Realm of Power

Three days after sending off Julius Ford, large numbers of refugees began to appear outside the capital of Bangor. These hungry people, whose faces were the color of dead leaves, were like ghosts surrounding the woods outside Bangor. At first, he was very afraid of the Falcon Army in the city. After all, the brutality of the Falcon Army had already made everyone The people of Bangor were all frightened, but as more and more refugees came in, the situation became less so. The refugees went from waiting and watching at the beginning to circling the city from a distance, round and round, Another circle, another circle, another circle, another circle, never ending, one group comes and goes around for half a day, and another group comes and goes around for half a day,

In just ten days, the number of refugees increased exponentially, from 1,000 to 10,000, and finally more than 20,000.

It was completely dark, and in the severe cold of hunger and thirst, these refugees gathered together, digging for grass roots and hunting small prey to satisfy their hunger. According to reports from outside the city, the reason why so many refugees suddenly appeared was entirely because of other people in Bangor. The small game and wild vegetables in the area have basically been eaten up. Only the capital of Bangor still retains a large part of edible wild food due to the brutal expulsion.

"Your Majesty, I think relief should be launched immediately! Otherwise, all the refugees outside the city may die."

With a worried look on his face, Duo Zai found the fat man who was reviewing documents in the study. He knew that the 600,000 kilograms of frozen fish that the army had just transported from the Ohacha region had arrived in Bangor the day before yesterday.

But for some reason, Fatty kept holding on and did not order any rescue.

"Relief requires the willingness of the other party!" The fat man raised his head from the desk, put down the pen in his hand, glanced out the window, and said coldly, "What do you think of the relocation order just issued?"

"I don't quite understand what Your Majesty means?" Duo Ze's face was unexpectedly stunned. Does relief have anything to do with the relocation order?

Duozhe said with some hesitation, "According to my observation, it seems that the Bangor people are not very resistant to the migration order! If the warehouses can be opened to release grain, I believe everything will calm down soon!" "You see It must be the situation in the capital! "The fat man looked solemn. Merging the documents in his hands, he stood up and stretched. "What you see now in the city is completely different from what you see outside the city. Because the previous war did not affect the city, the resistance to us in the capital city is actually not Big, but the refugees outside the city are another matter.

Don’t forget who originally burned down their houses, robbed them of their food, and drove them all to the capital of Bangor. It's us! Now they have to be forcibly removed from their homeland again." The fat man paused and shrugged. "In their eyes, our Falcon Army may be more deserving of hatred than Francis! "The fat man said with an emphasis on

"This..." Duo Ze's face was filled with astonishment. He really didn't expect this. For such an area that has great hatred for the Falcon Army, His Majesty Falcon's approach is much better than his own.

The fat man paused and took a deep breath. "Choose to open a warehouse for relief when they are still enemies. That is asking for trouble! Don't you find it strange? These refugees have been gathering outside the city for a few days, and they are getting more and more together." More and more, but no one dares to come, why? Our city gate is open without any obstruction!"

"They should still be afraid of us!" Duo Ze said uncertainly.

"Afraid? Are you kidding me?" The fat man curled his lips in disdain. Picked up a document from the table and handed it to Duozhi who was opposite him. "Compared to being so hungry that you can even eat people, what is fear? If you look at this, you will think so!"

The reality is worse than we believe! Fortunately, I was prepared. I have ordered Ohacha to completely block the connecting road, and mobilized two flag regiments of the Southern Army to be deployed east of the capital of Bangor, if there is any change. I won't mind using violent means to quell this storm! This migration is related to the layout of the entire northwest, and I will never allow anyone to come out and cause damage! "

"Is this?" Duozhi took it curiously.

"Reports from refugees outside the city," the fat man said with a calm face and cold eyes, "There are also some of our people among the refugees! According to the news, these refugees are now led by some former manor nobles.

They own fields and land. Although they fled due to the famine, their land is still there. As long as the famine is over, they can continue to be the owners of their manor. Naturally, they are also the group of people who are most resistant to the relocation order!

If they migrate and lose their land and fields, they will be like everyone else, so they have all the refugees gather to put pressure on us. If we open warehouses to release grain now, who will be willing to leave their homes and move to other places! "The fat man had cold eyes and stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back.

Duozhi looked at the generous back of the fat man. In the city outside the window, the houses with steeple roofs and slanted tiles were densely packed together. It is conceivable that when the relocation order is implemented, many houses here will be empty, but if relocation is not adopted to remove the refugees Diversion, people who die due to famine will probably turn this city into a dead city!

Duo Ze struggled with his expression for a while, and finally said boldly, "I am willing to leave the city in person. I believe that most refugees are still willing to move in order to survive!"

"Are you going to the refugees? You know, you may not be able to come back!" The fat man turned around and looked at Duo Ze with a sword-like gaze. This thin imperial minister had an admirable aura on his face. " After all, the Bangor people are already His Majesty's subjects! If you look at them like this, I will really feel uneasy!" Duo Ze looked solemn, with a wry smile on his face, and the fat man looked at him with determination. A strange emotion flashed through Duo Ze's eyes, and the anger in his heart finally subsided, "I didn't expect you to be such a good person!" The fat man sighed helplessly, patted Duo Ze's thin shoulder heavily, and said lightly, "Look For your sake, I won’t be as knowledgeable as them. It’s too dangerous to go out of the city. Tomorrow, send someone to set up thirty large pots on the city gate and cook thirty pots of fish soup!”

