Chapter 081: Blood Rose - Broken Star City
In the glorious palace, a middle-aged man with a thin body wearing a crown sat decadently on the throne.
His eyes were full of hesitation and uneasiness, his hands were firmly on the throne, and his eyes trembled as he waited for the arrival of his ministers.
Since his accession to the throne, Mida Kunlai has not expanded his territory like his father. The power of the Elephant Kingdom has been steadily developed step by step, and the people are expected to live happily and well-being under their rule, and the country will steadily improve.
I usually don't advocate extravagance and waste, and even the princess only married one, but are these all wrong?
The princess was inexplicably executed on trumped-up charges, the western frontier was in a state of emergency, and there were two large-scale peasant uprisings in the country! Has there been a big problem with her ruling power for so many years?
After a while, all the ministers arrived, and the Minister of State began to read out the list of compensation for the losses of the nobles that had recently been affected by the peasant uprising, hoping that the state would pay for the appeasement of the nobles as soon as possible.
The military generals of all sides have suggested withdrawing the army that confronted the Black Diamond Kingdom and going to the west as soon as possible to calm the situation.
The messenger sent back by Sang Kun explained that the Black Diamond Kingdom saw the erosion in the western part of the Giant Elephant Kingdom, and took advantage of this opportunity to increase its troops by 100,000, hoping that the royal capital would send reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise if the Black Diamond Kingdom took advantage of this time to send troops, then the northern border of the Giant Elephant Kingdom would be surrendered to the Black Diamond Kingdom.
Mida Kunlai sighed in his heart, it would be good if his eldest brother was here, the eldest brother once followed his father to conquer the Quartet and made countless achievements, but because of the struggle for the throne, he was killed by the queen's family.
Yes, go to the Queen!
Above the court, all the suggestions were temporarily put on hold, and the king returned to the palace to rest for the time being because he occasionally felt cold, and all political affairs were discussed the next day.
Su Lin, the queen of the giant elephant, is feeding the goldfish with a pair of pairs.
The battle report of Falling Star City has been sent to the royal city, and Suqada's performance is simply terrible, he actually let a group of mud legs scatter all 100,000 troops, fortunately Falling Star City has not lost it, otherwise I really don't know how to explain!
Mida Kunlai hurriedly came to the queen's bedroom, and as soon as he entered the door, he drank away all the palace maids around, and then grabbed the queen's hand and asked: "Arlene, something happened, the Black Diamond Kingdom has sent a large army to reinforce the north, and the nobles in the west are also making trouble, and now there is not much money available in the treasury... ”
Su Lin said unhurriedly: "King, don't worry, you see, the Marquis of Axuan's family has strong financial resources, before Axuan's army was defeated, he has not dealt with him, now is the right time, the king can uproot his family according to the crime of treason, with the help of their family's strong financial resources, it should be able to support the consumption of the north." ”
Mida Kunlai was taken aback and asked: "His family has made great contributions to the southern and northern wars with his father, and many generals in the family are still in the army, will there be a mutiny?"
Su Lin said: "Great King, there is only one killing word left and right! Not to mention that the giant wolf knight is not only in the hands of the Axuan clan, but also in the hands of my family, just take this opportunity to capture the power of their clan in the hands of my people, the king, it will be in my hands soon, so it will not be in your hands soon?"
Mida Kunlai frowned, began to pace around the palace, thought for a while, and asked, "Queen, can you promise that you will not leave a disaster?
Su Lin smiled and said, "King, don't worry, my Abba will arrange it! When the time comes, the giant wolf knights will all become the king's guards!"
The next day, Mida Kunlai said that the matter of appeasing the western aristocracy should be put aside for a while, and 200,000 troops would be levied from all over the country, 100,000 would support the northern border, and 100,000 troops would go to the west to quell the rebellion.
In the following 10 days, the generals of the Axuan clan in various places were secretly executed for treason.
The Giant Wolf Cavalry was taken over by the Queen's clan, and only a few of them escaped and began to flee to the Crescent Federation.
Before his death, the Marquis of Ah Xuan asked to see the king, after which no one knew the content of the conversation between the two, and in the evening, the Marquis of Ah Xuan committed suicide in prison.
After the king sacked the Axuan clan, he obtained a large amount of goods, grain and grass.
