The dragon knight who was over forty years old looked at the young dragon knight who was only half his age in front of him. There was a strange luster in his hazel pupils. After hesitating for a moment, the old officer cleared his throat and said with a full official tone: "As a soldier, Your Excellency
Do you know what the highest state of a soldier is?"
An Qiu Sheng was surprised. He didn't understand what Duke Fan was going to say. However, he knew that there were not many people who could make Amy reject him. Duke Fan was one of them. He knew autumn with a leaf. This was enough to show how powerful Duke Fan was.
The young man smiled humbly and spoke very politely: "I'm really sorry. I'm young and short-sighted. I never had the opportunity to lead an army alone in the regiment. I don't know anything about how to use soldiers. Please give me some advice."
The old officer smiled, stretched out his left hand, showing the index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger, and said word by word: "Actually, there are only four words, four very simple words - a battle without a loss of blood!"
General Fan's words faded, and the sound of cold air from the young dragon knight could be heard in the room. The young man who had eaten the golden brain reacted very quickly, and of course he guessed the true meaning behind these four words. The young man felt as if someone had been manipulated in his heart.
He grabbed it and stood up, knocking over the table and chairs at the same time: "Your Excellency... if it delays His Majesty Hongshi's plan to return to the imperial capital, it will be a serious crime."
Duke Fan sighed in his heart, without any expression on his face. Over the years, he has learned a lot from the ups and downs of the officialdom: "Is there such a thing? His Majesty has always told me that he prefers the climate of the Northern Federation. After all, there
Breeding great young men like Amy, Daqingshan, and Horns... Sorry, I forgot, you are also a native of the Frozen Continent."
The muscles at the corner of An Qiusheng's mouth twitched a few times. Now he remembered every word Amy said when he returned to Moyada City. Looking at it today, his heart was bleeding.
Finally, the young man left Duke Fan's tent helplessly and angrily. When he went out, he bumped his head against the flagpole outside the door, causing the officers on duty outside to snicker. Who could know the pain in the heart of this timid young man?
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An Qiu Sheng almost cried all the way back to the Flower Language Plain. The boy who was just under 20 years old was so anxious that he could release the plague to kill all the people of Fanos, but... from the beginning, the boy never thought that the plague would end
The people who suffered the most were the indigenous people of the Eminor continent. This was a burden that his life could not bear.
Amy's face was very calm after hearing Duke Fan's reply. Based on his understanding of Duke Fan, it was not surprising at all. When the small mercenary group was trapped in Xilin Island and Duanbing Port, this was what Duke Fan did at that time, at least.
That was the case on the surface, so he did not blame An Qiu Sheng again, but just warned: "As of now, don't tell anyone else about this matter...especially Chi Aotian and Sha Ruo."
After An Qiu Sheng left the tent, Amy sat alone for a long time.
Amy felt a little chill in her heart. She shared the blessings and suffered the hardships together. Before she could share the blessings, she already wanted to preserve her strength and kill people with a borrowed knife... Hey... How could His Majesty the King and a little mercenary share the blessings...
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Amy can even guess that after the entire Eminor continent war is over, His Majesty Hongshi will probably use the small mercenary group and the Chi Aotian expeditionary force as the basis for the next step, and then join forces with elite troops from other countries to form a cross-oceanic force.
Expeditionary Corps, crusade against the continent of Fanos and even the more distant Alcatraz Island.
If during this process, the chief officers of the small mercenary group are defeated or even wiped out, the result will inevitably be their resignation in despair; what if they win repeated battles and even finally sweep Yunei? Hehe... the result may still be good.
It’s better to “step down in despair”
Perhaps, he really arranged a moderate defeat for the small mercenary group somewhere so that everyone could end the war with dignity. Amy's thumb almost broke the palm of her hand.
Thinking from another angle, Amy can also understand His Majesty Hongshi. In this world, wherever there are people, there will be conspiracies and ambitions. His own brother, Prince Tiedu, can betray the empire, not to mention, a person without any blood relationship.
Relationship mercenary.
Moreover, no one is blind. As this war continues, Amy has already owned a handful of crowns. Both the quality and quantity are unprecedented. While making people acquainted with each other, it is shocking and scary at the same time.
...Perhaps, after the mainland war ended, the "Holy King of the World" had just been driven away over there, and the "King of the Continent" with great voice came out here. Even if His Majesty Hongshi doesn't think so, there are so many ministers around His Majesty.
, such a voice will definitely appear, so now it is a last resort to prepare for a rainy day - Amy, who is almost 30 years old at this time, can only comfort herself in this way.
His Majesty Hongshi is taking precautions, Duke Fan was ordered by the superior, and the small mercenary group is helpless... Almost everyone has their own reasons, and every reason seems to be upright, but these reasons
After that, who is really unable to bear it?
No one asked, and no one wanted to ask!
