In the morning of the sparse forest area, the fog is very large, and there is still white snow on the ground, in the forest of early spring breath, the light shines down from the sparse forest overhead, hundreds of black imperial guard cavalry wearing red cloaks and majestic standing in two rows, in the middle is a black gorgeous carriage,

A slightly chubby black-haired young man, with bright eyes, handed the letter in his hand to his wife, who was about to board the car and traveled away, and said with a little apology, "It seems that you need to go to Putao again, although I know that you don't love the so-called hometown and the so-called family very much, but this time we need to use the power of the family!"

"It's okay!"

The wife took the letter gently, glanced at her husband charmingly, and asked softly, "In fact, I believe that the family is also eagerly waiting for this opportunity to allow them to step onto the stage of the mainland again! I take the liberty of asking, what is the relationship between the girl who just sent her to the women's college and you? Compared with such a thing as imperial strategy, as a wife, I am more concerned about the new woman who appears next to her husband, although it is still just a girl, but please believe my vision, in a few years, she must be a beautiful woman of peerless beauty!" If Majesty really has the intention, I can focus on cultivating!" "Don't talk nonsense, it's just an accident!"

The fat man's face was slightly red, and he shrugged his shoulders in embarrassment, "To be honest, if I knew that Hasenranpo only had one daughter and not a son, I wouldn't look for it, I believe that Hasenranpo would prefer that her daughter can grow up calmly, find a good person to marry, and have children, rather than maybe one day getting involved in a lot of trouble"

"Tranquility belongs only to the ordinary, and the surname Hazen is destined to be impossible in Gaul itself! Your Majesty should know better than me that even if the Empire expresses respect for its former enemies, the nobles of Gallic Kyoto will not be left behind!"

Turit Colleen buried her head in the arms of the fat man, her pretty face pressed against her broad chest. Holding the fat man's waist with both hands, his fingertips sank into his psoas muscles, and the corners of his mouth smiled slightly, "But now that I know His Majesty's intentions, I will try my best to guide her in the right direction, but I must explain that there is something different about her than other girls...... It is a sense of indignation against the whole world! Generally only people who have experienced the tragic changes in their families can have it, and the shadow of falling from heaven to hell may accompany them for the rest of their lives, and I am not sure that they will succeed!"

"Alright, it's time for me to go!" Turit Colleen let go of her hand with a reluctant expression. kissed the fat man on the face, and suddenly stretched out his white and seductive middle finger and pressed it on the fat man's thick lips......, "Don't say anything about parting sadness, I'm going home, not to fight, the one who really wants to go to the battlefield is you!"

The fat man took a deep breath, and the little witch Turit Colin jumped into the carriage like a black petal, and a maid respectfully closed the door from the inside, and the carriage shook slightly. The wheels turned, and Turit Colin waved to the fat man in the carriage, which slowly headed towards the southern road, escorted by hundreds of black-armored cavalry. The destination is 800 miles away in the Putao area,

The route selection was arranged by the fat man. All of them are coastal areas under the control of the empire, and during this season, the coastal waters are still in the ice period. The open sea is unpredictable, and although it is a little more complicated to take the land route, it is also the safest. Wait until the black carriage turns into a small black dot in the distance and gradually disappears, "Is everything arranged?"

The fat man turned around and looked at Hu Keqili, the central general of the empire who was already waiting ten meters away, and asked in a condensed voice, and the central general Hu Keqili hurriedly replied, "Your Majesty, you can rest assured, there will be garrisons along the way to answer you! The princess is absolutely safe on this way, and from the perspective of time, she can reach the Putao area in three days!"

"Where's Lidakus? It's been two days, have you arrived?" the fat man nodded, and walked to Guangping on the side of the road, where more than a dozen war horses were looking for grass seeds under the snow, the fat man was here to send Turit Colin to the southern Putao, this is a contest between two great empires, one has just swept the northern part of Obaro and has become a veritable lord of the north, and the other is the ruler of the world, and after establishing the hegemony of the south, he will attack the central part of the country, so that the entire Central European Barrow region will be shocked

"It hasn't arrived yet, it will take at least three days to go ashore from the northwest sea city to the coastal area, and then enter the sparse forest area!"

