(15 November 1686 A.D.).

When the last Pohler armies withdrew from the orc kingdoms of Shamania and St. Olufe, the kingdom's foreign wars were over

Today, the forest elves in the east are still recovering, the orc kingdom in the south and the kingdom of St. Olufe in the west have just been severely damaged, and the Yale Empire in the north is busy with civil war, and this kingdom, which was once surrounded by powerful enemies on all sides, has finally won a brief peace on the border, but in the following days, the Poeller army still has no time to rest, and clearing the kingdom of bandits rampant throughout the kingdom and restoring order to the country will be the new task of this tired but miraculous army

As for the homeland of King Duris I of Pole, the Fayele Empire in the north can only be described as a mountain and a river in a merciless war

The Emperor has been missing for almost four months, and the Emperor who is loyal to the Emperor has lost his backbone, and the army is disheartened and retreating in front of Prince Carloton's rebels, and now 3/4 of the Empire's territory has fallen into the hands of the rebels, although the Templars have been ordered by the Pope to withdraw from the civil war in the Fajle Empire, the bad news still reaches the imperial capital of Bern, Vimumen, Banjunmen, Monis, Loma - The Four-Nation Coalition Army in the North, in one week, more than 10,000 imperial elites in five important towns in the north of the Lianke Empire were wiped out, and a large area of the northern territory was recovered by the Four-Nation Alliance

However, in the face of such a crisis of internal and external troubles, the two princes in the palace did not put aside their differences, unite and unite with the outside world, but became more and more addicted to the political game of open and secret fighting, and now the ministers and generals in Bourne City have been divided into two factions, and the emperor's strength is weakening more and more in this scourge of the Xiao Wall

The struggle for power has always been a game for the superiors, and in the end, the victims are the poor people at the bottom, in this country where the army is in chaos and Ke donations, whether it is the emperor's ruling area, the rebel control area, or the occupation area of the Four-Power Alliance, the people are displaced. Food and clothing are scarce, because economic production has been destroyed, large-scale famine has broken out throughout the country, many people have either died in the chaos of the army, or have been starved to death, some famine places have appeared in the terrible scene of cannibalism, the hungry people from the beginning only eat corpses, then eat the living, and then develop to several families exchange children with each other, when the food is killed, this tragic tragedy has been repeated again and again, the once extremely powerful, invincible empire has now become a hell on earth

It was in this environment that a fourth force, the Popular Commune, quickly sprung up in the southern part of the empire

As the name suggests, the People's Autonomous Commune is an organization composed of commoners, the leader of this organization is a man named Leo Valland, Leo Walland was born into an abandoned aristocratic family, his family was a knightly family, and originally had the title of Imperial Viscount, but in Leo's grandfather's generation, because he offended the authorities, he was deprived of his noble origin, demoted to a commoner, and sent to the southern border town of Ai, far from the capital

Leo had both a commoner and an aristocratic temperament, he grew up wandering in the countryside and mingling with ordinary people such as farmers, hawkers, and craftsmen, and was well aware of the people's suffering, and at the same time he was nurtured by his father, and he received a protocratic education that ordinary people could not reach since he was a child, and he was well-informed, and he liked to secretly read the forbidden book "Equal Country" without telling others. He has a wealth of knowledge and a far-sighted vision that far surpasses ordinary people, and he is proficient in swordsmanship, knows a little medical theory, can speak well, often uses his ability to help others in case of injustice, and will also help them in the face of injustice, and has a relatively high reputation among the common people

Two years before the outbreak of the civil war, that is, in the Bright Age, in 1684, there was a locust plague in the countryside near Ai Qimeng, the grain harvest was lost, and the livestock were killed. Kitchen knives and other weapons captured the local lord's warehouse, killed the guards, and distributed the food in the warehouse to the victims, so thousands of people in the vicinity were saved, but Leo Valland became a wanted criminal in the empire, he and a dozen accomplices fled into the mountains to form a group of thieves, living a life of bandits, unlike other bandits, Leo Valland and his team never robbed the poor, but focused on the rich and unkind dignitaries, and the property returned from the robbery was distributed to the poor, and gradually Leo and his team were widely spread in the local area as a thief who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and more and more poor people defected to himThe local nobles hated Leo Valland and repeatedly sent troops into the mountains to clear it, but two years later, Leo and his team were not wiped out, but grew stronger, and there were nearly 100 men before the outbreak of the civil war

With the official outbreak of the civil war in the Fayele Empire, the lords of all parts of the country were busy dealing with the war, so he felt that the time had come, he rushed out of the mountains with his subordinates, and took advantage of the lord of Ai Qiqi to send the main force of the family's own soldiers to the battlefield of the civil war, and captured the castle of the lord who was weakly defended, and they would grab the food from the lord, The coins and fields were distributed to the local people, but this time Leo did not flee back to the mountains, but instead established a civilian government called the People's Autonomous Commune based on the city of Aimeng, intending to establish permanent rule in Aimeng

