On the last Sunday of spring, the exams at the Aaronic Naval Academy began.

The news of the clash between Kugit and Swadia did not cause much shock, and apart from the fact that the military would be closely monitoring the situation, the others did not show much enthusiasm for the clashes.

Because the friction between Kugit and Svadia has always existed, the image that people can imagine in their minds is only a few hundred badly equipped steppe cavalry looting a few villages and towns. Many of the Rhodoks even had some schadenfreude, remembering how Swadia had flaunted their might, and although Swadia had suffered military defeats for the last two decades, this did not prevent the Rhodoks from continuing to be hostile to the Swadiaks.

Among them, my father and his two Swadia teachers were in an awkward position, they were sensitive to the news of their homeland, and every day they would go to the most well-informed envoys' residences in Aaron to inquire about it. So far, it is only known that there was a clash between the Kugit and the Swadians in the area of Fort Lundia, but the exact number of both sides, the intentions of the Kugit and even the reasons for the war are not very clear. The news they know was sent from Dehrim more than half a month ago at the earliest, and it will take a few days for Decherim to receive the news from the front, that is, the news that people know now is something that happened nearly a month ago. The news is getting worse and worse, and people can't imagine what is happening now.

As early as Cesar told my father, it was known that the Kugit had suddenly crossed the border at the end of winter and had cut off the Lundia Fort from the eastern Swadia town of Dehrim. Kugit's scouts roamed the entire Lundia lowlands, looting and burning villages and large fields, and the black smoke rose into the sky, and it is said that faintly a faint cloud of smoke and dust could be seen rising from the eastern sky on some of the hills of Dehrim.

None of the people knew what was going on inside Fort Lundia, which was completely cut off from the outside world. A month later, the first refugees from the town of Uludana arrived in the villages of the Amir Forest, disgraced and terrified. They speak of the horror and brutality of the steppe people, who are like demons escaping from hell, with their scimitars stained with blood and arrows raining down. Soon, the leaders of a dozen villages in the Amir Forest made a decision after deliberation. They recruited the young refugees into the militia, and let the rest of the refugees continue west to take refuge on the heights of Dehrim. While taking over the arrival of refugees and remnants in the east, Amir sent a signal for reinforcements to Tyrburg in the north and Fort Rendei and the city of Dehrim in the south.

Both castles sent a small number of soldiers to Amir Town, and they asked Dehrem what his next steps were. Dehrem's command quickly replied: the soldiers of Fort Tyr were not allowed to move without permission, and they should always be on guard against the Nords and Vecchians in the north, while Fort Rendi sent soldiers to Amir Town in batches. At the same time, the two castles need to send non-commissioned officers to the surrounding villages and towns at the same time to mobilize the militia into a state of alert.

It was not until this series of actions was completed that Dehrim's first official report was sent to Paraven, and the empire was taken by surprise, no one expected such a thing to happen at this time. They quickly summoned Ambassador Kujitte, but it was discovered that the embassy was empty, and only a few Kugit who knew nothing remained. The Empire harshly interrogated these people, and found that they did not know any useful information, only that they had gone on vacation to the beach two weeks ago. The people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were furious, they said that it could not be because they received reports from the ambassador every three days proving that he was still there. The Kugit officials then explained that the ambassador had left more than a dozen reports and had instructed them to send them to the Ministry of the Interior every few days for registration. The Swadias knew they had been tricked, and if the ambassador had chosen to leave Paraven by ship, he would probably have reached the port of Nord or Rhodok by now.

The Swadiya arrested them, threw them into a dungeon, and officially issued a serious warning to Kugit. Emissaries set out from the capital for the front line to prepare for negotiations with the Kuguits, and at the same time, the empire ordered a nationwide manhunt for the Kujits. The results were unsatisfactory, and a large number of Kugit seemed to be living in people's lives yesterday, but by the next morning, when the inspectors kicked open their doors and searched them, the heads of the dwellings were long gone. At this time, Swadia realized that this invasion was not an emergency at all, it seemed that all the Kugits had known about it for a long time, and these damned Kujits had woven a web of false peace together, put the Swadias in it, and then suddenly hit the Swadias with a heavy blow when they let their guard down.

