Realm of Power

In the morning breeze, the black-haired emperor clasped his hands behind his back and watched the two Imperial Navy Dragon Tooth warships in the distance leave the river dock and sail towards the south along the swollen river.

"Your Majesty, the princes of the southern part of Aero came here to kill Poros, the commander of Aden. I really didn't expect that the princes of the southern part of Aero didn't even make it through one night. I thought they would delay the attack for two days." Minister of State Hu Keqili came over to report with an excited expression. Even he did not expect that the battle of South Héro would turn out so differently.

The princes in the southern part of the Hérault actually drew swords on the Aden people. This basically indicates that the southern princes have surrendered to the empire. This is definitely a leap forward for the empire's plan to go south across the great river of the Hérault. , if Hu Keqili was still worried about the Imperial Navy crossing the Great River of Hérault, it would be the most difficult to hide it. What was hidden was the lords of southern Héro. As the lords of southern Héro, most of their territories were on both sides of the river. Unless the Imperial Navy warships could become invisible, they would not be able to hide from their eyes. But now, If the southern princes of Héro surrender to the empire, this biggest problem will not be a problem

Or that's what the emperor planned from the beginning! Hu Keqili's eyes full of admiration fell on the back of the emperor in front of him. In the distance, the large river was like a curved waterway. At the bend, a huge dock came into view. This dock was almost as big as a small city. Make full use of the natural curvature of the river , bulldozing the nearby land where the water flow is slow, like a huge crescent, this inland terminal represents the highest level of imperial architects, standing like a gate on the north bank of the Great River Hérault, symbolizing the tentacles of the empire Begins to expand to the entire Hérault region

"What are the losses of our army?" the black-haired emperor asked calmly

When he asked Atrice to bring the letter to the southern princes, it was already destined that the southern princes would take action against the Aden people who ran back, and the soldiers of the southern alliance of Aero beheaded the Aden commander Poros. For the emperor, this was indirectly a big favor to Pope Potamia, who had quietly gone to the south.

The Red Dragon Palace of Aden has spent countless efforts and financial resources to cultivate more than 20,000 professional warriors, including 4,000 of the famous Red Dragon Knights of Aden. They are definitely the trump card force of the Red Dragon Palace in the fight for the south, and now The Red Dragon Palace's armed forces were unexpectedly wiped out. The Red Dragon Palace's vitality was already severely damaged before it even started to fight for the south!

"Our army has lost less than three thousand, and the famous Aden Red Dragon Cavalry Regiment seems to be just a name in vain!"

Hu Keqili took a deep breath, and there was a sense of disdain in his tone when he spoke. The Red Dragon Cavalry of Aden has such a great reputation. Unexpectedly, they only had a brief fight and were beaten to death. "So The more than 20,000 troops of the Red Dragon Palace in Aden were annihilated with the loss of less than 3,000 men. This is indeed a result that Hu Keqili did not expect. I originally thought that at least seven or eight thousand people might have to pay, but who knew that it was not even half. This was all the result of His Majesty's strategy. Even the people of Aden were killed. I wouldn’t have thought that they were forcing them to run away on purpose.”

"I heard that although the Aden Red Dragon Palace has a transcendent status, even the Aden royal family is suppressed in the Kingdom of Aden. I wonder if this is true?" Hu Keqili paused and hesitated before saying, "The so-called famous It's better to meet. I didn't expect the Aden Red Dragon Cavalry to be so vulnerable. By analogy, the combat effectiveness of the Aden army can be imagined."

"The Aden Army's combat effectiveness is not as vulnerable as you think."

The black-haired emperor retracted his sharp eagle-like gaze from a distance, turned around, and said in a solemn voice, "The Red Dragon Palace is an exception. As a proof of non-interference in secular royal power, although the Aden Red Dragon Palace has palace guards, The total number of people cannot exceed 50,000, and they must be dispersed to various regions. Except for the headquarters of the Red Dragon Palace in Aden, it can have a maximum of two people. Thousands of people, other regional branches can only have a maximum of 500 people. This is why the Red Dragon Warriors and Knights of Aden train their personal martial arts skills, because they have no chance to fight in a large army. This is why I affirm the other party. When a large number of scouts suffered losses, they would definitely choose to abandon the coalition of southern princes! "

"Because they don't trust the southern princes at all. Their trust in their own martial arts is far greater than their trust in the southern princes. When they sense danger, they would rather believe in themselves." The black-haired emperor curled his lips slightly and sneered. "Furthermore, this time the Red Dragon Palace of Aden mobilized 30,000 Red Dragon Cavalry Regiment to enter the southern part of Erro. ​​They would have gone south. How could they possibly go with the southern princes?" "We will live and die together", so they will definitely run away, but the Red Dragon Cavalry has absolutely no experience in fighting. When they suddenly find themselves surrounded, they will inevitably chaos. The commander of Aden abandoned all the infantry. It’s normal, but they have turned their backs on the southern princes. How can the southern princes still trust them! With a little push, the southern princes will do it themselves.”

