Chapter 107: The End of Great Men
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Although if she still wanted to do something now, no one could stop her, and it didn't even matter if she killed all the upper nobles of the country on a whim. She has such great power.
However, it doesn't matter anymore.
This country, at least part of the people of this country, and a large part of the people, see her as a burden, or an insignificant object that needs to be cleaned up......
Of course, this is also what they don't know about Madame Mary's own strength. Otherwise, they wouldn't have put her under house arrest so reassuringly.
"So, what would they do if they knew that I wasn't worse than that guy?"
In her idle and boring moments, she also thought about such questions. And the conclusions drawn are very ...... Bad.
"Probably, they are either more wary and afraid of me, and even want to get rid of me at all costs, or they want to use me and use my strength as part of the trade...... Well, maybe they'll let me assassinate William? Hum-ha-hahahaha......"
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but laugh.
Are you kidding.
Toys that you throw away.
She was arrogant and thought it was just a prop. The fertility tool used by her family for inheritance actually has such strength?!
He actually created a country with his own ability.
It has developed and strengthened the country into a world-class power.
Even began to rely on this country to prepare to unify the whole world?!
The son she abandoned was about to become the ruler of this world soon?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but laugh again.
"What are you kidding?!
Are you kidding?!
I've been working hard for so long.
My carefully cultivated heir.
My army, my power, my kingdom...... All of them are not that person's opponents?
I was defeated by my son?
Hahahahaha......ha
She was almost mad with rage.
Really, literally. There is nothing more absurd in this world.
Just thinking about this kind of thing makes her want to laugh.
Of course, in addition to wanting to laugh, I want to kill people even more.
Of course, of course, she didn't know who she was killing.
Or become an anti-social murderer, carry a kitchen knife and rush out into the street to see who pleases him and slash anyone twice......
If it weren't for her own identity, Lady Mary might have been able to do such a thing.
Of course, it's just talking.
In addition to resentment, she was more frustrated.
I looked away. And, he thinks very highly of himself, in terms of talent, not as good as William, in war, in politics, in economics, in civil affairs, and even in conspiracy.
If there is really anything that can beat William, then I am afraid that only his own strength is his own.
Think about it, I used to suppress him easily. But for now......
"Now, I'm afraid not. ”
After all, William was in his thirties. Now is the time when William is in the prime of life, and his strength, experience and combat effectiveness are at his strongest.
Of course, even more important was the state of the Russian Gothic Empire.
- When William found that his empire was getting stronger and stronger, his own strength was also getting stronger and stronger.
In other words, the country's strength is combined with his fortune and strength.
He was the Emperor of the Empire.
He was also the Gothic Emperor of the new era, who was about to unify the entire Gothic nation.
In this case, even an old and spicy, powerful existence like Lady Mary, would not dare to say that he could defeat William.
Of course, it was that incident that really made Lady Mary despair.
That is, her secret weapon.
The steam tank, which had been pinned on high hopes, proved to be not as good as she had imagined. Although it caused some trouble for the Imperial army, it was completely impossible to say that a war could be won with this new weapon......
In fact, Lady Mary had thought so before this.
How can a war be decided by the merits of a new weapon? This is really child's play......
However, Wilhelm von Hereford proved to her that there was. Yes, there is.
Of course, William did not come up with a new weapon, but several ......
Whether it is a new type of artillery, machine guns, rapid-fire rifles loaded with new explosives, they are all weapons that can completely change the mode of warfare. Of course......
Compared to ironclads, all this can only be regarded as a small trick.
For Briton, which can only become a sea power country at present, the blow of the appearance of ironclad ships is completely devastating.
"Ah, are you better than me at this?"
Knowing this, Lady Maria no longer wanted to compare herself with William.
She developed a feeling intense, unbelievably intense. Frustration. It's like the feeling her daughter Victoria had when she faced William.
Now it's her turn again.
She is different from her daughter.
Although her appearance is still young, she is no different from when she was in her twenties. But in the end, her heart is no longer young.
