Chapter 443: The Threat of the Empire
The reaction of the Northwest Army was unexpected, it stands to reason that they are still soldiers of the Empire, but in the face of the 20,000 Northwest Army that was routed under the city of Sadland, Ronctor did not show any attitude. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Whether it was José's defeat of Grou and Gray, or the news of the defeat or the Sistine's imminent move. The result of the Northwest Army was that Gray and Farazi were killed under the city of Sadland, and the two commander-level Northwest Army generals resisted desperately, and were finally scattered by the rebel army, and died in the flood of the Sadland army, and the only one who escaped back was Gu Luo and he gathered a team of less than 3,000 men along the way.
The news of the defeat stirred the hearts of all the generals of the Northwest Army, and the warmongers, while angry, demanded to fight against Sadland, but they were all rejected by Ronctor. The commander of the Northwest Army now has less than 40,000 troops under his command, and although the main cavalry force is still there, plus the thousands of people who have returned from the defeated army, it is barely more than that of Joseph and Sistine, but Ronktor already knows that he can no longer fight.
Roncodo then used his prestige to suppress all the belligerents, and then did only a few things. The first is to mobilize all forces, and the main defense areas are set at Moxi Pass and the Sadland border, and the number of people in charge is not large. The second thing is accountability, after such a defeat, it is impossible not to hold the generals accountable, according to the meaning of other generals of the Northwest Army, they want to take Gu Luo to the knife, but Long Keduo once again suppressed the matter.
Gu Luo is an excellent military general, this Ronkedo knows better than anyone, but if he doesn't ask for the guilt, the morale and morale of the Northwest Army will be affected, so although he is unwilling, Ronkedo still ordered Gu Luo to be heavily punished with fifty military sticks, and then removed him from his position as commander, and only lost the official position of a captain. Although he didn't kill him, this kind of punishment is definitely not light, the generals of the Northwest Army can mix to the commander level, which one has not spent more than ten or twenty years of hard work, such a punishment is almost to the end.
However, although Roncodo removed him from his position as commander, he kept him in his own personal army as a captain, apparently in order to use him in the future. In fact, Gu Luo also knew Lonkedo's thoughts very well in his heart, which naturally made him grateful to Lonkedo, and it was extremely rare for a defeated general to receive such attention from the commander.
Not only that, but on the night after Gu Luo received the baton, Long Kedo personally brought people to the military camp to greet him, and he even asked Gu Luo to tell him the whole story and every detail of the war. After hearing these things, especially when Jose had an army that could fly and throw powerful incendiary weapons, his face was not very good-looking.
After Long Keduo appeased Gu Luo for a few words, he slowly led people out of the military tent, the commander of the Northwest Army pondered for a moment, ignoring everyone's surprised eyes, and then quickly issued his own order: "Pass my order, let people draft military orders, just say that the Northwest Army is willing to accept the military restructuring of the empire, and from the beginning of spring next year, it will be officially dispatched and lead all armies to accept the imperial establishment!"
The order that the Northwest Army was willing to accept the reorganization was quickly conveyed, and it was Joseph and Sistine who were the first to know the news. The attitude of the two of them was surprisingly unanimous: they both thought that this was a posturing by the Northwest Army! After all, there had already been a crushing defeat under the city of Sadland, and it would be a difficult thing for the Empire to suddenly attack at this moment. So these clever legionnaires will show weakness to the empire in this way.
But after the news reached the imperial capital, the aristocratic officials of the military department obviously didn't think so, and these guys felt that the Northwest Army was probably really willing to accept the establishment. It's not that these guys are naïve, because in the eyes of many of them, Moxi really has no merit, or ...... A bunch of rags!
This is not to blame these noble lords, because since the Bright Empire established Moxi Province, no real nobles have taken a fancy to this place at all. In the eyes of many nobles and even commoners in the hinterland of the empire, the northwest has always been synonymous with barrenness, backwardness, barbarism, and so on. No big noble family in the imperial capital was willing to accept such a fief, and although the valley corridor was an important grain producing area in the northwest, it was also rich in horse thieves, robbers and war!
Throughout the year, the war reports in the northwest have never stopped, whether it is a small caravan raid by horse thieves and robbers, or a large invasion war by steppe people or Macedonians, this place has never been truly peaceful. Even the emperor of the empire, His Majesty Montevideo IV, did not pay much attention to this land of the empire, and if it were not for the suppression of the power of the Ellios family, he would not even care about the situation in the northwest at all.
In fact, in the heart of His Majesty the Emperor, even if the Northwest Army seized Moxi, it was not a big deal, it was better than being robbed by the steppes and Macedonians. The grain produced in Moxi could not supply the hinterland of the empire, and there was no production, and even the strategic position was not as important as that of Moxi Pass, and the neighboring province of Turan was 10,000 times richer than this place, and the land outside Moxi Pass was not attractive except for commerce and trade routes.
Montevideo IV even always felt that it was a mistake for the empire to set up the Moxi Province in the first place, this barren place was sparsely populated and there were no mineral materials, as long as the Moxi Pass was held, the valley corridor would not lose much to the empire, even if it did not lose much. So he assigned Sistine to Moxi as the governor, and he didn't even care about subjugating the land in the valley corridor, he just needed Sistine to hold Moxi Pass firmly in his hands and not let the flames of war burn into Moxi Pass.
Montevideo IV has always been very smart, but at the same time a lot of suspicion, he didn't even give the Sistine too many troops, although there were hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers hoarded in the central fortress, but when the Sistine took office, he only brought a few thousand men, or even a few more troops than a banner regiment. Because in his opinion, the soldiers of the Central Fortress should have more important tasks, such as...... Deal with the Temple!
Mondevia IV succeeded as emperor for nearly ten years, and in the past few years, he was most concerned about the great aristocratic forces led by the Ellios family, and in recent years, what he feared the most was the temple of light that was pervasive throughout the empire. So after he successfully eliminated the threat from the Ellios family, it was natural for his eyes to focus on these gods in the northeast of the empire......