Sea Castle is a monument to heroes, it was originally a city built for the constant southward invasion of the Weygen people, and the elected king wants to hold himself and his family hostage in this city, and in case of war, he will die and cannot flee half a step, if such a culture is weak and should be eliminated, he really can't think of anything else worthy of living in this world.

As the minutes passed, the sun sank from its westerly position to the bottom of the sea.

Viewed from the high walls of the Sea Castle, it seemed as if it had been swallowed up by the boundless swamp, making it impossible to see the figure again.

In the old days, this was the busiest and most stressful time for the guards. The cunning Wiegand have better eyesight in the dark than the Great Pruus, and every time darkness comes, piles of Wiegand can emerge from the swamp.

In most cases, they want to bypass the Sea Castle and raid the rich and unprotected countryside near the castle, but in some cases, they will also launch raids against the Sea Castle.

Although the purpose of their war is unknown, every warrior they brutally killed will always have their head cut off by taking advantage of the darkness, and by the second dawn, you may be surprised to find that your companion who fought the enemy last night will now be turned into a headless corpse.

Maybe the knife was still in his hand, and his clothes were neatly dressed, but the part above the neck disappeared without a trace. Judging by the rough scars on his neck, he must have suffered great pain both during his life and after his death.

Fortunately, hundreds of years have passed, and what was once hunted has now grown into a behemoth. The Great Pruos were more experienced than the Wiegand in terms of producing tools and building territories, and even their leaders were more united than the leaders of Wiegand.

After the establishment of the empire, King Tian Sen had no worries. He led the army of the North Sea Kingdom to launch a fierce counterattack on the swamp, defeating the chiefs of more than a dozen tribes in a row, and finally driving these powerful tribes that had gathered on the edge of the sea castle to all parts of the swamp.

As a result, they cut off contact with each other, and for more than a decade, they were never able to discuss military and political affairs together, let alone join forces to invade the fortified cities of the Northlands.

Of course, it would take a lot of resources to assemble a large army that could destroy the old enemy, and in that dark battle, it was not only the Wiegand who were cut off their backbones, but also the Great Prus.

There were as many as four dukes who died directly on the front line alone, not to mention the next counts, barons and a series of nobles.

Perhaps when Tian Sen first formulated his strategic plan, he planned to expand the territory of the North Sea Kingdom, but he still underestimated the number of Wegenrao, so that after only three or four battles, he had to stop the war plan, and it was at this time that the Grey Friar resigned as prime minister and demanded that King Tian Sen carry out his promise.

Tian Sen couldn't shirk it, and plunged headlong into the south, and since then has not returned to Sea Castle, let alone conquered the northland again.

That is why the lords of the North Sea owe them a share of blood and sweat to King Tian Mori and even the empire, and they are always looking forward to the one that can collect debts.

To this end, they elected a true "Northland" king. That's because the real North Sea nobles know that of all the candidates for kingship, Olof is the most "Northland" monarch.

Savage, conceited, and aloof, such a man is not a good monarch, but at least a man who will not compromise with the Empire, and this is what the nobles of the Northlands need.

But after all, they still failed to see the situation within the empire clearly. Since the establishment of the empire, with the palace hill of Abbasquia as the center and the spread of Sardinian religion as the fulcrum, the empire has become a powerful cultural pillar, and the unification of Prusjao is the general trend, with the power of the North Sea Kingdom, it has not the ability to reverse all this, but only brings disaster to itself.

But it would not be entirely true that the nobles of the Northland were all self-defeating people.

The saddest journey that the Kingdom of the North Sea has ever experienced is that it coincided with the time of its own self-rise and empire, and most people did not see it at this time. However, it is no wonder that the Great Pruth in this era did not have any systematic "diplomatic concepts", let alone any control over the international situation.

The clarity of a parable:

"The farmer stares at the ground beneath his feet, the lord stares at the farmer under his castle, and the king stares at the lords whom he has divided. ”

King Tian Sen used to be a rare person who understood, and he himself deeply felt the changes within the Beihai Kingdom, but at the same time, he felt the powerful centripetal force and ruling force in the center of the imperial capital.

In order to leave room for the development of the Beihai Kingdom, he carefully researched a complete set of circumvention plans for his successor, if his successor is a reasonable, somewhat patient monarch will understand that this is a sincere proposal, but the only sad thing is that this proposal has not been implemented well, but as a "surrender" persuasion, it has been torn clean.

The price of rejecting these suggestions was heavy, and in addition to making the North Sea Kingdom fall apart further and further down the road, he even ended up bringing him to the end of destruction.

Like fragmented memories, the past echoed in Haru's mind repeatedly, and after asking himself, he finally gave a satisfactory answer to Sword:

"The guards of the throne are only loyal to the throne, and since the North Sea Kingdom is part of the empire, the king certainly cannot disobey the emperor's orders. The former Puppet King 'Orloff's disobedience and the indiscriminate killing of messengers meant that the Throne Guard should no longer remain loyal to him, but should obey the orders of His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Naturally, the Sward Knight's face was full of smiles. With such a reliable army in his tent, he would have been more confident about the Northern Expedition. In line with the principle of stealing peach to repay the favor, he also retracted his idea of temporarily acting as the king of Beihai and gave a new proposal instead

"Now that the puppet king is newly dead, and the Beihai Kingdom has a situation where some dragons are leaderless, it is difficult to provide a reliable rear for the Northern Expedition, do you think that young man wearing the iron crown can afford to take on the heavy responsibility?

