Untying the knot, the road turned into a joyful journey again, and the army of Caiyun City did not come to intercept them, allowing the two airships to fly to the east. After passing outside the lake, the airship began to turn to the southeast, and the original camp of the Northern Coalition outside the city had been dismantled.

"Where are we going?" asked Linya.

"Go to Fort Breeze, the vanguard of the Southern Coalition is almost there. ”

Breeze Fort, located in the southeast of Hukou City more than 30 kilometers there is a Hengduan Mountains, the east-west extension of the mountain range is divided into two sections by the canyon, forming a natural barrier, this long canyon between the two mountains is the only north-south passage within hundreds of kilometers nearby, Breeze Fort is located in this canyon, guarding the highest point in the canyon.

After detecting that a Southern Coalition army of about 20,000 men in the vanguard had moved north, Alice decided to preemptively occupy this strategic point in order to prevent the Southern Coalition from joining up with Empress Rosie's garrison in Caiyun City.

When Alice and Linya returned to Breeze, the soldiers had settled in the castle. The castle is located on the high ground in the canyon, and the castle walls are not circular, but built in two long shapes along the canyon, and it is absolutely impossible to pass through the canyon without passing through the gate on the wall. However, because the castle is located in the heart of the empire, it has long been away from the war, and has not been maintained for a long time, and now it is dilapidated. Under the command of the officers, the soldiers were moving stones and wood to repair the southern wall.

"Cardinal Andrew of Sisgang made a public statement, condemning Princess Alice for leading the army out of the fiefdom without permission, for attempting to provoke a war and launch a coup d'état, and for interfering in the civil war of the Caiyun Empire by the Mirante Kingdom and the Red Leaf Empire. Andrei stressed that at the moment of jihad, the pagans of the East are the real enemies of all believers of light. This impending civil war is completely unacceptable. The side that provokes the war will be severely punished by the Holy See. ”

"The Bright Moon Empire has warned that a civil war may break out in the Caiyun Empire, and a large number of refugees will pour into the Bright Moon Empire. At the same time, the Bright Moon Empire expressed serious concern about the unfair treatment of the Fits in the south, and if the situation deteriorated, the Bright Moon Empire would not rule out sending troops to protect the legitimate interests of its fellow people. ”

The Southern Alliance has gathered more than 100,000 troops and is heading north, and the forward has increased to 30,000, and it is only two days away from Fort Breeze. The garrison of Caiyun City has transferred a large force of about 50,000 men and is preparing to advance eastward. Originally, the Templar Knights of Glesia were preparing to set off on the eastern expedition to Grecia in Sisgang, but they turned around and headed north in the direction of Caiyun City, and the Bright Moon Empire also gathered heavy troops in the border area between the two countries. The Holy See and the Bright Moon Empire openly jumped out to support Rosie, and it seems that the news received today is not very good.

"Did the black hands hiding behind finally have to show their heads in person? The game is getting bigger and bigger now, and everyone wants to jump in and gamble?" Alice sighed and threw the love newspaper on the table.

"The Holy See's persuasion is understandable. But why is it that Rosie is biased, and what is the benefit of the Bright Moon Empire being mixed in?" Hiryl was a little puzzled.

"Rosie probably promised the Holy See some benefits. As for the Bright Moon Empire, they have been coveting the Fit enclave in our southeast. The main ethnic group of the Bright Moon Empire is the Fite. ”

"Claire and Rofitte are really not good things!" Linya actually hated these two guys. Although he gave himself the bright star in order to curry favor, it felt very sinister and cunning no matter how you looked at it.

"Actually, you don't have to care about their threats at all. As long as we are fast enough to let Sister Alice enter Caiyun City as soon as possible, those guys won't dare to act rashly. Cyril cheered Alice on.

"Thank you. Don't think about that yet. Sister Cyryl, and Sister Linya, can you go out for a walk with me?"

Outside the northern end of Breeze Canyon. It is a vast field known as the Plains of Victory. Alice came here, got off the firebird, and climbed up a nearby hill step by step. Is this an outing, of course not. Alice doesn't do anything boring.

At the end, Linya and Cyril discover that this is a large cemetery, unimaginably large, and the entire mountaintop is there. Alice walked to the largest tombstone in the center, knelt down, and prayed reverently.

Barton Flanders Bouz. It turned out to be someone from the Flanders royal family like Alice, why is it buried here?

"Sister Alice, who is he?" asked Linya curiously after Alice got up after bowing.

"He was my great-great-grandfather, the creator of the Flemish Empire. ”

"Then why is he buried here?"

