Realm of Power

In the early morning of December 26, the Battle of Getaim, known as the opening battle of the life-and-death line, took place in the hills northeast of the Holy City. The 50,000 imperial troops led by Salon, the governor of the southwest region, one of the five great generals of the empire, and the Martinliya cavalry who were chasing and killing in the direction of the Holy City were not opponents in their first battle, but the Martinliya army did not expect that the main force of the imperial army, which should have been in the direction of the Holy City, would unexpectedly appear in the area outside the Holy City.

The Martinliya cavalry, who were originally on the front line to kill the scattered religious national army, undoubtedly hit a wall.

The early morning filled the land ahead, and rockets cut through the dark sky in the early morning like locusts. The Martinliya cavalry chased after a scattered religious national infantry, surging like a stream, slashing with swords and trampling with horses, and the momentum of killing was like a rainbow. It felt that the Holy City was already in the palm of their hands, and then faced such a scene,

"Send someone to get it immediately Know what's going on ahead. I don't believe that the Church Congress has any heavy troops here?"

Gu Bo, the commander of the Fourth Army of the Il Tribe of the Martin Liya Army, reined in his warhorse and looked forward with red eyes. His pupils couldn't help but shrink suddenly. In the white mist, he could vaguely see the formation of infantry advancing and stretching forward. The pace did not speed up too much, but it was firm and grim. In contrast, the cavalry of his own side was suddenly shot and thrown off their horses. Seeing that the brave cavalry under his command fell and rolled as if they had hit an invisible wall, his originally proud face suddenly turned a little livid.

He was wearing a crimson-blue heavy armor and immediately stood on a high mound. His red cloak was blown back by the wind. Even at night, it was like a blood-colored battle flag fluttering. Gu Bo, the blue lion of the Il Tribe, was known as one of the most powerful lions in the Il Tribe. Gu Bo, whose Fourth Army of the Il Tribe, was just like their chief officer, known for its high mobility and strong impact.

In the decisive battle with the main force of the Harvey Kingdom three months ago, the 360,000 Harvey Kingdom troops faced the 500,000 Martinliya troops. The Harvey Kingdom army occupied a favorable position. The commanders of both sides were still testing each other. Although the Harvey Kingdom army was an infantry cluster, it was located on a long slope section, overlooking the enemy and taking advantage. In the fierce battle between the two sides, the cavalry of the Fourth Army of the Il Tribe rushed into the enemy's group before their arrows fell because of their speed, causing the left wing of the Harvey Army to be disrupted for more than an hour, so that it could not provide support to the central main battlefield where King Harvey was personally in charge.

In the end, the central line of the Harvey Kingdom Army was overwhelmed by 300,000 Martinliya cavalry. The Harvey Kingdom, once one of the southern powers, was defeated by the Imperial Army at the southern border of the Order with 100,000 troops. After the suppression, the kingdom suffered another disastrous defeat at home. The desperate counterattack of the Harvi Kingdom resulted in 120,000 people killed or captured. Seventeen generals of the Harvi Kingdom, including Marshal Haru Baisuluo, were captured, and more than 30 generals were killed. If the king had not been knocked unconscious by his servants and forcibly taken away, he would have become the spoils of the Martinliya people. That battle completely crushed the courage of the Harvi Kingdom to persist.

The blazing bonfires reflected more than a dozen piles of Harvi corpses several meters high. These were all prisoners of the Harvi army.

In order to deter the Harvi people, the Martinliya nobles executed all the Harvi prisoners. They captured nearly three million people in the Harvi Kingdom. It didn't matter to the tens of thousands of Harvi soldiers they captured. Moreover, soldiers were often dangerous elements, and it was easy to have problems when they were transported back to the country. Direct execution was undoubtedly the most convenient and reliable, and it was also the heaviest blow to the Harvi Kingdom!

"We must let the Harveys know what the consequences of going against the will of our Martinliya people are!"

