The small city of Akazel in the Principality of Putao, a city near the sea, has always been famous for its picturesque scenery, with the cold freezing rain whistling and fluttering on the ground, rolling up the scraps of garbage on the ground and gathering into a thin trickle along the drainage ditches on both sides of the street, the temperature in Akazer has really entered the cold winter, the sea has formed white ice floe, all the ships are forced to dock in the port, the population of the small city is 30,000, in the seventeen cities of the Principality of Putao, it can only be regarded as a third-tier city,

Although it was very remote from the center of the principality, the news from the interior still spread rapidly here, and in Guangping, in the center of the city, more than a dozen Putao citizens gathered together, their expressions were very strange, and their expressions seemed to be fluttering, and the voice of timid whispering sounded from time to time

"Have you heard? The Duke has returned to Lisbonto!"

"Nonsense, it's just rumors, Lisbonto is already in ruins, where will the ghost go back!" "True color, even if it is hell, the duke will fight for this!" This is the duke's original words, don't forget, just because of this, Gangfei once wanted to assassinate him!" A civilian said with an agitated expression, his eyes were unusually determined

"It's crazy, it's crazy, you would be stupid enough to believe those unreliable rumors! Even if the Duke does return to Lisbonto, what will you be able to do? Defeat Gangfeiren? Daydreaming is impossible!" a citizen shook his head as he watched, and said, "If I were a duke, it would be good to be an honest puppet with food and drink!"

"Shameless!, it is because of people like you that our principality has been accused by just non-human beings!" The citizen's words aroused the disgust of everyone in the vicinity,

"You support the Duke, but what can the Duke give you?" said the citizen Tian shamelessly, "It's been six years, and that time just someone bullied us. You've seen the duke appear, don't be stupid, if you want to defeat Gangfei, it's useless even if it's a hundred years, because Gangfei is invincible, you want people to have people, you want soldiers to have soldiers, even if you stretch out a little finger, Putao can be crushed into powder, what can we do? Resist? Continue to fight? This will only attract the cruel revenge of Gangfei, and in the end it is we who suffer. Rather than this, it is better to become Gangfei people sooner! Although we are not pure-bred Gangfei, at least we are also second-class civilians of Gangfei, much better than those people in remote areas!" "You coward, despicable traitor!"

The face of the ordinary citizen just now turned blue, and he spat on the ground with a disdainful face, "Did I say something wrong? It is you who should be reflected!" The scolded citizen held his head high, with a look of disapproval, "This bastard once helped a gang non-human lead the way and beat him!" I don't know who shouted inside. The others immediately gathered around, "Help!, kill someone!" A terrible scream sounded, and before the fist fell, the Putao man was as if he had just undergone a great punishment

His shouts soon drew a group of Gangfei soldiers who were patrolling the neighborhood. These Congo-African soldiers are heavily armed. Wearing armor, he was also holding a cold spear in his hand, and his murderous momentum made the Putao people who were whispering stop, "What are you doing, don't you know that more than ten people are allowed to gather recently?"

The Gang Fei officer who led the team glanced around with a cold gaze. Finally, it landed on the citizen who was glaring at him, and his tone was full of murderous energy, because the nearest shape shì was nervous. The security teams in various places have received orders to strictly prohibit the gathering of Putao people, and more than ten people will be arrested, "This is the land of Putao, what power do you Gangfei people have to stipulate this!" The Putao citizen raised his head fearlessly, like a fighter, and looked at the Gangfei people who surrounded him, "Power? Lao Tzu's fist is power!" The Gangfei officer's face was cold, and he waved his hand behind him, and more than a dozen soldiers with weapons in their hands viciously rushed up from behind, "Come on, this Putao pariahs are dissatisfied with the empire. Take it away right away!"

"No, what do you want, you don't have that power, you ...... Ah......" The citizen's face was flustered and struggling, Gangfei was famous for his brutality, and the people who had recently been arrested in the name of gathering had been executed three times, and none of them had ever been able to come out alive, "My lord, he was just drunk and talking nonsense!" Some Putao people next to him pleaded and said, "Yes, we are just joking!" The beaten Putao man also began to intercede, but the Gangfei officer was unmoved, but waved his hand and said sharply, "The untouchables who oppose the empire deserve to die, and those who speak for these untouchables deserve to die!" "You barbarians! one day, you will get out of the land of Putao" The citizen screamed and covered his bleeding head with his hands, and the whole person squatted on the ground, the bloody tragic scene, the nearby citizens were silent one by one, everyone was frightened, everyone heard a terrible scream, and a rounded up soldier smashed the citizen's face with the handle of the spear in his hand, "This is the end of the opposition to the Empire!"

