Realm of Power

On a dark snowy night, goose-like flakes of snow fell on the window sill. Ten miles away from Lake Maier in the winter of the capital of Hérault, dozens of carriages were waiting quietly in two rows. A burly middle-aged man stood there. At the forefront of all carriages. I saw him looking into the distance with eyes full of reluctance and helplessness

"Your Majesty, according to accurate information, King Ikar has left the Eero border and entered the Boesi Mountains." A knight galloped from a distance against the wind and snow, and stopped his horse ten meters in front of the middle-aged man. Large snowflakes hit the knight, just like a snowman. Both the man and the horse were breathing heavily in the cold night.

"I actually let that bastard slip away in front of my eyes!" The middle-aged man's face was as solemn as the black clouds tonight. Although there was such a guess, it was another matter to confirm that it was the truth. Nothing was lost. It can be saved. King Ikar escaped from the hunting circle, which basically means the biggest failure of this plan.

If he hadn’t deliberately used the Kentam family to set up his plan, the Kentam heiress might not have taken action. It’s ridiculous that even after knowing the power of the Kentam heiress, he still chose luck. , which eventually led to the escape of the Ikars, the biggest prey in the plan, if they had been put down earlier It would be better if the so-called royal family is proud, or if they firmly choose to cooperate with the concubine of the Kentam family from the beginning, I believe the result will not be like this. The middle-aged man regrets it a little, but the fact is irreversible and can only He said that he underestimated everyone and thought he had control of everything, but in the end he discovered that he was just wishful thinking.

At the end of the celebration, from behind the scenes to the stage, the concubine heiress allowed King Ikar to escape safely from her many pursuits, showing her qualifications as the actual controller of the capital of Eero. It can be said that this time it is the new leader of Eero The biggest dark horse revealed in the royal celebration, the middle-aged man was none other than King Harvey. He returned to the carriage full of annoyance, lifted it up, and the motorcade gradually disappeared into the wind and snow in the distance.

The news of King Harvey's departure during the night was sent back to the capital of Héro in the morning. The big bell heralding the end of the celebration rang twenty-four times. The lively celebration of Héro's new royal family finally came to an end. The little-known southern city The small princes suddenly became the royal family of the Héro region, which was more like a drama of ups and downs for the Héro people who had been silent for a long time.

The three kings gathered in the capital of Eero, King Ikar's final hasty escape, King Harvey's cunning strategy, King Rilla's early departure, and the final words of the Kentam family's concubine heiress at the last moment, all like wonderful dramas. Giving this celebration a legendary color, the name of Kentam Atrice, the concubine heiress, spread throughout the world. The entire streets and alleys of the capital of Hérault became a talking point among the people of the capital of Hérault. As the concubine heiress personally led the transactions in the capital of Hérault, she defeated the alliance of southern princes alone in the south, and finally forced the southern princes to admit their will. The fact that the status of the new royal family of the Tam family was confirmed had a huge psychological impact on the people of the capital of Elro.

"As a concubine, she pushed her family to the throne. It would be a legend among legends anywhere. At first, those so-called theater performances were just a farce to please the public. Who knew that in the end, it turned out to be the real fact!" "The various comments about this heiress of the Kentam family were suddenly raised to a very high position, even surpassing the head of the Kentam family who had just become the new emperor of Eero.

The celebration carriage stopped next to the large white marble square in front of the palace. Under the protection of the knights, the concubine heiress walked into the square. Every few meters around the square stood a knight, wearing heavy combat armor. His thick bright red shirt was made of five or six layers of sheepskin sewn together, and there was a nail on the shirt. Rows of gold-plated bronze buttons. Under the battle robes, rust-red heavy steel armor was exposed. They wore a double-edged battle ax on the left and right sides of their waists, and a one-meter-long two-handed sword on their left waist. The long red sword hilt paired with the pitch black scabbard looked unusually dignified.

All holy knights wear fully enclosed helmets with only a pair of eyes exposed. A long neck guard extends to the top of the vest. The central axis of the helmet is neatly decorated with a strip of fluffy camel hair dyed bright red. The red camel hair piled high like clouds swayed in the breeze, and the entire square was like an undulating red ocean.

Naturally, these knights cannot be from the Kentam family. These knights are the personal guards brought by the imperial governor Prais. At this moment, they have come to support the Kentam family's heiress, and they have expressed the empire's support for the Kentam family's concubine. While the heir gave absolute support, he also expressed the empire’s attitude to all parties participating in the celebration.

