Just as the Northern Expedition burst into exclamation, the Northern Expedition also quietly ended in exclamation.

At the moment when the United World Army led by the Council of Judgment was about to storm the defense line of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Republic, and at the moment when the Grim Reaper and the Dragonborn were about to separate the strongest names, the commander of Chang'an commanded the beacon fire all the way to the front line.

In the commander's order, Generalissimo of the Republic relieved Leng Kite of his command of the Northern Expeditionary Army, ordered all soldiers to return immediately, and at the same time, he diplomatically extended an olive branch to the Federal Heavy Industry Corps, agreeing to settle the matter through negotiation.

Such an unexpected event can be said to be very unexpected, or it can be said to be expected, after Leng Kite's military authority was lifted, he lost his direct command of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the soldiers were forced to accept peace.

On the side of the World Coalition Army, under the intermediary negotiation of the Federal Heavy Industry Corps, there was no continued fierce battle with the retreating forces of the Republican Radiance, and all combat forces, including the Apocalypse-level Inquisitor, withdrew from the battlefield and began negotiations on post-war disposal.

The last battle of the Northern Expedition was extremely huge in terms of momentum, but the scale of the real battle was very limited, of course, this did not affect the fact that this battle was recorded in the annals of history for thousands of years.

Arthur Pendragon, the leader of the Knights of the Round Table of the Church of the Cross, died at the hands of the dragon, but he was worshipped as a hero for daring to be the first to take part in the battle, and many troubadours wrote legendary songs for him, making him famous for centuries.

Before the war, Leng Kite ordered someone to carve a coffin, erected a tombstone and engraved the words "Tomb of Admiral Leng Kite of the Late Republic of Hui", and put the two on the front line to fight to the death, which also left her the reputation of "Horizontal Coffin Monument Battle Qunyi".

In terms of the final result, this Northern Expedition did not fulfill the dream of a unified republic.

Although the Republican Hui actually controlled the war-torn area in the middle of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the north of the Yellow River was still in a zone of fierce conflict.

With the acquiescence of the Federation, the rebels in the north took advantage of the situation to move south, firmly biting the three northeastern provinces of "Liao, Ji, and Hei", and although their strength was not as strong as before, they still had their eyes on the southern territory, and friction and exchange of fire occurred from time to time within the territory.

Of course, does this Northern Expedition, which cost people and money, make the Northern Expedition of the Republic lose its troops and generals? Yes! And it means a lot!

First of all, in the most direct sense, the glory of the republic has seized several important production areas and solved the food problem in the territory.

Second, Leng Kite's strong force and the Red Army's rolling blood gave the Federal Heavy Industry Corps a great deterrent, especially the killing of Kiklops in the final battle, which made the Federation's high-ranking people realize that there is such a terrible dragonborn in the Radiance of the Republic, which cannot be moved lightly.

Because of the existence of Leng Kite, the direct armed intervention of the federal side in the light of the republic has basically disappeared, and has been replaced by soft infiltration intervention in the economic, cultural, and political aspects, and the confrontation between the two sides has slowly hidden under the waves, lurking in the undercurrent.

And the last significance, and the most debated in later generations, is the rise of hawks.

At the end of the Northern Expedition, there was a large-scale mutiny in military camps in various places, and bloody clashes broke out under the "fuse" of some soldiers.

During the mutiny, the city defense construction army subordinate to the doves suffered heavy casualties, and the middle and high-level leaders of various military regions were replaced, and the hawkish soldiers took advantage of the weakness and took away the once unbalanced power in one fell swoop.

And these soldiers who were the first to shoot and cause conflicts in various places were later found to be affiliated with the former department of the late Republic General Leng Luan, which is easy to evoke some associations.

Just like whether Leng Kite's "defeat and walking away from the snowfield" was a real defeat or a fake defeat, later generations have been arguing, and the military region mutiny at the end of the Northern Expedition is also a topic of debate: did this incident happen by coincidence, or was it planned early on?

Some people even began to study the original purpose of the Northern Expedition, assuming that this large-scale bloody mutiny was not a coincidence, but a premeditated "hawkish plan to seize power", then the meaning of the entire Northern Expedition was completely overturned!

If the true face of the Northern Expedition is the "seizure of power" action that Leng Kite has designed a long time ago, in order to create such a chaos in the later stage of the war, kill a large number of doveish middle and high-level generals through mutiny, and let the hawks take advantage of the situation, then this Northern Expedition is not the so-called Northern Expedition, but a big conspiracy!

In this way, what "Rebel Bandits", what sealed the wolf Juxu, what defeated the snowfield, what horizontal coffin and erected monuments to fight the masses, all of them are just a wave used to cover up the conspiracy!

In the same way, what grain production problems, the rise and fall of the world, the shame of the country, what makes the people get their place, and the wanderer returns home, they are all victims of hypocrisy and righteousness!

If this is the case, then this Northern Expedition was not launched for the people at all, nor for the country, and it was completely a stepping stone to the "rise of the hawks"!

Before, the political system was stable, and it was impossible for the hawks to attack the doves in power, but the later stage of the Northern Expedition destroyed the internal stability of the Republic, making it stormy, and the hawks had the opportunity to attack the doves!

In that kind of mutiny, it is difficult to distinguish who is right and who is wrong, and even if it is sent to a military court, it is difficult to accuse due to the lack of evidence.

And after the mutiny, the hawks took advantage of the situation and took the bloody power from the corpses of the doves, all this made it impossible for the central system to stop it, because this phenomenon is not individual, but large-scale!

If another coup d'état is launched to suppress these rising hawks again, then well, the officials of the Federation will be happy, and every day they will be killed by the glory of the republic, and finally become a third-rate country.

Therefore, the rise of the hawks has become an irreversible fact, and it is thanks to this Northern Expedition that the situation at the end of the Northern Expedition, which can be called a "national disaster", gave them the opportunity to rise.

However, no one can guarantee that this is not a coincidence, and that it will really be just some kind of unexpected situation that arises in a particular situation?

History is always an unpredictable mirror, what is the most thorough truth of the matter? It's impossible to explore, I'm afraid only Leng Kite and Leng Luan know.

Leng Luan is dead, and it is impossible to ask her.

Leng Kite is still alive, but even if she asks her, she won't answer.

The cold wind in the north blew through and blew away the lives of a large number of loyal martyrs, and many of them did not even leave their names, turning them into a cold number in the war.

They all have flesh and blood, people they hate, and people they love, just like you and me, amorous and colorful, but they turn their heads and disappear, just like the sand of the torrent of the times, appearing, sinking, looking back suddenly, leaving no trace.

The stage called the world is cruel, some people shine on the stage, others quietly end the curtain, and it is just an eternal carrier, draped in the sun, moon and stars, overlooking all living beings, day after day, year after year.

What else will happen in the future of this stage? What kind of mark will it leave in the future? No one knows the answer...

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that it is so valuable, allowing countless heroes to fight in the whirlpool of fog, setting off a huge wave that pushes history, covering the sky and the sun...

Big waves!

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(Volume III: The Rise of the Eagle General, end...) ）

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