The officer leading the team had a hideous face, and he continued to command the soldiers to raise the handle of the spear in their hands and smash the citizens who were screaming in pain at their feet, until the citizen's shouts became weaker and weaker. "Captain Von Op, just educate such a pariah, if you really want to kill someone, everyone will look good!" A district sheriff next to the officer hurriedly stretched out his hand and pulled him away, now is not the time to kill,

Since the Duke of Putao landed in Lisbonto, the Putao people who were about to bow their heads and bend down when they saw Gangfei people, and they didn't dare to take a breath in the atmosphere, suddenly became brave, and there were already a lot of Putao people around, once they really provoked public anger, the people watching around were definitely not something that a dozen people could carry by themselves, and finally it took several minutes for the district sheriff to finally let the soldiers stop, and the citizen had fallen into a coma, covered in blood "Executioner, barbarian......

The citizens were curled up together covered in blood, obviously in a semi-comatose state, but they were still muttering in a low voice, "It's just a Putao pariah, and if you kill it, you will be killed!" The corner of the officer's mouth sneered disapprerovingly, as if he didn't want to stop like this, but he looked at the more and more Putao people around him. The countless angry glances also made him start to feel scared from the inside, "Okay, stop!" he instructed his soldiers, "Take this guy away immediately! I have enough reason to suspect that he has connections with the rebels in Lisbonto." Only then did the soldiers react, and hurriedly rushed up, a soldier tied the foot of the Putao man with a rope, and then dragged away the unconscious Putao civilian with a war horse, and a long blood stain was dragged out of the Putao man's body, under the eyes of countless Putao people full of blood. has been traversing the entire Guangping,

The rain is like silk, washing the blood on the Guangping, but for most of the Putao people, such a humiliation cannot be washed away! The Duke is still insisting in the capital of the Duchy in Lisbonto, and this kind of news is also spreading among more Putao people

Duke Rubinsark, who was not the Minister of War, stood tall in front of the windowsill of his office. His eyes looked affectionately into the distance, the imperial capital had just snowed, a white shrouded the land in front of him, and the frozen lake in the distance. Civilians can be seen digging ice on the surface of the lake, and a flock of white water birds fly up from flapping their wings, like a long line, full of nature's wild interest. It may not be as green as the mountain lakes in the south, but it has the natural simplicity of the northern plateau, and it shows innocence and beauty in the roughness.

The winter earth is permeated with white frost like smoke, and the spires of the majestic buildings on both sides are projected on the surface of the street, and no one can be seen on the street, and every qiē seems so dead and silent, and the sun is slanting in the west, dragging out long shadows from the narrow gap between the houses

There was a heavy sound of the door opening behind the "Minister," and the adjutant hurriedly walked in from outside the door, holding a battle report in his hand

"It's a war report from Lisbonto" Robinsark turned around, glanced at the battle report in the adjutant's hand, and said in a relaxed tone, "Judging from the time, it should be about the same, Remchatt's 40,000 army should have wiped out the Putao rebels at this moment" "I hope that guy can follow my advice and not kill the Duke of Putao who raised troops to fight in a fit of anger, after all, the empire has not yet fully controlled Putao, and killing this duke will undoubtedly greatly worsen the attitude of the Putao people who have softened," Even if you put up a useless puppet and raise it for a few days temporarily, I just hope that Remchatt can still remember!" The Duke walked to his desk, "Minister, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed!" The adjutant straightened up, his face was not relaxed, and he unexpectedly handed the report in his hand to the Duke of Rubinsark, "It is indeed from the battlefield of Lisbento, but it is not the blue of victory!"

"Biar, I didn't expect you to become humorous too! If it's not victory, is it still the red for help?" Duke Rubinsark stretched out his generous hand with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and took the report from the adjutant disapprovingly, taking the adjutant's words as a kind of ridicule, the battle losses in the southern battle have just been counted, although no substantial progress has been made, the Gangfei army still lost more than 20,000 people, and 37 warships lost in the battle to seize the strait,

Duke Rubinsack's heart is also dripping blood,

This is already the third crushing defeat of the Imperial Navy this year. It is said that His Majesty the Emperor was furious and had decided to make great efforts to rectify the Imperial Navy, which was unfavorable in battle, for this reason, Duke Rubin Sark was also very troubled, the navy was not as good as the army, it was not a conscription order, it was able to pull out tens of thousands of soldiers, the Imperial Conquest of the Southwest War had become a wound that the navy could not recover, the loss of warships was still countless, and the death of tens of thousands of experienced Imperial Navy sailors was the main reason for the collapse of the Imperial Navy.

A qualified sailor often needs to be polished at sea for several years, and he has lost so much at once, the Ministry of Military Affairs has no choice but to recruit from merchant sailors, but one is the army, the other is civilian, and the gap between the two is not something that can be run in in just a few months.

Remchat's eagerness to take the Putao was not a plan to rely on the maritime superiority of the Putau region to revitalize the Imperial Navy, which had become the biggest concern of the Emperor's Majesty, which was well known in the Imperial Admiralty.

