As an alliance of many warlords and henchmen in the empire, the Red Sè Round Table is naturally united in one spirit, and the posture of honor and disgrace is at least external.

In fact, the group has always been fairly united. After all, it is impossible for any individual Tema military region to compete with such an ancient empire as the Byzantine Empire, and it is impossible to compete with the royal family alone. And the royal family has been trying their best to abolish the Tema military district system for decades, trying to weaken the strength of the warlord party by all means, and the two sides are on the same page, in such a situation, with external oppression, then the Red Sè Round Table group has the possibility of survival, and once there is external oppression, internal cohesion will be generated.

Previously, this organization had always borne most of the pressure from the royal family, and most of the heads of various military regions were very clear about their situation. As a separatist warlord of the Tema Military Region, if he doesn't confront the royal family, then it will be a dead end.

There is an episode here, decades ago, the Empire had a miraculous opportunity, when the Empire had begun to realize that the Tema Military Region had become a parasitic tumor on the Empire's body, and the upper echelons had begun to realize the problem and began to try to weaken the warlords. At that time, he encountered a rare opportunity, among the many heads of the Tema Military Region, there was such a governor, I don't know if his brain was in water, or this person was really selfless, or he sincerely wanted to serve the country, and actually accepted the imperial central government's order to dismiss him.

The governor had a strong army, territory and supplies, but under a dismissal order from the central government of the empire, he really obediently gave up his land and army, resigned with his attaché, and ran to the imperial capital of Osgiria.

This kind of situation, whether at that time or in the eyes of later generations, was simply an opportunity given by God to the revival of the Byzantine Empire! Because at that time, the Tema Military Region had not yet really formed a climate, and most of the governors of the military region may not really have any objections, and even many people only had the idea of being able to keep their glory and wealth, or holding their existing status, and most people did not have the idea of subverting the empire in their hearts.

It can be said that if we were going to cut the feudal domain at that time, seizing this opportunity may not be impossible to make a major breakthrough!

As long as the Empire can adopt the right strategy after the defective governor obediently leaves office, then maybe things can be done......"

But as a result, the emperor of the empire at that time was a fool!

The emperor not only lacked wisdom, but also lacked the heart and courage that an emperor should have. After the governor surrendered his army and obediently came to the imperial capital with his entourage, the emperor did something that was criticized and ridiculed for a long time by later generations, and in order to show the majesty of his imperial power, he almost couldn't wait to order the governor to be arrested and imprisoned! Then, three days later, the unlucky governor was hanged at the execution ground, along with all the attachés who followed the governor into Beijing!

The Emperor seems to have wanted to use this childish means to show his majesty, thinking that it would intimidate the governors of the military districts with bad intentions.

As a result, such a stupid act naturally could not get the result that the emperor expected

The governors of military districts in various places, who were still wavering in their hearts and were still waiting, and many warlords who had not yet had any objections in their hearts, were stimulated by this matter!

If the empire had been able to treat the governor who had surrendered to him well, given high-ranking officials and lords, and given enough preferential treatment, even if it was just for show, and set up a signboard...... then maybe there were many military governors who did not have much ambition, and maybe they would follow suit. After all, not everyone has much ambition.

For most people, it is enough to have glory and wealth.

But as a result, after the news spread that the governor and all the attachés had been executed, the whole continent was shaken!

First of all, the governors of those other military districts, the guys who had already wavered and hesitated in their hearts, immediately made a decision to kill and not surrender!

The end is just around the corner! The guy who gave up the army and the territory was arrested and killed as soon as he arrived in the imperial capital! At such a time, whoever does such a thing again will not seek death by himself?

Although not everyone has great ambitions, many people just need to be rich.

But...... "Everyone doesn't want to die!"

The emperor's absurd actions cut off the last trace of illusion of the warlords, and even pushed most of the warlords to stand on the opposite side of the imperial family without hesitation! Those who didn't want to oppose it could only do it!

If you don't do it, you're dead!

It was at that time that the first military district suddenly stood up and publicly stated that in order to strengthen the armaments within the military district, the military district would no longer pay taxes to the Reich Central Committee...... ，

When the first and the first person to take the lead made such a move, other military districts followed suit, and some places even began to expel officials appointed by the Empire.

