Realm of Power

Fraser's Border City, Abigail

The sentry tower covered with green vines showed an irregular angular shape in the distance. In the rain, the gray spiers of the city houses stood quietly at the entrance of this majestic mountain range.

A young officer wearing a straight black military uniform with a silver rusty collar looked a little anxious and said to the back of a middle-aged man standing by the window of the room, "Sir Ferrietri, we can't wait any longer. The royal guards of the royal capital have been dispatched. The royal capital is now an empty city. It only needs to mobilize 30 to 50 thousand people to make it happen." "Recruit 30,000 to 50,000 people, are you kidding me?" The middle-aged man standing in front of the window turned around. The clear wine glass in his hand swayed rhythmically, and the golden Bordeaux in the glass hit the glass. On the wall, circles of water formed to block it, and with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, "What I am facing are the eight countries of the Central Alliance." With an army of 200,000 and a defensive front of more than 50 miles, you know what the consequences will be if the opponent seizes the opportunity and directly uses force against the royal family. Have you ever thought about the consequences of this? The Royal Guards have been transferred? , but the 100,000 direct troops stationed on the northern coast can reach the royal capital in only three days." "I am just here to inform you on behalf of Mr. Cooley that the Falcon Empire Navy has broken through the kingdom's defense line on the west coast. The navy suffered heavy losses in the battle and has already evacuated to the south." The young officer looked at the middle-aged man. , said word for word

"What, the navy has withdrawn!" The middle-aged man looked shocked, and the wine glass in his hand broke into pieces, leaving the golden wine on the ground. Feize's navy does not belong to the military, but to the royal family, so there are many Feize's navy He also often engaged in smuggling and piracy, and was notorious as a bandit of Gibraltar.

"The Imperial Navy is indeed the overlord of the sea. It was just a surprise attack. ↑, which paralyzed most of the Royal Navy and sank, and the rest withdrew to the south." The young officer's mouth curled up with no concealment, and his voice paused. After a pause, he said, "I believe your Excellency also knows that the Falcon Emperor's Army has become quite proficient in landing operations. Just rely on The local army is afraid that it will not be able to stop the other side. Your fiefdom seems to be in Rudarai Province, which is near the coast. There are also many military adults whose fiefdoms are basically close to the coastline. Mr. Kure asked me to report to him. Sir, please tell me something. If you can move it, move it immediately. Soon it will no longer be Feize’s land..." "What do you mean?"

The middle-aged man's expression changed slightly, and he interrupted the young officer to continue. He snorted heavily, "You have also seen the situation here. Although it seems calm now, once it starts, there will be hundreds of thousands of people who will not stop fighting." The fighting of the army and the gap created by the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops will become the weakness of the opponent's full attack, and the whole army will collapse at that time! beginning. His eyes flashed and he said

"Consider?" The middle-aged man's eyes were piercing, and a bright light flashed like lightning, the young officer said Kurei. It's Kurei, the intelligence minister of the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "This is what Kurei specially asked me to bring to you." The young officer took out a document from his arms and stood at attention. Salute to the middle-aged man, then turn around and leave,

"This is it!" The middle-aged man opened the file with a serious look, glanced over it, and a trace of astonishment flashed across his face. After more than ten seconds, he pressed the file in his hand heavily on the table and took it off the hanger. Wearing uniforms, he came to the door and ordered to the attendant outside, "Instruct the generals of all armies to come here to hold a combat meeting." "A combat meeting?"

The attendant at the door stood straight and did not dare to take a breath. He thought he had heard wrongly. It had been a month since the army had been confronting the central coalition forces. The two sides were watching like this. His Excellency just arranged a defense and did not do anything. A war meeting has been held, but today... the attendant thought of the way the king's envoy left just now, and couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his heart. Is there really going to be a fight? "Yes, combat meeting,"

The middle-aged man had an angry look on his face, and his upper body was very stout. When he put on his uniform, he looked like an iron tower with a wide top and a narrow bottom. There was an old scar on his forehead, like a centipede, which made him look like a centipede. He has the temperament of a military commander who has fought many battles. He is not angry and assertive. Just his gaze is enough to make ordinary officers feel suffocating pressure.