Eyes swept over the seal of the report, Duke Rubinsack's face couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, it was really not the blue color that represented victory, according to the practice of the Gangfei army, if it was a victory or a great victory, it was a special royal blue ink. And on the report in front of him, it was a shocking red, which represented the meaning of waiting for help, "What's the situation! What does he want to do in Remchat?" This can't help but make the Duke of Rubinsack's two white eyebrows frown slightly, and he can't help but have an ominous premonition in his heart, the Duke of Putau's landing in Lisbonto is a trick in his eyes that he doesn't know what to do." If it is only for the purpose of bringing the army to a place of despair, in order to arouse the soldiers' determination to the death, the fame of the Duke of Putao himself is obviously not so possible! That is a possibility. This guy is here to die, and it is not without that kind of hero full of pathos before, even if he knows that he is dead, he still sticks to the capital and does not retreat" After thinking about it, Rubin Sark could only make such a judgment, and he secretly felt a little appreciation for this Duke of Putao, and he also did not hesitate to make a move

A regional corps entered Putao, and a border army joined as a flank in order to defeat the rebels in the shortest possible time. On the one hand, he urgently ordered the newly built 10th Expeditionary Regiment of Remsat to Lisbonto, and on the other hand, he urgently mobilized 3,000 border guards between the two countries to move closer to Lisbonto, in his anticipation. In front of the combined military strength of the two armies of 43,000 people, the 15,000 military strength of the Putao people should be crushed like a crush!

But now, the red color on the war report is undoubtedly indicating. In confusion, Duke Rubinsack's fingers opened the seal of the report and his eyes fell on it. "How can this be!" This Gang Fei Marshal, who has been fighting on the battlefield for thirty years, has cultivated his self-cultivation in recent years, and rarely has too much emotional fluctuations, and at this moment, on his old face, there is a rare look of horror,

In this report, the report revealed by the 10th Crusade Legion of Remsciat was a fiasco, with two consecutive attacks, more than one-third of the Legion lost more than a third of the battle, and it was unable to launch an attack on Lisbento, and the most unacceptable thing for Duke Rubinsark was that until now, the attack line of the Crusader Legion had not even touched the walls of Lisbento, let alone conquered this half-ruined city! "Something must have gone wrong! Putau definitely has no such strength!"

Rubin Sark's two white eyebrows were twisted together, and the report in his hand was thrown heavily on the table, his face was solemn as if it was about to drip water, as the Minister of War of the Empire, his eyes would not be on such trivial matters as a defeat in a war, what he valued was the real content of the battle of Lisbento, the casualties of 13,000 Imperial soldiers did not have a great impact on the military strength of the entire Empire, but it was fatal enough for the Empire in terms of the general policy,

The Duke of Putao landed in the ruined Lisbonto, which seems to be a stupid strategic layout, but at the moment it shows a staggering wisdom, Lisbonto, the capital of Putau, a ruined city that has just gone through turmoil,

But such a city that seems to have no possibility of holding on, but the 40,000 troops armed to the teeth of the empire are bled to the head,

The news revealed here was enough for the old commander of the empire to feel a chill rising up his spine,

The belief in the invincibility of the Empire, which had been planted in the hearts of the people of Putao after spending countless energy and manpower for several years, was suddenly pushed to the brink of collapse due to the defeat of the Lisbonto battle.

The public opinion of the Putao people will soon boil again, and this time, it is no longer as easy to transfer and calm down as in Remsart, because Lisbonto, the capital of Putao whose significance is far greater than the actual occupation, is at this moment, in the hearts of the people of Putao, like a bright beacon that suddenly shines, rekindling the belief in the country in the hearts of the already confused Putao people, and a nation suddenly finds its soul, and in such a sad way

Especially the rumors that don't know where they came from,

The duke's words, "Even if my country becomes hell, I will fight to the death for it" has spread throughout the Putao region in just a few days! The image of this duke at this moment is like a tragic warrior who has his back to his homeland and fought to the death.

Duke Rubin Sark can foresee that under the rendering of invisible feelings, the hearts of the people of Putao are pouring towards this duke at a speed visible to the naked eye, as long as this Duke of Putao has been sticking to Lisbento, which is almost an abandoned city, the hearts of Putao people will always be close to it, overwhelming, unstoppable, and finally form a torrent that makes the empire have to choose to retreat.

Looking at the report in his hand, the old handsome Rubin Sark's heart fell into a kind of dazedness, he was very sure that the Putao people definitely did not have such strength! Otherwise, there was no need to take such a seemingly tricky but upright and outrageous means.

What the other side is thinking is that turning the whole war into a battle for the city of Lisbento is really a clever layout ability, from the moment it landed in Lisbento, the imperial army was completely dancing according to the baton of the other party!

So who can tell sù himself, who is the man who stands behind the fortified walls of Lisbonto, wielding the baton?

It's an unfair war!" "Minister, Admiral Leko of the Admiralty asks to see you!" the voice of a guard sounded outside the door, (to be continued......)