In the early hours of the morning, a squire pushed open the bedroom door with trepidation, lit the candlestick with a candle that had been filled with tears, and the dim yellow light woke up Hasenlimpo who was sleeping soundly on his desk

"Your Excellency, an urgent order has arrived. The messenger of the herald is waiting in the front hall, so please go and greet him quickly. The squire said to him cautiously

"Emergency Order"

Hasenlampo leaned his aching neck, stretched his numb limbs, and hurried to the antechamber with his coat on. Before he arrived, he saw a group of Emperor's Praetorian Guards wearing winged armor standing at the door of the hall, looking at him with a vigilant gaze

"The Emperor's Praetorian Guard? Didn't you say that the investigators still had half a month to arrive? Why did they arrive early!"

Hasenlimbo's tried eyebrows furrowed slightly, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart, and when he walked into the hall, a tall and burly Praetorian Guard captain had already been waiting, and when he saw him, he quickly stepped up, took off his helmet, and bent down to salute, "Is it Lord Hasenlampo?" Hello, I'm Eric, the captain of the Seventh Praetorian Guard, sorry to disturb me."

"You're Eric!" "Hasenranpo's gaze paused, it turned out to be someone he knew, nodded and said, "I've seen you, last time I came from Kyoto to be in charge of exchanging Miss Julia with the Julils family, one was Philip from the Ministry of Intelligence, and the other was you!" "I didn't expect Lord Hasenlampo to remember the little one" Janissary Eric laughed, "That's fine, I don't want to prove myself, this is Miss Algernon's handwritten letter from Julia" Eric took out a secret letter from his bosom and handed it to the confused Hasenlimpo, "Please take a look, I believe that the adult also knows that Kyoto is thoroughly investigating the criminal incident of selling military funds, and this time I deliberately advanced the trip, just to get rid of those moths that sell military funds, and ask my lord to help!" "Help!" Hasenranbo's strong heart trembled. After taking the secret letter and looking at it, his face became ugly, and he suddenly became silent and did not speak

The situation was even worse than he expected, this time the Praetorian Guards directly attacked, showing that the woman had made up her mind, in order to avoid accidents on the way to the escort, the Praetorian Guards have the power to execute the target immediately after they catch it, and they don't even need the most basic review, such a ruthless woman, as long as there is a crime that does not need to be investigated. Those who are dissatisfied with it will be cleaned up, as for the sale of military funds, in such a chaotic situation, it is not a casual remark, the tens of thousands of troops on the Western Front have been discarded for 2 months, and the soldiers are hungry only to dig wild vegetables to fill their stomachs, who will be held accountable for such a crime!,

"Lord Hasenrambo!" Captain Eric of the Praetorian Guard was silent when he saw Hasenranpo. Suddenly, his face was gloomy, "Ahem, isn't the culprit of reselling military funds already in Kyoto" Hasenranpo coughed dryly, and he had been through the wind and waves for a long time. I haven't seen any scenes, and he said slowly with a solemn face, "Some time ago, it was very clear that the inventory was very clear, and it was all those businessmen in the northwest who were behind it, and they also confiscated the property of so many people in the northwest. The smell of blood has been wafting for more than a month, and now she is going to arrest people again, what the hell is Miss Julia going to do!" Lord Hasenrambo!" Eric snorted very dissatisfied, and several Praetorian Guards immediately surrounded him with murderous energy, seeing that the posture had the intention of directly moving, a hot-blooded Praetorian Guard directly grasped the sword, and his eyes flashed with murderous intent

Feeling the coldness in the atmosphere, Hasenranbo's face was slightly cold, and he said unceremoniously

"What? Do you still want to do it here, this is the headquarters of the Sixth Army, and there are three squadrons of the Sixth Army stationed outside! If there is any accident here, they will rush in and tear you apart, but in their eyes there is no majesty of the Praetorian Guard!"

"Don't get me wrong, Lord Hasenrampo!

Eric's face changed, and he realized that he was in Hasenrambo's base camp, and quickly smiled. He glared at the Praetorian Guard with his eyes, he was Algernon Julia's confidant, this Kyoto incident was caused by him, the Ministry of Military Affairs was weakened by Yan zhòng in this incident, the military power fell into the hands of Algernon Julia, and his status also rose, although he was still nominally only a captain of the Praetorian Guard, but his supervisory power was even higher than that of ordinary generals, for Hasenrimbau, the first general of the empire who had passed away, he was completely polite when he looked at the other party who had helped redeem Algernon Julia,

According to the previous plan, if the other party had any objections to this matter, he would not mind arresting Hasenranpo immediately, and he thought that Hasenranpo, as the main commander of the Western Front Army, had an unshirkable responsibility for trafficking in military funds, and it was too easy to compile a crime, but he didn't expect that Hasenranpo was simply the kind that did not eat hard and soft,

Taking a deep breath, Eric suppressed the unwillingness in his heart and said, "Adults don't know the truth of eliminating evil, a broken tree is useless just to remove dead branches, it must be eradicated even by roots!"

