Chapter 634: Outside Must Be Inside (3

But helplessness to helplessness, anger to anger, Kendall still did not give up the idea of power in his hands, as a senior and stubborn emperor, he is extremely firm in his belief that only by using his own methods can the empire return to its former glory.

And the situation that the empire is now surrounded by strong enemies makes Kendall feel that he has not done anything wrong, and in such troubled times, only strong force can ensure the security and stability of the empire.

However, Kendall did not realize that it was precisely because of his excessive military force at home and his excessive toughness on the outside world that the empire would fall into the current situation of external and internal difficulties, and he blamed the increasingly bad situation in the empire on the deliberate troublemakers of the restless nobles at home and the ignorance of the commoners, and blamed the situation surrounded by powerful enemies on the sinister intentions of foreign races.

Kendall can't see the problem, but it doesn't mean that other people in the empire can't see it, but it's a pity that Kendall, the regent with a deep sense of mission, is from a military family, he is not only used to using the army's tough means to deal with everything, but also his high position in the army all the year round has also made him develop a dictatorial style, after all, the army is a very special place, Kendall is used to the unconditional obedience of the people below to his orders, so when those imperial ministers raised many objections to him, The regent didn't listen to it at all, and even some of the originally well-intentioned reminders were regarded by him as a conspiracy with ulterior motives.

In order to cope with the situation of fighting on two fronts and the increasingly tense border situation around the empire, Kendall has ordered the expansion of the army more than once, and at the same time, in order to ensure the increasingly huge military expenditure and the supply of materials needed for the war, he has also ordered tax increases many times, and the burden on civilians throughout the empire has greatly increased.

But even so, Kendall was still obsessed, on the contrary, he was quite annoyed by this situation that was not expected by him, he thought that the Imperials were too free and too comfortable, and he did not understand why the Imperials could not work with him like his soldiers at such a critical moment to work for the re-emergence of the Empire.

This realization of his led him further and further down the wrong path, and pushed himself into opposition to many of the interests of the Empire, because Kendall's actions not only caused a heavy burden on the common people of the Empire, but also seriously hurt the vital interests of these interests.

Similarly, because of Kendall's successive failures, the war in various places is not going well, and even among the military who have always supported him, dissatisfied voices have begun to appear, and many people have begun to miss the good times when Catherine was in power, and even some of Kendall's hardcore supporters can't help but start to question why although the emperor did not make big moves during Catherine's reign, the surrounding countries did not dare to look at the empire squarely, and after Kendall became the regent, the situation was diametrically opposite.

And then, of course, in the Emperor's **, a trend of thought that wanted to welcome back Catherine to regain power on the Enlos continent began to appear.

Kendall, however, did not notice this at this time, he was too superstitious about his prestige in the Emperor, and after the defeat in the naval battle with the Union Army, while strengthening the coastal defenses, he began to make great efforts to rectify the increasingly chaotic situation in the country - after a period of preparation, he finally dealt with those who were always in the middle of the war. The noisy old nobles of the empire raised his butcher's knife, and Kendall was fed up with these guys who were always dragging the empire back, and what made him even more angry that these guys dared to impeach him secretly to Emperor Lisander because of his crushing defeat at sea.

All of a sudden, there was a bloody storm all over the empire, many nobles and lords along with their families and subordinates were captured by the elite army sent by Kendall, and those who dared to resist were all killed, and many of the original important ministers of the empire in the imperial capital were also imprisoned, and a great purge was also set off in the emperor, and the power of the old nobles in the emperor was uprooted, and what Catherine always wanted to do but did not dare to do was done by Kendall with the most powerful thunderous means.

But as Catherine feared, the empire fell into chaos, and some of the fish that slipped through the net used their influence to set up a rebel flag in the empire, although their strength was not good, but it still made the empire in the midst of an eventful season even more stormy, and Kendall's wanton exclusion of dissidents also made more empire people feel very cold to him.

Kendall, however, thinks it's all worth it, because he feels that in order to deal with a potentially more dire situation in the future, the empire should first let go of its internal problems before it can concentrate its efforts on the outside world.

In this case, the broken ship of the Erathian Empire, which Catherine had managed to repair, began to become full of holes again because of Kendall's insistence.

At the same time, Kendall did not find out the real reason for the failure of his plan to ambush the Union Navy at sea.

He attributed the reason for his defeat to the fact that the Union Navy had been hiding their true strength.

From the various pieces of information that Adric brought back, Kendall came to this conclusion.

