History is always strikingly similar, and it feels ridiculous.

A year ago, Desik frantically invaded the Merchant League, and under the attack of the Desik, the under-armed merchant alliance was defeated and had to turn to the San Jose people for help. However, feng shui took turns, and only a year later, the Desiks, who had conquered a large area of the Shang Alliance's land, actually relaxed their attack on the Shang Alliance, and turned around to attack another powerful country on this continent, the San Jose Empire.

Fighting burned simultaneously on San Jose's northern border and southern coast. More than 100,000 Desiks, in several groups, invaded the territory of San José. In the north, 30,000 border guards requisitioned from the north of Desik, taking advantage of the attention of the San Josens to the south, smuggled across the Morro River in one fell swoop and occupied the town of Red Leaf on the border of the Moro River, near which the Desik took up a complete camp;

To the south of San Jose, the De Sik Navy escorted 30,000 De Sik light infantry, and with the help of the Dark Magician, defeated the Royal Navy of San Jose, besieged the soldiers and civilians of Nanhai County in the port of Minahir, and at the same time sent troops to land in the Patong area, occupied the strategically dangerous Chizhi Stone Forest, and built a new landing dock in Nanhai County.

In Desik's military plan, this landing plan was called the "Sicilian Plan", and this pier was called the Sicilian Pier. The presence of the Sicilian marina represents the deep nail that the Desic inserted in the hinterland of the San José people.

This is the current feeling of the Imperial Council of San Jose, it is not easy to be attacked on the back, and even the experienced Count Mosique does not know whether to deal with a strong enemy in the north or these landing forces in the south first.

Kyoto City, in the territory of San Jose, is located in the north, and the actual distance, according to the straight line distance of the Emperor's Road, is only a few hundred miles to the Morro River. From Momiji Town, where the Desik people landed, to Kyoto Castle, it only takes five days for a fast horse to run. Therefore, when the wolf smoke ignited for a moment, the guards of Kyoto Castle quickly moved into action.

Fortunately, after the news of General Wellington came, the Guards were already ready to go. Even though the Minister of War, Count Mosick, took only two regiments of the Guards, the rest of the Guards were ready. So when the wolf smoke ignited, the entire Guards Regiment was ready, which was probably a blessing in misfortune. Therefore, as soon as the alarm came, the Guards divided into two corps of about 20,000 people, as well as 20,000 border guards and 30,000 garrisons collected from various places, a total of more than 70,000 people, and assembled near Hongye Town as quickly as possible.

Count Mosik led part of the Guards to intercept the landing Desik army in the south, and Desik in the north had to be led by Viscount Slim, the commander of the Guard. However, it is fortunate that the Royal Military Academy of San Jose exists, and the major armies of San Jose are assisted by full-fledged staff officers.

This summer for the first four years was so extraordinary for the people of San Jose. The peaceful life was suddenly broken, and everyone was originally happily watching the Desik and the Shangmeng people fighting, and there is an ancient saying called "watching the fire from the other side", which is very suitable to describe this scene. Unexpectedly, looking at it, the flames of war actually burned across the Morro River.

If it was just friction on the border, it would be fine, but the tactics of the genius of the Desik people, I don't know what method was used, they actually appeared on the coast of the Changhai in the south of Desik like a divine soldier, and landed smoothly in the Patong area. All of a sudden, San Jose had to find himself in a two-front situation.

Fortunately, the San Jose Empire is not a business alliance, and the standing army of more than 400,000 is the confidence of the San Jose Empire. The progress of the war was not too arduous either. Count Mosicke led the San Jose Guards and the garrison of Nanhai County to set up camp in the Red Branch Stone Forest and confront De Sick's army along the Red Branch Stone Forest; the San Jose Royal Navy was based in the port of Minahill and confronted the coast of the Royal Navy of De Sick in the Long Sea; and on the northern front, for some reason, De Sick's offensive was not particularly strong, and after only breaking through a few towns near Red Leaf Town, it stalled.

And the San Jose Guard, who did not know about the other party's arrangement, did not dare to act lightly, for fear of falling into the trap of the Desiks. Since the outbreak of the war, the Desik army, or the Desik base camp, has always been able to create miraculous tactics. The San José Guards, Border Guards, and Garrison surrounded the Desik regiments that crossed the Morro River. There wasn't much to do for a while. The Desiks temporarily controlled the upper reaches of the Morro River, and even if they were defeated, the Desikhs were able to retreat back to the north bank of the river.

And the court magicians of San Jose, an organization with a transcendent position within the empire, have also been busy lately. The Dark Rising organization already has a semi-open presence on the mainland, especially among the Desik Army.

