How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 185 : Cecilia, Open Your Eyes, I Am Elashia

"Cecilia, open your eyes! I am Elashia, wake up quickly!"

After finishing communication with Candice, Elashia directly burst into the main general's camp in the dead of night.

Then she directly shook awake Cecilia, who was sleeping soundly.

This matter couldn't be delayed, as no one could say when the magical beast attacks would escalate.

So the faster they acted, the better.

"Ah... Your Majesty..."

The awakening Cecilia looked at Elashia, who was urgently shaking her.

She knew that Minister Candice must have agreed to Her Majesty Elashia's rescue plan.

Otherwise, Elashia wouldn't have woken her up in the middle of the night.

Military instinct made her spirit imdiately perk up.

Cecilia sat up with a "swish" and looked at Elashia.

"Your Majesty! The rescue plan is ready!"

"Then... this plan needs your cooperation, is that okay?"

Cecilia's words made Elashia ask sowhat puzzledly:

"Need my cooperation?"

Although Elashia now possessed a full fifteen levels of warrior rank and could compete with high-level knights, the strongest existence in Elasia's army.

But she was ultimately an empress who didn't understand combat.

Moreover, her [Group Healing] was only elentary after all, only effective on ordinary people, completely useless on knights and mages.

Facing powerful magical beasts, ordinary soldiers might die instantly, and she couldn't heal injured knights.

And her [Courage Anthem] was equally useless at this ti.

After all, the current magical beasts weren't that strong yet. Ordinary magical beasts could be eliminated by soldiers in groups of ten, and [Crushing]-level magical beasts could be solved by sending out knights.

So Elasia's army shouldn't have any morale problems.

There was no need for [Courage Anthem]'s help at all.

Elashia asked puzzledly:

"What do you need to do?"

Cecilia nodded seriously.

"Your Majesty, what I an by needing you isn't in terms of the army. I think you understand that the army doesn't really need your help right now."

"What really needs you isn't the army, but the people of the desert region."

Cecilia's words made Elashia even more confused.

How would the people of the desert region need her?

"The people of the desert region? I don't understand, why would the people of the desert region need ?"

Cecilia nodded.

"Your Majesty, you must know—our army isn't going to fight, but to escort those people from the desert region."

"So our strategic goal isn't to cause casualties to the magical beasts, but to bring these desert people back in the shortest ti possible."

Looking at Elashia, Cecilia said seriously:

"So, for us, the biggest 'enemy' isn't those magical beasts."

"But the people of the desert region."

"They're basically all ordinary people, it's impossible for them not to be afraid when they see magical beasts."

"Even trained soldiers might panic when facing fear, let alone civilians?"

"And if these civilians panic on the escort route, then everything would be ruined."

"That's over five hundred thousand people... once they panic in the northern forest, the consequences would be unthinkable..."

Hearing this, even Elashia, who didn't understand military matters, finally understood.

"Alright, then go issue the ergency assembly order now."

...

With the bugler's playing, loud military horns echoed throughout the military district, waking up all the soldiers who were sleeping.

Watching from the air as the soldiers trained by Cecilia for over half a year could basically complete assembly within two minutes, Elashia nodded approvingly.

It had to be said, her choice of military officer was extrely successful.

Although Cecilia lacked cunning tactics in warfare, her abilities as army commander were completely excellent.

Whether for regular training or combat strategy, everything was flawless.

Cecilia stood on the platform and ordered the soldiers below:

"Next! Elasia will send an army to escort the people of the desert region to Elasia for refuge!"

"Third Imperial Guard Corps, First through Fifth Militia Corps, Fifth Knight Order stay! All other soldiers return to camp and rest!"

With Cecilia's command, other corps returned to their rest barracks one by one, leaving only six corps and one knight order on the parade ground.

One Imperial Guard corps and militia corps were each composed of three thousand combat personnel, plus a knight order of three hundred interdiate knights, Cecilia had mobilized nearly twenty thousand people in total.

And although these twenty thousand were indeed nurous, most weren't actually Elasia's main forces.

"Militia" were actually soldiers under the lords.

These soldiers were called militia precisely because of their nature.

Since Elasia's funds had been insufficient in the past, and the northern frontier faced dangers from bandits and magical beast attacks, the royal family required local lords to recruit their own troops.

But lords with armies could potentially threaten the royal family.

So the power of these lords was always restricted.

A lord could only possess three to five thousand militia, and these militia couldn't include high-level combat units capable of using [Qi], nor could they have ranged units capable of using crossbows.

Moreover, the number of people lords could maintain long-term as militia was only about a thousand, with the remaining militia being seven parts soldier, three parts farr.

So militia combat effectiveness was relatively much weaker.

However, although these militia were much inferior to the Imperial Guard, they were definitely not useless.

Especially those long-term professional soldiers among the militia—their close combat abilities definitely didn't lose to the Imperial Guard, whose main training was crossbows.

Cecilia's reason for bringing them to escort the desert city-state citizens' evacuation was simple—crossbows weren't suitable for use in forests.

Although the current magical beasts would still be hard by crossbows, crossbows were hard to deploy in forests, and close combat would probably be the main focus.

The Third Imperial Guard Corps was a pure hand-crossbow corps. Cecilia's reason for bringing this corps was mainly because the army would stay in the desert region for several days.

During these days, there might still be magical beast attacks in the desert region, and to reduce casualties, bringing a hand-crossbow corps that could play so role in the desert region was still necessary.

The final knight order composed of three hundred interdiate knights was mainly responsible for handling ergencies on the road, such as [Calamity]-level magical beasts appearing.

Then only knights could handle them.

Seeing other troops gradually return to barracks, Cecilia imdiately ordered:

"All combat units, advance toward the desert region in order!"