"Your Majesty is really planning to kill you every step of the way!"

Hearing the emperor's talk, Hu Keqili also had feelings. Although there was no official fight, the name of Boros, the commander of Aden this time, Hu Keqili still came all the way. Through the information provided by the Imperial Intelligence Department, After getting to know the generals of the Kingdom of Aden, Poros is no ordinary figure. He is known as the most brave in Aden.

Five years ago, during the suppression of the rebellion in Rohirrim, one of the great oases, Boros used 3,000 red dragon knights to defeat 14,000 rebels in one go. Among them, he single-handedly killed 14,000 rebels. The eight generals shocked the whole of Aden. Although Boros did not enter the list of famous generals of Obaro after the war, it was also because the Red Dragon Cavalry was a religious armed force and not a formal soldier of the Kingdom of Aden.

It’s just that Hu Keqili didn’t expect that this commander who was famous for his bravery would be beheaded by the princes in the southern part of Aero.

As the Imperial Minister of State, Hu Keqili was the nominal supreme commander of this southward campaign. It was necessary to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the Aden army. The empire swept through Barro in northern Europe and had fought too many opponents, but with Aden Human wars in the true sense have basically never been touched except for one during the Civil War. After that, the Kingdom of Aden subsequently gave up on the west and retracted its tentacles to the Gulf of Aden, thousands of miles away. The empire knew even less about this new enemy. This time in the battle with the Aden Red Dragon Cavalry, it was Hu Keqili regarded it as an important opportunity to evaluate the combat strength of the Aden Army, but he did not expect that it would be such a result!

"Okay, let's put the Aden people's affairs aside for the time being. The Aden royal family's eyes are now on East Asia. Hundreds of thousands of the kingdom's main forces have already moved out. The army and navy are all pressing down on the Central Asian region. The domestic military strength is only There are less than 50,000 garrison troops left. If anyone is more worried about the Red Dragon Palace, I believe that the Aden royal family is more nervous than us. Otherwise, how could they have allowed the Red Dragon Palace to invest 30,000 troops in the south of Elo for the first time! "

The black-haired emperor looked up at the clouds floating in the blue sky and said with emotion.

"This is not the first time that the Aden royal family has used borrowed knives to kill people. As for the fighting power of the imperial army, the Aden Red Dragon Palace doesn't know. How could the Aden royal family not know? They have fought in the North-South War, and they have fought again in the Holy Capital War. The Aden Army How could Fang not know that personal bravery is of little use in a real large-scale battle between two armies? , who would be stupid enough to come out for a duel? So what if Boros is brave and invincible? In front of the imperial army who has experienced hundreds of battles, Boros, who has no experience in commanding a battle of tens of thousands of people, is simply a newborn baby. Generally fragile! The Aden military must have concealed it on purpose, and even deliberately belittled the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army!

"Aden Military, this shouldn't happen!"

Hu Keqili's body trembled slightly when he heard it, and he looked at the emperor in shock. The emperor's statement was simply unacceptable to him. Could it be that the result of the bloody battle of the soldiers was also related to the Aden army? care? This is no joke. The Aden military is the enemy. How can there be any way to thank the enemy?

But judging from the battle report, Hu Keqili had to admit that only the emperor's statement could explain it.

Because Boros's performance in the battle was so abnormal, he was still fighting steadily at the beginning. When he found that the road going south was blocked by the Fourth Banner of the Central Army, he immediately chose to go around it, and then was hit by the Ninth Banner. However, the Aden people's His performance was not bad, it was still remarkable, but when he found out that he was surrounded, he immediately went from being aggressive at the beginning to quickly collapsing thousands of miles away, not even needing infantry, and just running away. This is definitely not a person. The performance of a qualified commander,

Perhaps it was because Poros lacked experience in fighting, Hu Keqili thought so, but when the emperor woke him up, he immediately realized that this was not the case at all! Boros may lack experience in battles, but he is definitely not a coward who runs away in the face of battle. What is the reason why Boros chose to abandon the infantry and escape with only the red dragon knight?

"Look at this. Someone from the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent it expressly this morning. If it hadn't been for this, I wouldn't have expected it to be like this!" The black-haired emperor grinned, put his right hand into his pocket, and took out a The report was handed to Hu Keqili

"Yes!" Hu Keqili took the report, opened his hands and took a look, and he was suddenly stunned.

"The King of Aden is going to be called the emperor?" Hu Keqili took a breath of air and clenched the hand holding the report suddenly, feeling the cold air on his back.

