Chapter 319: The Returning King
The messenger in front of him was by no means the only one, nor was he the first to come to the king;
Before him, there had been a large number of high-ranking griffin knights, and even core griffon knights, who had personally led the team eastward, just to avoid all unknown accidents as much as possible.
But after that, not only did the country not receive the king's due reply, but even those messengers who came and went were gone.
Before meeting Kessel in person, the cronie had thought that the messengers had been left in the Far East to be used as a reinforcement for the front;
Although he was not angry with King Laiyin's neglect of domestic affairs, he never thought about it in a worse direction, because he did not think that a few teams would encounter a scene where 'none of them escaped'.
But now, in the name of the Father, the king has assuranced that he has never received any bad news from behind;
He said that although messengers had indeed arrived, they had delivered innocuous news, and had departed for the country after they had arrived.
This is indeed the case, otherwise how could King Lai Yin have come so far and choose to continue to fight this loss-making war with no end in sight.
So, where exactly does the problem arise?
Who are the messengers who came and went, where did they come from, and where did they end up?
These questions made them feel a little creepy, and even the powerful and conceited King of Laiyin felt a deep panic in the information that did not correspond to each other at all.
Perhaps, somewhere in the south there was a prison full of prisoners, it could barely answer the doubts of the king of Laiyin;
Perhaps, dreams and some cunning 'transformation angels' can also give him follow-up answers.
But for now, he can only choose to suppress his anxiety first, and instead think about what to do next.....
Now that things had come to this point, it seemed that the war in front of him could no longer continue, and he decided to withdraw his troops and return home, turning his head to clean up the rebels first, so that these slaves could once again remember the bloody lessons of their ancestors.
But before that, there is one more thing that must be done......
The decision to 'continue fighting' was not only the king's own will, but the Father's promise was the most crucial factor, and the doubts that had arisen before were also urgently needed to ask the Father for help.
As a result, preparations began to be made for the brave warriors, attended not only by the gloomy Kessel himself, but also by the thirteen princesses and grandmothers, who were somewhat weak-hearted but had no real fear.
The latter was convinced of what the angels had said, believing that even if there was a response to the sacrifice, it would never come from the 'false gods' themselves.
But no matter what you think about it here, this sacrifice is still being carried out in the present, and there are many things in it that even the angels do not know how they are generated.
For example, at this moment, whether the prayer of the king of Laiyin directly turned into an invisible and insubstantial thought, or whether some formless and insubstantial medium carried his prayer is an ambiguous and unsolved mystery, but this does not prevent something from happening......
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A little farther behind the new royal capital of Laiyin, a lonely mountain more than two thousand meters long and more than a thousand meters high stood abruptly;
Only a few years ago, the mountain was a 'bald' with nothing but earth and rock, and the dull and unsightly yellow was its main hue at the time, and few plants could be seen.
But in recent years, some of the housewives of the royal capital seem to have discussed it, and everyone has fallen in love with the forest, and has begun to dislike the bare mountains for not being good-looking.
Not only did they talk about it, but they also sent their slaves up the mountains to work, and by constantly digging pits, planting trees, and using a lot of labor in a few years, they turned it into the bright green it is today;
The rest of the people didn't say anything because of this, because they also thought it would look better.....
At this moment, the thoughts born of prayer in the distance rose out of sight and extended westward at great speed, finally reaching and burrowing into this lonely mountain that had turned into a sea of green.
Then, under the influence of the layers of invisible networks that are also woven by thoughts, when they break through the invisible 'space' that has extended to the 9th floor, and pass through the transit of countless illusory kings, they come to the 'destination' they really point to;
The essence of the content expressed has been changed by some subtle but extremely critical factors in a series of complex processes such as deceleration, twisting, and steering......
'Come back, you're doing a great job. ’
In the far east, Kessel received a response from his father, but the meaning of it made him a little confused, and he had to make up for it himself.....
The loss of the war is attributed to the mercy and magnanimity of God the Father;
The failure to give instructions due to the rebellion in the rear is due to the Father's indifference to the clown;
By not answering his previous doubts, God wanted him to work to solve the problem on his own.
And out of some conviction and out of some imagination, Kessel was very confident in the results of his brain supplement, so he started the process of collecting troops and returning.
Therefore, under his orders, the main army began to gradually withdraw from the camp and slowly advance to the west, while the servant army had to be busy gathering the supplies to be taken away before following with large bags and small bags.
Moreover, Kessel, who is a disciplined 'person', did not say goodbye without saying goodbye like the fanged princess, and before evacuating, he also specially summoned the commander-in-chief of the Menglu Army on the front line, and personally informed him of the decision he had made......
In this summons, Kessel concealed all the events that had taken place in the country, and blamed the withdrawal of troops on the "lack of profit", "the long time it takes", and "the lack of food and grass", saying only that the kingdom was tired of the war;
After that, no matter how much the Mengqi Lord would keep and promise to further make profits and provide food, he firmly stated that 'this is the final decision and cannot be changed'.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Mengqiu general, who seemed to be very distressed, the army that had been packed up and set out on the way back to the west.