The one who said this was Silver Fox. As the wisest general of the Martinliya Kingdom, Silver Fox knew very well that the Harveys would not be willing to fail like this. He said to the Martinliya lords who were still hesitant in the military conference room, "I know you are a little reluctant, but the best way to make the Harveys completely lose their will to resist is to let them know the brutality of our Martinliya people and consider whether they can bear it before resisting." "Don't underestimate these tens of thousands of Harvey prisoners. They are the elite soldiers of the Harvey Kingdom. You must know that among the 500,000 troops of the Harvey Kingdom, only 150,000 can be truly called elites. Most of them were strangled by the Empire in the southern part of the Church State. Otherwise, we would not have won so easily. If we release these Harvey elites, once they return to Harvey, they will help Harvey to pull up a new Harvey army in the shortest time. I believe you don't want to fight with Harvey. The Harveys have been confronting each other here for many years." Silver Fox knows more about the Harvey Kingdom than most Harvey generals. "Another and more important point is to completely cut off the roots of the Harveys." Silver Fox paused, his eyes swept across the faces of the noble lords, and the corners of his mouth sneered slightly. "The total population of the Harvey Kingdom is about 15 million. Because of our massacres and looting, at least more than 6 million people were lost, and the heaviest losses were undoubtedly young men. Now the young and middle-aged men in the Harvey Kingdom are probably less than 400,000, and we have more than one-tenth of them in our hands. Even if the Harveys want to retaliate against us, without men and soldiers, what can they use to retaliate against us?" "Yes, we want to make the Harveys have no men!" "Haha, Harveys without men, we can do whatever we want!" Silver Fox's words immediately caused everyone to laugh, and they all thought it would be a wonderful thing if there were only women left in the Harvey Kingdom.

Amidst the smell of blood, the Martinliya nobles held a banquet to celebrate. Tens of thousands of corpses were piled up like this. In the middle, dancing gracefully were the captive female relatives of the Harvey nobles. These female relatives were wearing thin and revealing clothes, and most of them looked pretty. Not bad, and they are not very old either. Those who are ugly and older have long been After being dealt with, they danced tremblingly under the intruder's butcher knife. Not far behind them was a huge pile of corpses. They were trophies and trading items. As long as someone could afford the price, they could take them away, and they The first time he was asked to dance, it was extremely ironic to entertain the special envoy of the Kingdom of Harvey.

Harvey's envoy, Duke Carlo, was blindfolded and brought to the banquet. He removed the black cloth in front of his eyes. He rubbed his eyes and glanced around. His face became more and more livid, and his clenched fingers turned pale due to excessive exertion.

The Duke of Carlo is forty-six years old. Under his thick ink-like eyebrows, his light gray eyes are suppressing anger at this moment. He is the most mature age for a politician. He can be regarded as the young man of the Harvey Kingdom. He has also been in the past two years. One of the most determined representatives in the country who advocates uniting countries to resist the empire's southward march. These women are all Harvey people. He has always He could see it with his eyes. He knew several of them. He had personally received them at a family banquet. They were the wives and daughters of his former subordinates. At this moment, Duke Carlo's hand had unconsciously grasped the hilt of the sword. , but the cold and playful gazes of Martin Liya’s nobles made his angry heart feel as if a basin of ice water had been poured on him.

He let go of the hand holding the sword hilt, but took out a document from his clothes and handed it to the Harvey people's attendants. He said in a solemn voice, "I am Cagliostlan, the special envoy of His Majesty the Kingdom of Harvey. I am the official of the Kingdom of Harvey." The leader of this negotiation, before the negotiation, I, Harvey, asked your country to release our captives, and we are willing to provide double the ransom. "Double ransom, why didn't you tell me earlier? It's already too late!"

"I won't bother you to send the ransom, because we can get it ourselves." The lords of Martin Liya looked at the Duke of Carlo as if they were idiots. Only one person stood up with a little grace and asked the special envoy of the Kingdom of Harvey. Duke Carlo returned the gift and said apologetically, "I'm sorry. It would have been better if your country had been willing to negotiate earlier."

"What do you mean by this?"

The Duke of Carlo was stunned for a moment, and his eyes fell on this nobleman, who was relatively polite among the Harvey people. A rather ominous feeling surged in his heart. He was a middle-aged man in his thirties. Noble, compared with other Martin Liya nobles who are strong and brutal, this person looks a little thin, but his gloomy eyes It felt like being pricked by needles. He was brought blindfolded, so he didn't know that the bodies of tens of thousands of Harvey Kingdom soldiers were on the square behind him less than thirty meters away." Because They can't go back, and the dead can't go back. Of course, if you are willing to pay double the ransom for the dead, we can I am very happy to let you take them back." The middle-aged nobleman grinned, raised his hand calmly, pointed behind Duke Carlo, and said coldly, "To be honest, they are all elite warriors of the Kingdom of Harvey. , died for the Kingdom of Harvey, can you bear to let them die in the wilderness like this, haha? How should His Majesty King Wei explain to the people of the country?" Duke Carlo's face changed, as if he realized something, and turned around suddenly. The dozens of piles of corpses in the distance suddenly came into his eyes. Duke Carlo's eyes were filled with anger. , his vision went dark and he almost fainted, the brutal Martin Liya people actually killed tens of thousands of prisoners, that was tens of thousands of people! Didn’t it say that as long as the Martin Liya people give money, they can redeem it! Why kill them!

