Although the news of the victory and Xia Yahai's wanton campaign made the morale of the army and the people lifted, and even set off a craze for signing up for the army again.

However, despite Green's warning, Char still ordered not to recruit new recruits for the time being.

The reason is simple: you can't afford to feed too many troops on your own turf. At present, for Char, who only owns half of the county, feeding two legions is already an extremely frightening ratio.

Unlike the jubilation among the people, the newly formed Northern Corps quietly implemented a set of strategies of loosening the outside and tightening the inside.

The newly formed First Corps had been secretly mobilized, and in the barracks outside Denzel there were envoys on fast horses almost every day. On the road to the city of Mesta, there were also a large number of messengers galloping.

Although it gave Odin a small blow, whether it was Char or Green, it was clear that this loss was far from hurting Manninger and the Red Snow Army. And Manninger, who suffered this small loss. It's hard to say what will happen next.

But it doesn't matter. This small nascent group of the entire Char has already nervously prepared for war.

The 1st Corps of the Northern Military District transferred three banner regiments and was ordered to go south, and at the same time the independent cavalry regiment also began to move. More than 10,000 troops marched to the south one after another, stationed in the southern part of Mor County, and deployed along the central road of the two rivers, ready to deal with the large northward march of the Red Snow Army.

Char's family background is not thick, and in order to cope with such a situation, the logistics chief Cato almost fought his life for two months of respite. Almost all of the arrows and armor that were produced with great difficulty were distributed to the front-line troops.

In the areas controlled by Char, it was necessary to announce the continuation of food rationing, the prohibition of alcohol was extended indefinitely, and almost all the small food that could be mobilized was given priority to the army.

At this critical time. The people of Moore County did not complain in the slightest, and even more encouraged by the previous small victory, people were still willing to grit their teeth and get through this difficult situation.

After about fifteen days, the south was surprisingly quiet. The results of a large number of scout reports were spilled, but there was no news of the Red Snow Army going north.

It seems that after Manninger suffered this small loss, he really swallowed his anger.

Such a situation made Char and Green mixed feelings.

The good thing is that as long as the Odin people don't go north, they can fight for more respite, and now their own foundation is too weak, "We must strive for enough time to recuperate, and continue to expand and grow our strength, so that we can have the capital to fight with the Odin people in the future."

The worry is that such an unusual situation is not necessarily a good thing, Manninger is a rare heroic figure among the Odin, and he is also resolute and resolute, and there is no lack of strategy, such a loss. He can actually endure it, but I'm afraid he has other ideas!

Sure enough, after Char had been waiting for many days, the spy who had returned from the south finally brought back a shocking piece of news!

About eight days before the news was delivered to Char, Manninger personally led about 30,000 elites of the Red Snow Army to finally conquer the capital city of the Corsica Military Region!

The course of the battle was full of drama: Manninger first made a gesture of retreat, deliberately withdrawing his troops from the battlefield in a hurry, and made the appearance of hastily withdrawing his troops. And the defenders of the city. Led by the second son of the governor of Corsica, he rashly went out of the city in pursuit, only to be ambushed by Manninger. The 20,000 Corsican troops were ambushed, most of them killed and wounded, and the rest surrendered.

Only the second son of the governor of Corsica fled desperately with a dozen horsemen, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Manninger then returned to the army and struck a blow, this time, in the face of the empty city, the Odin did not spend much effort, and the capital city of the Corsican Military Region was drummed down! The governor of the Corsican Military Region failed to break through, and was finally captured by Odin in the breakthrough. Most of the officials in the Governor's Palace surrendered.

Manninger ordered the governor of the Corsican military district to be imprisoned, and then officially took over the Corsican military district. After the documents of the surrender of the governor of Corsica were sent to the respective regions, most of the small local armies of the remaining Corsican military districts announced their surrender, and in almost two or three days, most of the territory of the Corsican military district was surrendered!

The Corsican Military Region is one of the traditional forces among the 54 Tema Military Regions of the Empire, and the family has a rich family, and the materials and wealth accumulated over the years have all fallen into Manninger's pocket at once! The Odin Chixue Army has been greatly replenished at once! It is said that when the city of Corsica was attacked, the ordnance, grain, grass, armor, weapons, and other things captured by the Odin people were piled up! These are the belongings accumulated by several generations of Corsican governors!

