Realm of Power

The old royal capital of Erault is full of sunshine, with a mixture of architectural and house spiers of various styles, making it even more lonely and quiet in winter.

There are fewer pedestrians on the road, and the lively atmosphere has also faded. However, for the intelligence personnel from all parties, the capital of King Eero is already raging with war. Just the news that has been exposed, there are already four genuine people. The king personally visited the capital of Eero, King Harvey, King Ikar, King Bion, King Rila, and the four kings gathered together The gathering of the New Eero royal family, which was originally more like a farce, suddenly turned into an extremely tense and extremely chaotic scene. Representatives of all the forces who arrived at the Eero royal capital collectively felt a messy feeling, and for these For the intelligence personnel from all sides who were unaware of the intelligence, the situation in front of them was so confusing that they did not know how to start.

This is completely unreasonable, but the facts are there! A small southern Ero prince, a name that almost no one had heard of a month ago, if it hadn't been for this promotion, who would have known Ika What kind of thing is the Mu family? This time, everyone came with the mentality of looking at a beggar wearing a royal coat, and reluctantly pieced together a few members. No one expected to be involved in the fight between the four kings.

It was like everyone originally wanted to see a beggar in royal clothes, but saw three kings coming to the beggar, publicly recognizing the rationality of the beggar becoming a king, and then actually fighting each other in order to win the favor of such a beggar. There was an uproar, shock, and the twist was a bit big. The envoys from all the forces were at a loss. The Kingdom of Harvey and King Ikar The country is a first-class country in the south. Although the Kingdom of Harvey was bullied a bit miserably by the Martin Liga people, the heritage of a great country is still there. The war between the Kingdom of Harvey and the Kingdom of Ikar can still be understood. What is going on with the Kingdom of Biang? The overlord of the Barrow region in Central Europe for more than a hundred years, although it has declined, is still the lion of Barrow in Central Europe. This time the king actually came in person,

And King Harvey, His Majesty Owitt, did not hesitate to speak a lot of praises at the banquet. The other envoys who attended the banquet almost convulsed. Does the majestic King Rila need this? What about the courage of your Rila Lion? Faced with the bravery of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian cavalry who fought to the death, you planned a legendary sneak attack, pulled out the teeth of the Biang people in one breath, and captured the Sun Fortress.

Just to please the empire, is this necessary?

Seeing this scene, the Aden envoy's mouth was so big that he could swallow a ball. Everyone came to see the farce and the empire's joke. Who knew that what they saw was an explosion scene where kings gathered together. You know, the general promotion ceremony of the royal family, Although other important members of the royal family also arrived Congratulations, but it is impossible for the king of another country to come to congratulate him in person. It would be a huge honor for a small landowner like the Ikamu family to come, but now four of them came at once. The Aden envoy felt that he No matter what you say, you are just slapping yourself in the face! Thinking about the goal specified by the King of Aden when setting off, the Aden envoy felt very sad.

Anklo, the head of the Empire's Southern Intelligence Department, placed a document on the current troop deployment of the Rilla and Biang people on the table of the black-haired young man. He was wearing an ordinary plain white robe and looked like a virtuous and gentle man. She is like a beautiful young woman with a sense of weakness and purity like the sister next door. Her long shawl hair is fluttering in the breeze from time to time. Her pretty face has clear and bright round almond eyes under the long eyelashes, and her eyebrows are charming and charming. "Haha, I was just wondering why the old fox suddenly stood up and supported the new royal family of Eero in a high-profile manner. It turns out that the secret is here. He expressed his position at the banquet. Even if Prais said that the empire would not support the Rilla people, the countries would also I can only say that this is false news deliberately released by the empire." The black-haired young man put his hands behind his back and said with a smile,

The lazy sunshine in the winter afternoon shines in through the decaled glass windows, and the bell of Temple College is heard from the distance in the east.

Although the hotel is located on a busy street, the decoration is not eye-catching. The attention of nearby passers-by will soon be attracted by other dazzling shops nearby. Someone has also accidentally opened the door and walked in, and naturally there will be an attendant at the entrance. The stopped guests were told that only guests with reservations could enter the hotel, and ordinary guests would turn around and leave. Being able to open a private hotel that is not open to the public in such a prosperous section of the road, where every inch of land is precious, is enough to show the identity of the owner of this hotel, not to mention that this is not the northern coast where the empire's businessmen gather. With the rapid rise of the empire's merchant class, private banquets and gatherings among big businessmen in the empire are no longer new.

