Zhao Hu smiled: "It's not that the surrounding countries don't want to destroy the empire in one go, they have long coveted the empire, and they finally found an opportunity, where will they still be Sven." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info, but they have to have that ability. ”

"Don't you have that ability? If so many countries can't destroy the empire together, it is possible to make the empire half dead. ”

Zhou Wen blinked in confusion, although he was the chief of the secret guard and was in charge of a lot of confidential information, his character would only focus on things related to Zhao Hu, and he still didn't have a sense of the overall situation.

However, Zhou Wen doesn't care about this, the people below will sort out these things and hand them over, and just hand them over to the Lord, so that the things that determine the direction of the Lord can not tolerate many things for themselves.

Zhao Hu smiled, recalled the report he saw, and casually explained the reason to Zhou Wen: At the beginning, when the surrounding countries saw the internal strife and warlords in the empire, they immediately pounced on each other, and even began to contact each other to prepare to divide the empire in partnership.

However, they obviously forgot the mentality of the commanders of the imperial army in the past, when they won the promotion to Beijing for retirement, defeated the dismissal and returned to their hometowns to farm, and no one was too lazy to do much without strict orders.

But now he is a warlord, and victory or defeat is related to his own glory and wealth and net worth, and the most important point is that the warlord can mobilize all the manpower and material resources that can be mobilized to cooperate with the battle, but there are many constraints and concerns during the imperial army. At least one trick behind the back is enough to make people want to cry without tears.

Under the resistance of the warlords who let go of their hands, the invasion of the enemy army is so great that they occupy a place that the warlords disdain, and they don't even want to enter the Huahua World in the hinterland of the empire to make a big profit.

Moreover, these invading enemy forces have other enemies besides the Empire, and it is impossible for the whole army to be dispatched, and even if the whole army is dispatched, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses.

Why? Just look at how many warlords there are in the empire now, and how many troops each warlord has, the Free Alliance has done this with the equivalent of spies, and the caravans scattered throughout the empire.

When this result appeared in the hands of the powerful people of the Free Alliance, they completely abandoned their plans to send troops to seize the ports of the Empire in the near future.

35 million armed, 12 million troops, 3 million elite.

How did such a large number of troops come about? It's all brought about by the warlords' desperate expansion of their armies.

Although the warlord melee has caused a significant reduction in the population of the empire and the destruction of the social economy, it is still somewhat capable, at least the infrastructure industry related to the army has been fueled by the establishment of these warlords.

Although it was completely caused by the destruction of other industrial structures, in a short period of time, the armament of the imperial warlords was the first in the world!

At the same time, although the warlords are desperately expanding their armies regardless of the people's livelihood, they are not idiots, a group of rabble will definitely not be able to defeat the elite troops, ordinary soldiers can go to the battlefield with a little training, but how to obtain elite soldiers to protect themselves as the main force?

The warlord didn't even have to think about it, and directly used the terrifying and bloody recruit training that could not be carried out during the imperial period, so that the elite soldiers who were eliminated at the cost of their lives could fully meet the needs of the warlord.

It can be said that any warlord has an elite army in his hands, and most of the combat effectiveness is comparable, but there is only a difference in the number of troops.

For this elite force that can decide the outcome of the battlefield at a critical moment and can save their own lives, the warlords have done their best to cultivate and maintain such a force. That's why there is such a terrifying number of elite soldiers in the entire empire.

The businessman-turned-Liberty Alliance magnates immediately began to calculate how much they would have to lose to destroy an empire with such troops, and how much benefit they could gain by paying such a huge loss.

After the results came out, the Freedom Alliance, which had the least claim to the territory, was the first to change its tactics and began to vigorously implement the action of bloodsucking and supporting.

And the Freedom Alliance, the country second only to the Empire, gave up its military action, and several other countries were like wild wolves led by headless wolves.

Since there is no need to fight, the so-called alliance will naturally not succeed, after all, these countries have their own contradictions, and what can be done together cannot be done, so they have to continue to compete with each other.

Because of these circumstances, the war on the frontiers of the empire quickly subsided.

While these invading countries changed their attitude and pulled ties with the frontier warlords, they silently watched the warlords in the hinterland of the empire and the maritime frontiers engaged in the melee, and they wished that the frontier warlords would enter or the internal warlords would fight so that they could take advantage of it.

It is because of these complex relationships that the warlords in the empire can fight each other so recklessly, and they are not afraid of destroying the country to foreign enemies.

