Realm of Power

On the southern border of Istanbul, on the road with flowers blooming on both sides, a huge carriage suddenly stopped. Several priests of the Order in wide robes knelt in front of the carriage. One of them was reporting the news that the Grand Knight had fallen from the mountain and died. A slight and imperceptible rebuke was heard in the carriage. Although it was angry, it sounded like the gentle and pleasant mountain breeze. "Swish"

With the carriage as the axis, more than a hundred Templar Knights wearing the emblem of the Wishing Tree knelt neatly on the ground. 100,000 Templar soldiers lay on the ground, their white armor reflected in the sun, the white light was like the sea, and the wind swept the flags and made a whistling sound. The murderous aura rose to the sky, and the towering spears were solemn like a forest.

The death of Grand Knight Luoshan had spread throughout the Holy Templar Army. The famous Grand Knight, the commander of hundreds of thousands of southern coalition forces, had died in a surprise attack. He had become a laughing stock in the south. "Grand Knight Luoshan is dead, how come you are still alive?"

Inside the white curtain on the carriage, the Pope of the Order of Wishes, wearing a golden papal robe and a waterfall of black hair, slowly stood up from the altar and looked at the sky in the distance with an extremely holy gaze. His lips moved, his pupils were dark, two streams of blood flowed from the corners of his eyes, and his lips trembled slightly. "Take him away and let him return to the Holy Tree!" "Your Majesty, I really..." The high priest wanted to explain, but several Knights Templar rushed up like wolves and tigers, dragging the pale-faced high priest of the Order from the front of the carriage like a dead dog. A few days ago, he was still a big man who was one of the three great priests of the Order. No one looked at this poor high priest again. The army of the Order has always been commanded by priests and Knights Templar at the same time, and this time is no exception. It was this High Priest Ha Fengluo who went to the coalition with Grand Knight Luoshan. From the moment he received the news that Grand Knight Luoshan had died in battle. The top leaders of the Order knew that Archpriest Hafengluo was doomed. If it was anyone else it would be fine, but he was Grand Knight Luoshan, the biological father of the current Pope. Although the current Pope had only waited for the throne for three years, no one would step forward under such circumstances. "This matter must be repaid with blood!" The top leaders in the south were furious, and the southern coalition forces urgently withdrew forces from their reserve forces, and added some returning troops. A total of twenty fully staffed corps quickly gathered towards the coalition headquarters, and re-established the commanders of each country,

Commander of the Kingdom of Harvey, Duke of the Lion Feta

General of the Kingdom of Wishes, Grand Knight Commander "Iron Wall" Pei Ma

General of the Kingdom of Fezer, General Rokoti Varisi

Duke of the Kingdom of Aden, Mali

Grand Lord of the Kingdom of Martinliya, Grand Lord Anliu

Prince of the Kingdom of Ikar, Grand Master

In the coalition headquarters, the six highest commanders of the coalition examined the list of casualties in front of them, silent, with sadness and grief in their eyes, on the night of June 29th. The Hungarian army attacked the southern coalition headquarters at night. When the Hungarian cavalry retreated like a tide in the morning light with black smoke, the impact was spreading rapidly. The swift attack of Hungary and the bloody battle overnight caused heavy losses to the coalition, with more than 27,000 people killed. The commander-in-chief of the coalition, Grand Knight Luoshan, was killed, and six generals of his countries were killed and eleven were injured. The entire coalition command was almost paralyzed. In addition to the Order, which suffered the most losses, the Royal Cavalry Regiment of the Harvey Kingdom, which had a long history and glorious war history, was also destroyed. More than 150 of the 200 royal children specially sent by King Harvey to the coalition headquarters for internship were killed in the battle, including the three nephews of His Majesty the King. The commander of the Harvey Kingdom, Duke Fetai, had a hard time suppressing the urge to order the commander of the day to be dragged to feed the dogs.

