Realm of Power

The great slave riot in the southern part of the Kingdom of Aden broke out when the Kingdom of Aden was about to be promoted to the Empire of Aden, and like a hot oil blowout, it was like a hurricane sweeping through the southern provinces of the Kingdom of Aden in just ten days. In addition to the failure of the food harvest, In addition to the fact that the Great Famine has reached a very dangerous moment, there is also a unique reason, that is, the Harvey people.

Just five months ago, the Martinliya people in the south of Obarro broke through the border of the Harvey Kingdom and directly defeated the Harvey Kingdom, one of the southern powers, into half a cripple. The Martinliya people killed millions of Harvey people. They were sold as slaves to the Kingdom of Aden. Although hundreds of thousands of Harveys died on land due to transportation, the Kingdom of Aden still After buying more than one million Harvey slaves, such a huge number of slaves poured into the Kingdom of Aden, which had a huge impact on the slave market in the Kingdom of Aden. The price of slaves dropped to less than one-third of the original price. In the eyes of slave owners in Aden, slaves are cheap items that are not even as good as livestock, let alone

The price of one sheep can easily buy four slaves. Slaves are completely synonymous with worthlessness.

Due to drought and poor harvest in the south, food prices rose rapidly. Slave owners seized the opportunity to hoard food. As a result, food prices plummeted to the highest level in southern Aden's history. This was like the straw that broke the camel's back. Civilians in southern Aden They went bankrupt one after another and had to sell themselves cheaply and become slaves of the nobles.

Slaves are worthless, and feeding slaves with expensive food is definitely a loss. In order to reduce losses, the noble slave owners in Aden began to cut off slaves on a large scale. As long as the young and strong ones were kept, the old, weak, sick and disabled not only worked No, it's also a waste of food. No one has any food left in their house. It's impossible. If you spend money to feed idle people, at other times, you can sell these old, weak, sick and disabled slaves at low prices. Now it is the same in the entire south. The major slave owners feel that they have more slaves in their hands. Even at a low price, no one cares about these old, weak, sick and disabled slaves, wasting time and consuming food in vain

According to convention, slaves that cannot be sold are considered inferior goods. In order to reduce the loss of the owner, they can be buried alive. This is written in the private property law of the Aden Code.

According to conservative estimates, in the month of September alone, slave owners in southern Aden buried more than 60,000 slaves alive, both covertly and overtly. This has been recorded, and there are countless more that have not been recorded. It has not rained in Aden for five months. The south is like a powder keg that may explode at any time. Five thousand elite imperial cavalrymen The soldiers entered the front line, avoiding the city that was difficult to capture, and instead carried out a very orderly attack on the plantation outside the city, killing the Aden nobles in the plantation, freeing all the slaves in the plantation, and most importantly One part of the story is that the imperial cavalry deliberately set fire to the nobles' food warehouses when they attacked, and then walked away.

At this moment, it was raining and the ground was muddy. The rioting slaves were rushing north in the cold and hunger. The reason why they were going north was because the Aden army was fighting the imperial army in the southern city of Persad, and the rioting slaves did not dare to To provoke the army, there was a flood of slave riots in various places, especially the large number of Harveys among the slaves who constituted the main force of this riot.

These Harvey people are full of hatred for the Aden people. The commonality of the same race makes these Harvey slaves far more united and more capable than slaves of other groups.

But what really caused these Harvey slaves to explode was the news spread by the imperial army that broke into the hinterland: "The Martin Liga people have been defeated, and the Kingdom of Harvey has formed an alliance with the empire. The empire's invasion of the southern part of the Gulf of Aden is to save the captives." The Imperial Navy fleet has landed at the southern estuary of the Harvey people being trafficked. As long as it assists the empire in defeating the Aden people, the empire can force the Aden people to release all Harvey slaves.” The imperial cavalry even showed the rescued Harvey slaves a notice signed with the seal of King Harvey, and posted similar notices along the way. , for the current empire, paper has become quite popular,

Regardless of whether this news is true or not, for the desperate Harvey people, the content of these notices is an irresistible temptation. The country is ruined and the family is ruined. They are enslaved on the spot and far away from their hometown. Here, the brutal Aden slaves The master only regarded them as the cheapest tools. Even among the slave class, the large influx of Harvey slaves was considered by other slaves to be the main reason for their plummeting value. Harvey slaves naturally became the lowest among slaves. The kind that Harvey people unconsciously only hug together to keep warm.

The people of Aden would never have thought that the emperor’s trump card would be these Harvey slaves.

"The Aden army has all gone to Persad, and now the Aden army has no army in the south."