Amy didn't know how Daqingshan would react if he knew the news. Sha Ruo, on the other hand, had tactfully proposed to go to the Fairy Forest to visit His Highness Lingbaoer two months ago. She probably couldn't stand the tragic scene in front of her, but she was powerless.
Change, so leave in one go.
After the heavy rain on the Huayu Plain stopped, the war did not start immediately. First, the soldiers and civilians who took turns to train needed to regroup; secondly, during the three months of heavy rain, the Allied Forces of the Eminor Empire had a place to rest and recuperate.
The Xidijun cluster surrounded by a radius of more than 300 miles did not have such good luck. They continued to improve the fortifications under the dark heavy rain. In addition, the defenders adopted a defense method that was criticized by later generations - the corpse defense circle: in the encirclement circle.
So many people died that it became a problem to find an open space to bury the bodies. As a last resort, the defenders drove away the civilians and built a pavilion with a total length of nearly 20 miles on the outermost edge of the encirclement, one layer of soil and one layer of corpses.
In the corpse pile, as soon as the heavy rain stopped, the corpses began to rot in the sun. The smell was impossible to smell. More importantly, these corpses were undoubtedly the source of the plague. No matter how brave the general was, he would not dare to risk the plague to attack.
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Therefore, the Eminor Allies can only wait for the first snow.
As a result, Amy could no longer urge General Fan to attack Scambrai, and the war situation in the entire Eminore continent once again entered a period of relaxation that lasted for several months.
Duke Fan has not always been idle under Scambrai City. In addition to sending out the light knight brigade of the Colorful Dragon Knights to search for the remnants of the Sanggan River rebels who had previously escaped along the coastline, he also sent out a large number of inspection teams to investigate.
All rebellious and potentially rebellious nobles in the mountainous areas of the northern empire were examined, and the key task was to confiscate their homes - this was Duke Fan's favorite thing to do in his life.
There is no need to expect that all the proceeds from the confiscation of the house will end up in His Majesty the King's treasury. Duke Fan, who was born in a poor boy, has an outrageous love for money and never tires of it. The Duke's investigation team has arranged cronies like locusts.
Whistling through the Messis Snow Mountains, there was no way to move away except the land. Wherever the inspection team passed, basically only the land was left - and it was still abject poverty.
Regarding Duke Fan's bad habits, there is another voice in later generations - the seasoned Duke Fan did it on purpose. Although there was a small mercenary group and the Chi family in front of him to attract the attention of His Majesty Hongshi, the Duke
Your Excellency is still worried that your success after the war will shock your Majesty, so you use this greed for money to gain His Majesty's peace of mind - greedy and unambitious. Sometimes these two words also have a complimentary meaning.
Scambrai City was besieged for 100 days, and the city was really running out of ammunition and food. General Moramon, one of the four famous generals of the Western Expeditionary Force, died of illness around this time -
- For the general level, Scambrai has special channels to ensure the supply of food, salt, water, medicine, etc. However, there are no more doctors in the true sense. In this great plague, all the hundreds of doctors in Scambrai
Died in the line of duty and without targeted treatment, the Werewolf General's weak body was unable to compete with the plague. When he died of the disease, the Werewolf General, who was known for his ability, looked haggard and his hair was all white, with strands sticking together like hemp in the wild.
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Shortly after General Moramon died of illness, a scout reported to Duke Fan that a marching flag was lowered in the city, and a black flag was raised instead. This only represented a signal. Duke Fan asked casually, "What's the matter?"
Whose flag came down? When he learned that it was the flag of General Moramon, the Duke was slightly startled.
Changes in the human world are really great. Back then, the Fire Lion Army participated in the war for the first time and faced this famous general. That time, the Fire Lion Army returned with a tragic victory! Therefore, Duke Fan was forced to sit idle or under house arrest.
For a period of time, at that time, Duke Fan specifically found out information about the officers of the Fanos Western Expeditionary Force and studied it carefully for a period of time.
Unexpectedly... back then, people who held similar positions to him, such as Chi Hanfeng, Lin He, Mora Beast, Marshal Chi, etc., how many of them had changed their minds and given up on everything.
Duke Fan's sadness only lasted a short moment, and there were more promising things waiting for him to do. In terms of making money, he always believed that he was not much worse than Amy and the late General Chi Hanfeng.
According to the information in his hand, many civil servant families in the empire had built large gold storage kilns in their fiefdoms in the Messis Snow Mountains. Based on his understanding of the civil servant families, those greedy for money would definitely not donate these properties to the West.
Emperor, the previous inspection team only found a few small-scale gold-hiding kilns. The General was very dissatisfied and decided to personally come forward and will not give up until the goal is achieved.
On the fourth day after the Duke arrived on the west coast, he had just started further "inventory" work. Late at night, someone came to report: Three fantasy beast knights came from the imperial capital and urgently asked to see the general, saying that there was a major military intelligence report.