"Gangfei made a fatal mistake in the early days of the war, although Marshal Marcos was an experienced soldier and an outstanding politician, his limitations as a minister made it impossible for this famous minister at the end of Gangfei to look at the real reason for the outbreak of this war from the perspective of a king" "The entire attention of Gangfei was overshadowed by the princess of the Falcon Empire in the early stage, so that he ignored a crucial thing"" That is, the empire's heart for the southern port of Gangfei has never changed, the falcon has already opened its wings, whether there is a reasonable explanation for the Gangfei people, the falcon's claws will fall, because that is related to the key to the empire's hundred-year inland sea strategy, at this point, the first emperor of the Falcon Empire planned and then moved, and the Gangfei Empire was obviously in the early stage of the outbreak of the second war with the Falcon Empire, obviously in the early stage of the second war with the Falcon Empire, the people's hearts were turbulent, and the national strength was heavily damaged, although it had 200,000 troops in the south and received the support of many allies, but from the emperor to the ministers, they all kept a fluke mentality in their hearts, because of the lack of foresight, Gangfei people 1The .12 incident made a huge mistake again after framing the Falcon Empire, and on January 22, in order to annihilate the evidence, the Gangfei Empire ordered the massacre of those involved1. The 4,213 officers and soldiers of the Ninth Army in the 12th Incident, and then relied too much on the loose alliance, turned out to be an irreparable mistake, which finally dealt a heavy blow to the last military morale of the Gangfei Empire, leading the Gangfei Empire to completely lose control of the southern port area. —Excerpt from "An Inquiry into the Second War between the Falcon Empire and the Gangfei Empire, On National Determination!" Volume 1, Fu Xilong, lecturer of the Imperial Military Studies.

The gray-white walls of the prison looked even darker under the dark sky, and some prison guards covered their noses with cloths, their hands covered with blood, and with great difficulty, carried up the bodies of some prisoners from the prison and placed them on the wide flat outside the prison. The guard retched for no reason, and more corpses were piled up underneath, and the passage inside the cell below was also splashed with oil, and the strong smell of blood was mixed with a smell of grease and the mildew smell of the prison that has not seen daylight all year round, and no one could stand it, "How many more?" A Praetorian Guard officer standing on the prison floor with a tall posture, his eyes swept the corpses all over the ground ruthlessly, his face frowned slightly, and his face was cold

"There are about 3,000 corpses!" the chubby warden rubbed his stomach and wiped the beads of sweat from his face with a handkerchief. Standing behind the Praetorian Guard officer, his face turned pale and hurriedly said, although it was the Praetorian Guards who did it, but looking at killing four thousand people, it was also a kind of torment for an ordinary prison warden, "Okay, don't move, let's light the fire, we don't have that much time!" The officer looked at the stars in the sky, and his eyes were filled with a hint of strange affection. He took a deep breath and said, "Tomorrow morning, I will report the prison according to the prisoner's escape guide, and the prison will be burned on fire!"

"Yes! Yes!" the warden breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been pardoned, for he was afraid that he would be killed. The Praetorian Guard's cruelty made him feel a pang in his heart, and although he was used to seeing dead people in prison, he thought of the pile of dead people with angry eyes in the prison cells below. The warden felt the wind whistling in his ears, like a soul seeking his life, whispering, and his scalp and feet were numb.

His arm trembled slightly, and his voice trembled, "Light the fire!"

