Naturally, Edward and Young were not fools or blinds, and the subtle changes in the atmosphere in the tent were not only visible to the old man, but also to the two of them.

Perhaps this is the problem that exists on both sides of the war.

It is never the enemy that leads them from victory to defeat, but their own situation at home.

Although the Empire is tantamount to a behemoth to the current Weegand people, the Weegand themselves are strong enough to fight the expeditionary force that the Empire is currently investigating.

If the empire was blindly optimistic, then the Wiegand people had a severe "phobia of Pruuses" during the last Northern Expedition.

In the past few years, the Wiegand people have not stopped fighting wars, and most of the soldiers in the army have seen blood, but their leaders and generals have become weaker.

A thought slowly rose in Edward's mind.

This was the last time he participated in the Alliance, but he didn't expect that the war had not yet begun, and it had reached the point where he had to agree.

After a final glance at the embarrassed chiefs, he walked out of the tent.

Seeing that her brother had left, Jan naturally had no need to stay there, and she followed Edward's footsteps as well.

"We've already earned the trust of the coalition, so why are you leaving at this time?"

Jan couldn't help but ask after following Edward and the guards they brought with him, and after walking out of the tent area of the Beihai Alliance.

"Their lives are still too comfortable, if we don't let them bleed out, we will never get what we want!"

Edward exhaled the thoughts that had been stuck in his heart.

For a long time, when he was a child, most of the Wiegand generals and tribal chieftains he knew were Wiegand elites who were single-handedly promoted by his father Thoreau, coupled with Thoreau's "education" for more than ten years, at least they were all iron-blooded and capable of fighting, and they had never seen such a muddy, cowardly and arrogant Wiegand nobleman.

"I think my father was right, they deserved to die by the sword of the Great Prussians, and their strong arms were not used to protect their homeland and fight for enough food for their children and women, but to curry favor with cowards!"

"But what if...... Don't you worry that these people will surrender directly to the Legion of the Great Prus after they have endured their hardships, and when the time comes, we will not only gain nothing, but even our current position will ......."

Jan was already a little worried, since her father's death, without the "strong" example that her father had always set for her, she had become more and more like a real woman.

Although she still has a brave and strong side, and still has a strong competitive spirit, Fang Cai's performance in the camp is undoubtedly just a play for Edward.

The chiefs did not like an overly powerful man to be the leader of the coalition, and if they were not in the tent, they could not be easily subdued.

In fact, if it weren't for Young's previous move of slaughtering a warrior with two moves, when Edward proposed that he would become king, those chieftains would not have thought about gains and losses in their minds, but directly roared for Edward to get out.

Edward slowly stopped,

"The wolf will never negotiate with the sheep, and that is why it will not change the truth and the law. Even if the commanders of the Great Prussians wanted to negotiate with the cowards, their vassals would not agree. ”

Jan wanted to continue talking, but Edward, after hesitating for a moment, took the initiative to interrupt Jan from what he had not said.

"Some time ago, when I received the war letter from the little emperor of the Great Prus, I received a very interesting letter from other places......

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The Northern War was in full swing, and now it was about to reach the most critical juncture, and the entire Great Purus Empire, including all the regions of the Land of Dilistine, set their sights on that vast and barren land.

Although the cause of this battle was an accident, there were also inevitable elements mixed in it.

As the empire grew, the former tribal chieftains settled down and became landlords of one feudal farm after another.

Most of the farm landlords have tasted the life of being able to eat wheat all year round, and their strong thirst for land is not at all hindered by the cold and desolation.

These people had accumulated experience in the south, and now they are eager to pass on this skill to their neighbors in the north......

And in the east of the empire, an empire that has declined but has risen is turning its longing eyes to this rising star.

Empire of the Solomon Federation.

A country made up of a federation of cities.

Solomon is a country with a long history. Back in the tribal stage of the Prussians, the Solomon had established their own state, the Solomon Confederation. They united the tribes by means of peace rather than war, and established the Confederate State.

The Solomon Confederation is the most "fair" state on the continent. Their "nobility" was not born, but artificially elected, and the townspeople voted for those they considered the most respectable, and then such people became the rulers of the empire. Some of them were responsible for maintaining the city, others were responsible for governing the countryside, levying and collecting taxes, and so on.

The Solomon people were culturally brilliant and religiously scarce. They govern the country by laws and institutions, not by religious or moral constraints, and they have dozens of fairly well-established legal codes, but they do not have a complete religious book.

Solomon was once very glorious, and the entire continent was a vassal of the Solomon people. However, after a long period of civilizational leadership, Solomon's electoral system became more and more corrupt, the Federation's ability to control the region became worse and worse, and the internal contradictions of the Confederacy divided the Confederacy into three groups with relatively similar interests. The Federation of the Solomonic Family, the Federation of the House of Armenro, and the Federation of the House of Menper. Moreover, it is not only the upper echelons of the state that are in chaos, but also the cities and the countryside, which have almost lost control. Cities are governed by the towns' own councils, and orders from the federal parliament are often dealt with in the form of "discussion on hold". The countryside, on the other hand, tended to be barbaric, and the peasants began to openly rebel against the nobles sent from the cities, and unrest was everywhere.

Such a rich empire, lacking a strong centralized authority, is naturally to be coveted.

This is the reason why the so-called talent is not taken, but it is to blame.

