Chapter 172: Political Game
War is a continuation of politics, and it is not as simple as it seems, such as the bloody incident that happened in the Elven Palace two years ago. The elf king and queen were originally a very loving couple, but they disagreed on politics, which caused the two to slowly sleep in the same bed.
The Elven King's thinking is very traditional, he thinks that he should follow the training and the experience of the Elven Kings of the past dynasties, although he is a king, but he still has to listen to the opinions of the Presbyterian Council, and the queen thinks that the Elders' full strength is too great and should be weakened, otherwise he has no sense of security as a queen, and may be impeached by the Presbyterian Council for various reasons at any time.
The facts became more and more serious, and finally after an elf council suggested that the queen was not suitable for a male child on the grounds that the queen had not given birth to a boy, the elf queen decided to carry out a coup d'état, otherwise she would be removed sooner or later, and watch another female elf sit on the supreme throne. As for the elven king's flamboyance and nightfall, it didn't matter to the power-hungry queen, she just needed this reason to win the sympathy of the female elves.
After the coup d'état, the position of the Council of Elders was most threatened, and these elders split off under the banner of "exterminating the usurpers and avenging the Elven King" and took control of a large area of land southwest of the Everfree Forest. The elders knew that all they needed was a puppet king, but the elven king had no heirs other than the current princess, and this princess was just as uninterested in the Elders as her mother, and even more difficult to deal with than her mother. Unable to support the new king, the elven elders will pay attention to the queen, and even privately propose that as long as they agree to their conditions, they can submit to the queen.
Therefore, the series of events of the elven royal family is nothing more than a conflict between the royal power and the elder's power, and once one side gives in, the war will end in the next moment.
The elders refused to budge, and the queen could not guarantee victory in this war, and a third party was urgently needed to intervene. At this time, humans happened to appear in the Endless Forest, and the queen decided to start the idea of humans. As for why he chose Lin Qian instead of Nanyang, it was because of one person, a person from Feynman City.
Soon after the canyon was opened, the first to enter the Everfree Forest through the canyon was not the mercenaries, this person walked through the canyon directly under the noses of Ryan and the others, and then walked all the way through the forest. The elves couldn't see the existence of this person at all, and some elves even ran from the ground to the ground to breathe the wind, which was seen by this person, and finally he came to the elf king's palace in the depths of the forest, and came directly to the elf queen.
The queen vividly remembered the scene when he saw this man, she had just executed a tired male elf that day, and was sitting on her elven throne thinking about things, when suddenly a dark shadow appeared in the hall.
The queen just wanted to call someone, but suddenly saw that the person in front of her did not have the ears unique to the elves, and his strength was unfathomable, so she looked at it cautiously and asked, "Who is Your Excellency? Could it be that the human beings on the other side of the mountain are not successful?"
The human nodded, and said, "You must have heard of the name of Lipsus, right?"
"Lipsus?" the queen was shocked, "what do you have to do with him?"
"In Nizhny Neuer, a student of Lipsus. Neuer replied lightly, he was not proud of this status in his heart.
"Where is the Venerable Master now?" the queen did not know what to do, thinking that Lipsus had sent him to negotiate, and began to get close.
Neuer chuckled: "He died, I killed him." ”
The elf queen thought to herself that she was all the way, and they were all cruel to their relatives who were not related by blood. Lipsus came here more than ten years ago, and was the first human to come to the elven territory in modern times, when the elven queen was only a queen who had just given birth to a child, and saw the power of the old human man with her own eyes. He was not defeated in the face of the siege of several elders at that time, and finally the elven king had nothing to do with him, so he turned to treat him as a guest, and the two chatted until late at night, and the old man left the next day.
Neuer was obviously not here to find fault, but to talk about cooperation, for example, to help Lin Qian get rid of the Nanyang forces.
"What is the relationship between that Lin Qian and you?" the queen did not directly agree, but asked rhetorically.
"I owe him a debt that I hope I can repay. Neuer was telling the truth.
"You must know that our clan is by no means as stable as it was more than ten years ago, and if I take the risk of sending troops, I am afraid that the elders' forces will take advantage of the opportunity to capture the palace. "The Queen is a statesman par excellence and never does anything that is not politically interested.
"You just need to help him do this, and as for the benefits you want, I don't think it will be difficult to get them with your wisdom. "Neuer's meaning is obvious, help him to complete the favor, and the queen can come as she pleases for the rest.
"I need to make sure I'm getting what I want, and it's going to take a few months. The queen did not immediately agree, but secretly instructed Meryl to act.