"Fish soup?" Duozhi looked stunned.

"Thirty big pots of fish soup, it must be very fragrant!" The fat man smiled inexplicably at the corner of his mouth. Duo Zai was a truly smart man. His eyes lit up and he said, "Yes, it must be very fragrant. This kind of taste is not what you want." The lives of those hungry people are better than watching them being used!" Fatty and Duo Ze looked at each other and laughed.

In the early morning, before it gets dark, thirty cauldrons set up at the city gate are already sizzling hot steam on the fire.

"Come on, push it in!" the soldiers shouted, pushing large pieces of frozen sea fish into the huge pot like pushing live ammunition. There was half a pot of water and various unknown things in it. Big chunks of seasoning.

Because most of the food in this era was cooked, the so-called pot was not an iron pot or a triangular shallow pot, but a clay pot that was half a meter high and looked like a casserole. The bottom was fixed with a three-legged iron frame. Such pots are very common in the army. Duo Ze was very willing to find thirty large pots. By the way, even the cooks were found from the army, and several of them were His Majesty Falcon's "royal cooks"

Duo Ze himself was busy at the city gate. The flames were blown by the wind in the wilderness and licked the bottom of the pot. The smell of fresh fish soup was like crackling and bursting in the air. The large pieces of fish had thawed with the heating. As the soup in the pot rolls up and down,

The white fish meat is as white and flawless as a large piece of emerald. Compared with the excitement of Duo Ze commanding back and forth, the actions of the military cooks are even more outrageous. They followed the instructions of the Governor of Normandy and used spoons as big as human heads to continuously scoop up the fragrant fish soup in the pot. Then it fell into the pot again, and the milky white soup looked like a series of colorful waterfalls in the morning sun.

"It's really life-threatening!"

The fat man watched Gulu on the city wall and swallowed his saliva. The cook had been borrowed by Duoze, and no one even made breakfast.

The fat man looked at the tumbling fish pieces in the cauldron in pain, and suddenly felt that fire was really a good thing. It made the food edible and at the same time increased its aroma tenfold or a hundredfold, making everything shine.

The alluring aroma rises with the morning breeze blowing through the city gate, and is blown to the wilderness outside.

"It smells so good! What a smell!"

The refugees who were still sleeping raised their faces, waving their hungry noses greedily at the sky and the air. When they got up from the ground, they staggered as if they were drunk. There were hundreds of people, regardless of age or sex, and the wilderness in the distance seemed to be suddenly filled with people.

The thirty cauldrons on the fire in the distance made all the refugees swallow hard.

"It's really killing people!" A young man who was extremely hungry began to stagger towards the city gate first, "Bozhlev, are you crazy? You will be killed!" A man wearing A relatively good person stopped him. "No matter what, even if it means death, I will take another bite!" In the young man's hungry and yellow pupils, there were only steaming big eyes. The pot, the strong aroma even made some hungry people faint. I don’t know where the strength came from, and pushed away the person who was blocking him. "Yeah, they will die anyway!" Seeing someone moving forward, refugees began to flow in. When it started to move, behind the young man, there was a black wave composed of thousands of people. There were even more people, even blocking the view in front.

"Put up a cordon!"

Two thousand heavy infantrymen of the Falcon Army formed a battle formation. The shield wall composed of tall heavy shields shone with the cold light of metal. The spears protruded like a huge thorn wall. Behind the spear formation were 1,500 The famous crossbowman said, "Oh my god, it's the army!"

The refugees were in a commotion and hesitated to move forward. The murderous military formation was like a blade, causing the refugee team to pause.

They looked at each other, no one knew how to respond, withdraw? But the big pot in front was too tempting. The refugees’ eyes were like nails stuck on it, and they couldn’t pull it out. “Mom, I’m hungry!” The child’s weak voice finally made a skinny man look like a skeleton. The young woman stepped forward, the brilliance of motherly love making the other side feel cold and chilly. The sword didn't look so scary, "Let me pass, as long as you give my child a bite to eat, you can kill me!" The skeleton-like young woman knelt down tremblingly in front of the army, "Let her pass. "The officer leading the team couldn't bear to look away, and the troops dispersed to both sides.

"Everyone, keep order. We are not hostile. Those who are willing to move, please move forward. Those who are unwilling, please turn around! We will never force it!" A dozen specially selected soldiers with loud voices stood on a makeshift platform at the city gate. Some refugees hesitated, but most of them still moved forward. In order to survive, who cares whether they migrate or not? Thirty cauldrons are obviously unable to handle tens of thousands of people.

Soon, more pots were set up, and the smell of fish soup filled the city. So much so that the capital of Bangor was later jokingly called "Fish Soup City". However, more people who experienced that disaster had their own opinions on this name. understanding!

