Chapter 261: Negotiation and Declaration of War

"The one who owns the three cities in the south is the number one lord in the world, and I just want to farm well?"

Catherine's cavalry captured alive a group of scattered samurai to the south, claiming to be a subordinate of Lord Toei named Tadayoshi Takeda, and provided important information.

Ekaterina glanced at the leaderboard.

It has now been 31 days since the start of the national war.

1st place, Catherine, lord of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, 5949 points (1900 for cities, 513 for villages, 3536 for battles).

Second place, Kshatriya, lord of the Mughal Empire, with 5765 points.

The third place, the lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lao Qin, has 5356 points

Fourth place, lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, I just want to farm well, with 5200 points.

Fifth place, the last Roman of the Roman lords, with 5199 points.

Sixth place, the French lords never surrender, 4905 points.

Seventh place, a small soldier at the border pass of the late Ming Dynasty lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a score of 4856.

Eighth, Commander of the Undead Army of the Persian Lords......

"The lords of the Mughal Empire are about to catch up with me. Capturing a city is the most effective way to increase your points. ”

Ekaterina calculated.

After a skirmish, killing or capturing 10,000 elite soldiers can earn about 1,000 points, but capturing a city will cost you 300 points for every 10 days of continuous occupation.

She has three cities. Occupy a city for 30 days and earn 900 points. A city is occupied for 24 days and earns 600 points, and a city is occupied for 12 days and earns 300 points.

Battles are important in the early stages, but in the later stages, the output of the city is even more important.

If a city is occupied for three months, it can produce 2700 points.

If she wants to maintain the number one position, she can only choose to occupy more cities.

The city was also an important source of troops.

"The lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty are really powerful, and three of the top ten are the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Chu Zimou, your three cities, I, Catherina, accepted them unceremoniously. ”

After Chu Tian captured the three cities, he temporarily stopped expanding because he found that his situation was a little bad.

His current points are 5,200 (1,500 for cities, 416 for villages, and 3,284 for battles).

If you occupy a city for 30 days, you will receive 900 points, and if you occupy two cities for less than 20 days, you will receive 300 points each.

There are only two ways to become the number one in the world – destroy the enemy and capture the town.

Kills earn a large number of points at once, while capturing a city earns points consistently.

Chu Tian's embarrassment was that he was caught in the middle by the big forces.

To the west is the woods (difficult to march), to the south is the valley (unknown area), to the north is the lord of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Catherine (three cities), and to the east is the anti-Han alliance (seven cities) and the besieged Eastern Han lord Huma (one city).

Chu Tian only had three cities in his hands, and there was a lot of resistance to expanding to the north or east.

Chu Tian had planned to immediately go to join Huma's Lian Po army......

"If I go east to support Huma, whether I can defeat the anti-Eastern Han alliance is another matter. Catherine will definitely go south and take three cities. ”

Chutian pointed to the Catherine forces in the north on a simple map.

Fang Xuanling and Zhao Long were both worried.

Chu Tian's situation was indeed quite difficult.

Huma was besieged, and as the lord of the Eastern Han District, he had to be saved.

Chu Tian brought the troops of three cities to the rescue, and he may not be able to defeat the forces of the seven cities of the anti-Eastern Han Alliance.

Once he was in a stalemate with Kshatriya, Chutian's house was stolen by Catherina.

"Maybe ......"

Fang Xuanling seemed to have an idea.

"Strategist, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"The Kshatriya Alliance has seven cities, and its power is growing. Once we are defeated, this alien lord called Lena will also be impacted. The lord can try to unite with her, defeat the strong enemy first, and then duel the male and female. ”

"United Ekaterina?"

Chu Tian and Zhao Long never thought that there would be such a way.

As the lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty, their thinking was fixed on relying on their own strength to destroy the anti-Eastern Han alliance.

But now it seems that Fang Xuanling proposed the strategy of uniting the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and it is not impossible to attack from afar.

"I have three cities, Catherine has three, and Huma has one, a total of seven cities, and indeed they can compete with the seven cities of Kshatriya."

Chu Tian could only simply use the number of cities to infer the strength comparison between the two sides.

"But it is difficult to say whether Catherine will be willing to join forces with us. She could sit back and watch us be wiped out, and then send troops to take my three cities, and she will have six, and the Kshatriyas, who will destroy Huma, will have eight. She is still capable of a decisive battle with Kshatriyas. ”

Chu Tian had no experience joining forces with lords other than the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Despite this, Chutian sent a message to Catherine, asking for a joint effort to deal with Kshatriya, the lord of the Mughal Empire.

