A letter from the city of Gulan has set off a great storm in the free city.

Even the emperor, who personally issued the order, did not expect that this battle of public opinion would eventually evolve completely out of control.

The so-called rape of corpses is nothing more than a gimmick to attract attention, as Gustav explained in his letters, to attract the attention of the public with exaggerated rumors, and then to expound a slightly dry theory to them, in combination with the current strategic situation of the gradual defeat of the Free Alliance, can achieve miraculous results.

However, this miracle effect is indeed surprising.

The news from the Free City shows that not long after the news of the rape of corpses was released, some people spontaneously organized themselves to try to storm the big estates in the aristocratic district! And this wave of mobs pointed the finger at the Li family!

In the rumors concocted by the Empire, Li Nana is indeed a loyal and reliable general, perhaps limited by age and experience in terms of military talent, but her courage and bearing are not lost to those long-known generals. However, such a respectable female general of the alliance finally died of her family's conspiracy.

Rumors claim that Li Nana had a big quarrel with the family leaders because she was dissatisfied with the passive battle of the eight major families of the alliance, claiming that if the family still refused to go all out, then she would return to the capital after the fall of Shengzhou City and make the actions of the eight major families public.

As a front-line general, what she said was naturally extremely convincing. This can be regarded as a big killer move for Li Nana to compete with the family.

It's just that no one could have imagined that such a sentence would kill her...... Since the war between the two countries, although the Empire has repeatedly defeated the Alliance Legion, it is the first time that the Legion Commander has been directly killed. Because every legion commander will always have some life-saving props on his body, for example, there is a teleportation array built in Shengzhou City, which can instantly teleport a small number of people back to the capital at a high price, which is the life-saving prop at the highest level in the city.

Li Nana is not lacking in courage, but she is not a fool either, she has already done everything that should be done, and if this is still the doom of the city, then she will not be stupid to die in the city. What the alliance lacks now is a general with enough war experience, and Li Nana, who has combat experience with many legions of the empire, if she can bring this experience back to the capital, she will contribute a lot to future wars.

So Li Nana had no reason to sacrifice herself at all, the city was broken, of course she would activate the teleportation device and return to the capital in time, but in the end she obviously did not succeed.

Of course, the emperor of the empire knew the truth: the Holy High Priest made a move, and all the fantasy items in the city were invalid under the laws that surpassed the grandmaster-level, and Li Nana and Zhu Yaoji couldn't leave at all!

But the people of the Free City didn't know, they only knew that Li Nana died of her own people's plot, and when she launched the teleportation, the Free City side unilaterally locked the passage and put Li Nana as a sacrifice under the imperial butcher's knife!

The anger spread like a plague, and the angry people began to organize themselves and storm the door of the Li family.

And the Li family's reaction can be called domineering: kill!

Of course, it was not a full-scale massacre, and the elite squad in charge of guarding the manor soon found a few people with ulterior motives who took the lead in making trouble in the crowd, as well as ruffians who rushed forward and tried to fish in troubled waters.

Thinking of the miraculous results of a recent massacre in the Free City, the Li family's guards made a decision that they would regret for the rest of their lives.

They wielded their butcher knives, and although they only killed less than ten people, the end result was that this conflict, which could have been suppressed in a certain range, became completely uncontrollable.

Maybe it's because the Free City is not the Li family's base camp, and the Li family's manor is just a leisure villa that the head of the family passes by accident, and it is the younger generation of the family who sits here, or maybe there is a pair of masterminds behind the scenes who are remotely manipulating, in short, the outbreak of large-scale bloodshed in the Free City has become another bleak news in the Freedom Alliance after the fall of Shengzhou City. ...,

The rebellion lasted several days, and it took the Praetorian Guard to suppress it, during which it nearly brought Silver Frost back from the front.

The empire didn't even use a lot of tricks, and it achieved unexpected results, and what was even more terrifying was that although the riots subsided, the instability of the alliance increased by I don't know how much.

The blue-blooded aristocracy and the commoner class, the ordinary aristocratic class, the honorary aristocratic class...... The contradictions between them have been completely intensified. People blame the current malaise of the war entirely on the indifference, greed, corruption and incompetence of the eight major families. And the eight major families really couldn't refute it for a while.

It is true that the major families have hidden all their strength, and if they take it out, the war will indeed not develop to this point, but ...... Can you blame the Eight Great Families? Are you angry civilians just sacrificing everything for the war? If you don't, why do you ask the Eight Great Families to even take out their own hole cards?

