According to the previous discussion, the agreed meeting with the emperor had exceeded one hour.

The Faceless God of War will personally preside over the meeting, articulating grand strategic ideas and assigning the tasks ahead.

It stands to reason that this was also the last imperial meeting of the pre-war mobilization, but for some reason, the meeting was not held on time.

All three poker generals were appointed not long ago, and with the exception of the general of spades, the others were selected from among the officers in the original camp who served as the general's deputy, and no one knows what happened to the departure of their predecessors.

The unanimous version of them is that they are said to have been sent en masse to the northern frontier to carve out new territories and carry out secret missions for the emperor, based on the emperor's "some kind of test" on them.

But the new successors knew in their hearts that this was just a rhetoric.

If they were really sent on a mission or tested in some way, it would be impossible to give their name to someone else.

Besides, at the current moment of preparation, the emperor is in urgent need of personnel, how can it be possible to send out all four veterans at this stall?

After a few months, several new successors to the Playing Card Generals did not dare to discuss in private, and they were all surrounded by the emperor with several tall giants to keep an eye on them, so they could only take the opportunity of this meeting to get together and discuss.

Under the "Faceless God of War", every leader who is qualified to be promoted is waiting for this opportunity, and if he can be promoted by the emperor and promoted to general, he will receive the rights and great rewards of this position.

At this moment, the floating castle had risen into the air, and they gathered in a room in the castle, the atmosphere was silent, and no one spoke first.

At this time, a herald pushed the door in and reported to the three generals: "The emperor has an important guest visiting, and today's meeting has been canceled for the time being, so please go back first." ”

With that, the herald turned and walked out.

The three of them looked at each other, and such an important meeting was postponed, because of the visit of important guests? You know, this is 10,000 meters in the air, how did this guest come here?

"That's amazing...... Could it be someone who has come to the ancient iron city a long time ago? General Fang Pian was a tall and thin man, and he broke the silence first, taking the opportunity to question it.

The General of Hearts looked at the other two and said, "Could it be that the guy I heard about before provided the raw materials for the experiment?" ”

General Plum Blossom was silent for a long time and did not speak, he was the original Adjutant of General Plum Blossom, and this promotion was also accidental, but he vaguely felt that the disappearance of the previous generals was extremely unusual,

"Let's not talk about that, I'm not what you think. Have you ever wondered why the Emperor is in such a hurry to activate our ground forces when they are already very powerful? ”

"Do you need to talk about that? Of course, for the emperor's hegemony! The General of Hearts said categorically.

As soon as the word "hegemony" came out, the other two couldn't refute it, and they were speechless for a while.

"Although our emperor has indeed planned to dominate for a long time, I think it is enough to deal with the ordinary small gangs around it, and it is far from enough to send such a huge army to support this long-range trip." General Plum shook his head.

Everyone understands what he means: after the power of the ancient iron city has developed for decades, and the sphere of influence covers millions of square kilometers, the surrounding small gangs have long been wiped out, and the only ones who can compete with it on the entire continent are the mining city and its subordinate nobles.

According to the comparison of the strength of the two sides, in fact, each has its own advantages, and each has advantages and disadvantages.

Both sides of the world have a similar level of scientific and technological development, and by excavating the heritage of pre-civilizations, they have developed a set of suitable development directions, one focusing on the development of military power and the other on the development of economy and population.

The Faceless God of War understood a truth early on, and his credo is actually very simple: in such troubled times, if you do a good deed for everyone, such as building a bridge or creating a place to live, the people will revere you, and you will be blessed by them to become invincible.

For decades, his ideas have been useful in a chaotic world, and all the regions where they have been promoted have been reduced to the domination of his ambitions.

The people he refers to are actually two kinds of people, citizens and the army, and his citizens can be transformed into militia at any time, and the militia can be transformed into an army.

And these two groups of people are precisely the products of his militarized management model and iron-blooded rule. All economic instruments were reduced to a system of overall distribution, with merit rewarded and rationing strictly implemented within the military framework. In doing so, he will be able to put aside the uncertainty of free trade and further monopolize power, expand military power, and maximize political leverage.

In fact, his theory is not so much the product of extremism in the chaotic world, but rather the learning of some pre-civilizations.

Generally speaking, judging from the tortuous course of the development of human civilization, "the cangli knows the etiquette and knows the honor and disgrace when the food and clothing are sufficient", the people's aspirations are only suppressed, and the economic development derives the progress of civilization, and the progress of civilization depends on the development of the economy, which is the general trend, the general law, and the general direction.

He insisted that the economy in troubled times needed to be strictly controlled, and the people's dependence on the economy would produce control, and the means of control was direct militarized management.

