Chapter 1633: Northern Battlefield
The work of collecting and transporting the materials needed to build the Magic Tower and the Magic Circle City can't all be completed in a single day, even with the help of the Organic Fleet.
At the same time, it is so big, it involves the actions of all the nobles and big chambers of commerce of the two empires, of course, don't want to keep it secret. And because the emperor was only responsible for giving orders, and was not responsible for explaining them to anyone. For a time, all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky.
Rumors spread wildly, some eat melons and watch plays, and of course there are those who care. In particular, the two major forces of Vader Militar and Eda on the Floating Island, they stopped their respective military operations and did their best to dig out the truth behind these things.
But there is an insider who is busy with things that are different from what others are busy with. That is the former Grand Duke of the Gwana Empire, the current commander of the Northern Battlefield Alliance, Ricardo? Kaveh.
He spent half a day asking his airship team to scout the north of the Wind Emperor Mountain Range to see if there were any remaining demons or evil coalition forces from the underworld.
As a person who was close to the battlefield, witnessed a round of artillery bombardment by the mechman fleet, and watched the almost obscured sky rendered by blue lightning and red firelight in a strange color, the boss did not think that the demon army could still survive.
Now all he wondered was whether there would be any remnants, lonely demons left behind. Or a strong man like the orcs who are half out of specification, who survived such a bombardment.
With such doubts in mind, the boss ordered all troops to stand by and mount in all directions to ensure the safety of the perimeter. At the same time, the airship unit was ordered to set out for reconnaissance, after all, the airship has a wider range of reconnaissance and is faster.
Half a day may not be enough time for the airships to sweep every inch of land that has been designated as the northern battlefield, but it is also enough for them to confirm one thing, that is, the enemy has all disappeared.
Disappear! Such words mean that they can't even see the corpses, and certainly no traces of the battle. This refers to the battles of the Cold Weapon Age, such as broken swords, broken shields, broken flags, arrows, and so on.
Even the location of the suspected military camp could not be found. There are some abandoned camps, but these sites were abandoned much earlier, not the recent past.
To be honest, even if it were a large-scale washing of the mage troops, it wouldn't be what they saw. Therefore, behind this silence of people and animals, no one dares to guess or imagine what is going on.
The old man who got the information was the fastest to adjust his mentality. It wasn't so much that he was pushing the limits of what the magician could do, but that it was the responsibility he had on his shoulders to keep him from inexplicable fear.
The troops are outside, people eat horses, and they are burning money every day.
Besides, if the war continues to this day, if the lord himself leads the troops, after there is no enemy, they will naturally have to put their focus back on their own territory; If the army is led by a general, how many kings or nobles can rest assured that the military power is in the hands of outsiders, and this army has nothing to do.
So all the armies had to be rebuilt, and some were even disassembled in place. In the case that there is no longer an enemy, if any general dares to hold on to the power of the army, then it is estimated that he will be ready to fight a civil war.
However, the old Kawei Gong is not yet at the point of relieving himself of his duties and returning to the imperial court to listen to orders. He took over another responsibility, which was to lead the regular legions of the three empires to stand by at the Abyssal Gate and defend them on the spot.
Also receiving a similar order was the Airship Force of the Haider Empire.
Since the Haider Empire did not send many ground troops, the Emperor of the Empire was in no hurry to recall the troops sent. Instead, he ordered the airship troops to form on the spot and also go to the gate of the abyss to standby.
In particular, it is also explained that standby is not to meddle in the abyssal gate, just to watch from the sidelines. Although there is also the intention of supervision, to be honest, even if the robot fleet and the mage do not come as agreed, it seems that they are powerless to stop or change anything.
This expatriate commander of the airship force is also a powerful figure within the Heider Empire. Otherwise, they are not qualified to master the important weapons of the country and be sent abroad.
What's more, one of the five important ministers of the empire who followed the emperor to participate in the High Throne Conference was the eldest brother of the commander of the airship force, so he naturally knew more about the inside story than others. Then there are not so many doubts about the current actions.
If you want to say that the situation is the most embarrassing, at this time, there are some troops that are not up and down, that is, those units organized by the civil volunteers and the armies of small countries.
They don't know the truth behind the matter, they only know that the enemy who was supposed to give them a headache was solved by the monsters in the sky without a head or a brain.
Although the order from the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces was to disassemble and go home. But what's next? Will there be an enemy coming out of nowhere? If they disband, will they be caught off guard?
There are many unanswered concerns that make them afraid to act rashly.
Those small armies led by the king himself, or private armies led by noble lords, they are also afraid that after returning to the country in such a hurry, if the enemy returns, they may not have time to react.
You must know that the balance of power in the northern battlefield is actually due to the defeat of the southern front of the original Sulithang Empire.