It's a pity that there is no way to explain this kind of statement.

The alliance is in civil strife, the Holy Empire will naturally not let go of the great opportunity, the side effects caused by the previous high priest's preemptive action have completely disappeared, and the imperial legion is like a bamboo, starting from Shengzhou City, all the way west, officially stepping into the central province of the alliance!

There is still a long way to go from the free city, but with the complete fall of the eastern provinces, the next road will only get faster and faster.

Since the start of the war, the empire has not exerted all its strength.

On the seventh day after the Bloody Night in the Free City, the scorpion legions of the Holy Empire broke through a city in the easternmost part of the Central Province, and the passive resistance in the city was a side effect of the Bloody Night in the Free City, and the hearts of the people in the country seemed to be weakened.

However, as the vanguard of the scorpion legion, on the way to continue westward, encountered the ninth legion of the alliance led by Silver Frost, and after a fierce battle for a day and night, the scorpion legion suffered a small loss and had to retreat temporarily, and Silver Frost was unable to pursue, and Mingjin withdrew his troops.

The two sides maintained a stalemate in the eastern part of the central province, and after that, the two legions fought several times, and the genius of Silver Frost as a general was released by her to the fullest, and it became common for her to defeat the strong with the weak, leading a newly formed legion, but it was more sophisticated than the Praetorian Legion, but in the face of the first level of the Empire, Silver Frost could only have a slight upper hand and could not achieve a decisive victory.

Fortunately, the strongest guard regiment of the empire entered a long period of recuperation after the battle in Shengzhou City, and they always stayed in Shengzhou City and did not continue to advance westward, otherwise the pressure on Silver Frost would be even greater.

However, anyone can see that the current stalemate is only a prelude to a major outbreak, and the nine armies of the empire have crossed the border, but now there are only three corps rushing to the front, which is definitely not a normal reaction. What's more, there is only about a week left before the emperor's initial strategic goal, which is to break through the free city in March.

Now it seems that three months is impossible, but if the empire steps up a little, the goal of four or five months is very promising, isn't it?

At the same time, the Empire is indeed preparing for its next strategic goal, and is making final adjustments before a wave of all-out attacks.

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In the city of Guran, a sea of joy.

Although there was only one celebration banquet not long ago, this time the banquet in the city was even higher.

The reason is very simple, His Majesty the Emperor sent an envoy to reward the porcupine army that sat in the rear but did not forget to give advice to the front!

General Gustav wrote two letters to His Majesty the Emperor in the city of Qur'an, and although the first letter turned out to be a stark tragedy, the second letter reaped a great victory for the Empire. Just a few pens and a few newspapers put the Freedom Alliance into an all-round passivity, which even exceeded the expectations of the Imperials themselves...,

What's more, according to the emperor's deployment, the porcupine army will soon set off from Gulan City and rush to the front.

The next wave of the Empire's offensive will be a real one-shot victory, as the threat from the Northlanders is temporarily lifted, and the Empire is able to mobilize more troops into the front line. The Porcupine Legion is only a second-level legion, but it is the top level of the second-level legion, and it is too wasteful to put it in the rear mold.

Let alone...... Today's porcupine legion seems to have an enigmatic strategist, in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor, but the strategist who made suggestions twice is worth a second-level legion.

This celebration banquet is actually more for the strategist. Although His Majesty the Emperor did not appear in person, he sent his right-hand man to the city of Gulan to reward General Gustav, and at the same time to meet the advisor behind the old general.

The Emperor was represented by a young woman with long red hair, always with a gentle smile on her face, as if she were the gentle and graceful sister of the neighbor's family. However, none of the officers present dared to despise her.

Rebecca is not only the favorite concubine of His Majesty the Emperor, but also the most important advisor of His Majesty the Emperor, and she has the cultivation of a senior dream builder, and she is a true proud daughter of the sky. Not long ago, he single-handedly went to the Northlands, persuaded the kings of the Thirteen Northlands to withdraw from the border, and successfully resolved the hidden dangers in the rear of the empire, so that the three legions, including the porcupine army, could free up their hands and go to the front.

If a blonde girl could be worth a second-class legion in the eyes of the emperor, then Rebecca was worth at least a legion of guards.

So, although Rebecca doesn't have a clear enough identity, she gets the most attention at the banquet.

And after the banquet, the red-haired woman smiled lightly and asked, "General Gustav, don't say much to greet...... Can I meet that amazing little girl?"

"Of course!"

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