"Now that we have a reason to attack Scandinavia, all we need now is to wait quietly for the long cold winter to pass. ”

Semiramis said with a little meaning.

This is the end of the Scandinavian strategy meeting for the next Baltic Empire, and the focus of the empire will be on Scandinavia in the north, and other expansions will be suspended.

This winter, the Scandinavians will feel how cold it has been, without supplies from the Baltic Empire, no way to obtain imports from outside the peninsula, and their entire civilization will be set back twenty years, once again to the time when they needed to wear thin clothes and go to the forest to find food in the cold winter months.

At this time, the limitations of civilization developed by relying on others were vividly expressed, and after being cut off from outside import channels, there was no way to solve the problem on its own.

According to the habit of Scandinavia many years ago, in the case of difficult food and cold weather, the baby in the family will face the difficult situation of no milk, and the old people will disappear into the wilderness silently without anything for the sake of the continuation of the offspring. Rather than being a burden to the whole family, these elderly people would rather choose to die silently.

Not only that, but the blows from other sides of the Baltic Empire will increase the shortage of supplies, and the people of Scandinavia will have the harshest period after the ice and snow disaster, no, maybe they will have to face a worse situation than the ice and snow disaster, because at that time they still had Beowulf, but now they only have Gohm.

The inhabitants of Scandinavia were extremely surprised that the Baltic Empire had suddenly become so aggressive, they did not quite understand why the Baltic Empire would do such a thing, it was clear that the two sides had been friendly for a long time, from the time of Beowulf to the time of Siegel, Scandinavia and the Baltic Empire had a deep friendship relationship.

In response to this, rumors began to circulate in Scandinavia as to why the Baltic Empire would do this, and one of the most widely circulated theories was that it was because Gomm founded the United Kingdom and killed Siegel, after all, it was rumored that it was because of the personal friendship between Siegel and Sigourney and Alice that the Baltic Empire was willing to support the last war.

Many people know that this is nonsense, but there are still many more people who believe this rumor, and then become dissatisfied with the United Kingdom and Golm, they do not want to prepare for the invasion of the Baltic Empire, but ask Gorm to repair relations with the Baltic Empire, hoping to escape the threat of war through this practice.

Under such circumstances, they still believe that the Baltic Empire cannot take action against Scandinavia, and that as long as the United Kingdom admits its mistakes to Scandinavia and makes some compensation, it can change the current situation and repair the relationship between the two.

It was not only the people below who were panicking, but even the king of the United Kingdom, Gohm, was beginning to make up his mind at this time, he didn't know if the Baltic Empire's actions were just a threat, or if he really planned to make a move against Scandinavia, really like the westward expedition of the Attila Empire, with the purpose of conquering Scandinavia.

Then, the problems in the country completely panicked him, and in the capital he named Norway Fort, there was a small civil strife, and the Goths fought with the dwarves, resulting in dozens of casualties on both sides.

There is no way to verify the cause of the incident, and the two sides of the conflict and the people in the know have been turned into corpses, but according to the surviving survivors, it should be a small matter that seems insignificant to others.

However, it is not surprising that it happened to the Scandinavians and the dwarves, both of whom are hot-tempered races, and they will fight every day over small things, which will evolve into all-martial arts.

Although the brawl was temporarily stopped because of the intervention of the army, the dead were properly buried, and the injured were treated, this did not mean the end of the matter, but because the intervention of the army became more complicated, which made Gorm feel more tricky and difficult to solve.

The armies in the United Kingdom are not a mixture of races, but each army is composed of fixed races, and now it is no longer civilians who are facing off, but dwarven armies and Scandinavian armies, armed with the art of killing, equipped, organized and commanded.

They are still exercising restraint because of Gorm's prestige, but this restraint cannot be maintained forever, and if such conflicts continue to appear and appear frequently, then it is conceivable that there will be a battle between them, and Gorm will not be able to stop the battle.

This is actually not bad, because the civil war will not break out anytime soon, and the real bad part is that Gorm's reputation among the elves and dwarves has begun to decline, and it is difficult for them to trust Gorm's decision 100% as before.

Because at the end of the day, Gohm is a human being, and regardless of his attitude, his identity determines that there will be a trace of doubt in the hearts of other races, and this doubt is difficult to dispel.

It became especially difficult to take off the tinted glasses when they were put on, and Gorm had to work harder than before to gain the trust of the races, and it was difficult for him to get them to perform tasks that were not specified.

There was only one word to describe Gorm's present state at this time, and he left the palace and went deep into the army, or to the city square to give a lecture on the problems that the United Kingdom was now facing.

He hoped that he could use his speech to calm the situation, to restore his prestige among the people and the army, to calm the situation down, or to ease it temporarily, and to use the external contradictions of the Baltic Empire to divert all kinds of domestic pressures and conflicts.

Not only that, but he also organized some special hunting teams in the army to go deep into the mountains to find those animals that have hibernated, hunt prey to relieve the pressure on food in the United Kingdom, this is not an easy thing, hibernating animals will hide themselves very deeply, even experienced hunters, can not find many nests in a day, how many prey, more often they will only come back empty-handed.

