Linanna stood in front of the window with a curious expression, her beautiful eyes looked out at the street beating in the raindrops, where a team of Falcon Imperial light cavalry wearing black cloaks passed by, led by a red-haired officer-like person attracted her attention, handsome, bright-eyed, the corners of her slightly upturned mouth still retained the vitality of a young man, the appearance of this officer was enough to make many aristocratic girls like Linanna who rarely went out all year round tempting, this red-haired officer escorted a black carriage, just crossed the opposite corner

In all fairness, these rumored very ferocious Falcon soldiers are all young people with spirit, and there is no rumored ferocity in their eyes, but in the past few days of observation, Linanna accidentally found that these Falcon soldiers also have their own joys, sorrows and sorrows like the Gauls, some soldiers will stand under the eaves of the street shops, watching the rain falling from the top of their heads in a daze, their eyes contain nostalgia, and some will use unfamiliar Gallic to bargain with the owner of the shop.

The comical appearance of the hands and feet, and the sometimes inexpressible angry language, often frightened the shopkeepers, but soon, these soldiers would take out golden coins to express their true meaning, according to the decree just issued by the occupied area, all shops in the city must be open within three days, otherwise the right to operate will be completely revoked, and the shops will also be owned by the occupying forces, so although the Gallic merchants in the city look frightened, they also have to open their doors hard

Some predicted that this was a predatory tactic of the brutal falconers, and that any shop that opened the door would be mercilessly looted

Linana's family is a prominent nobleman in the city, and they own a lot of commercial real estate in the city, and when they received such an order, their faces were like dead people, and in the end, between losing the shop or losing face, Linana's parents finally chose to "lose face"

"The army has run away, what are we still holding onto?"

Lynna will always remember the night her father got drunk. A roar like that of a wounded beast,

As for the war, Lin Anna, who was only sixteen years old, could only be regarded as an ignorant Cheng Dù, she remembered that just half a month ago, for several days, many remnants of the rout army passed through the city. It wasn't the brightly dressed Imperial soldiers I'd seen before, and even the rumored scattered northern nomads were better than these people.

With dirty and long beards on their faces, tattered uniforms, and no regimental flags or regimental numbers, they walked forward with a tired attitude. It was all like they were bruised. He who has broken his waist, whose mind is so dull that he cannot remember anything, cannot decide what to think, but moves forward because of habit, as if he had lost the shell of his soul, and if he stops, he will immediately sit down because he has no strength.

A number of dejected regular soldiers mingled with these different kinds of soldiers, and occasionally an Imperial officer wearing a shiny bronze helmet. Riding a war horse with an attendant, he passed by proudly, and he didn't see anything at all at the lonely scene of these soldiers on the side of the road.

According to my father, these are mainly some inferior people who have been drafted because of the Imperial Winter Mobilization Order, and most of these inferior people are from remote areas. There were also some national protection units recruited from within the city: the former were accustomed to being lazy, the latter were lazy people who wanted to live on the taxes of the nobility.

These people do not deserve sympathy. As soldiers, they should be active on the battlefield against the enemy, serving to protect the empire and protect the nobles who pay to feed them.

But these guys have no such consciousness at all, they stay in the city in a decadent way, consume the national food provided by the nobles' taxes every day, and make the whole city become a miasma, and often rob passers-by of the property, force them to buy and sell, they are even worse than those enemies, they are a group of national moths, I really hope that all of them are dead!

And according to my father, the officers of the garrisons in these places were also lowly woolen merchants or grain merchants, or bad behavers, and smelly cattle and sheep fat dealers or soap dealers, who were immediately transformed into soldiers who rose up in response to the times when the war broke out.

Because most of the nobles of the empire were not willing to actually go to war, they often handed over such obligations to their men, and their subordinates forcibly recruited some people, who were not regular officers, who were accustomed to wearing military uniforms with conspicuous red velvet tape and gold thread depicting cuffs, self-righteous, talking loudly, discussing battle plans loudly, and using exaggerated tones, claiming that the dying empire was supported by their shoulders.

Not long ago, there was a change, the Falcon Empire entered the middle tier of the city area in a big way, many cities were occupied, and the dead people were one by one, and it was impossible to count them at all, according to people,

Since such rumors came out, the garrisons of those lazy places immediately consciously hid in the city, occasionally accidentally injuring their own sentries by firing arrows in the middle of the night, and sometimes encountering a little rabbit moving in the thorn bushes outside the city, they shouted to prepare for battle,

This chaotic scene was maintained until a notice was posted on the square in the center of the city.

The empire demanded that all forces be withdrawn as on the Western Front,

In the name of the nobles, his father, who served as a staff officer of the imperial garrison, also withdrew from the front line at that time, but he did not go to the Western Front, but took a mess of reports, watching a famous warlike nation collapse because of a fiasco, and all thoughts were lost, only two servants accompanied him to walk back to his mansion on foot, "Danze has fallen!"

This was the news that my father had brought back, and then there was a deep atmosphere of tranquility and a frightening loneliness of waiting in the city, and everyone was abandoned by the Empire, and everyone was at a loss in their hearts.

