"Chapter 61: The Hard War, Eighteen"

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The 40,000 cavalry of the Jurchen tribe, the 40,000 cavalry of the Khitan tribe, the 40,000 cavalry of the Turkic tribe, and the 120,000 cavalry of the three tribes were deployed outside the fortresses where the defenders of the northern frontier of the empire were stationed, while the other 440,000 steppe cavalry were all killed in the northern part of the empire.

Only a small number of city defense troops were stationed in the provinces of the county town, and they were unable to stop the hundreds of thousands of steppe cavalry, and after the province of Alsace, the three provinces of Mulhouse, Longchamps, and Saint-Diere in the north of the empire were successively captured by the steppe army.

Of the six northern provinces of the great empire, only the provinces of Metz and Verdun were not disturbed by the steppe cavalry for the time being, but under the front of 440,000 steppe cavalry, how long could the good fortune of the provinces of Metz and Verdun be maintained?

In fact, the reason why the provinces of Metz and Verdun were not invaded by the steppe army was not because the steppe army did not have enough cavalry, but because the red-eyed steppe cavalry had not yet pulled their eyes out of the rich and prosperous imperial towns.

The province of Alsace has five counties, the province of Mulhouse has four counties, the province of Longchamps has four counties, and the province of Saint-Dieu has five counties, and these four provinces alone have eighteen counties and more than two hundred towns and towns.

Although the 440,000 steppe cavalry is a huge number, it is evenly distributed among more than 200 cities and towns, and each town has only about 2,000 steppe cavalry; with 2,000 cavalry, it is not possible to plunder the imperial towns with a population of tens of thousands.

The fall of the four northern provinces of the empire has caused the magnates of the imperial capital to fall into great shock and panic, however, this is not the end of the bad news, on the contrary, the real bad news has just begun, and every piece of information sent back to the imperial capital has made the magnates' faces more and more pale.

Prince Sainsbury, who personally led an army of hundreds of thousands of elite orcs, successfully led his army over the Sunset Mountains, which had not been crossed for thousands of years, and when tens of thousands of wolf cavalry appeared on the edge of the Sunset Mountains, the imperial province of Toulon fell in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the provinces of Brosiansson, Mendan, Lyon, and Grenoble in the eastern part of the empire fell one after another, and only the Duke of Nice, who was personally seated, relied on the elite guards under the command of the Duke of Nice to block the orc army that lacked siege weapons.

Almost the entire eastern region of the empire was captured by the orc army, except for the 200,000 troops left behind to continue to occupy the five provinces of the empire led by the fox king Cahill, the other armies once again turned around and killed the Sunset Fortress from behind.

Sainsbury had lost contact with the orc army besieging Sunset Fortress for many days, and he didn't know that the orc army outside Sunset Fortress had successfully captured Sunset Fortress, so he led the main force of the orc army back to Sunset Fortress.

After the Duke of Nice blocked the attack of the orc army, he sent a team of cavalry to the imperial capital to report to Charlemagne about the fall of the five eastern provinces.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Duke of Patel, the Chancellor of the Empire, the Duke of Cullen, the Minister of War, the Marquis Hammond, the Minister of Finance, the Marquis of Amber, the Minister of the Interior, the Marquis of Boris, and the Duke of Tesla, the Minister of Justice, were summoned to the palace by Charlemagne.

Charlemagne, who used to value his majesty very much, did not even have the heart to listen to the praises of his ministers today; as soon as the six imperial ministers walked into the council hall, Charlemagne, who frowned, got straight to the point:

"I have just received an urgent battle report from the Duke of Nice, and the orc army has already been sent to the other five provinces in the east except for the province of Nice!"

"What?!"

"How is that possible?!"

"What about Duke Gna and the hundreds of thousands of defenders of Sunset Fortress?!"

Shocked by this news, Duke Patel and the others directly put aside their demeanor and self-cultivation, which was a major matter related to the life and death of the Celestial Dragon Empire, so that as soon as Marquis Amber mentioned Duke Gna, the other five turned their eyes to Charlemagne on the dragon chair.

"I haven't received any information about the defenders of Sunset Fortress yet, but do you think there is any hope for them, and if Sunset Fortress hadn't fallen, where did the orc army that attacked the east come from?

"Your Majesty. The old and dignified Duke Patel hurriedly stabilized his mind while being shocked, and analyzed for Charlemagne: "Among the defenders of Sunset Fortress, there are the four royal legions with the strongest combat power in the empire, and it should not be easy to be wiped out. ”

"Yes, the combat effectiveness of the four royal legions is not comparable to that of ordinary standing legions, and the old minister also believes that it is impossible for them to be completely wiped out by the orc army, there must be another hidden reason in this!" the Minister of Justice, Duke Tesla, also stepped forward and echoed the Prime Minister, Duke Patel.

"Two dukes, you two don't know anything!" Hearing Duke Patel and Duke Tesla say this, Cullen, who was full of bitterness, had to come forward to explain: "The current Royal Legion is no longer the Royal Legion it once was. ”

"After Duke Kleist led the four royal legions to the Sunset Fortress, the 200,000 soldiers of the royal legions have been fighting at the forefront of the battle, and while they have repelled the attacks of the orc army one after another, their own casualties are also very heavy. ”

"According to the situation under the control of our military headquarters, each of the four royal legions has undergone at least three replenishments, in other words, our seemingly powerful royal legions have actually been reduced to a new legion with more recruits than veterans......"

Duke Kulun's truth-telling caused the ministers in the council hall to fall into a deathly silence again, and the grassland tribes and the orc empire broke through the empire's border defense at the same time, which was definitely a disaster for the declining Celestial Dragon Empire.

"Your Majesty, since the empire's northern and eastern armies are no longer able to stop the enemy's army, then our top priority is to quickly prepare for the formation of a new army to deal with the steppe army that may move south at any time and the orc army that may advance westward!"

"Duke Patel, the formation of a new army is indeed a top priority, but the newly formed army cannot deal with the steppe cavalry and orc warriors, in order to resist the attack of the steppe army and the orc army, we must find a way to borrow reinforcements from other countries!"

"Duke Cullen, although your suggestion is good, where can we go to ask for reinforcements?" After the ministers talked about asking for help from abroad, the Foreign Secretary, Marquis Boris, immediately retorted: "Deman, White Horse and other countries, it would be good if they didn't fall into the ground!"

"Is there a better way for you, then? Can the Empire still rely on its own strength to resist the attack of the steppe army and the orc army?"

"You ......" Marquis Boris, who was choked by Duke Cullen's words, just wanted to fight back, but was rudely interrupted by the angry Charlemagne: "Enough! I asked you to find a way for me, not for you to quarrel, can quarrel solve the problem?"

Even the emperor himself spoke, and the important ministers of the empire who had been arguing a second ago immediately turned into obedient babies who didn't say a word; but, without saying a word, the problem could not be solved, and Charlemagne, who had no choice but to turn his gaze to Duke Patel.