Chapter 823: Catherine who miscalculated

Tangled to entangled, depressed to depressed, but Chen Jian, who was completely unprepared for the appearance of the Enlos Empire, did not stop his actions because of this, and before he could not see the situation clearly, he decided to respond to all changes with the same for the time being, and still continued to implement his strategic plan.

Therefore, the Entagri army still continued to attack the Bracada Kingdom in an orderly manner according to the original plan, and the Entagri army in the Krurod region continued to hold on to the existing territory, with obvious air superiority and various preparations that had been made in advance, it was not easy for anyone to defeat the Ntagrui army in the Krurod area, and therefore, the Ntagri Empire still continued to shelter those Krugrêd refugees from all over the country.

Of course, just in case, Chen Jian did not forget to strengthen the defense work on the border, and the defenders in the forests of Tula Leone, Haméngdale, and the west of Baildes have been increased to a certain extent.

It's just that Jian Chen didn't know that he was taken aback by the joint action of the Erathia Empire and the Enroth Empire, but Catherine was also taken aback by the bold action he sent the Entagri Army to raid the Bracada Kingdom itself.

"It's a very far-sighted strategy!"

After just a little analysis, Catherine roughly understood the intentions of the Entagri Empire, and while being amazed by it, Catherine also suddenly realized that she and Chen Jian had invisibly completed a wonderful cooperation, giving an absolutely heavy blow to the Holy Alliance, which was left with only two allies due to the sudden withdrawal of the Erathia Empire.

Needless to say, the Jīng Spirit Kingdom, which was attacked by the Enroth Empire into the Eremirin, and the Bracada Kingdom also planted a big heel this time, not only was the rear of the Entagre Army disturbed, but the army that attacked the Krurod Kingdom also suffered heavy losses in the sneak attack of the Erathia Army.

Coupled with the fact that all of this happened in such a tight time, at first glance, it seems as if this event was a joint operation of the Erathia Empire, the Enros Empire, and the Entagri Empire.

It would be nice if that were the case.

Looking through the information coming from all over the place in the tent and analyzing the situation on the mainland, Catherine thought with regret, but she also understood that all this was just her own wishful thinking.

The Erathian Empire was defeated in the Battle of Haméngdale.

The end of hundreds of thousands of troops almost wiped out, even in the last great war, it has never been defeated, the Erathian army has not been defeated, but it has been defeated so badly like in Haméngdale, but it is the first time in the last hundreds of years, even when the last time Standwick City was captured by the coalition forces of Lord Negan, the Erathian army has never been so out of shape, all the time, even if the Erathia army is defeated, it is still glorious although defeated, before the Entagre army, no matter which opponent, wants to defeat the Erathia army, He is also bound to pay a heavy price of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of himself.

However, this almost ironclad situation was ruthlessly broken by the Entagri army in Haméngdale, and at the cost of the extreme, the Entagri army annihilated hundreds of thousands of Erathia troops and won an absolute victory.

The proud Erathians could not accept such an outcome.

They desperately want to fight the Entagri Empire again, so as to redeem the lost face and wash away the great shame.

Even Catherine herself, every time she thinks of this, she inevitably feels uncomfortable for a while, she understands why Jian Chen is so ruthless, Jian Chen obviously wants to use the fiasco of the Erathia Empire to build momentum for the Entagri Empire, but from a personal point of view, she also feels that Jian Chen has gone too far this time.

In this case, she wants to reconcile the Erathia Empire and the Entagre Empire, it is simply impossible, when the war ended, her prestige was in full swing, and she was still involuntary in many things, and now she is on the throne for the second time, and her prestige is not as good as before, although it is less powerful than before, but the Entagri Empire has been greatly injured by the vitality of Kendall nòng, the talent is zero, and the people's livelihood is tired, and she can't withstand more tosses, and she doesn't want to make extraneous branches in addition to conforming to the general trend of the country, what else can she do?

And what is the general trend in the Ntagari Empire since the end of the Battle of Haméngdale, that is, the mainstream idea?

It's very simple, if you want the Erathia Empire and the Entagre Empire to make peace, it's not impossible, but the premise is that the Erathia Empire first has to regain its lost face on the battlefield and win a brilliant victory, which is an absolute premise, and the Erathia Empire can only appear at the negotiating table as a winner.

Of course, if it is found that there is a possibility of completely defeating the Entagri Empire, this peace talk will certainly not be negotiable.

Catherine has been in power for many years, and of course she understands this very well, so although she knows that choosing the Entagri Empire as an ally is far more beneficial to the Erathian Empire than choosing the Holy Alliance to reorganize, she can only reluctantly choose the latter due to the situation.

No matter how good the strategy is, it must be in line with the actual situation to work, right? If we ignore the objective conditions and only make decisions that we think are correct based on our own subjectivity, we will only end up doing bad things with good intentions and making everything the opposite way.

Life is so helpless.