Hukochili replied with a respectful expression, "But Lord Salton came to report just now that the army of the Istan people has given up the confrontation and is withdrawing towards the southern region in an orderly manner, it seems that due to the prestige of our army, we will not declare war on us for the time being!, Salton asked His Majesty if our army can withdraw to the national border, if we continue to adopt the strategy of excessive pressing, I am afraid that it will arouse the fighting spirit of the Istan people!"

"Sue Sù Thorton, the tactics remain the same" The fat man waved his hand disapprovingly, "Not only can the front-line troops not be able to retreat, but they will also have to follow the Iraqi army for fifty miles before they can stop the army, and all the strategic points on the border between the two sides of the country will be cleared up, and our army will still maintain an offensive posture!"

"This ......"

Hu Keqili's face was stunned, and he asked curiously, "Your Majesty, why is this, in the case of the withdrawal of the Iranian troops, they still have to put on a fighting posture that does not give up." Soldton's worries were not unreasonable, and the defeat of the Iraqi army in Gangnon Kyoto was just when the morale was high, and it was too pressing. It could cause the Iranian army to reflexively fight at any time!

"Don't worry, the Istanbul people have made a fortune in Gangfei Xinjing, and now they are delicate and expensive, and they are no longer the revenge masters of the original, looking for him to play with his life, the party who is afraid must be them!"

The fat man looked at the horizon in the distance, and said coldly, "Salton is known as a remnant lion, and he is good at dragging the enemy into a death battle with inferior forces, so he is always used to preparing for the inferior side in battle, and the front and then the fear will expose the reality of our army! Our army has always been strong, and it is the most stupid thing to evacuate immediately when we see the Iraqi people withdrawing!" "And the Iraqi retreat south does not necessarily mean giving up!"

The fat man's voice stopped, touched his chin, and said in a categorical tone, "Don't forget, the Iraqi army that broke through Gangfei Xinjing is only a part of the entire Iraqi army that invaded Gangfei" "The strategic goal of the Iraqi people has been achieved, and continuing to occupy the northern part of Gangfei at this time will only make themselves the target of the entire Central European Baro countries" "The Central European and Barok countries, which were able to keep a wait-and-see before, will immediately take action when they see that the Gangfei Empire is already so vulnerable, even if it is a huge elephant." Unable to resist the hungry wolves, judging the situation and decisively giving up some of the benefits in hand to divert the attention of the countries, and gathering new forces is the real reason why the Iraqi people chose to evacuate!"

"yes, I didn't think of that!" Hukochili suddenly realized,

This is a game between the monarchs of two great powers, which is itself beyond the vision of a general, let alone a famous regional general like Salton, "Your Majesty's command tactics remain unchanged! Salton, who was in charge of the front-line operations, still meticulously carried out the fat man's orders,

The 200,000 Imperial troops on the front line of the sparse forest, following the border line crossed by the retreating Iraqi army, have been trailing twenty miles behind the Iraqi army, and the two armies are full of tacit understanding, the Iraqi army stops, the Falcon army stops, and the Iraqi army advances. And the falcons marched forward,

The battle flags of the two armies looked at each other from a distance, and the battle armor was like snow, which made the Iranian army nervous. The scout cavalry of both sides shuttled back and forth, and even staggered together, because neither side gave the order to fight, and the scout cavalry of the two empires could only use vicious eyes to alert the opponent's whereabouts

"Bastard. The Falcon Empire's army is too arrogant! Our army should teach it a lesson," the generals of the Istan side were furious at this, and demanded to return to the battle

"Keep retreating!" said Soladin I, the Emperor of the Istan Empire, who was very calm, and ordered to continue southward as usual. As the fat man guessed, the withdrawal was originally a temptation for him, if the Falcon Empire withdrew to the border line immediately after its own retreat, indicating that the rumored fact that the main force of the Falcon Empire was still in Gallic Kyoto was true, then in front of him was a group of fancy miscellaneous troops, relying on the combat strength of their regular army, they could completely defeat it in a battle, and then break into the southwest of the Falcon Empire, which is known as the richest in Obarro, to plunder.

