Realm of Power

Emperor Erro was holding the battle report just sent by his new ally, the Falcon Empire, and his whole body was silent and solemn, as if a cold wind from the north blew through the entire tent.

The failure of the blockade at Hulie Bay has resulted in the Eero army now being forced to face the pressure of the main force of Aden on the Cornelia line. The Eero camp is spread out along the edge of the Pasamo Mountains outside the port of Cornelia. , 250,000 troops from east to west are waiting here. , in contrast, the Adenian army of more than 500,000 soldiers, who had won a great victory at Hulie Bay, was like a wave of soldiers. The nearest troops of the two armies were only ten miles apart, and the scouts and cavalry of both sides were staggering on the battle line like crazy. , both sides know that the real decisive battle is finally coming!

"What's going on?"

"What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

"The Falcon Empire must have torn up the agreement, just like it did in Hulie Bay. At the critical moment, even a shadow was seen!"

The generals who were holding an emergency combat meeting in the tent were talking a lot, and many of them were gnashing their teeth. As soldiers of the Ero Empire whose greatest wish was to expand its territory, they had no good impressions of the Falcon Empire, the continent's largest overlord.

The two sides are destined to be enemies. Even though the two sides have concluded a military alliance and even sent 20,000 cavalry to participate in the Hulie Coast Battle, what will be the result?

Eero's soldiers were fighting bravely, but the imperial cavalry participating in the battle disappeared when the Aden army launched a counterattack. This led to the reversal of the situation that should have been a victory. The three already incomplete Eero regiments were attacked by the Aden people for a long time. The Aden army suffered heavy losses due to counterattacks, and was finally defeated by the Aden Army from two sides. The entire line collapsed. The three Aero regiments participating in Hulie Bay were almost completely wiped out in this battle. More than 110,000 Aero soldiers died in the battle. The center line was almost empty. Two regiment commanders died in the battle, and one pretended to be dead and ran back. The news they brought back from the battlefield made Generals Ayrault's lungs explode with anger.

"In that situation, if the imperial cavalry could appear at the most critical moment, the entire battlefield situation would definitely be victorious. There would never be a situation where the main force of the Aden Army would overwhelm the flanks of our army in one breath! It has to be doubted that Falcon Is the emperor’s true purpose in joining the war to assist us, or is he deliberately sabotaging us? Such an ally is completely untrustworthy!”

Eero's generals generally thought so, so when they saw the report sent by the Falcon Empire this time, the generals thought that the emperor should not believe even a word of it! If it is really to assist the Erro Empire, what the Falcon Empire needs to do most now is to immediately support the Hundred and Eighty Gate Thunder Gods, instead of sending an unknown battle report. Hulie Bay was defeated so miserably, and there is such a face to say Is this a great victory?

"The Falcon Empire has sent good news!" Emperor Aero was silent for nearly ten seconds. He glanced at the angry-looking generals below and then handed the report in his hand to Ai, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Imperial Affairs. Biron "Let all the generals take a look at this report. It should let everyone know what kind of person our allies, or can also be said to be our future opponents, are!"

"Yes!" Aibi Lun of the Ministry of Military Affairs nodded in confusion during this battle. He took the report from the emperor and was also curious in his heart about what kind of content it contained that made the emperor remain calm even in the face of the 500,000-strong Aden army. Your Majesty, you have such emotion! Aibi Lun glanced across, the hand holding the report trembled slightly, and his eyes suddenly seemed to be attracted by something, and his whole person froze! His eyes were full of disbelief, this was true!

The imperial cavalry unexpectedly raided Ulahe City, the largest logistics stronghold of the Aden Army more than a hundred miles away, and burned Ulahe City, which had stored countless supplies, to ashes! This is simply a sword sealing the throat! I really want to know what the expressions of the people in Aden look like now! Having fought against the Aden people for half a year, how could he not know the importance of Ula and the city, hoarding more than 60% of the supplies and food of the Ero people?

Even at the most tense moment, the Aden people's garrison strength in Laouwa and the city was not less than 30,000 people. They guarded Laouwa and the city as if they were protecting their own eyes. If it is such an easy target, this Bian had already taken it! That is to say, this time the Aden Army mobilized in full force, which finally exposed Lawuahe, but tens of thousands of elite troops were still left in Lawuahe.