But in the Royal Capital of Aero, before the Ikamu family entered, the imperial government was under martial law, and this was the only private hotel that the military could bypass.

"The reaction of the Biang people is indeed as His Majesty said. Although there is no too violent reaction on the surface, secretly, King Biang has met with more than twenty representatives of various forces who came to participate in the ceremony, claiming that the empire has no control over the sun. The fortress’s ruling is the empire’s deliberate favoritism to the Riela people, and it is unfair, so the Biang people have no obligation to abide by this unfair ruling.”

"This time the Biang people came for revenge and mobilized more than 300,000 troops in the country. Owei's Rila Army has only gathered 150,000 people. Just from the comparison of strength, the Rila Army is at an absolute disadvantage. Owei I came here in person to meet Lord Plais, hoping that the empire Being able to provide military assistance, Lord Plais believes that this matter is related to the situation in Barro in Central Europe. The Biang people have repeatedly provoked the imperial border troops before, and Lord Plais thinks that they can borrow the sword of the Riela people. , teach the Biang people a lesson! "

"Is Plais tempted by Owitt's request?"

The black-haired young man narrowed his eyes into a thin line and asked a question before turning around and looking at the documents on the table. He curled his lips slightly. "If military strength can represent everything, Owitt has already withdrawn his troops and ran away. How can he still return?" King Biang would have the heart to come here to ask for help, and King Biang would not deliberately betray himself in front of everyone. Although Biang has a total of 300,000 troops, the temporary recruits accounted for one-half, and the rest There were 100,000 local garrison troops, and in the end, only more than 50,000 people were left. Some of them were withdrawn from the direction of the Sun Fortress. In the battle of the Sun Fortress, two-thirds of the Bion Army's officers above the squadron commander were killed. The losses of the soldiers can be imagined. It is not possible to replace so many new soldiers. How much combat power is left? Look at the Ruila Army. There are 150,000 troops, but most of them are elites who have experienced the Hungarian Rebellion. With the Sun Fortress as support, the Ruila Army also took advantage of the fire to rob several people. The province was empty, so why didn't Owitt say that he was at a disadvantage? "

The black-haired young man paused and sighed, "If we really want to go to war, without the barrier of the Sun Fortress, the Biang people who have been at peace for so long will not be able to defeat the Rila people not to mention 300,000, even 500,000."

"Then why did Owitt come to King Aero?" Ankluo's pretty face was slightly stunned.

"What else could it be? If I don't know the reason, the old fox should know that I am in the capital of Erro. ​​The old fox wants to play a big game this time. The empire assigned the Sun Fortress to him. He is not satisfied yet. He wants to If he continues to expand the invasion, he is afraid that he will be punished by the empire. The 50,000 Hungarian cavalry are weighing on him. He had a knife, so he simply pretended to be weak and deliberately made the Biang people think that they had a chance to win. The Biang people had been blinded by hatred. The whole country was in the sound of war, and hundreds of thousands of new soldiers were recruited. There was no way out. , King Bion came here deliberately, in fact, he came to put pressure on the empire and force the empire to cancel the mediation effect."

"King Bion is different from the old fox. The old fox is pretending to be miserable, but King Bion is really miserable. The empire intervened. Not only did it not help Bion who was invaded, but it also assigned the kingdom's barrier Sun Fortress, which it had worked hard for decades, to its old enemy Rilla. Man, the empire put a little puppet on the stage, but asked him, the majestic lord of Bion, to come all the way to the capital of King Eero to congratulate him. With the power of Bion as a kingdom, I'm afraid the empire still won't care. , but if the Kingdom of Biang gets the support of the royal families, under pressure, the empire can only announce that the decision-making power of the Sun Fortress has been re-adjudicated. Look, even if that old fox Owitt can't swallow half of the Kingdom of Biang this time , at least he can tear off the provinces of the Kingdom of Beang that are close to the Sun Fortress, and add a little more chips to his plan to revive Rila." The black-haired young man smiled coldly,

"Then how should Mr. Prais respond?" Anklo stood up straight, his beautiful eyes sparkling, and said softly, "Tell Prais that you can agree to Owitt, as long as he can withstand Bi The empire will send troops to the first wave of attacks by the Ang people. If it can't withstand it, then it will spit out the Sun Fortress and return to its original place." The black-haired young man raised his hand.

"The empire promised to send troops after the first wave of attacks?" In a study room in the Palace of Eero, King Owit of Rilla looked at the seat of the joint governor of the empire's Istan and Feshan regions, Plais, with an ecstatic expression on his face. It's one thing for the empire to agree to send troops, but it's another thing to be able to see its true intentions.

