The war has begun!

In the Guangming Emperor Garden, which was ready for war, on a cloudy morning, Duke Tulip led 50,000 of the best-equipped "Thor's Whip" to the north, and at the same time, 20,000 mobilized local garrisons escorted a large number of war materials to the north. 【】

The north has been divided into a war zone, the Northern Command has been formed, two veteran generals with deep qualifications have been transferred from the Imperial Command, and Duke Tulip has been appointed as the supreme commander of the war zone.

The war, and so began!

While everyone was waiting for news from the north, the north was surprisingly quiet.

Although the coalition forces of more than a dozen kingdoms of Roland the Great 6 had already put on a posture of crossing the sea, they did not act for a long time.

When I thought that Duke Tulip would be the first hero of this war, the first hero of this war was born!

Not in the north, but in the northwest! In the Watt Fortress! Just when everyone's eyes were on the north, within a month, the situation in the northwest changed dramatically! A shining star rose in the northwest.

The commander of the Northwest Army, General Eliho, is 42 years old this year and comes from a certain military aristocratic family, one of the traditional forces of the military.

The 169th graduating student of the Imperial Academy, a fourth-level samurai, with good military courses, has served as the deputy commander and commander of the garrison of the Imperial Fenli Province, because of his meritorious service in suppressing banditry, he was later promoted and the influence of his family, and was transferred back to the imperial capital to the Imperial Command as the deputy chief of staff, and after serving as a civilian worker in the Command for several years, after accumulating enough qualifications, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the Central Cavalry Corps, and after the Northwest War, he was transferred from the Central Cavalry Corps to the commander of the Northwest Corps and presided over the military affairs of the Northwest Corps.

Andy's evaluation after reading this information is: Medium and medium distance, nothing special.

Indeed, judging by the data, there is nothing special about this General Eliho. Born into an upper-class aristocratic family of the Empire, he entered the army at the age of twenty, and after twenty-two years, he sat in the position of the first leader of a legion.

The only little credit is that when he was young, he used to "put an end to the banditry and chaos" -- but you must know that such a noble officer from a large family often used this kind of "excuse" when he was promoted. Although this kind of person with strong family power cannot sit in a high position immediately after entering the army, it is often just a formality. When the time is almost up and it is time to be promoted, they often add a military feat, such as "exterminating bandits," to their qualifications. How can there be so many bandits in the interior of the empire?

Then he climbed up step by step in the army without revealing the mountains, climbed for 22 years, and finally commanded a legion, took charge of military affairs, and became the first person in the northwest.

In fact, many high-level officials in the imperial party are like this.

But Andy still saw something unusual in this information - this General Eliot passed the title succession examination at the age of twenty-two and received the title of earl!

This is already a very remarkable thing! You must know that under the special and strict examination of the imperial title, it is absolutely not an easy thing to pass the examination at the age of twenty-two! In fact, General Eliot is not the eldest son in the family, but his elder brother came forward to participate in the examination after he failed the examination and lost the right to inherit the title, and the result was a success in one fell swoop!

Andy checked the records of the year, and this General Eliho actually passed the knighthood test with the qualification of a third-class samurai!

At the age of twenty-two, he reached the rank of a third-level samurai, which is not too powerful, but it is already very rare in a pampered aristocratic family! You must know that in order to reduce the difficulty in the title assessment, many nobles deliberately lower their samurai level in order to participate in the low-level title assessment. For example, when Luo Di participated in the knighthood examination, he was only a first-class samurai - and there were only a few nobles out of 200 who signed up for the third-level samurai examination!

This Eliho actually did not hide his strength, and openly obtained the qualification of a third-level samurai before inheriting the title - was he not afraid that the title assessment would become more difficult because of his title of third-class samurai? If this was the case, then it could only show that he was very confident in his own strength!

There's a reason why Andy is studying the information of this General Eliot so carefully!