He also organized the women of the people, sent an army to protect them, and went to the forest outside the city to cut down wood to use as fuel to light the fire and dispel the cold of winter, which aroused the displeasure of the elves and druids, but in order to ensure the stability of the United Kingdom, they still exercised restraint and suppressed these grievances for the time being.

The caster and the doctor were also mobilized and organized by him to treat people suffering from diseases due to the severe cold, this treatment was completely free, he needed to use these methods to stabilize the situation in the country, but the medicinal materials consumed in it were a problem, without the export of the Baltic Empire, those medicinal materials in the warehouse could not be used at all, because they were war reserves.

Without the treatment of medicinal herbs, one can imagine how desperate those doctors and patients are, they can only watch one patient after another in front of them, because of the lack of medicine to swallow their last breath, and more are forced amputation, after all, in such an environment, the most patients are from frostbite caused by tissue necrosis.

On the one hand, he sent an envoy to the Baltic Empire to meet with the rulers of the empire and ask if it was because of the misunderstanding in Siegel, whether he could return to the previous state of peace and not cause too much conflict.

On the other hand, he strengthened his ties with the Atila Empire, hoping to get the other side to stop the conflicts that were taking place on the margins, and hoping to obtain the understanding of the other side, and to carry out a verbal offensive and defensive alliance to jointly deal with the possible invasion of the Baltic Empire and maintain the independence of Scandinavia.

As soon as the envoy to the Baltic Empire left Scandinavia, there was no follow-up, and not only the envoy, but all those who left Scandinavia had no message, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.

And in the North Sea, their ships have no way to go to sea, from the sea to the bottom of the sea are not blocked, without the support of the United Kingdom, those who rebelled against the empire of the sea tribe were quickly exterminated, or surrendered to join the empire, become a part of the empire, without the help of these sea tribes, all the ships have not left the sight of the people on the shore, they will be sunk by the enemy's attack, even the boat can not be used, all the people are torn apart by the sharp teeth of sharks.

This represents the bankruptcy of Gohm's previous plan to use the instability of the North Sea to contain the imperial experience and buy time for the United Kingdom to develop, and now he has not seen it for a year, and he is about to start facing a behemoth like the Baltic Empire, a strong enemy who has no way to start, and no matter how hard he struggles, he can't see hope.

Golia, Golia's side has completely lost hope, he doesn't believe that Golia has such prestige, can let his troops in the winter, abandon their tribes to attack the Baltic Empire, and he doesn't think that Goliath can really break through the Baltic Empire's camp and then plunder the Rus' region.

The only good news was for the Attila Empire, where the knights promised to stop the skirmishes against the United Kingdom, and promised that if the Baltic Empire landed in Scandinavia, they would launch an offensive on the Karelian side to reclaim the lands previously occupied by the Baltic Empire.

In this regard, Gaum still believes in the Attila Empire, and believes that they will work hard to regain the land that was previously occupied and taken away, but it is unknown how much of the results of the efforts will be.

However, the premise of the Attila Empire's action was that the Baltic Empire landed in Scandinavia, and Gohm felt that the United Kingdom he had established would collapse before the Baltic Empire really launched an attack and landed, because the outbreak of internal contradictions would make the entire United Kingdom doomed.

Who would have imagined that such a thing would happen, the United Kingdom system proposed by Gohm, after giving certain rights and discourse to the various races under him, in exchange for not unity, but into the struggle for power and mutual attack and defense, the original mutual respect, mutual understanding of the tribal chiefs and chiefs, after gaining the rights, changed their faces, not everything is based on Gohm's advice.

Of course, before the establishment of this kingdom, Gohm had thought about how to solve these problems that would inevitably erupt, and he thought about using the peaceful period to slowly resolve these contradictions, to take back the power step by step into his own hands, and in the process to strengthen his position and prestige.

Peaceful times, the Baltic Empire will not give him such a peaceful period, now and before is completely different, they will not let Scandinaia appear a strong country, Alice and Semiramis are not the ones who give the enemy a chance, they prefer to completely destroy the enemy before it grows up.

Time does not stop because Gorm is overwhelmed and anxious, the plans of the Baltic Empire are still going on in an orderly and unstable manner, and the Hassan are secretly stirring up contradictions between the various races in the United Kingdom, and are trying to ruin Gorm's reputation among other races.

No, it's a very simple thing, they just water and fertilize the seeds that are already there, and loosen the soil by the way, but Hassan didn't go too far, controlling the level of the contradictions, and not letting the United Kingdom fall into civil strife completely.

As to why, it was for Alice and Semiramis to consider, considering that if the various races in Scandinavia were too antagonistic, it would affect the future rule of the empire in the region.

The United Kingdom was on the brink of civil war, and the Attila Empire was nervous, as it was difficult for them to buy Empire goods from Baltic merchants because of their previous bad relations with the Baltic Empire.

They were already in a state of blockade, and it didn't matter if it was more serious, they hunted and planted their own food, mined their own minerals, and produced their own equipment.

Although there was an unbridgeable gap between them and the Baltic Empire, on the other hand, they were able to escape the Empire's control over them, being poor and hard, but they were able to gain their own autonomy.