Chapter 436: Eve
Guo Wu walked out of the recruiting office, stretched his body, and finally relaxed his depressed heart for days, but the next moment he was at a loss and didn't know what to do, hesitated for a moment, or subconsciously looked towards the governor's mansion not far away.
There, his best brother will have a grand and grand wedding. As far as he knew, this wedding would be the most extravagant and extravagant, and it would take only four or five days before and after, but it would cost hundreds of millions.
Six days ago, through the news network of Northern Xinjiang, Hidden God, and Secret Spy Academy, Ah Heng's marriage news was spread to the world as quickly as possible, and at the same time, the list of guests who watched the ceremony was confirmed at the first time.
Aside from the wedding itself, this terrifying efficiency has also shocked countless people.
As far as Guo Wu knows, during the wedding, the guests who watched the ceremony included almost all the big and small forces in the mainland, including the God-given Republic and the Twilight regime, the Senate exile regime, the southern tribes of the Orc Kingdom, and even Huo Qing in the southwest said that he would definitely give a priceless gift.
As for the bright royal family, which has been in constant trouble with Ah Heng, they also put aside their previous suspicions and sent important ministers to arrive in Wolf City early, congratulating the abundance of gifts, and I heard that it took more than half an hour for the light convoy to enter the city.
Among these guests, there are naturally people with ill intentions, but being able to come, no matter what their calculations, at least proves that they value this wedding.
As for the reason why this wedding attracted so much attention, Guo Wu also knew a little about it.
The change in the attitude of the royal family, Huo Qing's deliberate currying favor, and the extraordinary attention of the Ice Plains alien race all stemmed from several major events that shocked the world in the past few decades.
On the 14th day of the first month of the 798th year of the Guangming calendar, the war in the northwest of the empire officially came to an end, ending with the complete defeat of the vampire army. It is said that only a few dozen remnants of the army were able to return to Bruda, including the unconscious Fan Xingyun, the commander of the legion who was imprisoned as soon as he returned home, and a tragic fate awaited him.
In fact, before this, the news of the repeated defeats of the vampire army had already reached the god-given republic, and all the ethnic groups suppressed by Fanzhuo were ready to move, and when the northwest war was over and it was confirmed that the vampire army had been defeated at the hands of the northern Xinjiangers, the domestic contradictions accumulated under high pressure broke out instantly.
Many people have realized that the vampire army with the name of undefeated has long been unsustainable after the hysterical crazy strategy, and now what is in front of everyone is just a paper tiger, although the skeleton is large, it is the end of the strong crossbow!
The most direct impact of this incident is that the exiled senators, who were once oppressed, finally relaxed, and hundreds of thousands of elite Twilight legions were sent north to suppress the popular rebellion in the God-given Republic. And Fan Zhuo had to slow down the pace of his coronation and become emperor, focusing on the control of the occupied areas.
Compared to this battle in the Northwest, another war played out a more dramatic scene. In the southwest of the Human Empire, the southwestern rebels who had no way to enter the heavens and no way to the ground created a miracle in the history of war, they defeated their opponents without any chance of winning, and killed General Cao Qiu, who was the first person in the imperial army, among the ten thousand troops, and only 12 out of 100,000 of the 300,000 central troops could escape.
In this battle, the Northern Frontier Army was lucky, and they escaped by mistake. Before the war, everyone thought that there was no suspense in the southwest war, so the commanders led by Cao Qiu were selfish and unwilling to share the credit of counterinsurgency to the northern Xinjiang people, so all the northern Xinjiang troops who participated in the war were stationed at Jianmen and guarded the pass, thus avoiding the massacre in Yabu City.
Since the commander was dead and there was no way out, the Northern Frontier Army, after ensuring that the last remnants of the Central Army passed through the Sword Gate, also gave up the pass and escorted the last remnants back to the hinterland of the empire.
After several attacks without getting a bargain, the Southwest Army completely closed the southwest portal and looked down on the hinterland of the empire with a condescending posture.