A month ago, Rochenthal led his troops to raid Fort Trier (originally Fort Trier was occupied by the Great Moon Kingdom in the previous Northwest War, but after the war, according to the negotiations that Rodi participated in, the empire paid 500,000 gold coins to redeem it), and as a result, the vanguard troops led by this Eliot general ambushed Rochenthal outside the city, defeated the enemy army in one fell swoop, and killed 10,000 people of the Great Moon King's ** team!

Then the main army of Rochenthal arrived and collided head-on with the Western Army, and the Northwest Army was defeated by the steppe iron cavalry in the field battle, and was indeed defeated. However, before the army of the Great Moon Kingdom besieged the city, Eliho took the initiative to break through and abandon Fort Trier, and the whole army withdrew from Fort Trier!

This move is undoubtedly surprising - after all, in the northwest defense strategy of the Imperial Command, the only two remaining military fortresses in the northwest, Fort Trier and Watt Fortress, are important military strongholds, as long as these two military strongholds are held, and the two places are divided into horns and echo each other, so that the northwest can be preserved!

But what happened next surprised Andy even more!

Rochenthal's 200,000-strong army had just entered Fort Trier and was not firmly established, and Eliot immediately killed him!

The Northwest Corps immediately surrounded Fort Trier!

It's a very clever trap!

Before he withdrew from Fort Trier, Eliho had poisoned all the wells in the city, and then according to the terrain in front of Fort Trier, he had placed numerous fortifications outside the gates of Fort Trier—those sturdy horse-repelling horses covered with sharp blades, which had caused Rochenthal a great headache, and he feared great losses in the siege of the city—but Eliho's abrupt abandonment of Fort Trier allowed him to occupy this important fortress in the northwest without a single soldier.

But before Rochenthal had time to demolish the horse-rejecting fortifications outside the city gates, the Northwest Army actually killed a horse pistol?!

Instead, Fort Trier was surrounded!

At this point, Rochenthal was immediately in a predicament.

The dense rejecting horses under the city gate prevented his cavalry from rushing out of the city to break through with the enemy. Although this kind of terrain will also affect the opponent's infantry, for the steppe cavalry who need to rely on a large-scale charge, it is a dead place! It is a dead place full of killing opportunities at every step!

Eleo was almost a madman, and he sent the heavy infantry of the Northwest Army to block the city regardless of his losses -- he simply used his heavy infantry as a meat shield! With tens of thousands of meat shields and the terrible rejection of horses under the city gates, Rochenthal's cavalry could not rush at all, and he could not wield an advantage at all! And Eliot seemed to see at a glance the fatal shortcomings of the steppe iron cavalry -- Rochenthal had no infantry! When the cavalry was useless, the other side did not have excellent infantry! Those brave cavalry on the steppe. It was as if there was no way to fight. Face the well-trained infantry and tight infantry formations of the Empire of Light. The steppe warriors of Rochenthal lost the help of their horses, as if they had hit a wall.

After many days of bloody battles, the Northwest Army lost nearly 20,000 excellent infantry, and Rochenthal's cavalry also kept losing in that dead land!

Fortunately, Eliho's troops were also insufficient, so he only besieged the city and did not attack the city, and put all his strength on blocking the city gate and preventing the other party from coming out. Although the Northwest Army was expanded to 200,000 before the previous Northwest War, Ellio still had 50,000 men left behind to garrison the fortress of Watt, and his siege of Fort Tertrill had only 150,000 troops.

But relying on this delicate trap, the 150,000 men of the Northwest Army trapped the 200,000 cavalry of Rochenthal in Fort Trier!

All the water sources in the city had been poisoned, leaving Rochenthal's army without a supply of water!

After drinking the poisonous water in the city by mistake on the first day, thousands of soldiers died, tens of thousands lost their combat effectiveness, and as time went by, the army lacking water became more and more ineffective!

In the end, after being besieged for the fifth day, Rochenthal had no choice but to make a desperate bet and ordered to break out at all costs!

Elliot knew very well that he was short enough to really swallow Rochenthal, so he wisely did not fight the other side. After letting go of the city gate and letting the other party break out, he led the army to chase all the way behind for more than a hundred miles.

The soldiers of Rochenthal were already weakened after a few days of lack of hydration, and they were defeated all the way. The lost troops were defeated, and they retreated to the important town of Mudan.

