Through the narrow high windows of the Red Fort in the main hall of Antura, the sunset sun slammed the ground and hung dark red stripes on the walls.

It was the proud history of the Slavs, who had stood on this land as a unified state decades ago, occupying the northern regions of Gaul, and the ambitious Slavs thought that they would never return to the cold region where the cold dead were as casual as the cold dead animals, but they did not want their descendants to forget this,

The furnishings of the chamber are magnificent. The floor was covered with mil carpet instead of rush mats. In one corner of the room is a wooden screen from Salander, carved with hundreds of lifelike, colorful exotic animals. The walls are covered with fine brocades from Norfoss, Kohor and Reese.

The door is flanked by a pair of bronze statues of sphinxes, their rounded rhodolite eyes shining on the black marble faces. The Slavs, who professed to be warriors from the Land of the Northern Sun, overcame the land of flowers and milk under the siege of a vicious enemy (the Falcon Empire), guided by the god of winter snow (over the glaciers), and in the starlight of a long night (the cold wind in the winter night and the starry eyes of the hungry) finally arrived in this land of flowers and milk (the Slavs naturally ignored the fact that they were the invaders!).

To highlight the difficulty of this qiē, a large tapestry tapestry of the narrative stage, which covers the wall of the main entrance of the hall from the top of the chamber, shimmers red in the light of the setting sun

Ruhl, commander of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment of the Gallic Northern Army, hurried up the steps leading to the hall, flanked by guards in full armor with shields, spears, and calfskin riding boots with spikes that clicked on the hard stone of the steps. Rapid and powerful,

At the end of the steps, there were two Gallic generals who arrived first, standing there and chatting in a low voice, one was a shiny bald head, about forty years old, with a Chinese face, a centipede-like mark left by an old wound at the corner of his eyebrows, a cross helmet with red tassels hanging down from his arms, wearing red and blue armor, and seven huge sapphires with a North Star arrangement on the handle of the knight's heavy sword at his waist. The other Gallic general was about thirty years old, and his arm armor was the mark of a lion's head, and his eyes were narrow and narrow, giving people an unnatural sense of coldness.

Hearing the sound coming from the direction of the steps, the two looked down the steps and saw Ruhl wearing the armor of the Crown Stag Mark, and the bald general first raised his hand to Ruhl and shouted loudly, "Lord Ruhl." You're coming so fast!"

This man's name was Pat, and he was the commander of the 10th Infantry Regiment of the Northern Army in Gaul, and he had a good relationship with Urul.

"I should think of anything as long as there are good things. You're definitely the fastest!" Ruhl said with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, looking very unwilling to look up and smug his bald head,

Pausing at the top of the steps, Ruhl gave a slight salute to Adelin, another commander of the 11th Rank of the Northern Army, "I didn't expect Lord Adelin to arrive so quickly. It's ten miles from Grosso, where the Eleventh Legion is stationed! It's a shame that I've come from the Maudun Forest, three miles away, before the adults have arrived. "Lord Ruhl, I didn't come from the station. I arrived last night, and it was just a coincidence that the soldiers were frostbitten!"

Adelin smiled awkwardly at the corner of his mouth, and replied with a salute, "You also know that the recent troop attrition is strict, I think it is necessary to ask Lord Simon to ask the Kyoto side to add materials to protect against the cold!And it just so happens that I heard that some reinforcements from Kyoto have arrived, if Simon can come forward to coordinate, maybe we can get a batch of cold materials." "Haha, it turns out that everyone thought together!" Ruhr touched his chin with a stunned hand and said" I've heard that there are 50,000 troops in Kyoto this time, and if we can get some supplies for the winter, the soldiers below will be able to suffer a little less!" That is, that is, the equipment of the Kyoto army has always been better than ours, and I don't know what the Ministry of Military Affairs thinks, when everyone received the order to enter the north from Kyoto, it was still in the hot August, and most of the soldiers were wearing relatively thin clothes, and now it is the cold midwinter, and it is very difficult for the soldiers to wear such thin clothes, not to mention fighting, it is difficult to stand for a long time!

