Realm of Power

Hearing the visit of a senior imperial officer, General Long Yang of the Zhongbia Empire was not too surprised. He turned around from the window sill and glanced at the nervous and blue face of the deputy general Yuan Chong who came to report. He didn't take it seriously. Yuan Chong waved his hand and said with a smile, "I have never seen you so nervous when facing the dragon spear of the most powerful dragon armored cavalry in the Gallic Empire." "The person who came here is not a good person, sir!" Chong's lieutenant looked a little embarrassed.

"Don't worry, such a large-scale iron ore transaction will naturally attract the attention of the Imperial Party. On the contrary, if the Imperial Party sits silently and watches the implementation of this agreement, that is when we really need to be vigilant," Long Yang sighed. He made a sound and said, "Because even if there are people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Falcon Empire, I agree, without the permission of the empire, our iron ore still cannot be transported to Central and South Africa. The long journey of thousands of miles has various possibilities. If the empire wants to intervene, it really has too many means. Let us Not a single one of those iron ores has been left behind. I guarantee they won’t even be investigated* There's no way to check it." "Are you worried that the Empire will rob us along the way? No, it's a huge empire after all."

The deputy general Yuan Chong secretly clicked his tongue after hearing this. All the tension was thrown out of the sky. He couldn't believe it. He was a fierce general under Long Yang. As the deputy general this time, he also played the role of half-assist and half-guard. All the way to the west, he saw everything along the way. Seeing that, I was also a little frightened by the power of the Falcon Empire in front of me. I just entered the border and left west. It took more than a month, and then it took another more than a month to turn south to the Putao area. This was because of the rapid horse riding. If it was a slow horse carriage, I am afraid that three or four months would not be enough. It is so wide and vast. The north, south, east and west territories completely overturned the previous idea in his mind that the Central Asian Empire was the center of the world.

The Gallic Empire in the Western Continent. It is already the largest country, so it is qualified to be called the opponent of the Central Asian Empire! The Falcon Empire, which annexed the Gallic Empire, looks like a giant beast that cannot be seen clearly. That is what makes it even more terrifying! "This is not China and Bia, everything is possible!"

Long Yang glanced at his confidants and took a deep breath. "According to the remnants of the Gallic Empire entrenched in the mountain province, the Falcon Empire is an extremely cruel and vicious country that likes to go to war. Their emperor is A war maniac. So in this country, the military decides everything. The Gallic Empire, which had been in conflict with the Central Asian Empire for hundreds of years, was destroyed by these barbarians. To break the treaty, and to kidnap and kill the Central Asian envoys on their way back, this country would definitely do it, so I didn’t rush back to China after signing the agreement, because I was worried about this! "You can't believe what those Gauls said," Yuan Chong curled his lips in disdain. "Everyone can see that they are just a group of lost dogs who were driven out." "You can't believe them all, but at least you can't believe them at all!" We heard that the Falcon Empire massacred 300,000 enemy soldiers some time ago is always true. "Long Yang's voice paused and continued, "It's better for the Falcon Emperor to come forward than not. As long as we can get through the Emperor's line, we can get more iron ore. The trade volume in just half a year is crucial to the current situation between China and Libya."

"The people from Dongting have destroyed the Imperial Capital. I don't know if they will continue to go south."

Long Yang's face was blood red, his deep voice was trembling, and he wanted to drip water. He pressed his hand heavily on the table. "His Majesty the Emperor ran to Guguan City, an important southern town a thousand miles away. In name, he was preparing for war and gathering the king's troops to wait. In fact, he drove towards the two southern armies that were driven in, Lu Wu's Army. He Kanli's army was still two hundred miles away from the defeated imperial capital, but they refused to move forward. The so-called volunteer army composed of soldiers and civilians from various places exceeded 200,000, but most of them were defeated. Controlled by the four major families, the imperial capital was destroyed, and the four major families were more like watching the fire from the other side. Now it seems that these two hundred thousand so-called volunteers are simply the private armies of the four major families. The branches are strong and the trunk is weak. If the central government of the empire cannot get enough If we don’t use the Dongting people to go south, the Zhongbia Empire will fall apart, let alone gather the power of the whole country to counterattack the Imperial Capital! "

"I understand." Deputy General Yuan Chong turned around and was about to walk out. He paused at the door, then turned around and said, "Sir, I hope you are mentally prepared. The representative of the Imperial Party may be a Central Asian." "Chinese people! You must have read that right." "" Long Yang's calm expression turned a little ugly, and he snorted heavily, his slender willow eyes flashed with horror. Hearing Long Yang's words, he couldn't be another Goldman! Yuan Chong lowered his head and did not dare to say anything. He turned around and left.

The hundred-mile long court of the imperial capital was defeated, and hundreds of thousands of people were massacred. The first person to lead the Dongting cavalry into the imperial capital was not the vicious Dongting people, but Gao Sachs, the former border guard general of Yanzhou in the north of the Central Asian Empire. Goldman Sachs was originally the governor of Yanzhou, an important town in the northern part of the Central Asian Empire. Dongting's first two trips south suffered a lot from Yanzhou's defense line.

