Prologue

It was a wonderful morning, with a faint mist gently drifting across the field, very relaxing and comfortable. The two early larks chirped and flapped their little wings, and flew their fat bodies against the grass with a little effort. Far away on the eastern horizon, a red light could be seen, and a little gold was slowly expanding in the center, and the sun was about to break free from its drowsiness and rise.

Later historians recorded. ”

"The Divine Calendar is 175,945 years, and the Continental Peace Calendar is 153,557 years, that is, the Vatican Empire is 3,750 years. The great Grumman the Great met some of the most important ministers of the future founding of the kingdom on the Plain of the Breeze and won their allegiance. It was under the leadership of these great commanders that Grumman the Great ... ”

The drunken chant was rudely interrupted, and a somewhat torn hard leather helmet flew over whizzing and slammed into the back of the shouting soldier's head, and then, a gruff voice roared: "Damn Grumman, you're daydreaming again, you have a noble name, and it doesn't prove that you are a nobleman." Go, today's horses are yours to take care of, and you take them to the river to drink water and graze, and you don't have to come back until you wash their fur. ”

Grumman, a soldier dressed in a gray cloth coat and wearing an inferior leather armor on his upper body, hurriedly nodded and smiled: "Yes, yes, dear squadron leader, I'll go right away." You see, I didn't do anything wrong, you almost knocked me out, I was so wronged. ”

The squadron leader, who was wearing a light silver steel armor and wielding a two-handed saber in his hand, walked over angrily, grabbed Grumman's chest with one hand, and scolded in a low voice: "Shut up, you guy, be your soldier honestly, always dream of being the founding emperor, if it is in the imperial capital, no, as long as it is in the province territory of any big lord, your words and deeds are enough to make your whole family disappear." Enough, Grumman, I won't allow those bards into my fort again. ”

Grumman squeezed out a smile: "Squadron leader, I'm just writing a great epic, I don't have the idea of being an emperor, I... ”

Before he could finish his words, the lookout post at the head of the city wall had already shouted loudly: "Chief, a large group of caravans, come and have a look." It's from the direction of the Smart Empire, haha, there are a lot of vehicles and people, this time you can ask them to pay a good tax, maybe this year's tax task can be completed today. ”

When the squadron leader heard this, he immediately grinned, and forgot to put Grumman down, so he rushed up the wall less than five meters high with him, and looked south. A bunch of soldiers and junior officers also rushed over when they heard the news, pointing in the direction of the horizon.

Far away, a large group of people and horses slowly appeared, well, a lot of loaded carriages, moving so slowly, those who were guarding were also dismounted and walking, which is exactly the etiquette that should be had when approaching the border of another country. The squadron leader laughed: "Okay, brothers, get ready to drink, here comes the guy who paid our taxes... Grumman, give you a good errand to wake up the tax officer, ha, he drank too much last night, and if you don't pull him up, we don't know how much tax you have to pay for a pound of goods. ”

Grumman grinned: "Boss, you should let me go, if today's income is good, you can let us drink some wine in the evening, hehe, the friendly covenant we just signed with the Smart Empire, there is no need to be seriously guarded." ”

The squadron leader pretended to stroke his chin with a slight beard and nodded slowly: "It's okay, there should be good wine in the caravan, let them replace part of the tax money with twenty barrels of good wine, hahahaha." The soldiers cheered and immediately dispersed to prepare water and open the gates.

The caravan drew closer, stopping abruptly beyond Rich. The squadron leader and a few other soldiers who were still on the city wall were stunned: "Idiot, isn't it good to rest in the city? Why did you stop on the plain outside?"

One of the soldiers muttered, "Chief, our battle fort doesn't seem to be able to hold them, their queue is so big... We have a maximum capacity of 1,000 people in our city, and now there are 1,200 soldiers stationed there, and they can't be squeezed in. ”

As soon as the squadron leader turned around, wanting to show his majesty and reprimand these 'covetous' soldiers, a thick lightning bolt had already fallen from the sky and hit the squadron leader's head. A powerful electric current sent down his steel armor, knocking several of his soldiers to the ground. As for the squadron leader himself, his flesh had already been roasted in an instant.

The soldiers who were a little farther away were stunned, and they were about to cry out in terror, when the sheds of the carriages were suddenly revealed, and one by one, the soldiers in heavy armor climbed out of the carriages as fast as they could, rode on the horses next to them, raised their spears, and rushed towards the wide open gates. Those who walked slowly flew into the sky, and balls of light of different colors appeared in their virtual hands.

When the first heavy cavalry stormed the open gates, the first magic bullets smashed into the castle. The huge magical energy caused the small battle fort to collapse in half in an instant, and the soldiers who had gathered along the corridor of the city gate to meet the caravan were also raised high by the thick bayonet spears. After little resistance, one of the most advanced fortresses on the border of the Van Empire, which integrated the functions of defense, realm, maintenance of local law and order, and tax collection, was destroyed.

A white dove burst into the sky from the castle with its wings, but a delicate, white hand was already waiting for him in the air, mercilessly pinching him into a ball of meat sauce and throwing him down.

Grumman on the ground looked in horror at the young man in the air in black robes with the emblem of a high magister, and he was about to let out a howl of fear, when more than a dozen spears stabbed from behind him at the same time, and the powerful impact tore his whole person to pieces.

After tidying up the queue a little, the army of the Smart Empire, oh, now it's a caravan again, the caravan of the Smart Empire used a speed three times faster than an ordinary caravan to drive towards the second plain defense line of the Van Empire, and in front of them was the 'Iron and Blood Battle City', which was known as the second male city on the mainland.

The Smart Empire, this time sent three caravans, and began a friendly visit to the Van Empire, which had signed the alliance only half a year ago.