Realm of Power

The land in front of you is covered with yellow sand. Even if you have made the most adequate preparations, plunging into such an endless sea of ​​sand is a test for anyone.

The wind blowing against his face was hot, and Cortlis felt that his mouth was filled with bitter sand, not to mention the other imperial soldiers. It only took more than a day to get here from the Boca Oasis. All Imperial soldiers are equipped with a camel to travel. Even so, the Imperial soldiers who are not used to riding camels just want to throw all the sand here into the sea of ​​Corninia.

It's a pity that in this overwhelming desert, this idea is just a dream. Cortlis spit out the sand in his mouth, stopped on a sand dune, and looked at the distance through the lookout glass in his hand, a piece of yellow-brown Boundless, like the end of the world, all yellow with no end in sight,

"Gulamisu, they said you are also a popular figure among smugglers. Why did you think of serving as a guide for our imperial army this time!"

Cortlis put down the lookout glass in his hand and half-jokingly said to the guide beside him. He was a middle-aged man with a slightly dark face. His skin did show a dark red color, and he looked like a cocoon. There is a bright spirit, which is year-round Traces left by exposure to the sun in the desert. This middle-aged man's name is Gulamisu. He is a very famous guide in the Boka Oasis. As the entrance to the business route of the Great Oasis, the Boka Oasis is not only a cargo distribution center. , is also a gathering place for a large number of desert guides

These desert guides are extremely familiar with the routes of major oases. Father and son want to continue this and have even made a living for several generations. Ever since the Kingdom of Aden closed the trade routes, life has been very difficult for desert guides. Without the caravans, they would have nothing to do. It’s meaningless. Many desert guides have left the Boca Oasis, but Gulamisu still stays in the Oasis.

Gulamisu has been making a living in the Boka Oasis all year round. Gulamisu has a wife and four children in the Boka Oasis. He has spent most of his life in the desert. He has been working as a caravan driver since he was eleven years old. It has been more than thirty years. It is not that he does not want to leave the big oasis, but leaving the big oasis means that he This means that he needs to start everything from scratch. In the desert, he can smell out where there is water just by relying on his nose. He is a special guide that all caravans compete with for a high price. But if he leaves the big oasis, he will be useless. This period For a long time, he almost got by working as a guide for smuggling caravans.

"Polu Palace said that if I lead the way for you, I will no longer be held accountable for leading the smuggling caravan." There was a touch of embarrassment on Gulamisu's dark and chapped face, and he said frankly that he was just a guide. He doesn't care at all about the war between the Empire and the Aden people. He only knows that it is the Empire that controls the Boka Oasis. His state basically represents the state of the vast majority of desert people. They don't care who rules them and who can Follow whoever gives you a favor! Desert peoples are just like grassroots, so adults don’t need to worry about anything!

If you really want to worry, you might as well worry about the escaped Qiao Musi! Gulamisu whispered.

"Qiaomus? That's the Aden general who just abandoned his troops and ran away." Hearing Gulamisu's words, Cortlis smiled indifferently and patted the sand on his body. Such a person would have run away long ago. I don’t know where it went, is there anything I need to pay attention to!

Looking at Cortlis's disinterested expression, Gulamisu's face was extremely serious, "I'm just a person who relies on desert guides for a living, and I don't know much else, but I know the most terrifying thing in the desert, no. It must be when the sky is full of sand, because you can see it from a long distance and hide in time Drive or be prepared to deal with it. What is really scary is that the seemingly motionless sand dunes are different. You see the sand dunes standing still in front of you, just like they have been for thousands of years. In fact, at night, the sand dunes are moving. A moving sand dune. Sand dunes can silently submerge everything under the dust and sand, and that is the most terrifying thing."

"Moving dunes...you mean the arbors?"

The corners of Cortlis' smile suddenly froze. He didn't expect Gulamisu to speak so highly of the Aden escapee.

Even the Imperial soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles, have seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and battlefields filled with blood, still feel terrified that they will be silently pressed under a huge sand dune. This has nothing to do with courage. It is completely the reverence of intelligent life for the mystery. Gulamisu actually has sand dunes to describe that arbor? After more than a day of contact, Cortlis knew that Gulamisu was not a person who liked to talk, but was extremely simple and sincere. In addition, Gulamisu really knew this desert well. The word "reliable" refers to Gulamisu. Misu, no wonder many smuggling caravans also come to Gulamisu. The guide sitting down and raising the price in the middle of the journey is not a new thing in the Grand Oasis, but Gulamisu has never had such a record.

