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 Kingdom of Varashi to destroy the banquet and assassinate the heirs of the empire. Of course, there is no need for the empire to announce it. In fact, it did not wait for the announcement. Rumors
Everyone knows that it has been spread, and no one knows 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. But suddenly something like this happened, which was obviously not good for them. The attitude of the people can be imagined. They were all filled with righteous indignation. This
The Kingdom of Wallahi is on the receiving end of a gun.
Of course, no one cares about the so-called truth, nor will they actually find out whether those assassins were bribed by people from the Elf Kingdom. Anyway, the empire has announced the news. An invisible hand has been pushing things forward.
Development, for example now, the people are only concerned about asking the Elf Kingdom for an explanation.
So what was the reaction of the elven Varashi Kingdom? There was no response. Yes, Queen Yalan just sent a letter of questioning at first and asked the other party to explain. However, after the letter of credence was sent, nothing came of it. After waiting for several days, there was no reply at all from the other party.
Or a statement or something like that, as if I didn’t receive their credentials.
Yalan also asked someone to confirm it, but the credentials were indeed sent, but the other party did not respond. So this time it was really disrespectful to the empire.
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? Assassins
They really don't know anything about such things, and of course they are not sent by them.
Originally, I should explain it because of the situation. Although it is probably useless to explain this matter. It was originally planned by the empire, but at least explain it and you can gain some understanding. However, the reaction of the elves is to ignore it.
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Yes, the elves are too lazy to care about these messy things. They basically won't participate in the continental war. You can do whatever you like. We take care of our own lives. You can handle any invitations to the banquet before.
They are too lazy to participate. The current question letter has nothing to do with them, and they are too lazy to reply to you. They are too lazy to pay attention to things that have nothing to do with them.
However, this naturally aroused the anger of the Holy Empire of Elan. The people were already very angry, but you still didn't respond. This is a guilty conscience, right? It was you who did it, and you acquiesced, right?
For a time, public dissatisfaction boiled over, and the recruiting points of each legion were suddenly crowded with applicants, 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 are all tied together at this time, and the war against the elves is obviously inevitable. Yalan is not the one who hesitates. She thought it was a bit strange that the assassin was from the elves before.
, of course, I didn’t think about Linton, but I thought it was framed by people from other countries, but your elves didn’t even reply to the question letter. This is so disrespectful to the empire. You really don’t care what the empire says.
Use it, 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. Most people probably don't even know which side the elves are in the north, south, east, west, etc. The elves' territory 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 territory of the elves. 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 attributes are several levels higher than humans. Especially their outstanding talents in archery and magic should be said to be incomparable to humans. Of course, humans are here.
It also has its own racial talents, and explosive population is one of them. Although the Elf Empire is very large, its population is estimated to be less than one-thirtieth of the Human Empire. In this almost medieval era, population is manpower, and manpower is
In terms of national strength, no matter how strong the innate advantages are, can one elf do more work than 30 humans?
What's more, they have sealed themselves off, and the gap between the two countries in terms of technology is 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 wears
It's still leather armor, or leather with a layer of iron or the like.
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 involves the country between the two countries, an unlucky country called Sardinia.
The Kingdom of Sardinia is a small country with a small land area. The land in the country is barren and it is surrounded by a large forest to the north. However, the elves will not let them enter and have drawn a national boundary across the forest. In short, it is the rich resources and resources in the forest.
They have no relationship. The southern part is against the border of the human empire, and of course it is an existence that they cannot afford to offend at all. This broken land in the middle was too lazy to take when the human race was divided into three parts before the country was destroyed. It is difficult here
Survived in the cracks.
Of course they went to the full moon banquet held by the heirs of the southern empire. They did not simply send people to celebrate. The king himself went directly, becoming one of the few countries where the king personally attended. The survival of their country does not actually depend in part on
The breath 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 attended the banquet in person. Before he could flatter him, a bolt from the blue came. The king hadn't gone back yet, and he had already heard that the human race might go to war with the elves, and they
The country happens to be right in the middle of the two countries. Isn’t this a stupid thing?
The King of Sardinia calculated that his country might become the main battlefield between the two countries. Can their small country withstand the devastation of such a war? But the question is what do you say? There is nothing he can do.
The sorrow of the small country is that he has no choice at all. All he can do now is pray that the two sides will not fight.
It's a pity that 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? We have a good relationship between the two countries, what else?
Come fight the elves with us.
King Sardinand said you are joking. Our entire country has less than 1,000 soldiers in total, and any of your legions has more than 100,000. You want us to fight the elves with you? Obviously, what the Holy Empire of Yilan wants is not at all.
With their military help, but if they agree to participate in the war, 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 go around our country and fight? It's best not to let us get involved. Of course, is this possible? It's obviously impossible. What Yalan means
All we have to do is make it clear that we want to expropriate your land. The King of Sardinia understands that he doesn't want to, but he has no choice.
In the final result, King Sardinande "happily agreed" to join the war. So the next day, the Holy Empire of Ilan declared war on the elves, mobilized 340,000 troops and three legions, and set off towards the north. The Kingdom of Sardinende
On the side, 800 Royal Guards were sent to join in the battle, and the king personally led the troops. This scale was already the might 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 strength is really strong. Even a single legion of the orcs over there has not been transferred back, and here they can still assemble it at will.
With an army of more than 300,000, even before the war started, this national strength has already staggered the other forces in the continent.
And this sudden declaration of war made the Elf Kingdom a little confused. Did they really declare war with them? To be honest, they really didn't take the previous questioning letter seriously. As a result, they didn't expect that the next letter they received was...
War letter.
The first reaction of the elves was to get angry. The inexplicable questioning of them before had already made them very unhappy. Even if they ignored you, even if they gave you face for the human race, you still dare to come to them? So the elves issued a message for the first time.
In response, the content of the response was to scold the human race and express an apology to them immediately.
This time, the human race ignored it. The three legions of troops have already gathered in the north. The negotiation stage 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 to you. Let’s start with
Let’s talk about it later.
Of course, it would take about half a month for the three legions to assemble in the north, so there was still a while before the official start of the war. At this time, Linton finally got a relatively suitable mission, and he was ready to set out to investigate.
This chapter has been completed!