The Corsican army that surrendered was no less than 20,000 men. URL

This time, Manninger did not exercise bloody and cruel tactics again, and did not massacre prisoners of war as he had done with the Seventh Corps of the Byzantine Empire before, but absorbed all the 20,000 surrendered troops, appointed a small number of Odin tribal leaders and a small number of Odin troops to supervise and control, and then collected the 20,000 surrendered troops for his own use.

In the end, Manninger made a surprising move! he actually moved his command post to the governor's palace of the Corsican military district!

This move is tantamount to the official and complete annexation of the Corsican Military District!

With this victory, Manninger and the Red Snow Army suddenly became famous on the mainland! Manninger doubled the area of land and population he occupied and controlled! He also seized a large amount of materials, grain, and grass!

He directly controlled the land and population equivalent to two counties, and recruited 20,000 Corsican troops, which was very strong, and he was in the north of the Byzantine Empire, looking down on many military regions in the south!

For a while, after the news spread, it was not only Char who was shaken by the "Red Round Table of the Byzantine Warlord Party." Originally, it was an alliance-like group. In this civil war, almost all the warlord parties stood in one camp, and there is no doubt that the Corsican Military District was also a member of the rebel camp, although they did not directly besiege Osgilia, but as members of the Red Round Table, they still supported the rebel coalition on the front line with a large amount of supplies and military expenses, and also raised a rebel flag in response!

In the spirit of the covenant of common prosperity and common shame of the red round tablecloth, one of the allies was directly wiped out by an external force, and the entire family belongings were swallowed up, and this foreign force still welcomed the door by himself.

Such a fact gave the Red Round Table the rebels within the coalition

When the Odin people were brought south, the purpose of the rebel alliance was very simple, that is, to deal with the three central standing corps loyal to the royal family, the sixth and seventh corps, and the confidant Redria Corps stationed in the north of the Ping Kingdom!

It can be said that this strategic goal has basically been achieved: the Chixue Army annihilated the Seventh Corps. Hasting's Black Flag Army tackled the Sixth Corps. Only the Rhodria Corps abandoned its garrison and rushed thousands of miles to aid the imperial capital.

But at the very least, the rebels can safely continue to besiege Osgilia with additional forces without any worries.

An agreement was reached with the Odin, and according to the judgment of the Red Round Table, how could the land of three or four counties in the north satisfy the greedy Odin? Moreover, those Odin barbarians did not understand politics, so it would take them a lot of time to eat such a large piece of land. Even within the rebels, there is not no one who has the idea that the royal family will be overthrown first, and then there will be a chance. Just drive those stupid and savage Odinites back.

But the question is, "Now the situation in Jing has greatly exceeded the expectations of the Red Roundtable!"

Manninga. Guy, actually attacked his own allies?! Such an act is tantamount to openly tearing apart the secret covenant between the Odin and the Red Round Table! This is a kind of treachery!

What is even more worrying is that since Odin dares to annex the Corsican Military Region, then, since they have all turned their faces, what will this Manninger do? Will he get the Corsican Military Region? Greedy enough, continue to aim at the rear lair of other rebel military districts?!

Even if Manninger doesn't do this, "But there are three legions of Odin invaded south!Where is the Black Flag Army, Hasting, and the Odin Royal Legion on the Western Front will not be "enlightened" by Manninger's actions because of this, and also raise the butcher's knife,,

Many members of the rebel alliance have sent elite troops to Osgilia. Although the strength of the lair left behind cannot be said to be weak, "However, don't forget, the Corsicans have all their forces in the lair, and they have all been wiped out by Manninger in one fell swoop! The rebel alliance suddenly fell into a subtle silence for a while when they received this amazing news! They were not able to make any reaction!

Only people with a keen sense of smell understand that it is not that the rebels have not reacted, but that in the face of such a huge change, the internal quarrels have become a mess!

The Red Roundtable is divided into at least three different positions on how to deal with this matter.

Some military districts led by the Armenian governor Hughes, because their own territories and nests were not in the north and were not under the threat of the Odins, strongly advocated the continuation of the siege of Osgilia. It was even thought that a strategy of delay and tolerance could be adopted against the Odin for the time being.