Hearing this, Zhou Wen was stunned for a while before sighing: "The empire was not annexed because of this?" ”

Zhao Hu smiled and said, "Fortune and misfortune are unpredictable." Well, now that the trench has been dug more or less, it's time to give the order. ”

"Hurry up! Rush through this pass and you'll be in the steppe! We, the Kate Army, must occupy that grassland before the enemy army! ”

An officer stopped on his horse and shouted at the cavalry who rushed past him.

The cavalrymen who have been grooms for several days are all galloping with high spirits, and they can finally ride horses, and they can finally kill people and get rid of the breath they have been holding back these days!

The cavalry in front of them rushed out of the mountain pass, only to see that the eyes suddenly opened up, and a vast withered yellow meadow appeared in front of them.

The mood that had been suppressed in the mountains and forests for several days was immediately released, and the cavalry just took a deep breath and muttered: "This is the place where our cavalry should be......"

With a whoosh, an arrow shot the cavalryman off his horse.

The first batch of Kate cavalry who rushed out first had just seen the vast world, and they ushered in a rain of arrows, and immediately fell dozens of them, and the cavalry behind them did not react, continued to charge, and continued to be shot.

In just a few moments, nearly a hundred cavalry fell on the spot. And the most terrifying thing is that no trace of the enemy was found!

Taken aback by this sudden blow, Kate's cavalry did not expect to be attacked when they left the valley, and they all thought that they should only encounter the enemy in the middle or tail of the grassland.

This psychological contrast made the few cavalrymen who survived from the first attack almost subconsciously prepared to turn around and flee. The cavalry, which followed closely, had to stop because the front was blocked.

As soon as the several officers present saw this situation, a cold sweat immediately broke out, if their own brigade was blocked at the mouth of this valley, the whole army would not be wiped out, but the forward would definitely suffer heavy losses!

Thinking of this, several officers gritted their teeth and shouted: "There is no advance or retreat, follow me!" He picked up his gun and rushed out from behind.

The officers set an example, and the cavalrymen immediately came to their senses, and they didn't bother to calculate where the enemy was hiding, anyway, they were a cavalry division, as long as they entered the steppe, no matter how many enemies they were! So without saying a word, he immediately picked up his spear and followed the officer to the grassland.

Their actions not only made way of the way, but also led the cavalry behind them to charge.

Another rain of arrows swooped down.

As a result of the preparation, only a dozen unlucky cavalrymen fell off their horses, and it was only at this moment that the cavalry noticed the figure of the enemy, which was hundreds of archers wrapped in a layer of hay!

No wonder they couldn't be spotted just now, they were lying on the grass, and they couldn't be spotted at all until a certain distance!

The cavalry immediately became furious, not to mention this group of three rotten enemy troops who have no chivalry, that is, this group of enemy troops who do not have a large brigade of troops actually dare to snipe their own cavalry division?! This is blatant contempt! It's so insulting!

"Kill!"

The officers roared and rushed towards the hundreds of enemy troops wrapped in hay, and the cavalrymen even gritted their teeth and rushed fiercely, as if they were ready to trample these enemies directly with their horses.

The hundreds of enemy soldiers, I don't know if they were stupid when they saw these nearly a thousand cavalry charging, not only did they not draw their bows and shoot, but they immediately stuffed the necklace around their necks into their mouths, and then immediately threw away their bows and arrows and drew their sabers to prepare for battle.

Seeing this scene, the officer who had a little insight was a little puzzled, why are these guys all religious? Otherwise, how could he make such a unified action before he died?

Of course, this thought was just a fleeting thought, no matter what religion he believed, killing them was what he should do now!

The officer's spear easily pierced the chest of an enemy soldier, and when the officer was about to throw down the spear and draw his saber, he was stunned to find that the enemy soldier who had been pierced by the spear, although his mouth had spurted blood, did not fall, but took the opportunity to swing the knife at himself.

was stunned for a moment, it was too late to block with a knife, and the officer subconsciously raised his left arm to resist, and was cut off with a knife as a matter of course!

The officer snorted, gritted his teeth, endured the intense pain, and raised his knife to cut off the enemy's head.

Seeing the blood spurting into the sky, the officer breathed a sigh of relief slightly, the bright red blood showed that this enemy army was not a demon, and he could strike a death blow, it must be because he was too strong.

The officer did not stop, and after riding his horse with one hand for a while, he quickly looked around and prepared to bandage himself, but at this glance, the saber that had been bitten in the officer's mouth in order to free his right hand immediately fell.