If Catherine is willing to join forces, the probability of defeating Kshatriya is high.

If she is unwilling to join forces, Chu Tian can only take risks.

In order to save Huma, who was also the lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhao Long had to let go of his hatred with Catherina.

The envoys of the Eastern Han Dynasty came to Catherine's camp, which was preparing to go south, and informed Chutian that he wanted to unite.

"I just want to farm well, no, I should say Chu Zimou, he actually wants to join forces with me? Anti-Eastern Han League ......"

When Catherine learned of Chutian's request, she understood why the lord of the Mughal Empire, Kshatriya, ranked second in points, and there was a faint tendency to surpass her.

Kshatriyas gained a great deal of benefit from the alliance, and one person occupied four cities, and only three belonged to other lords.

"I want to negotiate with your lord in person."

Catherine said to the envoy.

After the departure of the Eastern Han envoys, Catherine led her army south!

She had 8,000 Cossack cavalry, 25,000 servants, and 30,000 low-ranking soldiers recruited during the war, for a total of 60,000 troops!

The 60,000-strong army almost followed the Eastern Han envoys into Chutian's sphere of influence, so much so that when Chutian learned of Catherine's reply, her army had already arrived.

Chutian gathered 12,000 Eastern Han troops, 19,000 servant troops, and 15,000 low-ranking soldiers to meet the battle.

The two sides confronted each other on the plains.

"Count Catherine, please talk between the two armies."

Catherine sent an envoy.

Hua Mulan grabbed the corner of Chu Tian's clothes: "The lord can't go, in case she is a bad woman, send assassins to attack the lord, you ......"

Chu Tian frowned, there is no doubt that these novel words were taught to Mulan by Xia Liang.

It seems that I have to teach her a good lesson when I go back, and I can't take Mulan badly.

"Behind me is an army of forty or fifty thousand, and she does not dare to touch me, just as I dare not touch her."

Chu Tian took Xue Rengui and Li Guang to negotiate, and Catherine had to send at least a few hundred people to be able to kill Chu Tian.

"There's one thing you need to contribute......

Chu Tian privately arranged one thing for Mulan.

On that day, a great lord of the East and a West met in front of the two camps, each carrying a dozen escorts.

Together, there are more than 100,000 men and horses on both sides, and both have the ability to drive elite servant armies.

If two people fight head-on, they will only lose both sides and benefit the lords of the Mughal Empire.

This forms the basis of the negotiations.

It was not the first time that Chu Tian had met an alien lord, but it was the first time he had dealt with a female lord of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Catherine wore a two-cornered hat, a diagonal ribbon and a corset, outlining a beautiful figure, a European officer's outfit in the era of a smoothbore gun, which was very different from the Oriental female generals such as Hua Mulan and Li Xiuning.

Behind Catherine was an army of sixty thousand with her, among which was the Cossack cavalry, one of the best light cavalry in the world.

Tsarist Russia used the Cossack cavalry for expansion and occupied Siberia.

Catherine is also looking at the world's number one lord, except for a little oriental handsomeness, it doesn't seem to be anything special, it doesn't look like a hero.

"You want to ask me to help you?"

"It's not about asking, it's about mutually beneficial cooperation."

"How?"

"The Great Lord of the Mughal Empire, Kshatriya, is about to replace you as the first, if the alliance led by him destroys our lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty, do you think they will let you go? When he has more than eight cities against you, how will you respond? ”

Chu Tian cautiously tested Catherine.

Consensus can only be reached if there are common interests.

Without common interests, this group of high lords will not pay any attention to your voice.

"Kshatriya is going to deal with your lord of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then I only need to sneak up on you behind and occupy your three cities, and I can defeat him with six cities."

Ekaterina spoke with a bit of pride, or confidence to be precise.

Six cities would be enough for her to defeat Kshatriya, who had eight.

Sure enough, Catherine did not want to choose to join forces.

"So you led the army south to start a war with me?"

"I just want to see how powerful the number one lord in the world is. Looks like you're in trouble. With my troops in the city, do you want to go to war with me, or risk my sneak attack to rescue your companions? I'm curious about your options. ”

Catherine observed Chu Tian's reaction with a smile.

She was curious to see how the First Lord of the World would choose when faced with a dilemma.