The city gate of the sea castle is open tonight, this was once the capital of Rao in the north, and at this moment it is completely the soldiers of the empire, because the time to take the palace is already past dusk, when the news of the victory of Ci came back to the army camp, it was already late at night, and the soldiers in the poor camp had just built the camp, and it was not long before the knights rushed into the city like sheep.

Even if they arrived in the city at this time, the living conditions would not be much better than in the wilderness, and some of the shack-like houses in the city would not even meet the standards of the Imperial army's tents.

The sergeants were miserable, and they couldn't help but feel even more dissatisfied in their hearts.

"Into the fuck...... Lao Tzu had come all the way from Mollysde (a town in the kingdom of Abbasquia), and the brothers around him had been exhausted for a round and a half, and now that the war was about to start, let me live in this thing? The pigs raised by the lord's family slept better than this. ”

"Hey, do you need to compare it to the south? Isn't it pretty to see the house over there, let me tell you who lives over there. I think I can't see it clearly when it's dark? I really see it, that house doesn't live with people, but it's a place to raise horses!"

The soldier's voice grew a little louder, and he caught the attention of one of the knights without paying attention.

The knight held a torch in one hand to guide the soldiers, but in the other hand he held a whip. After hearing the soldier's complaint, he did not mean to be ashamed, but shone the torch on the soldier's face with some calmness.

It was a middle-aged man with a rebellious face written on his eyebrows.

"Do you deserve to be disrespectful, though I don't know what forest you are a poaching thief, but I tell you, you are not even as good as a horse! At least on the battlefield today, the war horse has been a force, and you, a fool who hides outside the city and complains! If you don't want me to educate you with a whip, keep your mouth shut, and roll me back to the shack. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the knight rode away on his horse. In order to keep up with the direction illuminated by the torch and avoid getting into the mud, the soldiers had to run all the way to follow.

However, since then, the soldiers have indeed complained a lot less, on the one hand, they are conscious of their losses, and on the other hand, they have to keep their mouths shut in order to keep up with the light of the torches.

The soldiers could still talk about where to live, but the generals had no such skills at all.

In a slightly neater house on the north side of the city, Knight Ward, General Nonnor, and Saparin Haru held an impromptu meeting with Alan.

"At the moment, our initial strategy is far from the agenda. In a candlelit room, the Sward Knight sat on a chair, his eyes fixed on the board, and said thoughtfully.

"Before the Northern Expedition, we didn't know anything about the Weegand people, and after the Northern Expedition, we even had a more vague understanding of Weegand Rao. ”

"The royal palace in the North Sea originally contained manuals from the previous battles with the Wiegands and maps of their branches...... Of course, their tribe is constantly changing, and that's just a reference. ”

Alan opened his mouth a little anxiously, and his face was faintly uneasy. In the Imperial army, he used to be just an overseer of food, but now because of a coup d'état, he was able to talk to these high-ranking generals, and in order to prove his worth, he couldn't help but add a little information with his impressions.

"Mapping the North Sea Marshes? You even noticed that thing. Haru was somewhat impressed by this, and he frowned and said, "That's a big project, it seems that it has been hanging in the palace since a hundred years ago, and everyone thinks he is an antique ornament." But now it's true that there is a lack of intelligence, how much more can you recall?"

"A map from a hundred years ago!" General Nonnor interrupted Alan impatiently before he could reply.

"Can that antique be used for tactical planning, if it was Cyporus a hundred years ago, it would still be full of Amakhs!"

"But as far as I know, the borders of the North Sea Kingdom have not changed very much in the past hundred years. Haru retorted, his tone firm, coupled with his special status, that for a moment even the emperor did not have his authority on the matter.

"Beginning with my father's father, Sea Castle was the front line against the Wiegand bandits, who once occupied some of our territory, but because Sea Castle never fell, the land they occupied lacked the necessary fulcrum, so we could always recover our territory quickly. ”

General Nonnuo was bored with himself, and he didn't dare to confront Haru, but he glared at Alan fiercely, and then spit on the ground vulgarly, and said arrogantly.

"Your mouth grows on your own body, but I can only trust your own eyes. General Sword, we could have marched and ordered the scribes and monks to make new maps to bring back to the Empire the 'accurate' maps we had explored. ”

Knight Sword frowned slightly.

It's not a map issue, it's about what happens to the military.

He knew, of course, that it was better to have a map ready to use as a reference than not to have one, but a map could not be used in vain.

If he used the map of Beihai, he would naturally hand over more command to the nobles of Beihai, and the formation of noble troops in the Beihai region, including the judgment of the direction of the attack, would also be deeply affected by it.

If it is not done well, the consequences of the Empire's Northern Expedition will be unsatisfactory. You know, in order to organize the Northern Expedition and gather enough supporters, he promised great benefits to the officials and clergy, and the benefits that were distributed were those lands that had not yet been acquired.

Once the map of Beihai is recreated, the nobles of Beihai will definitely not rest on their laurels, and will have to find their own "ancestral territory" from that antique, and then the land available for distribution in the empire will be much reduced.

Thinking of this, the room has been quiet for a while. Haru closed his eyes as if he was running out of energy, and Nonno and Alan looked at Sward Knight, the former with a slight hint of warning and displeasure, while the latter looked much cleaner, but with some eager looks.

"Ahem......" After much consideration, the knight finally decided to use a series of coughing sounds to ease the awkward situation.

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