Chapter 33: The Barracks (2)
"People are more angry than people." Red's eerie voice rang in Farath's ears.
Faras was caught up in Red's words, but she remembered the scene last night, sighed softly, and quietly followed Ryan inside.
Red stood there, looking at Faraz's back with different eyes, and his heart was very strange: "Why is it that Faraz seems to have changed as a different person today, and she said such things that hit her like this, and she is not angry at all, strange." ”
Alina nudged Red from behind and said, "Hurry up and follow." ”
Red turned his head to look, and Alina and Oz behind him were looking at him with strange eyes, "Red, what are you doing standing here? Alina urged again, and Red, with a puzzled heart, walked behind Faras.
――――――*――――――*――――――*――――――*―――――― Orlando sat upright in his chair, his eyes engrossed in a huge military map hanging on the wall in front of him.
This is the third time he's sat here in the last two months. After Bacon returned to the Imperial Capital Barracks and Orlando learned about the Battle of Giethoorn, Orlando immediately wrote a secret letter to General Kissernst, who was guarding the northern Thor's fortress, alerting him to the movements of the Clay tribe in the Southern Tallen Prairie.
General Kissonst, also from the Royal Order, was sent to the Empire's northern defense, Thor's Fortress, ten years ago, and Orlando kept a correspondence with him.
However, judging from General Kissenster's recent replies to the letter, not only the Clay tribe is ready to move, but even the Northern Tallon steppe north of the Thor Fortress is also showing signs of instability, and the scouts of the orc tribe have increased significantly, which seems to indicate something. However, General Kissern organized a cavalry of several thousand men to go hundreds of miles deep into the North Talon steppe and found nothing, as if there were no creatures north of Thor's Fortress.
After all, there is a Thor Fortress in the north, since Fernando I drove the orcs out of the South Tallon grassland, the Thor Fortress has become a watershed between humans and orc territory, two hundred years, the orc tribe has also organized more than ten large-scale attacks, trying to conquer the Thor Fortress and recapture the South Tallon grassland with abundant water and grass, but the Thor Fortress has become a nightmare for the orcs, for two hundred years, no less than a million orcs have died under the fortress, but they have not been able to step on the fortress city wall, even if it is only a small step.
Hence the name of Thor's Fortress, or can only Thor's wrath be able to conquer this massive and impregnable fortress?
Orlando's gaze gradually moved downward, there should be no big problem with the orcs in the north, but he still has to write another letter to remind General Kissernst to be vigilant.
And what about the Clay people of the South Talon steppe?
Orlando shook his head, a fanatical and paranoid race, some six or seven hundred years ago, there was once a Clay Empire on the prairie. The light cavalry of the Clay Empire, with their unrivalled mobility on the continent, has become a nightmare for all foot melee arms.
After more than 400 years of glory, the orc tribe rose, while the Clay Empire slowly declined, and finally the Orcs conquered the capital of the Clay Empire, the city of Clais, and the once powerful empire perished.
However, a group of people who claim to be the royal family of the Clay Empire always keep the restoration in mind, but it seems that they are not so lucky, the grassland in the north is ruled by powerful orcs, the west is endless mountains, and the east is the sea, which is difficult for the race on horseback to survive; in the end, it can only gradually go south, and at that time, in the center of the continent, there were a total of four powerful countries, they fought against each other, and the remnants of the Clay tribe had to become mercenaries in order to survive, and were frequently hired by these countries to fight.
More than 100 years of frequent wars have directly led to a sharp decline in the population of the mainland, and it has also slowly consumed the strength of the mainland countries.
Seemingly overnight, millions of skeleton warriors swept through the kingdom of Dianis in the western part of the continent, but only a month later, the kingdom of Dianis, famous for its hoplites, soon fell. Obviously, even the most powerful hoplites needed to rest and could not continue to fight for a month, and in the Valley of Sorrows, the most elite King's Guard of the Kingdom of Dianis faced with an enemy fifty times their size without flinching, and finally the whole army was destroyed, composing a tragic scene. With the defeat at the Battle of Sorrow Canyon, the kingdom of Dianes has become the dust of history.
Later, Fernando I defeated the legions of the undead and drove the orcs out of the South Talon steppe. At that time, Fernando I had an army of more than 30,000 Clay light cavalry, and Fernando promised them that when the war was over, they would be allowed to return to their homeland and freely choose their preferred way of life, but the entire continent could only have the Holy Empire. Not only the Clay people, but the remnants of all other countries can return to their homeland, but only have autonomy, not sovereignty.
It seems that after 200 years of recuperation, these Clay people are restless again, and a few days ago, Orlando received a secret report that the Kriai patriarch, who had always been inclined to the empire, suddenly fell ill and died, and all his people became the tribesmen of Chief Abdul, the spiritual leader of the Clay tribe.
"Or, it's time to send a squadron of Royal Knights to visit the Clay Clan, 200 years ago we fought together against the undead legion and the orcs, and today, 200 years later, it is necessary to increase our understanding and strengthen our friendship. Orlando thought.
Solving the potential threat to the north, Orlando let out a long sigh of relief and set his sights on Seker City to the south.
Orlando has long been aware of the rebellion in Senat, the territory of Seker City, but as long as the lords of each territory do not violate the laws of the empire or clearly raise the flag of rebellion, Orlando, as the highest military governor of the empire, has no way to ask.
When the undead army swept across the continent, the place it passed was barren, and after the victory of the Holy Alliance, the continent was in ruins, and Fernando I had no choice but to adopt this lordship system. Unexpectedly, two hundred years later, it became a malaise that constrained the empire. Orlando thought with regret: "Although His Majesty Fernando XIII is young, he is shrewd, capable, and energetic, and he will definitely be able to be a Zhongxing king, and when the time comes, I will definitely do my best to assist His Majesty to sweep away the thorns in his crown and rebuild the order of the entire empire!"