Realm of Power

'call"

An arc with red fire streaked across the black night sky, crashing down like a rumored meteor. The Gallic soldiers below were in a mess, running in all directions. The fireball violently hit the ground, like a wild dragon sweeping across, and the tents were set on fire. There are burning soldiers howling pitifully,

"Rumble" Where the fire ball fell, it devoured all life, causing casualties secondarily, and the most fatal blow to our own soldiers. This sound was like a curse scratching the soul, mixed with the rustling cold In the night wind, the light of the fire could be seen very far in the black night, flickering like an elf and reflecting on the face of Derek, the person in charge of the Gaul-Kyoto line.

He was standing on the window sill high up in the cliff castle, with the wind blowing on his face. numb with cold, his eyes took in the situation below. Derek was a little confused. He now realized that giving up the pass was indeed a very bad decision. As expected, the Falcon Army occupying the pass fully deployed its long-range strike force. Hundreds of trebuchets moved into the pass and moved towards the newly established second line of defense. He regretted throwing away the flaming stone bomb. What the veteran Solei said was right. If he had made up his mind to fight to the death with the Falcon Army at the pass, the situation would never have been so passive. This reminded him of the veteran Solei. Lei's judgment when he left was that the fall of Biyan Castle was only a matter of time when the pass was abandoned!

"My lord, the 16th Infantry Regiment once again requested to move out of the camp! Seventy-three of their tents were burned down, and the soldiers lost more than a thousand people!"

The adjutant opened the door to his room with a solemn expression. The two large candlesticks in the room were filled with thirty candles. The candlelight illuminated the entire room and lit up the office. Let the soldiers outside see it, showing that the commander of the army is also with them, thus inspiring the confidence of the soldiers to continue fighting together. This was the advice given to Lord Derek by the veteran named Sorey. The adjutant also had to admit that the effect of this Yes, rumors about Sir Derek's office are already circulating in the army. The soldiers affectionately call this office the "Light of the Rock Castle."

"Tell the 16th Infantry Regiment. The order has been issued. No one is allowed to move camp regardless of losses!"

Derek waved his hands gloomily after listening to the adjutant's report, and expressed with unkind force that it was not just the 16th Infantry Regiment that would be attacked, if he agreed to allow the 16th Infantry Regiment to relocate. Then the entire second line of defense needs to be moved! Once you make a mistake, you can never make the same mistake again!

"My lord, the generals are jointly requesting the evacuation of Biyan Castle privately. Please be prepared..." The adjutant hesitated with an embarrassed look on his face. He didn't understand why Lord Derek, who always seemed to be a good old man, suddenly Show such determination. Even a newcomer like him, who had only joined the army for a month, could see that Biyan Fort could not be defended!

"These guys...!" Derek's face flashed with a hint of astonishment.

"Sir Derek, are you here, Sir Derek?" There was a noise outside the door, and the sound of guards blocking him, "Stop, you can't go in like this!"

"It seems to be Lord Via of the 16th Corps." The adjutant whispered a string of names with an ugly face.

"Get out of the way, do you guys want to offend Shangguan?" The door was knocked open from the outside. Two guards in crooked clothes were pushed back and stumbled in.

"Pa" a strong man nearly 2 meters tall appeared at the door. His eyes were full of unruly. He was wearing a general's uniform with red cuffs and a silver collar. He stood like a mountain at the door. He saw a stunned look on Derek's face in the room.

"Sir, you are indeed here. Come and have a look at my camp. The attacks from the opposite side have all hit my camp. There are countless casualties. If we don't move the camp, there will be no 16th Infantry Regiment tomorrow! "The strong man grinned, gave a casual military salute, and said, this person is none other than Via, the commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment.

"Didn't I tell you already? I can't agree to your request. Even if only one person dies, I have to resist!" Derek's face was livid. He was indeed far from a real general of the empire. If it was Alder Such an important general of the empire, let alone barging in, this guy wouldn't even dare to let out a fart even if he wanted him to die!