In the eyes of the common people, this celebration of the new royal family was not only lively, but also gave them a sense of the original southern hegemony, especially the convoys of all forces driving on the city road, with colorful flags of various colors gathered under the protection of their respective cavalry. The front yard of the palace has been empty for two years, and most of the time has passed. At that moment, it suddenly started to snow in King Luo's capital, and the temperature dropped sharply. Not only were the snow flakes fluttering, but even the moat outside the city was covered with a thick layer of ice. The sudden cold current hit King Luo's capital, and the ground was covered in silver. , as if returning to the original scene of many forces coming to congratulate.

The black-haired young man sitting in the office and flipping through the report on the war situation on the Harvey Plateau looked calm. He stood up and walked to the marble balcony, looking at the rain and snow falling all over the sky. The entire northern plain of Hérault was shrouded in vast flakes of snow, like smoke and fog. As a young man, There are people who know the truth. The black-haired emperor knows that the sudden drop in temperature is what the winter weather in the Hérault region should be like.

It has been more than a month since Pope Potamia went to the south to search for the capital of the Southern Kingdom of Aero, and the news he has received back is very little. Among the news he has sent back, the most mentioned thing is that the climate in the south is cooling rapidly, and even Some rivers were frozen, which made Pudamia very worried that when he arrived at the old capital of Eero, he would see large tracts of collapsed ruins covered in ice. The main reason why the Eero royal family abandoned the old capital was besides Huang. In addition to sand infection, there is another Floods submerged the old capital of Eero three times in a row, causing rampant plague. More than 200,000 people in Eero died of the disease. As a last resort, the Eero royal family abandoned the old capital and moved north. It is conceivable that if the old capital of Eero Most of them are still soaked in water, so it is normal for them to be frozen in the ice under the sudden change of climate. But for Putamia who is trying to enter the large library in the center of the city, the thick ice will Let all her efforts be in vain

The climate anomaly caused by the dissipation of yellow sand in the south has become closer and closer to normal. On the surface, the climate in the southern part of Hérault has also begun to return to normal. Therefore, the influence of the original hot sand and dust is rapidly weakening. The cold winter has returned. When talking about cold winter, Harvey has to be mentioned. Plateau, half of the cold air in the Hérault region comes down from the Harvey Plateau. If King Hérault It has begun to snow, so it must be the same on the Harvey Plateau. The black-haired emperor's eyes fell on the map on the wall. A huge raised platform on the map is the Harvey Plateau where the army is fighting fiercely. Harvey The uplift of the plateau is like a huge scratch cutting off half of the road to the west in the Hérault region.

As the mastermind behind the battle on the plateau, the black-haired emperor deliberately asked Sam Tamara to open up a sneak attack path for the troubled Harvey people. As expected, the Harvey people were like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, regardless of anything. As a result, they launched a counterattack and finally detonated the decisive battle between the two armies that was supposed to break out after the beginning of spring.

Before this battle, both sides had just finished the battle to defend the royal capital, and both suffered heavy losses. Now they were engaged in this life-and-death battle again. If the kings of both sides were personally in charge, the fight might not have reached this level all at once. , the problem is that the top commanders of both sides are not on the front line. Once this war starts, it will definitely be a life-and-death situation. The Harvey people will come out in droves, and the Ikal people will not be much better. These two bases ha The countries on the Harvey Plateau are all placing their final bets at this moment. Regardless of the final outcome of this battle, the situation of one dominant family on the Harvey Plateau will be difficult to continue. Although this battle is dominated by the Harvey Plateau and the Ikar people. The struggle for power, but the biggest beneficiary of this war should actually be the Empire. The Empire achieved southern hegemony in the War of the Order States, but the Empire's penetration into the Barrow region of southern Europe is still firmly blocked by the Harvey people.

In the past six months, the Empire has fully taken control of the Order. With the disappearance of Pope Potamia, the resistance to the Empire in the Order has completely disappeared. A large amount of imperial capital has poured into the Order. With the war in the Order, It recovered quickly after that, and the imperial funds also gained huge benefits from it. The sect Ninety percent of the mines in the country are controlled by imperial capital, and all kinds of resources are also under the control of the empire. The current region of the Order Country is like a paradise for imperial businessmen to invest. With the imperial commercial capital taking full control of the empire, In the Tuan Kingdom, there are also increasing voices from the imperial commercial routes urging them to continue heading south.

