Realm of Power

Kotes, the person in charge of Merkgar, looked solemnly at the door of the conference hall that was pushed open by the guards, revealing a man with a face full of shame. The appearance of this person made the hall fall silent. The coalition generals sitting on both sides There was a look of disbelief written all over his face. This was a person who shouldn't have appeared here, but the other party just showed up, and he appeared in a very ironic identity, the Empire's special envoy to persuade surrender.

"It's Mr. Spencer from the base camp!"

"What's going on? Didn't you say he was the empire's envoy to persuade him to surrender? How could he be Mr. Spencer from the base camp!"

"Asshole, are you betraying me?" Seeing the appearance of the people who came in, many generals immediately stood up with dull expressions, subconsciously wanting to salute, completely unable to believe that in terms of status, they still need to ask Spencer Spencer is saluting. Spencer is an important figure in the coalition base camp. The general is not comparable to the logistics generals in front of us. If the coalition base camp retreats, it is not surprising to see Spencer. The problem is that outside Merkgar City, except for the emperor, there is no shadow of the coalition base camp. That's Where did Spencer come from?

"Don't speculate anymore. Yes, the base camp has withdrawn south, and I surrendered in Maitan City!"

With a heavy look of guilt on his face, Spencer took a deep breath, smiled bitterly and said slowly, "I'm here this time, you can say, to persuade you to surrender, or you can say I'm here to inform you, it doesn't matter how you interpret it. After saying what needs to be said, even if you order my execution immediately, I will not complain at all!" Spencer's words stunned the excited coalition generals. . .

"Traitor, what else do you have to say!" |

"The base camp. Did you sell the base camp too?"

"Everyone be quiet, let him speak." Kotez waved his hands to the generals to quiet them down, then stood up with a serious face, pressed the surrender letter heavily on the table with both hands, and said coldly, "If If I hadn't heard the city guard report that it was you, Spencer, I wouldn't have let any of the emperor's envoys enter the city. Now that you have a death consciousness, let's just listen to what this coalition traitor has to say. !

"You all still stick to Merkgar's determination under the pressure of the imperial army, which really makes Spencer feel ashamed. Because of this, I took the initiative to ask to go to the city to persuade you to surrender!" Spencer said calmly, with a self-deprecating tone in his tone. said

"Are you kidding? Do you think everyone is a fool? How could the emperor let you enter Merkgar alone! You came here because you wanted to please your new master," a coalition general said angrily. in thoughts. When Spencer surrendered to the empire, he needed a meeting gift. Most likely, he regarded Merkgar as his entry point. Spencer did not refute the insults he exchanged with this general.

Time was very tight, and he couldn't delay in this kind of wrangling. Surrendering the Empire 1 also made him see clearly how terrible the Empire was, and also let him know how many troops the Empire used this time. He was completely shocked. Seven One hundred thousand front-line combat troops, not including the navy. The main force of the empire, 300,000 strong, is sweeping towards the south.

He took the initiative to ask to enter Merkgar to persuade him to surrender, and the emperor agreed without any hesitation. They were not afraid that he would fall out immediately after entering Merkgar. That was because of Merkgar's persistence. To the emperor, it was just He could easily crush it with one finger. It would be useless even if he hid in Merkgar, and the intelligence from the empire shocked him even more. The mountain-solid Anlusu fell overnight, and 200,000 elite coalition troops were burned to pieces by the emperor. An even more ironic news made Spencer feel completely chilled, and he went south to rescue Merck. Gal's coalition forces did not take the Mekgar route, but detoured through Custa City. At this time, even a fool knew that the main force of these coalition forces detoured through Custa City. There was no intention to rescue Merkgar at all, but he was preparing to sneak around the mountain road in Kusta City.

Spencer told everything he knew. There was silence in the hall. The coalition generals didn't know whether they should believe this information. Everyone looked at Kotez.