On the contrary, if the other party is aggressive, proving that the heavy army cluster in front of him is indeed the real elite of the Falcon Empire, he will put on such a spirit of not being afraid of a war, and overnight, it is the mobilization of 200,000 troops, if this represents the true strength of the king of the northern realm, then his combat power of the Northern Falcon Empire needs to be re-evaluated.

"Father, are we really going to give up the area that we have so hard to occupy?" the young crown prince said puzzled on the way

"Our army is only 110,000 people, and we can't afford to hold on to the entire northern part of Gangfei!"

Emperor Soladin I smiled at the corner of his mouth, raised his horsewhip and said, "Although the land is good, it is useless to not be able to hold it, and the countries of Central Europe and Barrow will not sit idly by and watch us swallow the whole of Gangfei, unless we are ready to fight against the entire Central Europe Barrow, and also resist the military strength of the Falcon Empire from the north, otherwise we must know the trade-off!" "Trade-off?" The young crown prince was stunned for a moment

Emperor Soladin waved his horsewhip and said in a pointed tone, "Don't look at the prosperity of our Central European Barrow, in fact, the current Central European Barrow region has long been a big chessboard sprinkled with all kinds of chess pieces, whether it is as a chess player, or become a chess piece caught in it! This is what a monarch really needs to consider."

"At this point, the Falcon Empire in the north is obviously stronger than us, and it almost effortlessly pulled up the northern military alliance, and now it is even more powerful in military power, once we lose the war with it, have you thought about how those countries who are waiting for the opportunity will treat us?"

Emperor Soladin's horsewhip fell, his voice stopped, and his eyes turned his head like a sword to look at his son, with a bit of a test! "Those guys will definitely beat the water dogs, my 200,000 army, only less than one-tenth of them can return home alive!" The young crown prince's impetuous face suddenly became solemn, and he felt a chill behind him, the heir who could be cultivated by Emperor Soladin for many years was naturally not a hot-blooded fool, if he went first, he would still be a little dissatisfied and arrogant, and now he also felt that the situation was not as optimistic as he imagined, he could feel that the king of falcons in the north was hovering above the sky, but his sharp eyes were staring at his every move, and the slightest discomfort was a situation from which he could not recover. "So we can't risk going to war with the Falcon Empire if we are not sure!Because we can't afford to lose until the two armies converge!" a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Emperor Soladin's mouth, and the crown prince's appearance satisfied him, young, hot-blooded, ambitious, and restrained.

The main thing is that he has begun to look at the problem with the eyes of a king,

Kings are born and acquired,

Some people are born with a kingly spirit, just look at the seven-year-old emperor of the Gangfei Empire, you can know what a good king seedling, growing up in adversity, neither humble nor arrogant, if you can get the right guidance. Twenty years later, it will inevitably be a generation of heroes, but unfortunately, the great country will fall, the pillar will collapse, and there will be no king to guide the way, even if this little emperor is like this, he is far better than many people, and he still has not jumped out of the scope of ordinary people, and no one teaches this little emperor. What is the king's ruthlessness, what is the king's affection,

Ruthless is the choice that must be made calmly in the face of any difficulties and decisively. Even if it is a painful choice, the sentient one is to be able to take responsibility for the whole country for one's own country,

A monarch who has not experienced the pain of expanding his territory. Where will you understand the hardships of the ancestors wading blood in the thorns on the ground, every inch of mountains and rivers, and every inch of blood, and the picturesque rivers and mountains. It has always been filled out with corpses by countless famous ministers and brave generals, and the great Gallic Xinjing gave up when he said that he would give up, and he gave up most of the northern part of Gaul, which was ruthlessly outrageous, just to get rid of the strategic disadvantage, but in fact, he lost the hearts of the people who had just gathered with great difficulty, and the loser was defeated to this kind of Cheng dù. If those emperors were born with spirits, I am afraid that they will also cry bitterly.

