Twilight of Empires (4)

Behind the Rastisi Line

A misty drizzle envelops this typical large estate of the Fett era, and the area outside the building, like a huge flower garden, occupies almost the entire valley floor, and the gray dull three-meter façade extends along the valley to the valley mouth, from which a faint mountain path enters,

The valley cliff face is covered with green bryophytes, along the rock wall of the canyon like a curtain mat hung all over this world, this valley has a very beautiful name "Green Valley" used to be the private domain of a powerful man of Rasti, this magnate built a mansion at the bottom of the valley, reddish-brown beehive buildings occupy nearly a third of the entire basin, countless elegant and beautiful, marble arched windows under the upper circle, scattered in front of the complex, the round spire on the roof is like a row of towering spears pointing to the sky

A row of quaint and heavy bronze fences separates the hundred-meter-long cyan corridor outside from the wide and quiet courtyard inside, and marble knight carvings with different images are distributed on both sides of the evergreen wall corridor like guards, "Stop, Praetorian Guard, show your documents!" At the mouth of the valley, an officer of the Gallic Praetorian Guard, with a stern expression, stretched out his hand to stop a speeding messenger cavalry, and behind him, a patrol wearing the armor of the Gallic Praetorian Guard was passing by" I'm from the Sixth Legion Headquarters, and I have an urgent letter that needs to be delivered to the Overseer!"

The messenger cavalryman took out the identification certificate stamped with the seal of the Sixth Army Headquarters from his arms, got off his horse, and handed it to the Praetorian Guard officer in front of him very reluctantly, the general person in charge of the Rusty Theater was Lord Hasenranbo, but the supervisor from Kyoto changed this qiē half a month ago, and the disadvantage of the early battle in the Rusti area made Kyoto question Hasenlimpo, who had once resisted the iron hooves of the Vekia Falcon,

On a rainy night, the mysterious overseer secretly arrived at the Rusti war zone, and was escorted by thousands of Imperial Guards wearing red cloaks. personally visited the corps headquarters of Hasenlimpo, who was in a meeting to lay out the defensive strategy of the middle line,

An order issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs was circulated in front of all the Gallic generals present, and finally returned to the hand of Qianqian, who could decide the life and death of countless people, and was as beautiful as white jade, "Lord Hasenrambo works hard for the empire every day, even if there is no merit, there is hard work, and His Majesty the Emperor will not forget it! The voice was as light and crisp as a yellow warbler, and the beautiful face, wearing a black leather hunting suit, opened the emperor's order book in her hand and placed it in front of the somewhat dazed Hasenrampo

The order was read. Everyone's faces looked very heavy, and Hasenrimbau, who was full of grief and indignation, threw the pen in his hand on the map even more angrily, and said, "Miss Julia, how can this be, although the middle line is lost, it has not really reached the point of no return,

We're tired, and so are the Falcon Warriors. Even if they really ate all the sixteen cities, it would take about a month and a half just to occupy and clear the cities, and it was already the end of March. As long as this war drags into the hot summer, the shape shì will become beneficial to us,

Giving up now is not just about losing the city. If we just evacuate without even fighting a decent battle, our Imperial army will not have any faith in the hearts of the Rusty people! No one will ever believe that the Imperial Army will be able to hold on to Rusty, in the hearts of the people. We have already lost this war ahead of schedule!" "It's better to lose the trust of some of the Rasti than to lose the entire empire!" "Algernon Julia smiled coldly and said without backing down, "With the 400,000 troops of the empire as a bet, just for the hearts and minds of a dozen cities, is this the choice of Lord Hasenlampo? Whether he can hold on to the middle tier city area is still unknown, but if the imperial army is exhausted because of this, then the empire will not even have a chance to see the dawn of victory!" As the military commander of the first line of the Rasti theater, I do not agree to give up the middle line city area like this! Because this is not good for the whole war situation, even if it is an order from the Ministry of War, I have the right to refuse." Hasenranpo stood up menacingly, looked at the uninvited Algernon Julia with blazing eyes, and said with a pale face that he was the front-line military commander of the 400,000 troops on the front line, and this appointment came from the supreme emperor His Majesty, even if the military affairs department did not get the emperor's approval, it could not directly deprive him of his power.

"So I won't agree unless there is an order from the Emperor!" Hasenrampo said loudly, looking a little speculative, because he knew very well how heavy the weight of this ill-intentioned woman in front of him was, the emperor's court affairs officer, one of the most trusted people by the emperor at present, this woman set off a bloody storm in the southwest region is enough to make people frightened, it may not be clear in Gaul The truth of the southwest rebellion, but this is the Rusty region close to the southwest, the reason for the rebellion of the Murphy brothers, the tragic blood in the southwest capital, this woman plays a pivotal role in it

However, this woman, with the body of a woman, almost made the famous generals who crisscrossed the eastern battlefield, and the Murphy brothers, who controlled the entire southwest region and controlled more than 100,000 southwest troops, almost died in the southwest capital, which is enough to show that she is extraordinary in terms of command.

