The news that the northern defense line was torn open shook the whole of Gallic Kyoto,

"Is it true? The Falcon Army will defeat you with a horse-drawn plank like this!" "The first person in charge of the Kyoto defense line, Alde, looked at the two Gallic generals in front of him with a solemn expression in front of his desk, who looked embarrassed and didn't know how to explain, his straight body was wearing a strict Gallic military uniform, and the golden edge of his clothes looked heroic, and he couldn't see the wolf who was beaten by the water dog a day ago, and it was precisely because of the huge contrast that Yard looked at the two of them with a cold gaze more like he wanted to kill,

The two of them were defeated by the Salon Army two days ago, the commander of the Fifth Infantry Regiment of the New Northern Army, Goosef and the Seventh Infantry Regiment Commander Yanu, lost their own defense area, and lost more than 17,000 people, and the two were escorted to Kyoto in Gaul by the Inspectorate on the spot, "The enemy appeared too suddenly, almost just discovered, and had already entered the attack range, and our army didn't even have time to assemble, so they rushed to meet the ......" The new Fifth Infantry Regiment Commander Goosef lowered his head with an ugly face, "Our army is the same, although it is close with all its strength, it is still overwhelmed!" The commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment Yanu said, "Okay, you guys go down first, there will be someone from the War Supervision Office who will ask you questions!" Yard rubbed his temples painfully, and waved his hand to the two generals who were trying to explain with a cold face, not wanting to see the faces of the two again, in fact, His Majesty the Emperor was very angry about the gap in the northern front, which meant that the already overstretched Kyoto troops had to be transferred to fill in the north, which was even worse for Gallic Kyoto, which had been fighting against the Falcon Army for a month.

From mid-September, after discovering that the defense line of Kyoto in Gaul was impeccable, the Falcon Army's frontal attack began to slow down, and began to pull out the barrier outside Kyoto one by one very patiently, when the winter snow fell, the key city of Onda on the outskirts of Kyoto had been captured by the Falcon Army. Then there was the fall of four cities, including Berkeland and Fansedon, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Falcon Army, which was advancing towards Kyoto, was narrowing the line of attack step by step.

When the two turned to leave, Yalde stood up with a solemn face, his eyebrows twisted into a Sichuan character,

He began to feel that dragging the war into the winter would not bring the empire a period of calm as expected, on the contrary, in this winter. The Falcon Army's movements are becoming more and more frequent, according to the news, the Falcon Empire's most powerful Central Army Group is assembling in the southwest, and the Gangfei Empire, which was originally used as a containment in the south, is now mired in the war with the Iraqis, and has no time to take care of the situation in the north, and the signs of a major offensive in the Falcon Empire are becoming more and more obvious in this winter

He had a hunch that the gap in the northern defense line was only the first link in this great offensive, and the real test had just begun, and the Falcon army had already turned horse-drawn sleds, a tool cart for transporting supplies, into a personnel carrier for transporting troops. The investment of this new computing tool made the land unimpeded, and even Alder felt uneasy at the thought that the Falcon Army could move through the snow at high speed in the winter, and the expected obstacle became an obstacle to the enemy. The vast snowfields of northern Gaul will no longer be an impenetrable natural barrier, so what will the Empire do to fight the Falcon Empire!

Yadel was a very pragmatic man, and in order to defend against the new tactics of the Falcon Army, he wrote to the Empire to collect 50,000 horses from the Kyoto front. It doesn't matter what kind of horse it is, it's a war horse, it's a healthy horse. Horses. As long as it can pull a cart, if you want to deal with the horse-drawn sleigh of the Falcon Army, you can only build a horse-drawn sleigh yourself, and as soon as his proposal is submitted, it immediately caused an uproar in Gallic Kyoto, "What are you kidding, 50,000 horses!

