Realm of Power

The Battle of Hong'an Valley has gradually come to an end, but the killing is still fiercely unfolding. The sky gradually dims, and a black sky covers the earth.

The black-armored imperial cavalry wielded blood-stained swords and continuously devoured the fleeing Kalisu royal army. When the officers of the Kalisu royal family found that they could not escape, they also launched frantic attacks and desperate counterattacks, but soon The imperial cavalry that followed did not engage in a fierce battle with them, but used the long-range shooting of the imperial crossbows to defeat the counterattack of the Kalisu army. They waited until the queue collapsed and then swarmed them and drowned them. More than 10,000 royal troops were thus overwhelmed. Those who made it up will be destroyed,

"Stop fighting, we surrender! Everything is Elliot's order and has nothing to do with us!"

Some royal officers who knew that the imperial army would not kill prisoners knelt on the ground in pain and begged to surrender. They had been completely killed by the imperial army. The arrogant officers who ambushed the imperial army in front were so frightened by the carnage that littered the fields with corpses that their faces turned pale. , the ground was covered with corpses, blood flowed into rivers, and an army of tens of thousands died in one afternoon. This kind of thing had happened before. They had never imagined, let alone seen, a tragic battlefield composed of more than tens of thousands of corpses, covering the ground all the way. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. At this moment, the Kalisu Army has lost all its military spirit and ambition. The ambitious King had his head chopped off and thrown out. For the officers of the Carisu royal family, this was complete despair.

This absolute psychological blow was also the main reason why the Kalisu royal army immediately abandoned the border guards who were still fighting in a bloody battle and ran away when they discovered that the imperial army was behind them.

After all, they are still essentially royal nobles. Their military career of just a few years can only be used as a ladder to ascend to high positions in the future, even if their so-called ambitions are aroused by the so-called ideal of the rise of the Kalisu Kingdom. , after seeing King Calisu’s head being The moment the imperial army threw it casually, it was completely destroyed by the impact. The dream of the rise of the Kalisu Kingdom was shattered. Even His Majesty the King was beheaded, and King Kalisu was captured by the imperial army. Breaking through, surrendering to the empire at this time is nothing!

"Lytle, what are these Calisios talking about?"

As for the Imperial Army, which had already joined the two armies, Salton, who was wearing black armor, frowned slightly as he watched this scene.

Because the Kalisu people live in relatively closed dense forest areas all year round, their language system is different from that of the southern European Barrow. Therefore, Salton could not understand the shouts of the Kalisu officers and could roughly guess some of them. Bai Dan and Estante looked at Lytle at the same time. They only said a few words and were not completely sure. Naturally, Lytle, as a Calisu, has the most say.

The former number one general of the Calisu Kingdom's army seemed to have no expression on his stern face at the moment. Faced with Salton's inquiry, Lytle was silent for a few seconds, lowered his head and said, "Commander of the Army, these Calisu officers It’s shouting, the Kalisu people will never retreat! This is the motto of our Kalisu soldiers, which means we would rather fight to the death than retreat!”

Hearing Lytle's translation, Bai Dan and Estante's eyes suddenly opened wide, and their breathing suddenly stopped. It's amazing, Lytle, in the past ten days that we have been together, we have never seen you like this. Lytle, I thought you would plead for these Carisu officers, but I didn’t expect that you would directly push them to their death.

Estant blinked fiercely at Lytle, but Lytle seemed not to have seen his hint. Estant let out a cry in his heart, Lytle, please speak less. You know that you only avenge your private revenge and let everyone What a big loss! These are genuine officers from the Calisu Kingdom, and they are all genuine yellow-orange-orange gold coins. Do you know how much less ransom your brothers will have to pay because of your words!

