"Khan! The front is defeated!" A centaur warrior finally found Oris in the melee on the right wing, but he said something that made the centaur Khan turn pale.
Oris stared blankly at the soldiers in front of him. He could not imagine the consequences of the collapse of the front line.
"Orys! Cheer up! The war is not over yet! It's not too late to retreat now!" The tauren chief on one side, Lion Snowhoof, grabbed Oryth's shoulders with both hands and shouted loudly in his ear.
Ryan's roar woke up Oris, who was confused. He slapped himself hard, and then immediately led the remaining thousands of soldiers on the right wing to slowly retreat to the center to join the retreating army on the front line.
The battle lasted for several hours, and the two sides remained in a stalemate, but in the end it was the Byron Empire Expeditionary Force that emerged victorious.
While Oris was reorganizing the broken army and slowly retreating to the east, Derek also received reports from the left and right wings.
Oris decisively abandoned the intercepting force on the left wing, held back General Pierre, and then took the opportunity to retreat from the left rear.
The soldiers of the Seventh Legion, who had been fighting for a long time, were also very tired. They could not use their cavalry to pursue them in the heavy rain and mud. Yes, they, the two-legged infantry, could only watch the four-legged centaur remnants retreat.
Halford was holding a big sword with both hands, and his armor was spattered with blood and mud. He was breathing heavily and listened to the adjutant's report.
When he learned that the Centaur army had retreated, the angry General Pierre, surrounded by the right-wing army led by Bracken, quickly eliminated the nearly 10,000 blocking coalition troops.
The battle was over. The Byron Empire's Southeastern Army and the Seventh Army recovered a little and continued to retreat to the southwest.
In the Southern Campaign that took place in the winter of the second year of the Divine Calendar, the Byron Empire and the Centaur Minotaurs combined two armies, with a total of more than 700,000 people participating in the battle.
In previous battles between the Southeast Army and the Centaur and Horse Tribe encirclement and suppression forces, both sides invested a total of more than 500,000 yuan, and there were more than a hundred large and small battles.
In the first stage of the Southern Campaign, the Byron Empire's Southern Army lost more than 60,000 troops, while the centaurs only lost less than 10,000.
The Seventh Army was ordered to support the Southeast Army and broke through the blockade with a tough attitude, and the battle entered the second stage.
The second phase of the Southern Campaign took place in the central area of the southeastern hills, with both sides investing a total of more than 700,000 troops.
The battle lasted less than five hours, but within a short period of time, three large-scale battles broke out on the front and on the left and right wings.
In the frontal battlefield, the Seventh Legion, as the main force of the expeditionary force, withstood the impact of nearly 200,000 centaur troops with 100,000 troops, and finally exchanged more than 40,000 casualties for the illustrious military exploits of more than 100,000 kills.
!In the end, due to the victory on the frontal battlefield, the expeditionary force broke through the blockade and finally returned to the border of the empire.
On the left-wing battlefield, because of the joint force of the centaur clan and the debuting Tauren, with only more than 10,000 soldiers, they successfully blocked the 80,000-strong left-wing army led by General Pierre! In the end, due to being double-teamed by the right-wing expeditionary force,
And the whole army was wiped out.
On the right battlefield, thanks to the command of General Bracken, the 50,000-strong Southeast Army achieved its strategic goal very well, although in the end the enemy was able to escape because of the gap on the left wing.
In this critical second phase of the southern campaign, the Byron Empire lost more than 70,000 soldiers, of which more than 40,000 were from the elite Seventh Army. The remaining 80% were killed on the left-wing front.
On the other hand, the combined army of centaurs and tauren invested more than 250,000 people in this battle, and only less than 80,000 people escaped in the end.
This battle, which was originally supposed to be a breakout battle, eventually turned into a bloody battle between the two sides due to various reasons. They fought for five hours in the heavy rain, and more than 200,000 loyal souls were buried in a foreign land. What was the reason that caused the Byron Empire to collapse?
Launching an expedition of this scale no longer matters. In this single battle, the Byron Empire's sharp fangs attracted the attention of the entire continent.
For the Byron Empire, this massive expedition achieved nothing except earning some popularity among the people! The loss of more than 100,000 soldiers really made His Majesty Art Byron extremely angry.
Faced with the sudden action of the Byron Empire, and the action that was finally considered a victory, the neighboring Alton Empire instantly tensed its nerves.
God knows whether the Byron Empire will send its army to them in the next moment! These businessmen, who only think about gold coins all day long, almost went crazy with fear when faced with the direct pressure of life and death.
Compared with Alton and the corrupt Nohr Empire in the country, the Oakley Empire is undoubtedly much more at ease. The troublesome southern depths allow them to relax and work without worrying about the Byron Empire.
pressure.