The young Praetorian Guard's nostrils turned to the sky, and he said in a cold voice full of pride, "And Miss has already received a secret report when she was in Kyoto, and it is said that a large number of soldiers have fled in the area where Lord Hasenlambo is stationed! It is better for Lord Hasenlampo to be more concerned about this than to worry about those moths! If this situation continues to expand, I don't know how many people will be left when the Northern Army arrives! Don't let those guys from the Northern Army see the joke, if Miss asked me to bring it, I brought it."

After Eric finished speaking, he snorted, and left arrogantly with a group of Praetorian Guards, and just stepped out of the door of Hasenlimbo's residence, Eric's face suddenly became gloomy, and his eyes flashed with a hint of coldness,

The Praetorian Guard officer next to him who drew his sword asked curiously, "My lord, according to the plan, we will directly arrest the old guy who is in the way, he has been beaten like a dog by the Falcon Empire, and what kind of famous generals are still in front of us, as long as he is on the Western Front, it will be difficult for us to arrest people, even if he has three squadrons of troops under his command, I don't believe that if he is captured, the troops below will dare to move!"

"What do you know!" Miss said that Hasenlampo is a tiger, cautious by nature, and has an unusual perception, without full certainty, don't take it lightly!" Eric looked at the black sky above him. In a solemn tone, he said, "Don't compare Hasenlampo with those other generals, just by looking at how many times he escaped from the clutches of the Vicchia Falcon to destroy the enemy, you can know how powerful he is, the falcon's claws never fail, this proverb that makes everyone frown, this guy who is as quiet as a virgin and moves like a rabbit is completely useless, in the early stage of the battle of Lustie, the Eighth Legion that attacked at the same time was swallowed by the Falcon Army, but his Sixth Legion withstood the Falcon Army's attack throughout the winter,

Late stage of the Battle of Rasti. In the case of the full fall of the Eastern Front and the Central Front, he held the Western Front for 18 days, and finally escaped from the encirclement with tens of thousands of troops in the encirclement and pursuit of the Falcon Army. If all the generals in Gaul could be like him, the empire would not be what it is today in just two years!"

"Then why do you deliberately target him?" the Praetorian Guard officer became more and more puzzled when he heard this, why did such a famous general be treated like this?

"Appreciate for appreciate. The battle of Rasti has shown that Hasenrampo can't stop the Falcon Army!" Eric sighed, "The 110,000 troops of the northern army marching west are about to arrive, and the army needs a commander." When it comes to seniority and fame, as well as experience fighting the Falcon Army, Hasenlimbo is the obvious choice. This is what Miss doesn't want to see, the Northern Army is the last elite of the Empire, if she can, Miss hopes to be able to send the most trusted person to command! That's why she has to suppress Hasenrampo fiercely, and finally let him give up such an idea directly!"

During the autumn harvest season in August, the golden wheat waves turned into wheat stalks several meters high in the fields, and the smell of cooking smoke wafted in the wind.

With a slight obscurity and helplessness, Xu Lidong, the envoy of the Central Biya Empire, looked at the scene outside the carriage, the half-set sun shone on the river in front, the stones and water were glowing with golden luster, after entering the Falcon Empire-controlled area from the Gallic border, Xu Lidong was particularly attentive to the qiē outside the car window,

This was the first time that the Central Belian Empire had come into contact with another powerful empire, the Falcon Empire. It seems that the Rusti area, which is rumored to have caused the Gauls to lose their troops, has basically returned to normal, although the road is still a little potholed, but compared with the large ruins on the battleline, this is already a very rich place, this is a very ordinary scene, but Xu Dongli has a lot of feelings,

In August, which was supposed to be the harvest season, in his homeland of Central Bia, because of the war, the barrenness of the fields became more and more severe, and a large number of elite laborers were forced to join the army, constantly consumed on the battlefield, and even with the thick population base of the Central Bia Empire, there began to be a shortage of human resources. Of course, the most important thing is that the most densely populated northern region of the Central Beja Empire, under the trampling of the iron hooves of the nomadic Dongting people, the population has been reduced by fifty percent, and a large area of fertile land has become a no-man's land where the bones are left on the ground.

The Dongting people do not have a tradition of managing the population, and in their eyes, the people of the occupied area are waste of food except for becoming slaves, and waste has no value left behind.

It should all be killed, and the most valuable thing is to turn the blood-stained land into the most fertile pasture, this is the most direct idea of the nobles of the Eastern Court, they led the cavalry to slaughter the Central Bia people everywhere, turning the fertile land into wasteland, and turning the city after city into a dead domain, stringing the heads of the dead and hanging them on the city gate, and the strings of skeletons made a shuddering whine when the wind blew,

The brutal Dongting people firmly believe that what they are doing is the inspiration of the immortal heaven, they are pursuing the will of the immortal heaven, and even the righteousness of slaughter is awe-inspiring, and the nomadic cavalry who went south is almost all covered with corpses, the scene of ruined cities and families, and one-tenth of the population of Central Bia has disappeared in this way.

