After Kimchi returned to the kingdom of Rothier, he lay in the royal hospital for two days and two nights before he could get up and eat by himself, and before that, he needed someone to feed and infusion to maintain his health.

His recovery was much slower than expected, probably due to the loss of Origin Blood.

As a last resort, Viroa had no choice but to use the last remaining blood stores to build a pool of blood, and then place Hessehia in it to sleep in order to reduce the amount of blood she needed each day.

During the time of Kimchi's recovery, many changes have taken place in the Holy Kingdom.

First of all, in terms of the civil war, because of the disappearance of Hecehijah, the intensity of the civil war gradually decreased.

The reason is very simple: Now that there is no fundamental conflict of interests between the North and the South, there is no way for the two sides to discuss some joint matters, and we don't want to have no way to communicate at all before.

But the torn rift could not be repaired, so the civil war did not end, but the fighting decreased. The North and the South have been divided, and it is impossible to return to one without the means of war.

And the daily fighting is even so bad that there is not even a single casualty, and only the single drug is being consumed. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the current battle on the north-south front is just a play.

Occasionally, there are a few battlefields that are in full swing, mostly because the two warring sides have long-accumulated contradictions. But the scale will not be very large, at most at the battalion level.

Ludwig seemed to have guessed where Hessesia was going, and did not contact Kirsten again after the threat was ineffective.

Soon after, some of the Institute's projects were unexpectedly suspended, and some technical data was unexpectedly lost. Of course, the rate of failure of the equipment of the front-line troops has unexpectedly increased somewhat. Ludwig and Kirsten greeted each other amicably in this way of not meeting each other.

Hecethia disappeared, and Cecilia did not have to organize people to rescue him, so the reform organization in the Holy Land was reverted to Cecilia's leadership, and the puppets controlled by Ludwig had to surrender most of their power.

After this incident, his own ideals, combined with his utter disappointment with the top, led Cecilia to embark on the path of armed struggle. Because of her daughter's disappearance, Cecilia threw herself into innovation and gained more and more control over the organization.

Now that Ludwig had lost control of the organization, there was no way to control its course as before.

Felenvinoel was the only one in the Kingdom of Rohir who knew what Hecehia really meant to both the north and the south of the Holy Kingdom, so she knew that the civil war in the Holy Kingdom would inevitably stop for a while, while the others still thought that the civil war would last for a long time at this time.

For some reason, she didn't make the news public. However, as for the strength of supporting the north, I discussed with the old king for a long time, and wanted him to stop.

In the end, the old king was persuaded that he did not increase the strength of his support, but only maintained the current stage.

。

A week later, Kimchi finally came out of the Royal Hospital and returned to his long-lost Kahlan Mansion.

However, as soon as he returned, he was sent by Veroara to have his blood drawn.

In the last few days, the pool of blood had been completely drained, and Viroya had to use her own blood as a trigger, using seals that were extremely complicated for her, and the power of Margarita's holy candle barely controlled Hecehia and prevented the latter from getting out of control.

With Kimchi's blood, there was no need to work hard every day, and Hecehia could finally come out of the blood coffin. However, she still needs time to control the suddenly stronger sea of consciousness, so she is resting in her room now.

At noon, Felianvinoel returned from the palace, and everyone was reunited together.

However, this is not the end of a phase, on the contrary, it is just the beginning.

The huge military power of the Rohir Kingdom not only needs to fully defend against the attack of the Southern Loya Empire, but also needs to guard against the beast tide of strange things in the northern tundra, and care about the war situation of the Rhine Alliance and the Cang Dynasty in the east and the civil war situation in the south.

Also, guard against your own iron ally, the Duchy of Gaul. Historically, the Kingdom of Rothschild and the Duchy of Gaul have not always been at peace, and the two sides not only have some territorial disputes over their own territories, but also have some contradictions over the colonies. Because there were many wars in these cases, they were later united by the pressure of the Holy Kingdom and the Duchy of Dunling.

The scientific and technological strength of the Combined Knights has been basically perfected by Kirsten's efforts, and the new knights developed by combining the Rothschild Kingdom's own technology and the technology of the Esoteric Research Institute have begun to be put into mass production, and the training of drivers has also entered the norm.

To date, the Combined Knights have five Knights' Brigades, four of which are stationed in the High Lighthouse Fortress Line, and the remaining one serves as a training team for experimenting with new weapons and training recruits.

In order to help Fellenvenol fight against the traditional air force, Kirsten armed three transport airboats under the pretext of building an air transport team. Because Kirsten was personally responsible for the modification, it did not belong to the airship fleet of the Rothschild Kingdom Air Force in terms of combat effectiveness.

With the addition of propeller fighters and bombers, the new Air Force, now led by Felenvinoer, can wrestle slightly with the old Air Force. But the entrenched old Air Force is not all a bunch of fools, and even if they are, not all of them are under them.