The nobles heard this proposal as ridiculous as they heard that there were horses running on it, Gaul was not a country that produced horses, because most of the land was located in a huge basin, and the mountains on the edge cut off the road to the north, and the scarce materials such as war horses were exchanged with the Slavs from the northwest, or they were smuggled from the Central Bay region, as for the source of smuggling, it was the family leader of Zhu Chenwood, one of the four consuls of the Eastern Army, who looked at this report and felt that the storm was coming, and the best production area of war horses is the Lingshan Province of Zhu Chenwood, which is closest to the northern grassland, which is a huge swampy land, lush with water and grass, and is the habitat of wild horse herds" The Ministry of the Interior can't muster 50,000 horses, such a requirement is too harsh, even absurd, if it is 2,000 horses, or it is possible!" Looking at the text with the word urgent in his hand, the Gallic Minister of the Interior, Duke Hecaston, said in a hoarse voice, "Actually, there are enough horses in Kyoto!" Yard's face was stern, and he did not back down at all, and raised his head and said, "There are three hundred and eleven wealthy families in Kyoto, and that one does not have more than five carriages, just the whole, it is already more than 10,000 fine horses, not to mention that there are tens of thousands of nobles who have carriages in the whole of Kyoto, as long as all the horses that pull the carriages are requisitioned, this problem can be solved!"

"Maniac!"

The Minister of the Interior, Duke Hecaston, pursed his mouth slightly, but did not speak, and the Imperial Council was shut in a suffocating silence. It is true that there are enough horses in Kyoto in Gaul, but the question is who will come out to be this villain, and once the order of requisition is given, it will be the whole of Kyoto that will be offended

"I'm a little tired! Aldeqing, there are more than a thousand horses in the palace, and they are rarely used, so I'll give them to you! As for the rest, you can do it yourself, I will give you such power!"

In the silence, a slightly hoarse voice said, it was the pale young emperor of Gaul, he stood up from his seat, "Your Majesty, be careful!" Algernon Julia, who was standing behind him, hurriedly supported his shaking body,

After the winter, the young emperor's physical condition deteriorated sharply, and some blood could still be seen in the previous month, but now even after the efforts of the court makeup artist, it only turned pale into pale, and with the support of the emperor's affairs officer Algernon Julia, his steps were extremely heavy, raised his head and glanced at the sky outside, and slowly left the venue, "Your Majesty" Yald's body trembled slightly, looking at the back of the young emperor, his eyes turned red, "My Leyard family is willing to provide one hundred and seventy horses for free" "My Styya family provided one hundred and ten war horses for free!" "Ninety-three horses of my Tiaokes family!" With the emperor's example, the ministers who participated in the imperial council agreed to let blood although they were reluctant. By the end of the meeting, more than 3,000 good horses had been gathered, and the statements of these top giants would also affect other wealthy families in Kyoto

At the end of a red-carpeted corridor in the Gangfei Palace, a somewhat panting young emperor sat down on a railing, looking at the statues with deep envy, "It's a pity that the promise to give those royal horses to the newly promoted Praetorian Guards now seems to be unfulfillable!" "No. I think those good horses are more useful in the hands of Lord Jarde!" said Algernon Julia, bowing her head and looking calm, "to make the best use of things, this sentence is very appropriate for me! At the end of life, you can see many things clearly, young and frivolous, do not know what to do, and do not know what the enemy is, so that the empire has been moved to such a point. Among the seven emperors of the Gallic Empire, I may have almost been the worst bale of mine!"

With a hint of self-deprecation on the corners of the young emperor's mouth, he looked at the 'horse gate' in the distance, the statue of the first Gallic emperor for his most beloved war horse. Bronze steed, standing on the hind feet, jumping high on the front feet, four hooves meet at a height of more than 100 feet from the road. Forming a spire arc, majestic and unusual, you can imagine how high-spirited the first emperor of Gaul was, "Your Majesty, don't talk nonsense," Algernon Giulia said with a straight face, "Your Majesty, I am a rare British lord in Gaul for hundreds of years." If it weren't for the innate disease, it would definitely not be inferior to the first emperor's existence! And the imperial doctor has already said that as long as you don't work too hard, your majesty's illness will be eliminated by itself!"