"That's because ......" Alice let out a long sigh and said with emotion, "Because, the Roenka incident that shocked the entire continent and the epic and legendary Battle of Fort Breeze liberated this continent." ”

"After the Atlantans came to this continent, both the Violet Empire and the Fia Empire only used this continent as a colony to plunder wealth, and the people here had to endure more brutal oppression and exploitation, and the decaying old empire continued to draw the blood of the new continent to survive. Under heavy oppression, the people here are increasingly hungry for freedom and independence. ”

"The war between the two empires of the Old World also caused great suffering in the New World, they increased their taxes, plundered goods, and oppressed the people, and many bitter lords were born at this time. Later, when the Violet Empire failed, their fleet fled to the New World with a prince, and then the Ronka Affair became known. ”

"This great-great-grandfather of mine was the leader of the Independence Army that led the uprising at that time, he was the Duke of Hukou Province at that time, and he rose from a down-and-out knight in the Old World to a duke lord in the New World by virtue of his exploits in the conquest of the Grecian people, and he was also the most powerful of the Independence Army. Considering that if he killed the prince, the old nobles would be left without a leader, so he planned this classic long-distance battle, conquering Ron Card in one night, killing the last prince of the Violet Empire, and thus causing the empire to finally collapse completely. ”

But the remnants of the old aristocracy banded together in an attempt to eliminate the rebels in order to protect their interests. The rebel army was weak and repeatedly defeated. But their actions were supported by a growing number of New World nobles. The Fia in the southeast also joined the rebel army for independence, which was the predecessor of that part of the territory in the southeast of the Caiyun Empire. ”

"The new aristocracy of the New World has banded together beyond the boundaries of racial states for independence and fought a bloody battle against the coalition forces of the old aristocracy in Breeze Canyon. In the end, the number of troops assembled by both sides exceeded 200,000, while the independent army had less than 80,000 troops, and the old aristocratic coalition army had more than half. The rebels could only rely on Fort Breeze's location to take a defensive position. ”

"But what the old aristocratic coalition army never expected was that my great-grandfather would lead 20,000 infantry to cross the mountains from the eastern trail and sneak to the north of the Breeze Canyon, cutting off their logistical food and grass supply, and blocking the retreat of the old aristocratic coalition army at the mouth of the canyon, and staying here, where we are now standing. ”

"This is the Battle of Breeze Canyon, known as the legend. Due to the inability to deploy the troops and never break through the blockade line in the rear, the old aristocratic coalition army was blocked in the canyon and almost completely annihilated, and almost all the 20,000 elite soldiers led by the great-grandfather were killed in this land. In the end, he and the remaining five knights of the guard also died on the hillside at our feet. ”

"The alliance of the old nobles was completely defeated, and the rebel army occupied an absolute advantage in the New World. The great-great-grandfather's successor led the rebel army like a whirlwind through the southwestern part of the continent and established the foundation of the Caiyun Empire. ”

"I heard that after the bloody battle, this breeze canyon was full of corpses, and the number of people who died on the battlefield exceeded 100,000. Since then, people have developed a fear of this place, and it is said that in the middle of the night, it is common to hear the whispering of the souls of the dead who cannot rest in peace from the canyon. ”

When Alice finished speaking, her expression became gloomy again. In the past, a bloody war made an empire, but today, is this empire about to perish in its own hands?

Linya stepped forward, took Alice's hand, and sighed, "Don't worry, Sister Alice. You will create miracles, and the glory of this empire will surely continue in your hands!"

Back at Breeze Castle, the Southern Sentinels reported that a group of about 2,000 Southern Coalition vanguard cavalry had reached the south of Breeze Canyon. At night, the cavalry came under the walls.

The first official meeting of the Northern Coalition with the Southern Coalition. However, there was no fighting, and after discovering that Fort Breeze had been captured by the Northern Coalition, the cavalry had no siege weapons and were few in number, so they slowly retreated to the exit on the south side of the canyon, where they set up camp.

But the next morning they came back again, shouting and shouting under the walls, forming themselves in stragglers and shooting at the walls with their bows and arrows. The city's soldiers also fought back with bows and arrows, but it was difficult to hit the fast-moving guys, and the progress of building the walls was severely delayed.

Alice had no choice but to send a team of knights to drive the harassing knights away, but after a long pursuit, she was wounded by the archers lying in ambush on both sides, and dozens of people were damaged. However, that night, Alice sent an empty knight with a magic bomb to attack the camp of the Southern Army, burned down several camps, and killed many soldiers in the chaos, which can be regarded as recovering the field.

This was the end of the first wave of tentative offensive and defensive rounds between the two sides. (To be continued......)