"Sir, how could you issue such a heartless order!"

Via's face changed slightly. She didn't expect Derek to act so decisively. Wasn't this guy always a loser? Via's face returned to calmness, and she said with an unconcerned look, "At any rate, my 16th Infantry Regiment once supported the Lord's rise to power. Your current expression, to be honest, is like a person who lifted up his pants next to the "biaozi" bed. People who don’t accept their debts!”

"What did you say!" Derek's eyes turned cold.

"Okay, Lord Derek, I'm just here to inform you on behalf of the generals!" Via became timid for no reason when she saw Derek's face.

"inform?"

"Everyone is waiting for you in the conference room!" Via raised her eyebrows and said in a disdainful tone, "Don't say that you can't see it, Biyan Fort cannot be defended. Everyone unanimously decided to withdraw to Kyoto. As the general person in charge of the Kyoto Line, We have to inform the adults anyway.”

"Everyone decided unanimously? How come I didn't know about this decision!" Derek clasped his ten fingers together, and his face became horribly distorted. These generals are so arrogant.

"If your Excellency wants to stay alone and hold on, we will not force it!" A sneer appeared on the corner of Via's mouth. "But please fulfill the formalities. We need a retreat order signed by Your Excellency personally. Please hurry up and let everyone be there." It is very rude to wait too long in the conference room!

"And such a delay makes no sense to adults."

"you!"

Derek's face became red and congested, his body trembled with anger, and he punched the desk. "I won't go. If you have the ability, you can evacuate on your own. Without the consent of the military commander, evacuating without authorization is a war." Escape!"

"Sir, why is this necessary?" Via shrugged her shoulders and waved her hand behind her. A dozen murderous soldiers in armor walked in. The adjutant was so scared that he ran to the corner.

"Guards! Guards!" Derek shouted anxiously,

"Stop struggling, Lord Derek!" Wea laughed and said, "We only spent a hundred gold coins to let your guard disband on its own! As for your awesome guard captain. We saw him an hour ago Just left Wall Rock Castle, otherwise we wouldn’t either! Dare you do this! Speaking of which, you still have to worry about your lord's policy of using mercenaries to replace the guards. Do you still expect those humble mercenaries to be as loyal and reliable as the guards at critical moments? Even worse than "biaozi"!"

"One hundred gold coins!" Derek's eyes almost bulged out when he heard it, and his guards were dismissed after being given one hundred gold coins!

"Please cooperate, sir, and don't force us to use force! Otherwise, we will hurt our hands and feet, which no one wants to see. We still need your hands to sign the order!" Via showed her white teeth. Not willing to waste any more time, "Please invite Mr. Derek to the conference room!" Via's eyes were full of disdain, she waved her hand to the soldiers and said coldly.

Walking in the corridor leading to the conference room of Biyan Castle, red lights kept flashing in from the outside. Derek was walking under the supervision of soldiers. There is a very funny feeling that I am like a clown who climbed into an inappropriate position at an inappropriate time. The fire that was still burning outside shone on his face, and all the torches in the dark corridor were extinguished. It seemed that the generals were very determined to evacuate, and even the guards in the fortress were withdrawn.

I don’t know why, in this lonely space. He remembered the time when he was a boy,

Once pulling the reins, the young Derek stood on the top of the ridge with his father. The empty Gallic plain stretched out below, flat and vast until the end of the horizon. What a proud world this is. Derek thought. Hills, mountains. , the endless grassland, the wind is surging, and the long grass blades are swaying like waves.

"This is Gaul, our homeland!"