Haha, a rare hero in hundreds of years!" Hearing Algernon Julia's words, the corners of the young emperor's mouth smiled slightly" I know you're comforting me, what is the British Lord, like the Vekia Falcon, the soldiers are the cause, and the invincible people are called the British Lord, I heard that the guy is about the same age as me, and he unified a big empire in a few years, and my first war ruined the Seattle battle plan that my father had carefully arranged for fifteen years, so that more than 100,000 warriors of the empire died in a foreign land, and finally had to cut the land and sue for peace, compared with such a person, I really don't even have the qualifications to be ashamed!" I heard that there were steppe people in the Falcon army. Is this true? The last time it was said that the steppe people had beaten Obaro a few decades ago, "The young emperor who had never had a chance to leave the palace had a thoughtful look on his face, "Yes, the last time they fought all the way outside Kyoto, it was the steppe cavalry under the Falcon Empire!" Algernon Julia's pretty face hesitated, "Tell me, what is the steppe cavalry fighting like?" "'I'm not sure either. But their equestrian skills are better than any knight" Algernon Julia saw that the interest of His Majesty the Emperor today was very good, probably because of the amazement of the table at the Imperial Council, the young emperor had not made a statement for a long time,

She explained, "In the rain of arrows, wearing hard leather and chain mail, the sky is not afraid of the sky, and the range of the bow and arrow is far greater than ours. Most of our archers were on foot, hiding behind shield-enclosed walls or fortifications made of sharpened stakes. The steppe people, on the other hand, rode horses and archery, and moved freely regardless of charge and retreat. Majesty, they are very dangerous......" "Yes, very dangerous!"

The young emperor's eyes flashed with a hint of yearning, he remembered that he was first lifted on a tall war horse by his father's broad shoulders at the age of seven, and what his father said was "Straighten your back, look ahead, and bravely open the horse's hooves, my Gallic warriors are not inferior to the steppe people!"

In the eyes of all, the boy was as dazzling as the sun in the spring breeze, and the carved stone tents, the large straw mansions of castles, the crumbling wooden towers, the marble stepped pyramids, and the timber halls with open roofs and facing the sky. Some palaces even replaced the walls with thorny hedges.

The cloak tossed in the wind like a wave, and the snow fell in front of you. Stay ahead of the curve and look back from time to time to make sure others are following. Only then did he run smoothly again. Waiting at the edge of the woodland two miles away from the winter town, he had already thrown the attendants behind him far away

"I can ride a horse"

The young emperor seemed to see himself giggling and screaming on his horse, and this felt like flying, and then he flew out, and at that moment, he felt like a bird spreading its wings, and the childhood memories were fascinating, and he didn't need to think much about it at that time, because his father was the emperor of Gaul. His broad shoulders are enough to shelter himself and the country from the wind and rain. And now, the statue of his father is accompanied by the statue of the other five ancestors. Side by side at the end of the corridor, the majestic eagle sat on the throne, looking down coldly,

Underneath the statue are carved slender maidens dancing on a marble pedestal, covered only by flowers, holding shattered jars and pouring only air. No one looked here. Or soon, there will be a statue of its own standing there,

Algernon Giulia stood quietly beside the young emperor, watching the emperor once again enter a trance, this situation appeared more and more frequently, it was a sign that the disease had reached the end of the stage, the only good thing was that the emperor's habit of killing people when he was sick was gone, and it was replaced by a kind of hollowness similar to trance, and the imperial doctor said that this strange disease was called soul sickness. There is no cure, and as the trance gets longer and longer, eventually one day it will not wake up again,

"Julia?"