Although the imperial army has a habit of using captives to build various infrastructures, what really matters to the empire's legions are the officers among these captives, because officers are often from noble backgrounds. Even if they are not big nobles, they always come from a relatively wealthy family. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to join the army. If you are lucky, one ransom share can be as much as a year's bonus income. Therefore, the imperial army fights extremely bravely, and sometimes they go for the super bonuses of high-level prisoners. It is like grabbing a big prize. Same, everyone is naturally extremely enthusiastic

Moreover, Estante had inquired about it when he was in the capital of Kalisu. The Kalisu army in the Karu woodland is actually divided into two parts. One part is the border defense force composed mainly of Karu locals. In poor places like Karu, It is conceivable that there is no money, but the other part is different, that is Yuka The backbone of the royal army is the children of the Lisu royal family. Every one of them is a child of the royal family, or a child of a great nobleman related to the royal family. This is a real group of walking gold bricks. Even just one can knock out at least one. Twenty thousand imperial gold came, not to mention that there were fifty or sixty of these royal officers.

When the cavalry attack was launched from the front, Estante's heart was bleeding. This was all walking gold. If it was struck with a knife, the value would be reduced by more than half. To redeem a living person is not the same as to redeem a broken body. Can corpses with mutilated limbs have the same price?

Originally, capturing King Calisu was a big deal. Although King Calisu was not big, it could only be considered a medium-sized city, but mosquito legs were meat after all. After all, it was still a royal capital, and it was Calisu. Where the royal family's wealth is, there is always some to be found if you rummage through it, but before the attack, Lytle found two people. "Although the Kalisu area is small, it is The position is extremely important, not to mention that this battle is a secret battle order personally issued by His Majesty the Emperor during the annual meeting. The Emperor has high hopes for this. The dense forest in the Kalisu area stretches for more than a hundred miles, and it is the gateway to the central part of Barro in southern Europe. In such a huge dense forest and such a harsh environment, once a rebellion breaks out, even if there are more than 100,000 troops, it will be put down in a short time. It is also a difficult task, not to mention that there are Martin Liga people watching closely. Not to mention using the Calisu Pass to enter the central part of South Europe Barro will be in vain. It will be very difficult to defend the Calisu area. " Lytle looked at Bai Dan and Estante with a determined expression, and said coldly, "So in order to avoid any accidents, please make an appointment." Reinforce the army and strictly prohibit the imperial army from conquering the occupied areas after capturing the capital of Kalisu. Otherwise, I, Lytle, will choose to withdraw. Even if I am executed by the Imperial Military Affairs Department after the war, I will never change! "" Sir Lytle, please! Don't worry, the regular army of the empire has no practice of looting. I will send out an inspection team to kill any unauthorized looters on the spot! "

Estante patted his chest and assured that as a rare think-tank officer among the former Nords, Estante himself was very disgusted with the looting style of the ex-Nords. He was marginalized for repeatedly mocking his superiors. , if not for the late period of the Nord Kingdom, when the Nord Military Ministry lost its command of the southern troops due to the empire's capture of the Nord capital, Estante would not have been able to fight that battle to let the imperial army People regard the Southern Counterattack as a shame, not to mention Bai Dan, who was born into a Salander noble. He himself was once taken as a slave by the Salanders and taken to Normandy because of his defeat. He saw Salander being The tragedy of the Normandy invaders' wanton looting and destruction, and both of them agreed that at this moment, if the newly occupied royal capital area was forced to rebel, the impact on the entire strategy would undoubtedly be fatal!

"Really, that's what you mean. The courage of these Callisu officers is really admirable. In this case, I will fulfill them and pass on my orders. There is no need for these Callisu officers who shout slogans. "Keep it"

Salton's eyes narrowed into a thin line, and his gaze swept over Lytle's face, which was slightly embarrassed. As if he didn't notice anything, he turned to order the cavalry behind him. He didn't know why Lytle wanted to do this. These Kalisu officers died, but the Empire was able to successfully attack the capital of Kalisu, and Lytle's role was undoubtedly It is crucial, and whether the Empire can completely open Callisu, the door to the central part of Southern Europe, Lytle is still needed. If it were other Imperial generals, they might hesitate, but Salton would not, because he It was Salton the Broken Lion, a former Nord commander who was even willing to sacrifice his own people in order to achieve final victory!