But the Harveys were like a crossroads rover standing in front of them,

If you want to completely let the empire's influence penetrate into the central part of Barro in southern Europe, you must remove the stubborn stone of the Harvey people. It is not that you have not considered using war to break through the obstruction of the Harvey people, but the Harvey people have retreated to the Harvey plateau. , the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the Empire forcibly mobilizes troops to fight against the Harvey people, the altitude sickness known as the Harvey Curse will be enough to collapse the vast majority of the Imperial Army who have no experience in plateau combat. Pan, in this era, the existence of altitude sickness is still associated with mysticism. No one can explain the cause of altitude sickness. All they know is that the walking companion suddenly fell down, became confused, and talked nonsense. In the end, the reason was unknown. Death, this unexplainable attrition of the army, even the determined imperial army cannot handle it. In this era, there is no effective way to solve altitude sickness.

Since it is impossible to fight up from below the plateau, we can only consider opening a gap from above the plateau. On the Harvey Plateau, besides the Harvey people, there are also Ikar people!

It is not without reason that the black-haired emperor finally chose to support the weak Ikar people. The first Ikar people are also a plateau people, and they have been suppressed by the Harvey people for decades, and their life is quite miserable. The second Ikar region has the entire The best iron ore in Barro in southern Europe, but the trade routes in the Ikar region have been The Harvey people control the Ikal people and the reason why the Ikar people have been suppressed by the Harvey people for decades is because the dominance of the trade routes is in the hands of the Harvey people. In order to regain the dominance of the trade routes, the Ikar people have not hesitated to stake the future of the entire ethnic group. If the empire comes to help at this moment, the Ikar people will only be grateful to the empire.

The main reason why the emperor decided to invest in the Ikar people was the Ikar people's extreme desire to establish their own business lines.

The Ikar people themselves very much hope to get rid of the commercial restrictions of the Harvey people, which coincides with the empire's desire to extend commercial routes to the plateau. The best quality iron ore is gold in the eyes of imperial merchants, and the Ikar group Mountains are just mountains of gold. Compared with fully protecting one’s own area, For the Harvey people who are the hegemons of the domain, the Ikar people who are still in the enslaved stage are obviously more in line with the requirements of the empire. As long as the commercial lines of Ikar can be opened up, the empire can not only break the resistance of the Harvey people in one fell swoop, but also Able to draw the Ikar people into his own camp

So the black-haired emperor decided to give the Ikal a push in the back.

If normal operations were followed, the Ikar army's siege of the capital of Harvey would most likely end in a disastrous defeat, because although the Ikar army had the advantage and was full of momentum, it was actually going deep alone in pursuit of a rapid advance. And completely ignoring the occupied area, the reason why they were able to storm all the way to the outskirts of King Harvey's capital , completely because the Harvey people were caught off guard, and this cold winter is gradually losing the advantage of the Ikar Army's surprise attack. As the rivers in the Hérault area below the cold current have frozen, the cold on the plateau is It is even more conceivable that the Ikar people's logistics line must be in a snowstorm at this moment.

Due to the lack of control over the occupied areas, a large amount of materials must be transported from within the country. Because the army is pressed outside the capital of Harvey, the logistics line supporting the 300,000-strong army is completely exposed to Harvey's side. The front is because of Ha The Uighurs were disrupted and did not have time to target the Ikar's logistics line. Now both sides have entered a period of repair. The Carl people's raid on the capital of Ero can be said to have failed. The Harvey military, which has already recovered its breath, cannot see the Ikal people's simply undefended logistics line, then the Harvey generals are all blind. Well, to be honest, for the fighting qualities of the Ikar people, no matter how they rush forward, the military god emperor can only describe it as "wild boar".

The Ikars are indeed simple and straightforward in fighting. It is no wonder that they have been suppressed by the Harveys for so many years. Instead of waiting until the Ikars are in trouble later because their logistics are cut off, it is better to create a battle for the Ikars now. The chance of victory or defeat, life or death,

Whether it is the Harvey people or the Ikar people, the advantages in this battle are equal. The Harvey army in the front has the advantage of being flanked by the front and rear, while the rear has the disadvantage of being flanked by the Ikar army. This is a rare opportunity for me to be fair. , only by severely inflicting heavy losses on the Harveys can the Ikars rise, and the Ikars, whose strength has been greatly reduced, will have to fully surrender to the imperial camp.

"His Royal Highness the Pope is back!" A guard walked in hurriedly and stopped a few meters behind the black-haired emperor. The black-haired emperor turned around, with a flash of surprise on his face. Did he really guess it right? Now, the old king of Erro is frozen under the ice?