Lord of War

A few days before the battle between Sean and Prince Cazes Hokkidi completely broke out, a messenger finally arrived at the command center in the Northwest Theater of Darbion.

At this time, it was May 3, 1784, and it was raining lightly in the Northwest Theater.

The rain was not heavy, but it happened to dispel the sweltering heat a bit.

When the messenger arrived, it happened that a group of nobles had just finished a meeting discussion, so he was quickly ushered into the main account.

Compared with Sean's ease and comfort in the southern theater, there is no such good thing in the stalemate in the northwest theater.

Although each of the three theaters has a theater commander, due to certain particularities of the Northwest Theater, as the commander-in-chief of the entire national war, he is also the commander of the Northwest Theater. Simply put, it is the Northwest Theater The identity of the theater commander is just a name for gold plating. Therefore, as the most intense battlefield, the command center was naturally moved to a place closer to the front line, and a camp was directly set up in the camp.

The place where the messenger was introduced was also the main account in the entire camp.

At this time, a meeting had just ended, and almost all the nobles in the main account and several generals who were eligible to enter the account hadn't left yet, they were just packing something.

After the messenger entered the main tent, his eyes glanced around. The pace of the nobles packing up here is not fast, but it still gives people a messy feeling. Moreover, it is a meeting room, but the layout in the tent is not simple at all, on the contrary it is very luxurious: not to mention that the tables and chairs in the tent are not ordinary goods. There are as many as four magic cauldrons used to control the temperature in the tent.

This magic cauldron is also a prototype device for future temperature-regulating magic guides. However, compared with the revolutionary products inspired by future magic technology, today's magic cauldron still has a very primitive side. Although two types of airflow, cold and warm, can be released by manipulating this type of cauldron furnace, so as to improve the temperature in a certain space range, but these operations and maintenance require constant consumption of mana, so in these four cauldron furnaces There are two magician apprentices waiting beside each other.

Just hiring these eight apprentice magicians to do this kind of work of looking after the magic cauldron, the daily cost is at least 400 gold coins.

In addition, there is a two-meter-long table at the left and right ends of the tent, on which various delicacies are placed. There are a lot of hot food among them, which are obviously prepared for these nobles and generals to enjoy during their breaks, and there are four young maids standing beside the long table, and they will be responsible for taking the hot and cold food. Go, come back for another hot one.

It's just that in the glance of the messenger just now,

He has already discovered that the dishes on both sides of the long table are exactly the same, and the reason why the two tables are arranged is just to make it easier for the nobles on the middle conference table to eat.

Even in war. These nobles still did not forget to enjoy a luxurious life.

The letter brought by the courier had already been handed over to the silver-haired old man sitting at the conference table.

Devin Soldier Sappor.

This old man is the current Patriarch of the Shabo family, and also the third person in the history of the Shabo family to receive the honorary title of "Solde".

Solder, which means sharp sword, was the first patriarch who founded the Shabo family back then. Because of his outstanding military exploits in the founding war of the Principality of Lane, he was honored by the first King of Lane. Like G of the Evans family, they all enjoy the supreme honor.

It's just that the Shabo family is different from the Evans family. At that time, the first patriarch set up a series of assessments in order to prevent the members of the Shabor family from losing their aggressiveness in the future. Only those who pass the assessment can inherit "Solde" This honorable name. But what the patriarch at the time did not expect was that he had failed the examination as the second heir of the Shabo family. This incident disappointed him greatly, but it did not allow him to cancel the family motto. Instead, a new ancestral precept was added. No matter who they are, as long as they have the blood of the Shabo family in their bodies, they can participate in the assessment. Directly become the head of the Shabo family.

In this way, although the third patriarch of the Shabo family was still born later, he failed to obtain the honorable name of "Solde" until the birth of the fourth patriarch, who successfully passed the test and obtained the glory of Solder After the name, the Shabo family, which had already fallen to the point where it was about to fall out of the ranking of Ryan's top twelve noble families, returned to the second place.

This period was also the most glorious period for the Shabo family.

