Realm of Power

"What did you say! Geng Di's army withdrew! How could Master Geng Di..."

The news brought by the attendants exploded among the Hokuriku nobles, and the impact was far greater than the thunderous rainstorm above their heads. The army under the command of Grand Duke Geng Di was the most elite among the Hokuriku nobles, and they were also heavily armored. The infantry is the largest unit. When the Empire's heavy armored cavalry sweeps across the entire Nordic Barrow, they attack with an unstoppable force like a knife. Without the resistance of the heavy armored infantry, the battle situation is already extremely unfavorable. "The only thing that will greet the entire Northern Territory noble army is massacre. "It's impossible. Geng Di will definitely not evacuate at this time, and at the same time offend the entire Northern Territory nobles. Does the Geng Di family still want to gain a foothold in the Northern Territory!" A young man was arrogant. The Hokuriku noble lord defended loudly with a livid face, but his whole body was soaked by the rain, and his eyes were completely bloodshot. "How long has it been, and you are still defending that old bastard Geng Di?"

Next to him, a white-haired veteran noble lord from the Hokuriku slapped the nobleman hard. It was Shu Liya, the patriarch of the Shu family who ranked third among the seventeen nobles in the Hokkiku. He thought he would support Geng this time. Duke Di went south and was hit hard, Duke Geng Di was bound to He will arrange the Shulia family's army as the forward army to go south to seize the greatest benefits in this turmoil. Who knows that Grand Duke Geng Di will hand over the important task of the forward army to Viscount Bai Feng, "Father, you How..." The young nobleman was slapped and took a step back.

"I still can't figure out why the emperor will launch a surprise attack tonight, why Geng Di's army didn't withdraw earlier or later, but just at this time. If we all die here, Geng Di's family will be the masters of the Northern Continent."

His eyes swept over the bleak-looking nobles of the Northern Territory in the rain. Old Shulia's face was ashen and he said sternly, "It's not like Old Geng Di has never done this kind of thing before. During the subversion twenty years ago, the Geng Di family jumped Others don’t know the reason for becoming the head of the Seventeenth Family. Have you all forgotten it too? "

After hearing Shulia's words, the expressions of other Hokuriku nobles all changed. Some older nobles couldn't help but think of the seventeen Hokuriku families who moved there after Feize conquered Hokuriku twenty years ago. Yes, although the Geng Di family has some relationship with the Feize royal family, after more than a hundred years, it has long been After lightly ignoring it, Feize relied on military merit to inherit the title. Hokuriku is located on the northern plateau. Except for the original war that destroyed the country, there have been wars for more than a hundred years. Talking about military merit is a luxury. For more than a hundred years, Geng Di's family has been in power. The seventeen schools in Hokuriku were only at the upper-middle level, but twenty years ago, the Feizer royal family changed

The Geng Di family rises!

Prince Albert, who is jointly supported by local forces and the military, has the loudest voice, and is also in line with the Feizer people's desire to realize the unification of the Feizer royal family and the military. On the other side is the old crown prince who is over 50 years old and supports Those who are only limited to the circle of the royal aristocrats. In any case, there is no possibility of competing with Albert, who has more than 30 local governors and 300,000 military support.

But at the last moment, it was the then forty-three-year-old Duke Geng Di who tried his best to persuade the northern aristocratic group to temporarily defect. At the same time, he and the aristocratic forces in the royal capital launched an attack on the military. In the name of an investigation into the assassination of an important minister of the kingdom by an officer, Ai was killed overnight. The officers under Bert's command arrested more than a hundred people, uprooting the military's influence in the royal capital. The nearly fifty-year-old crown prince took the throne of Fezer with a counterattack.

This incident shocked the entire Oparo. With such credit, the Geng Di family naturally received strong feedback from the Feize royal family in the past twenty years. The Hokuriku nobles obtained the semi-independent status they had longed for for more than a hundred years and got rid of the Due to the constraints of the royal family, the Geng Di family has skyrocketed to the top of the seventeen families in Beilu with this incident. "Bastard, Geng Di, this old bastard!"

Some people scolded, and more people were as pale as paper. In order to gain the support of the royal family, the Gengdi family could betray Prince Albert, who had proposed a marriage request to the Northern Continent nobles. Now, in order to gain the support of the empire, the Gengdi family betrayed The entire Hokuriku noble group is equally possible! With this idea in mind, the nobles of the Northern Territory almost believed that Duke Gengdi had defected to the royal family, and now he must also defect to the empire!

Therefore, according to the intelligence, there were only less than 20,000 imperial troops, but tonight it turned into a boundless black tide that drowned everything. Have you ever led troops before? This time they went south to attack the city, even if they were unfamiliar before. , are all getting hot, just the overwhelming momentum of the emperor in front of me, not to mention 20,000, even 50,000, even 80,000.