As the order was issued, the pursuing imperial cavalry began to no longer care about the Callisu officers who shouted for surrender, but directly slashed them without ceremony. In the blink of an eye, there was a flash of swords, blood and flesh flying everywhere, and the more they shouted, the more they shouted. The more powerful you are, the faster you kill." As for those Kalisu troops, they shouldn't also mean that the Kalisu people will fight to the death and not retreat!'

Salton looked back sternly from the front, raised his hand and pointed at Elliott's Calisu border guards who were shrinking on the slope with all their strength. Shields and spears stood there, surrounded by 50,000 imperial troops. It's like an isolated island in the sea, but what's extremely funny is that an unknown white underpants is raised as a flag and waved somewhere. Even if Lytle doesn't need to explain it, you can still know what it means!

"I think the other party means to surrender." Lytle's face turned slightly red and he recommended himself, "Let me go. Maybe I can meet one or two acquaintances. This way, the takeover will be much smoother." "Don't be afraid." They... "Salton was unexpectedly shocked." Haha, now the entire King Calisu knows , I, Lytle, beheaded King Carisu with my own hands. Do you think I still care about this?" Lytle showed a weak smile on his lips and drove his horse towards the slope, revealing the encirclement of 50,000 imperial troops. A passage, under the gaze of more than 20,000 pairs of Calisu border guards on the opposite side, Lai Tel spurred his horse forward and stopped thirty meters away from the Calisu army. He shouted in a concentrated voice, "I am Lytle, the former commander of the Calisu Northern Army. Please come out and see Lytle, Sir Elliot." ""Isn't that the number one general in the kingdom? Why did he become the general of the imperial army? ""What kind of number one general is a traitor? , Traitor Lytle! "The Calisu border guard on the opposite side was almost like a drop of water falling into boiling oil and exploded. Lytle was the legend of the Calisu Kingdom, the first person in the military. The Northern Army and Elliott's Border Guards are known as the Double Walls of Callisu, the two gates blocking the southward movement of the Kingdom of Fezer.

Even a general of the Calisu Border Guard Army who had already walked out to contact him stopped and looked dumbfounded at the former number one general of Calisu, who was riding a horse in front of him and wearing a black empire armor. Shang immediately seemed to be suppressed, and his voice trembled slightly as he said, "Mr. Lytle, "I didn't expect to see you here." "Phyllis, three years ago, I recommended you to join the border guard force as Lord Elliot's adjutant. I didn't expect that three years later, you would have been promoted to a team leader. Lytle looked at the General of the Calisu Border Guards, obviously knowing him, and said with emotion.

"Sir, um..." The Callisu Border Guard General looked embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"Okay, Phyllis, come back!" said an old voice, and the old handsome Elliott walked up slowly from behind and appeared in front of the Calisu border guard array, his old white hair dancing in the wind. Wearing a dark red armor from the Kalisu Army, The red cloak with an expression fell on the ground from his shoulders, and his eyes fell on Lytle in front of him. Elliot's height could only be considered medium, and his long military career made his back look a little hunched. Elliot looked at him with a different look. He looked at Lytle and took a deep breath.

"Letter, use His Majesty the King's head to stimulate the royal army to advance, and then deliberately make the royal army hate our border guards for not saving them, and finally choose to abandon the border guards and flee. This should be your strategy, because even the imperial army, You don’t know that the royal army and our border guards are actually inseparable from each other!” Elliot stopped in front of Lytle and slowly pulled out his old hand from his waist. He raised his knight sword, pointed it at Lytle, and said sternly, "The Kalisu army captured the capital of the Kalisu Kingdom, and then planned an ambush in the Karu Woodland. Now they deliberately killed the Kalisu royal army, and finally came out in person to persuade them to surrender." I, the border guard, what do you want to do? ""I just want the Kalisu people to survive this gamble instead of becoming the victims of others."