His name is Feletri, the minister of affairs of the Kingdom of Fezer who commands 200,000 Fezer troops to confront the Central Alliance, the commander-in-chief of the border defense army, and the number one person in Fezer's military. In the Fezer Kingdom, the military's status has always been He is independent and independent, even when facing the royal family. This is mainly due to the national conditions when the Feize Kingdom was founded.

Larsdan, the hero of the Fezer clan and the first king of the Fezer Kingdom, gathered all the Fezer forces to establish the country. In order to express his willingness to rule the new country with all the Fezer forces, he divided the ruling power, saying that even if As a member of the royal family, they cannot enter any situation without gaining military merit. After more than a hundred years, the Fezer royal family's military power and the military were separated. The royal family has an elite direct-administered corps and a imperial guard responsible for defending Kyoto, with a total strength of nearly 20 Thousands of people, and the military has border guards and local armies, with a total strength of 300,000

This relative balance has allowed the Fezer royal family and all parties to reach a tacit understanding over the past hundred years.

In essence, the Kingdom of Fezer is not a unified and centralized country, but still follows a slave tribal system. The armies of all parties can fight for Fezer, but they may not necessarily fight for the royal family. Similarly, the royal family can mobilize their own forces. It was directly under the army, but could not interfere with the scope of the various forces. After Ferretri gave the order, he just sat down in his seat when a General Feizer in his early thirties opened the door and came in.

He had the same tall body, smooth brown hair mixed with a little white hair, hazel eyes, and pale skin. His eyes paused for Feletelli. General Fezer said in a deep voice, "I just heard that your Excellency is going to hold a meeting." I wonder if this is true? The situation on the front line has just stabilized. The eight central countries and I We have just reached a secret agreement not to take the initiative to attack. Once the news of the meeting spreads, our situation will become very passive. Although the improvised troops of the eight central countries are not a concern, they are still 200,000 in number, and adults should understand , our real threat is not from the eight central countries, but from the royal capital!"

"Of course I know, but you should take a look at this" Ferrietri handed over the delivered document.

"This is this?" General Fezer picked up the document and flipped through a few pages. When he saw the content above, his face suddenly turned livid, and he placed the document on the table with a heavy hand. "This is simply too much. What's wrong with the royal family?" You can do this! This is betrayal of the country and betrayal of the entire Fezer! "

"If anger and complaints were useful, the royal family would not be so emboldened!"

Feletri rolled his eyes in his seat. "This is the content of the armistice agreement that the royal capital is preparing to propose with the Falcon Empire. You read that right, the royal family is planning to divide the entire coastline. Anyway, it is not the royal family's territory. For As far as the royal family is concerned, not only has there been no loss, but it has also eliminated the military’s constraints on the royal family for hundreds of years.”

The royal family insists on expanding eastward, and has proposed several times that the direct-affiliated corps is insufficient in combat strength and needs to be expanded to 30,000 people. I have vetoed all of them.

"I didn't expect that the royal family would take advantage of my absence to be so despicable as to direct and stage events in the south, and take this opportunity to send 50,000 Imperial Guards to Kyoto." Feletri paused in his voice. He said, "When the Royal Guards go to the south, as long as there is no big fluctuation, they can recover the things they lost along the coast, but they are all things with the royal seal. The Royal Guards are all capable of the royal forces. All the disciples lack is combat experience. The first generation king promised that the imperial guards would never leave the capital to fight, so that all forces respected him as the royal family.

It's fine now, even this last fig leaf has been torn off,

What a conquest of the south. They just wanted to use the weak south to sharpen the claws of the Royal Guards. When the Royal Guards returned, the royal family's direct territory and wealth not only did not decrease, but also increased greatly. The land and trophies captured by the Royal Guards naturally belonged to them. They are more powerful than the royal family, and there are tens of thousands more capable combat elites, so they can conquer them all in one fell swoop. Isn’t the royal family afraid that the Falcon Empire will swallow them up? "After listening to Feletri's words, a look of surprise appeared on General Feizer's face. For so many years, the military has always regarded the Royal Guards as a garbage army. No one has ever thought that this garbage army will be permanently stationed in Kyoto. There is such a great meaning in the rumors, "What's so scary? Just look at Nordic Barrow and you will know that as long as they are willing to surrender, the Falcon Empire will be quite generous. No country that has surrendered has been destroyed. If the royal family's records are dropped, will there be exceptions in Feize? "Feletri smiled bitterly. "On the contrary, it's us. Who can give up the industries and land in the coastal area, as well as tens of thousands of slaves and manors? Without these industrial funds, what can the military do to support the army? How many days will it take for the military to be swallowed up by the royal family? So the royal family can surrender, but we can't!