In the eyes of these people, fish soup is the most beautiful thing in the world. It has virtually saved a city.

More and more refugees were arriving, and Duo Zai was busy going back and forth to deal with it. It was noon. The number of refugees still stranded in the woods opposite has dropped sharply from more than 20,000 to 2,000. The refugees have been resettled into areas that have been vacated long ago in the city. Tomorrow, these refugees will be diverted according to the plan. There is a risk of unrest. It was passing by, and by evening, there were less than a hundred refugees in the woods outside the city.

The woods illuminated by the setting sun. Different from the tranquility in the past, the withered yellow branches are still covered with white, and for the first time a faint green appears, in the depth of winter. It is also the time when spring is coming.

"Asshole! How could this happen? Don't these short-sighted people know that if they leave, they will never come back?" In the woods. A dozen or so decently dressed people looked helpless as they saw that the situation was over. Finally, he also walked towards the city gate.

At the city gate, a group of black cavalry came galloping at the same time. "Kim, Zhizev, Ogus, Ralph...!" The black-armored cavalry stopped in front of more than a dozen people, glanced over, and took the Make a list and read, "In the name of His Majesty the Falcon, I announce that you are under arrest!"

It was a bad day, indeed for the so-called "foodie" Fatty. The cook was borrowed, and the Fatty went to a tavern in the city to have a meal. He was told that because of the food shortage, the tavern only served ale and some wild vegetables. No. "If I had known this, I wouldn't have done this!" The fat man innocently chewed the hard-to-swallow wild vegetables. His mouth was full of bitter taste. The fat man, who had never been reduced to such a situation even during the march, now really wanted to point his fingers to the sky. "I knew it, this It’s a good year for good people to suffer!”

The end of December passed painfully like this,

Refugees from Bangor began to fill the northwest coast. More than 40,000 Southwest Army prisoners worked hard to build roads in the winter snow. Finally, all the Slavs on the northern border were gone.

Julius Forteau, who quietly entered Beijing, suddenly made an outcry at the Gallic Emperor's royal meeting, denounced the heavy persecution of the Alger family, and finally the Gallic Emperor ordered Algernon Pétain to suspend his duties.

Julius Fort took this opportunity to enter the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Gallic Empire. Although he has not yet been appointed as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Military Affairs, news has been revealed that Julius Fort will serve in the name of Undersecretary of the Army of the Ministry of Military Affairs. , serves as the head of the Southwest Region!

It's so pitiful. When he heard the news, the fat man had just signed his name on the new site selection report for Atwood Sea City, and then he jumped up. What the hell, the little emperor of Gaul is too insidious. Come on, I finally stuffed Julius Fort back, and stuffed it back right away,

The new sea city will be located 50 miles north of its original location, thus forming a super-large joint port with the original Rwanaka Port. In this area, Fatty plans to build two large military ports in succession. With three to four civilian ports, the entire area will become a veritable sea city and a maritime super fortress controlled by the Falcon Empire in the northwest region. Once war requires it, the Imperial Navy and various transport fleets will provide sufficient support.

In January, the war finally broke out. Fatty, who was supervising the construction of Xinhai City, was very happy to see the news that the Slavs appeared in the hinterland of the Gallic Empire. The extraordinary Slavs, like a hungry tiger, took over the northern part of the Gallic Empire. In these two areas, the Gallic Empire immediately exploded. No one knew where so many northern Slavs came from.

The Empire was stationed in the first place, and the Third Army was ordered to go north. More than 150,000 regular troops set off from Kyoto in the Gallic Empire. The Fat Man was waiting, waiting for the news that Julius Fort had come out of the mountain. As a man with the Slavs The imperial general who had been fighting for half his life would definitely be reused by the little emperor of Gaul at this time of crisis. But unfortunately, the fat man received news from the southwest.

The Confederate Empire assembled 150,000 troops and crossed the southern border of the Gallic Empire. The Southwest Army rose up to fight. The two armies fought fiercely on the border. Although the main force of the Southwest Army suffered heavy losses,

However, relying on the strong fortresses built in the past dynasties in the southwest, the army of the Gangfei Empire was actually blocked by the Southwest Army. It can be seen that the combat power of the Southwest Army is still strong. However, in terms of navy, due to the lack of opponents who can compete with it, the Gangfei Empire's The fleet had already marched in, and something happened that made Fatty most unhappy. Julius Fort, who was thought to be sent to fight the Slavs, turned out to be just as rumored, and was appointed to serve as the person in charge of the Southwest District.

"You don't play like this!" The fat man had the urge to hit the wall head first. Among the shocking news in January, not all was unfortunate.

Mao Monaqing, who Fatty had been waiting for day and night, finally arrived in Normandy. The accompanying personnel included "Princess Rui Tangtina of the East Court, Princess Ceris of the West Court, Dillensqisi of the Dillens family, Jonesnili of the Jones family, and Chief of the Palace Guards Isamore"

"Okay, this is a group of wives traveling together!" Fatty blinked innocently, his mind was full of confusion. There were so many wives representing various forces, what was going on! (To be continued...)