When two urgent letters from the capital were presented to General Jackson, he was so angry that he almost smashed the table in the conference room.

Just a few days ago, after Adjutant Seth led 5,000 light cavalry as the vanguard to search for the princess in the southern part of the empire, our Grand General Jackson finally prepared the food for the army to pull, and finally left the capital with 50,000 horses mobilized from all over the country.

At this moment, he happened to be stationed in the city-state of Nicholon on the central edge of the empire, and he received an urgent letter from Prime Minister Ness and a personal letter from King Sutton II, and the two men informed Jackson of the same thing, but gave two completely different orders.

This deceptive operation directly startled General Jackson, who was stunned, and did not speak for a long time.

It turned out that the Erne Empire took advantage of the gap between the Saada Empire's troops to rush to the southern region, and suddenly attacked its northern border, and soon broke through the border, all the way forward.

And a force of 5,000 iron cavalry successfully bypassed the border line, crossed the Zorg Mountains to reach the vicinity of the capital, and immediately surrounded the royal city as soon as the news of the border was breached, so that the Saada royal family and nobles had no chance to escape.

This is a naked conspiracy, a conspiracy to destroy the Saada Empire, leaving no room for anything.

If it had been placed in the past, Erne would never have dared to make such a dangerous move. In this way, even if he can conquer the Sada Empire, Erne will pay a huge price, at least the encroachment policy that Erne has always pursued is much more effective than this.

But now it is different, the army near the royal city has been drawn to the southern region, which is the time when the garrison of the royal city is the weakest, and only 5,000 cavalry can make the Sada royal family dare not abandon the city and flee.

And they only need the stalemate to reach the arrival of the army on the border of Erne, and the Saada Empire will cease to exist.

Therefore, King Sathon II thought that the defeat was certain, and asked General Jackson to lead his army south to meet the princess, retain the blood of the Saada royal family and a certain number of troops, and withdraw to the mountainous areas in the western part of the empire, and wait for the next day to rise again.

And this has the advantage of letting the Erne Empire encounter the zombie hordes in the process of advancing south, and burn all the jade.

And Prime Minister Ness is not willing to give up the country laid by the old king like this, thinking that there is still a chance to fight to the death. So General Jackson, who had left the capital not long ago, was urgently recruited to rush to the royal city to solve the crisis.

This made our General Jackson so anxious that he held several emergency meetings and discussed all morning without coming to a conclusion. Jackson knew he had to make a choice by the afternoon at the latest, and immediately spurred south or north.

As we mentioned earlier, King Saton II ignored the government for many years, and Prime Minister Ness was solely responsible for government affairs. So even though it was clearly the King's orders that were more secure this time, Jackson chose to trust Prime Minister Ness in his haste.

"The worst result of rushing to the aid of the capital is only a vigorous death in battle, and it is not the style of a great general to escape the grievances of the war and go into the mountains. Jackson comforted himself inwardly.

In the end, Jackson's chivalry finally overcame his reason, and he resolutely embarked on the road of no return to the capital. Again, a general can never talk about chivalry, because he is not fighting for him alone.

If our General Seth were here, he would definitely choose to preserve his strength and retreat into the mountains, waiting for a chance to make a comeback. Unfortunately, our General Seth was still besieged by zombies in the city-state of Rusifa and died of corpse poison shortly after.

When General Jackson led his army to the royal capital day and night, tens of thousands of Erne's army stood between him and the capital. All the cavalry, and besides, the large army of the Ernnes was on their way, and Sada's army was still a step late.

But General Jackson knew that retreat was no longer possible, and the opposing cavalry would not allow him to go away so easily.

"With the addition of the 10,000 defenders in the city, our side has an advantage in numbers. But his 50,000 men rushed here day and night, and they were already exhausted.

The Ernns, on the other hand, have been waiting for a quick battle and need to fight quickly, while the other side can wait for reinforcements. The odds are only five-five. Jackson quickly thought about it in his heart.

The fierce battle lasted until dawn the next day, and finally the Saada army successfully defeated the Ernnes under the front and rear attacks, which shows that General Jackson had a certain military talent.

