I Will Be The Crowned King

At the same time, in the west of the land, at the border between the Principality of Aiden and Carindia.

In the field where the wheat waves drifted, the neighing of crows hovered in the air again and again; the prisoners whose expressions were either numb or unwilling were escorted to the edge of the battlefield, kneeling in front of the expressionless Duke Aiden's war horse.

With the flash of gunfire and surging gunpowder smoke, hundreds of captives were stabbed by lead bullets from the back of their necks, pierced through their skulls, and fell silently and neatly in a pool of dark red blood.

A **** but short-lived rebellion had just ended a few minutes ago.

As the "gatekeeper" of the west gate of Hantu, the proud Aiden can be said to have the characteristics of the two regions of Hantu and the Empire, not only the simplicity of Hantu, but also the chivalry of the imperial people; For the Emmanuel family, this "feature" is also a double-edged sword.

The advantage is that the Aiden people have a strong sense of honor under the blending of the two cultures, and are loyal to their lords.

The disadvantage is that this strong sense of honor often makes them extremely impulsive, and they often disobey military orders for military exploits without supervision - this is fatal - and at the same time make them only willing to be loyal to the strong.

As long as the Emmanuel family, the rulers of Aiden, shows a little bit of weakness, they will betray without hesitation until the rebellion is ended.

Therefore, for every Duke Aiden, it does not matter what character he is, but he must be a cruel and merciless tyrant when facing his own people and vassals; To conquer and loot, and to exterminate all alien voices internally, only then can the Aiden be dead set on him.

This time the situation is no different - the fiasco of the Green Valley, and the Duke's conquest of Carindia not only yielded nothing, but instead caused Aiden to bear a huge loss.

So after the army withdrew to the territory of the Principality of Aiden, a force of less than 2,000 people rebelled without warning.

Like the countless rebellions Victor Emmanuel had experienced before, the rebels who were determined to rebel had no plans at all. the Duke".

So just after they raised the flag of rebellion, and before they could figure out the situation, Victor Emmanuel calmly made dumplings, and in less than two hours, they were defeated and wiped out, and the suppression was clean.

Looking at the soldiers cheering and cheering on the chaotic battlefield, and the very few gnashing their teeth and casting malicious glances at him, Duke Aiden with a cold face remained silent, planning the next opportunity to suppress the rebellion in his heart. and time.

The failure of the invasion of Carindia hit him far beyond killing a handful of disaffected soldiers.

At this moment, the messenger behind him suddenly walked in and handed a letter to him.

Opening the letterhead, the young duke's eyes revealed a trace of untraceable surprise, and immediately said to the messenger indifferently:

"Go and assemble the army."

The messenger looked a little surprised. In his mind, the duke had no record of stopping the soldiers from cheering and celebrating after the war: "Now?"

"Immediately." Duke Aiden increased his tone:

"The Clovis people are going to use Mist to open the knife-according to the covenant, after three days, we will provide at least a servant army of 8,000 people to Ansen Bach's hands."

"You really intend to fulfill that promise?"

The messenger's expression was even more surprised, and his expression was a bit complicated: "But they are all Aiden's enemies. Wouldn't it be better for them to fight the Mist first?"

"Yes, they are all Aiden's enemies, but Aiden can't fight against so many enemies at the same time!" Duke Aiden shook his head:

"Carindia We failed, but that doesn't mean attacking Carindia was a mistake - Aiden is too poor, not populated enough, and the land is not fertile enough, so we must expand! We must open up, have Only with a bigger fundamental market can we gain a firm foothold in the future of Hantu.”

"So we have to join forces with the enemy?"

The messenger's eyes were somewhat reluctant: "Even if he is our mortal enemy, someone who once threatened your life?"

"We must join forces with them, even if he was not a threat, but actually shot me to death." Duke Aiden narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his hand slightly and pressed the back of the messenger's head:

"The outcome of this war is very likely to determine the future of the vast land for nearly fifty years; the Clovis people sent Anson Bach to set a fire in Eagle Point City, and the quiet and peaceful land of a hundred years has never been seen again. I can't go back to the mediocre era of the Seven Cities Alliance."