Hasenranpo was also a little secretly annoyed in his heart, when he was in Kyoto, he should not have agreed to the request of the Ministry of Military Affairs to set up a supervising army, and asked for the emperor's order, which was not difficult for this woman, and he only hoped that it would be good to delay it, but unfortunately, his plan fell through

"Lord Hasenrambo can ignore the order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, then this warrant of His Majesty the Emperor, I don't know if it can also be ignored!" Seeing Hasenranpo's uncertain face and a look of resolute and desperate resistance, Algernon Julia seemed to have expected it, and took out a yellow warrant document again and handed it to Hasenlimpo

"This ......" Hasenrimbaud's gaze stopped on the Chinese scroll in his hand, and the emperor's seal was impressively on it, this is a document that gives the prison officer Algernon Julia full authority to dispose of, with this document, even if he is immediately dismissed from his post, it is enough

"This is the warrant of His Majesty the Emperor!"

There was a gasp in the conference room, and everyone's eyes looked at Hasenranpo with some pity, and Hasenranbo's face became a little pale, this woman! Shamefully turned and walked out of the tent

In the first encounter, the Warden from Kyoto won completely

This was the first impression formed by the generals who attended the meeting that day, and they brazenly forced all the troops who were still fighting to abandon the central city area that was still in the fierce battle, and make every effort to shrink and stick to the western front.

And this Lord of the Prison Army, who has a deep background in Kyoto, has the full support of the Kyoto faction led by Tie Lan, the commander of the Blue Holy Beast Cavalry, and came with this Lord of the Prison Army this time. There were also 10,000 powerful Imperial Praetorian Heavy Cavalry as reinforcements, which was a relief for the Western Front of Gaul, which was in desperate need of heavy troops, and the defeat of the Eastern Front and the abandonment of the Central Front, the local garrison in the Rusti area can be described as the main force of successive defeats, with heavy casualties

The troops of the Kyoto faction, on the other hand, suffered only minor losses

Under the influence of the other, this overseer from Kyoto has undoubtedly become the real person in charge of the entire Rasti region, which was also some time ago. The reason why the Gallic army was unusual, which confused the fat man, was that since the real person in charge had changed, the style of combat had naturally changed.

Green Valley

It is currently the office of Julia Algernon. With white fingers as jade, he gently picked up the cut, and opened the letter he had just sent with a little confusion.

"It's!"

Algernon Julia's beautiful eyebrows furrowed slightly. It turned out to be a letter forwarded by the Sixth Army Corps, the content of the letter was simple, but the person who wrote the letter. But it was enough to shock Algernon Julia for a moment,

Her beautiful pupils constricted slightly, fixed on the seal at the end of the letter,

A falcon coat of arms flying with wings spread, introduced into the eyelids, and raised the posture of the self, revealing the domineering spirit of the owner who used this coat of arms, seemed to attract all her thoughts to it, this letter turned out to be written to herself by the most terrible enemy of the Empire, Vekia Falcon!

It's no wonder that Hasenranpo didn't dare to dispose of it without permission, so eagerly handed it over to himself!

In this letter, Vekia Falcon first expressed his congratulations on becoming the supervisor of the Gallic army, and then euphemistically said, "I heard that Miss has studied incognito in the Baili Changting Court in the capital of the Central Bibian Empire for three years, and has achieved remarkable results, and is known as one of the few foreigners who can read the Chinese and Bibian national books and discuss politics, and is very obsessed with the performance of the iron piano in the Central Bibian Empire. ”

"Qianyun is actually in the hands of the Vecchia Falcon!"

The letter slipped from the tips of Algernon Julia's shocked fingers to the ground, Chiun, her best friend when she was a student at the Hyakuri Changting in Kyoto, Central Bia, and her piano teacher at the Imperial College at the time.

After that incident, it was also with her help that Qianyun came to Gaul from Central Bia, because of her connections, a nobleman from the side branch of the family was willing to provide shelter to Qianyun, but the nobleman followed him in the battle of the southwest, and he had already fallen.

When the wolf bèi fled from the southwestern capital, it was difficult to protect herself, and in the chaos of the army, who still had the energy to manage Qianyun, for this, she always felt a little guilty in her heart, she thought that Qianyun had already disappeared in that chaos, but she didn't expect that it would be in the hands of the Vekia Falcon,

Thinking of her old friend, Algernon Julia couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in her heart, but more of a shocked thought spread in her mind

Although he appeared at the meeting, it is natural for his identity as a prison soldier to appear on the other party's request, but few people in Gaul know about changing his name and surname to study in Central Belgium, how did the Vecchia Falcon on the other side know!

Could it be a thousand clouds!

