Baron Bazel, who was born in a noble family in the Grand Duchy of Pausswar, was originally fortunate enough to make a name for himself in the imperial world thanks to the vigorous cultivation of Marshal Sigmunt, but when the young man realized that the old marshal was losing power, and that his pursuit of the marshal's daughter Palatine was fruitless, he turned to the hostile camp of His Excellency the Marshal and became a loyal follower of General Engel.

Most of the radical young officers complained about Bazell who had taken refuge in the opposing camp, and Baazel also knew that his shortcomings were that his foundation was too thin, so he was more eager to establish meritorious deeds and prove that he was more radical than those radical officers with good roots.

Driven by this "new convert" mentality, Bazel became the most suitable dog for the "dirty work" of General Engel's men. From the beginning to the end of April, Baron Bazel ravaged the vast countryside on the west bank of the Turbid River with demonic cruelty and brutality, and ordered the villagers to leave their homes and move to designated towns before the deadline set by him. In order to ensure that these villagers obeyed orders, Bazel personally led the 1st French Brigade to sweep the countryside and burn down the houses of the villages outside the concentrated settlements. Witnessing the old men who refused to leave their homes being burned alive in their own houses, Baron Bazel's face did not change.

With this thunderous maneuver, Bazel and his troops destroyed hundreds of villages on the west bank of the Turbid River in just two weeks, driving more than 200,000 local residents to 36 towns within the control of the Olevi Fortress. These small towns, small in size, suddenly poured into thousands of displaced rednecks and immediately turned into squalid and chaotic refugee camps.

Baron Bazel did not care how difficult the life of these displaced people was, and ordered the engineering regiment to dig trenches, pull barbed wire, set up cordons and sentry posts, and isolate all 36 market towns, prohibiting the inhabitants from entering and leaving, and becoming de facto "concentration camps".

Baron Bazel also did not see his obligation to provide food rations to the refugees, openly declaring that people "must exchange honest labor for the necessities of life". The inhabitants of the 36 large concentration camps were checked and registered, and all those suspected of involvement in guerrilla warfare – what Bazel called "terrorists" – were gathered and dragged to the riverside to be executed en masse.

After the massacre, Bazel took the "register of good citizens" and demanded that men and women live separately, and required all registered adult males to serve in the crusade regiment, and escorted them to the riverbank positions in batches, under the supervision of bayonets and leather whips, dug trenches from morning to night, and went to the riverbank to build pontoon bridges instead of the engineer regiments, and were imprisoned in the barracks at night and kept under strict surveillance.

If the guerrillas came to harass him, Bazel ordered the laborers to be pushed to the front to block the guns. For every time the guerrillas shot and killed an Imperial officer and soldier who was serving as an overseer, Bazel ordered ten laborers to be randomly selected and pushed to the river to be beheaded on the spot as revenge, apparently to show the guerrillas lurking in the dense forest on the other side.

Forced to do hard labor and living in an atmosphere of terror, laborers also tried to rally their crowds to resist, but Bazel had an even more brutal way of dealing with them, which was the "wisdom" he learned from the feudal lords of his hometown of Baoshihua, which the Baoshihua called the "Lian Sitting Method". Bazel publicly warned all the laborers that if they dared to resist, or if they knew that someone was planning a riot and did not report it, not only would they be executed, but their families would also be affected: their parents and young sons would be executed, and their wives and daughters would be used as military prostitutes.

I have to admit that Bazel's bloody and cruel methods have achieved excellent results. Threatened by the "Wartime Joint Sitting", the men who were forced to serve hard labor on the front line could only swallow their anger and did not dare to resist; At the same time, women and the elderly were forced to work in the camps to wash military uniforms and mend quilts, and barely starved to death by receiving only a small amount of black bread every day.

As vast villages on the west bank of the Turbid River were destroyed by Bazel's troops, and the market towns were transformed into concentration camps shrouded in barbed wire, the guerrillas who had been operating on the west bank could no longer get cover and supplies from the local population as before, and they lost the soil on which they depended, and there was no way to hide in the desolate land of scorched earth. Baron Bazel led his cavalry to hunt down the partisans as he hunted foxes in the countryside of Pausward, wielding his saber and chasing them to split their heads. Because of the number of killings, Bazel had to change his sabers frequently, sometimes four or five in a day, which shows how tired he was of this bloody hunting game.

By mid-April, forced by the bloody and terrifying atmosphere created by Baron Bazel, many of the guerrillas who had been active on the west bank of the Turbid River either retreated to the east bank of the river or hid on the spot and silently endured the hardest days since the beginning of the war. As winter turned to spring, guerrilla warfare on the Far East and West fronts ran counter to the climate, shifting from the vigorous peak period of winter to the low tide period of stagnant waters in spring.

The spring of 1625 was a depressing season for the Far Eastern officers and militia partisans stationed on the Western Front. By the end of April, the atmosphere of terror created by Baron Bazel had continued unabated, and another piece of bad news followed: Admiral Charles Lucien, commander of the Imperial Navy, had led a large fleet to the Golden Horn with the intention of taking control of the Parnia Peninsula and launching an offensive against Krasbourg from the southwest.

The threat from the sea forced the Far East regent Roland Kolas to personally write a letter to the commander of the Western Front, Field Marshal Pavel, urgently dispatching Rear Admiral Fanny and his "Flying Dragon Knights" to the Golden Horn to reinforce the Far Eastern naval fleet. As a result, the aviation of the Far Eastern Navy was strengthened, but the air force of the Western Front was weakened. The Fourth and Fifth Fleets of the Far East Air Force stationed in Lengxi Town, due to the lack of escort from the Flying Dragon Knights, did not dare to launch air raids on the positions on the west bank as frequently as before.

The movement of the "Flying Dragon Knights" can be called secretive, but this cannot hide from General Engel, who has been closely monitoring the dynamics of the positions in the Far East. In the sky above Cold Creek Town, there are always imperial vulture horse sentinels lurking in the clouds day and night to patrol and reconnoitre. These sentries will always take both the "Invisibility Potion" and the "Invisibility Potion" during reconnaissance, closely monitoring every move in the Far East positions below. If the ground sentry sensed these snooping eyes and sent the air force to pursue them, the vulture sentries would flee separately, and after getting rid of the pursuers, they would quietly return to the sky over Cold Creek Town to continue their reconnaissance mission.