"If we continue to endure, we will only starve to death. If we don't want to starve to death, we will kill the Aden people. Let's go home together."

"Go home, let's go home together"

The area with a high concentration of slave plantations, every village, city, town, field, and forest, evoked an echo in the hearts of every living Harvey slave. As a result, from the top of the Gooch Mountains in the west to the shores of the rippling blue rivers, horrific killing sounds were heard everywhere, and millions of Harvey slaves screamed in unison. These slaves were slaughtered and sold by the Martin Tooths. The Harvey people seemed to be awakened overnight. One person became two people, two people became a group, and the group merged with the group to form a team. They swung sickles and wooden sticks, stood up with swords, and pounced on them regardless of their own safety. To the nearby Aden slave owners' guard team. Cut the entire garrison into a pulp and gather more Harveys

“The Harveys are crazy!”

Slave owners everywhere were also frightened. They were used to facing those docile, gentle, and submissive slaves. The slaves with spikes had long been dealt with, but now, they suddenly felt that they were under their feet. The earth is collapsing, and those Harvey slaves they bought at the lowest price suddenly become like This brave and brave man attacked plantations in various places without fear of death. However, all the regional garrison troops went to Bosad. Even half of their private troops were in Bosad, facing the tide of Harvey. When slaves revolted, the only thing the slave owners could do was to abandon their plantations and huddle in their castles, afraid to come out.

But they forgot that there were not only civilians among the Harvey slaves, but also many captured Harvey soldiers and even generals. These former soldiers of the Harvey Kingdom raised their arms and shouted, "Our boys, come here quickly!" As if they suddenly appeared from the ground, countless Harveys armed with sickles and wooden guns poured in from all directions, forming a team of more than a thousand people on the spot. When they heard about the arrival of Harvey's team, plantation slaves who were completely out of control came from the surrounding area. When they arrived, the Harvey's had already set off, so they chased in the direction of Harvey's progress. I went there, regretting all the way that I had learned the news too late.

The crowds of people are like small canals that merge into rivers, and rivers flow into the sea.

At first, the Harvey people were the main body, and other ethnic groups soon joined in. As they were absorbed by all comers, the ranks of rebel slaves expanded like a snowball, and large and small hordes blossomed throughout the southern provinces, serving as a fighting unit. For example, what is required is not just the number of people. Although so many slaves are hastily formed teams, the experienced Harvey army Humans soon became the core of the entire team's battle, and the riot began to turn into a real storm. In the southern city of Daru, an astonishing number of rioting slaves rushed into the town like a torrent and a tsunami, and started street battles with the garrison in the town. Hours passed, the entire Aden garrison was cut to pieces, slaves sacked the town, and more than thirteen thousand Adenites were killed.

Outside the city of Slam in the southern province, more than a thousand Aden garrison troops were killed and defeated. The remaining troops abandoned the city in panic and fled, completely ignoring the lives and deaths of more than 30,000 Aden civilians in the city.

In Lushan, less than fifty miles away from the center of the battle between the Empire and the Aden Army, the city of Bassad, more than 30,000 Harvey slaves attacked the logistics transport team of the Aden Army. The Harvey slaves, wearing the bright flame symbol of the Harvey people's belief, Killed more than 2,000 Aden soldiers and fled with the logistics supplies of the Aden army.

Outside Ikam Castle, there were thirty thousand slaves surrounding the castle, not including the team following them. They hid in the dense forest, waiting quietly and patiently until the sun came the next day. rising. Seeing that Yikamu Castle finally closed its gates and refused to fight, the rioting slaves retreated unwillingly.

It was a near-miss night, but the rioting slaves appeared on the crucial Isam Mountains!

This news shocked the whole of Aden. Issam Castle is known as the gateway to the Gulf of Aden from the south. The war decades ago established the strategic position of Issam Castle. This place is rich in products. With a vast hilly barrier, the rebellious slaves dared to rush to Issam Castle. If they captured Issam Castle, they could easily directly enter the Gulf of Aden in the core area of ​​the kingdom, causing less damage. riot The impact of the slaves' attack on the hinterland of the Gulf of Aden was the main reason why the Aden people could not sit still. The Kingdom of Aden was about to join the ranks of the empire, but it could not suppress even a small slave rebellion. Such Aden, and Are you qualified to wear the imperial crown on yourself? This is a naked slap in the face. Not only will it become the laughing stock of the entire continent, but even if it is forcibly promoted to the imperial level, in other people's discussions, it will be just a dilapidated pseudo-empire.

This kind of discussion is like a bucket of cold water poured down on the people of Aden. Even the king of Aden can't sit still at this moment. How can he allow flaws after spending so much effort and still be slapped in the face by a bunch of lowly slaves? The furious King of Aden convened an emergency military meeting. The other legion of the two armies in the capital of Aden, the Second Army of Aden, quietly left the capital.