After marrying William, even Victoria's ambitions have been curtailed by I don't know how much, let alone her.
“...... Never mind. ”
She didn't want to care about anything anymore.
Even if she heard that the Visigothic Republic was about to collapse and guessed what William wanted to do, she didn't want to care. Let him be. Her family was already connected to William's family anyway. No matter how angry William is, he won't do anything to her.
"Speaking of which, I'm also his mother, huh, hehe......"
She muttered to herself, and then couldn't help but let out a self-deprecating laugh.
......
Meanwhile.
At the same time that Lady Maria was feeling discouraged, that is, at the same time that the Imperial naval fleet began to blockade the waters of Briton, another of William's opponents was on the eve of collapse.
That is, the Visigoths. That is, the Visigoths, who were once on the verge of world domination - at least that's what they themselves thought.
That is, the consul of Leopold.
"How is that possible, why. I obviously ......"
After taking control of the Briton Strait, the Imperial Army did not hesitate to carry out a landing operation. The Normandy region, and indeed the entire northern Visigothic state, was occupied at breakneck speed.
At the same time, in Marseille, south of Visigothic, the Imperial troops, transported through Lombardy, also carried out landing operations.
In this way, the southern Visigothic region will also be unsafe.
-- The Visigothic navy also tried to fight against the imperial navy of the blue sea, but even the previous world's largest Briton navy could not do anything against the Russian Gothic ironclads, let alone these Visigoths.
It's a breeze. Well, it actually took some effort, and the Russian Gothic Imperial Navy was again victorious.
South, North. Imperial troops landed in two places.
In this case, it no longer makes any strategic sense to hold on to Strasbourg, to the Rhine.
In fact, after hearing that their homeland had been invaded, the Visigothic army, which had long since lost its desire to fight, fled even more.
The consul Leopold, who once had an army of 500,000, may not have more than 200,000 troops under his command at present, and this number is still decreasing, decreasing......
Two months -
In order to starve more Visigoths to death-
Of course, this is not the case on the surface. The ostensible reason should be to prepare the army for a landing operation.
The landing battle between the north and the south began only two months after the Battle of Briton.
During these two months, near Strasbourg, the armies of the two sides on the Rhine fought each other, and although the Visigothic army was defeated and won less, it could not be said that it was powerless.
In this case, the consul Leopold had a little illusion.
It seems that he can still hold on. Maybe it's not that bad.
Yes, at the moment it looks like it has been defeated. But even if the war is defeated, the country is killed or something, maybe such a terrible thing will not happen, right?
In other words, as long as he gave in to William, he would most likely forgive himself?
I don't need much, as long as I continue to master Visigoth.
Even, it can be admitted that William was the Gothic emperor. Just like the Ostrogothic Empire back then, he was the king of the kingdom under the empire...... No, even if it's a grand duke.
In this way, even better, so that he can become a hereditary nobleman, hehehe, hahahahaha......
That's pretty much it. Joy in suffering, self-hypnosis or something. With almost everyone in the world feeling that Visigoths were finished, Leopold even began to prepare for the aftermath of the war.
The first thing to do is to kill all those republicans. With his guards......
Perhaps after this defeat, the Visigoths will understand. A republic or something, a revolution or something, there is no benefit at all. It is better to have a hereditary monarchy. In this way, you will have a chance......
However.
Right now.
It turns out that all this is a fantasy.
He simply didn't have a chance. It is simply impossible to get all this.
He felt that there was no more evil person in this world than William.
gave people a little expectation, and then crushed this expectation mercilessly.
Now Leopold has nothing to say but say something "impossible", "how can such a ridiculous thing happen?!", and "I am the Visigothic Emperor!".
You can't specify tactics, you can't specify strategies, and you can't send emissaries to negotiate with the Empire. It's like sleepwalking every day.
In this case, even the most loyal subordinates will be disappointed. It's time to think about your own future.
Leopold, the tide is over.