Why is there no news at all about the gathering of such a large number of imperial armies? Such a large-scale army raid seems to come suddenly with this storm. Do you really think everyone is a fool? If the emperor was not really able to turn these tens of thousands of troops invisible, there is only one possibility. Someone concealed the real situation. For Duke Gengdi, who is the commander of the army, it is really difficult to do this. With ease, as the commander-in-chief of the entire army going south, he came from the West Sea The intelligence of the nobles on the shore must have been sent to Duke Geng Di as soon as possible. With just a slight press of the relevant information, it was not surprising that the imperial army would miraculously arrive. Therefore, when the army was in turmoil and was about to collapse, Geng Di's army withdrew. Let’s go, because Geng Di knows that the emperor’s army will raid tonight!

"Tonight, or my last battle in Hokuriku, Shulia raised his head and looked at the heavy rain in the sky, with a look of determination on his old face.

"Since we can't win, it's better to surrender!" A Hokuriku noble said in a timid voice

"Surrender? Are you kidding?" Shulia smiled bitterly and said coldly, "On the way south, we swept through the Feize Kingdom area under the control of the empire, killing and injuring more than ten or twenty thousand imperial settlers. According to the The empire has always paid blood for debts. Do you think the empire will accept our surrender?

Speaking of this, Shulia couldn't help but feel a sense of despair on his face, and sighed longly, why not just stay in Hokuriku, why go south? The Fezer royal family's army, which originally had hundreds of thousands of troops, was defeated by the empire. Our army of tens of thousands is really humiliating ourselves! If you can go back alive, you must expose the true face of that old guy Geng Di to the public."

"I, Tushan, swear by my family's honor. If I can return to Beilu alive, I will definitely make the Geng Di family pay for it with blood!"

"My Asilan family also swears the same thing!"

"I, the Baitan family, also swear the same thing." The voices of gnashing teeth penetrated the rain curtain, shouting out with incomparable hatred for the Geng Di family. It seemed as if God was testifying to this oath. A bolt of lightning and thunder exploded in the sky above, and the nobles each Returning to the army, the army is fighting in chaos, the swords are shining and the shadows are cold. To the left of the camp, there are crowds of people on the impact line.

Although it is not as grand as the battle of hundreds of thousands of legions that lasted for more than ten miles, the infantry blocked the cavalry attack, the sharp spears like a forest intertwined with each other, the collision of life and death flames, and the countless running and jumping fresh lives were instantly Lying covered with blood and flowing water, life is so worthless here, the fire arrows are flying into the sky, and the way the imperial army is surging towards the camp like a black tide is more like the most terrifying nightmare in sleep has become a reality. It's hard to tell whether it's true or false

The bluff frontal attack was not able to break through the resistance of the Hokuriku noble army, but the scene on the left line, which was specially attacked by the Imperial heavy cavalry, was the most tragic.

In the alternating darkness and light, the gathering of people interweaves like a real ocean. The thousand heavy armored cavalry of the empire thrown into the battlefield are like a glass of cold water poured into boiling oil, as if the cold armor of black steel explodes. , it surged like this, penetrating hard from the side like rain hitting a lute.

The armored and ferocious war horses came pushing the bloody light, and the speed was like a galloping electric shock. The earth shook, and the scene in front of me was shaking. Looking at the giant beast weighing nearly half a ton coming from the distance like a flock of eagles, What kind of courage and courage are all jokes now?

All that filled my mind was the instinctive fear of human beings as creatures and the trembling reactions in my body. The hand holding the weapon was trembling. I wanted to get out of the way, but my feet were heavy as if they were stuck to the ground. Watching. Mountains of armored war horses finally filled up Pupil's sight, and his brain Haili barely had time to react. Even the heavy armored Hokuriku heavy infantrymen flew out and fell into the muddy water full of blood under the powerful impact. Before they could stand up, they fell. He was hacked to death by the swarming imperial infantry, and his head immediately landed on someone's waist.

"Viscount Yadi died in battle!" "Marquis Ati was seriously injured!" "Marquis Jiye was trapped in a tight siege." "More than half of the left line was killed in the battle. We are no longer able to resist. The left line is dead!" The cavalry was ordered to gallop forward one by one. Come, some people jumped off their horses that had not yet stopped. Their footing was unstable, and their whole bodies were directly carried in the muddy water. "Boom, boom, flash in the rainy night." The light, with its shock in everyone's eyes, saw blood covering the battlefield in front, and the voices boiled in the fierce collision. For some people, these were the last words they cried. The soldiers of the Hokuriku Noble Army shouted and ran away. , running around like headless flies, the imperial cavalry behind them caused a bloody storm wherever they went, crossbow bolts flew randomly in the chaos,

"Run, it's already collapsed!"

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way"

"I can't live, and you can't live either

"We were betrayed by that bastard, Duke Gengdi." The voice was mixed with the heavy rain, and was finally drowned by the black imperial crowd.

