The war had been going on for more than half a year, and the territory of the Bloody Council was already scorched, and I don't know how many manors and towns had been burned down, and how many people had died in the fighting. The big men in power calculated that four of the thirteen first-class seats in the chambers of the bloody parliament were now vacant. There are as many as 21 vacancies in the 42 second-class voting seats.

Each second-class vote represents a long and powerful family.

Neutrals look at war from a different perspective. At the Dark Dragoon headquarters, the 53-meter high-definition combat map in front of Lieutenant Colonel Julio clearly reflects this.

The map is meticulously detailed, clearly outlining the posture of the warring parties. The army on the Speaker's side is marked by blue and gray, and the forces on the Spider Empress's side are marked with black and red, and the two sides are staggered, you have me, I have you, and the battle situation seems chaotic and abnormal. The map has been detailed to each manor, and all the families under the council are marked on it. The coat of arms of each family is inlaid with a colored border, with black and red representing the Empress and blue and gray representing the Speaker. Only in the south of the territory of the Bloody Council was a sizable piece of land untouched by the war, and the insignia of that land, consisting of a banner and three pigeons, was the domain of the Morgan family. Although the Morgan family did not intervene in the war, there were at least a dozen battle markers, large and small, on the edge of the territory. The slightest trace of the extinguished flame will show the situation of the battle, the distribution of forces of the two warring sides, the course of the battle, and the results of the battle. It can be seen that the attacks on the Morgan family's territory are all scattered armed forces who want to take advantage of the fire, and there are people on the side of the speaker and the empress. If you click on another link next to the data frame, another photo will open. It was a black photograph, and in the open space in the center of the photo, there were dense cement piles, and the top of the piles was a flat cross, and four corpses were hanging from each cement pile, and hundreds of corpses were seen! And there are not many empty cement piles left.

This photograph was taken in the field, four days ago, and was stored in the operational integrated hologram yesterday. It was a cemetery, and a sign for the Morgan family to warn the ambitious. According to General Morgan's orders, all outsiders who dare to break into the family's territory, no matter what their status, no matter what force they belong to, will leave no prisoners!

It is said that General Morgan wanted to erect several of these cement piles around Persephone's private hospital as well, but the idea was shelved for some reason. However, if it is really implemented, there are not many corpses around private hospitals now, and there are too few cement piles.

Julio lit a cigarette and stared at the map with bloodshot eyes open, scanning inch by inch, not missing a single detail. Each icon on the map can be clicked to display the corresponding information. On the far left side of the map, there are two rows of various family coats of arms, but the small half of them has been darkened, which means that the families represented by the coat of arms have perished in the war.

Looking at the overall situation, there is no doubt that the Speaker's side has the absolute upper hand. From the beginning of the war until now, the forces on the Empress's side have lost two-thirds of their forces, while the Speaker's side has retained more than half. The Speaker's military strength was already in the upper hand, and the forces belonging to the Speaker had established a numerical superiority of nearly four to one. In terms of the overall situation, the Speaker's side occupies 70% of the land correspondingly, as well as close to 80% of the important factories and strategic locations. Aside from the area around Crimson Castle, the Empress's forces were only able to hold a handful of well-defended strongholds, and there were very few troops roaming around the periphery.

But even now, no one dares to assert who will win and who will lose.

Because the people on both sides who have truly stepped into the Holy Rank are silent, and they have not yet intervened in the battle, it seems that this war has nothing to do with them at all. Everyone knows that the combat power of a saint-level ability person is completely equivalent to the entire ace army. The second reason is that the three giants still have reservations. The Arthur and William families are on their side, but the Arthur family's forces are mainly deployed in the northwest direction, and they are repeatedly fighting with the scorpion of calamity. The William family, on the other hand, took over the defense of the north, and the family's armed forces mainly confronted the Radiant Crusaders. The two families are mainly responsible for the external battlefield, and the forces invested in the civil war are quite limited. The Morgans, on the other hand, remain neutral and will indiscriminately attack any enemy who dares to invade the family's territory, while they are also responsible for the defense of the entire southern border. Josh. General Morgan never took a position on which side he was on, he just stayed at the Dark Dragoon headquarters every day, drinking coffee, flipping through magazines, and seemingly doing nothing. There were less than fifty Dark Dragoons left who remained loyal to him, and they were all deployed around the Dragoon's headquarters, forming a defensive ring. Most of them are commoners who have no family background and are promoted purely by their own talents. But even so, no one dares to despise Morgan's existence, even those who do not know the history of 'Scarlet Twilight', they all know what kind of power Admiral Morgan belongs to, and the nearly 10,000 servants entrenched in the family territory represent.

Most importantly, however, the Spider Queen has yet to show her strength.

