Realm of Power

"Great Elder Yaglen, please don't forget that I am the commander personally appointed by His Majesty the King."

Faced with the rude scolding of Great Elder Yagren, Cateus finally lost his patience on his gloomy face. He looked at Elder Yagren with cold eyes and waved his hand to the guard at the door. "This paragraph of the Great Elder The time is so tight that I am incoherent and don’t know what I am talking about. Don’t mind it too much. Come and take the elder down to have a good rest!”

"Catus, what do you want to do? I am the chief elder of the temple." Yagren looked at Cateus with bulging eyes, pointing at Cateus, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Didn't you hear that? Great Elder, please go down and rest!" Cateus turned his head away, pressed his hands heavily on the table, and said with a heavy nose. A dozen guards wearing cross armor walked in with heavy steps. , grabbed the hand of the great elder Yagren, forcibly lifted Yagren's thin and old body, ignored the roar of the elder, and took him directly out of the conference room,

"Sir, if you treat Elder Yaglen like this, I'm afraid that the temple will..."

When the other Aden generals saw this scene, they all looked at each other. Although the temple and the nobles of the kingdom were in two camps, the mysterious power and transcendent status controlled by the temple always filled the nobles' hearts with awe, and the saints Elder Yaglen, one of the four elders in the temple, is second only to the chief elder in the temple. In the past ten years in Zhongbia, he is also the fastest-expanding power of the Kingdom of Aden in Zhongbia. In the past ten years, the great nobles in Aden still support Yaglen, the great elder who is gentle to the nobles. "I will be responsible for the temple."

Cateus curled his lips in disdain. Of course there will be someone responsible for the temple, but it is not him. He cannot hold the temple. The person responsible is His Majesty the King. This is Central Asia, not Aden. If it is Aden At home, he did not dare to do anything to the great elder of the temple, but in Qian In Zambia, it’s no wonder that Elder Yagren still despises him so much. Besides, as a confidant of the King of Aden, Cateus knows that His Majesty the King’s disgust towards Elder Yagren has reached a certain level. to a certain extent, because the great elder of the temple has stepped on the king's bottom line

The temple does not interfere with military affairs. This was the most basic condition for the royal family to tolerate the coexistence of the temple.

But look at what Yaglen, as the great elder of the temple, has done in Zhongbia for more than ten years. That one thing is not to touch the back of His Majesty the King, win over the big nobles, and absorb him into Zhongbia. The rich merchants in the area obtained incalculable wealth from the merchants. This wealth eventually poured into the temple and became the funds used by the temple to cultivate its own talents.

And so much wealth, which was originally supposed to be a gift from merchants to the royal family, has now become the temple's property. In the past ten years, the Kingdom of Aden's trade volume in Central and South Africa has increased eightfold. However, the taxes and other wealth collected by the Aden royal family from the Central Biya region are inexplicably The wonders are decreasing year by year. Elder Yaglen is using the name of the Temple Elder to blatantly steal money from the royal family. He even blatantly expands the power of the Temple in Central Asia, expelling most of the Aden people. The businessmen have all joined the camp of the temple. Even if they are robbing money, they are not doing this!

If the temple had not single-handedly controlled the trade to the east of the kingdom, the Kingdom of Aden would not have needed to start a brutal battle with the Eero Empire at the seaport of Cornelia, which ultimately resulted in the loss of more than 500,000 people to the Lu family of the Kingdom, and the entire The westward outlet to the sea is lost, and the Kingdom of Aden is one end of the most valuable golden passage between the east and west continents. , slipped from the hands of the Kingdom of Aden, allowing the Order State and the Empire to take advantage of it. It is said that the Falcon Empire that occupied Cornelia increased its trade volume on the east side of the Inland Sea by 100% in just half a year. Twenty or more, the huge export taxes that were originally controlled by the Kingdom of Aden now flow into the empire's pockets

And all this was caused by the great elder Yagren snatching control of the eastern maritime trade from the Kingdom of Aden. Although the great nobles of Aden gained a lot of benefits from it, for the royal family, the great elder Yagren But he was extremely stingy. Not only did he reject the royal family's hope of expanding the East several times, In order to protect the maritime trade in the East, the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Aden spent huge sums of money to establish a squadron in China and Libya. The royal family had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources on this route every year. And the royal family was able to get it, but it was a pitiful amount of toll tax.

This is why, in the battle between the Aden Navy and the Imperial Navy for hegemony in the southern waters of Central Asia, the Aden Navy not only did not show the determination to fight to the end with the Eero Empire on the Cornelia battlefield, but after a slight loss, it A series of losses of various strongholds in the southern waters of Central Asia was just one of the reasons for shrinking back to the Maas Bay.