The old Air Force also began to develop propeller fighters.

。

San Pietro, a town in the middle of the Holy Country, a town that should have been obscure, but today it will say goodbye to the past once and for all.

Today, the town has been wrapped in water, not only on the ground is heavily guarded, but even in the sky is guarded by a fleet of empty boats.

Both the North and the South sent their representatives to San Pietro.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that something is wrong.

Sure enough, when San Pietro lifted martial law, the civil war in the Holy Kingdom ended.

Finevinoel had received news from Kirsten long before the meeting began, and learned that the Northern and Southern factions of the Holy Kingdom were preparing to secretly stop the civil war and turn their internal war into a foreign war.

This is appalling news, and this decision of the Holy Kingdom to the north and south means that the whole of Middle-earth is in full swing.

As a result, Fellianvinoel decided to withdraw the troops that remained in the Holy Kingdom. But she did not succeed in convincing the War Ministers to agree to withdraw. There was no way she could convince these old stubborns without Kirsten's news.

Therefore, she could only use her power to withdraw one division under tremendous pressure, and there were still eleven divisions left to stay on the territory of the Holy Kingdom.

The withdrawn division pretended to return to its own station, but in fact they were broken into pieces and scattered their men on the border between the Holy Kingdom and the Kingdom of Rothir.

Kimchi left the United Knights' station with half a brigade of knights under the pretext of field drills, and quietly arrived at the border to join the men of that division.

A week after the conclave of San Pietro, the Holy State suddenly announced a declaration that shocked everyone.

"In view of the oracle of the Spirit Lord, the country will enter a state of war from now on, and fight to maintain the glory of the Spirit Lord, and all enemies of the Spirit Lord will become enemies of the Holy Kingdom."

This sounds like nonsense, the Holy Kingdom that entered the civil war has long been in a state of war; As for fighting for the brilliance of the Spirit Lord, everyone knows what it is.

But such a public declaration of the Holy State means only one thing, war, total war.

Just when the countries were about to be on guard against the Holy Country, the Holy Army, which had long been assembled on the border of the Holy Country, had already taken the lead in attacking.

Before the southern countries could react, Army Group South, consisting of 25 infantry divisions and 10 armored divisions, directly attacked the Duchy of Rhodeland and the Duchy of Roland, forcing the Southern coalition forces into the territory of the Duchy of Freon.

Then the Holy Fleet directly blocked all the ports of the Duchy of Fereon.

Army Group South left only five infantry divisions and one armored division to stay, and then the remaining army went straight to the Duchy of Dunling, fighting it on the border, leaving the Duchy of Dunling unable to support the Duchy of Fereon.

In the northeast, the Northern Army Group of the Holy Kingdom, which consisted of thirty infantry divisions, ten armored divisions, ten steam armored knight brigades, five heavenly punisher brigades, and three land cruiser fleets under the cover of several airship fleets, was divided into two routes, one to attack the Rhine Alliance, and the other to attack the Rothel Kingdom.

Because most of the Rhine Alliance's energy was on the war with the Cang Dynasty, even if it was wary of the Holy Country, how could it have thought that the Holy Country would have such an incredible mobilization speed, and the ten infantry divisions on the border were quickly annihilated, and they were captured by the Holy Country and fell into disadvantage.

On the side of the kingdom of Rothier, the Holy Kingdom did not go so well. Kimchi had long seen the Holy Kingdom's intentions and their possible main direction of attack. After the declaration of the Holy Kingdom, he gathered his troops and directly attacked a supply point on the border of the Holy Kingdom, and then created the illusion that the army of the Kingdom of Rothil had entered the country.

This caused Army Group North to misjudge the situation and slow down the pace of the attack, with the result that by the time they reacted, the Kingdom of Rothier was already on the border, and there was no way to advance as quickly as it could attack other countries.

。

The actions of the Holy Kingdom affected Kimchi and Kirsten from the Holy Kingdom. Fortunately, Kimchi took the lead in attacking the Holy Country, so that the Holy Kingdom was not able to quickly seize a large territory of the Rothel Kingdom, so the masses did not have much resentment towards Kimchi.

As the fact that he led the troops to take the lead in attacking the Holy Kingdom was publicized, Kimchi and Kirsten had already divided themselves from the Holy Kingdom in the hearts of the people.

But this was not the case with the officials of the kingdom. They believe that Kimchi should be used as a bargaining chip to get the Holy Kingdom to stop its attack on the kingdom of Rothiel.

As for whether they wanted to fight Ferenobinoer by such means, or whether they were wholeheartedly thinking about the country, it is unknown.

At this moment, the eleven divisions of the Rohil Kingdom in the Holy Kingdom were put on the negotiating table between the Holy Kingdom and the Rohil Kingdom. The ministers who were going to pay for Lotus Vinolle gave up their ideas under the watchful eye of the Minister of War. Except, of course, the Air Force.

