It was already a low-hanging fruit, but Alice hesitated at this time, and she began to recall the plan she had made at the beginning, and began to examine her own mindset when making the plan.

Gorm is too dangerous, so Alice feels threatened, if it is according to the plan, after the defeat of Attila, the Scandinavian Empire will be sharply weakened, Gorm and Siegel will contend with each other, and the entire empire will be split in two.

But now, Alice is very skeptical, Holm who has mastered the army, Siegel can defeat him head-on, and today's drama makes Alice understand that Gorm is not only a good military strategist, but also a good politician.

Politically, if Siegel can defeat the opponent's army on a frontal battlefield, the First Scandinavian Empire will be replaced by the Second Scandinavian Empire.

Although she felt that Siegel did not intend to fulfill the agreement made between the Scandinavian Empire and the Baltic Empire, she simply gave up Siegel and let the investment she had given before go down the drain, and she was still a little unwilling in her heart.

"It seems that our plans are going to change, the Scandinavian Empire, no, it should be said that the Scandinavian coalition cannot win so easily, and if the Attila Empire loses like this, the person who benefits the most will become Gohm. ”

"Politically, the victorious Gorm, his prestige will be unmatched in this land, the elves and dwarves will become his de facto support, even the giants will not find a reason to be his enemy, it is conceivable that if he is supported by some gods at this time, the First Empire will be replaced by the Second Empire. ”

There is never harmony between the gods and the gods, and they have many conflicts that are difficult to resolve, just like the contradictions between Loki and the other gods, and when Siegel rises, the other gods will have to pinch their noses to support Siegel because of the overall situation.

However, when there is someone who can compete with Siegel, or even better than Siegel, the gods will not hesitate to change the object of support, partly to gain more benefits, and on the other hand, they are also taking revenge on Loki for causing him to suffer.

"But the Attila Empire is too dangerous, if we can't destroy the Attila Empire this time, then we need to deal with their counterattack, there is no better chance than now, Beamon has been trapped below, and all that remains is famine and plague and Attila. ”

Semiramis persuaded that she did not want to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat the Attila Empire, in her opinion, the Attila Empire, which had been pursuing victory all along, and the pursuit of destroying the enemy, was too dangerous.

"Well, indeed, if we don't kill Atila and her remaining two knights here, we'll all need to be on guard against possible attacks in various parts of the empire for a long time to come, and a dragon attacking from the front is never as terrible as a viper hiding in the grass. ”

In this world, no one knows more about guerrilla warfare than Alice, after all, the sixteen-character policy has been studied by her over and over again for some time, and it should be in a large number of simulation games.

"They will not let us go, Karelia, Finland, Rus' are now occupied by us, if they lose this war, then they will lose their territory and people, and they will lose their remaining army. ”

Semiramis said coldly, she has always been a person who likes to nip danger in the bud, and it is very different from Alice, who looks ahead and calculates everything correctly, and makes sure that there are no accidents.

"No, no, no, they won't have our sights set on us, even if we had taken over their territory, effectively dismantled their empire, and turned them from victors to remnants. ”

"Attila and her family still have half of Scandinavia's territory, although it is a newly conquered territory, but this side of the land is much more fertile than Karelia and Finland, as long as they set their minds to develop for a while, they have no chance of turning defeat into victory. ”

"Semiramis, if it were you, when you were weak and hungry, with a strong, prime-aged beast on your left, and two wounded cubs on your right, which would you choose as your target for dinner?"

"It must be that the two cubs who are fighting, when they are exhausted from fighting, and then when they have regained their strength, filled their stomachs, and returned to their heyday, they will go to fight against the strong beasts, because only in this way can he be the victor among the three forces. ”

Alice is very calm, she analyzes the current situation on the entire battlefield, trying to find the most critical place to intervene in order to obtain the greatest benefits for the Baltic Empire.

"Semiramis, do you think the three of them, no, the four of them can unite, they will?"

"Which four?"

"Francis Drake, Siegel, Gorm, and Attila, do you think these four enemies of ours will unite and attack us because of our common enemy?"

"Francis Drake can unite with them, and Gorm can unite with Siegel, but they and Attila will always be enemies, and the hatred between them cannot be resolved in a few words. ”

"The greatest possibility is that they will fight separately, attack our empire in all directions, and fight a tacit battle without interfering with each other...... However, it is impossible to interfere with each other. ”

It's like on the eve of the Three Kingdoms, the so-called eighteenth road princes are begging for Dong, but what the powerful coalition army has obtained is the end that makes the whole world fall apart, there is no common purpose, and the princes with evil intentions, even if they have the same enemy, will try their best to dig holes for their nominal allies.

"So, aren't we going to interfere in this war? Let them lose both, just like the previous two Western Crusades, so that both sides will be wounded but not killed, waiting for the next Western Crusades?"

"Well, if the situation does not change, it is in our best interest to do so, a chaotic Scandinavia is in the interest of all of us, and now our wings are not fully plumped, and we are not yet strong at the level of the gods, and if we can, I don't want our empire to unify the whole of the Northland too soon. ”

"We need time to develop, we need time that can be given to us to settle down, we need to accumulate, whether it is the empire or ourselves, things never happen overnight, and there are no shortcuts to many things. ”

Alice persuaded Semiramis, who knew what Semiramis was thinking, and wanted to make the empire grow and grow in a short period of time, so that she could have the power to compete with the gods.

