Chapter 982: Wildfire
From the very beginning, the Eternal Night Warlords were not satisfied with simple occupation, they also wanted to uproot the great tree that originally lived on this land and take root of their own.
If anyone had made such a statement to the Count of Nicillus half a day ago, he would still have scoffed.
But isn't that exactly what the other side is doing now?
Even the night attack in front of him, the other party was also prepared for this.
The magical giant who resembled Sophia did not appear sooner or later, but only when they gathered outside the Helian Pass, ready to open the mountain gate and rush into the fault mountain range.
It's definitely not a coincidence that can explain it.
This is more like the other party did it on purpose, and then it was convenient to catch them all, and he didn't even give them a chance to beg.
The battlefield they chose became their graves.
"It's really calculating, what a vicious method. The Count of Nickles, who had fully figured it out, laughed sadly, drew his sword, and wiped it towards his neck.
The sword was so fast and so fierce that most of Count Nickles' neck was cut open, and blood spurted wildly, and he lost his breath in a matter of minutes.
"Shogun......"
"Lord Earl......"
The lucky ones who followed the Count of Nickles let out a sad cry of the dead rabbit and the fox.
Snort!
In a matter of seconds, a number of people raised their swords and followed in the footsteps of the Count of Nickles.
It's not that they're stupid, it's that it's a relief in itself.
They were now in a large steaming furnace, and inside and outside the Helian Pass, they were already wrapped in fierce magical flames, and the sweat on their bodies had just come out, and before they had time to gather, they would be evaporated.
In a few minutes, they will be steamed.
Compared with this way of death, this way of death of the Count of Nickles is more painful.
"The Helian Pass has fallen, and our only retreat has been blocked. ”
"The situation is completely irreparable, everyone should run for their lives. ”
"The Flower Language Plateau is over! The Brian family is finished!"
"The Eternal Night Army is so vicious, they are going to kill them all!"
The burning Helian Pass became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
All the soldiers of the Huayu Plateau, looking at the burning mountain pass, showed a deep despair.
They didn't know what was going on here, they just thought that the other armies led by the Eternal Night had been killed from here, and they had turned them into sandwich biscuits.
The coalition army of the Flower Language Plateau completely collapsed, like a headless fly, along the mountain, fleeing on both sides, trying to break out of the encirclement of the Eternal Night Army.
But they are doomed to despair.
Because it was not a small force led by the Eternal Night Army that attacked from behind them, but five reorganized and strengthened main battle corps, nearly 50,000 people.
It was only two of them who had attacked them before.
The other three were in the direction where they were prone to collapse, setting up a pocket array, waiting for them to drill into it themselves.
Most of the scattered soldiers of the Huayu Plateau did not even see the face of the leading soldiers of the Eternal Night Army, so they fell on the blocking position.
Throughout, the Eternal Night Commander had no intention of taking prisoners.
It has to be said that Viscount Copperfield Gauld has a very accurate opinion of the Eternal Night Commander.
The disparity between the military strength of the Flower Language Plateau and the Eternal Night Army Leader is too great.
If the Eternal Night Commander wants to annex the Huayu Plateau, it is no longer a difficult matter.
In Sean's opinion, what is really difficult is the governance problem after the annexation of the Huayu Plateau.
The Flower Language Plateau is different from the crocodile people in the desperate swamp at the beginning, and it is also different from the Kentana barbarians on the ice field.
By the time the Eternal Night Warlords annexed the two, they had not been unified for many years.
Coupled with the fact that they were facing a crisis of environmental change at that time, it was easy for the Eternal Night Warlords to divide and rule over them through this.
The principle of Huayugao is different, the Brian family has ruled here for more than three hundred years, and although their ruling methods are not very clever, the orthodox concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Even if the Brian family was forced by the strong military strength of the Eternal Night Army, they chose to surrender.
The resettlement of local magnates will become a big headache.
If they are too harsh, they are likely to rebel repeatedly.
If it is too moderate, it will not be conducive to the Eternal Night Lord's creation of a stable rear and will continue to disperse their forces.
Under normal circumstances, the Eternal Night Leader might have taken ten or even twenty years out to slowly divide them.
