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The ministers looked at Zhou Ming in a strange way.

Innocent?

childish?

Or... mentally retarded?

In short, all the ministers felt that their Emperor was too young.

But Zhou Ming had his own considerations and reasons for doing this.

One, he was indeed in the wrong. The so-called "promise" fulfilled by His Majesty the Emperor, I am afraid that most people will feel that he is not very kind in private and is trying to humiliate the Lucis family.

After making the old prince angry to death, the Lucis family rebelled, which was completely reasonable.

After all, no matter who this happened to, it would be impossible for them to swallow that breath.

Therefore, in terms of public opinion, Zhou Ming is very passive and finds it difficult to act confidently.

Facing the rebels' offensive, he could only try to lower his profile as much as possible to avoid provoking them again and causing greater damage.

Second, the so-called "withdrawing troops two thousand miles and pardoning the Lucis family three times" is not Zhou Ming's naive mind. This is a strategy adopted to win the war.

In fact, he had dozens of ways to defeat the rebels, and the probability of his failure was zero.

Zhou Ming's request for a fight was to have a decisive battle with the rebels on the plains of Edaras County. The purpose was to eliminate as many rebels as possible and fight a beautiful battle of annihilation!

Strive to maximize the land and weaken the power of the noble faction!

As for "three pardons", it is also a hard-to-get trick, to make the Lucis family feel confident in the pardoned state, continue to commit suicide, continue to make mistakes, and finally go from one failure to another, and finally fall into despair.

In the end, within the Orunian Empire, the powerful family with the greatest energy, the largest private army, and the largest territory population among the aristocrats went into complete decline.

This is Zhou Ming's real purpose.

…

the other side.

The main force of the rebel army penetrated 500 miles into the royal area, occupied an undefended county town, and stationed themselves inside.

A messenger sent from the imperial capital delivered the letter that the emperor wanted to convey to the rebels to the rebel commander Bruno.

Bruno is 71 years old and has white temples. Due to his long-term martial arts practice, he is tall and strong with piercing eyes. Like his father, he is also very irritable and irritable.

However, unlike the old Wang Jue, Bruno's temper is not only violent, but also has attributes such as "cruel" and "killing". The old Wang Jue once criticized him and told him to "reward more and kill less", but the old Wang Jue left. Now, Bruno, who has no one to suppress him, brought out the irritability in his character 100%.

For example, during this march, Bruno ordered to kill hundreds of troops who were marching slowly without mercy.

Take temporary command of the mansion.

After receiving the letter handed over by the imperial envoy and scanning it a few times, Bruno, who was sitting at the top, suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahahaha!"

"It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous, that boy Noctis is so naive and ridiculous!"

Bruno's laughter was mixed with gnashing of teeth, which was quite weird and terrifying, and his eyes also radiated a bloodthirsty light.

He crumpled the letter in his hand into a ball, stared in a certain direction to the west and said: "Noctis, I have been preparing for this war for decades, and you think you can stop it with your hypocritical charity. My Lucis family’s million-dollar cavalry?”

"I don't need to withdraw our troops for two thousand miles! No matter which city, as long as it stands in front of me, I can take it!"

"We can have a decisive battle between the two armies on the Great Plains of Edaras County! As long as you appear there, I will personally take your head! Then I will take over this world that belongs to the Lucis family!"

Yes, at this moment, the ambition that had been dormant in Bruno's heart for many years was finally exposed. With a once-in-a-lifetime excuse, how could he hold it back?

Therefore, Bruno's mood in launching this war certainly includes the hatred and anger of his father who was angered to death, but more importantly, it is the excitement and excitement that his ambition can finally be put to use!

At this moment, his wish for many years will finally become a reality!

Looking at the end of the letter, Noctis said that if he won, he would forgive the Lucis family and pardon the Lucis family three times.

Bruno smiled.

uttered a sneer at the idiot.

When he told this joke to the dozens of generals present, the entire palace burst into laughter!

"How can an idiot like Noctis sit on the throne?"

"Noctis is still dreaming about defeating us and wants to give alms to the Lord three times? Okay, after we catch Noctis, we will also give him three opportunities to escape, and use the saber to chop him the fourth time. Get off his head!”

"Hahahaha, that little devil emperor is so funny!"

"I can't wait to see that kid on the battlefield." The general licked his lips, looking forward to it in his heart.

"Encountering an idiot-like opponent, this empire is destined to return to its original master. Lord Wangjue, no, His Majesty the Emperor, you are the wise master who should lead this empire!" The minister has already Can't wait to start flattering.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

Not to be outdone, all the generals, nobles, and ministers also knelt down and shouted long live in advance.

Seeing this scene, the imperial envoy who delivered the letter couldn't help but said: "You are not revenge, you are treason!"

Bruno stared at him: "Come here, push him down and chop him! We will go out early tomorrow morning to get his blood sacrifice flag!"

The special envoy was immediately frightened and cried out in horror: "Don't kill me. I am a special envoy. You cannot kill the special envoy!"

But how could Bruno, with his bloodthirsty eyes, pay attention to his plea for mercy?

…

Two months later.

On the flat and wide Edaras Plains, on both sides of a north-south river, two large armies took up positions.

The army in the west has golden helmets and armor, and gorgeous costumes. It has nearly 10,000 phalanxes and about a million people.

The army on the east side has silver helmets, gray armor, and white plains. The equipment is obviously worse, but the aura of mourning and silence also makes people feel very depressed, and they dare not underestimate it.

As for the number of people, it is probably about two million, twice the number of the army in the west.

"Dong dong dong dong dong dong~"

After the war drums started beating.

Behind the military formation on the west.

Zhou Ming waved his hand again and ordered that his own army retreat three miles, allowing the army of the Noble Alliance to cross the river first. After all the main forces reached the west bank, the two armies would fight again.

Bruno felt unbelievable and murmured: "That idiot kid actually asked my million cavalry to cross the river first, stand firm and then fight? That idiot..."

For a moment, Bruno even had a feeling that there was fraud in this, but it passed by in a flash.

When I saw the military formation on the other side of the river, they were indeed retreating in an orderly manner, leaving a large open space.

He waved his hand: "Quickly cross the river and launch a full-scale attack!"

…

Behind the western military formation.

Standing on a hill.

Holding a telescope in his hand, he saw more and more noble Alliance cavalry standing on the land on the west bank, setting up conical charge formations one after another.

Zhou Ming asked the people around him: "Approximately how many soldiers and horses did they survive?"

"Your Majesty, it should be more than 70%. Basically all the cavalry have crossed over."

"Okay! Issue an order to order the soldiers to take off their armor, change their weapons, take out their breech-loading rifles, and order the artillery troops to roll out their cannons and prepare for salvo bombardment! Order the 300,000 cavalrymen who have crossed the river to prepare to take the rebels' retreat and move them They caught them all in one fell swoop!”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Woooooo~"

"Boom boom boom boom~"

"Bang bang bang bang bang~"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

A massacre caused by technological differences is taking place on this great plain.