However, the fact is that too rapid development will only grow into a giant baby, and an empire without a foundation, like the Attila Empire, will develop in a very short period of time and will also decline in a very short period of time.

Attila is powerful, and her army is also strong, but it is precisely because of this strength that it will lead to the collapse of her empire, because military strength masks her political and economic weakness, and when the Baltic Empire is targeted in this regard, the Attila Empire cannot come up with a plan that can be defended.

"Sorry, Alice, for worrying you. ”

After a long silence, Semiramis calmed her inner agitation, of course she understood some things, and knew how to do what was most appropriate, but these things were contrary to her inner impulses.

"No, it's nothing, things are never smooth sailing, no matter how perfect the plan will go wrong, we can't eliminate all the accidents, we can only try to reduce the occurrence of accidents as much as possible, so that things are under our control. ”

Alice smiled, she reached out and grabbed Semiramis's hand, feeling the tenderness coming from the palm of her hand, and said.

They no longer intend to let this war end today, and completely decide a victory, because they want to continue this war and not end it here, since Francis Drake has made a choice, then when they think about things, there is no need to take Francis Drake into account, as an ally of the Empire, consider her interests and relationships.

The division of the Scandinavian Empire is a given, a fact that is difficult to change, and the remnants of the Attila Empire will occupy half of Scandinavia, and the most fertile eastern plains to lick their wounds.

The Baltic Empire, which had swallowed Karelia, Finland, and Rus', emerged as the biggest winners, and they had to deal with the possible wave of rebellion in their newly occupied territories.

Not all people will turn their backs on Atila, not all people will aspire to go back and accept the arrangements of the Baltic Empire, and in this land, there are many people who would rather die freely than live in confinement.

Just like the orcs of the past, they knew that there was a clear gap between themselves and the Attila army, and that the chances of their rebellion winning were very slim, but they still shouted the slogan that they did not want to be slaves and would not be free in the near future, and they lost their lives under the butcher's knife of the Atilla army one after another.

In Karelia and Finland, the situation is a little better, and most of the people who are still resisting are the gnolls who still have relatives who have joined the Attila army on the front line, and they are so loyal to the Attila that they do not choose to give in even when their homes are destroyed and their food is burned, and they do not choose to give in when they are cold and hungry.

On the Rus' side, the situation was much worse, and even though the Baltic Empire had infiltrated the region for many years, there were still a considerable number of tribes who were unwilling to obey the orders of the Empire when the Empire became the masters of the land.

Because of the abundance of the Rus' steppes, the abundance of resources, and the trade with the Baltic Empire in recent years, these tribes were lifted out of poverty, and their armies used weapons and armor from the Baltic Empire, which was not much worse than the regular army of the Baltic Empire in terms of combat effectiveness.

Speaking of which, this is a miscalculation on the part of Alice, who originally planned to trade with the tribes of the Rus steppe, thinking that by supporting the rise of these tribes, she could plant a time bomb in the backyard of the Attila Empire.

When duty and duty do not match, these ambitious tribes of the Rus' steppes will raise the banner of rebellion, like the centaurs and giants of the Northlands, fighting the Attila Empire for their own benefit.

But I didn't expect that the situation in the Northland would develop so rapidly, and in just one year, the Attila Empire was successfully disintegrated, and these tribes with power now turned their heads and used their power on their former collaborators, now their nominal masters.

Yes, it's not surprising at all, they finally solved the shackles on their heads, no one wants to give up their hard-won freedom, they know that compared to the Attila Empire, the Baltic Empire is not inferior at all, but there is still a fluke mentality in their hearts, and they feel that they can win the war with the Baltic Empire, become the next Atira, and establish the next Attila Empire.

Of course, the Baltic Empire will not be afraid of the challenge of these ambitious people, no matter how brave the praying mantis is, standing in the way of the wheels will only have the end of being crushed, and the centaur troops are constantly moving in the steppe, leaving behind tribes engulfed in flames and wreckage burned by flames.

Countless women and children were enslaved, flooding the slave markets of Jutland, where women of appropriate age would be sold and used as tools for reproduction, while children would be educated uniformly, and even when they grew up, they would have to pay a certain amount of labor and wealth to be converted from slaves to freemen.

Although they once had a blood feud with the Empire, under the influence of time and circumstance, they will integrate into the Empire, become a tiny part of the Empire's progress, and contribute their value to the Empire.

However, even so, the Rus' side still could not be pacified in a short time, the centaur army is very suitable for fighting in the grassland, and their weapons and tactics are very advanced, but in the end they are also flesh and blood, and if they are cut off and pierced in the heart, they will still usher in the end of death.

Therefore, the turmoil of the Rus will continue for a long time, and the empire will continue to shed blood there, and continue to invest a lot of resources in that side to stabilize the situation of the Rus, until the land is completely incorporated into the territory of the empire.

Therefore, a three-kingdom Scandinavia, an excuse for Francis Drake to give up completely tearing his face, is very necessary at this time, it can buy the empire a lot of time.