After witnessing decades of war and profiteering, he believes that only by strong force can this troubled world be ended.

Under the Faceless God of War, it was his idea that replaced all other means of management, that his words were the law, that represented the interests of all, and that he felt that the people should be happy and proud of it.

He used to listen to those words of advice against his ears and didn't say a word, but his heart gradually became stronger.

He thought that he would insist on himself because he was immune to all the falsehoods, but he didn't realize that in the end, all he heard was more falsehoods. When all the people around him started to talk on the back and didn't tell the truth, he felt that those were the truth of the matter.

He aspires to be a winner, to reinvent this already strange world, to indulge in the game that power throws at him, and gradually become unbeatable.

After being forcibly infused with spiritual power by the blood spirit, his ability also became extremely powerful, and that supernatural power made him even more eager to conquer and kill, and his ambition was also infinitely expanded.

For some reason, one day he suddenly felt so conscious that the whispers in his mind that had been bothering him for so long vanished like clouds blown away by the wind.

This surprised him a little, and then he kept thinking about what had happened some time ago.

However, other than remembering what happened after he walked out of the castle dungeon, the rest of his memories were a little blurry, and he couldn't even remember what had happened after the castle guard told him that he had found a charred body in the dungeon.

He quickly sent someone to clean up the dungeon, and when he tried to gather the generals to discuss his next move, he found that his four poker generals were missing.

And the man with the iron arm, who disappeared after offering this mask, didn't he always follow him?

Even if he thought about it, he didn't have any answer, what happened in this blank time?

He attributed the chaotic memories to a disorder of bodily functions, and that the symptoms of delirium might just be a side effect of genetic modification, which he can only explain for now.

When he was pressed, a new guard told him that the castle had been invaded, but that the intruder had not been found.

Everyone else knows the temper of the emperor, and if you report something without evidence and results, it is better to keep silent. Therefore, they told the emperor that it was very likely that the spies sent by hostile forces were responsible, and on this continent, except for the "Ten Thousand Heavens Alliance", it was almost impossible to find other hostile forces.

Based on all kinds of upside-down and chaotic memories and gossip in the city, the army was also unmanaged, and the Faceless God of War had to temporarily select a few generals from his respective camps to replace those generals.

There was another event that prompted him to reorganize the discipline of the Ancient Iron City.

As early as about a few decades ago, he began his own research genetic modification project, using his own body cells to replicate powerful warriors, but there were not enough researchers, so in desperation, he turned to search for those "hibernating" scholars of the previous civilization, he knew that those people would definitely remain, just like himself, who were the objects of key protection.

In addition, he also secretly manipulated and funded an organization of scholars called "Infinite Energy" to expand the research strength of the ancient iron city.

Just a few weeks ago, he even put on his battle robe himself, wrapped himself in a black shabby cloak, and wore a bird's head-shaped mask on his face, and went out for a private visit to Weifu for a while.

In order to achieve the goal of isolating the "Ten Thousand Heavens Alliance", he once formulated a set of plans for his subordinates to disintegrate the opponent, and secretly observed the execution of the vanguard teams that were sent out.

First of all, it is to dismantle the economic foundation of the "Ten Thousand Heavens Alliance" and the relationship between its neighboring allies.

The management of the surrounding area of the mining city depends on the armed forces of the aristocratic families, and the aristocratic forces and their armed forces rely on the huge farms scattered around and the continuous supply of caravans, so the control of trade and basic resources such as food, energy, and daily necessities is the first step.

If the people of Mine City don't even have enough to eat, then it is likely that someone will provoke trouble in less than three months after this kind of total lockdown.

At that time, it would have been much easier to send agents to spearhead rebellions, riots, demagoguery, rumors, and instigation to overthrow the rule of the aristocracy.

As for the strength of the nobles' armament, he also knew very well in his heart that except for a few families with high-tech equipment far beyond this era, the other armaments were just a rabble.

He has been raising an army in captivity for decades and spending a lot of money to build an almost invincible huge army on the Central Continent, which comes in handy. Moreover, these legions have been continuously stationed in other regions, and they have rich combat experience, which is the real hegemonic strength.

As night fell, he crept close to a caravan.

The caravan with five escort vehicles belonged to the Turner family - it was quickly apparent from the badges on the body, followed by several heavy trucks loaded with goods, apparently on their way to Mine City.

When the Faceless God of War stood at the top of the ruined building, he saw the winding convoy already parked in the clearing of the street, and was subsequently stopped by the army disguised as a local gang.

Just as he was very satisfied and was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly found a dark shadow hidden in the dark, hiding sneakily hundreds of meters away.