Realm of Power

In the winter season, the white snow fell, and the Slavic offensive completely stopped. "The Slavic people should be almost unable to bear it!" Under Fatty's combat intention, Salon personally led a hundred black-armored soldiers close to them the next day. The cavalry came out of the gate of the city wall and saw what was inside the city wall. When the cavalry came out, the Slavs on the opposite side looked ashen. According to normal circumstances, they should light up torches and report to the rear at this time. However, the severe cold caused the wood on the sentry tower to burn out long ago. Looking at the cavalry attacking from a distance, a I was so frightened that I didn’t even dare to chew the air.

There are only three people in each sentry tower. They are originally used for surveillance and have no combat capabilities. If they encounter a strong attack, they will be dead.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Salon was obviously dissatisfied. He specially found the largest sentry tower and ordered his subordinates to stop their horses. He raised his hand to indicate that a translator seconded from the Fifth Army came out of the cavalry queue.

The translator raised his head, raised his voice to the top of the sentry post, and shouted with all his strength, "People inside, listen, tell your people, in three days, right here, we will conduct armistice negotiations! If you don't come, then Let’s wait until spring comes tomorrow!”

"Did you hear that? It seems they are talking about armistice negotiations?" The Slavs looked at each other. Someone showed half of his head from the sentry tower. He glanced at the black cavalry below with a pale face, and then shrank back in fear.

"There won't be any problem. Not everyone is deaf!"

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"This should be enough!" Salon glanced at the position where the crossbow arrow hit, said to himself, and led the cavalry away impatiently.

Looking at the black cavalry whizzing away, the Slavs in the guard tower breathed a sigh of relief. The officer in charge of the guard tower quickly came to the wooden frame. After looking at it suspiciously for a while, he used both hands to forcefully lift the arrow cluster stuck on it. Pull it off and take off the scroll tied to it. The scroll is written in Cyrillic script, which the officer can easily understand. He felt the seriousness of the incident with just one glance, and immediately put it down with a solemn expression. The paper was rolled up and carefully wrapped in an animal skin.

"Someone, bring me Sven IV! I must go to the base camp immediately," the officer shouted excitedly to his subordinates, "Sir, have you forgotten?" Sven IV has been eaten by your order! "The soldier replied with an ugly face, Sven IV is the name of a horse. Horses are valuable materials in the eyes of the Slavs. Even the frontline sentry only has a three-year-old adult horse used to convey messages, but in In times of hunger and cold, it’s difficult to preserve such supplies, right?” Have I ever given such an order? The officer was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "Hey, it seems we can only leave!" ""What is the content? "The soldiers asked "It's hope, hope to live! "The officer raised the animal skin wrapped in the document in his hand and responded loudly that he did not dare to delay any more. He walked back to the base camp ten miles away. In the afternoon, the negotiation document was delivered to the leader of the Slavs.

"What do you think about the other party's request for negotiation?"

In some cold tents, bright campfires shone on the faces of the Slavic leaders, mixed with low dry coughs. All the leaders crowded into the tents, and the rare light made the hungry faces of everyone look rosier.

There are millions of Slavs, but most of them are old, weak, women and children without any fighting ability. These people are not concentrated on the front line, but are distributed over hundreds of square kilometers behind the Slav combat troops. The real front-line soldiers are only 200,000. about,

In the first battle, 3 heads were killed and more than 30,000 fighting young men were lost. This really shocked the Slavs. If the battle continues like this, it will cost at least 100,000 to capture the terrible city wall. The lives of those who came south were here to survive, not to die! "I don't think there is a need for negotiation! As long as we find out the way to the east, we can go around it!" the headed man whispered. As Julius Forborg said, the tenacity of the Slavs is amazing , is a nation that has never lacked brave men. When they found that the way forward was impassable, the Slavs naturally made plans to take a detour.

On the one hand, they deployed a large army on the front, and on the other hand, they sent a small force to the barrier mountains to the east. Judging from the news sent back, the Gallic Empire had almost no troops in the barrier mountains, but the threat from the long wall was like A sharp sword prevented the Slavic army from making any movement. Some small elite units had entered the barrier mountain range. This small elite unit was responsible for finding a passage in the barrier mountainous area.

"It is still unknown whether the road to the east can be opened. Are we going to keep wasting it like this?" The leader's tone was unkind. The Slavic leaders were surprised by the initiative of the Great Wall to initiate negotiations, but they were also obviously very moved.

It was freezing cold, and millions of people were stranded here. In order to obtain food, all the grass roots in a radius of fifty miles were dug up. The weather was so cold that the nearby forests had been cut down by the Slavs long ago, leaving only the mud. covered with bare wooden piles,

With a few snowfalls, even the wooden piles have now been dug out for food. The team looking for wood for heating has traveled a distance of 200 miles, but still found nothing. The desolation of the northwest has made the Slavs The situation is becoming increasingly difficult,

Every day, people froze to death in the cold wind and starved to death. The wounded soldiers brought infectious diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Thousands of Slavs fell. Even if they were isolated, there was nothing they could do.

In the dark night, some fires burned alone, making the crackling sound of burning grease. The strong smell of heat made people want to vomit. No one wanted to get close to these fires, even if they were trembling with cold and curled up together. Go and get warm, for it is a corpse-burning fire, the flame of death,

This is the struggle of a nation. The leaders know very well that the long wall cannot stop them. Their biggest enemy is not the long wall, but time and the cold of winter!

"No matter what, we will not suffer any loss from this negotiation!" With this thought, the Slavs agreed to the negotiation, and within the long wall, as for the candidate for negotiation, the fat man finally chose the bold, careful and shameless candidate. of Salon,

Although Duo Ze is a civil servant, he is still not as strong as a military general on how to be aggressive in negotiations and bring the momentum of the battlefield to the negotiation field.

In a sense, this time, this is not about negotiation, but about forcing the Slavs to make a final choice, whether to make a desperate move through the barrier mountains and march into the hinterland of the empire, or whether everyone should continue to waste their money like this! (To be continued...)