I really can't control myself

Here Linton is busy building the city, and over there the foreign war is slowly fermenting.

The empire officially announced the accounts of the captured assassins, stating that they were all bribed by the elven Varashi Kingdom to destroy the banquet and assassinate the heir to the empire. Of course, there was no need for the empire to announce it. In fact, before it was announced, everyone knew about the rumor, and no one knew where it came from.

At this time, the people of the entire empire were celebrating the birth of the heir, which was the hope for the future of the empire. However, when something like this happened suddenly, it was obviously not good for them. The attitude of the people can be imagined. They were all filled with righteous indignation. The Warahi Kingdom was on the verge of a bullet.

Of course, no one cares about the so-called truth, nor does anyone actually want to know whether those assassins were bribed by people from the Elf Kingdom. Anyway, the empire has already announced the news. An invisible hand has been pushing things forward. For example, right now, the people are only concerned about asking the Elf Kingdom for an explanation.

So what is the reaction of the elven Kingdom of Varashi? Just no response. Yes, Queen Yalan just sent a letter of questioning at first, asking the other party to explain. However, after the credentials were sent, nothing happened. After waiting for several days, there was no reply or statement from the other party. It seemed that they had not received their credentials. generally.

Yalan also asked someone to confirm, but the credentials were indeed sent, but the other party did not respond. Then this time it really doesn't give the empire face.

This matter is indeed a problem of the elves. As mentioned before, these elves are still very arrogant. They have indeed been questioned about their credentials by the Holy Empire of Yilan. Of course, they are also quite confused. What does this matter have to do with them? They really knew nothing about assassins and the like, and of course they were not sent by them.

Originally, Yu Qingyu should explain it. Although it is probably of little use to explain this matter, as it was originally planned by the empire, at least you can gain some sense by explaining it. However, the response from the elves was to ignore it.

Yes, the elves are too lazy to care about these messy things. They will basically not participate in the continental war. You can do whatever you like. We can take care of our own lives. You can handle any invitations to banquets you want before, and they are too lazy to attend. The current question letter has nothing to do with them, and they are too lazy to reply to you. They don't bother to pay attention to things that have nothing to do with them.

However, this naturally aroused the anger of the Holy Empire of Yilan. The people were already very angry, but you still didn't respond. This is a guilty conscience, right? It was you who did it, so you acquiesced, right?

For a time, public dissatisfaction boiled over, and the recruitment points for new recruits in various legions were suddenly crowded with people who signed up, saying that they would go to the battlefield to find an explanation from the elves. If the literary ones are not good, we will come with the military ones.

It's just that there is really no shortage of soldiers in the empire at present. The basic numbers of the major legions are really too many, and the recruitment quotas are simply not enough.

At this time, the generals of each legion also jointly submitted a letter, asking the Queen to order the expedition. The most important thing was to seek justice for the heir, His Royal Highness. In fact, it was mainly Esdeath's First Legion that shone brightly in the war between the Orcs. They were all envious of their military exploits. Now that the empire had strong troops, they really wanted to fight.

The morale of the military and the people were all tied together at this time, and the war against the elves was obviously inevitable. It's not like you are hesitant on Yalan's part. Previously, she thought it was a bit strange that the assassin was from the Elf clan. Of course, she didn't think about Linton. Instead, she thought it was framed by people from other countries. But you, the elves, didn't even reply to the question letter. This is so disrespectful to the empire. You really think that the empire's words have no effect, right?

But before the war officially starts, there is still one problem that needs to be solved, that is... their empire and the elves are not bordering each other at all, there is a country in between.

It is estimated that most of the people who are shouting to settle accounts with the elves don't know about this. It should be that most people don't even know which side the elves are in the southeast, northwest, and northwest. The territory of the elves is actually in the north of the empire. Varashi is a kingdom, but in terms of territory, it is about the same size as the Holy Empire of Elan.

It's just that there are large areas of undeveloped forests and other areas in the elves' territory. The territory is very large, but the national power... is actually very weak. They rarely interact with the outside world, and there is almost no development in business and the like. But the reason why the minister told Linton before that the elves were not easy to deal with was mainly because of their racial talents.