In fact, Catherine's original thoughts were not completely negative, she planned to join forces with the Bracada Kingdom and the Jīng Spirit Kingdom first, temporarily create a more favorable external environment, seize the time to let the Erathia Empire recuperate, and wait for the Holy Alliance and the Entagri Empire to go to war, and then try to promote peace by war, and after achieving some results, she will re-establish the Entagri Empire and break away from the Holy Alliance.

This is a difficult path to follow, and a bad nòng will make the situation of the Erathian Empire even more dangerous, and once again make enemies on all sides completely isolated, but Catherine is confident that she can take the Erathian Empire through this path.

But she made a lot of calculations, but she didn't calculate that her husband Roland and his Enlos Empire would deliberately get involved in the Elasia continent at this time, making everything she secretly planned come to naught again.

But Catherine also understands that Roland will think so, and it is normal for the Enlos Empire to spy on the continent of Erathia.

Strictly speaking, Roland's intention to attack the continent of Erathia was caused by her Catherine, because it was with her Catherine's explanation and analysis that Roland could understand many reasons why the Entagri Empire could rise so quickly in a short period of time, even almost miraculously, but this also made Roland understand another thing, that is, for the Enlos Empire, the Entagri Empire is a powerful potential enemy.

As the emperor of the Entagre Empire, Roland will of course consider what it would be like if this potential opponent is not suppressed and the Entagri Empire continues to grow like this, and if one day the Entagre Empire is no longer satisfied with the development of the Elasia continent and turns its attention to the Enlos continent.

This is not impossible, after all, the Entagri Empire has a sea power so strong that even the Rigna pirates have to shy away from it, who dares to say that an empire with such sea power has no intention of getting involved in other continents? And even if it doesn't now, what about the future?

The Rigner pirates are not as powerful as the Entagre Empire, and their range of activities is also spread across the three continents of the Colony world.

Moreover, after unifying the Enlos Continent, the Enlos Empire, which has no more room for development in the mainland, also has the need to expand outward, and the Luàn Bureau of the Erathia Continent is so easy to take advantage of.

All these factors are combined, and it is strange that the Enlos Empire has not made any moves.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to enter the continent of Erathia, take advantage of Luàn to seize territory, gain a foothold and then expand further, and try to contain the rise of the Entagri Empire, and strangle the powerful opponent in the rocking blue, at least within an acceptable range, is a rather sensible and far-sighted strategy.

Catherine is Roland's wife and the empress of the Enlos Empire, no matter whether she is in the public or sī, she has no reason to oppose the Enlos Empire's march into the Elasia continent, after all, the Enroth Empire has no plans to attack the Elasia Empire, and such a well-connected reinforcement is also urgently needed by the current Erathia Empire.

So she had no choice but to make a decision against her will again, and took the Erathia Empire to go further and further on the road of hostility with the Entagri Empire, and it was difficult to turn back.

However, of course, Catherine will not abandon her official business because of sī feelings, and she has decided on a position, and all that remains for her is how to maximize the benefits of the Erathia Empire in this luàn game, in this matter, Catherine has put a lot of thought into it, and even does not hesitate to fight with the Enlos Empire under all kinds of huge pressure.

Therefore, she rejected Roland's original plan to take the rich Tulaleone Forest as the first goal, which would make the Erathia Empire and the Enlos Empire confront the Entagri Empire early, and she suggested that the persimmons of the Enlos Empire should pick up the soft pinch, first take the Jīng Spirit Kingdom, which has suffered a great loss of strength, first attack the Eremi Forest, then Zhandia, and then the Tutaglia Swamp.

The Jīng Spirit Kingdom and the Erathia Empire have been grudges for hundreds of years, and most of the time they have been in a state of hostility, attacking each other, and there is a great war that has lasted for more than a hundred years such as the Timber War.

Moreover, her suggestion was also made after careful consideration and combined with the current pattern of the continent, which had many long-term benefits for the Erathian Empire.

The Enlos Empire's seizure of the Eremirin Forest will not only remove the Jīng Spirit Kingdom, which has been the rival of the Elasia Empire for many years, but also divide the silver sè Pegasus resources equally in it later, according to the cooperation agreement signed by the two sides, and increase the air power of the two countries.

If it goes well, although this arrangement is a palliative rather than a cure, it can also improve the lack of air power of the Erathia Army to a certain extent in a short period of time.

At the same time, after occupying Eli, Dia and Tetaria, the Enlos Empire can form an effective deterrent to the Entagri Empire in the north of the continent, and can also connect with the Erathia Empire, one south and one north to form a two-sided attack on the Entagri Empire.

In contrast, the Erathian Empire is targeting the kingdom of the Mages of Bracada.

Catherine, of course, would not agree to the Enlos Empire's attack on the Kingdom of Bracada, because geographically, the Kingdom of Bracada was simply surrounded by the Elasia Empire and the Kingdom of Krurod in the southern corner of the continent.

Letting the Enlos Empire gain a foothold here is something that a fool would do, and what Catherine wants is for the Enlos Empire to help the Erathia Empire contain and deter the Entagre Empire, rather than making the Erathia Empire a powerful barrier between the Enlos Empire and the Entagre Empire on this continent.