However, not long after the withdrawal of the Laiyin army, the Menglu Legion also returned under the urgent order of the country, and then together with the rest of the army, carried out the strictest liquidation and martial law in the country.
As a result, the Far Eastern War, which had lasted for many years, ended silently without a head or mind, leaving behind only a piece of ruin, a land soaked in blood and flames, a quietly changing political pattern in the Far East, and an underground root system that had spread throughout the region.
Let's not mention the various ups and downs that have occurred in the Far Eastern Federation and the Twin Kingdoms, for the Laiyin who have already left early, the unsmooth return road ahead and the place at the end of the country are far beyond the imagination at this moment.
Before going out of the Far East, in fact, everything is fine.....
In the past, the fortified wall cleared the field effectively delayed the advance of the invading army, and to a certain extent, also brought the war to the present tragic end;
But at this time, it also made it impossible for the Federation itself to make any big waves here, in this land that had been burned to the ground.
Therefore, after encountering and defeating a few unlucky 'blind' guerrillas, the Lai Yin army left the extreme east and entered the buffer zone smoothly, and then tasted the resistance from nature.
Floods, swamps, mudslides, this place has become a veritable Ze country;
The military routes that cost millions of slaves and accumulated bones have long since disappeared at this time, and the huge army that already needs to divide its troops to move forward must be more scattered to barely make it.
Kessel looked at the rest of the food in his hand, and then at the terrible environment in front of him, and felt a great headache at this moment, he did not think that his army could really get out of this land before starving to death.....
In short, while collecting the food of the servant army and the slave army, in order to prioritize the use of the main force of his tribe on the way, he sent a large number of griffon squads to carry out reconnaissance missions in all directions.
Some of them set out for the west, and they were not only responsible for finding the roads that could be passed, but also for ascertaining the living conditions of the deserter camps along the way, and not to say that some of the food would fall on the slaughter and looting of the deserter camps.
The other part was sent to the north and south, and the sudden withdrawal of the seventeenth princess made the king of Laiyin have some associations, so he wanted to learn about the situation in Fang's country by the way, and the reason why both the north and the south sent troops to reconnoitre....... I want to see if my allies can 'borrow' some food to deal with emergencies.
The flock of griffons did not fly slowly, and there were replies in three directions according to the depth of depth.....
First of all, the westbound reconnaissance group found a feasible path, although their carrying capacity is not very good, but they can still walk if they divide their troops for dozens of roads.
Secondly, the deserter camp did have food, but it was also heavily guarded, and the scouting team led by the core citizens breached the camp, but a large part of the team, which consisted only of the high griffin cavalry, returned with a large number of feathers.
Again, the Menglu country is also suffering from a great drought;
In its territory, there does not seem to be a climate of rebels in the deeper south, but it is already a scene of displaced people and starvation, and although the area bordering the buffer zone is still wet, the deserter battalion here has been partially transferred there, so it is also not the same at this time;
In the end, when the news detected from Fangfang's country also arrived one after another, the high-level leaders of Laiyin fell into deep thought in a plausible sense of déjà vu.....
First, the extreme cold invaded its northern border, and then swept the entire land all the way south, not only killing a large number of animals and freezing large areas of land, but also causing the dependent tribes in the north to migrate southward on a large scale;
But the situation in the south is not very good, if not worse, although by the time the cold wave passes through the central part and finally reaches the south, its power has been greatly weakened, allowing the southern border to retain some of its productive capacity;
But this half-hearted, 'barely producing grain' situation led to an even worse 'man-made disaster' that followed, and the forced conquest carried out by the main clan and the plundering from the northern people were staged one after another, causing the people in the south to suffer from turmoil;
The raiding of the northern people was naturally a last resort after the evil red eyes, but the former came a little strange..... It seems that because of the stabbing death of the Fanged Queen, the princesses of all generations in the country have set up their own thrones, and finally prompted them to carry out continuous forced conquest and looting in various places;
Among them, there is the 17th princess, the former commander-in-chief of the front, who occupies a large area of land and subjects in the east, and is busy fighting a civil war with the rest of her sisters and aunts.
All in all, although the reasons for this and even the subsequent way of unfolding are different from the situation of the Laiyin Kingdom, the various forces in the country have indeed played out their brains.
And everything came too suddenly, although there was no such thing as the domestic one, one by one did not know the so-called 'true god faith', but King Lai Yin instinctively smelled the smell of conspiracy.
This makes Kessel even more eager to return to the country, and he plans to use the most elite forces to break through all obstacles along the line, and use the fastest speed to clean up the chaos in the country.
Therefore, after collecting almost all the remaining grain in the army, the king of Laiyin set off with the main army of nearly 450,000 of his own clan, and the rest of the slave and servant army were led by a small number of main forces and princesses to plunder and slow down from behind.
