Realm of Power

Lord Marshal! The Vekians are not as bad as Apollodi said!

Kurd, the commander of the Fourth Army, who was sitting under Marshal Berlant, could no longer stand Apollodi's arrogant remarks. He stood up from his seat excitedly and interrupted Apollodi's speech unceremoniously.

"In fact, the infantry of the Vecian army is very powerful, not even inferior to the Roders in the south. I believe the generals here are fully aware of this.

"We have just lost the Northern Battle of Vekia, and now we can no longer lose the northern grasslands because of our arrogance! This is a crime against the kingdom! It is a violation of His Majesty's trust!

His Majesty the King has entrusted us with 180,000 troops to lead them to victory! Rather than let us let some arrogant guys spend their money

Kurd is the oldest among the generals of the Northern Army. He was a bodyguard of King Haraus when he was a wandering prince. He followed His Majesty the King in the north and south, and made great military achievements. He can be said to be an elder in the Northern Army.

Many generals of the Northern Army have received his care. This time, he is the leader of the main force of the Northern Army that accompanied the Marshal northward for rescue.

With a strengthened establishment that is one-third more than other legions, and more than 5,000 heavily armed knights, it can be seen that he has extraordinary weight in the eyes of His Majesty the King and the King's Ministry.

Seeing that it was him who spoke, even though Apollodi relied on his status as a wealthy child, he did not dare to continue talking nonsense. He only dared to murmur in a low voice with dissatisfaction.

"Isn't it just because of my seniority? According to the title, I am from a duke family! You are just a little marquis!"

Kurd pretended not to hear Apollodi's whispers. Kurd had seen too many rich and rich playboys like Apollodi in his life!

He has no abilities whatsoever and relied solely on his family's strength to climb to a high position in the army.

This kind of situation is rare in the Northern Army, which fights all year round, but it is common in several central armies near Kyoto. Most of the officers are children of families who have mixed seniority in the army.

Because according to Rui Erdian's title inheritance law, if it is a title family with a military position, the descendants must have served in the army for more than 2 years.

Kurd used his dim eyes to look at the solemn-faced Marshal Berlant and the generals present, completely ignoring the depressed Apollodi, and said firmly in a voice

“If it’s not necessary, I don’t think it’s a wise choice to fight Kugit and Vekiya at the same time at this moment!

"But" the Kurdish voice changed and he emphasized, "It's not that we don't want to, the Wikiyans will give up. Now they are gathering forces on a large scale on the border. No matter what their intentions are, we must be prepared for the worst!"

Kurd's words won the approval of the Northern Army generals, and they all nodded in agreement. The situation was completely different from the sneers in the audience just now when they faced Apollodi.

"What a bunch of villains!" Apollodi sat down in his seat boredly, with a sad look on his face, which made the northern generals laugh secretly in their hearts.

"If it weren't for the sake of the Apollo family, then it would be your turn to speak! Now you know it! In front of these real military bosses, you are just a dishonor!"

"Well, what the old Marquis of Kurd said is right." Marshal Berlant nodded. Kurd was the leader of the generals of the Northern Army. Since he had spoken, Berlant, as the marshal, had to express his position.

"I decided to mobilize Lord Kurd's Fourth Knights and Wimble's Eleventh Knights to the west attack line. Both of these legions are mainly cavalry.

In particular, the Kurdish knights have a reorganized and heavily armored knights. These powerful cavalry are of little use in storming Aichemor, but they can effectively restrain the infantry group of Wikiya.

Marshal Berlant paused for a moment, and glanced at Apollodi, who was talking nonsense just now, and continued, "At the same time, we must immediately strengthen the monitoring of Wikiia. This task is very important. I have decided to establish a dedicated The person in charge, who of you is willing to take on this task!

As soon as Marshal Berlant finished speaking, a Northern Army general stood up and said, "I have a suitable candidate in mind! Since Captain Apollodi knows Vekia so well, why not leave this important task to Apollo?" Mr. Di is in charge!”

"Haha!" As soon as the general finished speaking, there was a sneer in the venue.

The Northern Army generals have long disliked the leader of the Tenth Knights who was transferred from Kyoto District.

Seeing the half-smiling expressions of the generals around him, Apollodi seemed to be aware of the deep disgust that the entire Northern Army felt towards him.

"Well, if you don't have any objections, I'll leave this matter to the commander of the Apollodi Army!" Berlant could just take this opportunity to throw this ignorant young man from a wealthy family to a place where he can't see or worry. go,

Otherwise, if we continue to cause trouble like this, it will be an insult to all the generals in the north.

"Okay, I will be responsible for this!" Apollodi knew that he could not retreat, so he could only nod with an embarrassed look, and angrily stood up and left the center of the meeting in front of all Marshal Berlant and the Northern Generals. big tent,

As soon as he walked out of the tent door, Apollodi's anger immediately disappeared without a trace, replaced by a look of contempt.

"Sir, everything is okay." A figure emerged from the shadow of the tent in front, with a hint of flattery in his deep voice.