In contrast to the traditional royal rule, the People's Autonomous Commune advocated plebeian autonomy free from the jurisdiction of the aristocracy, an organization that attributed the root of a crime to the aristocracy, and based on the worldview advocated in the taboo book "The Equal Nation", proposed equality of status, common labor, The slogan of equal division of property, although it is a deviation in mainstream society, has a strong appeal to the common people under the double oppression of war and poverty in the troubled times, and the number of defectors to Leo Walland has multiplied for a time, and in just a few months since the outbreak of the civil war, the popular commune has raised an armed force of nearly 2,000 men and captured several towns near Ai Kai Kai with great force

Despite the great power of the People's Autonomous Commune, the other three major forces competing in the huge arena of the Fayele Empire: the Emperor, the Rebels, and the Four-Power Coalition did not take this newly rising fourth force seriously. The untouchables who have a problem with food are completely rabble, without the leadership of knights, and even the army is not even a relatively large scale of the rogues, although this group of untouchables has captured several towns, but it is all because those places are far away from the national capital, and the small nobles who rule the local area have been exploited because the main force of the family's own soldiers is not there, but now the three major forces are busy with the scuffle, and they are flawless, otherwise it is just a matter of hand-to-hand to exterminate this rogue bandit

However, as a proverb in the True Kingdom of the Vast Land Continent says: A spark can ignite the prairies, and this inconspicuous spark will turn into a raging fire in a few years, not only in the entire Fayale Empire, but also in most of the countries of the Holy Light Cult, and even the Holy Pope Island in the middle of the Olopa Sea......

It is not only the Fayale Empire on the glorious continent that is struggling in the merciless war, but also the two rival kingdoms on the galaxy continent: Sealand and Medin

The Fifth Pme War has shed the blood of these two ancient kingdoms, and the kingdom of Medin, which is the main battlefield, has been extremely severely devastated, and the two richest provinces have been left in ruins. Hell on earth, however, the Medins, led by King Louis V and the commander of the army, Duke Paul Abel of the Stags, turned their capital city of Paris into a fortress and put up a desperate resistance, and the meat grinder-like street battles entered a decisive phase, and the two sides fought back and forth for several blocks every day, and every brick of Paris was stained with blood

Although the Siege of Paris completely destroyed the thousand-year-old capital, it also dragged three-quarters of the Sealand army into a quagmire from which it could never recover

The Kingdom of Medin is a country that attaches great importance to the spirit of chivalry, and the way of chivalry has brought glory to the country, but also brought various burdens, and the successive kings have been defeated by the agile Sealand army because they are too rigid in some pedantic dogmas, but the time has passed, and the current king Louis V is very different from those stiff-minded ancestors, this 22-year-old young king did not adhere to the old rules after launching a coup d'état and forcibly seizing the throne from his father, but adopted bold reforms to the army, eliminated a group of rigid old generals, and used a large number of flexible young soldiers, Louis V dared to challenge the traditional chivalryOne of the most important of these outdated dogmas was to renounce knighthood and face the enemy with dignity at all times, never to attack from behind, and in the spirit of this rule, a dozen small guerrilla units were formed to go deep into the occupied territory and harass the Sealand army from behind

On the other hand, although the Kingdom of Sealand, as an aggressor, relied on the Strait of Sealand to isolate the war from the country, the situation of Sealand in this war was not necessarily much better than that of Madin

At some point in history, the Kingdom of Sealand once stood proudly on the three continents of Olopa, but the glory of the past is gone, and now the national power of Sealand can only rank in the middle and lower reaches of the twelve great powers of the Holy Light Cult;

Since the outbreak of the war in March, Sealand has left nearly 20,000 corpses on the territory of Medin, their logistical supply lines have been repeatedly harassed by the Medin guerrillas, and it has become more and more difficult to feed, and the elite troops of the Western Army have almost been exhausted, but the damned city of Paris has not completely occupied the Sealand rulers who have not given up this only one step away from victory, in order to increase the use of troops in Madin, not only repeatedly increased taxes to cover the bottomless pit of military spending, but also forcibly conscripted all those over the age of 15, The enlistment of young and middle-aged men under the age of 50 into the army has caused resentment to boil all over the kingdom, and in some areas there have even been popular riots for the purpose of resisting taxation and conscription

Under these circumstances, the king of Sealand was still obsessed with not withdrawing from the war in time, but adopted the method of conscripting redemption soldiers by some ministers, the so-called redemption soldiers, which were to throw a large number of prisoners in custody into the army, exchange the battle for freedom, and quickly replenish the strength in a short period of time, hoping that this move would defeat the Kingdom of Medin and end this endless war of attrition

Among these atoning soldiers were thieves caught by the city magistrates, peasants who rebelled against conscription and taxation, murderous murderers, former soldiers who had violated military discipline, nobles persecuted by political opponents, and even generals who angered the king by their opposition to war

At this time, in the western part of the kingdom of Medin, in the occupied area of the Sealand people, a Sealand army of more than 40 people was cautiously advancing west along a country road, this army had just landed on the land from the mainland a few days earlier, and their mission was to escort a special atonement soldier to the capital of Medin, the city of Paris.