If Ryan hadn't been a subsidiary country of the Millennium Covenant Empire at that time, I'm afraid that the fifth patriarch of the Shabo family would not be just a marquis. But fortunately, the younger brother of the patriarch later also became a hereditary marquis with a territory. At that time, the young and middle-aged generation of the Shabo family had successively obtained the title of hereditary earl. .

It's a pity that the fifth heir of the Shabo family failed to pass the test in the end, and when the sixth patriarch came to power, the Shabo family started to eat their old roots again, and gradually ranked among the top twelve noble families. slide.

Until the appearance of Devin.

Devin Shabo is just an illegitimate child. Although the blood of the Shabo family does flow in his body, his identity has never been recognized, and he has been bullied by the family all the time. At that time, his half-brother had already entered the final stage of contention for the head of the family because of his noble birth. Afterwards, in a family conspiracy, this ruthless brother finally became the seventh head of the Shabo family.

On the first day that the head of the family took office, he ordered the killing of Dai Wen and his mother, but by accident, Dai Wen entered the assessment of Sodel's name of glory. According to the ancestral precepts of the Shabo family, no one is allowed to disturb or disturb the members of the Shabo family who are entering the assessment process, so when it was impossible to kill Dai Wen at that time, the seventh Patriarch directly killed Dai Wen mother. At the same time, it was also ordered that once Dai Wen's assessment was over, he should be killed immediately on the spot.

After all, at the time. No one is optimistic about Devin at all.

It's just that no one expected that one and a half months after entering the assessment of Sodel's name of glory, Dai Wen finally ended the assessment and returned with the name of glory like Soder.

This is a result that no one could have predicted.

However, the ancestral motto of the Shabo family has been written very clearly after all. Anyone who has the blood of the Shabo family in his body can participate in the assessment. Anyone can directly become the Patriarch of the Shabo family.

so. Devin Soder Shabo naturally became the seventh Patriarch of the Shabo family.

After learning that his mother died tragically, but his father did not say anything to persuade him to stay, Dai Wen's first family order was to execute his father, his younger brother, and the younger brother's mother. It's just that the situation at that time was quite complicated. After all, the younger brother's mother was not a small person, but came from the Rowlands family, which was also a twelve-ranked noble family. At that time, the Rowlands family sent people to negotiate.

It's just that Dai Wen, who was furious, didn't pay attention to these things at all, which eventually led to the break between the Shabo family and the Rowlands family. The two families then fought a civil war of immense proportions. The final result of this war was that the Shabo family won a brilliant victory with an overwhelming advantage, and the Rowlands family even directly fell out of the sequence of the top twelve nobles, if it weren't for the law of nobility and the intervention of the Lane royal family. , The Rowlands family will even be exterminated because of this.

But it was also because of this war that the nobles of the Ryan Principality could clearly see it. The sword of the Shabo family is still sharp.

And Devin Sordel Sappor even got the nickname "Bloody Marquis" because of this.

Of course, in the eyes of Rowlands or some people who dislike the Shabo family, it has become a "marquis murderer".

But no matter what, Devin Sordel Sappor still resisted the title of "Sword of Ryan".

And this time it was precisely because of Asuna's compromise. So this sharp sword of the Ryan Principality can finally be pointed at by soldiers.

After reading the letter delivered by the messenger, Dai Wen frowned slightly. The evil spirit on his body also became slightly stronger and awe-inspiring. He raised his head and glanced at the courier, the coercive power from the superior instantly made the courier's face extremely pale, but luckily Dai Wen didn't stay on him for too long, he just stared at him for so long. It moved away after a second, so that the messenger didn't faint on the spot.

Dai Wen is not just a lord.

As the sword of Ryan, he is also one of the seven sanctuary powerhouses of the Principality of Ryan. Although he is only a lower sanctuary, his personal strength has surpassed any patriarch in the history of the Shabo family. Even if it is the second and fourth Patriarch who inherits the name of "Sordel", his strength is still at the upper golden peak, so it is definitely not a good thing to be threatened by Dai Wen with such an aggressive and threatening aura .

"I have received the letter." After Dai Wen looked away, his eyes fell on the strategic map on the conference table, and then said in a deep voice, "You can go."

