The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For the tribes on the outskirts of the Crack Plain, the establishment of the Holy Rune Kingdom does not mean much to them. To some extent, it is not even as important as their meal. In their view, the so-called Holy The Kingdom of Wen is just a newly established large tribe, and the Queen of St. Wen may be the name of some kind of tribal chief, so how did the Kingdom of St. Wen live before it was established, and how it still lives after it was established.

Compared with the establishment of the Holy Rune Kingdom, the upcoming recruitment of fighters in each tribe is what ordinary people in each tribe pay the most attention to.

In the past, ordinary people in various tribes were extremely disgusted and disgusted with the recruitment of fighters, because they knew very well that the recruited fighters rarely came back alive, and even if they came back, they would be scarred or disabled, etc. All in all, a very important labor force in the family has been abolished in this way, so ordinary people in various tribes hate such things as recruiting soldiers.

However, the current situation seems to be completely different, because Sylvia ordered ordinary people to join the armies of various tribes to receive excellent treatment. Not only can they receive various items every month, they can even rely on military exploits Gain extra energy, and after the war ends and the service ceases, the warriors of the tribe can also get a large amount of service money.

However, these are only material benefits. The reason why ordinary people from various tribes are so active in recruiting fighters is that if they have enough meritorious service, they can obtain a qualification, a qualification called a legendary fighter.

For these tribes on the outskirts of the plain, the legendary warrior has always been an extremely mysterious and powerful existence. Except for a few large tribes, it may take hundreds of years for other tribes to have such one or two tribesmen. Opportunity to become a legendary warrior. In their impression, a legendary warrior is the kind of powerful existence that can change the trend of any abnormal war and is comparable to a god.

However, with the appearance of Sylvia, the queen of St. Marks, the number of legendary warriors outside the plain increased at an astonishing rate. Except for nearly half of the clansmen such as the Thresh tribe who became legendary warriors, the legendary warriors of other tribes The number of fighters ranged from hundreds to thousands, and the overall number far exceeded the sum of the legendary fighters produced by all the tribes in the outer plains in the past.

Although the number of legendary warriors has increased now, this has not reduced the status and importance of legendary warriors in various tribes. On the contrary, because of the war with the city-state tribes in the central region, the status of legendary warriors in each tribe has become more important. .

After witnessing the inhuman power displayed by legendary warriors, for the first time, ordinary people of various tribes had a strong desire to obtain this power, and they knew very well that as the war unfolded, , recruited soldiers will inevitably be more, even children are very clear, on the battlefield. The survival rate of a legendary fighter is far higher than that of an ordinary fighter, so becoming a legendary fighter also represents whether they can walk off the battlefield alive.

In addition, it is much easier to become a legendary warrior now than before. In the past, if you wanted to become a legendary warrior, you had to go through life and death in tribal wars as ordinary people. Only after experiencing extreme life and death tests did you have a chance to become a legendary warrior. But now The situation is different now. It is said that the St. Mark Queen has mastered a method that can directly make ordinary people become legendary fighters without going through tribal wars and life-and-death tests, and the success rate is very high. It is the best opportunity for those who cannot complete the test of life and death on the battlefield.

So among these tribes, on the day when the Holy Rune Kingdom was established, when the chiefs of each tribe told the news to the people of their own tribes, the crowd just cheered symbolically, and then gathered together in small groups, Discuss the test for the pre-selected legendary fighters in a few days.

Compared with the people at the lower level, the chiefs of various tribes are more concerned about the establishment of the Holy Rune Kingdom, but what they care about is not the Holy Rune Kingdom itself, but whether it will immediately report to the tribes in the Middle Kingdom after the Holy Rune Kingdom is established. The city-states launched an all-out war, which was basically closely related to their vital interests.

The war that is currently going on at the junction of the peripheral and central regions is of no benefit at all. It is not as good as the tribal wars that start every once in a while. At least each tribal war lasts for a short time and only consumes a little manpower. After the end, some additional compensation can be obtained to make up for the loss within the tribe, while the ongoing war is completely a war of attrition, consuming the financial resources and manpower of each tribe.

For various reasons, the chiefs of the various tribes could only follow Sylvia's orders and keep the war on the border in a state of engagement, and did not find any favorable opportunities to defeat the enemy, but this does not mean that they did not want to have a fight The hearty victory, in fact, they are more eager to win than the army on the front line, eager to invade the central region, eager to plunder the city-states and tribes in the central region, because they all know that if they continue to maintain the state of war like this, except for a few Except for this big tribe, the other tribes will probably be wiped out by this war.

Fortunately, when they were discussing whether to make a request to Sylvia through the Senate to launch an all-out war against the tribal city-states in the central region, Sylvia took the initiative to inform these tribal chiefs to prepare for the unification war on the Crack Plain , So the chiefs of each tribe put together the recruitment of the army and the selection of the prepared legendary fighters. Almost all the people who failed in the selection of the prepared legendary fighters were directly drawn into the tribal legions that were being formed. Materials are also accumulating rapidly, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

At the same time, the establishment of the Holy Pattern Kingdom has also spread to the city-states and tribes in the central region through various channels. The word kingdom is also very unfamiliar to them. After reading some ancient stone books left by various tribes, , after getting the explanation of the word kingdom, but that explanation is also very vague, so that they, like ordinary people in the tribes on the outskirts of the plain, subconsciously regard the kingdom as the name of the big tribe, and do not really realize the kingdom. meaning behind.