For a time, military districts in various regions withheld the financial taxes that should have been paid to the central government of the empire. Immediately, an even more serious situation occurred: many military regions began to unite for self-protection, and several military regions bordering each other often began to negotiate secretly with each other, and then agreed on a covenant to jointly advance and jointly protect themselves.

Soon, small alliances began to appear on the continent.

At this time, in the face of such a chaotic situation, the center of the empire, the mediocre emperor once again made a wrong decision!

If his previous execution of the governor of Toucheng was because he wanted to show the majesty of the imperial power, then at this time, things had developed to this point, and in the eyes of later scholars, the only correct way that the emperor could take was to make a mistake!

At that time, the national strength of the empire had not yet weakened to the point where it was now, and the royal family still held a considerable number of troops in its hands, and its financial reserves were far stronger than those of the current central Byzantine Empire!

Take advantage of that time, since you have made a tough start, it is better to fight hard and start a counterinsurgency war while there is still strength in the center of the empire!

Since it is tough, it is better to be tough to the end!

If that happens, even if the empire will be greatly damaged afterwards and suffer a huge war devastation, it will ...... , at least at that time, the power of the imperial family at that time could still suppress those military regions.

But the result ...... "No!"

That ridiculous emperor, after the toughness at the beginning, was actually frightened after facing the actions of the military regions below to resist one after another!

Obviously, he's just a soft egg with a slick inside. When he should be soft, he is not soft, but when it is time to be tough, he can't be tough.

In the face of the fierce persecution of the governors, the emperor immediately weakened, he had no courage to start a war, and even in the face of the practice of the governors of various places to withhold fiscal taxes, he only adopted a tacit attitude...... "Fear of war, fear of strong enemies!"

The attitude of the central government of the empire has increased the confidence of the warlords below.

Since that era, the center of the empire has been declining day by day. Originally, if the central government of the empire had made up its mind to quell the rebellion, at least there would have been capital to afford this war.

But after the compromise of the soft egg emperor, the local military districts withheld the financial revenue and openly recruited troops to expand the army, while the central government of the empire lost most of the financial revenue and gradually weakened, and gradually formed a situation of strong branches and weak cadres.

After that, when the successive emperors wanted to make a difference, a figure like Kantos the Great, even if he had the heart to wrestle with the local warlords, was powerless.

It was also after that opportunity that the central government of the empire did not seize that rare opportunity and buried the good situation in vain.

This was followed by the attitude of the local warlords becoming more and more arrogant, and in the end, the small alliances in various places gradually turned into big alliances. Soon after, the Red Sè Round Table was officially established, and the members of the first circle included almost half of the governors of the military districts at that time.

After the formation of the climate, this organization became the core group of confrontations with the royal family.

Over the past few decades, the Red Sè Roundtable has been united internally, at least on major issues, and has maintained a unanimous external posture. For example, the Armenian Military District's abundant high-quality iron ore and sophisticated armor weapons and equipment were only supplied to the member military districts of the Round Table when they were sold to the outside world, and they even refused to sell to the center of the empire!

It is precisely because of the solidarity of such a group that has been in place for decades that this time, when the Corsican military district was devastated by the catastrophe, Gaia, the son of the governor who had escaped, naturally placed his hope for help on his allies.

When the city was defeated, Gaia was ambushed by Manninger in the middle of the field battle, and escaped with a bloody way under the protection of a group of die-hard soldiers.

At that time, he did not return to the city to fight in the field, and most of the army was finished, and Gaia also understood that the city would definitely not be able to hold it, so he simply did not go back.

And he and his people originally wanted to flee to the east of the military region to reorganize the troops and horses and try to recover again, but in the end, Manninger's speed was faster than he expected!

Manninger took the Corsican capital in one fell swoop, and after capturing the governor Carros the Elder, he immediately ordered a surrender.

Gaia was originally the second son of the Governor! he served in the army and had some loyal troops, but he was only the second son!

The eldest son was in charge of the government and the second son was in charge of the army, which was a strange phenomenon in the Corsican military district.