"Your Excellency may not know what this Qiaomusi has done." Gulamisu's eyes flashed and he let out a long sigh.

"I heard that he once let tens of thousands of desert people die in Boka Oasis!"

Cortlis showed at the right time that he was not ignorant, because this Arbor was so famous, and he was one of the leaders of the Aden Army stationed in the Poca Oasis. Since the empire wanted to occupy the Poca Oasis, Arbor Si is an existence that cannot escape the past, and the empire also made the decision to place the breakthrough point in the 19th Army of Qiaomusi after understanding the details of the Boka Oasis. Did they really ignore something? Cortlis felt his heart tightening. He fought against the 19th Army of Qormus that night, and the 9th Flag Regiment of his Empire's Istan Region was also among them. He really won without feeling any pressure!

Is such a person still a strategic master? What a joke! The war between hundreds of thousands of people in the Great Oasis between the Ero Empire and the Kingdom of Aden... What does it have to do with a guy who ran away from the beginning?

Hearsay can kill people. Many desert people have never left the desert in their entire lives. Naturally, they have never heard the true opinions of the outside world. They can only rely on their own imagination to imagine, and they are even distorted by the deliberate propaganda of the Aden people. Science Tris looked at Gulamisu with a sad look in his heart.

"This is what the Ero people told you, right?" Gulamisu glanced at his mouth with disdain and said with an expression that he had known for a long time.

"The Eero people indeed mentioned this Arbor in particular!" Cortlis nodded in astonishment.

"Then have the Erro people told you that their disastrous defeat in the Great Oasis was the result of Qiaomusi's single-handed guidance!" Gulamisu's eyes were bright.

"This... what a joke! The Erro people were defeated in the Great Oasis because their logistics supplies could not keep up, and they were eventually defeated by the Aden army." Cortlis felt that he had heard the most ridiculous joke of the year, and said Suddenly he burst out laughing. It turns out that Cortlis’s understanding is like this.

What is the connection between the tragic defeat of the Erro people and this Arbor!

In fact, this cannot be blamed on Gulamisu's ignorance. After all, he is just a low-level guide. How could he understand the final battle in which hundreds of thousands of troops fight to the death!

Cortris felt that he had to tell Cortris the real situation. He reached out and patted Cortris on the shoulder, indicating that the other party had thought wrong. He sneered and said, "That's not the case at all, although I don't know that you are from Aden." What you heard in twisted rumors, but the reality is not at all what you think.”

"I was in the Grand Oasis at the time. I don't know how the outside world commented on that war, but as someone who experienced it personally, I will tell you what I know." Gulamisu's face suddenly became serious, and he took a deep breath and said one word One sentence said, "Qiaomus stayed at Boca Oasis for four years, and I was under his command at that time. He joined a caravan as a guide. It must be said that Qiaomusi was a very generous host. He never defaulted on payment and was very kind to everyone. Qiaomusi reported the 150 people to the Aden Military Affairs Department as 5,000 people. This reduced the burden on Polu Palace, so Polu Palace also tried its best to help him hide it.

Qiaomusi's business in Polkadot Oasis can be said to be prosperous. In just a few years, he controlled 60% of the market in Polkadot Oasis. Otherwise, it would have been impossible. He quickly recruited people from Polkadot Oasis. Thirty thousand desert people went to resist the attack of the Eero army!

These desert people included civilians, mercenaries, adventurers, and even sand pirates. In the end, they used the flesh and blood of the desert people to hold back the Eero army for two full days before entering the Boca Oasis. Maybe to the people of Aden, people like Qiaomusi are scum and will The Kingdom of Aden's decades of hard work in the Boca Oasis were in vain. As a regional defender, they fled without fighting, which directly caused the Ero Empire army to march straight into the Grand Oasis. If the Kingdom of Aden had not organized a timely counterattack, the Eero army might have Will reach the Gulf of Aden in one breath

Even the Elo people thought so at the beginning, so no one cared about this arbor until the Elo people discovered that it was not terrible to send 30,000 people from the Great Oasis to death. For the Elo people who had already killed red eyes, killing tens of thousands of people in the desert Human beings are not a big deal, but the large-scale infectious disease caused by more than 30,000 corpses exposed to the scorching sun directly led to the fact that no one dared to live in the Boca Oasis

In the next two months, the Elo people also had to go around the Boca Oasis to transport supplies. The journey was lengthened by more than a hundred miles of desert. The transport team itself had to consume one-third of the goods on the way, which greatly increased the cost. The Aero people's transportation capabilities were depleted, which directly led to a large amount of materials being hoarded on the border, but they could not be transported to the troops in front in time.

