. The tools they used were all polished with stones, and the clothes they wore were made of animal skins and plant leaves.
At that time, there were many Foreign Races on the mainland, threatening the weak Human Races.
Angels Church brought various magical technologies to mankind, such as Farming Technology, domestication technology of animals and plants, metal smelting technology, and incredible writing, which ultimately helped human society get out of the age of ignorance. With the help of these powerful technologies, humans have gradually established their hegemony on the continent, forcing Orcs to flee to the grasslands, dwarves to shrink into the mountains, and elves to live in seclusion in the forests. More Foreign Races have simply disappeared into the long river of history, without even leaving a single name.
Humans eventually occupied some of the most livable plains on this continent and have thrived for generations to this day.
However, with the passage of time and the infrequent but never-broken exchanges between various races, human technology gradually spread into Foreign Race. The closer technological levels brought the combat effectiveness of the armies of both sides closer, which aroused the Foreign Race's ambition to return to the habitable zone. However, the human army could not crush each other side by side, and the conflict between races intensified again.
The last time Foreign Race was completely suppressed was during the unification period of the Gabella Empire. The unified human empire sent out several great expeditions with the power of the whole country. With its weapons and equipment and advanced military system that still had certain advantages, it finally defeated Foreign Race again and once again established the absolute hegemony of human civilization on the continent.
But the empire eventually collapsed, and the divided Human Nations attacked each other. It stands to reason that this is a good opportunity for Foreign Race to make a comeback, but fortunately the empire still has power. Races such as dwarves and elves seem to have given up their ambitions to dominate the continent due to their sparse population.
Only the Orcs people who live on the Great Prairie in the north have strong fertility and a large population. However, the fragile ecology of the grassland cannot support too many people. The pressure of survival and the unwillingness to be suppressed many times in history make them always peek at the fertile land in the south.
Orcs has launched several large-scale invasions, but they abandoned their previous strategy of attacking cities and occupying territory, and instead switched to a grab-and-go approach, targeting settlements with weak defenses. They relied on their cavalry advantage to come and go like the wind, avoiding a tug-of-war with Human Nations's army.
Disunified countries cannot support large-scale cavalry like Gabella Empire, and the increasingly weakened royal power and degraded logistics cannot support a decent expedition. This makes mankind extremely passive when facing Orcs's plunder.,
Orcs Plunder has become an extremely troublesome problem for the rulers of the northern countries.
In the lobby of Lakeheart Town Lord's Manor, important officials from the Arda Army and government gathered together. Even Navy Commander Austin who usually stayed at Franklin Harbor and shipyard supervisor Rubin were also here.
As Advent Day approaches, the old year is about to pass. Paul decided to summon his subordinates to Lakeheart Town to summarize the gains and losses of the past year and look forward to future development.
Before the lord arrived, everyone talked about the many major events that had happened this year.
"The news coming from the east seems that many villages and towns have been robbed by Orcs since the beginning of winter!"
"Alas, the rebellion in the south prevents Royal Family from allocating too much force to support Northeast Region."
"We are much luckier here. There are continuous virgin forests and mountains to the north."
There are mountains to the north and east of the Auldo Kingdom as natural barriers, but only Northeast Region is located between the two mountains. There is a small plain area, which becomes the "Northeast Corridor" leading from Aldo to Great Prairie in the north.
Every winter, the Orcss on Great Prairie will pass here to plunder all parts of the Northeast, especially when "White Disaster" occurs on the grassland.
Because the "corridor" in the northeast is far from the hinterland of the kingdom, Orcs's small-scale plundering is not as threatening as Eastern Highlands's barbarian rebellion, and the rebellion in the south makes it impossible for the senior officials to mobilize too much power, so this year only symbolic support was provided to Northeast Region.
For the Auldo Kingdom, this year is really an eventful year.
While others were congratulating themselves for Arda's position, only Chief of Staff Schroeder and Third Battalion were the only ones present. Battalion Commander and Joyce had worries on their faces. The two of them had been in Northeast Region's army and had personally participated in the war against Orcs.
The two of them had feelings for that land, so naturally they couldn't be happy when they heard the news that Orcs had entered the country and robbed it. Especially Schroeder, who spent most of his military career there.
Seeing everyone's unconcerned look, Joyce couldn't help but say, "Everyone, if your lips are gone, your tongue will feel chilly. If Orcss realize that the kingdom is weak and gather troops to occupy Northeast Territories, their next target will probably be us."
Bryce made a fist-clenching gesture in mid-air, "Then we'll blast them back with cannons!"
Joyce shrugged. This group of people had never seen the ferocity of Orcs. It was not comparable to the pirates they had dealt with before and the farmers and soldiers recruited by the lords.
But Joyce has seen those terrifying creatures that grew up in harsh environments and were simply born for war. Even the ordinary Orcs is nearly two meters tall, has thick and powerful limbs, has a manic temperament and can endure hunger.
Their year-round nomadic life has made them natural cavalry, and they can easily assemble a powerful mobile force.
Fortunately, they have a very poor sense of discipline and do not understand strategies, formations, and coordination of arms. They often swarm forward with their own weapons, which gives the human army a chance to win.
While there was a lot of discussion in the hall, Paul Greiman led Chief Secretary Berna and Female Advisor Diaz Miss in.
Everyone stood up to pay tribute to the lord.
"Hello everyone! Please take a seat."
Paul The three of them sat down and the meeting officially began.