Noxian calendar, 947 AD, early summer.

At the mouth of the military port to the east of the immortal fortress, the guns are like a forest, and the flags cover the sky.

Thousands of dragon birds waved their wings and landed on the reinforced deck,

Tens of thousands of wooden sealed boxes loaded with war materials were loaded onto ships by dock laborers, pushing down the waterline of deep-sea ships.

The Cold Weapons Legion, the Musket Legion, the Magic Legion, and the siege troops under the Empire's secret forces completed the boarding mission in a tense and orderly manner.

After more than three months of preparation, sixty-four large five-masted warships, guarded by the Meteorite and twenty-four other escort gunboats, loaded with more than 32,000 Noxian Empire advance troops, set sail first and sailed towards the east to ride the wind and waves.

To the cheers of the dockers and the people of the Empire, the Imperial flag grew farther and farther away until it disappeared beyond the horizon.

After this, there will be more soldiers of the Empire who will take up arms and go to another continent to the east with the courage to sacrifice to embark on a journey of conquest, and everyone in the Empire is deeply proud and proud of this,

Under the leadership of the Grand Commander of Leicester, the Empire has embarked on a new journey.

The Imperial fleet sailed eastward, riding the wind and waves,

During the more than three months of sailing, he encountered many pirate fleets entrenched in Bilgewater, except for two unlucky pirate fleets that happened to be in front of the route head-on, and were perfectly 'shot' by the Imperial fleet for no reason, but no pirate who did not have a long eye dared to fight the idea of the Imperial double-edged axe.

Just kidding, if the Imperial fleet doesn't aim its guns at itself, it can be regarded as burning high incense, who dares to provoke the tiger whiskers of the hideous tiger of the Empire at this time?

After the bad news that the two big pirates brought hundreds of people to Bilgewater with a single shot was vetoed, more than 100 pirates of all sizes in Bilgewater directly stopped their work and industry, and returned to the island to become good babies, setting off a wave of newborn births, thinking that in the next ten years, pirates will not worry about recruiting sailors.

Except for encountering pirates, the Imperial fleet did not encounter any minor episodes along the way,

In October, the Imperial fleet successfully reached the westernmost island of Philo on the Ionian continent, and when ships flying the Imperial flag appeared on the surface of the sea, the Ionians living on Philo finally realized how dangerous their situation was.

The Imperial fleet, which had not docked, made a proposal to negotiate, and the elders of the hundreds of villages discussed it for several days, but they did not reach any consensus except to inform Karma of the Noxian invasion to Karma in the Temple of Eternal Existence.

Most of the village elders chose not to provoke the Noxians, a few village elders were prepared to verbally persuade the Imperial army to leave after the Noxians landed, and only a few villages chose to pick up their heirloom pitchforks and lead the enthusiastic village guards to prepare the coast against the invaders.

Although they have long known about the lazy regime of the Ionians, the degree of procrastination of the Ionians is far greater than imagined.

Seeing that after waiting for a week without giving any feedback, the Imperial Fleet, under the order of Lester, directly sent hundreds of small ships to forcibly land, and in the face of some of the resistance that was not enough, it exerted a strong deterrent effect on the gunboats in the coastal uninhabited area.

The crumbling rubble rattled on the surface of the sea, and at least many of the Ionians realized that they should not insult their powerful foes with their ancestral pitchforks.

The first three thousand men to land quickly set up an initial camp under the bewildered gaze of the Ionians, providing the necessary security conditions for the subsequent landing, and only when the camp was established did Lester take Sindra off the ship,

As for the sheep spirit and wolf spirit who traveled with them, they could not be separated from the body in the magic container, and could only lie obediently in the 'coffin' and be transported to Omi Kayalan.

"Syndra, do you have any special feelings about returning to Ionia again?"