It's a pity that in the face of a defeated war, the general's talent seems to be less important, and from the moment General Jackson chooses to come back, his end has long been doomed.

Before General Jackson could prepare his army for evacuation, a large army of the Ernnes had reached the capital.

The second siege began again, this time the siege of the Ernnes did not only besiege and not attack like last time, but decided to gather superior forces and launched a fierce attack, after all, this time the large army of the Ernians had arrived, and they really did not want to continue to drag on.

Half a month later, after paying a terrible price, the Ernnes still broke through the century-old capital.

On that day, the entire city experienced a massacre, and the Ernians seemed to have vented all their anger on the people of the city, even the orders of the superior officers to prohibit the slaughter of the people could not restrain them.

Emperor Saton II set fire to his palace and ended his twenty years as an absurd monarch in blood and fire, not forgetting the poetry of a man of letters.

After the city was broken, Prime Minister Ness hanged himself on the beam of the hall after exclaiming, "The country is dead".

As for General Jackson, he died in the defense of the palace, doing his duty as a general.

The massacre continued throughout the day until there was a river of blood and the entire streets of the capital were soaked in blood.

However, this was far from the bloody massacre of Queen Lina's capital and various city-states many years later. Of course, that's another story. At this moment, our Princess Lina is still an immature child, and she has just escaped from the encirclement of zombies under the protection of Luo Fan.

After leaving the grove, Rofan took the princess on a journey for a few more days. It wasn't until the contact in the past few days that Luo Fan really felt the charm of Princess Linna's personality.

Previously, the princess had been living in a tent under the protection of Seth and the personal guards, and Luo Fan basically had little chance to get close to her. Even Lofan's only image of Princess Lina was the sacredness and nobility of the night General Seth's death.

But now Luo Fan saw the approachable side of the princess. At least for so long, the princess has been the same food, clothing, housing and transportation as them, without a little complaint, and there is no princess frame at all.

Rather than being a princess, Lofan felt that she was more like a girl next door. "Maybe that's what it's called aristocracy. Luo Fan sighed in his heart.

Luo Fan and his party marched for a few more days, and finally reached the edge of the central region of the empire. Not long after, they arrived at the nearby city-state of Nicholon, the city where General Jackson had previously stayed.

According to the original plan, the princess would repair here for a while, and then go to the capital under the escort of a guard.

And because of his merit in escorting the princess, Luo Fan can also lead his men and horses to the capital with the princess to receive the medal of King Satun II and reward him. But apparently, this is no longer possible.

After Luo Fan overheard the soldiers stationed in the city talking about General Jackson's hasty withdrawal to the capital half a month ago, he smelled a sense of unease.

Especially thinking of the reinforcements that General Seth had mentioned to him before and the expressions of those high-ranking officials in the Nicholon city-states, Luo Fan was even more sure of his guess that something bad must have happened.

"But what is it? Luo Fan thought about it for a long time but didn't understand, so he simply put it aside.

It wasn't until a few days later that news of the fall of the royal city reached the city-state of Nicholon that Rofan understood what was going on. The whole city exploded at once, from the lords to the ordinary people, and all of them panicked at once.

A few days later, the sentinels in front sent another message that the Ernn army had been repaired and could be slaughtered at the city-state of Nicholon at any time.

This frightened the already panicked Nicholon soldiers and civilians, especially after learning of the massacre of the capital by Erne's army, many of whom fled to the south in pairs overnight.

Although everyone knows that the south is full of demons crawling out of hell, it is clear that the Erne army is much more terrifying than the devil in the eyes of the people at this time.

Of course, it was also because they hadn't really spent time in the South. If Luo Fan had to choose, he would rather face the hundreds of thousands of Erne's army than the countless zombie legions.

However, in many cases, for the public, there are some things that they can only really understand the meaning of if they accept some lessons, but the price of this lesson seems to be a bit too big, so big that they may not have the opportunity to regret their choice.

At this time, Luo Fan, who was in the city-state of Nicholon, knew that it was almost time for them to leave here, and it was no longer safe.

No matter how confident Luo Fan was, he didn't think that his team of 500 people would survive the iron hooves of the hundreds of thousands of Erne's troops, even if they were equipped with high-tech weapons far beyond this world civilization.