The negotiations led by Silver Fox personally left no room for the Harvey people from the beginning.

'Submit to the Martinliya people, promise to pay an annual tribute of five million gold to the Martinliya Kingdom, admit that the area currently occupied by the Martinliya army is Martinliya's land, and promise to involve all Harvey forces Retract the Harvey Plateau and demand a one-time compensation of 8 million gold from the Harvey Kingdom for troop dispatch expenses."

With such an unreasonable request, even the Duke of Caillou yelled angrily, "It is such a shameless request to burn, kill, and loot in other people's countries, and to ask other countries to bear the cost of sending troops."

"If you think there is a problem, just go back!"

Martin Li Ya did not relent at all. With Silver Fox's intelligence network, the current situation of the Harvey people has been fully understood. It is impossible for Special Envoy Harvey to go back, because the Harvey Kingdom is really unable to fight anymore. The Kingdom of Harvey, which once boasted an army of 500,000, now only has 70,000 or 80,000 troops left in the country. People, and they are all the troops who originally guarded the homeland of the Harvey Plateau. Because they are not combat troops, the equipment is outdated and the soldiers lack training. They are just security forces who stay in the homeland. There is no rotation all year round. They are stationed for thirty or forty years, and several generations of people are together. There are so many teams of one, how can such an army fight? If it weren't for the fact that the Martin Liya nobles had already made a lot of money, facing the terrain of the Harvey Plateau, which was rumored to be guarded by devils, the nobles were unwilling to make any more sacrifices, so they agreed to the conditions of the Harvey Kingdom.

In terms of rewards for military exploits afterwards, Gubai's Fourth Army was undoubtedly the first to achieve success.

This time, Spike handed over the important task of clearing the surrounding areas of the Holy City to Cooper's Fourth Army. Cooper did not disappoint Spike. In one night, the Fourth Army used its super-fast cavalry mobility to defeat at least four troops. The national army of the religious sect with more than 3,000 people trying to move closer to the Holy City was defeated, and the small groups were crushed and killed along the way. There were even countless national troops of the religious order. On the ten-mile sweep line spread out by the Fourth Army's 24,000 cavalry, the fire was blazing. Countless towns trembled and screamed under the hooves of the Fourth Army's horses. They even attacked in one breath. Let’s get down to Sulu City, which is already twenty miles away from Spike’s army in the direction of the Holy Capital.” It should be about the same. There are not many left. Not to mention the army of the Order State, not even the civilians are spared. "Cooper's Fourth Army was originally prepared to stop at dawn, but he did not expect that at the last moment before dawn, he would suddenly encounter an accident. The blocking force, the battle report coming from the front was extremely confusing, and it was too dark to understand clearly. As for the enemy, we only know that they are an infantry group. The war drums in the north startled the night, and their attention and eyes were drawn to it. Facing the tide of Martin Liya cavalry rushing towards them, the front was like a ship fighting against the tide. The giant ship broke through the waves and pushed firmly towards Martin Liya's army on the hillside. "Sir, the fourth regiment leader, Habisi Wufu, died in battle!"

The enemies throwing flying arrows are still spreading and expanding. The infantry formation is like a huge ferocious beast gradually emerging from the early morning fog. It is constantly deforming. The shield formation is tight, and arrows are constantly shooting from the formation towards Martin's force in the distance. Teeth Cavalry, but the entire team. Still pushing forward all the time, such a sight made Gu Bai take a breath of air. He had never seen such an infantry formation. With infantry against cavalry, there was not much to offer in terms of tactics. Choose something. The cavalry moves quickly and in dispersed formations, with about the same number of people. The accuracy of infantry's archery is too low, but the cavalry has armor and shields. Although long-range shooting can put pressure on people, against a rigorous formation, all they can rely on is the initiative.

But this infantry group is more like suppressing the cavalry under its own command. This is impossible, what a ghost!