Realm of Power

White raindrops like fine smoke fell on the ancient walls of Helusborg, turning into a trickle and flowing along the clear stone steps to the somewhat white ground.

This kind of drizzle also wets people's spirits and clothes. This more downpour is different from the waterfall-like rainstorm. It is a kind of very fine rain that makes people unable to distinguish every drop. It constantly wets the white Water strands floated on the moss-covered windowsill,

On the top of the castle, the flag of Nord's battle ax was flying. On the slope below the castle, German camps were scattered scattered there, all shrouded in this mist-like drizzle.

This is the remnant army of 30,000 that the Crown Prince of Lod, Agrolida, withdrew from the direction of Anjod half a month ago. Now it is the last army in the central part of the Lod Kingdom that still has the ability to counterattack.

Every time he thinks about what happened to the Anruode defense line, the young and energetic Crown Prince Yaglolida of Rode feels depressed. In just two days when the Anruode defense line was reversed, the sudden changes were extremely bad. The response made this ruthless young man, who once thought he had understood the essence of war, feel like he was thrown off a galloping war horse, making him dizzy and overwhelmed.

It all stemmed from a mistake. The Fourth Army, which mistakenly entered dangerous territory and was completely wiped out by the Falcon Army due to poor decision-making, the Local Third Army, which mutinied because of its favorites' disorderly command, and the Fifth Army, which refused to fight because of the cruelty of military law. Army, the Seventh Army, which was almost collapsed due to lack of preparation and was attacked by the Falcon Army, and so on,

In just two days, as if experiencing a terrible nightmare, two-thirds of his mighty 150,000-strong army was inexplicably lost.

The Anrod defense line, which had been shaken due to the mutiny of the third local army, then encountered the Varisian army that appeared from behind the weakest army and attacked with all its strength like hungry wolves. The defense line of the wall is like a dike with thousands of holes. Was washed away by the Falcon Army's swift and fierce assault.

The whole army collapsed, and in those days, Yagrolida felt like a lost dog, and his ass was almost smoking when being chased by the Falcon Light Cavalry. If it hadn't happened to be raining heavily, the sky would have been dark. There was lightning and thunder, and tens of thousands of defeated troops were soaked to the skin. They miraculously stopped at the same time. It was impossible for Yagrolida to take advantage of this rare opportunity to quickly gather the defeated troops and rearrange their positions in the direction of Herusberg. defensive line. Can barely block the Falcon Army's pursuit

It was precisely because of this sudden heavy rain that the Varisian Legion that was chasing after them gave up their plans to continue the pursuit. The mountainous roads in the south were rugged and difficult to travel, and the heavy rain made the entire road muddy and difficult to travel. ,

Even if the pursuit force sent by Varisien was a light cavalry unit, it was difficult to move in the Lod Mountains with soft soil and full of deep pits, and they almost encountered counterattacks from the Lod Army several times. Facing the tens of thousands of German troops who had already stabilized their position, the cavalry commander who led the team could only regretfully give up the plan of continuing to press and pursue, and turned to the more tempting target of Kyoto.

Stand still and wait for help. This was the plan of Crown Prince Rode. Although the Anrode defense line was lost, the stubborn Crown Prince believed that as long as he held on at Herusberg, the reinforcements from Kyoto could be rearranged.

According to intelligence, the Falcon Army mobilized three main battle legions this time, accounting for almost half of the Falcon Dynasty's troops to launch an invasion of the Kingdom of Rode. Its troops in the central region of the country have basically been exhausted, and up to the three northern regions county. As far as Palawan, the Falcon Army had less than 20,000 troops left behind.

Yagrolida believed that this was an excellent opportunity to fight back, as long as the Kingdom of Lod could survive it, but it was a pity that he had waited painstakingly for half a month. What I was waiting for was the news of the defeat in the Kyoto metropolitan battle.

God also deliberately made this bad news particularly tragic. In this late autumn season, the heavy rain came very suddenly and violently. Waves of thunder shook the earth continuously, and the muffled thunder came one after another. It seemed like it was smashing open on everyone's forehead. Flashes of light passed across the sky, leaving long irregular traces.

The violent storm shrouded the entire Herusburg in deep fear. The castle, which had always been strong in the past, now felt like a helpless boat in the sea.

Big raindrops fell on the ground, mixed with a small amount of hail. .Soundful. Although the powerful flour and hail knocked the brick houses here into pieces,

Many tiles were broken by hail, and rainwater poured directly from the cracked tiles. It formed a spectacular scene of heavy rain outside and light rain inside. The people inside the house were not embarrassed to face all this, and the cold wind blew by from time to time. Brings a deep chill.

This abnormal phenomenon made many Rode soldiers feel hesitant and uneasy. They all felt unprecedented surprise at the chill that came so early. In their impression. Winter in Rohde always comes in November, but it is still August.

