Chapter 116: The Imperial Capital (Part II)
All roads lead to dìdū!
This sentence is not blown out of the ground.
After spending a lot of financial resources on the territory of many dynasties, with dìdū as the center, it went east to several provinces near Haiti, south to the swamps of the south, north to the frozen forests, and west to the border fortress towns of the northwest...... These have been built over hundreds of years, making the dìdū land prosperous above the top of the entire continent!
Moreover, the convenient passage made it possible for those jīng sharp regiments guarding the east, west, south, and north of the empire to rush to dìdū to quell the rebellion in the fastest possible time!
As the first male city on the mainland, there are four acropolis around the land in the east, west, north and south, these four acropolis were originally used as military fortresses of Gongwei dìdū.
The Guards Corps, which is now responsible for guarding the Imperial Castle, is the smallest of the five major legions in the Empire's main battlefield, and the other landlord battle legions, such as the Northern Guardian Tempest Legion on the edge of the frozen forest, have an establishment of 200,000 people, while the Wangcheng Guards Legion has only 100,000 troops.
Its predecessor was once in the founding war of the Roland Empire, under the command of Aragon, galloping north and south of the continent, and setting up a great battle "Thorn Flower Legion".
And now, the military force of the dìdū land, the Wangcheng Guards, is stationed in each of the four acropolises on all sides, with 10,000 people stationed in each of the four acropolis, and 60,000 people in the dìdū.
In addition to the 100,000 troops of the Wangcheng Guards, there are 10,000 jǐng garrisons in the Dìdū Prefecture, and there is also a small naval fleet facing the Lancang Grand Canal in the north.
After hundreds of years of peace, even the four acropolises around Dìdū gradually developed into a large city, and in addition to the garrison of Pingrìli, it became an important trading city, and also had inhabitants, with a population of more than 100,000.
With the addition of the four acropolis, as well as the military strength of the district and the main city of the city, the total population of this large metropolis has exceeded two million.
Du Wei and his party had arrived at the southeast of the Acropolis the night before, and the garrison of the garrison could not continue to advance, and according to the imperial decree, the army was not allowed to enter the area around Dìdū without permission.
After resting in the acropolis for the night, early the next morning, Du Wei and the others, under the protection of a team of royal city guards, came to the southeast of the city wall.
Under the morning sun, the golden sunlight shines on the majestic city wall, each of which is made of almost one person more than one person of the high ground boulder, the green sè ground boulder city wall, after several generations of dynasties of continuous renovation, in terms of defensive strength has reached an almost terrifying level.
On the city wall, there is a high watchtower every two hundred meters, which is a lot higher than the city wall next to it, and in the war years, these watchtowers can be turned into long-range arrow towers with strong defense, which are equipped with military giant ballistas.
Although the drawings and craftsmanship of this terrible weapon construction have been lost, the peace rì has also been maintained by the military magician Jijīng, and once the war resumes, these historical relics can also burst out with terrifying power.
At the same time, dìdū is also a magical city on the mainland.
The tallest building in dìdūli is a tower up to 100 meters high erected in the center of the inner city in the center of dìdū, that is, in the imperial palace, according to the city defense site!
The body of the tower is all white, and it is built with the finest white jade, and it has been blessed by countless magicians in the mainland for hundreds of years.
At the top of the White Tower, there is the largest magic crystal in the whole continent, which is said to be nearly three meters in size and weighs up to one ton! And this crystal is inlaid on a horseshoe-shaped curved frame at the top of the high tower.
With this white tower as the center, the entire palace is underground, there is a huge magic array, the earliest time, when the empire was founded, His Majesty Aragorn, led a group of the most powerful magicians on the continent to set up, and later experienced the improvement and addition of countless powerful magicians in later generations, making this magic array more and more powerful.
Once the war years were encountered, it is said that there has always been a magic alliance in the palace that is not under the leadership of the magic union, and it has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, although the number is small, but it is only loyal to the royal court magician team. Back then, when Aragorn was alive, he once boasted that even the strongest earth race on the continent, the Dragon Clan, could not break through this powerful magic array!
And by relying on the activation of the magic position, the magic guide cannon on the main city tower on all sides can get enough magic power and become a powerful firepower point on the city tower!
The white pagoda in the palace is guarded by the most powerful force, and no one is allowed to approach it, let alone go up!
With the powerful magic array left behind by Aragorn, Dìdū has been known as a city on the mainland that will never fall.
Back then, Aragorn spent so much effort to set up that magic circle here - in fact, later generations felt that it was a bit of a waste to spend so much financial and material resources to do so.