"Huhu"

With the roaring stones, an arc of death was drawn in the sky, and then they were violently smashed into the crowd, with blood splattering and wailing all over the ground.

Under the city of Bassad, the Aden army launched a fierce attack again. Braving the arrows shot like a torrential rain, the Aden army's queue slowly moved forward. This time, it was not just slaves, but also more than 30,000 Aden garrison troops. The garrison, holding shields and spears, followed the slaves with an alarming momentum. The black queue was like a tidal wave, and a mountainous forest of spears stood high in the sky. The wind blew the flags, making the sound of hunting.

This time, Toblas took 15,000 men of his fourth army. The rations were almost at their limit, and all the preparations were quite complete. The messenger from the royal capital even sent an order from His Majesty the King. In the order Inside, His Majesty the King warned Toblas that he would not fight for a long time, so that The situation in the entire south has deteriorated to such an extent that the slave rebellion in the south snowballed because Toblas ordered the evacuations of local guards and private armies of slave owners without authorization. As a result, the entire southern nobles were unable to suppress the rebellion. It’s very difficult to deal with now.

A large number of siege towers were pushed like tall buildings. Fire protection was added in front, and the wooden wheels below were covered with iron sheets. They were crushed to the ground, making a heavy clicking sound. The messengers on horseback rushed to each square. In the passage between them, the command "Get ready!" was loudly issued. Behind the entire attack line, eight thousand Aden archers were divided into six columns and were loading arrows on their strong bows with stern expressions.

When the two armies were close to a hundred paces apart,. The arrows flying densely in the air fell into the dense queue of Aden people, splashing blood and groaning. The Aden soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell silently, and the soldiers in the back row stood forward silently. Filled the gap in the queue. The infantry captains shouted: "Shield!" Suddenly, the shield bearers raised their shields to the sky to cover them. Looking from above, the front row of the entire queue showed a reflection of metal, as if they suddenly had an extra metal roof. All of a sudden, his arrows jingled all over the shield wall, but they couldn't cause much damage.

"Don't be afraid, everyone, the bows and arrows of the imperial army can't hurt you," the commander of the front line shouted.

"Charge!" The soldiers of Aden roared like thunder and launched a charge. They ran forward with long strides and rushed towards the enemy with an overwhelming momentum. The gray crowd surged and expanded like waves, and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering. , the momentum is amazing, waiting for them to rush At a distance of about fifty steps, the powerful imperial crossbow began to fire. Encountering a powerful crossbow at this distance caused terrible damage. There was an astonishing noise, "Ah, ah..." screams continued one after another, rushing at the end. Half of the hundreds of warriors in front fell immediately. The successors moved forward bravely, and another terrible metal storm was swept into the middle of the crowd. The infantry queue seemed to be made of paper and mud, and the sound of broken spears and broken guns was heard everywhere.

"Ah!" The ear-splitting cry was like a terrible storm being released in an instant. The Imperial heavy steel crossbow that hit the first row shot through the human body, followed by the second row, and the third row, and the people behind seemed to be scattered. It was squeezed away like a billiard ball, and the steel was violently colliding and pierced! The air was filled with pungent blood and a thick red mist. It was a scene of people's blood being squeezed and exploded. Their blood was flowing in vain.

The Imperial heavy ballistae is definitely a high-efficiency killing machine capable of both offense and defense. Although the Aden people are full of fighting spirit this time, the gap in weapons and strength is quite ruthless, and as the center of the main attack, it is given special attention. The Hundred Gates of Thunder God sprayed fiercely at the attack line of the central crowd, and the fire balls exploded densely, leaving numerous corpses and heavy casualties. The turbulent attack wave was like a wave crashing onto the rocks, smashing them all to pieces.

The fierce battle lasted for a full two hours before the Aden trumpeter blew the withdrawal horn. The attacking troops who suffered heavy casualties had no intention of fighting anymore. The troops poured back from the front line like an ebbing tide. In the past two hours, more than 6,000 people from the Aden Army were killed and quite a few were injured. As for the Imperial Army, the city defense firepower was reduced a lot in about an hour. It can be seen that the continuous firepower in Tobras Under harassment, the imperial army began to run low on supplies.

At this moment, thunderous shouts rang out from the front of the Aden Army: "Fourth Army forward! The flash of weapons scorched the eyes, and the entire queue was dark. Only the sound of the clash of swords and the friction of armor could be heard. The murderous look was fierce. People. Fifteen thousand ferocious faces shouted in unison, "Long live Aden!"