Algernon Julia Danfeng's eyes opened, the murderous intent was faint, her face was suspicious and she walked around the room, her face was getting colder and colder, and outside the window was the rain Feifei, hazy, with a little cold,

"Someone, go and invite Lord Angelio to come!" Algernon Giulia shouted out the door, although she has the emperor's warrant and supervises the Gallic army, but her office is different from the actual combat headquarters, the main operations are still in charge of Hasenripo, and the green valley is only responsible for handling general affairs, which is mainly to show that she is only the overseer of the army, and Hasenrimbau is the military commander, although Algernon Giulia has already overpowered the military commander Hasenlimpo,

But the Battle of the Southwest made her know her so-called military command ability. It is a joke in front of the real famous generals, not to mention that the enemy on the opposite side is the so-called undefeated Vekia Falcon Emperor, the emperor who rose from the northwest of the empire, occupied a large area of the empire in the west in just one year, defeated 300,000 imperial troops, and taught his proud younger brother a hard lesson. It's impossible to be a rookie on the battlefield like yourself,

She is not an arrogant woman, but she is so ruthless, mainly related to her three-year study experience in the Central Belian Empire, which has always believed in achieving the goal and doing everything to the extreme, and in the war literature that she came into contact with during her three years of study,

Siege the city with captives and delay the pursuit of the enemy. Fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, burn a qiē, kill people to reduce the strength of the enemy, and eat the civilians of the whole city as food under a total siege. Abounds, and in Central Bia, these horrific acts are sometimes praised, and these. are all the glorious deeds of the so-called famous generals in Central Belgium,

In order to understand the Empire's greatest enemy at the time, Algernon Julia was sixteen years old. Changing his name and surname to the enemy's capital for three years to learn about all aspects of the enemy's intelligence, the young emperor of Gaul ascended the throne, and also based on her intelligence, launched a general war in the Seattle area, and worshipped her as a court officer

300,000 Gallic troops swooped down on Seattle, trying to break the stalemate that had lasted for decades, and the early march was overwhelming, and the Central Belgians were caught off guard.

Although in the end, because the two legions on the flanks were too hasty, they were surrounded by the heavy army clusters of Central Bia and were defeated, but in terms of intelligence this time, Gaul was ahead of Central Bia, if it were not for the intelligence at that time, the commander of the Central Biya army, Long Yangjun, who was out of the cover of the two wing clusters, was lucky, and his subordinates rushed to the rescue, and he might have been crushed by the rushing Murphy Dragon Armored Cavalry, and then shook the entire battle situation, that war, lost in providence, not manpower

"Miss, are you looking for me?"

Soon, the Ouchi ghost Angelio appeared in front of her, bent down and saluted, and said respectfully,

This former Zende nobleman was wearing a strict red border tuxedo at this time, with a curly golden wig on his head to hide his flaxen-colored hair of the Zosende people, and he had a Kyoto aristocratic demeanor in every gesture, you must know that Algernon Julia is a star of hope who has high hopes in the Kyoto faction, and the person who naturally follows this star of hope cannot be a small nobleman from the remote areas of the northwest,

"Look at this!" said Algernon, Julia, handing him the letter in her hand

"This is the Falcon King's invitation!"

Angelio's eyes flickered imperceptibly, and Algernon Giulia couldn't have imagined that the information she was studying in Central Bia was actually revealed to Vekia Falcon by the big inner ghost in front of her, as for Algernon Giulia knew a Central Bia pianist named Qianyun,

Angelio, who was lurking beside Algernon Giulia, naturally knew about the Southwest Rebellion,

He didn't receive any news from the Falcon Empire, so he couldn't judge the fat man's true thoughts, so he deliberately pretended to be serious and said, "An inconsequential violinist, although he is an old man, but now in a dangerous place, Miss doesn't go! And his subordinates feel that this Falcon King is really too despicable, and he actually uses this unknown Qianyun to blackmail Miss! What a fool's dream!" "No, I have to go! I came to you because I need someone who knows the Falcon Empire to accompany me." Algernon Julia looked stern, and said with a pale face, "Although the reputation of the Vecchia Falcon is not good, at least I have not heard of a precedent for killing women."

"Miss, it's too dangerous to do this! The Falcon King is obviously ill-intentioned," Angelio was also taken aback by her decision, and pretended to be loyal

"Qianyun once met the emperor's majesty under my recommendation, and he can use a wonderful piano sound to make the emperor's irritable feelings come down, the emperor's secret, Qianyun knows it very well!" Algernon Julia smiled bitterly at the corner of her mouth, and looked at the misty rain outside the window,

After a long time, the killing intent in her eyes turned into a penetrating chill, and she snorted coldly, "Although it is an old friend, since it is a hidden danger, it can only be eliminated!

Once the other party hyped up the emperor's illness to the outside world, I am afraid that the emperor will be angry, and it is difficult to say whether he can survive the coming hot summer, the emperor has not yet married, there is no heir, the ambition of the princes of the Quartet, the Falcon Empire, the Central Biya Empire, the Slavs are pressing step by step, once they die violently, the empire will be chaotic without a fight, and for the current empire, it will be the same impact as collapse!

"For the sake of His Majesty, I don't have a choice!Sister Qianyun, don't blame me for being ruthless," Algernon Julia's ten fingers were clenched together, her nails were deeply sunk into the flesh, and she didn't seem to feel pain, (To be continued......