Dane's voice is a little hoarse, which is quite in line with Dane's current age. It's just that although his voice is a little hoarse, it doesn't sound weak at all, but full of vigor and vitality like a young man, which also means that Dane is very energetic.

But this is also a very normal thing.

Sacred domain experts, even if they are only low-ranking holy domains, can usually live for one or two hundred years, or even two hundred and thirty or forty years if there are no accidents. Usually, once promoted to a sanctuary strongman, his physical fitness and function will be greatly improved. It is also very common for the old to become a middle-aged person, and the middle-aged to become a young person. Of course, occasionally there will be some strong people who are not Strength would be wasted on reshaping the physical appearance.

Devin Sodel Shabo is such a strong man: he still maintains the appearance of a strong man who advanced to the lower sanctuary back then.

And usually such sanctuary powerhouses are usually crazy real fighters. After all, they didn't waste their power to reshape their physical appearance, so this part of their power was naturally used to improve their combat skills.

Facing such a strong man, the messenger who was just an ordinary person naturally didn't dare to say anything, and left immediately after nodding his head.

Wait until the messenger leaves. Others in the conference room looked at Dai Wen with curiosity.

Unexpectedly, the Sword of Ryan was straightforward, and directly threw the letter in his hand to the earl who came to fight on behalf of the Finnstein family this time. The latter took the letter curiously and read it through. His face turned ashen in an instant, and he slapped the table and stood up on the spot: "This Sean Connery is really deceiving people too much! Does he really think that he has the backing of Asuna?" Did you do whatever you want with no one in your eyes!"

"Please pay attention to your words, Earl Finlisting." Devin glanced at the other party, and then reminded, "Marquis Tonys is far above you in terms of title, status on the battlefield, and strength. If you I don’t want to provoke two political enemies to your family.”

Hear Devin's words. The earl of the Finnstein family felt cold.

Although there were quite a few nobles present, and although the Ivans family did not send a representative to fight, there were still many nobles present who had friendly relations with the Ivans family. Although Asuna has announced that she is leaving the Ivans family, she is the daughter of Commander Lloyd after all. To say that Asuna is a "" here is tantamount to provoking two Ivans families at the same time.

So he immediately understood that Dai Wen was using his prestige to suppress this matter.

If the thing about him calling Asuna "" is still spread. Then this is tantamount to offending the Shabo family, so whether to tell this matter to Asuna or Commander Lloyd, the nobles present must carefully weigh it in their hearts.

Of course, the people present were not fools. After hearing what the earl of the Finnstein family said just now, everyone understood to a certain extent.

obviously. The lord of the southern war zone, Sean Connery, even offended the Finnstein family this time. And before that, they all knew that Sean severely injured a viscount of the Shabo family. In this way, it is equivalent to Sean Connery, the lord of the Pandaland, who has offended two families of the twelfth-ranked nobles, so it is okay for Dawin to speak for the Earl of the Finnstein family. It is a matter of course.

And some nobles have even been keenly aware of it. When Dai Wen said this, it basically meant that the Shabo family had already sent an invitation to the Finnstein family to join forces.

"I'm sorry, Lord Devin. Please forgive my momentary slip of the tongue." The earl immediately apologized, "I also hope that everyone present can forgive me for my slip of the tongue just now. The main reason is that an earl in my family was brutally murdered, so..."

Having said that, the earl had already clenched his fists, his face full of anger.

But Devin glanced at the earl, and then stopped talking.

These superficial words are actually nonsense, but Devin still has to admire the prudence and... stupidity of the Earl of the Finnstein family.

What he said just now did have the flavor of an invitation to join hands, but the subtext of the earl's response was that his title was too low to make a decision. In this way, there is no need for Dai Wen to say anything more. He believes that the Finnristine family will never be able to swallow this breath, so the Finnestine family will definitely come to him to join forces in the end. After all, the members of his family That junior was only seriously injured, but this one from the Finlisting family was directly killed.

It's just that when the time comes, when the Finnestine family comes to talk to him, it's not that he invites Finnestine to join forces, but the Finnestine family will curry favor with him.