The king divided these huge sums of money into three parts, one in his own pocket, one for the queen's family, and one for the salary of the 20 armies, and then took out a small amount of material from the treasury and sent it to the nobles in the west, hoping that they would be at ease for the time being, and that the state would give appropriate support after the west was completely pacified.
The Sang Kun clan was exploited layer by layer, stripping most of the 200,000 people's military salaries, and then Chen Bing in the north of the Giant Elephant Country, facing off against the army of the Black Diamond Kingdom from afar.
In other words, where did Sang Kun use all the money for embezzlement?
In fact, the Sangkun family has long been dissatisfied with the royal family, especially after the death of his son, Sangkun hated the royal family even more.
Secretly trained a large number of dead soldiers and troops, and waited for the Giant Elephant Kingdom to deal a fatal blow when the Giant Elephant Kingdom was in turmoil, and then he would be the new king!
And the troops of the Black Diamond Kingdom on the other side are just some miscellaneous troops, how can they not see that everyone is acting.
Then this opportunity, first slowly wear down the national strength of the giant elephant country, and when the country cannot gather troops, it is the best time for him to rebel.
Turning to George, after George returned from the Snowy Country, he summoned the whole country and turned it north of the Twin Cities into the territory of the Snowy Country, and the rest of the cities were ruled by himself.
George informed everyone that he had been officially canonized as the Grand Duke of the Crescent Moon by the Queen of the Drifting Snow Country, and the land to which he belonged was called the Crescent Federation, and the Queen of the Drifting Snow Country was the main one.
In order to give a new lease of life to the dead country, George began to promote advanced statecraft throughout the country.
A few months later, George's decree began to affect the whole country, and the people began to rejuvenate the barren land, and the Crescent Federation began to rise in the western part of the continent.
In June, George received a report that the Celta Fortress army had defeated the 100,000 Elephant Nation army, but failed to break through Meteor City.
George had learned about Meteor City, which was an iron ore mining area, and it was the western town of the Giant Elephant Country, and the elite army of the Black Diamond Kingdom was confronting the army of the Drifting Snow Country at this time, and it was obvious that after the Drifting Snow Kingdom annexed the land north of the Twin Cities, the Black Diamond Kingdom could no longer sit still. Since the army of the Black Diamond Kingdom was held back by the Drifting Snow Country, he could send a large army to take Meteorite City first.
George made Bayeen the earl, let him stay behind in Amesvalon, and then led 20,000 spear knights, 20,000 scimitar knights, 20,000 archers, and 1,500 magic archers with Basel and Ataya, ready to attack Meteor City.
The support army of the Giant Elephant Kingdom came to Meteorite City from different directions, with a total of 80,000 and 100,000 military salaries, but in fact, only 80,000 soldiers came, and the rest of the military salaries were all secretly embezzled.
Sucata transferred 5,000 elite private soldiers from his family to form 5,000 elite cavalry using the war horses he had collected before, and merged with the only remaining 1,500 cavalry, bringing the number of cavalry to 6,500.
With logistical supplies arrived, the Suqada re-equipped 2,000 longbowmen, bringing the total number of longbowmen to 3,000.
Suqada selected 20,000 elites from 80,000 troops and mixed them with his previous 10,000 elites to form 30,000 elite infantry.
The rest of the troops were mixed together to form a general infantry force of about 65,000.
After reorganizing his troops, Sucata led 2,000 longbowmen, 50,000 ordinary infantry, and 4,000 cavalry, preparing to attack Celta.
After the last battle, Milou re-recruited 40,000 people to join the army to form infantry, expanded the archer force to 10,000, selected 5,000 soldiers with good riding skills to form cavalry, and selected all archers who were good at archery to form a longbow army of 1,000 people with the longbows they had picked up before.
Seeing that the autumn harvest was approaching, Milu led 20,000 infantry, 10,000 archers, 5,000 cavalry, and 1,000 longbowmen to Nizhen City to defend Suqkada's army in order to preserve the harvest.
George led his army to march secretly along the mountain range, during which there were two surrendered troops, a 300-man giant wolf knight unit and a 200-man fire control mage unit, both of whom were private soldiers or clansmen of the Axuan family, and the remnants of the remnants who escaped from the previous liquidation of the Marquis of Axuan's family.
George arranged for the Giant Wolf Knights to go to Ammeswallon, and Bayeen was responsible for receiving and arranging a 200-strong mage force to help Milou defend the city in Celta.
George patted the leopard under him and smiled: "A general like Ah Xuan, who can fight well, actually died so aggrieved, it seems that the day of the destruction of the Giant Elephant Kingdom is not far away!"