The bald Pat was particularly angry, and said angrily, "I also specially admonished Lord Simon to ask for all the troops to be concentrated in Antura, at least this is the city, there are ready-made houses, and outside the city is the forest, it is not cold, not hungry, unlike the area where we are now, there are only a dozen houses, most of the soldiers are camping tents, if you want to cut wood, you must run to the forest area eleven miles away, otherwise you will only tremble and wait to die!" Don't be sorry I don't know what you're thinking, do you want that to win the sympathy of Lord Simon?" Ruhl rolled his eyes at the familiar Pat

"Exaggeration, I can swear by the honor of my soldiers!" said the bald Pat, who was in a hurry, patted his chest with his right hand heavily, and his face was as angry as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. Do you know, the number of people with frostbite in my place has reached more than 1,300, and more than 150 of them are no longer able to fight, what do you say, I am an imperial infantry regiment, I can't even take out a thousand cotton clothes, in broad daylight, the camp is like a ghost town, all nested in tents and dare not come out, if anyone comes out, maybe they will fall on the road, in less than three hours, it will be an ice sculpture"" The situation is indeed very serious, and there is not much difference between me, and I have also made a similar opinion to Lord Simon, and the gathering of troops to Antura can effectively preserve the strength" "But Lord Simon refused, and the Lord said that our army is several times stronger than the Falcon Army, and we should consider that if we take advantage of this advantage, we will lure the enemy into the Antura encirclement and annihilate it, instead of gathering the large army in Antura, so that the Falcon Army on the opposite side will not dare to attack Antura! But now it seems that the other side is obviously much more cunning, just swimming around the periphery of Antura, that is, not entering Antura“

Adelin, who had slender eyes at the corners of his eyes, belonged to the kind of contemplative general, and although he also looked dissatisfied, he still restrained his anger, shook his head, and said, "The main force of the well-equipped Northern Gallic Army has already advanced westward in August. The troops currently stationed in the north are new units that were only transferred from Kyoto in August, and their equipment is not at all comparable to that of the elite of the former Northern Army, the soldiers are thinly dressed, the weapons are obsolete second-line weapons, and the poor cold supplies that have been brought in recently have been given to Lord Simon's own army."

Adelin's voice paused, he took a deep breath, and said with regret, "Kyoto is going to put all its strength on dealing with the Falcon Army in front of it, and there is still a mind to take care of us, as winter comes." In order to resist the fierce northward advance of the Salon Army, our soldiers fought only in thin linen clothes in the wind and snow, and after several battles, there were more frostbitten people than those killed in battle, and if this continued to deteriorate, at most a month, my troops would have lost their combat ability without fighting!" It's good when Lord Yard is here, but Lord Yard won't let everyone suffer like this, there is no benefit at all, and he will fight the Falcon Army desperately!" Rull glanced at the steps under his feet. With a deep sigh, the other two faces were silent,

Ever since Yard had been appointed chief of the Kyoto Front and had entered Gallic Kyoto, the situation of the northern forces in Gaul had begun to decline.

The new head sent by the Gallic Military Department to take over was the Duke of Simon, the Undersecretary of the Military Department, an old nobleman who had been reshuffled several times in the Gallic military circles. In addition, many excellent generals have died in the general situation of the war on the Western Front, and the current Gallic Military Department has become a place used by the Kyoto aristocracy to divide power, and there is almost no real combat ability.