"Well! Tillnarant! Your idea is really good! It's even more effective than I expected." Apollodi saw the black shadow coming out and patted his shoulder with satisfaction.

"Now in the minds of these northern fools, I must be an ignorant and ignorant dandy, which is very beneficial to our plan!

"If there are always people watching around, we can't do anything!" Apollodi looked around cautiously and lowered his voice. "The most important thing we need to do now is to make them relax their vigilance. It is best to seize the opportunity." Mobilize invisible places! Do you understand this?

"Yes, I understand that the Northern Army has always been the direct lineage and backing of the eldest prince. They always have a precautionary and surveillance attitude towards the adults in the second prince's camp, so we must find a way to make them relax their vigilance!" Tyr Narant nodded in agreement.

"Well, you do understand!" Apollodi glanced at Tillnarant in surprise, and he understood a little more about the second prince specially sending Tirnalant to help him this time.

Apollodi said, "The eldest prince already has a strong advantage over His Highness the Second Prince. If the Ruidian Northern Army pacifies the northern grassland again this time, His Highness the Second Prince will have no chance at all!"

So no matter what, we cannot let the Northern Army achieve such great achievements so easily. You once said that the Samor Falcon of Wikiia is very ambitious and will never sit back and watch Kugit being destroyed, so he will definitely Intervene!

Now that the war situation in the south is tense, the second prince has no time to take care of the north.

We can only hope that your guess is correct. As long as Vecchia holds back, even if the Northern Army can win, it will be a miserable victory at best.

Once this tense period is over, His Royal Highness the Second Prince will have enough time to withdraw from the south.

Suppress the growing power of the great prince. As long as he ascends the throne of the king in the future, your previous request to restore the Tyr family is just a matter of words! , this is your opportunity to make meritorious deeds, you must seize it

"Yes, your Excellency is right! My subordinates will do their best to never let the second prince down!" Tiernarant nodded with a loyal look on his face, until he looked at Apollodi's retreating back, Tiernarant Lant's face, which was full of flattery just now, showed a proud smile,

Since coming to Ruidian, this tycoon of Wikiia has relied on the camp of the second prince, who represents the southern power, and quickly relied on his talent for conspiracy to gain the trust of the second prince.

With several suggestions for power struggles, Tillnarant also figured out part of the domestic situation in Ruidian.

Although Ruedian looks extremely powerful from the outside, suppressing the Kingdom of Rode in the south and advancing into the Kugit Grassland in the north, it can be said that it has unlimited glory with the power of one country to block the two powerful countries.

In fact, there are many factions internally.

Continuous wars continued to consume Ruildian's national power, and the two princes were not at odds with each other. They competed with each other for power.

This is also due to the balancing policy adopted by King Haraus all year round.

The mother of the eldest prince Aklisas is the eldest daughter of the Akli family, one of the three great duke families in the north. She is also the queen of the Rendian royal family and the most powerful queen among ten thousand people.

This in itself is an extremely successful political transaction under the cloak of romance.

When King Haraus was wandering in the north when he was the third prince, the leader of the northern forces, the Akli family, fell in love with Prince Haraus who seemed cynical but actually had hidden ambitions.

In the name of a real prince, a group of northern lords' ambitions to rise,

The two came together in the face of the same political interests and staged a sudden change that determined the fate of the kingdom.

At the critical moment when the various forces in Palawan, Kyoto, are still fighting for life and death against each other for the vacant royal power,

The third prince Haraus, who was considered to be no threat, fled to the north to seek refuge.

But suddenly he led 20,000 elite cavalry from the northern lords to attack the great prince Tatukit, who had already won a comprehensive victory at that time and was patrolling on the outskirts of Kyoto.

This was an extremely successful raid. From the northern territory to the sudden attack, 20,000 cavalry followed up the chaotic situation in just 2 days.

The timing of the entire battle was extremely well grasped. The unprepared 60,000-strong Prince's direct troops were thrown into chaos by the sudden attack of a large number of cavalry.

Even the eldest prince, who thought he was in control of the situation and could be crowned king the next day, did not escape this military disaster.

Although it was publicized that he was killed by the defeated rebel army,

But according to internal information, it was King Haraus who personally thrust his own sword engraved with the royal emblem into his eldest brother's chest.

I really want to always be hidden in the winner’s fabrication

This is a naked power struggle, in which there is only victory and defeat, no family ties, only the blood and cruelty of the winner and the loser, and the ruthlessness of the conspiracy to succeed!

The man who served as the forward commander of the assault cavalry at that time was the current Marshal Ruedian Bertrand. His military genius was fully demonstrated in this battle.

20,000 cavalry swept through all the forces in Kyoto, using horseshoes and spears to push Harlaus to the pinnacle of power.

That night! Except for a few royal princesses who had no inheritance rights, nearly half of the male members of the royal family were beheaded by the rebels.

The bloody purge that followed dyed the stone bricks of the entire Palawan street blood red.

Tens of thousands of officials at all levels were lost, and the kingdom's center of power ushered in a new structure amid the bloody storm.

Nearly 30 years have passed since this incident, but many Palawan people still have a change of heart when talking about what happened back then.