All the Rode soldiers huddled quietly in the corner of the castle house, staring blankly at the heavy rain outside, while enduring the torment in their hearts. Many of them looked very depressed, and their constant hand-holding movements were obviously Express their inner uneasiness. The originally standing sentinel had completely disappeared. Everyone quietly retreated under the eaves to hide from the rain,

The officers on patrol also seemed to be a lot more lazy. A few officers could be seen smoking silently under the eaves. Everyone's face looked a little stiff, as if their hearts had been drained.

The defeat in the battle of Kyoto, nearly 100,000 troops died in the battle, and even His Majesty the King died. Such news has caused the German army to completely lose the willpower to persist at the end, and fleeing soldiers kept appearing every now and then.

At first, the military judges captured these daring guys and trampled them to death with war horses in accordance with Ruode's military law. However, as more and more people escaped, deserters also appeared in the military judges' ranks.

These military judges are all composed of high-level aristocratic children in Kyoto. Now that even Kyoto may be captured at any time, who has the energy to care about the affairs here? Many people are trying their best to rush back to Kyoto, at least from Kyoto, under the excuse of illness. According to the news coming from the side, the Falcon Army besieging the city was relatively mild. They allowed the refugees and nobles who fled to Kyoto to escape, but those who entered were not allowed to come out again.

When the news of the defeat in the battle of Kyoto and that the king might have died in the battle came amidst the lightning and thunder, Yagolida seemed to have sensed something. He couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. His whole body was shaking violently, and he almost fainted. Fortunately, he firmly supported the table next to him and barely managed to avoid falling down. But his breathing. The look in his eyes. His movements were not much different from those of a dead person at that time.

My father is dead! Kyoto is besieged!

At that moment, Yagrolida felt that there was only such a piece of information in his mind. He felt dizzy, and his eyes were filled with stars. All the thoughts in his head were emptied, leaving only a large blurred blank.

Tell the truth. Yaglolida's mental endurance is still very strong. But for the Crown Prince, who thought he had reached the pinnacle of power, the impact of this news was too great, and the consequences were too unimaginable. Be it anyone else. It is impossible for anyone to accept this information.

"Anyone who dares to leak the information will be killed without mercy!" Yagrolida roared fiercely, tearing the report in his hand into pieces, with traces of bright red blood on the corners of his mouth. He knew that once this news was leaked, the future of the entire army would be in danger. It's all over. Luo De's encirclement of Kyoto marked that he and all the current armies had been cut off from their final retreat by the Blue Feather Army.

Where to go, we must make a choice as soon as possible.

It took almost half an hour! Jaglolida finally reacted from his confusion. Gritting his teeth, he ordered a tight seal on the relevant information. However, this approach was almost meaningless. Most of the officers were in the capital. As well as my own family and relatives, it is impossible to block such news even if I want to.

News of the fall of Kyoto quickly spread among the Nord troops in Herusburg. By this time, the officers were talking. The soldiers were talking, and even the cooks in the castle were talking about it. "Do you think the Falcon Army will really massacre the city?" Such words as top secret and "kill without mercy" have lost their original deterrent effect. ,

"Bang bang"

An attendant gently knocked on the door behind Yagrolida in the dark light. I saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince standing in front of the window sill, raising his head and looking at the ridge in the distance without any reaction.

Ever since the news of the fall of Kyoto came, Yaglolida had locked himself in a room alone for three consecutive days. Apart from eating, he saw almost no one. There were rumors outside that the Crown Prince had changed his position because he could not bear the blow. Got autism,

"Are you delivering dinner? Or is there something else?" Agrolida heard the door open behind him, retrieved his target from a distance, turned around, and glanced at the attendant in surprise,

There was no dining car in front, nor was there any food. It was empty except for an encrypted red envelope in the hand of the attendant, who looked a little restrained and nervous.

From the look of the attendant, Yagrolida seemed to feel something, and said without any fluctuation on his face, "What is the thing in your hand? Is it a surrender letter or an invitation to a decisive battle?"

Agrolida's voice paused, revealing a hint of self-deprecation. "Or maybe it's a mocking letter that directly says, 'Asshole, you should kill yourself.'"

"Your Highness. Your Highness!"

The attendant's face looked a little ugly, even at a loss. He didn't know how to answer Aglorida, so he could only put the red letter in his hand on the desk with extreme caution.

He said intermittently, "This morning, we received a letter from the Falcon Dynasty. The supreme commander of the Falcon Dynasty hopes to invite His Highness to meet at the appropriate time."

"Supreme Commander? Who are you talking about?"

Agrolida's face was stunned for a moment. The attendant's vague tone was like hiding something, making it difficult to understand the meaning. He came to the desk in confusion, picked up the letter on the table, and opened the sealed letter. After sealing the seal, his eyes swept over it, and his body suddenly trembled slightly, standing there like a wood sculpture.

"Haha, it seems that I am not a waste in the eyes of the enemy!" With his eyes fixed on the letter, Yagrolida suddenly sneered, his calm face turned frantic, and he picked up the feather on the table. Pen, with a burst of rapid writing sound, everything returned to calmness

He handed the letter to the attendant and said, "Exchange the letter. I appreciate this kindness, but now I am not only the crown prince of Rode, but also the king of Rode!"