However, this operation has served as a wake-up call to Dragon City far in the north. Not only is Zhou Yunfei thinking about how to unify the continent all day long, but the Byron Empire not only thinks about it, but is about to do it!
For Zhou Yunfei and his Dragon City, the starting point is too different from the Byron Empire. They are a complete empire, and you are just a small lord with a few city fortresses. You want to finally reach the highest peak.
, action still needs to be accelerated.
It was only a few months later, in the spring of the third year of the Divine Calendar, that Zhou Yunfei received reports of a series of battles that took place in the south last winter.
After receiving the report, he immediately summoned several major officials to discuss behind closed doors.
Regarding the situation of the Byron Empire, Longcheng knew very little. As a last resort, Zhou Yunfei could only increase investment in the intelligence department again. A large number of selected talents were sent to the mysterious intelligence department, and the person in charge of it was Jia Jia.
brag.
Nowadays, Jia Xu receives reports from various rumors on the mainland every day. Some of them are initially reviewed by the local office and then submitted to the higher levels. In an era without long-distance communication, he can get news from all over the mainland within half a year.
It is already very fast.
According to the plan roughly given by Zhou Yunfei, Jia Xu easily established intelligence points all over the mainland, with a total of more than 20,000 professional intelligence agents serving here! There are also a large number of local spies who have been bribed at the grassroots level, which shows Zhou Yunfei's support for the intelligence department.
!This is comparable to the number of people in an army!
A large amount of investment may not yield any concrete returns in the short term, but a systematic channel will slowly be formed to provide the most favorable support for Dragon City to move forward in the future.
No one knew the final result of the closed-door discussion, and Zhou Yunfei and everyone else kept their mouths shut.
We will look back to the south of the Ross continent, where the southern battle just broke out.
The expeditionary force that returned to the Byron Empire was immediately arranged to rest in four parts. As soon as Marshal Derek returned to the empire, he received an order from His Majesty Art, asking him to report back to the imperial capital as soon as possible. At the same time, Marshal Derek, who had received heavy losses,
The Seventh Army Corps was also arranged to meet with the Imperial Capital Military Headquarters, but the two completely different attitudes in the orders really made the soldiers of the Southeast Army very angry.
What happened was that the members of the military who came to deliver the order reduced the Seventh Army to nothing. The reason was that the loss of nearly half of the Seventh Army this time gave the Imperial Military, which had always disliked them, a way to vent their anger.
As an excuse, he accused Halford of exaggerating his name and demanded that this heavy loss be attributed to the Seventh Army.
The military headquarters has a very close relationship with the Southeast Army, or Marshal Derek, so it naturally ignores mistakes and other matters.
This approach made the two armies who had lived and died very angry. The various departments of the Southeast Army did not remain silent because of the military's development. The strong backlash made the situation chaotic for a time. Fortunately, Marshal Derek and General Halford relied on their respective
The prestige was stopped.
Before leaving, Derek looked coldly at the people sent by the military to receive the Seventh Legion, and said: "Your great Majesty will never tolerate you ruining heroes like this! Just wait! You will be good to see!"
Halford followed Derek silently. He already understood the cause of this conflict. The seemingly stable empire still had many internal conflicts, but these were all suppressed by the emperor and the supervisory department.
Covered up.
After all, a conflict broke out between the emerging official class and the established aristocratic forces. This time, the military, representing the new forces in the empire, wanted to use an excuse to intervene in several famous legions of the empire to further weaken the influence of the established aristocrats. It seems that this time the imperial capital
The trip was really not peaceful.
Art Byron, didn't the emperor realize that? No, he obviously knew everything. But the two sides were allowed to conflict. No matter who won, the final winner would only be the emperor. If the emerging official class won, then
Lacking the foundation, they can only serve as flags in the hands of the emperor. And if the aristocracy wins, then the emperor will come out to appease the aristocracy, and the aristocrats who have lost their roots can only rely on the royal family.
This kind of emperor's mind and the way of balance can also make the empire move forward more steadily and achieve its future goals step by step. This kind of borrowing a knife to kill people and reaping profits really made Zhou Yunfei who was far in the north learn a lot.
class.
However, sometimes, things are not that simple.
Spring rain always brings a sense of vitality. Zhou Yunfei stood in front of the window, listening to the playing of Diao Chan in the house, and the corner of his mouth curved, "I am not alone in my path!"
One south, one north. Two people with an age difference of nearly thirty years are heading towards a road that the world dare not imagine. Maybe Zhou Yunfei is not known to the world now, but one day, the entire continent will tremble.
He prostrates himself at the feet of this name, and in the most humble manner, sends him to the highest altar!
(Dear, please leave a flower if you think it looks good!)