All the elders of the Bloody Council are convinced that as long as the Spider Empress is alive, even if she is the only one left, the tide of battle can turn around at any time. Lieutenant Colonel Julio is also convinced of this.

The battle was chaotic. The armies of both sides were scattered and fought separately. There seems to be some tacit understanding between the speaker and the empress, neither side has ever coordinated the forces of their own side, but let them go and fight. This is completely unbelievable in Julio's eyes. Both sides have provided the other with countless fighter planes, and they have missed countless opportunities. Julio had already played out the battle situation in his mind countless times, and he was confident that even if the Empress was in command of his army, he would now be able to establish an absolute strategic advantage over the Speaker's side. A small elite force can definitely defeat several times the enemy who is already fighting separately. It's a pity that he, a real expert in strategy and tactics, is no longer useful at all, and can only imagine himself in front of the strategic map.

Julio's gaze searched the map, landing on the territory of the Fabregas family. The Fabregas family's sphere of influence has been greatly reduced, and in this era of war, as a representative of the new forces, Fabregas's Achilles' weakness of lack of high-end force has been fully exposed, not only have they lost a lot of land, but also several important military factories have been taken by the enemy, and now they are barely able to maintain the current defensive line. The Fabregas family is on the side of the Speaker, but it is not only the forces on the Empress's side that plunder them, but also from the 'allies' of the same front.

This shows how chaotic the Bloody Council has become.

From the large map, it can already be seen that the entire area is in a state of extreme chaos and war. For some reason, Julio suddenly had a feeling that maybe this was the way it should be in turbulent times.

In the past ten years, it was the best era of the Bloody Council, the Spider Queen's force, Bebraz's management, and the neutrality and support of the Dark Dragoon jointly built a balanced and stable structure within the territory, so that within the sphere of influence of the Council, civilization was restored and developed, wealth was accumulated in large quantities, and the level of science and technology was more advanced and developed than before the war, and even took the first step to transform the environment. The four large anti-radiation force field generators in Dragon City are proof of this. But now, this inexplicable war has upset the balance between the three, and the realm of the Bloody Council has begun to move back into the wilderness.

In the wilderness, strength is the only criterion of arbitration, and there is a hell for the weak and a paradise for the strong.

What exactly caused this war? Is it Sue who killed the Speaker's son, or Persephone, who was expelled? Obviously, this is only a superficial reason, and by no means a real reason behind the scenes. Lieutenant Colonel Julio would not be foolish enough to believe these casus belli, at least slightly. But no matter how much he thought, he couldn't think of a reason. After all, politics is not his strong point, war command is. So after a few failed attempts, his eyes fell on a small coat of arms on the battle map.

This is the coat of arms of the Fabregas family, which is outside the family territory, and the size of the coat of arms represents the size of the army. Strangely enough, the border of this coat of arms is black and red, meaning that this small force is on the side of the Spider Queen, thus opposing the family headquarters. The position of this coat of arms is constantly moving, and in the past month, it has broken through twelve blockades in a row, slaughtered from ten times as many enemies, and annihilated three times as many enemies, which is simply a small miracle of military art. Now that more and more troops are attracted to it and are beginning to move towards the region, it is facing an unprecedented situation that even Julio, a strategist, cannot think of a good way to do it for a while. However, the lieutenant colonel is still looking forward to the fact that this small team will create another zào miracle.

On a real battlefield, the troops represented by the coat of arms have already moved forty kilometers to the west. The information on the big map is actually old from a few days ago. Now, the team, which carries Lieutenant Colonel Julio's expectations, is huddled and hidden in the rubble. Warriors hid in the darkness and shadows, some tending their guns, others counting ammunition, and others silently munching on cold, hard food and drinking dirty water melted by snow and ice. Nearly half of the fighters had already eaten, were wrapped in blankets, and fell asleep. They are obviously veterans of a hundred battles, who know how to use a qiē time to rest to recover their bodies, and they know how to hand over their backs to their comrades. They have trusted comrades, and commanders they can rely on. A burly, bald man slipped into a semi-enclosed basement surrounded by three walls and said to a man sitting against the wall, "Ricardo, there are seventeen of us left." Foka didn't follow, and Charlie certainly won't survive tonight. ”

Ricardo had clearly changed a lot, but the light in his eyes was sharper than ever. He bit a crumpled cigarette butt in his mouth, squinted at a map spread out on the ground in front of him, took a hard puff of the cigarette, and held the smoke in his lungs for a whole minute before he reluctantly spit it out and put his hand on the map a little harder: "Let's move here, and then lay down in ambush to see who dares to follow." Damn, if we're lucky, we'll be able to find twenty people to bury Foka and Charlie there! Wake everyone up after half an hour and leave on time! ”C