The news of the fall of the Black Mountain Fortress reached Noxus, and the Endless Fortress shook like a stormy wave.

For many years, the Noxian Imperial army had never been wiped out in such a way.

Everyone was unprepared for this kind of news.

This dealt a huge blow to the confidence of the imperial aristocracy.

One must face up to the situation facing the empire now.

If before, the news of the empire's invincibility greatly stimulated the ambitions of the upper echelons of the empire, so that everyone had an almost blind confidence in the empire's army, so that without thinking, they approved one after another more exaggerated foreign expansion strategies of the imperial military department, and invested the limited resources of the empire into one foreign conquest after another without thinking.

Now, these people have to think about it.

The thing is very simple, standing inside the empire, looking around, there are already enemies all around, the empire has created a large number of enemies for itself after years of foreign wars, and they do not have any allies, this is definitely a worrying situation, and relatively, years of reckless military force, the empire's internal finances are also a huge drag, to this day, the empire's internal affairs have been unable to make ends meet for many years.

Before that, if there are problems that are not solved, then it is very simple, send an army, and the army will solve everything.

This is the blind military confidence that has been cultivated by the empire over the years, both inside and outside, and this confidence has supported the empire's expansion strategy for many years, and this almost deformed imperial system that invests all resources in the military.

It is not that no one has questioned this lack of long-term development strategy, but these doubts have been masked by one of the Empire's victories abroad.

Every victory, the empire can get a huge harvest from this external plunder, but also in a short period of time to make up for the financial deficit, this is like a booster, so that the empire inside and outside the country more dependent on this deformed economic model, over time, the empire's industry and economy have been completely unbalanced, the whole tilt to the military aspect, the imperial system has lost the ability to self-adjust, most of them only rely on the constant external plundering to maintain.

This is not good news for a vast and populous empire.

Previously, the defeat of the war against the kingdom of Demacia led by the Imperial Commander Darius himself dealt a blow to the stability of the Empire to a certain extent.

Therefore, there is a common hatred of the whole empire, and it is unanimously necessary to launch a larger-scale foreign war and launch a larger-scale conquest of Zu'an.

This is the need of the Empire's foreign strategy, and it is also the need of the Empire's stability.

Quite simply, the internal composition of the empire is not only the traditional military aristocracy and noble mages, but also more merchants, representatives of the merchant cities of the conquered coasts, and representatives of countless conquered races and tribes, although they are now part of the empire, and they have built this great empire together with the imperial nobles, but they will not always stand with the empire.

Many people here have been opposed to the Empire and have a deep blood feud with each other, and they were only able to surrender because of the strong pressure of the Empire's invincible military power.

If the authority of the empire is constantly challenged, or even the slightest sign of decline, these factors will become a factor of instability within the empire, and the huge empire may even be destroyed in the anthill because of a careless cause, this great empire, which seems to be full of flowers and fire, is not as powerful as it seems on the surface.

Therefore, this time, the annihilation of the garrison of the Montenegrin fortress is the real far-reaching impact, which not only hits the soldiers of the empire, but also the confidence of many big people in the empire in the empire.

That's what really kills.

Moreover, even from a purely strategic point of view, the loss of the Montenegrin fortress affected not only the empire's strategy in the area south of the Montenegrin fortress, but also the stability of the entire vast area of the Far Rose Worker State, even including Zuan.

Zaun Ke also has nearly 100,000 imperial troops fighting against the Zuan Rebels and the Leather City Garrison.

If the fall of the Black Mountain Fortress affected the entire empire's strategy on the southern continent and affected the empire's war in Zuan, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In the Empire State Building's parliament, there was chaos:

"What should I do?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, isn't the most important thing for us to do now is to send in more reinforcements as soon as possible, to go south as soon as possible, and to capture the Black Mountain Fortress?"

An elderly councillor with gray hair stood up.

"The enemy must be severely punished, and only in this way can the negative impact be stabilized, which seriously affects the image of the empire as invincible on the continent, and affects the stability within the empire."

The elderly legislators were generous and contemplative, and righteous and stern. At first glance, they were the real elders of the Empire, who were really worried about the situation of the Empire, but more councillors, especially the chieftains of the conquered races and the merchants of the coastal cities, had their own eyes twinkling, each with their own thoughts.

The old councillor's seemingly reasonable suggestion was immediately questioned.

"It's not that simple to capture the Montenegrin fortress."

A general-looking congressman stood up and spoke,

"This is the mainland's premier fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the most important reason why we were able to capture it back then was that the enemy lost its backup, and that was because of the enemy's internal strife, and we cooperated with the mainland thieves' association, first causing chaos within the enemy, disturbing the capital of the enemy country, Tasemir, so that the Northern Legion was divided, and then took advantage of the chaos to take that fortress. It was definitely a hard-fought war, and the Imperial War paid a huge price for it. And now that the fortress is back in the hands of the enemy, it won't be so easy for us to get it back. ”

The general's voice fell, and the audience echoed it.

"It's easier said than done."

"Mobilize the army again, how can it be so simple. Where does the military spending come from, shouldn't it be right to let Marshal Tulatan's army withdraw and go north to open up the Black Mountain Mountains first? Anyway, there is no hope of conquering Zuan anytime soon. ”

"It's, it's right. We shouldn't have spent more gold in that quagmire in Zaun a long time ago. ”

The first thing I heard was the representatives of the coastal commercial cities from the east coast of the continent, these people were the most reluctant to open up the southern continental passage of the empire, which meant that the commercial cities of Belisico and Findor were about to lose their status in the empire.

"That Archon named Sain is a piece of shit. How could such a fortress fall into the hands of the enemy so easily. ”

Other lawmakers said so.

Poor Sain is here the object of verbal criticism.

"Oh, no, no, no!"

Fortunately, someone next to him immediately corrected him,

"Maybe you're complaining about the wrong person."

"In my opinion, the bigger reason why the fortress will be lost is that the Savile mage of the Imperial Mage Regiment, it was the Savile Mage that the mage group of the Savile mage was completely wiped out first, which eventually led to the lack of people to preside over the fortress's defensive circle, and finally led to the fall of the fortress, if you have really been on the battlefield, you will know that a fortress with the defense of the magic circle is impossible to lose no matter what."

……

There was a lot of discussion within the empire, and I don't know how many of the upper echelons of the empire were shocked by this.

The combined forces of Zaun and the Black Mountain Dwarven tribes represented by Arthur became famous and became a rising star on the continent.