I really don’t know how the Emperor’s gang did it. If it were placed on the side of the Eero Army, I would conservatively estimate that in order to capture this heavily guarded logistics stronghold, at least 50,000 troops would be needed to lay siege to it. In two to three days, even so, tens of thousands of casualties need to be recorded.

How could it be as easy as the report said? With almost minimal losses, Lawuah was burned to a white ground, and the front teeth were knocked out directly from the tiger's mouth of hundreds of thousands of Aden troops!

The report was passed from the hands of Aibiron to the next general. The disdainful faces of the Aero generals immediately turned red, and there were constant gasps in the tent.

"Impossible, how could the emperor capture Lawuahe!" Someone made a hesitant voice, but some people said that this possibility existed. Aibi Lun, the undersecretary of the Imperial Ministry of Affairs, asked someone to get the battle map, and his finger fell on On the Hulie Bay mentioned in the report, a jaw-dropping scene suddenly appeared. The generals They were all silent. What a speechless strategic deployment. They actually bypassed the Aden Army who were fighting fiercely at Hulie Bay and got into the Aikui Mountain Road behind. If it is true as the report said, the imperial cavalry came from Hulie Bay. It is absolutely possible to go up the Aigui Mountain Road and attack Laouahe in one fell swoop! There is no doubt about the conclusion. Anyone who is not blind can see it. On the combat map, the exit of the Aikui Mountain Road going uphill is only a mere twenty miles away from the Aden Army's material hoarding place, Lawua.

There is no justice! This is simply a big piece of fat sitting here, and no one has even thought about it! The generals looked away from the map and took a deep breath. The Imperial Cavalry was playing so unbelievably, they were simply dancing on the tip of their swords! If we look at the entire strategic deployment, if the three legions of the Ero Empire did not attract the attention of the Aden Army in Hulie Bay, even if someone has such an idea, it would be impossible to turn it into reality! , because the Aden army rushing out from the Aikwe Mountain Road will definitely leave behind troops guarding the rear, unless the Aden army encountered a situation at Hulie Bay and had to devote all its strength to the battle. This was indeed the case at that time, and the imperial cavalry swept Aden. The frontal attack of the Aden Army forced the Aden Army to flee. If the situation was not reversed due to the attack on the flank by the Aden Army, Hulie Bay would have been a great victory, not a disastrous defeat!

"We have been used, but we can't find anything to blame each other for." Emperor Ayrault's eyes flashed coldly, scanning the cold faces of the generals. He had to admit that he went straight to attack Raoua. , completely cutting off the supply line of hundreds of thousands of Aden troops, Hehe turned around and returned to assist the Aero army in The Hulie Coast was victorious. If Emperor Hérault had been given the choice, Emperor Hérault would also have chosen to attack Laoua. There is only one chance for this. One is the victory or defeat of the situational battle, and the other is the reversal of the overall battle. Victory, "The Adenians won the Gulf of Huleh, but lost the entire war!"

Emperor Aero laughed loudly, and the gloom of many days was swept away. He pressed his hand heavily on the map. The failure of Hulie Bay no longer mattered. At this point in the war, both countries had already accumulated national strength for many years. In the competition, the soldiers suffered heavy losses and the strategic supplies were consumed hugely.

Especially the war that lasted more than half a year, with hundreds of thousands of troops attacking and killing each other back and forth.

With the terrain of the Mesopotamia plain, the Aero Empire can barely support itself until now because of the great harvest last year. The food crisis of the Aden Kingdom, which does not even produce food, is even more conceivable. I heard that some of the Aden army The slave army died of starvation no less than those who died in battle. Even the regular army is still There is only one meal of food a day. At this moment, the food and supplies stored in Lawua are the lifeline of the entire Aden army. These supplies and food were bought bit by bit by the Kingdom of Aden from other countries at a huge price. , it took a month or two to transport it from the desert,

Now that it has been completely burned by fire, even if the people of Aden can still buy it, they will not be able to find so much funds in a short time, let alone transport these mountains of materials from the desert to the battlefield. This is a knot that cannot be untied. The people of Aden are finished!