In the camp, Lester turned his head to look at the 'girl' who still maintained her appearance in her twenties, but in her heart she was secretly sighing that the years were ruthless,

Strictly speaking, Sindra should be nearly fifty years old now, and even if she is not fifty years old, she is at least forty-seven or eighteen, and judging from her skin and appearance alone, Sindra hardly shows any signs of aging.

He wouldn't have much idea if he really put a wrinkled old woman, but fifty-year-old Sindra was fine, and the man was really a superficial thing to look at the face, and there was no help.

Unaware that her teacher, Lester, was criticizing men's bad roots, Sindra seemed to be in a good mood.

"I don't have any special feelings, Mom and Dad have long since left, I just don't know how Awad is doing now......

Anyway, they didn't live well without me, and that was enough for me, and the reason I came back here was simply because the teacher wanted this rich land. ”

"Grand Commander, someone from the village has come, saying that he wants to negotiate with the Grand Commander."

"Bring him here."

Lester soon met the old man with whom he was going to 'negotiate'—a fat white man in a 'noble' feather robe and a crown on his head.

He had gray hair, about fifty years of age, two eyes one large and one small, and his expression looked extremely arrogant, and most of his teeth had died honorably, leaving only the three old teeth that were intertwined with each other still trembling and holding their positions, but they complemented the mouse-like gaze.

The elder was followed by two slightly uneasy village samurai, judging from the iron sword in the samurai's hand, it should only serve some comforting effect.

"Noxians, you should not defile the sacred firstborn land with your filthy souls, but before the Ionian Spirit has not yet been punished, Noxians, go back and remember to leave your sacrifice to the Ionian Spirit......"

The chattering elder made no secret of his hostility and was so arrogant that Lester had the illusion that he was the vanquished.

Too lazy to say a word to the elder who lived in his dreams, Lester looked at Sindra and sighed in Ionian.

"So, even if I don't come, there will always be someone who will break this false peace, and when you have a big enough fist, it will be difficult for you to tolerate such an idiot jumping in front of you, and this idiot can still have such a large beautiful and rich land,

I have traveled to the Land of the Newborn many times, and each time I feel regretful, even though Ionia has a beautiful environment like Eden, but the Ionians do not know how to use it, such waste is really intolerable. ”

For the village elders who don't know the so-called virtue, Sindra is also a little speechless,

Under the protection of Karma, most of the Ionians have never experienced real war, like sheep who have never seen a tiger, and naturally do not know that there is still a place in this world that likes to use human heads as a gift.

"Teacher, it is a good thing for the Ionians that you rule this land, and in my opinion, it is better to liberate the Ionians than to let the Ionians continue to live in the old-fashioned rules of the village elders, and let the Ionians become a part of the Empire."

Lester had a smile on his face.

"That's right, since Karma doesn't want to take care of it, I'll take care of it."

The village elder understood what the two of them were saying, and for a moment pointed at Sindra in disbelief.

"Are you an Ionian? Why did you betray the Newborn Land? Why succumb to these savage and filthy Noxians? ”

Sindra took a step back in disgust, her face instantly turned cold, and before Sindra could say anything, Lester put her arms around Sindra, kissed the woman's face under the gaze of the old fat man, and said to the guard.

"Cut down the old one, let the two little ones go, and the old man asked the little ones to send them back, and half an hour later, they began to suppress the nearby villages and towns."

"Yes!"

With a single sword, the old fat elder who was screaming and yelling separated in the blink of an eye, and the two young samurai ran all the way with the elder's dead head with their legs trembling, bringing the worst results.

As if he saw his end from the eyes of the dead man's head that refused to close, more than a dozen other elders exploded one after another.

"Elder Haishan, dead? The head was cut off like that? ”

"Executioner! Butcher! As I said a long time ago, we don't have to leave anything to chance, the Noxians are here to kill us! We must resist! ”

"Why don't you two protect Elder Haishan? What do you eat? ”

"What's the use of you scolding them? You should think that the Noxians are coming, what should we do!? ”

"What to do? Are we still waiting for death? ”

"Get the word out and let everyone know about the evil deeds of the Noxians, and besides, gather all the samurai and young men and send out the weapons in the warehouse, it's time for the children to take up arms and fight!"