The circumstances faced by the Eternal Night Leaders did not allow them to take such gentle measures.
The Military Staff, headed by Chief of General Staff Kelman, tailored an operational plan called "Wildfire" for the Huayu Plateau.
Taken from the idea that wildfires can start prairie fires.
The first step in this battle plan is to use the underground magic guide railway that the Eternal Night Army has been preparing for many years to make his elite army jump behind the elite of the Bryan family.
Take advantage of their defenselessness and inflict heavy losses on them in one fell swoop, even annihilating them.
It only took them half a day to do it perfectly.
Led by the Count of Nicholus, the more than 38,000 people who guarded the Helian Pass were less than 3,000 of the routs that wandered away, and the remaining 30,000 people were all buried here, and few were taken prisoner.
The Eternal Night Warlord declared that these elite members of the Bryan family, led by Count Nickles, swore to resist to the death and refused to surrender, and they were all killed in battle.
But only those routs who crawled out of the pile of dead people knew that the Eternal Night Commander had never given them a chance to surrender from beginning to end, and some of them knelt down and begged to surrender, and the other party didn't know that the bullets flying from afar directly killed them.
There were only five main battle legions of the Eternal Night Army Lords who attacked Helian Mountain Pass at night, while the Southwest Front Army of the Eternal Night Army that jumped into the Huayu Plateau had ten main battle legions.
The remaining five did not stubbornly defend the exit of the underground magic guide railway.
One main battle legion was enough to complete this task, and the remaining four main battle legions, at the same time, launched an attack on the private army of the local nobles of the Huayu Plateau in the southwest direction, which had not yet converged.
Although their achievements are not as brilliant as those of Helian Pass, they can also be called devastating.
On equipment.
The private army of the local nobles on the Huayu Plateau is still in the period of pure cold weapons.
The Eternal Night Army Commander is equipped with both hot and cold weapons, rifles and cannons, and has been massively assembled.
If you talk about the quality of soldiers.
The Huayu Plateau has not had much war for many years, and the armament is lax.
The Eternal Night Warlords have been expanding, and in the past five years, they have fought bloody battles against unconventional enemies like the Undead Empire, where all legions have fought in turns.
On the level of command.
One side belongs to a chaotic group, and there is no ragtag army under the system.
On the one hand, it has a complete structure, strict military regulations, and a unified whole with clear combat objectives and combat plans.
There is no comparison between all sides at all, and it is only hell that one side of the Flower Language Plateau can turn over the waves.
The battle between the Eternal Night Army Leader and the Flower Language Plateau, no matter whether there were many or few people, none of them lasted more than half a day.
All ended with the private army of the nobles of the Huayu Plateau being completely defeated.
After the Eternal Night Army led the Southwest Front Army to achieve a series of brilliant achievements, it did not fight fast and quickly advanced towards Huayu City, the Bryan family's nest.
Instead, he set up a position on the spot, with a posture of fighting a long battle.
On the contrary, the news that the Count of Nickles led the elite of the Brian family and died in the battle of Helian Pass was like a wing, and it flew all over the Huayu Plateau in the shortest time, and everyone knew it.
This is the second step in the wildfire plan – the autumn wind.
The Eternal Night Commander must give those revolutionaries enough window time before they have a chance to burn and completely burn the power of the nobles in the Huayu Plateau.
The revolutionaries did not live up to the expectations of the Eternal Night.
When they got the news that the private army of the local nobles who had been summoned away by Grand Duke Christine had been wiped out at the Helian Pass, there was no need for the encouragement of people with intentions, and many people took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
There are those who are for pure hatred.
There are also for the sake of lofty ideals.
There are also those who take advantage of the fire to rob and make a fortune from it.
No matter what purpose they are in or what their reason, most of the people they target are the local nobles of the Huayu Plateau.
This wildfire went completely ablaze after the Ashes captured several towns in succession and issued the Declaration of Independence.
Many forces, many people, have followed suit, and have declared their independence from the rule of the Brian family, and many people, who were ordinary people before, have now become revolutionaries.