Waiting gloriously for the people who took over the city

The thought of the barbecue fork and the meat chopping knife in his kitchen would probably be regarded as a hidden weapon by the Falcon Army who took over, and he couldn't help but shudder, and life seemed to come to a standstill, with all the shops closed, and the streets were silent, which made people expect the recipients to come quickly.

On the afternoon of the second day, after the garrison had plundered the largest shops in the city, and then retreated in a high-profile manner, three or five black cavalrymen from nowhere hurried through the city. Then, a little later, a whole group of black soldiers drove down the hillside on the outskirts of the city.

At the same time, two other armies also appeared on the main road of Nethal in the city and on the main road leading to the forest to the west

The sentinel cavalry of these three units happened to meet at the same time on the Civic Center Square. Soon, more soldiers in black armor came from the nearby streets, squadron after squadron, with strong and beaten footsteps, the stones on the street thumped "1st Squadron to the West Side of the City" and "2nd Squadron to the South Side...... and many passwords were shouted in an unfamiliar and hard-jawed voice.

Along the surrounding streets, empty houses rise to the sky as if they were dead,

Although the shutters of the house are closed, there are countless eyes inside that are peering at these so-called takeovers, who have great power and have taken over the whole city. and the people who are the masters of all life and property in the city, and the inhabitants are frightened and confused in their dark rooms,

Against the backdrop of the trees on both sides of the street, which had just shown their buds in the spring breeze, the army poured into the city like a black torrent, and the soldiers quickly took control of the various nodes, in an orderly and apparently well-trained manner, and patrolled the streets of the city, so that all those who had the idea of taking advantage of the fire to loot were silenced. Only the cold spears made the Gauls behind the windows feel uneasy

Throughout the morning, the occupying forces did not launch any action, contrary to everyone's expectations.

It made the air dead silent. It seems to be a little more terrifying, and the heavy pressure makes some timid women break down, hiding at home and hugging their children and crying in a low voice. This feeling is too much like a precursor to a massacre of the city, and in the previous propaganda, the brutal Falcon army seems to have taken over a city. It is in the habit of launching a slaughter of cities and plundering,

This panic continued into the afternoon

I heard that the commander of this unit had arrived, and finally outside the door of each house, there were a small number of soldiers knocking on the door, "Open the door, routine inspection!"

A strange colloquial word sounded outside the door, and the Gaul opened the corner of the door with a hesitant expression, and the black soldier who looked like a fierce god outside handed over a slip, asking for all the names of the family members, and then disappeared outside the door of the house.

This was the occupation after the invasion, and according to my father, who had been a staff officer in the army, the occupiers needed to lightly count the population, collect any weapons that might be stored, and after a short time, once the initial horrors had disappeared, a new atmosphere of tranquility was established.

As a result, the urban area has slowly returned to its usual state.

The Gauls usually don't go out early in the morning, but the soldiers of the Falcon Army are constantly walking in the streets early in the morning, and before dawn you can see the whole group of soldiers shouting slogans and walking back and forth in neat steps.

The only difference was that these cold-looking lightly armed cavalry officers, dressed in black uniforms, dragged their long swords through the streets into the nearby taverns and pastry houses, and their attitude towards the common residents was much more accommodating than the Gallic officers who drank and ate pastries in the same places in their own country

At the very least, these Falcon soldiers never owe their debts, they don't rob things indiscriminately, and occasionally get drunk and fight, and as soon as they shout that the patrol is coming, they immediately go from being in a state of great courage to a group of drunkards and drunks who flee in a panic

"This is the Falcon Army, a bunch of stupid guys who don't know what to say!"

This has become the laughing point of many Gallic civilians, and in many urban areas, because of the limited barracks, the soldiers of the Falcon Army eat with their hosts' families. Occasionally, there were also well-educated officers, and the etiquette that came out of them shocked the Gauls, and communication was a little difficult at first, but after a long time, they became acquaintances, and although it was not possible to show closeness to these occupying forces in public, it was permissible to be polite at home. So there are not a few Falcon soldiers who pretend to be strangers to each other outside the door, but talk happily at home, stay a little longer every night, and bake a fire in front of the same fireplace with the master's family.

And today, Linanna heard her father say that there would be a mysterious guest in her family, and the red-haired officer who was guarding the carriage happened to be an imperial officer of the Falcon Empire named Rosa who had stayed in her home during this time, not only handsome, but also quite funny,

"I've been to the northernmost part of the continent, where even the sea freezes! We fought under the Emperor's undefeated banner, and defeated a formidable enemy on a reindeer chariot! We surrendered the entire northern cold! We took a warship to the island of Salander at the southern tip of the continent......" When the family chatted, this falcon officer, who looked to be no more than 25 years old, could often become the focus of the whole family in a few words,

Especially his own father. This former staff officer of the Gallic Imperial Army, who has never really been on the battlefield once, but always has a variety of longings, can always hear the spirits, the eyes shine, and Rosa never mentions the content of fighting in Gaul, and the two seem to have formed a kind of friend-like tacit understanding

"Squeak!"