An hour and a half after the emperor launched the surprise attack, he used the penetration tactics of the heavy armored cavalry to penetrate the left side of the Hokuriku noble army. Then he turned around and attacked again, like a series of intersecting knife marks that cut through the left side of the Hokuriku noble army in front of him. Resistance was crushed. If it was daytime at this moment, you could clearly see the front of the Hokuriku noble army. The column has sunk, and the right side has been pushed to death, while the west side on the left is like a dike that has been washed away, bursting and collapsing, causing the nearby connected areas to spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, changing from order to disorder, from compression to It swelled, as if it was overwhelmed, and in the pouring rain, everything collapsed

If you don't surrender, don't live. Even if you throw away your troops and armor and kneel on the ground to surrender, you will only get a knife on the head, and then you will be pushed away in the blood of the sea of ​​people. Seeing that the imperial army is not surrendered, the Hokuriku noble army The soldiers knew that they would die, and they started to kill their own people like crazy. The front line of contact was like a huge meat grinder, squeezing the conflicting people into powder and blood.

In the early morning, the heavy rain had stopped, and the cool plain wind blew through the wilderness that had been fighting for half the night.

The horse's hooves stopped, knocking the dew off a nearby weed. Estante took off his helmet, and used his right hand, which was sore from slashing, to loosen the blood-stained armor on his body. Within his sight, Countless corpses covered the ground, streams of red human blood flowed between the cracks in the ground, and the quiet eastern sky showed a white line before sunrise. The rainy season that had been raging on the west coast for eleven consecutive days finally came to an end. sign of stopping

"It's a bit of a pity. I checked carefully just now, and I still haven't found the head of Grand Duke Gengdi, the leader of the Hokuriku Noble Army." Lytle came to the tired-looking Estante. After looking around, he felt a little confused. He gave a helpless smile and said, "10% of the time, it's because we ambushed a part of the Hokuriku noble army in Roxton City. That old fox Geng Di noticed something."

"You mean, we missed the biggest fish!"

Estante's face was slightly stunned. Duke Gengdi was the leader of the Northern Territory noble army and the symbol of the entire Northern Territory nobles. With such a character's escape, it can be said that last night's raid was discounted by half. Thinking of the big Fighting in the middle of the night, killing people until they were weak, but with the same result, Estante could only cry and fainted in the toilet. It wasn't because he didn't work hard, it was because the enemy was too cunning! The Grand Duke Geng Di was indeed a person on the same level as King Feize. When he realized that something was wrong, he turned around and ran away, leaving a bunch of pig teammates behind to block the gun. No wonder those nobles of the Northern Territory were unwilling to give in when they were dying one by one. to the extreme

"Get ready, we need to continue heading north."

Lytle stretched out his right hand and patted his shoulder, handing a copy of the order to Estante. "I also just received the order. Just five days ago, the Nishiting Army was already on the coast of the Hokuriku Plateau. After landing, the emperor ordered us to defeat the Hokuriku noble army, continue to the north, and attack Feize Hokuriku from front to back with the Xiting army!

Lytle paused, glanced left and right, and whispered seemingly unintentionally, "In fifteen days, the emperor may come to the west coast."

"Are you asking us to take Hokuriku in fifteen days? This is interesting. It's just a Hokuriku, but we need that Falcon to come in person?"

Estante held his chin in his hand and his eyes flashed. Back then, he dared to stop the empire from going south in southern Nord alone when the Nord royal family surrendered. Therefore, he was also unruly and unruly towards the emperor, but not so much. Respectfully

As one of the most intelligent generals in the former Nord army, his vision is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary generals who only know how to execute orders.

Lytle is not a native of the empire and does not know what the Empire's West Court Army means. Estante is a pure Ikadiva. How could he not know that the Kugit West Court Army is the emperor's most brutal minion?

And in the past few years, every dispatch of the Xiting Army is a precursor to a war that will destroy the city and the country. "You mean the emperor is here..."

Lytle looked at Estante's solemn face and realized that something was wrong. His body trembled slightly and his breathing became faster.

Estant is right. Hokuriku is only a part of Feize. In the final analysis, it is just a small place. It is probably not as large as a large province in the empire. What kind of person is the emperor of the empire? How could a mere Hokuriku, the peerless military god on the chessboard, notice this! Moreover, such an urgent request to complete the occupation of Hokuriku can only indicate one problem.

After sorting out the backyard problem of Hokuriku, the emperor is going south from Feize!

"In the seventh year of the empire's calendar, on the evening of July 16th, they moved south from Feize's Hokuriku Plateau and swept through the Feize royal capital area with an unstoppable force. Then they defeated tens of thousands of imperial reclamation troops in New Lanterna City. They couldn't stop it. The Hokuriku Nobles Alliance of I was defeated fifteen miles away from Roxton City on the west coast of the Empire by Generals Lytle and Ace of the Second Army of the Empire's South. Tante teamed up to defeat them. The emperor's army invested 123,400 troops in this battle, and suffered 11,000 casualties. The total strength of the Hokuriku noble army was 47,678, and four were killed in the battle. Seven thousand three hundred and fourteen people, 364 people are missing, a total of thirty-nine Hokuriku nobles headed by the Hokuriku nobles have been killed and beheaded, no prisoners will be taken in this battle!"