"Yes, at the just-concluded high-level meeting in Aden, the King of Aden took advantage of the power of victory over China and forced the major vassals to propose promoting the Kingdom of Aden to the Empire of Aden. Some of the vassal kingdoms were dissatisfied and deliberately revealed the news. It was given to the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs because the information was too urgent and required crossing hundreds of miles of sand. In the desert oasis area, the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid three lives for this!" The black-haired emperor glanced at a large transport ship docking on the river and said in a deep voice, "The Aden royal family is no longer willing to continue to fight with the Aden Red Dragon Palace! If the Aden royal family wants to claim the title of emperor, how can they still share power with the Red Dragon Palace? "

Hu Keqili let out a long sigh and closed the information in his hand. He knew why Boros was acting abnormally, because Boros clearly noticed that the Aden royal family deliberately concealed the imperial army's combat effectiveness, obviously because they wanted to use the empire Hands, some power that cut off two-thirds of the Red Dragon Palace in Aden,

This seems to be a very impossible thing. The Red Dragon Palace of Aden itself is also one of the powers of the Kingdom of Aden. There is absolutely no reason for the Aden royal family to do such dirty tricks.

But seeing this report, it is enough to understand that the Aden royal family has sufficient reasons to take action against the Red Dragon Palace. The biggest obstacle for the Aden royal family to be promoted to emperor is the Red Dragon Palace. If the guards and armed forces of the Red Dragon Palace are there, the Aden royal family will naturally not dare There was the slightest movement, but this time the Red Dragon Palace of Aden proposed to send the Red Dragon Cavalry Group to the south of Elo, which played into the hands of the Aden royal family! Not only did they send the navy to help with transportation, they even sent a prince to accompany them.

The attention of the Red Dragon Palace of Aden was all on the southern branch of Erron that was about to appear. How could they notice the small actions of the Aden royal family, and the Aden royal family instructed the Aden military to give Boros, the emperor's combat power and fighting methods. Wrong guidance, not a word was mentioned about the powerful bows and crossbows of the Imperial Army, and there was an ambush outside the capital of Aero. After successfully attacking the imperial cavalry, they then attempted to attack the Order's Patriarch Putamia in the imperial capital of Eero. The Aden Red Dragon Cavalry finally fell into the trap of the Aden royal family, completely angering the imperial party. , blood for blood, tooth for tooth, the Red Dragon Palace does not know the empire's strong revenge style, but the Aden military does.

The consequence of completely irritating the empire is to be madly bitten to death by the imperial army. They deliberately let the Red Dragon Knights of Aden anger the imperial army, just to make the Red Dragon Cavalry finally bitten by the imperial army. More than 20,000 infantrymen Four thousand red dragon knights died in the battle. Commander Boros' head was chopped off by the princes in the south of Elro and sent to the empire.

It was a perfect arrangement, with not even a shadow of the Aden military appearing inside. From the surface, this was a battle between the Red Dragon Cavalry and the Imperial Army. The 30,000-strong Red Dragon Cavalry only caused the Imperial Army to lose 3,000 people, and it also became the main reason for the antagonism between Aden and the alliance of southern lords of Aero.

If it weren't for this secret intelligence from the Ministry of Intelligence, who would have thought that there is a big promoter of the Aden royal family here!

The Red Dragon Palace of Aden suffered such heavy losses. It would take only a few years to recover its vitality. The most important loss of the four thousand Aden Red Dragon Knights was absolutely fatal to the Red Dragon Palace. These red dragons Knights are professional warriors who have been selected and trained since childhood. They are the most feared force in the Red Dragon Palace and the Royal Family of Aden. At that time, even the headquarters of the Red Dragon Palace only had two thousand Red Dragon Knights. But this time, all four thousand Red Dragon Knights died in battle. The strength of the Red Dragon Palace dropped to the bottom, because there were only five thousand Red Dragon Knights in the Aden Red Dragon Palace. With only a thousand Red Dragon Knights left, what else can the Red Dragon Palace do to compete with the Aden royal family that just achieved a brilliant victory in Central Asia?

One side is victorious and the other side is defeated miserably. The Red Dragon Palace, which used to be aloof and aloof, has lost all its dignity. I am afraid that the whole country of Aden will turn in favor of the Aden royal family. If the Aden royal family wants to be emperor, there will no longer be any obstacles. From a certain date, To a certain extent, the Aden Red Dragon Cavalry Regiment died at the hands of the Aden royal family, but who would believe this!

"Tell the princes in the south of Hero that as promised, they are now free to return to the south. The empire will announce the division of the central Hero region in three days. If they are interested, they can stay."

There was a self-deprecating smile on the corner of the black-haired emperor's mouth. Although it was a victory, it was taken advantage of by the royal family of Aden. This kind of loss cannot be in vain. The four provinces in the central region of Hérault have already lost their lives after this turmoil. After losing control, now the imperial army pressed in and took over the control with almost no resistance.

"Yes, I understand." Hu Keqili nodded. He knew that the emperor had begun to take action against the southern princes.

It is absolutely false to say that the southern princes do not covet the central region, especially those aristocrats who were expelled to the south. They dream of leaving the harsh climate in the south and returning to the north, and someone who can help them do this At a certain point, there is no doubt that there is only the empire. What the empire wants is their loyalty, not unity with the outside world!