War, many times, is not as shocking as people think.

In fact, when many people see the words war and battle, they often form a magnificent picture in their minds, countless warriors wielding weapons and harvesting each other's lives. A group of knights dressed in snowy armor and holding knights' spears rushed from a distance, and they collided with each other, and the people turned on their backs. Huge weapons of war are terrifying and rampant across the battlefield like fortresses of war.

Everywhere there was brilliant magic, arrows like rain, death and blood everywhere. In the dusk, the smoke is filled with gunpowder, and the fire rises, like an epic picture scroll, giving people a thrilling but heroic sense of boiling.

However, the reality is sometimes too far from what people imagine!

There was no desperate battle, no charge from the knights, and no rampant weapons of war, just a group of people lined up, carefully lowering their center of gravity, and feeling into the forest layer by layer.

Wren's whereabouts were once again captured, after all, it was impossible for more than 10,000 people to leave no trace of it. Not even the mission could do it, let alone Wren, who immediately led everyone into the forest after the Rangers sent the signal. In the forest, the black barbarians can exert one hundred and twenty percent combat effectiveness, and this is the home field of the black barbarians.

What appeared in the outside world was the First Army of the Northern Army and the Fourth Army of the Central Army, which together amounted to nearly 30,000 men. This is really difficult for the bigwigs of the Byron Empire, and even the Central Army has been taken out.

In the Byronic Empire, the army was divided into five military regions according to the east, west, north, south and center, and each military region was divided into different regiments and different numbers due to the intensity of the war and the situation. The most relaxing and comfortable place in the Byron Empire was the Northern Military District, which was ridiculed as a recuperation area by people within the military department. In the large-scale reshuffle every three years, some soldiers who have made meritorious contributions or have disabilities will be repaired by the Northern Military Region to which they are transferred, and then arrangements will be made.

In addition to the most leisurely and comfortable Northern Military Region, there is also the Eastern Military District. The Eastern Military Region is the closest to the Federation, but this Federation composed of many small countries and small forces does not have any combat effectiveness, except for tens of thousands of Federation troops, the rest are mercenaries. Many people call the Federation a country of freedom, and there is real freedom here. The lax laws and classless system made the citizens of the Federation very proud.

Except for the military aspect.

So the number of soldiers in the Eastern Military District is also very small, only three corps, about 25,000 people. Even with such a small number of soldiers, it is enough for the Federation to make concessions on bilateral trade from time to time.

The rest is the Western Military District, with a full ten legions and more than 120,000 soldiers, ready to invade the Orlando Empire at any time. Of course, it is said that none of the invasions have been successful for three hundred and seventy-five years, and the only possible invasion was lost because of the hesitation of Emperor Byron at that time.

The Southern Military District has six corps, and if it weren't for the fact that the nautical industry was maturing and growing at a rapid pace, the Southern Military District would not have so many people.

In addition to the regular legions, the Byron Empire also had special legions of various races. These regiments had only one number in non-war times, and were organized and formed only if they were mobilized in wartime.

The Central Military Region has eight corps, and although the number of corps is not as good as that of the Western Military Region, it is superior in numbers. This is also the arrangement made by the royal family in order to suppress the locality, and the contradictions between the races can erupt anytime and anywhere because of a trivial matter, which requires the central government to have enough deterrence to balance the two sides of the conflict and minimize the influence.

This time, in order to capture Wren, the royal family dispatched the Central Fourth Army, and if it weren't for the lack of time, the number of people who rounded up Wren this time would have exceeded 40,000.

Faced with Rennes, who had taken refuge in the Salme Mountains, Byron's official legion could only pinch their noses and enter the forest. The Byronic people did not have a special mountain combat corps, because the terrain in the Byronic Empire was almost all plains, and occasionally there were some hilly areas, and the mountains were even more pitiful. Byron's legions seem to have been more adept at plain warfare and naval warfare than in the mountains.

With a slight buzz, one of the Byron soldiers fell to the ground, with a trembling arrow stuck in his head, and the arrow had already sunk into his head. Nosebleeds and cerebrospinal fluid spurted out of his nose, and he didn't close his eyes until he died.

The surrounding soldiers immediately gathered together, and in the face of the secluded forest, they did not have much courage. The environment here was too strange and complicated for these soldiers, full of huge shrubs and tree trunks of various colors, and the dense canopy of trees blocked most of the light, making the forest extremely dark and greatly affecting the view.

