Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Devil Enters the Empty Village

Former Inquisitor Vejerry's instincts were indeed astute. The current Rucha happened to advance into Garcia with a belly full of anger.

At noon the next day, Rucha's troops ran into the city through Garcia's east gate. What the? Defenders, you say? Garcia is almost gone, what are the defenders? The people who are now maintaining limited law and order in the city are also those soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army of the Bilunar Church who came to the city in the first few batches. What is limited policing? The soldiers were unscathed, and the others turned a blind eye – this is called limited policing.

The east gate is fairly well maintained and can be opened and closed by the caretaker. The south gate, where vehicles are most often in and out, has become unusable. Outside thieves can enter and exit from the south gate without fear of a garrison to drive them away. Of course, as long as you don't touch those uncles from Lancas, the uncles don't bother to clean up these flying insects.

By the time they arrived, the city was left with only scavengers who made a living by collecting abandoned property in residential areas, and hunters who looted their property. Of course, there are also businessmen who keep wealth circulating in and out of the city, and only they are the ones who are beyond the urban ecology. There are not many end customers who will rob these merchants with mercenary guards for a long time, and if they want to rob them, they will wait until they go out of the city to rob them. The consequence of annoying the merchants in the city can only be cleaned up by their own people first.

Garcia, a megacity within the Elta Empire, is itself extremely dependent on municipal administrations. Even if it is a multi-layered rolling dragon in the slums, it is indispensable for the landlord to scold his mother while pasting mud on the roof, or stuffing mortar into the cracks of the wall. Tenants have begun to flee to the west in large numbers, and even landlords who own a piece of land have lost their source of income and are unable to survive. The situation of merchants and workers is also half-hearted, and even left much earlier than them.

In fact, if you want to run faster than anyone, the nobles may be the type that can run faster than anyone else. Then the merchants and craftsmen who surrounded the aristocracy began to lose their sources of income, and then the lower commoners began to lose their jobs...... From here, the population and employment structure of the city began to collapse, and there was no longer a reason for the existence of municipal administration and law and order.

To put it bluntly, with the collapse of the top leadership of Elta for two consecutive terms, Garcia has become a ghost town completely. Rucha had entered the city through the eastern gate, where the slums were most densely populated, and his anger at the inadequacy of harvesting winter wheat in the new district had been exerted on his perception of Garcia at the moment.

Seeing that the enemy had collected all the wheat in the vast land into the granary, there was nothing to be done. The enemy neither defended with heavy troops, nor did he rush to collect ...... The seemingly hollow granary defense line is full of powerful bows ready to shoot sharp arrows. Rucha can only curse the disappointed Garcia at the moment to hide the embarrassment of his incompetence. Throwing the Wyverners behind enemy lines was rejected by both himself and the commander of the Wyvern. Directly driving the tired army to attack in one fell swoop, it will not be able to burn even a single ear of wheat before the enemy has finished harvesting. The meticulous work and eyeliner who had worked hard to infiltrate the new area could not ignore the battle situation behind and the movement of the enemy's troops, and sent them to sneak into the wheat field and throw torches. What's more, the enemy's strange harvesting machines are working on ripe wheat day and night, and the fine crops that used to be tried to burn the wheat fields are also scorched on the low-looking iron mesh outside the wheat fields...... Everyone cursed the enemy's spring food, but no one could come up with even the slightest countermeasure.

"In such a dilapidated slum, one house is crooked and crushes so many houses...... Why do you want to keep them? General Shashayin, lead your light infantry regiment to raze all the slums in this area - tomorrow I don't want to see any more dilapidated houses, I want to see a training ground here! Cursing was no longer enough for Rucha, and he had to point out the country to satisfy his sense of loss.

The troops will remain all stationed in Garcia's city, and will continue to hide from the possible flames of the Iron Birds in the houses that were not burned down on the night of the succession. Including the "Scepter" enchanted light infantry battle group, the "Chain Hammer" enchanted heavy infantry battle group, the "Sky Shield" giant magic puppet war group, the "Wave" ordinary magic puppet war group, the "Thorn" elite melee infantry battle group, the "Divine Punishment" ranged mage war group, the bi-monthly second elite mage team and a large number of scouts, heralds, baggage soldiers, including nearly 100,000 ground troops, counting the two melee mage war groups stationed in the suburbs of Garcia "Shattered Flame" and "Soft Ice", The grassroots officers and soldiers are all Elta's "Elta Rebellion Band", as well as the Wyvern Cavalry unit that supports the entire Mid Road West Expeditionary Army, and together with the magic puppets, there can be more than 200,000 people. More than 100,000 humans and beasts want to hide in the shadow of Garcia, and this problem is indeed difficult for Rucha, the former general, not to mention that there are monsters two or three stories tall in the magic puppet warband.

