My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

No matter how capable Orson is personally, it doesn't prove that his command level is high.

"I know that you may have doubts about my ability, which is normal because we are all dedicated to the country. If my ability is not enough, the front line may suffer more losses because of me."

"But please rest assured, I, Orson, came here with only one goal, and that is victory."

Chapter 6: War Preparations (K)

"Tsk, that's an easy thing to say." On the other side, the representative of Napoli began to deliberately provoke again.

"If I remember correctly, Master Orson, you have never had any experience in leading troops in battle. I'm afraid you don't even know how to give orders on the battlefield, right?"

His mission here was actually to provoke the people on the Duke of Antica's side, and at the same time to encourage other people who were dissatisfied with the Duke of Antica to resist Lucius' orders.

Therefore, when he saw Lucius sending Orson, who had no experience at all, he felt that the opportunity had come.

You know, although Carlisle's ability is average, he has been following Lucius in battles, and his military achievements can convince the people. In addition, he is willing to hold joint military meetings to listen to opinions widely. Although everyone may not obey his orders completely, as long as it can be obviously beneficial to the war situation, Carlisle will lobby and everyone will give in.

But now that Orson suddenly appears out of nowhere, it’s hard to say.

Although there is no such thing as armchair military strategy in this era, the military still trusts officers who have worked their way up from the middle and lower levels more than the top students who are directly assigned to military positions after graduating from colleges and universities.

Especially in the face of such a major battle,

It sounds too ridiculous for a student who is still in school to be the commander-in-chief.

The words of the Napoli representative also touched the hearts of others present.

Although everyone knows that you, Orsen, are very powerful, no matter how powerful you are, it is only on a personal level. Commanding troops and fighting wars is not necessarily linked to your personal level.

"I know that you may not have that much confidence in my abilities, and I do not have any relevant experience, but I still hope that you can give me time to show my strength." After being retorted by the representative of Napoli, Orson did not get angry, but smiled.

On the contrary, Litt, who was standing behind Orson, kept staring at the representative of Napoli with an unfriendly look on his face.

"At the Imperial College, military theory courses are arranged in the general education class every year. To be honest, everyone, I have completed all the military theory courses in the four years of the college, and I have also scored full marks in all the subjects I have taken the exams for."

After hearing what Orson said, some officers present had a different opinion of Orson, but most of them were still skeptical about his abilities.

After all, everyone knows that test scores do not equal real ability.

"Of course, I know your concerns, and I understand your reluctance to hand over your troops to me for unified command and dispatch." Orson said this and looked at Carlisle. "General Carlisle, I wonder what you are mainly discussing in this meeting?"

"Ah, reporting to Master Orson, the content of this meeting is mainly related to the recent orc offensive." Carlisle said this and pointed to the map on the table.

"Look, from the front line, the orcs have already broken through and captured five small towns on the border. The villages around the towns have also been attacked by the orcs. Although they have not yet penetrated into the heart of the duke's territory, if we allow the orcs to continue their attack, our defense line will be breached at one point and then collapse across the board."

"Is that so..." Orson nodded after hearing this. "In that case, everyone, if I take back the five cities occupied by the orcs, you should be able to recognize me, right?"

"Oh, that's easy to say." The Napoli representative continued to provoke Orson. "Don't think of using our people as cannon fodder. If you want to prove your ability, then use your own troops to do the job."

"Is that so?" Hearing this, Orson glanced at the people in the audience.

No one present dared to look Orson in the eye, for fear of being called upon by Orson for questioning.

Orson could guess their attitude from their performance.

He didn't say anything, but just expressed his understanding, and then said: "Okay, since you all said so, I will use the forces I can mobilize to launch this counterattack."

"This joint meeting has come to no avail. Everyone, just go back to your own defense areas and defend the areas you are responsible for." Orson said this and signaled the disbandment of the meeting.

Afterwards, the commanders and representatives in the audience stood up, saluted, and left the military tent.

"Mr. Orson, weren't you a little too arrogant in what you just said..." After the crowd dispersed, Carlisle looked at Orson, his tone full of worry.

"You just looked at the map and don't know the intelligence of the orcs on the opposite side."

"Well, now I want to ask you, how many orcs are there in the frontal battlefield this time?"

"According to preliminary estimates, the number of orcs deployed in this battle should be conservatively estimated at around 200,000, not including their reserve forces. On the front battlefield, that is, the number of orcs in our defense zone, is around 100,000 to 150,000."

