Chapter 658: Stalemate

For Victor, there have been many more things to experience in this six months than in the past seventy-four years.

Although only war can prove its value to a soldier, for a soldier who has been wearing a military uniform for fifty-six years and will be discharged in six years, war is not a good thing, because it changes everything and brings with it many things that are alien to Victor.

As a member of the Ocasso family and commander of the Northern Military District, Victor lived a life of comfort, ease and luxury until the outbreak of war. To the twenty-five million inhabitants of Burning Sun City, as well as hundreds of millions of people in the entire northern region, he was the supreme emperor.

Unfortunately, the war changed everything.

Although it is not clear what happened, half a year ago, when he suddenly received the news, Victor knew that his biggest backer had disappeared. With the Doomsday Empire, the five major families, including the Okasso family, are all finished, leaving only family members like him who have been sent to other places. The ruling order that had been maintained for a thousand years had collapsed, and no one knew what the future would hold, and everyone was desperately fighting for survival resources.

It is difficult for an elderly person to adapt to such a change.

In fact, it was difficult for everyone to adapt to this sudden upheaval.

If you are a common person, all you have to do is to collect and stock up on food as much as possible, and then find a safe place to hide and wait for the war to end. This is also the practice of the vast majority of civilians, because for those civilians who have grown up in peacetime, the Doomsday Empire is an incomparably powerful existence, and no one believes that the empire will collapse overnight, and everyone thinks that the war will end soon.

The problem is that Victor is not a common man, and it is impossible to hide like a common man.

Although relying on powerful superpowers, Victor is not afraid of anyone, at least in the Northern Military District, no one has superpowers above him, but it is only he who has superpowers, not everyone around him. He has a wife, children, and many more grandchildren. He was able to escape, he was able to find a place to hide, and he was able to use his superpowers to get all the supplies he needed to survive. The problem is that it is impossible for him to guarantee that all his relatives will survive, let alone that he will not meet someone stronger than him one day in the future. What's more, he is a member of the Ocasso family, and he is the guardian of the empire, and he has a greater responsibility on his shoulders.

Victor didn't run away, and he couldn't run away.

He can only make himself stronger, make his legion stronger, and use his strength to protect himself, protect his family, and complete important tasks.

It's just that Victor is very sorry.

In fact, more than four years ago, he should have known that this day would come sooner or later.

Although he is a member of the Ocasso family, as an expatriate, Victor's status in the family is not very high, and he is not even as good as some of his direct juniors. Of course, in the Ocasso family, only side members like Victor will be sent outside of Doomsday. In a sense, in addition to the surname Okaso, and relying on this surname, he received more promotions in the army than other officers, Victor did not get much benefit from the family, but took on a lot of obligations. To know that as the commander of the Northern Military Region, controlling the five legions here is the greatest value of Victor, and it is also his contribution to the family.

Like everyone else in the family, Victor didn't want to leave the bustling city of Doom and come to this remote place when he was younger.

Of course, if Victor refuses the family's arrangement, he will lose this surname, which is the envy of many people.

As now, Victor at that time did not have a second option.

It's just that more than 50 years have passed, and Victor no longer complains about anything. If he stayed in Doomsday City, he would be at most one of the thousands of family members with noble surnames but destitute. A noble surname can allow him to live a prosperous life, but he cannot give too much. When he was young, Victor knew that many of the family members were inferior to the common people, and some were even reluctant to let others know that they were called "Okaso". If you stay in Doomsday City, there's a good chance that Victor will be one of them. In Burning Sun City, it is a different world. Here, at least, there were no other "Okasos" and no one dared to question the authority of Victor.

What's more, it was precisely because he came to Yanyang City and became the commander of the Northern Military Region that Victor's status in the family was improved.

More than four years ago, Victor was invited to return to Doomsday City to attend the family's internal meeting.

Although this is not a high-level meeting of the military department, and it has little to do with the ruling group of the empire, Victor knows that the internal meeting of the family has more influence and directly determines the fate of the family members. What's more, those who are eligible to attend such meetings are the core members of the family. In Victor's memory, only his grandfather, the youngest son of the head of the Ocasso family at the time, had the privilege of attending an internal family meeting. Because they are not directly related, since Victor's father, their bloodline has never participated in the internal meeting of the family, and they have lost their right to speak in the family, and can only be arranged and manipulated by others.