"Future Hantu will no longer be able to stay out of the way, watching the struggle for power in the orderly world; even if we just want to survive, we must join them."

"And right now, the best place to gain benefits and see where the situation is going is around Anson Bach." Duke Aiden stared into the eyes of the messenger:

"So do you understand why I insisted on letting you go to him and become Aiden's hostage?"

"Understood." The messenger twitched his throat vigorously, his eyes gradually becoming frenzied:

"For Aiden, for Emmanuel, for your... father."

"No, it's for yourself." Duke Aiden suddenly sighed with emotion: "I was born in a time when the land and the sea were peaceful. What will happen to her in the future, I am as confused as you are."

"So don't stay by my side anymore, go and learn how to be the future Duke of Aiden, Renaud Emmanuel...my son!"

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Whether it is full of longing or dreams, when the excited Leon François arrives at Golden Rock, and the complicated heir of Aiden embarks on the road to the port of Carindia, he surrounds the last Han of the Seven Cities Alliance. In the country of Turkey, huge war machines have ignited the fire, turning the gears, and the sharp whistle will herald the fog of iron and blood covering the land.

Three days after the "800,000 Gold Trophy" incident, the originally excited officers and soldiers of the Storm Division finally calmed down. Except for a very few diehards who lacked their brains, most of them still accepted the reality.

Since the deputy commander refused to come forward, the remaining middle and low-level officers of the Storm Division naturally did not have the courage to challenge the Army and the Privy Council-especially when the little secretary sat in the corner and kept the minutes of the meeting, even if there were Those who are brave don't dare.

These scumbags can still tell the difference between coercing their peers to rebel and being a standout.

In addition, during the time they stayed in the port of Carindia, from Carl Bain to the small company commander of a certain line of the Storm Division, almost all the officers were shocked by Carindia. Nobles stuffed bribes.

For this kind of subordinates' "earning extra money" behavior, An Sen, who is not clean himself, will not explicitly stop it. In addition to the loot of the previous battles, the pockets and accounts are not poor. The point of making money.

Of course, even if he had to reluctantly cut the flesh in the end, it did not mean that Anson was so willing to hand over such a huge sum of money to the Privy Council; in the letter he sent to Miss Sophia, he had already briefly introduced the cause of the whole thing. , and ask for the assistance of the other party.

It is impossible to collect such a large amount of indemnity from the port of Carindia without the help of the Church of Order. As the eldest daughter and assistant of the Archbishop, the esteemed Miss Sophia is often stupid on many common sense issues. like a young immature girl.

But when it comes to gold coins engraved with saints and banknotes with a good smell, her ability, according to the description of the little clerk, is "second only to the existence of the Archbishop".

Or to put it another way, if Anson is not willing to get a fraction of one percent from the huge sum of 800,000 gold coins, Sophia Franz is his only hope.

Of course, it is unrealistic to ask the eldest lady to "voluntarily labor" for her loyal subordinates - all the art and luxury gifts from Carindia, Anson sent Carl Bain to pack them all to Clovis City .

Well, Anson's gang doesn't have any artistic skills anyway. In his eyes, oil paintings and sculptures are not as good as a twelve-pound shrapnel, and in Lisa's eyes, they are not as good as a piece of yellow peach cake (she's tired of eating cherry cake recently) , in Carl Bain's eyes, it is not as good as a sweat-wicking and breathable shirt, in Fabian's eyes...it is worth the money and it is an excellent stepping stone.

After deciding how to solve the 800,000 gold coins, it is time to consider how to attack the Grand Duchy of Mist, the last powerful country in the vast land.

With a population of 4 million and an army of at least 50,000 people, it controls most of the plains and the most fertile land in the entire Hantu, and is also the country with the largest territory in the entire Hantu.

Therefore, although it is the leading power in Hantu, the strength of Mist is a mystery - the reason why it is called "Grand Duchy" is because it is formed by the union of four duchies, so Grand Duke Mist cannot be like Grand Duke Thun. Very good control and control of their vassals, most of the time in a state of "local autonomy" that can only be left alone.