Two hundred thousand. The staff of the new district did correctly estimate the number of troops that appeared in the front portal of the territory in Doniva, but this was only the middle army. Although it experienced a heavy blow from Rineihu, the Southern Route Army also had a scale of 150,000. Coupled with the reserve forces, the Twin Moon Church has invested half a million people and all kinds of war beasts on this continent, and the scale of the encirclement and suppression war of the Red Dragon Country is no more than that.

As soon as the magistrate who was still stationed in Garcia stepped into the gate of the imperial capital castle, he respectfully presented a letter from the mayor of the capital and a report on the current situation of the imperial capital. While Charles was still in power, he was little more than a magistrate in charge of a small part of the slums. His appointment, his appointment, and his appointment to N have all run away, and there is only one position left that he still insists on - a vacant position with little salary, only a dream of winning a beautiful difference in front of Rucha supports him.

The trumpeter of the accompanying army played music according to the rhythm of the salute, and Lucha took the seal and handed it to his entourage, and he immediately took the report with both hands and began to read it at will.

"No one even cleans the palace castle?" Rucha couldn't help but laugh dumbly. I thought it was an addiction to the princes and nobles, but I didn't expect it to be to clean up the mess. He looked up at the castle, overgrown with weeds, the door of the side passage had fallen in half, and what should have been a beautiful copper cladding had been rudely cut off, leaving only fragments still fixed to the door with steel nails, from which the splendor of the door could be seen.

After a lot of tossing, Rucha finally entered Garcia's palace, and fell his ass heavily on the throne that Wattaf didn't even dare to touch. This throne also survives to this day by being embedded in the floor. The copper base is no longer interested in wasting time pulling it out of the ground. The copper surface of its surface is covered in scratch marks, and all the gold leaf has been removed in this way. The armrest of the golden lion's head, which symbolizes Elta's authority, is also long gone. Not to mention the gems all over the body, none of them survived. Before Lucha's ass was hot, he shouted that it was boring, and after a foolish addiction with a general, he immediately sent soldiers to clean up the main hall, no problem. Only Maez was in the seat for a long time and did not want to leave.

In addition to the main hall, there is also a dining hall and a large oak table that was born at the same time as the castle, which could not be taken away after a few axes, and other chairs and candlesticks were looted. In the corner, the dust hides the remnants of a few chairs, which seem to be "destroyed if they can't be taken away".

"Thankfully, the robbers haven't set fire to it yet." Rucha said, shaking his head.

"No, they've already let it go." An adjutant beside Rucha gestured with the legs of a chair beside the fire. "They used to live here for a long time, and most of the chairs were probably made of firewood."

Even when refuted, Rucha was speechless. These "subjects" were reduced to the mourners who destroyed the symbols of their country's power before Elta was completely conquered. "We don't have to expect this fire-burning waste to be used by me." Rucha's sentence can be regarded as a death sentence for them.

"There are more than 50,000 people in total, right?" Another adjutant suddenly asked urgently.

"It's nothing...... Wouldn't it be okay to play the front and let them go first? Hahahaha. Rucha stroked the general's belly and laughed. We need them to prove their loyalty with their hatred of heresy, don't we? ”

The crowd continued to the top of the castle. The Hanging Gardens, Charles's Crucifixion, Charles's private rooms, the lookout on the top floor of the castle...... These places, however significant or high in status they once were, are now in tatters. Whether it's Charles, Baccarat, the objects that symbolize Elta's supreme power are hard to find anywhere. Crown, Scepter...... They have vanished with the old Elta in the winds of time.

Rucha was standing at the highest point of Garcia City, overlooking the scenery of the city. The sun is already westerly shining on the ruins of this once capital, now it. In addition to the sunset wind carrying away the old dust and bringing the new dust in, the Minerva River is still flowing quietly, and the whole city has lost its vitality.

"No matter how good the army is, it will lose its mind here." Rucha turned back and descended the stairs. "Pass my orders, rest for a week, and prepare to march to defeat Doniva!" No matter how good Garcia is, it's not a place to stay for a long time—not to mention what kind of gentle country this is, it's a ruin.

The soldiers lived in order from the inner city to the outer floors again, cleaning their rooms, cooking on fires, and finally bringing a pitiful little life to the city. The two flags symbolizing the Church of the Two Moons and Lancas were raised at the castle instead of Elta's, and the two moons appeared in the night sky tonight. It is only a ten-day walk from the western frontier and the immediate region. The letter of surrender drawn up according to Rucha's wishes had also been sent by messenger to the west, and now his central army only had to wait for good news, waiting for the final destruction of the enemy.