"The orcs launched a fierce attack before, and most of the losses were caused by my men. I originally had 100,000 soldiers, but now there are only a little over 90,000 left. With these troops, even defense is stressful..."

"So General Carlisle decided to hold a joint meeting this time and transfer personnel from other defense zones to defend, right?" Orson asked.

"Yeah." Carlisle nodded.

"It's okay, General Carlisle, I will sort out the current intelligence on the front line today and prepare for the counterattack tomorrow." Orson said this with a confident smile.

……

On the other side, representatives of other armies had already mounted their horses and returned to their own bases.

When they were leaving the garrison, they were surprised to find that a group of troops had been stationed outside the city at some point in time.

Judging from the size of the camp, the number of troops may have exceeded 20,000.

"What's going on?" The representative of the Naples army looked at the military camp in confusion, and then prepared to go in to investigate.

The sudden appearance of such a troop on the front line was quite surprising to him.

Surprised.

But when he was about to approach the military camp, he was stopped by the soldiers guarding the gate.

"Stop ahead." The soldier said calmly.

"Hey, do you want to see where I'm from?" the representative said, looking at the soldier in front of him with disdain.

"We are here to help you. Is this your attitude towards your guests?"

"I'm sorry, but the area ahead is a military camp, no one is allowed in. If you must go in, please show me the pass given by Master Orson, otherwise I can't let you in."

The soldier still showed no intention of backing down.

The representative only realized at this time that the troops stationed here were Orson's men. After knowing this information, he had no intention of staying here, but left after saying something harsh.

He wanted to go back and report this matter, and Orson somehow managed to get another 20,000 people to help him.

……

Imperial College, Saint Laurent City.

The news of the orc invasion has spread in the Imperial Academy, and Orson's leave of absence is a disguised confirmation of the news.

"Aphrodite, what do you elves think of orcs?" Elsa asked Aphrodite while sitting in the student union office, turning the pen in her hand boredly.

"Orcs?" Afro thought for a moment and then said, "Compared to us elves, the life span of orcs is really pitifully short. I don't have any particular aversion to orcs."

"There is no other special feeling. In the eyes of us elves, orcs are almost the same as humans. They are just ordinary short-lived species."

After all, the elves live on the west side of the continent, and there is an entire empire between them and the orcs, so they have nothing to do with each other.

And those elves who left the Elf Forest would not risk going to the desert area where orcs live.

"In your human eyes, orcs should be the species you hate the most, right?" Afro asked back.

"Of course!" Elsa nodded. "Throughout the history of the empire, it has been fighting against the orcs for a long time."

In fact, at the beginning, there were orcs living in the lush areas in the eastern part of the empire. But later, as the relationship between humans and orcs deteriorated, large-scale battles broke out. Humans eventually drove the orcs out of that fertile land and into the desert.

Originally humans thought they had won, but they underestimated the orcs' ability to adapt to the harsh environment.

The orcs in the desert quickly recovered some of their strength, and then rushed out of the desert again with hatred towards humans.

After that, there was endless hatred and killing between the two races for generations.

"When the college board of directors announces the tasks for the second half of the semester, if it involves going to the east to help support the front lines, will you go?" Elsa asked.

"I think so. After all, I am also a student of the Imperial College."

"Then, if I ask you to attack those orcs, will you be able to do it?"

"Okay." Afro nodded.

"Well, judging by the time, my brother's knights should have arrived in Antica..." Elsa said this while looking out the window.

"I hope Orson didn't lie to me," she said.

……

"President Celinina, as you instructed, we have recruited all the war mercenaries we can find on the market, a total of about 20,000 people, and they have now rushed to the eastern front." In the room, Lorenzo looked at Celinina and reported on the task he had completed.

"I understand." Chelinina nodded and rubbed her swollen temples.

Before Orson came back, he contacted me through the Chamber of Commerce in Saint Laurent City and asked me to gather all the mercenary groups in the market as soon as possible to fight against the orcs in the east.

To this end, Chelinina invested all of her liquid funds into it.

Except for the money used to expand the business, almost all the money he earned in the past few months was "returned" to Orson.

Twenty thousand people, and they are mercenaries who are more expensive than ordinary armies. This is a considerable expense. Even if the Lison Chamber of Commerce has more liquid funds, it can only barely maintain the expenses of this army for two months. After two months, this group of mercenaries will disperse.

