In this way, while the empire was carrying out a large number of reforms that were beneficial to development, the empire was thriving and flourishing, and anyone who had some knowledge of the Russian-Gothic empire would feel that the empire had a bright future. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 It is very likely that INFO will become the newest power in the human world.

And just as this emerging power was thriving, the old empire ushered in his final end.

Eventually, along with Kalmann IV, the last emperor of the Swabian family, the number of soldiers besieged in a castle on the outskirts of Vienna was less than a thousand.

Their morale is low, and everyone has no medical treatment for their injuries. At the same time, these people are still in a state of hunger and cold.

Another autumn has arrived, and the remnants of the Imperial Army, who don't have any items to light a fire to keep warm, have no idea what to do to keep themselves warm. Especially when these guys are still hungry.

The last bit of food in the castle had been eaten up two days ago. A day earlier, the soldiers had begun to slaughter horses and even to catch rats and insects.

But even then, they couldn't hold on any longer.

More than food, more than the army, weapons, and things to protect against the cold, this army lacks another, more precious, and more rare thing.

That's hope.

Even with only one Austria and only 30,000 troops, the old emperor Kalman IV and his followers did not give up hope. Their expectations came from Wilhelm von Hereford and his invincible Goth army. The Emperor agreed that the young Gothic monarch would come to his senses at the last moment and understand who the true enemies of the Gothic community were, and then get back on the right path.

Even in the case of another unknown emperor, Wilhelm von Hereford, who gave up his support for Austria, these people had expectations. The Emperor wanted his enemies to notice one thing, and that was that the Swabian family had been greatly weakened. He was no longer the most threatening Gothic monarch today, but Wilhelm von Hereford, and the Russian Gothic Empire under his command.

He expected them to take notice of this and re-sign a contract with the Empire.

He can proclaim freedom of belief in the various sects within the empire, and can even abdicate and relinquish the throne of the emperor. He could even recommend Her Majesty the great Briton as a new generation of emperors, even though the Gothic succession laws of the empire clearly stated that the heir must be male, and that the female heir would be succeeded to the throne after all male heirs, and that a female member of the family could only inherit the title if all the male members of the family died.

However, it is very regrettable that his proposal was sternly rejected by the other party. They seem to have forgotten their policy of continental balance of power, and although Khalman IV repeatedly stated that the Swabian family, the severely weakened Kingdom of Austria, could become the new emperor of the empire, and at the same time a strong ally of Her Majesty the Queen, doing their part in their struggle against and suppression of the Russo-Gothic Empire, his idea was categorically rejected.

Those people took the emperor's words as a joke and the babbling of a madman.

Yes, yes, yes, the emerging Gothic Empire is currently very strong, but so what? at least, at least, they are still nominally part of the Protestant Union.

Of course, the emperor did not know one thing, and that was that his enemy, Victoria, or the mainland faction of the Britons, had already determined a series of policies and strategies, in which there was no part of the kingdom called "Austria".

They were completely dismissive of the Emperor's proposals.

Yes, you're right.

Yes, your analysis also makes sense.

The question is, why would we want to work with you for this reason?

We have enough troops, we have enough resources, we have enough allies. Why should we cooperate with you and then accept the surrender of such an unreliable and useless guy as you?

Wouldn't it be nice to annex all of your territory and divide it among your useful allies, or simply to annex it yourself?

More importantly, the Bretons have understood one thing. The damage caused by this war is simply too great, and the impact is too great. The war has reached such an extent that it can be brought to an end, and in this case, someone has to step up and take responsibility.

This responsibility includes years of victory, the death of millions and the displacement of millions, and if there really is a Radiant Lord in this world, then it is only natural that when this karma is judged, he will be sent to the deepest depths of hell.

But of course, these shrewd rulers are actually not very afraid of hell. They are afraid of the hearts of the living, the hearts of civilians who have had enough of the suffering of war, the cold and hostile eyes, and their spirit and will to resist.

Despite having occupied two-thirds of the Ostrogothic Empire, in reality, the Bretons had barely gained a share of the Empire's hearts. This is unforgivable for a continental faction that expects to treat the empire's and continental's territories as if they were their own territory.

In this case, they have to clean up people's hearts.

