"Du Wei is telling me his bottom line." Prince Chen smiled softly, extinguished the candle on the table, and walked out of the study with his hands behind his back.
In the early morning, the sunshine that had been absent for many days finally shone down. The cloudy and snowy weather for many days seemed to have finally come to an end. The sight of this rare sun made people feel a little more cheerful.
"Whether there is friction in the northwest Tulip family territory, or whether it is deliberately using the grassland to exert pressure, it is all 'false power'. The only real power is in the imperial capital, right next to me." Prince Chen stared at the same thing and whispered.
: "From top to bottom, the Tulip family relies on Du Wei. If we want to wipe out Tulip, the most direct and effective way is to get rid of Du Wei first. But Du Wei deliberately left himself in the imperial capital, right under my nose
Underneath, this is his 'resistance' and his 'fight'."
"But... Duke Tulip is the top powerhouse in the continent. Even if we get rid of him, it is not an easy task." In the study door, the red figure did not follow Prince Chen out, but stood quietly.
In the shadows of the study.
"Strong people... are also human beings." Prince Chen shook his head: "Even if a person is extremely strong, it is impossible for him to be without flaws. No matter how strong an individual is, he cannot compete with the entire country. At most... he will become a destroyer.
That's all. Besides... a strong person is a human being, and a human being has family and friendship, family, wife, children, friends, subordinates, subjects, etc., etc., no matter how strong Du Wei is, how can he be surrounded by dozens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of people around him?
, are they all strong? If I pick up the butcher knife, even if I can't kill Du Wei, I still can't kill his relatives and subordinates? Humph..."
With his hands behind his back, Prince Chen faced the cold morning wind and suddenly coughed twice. He frowned slightly. There was a slight pain in his chest, but he remembered that he had forgotten to take the medicine last night.
"He was telling me... that he, Du Wei, did not want to rebel. He showed up in the northwest to confront the imperial army, and it was just to protect himself. On the one hand, it showed his power, which made me afraid. On the other hand, he showed his power.
, and deliberately placed all his wealth in the imperial capital, right next to me... This is to reassure me." Chen smiled softly, although there was still a bit of pain between his eyebrows, but there was something in his eyes.
With a hint of excitement: "Looking at the empire, among the chess players... only Du Wei is worthy of playing against me."
"Tell me, when do those monsters plan to wait before attacking?"
The main wall of the Kaspersky Defense Line is on the northern wall. General Rostock's son, Reuenthar, looked steadily to the north.
Next to him, a young general, dressed in military uniform and lined with a soft leather jacket. He held a broad-edged knight's sword in his hand. He was sitting on a wall stamper, gently wiping the blade of the sword. This young officer
He has a pair of keen eyes. There is a medal hanging on his chest, which is the cavalry general Milo who made a meritorious service in the first battle in this war.
As young generals in the Storm Legion, Milo and Reuenthar have always had a good personal relationship. Today, the two of them took turns patrolling the city wall. They looked at the huge enemy military camps in the north and thought of the almost peaceful confrontation between the two sides in the winter that was about to pass.
They all couldn't help but have some random suspicions.
"Maybe these guys are going to hibernate." Milo said coldly: "They all look like wild beasts. Maybe they will hide and sleep when the weather gets cold."
This statement is also popular among the Storm Legion. When many human officers talk about these monsters, they will call them beasts.
In the past winter, the weather in the north was not as cold as in the south. This kind of warm winter season is rare in the past.
Even on extremely hot days, standing in the sun while wearing a leather jacket can make you sweat all over.
Originally, the Eastern Fortress also prepared a winter defense plan: because the defense system of the Eastern Fortress relied on rivers, in order to prevent the rivers from freezing in winter, the enemy would take the opportunity to cross the river. The front line of the theater had already dispatched troops out of the fortress to garrison the river, and also mobilized
There was enough labor to be ready to cut the ice, but all this was in vain.
Throughout the winter, there was not even a single snowfall in the north.
The sinners no longer launched a large-scale attack. In the first two months, they sent out a few teams scattered in three places to pretend to attack. However, it was obvious that the investment in the attack was not large. As long as humans resisted a little, the sinners
will retreat.
Later, even this pretentious feint disappeared, and there was even a situation where both sides were in peace for more than ten days.
What are the criminals doing?
If the answer were told, both Reuenthal and Milo would probably stare out of their eyes.
This answer is weird:
Cut down trees!
The Elf army was the last race to reach the front line. However, with the arrival of the Elf King, with Luo Xue's strength and prestige, although the Orcs Bronze Tiger and Rock were dissatisfied, they could not go against Luo Xue's wishes.
After all, in the previous agreement of several tribes, Luo Xue was still the commander-in-chief of everyone. Even though he was a little dissatisfied, Luo Xue's strength was there, and Dominez of the wolf tribe also firmly supported Luo Xue, and... he had continuously treated humans before.
Although the attack on Kaspersky Fortress was brutal, it did not achieve any actual results.
Even though the two of them were unwilling to obey Luo Xuedi's orders, they also understood that in terms of wisdom, the orcs were far behind the elves, and they still had to be convinced by Luo Xue's wisdom.
As a result, Luoxue successfully took over the command. With a series of orders, the offensive against humans gradually slowed down. Tens of thousands of orcs were still left on the front line to maintain pressure on the human defense line, while more orcs were killed one after another.