His father, Marquis Chiora, who served as the Empire's Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, said proudly, 'You should see the scene when the flowers bloom in spring. The mountains and fields are covered with dark red flowers, like a sea of ​​blood. When the dry season arrives, the whole world turns bronze again. And that's just the color of Herana grass, kid, not counting the hundreds of other grasses, some as yellow as lemons, others as dark as indigo, others blue and orange, and grasses speckled with rainbow colors. It is said that there is a sea of ​​ghost grass in the extremely cold north. The grass grows taller than a man on a horse, and the stems are as white as white glass. This grass kills the rest, then glows in the dark with the souls of the cursed. The northern Slavs believed that one day ghost grass would take over the world, and that by then, all life would be over. "

Young Derek couldn't help but tremble after hearing this. 'Stop it, Father,' Derek said. 'This is a beautiful place, and I don't want to talk about death. '

Death, such an unreachable topic, was so close at this moment. Derek smiled at himself and signed the order to send the army back to Beijing. The end of his life must be somewhere else. He had already rejected Kyoto once, and they would not let them go. Don't let yourself be a traitor!

"Puch!"

In the dark space, a hot object suddenly exploded from the front and sprayed all over Derek's face. The strong smell of blood and the diluted greasy feeling on his face gave Derek the urge to vomit. Derek saw a soldier walking in front of the general control. His whole head was exploded, and his body fell limply as if all the bones had been removed. Where the head should be, blood spurted out from inside, splattering on everyone nearby. on people

"Attention, enemy attack!"

Via pulled out her sword nervously, and all the nearby soldiers drew their weapons. At this time, everyone heard the sound of crazy slashing coming from the conference room at the corner in front, and countless figures suddenly seemed like they were in the dark night. The ghost rushed out and said, "Kill them all! Come on, one hundred gold coins per head!"

"A mercenary? The mercenaries rebelled!"

Derek seemed to have thought of something and shuddered, and his whole body was covered in sweat! Three-quarters of the guards in Biyan Fort are mercenaries, and there are more than 2,000 people in total. Such a rebellion is simply a dead end. As long as the connection between Biyan Fort and the military camp below is cut off, even if all the generals in Biyan Fort are removed Even if you kill them all, no one will know.

"Go to hell! You despicable mercenaries!"

Realizing the identity of the attacker, the two-meter-tall 16th Infantry Regiment Commander Via roared piercingly. The meeting room was already littered with corpses. None of the generals escaped. The long sword in Via's hand was chopped down continuously. The bodies of four or five black figures and the imposing manner of the warriors in the army gave the mercenaries a pause in the rush of people.

"There is a general here. Each head is worth a thousand gold coins!" Someone saw the general's golden thread shining on Via's uniform, and the shouting made more people flock to him. No matter how powerful Via was, he couldn't stop the opponent's large number of people. The sword rolled down and chopped into pieces. The dozen or so soldiers accompanying him were instantly overwhelmed by the crowd. Derek fainted and was killed by the corpse of the person in front of him. After blocking it and accidentally escaping, the mercenaries rushed to Derek's office, only to see the shivering lieutenant hiding under the table. Without any explanation, the adjutant was cut into pieces with swords.

"What to do! The most valuable Derek is missing!" The mercenaries looked at each other.

"What the heck, burn down his office! Let the entire Rock Castle light turn into a torch! Haha!"

Someone among the mercenaries roughly knocked over the candlestick and pulled the expensive curtains made of Baiman to the ground. Let the candlestick flames burn in the highest room of the Rock Castle. In the howling night wind, the flames soar into the sky, like a huge torch blazing in the dark night sky.

"What's going on?" The officers and soldiers in the military camp below were all stunned at this spectacle.

"Quick, rush up! Rescue the generals!" The Gallic officers thought of something, trembled and suddenly shouted desperately, their eyes were bloodshot. The generals all went to the Biyan Fortress for a meeting. This was a rebellion. "Chiluo" rebelled nakedly. Soldiers from all groups rushed to Biyan Fort in unison. A total of seven to eighty thousand people crowded in the direction of Biyan Fort. Knives, swords, and spears surged onto the wall of Biyan Fort. Thousands of people stood high. Soldier Lu fought frantically with the mercenaries on the opposite side.

"Hold them off!"

The mercenaries above were also frightened, knowing that this time they were in trouble. Although the Gallic army below suffered some losses at the pass, it was still an army of hundreds of thousands.

