Side Story: Brothers
One
My name is Aberdam Zitke. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
My friend called me az.
Or, rather, subordinates, I like that they treat me as a friend.
I am a very gentle host, incredibly gentle.
My father used to joke about calling me "quality az".
Two
My father, who once stood as tall as the Pyrenees, lay on his sickbed, his face like gold and his breath like a gossamer.
"We Spain are the oldest and best people in the West Pole, and even now, our iron cannon technology is still the best in the world. β
"But the Portuguese have shamefully become independent of our country," said his father, "and the Arabs still occupy our territory, and our kingdom is torn apart, and in the heart of the continent we are regarded as the most marginal barbarians. β
"Abertham, you are the perfect leader of your country. Second Brother, you are like Hercules descending to the earth. Third Elendre, your political vision is as sharp as the two-headed condor at the top of the Guadalama Mountains. And the fourth cultivator, all the names in the world will turn to dust in front of you!"
The last spirit returned to this hero of his life in an instant, and through the efforts of the old duke, the Zteke family had expanded from a few counties centered on Barcelona to a fifth of the Pyrenees.
And his son, I, is going to wear the crown for which he has prepared for so many years!
"Abedham, Todoro, Ironte, Shug. I have the best sons, but you must be unitedβthe strength of the four brothers will coalesce into a storm and a stream of iron, and destroy all enemies and sweep the whole world!"
The father left laughing, and the three younger brothers cried all night.
But I didn't cry because I couldn't live up to my father's smile.
Three
Lisbon has been captured by our invincible army, and the king of Portugal is about to be captured.
But my general and good friend YearSo were also kidnapped by the king, who was both powerful in mana and swordsmanship.
"Leave me alone, it's enough to leave me a county governor, and I'll be subordinate to you. Otherwise, your best friend will be reduced to a ball of meat sauce!"
Il Chau didn't speak, but he gave me a pleading look.
The request of the King of Portugal does not seem excessive.
But I need to give the land to the meritorious generals, and I don't want to be a king who goes back on his word.
"If he were my friend, he would have been able to get out of hijacking on his own. If he doesn't deserve to be my friend, then it doesn't matter if he's killed. β
I smiled gently, bowed very gentlemanly, and spoke softly in the most elegant tone.
Il Chau was utterly desperate and trembling all over.
But the King of Portugal trembled more than he did.
He knew that his last hole card was completely useless.
I swept my eyes, and the most courageous second brother, Tadora, pounced at this moment.
The sword slashed like lightning, and the skull of the King of Portugal fell to the ground, dripping with blood.
But after all, it was a step too slow.
The other party's life-seeking curse, with endless resentment before he died, penetrated Il-Sue's heart.
I threw myself on it and hugged Il-Chau's body.
"Az......" said Il-Chau trembling, not knowing whether it was sadness or hatred in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Il Chau. I burst into tears and said.
"You've done your best, I can't think of a better way. Il-Chau sighed, "If there is an afterlife, I am willing to be your general and friend again." β
When death really came, he was not so afraid.
"Thank you...... Thank you......" My voice trembled, and I clenched his hand.
His hands grew cold.
Four
Barcelona's gates are completely dilapidated.
When the cold wind blew, some people wondered if the crumbling bricks of the city would fall directly.
"We have united all of Spain and annihilated even the odious Portuguese. The fourth brother Xiuge said angrily: "With such strength, why don't you renovate such a city gate?"
"We Spaniards fought with iron artillery, and the peninsula was so hilly that it was far less fertile than the Danube and Rhine valleys. I shook my head: "After years of war, the people are not living well, why not save this money and improve their lives?"
"Butβ" the fourth brother retorted, "such a gate is almost defenseless, and in the face of enemy attacks, it is like a mass of wheat straw. β
I smiled and patted Shug on the shoulder.
"You are an invincible general on the battlefield, and your wisdom and courage are reflected in you to the extreme, but why do you seem so irrational today? Is it vanity that blinds you?"
"Barcelona is our capital, and since we have such strength, will we let the enemy attack in front of our capital?"
The fourth brother Xiuge woke up like a dream.
"Brother......
He hung his head and sighed softly.
I rubbed the top of his head lovingly, just like I did when I was a child.
At all times, our brothers put our hearts into each other, as if they were the same person.
Five
The fourth brother, Xiuge, never disappoints my expectations.
The Byzantine Empire had regained its former strength, ruling nearly two-thirds of the continent. They organized 50,000 soldiers, and several times as many militias, to slaughter us.
Iberia is so lacking in plains that even if I mobilized the whole country, I would only be able to organize more than 20,000 soldiers.
All we could rely on was a modest river, and a few barely strong fortresses.
In the face of the crisis of the loss of my country, I decided to be the commander myself, but it was my fourth brother, Shug Ztke, who really commanded the war.
The Byzantine Emperor was busy spreading the teachings of the Orthodox Church, ordering one of his subordinates as his commander-in-chief, a man who had always been regarded as lacking in courage and strategy, and who was very greedy, and had only some talent for internal affairs.