But they also knew that it would be foolish to do the right thing at this time.

Originally, the kingdom planned to be ruthless, regardless of the eleven divisions, and they didn't dare to kill them all if they wanted to come to the Holy Kingdom. However, they forget that the direction of public opinion seems to be controlled by the Holy State.

The people of the kingdom of Rothschild learned of this, and the families of the soldiers believed that the kingdom should redeem their relatives; Others believe that there should be no compromise between the Kingdom and the Kingdom of God.

The people on both sides almost fought. Just as the powder keg was about to be ignited and detonated, the news of Fellianvinoer's unsuccessful hope to withdraw broke through the blockade of the kingdom's police force and reached the ears of the people.

The powder keg was thus blown up at once.

The voices of the people became unanimous, and they took to the streets to demonstrate, declaring that the War Ministers who had prevented Her Highness's decision to withdraw their troops must be held accountable for redeeming the soldiers who had been forced to stay in the Holy Kingdom because of their miscalculations.

There was no way for the kingdom to agree to the redemption conditions of the Holy Kingdom. But if it were all paid for by the War Ministers, it would be a cut of meat for them, and although it didn't hurt at all, it still hurt a little.

In order to pull the Air Force into the water to share their own losses, the War Ministers directly said that if the Air Force did not help them in friendship, then they could only let Fei Lian Vinoer be virtuous.

Let our wise, brave, beautiful, majestic, and honorable princesses descend upon her most loyal royal army headquarters and personally command the valiant young people of the kingdom.

This is worth it, once those army ministers relinquish power, then with Ferenvinoer's current prestige and the group of young Zhuang who firmly follow her, won't that make the army headquarters her one word for it?

Isn't it only a matter of time before Fellianvinoel, who had the entire army, wanted to defeat them and prop up a new air force loyal to her?

There was no way, and in order to prevent the War Ministers from giving up on themselves, the Air Force could only pinch its nose and admit this loss. Secretly gave the army a large sum of money to redeem the troops.

Originally, the army planned to redeem these eleven divisions and reorganize them on the spot, train and screen traitors, and then be able to directly engage in border conflicts, which would be easier than transferring troops from elsewhere.

But of course, the Holy Kingdom will not let this happen, and they only open a railroad for exchange under the pretext of ensuring safety, which means that one exchange can only be exchanged for one train of soldiers.

And the Holy State completely scattered these Rothschild armies, and transferred one man from this battalion, and one from another company, so that the number of people in a train was formed. This will greatly increase the difficulty of the reorganization of the Rothschild military.

In this regard, the Minister of War Rothschild expressed strong condemnation, but the Holy State just ignored it, and the army could only solve it on its own, and the matter of transferring troops still had to be carried out.

The railways of the Kingdom of Rothier were extremely unevenly developed, with only a few large cities and industrial cities having long-distance transportation railways, so they could not use the nationwide rail system to deploy troops as quickly as the Holy Kingdom did.

The kingdom of Rothier was only able to allow some of its soldiers to travel by train and some to walk.

In a week's time, twenty more infantry divisions and three armored divisions were deployed on the border to help build fortifications for the troops that arrived first.

Because the Holy Kingdom had lost the first opportunity, it had no intention of attacking, did not tentatively attack, and did not even bombard and demonstrate.

Army Group North focused all its energies on attacking the Rhine Union.

。

The Rhine Alliance's side was fighting with Cangchao, but he didn't expect to be stabbed in the back by the Holy Kingdom, and the Teutonic Principality almost died in a day in the lightning attack of the Holy Kingdom's army.

The allied troops stationed on the borders of the principality were not prepared for anything and were routed in an instant.

However, as the border of the Augustus Empire, which was once entrenched in Middle-earth, the land here is full of these large and small fortresses, although not as exaggerated as the Acropolis Duchy, but it has also caused a lot of trouble to the army of the Holy Kingdom

Almost every advance required a fortification, which was a huge consumption of ammunition, and the Holy Kingdom did not prepare a lot of ammunition supplies in order to maintain secrecy before the war, so the Teutonic Principality was able to hold the last sixth of its territory.

The report of the war that had taken place in the principality was quickly placed on the table of the Rhine Confederation, and it almost did not make the generals vomit blood.

After scolding the Holy Kingdom for more than ten minutes, the generals calmed down from their extreme depression and anger and began to discuss coping strategies.

Fortunately, there were countless fortresses on the territory of the Duchy of Teuton, and the Rhine Alliance quickly laid out three lines of defense in the unbreached area, and then sent the remaining border troops and mobilized all the military forces in the Henish Kingdom that could reach the Duchy of Teuton in half a day to build these three lines of defense.