The direct result of this coup was that Haraus got his wish and sat on the throne, while the northern lords, who had always been suppressed by the south, became the new nobles of the kingdom.

And gradually surpassed the south to become the most powerful power group in Ruidian.

In order to gain recognition from all forces in the kingdom as soon as possible,

The first thing Haraus did when he ascended the throne was to marry women from several big families in the north and south, which laid the foundation for the dispute between the north and the south in Ruidian.

The second prince’s mother was the daughter of the Wekik family, the largest wealthy family in the South at that time.

In the past few decades, although King Haraus tried his best to adjust, as his body grew older and the northern forces gradually lost control,

The struggle for the royal throne also became more and more intense. The war against the southern Rode was the result of the southern forces' strong demand for expansion.

Tiernarant, who is good at conspiracy and fighting, can vaguely feel something worth pondering from it.

The war in the north and the south broke out at the same time. Is this a coincidence or an intentional arrangement?

Could it be that the great hero of the generation, King Haraus, also had the intention of using this old method to determine his successor?

This is an opportunity!

Thinking of this, Tillnarant felt the blood in his heart boiling.

Berlant was able to use this to climb to the position of marshal of the kingdom, couldn't he?

"Sir! Lord Apollodi asked me to tell you that he will leave for the border of Wikiya tomorrow morning. He needs someone who is familiar with Wikiya! He hopes that you can accompany him!" A Ridian knight pushed aside Ti Tirnarant's tent curtain, said to Tirnarant who was still thinking,

"Going to the border of Wikia? Where are you going, sir?" Tillnarant wondered whether he should be overly excited and had auditory hallucinations, and asked with an ugly face.

"The Marshal has just made an appointment. Captain Apollodi is now responsible for investigating the recent changes on the border of Vecia. We no longer have to look at the faces of these northern generals." The knight had a look of joy on his face, full of wonder. waved his hand to Tirnarant

"To be honest, I don't like these arrogant Yankees either. Although your family is a wealthy family in the north, your wife is from the Aventus family in the south. For this reason, the family even canceled your status as heir.

Everyone knows the sinister intentions behind being forcibly sent here this time. If you win, it’s your family’s credit, if you lose, you will be the scapegoat. If it weren’t for His Majesty the King’s order, you wouldn’t have come.

Well now, we are free! Winning or losing has nothing to do with us." The knight's face paused, a look of greed appeared on his face, and he said to Tiernarant

"I heard that the blue rum on the border of Vikia is very famous! And it is the only place where you can enjoy the enchanting dance of the Salante dancers in a folk tavern! Treat this time as a knight's tour alright!"

The knight seemed to be full of expectations for the trip to Vekia, and did not see Tillnarant's pale face at all.

At the end of July, on the northern border of Vikia,

Clumps of ankle-high green grass trembled in the wind, and blue malands, pink chrysanthemums, small cat's-eye flowers, and pale wild chrysanthemums bloomed one after another.

The wind blows, and all kinds of brightly colored flowers bend down, and the entire ground is a golden and green ocean.

A black line appeared on the vast grassland sky,

"Quick! Speed ​​up!" Sceris whipped her horse anxiously. Behind her were a dozen Kukit guards in full body armor.

The war horse brought up a whirlwind, smashing the blooming wild flowers everywhere, and the petals of various colors danced in the wind.

The heavy horseshoes shook the earth, crushing the tranquility of the grassland to pieces.

"Miss, please look, it's our star-and-moon flag!" A Kugit guard looked excited, pointing to the flag fluttering on the wall in the distance and shouted,

"Blessed by the gods! Acrist is still ours!" Sceris breathed a sigh of relief when she saw a Kugit star-and-moon flag flying on the tall and thick city wall in the distance.

After getting Fatty's clear promise to help, Sceris rushed back to Kugit Grassland without stopping to tell the tribesmen in Aichemore about the possibility of burning Mount Rudato mentioned in Fatty's analysis.

This Fortress of Acrist is an important stronghold on the outskirts of Aichmore.

Now it seems that the confusion tactics designed by Fatty really worked. The temporary large-scale mass gathering of the Wekiya army at the border really caused the Ruidian people to have doubts and had to postpone the attack.

"Step on" At this time, several teams of patrolling Kujit light cavalry also discovered this team of cavalry approaching rapidly, and they all rode their horses to surround them from all directions.

"Atekele, hold the flag! Tell these rangers who I am!" the guard following Sceris shouted,

"Huh!" A three-star arc-moon flag embroidered with gold threads unfolded from the guard's hand into the wind.

"Attention! They are from the Royal Court! Guard formation." A Kugit cavalry squadron leader in charge of patrol saw the unfurled three-star crescent flag, his face tightened, and he quickly waved his hand and shouted to the cavalry behind him,

"Hoo!" The hundreds of Kugit Rangers who gathered around quickly rushed to both sides like separate waves, parallel to Sceris's team.

The left and right wings were formed to protect Scellis and his party.

"Tell the guard officer of Atrisk that Princess Scellis wants to see him!" A Kugit court guard shouted to the rangers guarding him.