There were times when the soldiers of the Barbarian or Orlando Empire were prostrate on the ground or crouched on the trunk of a tree, and they could not be noticed. Only after a few people have died will they suddenly realize that the enemy is nearby.

Under the continuous battle losses, the work of clearing Rennes almost fell into an inextricable quagmire, without the slightest progress, and neither the Northern Army nor the Central Army was at a loss for anything about it, and could not find the slightest solution.

Someone proposed to burn the mountain and force Wren out, but this Nima was not a lonely hill, but the backbone of the continent, from the far north ice sheet to the mouth of the sea. Isn't it true that Wren won't go, as long as they leave the burned area from the deeper forest, and everything will be useless?

Sending people in is tantamount to sending them to death, there is no point in setting fire to mountains or cutting down trees, and the bigwigs in the military department are helpless.

No one knew what to do with Rennes' group now, and without a more constructive proposal, encircling this section of the forest seemed to be the only way to go.

There is also a conjecture that the shortage of food in the tens of thousands of people is enough to cause these people to collapse and perish on their own, so they do not have a very strong need to enter the forest and fight a mountain war with Wren now. This idea has been supported by a lot of people, not because of how clever the idea is, but because they use this conjecture to fool the people before they can find another better way.

As for starving Wren?

Well, the barbarians will tell everyone what it means to survive in the wild.

Just when Wren was "trapped" in Byron, another big event happened in the Orlando Empire.

This matter still has something to do with Rennes.

Just as Sarcomo chose to bet on Rennes, there are also people who chose the royal family instead of Rennes. Not all people will follow Wren down the road to the dark, and there are others who want to get the most out of it in another way, although it may be fraught with dangers. But isn't that what speculation is all about? Huge risks, and huge benefits.

There is a chamber of commerce called Gold, Silver, Copper and Iron, in the form of collective real names, to the Supreme Procuratorate of the Reich to report Wren's manipulation of the market, illegal monopoly fraud at high prices, which also involves tax evasion, and gave enough evidence to prove that their report was not fabricated.

In recent years, Wren has indeed made a lot of money through monopoly, and the amount of money he has earned has long been incalculable, and Jinshan Yinhai may be able to describe one of them. Sarcomo and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry followed behind, but the Empire was not alone. The more people who gain, the more people who lose.

The market is so big, there are so many channels, and now it is stuck by Rennes from the source, so many people have suffered huge losses. When Wren was in the empire, everyone didn't dare to say anything, but recently the wind direction of the empire seems to have changed, first the imperial tax chief publicly stated that he would re-examine the tax situation in various places, which intentionally or unintentionally mentioned that the tax measurement of monopoly goods has lagged behind, which suddenly made many people realize that the opportunity has come.

Don't underestimate these people with a sensitive sense of smell, through this small change, combined with a series of insignificant small actions such as Wren's absence from the country and the change of guards at Tiebi Pass, they finally formed a complete line, and all the arrows pointed directly at Wren. These people immediately jumped out, and they decided to put a heavy bet on the royal family, knowing that in three hundred and seventy-five years, the royal family has not lost once, and this time will not be an exception.

The fall of a golden aristocrat, the end of a party, and the release of more than a dozen monopoly commodities mean that huge dividend space will be released. To those speculators, it was like the king of the sea who smelled blood, and they immediately jumped out and bit Wren hard, trying to tear off a piece of the fattest meat.

The Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office accepted the reports of these people and sent prosecutors to conduct an on-the-spot investigation to collect evidence, and at the same time handed over the report to the Supreme Court of the Empire and the Prime Minister.

On the other hand, Rhine also actively contacted Rennes.

Wren was silent for a moment after knowing everything, and then asked, "How is Empress Pars?"

There was a reason why he thought so, because everyone maintained the most basic harmony on the surface, but in private those struggles were another matter. But for some time now, Empress Pars seems intent on shifting from the struggle in the shadows to the struggle in the open, and she wants to tear the conflict in front of her face. Without the interference of external forces, she could not be so impulsive and willful, so there must be something that made her have to make a change.

Wren's first thought was that Empress Pars might have a health problem.

Only this situation will make Pars, who has always wanted to become the first empress of the ages, can't wait to solve all the troubles, and will make her reckless and start a frontal war with Wren.

However, Rhine told Wren that there was nothing wrong with Empress Pars's health, and there was no news of the clergy entering or leaving the palace.

So what is it that makes Empress Pars so impatient?