Realm of Power

He was shocked by the sudden appearance of the imperial army in the south of the Gulf of Aden, but he did not believe that the imperial army could cross the naturally dangerous Luke Ancient Mountains on a large scale. On the contrary, the shakeup in the large oasis was the key point. Until this moment, Fatris still believed that the empire The only way for the military to enter the Gulf of Aden on a large scale is through the Grand Oasis.

King Fatris of Aden, who heard the footsteps, saw the Kingdom's Navy Minister appearing at the door. The hero of the Kingdom of Aden smiled slightly and said, "Sir Sparks, you also rushed because you heard the news that the imperial army appeared in the south. Come on, it should be just an accident. The army will soon mobilize surrounding forces to extinguish this lucky imperial army. However, since such an accident has occurred, it is better to be cautious. The Navy Department also needs to be careful in Luxi Port. Strengthening defense is "

"Ruxi Port was attacked by the Imperial Navy, and the entire tenth fleet of the Royal Navy was destroyed, Your Majesty." Navy Minister Sparksang Fei stood at attention and reported word by word. He could feel that the hall suddenly became extremely quiet. , as if everything was forbidden, only the chirping of cicadas outside the window proved that this was not a dream. After more than ten seconds, the dull voice of His Majesty Fatris was heard.

"Luxi Port was also attacked. The entire 10th Fleet was destroyed. Then the three heavy iron-clad ships launched in Luxi Port..."

"Two sunk, one captured by the Imperial Navy"

Sparksang Fei could feel the coldness on his back and his voice was trembling. In order for the Kingdom Navy to have the same strength as the Empire Navy, His Majesty Fatris did not hesitate to modify the original agreement between the royal family and the Red Dragon Palace and agreed to the Red Dragon Palace. The Red Dragon Knights, who have not left Aden for decades, are asking to leave Aden. In addition, when the kingdom's finances were stretched, a full one million gold was specially allocated from the royal treasury to build the first batch of heavy iron-clad ships. It was even ordered that a heavy-duty ironclad ship be built at the celebration of the promotion to the empire. The ironclad ship is named after himself and will serve as the new naval flagship of the Kingdom of Aden

Before this even started, half of the first batch of ironclads were sunk and one was captured. . . . . . It felt like someone had cut off his beard. Fatris's eyes were bloodshot and his face was ashen. He really had the urge to kick his own navy minister to death. Do you know how much you have done for the blueprint of the heavy ironclad ship? Did you make any concessions, or even change the original If the agreement used to restrict the Red Dragon Palace were not so, the Red Dragon Palace would not insist on the fact that this promotion ceremony was not in compliance with the agreement, and asked the Aden royal family to sign a new agreement, and the new one produced by the Red Dragon Palace The agreement also made the Aden royal family quite dissatisfied.

The Red Dragon Palace actually asked the royal family of Aden to agree to its right to build the Red Dragon Church within the territory of Aden! As a purely religious area, the Red Dragon Cathedral City naturally does not need to pay any taxes to the Aden royal family. This is simply the establishment of a state within a state within the territory of Aden! It is a replica of the Holy City back then.

It is naturally impossible for Fatris to agree to such a dangerous request. This is how the Holy City was originally established. With how many secrets the Red Dragon Palace has hidden for decades and how many remnants of the Holy City there are, even Fatris would not dare to Come to think of it, in order to bind the Red Dragon Palace, the royal families of Aden did not know how much effort they spent. The royal families of Aden are not descendants of the Holy City, but pure natives of the Gulf of Aden. , when the Red Dragon Temple fled from the Holy City, the two parties signed a coexistence agreement. The Red Dragon Temple assisted the Aden people to unify the Gulf of Aden and establish their own kingdom, and the Aden people were willing to grant the Red Dragon Temple the status of the state religion. According to the agreement, the Red Dragon Temple The Dragon Palace’s armed forces were never allowed to leave the Gulf of Aden, which basically eliminated the possibility of Red Dragon Palace’s self-expansion. However, just over a month ago, this agreement was broken.

Due to the urgent need for the help of the Red Dragon Palace, Fatris agreed for the first time to the Red Dragon Palace armed forces leaving the Gulf of Aden. Thirty thousand soldiers of the Aden Red Dragon Cavalry secretly entered South Héro. Half a month ago, news came , the Red Dragon Knights were surrounded by the imperial army south of the capital of Aero, and a battle broke out between the two sides. In the end, only more than 3,000 Red Dragon Knights of the Red Dragon Knights escaped. After taking off, all the remaining 28,000 people were killed in the battle, and then 3,000 Red Dragon Knights were raided and killed by the coalition forces of the princes in the southern part of Eero. The Red Dragon Knights, the strongest and largest guarding force in the Red Dragon Palace, was like this. The entire army was wiped out, and the news came back through secret channels, so very few people knew about it, but everyone who knew about it was shocked by the loss!

