The dividing line between the north and south of the continent is a desolate strip that runs from east to west.

From the extreme east, the Dawn Mountains are majestic, with thousands of snowy peaks, looking at the world, and no one can surpass it.

At the western foot of the mountains, surrounded by a crescent-shaped whispering forest. This ancient mixed forest of coniferous and broad-leaved trees belongs to the silver-haired and gray-eyed highland elves, and even if hundreds of thousands of troops attack, they will return in front of the children of the forest who are skilled in arrows.

From here to the west, the Necromantic Wilderness is a place where the forces of evil are entrenched, with swamps and volcanoes. Unlike the misogynistic Highland Elves, the Necromancer welcomes a Qiē visitor and entertains you with sulphur clouds and poison smoke, as well as rotting corpse bugs.

Between the Necro Wilderness and the Cast Iron Mountains is the most important passage between the north and south, the Elendil Corridor. Today, of course, its status has long been replaced by the "Path of the Lightwalkers". For the existence of resentful spirits, whether it is the army or the merchants, they are afraid of it. This has led to the fact that for several years, no one knew the exact situation inside the fortress of grief.

Needless to say, the Cast Iron Mountains are the second largest group of mountains after the Dawn Mountains. From then on, the mountain goes west to the sea, and the north and south are divided into misty swamps and elven homelands, which are inaccessible and difficult to pass.

Due to the existence of this "chaotic zone", for a long time, the north and south of the mainland were in a state of relative isolation. Thousands of years ago, the vast northern land was only a nomadic land for barbarians, and at that time, as long as the Elendil corridor was held, the southern countries had a safe and worry-free barrier, and because of this, the economic and cultural development of the south was able to slowly recover, and gradually get rid of the "dark millennium" after the decline of the magic empire.

At the same time, a barbarian detachment, defeated in the war for the leadership of the tribe, the remnants of the exiles. Follow the Vimur River all the way south until the Holy Blood River takes root and settles. Due to its proximity to the withered elven homeland, the ignorant barbarians believed that an invisible curse shrouded it, and they never dared to touch this fertile plain. The exiled tribe with the heart of death survived unharmed and re-developed.

Young and strong population. Cattle, sheep, livestock, and brave warriors are gradually increasing, but the key to their resurgence is the trade agreements with the southern countries. At that time, the Holy See of Light was suppressing the remnants of the Magic Empire, and it needed a large number of war horses to equip its own knight troops. The exiled tribes in the north are extremely backward in iron-smelting technology. He is desperately thirsting for armor and weapons to take revenge on a powerful enemy.

The two sides hit it off, so the horses went south, and the soldiers went north. They set up Yi Shi at the foot of Tiebi Mountain, and from horses and equipment at the beginning, to porcelain and sea salt later, the scope of trade between the two sides became more and more extensive. Until the barbarian tribes discovered that they felt useless gold ore. The southerners were willing to pay a huge price, so they went on a mining spree. A steady stream of iron, silk, various techniques, and other qiē that could be obtained.

On the other hand, the barbarians began to learn the living habits of the southerners, the political system, and all the advanced things. They tirelessly absorb the fruits of civilization, while still maintaining their fierce and martial nature.

The countries of the South did not care. They thought that these stupid barbarians were just servants who herded horses and mined gold for themselves. The compassionate archbishop even sent missionaries, hoping that the barbarians would also accept the inspiration of the God of Light and become the people under the rule of the Holy See.

It's a pity. This ambitious goal has not yet been achieved.

In the decades that followed, the exiled tribe called "Snowton" swept the northern lands like a thunderbolt, and it was unstoppable. Those who go along prosper, those who go against them die, and wherever the iron hooves go, the barbarians look forward to the wind and descend. The feuding tribe was driven all the way to the barren plains in the northwest, while others who did not want to obey fled to Aalborg in the northeast.

The Lion Mountain Alliance, Vanuna established the capital, and a new empire was born. The leader of the tribe, who proclaimed himself the son of the god of war, ascended to the supreme throne.

He sat in a brand new palace, facing south, which was the direction in which the empire would go next.

At that time, the southern countries were busy because of the Violet War and the invasion of the Demon Legion. The Holy See of Light actually sent envoys to send blessings to close trading partners.

I wish them prosperity and invincibility.

The history of Snowton's development is a history of the Bright Church raising tigers.

When the moderate faction among the mages left the island of Thurland, and the "Holy Alliance" finally drove the demon army back to purgatory, they found that their northern neighbor was sharpening their knives, and their eyes were full of fierce light, and they didn't know what they were looking at.

After the Great War, there was an urgent need to recuperate, and after thinking about it, the Bright Church decided to send an envoy to negotiate peace. Negotiation of peace before war can be regarded as a precedent in the history of continental warfare.

Snowton agrees that they will need time to turn the results of their learning into tangible productivity. At the same time, the two major theaters in the south of the empire, the Holy Blood River and the Iron Wall Pass, were set up successively, and the army was constantly gathered, and its intentions were clearly revealed.

The north has increased its troops, and the south has also increased its troops, and the first line from the iron wall pass to the city of Elendil is like a cloud, and the city is about to be destroyed.

In this case, there is no longer any need to look for any excuse for going to war. Of course, in the history books of both the North and the South, it is clearly pointed out that it was the other side that deliberately provoked the war, and it had to rise up to resist and protect the country and the people.

The First Civil War broke out in this way. In the nearly 1,000 years that followed, the two sides fought and stopped, and the two sides stopped and stopped, highlighting that one has gone back and forth, and the front has advanced 10 miles forward today and shrunk 10 miles backward tomorrow.

It's a pity that there is no pennant hair, only blood flowing.

There are no exact official statistics on the number of war losses in this protracted war, but a rough estimate may have exceeded the order of magnitude of 10 million. One hundred years after the outbreak of the First Civil War, there was no spare land next to the Iron Wall Pass, and a monument was erected for the bones of the martyrs. This is the custom of burning bones and transporting them back to their hometowns.

The situation in the southern countries is not necessarily much better. After every major war, the "Holy Alliance" dominated by the three major powers began to recruit a large number of troops from those small countries and small territories. The Roman Dominions east of Anlan have even seen a tragic scene of ten rooms and nine emptiness.

And the Principality of Anlan has always had no dissent, and honestly lives in the mountains. The reason why it was not annexed by the Bright Sect, in addition to the lack of threat and the balance of neutral forces, the most important point is that from this idyllic and pastoral country, Anlan soldiers are notoriously soft eggs on the battlefield, often leading the rout, and recruiting troops here is more than worth the loss.

However, this does not mean that the huge gap between the north and the south can be easily bridged. (To be continued......)

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