"As I said, this battle must be fought, and it must be fought beautifully! This is the key to proving my determination to come to power as Sword Emperor IV!"

When I heard that, I knew that this battle had to be fought.

Because almost all the high-level leaders of the entire metal empire are aware of the new emperor's temperament, and I, as his escort general, how can I be an exception to the people closest to him except for his personal maids.

My name is Wei Zilu, and I come from a somewhat declining aristocratic family in the Ca clan. When I was young, my family was poor, so I had to do odd jobs to support my family after school, moving bricks on the construction site, keeping accounts for others, hospital nurses, and even funeral ceremonies.

Until one day, I enlisted in the army to participate in a personal expedition of the Sword Emperor III., and when the defeated army was scattered, I carried the Sword Emperor III. on my back from a remote mountain road to bypass the enemy's pursuit.

From then on, the Sword Emperor III respected me so much that he first arranged for me to be a soldier of his personal guard, accompanied him on several expeditions, and later served as his bodyguard general. Three months ago, I advised Sword Emperor III not to go on the expedition, but Sword Emperor III did not listen, believing that the shrinking power of the non-metallic alliance was a sign of the decline of the non-metallic army.

But I was resolute in making peace, so he made me the prince's guard and general, and went with his own troops.

I went and didn't come back.

A few days ago, when the crown prince succeeded to the throne, I stood side by side with him and watched the funeral procession walk in front of the palace with the coffin of the Sword Emperor III.

At that time, I wondered if this successor of the Sword Emperor Family would inherit his father's legacy and continue to conquer the Non-Metallic Alliance.

The answer is: yes.

Moreover, the new emperor was even more resolute than his father, although I and a few ministers repeatedly advised him that the non-metallic alliance was deeply entrenched and difficult to eliminate, and that the great war of a hundred years ago had not destroyed the non-metallic alliance, not to mention that now we have fewer troops on each expedition than we did back then.

If we continue to fight like this, we will only lose our national strength and increase the arrogance of the other side.

But the Sword Emperor IV., like his father, did not listen, and was even more ruthless, directly killing a few people with more radical words of advice.

Sword Emperor IV. sent out a letter of invitation, inviting several military geniuses of the younger generation, among which except for Zhao Lucheng and Xiao Yulong, the rest were the main battle faction.

I don't know if these young people are strong in blood or too scheming, and they are still fighting in the face of such overwhelming national strength, didn't the professors tell them that productivity is the biggest backing for war when they were studying military affairs?

Otherwise, how could we have such a powerful army and such good generals, and we would be defeated again and again by non-metals whose equipment is not in the stream at all?

I'm 100 years old this year, and I didn't participate in the Great War a hundred years ago, but I know how millions of Imperial armies were defeated by non-metals.

Let's not talk about underestimating the enemy, in the ratio of almost 10 to 1 forces, it is difficult for us not to underestimate the enemy, but in the end we still lost.

Because it is said that there was a very powerful female mage in the non-metal at that time, and this powerful existence exhausted all her cultivation and buried our million-strong army at the door of their capital city O.

That's the Trench Mountains!

So the question is, what would happen if a powerful being wasn't dead?

I don't believe that a mage can kill himself with a single move, so who will become a mage in the future?

But if that one is still there, with our current national strength, we are only left to defend it, so how can we talk about attacking?

Isn't attacking looking for death?

But the Sword Emperor family didn't listen, the previous Sword Emperor III. didn't listen, and this Sword Emperor IV. didn't listen either.

In my opinion, that one may have used too much force and is now sleeping, so he will not lead the troops to attack us, but we can't take it lightly, if that one doesn't die for a day, our empire can't lift its guard for a day.

And there are some local tyrannical patriarchs, these are all threats to the imperial power.

But the Sword Emperor IV. He insisted on going to war, and he also chose Nangong Bo, the Taishang elder of the Al clan, to be the commander, and Zhao Lucheng to be the striker of the South Road, didn't he know that there was a contradiction between these two people? What if these two people were isolated from each other on the battlefield? This is simply a guarantee of defeat for the subject of war, which emphasizes coordination!

In addition, most of the generals this time are young people, and Zhao Lucheng has been asked to be the striker of the South Road! They have no combat experience, and when facing a treacherous and cunning non-metallic opponent, how much chance can they win? Nangong Bo has not been on the battlefield for many years, and he has long lost his authority in the army, can he control these young people?

Sword Emperor IV. didn't think about anything, and directly appointed Nangong Bo, the elder of the Al clan, as the commander of the Al clan after the meeting, Jin Lu, the commander of the Au Legion, as the forward of the North Road, Zhao Lucheng, the commander of the heavy cavalry of the Fe Clan, as the forward of the South Road, and he himself was the rear response, and sent 200,000 troops to the Non-Metallic Alliance.

However, I have a hunch that this time it is estimated that there will be heavy losses, and there will be a lot of talent losses.

It should be regarded as a lesson to the young emperor, war is not a game!

I don't know how many times the remaining national strength of this empire can support such a lesson.