Just like the Duke Simon, who took over the affairs of the Northern Army, the most he did was to install a large number of noble children from Kyoto into his direct troops, and ignored the situation of the other troops of the Northern Army, most of the weapons and equipment and military salaries transported from Kyoto were distributed to the so-called Pydan New Army of 15,000 people formed under his own command, according to this old nobleman, the Arder set was outdated, as evidenced by the poor performance of the 100,000 New Northern Army in the Battle of Danny, he wanted to build a real strong army in Gaul, and the Falcon army opposite him knew what a Gallic warrior wasTo restore the honor of Gaul that swept through the north of Obaro three hundred years ago

It's a lot of clamour, but in practice it's a different story

Duke Simon once commanded several battles that caused heavy losses to other units of the Northern Army, blocking the Slavs from going south was his command, although he had superior forces, but old-fashioned, stubborn, did not understand the command of battlefield changes, blindly asked the soldiers to fight bravely, although the Slavs paid a heavy price, but the Slavs still managed to break through, and in the face of the rapid northward advance of the Falcon Salon Army, he only knew what to engage in frontal battles, forcibly blocking tactics and the like,

On the battlefield, he ordered other units of the Northern Army to attack, but the most powerful Bi Dan Army under his command never dispatched in the rear column, completely ignoring the inferior equipment of other units of the Northern Army and the difficult fighting conditions under the cold winter, as a result, the Northern Army of nearly 100,000 people, before they rushed in front of the enemy, was beaten by the Salon Northern Advance Army, which only had 30,000 men, and was defeated! "Attention, Lord Simon is here!"

Ruhl suddenly lowered his head and whispered to the other two grasshoppers who were standing in the same boat, although they were not dealing with him

At the bottom of the steps, an old man with gray hair in good spirits walked up surrounded by more than a dozen generals, with a national face, a dignified appearance, wearing a dark blue military uniform, and a wind collar, looking like the kind of old pedant who is enough to make the enemy ashamed and embarrassed.

The old man tilted his head and talked about something with a Gallic general behind him, he hadn't seen it, he was wearing a turquoise blue corps commander's uniform, and his chest was full of colorful medals that no one knew what it represented, it should be the person in charge of the Kyoto army that supported the north this time, and he didn't know it, Ruhl's gaze continued to sweep behind Duke Simon, the three generals of the Bidan army, the Kyoto nobles of the same color, "These guys are also here!" Ruhl's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he withdrew his gaze from the bottom of his heart, his chin was always high, and outside of Kyoto, he looked at anyone with a kind of looking down on him, and the tone of his speech was not so much a conversation as he was talking to himself, as if he was not a Kyoto nobleman, he should look at them with some kind of adoring gaze, "What three disgusting guys!" Ruhl said sarcastically as he heard the rude-looking bald man say. I'm willing to bet these guys are better at getting into a woman's bed than they are at fighting! Their swords are more of a show off to their mistresses, "Keep your mouth shut." Don't talk nonsense, I know that Lial fought against the Falcon Army on the Western Front!" Adelin's voice was dull, "Yes, will Rasti fight, I've heard that hundreds of thousands of the Empire's army were destroyed in a battle, if he hadn't run fast, he would have almost been captured alive by the Falcon Army like everyone else for ransom! He was really embarrassed to come back, I would have apologized for my guilt" Pat rolled his eyes disdainfully, "Is there anything wrong with you?" The old man stopped, looked up and saw the three men standing on the steps for a long time, his eyes flashing with obvious disgust. The tone was unusually cold

For these second-line troops left by Yalde, he has always been lukewarm, after all, he is Yard's subordinate, Yalde is still the head of the Kyoto front, maybe there is still a chance to be promoted to the imperial marshal, he has no need to offend people, he has been planning to let these lazy guys fend for themselves, but now it is different, the news from Kyoto. Yard, the head of the Kyoto line, has just been convicted and imprisoned for sixty years, and it is impossible to come out in this life.