The Red Dragon Cavalry is not an ordinary armed force. Each of the five thousand Red Dragon Knights in it are warriors who have practiced martial arts since childhood. They are good at fighting and are invincible. The annual temple competition is the most watched in the entire Kingdom of Aden. During the festival, many of the knights inside are the warriors of God that people in Aden say

In terms of weapons and equipment, the wealthy Red Dragon Palace is also equipped according to the mainland's first-class army. Even if it is placed among the elites of the Kingdom of Aden, it can be ranked among the top three. Such a power can be placed in the small army in the south of Erro. In the pond, it is enough to knock down the southern part of Hérault. The small pond is the name of the Aden people for the southern part of Hérault.

In the eyes of the people of Aden, ever since the talented and strategizing Emperor Farouk of Ero was accidentally beheaded, the Ero Empire's 500,000 elite army collapsed, and the royal capital was wiped out by the national army of the Order, the Ero people are no longer qualified to follow He has no qualifications to compare with himself, the man who once hunted Corninia with a million troops and the Aden people The Héro Empire has vanished into thin air. As for the surviving southern part of Héro, the whole of southern Europe knows what is going on. The total population of the yellow sand zone that has been buried for eighty years is not even comparable to that of a province in the Kingdom of Aden. On top of that, it will be divided into more than thirty princes, big and small, and it will be just a small pond!

But with this kind of power, after just one battle, the empire was destroyed in the south of the capital of Ero. No one of the 30,000 Red Dragon Palace warriors survived. The most outrageous thing is that the one who finally counterattacked the 3,000 Red Dragon Knights was No one looks down on the southern princes of Eero. This is like an encounter between two peerless swordsmen. Whoever kills the other can understand. However, a drunk man ran out halfway and beat one of the peerless swordsmen to the ground. That was another matter. The empire had long been recognized as the great devil in the entire Oubalu continent. It destroyed Gaul and swallowed Gangfei. Sweeping through the 700,000 Southern Allied Forces, three empires alone were wiped out, and countless kingdoms and forces were wiped out.

It is not a shame for the 30,000 Red Dragon Cavalry to not be in the hands of the empire. It can even be said to be unyielding in the face of battle.

But what are the princes of the south of Hero?

The news was sent back to the Red Dragon Palace. It is said that the high priest of the Red Dragon Palace vomited blood on the spot that day. If the rescue was not timely, the high priest, whom Fatlis regarded as the most important enemy, would have died. This was what Fatlis felt was the most important. Fatris believed that this was a shame for the Red Dragon Palace and an opportunity to deal a heavy blow to the Red Dragon Palace. How could Fatris let it go? He deliberately let the Intelligence Department spread the news of the destruction of the Red Dragon Cavalry. , causing the Red Dragon Palace to lose all face,

Of course, Red Dragon Palace is not a vegetarian either.

As far as Erro is concerned, there is no secret about the circumstances of the destruction that day. The investigators sent by the Red Dragon Palace quickly figured out the reason for the destruction of the Cavalry.

The main reason for the commander of the Cavalry to ambush the Imperial Army without authorization was that the Aden Intelligence Department deliberately weakened the Imperial Army's combat effectiveness assessment and concealed the fact that the Imperial Army has a history of paying blood for blood and tooth for tooth, and that the Imperial Army arrived at King Héro The real situation in the city was such that the Red Dragon Cavalry was ambushed and intercepted by the main force of the imperial army on its way south. Under the attacks of the imperial army, the morale of the army was in chaos, and it was finally destroyed in a battle!

The Kingdom’s Intelligence Department is suspected of misleading the Red Dragon Cavalry in its destruction!

The high priest of the Red Dragon Palace was originally surprised by Fatris's sudden modification of the agreement, but he did not expect that the other party would be so sinister. He wanted to lose three-quarters of the force of the Red Dragon Palace. He was heartbroken and decided to take revenge. The promotion of King Fatris of Aden to the emperor was not in line with the original agreement unless Fatris showed a more pious performance. As soon as the news came out, the entire Kingdom of Aden was in an uproar. Although there had been many frictions between the Red Dragon Palace and the royal family in the past, at least it was not like this. Blatantly scratching his face,

But this time, the Red Dragon Palace has made it clear that it does not support Fatris’ promotion to emperor.

The Red Dragon Palace has considerable influence in the Kingdom of Aden. As the state religion of Aden on an equal footing with the Aden royal family, the King of Aden controls the nobility and the army, while the Red Dragon Palace controls the beliefs of the Aden people and most of the civilian class. Because the Red Dragon Due to the lack of support from the palace, there are already many voices in Aden questioning that Fatlis forcibly promoted the Kingdom of Aden to an empire for the sake of personal prestige, which will inevitably drag the Kingdom of Aden into the abyss of war.