Yanzhou Military Town has always been the focus of northern border defense. It has 80,000 troops stationed all year round. Together with Yanzhou Shiliuwubao, the total number of troops is 160,000. They are all the elite of the Central and Belgian border troops and are responsible for resisting the Dongting cavalry going south. The main force failed to get good results in the first two times. The third time they went south, the Dongting Army learned a lesson. In the name of hunting and funeral, more than 100,000 Dongting people approached the west along the border, and then broke into the weak defense area hundreds of miles away. Rushing into Longxokou, the troops divided into two groups and bypassed Yanzhou, the stronghold. There was no delay along the way. The troops advanced until they were within two hundred miles of the imperial capital's hundred-mile long court before stopping. The imperial capital was in panic, and with the troops heading north The news has been cut off by the Dongting scouts. There are rumors that the reason why the Dongting Army was able to fight all the way to the Imperial Capital was actually because Yanzhou Guard Gao Sheng had surrendered to the Dongting people. Otherwise, how could the Dongting people have been able to keep fighting in silently? ,

Originally, the senior officials of the Zambia Empire did not believe that Goldman Sachs would surrender to Dongting. Who didn’t know that Goldman’s most beloved eldest daughter was hanged to death by Dongting people for three days, so Goldman’s eyes turned red every time he saw Dongting people. He fights to the death, and even the people of Dongting are afraid of him. However, the emperor of Zhongbia does not know who heard the rumor. He thought that Goldman Sachs was the main reason for the Dongting cavalry to overwhelm the imperial capital. In fact, the imperial ministers knew it very well. , this time the Dongting Army entered the outskirts of the Imperial Capital, looting and killing along the way. More than 100,000 corpses were piled up in the sea, and 30,000 to 40,000 Central Asian women were kidnapped and tortured. Less than a third of them reached the grassland alive. This was the highest number in the past 50 years of the war between the Central Asian Empire and Dongting. A terrible time,

As a young emperor who had only been on the throne for five years, when he was full of ambitions, he once made a bold statement at a banquet that he wanted to step on the king's tent in the east court and hang the head of the old king in the imperial capital Tai Tai'an. , and now I find myself so incompetent about it. There were only 200,000 soldiers gathered in the imperial capital, and they could only sit and watch the Dongting Army arrogantly carry away 30,000 to 40,000 Central and Bian women. This was a huge loss. Naturally, they needed to find a scapegoat.

There is no doubt that this hat is most suitable to be worn on the head of Goldman Sachs. The emperor has given you elite troops. If you want money, give money and people. One-third of the military expenditures are invested in Yanzhou every year, and there are a lot of honorary titles. As a military general, he sat back and watched the Dongting Army kill the Imperial Capital. This is an unforgivable sin in itself. Goldman Sachs convicted of treason overnight

They were deprived of all official positions and sent to death row. More than 30 men from the entire clan were imprisoned and executed on the fifth day in front of millions of people in the Imperial Capital. One hundred and nineteen female relatives were imprisoned as official prostitutes. Overnight, thousands of people lined up in front of the official prostitutes' doors. Women all lined up waiting to get sex with the Gao family, including many imperial officials who had a good relationship with the Gao family. This was a carnival for the aggrieved Imperial Capital people. This is the fate of traitors. , the people of Dijing who came out from the official prostitutes all showed their toes more. He was so high-spirited that he seemed to have defeated the Dongting people and avenged the miserable tens of thousands of Central Asian women. All the women of the Gao family died on the tenth day. Their bodies were not buried, and they were dripping with blood. Bearing countless wounds, they were discarded in mass graves and became food for wild beasts.

In just fifteen days, the Gao family, which had guarded northern Xinjiang for the Central Asian Empire for 150 years, and countless men of all generations had sacrificed their lives, was over. During this period, no one stood up to say a word for the Gao family. The unanimous silence is like an invisible iron curtain. This is the emperor's will and the condition for the entire Central Asian court to make peace with the Dongting people. The Gao family, which made the people of Dongting gnash their teeth, was able to appease the anger of the people of Dongting and let them return to the grassland with "full harvests from hunting". Soon, news from the north made the carnival a bit sour. Goldman Sachs did not surrender. In fact, the Dongting Army finally stopped at Baili Changting 200 miles away because the Yanzhou Army led by Goldman Sachs entered the northern grassland.

There are 200,000 defenders in the Imperial Capital, so it’s not a big problem. Even if we catch up now, it’s too late. Then we can simply turn our forces and charge into the grassland, force the Dongting people to return, and finally rob and kill them halfway, completely burying the more than 100,000 Dongting troops. On the border of China and Libya, the Dongting people massacred more than 100,000 people in China and Libya. Goldman Sachs The grassland also wiped out the same number of grassland people. The Dongting people took away tens of thousands of women. Goldman drove hundreds of thousands of fine horses crazy all the way south, cutting into the retreat of the Dongting army at lightning speed, and only with the help of war In terms of strategy, Goldman Sachs was the winner, but he underestimated the entire Imperial Capital’s ability to bear.