If the Kingdom of Bracada is successfully defeated, the Erathia Empire will not only have more territory and various resources in the rear, but will also be able to take over the various magical technologies possessed by this wizard kingdom, and its strength will be greatly increased, which is definitely a huge yòuhuò for the Erathia Empire.

What's more, the Enlos Empire has fought the Jīng Spirit Kingdom, which has seriously damaged the overall strategic layout of the Bracada Kingdom, and the Erathia Empire, as an ally of the Enroth Empire, naturally attracted the hostility of the Bracada Kingdom, and the Bracada Kingdom is also destined to start a war sooner or later, Catherine of course has to strike first, even if she can't destroy the other party, she must first weaken the strength of the other party as much as possible, so that the Erathia Empire has some more advantages, She didn't think that Magnus, who was about to make a big move, would be able to endure this evil breath in this situation.

Attacking the Kingdom of Bracada, Catherine also did not have any psychological burden.

Because the relationship between the Erathia Empire and the Kingdom of Bracada has actually been very tense, although there have been no major wars, but before Catherine's father managed to facilitate the formation of the first Holy Alliance, the two countries also had conflicts on the border from time to time, not long ago during the reign of Kendall, the armies of the two countries were almost on the border, even during the alliance, the two sides were secretly wary of each other, calculating each other - whether it was the Bracada or the Erathians, they did not forget the grievances and grievances of the year- Although the predecessor of the Brakkad Kingdom, that is, the Brakkad Empire, was founded by Tanan and the Krurod Barbarian Kingdom, what was finally established on the ruins of the Brakkad Empire was the Erathia Empire that subsequently defeated the Krurod Kingdom, that is to say, it was the Erathians who had occupied the former home of the magicians for many years, not the Krurods, and there was no shortage of hands on the battlefield between the Brakkati Empire and the Erathia Empire.

This time, the Bracada Kingdom and the Erathia Empire rebuilt the old friendship and formed a holy alliance again, and they did not have any good intentions, the purpose was to use each other, and there were many of them secretly calculating each other, and now with the help of the Enlos Empire, the Eracia Empire and the Bracada Kingdom do not have much common interests, but there are more conflicts of interest, Catherine will naturally not be soft.

It's just that the development of the war really caught Catherine by surprise, she never thought that Jian Chen, like herself, would take the Bracada Kingdom as a key target at this time, so that the Bracada Kingdom was overwhelmed by the enemy on both sides, and the Erathia Empire was under much less pressure in the war against the Bracada Kingdom, and could carry out everything more calmly.

This is a happy thing, but Catherine also realizes from the actions of the Entagrean army that the strength of the Entagri Empire has reached a higher level, and this matter is not happy.

Catherine found that she still underestimated the speed of the development and growth of the Entagre Empire, and she originally thought that the purpose of the Entagre Empire's actions in the Krurod region was just to take advantage of the weakness of the Krurod Kingdom to gain some benefits from it, but now the attack of the Entagre Army on the mainland of the Bracada Kingdom shows that the plans of the Entagre Army are far more than that.

Catherine, who was initially unaware of the true strength of the Entagri Empire, was worried about this, because everything she and Roland had planned had an important prerequisite that the Ntagri Empire, which had just expanded dramatically, was now busy digesting the previous results and could not intervene too much in the war.

This judgment comes from Catherine's analysis of the performance of the Entagrean army in the battle of Sasio, and Catherine believes that the reason why the Entagrean army had been inactive in the early stage of the war, and suddenly came to a large-scale battle in the later stage, was not an action planned for the sake of the enemy, as some people believe, but a temporary decision made out of necessity and extremely risky.

After the end of the Saseou war, the victorious Entagre army did not further expand the results, but hastily withdrew its troops and withdrew from Diya with a great victory, which also indirectly illustrates this point.

It's a pity that although Catherine guessed many things, she underestimated the potential and development speed of the Entagri Empire, and did not expect that the Entagri Empire would be able to conduct large-scale military operations with the outside world again in such a short period of time, which made the Erathia Empire fall into an extremely passive situation at this critical moment.

Because once the Entagri Empire thinks that the Erathia Empire, which is in alliance with the Enlos Empire, is now more threatening than the Bracada Kingdom, and decides to transfer the combat power it uses for Bracada to the Erathia Empire, then even with the help of the Enlos Empire, the Erathia Empire will have to face a terrible situation of fighting on two fronts, and at that time, what is happening to the Bracada Kingdom now will be repeated in the Erathia Empire.

Catherine believed that with Jian Chen's strategy and the support of a group of capable generals led by Moryl, it should only be a matter of time before such a decision was made.

She had to find a way to deal with the situation.

Leaving the information at hand, Catherine sat there, pondering for a long time.

It's just that Catherine doesn't know that in addition to the Entagri Empire and the Bracada Kingdom, she actually has another enemy that is far stronger than she expected.

And this enemy is now ready to act.