At the beginning, the exploitation of the ruling class in the Huayu Plateau was heavy, and now the means of revenge are bloody and cruel.
Most people, especially those at the bottom, don't have that long-term vision at all, they will think about the future, they are more with a passable mentality.
As for what fate awaits them in the end, what awaits them on the Huayu Plateau, most people don't care at all.
This is the carnival of ordinary people on the Flower Language Plateau, but it is the end of those noble classes, including those rich merchants, whether they were benevolent or cruel before.
Because those revolutionary parties have become extremely brutal and bloody under the influence of the general environment.
Their wealth was divided, their wives and daughters and their families were adultered, and their lives were killed.
What was once home, what was once a happy land, became their hell.
If you want to escape from here, you can't find a way.
In this land, as long as there are people, there is no security.
You can't escape if you want to, because all the safe passages to escape here have fallen into the hands of the Eternal Night Lord.
The current attitude of the Eternal Night Army Leader is very warm, although they do not openly support the Revolutionary Party, their immobility is the best connivance and acquiescence to them.
They even used the suspicion of being a spy to deny entry and exit to their territory to any of the Highlanders of Huayu, including those with whom they had economic dealings.
These people have now lost their use value, and once the Eternal Night Army Leader swallows the Huayu Plateau, there is no need for their group of middlemen to give away some of their interests.
Flower Language City has become the last haven for most nobles.
Archduke Christine became their last hope.
There are also tens of thousands of elites of the Brian family here, who did not go to the Helian Pass and survived.
If this army is taken out to fight against the Eternal Night Army, it will only be to deliver food to others, and it will not be enough for people to eat for half a day.
But it was more than enough to deter those revolutionary parties.
After all, the revolutionary party now only occupies a large number of people, and in terms of equipment and training, it is still a rabble.
There are still differences and conflicts between various organizations and parties, not to mention cooperation, and it is good that the two sides do not fight as soon as they meet.
If you want to capture a big city like Huayu City, even the Ash Party, which is known as the first major revolutionary party, will not have this ability in a short period of time.
Before dawn, outside the castle of Grand Duke Christine, nobles fleeing from all directions had gathered.
"When exactly will Your Majesty receive us?"
"It's the fifth day, and your majesty still won't come forward to meet us?"
"Escaping will not solve any problems, and if Your Majesty continues to evade, all of us will die with no place to bury. ”
Seeing that the sun had gone over, the castle of Brian was still lifeless, and there was no sign of receiving these noble lords.
These noble lords couldn't sit still.
Even if the other party is his own king, he can't help but accuse.
Their territory is being ravaged by mobs, and their wealth is being divided and looted.
For every day of delay, they suffer huge losses.
Many of them still have hope, hoping that the Grand Duke Christine can lead them to turn the tide, at least on the way to the Flower Language Plateau, they have hope.
But Archduke Christine's various performances really poured cold water on them.
Many people have been in Huayu City for several weeks, and they haven't even seen Archduke Christine, and in the past week, they have completely closed their castles and not received anyone.
The reason is that the Adonian scholar, who had served the Brian family for more than half a century, died of a serious illness, and Archduke Christine wanted to hold a vigil for him.
If Archduke Christine had done this in normal times, no one would have said a word about it, and they would have to praise him for his kindness, for there is no one who does not like a ruler who remembers old feelings.
But in this case, it would be very problematic for him to do this again.
In the eyes of many, Archduke Christine is using the funeral of the Adonian scholars as an excuse to escape the harsh reality that the Brian family is now facing.
"Please also forgive your Majesty's difficulties, a few weeks ago, Your Majesty received the bad news that the Count of Nicholas had died in battle, and now that the scholar has left His Majesty, the situation on the plateau is deteriorating at a not optimistic rate, even an iron man cannot withstand such a series of blows.
I know the anxiety in your hearts, but we are one, and Your Majesty is not anxious, and even above all of you, let us give Your Majesty a little more time, and I believe that Your Majesty will be able to lead us out of the predicament. ”
Calvin, the intelligence minister of the Grand Duke Christine, tried hard to defend his king, and as for whether he himself believed these words completely or not, he was the only one who knew.