Roughly because the country did not take the "barbarians" who wandered around him seriously at all, his rulers did not continue to expand their territory during the height of the Solomon's empire, but instead "withdrew" and left the "barbarians" to fend for themselves.

Of these, the country that has benefited the most is none other than the Great Pruz Empire today.

Although the empire had a series of "de-Solomonization movements" as early as the kingdom period, the culture of the former city-state was still stubbornly rooted in the cities of the empire, and even the free city established by the emperor of the empire, and the system of Valuno was modeled after a series of old products of Solomon's management of the city-state.

But in any case, this once-prosperous country is now suffering from a crisis far greater than its disintegration.

Losing its centralization and management of the countryside, the Solomon Empire lost its most important military and food base.

The Citizen Guard, which is recruited from the city, is enough to protect the towering walls around the city, but if you want to win a field battle, it is as difficult as a dream.

After the collapse of the empire, Solomon's city-stateized frontiers were virtually nonexistent.

The neighbors of the western part of the Solomon, because of geopolitical factors, have focused all their attention on the war to liberate the nation, and neglected the rich country in the east.

But for his "good neighbors" in the east, it was a feast.

The steppe people, also known as the Yassi people. When the Solomon Empire was strong, it was incorporated as a subordinate tribe, and often used advanced handmade products to buy the livestock of the steppe people, and the clever Solomonic merchants would even process the imported livestock into leather clothes, plush, buttermilk and other goods, and then sell them back to the steppe people at a high price.

It is in this relationship that the steppe people become the economic vassals of the Solomons.

In order to be able to buy more goods from the Solomons, the leaders of the steppe did not hesitate to develop harsher systems to oppress their fellow citizens......

And this endless oppression will only cause the former herdsman to lose all his possessions, and eventually become the slave of the chief.

Through this form, and learning from the deformities of the Solomons, the steppe people eventually evolved from the primitive tribal period to the first princes and nobles.

However, although these leaders gradually discovered that they were armed with a strong military, they did not think of taking the initiative to challenge the authority of the Solomonic Empire...... Until the collapse of the empire.

The empires of the three city-states were fought against each other, and these inexpensive steppe princes often became the most common mercenaries in the city-states' wars.

In one of the most absurd wars, the two families of Amenber and Menbolo were at odds over the ownership of a small frontier city.

The two sides of the war were the seven steppe princes and their hundreds of slave cavalry.

Each of the two families sent a "commander", but they were not involved in the war themselves, but were responsible for monitoring whether the princes of the steppes they hired were so loyal to themselves as they had promised.

Even more legendary, the commanders sent by the two families still wanted to be close to each other, so at the beginning of the war, one commander was invited by the other commander to "go up to the city wall to watch the battle".

The two of them, under the service of the steppe slaves they had brought with them, together with the urban nobles of the local town, spent a civilized afternoon on the city walls, drinking tea, eating snacks, and commenting and estimating the development of the war with relish.

The whole process was full of harmony, and the two sides did not even have a slight quarrel.

But the princes standing under the city urged their slaves, and at the same time, the people of their tribe to fight to the death, for fear that if the war was not fierce enough, these Solomonic nobles would find an excuse to deduct their hard-won income.

They took the most primitive weapons and fought for the most civilized.

Animal bones were sharpened to make spears, and bows were made from low-quality ox tendons purchased at high prices from Solomon's merchants.

The slaves on either side looked at their people, but they were most concerned about their own weapons.

Don't break down without killing your opponent.

The cost of making these things is not too low, and if possible, they even want to keep them for their children and grandchildren.

After a bloody battle under the city, the two sides lost dozens of people each.

The princes of both sides said goodbye to each other in the same language with red eyes, and then buried the warriors who died on the battlefield with the same etiquette.

And when they rushed to the city, Commander Solomon, who was on the wall, said impatiently.

They had already negotiated a settlement of their territorial dispute, so whether the steppe people won or lost, they could only pay half of what they promised.

Naturally, the princes could not accept this consequence.

"We have killed so many warriors in battle, their blood must not be shed in vain, and when they return to the grassland, they must always give an account to their wives and children. ”

The men of the steppe family are naturally the most important source of income for women and children, and although their death is acceptable to the princes, it must be worse for their family members.

After a brief moment of amazement, Solomon's nobles generously agreed to the steppe people's rude request.

"Hey, you untrustworthy barbarians, what do you have to do with us Solomons when you beat you? I'm in a good mood today and don't care about you like you. All of you who died today are counted in my account, and it's always okay for two people to exchange half a bag of grain, right?"

The princes were completely silent.

Although the agricultural level of the Solomon Empire is not high, there is always a harvest of more than ten times the harvest of a grain and half a bag of grain, which may be less than the consumption of a Solomon farmer's house for a week, but in the eyes of that nobleman, it can be exchanged for two lives of the Assians.

Eventually, they decided to get their fair share of the money they deserved.

The moment the Solomonic men opened the gates of the small city, the seven princes and their horsemen rushed in.

No one knew what was going on inside, but by the time the third day had passed, and each of the Twins had sent merchants to the city to find out the results, the town was still a deserted city.

The bodies of hundreds of citizens of the city were all chopped into pieces.

Only the commanders sent out by both of them left the whole corpse, one on the left and one on the right, hanging on the city gate, and half a sack of unhulled grain was placed underneath.

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