The guards hurriedly threw the torches in their hands towards the grease-drenched prison passage, and the blue flames came out like a layer of floating elves, squeaked, and the flames rushed out more than half a meter high, and the air was filled with a scorching smell, which felt like the cheerful sound of the demons of hell licking their souls,

"Uh" More people vomited, and the Praetorian Guard officer who ordered the fire looked at the burning flames with blazing eyes, and suddenly raised his hand and saluted a soldier to the lower prisons, these people died for the country! The countries of Central Europe and Pakistan are watching, if Gangfei chooses to succumb in front of the Falcon Empire, these countries will not hesitate to abandon Gangfei, but if Gangfei can insist, these countries will immediately turn to support Gangfei, because in the face of the powerful northern falcon, everyone hopes to have a shield in front of them, and Gangfei is that shield

Soon, a raging fire burned above the prison, illuminating half of the sky of Besuka City, and the streets near the prison were even more crowds of people running around, chaotic, the cries of children, the sound of panicked moving things, the fire was blown by the whistling night wind, and quickly spread to the nearby houses, and the noise resounded in the sky

In the banquet hall, the music had stopped, and everyone looked up in the direction of the fire, "It seems to be the direction of the prison!

"Prison?"

Turit Colleen's hand holding the wine glass trembled slightly, raised her head, looked at the place where the fire was shining, and her coquettish eyes flashed a cold light, the Gangfei Empire is going to give itself an explanation tomorrow, and tonight there is a fire in the prison, and the other party is simply destroying the corpse and destroying the traces, that's four thousand lives, how did Gangfei do it!" "Oops, this fire, I don't know if it will burn someone's confidence to ask for guilt!"

She heard a sneer on the corner of the mouth of the first lady of the Sea of Alien on the other side: "Without evidence, just the non-human can say whatever he wants, at most he will be soft, and all the mistakes will be put on the head of the deceased, do you still want to continue the war without relenting? If that is the case, I, the Sea of Alien, just call on other Central European Barrow countries to resist the armed invasion of the Falcon Empire, and send a navy to the war first! I wonder what my sister thinks of this plan?" "It seems that my sister already knows what to send!" Turit Colin's face was slightly pale, and she quickly regained her calmness, and the corners of her mouth smiled slightly, "I have to admire Gangfei's decisiveness, and he actually adopted such a direct and simple method to reverse the situation, and burned the prison along with the people with a fire, the reason is nothing more than that some prisoners set fire to the prison when they escaped from prison, and the entire prison caught fire, and thousands of prisoners naturally died in the prison, the seamless arrangement, even if it is investigated afterwards, it is absolutely unproven, and now it is okay, the initiative has returned to the hands of Gangfei"

"But for my sister's Strand Sea Country, I really don't see what the benefit is?" Turitcolin's charming mouth seemed to be smiling, "If the empire goes to war with Gangfei, then my sister's Strait Sea Country wants to use Gangfei people to drag the Falcon Empire into the inland sea, and the plan is not a direct waste, for my Falcon Empire, in fact, there is no explanation, the navy can enter the inland sea at any time! Actually, it's still just right, I can guarantee that they must be happily watching you and me fight to the death right now."

"Don't be so complacent, even if there are no Gangfei people, you don't want to enter the Inland Sea!" "Because even if your fleet comes in, there will be no chance to return alive!" The First Lady of the Sea of Strands was unexpectedly stunned, because you have no foothold in the Inland Sea, and your warships are on a long expedition and are rejected by the entire Inland Sea, even if they can enter the Inland Sea. We also have a way to make them have no chance to return, as long as they dare to dock, our fleet of the sea country will attack!" "Sister seems to have forgotten, just now several countries have agreed to lease the port to us!" "Turit Colin glanced at the other crowd gathered at the door to watch the bustle, and the corner of his mouth took a sip of the wine in the glass disapprovingly, "It's just a few insignificant small ports" The first lady of the Sea of Strand had bright eyes and a contemptuous smile on the corner of her mouth. And it's the kind of civilian port that can't even be repaired by large warships, is your Falcon Empire's fleet ready to rely on that to fight against the powerful fleet of our sea country?" "The Thor of your warship is very sharp, but I heard that it costs a lot of ammunition. Just trap you, then block the Gibro Seaway, and when Thor runs out of ammunition, you'll be dead fish under my Strand Sea Fork!" "In that case. Why is my sister still so nervous!"