Tina smiled: "That's not right, if Ah Xuan is here, it will be very difficult to deal with his wolf knights who come and go like the wind." ”
George said: "Don't underestimate the Giant Elephant Kingdom, although the Giant Elephant Kingdom has been defeated repeatedly, its real military strength is actually in the hands of the major nobles.
It is not difficult to conquer the Giant Elephant Kingdom, but digesting those powerful nobles is the key.
You see, the financial resources of the Axuan clan alone can supply an army of 200,000, and there are so many great nobles in the Colossus Country, and each nobleman has great strength in his hands.
This time, we are not trying to defeat the army of the Colossus, but to slowly eat and digest the various nobles of the other side through the Celta Fortress in the south. ”
Tina blinked her eyes and said confusedly: "Brother, the more you talk about it, the more I don't understand, why is the situation in the Colossus Kingdom so complicated!
George said: "The royal family is the most powerful, but it is never easy to show people, all the troops we can see, in fact, are the miscellaneous troops that mobilize various cities, and they have no combat effectiveness, which is why the Celta troops can defeat each other repeatedly with new recruits." As long as the Giant Elephant Kingdom dispatched a private army of the same size as the Marquis of Axuan, then the Celta Fortress would have been captured a long time ago, but the major nobles were unwilling to work hard for the country... ”
Tina asked, "Brother, what is the purpose of our attack on Meteor City this time?"
George smiled: "For the sake of the iron ore there! After we get a huge amount of iron ore reserves, we will temporarily withdraw our troops, and Meteor City will be left to Mi Lu, so that she can continue to entangle with the nobles of the Giant Elephant Country." ”
Tina suddenly realized: "Brother, there is really you! But what kind of person is Milu, she can stay in Celta for so long! It seems that she is not simple!"
George said: "I don't know, I only know that she was exiled to Budavis, presumably she has a deep hatred with a certain nobleman of the Giant Elephant Country, otherwise she wouldn't be so hard-working!"
Ten days later, George's army had secretly moved to the vicinity of Meteorite City, preparing to launch a night attack on Meteorite City.
In the deep darkness of the night, George and Tina led a group of elite guards to touch the city of Meteorite, climbed to the top of the city with hook claws, killed the guards, and opened the gate of Meteorite City.
After a short fierce battle, the city gate was emptied, George let the magic archers occupy the commanding heights, and then personally led the scimitar knights to attack, the army of the Giant Elephant Country, has not fought a hard battle for many years, the strongest opponent is Celta's gang of mud legs, when against George's scimitar knights, they were killed miserably.
The Scimitar Knight penetrated the opponent's formation many times, and in the blink of an eye, he ate 30,000 elite defenders and 15,000 miscellaneous soldiers in Meteor City.
The magic archer effortlessly sniped the opponent's longbowmen, and after a night of fighting, everyone in George's troops sighed, such a force also used to dispatch 20,000 scimitar knights, and 5,000 people could fight each other all over the ground looking for teeth!
George Jean found all the iron ore and prepared it, and sent the 20,000 scimitar knights back along the same path as before, leading the remaining troops to support the city of Nizhen.
When the Suqada army arrived at the city of Nizhen, they looked at the ruined city of Nizhen and thought to themselves that this place had become their own grounding place, and led the army to attack several times, but was repeatedly repulsed.
This time, I have made complete preparations, and the other party obviously can't muster more powerful troops, so after I capture Nizhen City this time, I must slaughter the city, kill these mud legs cleanly, and then wear them into meat skewers and put them in a conspicuous position outside the city, set an example for other mud legs, and see who dares to rebel in the future!
The Suqada army made a tight defense, sending four echelons to begin the siege, and unlike the last time, longbowmen appeared in the city of Nizhen, inflicting damage on their own troops from a long distance.
But these longbowmen alone were not able to defeat the army of Suqkada, and after fierce shooting, the 1,000 longbowmen on the city were gradually killed, and their own longbowmen only lost 800 men, as long as there were no longbowmen on the city to support, then their own troops could rush up with impunity.
This time, the garrison of the city was several grades worse than the last time, and Milu's command ability and Guningbi were also much worse, and suddenly the Suqtra army attacked the city and began to fight with Milu's infantry in a white-knuckle battle, and Milu's 20,000 troops were killed half in a blink of an eye.