This is also why Anson must deal with Carindia and Aiden first, and put the Grand Duchy of Mist at the end.

First of all, regardless of strength, first of all, Mist's territory is more than twice that of Thun. To conquer her, it is far from enough to rely on more than 5,000 storm divisions, at least with the strength of the Francois family.

Secondly, even if the Grand Duchy of Mist is not strong, it does not mean that the Grand Duchy of Mist is weak - this sounds a bit contradictory, but it is very common in this era when countries were ruled by feudal princes.

In a region with a high degree of autonomy, simply defeating her nominal ruler is not enough; Anson must also take the storm division to a castle and a fortress to gnaw, and fight 10,000 security battles a day, which takes several months. Only by suppressing all the rebels can the entire Mist be conquered.

Uh, probably.

Because of this, Mist was put last in Anson's original plan - first control the eastern part of the land, then launch an offensive on the most prosperous southern part, and finally reach a compromise with the westernmost Duchy of Aiden, close the doors and beat the dogs, and gather together. The power of most of the vast earth swallowed Mist.

So far, apart from "a little" a small change, everything has basically not exceeded his expectations.

Among them, the Grand Duchy of Mist, in particular, did not bring any surprises to Anson; it was obviously the country with the largest territory and the largest population in Hantu, but it was completely indifferent to the changes around it.

She neither sent troops to interfere or join Aiden's invasion of Carindia, nor did she warn Thun's attempts to expand her power and influence, nor did she have any contact with her "Clovis invader"... An outsider is still an outsider.

According to the intelligence gathered by Fabien and the little clerk, plus the information that Leon occasionally got from his father's letter, the only thing the Grand Duchy of Mist was doing during this time was... uh...

Infighting.

The fall of Eaglehorn City and the collapse of the Seven Cities Alliance have become a golden opportunity for the Mist nobles to rebel and seize power, and they don't have to worry about the great opportunity for Archduke Mist to get the help of allies.

So from April to June, the balance was completely broken due to the inability of the Grand Duke himself to suppress the rebellious nobles; the Mist, who had not been invaded by any enemy, fell into a brutal factional civil war among the nobles.

"... Therefore, for us outsiders, this is also the best time to invade Mist!"

At the military conference, Carl Bain, the chief of staff who has always been wary and cautious, began to trumpet for war uncharacteristically:

"The civil war between the nobles has caused the entire Grand Duchy of Mist to split into four factions, roughly the forces of the Grand Duke himself, and then the two most powerful ex-dukes of Mist, the Earl of Copper Mountain Castle and the Earl of Greywood Valley, and the eldest son of the Grand Duke and the heir."

"Heir?" An officer sitting on the left suddenly called out:

"He's already an heir~www.readwn.com~ Why do you still want to rebel against your own father?"

"Because of the distinguished Archduke Mister, this year is already eighty-seven years old."

Fabianpi, who was sitting in the front row, said with a smile, "Then... he gave birth to this heir who lived as long as him when he was seventeen years old."

There was silence in the conference room at first, and then there were intermittent sounds of exclamations and cold breaths.

"But this doesn't prove that now is the best time to invade Mist, right?" Another young officer who graduated from the Military Academy said:

"Usually when a country in a civil war is invaded by a foreign enemy, doesn't it become unprecedentedly united?"

"That's right, it's usually like this." An Sen took over and said in a relaxed tone:

"But this time is different. Not only will they not unite, but they will thank us!"

After speaking, he turned his gaze to Carl Bain who was interrupted behind him, motioning him to continue.

The chief of staff, who twitched the corners of his mouth, had to explain:

"The heir to the Grand Duchy of Mist, Ruko Visenia has officially issued an invitation to our Deputy Commander, asking the 'noble Clovis' to fight alongside him."

"He promised that as long as we defeat the evil father and shameless subjects for him, and help him ascend to the throne of the Grand Duke of Mist... He will agree to all conditions for us!"

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