In this case. He doesn't need to be afraid anymore, he is the person in charge of the north, and he can use whoever he wants!" "We heard that reinforcements from Kyoto have arrived, so we want to apply for some ......supplies to protect against the cold!" Ruhr hesitated. He boldly said, "Kyoto's reinforcements, does this have anything to do with you? Without receiving an order, your behavior of leaving your post without permission is a strict violation of military discipline, and it is also in front of the distinguished guests in Kyoto. Do you want to make me lose face?As for the supplies to protect against the cold, I have nothing to spare here, and if you don't want to be arrested for this, go back at once!" the old man interrupted him with an indifferent expression, waved his hand unceremoniously, and shouted to the guards on both sides of the steps, "If you leave your post without permission, you should be beheaded! Your Excellency has been merciful to you!" One of the three generals of the Bi Dan Army said, his eyes were full of disdain, like looking at the beggar on the street, "My lord, we are just ......" Ruhl tried to persevere, his hands clasped together, thinking of the soldiers who were trapped in the cold winter, his face was pale and he wanted to speak, but he was held by a hand next to him, it was Adelin, he whispered to Ruhl "Enough, it's useless to say more!" "I'm sorry, our recklessness has disgraced your lordship, let's go back immediately!" Ed Lin straightened up and saluted Duke Simon, dragged Ruel and Bald Bert away, and waited until the backs of the three disappeared, Duke Simon said to the Kyoto Army General beside him with an apologetic face, "Lord Tielan, it really makes you laugh, these ignorant inferior nobles are always so self-righteous" "Haha, it's nothing, I've seen more rude people like them in Rasti! Sometimes I can't sleep just thinking that the fate of the empire is controlled by such people." The Kyoto general had a sad expression on his face, as if he was full of pity for the world

It was in the Battle of Rasti that Tielan, the commander of the Blue Holy Beast cavalry who shrewdly retreated and escaped,

Although the Battle of Rasti failed, it was a strong rising capital for Tielan, one of the leaders of the Kyoto Young Zhuang faction, not everyone was able to retreat from the mercury-like offensive of the Falcon Army, the reason for the failure of the Battle of Rasti was finally determined to be the error of judgment of Hasenranpo, and Tielan was promoted to the deputy commander of the Kyoto Praetorian Guard because of his outstanding performance in the Battle of Rasti, and he was still an important military minister, and this time it was Tielan's Blue Holy Beast Cavalry and three Kyoto Infantry Regiments that rushed to the north to help, with a total strength of 57,000 people,

"Lord Tielan is indeed an upright man! Those who disturb this country in disregard of class hierarchy are born to stay in dark dungeons" Duke Simon smiled meaningfully with satisfaction, this time Tielan brought 50,000 troops, and all of them were well-equipped soldiers, he had foreseen the miserable and miserable appearance of the Falcon army of only 30,000 men surrounded by his own Bidan army and Tielan's army, and settled the northern part of Gaul, and then went south to defeat the army of the Falcon army approaching Kyoto, and the revival of Gaul was hopeful

"Let's talk about the situation in the north!" Tielan tilted his head and said happily

"Of course, with Lord Tielan's help this time, I believe that everything will be smooth!" Duke Simon waved his hand and asked the map of the north to be spread out on the long table in the council chamber, pointing to the map and saying, Now our army occupying this place, a total of 80,000 people, has opened a huge net in Antura, and on the opposite side of this net is a prey named Salon, and the two armies have been fighting against each other for ten days, and the enemy legion that should have entered Antura a long time ago has unexpectedly stopped, and this leads me to the plan of the Antura counterattack that I have painstakingly arranged has come to naught."

"In that case, all you need to do is bring this 'boar' to Antura, isn't it?" said Tielan, looking at the map, looking up (in the Gallic language, the pronunciation of the Salonn is similar to that of the boar)

"Boar, haha, so to speak, this guy is a headache boar!" Duke Simon was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and smiled, "That bastard's soldiers are wearing thick cotton clothes, which has made us suffer a lot, and now I am looking forward to how his bloated soldiers climbed the tall walls of Antura like turtles!" "My lord, urgent news from the front!" A squire officer suddenly hurriedly walked in from outside the council chamber, "What's the matter, have you forgotten even basic etiquette?" Duke Simon's eyes were full of anger, and he asked in a heavy tone, "I'm sorry, my lord, but it's too urgent, the Falcon Army's Salon Legion has moved, and at noon today, they are heading towards Antura......!"