Compared with the high morale of the coalition forces when they sent troops to Istanbul to defeat the invasion of the Eastern Province two months ago, the morale of the coalition forces now can be said to be low. The generals all seemed at a loss. Nearly 200,000 coalition troops have gathered on hundreds of square kilometers of land. However, there is no sense of security in the hearts of these coalition soldiers. The coalition base camp has been attacked. It is even more difficult to say that other camps were attacked. The impact of 50,000 Hungarian swift cavalry forced the coalition camps to adopt a contraction policy. Strategically, it presented a ridiculous situation of being suppressed. "If they cannot win in a short time, With a victory, the morale of the coalition forces will never recover. If we can't catch up with the Hungarian cavalry, can we not even defeat the army of the opposite empire? "Inside the coalition base camp? Among the commanders of the Six Nations, Duke Feitai of the Kingdom of Harvey roared loudly and clapped his hands at the battle map on the table, "Our army has 200,000 people, and there are nearly 500,000 more follow-up troops. In terms of military strength, it occupies an absolute Advantage, even if it is two against one, we will win! ""The Falcon Army has the Thors to deal with the swarm, and a frontal attack will be detrimental to our side!" Prince Musk of the Ikar Kingdom showed a troubled look on his face. With a hint of solemnity, King Ikar sent 60,000 camel cavalry this time. Prince Musk did not want to be placed on the front line of the attack. The Thunder God of the Falcon Empire was too famous, and almost all the Obaro countries Everyone has reached a consensus that if you want to face a Falcon Emperor with a thunder god, you will have to pay two to three times the loss. The Falcon Emperor opposite is close to 200,000 people. Do you need to fill in 600,000 people? "It would be great if the Emperor's Thunder God could be contained!" Darius, the great monarch from Martin's Tooth, reflected the terrain map on the table in his eyes as blue as the ocean, and suddenly pointed at a point on the map with his hand. , said in a solemn voice, "I think we have all forgotten an important question. The problem is that the purpose of the Falcon Empire sending troops is to rescue Istan Kyoto. In this case, we can completely use Istan Kyoto as bait to lure the Falcon Emperor out of the defense. Thor is used as a field weapon, but in sudden encounters in combat "It has almost no effect"

"Istan Kyoto!" The eyes of the commander-in-chief of the six countries fell on the finger of the great monarch Darius, and his expressions were invariably stimulated. The method Darius said was not impossible. The God of Thunder is bulky and will encounter surprise attacks. Encounters are simply useless. This is tantamount to cutting off the Falcon Emperor's biggest support. In the Martin Fang Kingdom, the great monarch is equivalent to the title of a duke, but his power is much greater than that of a duke. Not only does he have an independent territory , thousands of slaves, and a large-scale private army. For example, Darius brought a private army of 70,000 people.

"Then, let's launch an attack on Istanbul! Our Harvey Army can be the main force of the attack!" Duke Feitai nodded in agreement.

"Yes, let's knock down Istanbul first!" Other commanders agreed. That night, the coalition forces, numbering as many as fifteen teams, began to take action. The total force ranged from 150,000 to 200,000, and the governors of the Istan region also moved with them. These regional governors acted together with the main force of the coalition and were organized into six combat teams, although their combat effectiveness was not very good. The number of people is huge. There are as many as 60,000 troops, and the total strength is close to 250,000. This is an astonishing number. The strength of the troops attacking Istanbul Kyoto even exceeds that of the Falcon Emperor Corps on the opposite side.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

At noon, the long sound of bugles echoed in the Great Plains of Istanbul. Varisien felt inexplicably nervous after receiving a report from the front. Is such a large-scale mobilization of coalition forces really for revenge? But why is it that the direction of mobilization is towards Istanbul and Kyoto? Is the other party planning to eat Istan Kyoto in one bite first, and then turn around to deal with him? This is too illogical. What on earth do the coalition forces want to do? "Varisien's head was getting big. He thought that the other side would take revenge, so he dug seven or eight deep trenches outside the camp, just waiting for the other side to hit his head and bleed him, but the other side actually acted like this Regardless of the attitude of standing high in the camp. Looking at the southern horizon from the sentry tower, it was already a chaotic scene, with the sound of military bugles and the clanging of infantry and cavalry, and the sound of armor. Drive towards Istanbul Kyoto

"Tell Yaosun that the main force of the coalition forces is heading towards Istanbul Kyoto!"