"It's ridiculous, isn't it? We were betrayed by our own royal family! If I guessed correctly, the negotiations between the royal family and the Falcon Empire should already be in progress, but we are still in the dark!" Feletri looked at this man General Fetzer, with a face full of self-mockery and a body as thick as a mountain, he He is only forty-seven years old, the youngest and most ambitious, and he is able to become the number one person in Feize's military at such an ambitious age. In addition to his outstanding abilities, his status as the head of the Felie family is also a big reason. The Ferret family is a wealthy military family that has produced two marshals of the Kingdom of Fezer.

Even now, in addition to the military commander Ferretri, there are still seven General Fezer in office. Most of the power of the Felie family happens to be in the coastal area. To cede the coastal area will undoubtedly mean that the Felie family will die! These military generals, who are similar to the Fei Lie family, account for almost three-quarters of the upper echelons of the military. Who knows that the coastal area has always been more prosperous than the inland area, and can also smuggle the profits of fishermen, which is better than the inland area. Too many. For more than a hundred years, the military, the last force, has naturally regarded the coastal area as its own territory. Even the royal family cannot get involved. No one would have thought that such a day would come.

Ferrietri's astute judgment was correct

The Fezer royal family had indeed sent people to secretly negotiate an armistice agreement with the Falcon Empire. When the text of Fezer's truce agreement was placed on the emperor's desk, even the emperor was shocked. The Fezer royal family simply came to the rescue. In a huge U-turn, the Imperial Navy only defeated the Fezer navy. The landing force had just set off from Lisbon, and the envoys sent by the Fezer royal family were already eager to demand armistice negotiations. "The Empire and Fezer can be friends. War is not the only way to solve problems. We can be mutually beneficial!" The royal envoy sent here appeared on the deck of the Imperial Navy warship with a sincere face, and presented a gift in his hand. The agreement that came up was much more sincere than the last armistice agreement. When he learned that the murderous Emperor of the Falcon Empire was about to summon him in person, he sadly fainted on the spot.

In the end, this agreement could only be handed over to the emperor by Admiral Dostronkai,

Scanning the content above, the fat man's eyes blinked. He was blinking. He was not dreaming. The fat man pinched his thigh hard to confirm that he was not dreaming. He couldn't help but shuddered. Oh my god, the Fezer royal family actually proposed to give the entire coastline to the Falcon Empire as a condition of armistice.

The entire coastline, fat man's eyes are full of stars, is probably thousands of miles long and occupies nearly a quarter of Feize's land area, and the request is only for the Empire to establish a military alliance with Feize At the same time, the trade embargo that had lasted for more than half a year was lifted. The Fezer royal family even offered to borrow money from the Imperial Bank and expressed their willingness to become a member of the Imperial Bank. Their surrender gesture was almost touching the ground.

This should be nothing!

The fat man was a little confused. He had been planning for more than half a year, but this was the final result?

This feeling is like I just wanted a watermelon, but ended up getting a watermelon field. Who said that Feize people are not sincere? This is so sincere that they are almost bursting out. Thousands of miles of fertile coastline, just give it away. Give it away, there are more than a dozen well-developed ports and a prosperous area inhabited by two to three million people. If there is another tilt of imperial funds, , it is 100% likely that it will become the economic and trade center of Barro in South Europe within two or three years. After Lisbon, the empire will lay a hen that lays golden eggs. This is just the intuitive value seen, and the additional value is actually even greater. Because the acquisition of these southern ports has brought about the prosperity of the entire region, it is tantamount to adding another southwestern district to the empire.

"His Majesty's terror can only be described as inhuman." Imperial Navy Minister Dostelenko looked at the agreement, thinking of Special Envoy Feize who was frightened and fainted, quietly shaking his head behind him, and he was already convinced in his heart. The people of Feize were frightened to death by His Majesty the Emperor's presence in person. They didn't fight much, but everything was handed over to them. His Majesty the Emperor's appearance was more effective than the empire's million-strong army!

(To be continued.)