If it were just this, it would not be enough to bring down the Eero army, which was in full swing at the time. However, the Eero army had just entered the mezzanine area of ​​​​the Grand Oasis. Because of this unknown massacre, the Grand Oasis Lords of the entire Grand Oasis were offended. , as well as the desert peoples who were struggling to survive in the desert. Among the 30,000 desert people who were killed On the other side, it was not just people from the Boka Oasis, but also people from other big oases, involving the twenty-four desert nations in the big oasis. In fact, the army of the Ero Empire pressed on the border, and the Aden Kingdom Army lost ground and troops, and was defeated across the board. No matter how you look at it, It is unable to defend the large oasis. The desert tribes who have taken advantage of the situation are already preparing to defect to the Eero Empire.

This was an unstoppable situation at that time. Even if the people of Aden wanted to, they could not do it. However, the massacre caused the wind to turn. The desert tribes who were originally prepared to surrender refused to surrender to the Ero Empire, and even sent their troops to The Ero Empire envoy who went to persuade them had his head cut off, and the logistics line was stretched invisibly. The desert tribes that could have been gathered together refused to surrender, and they continued to send people to harass the supply line. , you can even run away from the major oases without surrendering. Although the Eero Imperial Army has been advancing all the way, there are empty cities everywhere, and the supplies cannot keep up. The soldiers are entangled by the plague, and they want to get supplies from the major oases, but there are empty areas. , even the water sources were poisoned, and the energy of the Ero people was finally exhausted by the desert. They were successfully counterattacked by the Aden army. More than 100,000 people died in the battle, and they were driven out of the great oasis!

The imperial army's raid on the Boca Oasis was completely impromptu, and it broke out so violently that it directly overwhelmed Qiaomusi's 19th Army. Therefore, Qiaomusi should not have had time to prepare, but it may have already been launched. Cortlis couldn't help but flash the word Polu Palace in his mind. All guides were provided by Polu Palace. If there was a little manipulation inside, the tens of thousands of imperial troops entering the big oasis would have been buried in the yellow sand. ! Hope it's not too late!

"Thank you very much for what you said. I need to report this Arbor to the superiors immediately!"

Cortris's breathing was a little rapid, and he even felt his scalp was numb. If what Gulamisu said was true, then this Aromas was too extraordinary. Cortris even suspected that it would be impossible to stop the imperial army for a night. The bloody Aden Fifteenth Army may have been just a cover, and the real figure regarded by the Aden people as the key to blocking the Imperial Army may actually be this Qiaomusi! Rather than the 15th Legion

Cortlis did not dare to delay and immediately wrote a secret report and handed it to the messenger. It was not until the messenger left under the escort of a small team of fifty imperial troops that Cortlis turned around and the sky gradually darkened. , as the last bit of the golden sunset sinks into the distant line of yellow sand, the heat of the day begins to disappear.

On the horizon in the distance, lights light up, like a river of stars in the sky at night. It is the famous Star Oasis among the thirteen oases. It is two hundred and sixteen miles away from the Boca Oasis. The Grand Oasis ranks third from east to west. This is a cross-point attack. The Grand Oasis are all desert areas. In theory, as long as there are sufficient supplies, it can be launched directly from Polkadot The Grand Oasis can go all the way to the Gulf of Aden. There are no restrictions on geographical mountains at all. Opening the Poca Grand Oasis is equivalent to opening up the passage of other large oases. Cortlis led the four thousand imperial troops under his command. With the powerful transportation capacity of the 13,000 camels in the team, it took only a day and a half to arrive at this beautiful oasis of stars.

After two hours of rest, Cortlis began to attack. The imperial soldiers put on their armor again at this moment.

The Oasis of Stars, the south side of the Aden Garrison Oasis, has a strength of 11,000. Information about the Oasis of Stars flashed through his mind. Cortlis began to slowly raise his right hand. A line of troops spread out in the darkness, and the earth As if suddenly covered in black, In this suffocating black, there are dense layers of cavalry, and the horses are almost connected by the hoofs of the horses. They start to move forward at a constant speed. The ground makes a low rumbling sound. When the night wind blows across the desert, it is like countless The sand and dust are moving!