Varisien said to the messenger behind him with a solemn expression that Yaosen's 50,000 cavalry were the main mobile force of the Imperial Army. After the successful raid on the coalition base camp, the 50,000 Hungarian cavalry returned to repair for three days before being released again. , the advantage of the Hungarian cavalry lies in its high mobility and rapid attack

In particular, the leader was the lone wolf Yaosun. Under his leadership, the Hungarian cavalry may have appeared in front of a coalition camp in the morning. At noon, they fired arrows indiscriminately outside a coalition camp a hundred miles away, killing 50,000 Hungarian cavalry. The tooth cavalry was divided into countless small teams, like sharp arrows, overflowing the roads, fields, plains, woods, grasslands, deserts, villages, woods, and brown fields of the Istanbul plains. The golden fields and pastures put a lot of pressure on the coalition's defense line of 200,000 people. After the coalition's 30,000 cavalry were lost in the battle, the situation became even more difficult. It was not until the camel cavalry from the Kingdom of Ikar arrived that the situation was stabilized.

Duke Fetai, the commander of Harvey Kingdom, stood twenty miles away from Istanbul, squinting at the infantry group in front of him. A large red cloak hung from his shoulders to the ground, like two giant octopuses. Before engaging in hand-to-hand combat, the first contact was with their long tentacles. The small fortress on the outskirts of Istanbul was naturally the first to be removed.

More than a dozen randomly arranged black smoke pillars went straight up to the clouds, and blazing flames came out from these stone bunkers, like red fire snakes entangled on them. Where the black smoke rose, there were pieces of metal reflections. Densely packed swords, the queue rises downwards The dust covered the sky, and the Harvey Kingdom's 60,000 infantrymen, as the vanguard, directly hit the outer defense line of Istan Kyoto. Istan Kyoto was completely unprepared, and never expected that the main force of the coalition forces would turn around and destroy everything. These little castles were breached,

When the sun rose, more than 100,000 coalition troops lined up and advanced in skirmish lines.

As far as the eye can see, in people's field of vision, the end of the horizon seems to be filled with all kinds of colorful flowers. A series of densely packed flags, and the queues were lined up one after another, with no end or end visible. The vast battlefield was densely covered with soldiers and horses preparing to attack. The messengers galloped between the battle formations to organize the queues.

"These bastards bully the weak and fear the strong!"

The new emperor of the Istan Empire angrily cursed at the military meeting. These southern coalition forces did not dare to cause trouble to the Falcon Empire, so they vented all their anger on Istan Kyoto. After suppressing the impact of the big prince incident, I didn’t expect to encounter such a problem again.

In any case, the main force of the coalition forces has set up an array to capture Istan Kyoto, but Istan Kyoto is the core of the Istan Empire after all, and the empire's heritage over the years is not something to be trifled with.

After the Imperial Navy cut off the southern sea route to Kyoto, more than 100,000 former soldiers of the Istanbul Empire who were originally stranded in Feishan were returned to the country. Although they held great resentment against the country, they faced the national crisis. Despite this situation, a large number of soldiers rejoined the new emperor's army.

The addition of these professional soldiers with rich combat experience has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Istanbul Kyoto Army. Although the strength is still controlled at the limit of 80,000, there are more than 20,000 veterans among them. With these troops, Istan Kyoto also has a lot of confidence, and from the Falcon Empire A large amount of ordnance was brought in, which greatly increased the combat effectiveness of Istanbul Kyoto. In June, the new emperor of Istanbul had signed a secret treaty with the empire, fully recognizing the Falcon Empire as its suzerainty, and using all the resources of the ten southern provinces to Equity as collateral, loan 10 million gold coins to Falcon Empire,

This time, the new emperor of the Istan Empire personally sat in the main camp of Kyoto. Standing on the city wall of Kyoto, which had not experienced war for a hundred years, he looked ahead and saw the faint black outline of the tide on the horizon. He took a deep breath. " Finally started, "The coalition offensive echelon consisting of twenty teams is heading towards the city. The wall rolled forward, and the front of the formation flashed with the metallic light of armored shields and spears. The earth made an overwhelmed sound, which was the sound of countless feet stepping down hard. The cold-gleaming spears were stretched out in front, charging forward, like The forest-like spear stood straight forward, as if a high-speed moving halo of light appeared out of thin air on the earth. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" A dense black shadow was thrown out from the top of the city of Istanbul. It was the slingshot above the city. Under the city wall, thousands of coalition infantry attacked. The moment the huge stone rolled into the crowd, the flying blood flowers bloomed like flowers on the earth." (To be continued...)