Lytle looked at the long sword of the handsome Elliot, his voice was cold, and his face was extremely serious and he said in a deep voice, "Elliot, you should know better than me. The Kingdom of Calisu wants to use the power of the Martin Liya people to conquer the world." What a fool to base ourselves in the South, that plan I have also read it, and I personally provided detailed supplements. But even so, I think there is only one final result, and that is that when the Kingdom of Calisu moved north to swallow up Fezer's southern vassal country, it was Martin's Fang. When the army enters the Kingdom of Kalisu! "

"How is it possible? If the Martin Liga people enter the dense forest, they will only die!" Old Marshal Elliott hesitated. "It will be a dead end? Are you kidding me? Eighty years have passed since the war. No matter how stupid the Martin Liga people are. , just look at the huge increase in the number of businessmen from Martin Liya in recent years, and you will know that Martin Liya has already They found a safe route through the dense forest of Callisu, just deliberately pretending not to dare to enter the dense forest. Don't forget, the Martin Liga people have been thinking about that humiliation for eighty years, and regarded it as a national humiliation for eighty years! Do you think they will miss this opportunity?" Lytle raised his finger to the dense forest to the west, which is the direction of Martin's Fang Kingdom.

Lytle's voice paused and he said coldly, "If you look at the people who support the Northward Expansion Plan, you will know that without exception, they have all spent time in Martin's Tooth. These so-called Northern Expeditionists have long been conquered by Martin." The Liya people were confused by the ambition they deliberately instilled, and they were still immersed in the victory eighty years ago, thinking that the Martin Liya people did not dare to enter the dense forest."

"I can say with certainty that once you, Elliot, command the northern army to enter the southern vassal country of Feize, the Anser people in the south will definitely increase their attack power to hold back the army of the Southern Wilderness. The capital of Kalisu is an undefended city. City, as long as one attack is successful, the Martin Liga people can cut off Carisu in the middle like me. "Going north can cut off the retreat of your army. I want you to fight head-on with the empire's southward army. To the south, you can cooperate with the Anser people inside and outside to attack the southern wilderness army. Since persuasion is meaningless, I can only use action to save Carisu. Although it is inevitable that some sacrifices will be made, but It’s much better than waiting until the Martin Liga and the Anser divide the Kalisu Kingdom and we, the Kalisu people, are enslaved for generations! "

"Sir, except for a few of the fleeing Carisu officers who ran into the dense forest, most of them have been killed." Just as Lytle said that Elliot's face was getting more and more ugly, an imperial scout came to Sol Reported in front of Lunton and said

"Got it!" Salton nodded to the scout on his horse. In his eyes, the life and death of these Carisu officers were far less important than Lytle's dedication to serving the empire! The battle has reached this point. Tactical victory no longer means anything. For those on the winning side, Salton's eyes naturally fall on the overall situation.

Opening the door to the Calisu Kingdom is of great significance not only to the empire, but also to his Second Southern Army.

The current Second Army of the South is mainly located on the 300-mile stretch of the Fraser Coast. If it can occupy the Kalisu area in front of us, it means that the scope of control of the Second Army of the South will be expanded to the south by five to six hundred miles. , is no longer limited to the coastline of Fezer, but also includes several vassal states that originally belonged to the south of Fezer.

This is definitely a qualitative leap for the Second Army of the South. At this time, even if he knew that Lytle was suspected of revenge, Salton would pretend not to know that the life and death of a hundred thousand imperial troops could now be It's all on Lytle

Besides, the Emperor has appointed Leiter to knock on the door of Kalisu. If Leiter does not take revenge and ruthlessly kill a group of Kalisu Kingdom's high-ranking officials, how can this door be opened?