"If we join forces, we can divide up the seven cities of the Kshatriya League. You have four, and I have three. ”

In order to win over the countess of the Great Plains of Eastern Europe and rescue Huma, Chutian was forced to make concessions.

Chu Tian will rarely give in, this is already the bottom line.

"There are only two ways to help you. Either defeat me or be my servant. ”

"You're playing with fire."

"Speak with a sword on the battlefield, defeat me, you can get everything, defeat, everything yours is mine."

Catherine retired and returned to the army under the protection of her escort.

Chu Tian stayed where he was.

It's not so much a negotiation as a declaration of war.

"Lord, please give the last general a cavalry, and the last general will defeat it for you!"

Xue Rengui saw that Catherine spoke contemptuously to Chutian, so he took the initiative to ask for battle to defeat Catherine and her Cossack cavalry.

"The women of the Grand Duchy of Moscow are very capable of fighting, and they cannot go head-to-head."

Chu Tian looked at the air, and a black war eagle was following Catherine.

"How?"

When Chu Tian returned to the camp, everyone looked at Chu Tian, and the outcome of the negotiation would affect the next decisive battle with the anti-Eastern Han Alliance.

Winning Catherine's support, and not winning it, may be two completely different outcomes.

"If you want her support, you have to defeat her completely. However, she is too conceited......"

Chutian made the next deployment.

"It's not a big deal to be the number one lord in the world. Haven't you been persecuted by the lords of the Mughal Empire to beg me for help? ”

The corners of Catherine's mouth rose, and her soldiers approached the city, which was equivalent to forcing Chutian into a desperate situation. Whether Chu Tian went to save Hu Ma or not, he was quite uncomfortable.

Mulan's war eagle landed on Catherina's tent and cleaned its wings.

That night, 60,000 allied troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow were encamped.

Catherine specially came out to inspect and strictly forbade pre-war alcoholism.

She wants to destroy Chu Zimou in one fell swoop in the battle and replace him as the number one in the world.

"The Eastern Han Dynasty is just a relatively large population, otherwise there is nothing to be afraid of."

Catherine returned to her tent.

Nothing happened overnight.

It was about to dawn, and just when the coalition forces of the Grand Duchy of Moscow thought that the Eastern Han army would not attack at night, a sudden change happened.

In the rear of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, there was a sudden shout of killing!

"The enemy's cavalry attacked the rear!"

"Don't panic, inform the Earl immediately!"

The coalition forces of the Grand Duchy of Moscow were attacked because of the rear camp, and the generals immediately mobilized their troops.

Catherine was awakened, and the camp had begun to shake.

"The rear camp is under attack!"

"The left battalion has been attacked by the enemy!"

Everywhere there was wolf smoke and shouts of killing, which seriously interfered with Catherine's judgment.

"Chu Zimou, I didn't expect to turn my face yesterday, and I can't wait to conquer me today. But I'm not that easy to mess with. ”

"Order Dmitry of the Don to go to the rear camp and crush the enemy. I estimate that the cavalry attacking the rear battalion was only a minority, which is the usual tactic of the Easterners to attack the east and the west. Their tactics have been used for 2,000 years, and there is still nothing new. ”

"Even the enemy attacking the left flank was a partial division, and the direction of the real attack was the right battalion. Strengthen the defense of the right battalion! ”

Catherine put on her double-horned hat and looked around, and there was a forest on the west side.

"The enemy attacking the rear should have gone around to the rear by a forest path, so there must not be many of them. Chu Zimou, do you think you can defeat me in this way? ”

After Catherine strengthened the defense of the right battalion, sure enough, the right battalion, which had no shouts of killing, was attacked by the Eastern Han army!

"Sure enough, I saw through it."

Because a large number of soldiers of the Grand Duchy of Moscow defended in the right battalion, it was always difficult for the Eastern Han army to conquer the right battalion.

When Catherine thought that she had seen through Chu Tian's plan, the shouting of the Eastern Han army attacking the right camp suddenly decreased, and the left battalion broke out again with fierce shouts of killing!

The direction of attack is still in the left battalion!

Ekaterina suddenly panicked: "Go to support the left battalion!" Fiction and reality, where is the direction of Chu Zimou's attack......"

And in front of the coalition forces of the Muscovy, Le Yi personally led the Eastern Han heavy infantry and the soldiers of the Arab Empire into battle to attack in the direction of the enemy lord!

The exact location of Ekaterina's main tent has been explored!