And he also believed that Jian Chen must have received strong support from the Elemental Clan in secret.

Otherwise, how can we explain that the Alliance forces have the means to carry so many dragons to sea? Even if he killed Kendall, he would not believe that Jian Chen would have such a large fleet, because if calculated by a warship carrying several dragons, the fleet of the alliance navy has reached a terrifying scale, and the manpower, material and financial resources required to maintain such a fleet cannot be easily burdened even by the empire, Kendal does not think that Chen Jian's alliance has a terrible strength beyond the empire, and it is impossible for such a huge fleet to haunt the waters of the empire without being discovered.

So all this can only be the secret work of the elementals, Kendal remembers very clearly, in the doomsday battle with the Kerrigans, in addition to moving the castle, the elementals have another secret that the major forces are extremely concerned about, that is, they can use unknown methods to continuously send a large number of troops from their castles, as if their castle has a portal to the place where they hide their troops.

Kendal thinks that Jian Chen's warship is likely to be made using the principle of the Elemental Clan's mobile castle, and the tower on it carries the magical device that the Elemental Clan uses to transport troops to other places, but in fact, the scale of the Alliance's naval fleet is actually not large, and the forces they use to fight at sea are likely to be directly teleported to the sea from Negan's soil, which can well explain why this fleet can always be haunted at sea.

Kendall didn't know that while his conjecture was completely wrong, his conjecture about the warships and tactics of the Alliance Navy was extremely close to the truth.

But because of this, Kendall never thought that the most fundamental reason for his defeat this time was that there were traitors within the empire who reported to the Alliance Army.

And the result of not finding out that anyone in the Angel Clan betrayed the empire was that after the battle at sea was over, the elder of the Angel Clan, who was a thief, lived in fear for many days, until he found out through some channels that the empire did not find anything, and he was relieved.

For such a result, Ji Lian was quite satisfied, for the death and injury of the clansmen in this battle, he did not blame Chen Jian, the sword on the battlefield has no eyes, this kind of thing is inevitable, he has already been mentally prepared, not to mention that Chen Jian also greeted him early, and after the battle, Chen Jian handled it very properly, because Chen Jian had already informed him that most of the Angel Clan warriors who died in that battle were saved by the great heavens in the alliance using their unique resurrection ability, and only more than 200 people really died, Now these angels who refuse to surrender are being imprisoned somewhere, except that they are not free, everything else is fine, just waiting for Gillian to try to convince them after they defect to the Alliance.

The luck in this misfortune made Ji Li'an feel very relieved, he found that he really didn't see the wrong person, Chen Jian's style of acting, very much appetite for him.

Of course, this kind of fratricidal thing between the clan and the alliance army still makes Jili feel annoyed, this kind of thing should not have happened, for this reason, Jilian decided to speed up the plan to lead the people out of the empire, and this time Kendall's plan to sneak attack the alliance army at sea also gave him a new idea.

Through those who defected directly to the Alliance in this battle, Gillian already knew that the Alliance's navy had the technology to use magic gates to teleport long distances on warships, which meant that if the Angels could move from the now secluded hinterland of the Empire to live in the coastal areas of the Empire, then the Angels would have the opportunity to break away from the Empire and join the Alliance.

To this end, he and Chen Jian began to have a lot of correspondence and discussion about the feasibility of this plan.

This plan certainly has the full support of Jian Chen.

Because there is a limit to the number of people in a two-way portal, if a one-way portal is used, as long as it is properly organized, there is no problem with how many people can be teleported during the effective time of the portal, so theoretically speaking, this plan of Gillian is quite operable.

But the most critical problem of this plan is not the portal, but how the Angel Clan can move to the coastal area without making the Empire suspicious, and at the same time, how can the Angel Clan warriors who were sent to the Emperor by Elzak under the same circumstances so that everyone can leave together.

Especially the last one, in Chen Jian's opinion, it is almost an unsolvable existence.

However, to Chen Jian's surprise, Ji Li'an wanted to open it at this time.

Because the old angel did not intend to leave with all his people.

"Go as much as you can, even if there are witnesses and physical evidence, Elzac's conspiracy has also been made public, but there are still not a few people in the center of the Angel Clan to the Empire, the split of the Angel Clan is inevitable, but I still firmly believe that the decision I made today is correct, for the future of the Angel Clan, I am willing to bear this charge of splitting my clan"

In a letter to Chen Jian, Ji Li'an wrote, between the lines, there was a thick helplessness and sadness that could not be dissolved.

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