Milu could only retreat to the city, and the situation was very critical.
Suqada glanced at the city of Nizhen contemptuously and said with a smile: "Hmph! Is it really mud legs, so weak? How did you defeat my troops last time!
Just when they were complacent, the rear of the troops remembered the sound of heavy thunder, and a large army approached! Suqada hurriedly ordered the siege to be suspended and quickly formed an attack formation.
The archers led by George came in an instant, 5,000 archers rushed over as the first attack force in a storm, and the lost archers were different, the archers led by George were very good at the head, and the horses were more flexible, the feather arrows flew through the gaps in the big shield, and they kept shooting the soldiers behind, and the troops advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and after a while, they shot and killed more than 8,000 Elephant Country infantry, and after the archers finished shooting a wave, they did not stop, galloped away, and in the distance, another wave of archers' horses made a thunderous sound again, galloping wildly。
Sucata's mouth was so shocked that he couldn't close it for a long time, who are these people? Such elite soldiers can't even go up to the Praetorian Guards of the royal capital! And these people's arrows are too accurate! The big shield is holding the shield, and there are people behind him who are constantly being shot to death. Suqada suddenly remembered Ah Xuan, who had been defeated before, wasn't it a meteorite rain???
After two rounds of archers, Suqkada's longbowmen began to shoot at the archers, who had a long-range advantage, but the opponent's nimble manipulator warhorse dodged the feathered arrows in the air.
Seeing that there were longbowmen on the other side, George sent a flag to tell the archers to retreat, and began to send magic archers to snipe the opponent's longbowmen.
Mi Lu found that the enemy troops on the city were retreating, and led everyone to climb the city again to form a defensive formation, but after seeing the scene under the city, Mi Lu was stunned, compared with the troops flying the crescent moon battle flag in the distance, his own troops were no different from the children of the playing family.
Whose troops are this with tight attack formations, interlocking attacks, and excellent military qualities of soldiers?
Suqada prides himself on being a military genius, and he asks himself if the Elephant Kingdom is not the first and the top five, but the other army's army tells him that all his former pride is not worth mentioning.
From the moment the magic archers rode past the Suqkada's army, Suqada knew that he had been defeated, and if he shot an arrow from a few hundred meters away, one of his longbowmen would fall. There are still a few archers in the back who are waiting to mend the sword, and this battle is still a chicken feather?
After the demon archer cavalry team had shot in a circle, George sent out the pikemen, and Sucata saw a general in purple armor and a tiger helmet leading countless spearmen in silver armor to rush over.
Knowing that the opponent was about to start a decisive battle, Sucata sent his lieutenant to meet the enemy.
Tina held the cast-iron Changge in her hand, and then rushed into the Suqada army, and the air flow brought by Changge emitted a sharp buzz, and a bright red and bloody passage appeared in her passing!
The pikemen followed, frantically slaying the soldiers of Sucata.
Sucata looked at the knight in purple armor in horror, my seventh uncle! If this kind of humanoid meat grinder rushes to his side, I'm afraid he will turn into a piece of meat like those soldiers... Suqada kicked the horse in the belly and began to flee.
Seeing that the enemy was about to flee, Chang Ge swept away all the soldiers around him, and then rushed straight towards Sucata.
Although the guards stood in front of Tina, they were all crumbled into pulp by Tina's Changge.
With a loud shout, Tina rushed to Sucata's approach, and Changge spun sideways and took Sucata's head.
After taking off the enemy's head, Tina handed the head to Ataya, who was behind, and then returned to the battle again.
Whether it was Mi Lu and the others watching the battle at the head of the city or the remnants of Sucata, they were frightened by Tina's terrifying killing, and being killed by ordinary soldiers was just falling to the ground, but as long as they were close to Tina's range, they would turn into pieces of meat, and blood would be splashed on Tina's body, the purple armor was stained red with blood, the war horse was also crimson, and even Changge was dyed bright red by blood, and blood continued to spill out with Tina's swing of Changge.
The remnants of Suqada were so frightened that they gave up any resistance, waiting for Tina to reap her life.
Many of the recruits of Milu's troops in the city were scared and peed their pants, staring tremblingly at the red figure galloping on horseback in the battlefield.
George arranged for someone to give Milu an order, telling Milou to reorganize her staff as soon as possible and prepare to take over Meteor City.
And Mi Lu finally met the man who would be entangled with him in the future and fall in love and kill each other.