"Spencer, do you think these words of yours will make us surrender? Are you dreaming? I don't believe what you say at all? If the emperor had so many troops, he would have attacked Merkgar long ago! Someone, will "Detain this traitor!" Kotez said. He sneered repeatedly and asked the guards to escort Spencer down with a look of disbelief. He couldn't let this guy talk any more. Otherwise, Cortes didn't know if he could still persist. In fact, in everyone's heart, I vaguely feel like Spencer What he said may be true. The emperor's siege of Merkgar was to attract the coalition base camp to return. The entire trapped Merkgar defenders knew this, but they were still full of expectations for the coalition base camp. Hope, everyone is holding on desperately waiting for help, and the base camp will never come to the rescue. This kind of fluke mentality makes everyone ignore another possibility, that is, the coalition base camp abandons Merkgar and allows Merkgar to become An obstacle that delayed the emperor's march south,

The coalition base camp should also have noticed this, so they chose to go around. This is an understandable modification from a strategic perspective. The problem is that psychologically, if the tens of thousands of coalition troops who are still clinging to Merkgar will Knowing this news, I'm afraid they will mutiny immediately! Kotez's eyebrows were tightly knitted together, and his gaze fell on the messy streets outside through the glass window. The situation in the city was already about to get out of control. Many generals were complaining that they had been cheated, just because of the city. The emperor outside has not attacked, so everyone can barely hold on as a group and hold on. Inwardly, they are looking forward to the rescue from the base camp, but now. . . . . .

Kotez's mouth was filled with bitterness. Why, why did this war turn out like this? He knew that he had no more questions to ask, because the generals of the six countries of the coalition died in Anlusu. Just by taking a detour with the base camp to escape, Merkgar was abandoned, or in other words, was thrown out by the coalition base camp as a bait to attract the emperor's main force!

"My lord. What should we do?"

In the silent hall, the faces of the coalition generals turned pale. People's hearts are already in chaos. If Anlusu is really doomed, it is certain that the emperor's main force will take advantage of the victory and go south. Spencer said that he surrendered in Maitan City, which is not very far from Mekgar. It means that the emperor's main force will arrive in the blink of an eye. The base camp actually abandoned Merkgar. Is it really necessary to rely on a group of incompetent logistics soldiers to resist the empire's army of tigers and wolves?

"My lords, I feel a little unwell, so I'm leaving first!" A coalition general stood up with a stern expression, turned around and left, as if his butt was burned by fire. Now is not the time to be polite. The main force of the emperor has not yet arrived, so the most important thing is to leave Mekgar immediately.

"Oops. I forgot that there are still some supplies in the military camp that have not been processed. I need to deal with them!" Another coalition general stood up, and soon, more people came to their senses. If someone takes the lead, more people will stand up. There are various reasons. It's too late to worry about the so-called face. Didn't you hear that the emperor has passed Maitan, very quickly. Mekgar is at the gate of the city.

More than half of the people in the hall left, until only two or three people were left in the hall, the remaining generals finally stood up.

They looked at Kotes, who was sitting silently on the main seat, and wanted to open their mouths, but found that they didn't know what to say. Everyone knew that Kotes, as a high-ranking official in the Order State, would not surrender, but We don’t want to continue to sit still and wait for death and become the burial objects of Kotez. If it weren’t for Kotez’s obstruction, everyone would have evacuated in the front, and we would not be in this situation now. In such a situation, the idea of ​​​​breaking out and fleeing south before the main army of the empire has arrived has nothing to do with courage. It is entirely due to the huge gap in strength. One of the coalition generals looked ashamed. He wanted to say that most of the generals were too. There is no way. In front of the main force of the empire, holding on to Merkgar is a joke. The emperor has thunder gods and incendiary bombs. Didn't you hear what Spencer said? An Lusu was burned to ashes. How could Merkgar be more powerful than An Lusu's 200,000 elite coalition troops? But when these words came to his lips, looking at Kotez's resolute face, he trembled a little, "Sir, so many main battle units have been defeated, and we motley crew are really..."

"Your consideration is correct. It's still too late to leave now, otherwise it will be too late."