And a group of members of the Red Round Table, El Salvador, because they want to maintain the dignity of the Red Round Table Alliance, strongly demand a tough and harsh response to this treacherous behavior of the Odin! If they are weak at this time, then they are afraid that the Odin people will gain an inch, and then in the future, these guys will only be even more greedy and stretch their claws to other places. More in the long run, once the Byzantine royal family was overthrown. The new forces will be established, then the various military districts will become a kingdom, and in the future, they will still have to collectively unite against the Odin, and they must not be too weak and deceitful at this time.

The third position is that some of the nests are not far to the north, directly threatened by the front of Odin's army. These rebel members have been shaken, and many even think that they should withdraw their troops and return to their nests in order to protect themselves. Their roots are in the old nest, if once the old nest is in danger. Then the front-line army officers, their families and property are in the territory of the military region, but I am afraid that the morale of the army will collapse immediately, in fact, there is no need to wait for that time, now after the Odin people captured the Corsican Military District, there are several rebel armies in the nearby small military districts. There have already been commotions of varying degrees.

The three parties quarreled endlessly, and they failed to reach a result for two days.

Finally, on the third day after getting the news. The Red Roundtable finally came up with a solution that was barely accepted by the majority of people, or rather, it was a solution that could not be considered a solution.

Protest!

Or to put it bluntly, it is to test the current reaction attitude of the Odin people and the plan for the next three steps.

Governor of Hughes, El Salvador. and the governors of the military regions jointly signed a Red Round Table protest against the Odin Empire, and then sent the protest to the Odin Empire through secret emergency channels, and through the emergency transmission of the magic teleportation array, this document equivalent to the level of the national letter was quickly sent to the Odin Empire.

In this protest letter, the members of the Red Roundtable jointly protested against such a perfidious and vicious act made by Manninger, the commander of the Red Snow Army of the Odin Empire, and claimed that such a move seriously damaged the friendly and cooperative relations between the Red Roundtable and the Odin Empire, seriously hurt the hard-won friendship established by everyone, and hurt the interests of the members of the Red Roundtable! In the long run, the Red Round Table demanded that the Odin Empire immediately order the Red Snow Army on the front line to stop this vicious act of aggression against the allies, return the occupied Corsican military lands, and release prisoners of war. And specifically demanded that the captured governor of Corsican must be released unconditionally.

After this document, which was equivalent to the state letter, was transmitted to the Odin Empire, it is said that it soon appeared in a cold and spacious stone hall in the Imperial City of Odin.

This is a stone hall with a width of 100 steps and a length of 100 steps, and the spacious hall can accommodate at least a thousand people.

The rough mining style of Odin's imperial architecture is evident here, and there is no gold wall decoration on the walls, but the true color of the huge rock that has been cut square! Heavy and hard!

And on the huge windows, on the large windows that are several meters high. Shrouded in a large red curtain, which was dyed red with some kind of animal skin texture.

Red curtains, black walls, such colors are mixed together, giving people an extremely iron-blooded taste!

On the walls hung all kinds of heavy weapons, giant hammers, prismatic hammers, chain hammers, giant swords, heavy remnants...

In the center of this great house, on an iron platform cast of pure iron, one, li. The "national letter" is lying there quietly, but it is not pleased, but it is sassy that the group is shaken!

In the center of the room, a tall and majestic figure stood there, his shoulders wide as if he could hold up a mountain, and his whole body looked from behind. Almost a stunning inverted triangle shape, the lines and proportions create a striking sense of symmetry and a perfect combination of strength!

With a strong palm, he slowly placed a broad-bladed sword on the platform, and then gently wiped the wet sweat from the hilt.

"Hmph" Manninger, that guy really didn't think he would dare to make such a decision, and tear his face to those Byzantine rebels without my consent. ”

A cold voice rang out in the hall. It's like talking to yourself.

The voice sounded a cold, metallic, thick, cold, hard! But when the sound came out, it seemed to fluctuate with some kind of power, and the weapons hanging on the walls were buzzing.

I was going to reprimand Manninger for his unauthorized actions, but the reaction of the Byzantines was this: "Then instead of punishing Manninger, I will reward him greatly." The uneasy Red Round Table finally waited for an answer from the Odin Empire.

