Realm of Power

The setting sun is like blood, and the afterglow of the setting sun adds a bit of desolation to the scene of the old man kneeling down and crying.

The fat man, who was holding garlic in his hand and preparing to perform a crying show, was also shocked when the old man suddenly knelt down. The heart-rending cry shook everyone's heart.

How much grievance must be felt in one's heart if a noble grand duke is allowed to cry in public regardless of his face.

"Isn't this old man crazy about gains and losses?"

The fat man looked at the crying Grand Duke Jones, and asked Keith Solon beside him in a low voice with a puzzled expression.

But I found that there were tears flashing in the eyes of Caesar, who always liked to pretend to be serious.

"I don't think so. Maybe I'm remembering some past events that should be forgotten."

Looking at the weathered face of old man Jones, he is only fifty years old and already has a head full of silvery white hair.

"Grand Duke Jones, if you knew that you fought bloody battles for the kingdom, but the kingdom had already abandoned you, would you regret your previous oath to defend the kingdom?"

Caesar Zoro turned his head sadly,

Caesar Sauron, who had been among the high-ranking nobles of the kingdom, knew everything about this stubborn old man.

The stubborn character and arrogant and rude style of the Northern Grand Duke Jones have always been disliked by the kingdom's senior officials.

It is said that His Majesty the King had intended for the Crown Prince to marry the Jones family last year and marry Mr. Jones’s daughter as the Crown Prince’s concubine. However, this olive branch offered by the royal family was rejected by the proud and stubborn old man.

This made the royal family very embarrassed, so they arranged for the old man's Yuyehua Legion, composed of infantry, to stop the pursuing Kujit Heavy Cavalry Thousands.

The news that the Yuyehua Army was being pursued by Kujit Qingqi had long reached the ears of the kingdom's senior officials. Even when the entire army died in the Thassaris area, no army was sent to respond.

That is a warning to all disobedient local noble lords

"No matter what title you hold, as long as you dare to insult the royal family, the royal family will let him carry the Kugit, and borrow the Kugit's scimitar to look at his head."

5,000 Yuyehua soldiers died in the battle, and the life or death of the regiment commander, Grand Duke Jones, was uncertain.

Some say he died fighting, others say he was captured by the Kugits, and still others say he was eaten by a hungry local mob.

The most interesting story is that this stubborn old man surrendered to the Kugits and personally led the Kugit cavalry to avenge the king.

These bizarre news are not important to the kingdom’s senior officials.

What matters is the vacancy of a grand duchy, the vacancy of a duchy.

These are the things that the great nobles at the top of the kingdom care about.

During the period when Grand Duke Jones was captured, the kingdom's top brass continued to quarrel over the vacant position of Grand Duke. Several powerful families in Kyoto almost started fighting over this vacancy.

Several small lords near the Dukedom of Jones were ready to take action under the instructions of their backers in Kyoto. Regardless of the overall situation of jointly resisting the invasion of the Kugits, they secretly began to annex the outer areas of the Dukedom of Jones.

The already chaotic situation in the north became even more unbearable. The main force of the Jones family was killed in the battle, and the remaining troops were only 1,000. As a last resort, the daughter of the stubborn old man of the left-behind family, Princess Salari Jones, issued an emergency mobilization order for the territory.

All men over the age of sixteen and under fifty were conscripted into peasant soldiers, and a large-scale civil war was imminent.

The other two grand dukes guarding the northern territories could not sit still.

They withdrew their troops from the main force of the kingdom one after another, taking this opportunity to severely protest against the royal family's act of avenging private revenge.

Due to the evacuation of the northern lords, the main force of the kingdom dropped sharply from 25,000 to 13,000.

Guitar III, who was seriously short of troops, had to swallow the bitter pill he had brewed.

The territories of the northern lords have not yet been completely lost, but the central region they rule has been turned into a hornet's nest by the Kugits.

In the battle of Lissa River Bank in the middle, the king's army with only 13,000 troops was defeated by 20,000 Kugit cavalry of King Kugit Khan.

The Kingdom's First Guards Knights collapsed,

The Kingdom's fifth Seseben Epee Infantry Regiment was completely wiped out.

In the third kingdom of Sanheli, the long archer brigade was completely wiped out.

The Seventh Light Cavalry Regiment of the Kingdom collapsed

The life and death of Grand Knight Caesar Enkutai, the leader of the Kingdom's Seventh Lancers and the Silver High Knight, are unknown.

The beaches of the Lisa River were littered with corpses. 2,500 people were killed and 8,300 were captured.

The main force of the kingdom suffered heavy losses and was no longer able to fight the Kugits.

King Guitar III led the remaining army to retreat to Suluo Castle, and the central part became a pasture for the Kugit people.

The method of the left guard king of Kugit who was left to deal with the prisoners was very simple.

"Kill, leave no one alive, just use the blood of these Wekias to water our future pasture. Only where human blood has flowed can the pasture grow tall and tender."

King Zuo Wei's words were cold and biting,

Rows of prisoners were forced to kneel on the grassy slope in front of the river beach, and the cold light of the Kujit scimitar flashed

Hot blood spurts out from the headless chest, watering the grass in front of it that has not yet sprouted.

It splashed onto the faces of the nearby prisoners who had not yet been beheaded, who were numb and waiting for death.

The heads of the prisoners were thrown into the Lissa River, which was still covered with thin ice. Because there were too many heads, the Lissa River was blocked.

It took a full month for the blood-red Lisa River to become clear. The large number of corpses piled up attracted nearby wild animals to gnaw on them.

No one in the nearby village is willing to hunt wild beasts anymore,

Fishermen in the lower reaches of the Sari River could still see highly decomposed fingers in the bellies of big fish they caught half a year ago.

Eleven of the thirteen central counties without defense forces quickly fell. The Kugits even established their own ruling castles in some areas and erected Kugit Khan's three-star arc-moon flag, which greatly threatened to ban Wikipedia. The momentum of sub-dominance.

If Duke Stian Kusai, known as the Lion of the North, was not still guarding the northern Kurau region, the Kugit cavalry with sufficient backup would have fully occupied central and south-central Wikiia, and they would not be where they are now. The point where there is no food to eat.

"If we calculate these carefully, the white-haired old man kneeling in front of us and crying bitterly should be regarded as the main culprit for the defeat of the Royal Army.

But is all this his fault, or is it the fault of Guitar III who was trapped in Su Luo? Or is it to blame the great nobles of Kyoto? "

Caesar Sauron shook his head, hoping to drive away the random thoughts in his mind.

But in my mind, the scene of thousands of my subordinates being tied up with ropes by the Kujit people in rows and dragged to the Lisa River beach where corpses were strewn like animals, and beheading them one by one, kept recurring in my mind. emerge

If he hadn't jumped into the bitterly cold Lisa River in winter while the Kugit guard was not paying attention,

Now my head should have become a delicacy for the fish in the Lisa River!

Caesar Zoro, who was still remembering, sighed with sadness and anger.

Suddenly, I found that the stubborn old man’s painful cry in my ears had stopped.

Caesar Sauron raised his head and looked ahead,

Under the attention of tens of thousands of people, a fat man wearing a red velvet cloak and heavy armor came to the old man who was kneeling and crying, and held the thin arm of Grand Duke Jones.

"Your Excellency, thank you for your hard work! From now on, Samoer will be your home, because it is the blood of the Yuyehua warriors who died in the battle that allows Samoer to still play a role in the war chess of us Vecians!"

The fat man's extremely ordinary words not only made the stubborn old man cry even more miserably, but even Caesar Sauron behind him had tears in his eyes.