Many people are speculating on the reason for the sudden alliance between the Empire and Eero. Emperor Eero knew that the Dragon Crow originally crossed Eero's inland waterway, but the Navy requested an interception. It was the Emperor who asked the Navy not to Block, because the emperor knew that the Aden Sea in the south was owned by the Aden people. The Aero Empire Army could compete for supremacy, but it was completely impossible to fight at sea.

The emperor knew how arrogant and domineering the Aden Navy was and already regarded the Aden Sea as his own back garden. How could he allow the Imperial Navy to appear in the Aden Sea!

The Falcon Empire Navy is also the overlord of the inland sea. It defeated the Gallic Navy, the Gangfe Navy, annexed the Strand Sea Kingdom, and slaughtered the Feishan Navy. How could such a navy endure the insult of the Aden people? When the two powers met , it must be life and death. If this can induce the Falcon Empire to lean towards Erro, it will be an opportunity enough to change the balance of power.

But even the emperor himself did not expect that the Falcon Empire would be so angry this time because of the disappearance of the Dragon Crow! The people of Aden are afraid that they still don’t know exactly where they have offended the Falcon Empire! The Falcon Empire's hand is enough to support an elite army of 200,000 in one breath!

The dawn sun shone from the opposite coastline. Archie, the commander of the Aden Army, stood alone on a cliff, looking at the sky in the distance that was reddened by the rising sun. He looked at the outline of the sky and the earth at the end of the earth. The bright red sun was rising. It rose up, shrouding the port of Cornelia twenty miles ahead, and a flock of birds flew over the remaining black walls of the town that had been ravaged by the war, and landed on the charred walls. The wind blew away the coolness from the direction of the vast fields. This is Cornelia, the brightest gem on His Majesty the King of Aden's network. Now it has turned into ruins, but hundreds of thousands of troops from the two armies are still fighting for life and death for this land. If this land falls into the hands of the Aero people, the Kingdom of Aden will not only lose its western barrier, but also lose the glory that its desert ancestors laid down with scimitars and blood thousands of years ago.

"Sir, the attack force has been assembled!"

A servant officer wearing red armor came hurriedly from behind him and knelt on the ground.

Archie turned around and looked down. Tens of thousands of camel cavalry were lined up in a row. The red tassels on the helmet ear protection were swaying in the wind. On the side slopes of these camel cavalry, whole groups of infantry were flowing over the hills below. , gradually dispersed into an irregular quadrilateral, the towering armor and spears were reflected in the faint morning light, countless battle flags fluttered in the morning wind, Aden The archer troops began to walk out of these infantry arrays. They had small arrow shields on their right arms, like a whole row of round buckles. The Aden bow in their hands was a recurve infantry bow with a length of 1.5 meters, almost a At the height of adults, they stood neatly at the front of the entire queue. The front ends of their bows and arrows shone with an awe-inspiring cold light. At a glance, they looked like a long silver belt.

In front of all the regular armies is the most famous slave unit of the Aden people. Although they lost a lot in the Gulf of Hulie, there are still 280,000 slaves brought to the Cornelia battlefield this time. As the first wave of attacking troops, A full hundred thousand slaves were pushed to the front, and the Eros believed that Raua and were burned , the Aden Army will fall into a state of food shortage, which would be too wrong. Half of Eero's 500,000-strong army are slaves. In order to reduce the food supply, the Aden Army will not hesitate to send all these cannon fodder. If we die, the food left vacant can last at least a week.

The generals of Aden were ready to take a gamble;

Archie knelt on the ground with a pious face, raised his hands towards the sky, praying something in his mouth, then stood up, glanced at the army below, and said in a loud voice, "Warriors of the Aden Desert, I just got an unfortunate man. According to the news, the enemy launched a despicable attack on Lahuahe and massacred all the desert people on Longlan Sandbank. We committed a crime and burned our luggage with a fire, leaving us in a dead end. Now there are only two choices before us, either to break through Cornelia in front and restore the glory of my desert ancestors thousands of years ago. Now, or retreat now and let the Elo people kill us one by one with knives! Tell me your choice!"

"Kill! Kill all the Ero people!" An overwhelming voice came from below. Lawua and Lawu were burned. Even if they evacuate, I am afraid that more than half of them will fall before returning to the sandbank. No troops with baggage will enter the sandbank. , is a dead end, then there is only one way forward! If you don’t want to die, kill the Eero army on the opposite side! (To be continued.)