This is also the reason why Devin felt that the earl was stupid, for letting go of such a good opportunity out of thin air.

However, Devin didn't really care much about it.

Because this time he gave the order to mobilize the forces of the Sean Theater, it was not from his original intention, but the group of nobles in the Northwest Theater in front of him were dissatisfied with Sean as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Theater, but swallowed such a big battle. That's why some dark thoughts came up, and that's why there was that transfer order.

But as we all know, the commander of the Northwest Theater is actually just a gilded puppet, and the real commander is Devin Sordel Shabo. Therefore, the real function of this transfer order is only to reduce Xiao En's military exploits, thereby giving The nobles in the Northwest theater have more chances to share their military exploits equally. After all, they have already negotiated terms with Prince Cazes Hochdi to ensure the safety of the southern theater.

It's just that no one thought that Sean would be so extreme and crazy that he would directly kill the earl sent by the Finlisting family to be gilded.

To be honest, Dai Wen still appreciates this method, because it is indeed very courageous.

However, one must find a job in one's position, so no matter what Devin's thoughts are, he must express a clear attitude.

Almost as soon as he was thinking about it, the nobles in the command room who were good at all kinds of schemes and tricks had already planned a new conspiracy: fraudulent defeat.

Dane almost just glanced at the long red line drawn on the strategic map on the conference table, and he already knew what the beasts in human skins in the conference room wanted to do. If it is really a fraudulent defeat on this line of defense and a retreat of a hundred miles, then it is equivalent to completely exposing the entire southern theater to the eyes of the nobles in the northwest theater of Dabiang. Seeing the gap in this line of defense is like a hungry wolf seeing cooked meat.

Once those hungry wolves are allowed to enter the southern theater, nearly half of the territory in the entire southern theater will fall into the flames of war again.

Among them, the first to bear the brunt is Sean's foundation: Panda collar.

Of course, if such a situation occurs, then the Northwest Theater will definitely bear a large part of the responsibility.

But so what?

As long as they can regain these lost grounds in the end, the credit will still be theirs.

This is the ferocious and ugly face of nobles.

Dane Sodel Saber looked at these nobles who had already begun to quarrel over the territory in the southern war zone, with a sneer of disdain on his face.

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at the same time.

In the conference room, there was almost civil strife over the division of the territory of the southern war zone, especially who should own the final ownership of the Panda Territory, but the courier who was in charge of delivering the letter at the beginning rode a fast horse away from this place. camp.

While running, he took off the disguise on his face, revealing a slightly immature young face.

This person is obviously the leader of the Void Realm, Ruby.

When Ruby ran hundreds of meters away from the camp in one breath, the war horse under his crotch was finally so tired that he began to pant, and his running speed also began to decrease. But at this moment, two riders rushed out from the side, but unlike Ruby's image, these two riders were genuine knights. At this time, the two knights each led a horse and quickly approached Ruby, and one of them even led two horses. When the horses approached, Ruby jumped onto the other horse with one vertical leap, and then the three of them six The horse quickly moved away.

Soon, at nightfall, the three of them arrived at a camp.

This camp is obviously temporary, but in terms of scale, it is very rigorous and reasonable.

After entering the camp, Ruby immediately got off his horse and quickly ran towards the main tent in the middle.

There is only one person standing in the main tent.

Hella Garcia.

Facing this newly promoted one of the Big Three, Ruby immediately narrated everything he saw in the tent in the command room of the Northwest Theater today, without missing any details, even Dane staring at him. As well as how he felt at that moment, he clearly expressed it.

Soon, Hela finished listening to Ruby's narration.

And at this time, her eyes have narrowed slightly: "It seems that the old man has already seen through your identity, so he didn't let you stay there. But do you think I won't know their plan like this? Hmph, How naive...It seems that they will soon choose to feign defeat on the battlefield and let Dabion's mad dogs go to Panda, and our plan must be stepped up." (To be continued. If you If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)

PS: Well, it seems that I still can't repay the debt tonight. ... Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are also busy, so entangled.