Although Cardoso mysteriously died on the way to the peace talks (he was ambushed and killed by Char's men), Gaia was able to remove one of his biggest enemies over the inheritance.

But after all, during Cardoso's lifetime, as the eldest son of the governor, he still had the support of many people, although most of the supporters were local officials and a small number of local garrisons.

And Gaia's supporters are his descendants' army, which is also the core elite main force of the Corsican Military District.

But the problem is that in the battle with the Odinites, the main forces loyal to Gaia suffered the heaviest losses! Gaia was ambushed by Manninger and lost almost all his belongings! After the collapse of the troops loyal to him, he ran to the eastern part of the military district with a small number of men to try to rectify the local forces, but those local officials were not too interested in this second son! They were originally centered on the eldest son, Cardoso.

There are even secret rumors that Cardoso's death is inseparable from this young master of Gaia.

In such a situation, you can imagine how much appeal Gaia can have.

Manninger, on the other hand, was so quick that he immediately marched eastward, and soon conquered the towns of the Corsican Military Region.

Gaia and his subordinates saw that they could not do anything, so they could only embark on the road of escape again.

This time, they put their hopes for help on their allies.

The Besta Military District is located in the southern part of the Corsican Military District, and has a border with the Corsican Military District for about 300 miles.

Moreover, the Besta Military District surpassed the Corsican Military District in terms of land and population, and its strength was somewhat stronger than that of the Corsican Military District, and its status in the group of the Red Sè Round Table was also somewhat higher than that of the Corsican Military District.

What's more, the Besta Military Region is a staunch supporter of El Salvador, the speaker of the Red Sè Round Table, and as a staunch ally of the Speaker, it is natural that it will also receive great preferential treatment.

The Besta Military Region and the Corsican Military Region are located on the border, and the relationship has always been quite good, the Corsica Military Region is a grain-producing area, and every year the Besta Military Region will purchase a lot of grain from the Corsican side, so the two have always been close allies.

This time, the Corsicans suffered a catastrophe and were desperate, so Gaia naturally chose to flee to the Besta Military Region.

Moreover, the status of the Besta Military Region within the alliance is also quite high, and Gaia tried to hope that the Red Sè Round Table Alliance would come forward to seek justice for himself in this matter, so it was also the right thing to ask for help when he came to the Besta Military Region for help, and then got in touch with the alliance group to ask for help.

At first, it was quite smooth, at least after escaping all the way to the Besta Military District, Gaia and the others were treated very well.

Gaia was greeted not only by Yuri, the governor of the Besta Military Region, but also by the beautiful and touching Governor's wife.

On the night of arriving at the capital of the Besta Military Region, a small but non-low-standard banquet was held in the Governor's Palace to surprise Gaia. And all the specifications were carried out according to the etiquette of the Governor. In other words, even though the Corsican military district has effectively perished, and Gaia is only the second son of a governor, the etiquette displayed by the Besta seems to be a tacit acquiescence to Gaia's status as the new governor of Corsica.

This made Gaia's heart settle down a little.

In the ensuing negotiations, the Governor Yuri of the Besta Military Region did not participate in the whole process, but only sat for a while and then left under the pretext of having something to do, and the protagonist who mainly negotiated with Gaia and others became the beautiful and touching Governor's wife.

For this, Gaia and others took it for granted.

Because on the mainland, not only within the Red Sè Round Table, but even among the royal family, there is such a joke: there are two governors in the Besta Military Region, an outer governor and an inner governor, a male governor and a female governor, a real governor and a false governor. The former is talking about His Excellency Governor Yuri, while the latter is talking about the Governor's wife.

This Governor's wife is a heroine among women, extremely clever and wise, and I heard that Governor Yuri was fascinated by her death, and she obeyed her wife in everything, and was the most famous wife on the continent. Governor Yuri himself is mediocre in all aspects of his talents, and he doesn't have anything extraordinary, and he doesn't seem to have done anything in his life, but the only thing he is most proud of is to marry such a wife.