I don't know how long it took. The young emperor seemed to slowly recover from his trance, his gaze falling on the beautiful ruddy face of Algernon Julia, who was lying asleep on the corridor, and changed from confusion to clarity, which he could not remember many times. Each time, it takes a while to remember who you are, and the distant rays of the setting sun shine from the remote ridges. As he streaked across the roof of the tallest building in the Gallic Palace, a long black shadow cast a chill at the palace in front of him.

The order to collect war horses in the whole of Kyoto was issued, and the decision made by the Imperial Council, and the example made by His Majesty the Emperor himself, no one dared to object, but it did not mean that they could do it willingly, because of the deficit in the treasury for several months, the army was unable to compensate the owners of these war horses, and this kind of thing itself could not be convincing, and the nobles looked at one by one, and there were quite some complaints about why their family recruited three horses, while the other family only recruited two horses,

After being forcibly suppressed by the army, the nobles began to find all kinds of inferior horses, sick horses to replace the number, the result of the problem appeared, the army in the winter there was a plague, first of all, just two soldiers guarding the horse pen fell ill, these two soldiers took advantage of the convenience of their positions, privately sent the horses in the stable to the market to sell, now prices are soaring, even the general nobles, can not afford to eat expensive but scarce pork, there are not a few people who eat horse meat, at first did not attract people's attention, this is treated as general food poisoning,

As a result, the plague showed a trend of large-scale spread, and in just five or six days, the number of sick people in the army reached thousands, and more fell in Kyoto City, more than 2,000 people, and the nobles of Kyoto, who had been waiting for the opportunity, were like mad dogs that smelled blood, and pointed the finger at the indignant horse collection order at the same time, and the people were panicked, and rumors spread everywhere, all thinking that this must be because someone was guilty and angry, and the order to raise war horses had to be temporarily stopped.

In the end, Yard only obtained less than 10,000 horses, of which more than 3,000 were disposed of because of the plague, and the remaining 6,000 horses were turned into a convoy of six horse-drawn sleighs, and on the opposite side of the Yald Kyoto defensive line, the northward marching Salon army marched at great speed under the new tools of horse-drawn sleighs, and the Gallic New Northern Army was completely stunned, and was thrown off a lot in maneuvering, and often received news that the Falcon Army had been found somewhere, and the reinforcements were still on the way, and that side had already fallen,

By late October, Salon's troops had pushed to the northern capital of Antura, once the capital of the Slavs, and the river looked like a shining blue-green ribbon in the morning light. The shallows along the shore were overgrown with reeds, and Sharon saw a water snake swim quickly across the river, causing ripples behind him. Overhead, an eagle flies lazily in a circle.

Antura, which had just been swept away by the Gallic army, was miserable, and everything it passed was empty and in ruins, whether it was farmland, villages, castles, churches, or barns. The Gallic army retaliated by burning as much as they could, killing as much as they could, and even setting fire to the woods everywhere. Fortunately, the leaves have fallen almost all in the winter, and it has rained recently, so the fire has not spread.

"If the lake could make a fire, they wouldn't let it go. ”

Ssalon joked to the adjutant beside him, who was a Slav who looked at the mirror-like lake in front of him, and he seemed to see the clan camp from the wilderness, just as he had been ten years earlier. When the ship carried him away from home,

He stood by the railing that day, listening to the paddles and the drumming of the oarsmen, and watched the cliffs in the distance shrink in the distance.

There was silence,

As the guide leading the way north, the Slav's face was ugly, and he knew that Salon was right.

On the night he escaped, the fire was shining brightly on the water, as if the lake had really burned.

The tragic migration of 300,000 Slavs, surrounded and intercepted by the Gallic army, was itself a bloody tear. I saw that the gate of the former home had been cut down, the walls were half-collapsed, and the bones of Bai Sensen were covered inside.

The guide knelt on the ground with only one look, his eyes full of tears, "Dead, all dead." He said, "I've been chewed by dogs" (to be continued......