August 29. Fatty in a private capacity. Someone was sent to bring a personal letter to Yaglolida, who still had a remnant army, suggesting that Yagolida lay down his weapons and surrender to Falcon to avoid unnecessary casualties.

Fatty promised in the letter that the Falcon Dynasty would ensure the safety of the lives and private property of the Rode soldiers, and that he would do so at the appropriate time. I met with Jaglolida in person, but this suggestion was rejected by Jaglolida in reply.

"Thank you for your kindness, but the monarch of the Lod people. I have never surrendered to a coward. Although it is too high to be worthy of your friend, I am very grateful that you were able to give me a decent and honorable choice at the last moment!" Yag! Rolida added this sentence at the end of the letter.

In the Luode Palace, the rain gradually became lighter, the thunder stopped, and the lightning disappeared. The hail also disappeared, and the large raindrops gradually turned into wisps of rain.

If it weren't for the biting chill. It feels like a steady spring rain. Full of poetry and painting. A drizzle fell in the courtyard outside the door. There are sparkling water splashes, and there are layers of ripples on the water. Slowly dissipated at the edge of the courtyard.

Looking out of the window, the entire Rotoku Kyoto is gray and gray, like a beautiful oil painting, with all objects cleverly covered by the rain.

A burst of hurried footsteps broke the peace of the deep palace courtyard, and a woman wearing a helmet appeared. Surrounded by several Generals Rode, he was walking hurriedly through a long corridor in the palace. The oncoming palace ladies quickly retreated to both sides.

Wearing a well-fitting female knight's chain armor, her dreamlike and cool temperament is the kind of coolness that people dare not blaspheme. She is as beautiful and harmonious as the bright moon, and her skin is as white as ice and snow and as smooth as curdled milk. She possesses such a strong of temptation.

"Duke Steinhoff, tell me the truth, how many people can we still gather now!" The woman's face was heavy, and with a voice as sweet as an oriole, she asked an old man wearing armor next to her as she walked.

"Thirty thousand people. If you count the defeated troops who escaped, we can probably gather more than 50,000 people!" The energetic veteran hesitated for a moment before answering her. "But Her Royal Highness Princess Yaghelen, these temporary signs Even if the incoming soldiers and the defeated army can equal the Falcon Army outside the city, I'm afraid they won't be of much use with the Falcon Army's combat power. They can easily break through the defense line formed by these soldiers! "

"I never thought of letting them fight!"

Yagheleng paused with a solemn tone. She stopped and glanced at Rode Kyoto outside the palace's gorgeous walls. Rode Palace was built on a high slope, and the entire city expanded around this high slope. Yes, from where she stopped, she could have a panoramic view of the entire city.

"I need enough manpower to maintain law and order in the entire Kyoto!" Yag Helen said slowly and unexpectedly, with his straight nose, delicate lips and smooth cheeks, so perfectly integrated.

But in this dazzling beauty, there is a stubbornness unique to the German people.

She pointed to a few places in the city where black smoke was still coming out, and said, "I don't want riots like last night to happen again. We may not be able to defeat the Falcon Army, but we can't mess up our own positions, let alone ourselves." Kill your own people. If these small riots cannot be effectively controlled, the riots will turn into riots, and hundreds of thousands of Rohoku people in Kyoto will be involved.

The reason why the Falcon Army outside the city has an absolute advantage and still does not launch a forceful attack is because they want us to cause chaos first. Then they can enter Kyoto as a savior and completely conquer the entire Rotoku Kyoto psychologically. !"

Isn't it possible?" Faced with Yaghelen's accusation, Kyoto Defense Officer Duke Steinh was stunned for a moment. Although it sounded a bit shocking, it was not completely unreasonable if he thought about it carefully.

He quickly said, "It was my mistake! I really didn't expect that the defeated troops who entered the city would do this. You said they all grew up in Kyoto. How come they became so miserable when they went out and fought a defeat? A warrior of virtue, even I blush when I talk about it!"

"I hope it can be controlled, otherwise, you and I will be the sinners of all the Lod people!" Yaghelen waved to him. "As for the Falcon Army outside the city, don't worry for the time being. Aren't we going to negotiate tomorrow? It just so happens that I You can also take a look to see if this continental God of War is what the outside world says! I believe that the Falcon Army will not take any tough offensive until the hope of negotiation is not broken!"

"Your Highness, you are the princess of the royal family, and you are the backbone of the entire Rode Kyoto. If you are involved in dangerous places, except for accidents, how will you tell your subordinates to explain!"

Duke Steinhoff suddenly panicked when he heard that Yaghelen was going to negotiate tomorrow. His face turned pale and he knelt down on one knee along with several generals behind him. The guards behind him also knelt down and shouted to dissuade them.

"I have decided." Yagheleng snorted with a cold face, her clear voice carrying unquestionable authority.

‘How could the Falcon Dynasty recognize the effectiveness of this negotiation without a representative from the royal family? Or, do you expect the Falcons of Vecia to be angry and attack the city with all their strength?

Ignoring the ugly faces of everyone, Yag Helen turned and left (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.). ..

More to,address