That Governor's wife is not only beautiful, but also has admirable wisdom and brains, and with her presence, almost all the political strategies and military strategies in the Besta Military Region have come out of the hands of this Governor's wife! If it were changed to another place, a woman was in power, how could the officials and generals below be convinced? But this Governor's wife was really talented and learned, and her means were amazing, and after she married Governor Yuri, in the past few years, the Besta Military Region has been governed by a strong army! There was hardly anyone up and down who was not convinced of her, not even the arrogant generals in the army, who were all subservient to the governor's wife.

Governor Yuri is rumored to be in poor health, he and the governor's wife are old husbands and young wives, in recent years the eyes have been spent, ears are said to be a little back, most of the government affairs and things are thrown to his wife, he himself is every day to raise flowers and birds, happy to be idle.

Another thing that makes this governor's wife admirable is that although she is trusted by her husband and holds the power of the military district, at least her relatives of the lady department have not appeared in the Besta Military Region! That is to say, this Governor's wife has never reused her own family, and one of her two brothers is still a small civil official in a small town in the military district, while the other brother is engaged in business and runs his own business and never interferes in the political and military affairs of the military region.

The failure to cultivate the power of foreign relatives greatly reassured the officials of the military region who were originally hostile to the governor's wife. Moreover, judging from the actions of the governor's wife, one by one, over the years, almost all of them have been measures that are greatly beneficial to the development of the military region, and there is no appearance of seeking benefits for herself or her family. Some people even believe that this "fake governor" is almost the most outstanding of all the governors of the Besta Military Region in the past!

It is also the talent of this governor's wife that makes the Besta Military Region more and more powerful, and it will have a pivotal position in the Red Sè Round Table Alliance, and become a staunch ally of Speaker Salvador, otherwise, if you are too weak and want to be an ally of others, others may not look up to you.

Of course, the Governor's wife is not without regrets.

Or rather, the entire Besta Military District is worried about one thing.

Governor Yuri is over fifty years old, but there is still no man and half woman, and there is no heir, and the problem of rì is serious.

This, of course, became a problem for the Doge's wife...... , but no one actually blames her.

Because Governor Yuri was extremely romantic when he was young, and he had countless lovers, but unfortunately, none of those lovers could give birth to a child for Governor Yuri.

It can be seen that the responsibility of not being able to raise offspring may come out of the Governor himself, and it has nothing to do with this beautiful lady.

In order to pray for the gods to bless her to produce an heir to the military district, the governor's wife once went to the church to pray for the blessings of the gods, and personally performed the heaviest prayer ceremony in the church, she locked herself in the prayer hall of the church and prayed at night, for seven days and seven nights, during which she fainted several times, and even the clergy of the church finally advised the lady to go down and rest, but the governor's wife insisted on completing all the prayer services。

Afterwards, she fell seriously ill, and the whole person lost weight several times.

Although she still failed to give birth to a child, no one up and down would blame this venerable woman.

Such a governor's wife, who held the actual power of the Besta Military Region, came forward to talk with Gaia and the others, but on the contrary, Gaia and the others believed in the sincerity of the Besta Military Region.

At that meeting, the beautiful Governor's wife first comforted the depressed Gaia with a grace like a spring breeze, and then rebuked the Odin's treachery with undisguised words, and at the same time swore that the Besta Military Region had never given up the tradition of allies, and in the face of the troubled allies, the Besta Military Region would do its best to lend a hand.

Regarding Gaia and others' request for the Besta Military Region to initiate support for the Corsican Military Region in the alliance, the Governor's wife also agreed without hesitation, and said that this was a matter of course.

Later, under the arrangement of the governor's wife, Gaia and the others lived in the capital of Besta, and the governor's wife gave them a comfortable and elegant enough house worthy of Gaia's status, and sent many servants to serve them, and at the same time went to visit Gaia in person almost every day, and there was no lack of relief and encouragement in her words.

She also said that she had asked Governor Yuri to personally handwrite a document and deliver it to the Coalition group outside Osgilia as soon as possible, and strongly advocated that the Coalition must stand up and support the Corsicans in restoring the military districts, and at the same time take tough measures against the Odin.

It seems that everything is going in the best direction envisioned by Gaia and others

But, overnight, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, these things fell out of place!