Turitcolin's eyes flickered, and he said in a solemn tone, "Actually, the Falcon Empire's attack on Gangfei is helping the Strandant Sea Country!" If it is a war that Gangfei wins, the Sea Country can avoid the worry of the empire entering the inland sea. If it is an imperial victory, the Sea Kingdom will also have enough time to prepare, no matter how you look at it. If I were my sister, instead of choosing to encourage the Central European and Barrow countries to go to war with us, they would stand by us and demand that the Gang Fei Empire deal with us. 12 Incidents give a reasonable explanation!""My sister has really been sharp and sharp since she was a child, and in such a situation, she even wants to bewitch me! You Falcon Empire and Gangfei Empire are not good people."

The first lady of the Sea of Alien has a slight cold face, but in fact, her heart is also shaken, it seems that this is really the case,

Tonight's banquet is not so much a battlefield arranged by oneself as a trap set by Gangfeiren, where sandpipers and mussels compete for the benefit of fishermen! Gangfei people must now very much hope that the Falcon Empire will directly confront the Strand Sea Kingdom, and it is better to directly start a war situation, so that the Falcon Empire will not have the energy to target Gangfei for the time being! It is a good thing to lead the water to the east, but it is not such a pleasant thing to lead it to oneself, could it be that the result of his efforts to make Gangfei is to make the Strand Sea Kingdom a shield for the Gangfei Empire!" Even if they are all enemies, but you have forgotten the family proverb, the enemy of the enemy is the friend? Between countries, there are no absolute friends, and there are no absolute enemies!"

Turit Colin smiled slightly, picked up the wine glass, looked left and right, and then whispered" Anyway, they are all sisters, and there is really no need for outsiders to see the excitement, so it is better for us to make a private agreement, the Strait Sea Kingdom will remain neutral in this war, and the Imperial Navy will not take the initiative to attack the fleet of the Sea State, that is to say, you can not only have enough time to prepare, but also sit on the ground after the defeat of Gangfei, I believe that then the Sea Kingdom will get the real attention of the Gangfei people, and you will be able to get far more benefits from the Gangfei people than now, maybe even the request for a land province can be realized！”

"A land province!" Lady Alien Haiguo breathed heavily, this temptation was too great, the territory of the Sea Kingdom was not larger than a medium-sized land province, she nodded, "Okay, this temporary agreement is acceptable, tomorrow, I will remain neutral"

"If you don't believe me, we can put our palms together!" Turit Colin stretched out his hand solemnly, her white five fingers stretched out together, and her palms were upward,

Mrs. Strant hesitated for a moment, stretched out her hand from top to bottom, and the palms of her two hands were heavily covered on the palms of her hands, like a closed bud, which was the special way of vows of the Turit family,

Because of the prison fire, the banquet stopped halfway, and most of the carriages parked outside the banquet quickly disappeared.

"I'm leaving, sister!"

Walking down the steps of a battlefield felt like stepping down the steps of a battlefield. Turit Colin looked relaxed at the moment, saluted slightly to the First Lady of the Sea of Strand, who had sent her to her on the steps, and walked into the carriage triumphantly, followed by the family butler Long, who closed the door, and the carriage slowly departed under the escort of the Guards Cavalry

The First Lady of the Sea Kingdom of Alien turned around at this time, her kind face disappeared at once, and she gritted her teeth coldly and said, "What are you doing in a daze, immediately smash and burn all the cups and chairs that the woman touched just now! If there is still a trace of the smell of that woman in the hall." All are to be scourged five times with the whip."

"Yes"

The housekeeper shuddered in fright, his face turned pale, the so-called stabbing whip is actually another name for the tough fishing net barb of the Strand people, this kind of fishing net with a barb is used to catch large prey in the sea, if it is used to whip the prisoner, it is often a fine meat when it is pulled, and the blood of the tortured person is like a spring, and the wail is fierce, even if it is the strongest sea chaser in the sea country. It is impossible to survive ten lashes under this kind of torture instrument, and for ordinary people, five lashes are enough to die!