"Master Orson sent a thank you letter and asked you to be careful about your assets in the Naples area recently. You can try to transfer them to the direct jurisdiction or the Dukedom of Antica."

"Huh? Why?" Chelinina looked puzzled, and then, as if she had thought of something, she suddenly realized.

Because of the war, many people were evacuated from the eastern part of Antica. Some of these people went to seek refuge with their relatives, but most of the farmers had no choice but to become refugees and homeless.

These refugees still have some money now, but when all their money is spent, they will become refugees.

At this time, as long as they can be provided with jobs, no matter what the salary is, as long as they can support their families, they will work.

Moreover, in the Antica region, with the official support of the Duke, Celinina does not have to worry about her own industry being restricted like in other regions.

Most importantly, this would indirectly destroy the other industries of the Dukedom of Naples.

His previous actions had left the textile industry in the Dukedom of Naples half dead.

But at the same time, Celinina also invested in the representative industries of the Duchy of Naples, such as porcelain making, which are handicrafts with low output, complex processes and high profits. After all, those industries can only make more money if they are done in Naples.

Although she didn't know why Orson withdrew his capital from Naples, as the person who made Celinina's current status, Celinina obeyed Orson's advice almost unconditionally. She immediately ordered Lorenzo to help withdraw all his investments in Naples, and use the gathered funds to develop the handicraft industry in the Duchy of Antica.

When it comes to the specific development of the city, there is obviously only one target, and that is the city of Antica.

The population of Antica is now increasing, but there are very few jobs to match it. Many jobs are still limited to low-income jobs such as shop assistants.

It can be said that the city of Antica has unlimited possibilities.

……

While Celinina was still discussing how to make money, on the other side, the Duke of Napoli, Duke Giovanni, was in a surprisingly bad mood.

In the past two months, the tax revenue in his territory has decreased by one-fifth compared to before.

When I checked the reasons myself, I found out that it was the collapse of the textile industry that led to a large number of unemployed people in the market.

Not only do these unemployed people fail to provide tax revenue, but on the contrary, they also occupy social resources.

Similarly, in the huge market system, the collapse of the textile industry has led to the gradual collapse of several other industries.

The handicraft industry that the Duchy of Naples had been proud of, which had created a lot of tax revenue and wealth and formed a unique small-bourgeois community, suffered a severe blow.

Finally, Giovanni went to investigate the cause and discovered that it was the neighboring Duchy of Aragon, which had developed a large-scale and organized textile industry. Relying on a large number of goods and lowering prices to seize the market, it quickly destroyed the economy of the Duchy of Naples.

To this end, he met with Leon, Duke of Aragon alone to discuss relevant issues. As a result, Leon said he was unaware of this and even wondered why the tax revenue in the Dukedom of Aragon had increased a lot recently.

Seeing that he could not get any useful information from Leon, Giovanni had no choice but to find out the reasons behind it through other means.

Finally, he learned that the investor behind the Aragon Textile Factory was an organization called the Lison Group. After further investigation, he discovered that the person in charge of the Lison Group was his potential daughter-in-law, Celinina Bonaventura.

This feeling of being backstabbed by a loved one made Giovanni very angry. He immediately found Louis, the leader of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce. This time, their conversation was not as harmonious as usual, and was full of tension.

Louis was not aware of this matter, but when he learned that his daughter had really set up her own business, he was extremely surprised.

The last time he sent Paul to dismiss Celinina, the representatives of the Antica branch rejected the dismissal proposal and forced Celinina to stay in office. After that, the Antica branch basically became independent from the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce and developed on its own.

Although it is said to be developing independently, in fact, the Antica branch is basically allied with the Ali Chamber of Commerce.

Just when he thought the matter ended there, Giovanni told him that Celinina had actually set up her own Lison Chamber of Commerce.

"I treat you, Louis, as my own family, and you stab me in the back, right?" Giovanni said this, making Louis feel ashamed.

"Your Excellency the Duke, don't worry. I will not let Celinina have an easy time this time when I go back." Louis' tone was full of regret.

Giovanni was very satisfied with Louis.

Compared to his father who was as cunning as a vixen, Louis himself was actually a mediocre person in business. It would even be an understatement to describe him as a mediocre person.

If the market really

If things were unchanging, Louis could stabilize the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce, but unfortunately, the market is constantly changing.