Both sides are in a hurry. On the side of the Holy Country, seize the time to replenish ammunition and prepare for an attack on all fronts. And here, the Rhine Union mobilized all the personnel and materials that could be mobilized and began to consolidate the defensive line.

All the countries of the Rhine Confederation have a fine military tradition, and their people are full of martial virtues.

All adult males on the defensive line were issued guns to defend the Motherland. Although the military literacy was not high, the Duchy of Teuton had enough men to fill the front line after several hours of emergency mobilization and reorganization.

In the course of several hours, reinforcements from the Kingdom of the Rhine, totaling four divisions, also came to the forward line. Because it was a forced march, it did not carry heavy weapons or additional supplies, but fortunately the Duchy of Teutoni still had some stocks.

As the sun rose, the Holy Kingdom attacked, with the Xu Jin barrage covering the armored troops, and the infantry units following behind the armored forces to advance towards the opposite defensive line.

Where have those militiamen seen such a battle, no matter how brave they are, they still dare not raise their heads in the face of this fear that is enough to arouse the most instinctive human instincts.

The army ignored the militia, raised its head and counterattacked, and the artillery, located in the artillery position, began to attack.

When the tanks of the Holy Kingdom approached their positions, the officers on the defensive line would organize death squads, use cluster grenades or push infantry to the flanks of the tanks.

In this way, it is often necessary to pay a huge price to destroy a tank, followed by infantry, whose attacks often attract the attention of the tank.

By the time they had managed to get rid of the infantry near the tank, the dead muzzles and machine guns had already found their place.

The defense line was a little overwhelmed after just over ten minutes of impact. For the militia, tanks are almost invincible, and the destruction of tanks can basically only rely on the army.

And the heavy losses of the army in the process of destroying tanks led to the inevitable rapid decline in morale on the defensive line.

No matter how brave a person is, he is also a human being, and a sudden distraction may lead to instinctive control, and then retreat.

Half an hour later, the commander-in-chief of the attacking forces came to a small fortress where the command of the forward line of defense, which had been reduced to ruins.

The commander looked at the battlefield where nothing was left but smoke and corpses, and returned to his car to move on.

The defense line collapsed faster than the Rhine Alliance generals expected, and there was no choice but to change the original three lines of defense to build a defense line on the border between the Rhine Kingdom and the Teutonic Duchy with several large fortresses as support points.

The troops of the Teutonic principality began to retreat to the border in an orderly manner.

Without hindrance, the army of the Holy Kingdom advanced at a rate of ten kilometers per hour.

The Rhine Alliance worked hard this time, mobilizing almost everyone around the line, including children, to build the line, which was finally built before the arrival of the Holy Army.

The Holy State's army stopped in front of the Alliance's defense line and tested the defense line with three tentative attacks to see if it was bluffing. The conclusion of the three tentative attacks was that this line of defense was real.

At this time, the Holy Land army already had two-thirds of its tanks in need of maintenance because of the rush all the way, and those slow Land Cruisers were still behind. Attacking this line of defense now, the Rhine Alliance, which has no way out, will inevitably fight to the death, which will cause heavy infantry casualties.

After much consideration, the commander of the attacking force did not decide to attack in the end, and chose to repair the situation and build an airfield for the air force.

At this point, Army Group North has ended its offensive phase, and compared to Army Group South, Army Group North appears to be mediocre, especially in the battle against the Kingdom of Rothier, and has missed a good opportunity.

The people of the Southern Army used this to ridicule the people of the Northern Army, and in order to vent their evil anger, the air force units that had just arrived at the front line gave the enemy a pear.

。

Several colonies have become a little delicate because of the war on their own soil, and they have displayed large armies on the border, but no one dares to fight. Because once the war starts, it is likely to lead to an uprising of the natives, especially in the colonies of the Rhine League, many garrisons have been drawn back to their home countries to fight.

An attack on a colony belonging to the Holy Kingdom against a colony of the Rhine Confederation could lead to the natives of the entire continent uniting against them.

The Holy Kingdom has ruled the area for only a few decades, and has not yet reached the point of dividing the local natives by various means, and once one tribe revolts, other tribes will soon respond.

Although there was no war on land, it was very lively at sea.

The huge naval fleet of the Holy Kingdom is enough to crush the naval fleet of the Rhine Alliance and the fleet of the Duchy of Dunling, but the latter is not impossible to resist.

The strength of the fleet of the Duchy of Dunling is closest to that of the Holy Kingdom, so they take on the task of pinning down the main fleet of the Holy Kingdom, while the Rhine Alliance fleet is responsible for sneaking up on the convoy and causing as much damage to the Holy Kingdom as possible in small ports.

Although this curbed the suppression of the alliance by the Holy Fleet, it caused the alliance to have no spare strength to continue to stop the Cang Dynasty naval fleet supported by the Daohuang Dynasty.

The era of war has arrived.