The Tianhua Empire and the Auckland Empire, these are the two most powerful countries on this continent, as for whether there are people beyond the vast sea, most people on this continent actually don't know, because for them, this continent is already so big that it is boundless, and the Tianhua Empire and the Auckland Empire, which together occupy eighty percent of the land on this continent, are already all the life of this majority of people.

Tianhua people are industrious and simple, is a typical farming nation, so many years has been adhering to the principle of building a country based on agriculture, relying on a strong assimilation ability, many ethnic groups that were not originally Tianhua people gradually integrated, and the original Tianhua was not very large has gradually expanded, from the original Tianhua tribe, to the later Tianhua Alliance, and then to the Tianhua Kingdom, a few decades ago, Tianhua's land area finally became the first in the mainland, became the Tianhua Empire.

Auckland is very different, the Auckland people were originally born as robbers, with robbery as the main way of life, in the raid, they annexed many surrounding tribes, and gradually formed a huge armed force as the basis, all the people are soldiers, and gradually grew into the kingdom of Auckland, also a few decades ago, Auckland's land area became the second in the mainland, second only to Tianhua, Auckland has finally become an empire.

Before becoming the first and second, Tianhua and Auckland actually did not have much conflict, firstly, because their original places of origin were far apart, even if they gradually expanded, there was no territorial dispute between the two sides, secondly, when they heard about the existence of the other party, they were also a little jealous of each other's strength, and they were unwilling to easily provoke each other, and thirdly, there were many other forces around, and before the surrounding forces were stabilized, the conflict between the two major forces could only allow other forces to benefit from the fisherman.

However, the situation on the mainland finally changed a few decades ago, Tianhua divided all the surrounding forces into his own scope, and Auckland also relied on plundering and annexing the surrounding small countries, the two countries became the first and second large empires, as for the other countries that have not yet been annexed, they are already vassals of the two major powers, tribute, envoys, taxes, servitude, intermarriage, all kinds of means, there is no power that can threaten the two major powers.

With the gradual expansion of the two powers, the distance between them is getting closer and closer, finally, the two powers border, at the beginning, there were still a few years of peace, with the border of the two countries, the border trade made the merchants and nobles of the two countries make a lot of money, but there is no limit to human greed, when both sides begin to covet each other's territory, it is only a matter of time before the war breaks out, so the border becomes more and more tense, and finally ten years ago, the war broke out!

Although the Tianhua Empire has simple folk customs, it has a large population, high productivity, and much better resilience, while the Auckland Empire has strong folk customs and strong combat effectiveness, but although it has focused on production over the years, the productivity is still too far worse than Tianhua, the two empires have their own characteristics, and the national strength is almost the same, so as soon as the war broke out, it became a protracted war, and the war continued to fight all over the border, and the two sides also won and lost each other, and there was never a difference.

Zhao Zheng, who is just thirty-five years old this year, is the lord of the Qingyang Territory of the Tianhua Empire, as the border area of the Tianhua Empire and the Auckland Empire, since the beginning of the war, the Qingyang Territory has always been the frontier position of the two countries, and there have been countless battles large and small, even Zhao Zheng's father was killed in a battle a few years ago, the Qingyang Territory is the hereditary territory of the Zhao family, since taking over the Qingyang Territory a few years ago, Zhao Zheng has also participated in many battles and has become a well-known general in Tianhua.

On the opposite side of the Qingyang Territory, is the Lance Province of the Auckland Empire, and the Lance family has been running the Lance Province for a short time, since the beginning of the war, the main opponent of the Qingyang Territory is the Lance Province, and the Zhao family and the Lance family naturally became a feud in the war, Zhao Zheng's father died at the hands of the previous head of the Lance family, and Zhao Zheng also killed the aristocratic old man to avenge his father, and now Zhao Zheng is doing it, is the current head of the Lance family, and Trevor Lance, who is also the lord of the Lance Province.

Speaking of which, the relationship between the two was still very good when they were children, after all, the two countries were not at war at that time, and trade was still going on on both sides of the border, as the two families who managed the two territories, the Zhao family and the Lance family still had some contacts, although Zhao Zheng and Trevor were not childhood sweethearts, but they had also met many times, and they were also friends with wine and meat, but the war made the two families become each other's father-killing enemies, Zhao Zheng lamented the impermanence of fate at the same time, but also understood that the contradiction between the two was irresolvable.

This time Zhao Zheng personally led the troops over, in fact, for the land under his feet, this was originally the place of the Auckland Empire, to be precise, that is the place of Reims Province, although it was also a part of the national border, but it was not very important, but not long ago, Zhao Zheng got a report from the nearby mountain people that iron ore was found in this vicinity, which is a great thing, especially now, the soldiers consume a lot of weapons, and an iron mine can be described as a charcoal in the snow.

But Zhao Zheng hasn't had time to come up with any good way to merge this place into Qingyang Territory, Trevor actually got the news, and this place was originally the territory of Reims Province, Trevor occupied and developed it without pressure, Zhao Zheng had no choice but to attack, because other places had to deploy troops, so Zhao Zheng only transferred out 2,000 elite soldiers, and of course such an action could not be concealed from Trevor, so Trevor also drew 2,000 elite soldiers to meet the battle.

Although Zhao Zheng and Trevor are both children of the family, but the slight difference is that Zhao Zheng's talents are more focused on the military, and the management of the territory is generally handed over to other people in the family, while Trevor is more good at internal affairs, leading troops to fight and handing over to others, so this time to send troops, Zhao Zheng personally led the troops to come, but Trevor was not here, he just sent an uncle from the family to deal with Zhao Zheng.

Originally, Zhao Zheng was still very confident, because he had been preparing for this battle for a long time, and when he sent out the army, he specially invited one of the family worshippers, that is, the middle-aged scribe named He Chuan next to him to help, this He Chuan is good at the art of war and strategy, and is a famous military advisor in the Zhao family's worship, it is precisely because of his existence that Zhao Zheng dares to lead the troops to charge without any scruples, and does not have to worry about whether the opponent will play any tricks.

But although Zhao Zheng had been cautious and careful, He Ping's sudden "arrival" still made the originally planned battle a little off.