This time when he landed in China, not even Cateus expected such luck.

This person who makes His Majesty the King hate him to the bone, actually bumped into him. I originally thought that Elder Yaglen, who had been working hard in the Central Bia region for more than ten years, would definitely not come in person. Unexpectedly, because of the suppression of Liucheng Port Aden incident, this man is powerful enough to control the wind and rain in Central Asia The great elder of the temple actually appeared in front of him in such a mess. In addition to a dozen guards, the other so-called temple warriors who had been painstakingly trained were all killed and injured. They were also strongly pursued by a certain camp in China and Bia. Being in the countryside for seven or eight days was extremely embarrassing!

This is already the case, so what qualifications do you have to teach people here! If you weren't concerned about the identity of the other party's temple elder,

"Come here, send someone to the north immediately to find out the situation of the Ninth Army and the Eleventh Army." Cateus ordered the guard at the door. If he has an opinion about Elder Yaglen, it does not mean that he will completely ignore this person. Great Elder, Cateus’s qualities as a commander are still qualified. If Great Elder Yaglen says If what he said is true, then the Ninth Army and the Eleventh Army going to the north to snatch food may be in danger, but Cateus does not believe that the Central Asians really dare to attack an army of tens of thousands of people. The Aden regular army launched an ambush. With this firm luck, in the afternoon, the situation from the north finally came back.

The entire Aden army was shaken again. The Aden generals in the conference hall glanced at a report placed on the table one by one. Their breathing was rapid and their eyes were full of complex expressions. The Ninth Army and the Eleventh Army together exceeded The 13,000-strong army turned into corpses overnight. There were so many dead people that the Aden people who went to check on them all vomited.

"What, I'm sure I'm not mistaken. Tens of thousands of people have not found a single survivor!" An Aden general murmured in a low voice.

"It's so tragic. The flags of the Eleventh Army are all mixed with the soil and flesh, and corpses are everywhere...!" The colleague next to him took a deep breath. "Gulabik of the Eleventh Army is missing. He is probably dead. It was so miserable that the investigators couldn't identify them one by one. It was Abel, the commander of the Ninth Army, who was easy to find because his head was stuck on a flag gun of the Ninth Army of Aden. The blood dyed the entire flag red. Do you understand this is a demonstration? Tens of thousands People disappeared overnight, and we don’t even know who did it!”

"Are there no clues at all?" "There are still some. The attacking party cannot be determined. The opponent cleaned up very cleanly and even took away the arrow clusters on the corpses. However, it can still be judged from the traces on the battlefield. When suppressing the Eleventh Army, the opponent dispatched a large number of shock cavalry, and there may even be traces of heavy cavalry. However, the Ninth Army was defeated by the opponent's heavy armored infantry, and the corpses were full of traces of heavy weapons. Investigators I was also frightened and didn’t dare to stay too long..."

"Heavy Cavalry!"

There was a gasp in the conference room. Everyone was a general and knew what heavy cavalry represented. The heavy cavalry itself was not important. What was important was that it was impossible for heavy cavalry to be equipped with small-scale troops, even ordinary ones. There may not be heavy cavalry in the regular army. The training and training of heavy cavalry Training war horses requires considerable resources and time, and ordinary legions cannot afford to equip them. In other words, the one who killed the Eleventh Army and the Ninth Army was a big guy who could swallow thirteen thousand in one mouthful. The huge group of Qian Yading's army was staring at him in the north of Longchang.

I originally thought that the tens of thousands of Aden troops who had landed in Liucheng Port, a place with extremely weak troops, would be powerful enough to crush all resistance. But now I discovered that this is not a small area with a lack of troops at all. It is probably a It feels like the home base of a large group of Central Asian champions. It's like running into a cave to hunt a hare. After running in, you find that it's not a hare at all, but a disturbed giant bear. This situation is not only funny, but fatal, Carter Us felt like he was the unlucky guy who accidentally rushed into the bear's cave!

Cateus' face was quite ugly. He raised the report on the table, glanced at the generals who seemed to have not recovered from the shock, and said in a solemn voice, "It seems that everyone has noticed that the people to the north of us are here." , it is definitely not a guard regiment. How can the guard regiment have such a large number of cavalry? It can only be a regular army, and it is also a regular Central and Asian cavalry group with an astonishing number of cavalry."