In this battle, the Northwest Army lost nearly 30,000 people, of which more than 20,000 were lost in the siege battle as meat shields...... Among them, more than 30,000 men were lost in the battle for several days, nearly 30,000 people were lost in a hundred miles during the breakout, and nearly 10,000 were captured by the Northwest Army -- there were more than 30,000 wounded and sick people in the city who had lost their combat effectiveness because of a serious lack of water or drinking poisonous water.

After counting the results, Ellio made another move that shocked everyone!

The 30,000 soldiers in the city and the 10,000 enemy soldiers who were captured in the pursuit were all executed by Elliot's order, and none of them were left! Such an iron-blooded and ruthless decision caused an uproar in the imperial capital!

This kind of action was immediately attacked by the scholars of those civilizations in the empire - the empire is a powerful civilized country, and the slaughter of prisoners of war and civilians has always been the shameless method of those steppe barbarians, how can our great imperial warriors do such a thing!

And Eliot seems to be a wooden man at all, ignoring any scolding and attacks, and simply giving a report to His Majesty the Emperor.

The report is very simple, and one of the passages makes Andy appreciate it very much!

"The Great Moon Kingdom is vast and sparsely populated, the population of the grassland is no more than one million, excluding the old and weak women, there are only a few hundred thousand young and middle-aged people, and if you kill one, you will lose one! If you spend one point, you will lose one point! What the minister is doing is to uproot the hundred-year-old bane of the northwest for the empire!"

Andy immediately ordered the newspaper to carry out propaganda, avoiding the massacre of prisoners of war, publicizing the victory in the Northwest, praising the merits of the Northwest Army Commander Eliho, and relying on the powerful public opinion means of the newspaper to suppress the vicious attacks on the Commander of the Northwest Army. Later, Andy sent a commendation order to the Northwest Army in the name of the Emperor!

Looking at the Northwest War Report in his hand, Andy sighed and muttered to himself: "Roddy, there is something in this Eliot that you are most lacking at the moment!

At this moment, Roddy was a little depressed in the north.

Nearly 400,000 troops gathered in the north, and the 200,000 troops of the Northern Army had already been mobilized and assembled - in fact, at the time of the palace incident, Miro had already made preparations, but unfortunately in the end, because of Andy's sudden appearance, Miro's preparations were all useless.

But then the war broke out, and those preparations became prescient......

The 100,000 Flame Warrior Regiment belonging to the Divine Cult of the Bright Empire also arrived in the north, and the leader of the Flame Warrior Regiment was an indifferent middle-aged man named Gudu, and from the outside, he was completely a pious ascetic. Although he wore a strange set of light leather armor from the Flame Warriors, he always wore a gray robe, which made him look a bit like a bishop elder of the Cult of God - even more so if he had a staff in his hand.

Forget about the ancient capital, his cold temper made him rarely speak, but the bishop elder sent by the Cult of God annoyed Roddy immensely.

Because of the incident in the court, the relationship between the Cult of God and Duke Tulip was a little stiff, so the bishop elder was not too intimate with the young commander of the empire.

But this bishop elder was a religious maniac, and before the war was fought, he led a group of religious missionaries around the barracks every day, preaching his religious beliefs, praising how great God is, how God is the only spokesman for God on earth, and so on, and he even strongly demanded that Roddy order the army to set aside a period of time from daily training and drills to pray to God...... Although this kind of action made Roddy very unhappy, the bishop said: This is a holy war, a war against "infidels", so the theological propaganda of the army before the war can enhance the soldiers' faith and piety in God, and through the devout belief in God, it can achieve morale and combat effectiveness......

If it weren't for his current status and the unity before the war, Roddy would have had this fly-like guy kicked out of the barracks a long time ago.

The morale of the soldiers was not based on this kind of empty theological preaching, let alone on praising some bullshit gods! If it weren't for the uncommon hatred between the two Great 6 Divine Cults, Luo Di couldn't help but think that this guy was a spy sent by the Divine Sect to disturb the morale of the army and make trouble for himself.