The village elders reached a rare agreement, and after a long day of searching, the village finally gathered an army of a hundred men, of which at least half of the young soldiers were armed with pitchforks and logging axes, and the rest were armed with rusty daggers and long knives from the warehouse, and only the hunter took out his own hunting longbow, which looked like a thing.

More than a hundred people ran out of the village, lined up in three rows under the order of the elder, with the dung fork hand in front, and the rusty sword warriors huddled together to protect the hunters behind them, but they didn't know that they had just blocked the hunter's arrows, and the Ionian warriors who were lining up happened to meet a ten-man squad of the Empire.

Standing in front, the squad stopped moving, and the leader of the Imperial squad looked coldly at the hostile Ionians, and issued a warning in proficient Ionian language.

"I'm Hakros, the ten-captain of the Noxian Empire! Occupy the island of Philo on the orders of the Grand Commander of the Noxian Empire, and now come to take over the defense of your village!

I hope you will lay down your arms! Any senseless resistance is an egg against a stone, and offending the Imperial soldiers will be punishable by death!

As long as you lay down your arms and volunteer to be part of the Empire, I promise you as a soldier of the Noxian Empire! You will not be threatened with any life or property! ”

"Don't listen to their nonsense! There are only ten of them! Kill them! ”

Under the cries of the elders, the improvised army launched an attack on the Imperial soldiers.

"Whew!"

When the first hunting arrow came out of the string, ten Imperial soldiers formed a charging formation, holding a shield in their left hand and a sword in their right, and they fought into the crowd against five or six weak arrows.

Just like a tiger entering a flock, a few breathing Ionian rebels left a corpse, and the cruel death came to him, and most of the Ionian village guards were so cold that they simply threw away their weapons and fled outside the village.

Seeing that the resistance of his organization was instantly collapsed, the village chief and elder did not care about continuing to supervise the battle, and the two wars mixed among the villagers and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape.

"No need to pursue! Our mission is to suppress this village, to arrest the leaders and wait for their fate, remember, we are not bandits, we are here to make the Ionians understand the greatness of the Empire and make them a part of us!

Unless it is a rebel with a sharp blade, if anyone dares to violate military discipline and bully innocent villagers, they will be dealt with by military law! No mercy! ”

"Yes!"

Ten soldiers began to pursue the well-identified village elders in twos and twos, and those who fled outside the village were quickly caught by the soldiers surrounding the village.

There were five villages within a radius of 100 miles from the landing site, each with a population of about three or four hundred households, and it took the Imperial Army two days to complete the suppression, the villagers were confined to their homes, and all the village elders were gathered in a warehouse with many torture instruments.

Soon, the old fellows of Ionia met with the preacher that Lester had arranged for him to be in the army.

The female killer from the Edge of the Night was dressed in a slightly revealing black and red military uniform, and her plump northern hemisphere and upright hip mound attracted the attention of men all the time, coupled with her beautiful face and seductive temperament, the Ionian elders who had never seen such a battle were red-faced, which was extremely humiliating.

"One, two, three...... There are fifteen of them in total, and sure enough, there are still too many, and some useless waste has to be removed. ”

In the dimly lit warehouse, only a few torches shone brightly, and the half-faceted female assassin sat cross-legged in her chair with a dangerous smile and spoke a fluent Ionian language that made the fifteen elders' hearts tremble.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is going to merge the five villages into two unified administrations, and after the merger, each village only needs two local elders to assist the Empire's ruling work, that is, only four people here can get out alive.

Now, you can nominate yourself to me, raise your hand and speak, and I will evaluate the role you can play in determining these four candidates from all sides, and I ask you to seize this only opportunity, because,

Empire, will not give waste a second chance! ”