The hundred-mile long court of the imperial capital that has been peaceful for too long is not the bitter cold Yanzhou where the war smoke has never stopped. Therefore, people in peace are more afraid of death. The soft red ten-mile long court is flowing with scarlet rouge, the generosity and heroism of the young emperor He only stayed at the drunken banquet,

The 200,000 Royal Guards of the Imperial Capital are no longer the capable and powerful army that assembled the elites of the entire empire. After decades of prosperity and hundreds of years of accumulation, soaked in such a hundred miles of soft red and prosperous scenery, the Imperial Guards have long since Without their combat power, just the sound of the horse hooves of three Dongting scouts was enough to frighten an army of ten thousand soldiers to pieces five miles away. How could they endure the psychological torture of Dongting's iron cavalry pressing down on the city?

When he confidently led the Yanzhou Army with high morale and fiercely attacked the retreating Dongting Army, he was detained by two emperor's personal guards from the imperial capital. He was leaderless and powerful. The Yanzhou Army was counterattacked by the Dongting Army that had already taken advantage of it. The entire army collapsed. More than 100,000 Zhongbia border guards and the Northern Army suffered numerous casualties. The Zhongbia barrier that had blocked the Dongting people for hundreds of years disappeared.

The corpses of the emperor's guards who were escorting Goldman were found in a dense forest fifty miles away from the imperial capital. Both emperor's guards were disemboweled and their heads cut off as sacrifices. None of the more than a hundred followers survived, and two of them were killed. The skin was hung off the thick tree trunk, and it was written red with blood: "Goldman Sachs swore on his own body that within five years he would destroy the hundred-mile long court in the Imperial Capital and use the blood of millions of people in the Imperial Capital to repay the 146 lives of my Gao family. You are a fool." Indiscretion is a punishment from heaven! "

A Central Bian man fell into the arms of Western countries and became an officer who seemed to have a high status. In Long Yang's eyes, he was undoubtedly the second best person in Goldman Sachs. Such a person would naturally make Long Yang feel a trace of unconcealable contempt. , if it weren’t for the identity of the other party’s military, Long Yang would have refused without mercy.

Walking up to the reception room on the second floor, what the fat man saw was such an arrogant back, and a heavy and sharp voice said, "You are a Central African. If you can't do anything, why should you seek refuge in this Western country?" ! ""I was born in the Falcon Empire, not related to Zhongbia. It has nothing to do with it! "The fat man curled his lips slightly and saw clearly the appearance of this Zhongbia general. It was not a handsome appearance, but it was true that he was a bit wretched. Murphy O'Brien despised this guy for using his subordinates' bodies. Do you want to block an arrow for yourself? It seems that it is really possible.

He is a bit short, but very thick. Years of military life have left an indelible mark on him. His shoulders are broad, his skin is slightly dark, and his palms are unusually broad. The mouth of the bowl where he holds the sword is covered with calluses. He only wears a coat. He is wearing a light white and blue plain Zambian robe. He has a somewhat stable aura that is more like a businessman with long sleeves and good dancing than a soldier. The shiny hairpin on his head does not add much military aura to him. Generally speaking, this kind of appearance is not outstanding. Even among the Central and Asian businessmen staying in Lisbon, there are a lot of them. If it weren't for the stinging willow eyes, which brought a sense of roughness to A sharp feeling. Who would have thought that this person was Long Yang, who guarded the western border of China and Belgium and was known as the God of Military Affairs of China? "Are you not from China?" Long Yang looked up and down at the fat man's face in astonishment. black hair, black eyes,

"Let's put it bluntly, the empire can give China and Bia Central Iron Ore, the quantity is not a problem, even finished weapons are fine, but what can China and Bia Central give to the empire? If not, the empire will unceremoniously regret the agreement !" The fat man sat down unceremoniously and said directly, Long Yang is a famous military master in the Zhongbia Empire. Negotiating with such a person is like fighting against a sheep. All conditions and interests are laid out. , only then can everyone have something to talk about, otherwise they will break up.

"What do you want?" Long Yang took a breath of air-conditioning with a gloomy face, staring at the fat man with stern eyes. It felt like a gambler waiting for the moment when the banker opens the lottery.

"I want the western front of China and Libya to be completely open. The imperial caravans can enter and exit at will. You are the person in charge of the western frontier of China and Belgium. Don't tell me that you can't do it!" The fat man smiled, and he planned to China and Belgium. The Western Front has been around for a long time, just because of the existence of Long Yang, so They chose to support the Song family in the south. In terms of development conditions alone, the Chengluo Basin in western China is rich in materials and has thousands of miles of fertile wilderness. It is the most densely populated area in the whole of China. In terms of the interests of establishing commerce and trade, It’s several times better than the south, (to be continued...)

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