The fourth brother smiled and said to me, "If this man doesn't know how to fight at all, then how can Byzantium be revived to the point it is today?"
But it doesn't matter anymore, whether or not to hide strength has never made a difference for the fourth brother.
Those who claim to be or are called by others as "brave and unstrategic" have always been taken off their heads by the fourth brother like digging into a bag.
So this time will not be an exception.
The enemy's stupid boss unleashed a seemingly stupid assault.
But he unexpectedly found the weak point of our army and killed more than 1,000 soldiers.
The morale of our army is even lower.
"Very well, then surround 50,000 with 20,000 people. β
It may seem impossible, but we have the help of the rain god.
When the raging river washed away the enemy's barracks, when the iron cannons equipped with rain-proof technology reaped the lives of the Byzantines, the foolish general knew-
The trap set by the fourth brother is often shown to be extraordinarily strong rather than weak, that is to say, to fight with him at least three steps.
The Byzantine army was crushed for thousands of miles, with nearly 10,000 soldiers lost, more than 50,000 militiamen and civilians, and countless materials, money and food were left behind.
And the fourth brother doesn't seem to be proud of this.
It could be that he has a relatively peaceful personality, or it could be-
He's used to it.
Six
The next enemy was the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
The guy was obese and nicknamed the "German Bear".
He bears a great resemblance to us, and he single-handedly unites the chaotic German princes.
The Byzantine Emperor sent his own brother to lead more than 20,000 soldiers, known as 60,000, to pounce on Vienna, and the famous Byzantine Shuangbi also accompanied him as a lieutenant.
At that time, the fat bear did not complete his great cause of unification, and all he could draw out was 5,000 soldiers to hold the city of Vienna.
Lonely and deserted, with no reinforcements from outside, and what was even more terrifying was that many of the German princes who had temporarily submitted to him also joined the Byzantine army in an attempt to get a piece of the pie.
After defending the city for several months, the city ran out of food and killed horses for food.
After consulting with his staff, he decided to launch a surprise attack with the last of 500 elite light cavalry.
After a strategic encounter that we do not yet understand, the main Byzantine camp was breached, and more than 2,000 soldiers were killed, and the commander was killed on the spot.
Later, Byzantium was hit hard by us on the Garonne River, and the vassal peoples were scattered, and this person took the opportunity to rise and replace the Byzantine hegemony in the Western Pole.
"Still a defensive counterattack?" I asked Fourth Brother Xiuge.
"No, that's too slow. The fourth brother smiled slightly: "Since he has not yet bordered our territory, then let's form an alliance with the small country that is about to be invaded by him." β
The battle began in Burgundy.
The fat bear sent out 60,000 soldiers, and we all the strength of the country, plus the Burgundians, made a total of 20,000 soldiers.
But the battle line in this area is too long, and if we talk about the main battlefield, the ratio of soldiers is 6,000 to 18,000.
The fat bear tried to start with the weak Burgundians, but he keenly realized that after the encouragement of the fourth brother, this group of people had already been inspired to defend their family and country, and it was difficult to deal with them.
He didn't fall for it at all, but continued to watch like a wolf.
After several rounds of fighting, he found that the fourth brother was really a difficult opponent, and because of the rapid expansion, although the soldiers under his command were strong in combat, they were already unbearable.
After all, he is brutal by nature, he is a famous general on the battlefield, but he is not a qualified monarch.
Unwilling to withdraw his troops and not wanting to risk the collapse of the army on its own, he decided to resort to his best trick - surprise attack.
This trick was used on Byzantium many times, and each time it broke the famous Byzantine double.
"So I'm still going to use the water attack. The fourth brother said in a letter to me.
He couldn't pinpoint the fat bear's surprise route, so he dug a levee and turned the area into a swamp.
Then, after some searching, the fourth brother finally caught the fat bear who was struggling to move in the mud on a trail, and shot him in the head, and all the five famous German generals were also killed, and only the general staff of the fat bear was able to escape.
Seven
Germany had surrendered, and Byzantium was left with the capital city of Constantinople and several annexed cities.
"The continent is about to be reunified. I sighed, "As long as we capture the warships of Constantinople and unite with the remnants of the Turkic Alliance, we will have the strength to compete with that demon king." β
Although Wu Feng's territory is large, it is extremely unstable, and the Jiannan Wang family is still there, and the Demon Gate Yi Zhengzong of Beimang is definitely not a mediocre talent, if the war in the west drags on for too long, there will definitely be a crisis of civil strife.
"Urgent letter!"
The second brother, Tadora, rushed in in a panic.
I have rarely seen him look so nervous, his muscles completely tense, and cold sweat on his forehead.
But when I read the letter, I was completely speechless.
Ankara, the capital of the Turks, had fallen to Wu Feng's surprise attack, Scurry's descendants were martyred, and the Rhode Island naval army surrendered to Wu Feng.
The descendants of a generation of lonely masters in the Western Desert, why are they so unbearable!