The surrounding forces that originally belonged to the Kingdom of Aden were also silent. Many of them came to the Red Dragon Palace. Everyone could feel the calm moment before the volcano erupted. The Royal Family of Aden also sent troops to compare the expedition. The main naval force of the Kingdom of Asia and the 100,000 elites from the Central Asian battlefield were transferred back to the country. Putting on an extremely tough stance, if the Red Dragon Palace really causes trouble at the critical moment, the Aden royal family will definitely order the army to bloodbath the Red Dragon Palace.

"Your Majesty, I believe that the imperial army's presence in the Southern Sea and the Southern Province at the same time may not be as simple as a coincidence. I suspect that something may have gone wrong in the Sea of ​​Mist. As early as a month ago, intelligence from southern Eero Just at the critical moment, the fog in the southern part of Hero seems to be disappearing quickly! At this moment, Aden's Minister of Military Affairs Oniso's speech diverted Fatris's attention. If only the Imperial Army appeared, it can be understood that it came over the mountains. Now even the Imperial Navy has appeared, which shows that the Empire It is possible that a road has indeed been found from the southern part of Hérault to the southern part of the Gulf of Aden,

Is the problem in the Sea of ​​Mist? Could it be that the secret has been discovered! Fatris's heart trembled violently, and he clenched his fingers suddenly

As the King of Aden, Fatris knows far more about the Sea of ​​Mist than anyone else. All the kings of Aden have had the experience of going to the Red Dragon Palace to study in their youth. They first started as priest apprentices in the Red Dragon Palace and were responsible for learning the most basic Historical documents, most of which were about the geography of the Gulf of Aden, became official priests two years later, and they began to come into contact with some content about the Holy City, including the collapse of the Holy City 80 years ago and the eruption in the southern branch of Hérault. A record of a sudden change that turned the entire southern part of Hero into a wasteland

As for the Sea of ​​Mist, the first-generation map provided to the Royal Family of Aden by the Red Dragon Palace clearly depicts the geography of the southern part of Héro before the mutation. The distance between the southern Gulf of Aden and the southern part of Héro is actually only a length of time. Fifty nautical miles of protruding promontory. As long as you cross this promontory, you can enter the southern waters of the Gulf of Aden. The Kingdom of Aden in front The king was already aware of the existence of this hidden danger, so he sent people into the southern part of Hérault fifty years ago and built Samu Castle to monitor this hidden road, and would report to the Cape every three months. In this situation, the Kingdom of Aden used Luxi Port as the former headquarters of the Southern Fleet of Aden. In fact, it was also to block some fish that accidentally came from the Cape and slipped through the net.

It’s just that as time passed, Fatris himself almost forgot about it.

Who would have thought that the sea of ​​mist that had sealed off the southern part of Hérault for eighty years would dissipate at this time!

"How long has it been since there was no news from Samubao?"

Fatris intuitively felt that there must be something wrong with Samu Castle. Even if the cape was revealed due to the dissipation of the Sea of ​​Mist, and Samu Castle was surrounding it, the situation should not have happened so quickly, unless Samu Castle was surrounding it. The other side has been uprooted with thunderous means, so no news has been sent back to the country. And to do this, the empire can definitely do it! Thinking of this, Fatris' anger has mostly disappeared.

"Samu Castle?" Minister of Military Affairs Oniso glanced at the Minister of Navy Sparksangfei in astonishment, his eyes full of questions, is there such a place? Sparksangfei was also at a loss. Samburg's deliberate low profile was not noticeable even in the south of Hérault, let alone the Aden side who hardly cared about the south of Hérault. Seeing the confused expressions on the faces of his two important ministers, Fatris Feeling that he was a little confused, he raised his hand and shouted to the palace attendant at the door, "Let Doros come to me immediately!"

Soon, a thin middle-aged man arrived outside the hall. He was a hale and hearty man, wearing a black uniform with silver trim. He was about forty years old and had impressive gray hair. , giving people a sense of vicissitudes of life, he is none other than Doros, the Minister of Intelligence of the Kingdom of Aden. Samu Fort has always been specifically responsible for it by the Intelligence Department, and even a deputy director of the Intelligence Department was specially placed. It can be seen that for Samu The importance of the fort

"According to the usual practice, Samburg's report will not be delivered until eleven days, Your Majesty!" Doros answered respectfully when His Majesty Fatris asked Samburg.

"I need to know the report from Fort Sam as soon as possible, as well as the disappearance of the Sea of ​​Mist. Remember, as soon as possible!" Fatris frowned. He had not bothered to read the report from Fort Sam once every three months. , and now I can't wait to fly to Samu Fort immediately. If the imperial army really comes from the Cape, then Aden's closed defense will be self-defeating!

"As you wish, Your Majesty," Doros nodded and responded. The information from Samubao was sent every three months. The last time it was sent was more than two months ago. Doros was also very surprised. Why did His Majesty Fatris suddenly Interested in Samburg's report