Under the premise of this kind of self-containment, they must find a qualified scapegoat.

And the Britons, who were the victors, and their allies, naturally could not be scapegoats. Therefore, this role had to be assumed by the vanquished and the ruler of the traditionalist faith, the great, ambitious, energetic and combative Emperor Kalman IV.

Now there is a public opinion in the empire that the pain and torture that is now being suffered in the empire, the evil of all people, and the root of all people's suffering all come from the incompetent, cruel and terrible emperor Kalman IV.

It is he who has caused everything that is now, and this evil must and must be borne by his death, to end. He had to die, he had to die, and everything would be over if he died, so he had to die.

The source of all this propaganda, the driving force behind it does not need to guess, it is naturally the Britons people.

Killing Kalman IV would have more to gain than letting him go, or even treating him as one's ally. So, why not kill him in this case?

There's absolutely no reason not to kill him, is there?

So, let's kill him, the ambitious Emperor. His death was used as a rebuke to this grand and brutal war.

That's it, under the influence of such thoughts, the coalition forces continued to make persistent efforts and launched a series of continuous attacks on the empire. Under such an offensive, the Imperial Army had to face three times as many enemies as many years as before.

Especially, and more importantly, the enemy is attacking in different directions. They have enough strength to open up and deal with several battlefields at the same time.

The Swabian family, on the other hand, could not. It's not just a matter of the number of troops and the technical weapons. The bigger problem is that they don't have generals who are good enough to be able to take charge on their own. One of the only two members of the Swabian family to have this ability was Emperor Kalman IV, and the other was Franz, the most respected and trusted general of Kalman IV.

It's just that Franz is dead. After his death, the emperor could not stand alone.

It can only face one direction and deal with one battlefield. Kalman IV had more, either simple-minded and reckless men, or even worse wine bags and rice bags. These people, under the leadership of the emperor, may be able to make some achievements, but in the absence of the emperor, they can't even hand in an answer sheet worth sixty points.

And so the situation deteriorated, and kept getting worse. After a while, the coalition forces learned the trick and changed their military deployment under the command of General John Churchill. The army against Emperor Kalman IV was mainly pestering and harassing, and did not confront him head-on. The other, more elite main forces were fought against those areas that Kalman IV did not command. Annihilate all the even more pitiful soldiers under the command of those stupid commanders.

It's okay if something like this happens once or twice, but if it happens more often, then the Imperial Army won't be able to bear it. After successive defeats, many of the mercenaries under the emperor's command lost confidence.

It's one thing to fight for someone, it's another thing to survive to death in a war that is doomed to defeat.

Thus, a massive wave of deserters appeared.

The soldiers fled with wails. The mood of defeat and the intention to flee quickly infected other armies that were relatively stable. In this way, the army of the empire disappeared like an avalanche at a breakneck speed.

To this day, the Emperor did not even have a single mercenary by his side, only a group of the most determined Praetorian Guards. The vast majority of these Spencers are the most loyal and the most desperate. I never thought about betrayal, or running away.

But even such a soldier could not hold out for too long in the midst of hunger and cold.

Despair continues to wear away at the sanity of these people, and it also continues to torture the souls of these people. Under this torment, the ambitions, loyalty, and faith of the past seem to be less important.

Quite simply, if they were to die desperately for the sake of honor, for the sake of His Allegiance to His Majesty, the Emperor, when their morale was at their highest, they would probably listen to orders and then scream and tear their enemies apart along with themselves.

Now, however, it's different.

In the last two days, it was clear to Kalman IV that something had become different, that is, the fanatical and loyal fellows had begun to change their ways, and the eyes of these people who looked at him had become flickering and strange, and that was by no means the way they should look at their own emperor, ruler. Knowing this, Kalman IV understood that his time of death had come.

Outside the castle, the coalition forces besieging them, for unknown reasons, did not attack.

Maybe it's because I don't want to be charged with killing the king. After all, Kalman IV was also the emperor of the Gothic Empire. If he were to be killed, the sin would be great.

Or maybe these people are still waiting for something, waiting for something to change, or something to happen......

Regardless, the Emperor knew he couldn't wait any longer.

Death in disgrace, or death in honor. Although both were dead, for Kalman IV, the two ways of dying were of course different.