However, even if they don't know what's going on in the kingdom, they still know very well that when the tribes in the outer area of ​​the Crack Plain are united into one big tribe, a big war against them will definitely occur in the near future, and there will be News came that the tribes on the outskirts of the plain had begun to call up troops.

Although years of habits have made the rulers of these city-state tribes despise the primitive tribes in the outer areas of the plain, they are also very clear that if those tribes are really unified and recruit a large number of troops, if they do not take it seriously, it may be true. What surprises will happen.

As a result, the city-states and tribes in the central region abandoned all grievances, established a rivalry alliance, and selected three leaders with status, status and prestige from the strongest and largest tribes to form a similar The organization of the Senate unified the management of this alliance established.

Although the structure of this alliance is trying to imitate the Saint Rune Kingdom established by Sylvia, this imitation is only a superficial imitation without a real core, which also leads to the various instructions implemented by this loose alliance not being received. Well-executed, resulting in insufficient logistical supplies of the joint army, chaotic recruiting of the joint army, and so on.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Sylvia launches an all-out war to unify the cracked plain at this time, the alliance in the central zone will inevitably be defeated due to various insufficient preparations, and it will not be difficult to win the central zone in a short time.

However, Sylvia did not do this. After learning about the troubles that the tribes and city-states in the central region are currently encountering, she instead cited the lack of training of the newly recruited army and the serious problems in the coordination of the troops of the various tribes, etc. , Moved back the time for launching a full-scale war, and did not announce the launch of a full-scale war against the central zone until she determined that the loose alliance in the central zone was ready for war through various information collected.

The ensuing all-out war on the cracked plain was very boring, without any accidents, everything unfolded as Sylvia expected, and the overall look felt like a burly adult bullying a toddler.

Sylvia gave the city-state tribal alliance in the central region enough time to prepare for the war, and even in order to keep the all-out war longer, she also deliberately let some important military information of the Sacred Pattern Plain be disclosed to the other side. Military intelligence includes some key tribal legions' mission objectives, personnel composition, and legion weaknesses. As long as the city-state tribal alliance makes targeted arrangements according to the information revealed in these intelligences, even if those tribal legions cannot be eliminated in the end, It can also cause serious damage to it.

However, the top-to-bottom contempt for the tribes outside the plain in the central region has deeply affected everyone, and those in power who are usually high above have brought this contempt to the extreme, so that anyone with the Holy Rune Kingdom The relevant information was selectively ignored by them, and they even found a reason for themselves, saying that these important intelligence materials were too easy to come by, like a trap, and they still arranged them according to the information revealed in the intelligence. If it is not, then they will definitely fall into the trap carefully arranged by the enemy, so when they deploy their defenses, they do not refer to these intelligence materials at all, and even deploy their defenses in the opposite direction from what is recorded in the intelligence data.

Sylvia also didn't expect that her enemies would be self-righteous to the point of stupidity. The tribal legions that she had originally selected as war sacrifices turned out to be the legions with the most impressive records after the war started. Because they didn't encounter any interception or resistance on the way of marching, they passed through the middle isolation zone between the central area and the outer plains without any loss, and then took down the few guards with only a few guards very smoothly. A target location, directly connecting those locations, established a forward base.

Such a result was completely beyond Sylvia's expectations, and it could even be said that it caught her off guard, giving her no chance to even give an order to stop it.

In her prediction, the two sides should go through about 20 days of evenly matched confrontation, and then the city-state and tribal alliance will show signs of decline. At that time, other arrangements she secretly made will disrupt the order of the enemy's frontline troops, and The Holy Pattern Kingdom can take the opportunity to launch an assault and completely break through the defense line built by the opponent.

But now the plan has been completely broken. In just three days, several tribal legions successfully broke through the defense line of the isolation belt called the iron wall and iron wall by the city-state tribal alliance, and also captured several important military locations. Before realizing it, the military locations were connected to form a complete outpost, which was unbelievable, so that after seeing the battle report, she wondered if those tribal legions were deliberately trying to please her. Fabricated fake battle reports.

But after Sylvia carefully read the battle report, especially the entire capture mission objective and the process of establishing an outpost in the battle report, she also believed that the battle report was not fake, and the city-state tribes in the central region The isolation zone that was established was indeed lost, and the outpost was indeed built, but the ultimate cause of all these changes turned out to be her herself.

At this moment, she realized that the intelligence information she deliberately leaked to the city-state tribes in the central region was the reason why those tribal legions were able to successfully win the mission target. She also found that when she decided to take out the intelligence information, Completely ignoring the mentality of those in power in the city-state tribes in the central region, the result was that when those guys made military plans, they completely followed the content of the information leaked, and finally formed such an incredible result.

Although the current war situation completely violated Sylvia's original intention and disrupted her plan, she couldn't ignore it and could only adjust her plan to avoid the unification war of the cracked plain beyond her plan. Take control.

Let the tribal legions on several large battlefields in the isolation zone continue to strengthen their attacks, dragging down the main force of the city-state tribal alliance army over there, while the tribal legions mainly composed of ordinary people as a reserve force will pass through the blocked road. The line of defense that was pierced through the isolation zone directly came to the forward position that had just been built, reinforced the military strength of the forward position, and launched a surprise attack on several nearby targets set up in the second phase of the war in advance.

This raid also easily took down several unsuspecting small city-states and tribes. At the same time, it also alarmed those in power in the city-state and tribal alliance in the central region. They all seemed extremely stunned after receiving the news. , I don't understand how so many troops from the tribes on the outskirts of the plain crossed the defensive front of the isolation zone and came to the central zone. The central zone spreads.