Being able to participate in the internal meetings of the family meant that Victor became a core member of the family.

Of course, the reality is not as good as Victor imagined.

Back in Doomsday, Victor realizes that not only has he been invited, but also members of the family who were sent to the field at that time, and the positions above the Legion Commander and Mayor have all been invited, and they have all returned to Doom City. This is an internal meeting of the family that has expanded in scale, and Victor has not been able to become a core member of the family, and is not even qualified to discuss the matter, and returns to Doom City, just to understand the situation and listen to the arrangement of the family patriarch.

Victor was disappointed, but there was nothing to complain about when he thought of the other expatriates as well.

It's just that Victor ignored the most crucial information.

That is, at this family meeting, the patriarch conveyed a message in a very tactful way that an unpredictable upheaval was about to take place in the Doomsday Empire.

In fact, this is the reason for convening a family meeting to get all the expatriates to return to Doomsday.

According to the patriarch, this upheaval will come within five years, and not only the Okaso, but the entire Doomsday Empire will be threatened.

It's a pity that Victor didn't remember this.

At that time, in Victor's opinion, the Ocasso family was so powerful, and there were four other big families, even if there was a great threat, they would not be able to defeat the Doomsday Empire. This also had to do with the fact that the patriarch did not explain that Victor and the other expatriates did not know what kind of threat was coming.

Looking back now, Victor sighed.

If the patriarch's warning had been heeded at that time, even if the Doomsday Empire would still collapse, even if the war would still come half a year ago, at least it would not be unprepared.

If there were four years to prepare, it wouldn't be what it is now.

Of course, neither sighing nor regretting can change reality.

After the outbreak of war, Victor immediately took control of the situation in Burning Sun City, dismissed his two legion commanders as quickly as possible, and let his cronies take over. It's a pity that Victor can only control Burning Sun City, and the other cities in the northern region are under the control of several deputy commanders, and they all have their own legions, and they have all established their own power as soon as the war breaks out.

After the initial chaos, the garrison of Burning Sun City took control of the situation.

As with any other divisive force, Victor's first task is to expand the size of his military and prepare for the possibility of a melee at any time.

Of course, he was the commander of the military district, one level above the commander of the corps, capable of doing much more.

Three months ago, Victor gave the first order to his three lieutenants to come to Burning Sun City and report the situation in person. It is a pity that none of the deputy commanders obeyed the order, and only did not refuse to carry out the order, but sent a representative.

This made Victor very dissatisfied.

Although no one directly rebelled, the actions of the three deputy commanders have already shown that they no longer follow orders from the commander of the military district.

This is no different from rebellion.

Last month, after making preparations, Victor issued another order, to be precise, sending invitations for the three deputy commanders to come to Burning Sun City to discuss future developments. To Victor's great disappointment, instead of accepting his invitation, the three lieutenants sent an Assassin.

Although the assassination did not pose a threat to Victor, it nearly killed his wife.

Victor knew that it was no longer possible for him to command, or even request, anything from those outside of his control as commander of the military district. This chaotic situation was caused by the war, and it must be ended by the war, and the next thing to do is to attack the other cities.

If it was just against a deputy commander, Victor had enough confidence. In addition to possessing greater superpowers, he also has a military power that far exceeds that of the deputy commander. What's more, Burning Sun City is the largest city in the northern region, with the largest population and the largest number of soldiers.

The problem is that Victor's opponents are three deputy commanders.

There were only five legions in total in the northern region, and only two of them were under Victor's direct control. In addition, the population of the other three cities combined is not less than that of Yanyang City. What's more, it is impossible for Victor to capture other cities with only one legion without personally intervening. If he intervenes in person, or if he sends two legions to attack one city, then the deputy commander who occupies the other cities will attack Yanyang City.

The situation was stalemate, and the war did not break out immediately, but this situation would definitely not last long.