Unexpectedly, this reply is the Supreme Majesty of the Odin Empire, who is recognized as the strongest human race today, and His Majesty the Odin God Emperor is a handwritten reply!

But when El Salvador, as well as Governor Hughes and other rebel alliance brains unfolded this handwritten reply to the Emperor Odin, everyone was stunned.

Because this reply letter is actually just a return of their previous letter of protest. It's just that at the end of the place, the legendary Odin Supreme wrote a sentence that could be regarded as a reply.

"So much nonsense! If you want land, lead the troops yourself to get it!"

A group of rebel brains:

"Manninger, I think we're all underestimating him. ”

In the council hall of the castle guard in Denzel City, most of the core figures under Char's command gathered, and the one standing in front of everyone was talking eloquently was a thin and delicate young man with a pale face

Reinhardt.

Reinhardt lowered his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "We all thought that he might not dare to really do such a desperate thing, after all, the Odin people invaded this time. We can all tell that they must be in collusion with the rebels. But Manninger only gained a firm foothold and dared to really swallow Corsica, "The rebels still have hundreds of thousands of troops in their hands." Originally, we all thought. The battle between the Red Snow Army and the Corsican Army. Maybe it will end under the mediation of the two sides, and at most the Corsicans will suffer some losses" But Manninger dared to do such a desperate thing, this knife is equivalent to stabbing directly in the waist of the rebel alliance!"

"What the hell" I think this Manninger may be too reckless. ”

It was Philip who expressed a different point of view.

Since being truly introduced by Char as a confidant, Philip's confidence has grown, and he has gradually dared to show himself more in this core group.

He looked at Reinhardt and frowned: "I think Manninger made a mistake, although he has the land and population of the Corsican Military Region and the army, but the rebels will not forget it." Even if it was to maintain the unity of their internal alliance, they had to intervene. Once the rebel alliance sends troops to deal with Manninger, then the Odin people are far away from their homeland after all, and they are only afraid"

Reinhardt glanced at Philip: "I admit that what you said makes sense, but" You think so, even the rebel alliance has always thought so, so because they have this reliance, they have never really worried that the Odin people dare to turn their faces! Because they couldn't imagine that Manninger would really dare to directly destroy a military region. That's why "I said Manninger, we underestimated him! everybody thought he wouldn't dare." But he just did it, and it was the perfect time before someone intervened to stop it. Swallowed up all of Corsica in one fell swoop!"

"But now if the rebel alliance sends troops,"

"The rebel alliance will never send troops!" Reinhardt interrupted Philip in a sonorous tone.

The young general's face was absolutely blank, and there was deep worry hidden in his eyebrows, and he turned his head. Staring at Char with blazing eyes: "My lord, I suddenly worried about something more important!"

Taking a deep breath, Reinhardt's tone was extremely serious and dignified.

"I'm afraid that Manninger's self-assertive actions will suddenly awaken the ambitions of the entire Odin Empire!" his eyes were full of uneasiness: "Before that, the rebel alliance is good. Whether it is the Odin Empire, even those of us have this idea in our hearts: The Odin people are going south this time, just to take advantage of our internal strife and take advantage of them, at most to occupy the ten lands and populations of several counties. I'm sure it's not just the rebels who think so, it's the Odin people themselves, and even everyone here thinks so all along!"

Speaking of this, Reinhardt suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Actually, we are all wrong! Manninger's action is a signal! It is even a powerful signal that has awakened the whole Odin Empire! Have you thought about the meaning behind this signal? In fact, "The Odin people are wrong with us! We have all underestimated this crisis! The Odin people are actually fully capable of getting more this time! In fact, the crisis that our empire has fallen into is far deeper and heavier than what our eyes see!" Odin, if they dare to take the plunge, then it is entirely possible that they will even take advantage of this opportunity to destroy our empire in one fell swoop! Yes, if they dare to gamble, to take risks, to invest, "think about it, we really have the possibility of the destruction of the country and even the nation!" And Manninger, I doubt this guy. Did he also see this, that's why he dared to make such a big move! This action of his is likely to awaken Odin's domestic ambitions! Especially, His Majesty, the God Emperor who is known as the number one in the mainland!"