Lynna saw the black carriage stop at her doorstep, and the red-haired Rosa, dressed in a neat black military uniform with a conspicuous white bramble flower on her chest, quickly rolled off her horse. Briskly and respectfully opened the door of the black carriage, and under the curious gaze of Lyanna, a slender foot with a white skirt stretched out from inside,

"Is the person Rosa brought with her a woman?"

Linanna's gaze was a little complicated, but the next moment, her gaze was relieved again, and she secretly muttered, "This woman is so ugly!"

The raindrops hit the glass of the fat man's room, making a sound of grace and grace, in the white twilight. It was quiet, and with the Falcon army's full occupation of the entire central city area, the Gauls in the city area basically gave up resistance, and the Falcon army that entered the city area received strict orders from His Majesty the Falcon. In order to minimize the disturbance of people in the areas that were peacefully taken over, the mid-tier urban area is the most prosperous area in the Rasti region, with a dense population.

For such a region, excessive destruction is not good for the Empire to accept, just as Governor Rasti has complained many times about it. At the beginning of the southern battle of Rasti, the tactic of setting fire to Akita made it difficult to recover in the southern region.

Especially in the past winter, even with aid from the southwest of the empire, there were freeze and starvation deaths in the southern region of Rasti, and there were quite a few of them.

The huge garrisons on both sides on this confrontation front also burdened the Rusti region, although the food was not supplied by the Rusti region, but the daily consumption of the empire's 200,000 troops and personnel management also made Duo Xuan nerve-wracking, not to mention that the management of the 400,000 troops in Gaul on the opposite side was even more chaotic.

"Your Majesty, the fifth team Rosa reports, Miss Qianyun has arrived at Seke City in the middle line area! Temporarily settled in a nobleman's house in the city" A guard walked in with a report, Seke City is a medium-sized city less than 20 miles away from Danze where the fat man is now, and it is currently stationed by the Fifth Banner Regiment of the Central Army, Danze has just experienced a major battle, and half of the city is broken, and the fat man naturally will not let people see such a dilapidated scene, and Seke City was taken over peacefully, basically maintaining the original appearance of the city, and the city area is completely cleared. "Ready, we'll go to Seck in the afternoon!"

The fat man turned around from the window, he received a letter from the Ministry of Supervision ten days ago, which also made the fat man feel crying and laughing, the former head of the Dorok Cloud wrote from Messi Jielin, saying that because Dorok Cloud still has the control of the northern Aire region, but the reputation of the organization has plummeted, although the expenses have been streamlined, the huge personnel and consumption, still make the Dorok Cloud weaker and weaker, originally Messi Jielin was forced to abdicate, and she was disheartened and unwilling to take care of such a thing,

But I couldn't bear the persuasion of some old people in the family, although the contemporary head of the family, Messiaine Geli, was the mastermind of the abdication, and now at this time, she was also very happy to express her willingness to abdicate the position of the head of the family.

Messiterine finally compromised, and Messitelin knew very well that under the influence of the powerful giant tree of the Falcon Empire, Dorok Cloud still advocated isolation from the imperial power structure, and the final result was only complete extinction.

She proposed to the fat man that on the condition that Dorok Cloud completely give up control of the northern Aire region, she hoped that the fat man would allow Dorok Cloud's forces to enter Obaro and voluntarily become part of the Imperial spy network.

For such a good thing, the fat man really has no reason to refuse, the northern Aire region is the core of the northern Dorok, because of the original treaty, the empire does not have the right to control the northern Aylok, which also leads to the control of the empire in the north of Dorok weakened a lot, if the Aile is taken back to the empire, the empire will complete the comprehensive control of the entire Dorok, and it will not take ten years to complete the assimilation of the Dorok

Messi Terine is the leading dancer of the empire, and the natural way to enter the Obarro region is also to enter in the form of a dance performance troupe, and now the northwest and southwest regions of Obaro have long been integrated with the empire.

The fat man knew that once the news of Messi Terline's dance troupe coming to Obaro for a tour came out, it was like a bomb dropped into the northwest and southwest regions.

Now these two regions are full of wealthy businessmen, and when it comes to Messi Jielin's fans, it is a big deal.

And this time, it is rumored that not only the dancer Messi Jielin is coming, but also his little lover who is known as the peerless Qingyin of the tulle Huali, and the sister Messi Jielin's own sister Messi Jianli, who has encountered it once and is rumored to be the least seen in the list of the top ten beauties in the empire, will also participate in the tour for the first time.

Three of the top ten beauties came at once, and the lineup of this performance troupe was strong enough to make the Obaro region controlled by the empire boil.

In the eyes of the fat man, this is a heavy invasion of the Obaro region by the culture of the Ikadhivar continent, and it has a lot of promotion for the assimilation of the empire in the Obaro region, after all, the Falcon Empire has completed its original strategic goal, and it can no longer appear as a brutal and murderous, reasonable image with fists, and the necessary packaging and dilution are a necessary process for the empire to be gradually recognized by the Obaros people. (To be continued......)