10th of August, 1025 in the imperial calendar.

Two full months have passed since the fall of the imperial capital, and under the call of the imperial general Javier Salmondo, the counter-revolutionary forces scattered throughout the empire have formed a crusade coalition army and launched a massive counteroffensive against the imperial capital where the revolutionary army is located.

From this moment on, this war really evolved into a war that affected the entire empire.

In addition to the legions under the command of Javier and Estes, there were also marines led by the Governor of the Southeast, Isidor Adonis, and even the most inconspicuous of all the lieutenant generals in the Empire, the Governor of the Northwest, Sparkus Domothy, cobbled together more than 20,000 people to help.

In addition, there are also some temporary forces that are too strong to gather private troops and mobilize the people to organize themselves, large and small.

At the beginning of the war, Javier and Estes, as the commanders of the coalition forces in the east and west, tacitly gave up the idea of attacking the imperial capital on two fronts, and instead attacked a city of great strategic value in the central region with all their might.

Although I don't want to admit it, it is indeed the largest revolutionary army now, even if two fronts are fighting at the same time, the revolutionary army will not necessarily be quickly defeated, and once they stabilize their position, Javier and Estes will have to face the risk of being broken one by one, and the current revolutionary army has this strength.

Therefore, after all considerations, Javier and Estes still decided to complete the convergence before the official general attack on the imperial capital, and fight a decisive battle with the revolutionary army with the greatest superior strength of our side.

And just after they conquered several cities in succession on the premise of this strategic policy, the revolutionary army's expected counterattack came, which made the battle situation fall into a quagmire of see-saw and stalemate for a while.

Ulysses was no fool, and saw their purpose early on, so he ordered his generals to defend the pass, and repeatedly thwarted the attacks of Javier and Estes, apparently intending to wear down the vigor of the crusading army's attack before counterattacking.

After nearly half a month of continuous onslaught, but the battle situation has not progressed, Javier finally felt a little tricky.

The revolutionary army now occupies almost half of the empire.

The Imperial Capital, the Central Province, a large area in the southeast of the Empire, and even the Southwestern Province, where Javier was stronghold, were all under the control of the Revolutionary Army, and the problem was that the Coalition Army was geographically divided into two, and it was difficult for Javier and Estes to overcome the obstacles set up by the Revolutionary Army to complete the merger of the armies.

The only possible option is to start in areas that the revolutionary army has not yet fully controlled......

Imperial North!

It was a barren land, and the revolutionary army had been busy absorbing and digesting the latest gains, and had not paid attention to that area, and its control was far less than that of the south, which gave Javier an opportunity to take advantage of.

After making a decision in his heart, Havel immediately sent a message to Estes, who was fighting on the western front, and then decisively abandoned many of the achievements he had achieved so far, and led the coalition army all the way north, leaving only the soldiers of the revolutionary army with a dazed and confused face.

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On September 6, nearly a month after the start of the counter-offensive against the revolutionary army, Havel finally led the crusade coalition to the city of Changle in the Northwest Province, which was ruled by the Governor of the Northwest, Spark Domoses.

Since he had arrived at someone else's territory, it was reasonable for Javier to go and say hello to his master's house, so he went to the governor's palace as soon as possible, and at the same time met the man named Spark Domothy.

Spark's first impression of Javier was fat, about forty years old, with a fat and round body, short hands and feet, and unusually fair skin like most northerners, which made Javier subconsciously think of a fat white creature who was often kept in captivity in a farmhouse.

As for Spark, Javier had heard a little about him, and had read some of his scattered information, and knew that the vast majority of people in the empire did not have a positive opinion of him.

Sparker himself is actually not a big traitor, he may be lacking in talent, but his personal character is not bad, he is just an ordinary ordinary nobleman, which is a very common phenomenon in the aristocratic world of Lao Tzu's heroes and bears.

But the problem is that this guy's background is too good, not only does he have the honor of hereditary aristocracy, but also because of his father's Yu Yin, he inherited the high position of the governor of the northwest and the lieutenant general of the empire, and became one of the few people who stood at the apex of the empire's power, which inevitably made the people around him feel red.

If Sparker has a talent comparable to that of Javier or Danadi, then he can naturally use his strength to gag the mouths of the people around him, but it's a pity that he is just a mediocre person, and to have today's status, in the final analysis, depends on having a good father.

Therefore, although he was afraid of Spark's power and status, few people dared to confront him head-on, but all kinds of sour ridicule and sarcasm in the secret still inevitably reached his ears, and such an atmosphere even led many commoners who were keen on aristocratic gossip.

And a later incident caused Spark's reputation to fall to the bottom.

That was the "Brave of the North" Numa Seka who invaded the imperial border from the northwest, and as the supreme military leader guarding the northwest frontier, Sparky was naturally the first to feel the pressure of the iron hooves of the alien race.

Although there is an effort to fight, but with the small military literacy of Espark, where is the opponent of a proud son like Numa Seka? The whole battle process is like an adult bullying a child, and there is no suspense at all.

If it weren't for the timely arrival of Estes's reinforcements, Sparker would have been martyred long ago, and there would have been no further incident.

After this battle, Sparker was crucified to the pillar of shame, and the word "incompetent" almost became his label.

However, Javier believes that Spark's person may not be as bad as the outside world rumores.

Although he was evaluated as incompetent, the position of Governor of Spark's Northwest has really been safe and secure for more than 20 years.

From the time of the first emperor, to the dictatorship of Earnest, and then to the New Deal of the Empire, he was able to pick himself out intact from every political turmoil, without being caught, and relying on this means of protecting himself and keeping the right and left and right, it is not something that an incompetent person can do.

Sparky welcomed Javier's arrival, and showed great enthusiasm in his speech, and the two small eyes on his fat face almost narrowed into a slit, and he smiled a little funny and joyful.

As Havel said, Sparker may not be very good at leading troops to fight, but I have to say that he is a man with a very bright head.

Although in form, he and Xavier are only military generals of the same level, and there is no question of who is superior, but he, who has an extremely keen political sense, will not be so naïve to equate himself with Havel's status.

This is a very likely figure who will become the new emperor in the future! If you don't seize the opportunity to have a good time and hug your thighs to pave the way for your future, when will you wait?

Javier didn't have any special feelings about Spark's flattery, and he was not in the mood to greet him, so after a few brief conversations and a certain attitude of cooperation, he left directly.

The group of imperial nobles naturally has all kinds of goods in it, and there are many guys who don't like the eye, but as long as the other party does not commit evil deeds, or wants to block his own path without his own strength, Javier will not kill the whole family at every turn.

After all, this huge empire mainly relies on aristocratic politics to support and operate, if they are all killed, who will help you stabilize the country?

Besides, Javier's mind was not at all on these indifferent little things, he was waiting, waiting for Estes to arrive.

Time had passed imperceptibly since the imperial capital had parted, and now, they were finally able to see each other again, and Javier had a lot to say to that woman.

Five days later, another coalition force led by Estes also traveled from the western front to Changle City in the northwest, and the entire force of the crusade against the coalition army was now assembled.