The mercenaries were cut to pieces by the swords of the surging Gallic soldiers. On the dozens of steps at the entrance to the tower, the mercenaries and the rushing Gallic soldiers fought together, forming a huge whirlpool of melee. The vortex rolled, twitched, and spasmed. A great deal of blood and sacrifice was produced.

At the entrance to the narrow city road. The mercenary team of thousands of people was directly overwhelmed by the Gallic soldiers on the opposite side because the slope leading to the wall castle was too narrow. The combatants could not turn around and take a breath, and even dead bodies could not fall down. Being wrapped in the crowd and continuing to move forward, it was as if a dead man was about to charge. The person who fell to the ground was immediately trampled into a pulp by the crowd.

In the distance, ten miles away from Biyan Castle,

The battle flags rustled behind them in the night wind, and the white breath of the war horses spread in the night. The black-armored cavalry gathered in groups, holding spears like clouds, reflecting a coquettish light in the night. The night breeze was gentle. He gently picked up the guards' cloaks that were as red as blood behind the cavalry. Behind the cavalry, a huge formation of infantry spread out like wings.

"Send an order to Statunko and encircle!" The fat man stood on a mound on a war horse. He calmly looked at the blood-red rock wall castle in front of him illuminated by the fire, and raised his right hand high. The queue behind them was solemn. The raised hand pressed down hard, "Forward, Wall Rock Castle!"

"The Rebellion of Biyan Castle"

It is also called the "Mercenary Disaster" in the history of the Europa War because the Gallic commander Derek used mercenaries with no loyalty at all to serve as bodyguards for his own personal gain. This led to the largest military group in Gaul in the later period, Gaul. All the top commanders of the Lu Kyoto army were killed by mercenaries overnight. Although the counterattacking Gallic army All the rebel mercenaries were killed, but the overall situation was decided. The 200,000-strong Gallic Kyoto Army without a commanding force, forced by the internal and external forces of the Falcon Empire's 200,000-strong army, raised the white flag of surrender at dawn and continued. The Battle of Kyoto in Gaul, which lasted for one month and seventeen days, ended with a decisive battle that was not bloody!

It was already the morning of the next day when the capital of Gaul received the news of the defeat of Biyan Castle, when the falcon battle flag spread across half of the sky. Rushing from the distant horizon like an ocean, with spears like the sea, and armies like clouds, the warning bells standing on the top of Kyoto City rang in succession, like a death knell that shocked the semi-numb nerves of Kyoto in Gaul

"Enemy attack!"

"Oh my God! Why did the main force of the Falcon Army appear here?"

The faces of the Gallic Guards who were running madly up the city wall were dull and confused. Looking at the black armored cavalry in blood-colored cloaks on the opposite side, looking at the heavy shields and the killing posture of crossbows, you knew that those who came to Kyoto were definitely not What second-rate troops?

This is the real regular army of the Falcon Empire, with many soldiers and generals, well-equipped, and more importantly, the fighting spirit of the regular army of the Falcon Empire is extremely high. Troops from all walks of life marched one after another, neatly arranged in battle formations, like indestructible mountains moving. Looking up at the rear army, there was no end in sight.

"Huhu" A huge golden falcon war flag was present like a king, and a group of black-armored cavalry lined up along the raised mounds of the military formation,

The golden falcon battle flag burst like a wind, and a murderous aura made the Gauls in the city feel suppressed.

The battle flag embroidered with a golden falcon is reflected in the gloomy sky,

Under the battle flag, there is a black eagle-winged helmet, riding a tall and strong war horse that looks like a monster, a night-black exquisite armor breastplate, the chest is in the shape of a white thorn flower, and the armor's shoulders are full of sharp edges. ,

He couldn't see his face clearly, but he stood there, with a strong murderous aura permeating his whole body. It felt like a demon looking down at all living beings.

The iron hooves clang, the black armor shines with a dark luster,

"Vecia Falcon!" A Gallic Guards officer known for his bravery turned pale with fright and his legs trembled.