Chapter VI

"That day my whole world was turned upside down, my faith ruthlessly abandoned me, my elders became strangers and dead people I didn't know, all I had was the girl in my arms, and at that moment, I felt like I had lost the whole world and had the whole world. —Jack Arthur

The cold northern scenery faded away during the journey, and the lush woods were now more visible on Jack's path. Since Angry Horn and Angry Horn belong to the southernmost city of Northridge, the two of them have never seen this kind of green landscape in front of them like the Kafala family, and there are months every year when Coldhorn and Angry Horn are also snowless.

However, as we continue to move deeper into Northridge, the bread of Fort Ash, the bazaar of Princesstown, the dog arena of Clare Town and Fort Big Bear. Jack and Zax are getting more and more aware of different exotic atmospheres, and this is also the first time that the two of them have gone far away, and everything is so fresh.

"Uncle Sparrow, I'm going to spend the night in the mountains tonight, and I'll be to North Cypriot to-morrow, isn't it?" asked Jack as he looked at Sparrow on his horse, Jenny and Jack were on the same horse, and the little one had been good at riding since he went out, and the girl had been on his horse since she had brought her Jenny once.

"Well, young master. Sparrow felt a little warmth in his heart about Jack's name, and although he and Sals persuaded him, Jack insisted on calling his uncle by his first name along the way.

Unlike Hansai, there are countless castles and towns scattered around Beisai, as a fiefdom for various lords, the role of Beisai is more to support these lords at any time and use it as a shrinking force defense at the right time.

However, the Rhine has not fought for several years, and there are even few bandits and rebellions, which is a sign of the greatness of the country. Jack and the others are climbing over the General's Ridge, where it is said that the legendary general of the Empire, Duke Wharton Sameer, was awarded the title of Imperial General and has the right to mobilize troops from all over the world. More than 400 years have passed, and General Wharton's contribution to the Rhine is still written in textbooks, and everyone in the military must know about it.

That year, the Rhine suffered an unprecedented crisis, the Rhine at that time was not as strong as it is now, and the territory was less than half of what it is now, it was only a medium-sized country in Naranst, and the entire Naranster continent also had more than a dozen large and small forces, including countries, rebel armies, and family autonomy, and the most powerful at that time should be the Kingdom of Mayne.

The Rhine, located in the center of the continent, is in turmoil, and David IX was invited by the Kingdom of Myne to attack the traitor "Whale" Jones family of the Kingdom of Mayne. The territory of the Jones family at that time was probably the entire southern half of the current Rhine, and the Mayne Empire at that time was still divided into two countries, the North and the South, and the Jones family occupied almost two-thirds of the territory of the North Mayne Empire.

The Silvermoon Country, the Mountain Tribes and another force called the Pratt Kingdom are almost all nested in the land of the Silvermoon Kingdom today, and the Mountain Tribes are the tribal alliance of the entire Kham Mountain region, but at that time, the entire western part of the Kham Mountains was controlled by the Jones family, and the Mountain Tribes were struggling to support the eastern region of Kham, but fortunately, the Silver Moon Country and Pratt were at war, and finally had a little breathing space under the suppression.

Needless to say, together with the Neptune Islands to the western Rhine today, almost a family and a force, a castle and a force, there are only six people who are kings, and there are five kings in the Neptune Islands, and there is also the Herkister family who occupied Gaode City on land at that time, and the Gaode City area is famous for its abundance of gold, and the Herkister family was united and destroyed by several surrounding lords on the fourth day of being king.

At that time, David IX was invited to send troops to the territory of the Jones family, but the result was unfavorable, and before the 40,000 vanguard troops set out, the 100,000 elite soldiers of the Jones family surrounded and annihilated Fort Dracula, which was gathering troops at that time. Then the Jones family went all the way north, the Rhine army was defeated and retreated, and the city of Lorain fought hard for three days, and the three princes were killed in the battle, and finally lost. Before David IX could retreat to the North Stop, the 20,000 cavalry of the Jones family with a small number of siege equipment attacked the North Stopper, which was less than 8,000 troops at that time.