Yes, the elves are a long-lived race compared to humans, and their innate panel attributes are several levels higher than humans. In particular, his outstanding talents in archery and magic should be said to be incomparable to humans. Of course, the human race also has its own racial talents, and explosive population is one of them. Despite its large land area, the Elf Empire’s population is estimated to be less than one-thirtieth of the Human Empire. In this almost medieval era, population is manpower, and manpower is national strength. No matter how strong the innate advantages are, an Elf Can it do more work than 30 humans?

What's more, they have blocked themselves, and the gap between the two countries in terms of technology has become even greater. The weapons and equipment of the army are obviously not of the same level. The elves here don't even have armor forging skills. It is said that most of the army still wears leather armor, or leather with a layer of iron.

Of course, the gap between the two countries only happened after the war started. What we want to talk about now is how to start the war. This is about the country between the two countries, an unfortunate country called Sardinia.

The Kingdom of Sardinia is a small country with a small land area. The land in the country is barren, with a large forest to the north, but the elves will not let them in and have drawn a national boundary across the forest. In short, the rich resources in the forest have nothing to do with them. The southern part is against the border of the human empire. Of course, it is an existence that they cannot afford to mess with. The human race was too lazy to take this land in the middle to prevent the country from being destroyed. It was difficult to survive in this gap. .

Of course they went to the full moon banquet of the heir to the southern empire. Instead of simply sending people to celebrate, the king himself went directly, becoming one of the few countries where the king went to attend in person. The survival of their country does not partly depend on the influence of the Human Empire, because if the Empire really wants to touch them, it will be effortless, and it must have a good relationship with them.

However, what I didn't expect was that the king personally attended the banquet. Before the flattery could be photographed, a bolt from the blue came. The king hasn't gone back yet. He has already heard that the human race may go to war with the elves, and their country happens to be in the middle of the two countries. Isn't this ridiculous?

The King of Sardinia calculated that his country might become the main battlefield between the two countries. Can their small country withstand the ravages of such a war? But the question is what do you say? There was nothing he could do. The tragedy of a small country was that he had no choice at all. All he could do now was pray that a fight wouldn't start.

Unfortunately, praying is of no use. Yalan here knew that King Wende of Sardinia had not returned yet, so he summoned him directly and said that we are preparing to go on an expedition. What are you going to do? Our two countries have a good relationship. Why don't you join us in fighting the elves?

King Sardinand said you are joking. Our country has less than 1,000 soldiers in total, and you have a regiment of more than 100,000. You want us to fight the elves with you? It is obvious that what the Holy Empire of Elan wants is not their military help at all, but their agreement to participate in the war, then their land will naturally become a real battlefield.

Of course he doesn't want to get involved. It's best for us to be neutral. If you want to fight, can you bypass our land and fight? It's best not to let us get involved. Surely this is possible? It's obviously impossible. Yalan's intention is to say clearly that we are going to expropriate your land. The King of Sardinia understands that he doesn't want to, but he has no choice.

In the end, King Sardinia "happily agreed" to join the war. So the next day, the Holy Empire of Elan declared war on the elves, mobilized 340,000 troops and three legions, and set off towards the north. The Kingdom of Sardinia sent 800 Royal Guards to participate in the battle, and the king personally led the troops. This scale was already the full strength of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

And the 340,000 troops dispatched by the Holy Empire of Yilan are only half of the empire's total strength. Yes, the current empire's national power is really strong. Even a single legion of the orcs over there has not been transferred back, and they can still be mobilized here. With an army of more than 300,000, even before the battle, this national power has already staggered other forces across the continent.

And this sudden declaration of war made the Elf Kingdom a little confused. Did he really declare war with them? To be honest, they really didn't take the previous questioning letter seriously, but they didn't expect that the next letter they received was a letter of challenge.

The first reaction of the elves was to get angry. They were already very upset by questioning them inexplicably before. Even if they ignored you, they would give you face to the human race. How dare you come to them? So the elves responded for the first time, and the content of the response was to scold the humans and apologize to them quickly.

This time, the human race ignored it, and the troops of the three legions had already assembled to the north. The stage of negotiation has passed. When the declaration of war is issued, it is no longer a problem that can be solved with words. I don’t have time to talk nonsense with you. Let’s fight first and then talk.

Of course, it would take about half a month for the three legions to assemble in the north, so it would still be a while before the war officially started. At this time, Linton finally got a relatively suitable mission, and he was ready to set out to investigate.