Chapter 197: The War Ends
The next day, under the cover of the Empire's artillery and long-range troops, Charles led his troops to attack the giant walls of Cologne very smoothly, but after entering the city, the battle began to become extremely fierce, and the last remaining troops of the Beastmen were all elite troops of the Giant Horn (Bull Head) clan, and the inferior horn troops were basically abandoned in the battle with the Empire to block the pace of the Empire's attack.
The remaining troops of Carcassonne were all members of the infantry regiment that had been gathered later, and under the leadership of Charles, they advanced towards the palace little by little, losing a lot of men with each step.
"Lee Roald!! If you don't make a move, all the agreements between us will be null and void!! After Charlie killed a minotaur, he turned to Zhang Hao, who was "watching a play" on the city wall, and angrily admonished. After speaking, he continued to rush forward to kill, he didn't dare to have any slack, the morale of the soldiers around him had been shaken a little because of the huge casualties, if Charlie stopped the sword in his hand again, I believe that it would not be long before everyone threw down their weapons and turned around and retreated.
Zhang Hao was not in a hurry after hearing this, and after opening the communication crystal and telling Marshal Robert a set of coordinates, he flew to Charlie's side and took out the contract prepared overnight yesterday and handed it to Charlie.
After a while, the hell rocket artillery and mortar artillery began to wield, with Charlie as the initial position, and after five hundred meters forward, there was an area that could be covered by artillery, Zhang Hao was just using his own perception to find out if there were still survivors.
Ten consecutive non-stop attacks directly bombarded the center of the city of Cologne to the ruins in front of the palace. Not only did it open a complicated passage for Charlie and the others, allowing them to enter the palace faster, but it also forced out all the enemies hiding in the shadows, and of course, after ten rounds, there were not many beastmen left. Immediately after that, Zhang Hao began to treat the injured soldiers with the power of jade, and blessed the soldiers who were fighting on the front line with thunder and lightning, the power of flames, its attributes were completely random, and a set of actions directly blocked Charlie's mouth with red eyes, ten rounds of artillery were done in a few ways, but the consequences would take several months to recover, and it was all money! Charlie is on the verge of collapse.
"Ahhh!!hhh Offensive!! Offensive!! After Charlie signed the agreement on the spot and shouted, the warriors who were inspired by the pain and the period behind him stepped on the ruins and went straight to the palace to kill, without saying a word to Zhang Hao, for fear that as soon as he opened his mouth, he couldn't help but face each other with a sword.
Looking at Charlie's distant back, Zhang Hao opened the communication crystal again, ordered Marshal Robert to lead the troops to retreat immediately, and at the same time contacted Lilith and told him to let her directly pick up the saint of Carcassonne and the jade mage, and leave the main force to forcibly take over the defense of Carcassonant, waiting for the new king Charlie to take over, since the two sides have reached an agreement, then Carcassonne, the last city of Bartonnia, and the inhabitants inside must be handed over to Charlie intact. After dealing with all this, Zhang Hao sensed the situation in the palace again, and after ensuring that Charlie completely crushed Mogul, he returned to the army and evacuated with the army.
It's not that Zhang Hao has anything urgent, but Charlie must know that the small actions behind the empire must be really crazy, and the more than 500,000 refugees hiding in the empire are tempted by Carl to take away more than 300,000 people with the imperial identity, money, food and other things, and they will become the living force of the Great Wall plan. The remaining 200,000 people are either loyal followers of the Lake God Cult or are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they will not agree to keep Karl even if they want to.
At the same time, there are 300,000 imperial ** teams are being reassembled, but there are only 100,000 regular troops among them, and the rest are all ordinary civilians and criminals of the empire, and all the criminals who have been imprisoned in the empire for more than three years have been stuffed in by Carl, and their names have been printed on the roster of imperial soldiers, and the troops who have just arrived in Bretonnia are definitely the hardest batch, and you can't put on a show not to work, after all, Carl also abducted Bretonnia's 300,000 laborers, so these criminals were sent over to appease Charlie's anger.
His Majesty the Emperor has decreed that those who have been subjected to three years should be exempted from all previous crimes, so these criminals are all willing to work together. According to Karl's idea, 300,000 people, regardless of whether they are soldiers or not, will be put in your Bretonnia first, and then they will be replaced after my recruits are trained, and it doesn't matter if these criminals run away or are exhausted to death in the middle, as long as the 300,000 target is there, how many people are missing, I will use the regular troops to make up for it, and no one will work, right? Then increase the index, and if there are criminals, I will send them all to you. This move not only solved the dilemma of not having so many troops stationed for the time being, but also solved the problem of urban security, and solved the problem of local governments to manage the prisoners.
Morgul died, was cut into a hundred pieces, and his head hung above the gate of Cologne, and with it was the entire tribe of beastmen, but their subversion plan could not be regarded as a failure, Bretonnia had a population of nearly 10 million before the subversion plan, and only about 600,000 remained after the war, of which women, children, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled accounted for more than half, of which more than 100,000 people were disabled by the war and had no labor, and the officials, lords, kings of the principality and their families were basically not spared, But fortunately, Bretonnia is now no longer made up of various principalities, but has completely become a unified and complete state, and this is the only thing worth celebrating.
And the hundreds of thousands of troops who followed Charles to recapture Cologne are now the main force of Bretonnia, and the day after the war, these people were all given the name of nobility by Charles, although now the nobles and commoners are no different, but at least their descendants all enjoy noble treatment, and at the same time, there are millions of soldiers who died on the battlefield together with the name of nobles, but only they themselves and their spouses enjoy noble treatment, and cannot be passed on to their children, although the number of people in this name is not known how to be counted, But this has a very obvious effect on winning people's hearts, coupled with the official affirmation of the empire, Charlie is recognized as king.
A month later, Zhang Hao ushered in a group of special guests at the Magic Military Academy, they were the saints and others who had refused to go with the emperor's ** team before, and the surprising companions were Albertic. It seems that Charlie's suppression of them has already begun, otherwise how could they give up their holy city of Carcassonne.
"Thank you Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince for taking you in, I think we still have some use in the academy." After meeting Carl, the saint and the others came directly to the academy to meet Zhang Hao, who was discussing the reform measures of the magic academy with the secret council. I just took this opportunity to meet with the deans and councilors of the Demon Academy.