God, why do you not protect Spain so much?
It only takes a few days for me to unify the whole of Europe, and at that time, Wu Feng's tired army besieging the city for months will be reduced to charred corpses under the iron cannon army of Spain.
Why?
I raised my head and asked the gods, tears almost welling up in my eyes.
The Templar's army was about to cross the Strait and come to the aid of Constantinople.
The overall situation of the whole world can be decided in just a few days.
Eight
"Surrender. β
Before the war, the third brother Yronte said this to me.
At least in this way, in the world unified by Wu Feng, we can still enjoy autonomy with half of the European continent.
But the brave second brother and the invincible fourth brother are determined to fight to the end.
Facts have proved that in the face of the demon king who is not even an opponent of several military gods, as well as the absolute superiority of troops, we finally seem to have more than enough strength but not enough.
Even though the fourth brother Xiuge relied on peerless ingenuity to achieve a few victories, on the whole, our battle line was still retreating.
When we were left with only Spain and half of France, Hug offered to go and see the demon king himself.
As a result, we had to cede the part of France that we had, leaving only the Spanish peninsula that we had.
Countless years of bloody battles, like a circle, have returned to the starting point.
I don't have any tears anymore.
A few days later, I heard the screams of the maids.
Following the sound, I broke into the bedroom of my fourth brother, Xiuge.
He was bleeding from his chest and dying.
"Why?"
I hugged his body and yelled, "Why is all this?"
"My military talent may not be as good as that demon king, but it is definitely inferior. The fourth brother gasped and said: "But his ruling center is far away from Spain, and it is impossible to station heavy troops in the West Pole, and none of the generals under his command is my opponent - eldest brother, do you think he can rest assured that a person like me is alive?"
My heart was cold, thinking of the fierce wrist of that demon king, and the countless families that he had destroyed.
Perhaps in the troubled times, our Ztec family has been called lucky.
Nine
"Second brother. I said to my second brother, Tadoro, "I want to give you the position of king." β
"Big brother!" exclaimed Todora, "what do you mean? I don't have any thoughts about this position! Do you still doubt my loyalty to you?"
I sighed gloomily.
Wu Feng looked at it, he needed to have different factions in Spain. You must appear to have forced me to surrender the throne while I retain some power to balance with you. The way to survive in troubled times is to keep expanding, and after peace, those of us who come out of the blood can only forbear. β
The second brother, Tadoro, froze, like a marble statue, and he didn't know how long it took before he blinked and nodded.
His jaw only moved slightly, but I could feel that the strength he used was heavier than that of the mountains.
Ten
I'm no longer a king, and days like this make me feel lighter.
Battles, glory, even if everything is lost, at least there are memories of the past.
Raising cats, planting flowers, and occasionally talking to friends is what I did after my abdication.
Until that news came.
The continent is finally going to be unified.
It was rumored that Jiannan Lion King Jiansheng, who had died due to madness, relied on the purple and green double sword turtle breath in the Dao Palace to retreat for more than ten years, successfully continued his life, and his skills went to the next level.
But this last god of war, facing the vast sea composed of the gods, can only look at the ocean and sigh.
The lion is old.
And Scurry, Shang Qingying, and Ma Qiancheng, who were once as famous as him...... It's all gone.
Wu Feng made a request to us, hoping that the Spanish cavalry iron artillery team, which was known for its bravery, would send troops to participate in the battle and besiege Shudi.
The Iberian Peninsula was not rich in the first place, and after the Great War, we had to pay for all the food, grass and supplies for such an expedition, which was undoubtedly worse for Spain.
At this time, the third brother Irente, who was once incomparably peaceful, raised a counter-flag, claiming to fight the demon king to the end!
The second brother Tatara personally quelled the rebellion, and with his own sword, cut off the heads of the third brother and his henchmen.
Rows of stakes were inserted into sharpened wooden stakes, and after they were dried, they were sent to the headquarters of the shrine and handed over to the demon king to see.
I rushed into the palace and slapped my second brother Tatara in the face.
Swelled his cheeks and knocked off his two front teeth.
He didn't speak.
Me neither.
We all know that.
The third brother knows that in Spain, I don't know how many people hate that demon king.
If in the process of attacking Shuzhong, these people suddenly become chaotic, the consequences are unimaginable.
He could only choose to lure them out in person and let the second brother Dotara destroy them all.
Of the four brothers, the third brother, Yronte, has always been the one who knows the most about forbearance.
For the sake of the Ztec family, for the survival of Spain, he had to die.
My second brother and I lived in humiliation.
Father taught us unity.
And the way to unite is to kill each other, to dye one's throne red with the blood of one's own brothers.
Wu Feng, you are a hero, but under your feet, how many dry bones and blood and tears of us losers?
I walked into the bedroom and sat down in front of the mirror.
The hair that was once full of blonde hair has all turned gray.
In fact, he is only in his early fifties.
When you're old and tired, you don't think too much.
So, maybe, it's good.