Rhodok, Aaron.

Sabel's foot still hurts, a legacy of his fall from his horse. He was walking his horses in the garden that day when something suddenly occurred to him. He knew that the Rhodoks had made a great kind of ship, which greatly increased the endurance of the ship, and if there was such a ship, which went in one direction and went in one direction, if it was assumed that the world was really in the shape of an orange, and that it was filled with the sea between the land, instead of the abyss at the edge of the world, as some religious people say, then in a few years, they would be able to return to the starting point. It's like an ant crawling along the surface of a ball, and even if it keeps moving forward, it will return to its original point. Sabel was so excited by this great idea that he fell off without paying attention to it, while the goblin was drinking mead and writing a lame poem on a small table in the garden.

While Sabel's foot was gradually recovering, one day, the goblin hurriedly ran over: "Oh no, what you said has happened!" The Kugits crossed the border! ”

Sabel sat under the covers, calculating the angle of a star. He looked up at the goblin and waited for the goblin to catch his breath before saying, "Tell me everything you know."

My father knew about what the goblins told Sabel. My father may have known more through some of Cesara's connections. For example, in the Uxhall and Suno regions, several major food grains were required to be rationed to the homes of the citizens to prevent the citizens from hoarding large quantities of food in panic and causing food prices to rise; And in Deherim, the messenger of the news, which used to be reported every three days, is now a daily newspaper in wartime; In the capital, Paraven, the emperor was too old to handle any of the government, and several energetic dukes of the royal family were assigned to handle the sudden increase in government affairs.

The emperor himself had no sons, but he did not appoint his brother's son, and he sent the young prince to Dehrim, but did not give him real power. Duke Haraus, who accompanied this prince, was in charge of all military and political affairs on the Eastern Front. The first acquaintance with this arrangement, and the fact that the Emperor was full of suspicions about the young man. Rumors spread that the emperor's daughter believed she had the right to inherit. The prospect of an heir to the royal family, and the prospect of the empire as a whole, is in limbo.

Until this time, most people did not recognize the importance of this war. For a nation accustomed to war, the Chengping era is an embellishment, and war is the norm. People have become accustomed to hearing about friction in all directions of the empire, and these rumors do not affect their daily lives in the slightest. The only thing that people are a little annoyed with is that after the war, life will become inconvenient, such as recreational activities will be reduced, and the price of some things will rise. The families of soldiers and officials will have a deeper understanding of the hardships of wartime. But in general, there was no sense that the war would become uncontrollable, and it was felt that the friction might have been an unpleasant encounter between a few generals on the border and the steppe people, and then it turned into a local conflict. With the arrival of the emissary, negotiations would put an end to the war and then finally bring peace. That's how it should be, people are already too familiar with the pattern of war.

But this time, it won't be that simple.

This is known even more clearly to a few Swadians in the far south. Goblin and Sabel called my father, and they shared what they had learned. Goblins were the most pessimistic of them, as he had discussed with Sabel a few years earlier about the possible consequences of deteriorating weather. If everything was as conjectured at the time, the Kugit people must have been extremely well prepared this time, and it was absolutely impossible for the troops to simply plunder the village. If the Fort of Lundia is lost, the Kugits will be able to use it as a springboard and march directly to the city of Dehrim.

My father received several letters from the Valley of the White Dove and Suno. The first letter was that his grandfather told him that the situation was not too serious, and that he was told to concentrate on his studies, and that he could directly consult General Garcia if he had any plans; The second letter was that his uncle was a tax collector who persuaded him to return to China as soon as possible, and the tax officer believed that the war would end in a short time, and the tax officer said that he could handle some material dispatch and document processing in the rear for a certain position, and after the war, this qualification would become his political capital; The third letter came from a person my father never dreamed of, Su Ge'er.