"Yes, as long as His Majesty Owett can withstand the first wave of attacks by the Biang people, the empire will send troops."

"Is it His Majesty the Emperor who proposed this condition?" Owitt asked in a somewhat tentative tone with a slightly trembling voice, rapid breathing, and frighteningly bright eyes.

"The war is about to begin. His Majesty Owett had better think about how to return safely. I heard that Biang has transferred many people and vowed to make it impossible for His Majesty to return to Rila. However, the current capital of Aero, I don’t want to see blood, but it will be hard to tell after the celebration, because at that time King Aero is no longer under the control of our emperor." Plais flipped through a document indifferently and said lightly. Said Owitt, this old fox is getting more and more aware of how to make deals with the emperor.

Knowing that the Kingdom of Rila is the key target of the emperor's suppression, it is impossible to allow it to rise again. However, out of the need to control Central Europe Barrow, as long as it does not touch the interests and status of the empire, it is still okay to allow Rila to gain some weight. Owitt knew very well that he could deceive anyone by pretending to be miserable, but in front of the military god emperor, everything would be exposed.

It’s just that this matter can be said to have many benefits for the empire. Even if the emperor sees his intentions, he can at most turn a blind eye. According to Rila’s power, at most he can swallow a few A province, they still need to face the counterattack of the Biang people afterwards, but if the emperor is willing to share a piece of it, this plan will make a leap in quality and quantity.

The back-and-forth attacks between Rilla and the Empire are enough to carve up the entire Kingdom of Biang. The Kingdom of Rilla will fight in the front, and the Empire will take the lead from behind. As long as the Emperor of the Empire is not the biological father and mother of the Bion people, this matter will be possible 80% of the time. Success. Last winter, the Kingdom of Biang was embargoed by the empire and many people starved to death. Today is winter. , due to the loss of the Sun Fortress, the fertile fields cultivated outside the Sun Fortress had no harvest at all, and there was once again a huge shortage of domestic food. In this case, a large-scale army was recruited, and the moment King Bion began to attack the Sun Fortress with all his strength. , if the attack is unfavorable, this is the moment when the Kingdom of Biang begins to collapse!

"I understand, the celebration here is really lively. Unfortunately, I have important things to do, so I have to leave early."

Owitt smiled at the corner of his mouth. In fact, he secretly came to the capital of Aero this time just for the sake of giving it a try. He originally guessed that there was only a 50-50 chance that the emperor would be in the capital of Aero. Special understanding of the emperor of the empire, during the war between the empire and the Kingdom of Aden At the most critical moment of the war, the empire launched a new royal family of Eero. This was a small matter, but it was of great significance. His Majesty Owitt, who once almost united the entire Central European Barrow, could not be said to be a great leader. No, I'm extremely sensitive to this kind of thing.

The empire is asserting its power

Testing the strength of his southern European Barro hegemony

At the same time, it was also a show off and provocation for the promotion of the Kingdom of Aden to the Empire. It forced the Kingdom of Aden to hold its own promotion ceremony when the country was in chaos. The Kingdom of Aden was beaten badly because of the invasion of the empire, and hundreds of thousands of people died in the battle. Not only the elite, but also a massive slave rebellion broke out in the country. It can be said that they are in dire straits. If they are forced to hold the The imperial promotion ceremony not only does not make people feel the rise of Aden, but is more like a farce of being oppressed by the empire. With such a grand gesture, the possibility of the emperor personally taking charge is very high. This is what His Majesty Owitt thinks, so even if Across the inland sea, even if there is a tense situation with the Kingdom of Biang and a war is about to break out, we still have to take the risk and come to the capital of King Aero to take the gamble in person.

Walking out of the gate of the Hérault Palace, His Majesty Owitt stopped and turned around to look at the majestic Hérault Palace behind him. The grandeur of the once great empire still gave people a sense of coercion, but it also gave people a feeling of emptiness. No wonder The emperor doesn't like this place. It has no enterprising spirit. It's too luxurious.

If it were him, he wouldn't like it here. The feeling here is only depravity. The Palace of Biang is very good. King Owitt of Rila smiled slightly.

Forty years ago, Owitt, a child of the Rilla royal family, studied in the then capital of Biang. Although Biang was weakened by the Hungarian War at that time, it was still the political and cultural center of Central Europe. , a veritable hegemon for a century. The Biang people at that time held their heads high, were full of confidence, and looked at all foreigners with contempt.