David IX was seriously wounded and retreated to the general's territory by his subordinates, and when he saw that the whole army was about to be destroyed, General Wharton was born, and it is said that 8,000 cavalry rushed in the starry night just in time, and a charge broke up the pursuing forces of the Jones family. After seeing David IX, General Wharton asked His Highness to rest assured that the entire eastern 40,000 troops had been assembled and would arrive early the morning after tomorrow at the latest.

David IX, who was seriously wounded, immediately appointed Wharton as the general of the Rhine, a duke, and could mobilize all the forces of the Rhine. Although almost the entire East was already the power of the Wharton family at that time, and David IX's decision may have been forced to do so, we look at it from a political perspective.

After General Wharton was ordered, he took the remaining thousands of men and his cavalry to recapture the North Cypriot that was still in battle overnight, and then combined the more than 10,000 infantry who came to reinforce at noon the next day.

Subsequently, the 40,000-strong army in the east and the more than 30,000 Rhine troops gathered later, under the leadership of General Wharton, and the captured slave army broke through the fortress all the way into the territory of the Jones family, and the North Mayne also eased up from the rebellion, and after reaching some kind of agreement, South Mayne and the North and South Mayne attacked the Jones family together.

In the end, at the same time as the defeat of the Jones family, the North-South Mayne coalition asked General Wharton, who occupied most of the Jones family's territory at that time, to give up half of the territory that Rhine now occupies, and the North-South Mayne coalition army had as many as 160,000 at that time, and General Wharton, who had been fighting for many years, had less than 50,000 men in his hands.

However, General Wharton made a decisive decision, and he knew that the current state of the army, even if it was 50,000 against 160,000, as long as it was a frontal battle, the victory or defeat with his own morale was only five or five. General Wharton ordered the area of the Kham Mountains to be ceded and the mountain tribes were invited to send troops.

Finally, on the Golden Road, during the decisive battle between Myne and Rhine, hundreds of totemic banners of the mountain tribes rushed all the way from the eastern part of the Golden Road, which caught Myne off guard, forcing Myne to give up the Jones family territory in his hands and return to China. And Northern Maine also lost momentum because of this war, and was finally swallowed by Southern Maine and became the Kingdom of Main.

However, before the news of the victory reached Loraine, the prince's letter for help had already reached General Wharton. The city lords of several major forces in the west have united to attack the Rhine, the North Cypse has been lost, and the large army is approaching Luolan.

General Wharton overturned the table at the banquet and said a word to rush back to help Loland! The soldiers who were celebrating the victory hurriedly drank the wine in their glasses and prepared to go for the battle, because of the existence of the mountain tribes, Wharton left only less than 8,000 defenders in the south, and rushed back to Loland with the remaining 40,000 or so. It is said that there was a soldier at that time who said something that has been passed down to this day, I had no idea where I was going or who I was going to fight, but anyway, I knew that I had fought with the general for two years in a row, and I had never lost, so I didn't care so much.

As it turned out, Wharton was not undefeated, and on the way back to help Lorain, he was ambushed by the Lord of the West, but this just made Wharton, who retreated to the army with the remaining vanguard after being ambushed, sober up a lot. After many plans and preparations, Wharton ordered 20,000 infantry to build rafts along the Rhine River at night to raid the enemy forces around Loland, and he led the cavalry to raid by land, and the rest of the infantry took the mountain road to the road to Beisai in advance to ambush.

The victory in this battle laid the foundation for the future expansion of the Rhine to the west, but unfortunately General Wharton was also killed in this battle. In the years that followed, the Rhine produced many talents, from the iron-clad Chancellor Martin Kuster, to the feared mad dog general Jason Samier, and David X, who led the Rhine to the creation of today's Rhine territory. These people together have long been known as the Rhine of today, and it was in their generation that the Rhine first became the largest country on the entire continent from the territory.

The Samiyah family was a powerful family for the next two hundred years, and the power of the Samiyah family was gradually weakened by the efforts of three generations of emperors, but to this day, the Sameyah family is still one of the most powerful families in the entire east.