Because at that time, the continent had been unified, the empire had been established, and there were no more threats and powerful opponents on the entire continent.
For thousands of years, many historians have not known why, and the history books have only touched on this matter.
Strangely, this seemingly useless magic array, after the death of Aragon, the successive emperors, although the bloodline of Aragonese was gradually cut off and the dynasty changed, but every generation of emperors, even if there were a few absurd faint kings in history...... But these emperors all have one thing in common, they all spend a lot of effort to repair and enhance this magic array during their own tenure!
......It was not because of the end of the Aragonese Dynasty that this magic array was wasted. So could it be that so many emperors in the back of the millennium have broken their brains?
There is also a legend here, it is said that the founding emperor Aragon left a secret suicide note in the palace, and future generations of emperors must spare no effort to preserve this magic array!
No matter how the dynasties changed later, this almost became a royal subway law! For thousands of years, the laws left over from the Aragon era do not know how many generations have changed.
Why, outsiders don't know, only the Aragonese land in the palace is kept in the edict of the Aragonese! And it is also a big royal secret in the place where the emperors have passed down from generation to generation!
In fact, there are very few anecdotes about these anecdotes that have been circulated outside, but Du Wei has read a lot of books since he was a child -- those rìzi in the Earl's Mansion in Dìdū back then, because of the cold reception, most of the time they hid in their rooms to read.
However, it is ironic that Aragorn does not really have a last resort, at least, this is a city that can be said to never fall to the ground, with a strong army and this terrifying great magic array defense.
Moreover, on those two occasions, before the magic array could even be opened, the enemy entered the city!
The first time was because of the unrest in the royal family.After the death of the last generation of blood in Aragon, many collateral royal families competed for the throne and caused land turmoil, and some of the nobles in the royal family led the army to fight back and forth around the dìdū, and the dìdū changed hands several times.
The second time is the continental turmoil in the place where the Augustinian Dynasty rose hundreds of years ago, the rebellion of the alien races in the northwest, and then triggered some big nobles in the northwest, and the rebels went south, and the troops were unstoppable (as mentioned above, that is, in that turmoil, the Rollin family rose. In the end, it was Archduke Augustine who came to power and became emperor.
At that time, before the magic array could be opened, the outer city of dìdū had already been breached, and the rebels entered the dìdū and directly attacked the imperial city.
Facing the rising sun, Du Wei stood outside the city of dìdū, looking at the dìdū from afar, the high white tower was towering in the dìdū land, and the magic crystal on the ground that was said to be the largest on the continent shone brightly in the sun, faintly revealing a divine and majestic momentum......
Du Wei sighed, thinking back to the allusions and historical secrets he knew about the dìdū land, looking at the majestic city wall, and the brightly armored and powerful soldiers on the city wall, and looking up at the thorn flower banner flying high above the city tower......
"What a hero." Du Wei smiled and said to himself: "But Aragorn never thought that such a city would still fall to the ground! No matter how powerful your magic array is, it is useless...... The strongest fortresses are usually breached from the inside....... Alas......"
Because of Gandorf's death, Du Wei really didn't have much affection for that Aragorn, so he was very polite in his words, but these words were just whispering to himself, not daring to be heard by others.
After saying that, Du Wei seemed to smile, glanced at the servant Made, who was riding on a horse next to the carriage, and said with a smile: "Okay, what time is it now? Is the city gate open? Can we enter the city?"
Before Ma De could answer, a leading military officer of the Wang Cheng Guards who was in charge of guarding Du Wei and the others next to him had already walked to the carriage on horseback, and replied immediately: "Your Excellency, the city gate has been opened, and I have sent someone to open the road in front.
Du Wei is the young master of the Rollin family, and the patriarch of the Rollin family, Count Raymond, is now the number two person in the military command, and this officer is of course extremely polite to Du Wei.
Du Wei smiled at him and nodded, then glanced at Made: "Our Earl's Palace, did you send someone out to pick him up?"
Just last night, when I spent the night at the Acropolis in the south of Dìdū, there were already cavalry from the Luo Lin family who went to the Dìdū Earl's Mansion to inform the young master of the news of his return to Dìdū.
Ma De's face changed slightly, and he whispered, "Young master...... Like, no."
Du Wei laughed and laughed at himself: "My father, so ruthless."
After speaking, he waved his hand: "Don't wait, let's go directly to the city." With that, he retreated into the carriage and closed the window.
dìdū, whether you are Longtan or Tiger**, in short, I am back!!
Whoever wants my life, I'll want his life first!
Du Wei sat in the carriage with a sneer on his face.