What the queen didn't expect was that there were many humans in the forest, all of whom were constantly hunting wild beasts, and the pace of humans gradually threatened the territory of the elves. And her uneasy daughter asked her to send troops to exterminate the human race or assassinate the human leader, but the queen refused, and the princess secretly approached Meryl and forced her to do it.
Meryl will do what she wants, take the team that has been prepared for a long time, say hello to the queen, and go to the human territory to carry out the so-called "assassination" plan, but in fact, it is just a show for the princess and Achill. Then a series of "surprises" occurred, causing the whole plan to gradually evolve into a deal with Lin Qian.
In this deal, the price paid by the queen is what she considers to be a "burden", and although Lin Qian benefited a lot, he finally had to fulfill his promise to help the queen eliminate the rebels. She thought that she was not at a loss, and she also took the opportunity to propose a small condition to Neuer, planning a small step for her future.
In this way, the war between Lin Qian and Nanyang is only the need for the queen's political interests, and she will benefit from this war, so she will dispatch a large number of animal trainers to drive the beasts to the canyon area. Encountering the wide canyon, these beasts swarmed forward, chasing the smell of blood in front of them, attacking the army of Nanyang, and "annihilating" the second elder's broken army.
Although the number of beasts has been reduced by more than half, they do not know what fear and exhaustion are, and their bloodthirsty desires force energy to be continuously extracted from their crystal nuclei to their limbs, which is converted into the biological energy they need to pursue the army in front of them for thousands of miles.
It was the afternoon of the next day, and the Nanyang army was already exhausted from the long trek, and in order to take care of the magicians who could not fly, all the members of the army were closely united to deal with the danger that might come at any time.
The roars and galloping sounds of beasts behind him resounded again, and Achill knew that the second elder was probably too bad to be lucky. He had a premonition from the strange expression on the second elder's face before leaving, but he didn't stop it, because in his opinion, this was the only way to ensure that the entire army would not be wiped out, even if the person who died was himself, he had no regrets.
The shadow of Feynman City could be vaguely seen in front of him, and although Achill knew that this city might not be safe, he had no other way but to gamble, otherwise he would not have any terrain advantage in this plain, and sooner or later he would be swallowed by wild beasts. Moreover, he knew that these beasts attacked indiscriminately, and they would attack him Nanyang, and of course they would also attack the people in Feynman City, so he secretly wanted to share the pressure.
His idea is indeed right, if you keep running in the plains, you will only be chased by wild beasts all the time, and using the people of a city as bait can effectively reduce the number of beasts chasing you. Lin Qian also concluded that Achill would definitely come here, and laid a net in Feynman City early, just waiting for them to send it to the door.
"Grandpa, we're in a catastrophe this time. Archer saw the flash of the enchantment above the city gate, and there were many figures shrouded in it, knowing that Lin Qian was already waiting for him here.
Although his eyes were closed, he could clearly sense the current situation, his face was a little flushed from the bumps of the carriage, and his breathing was a little unsteady.
"Break the barrier, destroy the walls, and fight your way into the city. Potlem ordered.
"Yes!" Archer immediately relayed the order to his subordinates, and organized a vanguard mage force to begin breaking through the barrier of the moat.
Lin Qian stood on top of the city gate and looked at the neat and orderly large army in front of him, secretly admiring that they could maintain such a complete formation under the impact of wild beasts, and secretly said in his heart that he could not underestimate this Nanyang army.
"For a while, tentative attack!"
Immediately, a group of mages formed a formation, chanting a furious ice and snow and slamming into the vanguard. This large-scale magic forces them to defend themselves, or there is no escape.
"I'll hold it off, you guys!" a natural mage waved his staff, whipping up a gust of wind that blew away all the hail and snowflakes that fell on the men's heads, and finally smashed them into the barrier on the city walls.
"Second formation, hold them back!"
Another team of magicians formed a formation and chanted the eighth-level magic Gangfeng realm together, involving everyone on the other side, enduring mental pain and torture.
"Three formations, all destroyed!"
The magicians in the third formation are all Lin Qian's elite magician troops, and all kinds of magic below the forbidden spell are refined to the limit, and they are ready to deal with these trapped people, and soon the vanguard force has lost more than half.
At that moment, a sharp arrow pierced through the clouds, passing by the trapped magicians and immediately waking them all up, and the magicians quickly began to organize effective defenses across the barrier to prevent them from all of them being killed.
"That's a long distance!" Lin Qian saw Achill who had made a move, he was at least a hundred meters away from the battle site, but he saved everyone with his precise and powerful bow skills.
Unable to delay any longer, Achill saw that the beasts in the rear had arrived, and immediately ordered everyone to attack the barrier, which was bound to take the city.