The once powerful empire was strongly trampled by the rolling horseshoe from the grassland, and was overwhelmed by the scimitars of the steppe people, and a large area of the north fell, and the most anxious thing for the Central Bea Empire was that a large area of iron ore in the northern region also fell into the hands of the Dongting people, and the equipment of the Dongting cavalry in the past was mainly leather armor, and now it is becoming more and more popular iron armor, with enough iron to forge arrow clusters, the arrows of the Dongting cavalry simply fall without money, in the past, the Dongting cavalry went to war, and the arrow clusters in the quiver will not exceed twenty, and they will draw their knives and charge after shooting。 But now, a quiver is stuffed to the brim, and bundles of spare arrows are dragged in a carriage behind it, and as soon as the war starts, it is to shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, and the infantry of the Central Biya Empire can't withstand such tactics, and they are about to become phobic, and this year, a report submitted by the forging officer also made the emperor of the Central Biya Empire panic

Now it is the turn of the Central Belian Empire to lack iron, and there are not many iron mines in the southern part of the Central Belgian Empire. The consumption of the front line has reached the bottom line of the inventory, just like if a large number of iron ore cannot be found in half a year, the soldiers on the front line will face a miserable situation with no arrows to shoot and no armor to wear.

Thinking about fighting against the unparalleled cavalry of the steppe cavalry, there are no arrows available, no iron armor to block, it is simply the fate of being slaughtered,

Since there was no one at home, the Central Belian Empire put its mind on the Gauls. Everyone has been fighting for so many years, and the gallic regiment of full-body hoplites with extremely poor mobility has always been the object of ridicule in the Central Belian Empire, but now. It began to make the Central Biya people feel jealous, how much iron does it have to use for the iron lumps of that legion, one legion after another!"My lord, will the Falcon Empire really agree to our deal?"

Deputy envoy Gongsun Liang sat opposite him and asked uneasily. He looked out the carriage window with a somewhat flustered gaze, they had been ordered to go to Gaul to negotiate the arms trade, but they had been in Gallic Kyoto for two months before they found out. The whole of Kyoto is about to become a large foundry, and the speed of 20,000 sets of infantry armor per month is not unfast, but in the face of a huge gap, the number of such weapons can't even be taken care of by itself, and it is impossible to supply Central Bia in a short time, "This is not a way!"

The two of them, who were burdened with important tasks, continued to the west, and heard that it was because of the rise of a very terrible opponent in the west of Gaul that the Gauls fell into such a miserable situation, and the two of them took more than 30 subordinates to cross the entire Gaul for more than 1 month, and all they heard along the way were rumors of how cruel the Falcon Junrui was, and the two of them wanted to turn around and go back several times, but thinking of the calamitous Central Beians, and thinking of the imperial warriors who needed both armor and weapons to resist the invasion of the steppes, the two continued to go westward, and on a sunny afternoon, the mission had a desperate heart, and passed through the control area of Gaul, entered the control area of the Falcon Empire, and the Falcon Imperial cavalry patrolling along the way thought that the other party was a caravan, so they let it go without too much embarrassment,

Seeing the so-called cruelty, on the contrary, the peace after a good harvest in various places, and the intensively cultivated ridges that can be seen in some lands are not at all comparable to the sparse wheat that grows in the Gauls who randomly grab a few handfuls of seeds and throw them into the field, and when they pass a river, their eyes suddenly become inseparable from the car window.

A huge roulette wheel at the edge of the river attracted their attention, the water hit the disc, there were bursts of white splash, the roulette wheel was rotated by the impact of the water, the water card on the roulette wheel easily poured the low-lying river water into the waterways, and the river water entered the high fields along the waterways piled up with stones, "What an incredible thing!" As one of the foundry officials, Xu Dongli's eyes were almost straightened by the waterways, and he almost didn't use any manpower, so he irrigated the water into the field, so that his perception of the Falcon Empire was reversed, this is still in the battlefield area, I don't know what other areas will look like, three days later, the mission entered the bustling southwest region, and a team of black-armored cavalry appeared on the side of the mission, and these cavalrymen were all wrapped in black armor, although it was darker, but it had a ghostly luster,

The cavalry above all looked fierce and murderous, and at first glance they were real elite troops, although they already knew from the Gauls that these cavalrymen were all in black armor, but they were actually the central army of the Falcon Empire, which was extremely noble.

The weapon is not the usual big and bulky bow and arrow spear, but a bow and shooter called a crossbow on the back, a curved sword on the waist, and a cavalry spear hanging on the side of the war horse.

According to the Gauls, the crossbows behind these falcon cavalry could shoot through targets from a distance of 200 meters, and the curved long sword at the waist could cut through the strongest armor,

There is also a huge crossbow as big as a bed frame, which can shoot 500 meters, and a weapon that can shoot like a thunderbolt, which is a real big killer, and just the sound can scare the new recruits who go to the battlefield for the first time

In the past, Xu Dongli thought that this was the exaggeration of the Gauls to cover up their defeats for the enemy.

But when he saw a fat man in black armor, he raised a crossbow weapon with his hand, and nailed a big wild boar from the forest by the roadside to the ground with a roaring arrow, Xu Dongli's eyes were so bright that he couldn't leave the crossbow anymore, and his saliva was about to fall, it was simply an artifact against the grassland cavalry......!