It was the defeat that woke everyone up, and delayed time, that the Gwana Empire had time to react. Not only did they arrange a defensive line against the demons, but even the counteroffensive in the later stage, and the current stalemate, all of which came at a cost.
What if they now voluntarily give up these small advantages that they have gained at great cost, and if the future development is different from what everyone imagined, and the war is not really over?
On the contrary, those volunteers who came voluntarily from the people did not have as much psychological activity as those of the kings of small countries or the lords of the nobility.
Some ambitious people who planned to use this war to establish meritorious deeds and earn fame took advantage of this time to start forming gangs. Their eyes were on this war-torn northern battlefield.
Suppose the war really ends, and the war doesn't actually last long. Then the cooked land that has been reclaimed can resume production at any time as long as it is sorted out and replenished with manpower.
This is a wealth that everyone is looking for and within reach.
Don't say anything about the people who fled the northern battlefields, whether there are legitimate lords of these lands, or descendants of the royal family. When they flee, the lands become borderlands.
Even if these people are able to come back and claim ownership of the land again, if there are already new inhabitants of the land, both groups of people can be considered 'rightful' owners of the lost land in the legal theory of the land.
The next game to play is the winner-take-all. To put it simply, if you choose to solve the problem by force, you are looking for support everywhere. See who has a lot of supporters, and who can come out to 'administer' justice, who can stay and really own the land.
This may sound a bit awkward, but in fact, it is not out of the fact that the state in political science consists of four elements: territory, people, government, and sovereignty.
Territory: A bunch of no-man's land on the northern battlefield.
People: Many people have taken up swords to become warriors, and hoes to become farmers. Therefore, those who are ambitious, as long as they can pull an army to garrison and absorb some displaced people who have fled before and returned, it is not a big problem for them to call themselves a country.
Government: Those who want to stay, of course, will form a ruling group with themselves as the core. The definition of 'government' is not so strict, and the fact that there is basically rule counts.
Sovereignty: There is no word for 'sovereignty' in the vague land, and there are not so many twists and turns. In the end, one thing goes, the man with a big fist speaks; If your fist is not big enough, the person who can shake it will also count.
In the case of the northern battlefield, ambitious people are bound to pull out a force and then occupy the throne. At this time, even if the original people who had fled the famine returned and claimed ownership of the land, they had only three options:
First, compromise with the new occupiers and join them. At this time, they are usually subservient to others, and they do not necessarily have the same full power as they originally did. Commoners are the easiest to compromise, not the former ruling class.
Second, the expulsion of the new occupiers by force. It's just that one side is the one who was driven away by the coalition forces of evil camps such as demons and fled away; On the other side are those who are in the army, who have fought fiercely against the evil coalition and survived to this day. In the absence of anomalies, the force of the former is weaker than that of the latter.
Third, find your father and hug your thighs. Then compare whose thighs are thicker and whose backstage is hard!
What's more! If you lose face, are these thick thighs that show off their banners willing to fight with others for their own end? You must know that some people lend their names only to borrow people's foxes and fake tigers, and if they really want to end up by themselves, they are thousands of people who are unwilling.
So those who have ideas naturally want to hug the thickest thigh on the northern battlefield today - the former Grand Duke of Kawi of the Gwana Empire.
Inevitably, those who were about to return after fleeing, if there was an aristocratic class among them, in order to maintain their dominance, they also approached the old Kavi Gong for support.
There is even that kind of businessman who has a few dollars in his pocket. They are not necessarily residents of the original northern battlefield, they just plan to take advantage of this chaos to mix up the noble titles. Whether it is replaced, succeeded, or changed name, it is to implement his desire to enter the power class.
In the face of the farce of these little people, of course old Kavi Gong has no heart to deal with it, and he doesn't need it with his identity, let alone is not suitable for it. The Grand Duke of the Empire, where would he care about the affairs of the village chief and town mayor level, is this annoying that he is too idle in his usual times.
Therefore, those who have a heart have no choice but to retreat to the next best thing, find those who also hold real power, and seek their support.
For a while, this northern battlefield, which had no enemies, was not as swords and swords as before, but it also secretly set off a wave of complexity. Some people take advantage of the situation to rise, while others destroy sentient beings.
Don't think that those noble lords who have fled from generation to generation will definitely be supported by others who still hold power. Defending the land is also one of the responsibilities of the nobles, since they have all been driven out by the enemy, and the people are not left, then what face can claim their ownership.
Although there is a so-called tacit understanding between the nobles, they will join hands to prevent the people below from trying to cross or subvert the aristocracy. But this premise is that the price paid can be rewarded. If there is not enough reward, whether physical or humane, who would want to do day work?