At dawn, the prison was still smoky. The red flames could be faintly seen, and the two nearby streets that were affected were full of people, and the Janissaries took over the burned area and set up a cordon outside.

It was not until the afternoon that the fire was extinguished, and the entire prison was unrecognizable. The high heat almost burned down the iron gates, the burned and cracked prison walls, and the prison passages like a black hell, and the damage caused by the prison fire was only counted at night.

It was reported to the public that most of the prison inmates were burned to death because they tried to escape by arson, and some of them escaped without escaping the fate of being burned to death.

"It's a pity that the thugs who have tarnished your country's reputation were ...... in last night's fire"

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Gangfei appeared in the barracks outside the city with an embarrassed face, standing in front of Thurit Colin with an official document in his hand, this is Gangfei's explanation of the 1.12 incident, and put all the blame on the dead commander of the Ninth Legion, in the official report submitted by the Gangfei Empire, the executed Ninth Legion Commander Mekaya was described as an unruly, proud and unjustly treated radical general, under his influence, most of the Ninth Legion under his command were troublesome thugs, because they were dissatisfied with the transfer and appointment made by the top of the Empire, they launched a shameful mutiny while drunk, and killed the minister, attempted to attack the Emperor, only to be routed by the Emperor's Praetorian Guard,

"So, all the thugs who have brought our country a bad reputation are dead?" Turit Colin took the scroll and looked at it, a long black dress that was stressful, with a net-like pearl bun on her head, and her cheeks as white as clotted fat like frost,

"Yes, it is true!" said the Minister of Foreign Affairs with a calm expression, "and in order to make up for the loss of your country's reputation, we have just thought that all countries have informed this matter, this is a shameful civil strife, and it has nothing to do with your country, that's all!"

"It has nothing to do with your country? that's all, could it be that I have traveled more than three hundred miles just to hear this?" Turit Colin put down the report with disdain on the corner of his mouth, "The reputation of the empire cannot be changed, even if you say that this matter is a misunderstanding now, will other countries think so? I need your country to compensate for this, only in this way can my country calm down its anger! Of course, your country can ignore our request, then we don't mind taking it ourselves!" I am willing to come because I believe in your country, but last night's fire, you really thought I was a fool?"

"Compensation is absolutely impossible, and being able to report this matter from now on is already my country's bottom line!"

Gang Fei's foreign minister's tone became tougher, "As for your country to come and pick it up, then you can do it casually! But before that, please ask Her Royal Highness the princess to take a look at this" Gang Fei's foreign minister took out a joint document and put it on the table,

"What is this?" Turit Colin picked it up, her eyes swept over, and her pretty face changed slightly, it turned out to be a joint statement

Gang Fei's foreign minister said in a hideous tone, "Her Royal Highness may not know that this afternoon, our eight countries in Central Europe and Barrow have signed a military alliance, as long as one side is attacked, other countries will send troops to support, if your country really wants to go to war, our 200,000 troops in the south will not hesitate to accompany you to the end" "Even if you have army support, you will ...... at sea" Turit Colin said coldly, "I'm sorry" Gang Fei Foreign Minister sneered at the corner of his mouth and said" The First Lady of the Sea of Strats has secretly contacted us this morning, and the six inland sea countries of the Sea of Strats Alliance have formed a combined fleet of inland seas and will be stationed in our southern ports!

Speaking of which, I really want to thank Her Royal Highness the Princess, if it weren't for Her Royal Highness giving the First Lady of the Sea of Alien too much stimulation, we might still need to go to great lengths, now it's okay, the overlord of the Inland Sea, the Sea of Order, is the first to express its position, and the other Central European Barrow countries can fight against the invasion of the Falcon Empire without worries!"

"First Lady of the Sea of Strands!" Turit Colling's face froze for a moment, the woman ...... I only said it last night, but I immediately broke my word this morning, no wonder my attitude changed (to be continued......