"Sir, I think this report should be given to Great Elder Yaglen. After all, he has lived in Central Bia for more than ten years. When it comes to familiarity with Central Bia, he is definitely better than us. The army in front of us is It is difficult to move forward in Liucheng Port. The army is short of food. We don’t know what is going on in the north. The situation around us is completely unclear.

"If anyone can point out a clear path, I believe that only Great Elder Yaglen can do this!" A general from Aden hesitated, stood up slowly, and placed his right hand on his right chest. He said with an extremely solemn expression

"Yes, in this strange land, we don't know the situation at all. We need the guidance of a wise man who is familiar with the situation." Someone from the general said

"Wise Man?" Cateus frowned. The situation in front of him made him feel a little out of control. Wise Man is the name of the Aden people for the knowledgeable and famous old man. Now here, in addition to Yagren, there are also Who has such qualifications?

"I can't figure anything out now. I don't even know that there is a Central and African army nearby. Who knows if there are other dangers waiting for you?" the generals said one after another. For them, Yagren has worked hard for more than ten years. The connections within the aristocracy began to show their effectiveness. These can be selected as the first batch of Aden noble generals to land. The family itself has connections with the Eastern Continent. Many families have businessmen in Central Asia, and their relationship with the great elder Yagren is quite good. In fact, Cateus Everyone is also aware of the trouble caused by Great Elder Yaglen.

Although the Great Elder Yaglen is a rare moderate in the temple, he is also very tough on the royal family. He has repeatedly failed to make the royal family's attempts to get involved in China and Libya abort. In this case, the major The family is also happy to see the results, and even secretly hinders the royal family. Who doesn't want to make more money, as long as the trade routes between China and Libya are If it is in the hands of everyone, everyone will make money. If it is handed over to the royal family, not to mention making money, I am afraid that the various kingdom taxes with many names will be enough to send more than half of the benefits of the major families into the royal treasury. It was with the acquiescence of the nobles that Elder Yaglen was able to monopolize China through businessmen from various families.

"You guys!" Cateus's face changed. He didn't expect that the influence of Great Elder Yaglen was so strong that even his subordinates would plead for him. Finally, he picked up the report and handed it to him behind him. One of the guards said, "Send this report to Elder Yaglen, and then bring back his reply!"

"Yes, sir." The guard took the report and left. After more than ten minutes, the guard returned with a hesitant expression.

"Has the Great Elder read it?" Cateus asked solemnly, "The Great Elder has read the report," the guard replied.

"What did the Great Elder say about this report?" Cateus's voice was trembling. In any case, the destruction of the Eleventh Army and the Ninth Army was a kind of failure on his part. His scars were revealed in person. It hurts more

"This is what the great elder asked me to bring to you." The guard took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Cateus. Cateus took it and took a look at it, frowned slightly, and immediately let the subordinate I got a map of Central Asia, and my eyes slid along the south of Liucheng Port on the map, Luzhou?

The guard said cautiously from the side, "The great elder said that this is the headquarters of a wealthy family in southern China. This wealthy family has a great status in southern China and is quite powerful. Through the relationship with its trading partners, , the Great Elder has personally confirmed it, and it is conservatively estimated that the military supplies in the camp are enough to support twenty The army of ten thousand people has been fighting for half a year, but because of the war with the empire some time ago, the main force of this large army is far away at the moment. There are probably less than ten thousand people left in the base camp now. This is a God-given opportunity, sir. As long as we can win it ,, then let alone the supply problem of tens of thousands of troops, even the supply of subsequent armies can be completely solved! "

After listening to the guard's words, Cateus' face was silent, and his heart was full of contradictions and complexities. The Luzhou that the great elder mentioned simply met all his requirements, like a huge gift created just for him, waiting for him to go. Extract, but can you believe what comes from the mouth of Great Elder Yaglen? So far, none of the reports sent back to the country by Great Elder Yaglen are correct. They say that Six Cities Port is rich in supplies, but it is six empty cities. It is said that Zhongbia has no troops stationed here, but the result is unknown to the north. The famous Zhongbia heavy army group killed tens of thousands of his subordinates in one night. There is also this military group called Luzhou in the south. According to the elder Yagren, it is also a military group with considerable strength.

He landed at Liucheng Port, and was directly attacked by the opponent from both sides. What was the intention of Elder Yaglen when he proposed to land at Liucheng Port?

"Sir!" The other generals looked at him one after another.

Cateus closed his eyes with twinkling eyes and then opened them, loudly ordering to his subordinates, "Send my order, the whole army should go south! Before the heavy troops from the north come over, we have no choice but to fight hard!"