Following the use of the "Dark Veil" and "Blood Forbidden Spell" in the Dark Rise in the Shang War, and the "Spirit Storm" used again by the Dark Mages on the San Jose battlefield, and these magical materials were transmitted to the court mages in various ways. In particular, the power of the Spiritual Storm used by the Dark Magic Envoy in the Chizhi Stone Forest area affected the 8,000 Royal Navy soldiers, directly making the empire lose the possibility of fighting for the Chizhi Stone Forest.

Due to the presence of Admiral Wellington and Bingxia in the Royal Navy, the first-hand news they brought back brought the most detailed on-site descriptions to the court magicians. After General Wellington returned to Kyoto City, the Imperial Council had no time to investigate whether he was derelict in his duties, and General Wellington took Bingxia and came to the San Jose Library as soon as possible.

Several senior court magicians interrogated General Wellington and Bingxia for a long time, and several magicians with serious faces, including General Wellington himself, were also discussing and frantically checking the magic records in the forbidden area. Kuta, the caretaker of the San Jose Great Library, was equally serious on the sidelines.

"Found it!" a court magician suddenly looked up from the pile of books in surprise, at this time General Wellington was very strange to ask why the Merlin Archmage did not appear, hearing the cry of surprise, the rest of the people rushed over, only to see the magician, holding a broken book page solidified with magic, the pages were all charred black marks, as if they had been burned by fire.

The page read, "One of the four forbidden spells, Psychic Storm, is the top level of spiritual magic, and the history of the Magic Empire records that there are no more than ten archons who have mastered this magic." When the magic is emitted, it causes a violent disturbance of the magic element, affecting everyone in its path. The reason why this magic is called a forbidden spell means that it is not allowed to be used lightly. It's because this magic only affects people who have no sense of magical elements, that is, the so-called ordinary people. All mages and magician awakeners will not be affected by this......"

The handwriting on the back is gone, only blackened fragments remain.

Seeing these records, the court magicians present all looked up at General Wellington, but their faces were not curious, but they all had expressions of course. General Wellington scratched his head, "Don't look at me, I just don't like magic." You all know that our Wellington family is the remnant of the Magic Empire, and our family can enter the palace mage team as long as they wish, and there are people who have practiced magic with me. ”

"What's the matter with the young man who came back with you?" asked an old court magician.

"What's going on, everyone is a magician and you don't know that he is a natural magic awakener. Of course, he himself did not know. ”

While the court magicians were studying, the cabinet ministers of the Imperial Council did not relax, and they did not understand the crazy behavior of the Desiks. Including the Emperor, the Grand Chancellor Dirk, Berish, Langton and others were present, Archmage Merlin and Count Moxik were absent, Count Moxik was in the south to defend against the Desiks, and Merlin did not know where he went.

"It's not really about why the Desikhs are doing this, we need to decide how to defend against the Desiks' attack first. "It was the Emperor of Benin who spoke.

Dirk didn't seem to agree, "My Majesty, if we don't figure out what the Desik people think, we will always be led by the nose by the Desik Empire." This is war, not a game of diplomacy, ahem......" Master Dirk coughed suddenly before he finished speaking. Recently, his health has not been good, and there is another war in the empire, and he is also fighting his spirits

"But the Desiks may really be crazy, everyone looks at their actions in the Shang Alliance in the past two years, since that Edward VI ascended the throne, they have been a little crazy. It is said that these plans were made by him himself. Perhaps, this is how he achieved his goal. "Langton, as foreign secretary, seems to have a better understanding of De Sek's situation.

"Count Mosik will return to Kyoto today, the southern front is still relatively stable, we can't break through the Chizhi Stone Forest area for a while, but their tens of thousands of people are also trapped in the small Patong area and can't get out. Maybe they brought more adequate supplies this time, but as the days went by, Desik couldn't bear it. According to the news from the Royal Navy, the number of Desik ships in the open sea is a little smaller, and they should go back to deliver supplies. This sea freight is still very risky. ”

"Speaking of which", the Emperor of Benin suddenly came to his senses, "Why didn't our patrol ships find their traces, how did they avoid the elemental storm in the long sea?"

No one was present to answer the question, and there was silence until Chancellor Langton brought up something else and changed the subject.

"The actions of the Desik people are really similar to the plan proposed by the Lucius Kingdom back then, except that the planned Desik Empire has become San Jose. Now they have a large army on the Moro River and on the South Sea Sea, and if Desik of the Merchant Alliance sends an army to attack us from the territory of White Harbor, we will be caught in a three-sided attack, which will be very disadvantageous to us. Therefore, while resisting the attack of the Desiks with all our might, we must ensure that one thing is that the Desik troops of the Shang Alliance do not enter the war. ”

Chancellor Dirk nodded, "You're so right, Lord Langton. Now, then, I'm afraid we're going to send envoys to Mister City. ”

"It's really 'thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river'!" the Emperor of Benin sighed, the people of San Jose and the nobles will talk about a few ancient sayings of ancient times, and I have to say that these ancient sayings are really very appropriate.