Deployed from the front line.
Luoxue's strategy is simple: strengthen control of the occupied areas as quickly as possible.
As a result, within a few months, large numbers of orc warriors transformed from warriors to farmers, craftsmen, and lumberjacks.
With the assistance of the dwarves, simple settlements were built on the land south of the frozen forest and north of the human defense line, based on the ruins of towns abandoned by humans. These settlements are exactly what Luoxue
The “immigration residential area” under consideration.
After the war began, humans deliberately gave up a large area of land north of the Kaspersky Defense Line. In the eyes of humans, this land was a barren and barren place. In the past, this area did not produce much food. The local residents were absolutely
Most of them also make a living by underground trade in the frozen forest.
However, after all, after the war began, more than a dozen towns were abandoned and later turned into ruins. But now, Luoxue has done something simple: use all these ruins to rebuild towns belonging to the orcs!
"We are not going to stay here for a while and then go back! Let's start building this place as our home now! Houses, towns, roads, city walls..."
Under Luo Xue's order, the orcs mustered up their energy and began to build their own home.
Orcs are naturally strong and strong, making them excellent laborers. Coupled with the technical assistance of dwarves, in just a few months, several crude and huge towns have grown to considerable scale.
At the same time, the orcs began to cut down the frozen forest.
The frozen forest covers a vast area. Judging from the area, it covers a land roughly equivalent to two and a half provinces of the empire. And Luo Xuegan's strategy is also very simple: cut down the forest for farmland!
Large tracts of forest were cut down, timber was transported to build towns, and the vacant land was burned and turned into farmland.
The land here is barren and barren by human standards, but it is much more fertile than where the sinners originally lived.
It just so happened that the weather was strangely warm this winter. The orcs began to farm hard.
When the spring comes next year, the flowers bloom, the food is harvested, and there is sufficient capital, it is time for the sinners to launch an offensive!
Luoxue is taking a long-term path: first establish a firm foothold, and then slow down step by step.
"What is real occupation? It's not that our soldiers stand on this land with swords, it's called 'occupation'! When we build our own towns on this land, we plant our own crops on the land.
food, and our family members living in the house... Only then can this place really be considered our own land!"
Luoxue explained this to the orcs. Although orcs are naturally simple-minded, this simple truth still convinced most of them.
As February of the nine hundred and sixty-sixth year of the empire gradually passed, the wind became warmer day by day. After the orcs experienced the winter, many orcs had begun to shed their hair, and the giant wolves of the wolf tribe had also developed thick fur.
Fat, the warrior has had a winter's rest.
Those felled forests turned into wood, turned into countless siege equipment, turned into residences and houses for orc warriors, fortresses, offensives...
It can be said that if the "air attack" launched by humans that night last year had happened today, then even if humans had ground troops to attack, it would be difficult to completely drive the orcs back into the frozen forest in one battle!
Because, in this land to the north, the cities, fortresses, and towns belonging to the orcs one by one have been firmly nailed to this land like nails, leaving a deep mark on this land!
At the end of February, from the far north, groups of orcs, elves, dwarves, and other sinners came to the Roland continent. But this time, not all of them were warriors.
Rather, large numbers of "sinful people" migrated from the sinful land where they had been exiled for thousands of years!
There are old and weak, there are women and children, there are young and strong!
Until this moment, the sinners have truly completed the first step of their return. At the same time, they have established their home in the north, or in other words, a bridgehead for attacking the human world!
"This will be a long process. Don't expect to end this holy war in three to five years." Luoxue said to all the leaders of the orcs, elves, and dwarves: "Our strategy is: cannibalize! One by one.
Swallow bit by bit, eat bit by bit, and bite bit by bit! But we must ensure that every bite of land we bite can quickly become a real territory that belongs to us. If we want to make this place truly become
To become our home, we must first take root here deeply.”
A strong horse gallops on the road leading to the north.
On the empire's road leading to the north, you can always see troops, grain, grass and supplies being transferred to the north, as well as groups of civilians who have been mobilized. Just after the winter, they began to repair the roads in preparation for the future war.
One person and one horse went all the way north, and they didn't know how many scenes they saw. Muse, who was lying on the horse, felt that the closer he got to the north, the more deeply he felt the atmosphere of war. And these were the things he was in the northwest,
This is something I have never experienced in the imperial capital.
After running away from his marriage, Muse knew that he could not go back to the northwest. If he returned to the northwest, he would probably be captured by someone sent by his sister.
Therefore, the choice of Muse is the north.
General Longbottom is on the northern frontline at the moment. It is said that he was appointed by Duwei to command the mercenaries summoned from the mainland. Muse has now run away from home and has no friends, that is, he cannot return to the northwest. So after thinking about it, he has no choice but to run away
He went north to join that fat man Longbottom.
The horse is a top-quality prairie horse, and Muse's riding skills have made great progress in the past few years, honed in the northwest. Although Mrs. Lister sent many family guard knights out to look for Muse, but now Muse
, he is no longer the tomboy who only knew how to contradict Du Wei.
After being under Ruolin for such a long time, she has learned a lot of the ways of the army. At least, it is not too difficult for Muse to deliberately set up a few disguises on the road to lure away the pursuing soldiers.
thing.
Cleverly misdirecting the attention of the pursuers to the northwest, Muse entered the northern theater alone, without even carrying a bag and only wearing a long sword!