Then, his plan did succeed, and after removing the drag of the slave soldiers and servants, the main army, which was already extremely capable, was able to move forward at a faster pace;
Along the way, he sent out legions of griffons to kill and plunder, breaking through the strange camps that blocked the way, seizing their food, and then using this means of replenishment, he finally reached the edge of the border to the east.
At this time, it was clear that the land was close at hand, but Caesar had endured the anxiety in his heart......
Instead of diving headlong into the border, he stopped for the time being, set up a royal tent and military camp at the border, and once again sent a massive air force to cross the border to carry out more in-depth reconnaissance missions.
As a result, a succession of information came to his ears......
The successive defeats in the domestic war allowed the so-called 'True God Sect' to truly gain a firm foothold in the areas outside the royal capital;
If it weren't for the fact that the left-behind lords were keenly aware of the abnormality, and ordered the outer clans to retreat to the capital area as soon as possible, and the people who were ordered to unexpectedly cooperate and choose to obey the order, otherwise these clans would be surrounded by enemy forces at this time and fall into a state of isolation.
This was a great loss that had not been suffered in the previous era of the clan alliance, and nearly 70% of the territory of the entire country had fallen into the hands of inferior species, which made Kessel feel deeply humiliated;
But at the same time, such an incredible situation really prompted him to face up to the enemy, and in the follow-up reconnaissance and the air cavalry reports from the direction of the royal capital, he learned about the elite level of the opponent, and the appearance of the already strange transportation network that had a deep impact on the development of the war also made him pay special attention.
After all this information had been compiled, King Laiyin felt extremely glad that he had been cautious before, and if he was to be rash because of his preconceived impressions, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Of course, the current situation alone is already extremely troublesome......
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The aerial reconnaissance force can clearly see that the enemy has gathered more than 7 million allied troops in the fortress group, and it seems that they want to rely on the fortress to fight a decisive battle;
However, the king of Laiyin was not prepared to obediently follow the path preset by the other party, and due to special reasons such as 'return trip' and 'no supply line', he could completely bypass most of the fortresses, and only need to eat a few scattered to open the road to the royal capital;
But what is even more troublesome is the situation that needs to be faced afterwards, whether it is the pursuit of the fortress army after the reaction, or the encirclement of the enemy army in front of the rest of the direction, it can be quickly formed under that strange road, and it will continue to take shape........
If in the past, Kessel, who was sitting on hundreds of thousands of pure Lai Yin legions, would never have had even the slightest worry because of this, and would only regard the other party as a chicken and a dog that rushed away;
But now something is different, these inferior species have undergone radical changes, both mentally and physically, they are very different from the past.......
Therefore, the king of Laiyin decided to be more cautious and concentrate his forces more, so he summoned the royal capital and ordered the defenders to send enough legions of the main clan, and also to attach enough subordinate legions, as well as slave legions, and he wanted to win the battle with all means.....
When the order was sent to the royal capital, the remaining rulers naturally did not dare to do it alone, and they reported the situation to the farther east and to the princesses through the channel of divine grace;
Then the princesses sent out an enquiry to the angels......
They believe that the gods, and the churches of the gods, will not maintain the alliance they have today, but will inevitably turn against them in the future because of resources such as faith.
At that time, the now overpowered, potentially powerful Church of Mother Earth will surely face the common hostility of the rest of the sects, and the way to arouse the anger of ordinary believers will be simple, as long as it emphasizes the identity of the 'Laiyin' as the backbone of the church.
Therefore, they suggested that they could take advantage of the stumbling block now and let this war drain more of the power of the remaining gods on earth, so as to reduce the pressure they would face in the future.
The 'angels' looked at each other at this proposal in an unknown place, they secretly looked at the signs hanging next door, and buckled their heads a little confused, but finally reported the plan....
Perhaps it was due to the number of believers, perhaps it was due to the problem of the rate of thought transformation, or perhaps it was to set the tone for future 'sectarian relations', but no matter which of these considerations, the leaders of the 'angels' finally agreed to this proposal and announced it so that the rest of the 'angels of God' could also prepare.
And the princesses, naturally, have also been rewarded and favored by angels, and because of this, they have started their follow-up operations......
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An order was sent to the royal capital from the Far East, and the remaining masters began to carry it out after receiving it.....
Subsequently, 300,000 diehards, 3 million servants of the Inherent Faith, and one million low-value slaves were recruited one after another, and the galloping army formed by them together set out from the capital area and detoured to the Eastern Regions.
This time, however, the Earth Mother God Cult did not provide accurate intelligence support to its allies as before, but only delayed the news of the 'diehards going on their own expedition', anyway, after this battle, the alliance is estimated to be dissolved, so it doesn't matter whether they believe it or not.....
In this situation, the new reinforcements swept all obstacles along the way, reached the eastern part of the kingdom in the shortest possible time, and then went north to bypass the fortress group and came to the king's tent.
As a result, there are 800,000 master legions and four million slave legions at the disposal of King Laiyin, which is definitely a force to be reckoned with.....