Gangnon Empire southern city, Besuka

The streets are sparsely populated, people are in a hurry, acquaintances dare not talk when they meet, they only dare to look at each other. The streets were lined with patrols dressed in dark colors. The emperor is currently in this city, and the citizens have a deep understanding of the majesty of the emperor, in order to strengthen vigilance, even during the day is in the stage of military control, the sky above the city, there is a depressing, heavy atmosphere, as if before the rainstorm, the black clouds have covered the blue sky,

A vine-walled manor. Outwardly, it's no different from a nearby manor.

The only special thing is that there is a Gangfei military flag fluttering above the tallest building in the courtyard, and there are constantly military adjutants with documents and news nervously entering and leaving, here is the temporary relocation of the Gangfei Military Affairs Department, the emperor agreed to give up Xinjing under the persuasion of the minister, and the Gangfei Military Affairs Department had to move with it,

As the base camp for commanding the battle against the Iranians, everyone here faces the current situation with various complex feelings.

A year ago, the Gallic Emperor died, out of a strategic decision, to abandon Kyoto in the coastal area, move back to the old Kyoto that had been away for thirty years, and change the name from the new Gangfei Xinjing, a year later, in order to reverse the unfavorable situation of fighting against the Iranians, he abandoned Kyoto again, moved to the capital Beisuka, and moved to Beijing twice in two years, for the soldiers, there is no great shame compared to it, and now the Gangfei soldiers have to reconsider the benefits of the old imperial marshal Rubin Sark, who was once scolded as a traitor and died,

If this old marshal, who is known as the backbone of rigidity, is still there, he will definitely not let the Istan people run rampant so much, and with his great prestige in the military and political circles, he will definitely not allow the emperor to move to Beijing again under the bewitchment of the minister, and slash again on the foundation of the country, which is already greatly damaged.

The Gallic Military Department learned from the pain and decided to re-employ a group of officers who originally belonged to the Rubin Sack camp, which is the wealth left to the empire by the old marshal, and the elite of the army who grew up ten years ago in the empire, and experienced the baptism of war, but because of the sudden assassination of the old marshal and the change of camp, these generals and officers with rich combat experience were sent to the southern region.

In one of the offices, Mekaya, the newly activated commander of the Ninth Legion, looked up and watched a military adjutant walk in with snow and cold wind. The southern city of Besuka was home to the Ninth Legion's base camp

The adjutant of military affairs took off his cloak, bowed and saluted, "My lord!"

"You don't have to be so polite. Is there any news from today's Imperial Council?"

Mecaya is dressed in a military uniform, wearing a golden general's badge on a slender dark blue officer collar, bald, light black skin gives people a feeling of rigidity, eyebrows are thick like two ink spots, burly, tiger's back, bright eyes, full of energy, full of vitality, standing there like steel,

As a member of the old coach Robin Sark, he still remembers the words that the old coach Robin Sark told him to "tolerate sacrifice" The old man is no longer there, and this sentence has become the best commentary on the current situation, tolerate sacrifice, teacher, if you face such a situation, how should you deal with it?

Is it really necessary to push the situation to a point where there is no way to retreat like the rumored battle to support the king, so that everyone can really fight to the death!"Sure enough, as the adults guessed, the Istan people did not start a war with the Falcon Empire!

The military adjutant looked a little frustrated, and took a few sips of the water cup on the opposite side, "Those ministers who can only be full of fantasy have made a fuss,

At the Imperial Council, they vigorously accused the military of being unfavorable in the war, and they had to abandon Kyoto.

And they didn't say a word about it, they cried and begged the emperor to give up Xinjing, and they also swore that they would be able to turn the tide of the war and make the Istan people a reservoir dog!" "I heard that when they asked to give up Kyoto, these ministers made a life and death decision, right?" Mekaya asked with a grim look "That's true, but my lord, you don't really want to ......" The military adjutant looked at Mekaya's red eyes and shivered (to be continued......