In these two wars, the human empire suffered heavy casualties, and the total number of casualties of the Central Army, the Southwest Army, and the Northern Xinjiang Army exceeded 350,000. Among them, there was one general, seven lieutenant generals, and forty-three major generals and officers. What is even more terrible than the death in battle is that the 800-year-old glorious Yang Empire has completely fallen into fragmentation, and the southwest has officially been separated from the imperial territory.
As for the God-given Republic, the Twilight are secretive about casualty figures, but judging by their hasty change of strategy, external military shrinkage, and defensive attitude, Fanzhuo's life is not easy.
As a result, in this icy winter, everyone felt that the human empire and the god-given republic were over, and only the lonely and barbaric orc kingdom had become the biggest beneficiary.
However, when another news came, everyone found out that the biggest beneficiary of these two wars was someone else - that is, Li Wuheng, the youngest young duke of the Human Empire, who led his Ice Legion to take over the Northwest Jingluo Mansion, guarding the most important passage between the Human Empire and the Ice Plains People, and mastering the largest war horse resources on the mainland.
Although the young duke is still nominally subordinate to the Bright Dynasty, anyone who is not blind can see that the relationship between the royal family and the young duke is quite bad, for example, from the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor of the Bright Dynasty, it can be found that the human emperor does not have the existence of this young courtier in the eyes of the human emperor.
In the past six months, the young duke has made many feats - rebuilding the imperial capital, fighting against the necromancy, and recovering the northwest, all of which are real feats, but he has not been rewarded at all. So much so that the ministers of the imperial capital city are speculating that once the new emperor's foundation is solid, the first person to clean up is probably this young duke.
It's a pity that time has changed, creation has made people, and the new emperor has not had time to lay out, but he has suffered an unbearable fiasco in the southwest.
At this time, although the Northwest Jingluo Mansion was a big piece of fat, no one could swallow it in one bite. Twilight's new defeat, the royal family and the southwest are entangled, and the northern Xinjiang has an ambiguous attitude, even if it is out of strategic considerations, Ye Zhong has to go all out to win over the young duke, even if he swallows a fly, he has to admit it.
It's a pity that Ye Chong is not the only one who also plans, Huo Qing in the southwest, Fan Zhuo in the twilight, Master Linghu, the orc commander who governs the southern tribes, and even the cowards in the Senate all see the huge value of this force in the northwest.
Therefore, the young duke's wedding has become the best opportunity, before the spring flowers bloom and the ice and snow melt, whoever can successfully win over Li Wuheng and the Ice Plains Army under his command will have a qualitative leap in strength.
Of course, if Li Wuheng didn't know what was good or bad, then he wouldn't be so polite when all parties took a breath and stopped.
Anyone with a strategic vision can see that the Northwest Jinglu Prefecture is located in the land of the four wars, and although there are the towering Ranga Mountains in the east, the Bazar Desert in the south, and the majestic Great Wall in the north, the relatively small land is simply not enough to support the rise of a new force.
If Li Wuheng was a smart man, he would definitely take advantage of the last cold winter to choose a tree to perch. Of course, if he really is a fool, then the end result is that the Northwest Jingluo Mansion will be ravaged over and over again, and finally become a borderless land.
Guo Wuquan scoffed at all kinds of speculations from the outside world, with his understanding of Ah Heng, this kid would never defect to any force, because Ah Heng had already said that he would be back to back with the northern frontier, and his goal was to unify the ice field and resist the demons from the north for mankind.
Thinking of this, Guo Wu sighed lightly, just because he provoked a wicked woman, harmed countless people, and made Ah Heng suffer from the enemy. Fortunately, the future ruler of Northern Xinjiang is Lord Mengton, and he will never sit idly by and watch Ah Heng fall into trouble.
As for Guo Wu himself, he had already thought about it, and after giving up his inheritance, he would act as an ordinary soldier of the Ice Plains Legion, guarding the iron-blooded defense line that was further north than the northern frontier from now on, fulfilling his oath to protect the northern frontier at the beginning.
Before leaving, he planned to take another walk and take a look, because he was going to Guanshan for thousands of miles, and he didn't know when he would be able to return, or he wouldn't come back at all!