Kotez waved to them calmly. It wasn't until everyone left that he leaned on the chair alone and looked at the white sky in the distance. There was a trace of relief and calmness on his slightly pale face. When he secretly pulled tens of thousands of coalition troops to defend Mekgar, he knew that the good reputation he had accumulated throughout his life had been completely ruined. However, facing the potentially tilted battle situation, he believed that he had no regrets and only To be able to save the base camp and give the base camp a chance to retreat, he would lose his reputation if he lost it. But now, he realized that he had taken it for granted. After all, he was not a commander with a military background, so he still couldn't do it. As ruthless as a real soldier, in order not to fall into the emperor's trap, the base camp completely abandoned Merkgar. In this case, why should more people be buried with him?

"Sir, it's completely chaotic outside. The generals are gathering troops and fighting to grab things!" An hour later, the adjutant walked in with a hurried look. "It has been spread throughout the city that the coalition base camp has abandoned Merkgar." , hundreds of thousands of troops are coming."

"Don't worry about them. You have people prepare more fuel for the fire. Tonight, we will set off a big fire and tell the generals that if they are really blocked by the emperor halfway, surrender! Just say it was my order. Order, if you want to be held responsible afterwards, blame it on me. After all, it was because of me that everyone did this!" Kotez lowered his head! He leaned his head on the chair and held in his hand a stapled book that was read by the most common priests of the Order. He was flipping through it calmly. He never thought that he was a soldier or a priest, so he still carried it with him. Or the priest's book, and this priest's book has been with him for forty years, and the cover of the book has been rubbed by the years and is as smooth as grease.

Merkgar would choose to burn the city at night. Indeed, Hu Keqili and Varisien did not expect that the chaotic coalition forces breaking out of the city happened to collide with the imperial infantry group heading south. Although they were all defeated, and There were countless prisoners, but they invisibly slowed down the Imperial infantry group's march towards Crow Pass.

At Crow Pass, the coalition generals stared at the imperial cavalry running back and forth at the mountain pass in the distance. Their eyes were already red. They had been delayed here for a day. One of the sturdy coalition generals swallowed unwillingly. "After passing the order, whoever opens the door first will be rewarded with 20,000 gold coins!" In front of him, a whole The heavy infantry of the team was marching into the mountain road in formation. The entire mountain road was now turned into blood. There were corpses lying everywhere. The heavy infantry who entered had turned a blind eye to this. Their heavy iron boots stepped over the corpses. In the past, streaks of blood were dragged out on the mountain road covered with blood, and blood-colored smoke hung over the mountain pass for a long time. The sun was setting in the west, and the sunlight reflected the blood in the smoke even more intensely. There were so many corpses of men and horses that the dry ground was covered with puddles of blood.

The coalition forces were ready to fight. After a brief hesitation, they realized that the Imperial Cavalry had not entered the mountain road. They immediately realized that the Imperial Cavalry had blocked the exit of the mountain road. The enemy was waiting for the infantry.

"How can this work!" The coalition generals suddenly became impatient. They were not fools. They knew very well that once the imperial infantry group arrived, even if there was a mountain road, it would be difficult to escape the fate of being completely annihilated. Some people proposed to retreat, but they were stopped by the base camp. The generals denied it and retreated from the mountain road to the city of Cuesta, which had been massacred and burned. The mess and blood there was so bloody that even the coalition forces themselves were unwilling to see it a second time.

Since they can't retreat, they can only move forward. Thinking that the main force of the emperor is frantically pressing towards the pass, and that behind the mountain pass are the relatively safe hills of southern Istan, the eyes of the coalition generals are already red. At this time Every second is like a rope tightening around their necks. No one knows when the main force of the imperial infantry will arrive!

The fat man stared at the new reinforcements of the coalition forces on the opposite side, and his eyebrows couldn't help but twist slightly, what the hell! It's this time, why hasn't Varician arrived yet? Once it gets dark, the coalition forces will definitely press forward with all their strength to fight a bloody path in the dark. The cavalry have already shot almost as many arrows. At night, it's just hand-to-hand fighting. Kill, even if the coalition forces can be eaten in the end, the losses will not be small! (To be continued. (.))

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