1789 The Ambition of Centralbia (1)
In the early morning, a servant pushed open the bedroom door tremblingly and lit the candlestick filled with tears with a candle. The dim light awakened Hasenranbo, who was sleeping on the desk.
"Sir, there is an urgent order. The messenger who sent the order is waiting in the front hall. Please go and greet him quickly." The attendant said to him carefully.
"Urgent Order"
Hasen Rambo turned his neck, which was a little painful, stretched his numb limbs, and rushed to the front hall with his coat. Before he arrived, he saw the entire hall filled with bright fire and shadows. A team of emperor guards wearing winged armor stood at the door of the hall, looking at him with a vigilant look.
"The Emperor's Imperial Guard? Didn't it mean that the investigators would arrive for half a month? Why did they arrive early!"
Hasen Rambo's tried-and-tested eyebrows frowned slightly, and an unknown premonition arose in his heart. When he walked into the hall, a tall and burly leader of the Imperial Guard had been waiting for him. Seeing him approaching him quickly, he took off his helmet, and bent down to salute, "Is it Lord Hasen Rambo? Hello, I am Eric, the captain of the Seventh Team of the Imperial Guard, sorry for disturbing me."
"You are Eric!" Hasen Rambo's eyes paused for a moment. It turned out to be someone he knew. He nodded and said, "I have seen you. Among the people who came from Kyoto to exchange the Juliers family for Miss Julia last time, one is Philip of the Intelligence Department, and the other is you!"
"I didn't expect that Lord Hasen Rambo still remembers the little "Imperial Guard Eric laughed,
"It's good, I don't prove myself. This is the personal letter from Miss Algeron Julia. "Eric took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it to Hasen Rambo, who was full of confusion. I believe that the adults also know that Kyoto is thoroughly investigating the crime of military capital trafficking. This time, I deliberately went ahead to get rid of the borers that sold military capital as soon as possible, and also asked the adults to provide assistance!"
"Assist!" Hasen Rambo's strong heart trembled for a moment. After taking the secret letter, his face became ugly and he suddenly became silent.
The situation was worse than he expected. This time the Imperial Guards took action directly. This showed that the woman had made up her mind. In order to avoid any accidents during the escort, the Imperial Guards had the right to execute immediately after they caught the target. They did not even need the most basic review. A very cruel woman, as long as a crime that did not require investigation, those who were dissatisfied with him would be cleaned up. As for the trafficking of military funds, in a chaotic situation, she was not casually saying that she had abandoned the tens of thousands of troops on the Western Front for two months without regard. The soldiers were hungry and digging wild vegetables to fill their stomachs. