The most direct result of the coalition side breaking the border stalemate and deepening the war was that the food crisis that was hanging on the necks of the coalition forces was temporarily alleviated. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

With the increase in the number of invasions, many of the grain stocks that could be destroyed in the future and the private deposits of households were discovered after the coalition forces occupied the cities, and then became the objects of the enemy.

Several princes who were close to or even bordering Prince Anta did not have the great success of the former, and even sent large tracts of land to the other side, so that the northeast, northwest and due north of Prince Anta's territory were overwhelmed by the army.

As a last resort, he had to shrink the front and take the initiative to give up some unsafe areas. Fight the enemy in areas that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Due to the fact that the north of Prince Anta's jurisdiction, and even most of the northeast and northwest defense lines were captured. Although he regretted and hated, in desperation, His Royal Highness the Prince gave full play to the decisive nature of the hero, and the strong man broke his wrist to bind the battle into two war zones. The first war zone was used to deal with the original old rival, Prince McGee of the Sakura Kingdom, and the commander was His Royal Highness James, who was in his thirties, in the prime of life and full of battlefield experience.

The other theater is personally commanded by Prince Anta to defend against the invading coalition forces from the northwest.

As the battle line shrank and retreated, the front line between the Empire and the coalition continued to move forward, although Braun City did not directly participate in the battle on the first line. However, it is still very close to the battlefield on the front line, and it is not uncommon to see the opposing scouts coming and going in the woods.

Some highly mobile cavalry and infantry units that attempted to circumvent the rear were occasionally exposed to Liang Qiu's intellectual vision. When the big demon sees a small group, the bully will take the city's armed forces to train with them.

Sometimes troops would come down from the battlefield to change their weapons, fill them with supplies and food, and teams of wounded soldiers, dragged on stretchers, groaning, into the stone gate. As a result, almost every once in a while, soldiers with missing arms and legs, who were dragged or carried or mounted on horses, poured into the city intermittently, adding to the atmosphere of war and bloody cruelty to the overall atmosphere of Braun.

Some of these people were blinded, some had their arms broken, and they were all over the place where they had been stabbed with a sword. Others, due to their injuries, lay on stretchers, and after entering the city, they died on the city road before they could reach the camp.

The main road of the city connecting the city gate seems to be filled with the smoke and blood of the battlefield due to the siege of the city in the previous period and the wounded soldiers and the supply of materials from the channel day after day. Although there is a special person to clean it every day, but for some reason, the pungent smell is always gone, squatting down to take a closer look, it seems that even the green bricks on the floor will be occasionally dyed dark red.

The city is depressed, the intelligence from the front line pours in like snowflakes every day, and the people who have just experienced the ravages of war watch it all with a state of silence, hatred and apprehension. The City Lord's Mansion is also trying to use a lot of propaganda to steer the emotions of the city's residents in the right direction. Every day, officers and soldiers can be seen handing out posters from house to house, and bards and calligraphers chanting loudly about the anticipation of war and heroic deeds on the battlefield at the edge of human rights and taverns.

Under such an oppressive, dark and seemingly tenacious and vibrant atmosphere, Braun City slowly tasted the tragic smell of gunpowder wafting from the battlefield not far away. I watched as one nation after another was replaced, and then new ones were sent to the battlefield.

Since the victory over the 3rd and 7th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Sakura Kingdom, the soldiers and civilians of Bolang City were a little excited and jubilant at first.

At that time, although they suffered heavy losses, after the war, Didías and his party did well. Everyone is thinking, our Braun City is still very strong.

However, this was only a short period of time when we were carried away by the victory. The battle of Bolun City some time ago was actually just the first sound of the collision of the two super dynasties.

The subsequent routs on the borders of the empire were repeated in many places, the walls of a certain place were scattered, the people were slaughtered, and the heads of people hung on the walls and filled with the heads of the cities, which were often seen through various channels.

When I put myself in my shoes, I feel that I am worried, afraid, confused, and uneasy.

Under the tremendous pressure of life and death, some people began to reflect on whether our army could really block the enemy's attack, whether there was still something to strengthen the city, and what to do if the enemy came again. The guidance of public opinion in the city can only be roughly guided, and the rest can only be allowed to develop this trend of thought.

After seeing the cruelty of war, the people below did not dare to neglect the work in hand. Especially a few days ago, after the newly returned city lord slashed the heads of several internal affairs officials who had violated the law and disobeyed him, the entire city's power organs and management and executive bodies saw the determination and will conveyed from the top - look, this small city lord is not easy to be fooled.

Under the tough measures, although there is an undercurrent surging in private, everyone is not stupid, and at this moment, those who dare to stand up and drag their feet will be pulled out by everyone, and there will be no corpse.

In fact, the relevant intelligence agencies have filtered out a lot of good and bad news on the battlefield, and have always kept the enthusiasm of the people in the city at a certain level of rationality. It will not be impetuous, and it will not produce the ambition of others and destroy its own prestige.

The big demon set a goal for the people below, striving to achieve 'popular support' in terms of spiritual public opinion, but Didias felt that he manipulated public opinion, was not bright enough, and many private methods could not see the light.

Griffith's first reaction when he heard these words was surprise, and after looking around her for a while, he didn't bother to pay attention to her.

Her Royal Highness the Fifth Princess, this little fresh, estimated that she was fooled by the people below when she was acting as the city lord, and she still had unrealistic illusions about politics. Sometimes the bull's temper comes up and asks why the big demon does this, why not change the way to be honest. The big demon was annoyed by the question, so he told her with a scoundrel face: 'This is the city of Benhou, the people of Benhou are happy, and they are happy. ’

Her Royal Highness the Fifth Princess, who looked angry, had a red face, a fist creaked, and then stomped her feet and walked away angrily.

Fortunately, this girl's film is not purely silly and sweet, and there is a little advantage that she is self-aware, or her own family knows her own affairs. She knew that Griffith was a person with great ability, otherwise she wouldn't have just come and beat the Fourth Legion of the Sakura Kingdom, which had besieged the five princesses for many days.

This ability, His Royal Highness Didias thinks that in the entire kingdom, there are only a handful of people with this talent.

The political IQ of the five princesses is not high, although they dare to fight and fight, and even when necessary, they can be somewhat ruthless. But in the eyes of connoisseurs, there was a bit of stupidity - and the last thing she could stand was Griffith's mocking expression of a fresh idiot with a combination of wonder and wonder written on his face whenever she made something innovative or persistent.

Her Royal Highness the Fifth Princess is too upright in doing things, she belongs to the type of loyal and courageous women like chivalrous women, and engaging in politics and the like is a bit out of place after all.

Fortunately, although this chivalrous woman disdains Griffith's petty methods, fortunately, there are a large number of adults, and most of the time they still have sand in their eyes. The big demon didn't bother to explain to her that these political intrigues were twisted and turned. After the good men who fought for the blood of the country, the iron-clad men who were shrouded in horse leather, and the good soldiers who threw their heads and spilled their blood. In the city's 'court', he still felt bored, so he didn't want Her Royal Highness the Fifth Princess to know.

Under the clouds of war, there was a lot to be done in the city of Braun, with more than a dozen spies riding fast horses in and out of the city every day, the construction of the city's defenses and the training of the army in full swing -- Liang Qiuzhi was in charge of planning and supervising the construction of this area.

He's dabbled in that, and the guys in his line, especially the captain-level guys, were all war experts. Of course, because they have not experienced the baptism of a real war, although they have a solid theoretical foundation, they also have classic examples and theoretical guidance from various periods and stages in their heads. But the actual situation may not be as mysterious as it boasts, but there is still a vision. Infrastructure and military training or something, it is difficult for him.

After a period of familiarity, Griffith has a general grasp of how the city works, the form and the process. Since last week, Griffith has been involved in the most detailed matters in order to coincide with the more concrete and practical pre-war mobilization and related work. Because of the timing, the specific results have not yet been shown, but it shouldn't be too bad.

The army is still managed by Pisa, this guy is talented, and he was a little depressed before. Griffith broke through the Cherry Blossom Kingdom and entered the city of Braun after advancing the soldiers' battalion, and he lowered his posture and surrendered power. In fact, in my heart, there are some pimples.

Later, Griffith asked him for a drink, and he drank until five or six o'clock in the morning. At this banquet, Pisa talked about a lot of things, and the big demon also cooperated with some of them. Later, the atmosphere was happy, the big demon called some dancing girls to dance beside him, and the two of them were drunk, and the big demon was drunk on the floor, and the latter fell asleep on the banquet drunk and shirtless.

After that, the big demon handed over a piece of the army to the commander of Pisa. Naturally, he was grateful and kowtowed to thanks.

Occasionally, in his free time, Griffith would wear his lord's uniform and go to the barracks to inspect the barracks. He used to say good things, such as 'military discipline is like iron, and a hundred battles are elites', 'there are such strong soldiers to help me, why not be afraid of the barbarians in the north of Vietnam'. Anyway, there must have been a lot of ugly and piercing sounds in Pisa, which must have been uttered on weekdays - the general's means of defending the city and managing the army were vividly displayed when attacking the city.

Griffith didn't understand about military training. But Liang Qiu, the captain of Quan Jichi, is wise, and this is a panacea.

He knows all about arranging troops and planning to defend the city, and he also talks about military training.

Because there are occasional exchanges between the upper echelons of Braun, both in meetings and in private. Pisa didn't know from any channel that Liang Qiu's wisdom was also accomplished in military training. He often dragged him to discuss military training.

And Liang Qiuzhi is also a good-natured person, although he is busy with affairs, since the captain of Pisa came to ask, he patiently told what he knew:

"When it comes to military training, to be honest, the younger brother is not proficient in it, so he doesn't dare to say anything.

There were a few people under my command before, who studied this way, but the nature was a little different from that of the military commander, and the number was too different. But since the general asked, I dared to disobey my intellect - I know a friend who used to be a brigade commander, and he told me......

What followed was a muttering speech. Liang Qiuzhi's knowledge of military training is actually not low, so every time Pisa chats with him, he will gain something somewhat.

So over this period of time, under the shadow of war, the accumulated anger of the soldiers, and the spirit and variety of his training, the soldiers of the city of Braun have grown at an astonishing rate.

A well-trained team is like a knife that has been sharpened quickly, and it always wants to cut something in your hand.

As a result, under the sight of Liang Qiu Zhizhi, the big demon, Pisa, and even Liang Qiu Zhizhi himself would often go out to 'hunt', mainly leading the team to attack and kill some passing coalition troops. In such a life-and-death battle, it is naturally not comparable to the training in the playground on weekdays. The warriors fought bloodily, and Liang Shuzhi carefully selected the opponents to fight-generally the guys who were slightly weaker than the team's combat strength and not too weak, and dispatched a few more times, and the number of victories accumulated over time, and the team under his hand came out of the shadow of the previous Braun being besieged, and gradually established confidence and determination-Hey, this Sakura Kingdom soldier is not a big deal.

Of course, after going through this stage, Liang Qiu's wisdom will gradually increase the difficulty and choose stronger opponents in order to train real elite soldiers.

The people in the city, Griffith, also actively mobilized, propagandized, vilified the enemy's crimes or something.

At this time, everything was to open the way for war, and the big demon used all the power he could use to try his best to ensure that everyone had work to do. It's not about squeezing labor, it's one thing that Braun needs manpower. On the other hand, it is only after the work of the subordinates that the human body will have a sense of fullness, which is conducive to the stability of the social structure and the human heart.

And manual labor will make people have no time and mood to think about the things that they scare themselves, and the negative emotions will be somewhat less, at least there will be no unemployed vagrants, idle all day long, spreading nervous remarks, and there will be no negative emotions that are very loud and spread on a large scale.

At the same time, labor is also one of the ways to relieve stress. In this depressive state of war, everyone works a little more and pays a little more, and there will be a kind of comfort that they are trying to change the future and have put their hearts and souls into it. I may have thought to myself, 'I'm working so hard, Braun is so majestic, everyone is united, I'm afraid this city will be difficult to break again'.

Everything is moving forward over time.

Towards November, His Royal Highness James led a large force to the northeast through the Sioux River, crossed the north, and joined Prince Anta, giving the northeast coalition a head-on attack. It was an inspiring victory.

However, on his way back, he was ambushed by Prince McGee and suffered heavy losses, losing two cities in a row. In desperation, he had to retreat to the city of Griffith - Braun City.

When His Royal Highness led the remnants of the army to Braun, the Great Demon was sitting in a newly built semi-open pergola on the side of the road, listening to a man in a long gray sweater telling about the war on the front line in a half-aria way, and from time to time eulogizing some wartime heroes in a strong rhetorical way.

There were a few people sitting beside him, and some of them had already gone home for dinner, and those who stayed were attracted by the stories in the bard's mouth, and were reluctant to leave.

This profession was originally present in the Hill Mountains, but it was specially used by Griffith as propaganda to tell about the war and gradually cultivate the determination of everyone to share the same hatred. The bard talked about heroic biography and the like, and as soon as the big demon and Liang Qiu's wisdom were combined, he simply ordered the people below to write a special script, focusing on the exaggerated hearsay heroic deeds on the battlefield that they didn't have and let them sing. Although the content of the story is true and false, and there is a considerable degree of exaggeration, the inhabitants of the city, who are suppressed in their hearts and are uneasy and apprehensive, are still willing to get some kind of spiritual assurance and comfort in this way.

“…… The wind of the Hill Mountains blew out the sun of that day,

The tired general stood on the battlefield strewn with corpses,

Silent silence......

The captain of Vanke knelt beside a dead warrior,

This was the one who had borrowed a dime from him and swore an oath,

said that after the war ended, he would let his sister marry Meng Lang, a single lieutenant.

now

and lie down in this endless wasteland......"

The people in the shed stood on a high platform with a flute in their hands, and the man in a long robe beside him looked solemn and sad, and his tone was low.

His lines are not as frequent and dense as those of storytellers on the other side of the earth, but whenever he talks about a sentimental place, he plays a tune.

The music is also tactful and solemn, but it is not the tone of despair or sadness, but there is a kind of remembrance and perseverance hidden in it. When people listen to it, it is inevitable that their minds will be stirred - this is my Braun good man, born in troubled times, since he was on the border of the country, he has forgotten death and life after a hundred battles!

PS: Today is about 5,000 words, so I want to apply for a day off tomorrow. Because I don't know if there will be a timecode word update tomorrow, so a little more code today, I hope you will forgive me.

The actual pee brother was originally 3000 words a chapter, but these weeks, you can check the number of words updated by the pee brother per chapter, which is about 3500 to 4000, so I worked a little harder than before. I can actually move the extra word count to the next chapter.,It's just that then I think since everyone is waiting.,How many posts are there.,So Tsundere like me.,Of course, I'm asking for credit from everyone.。

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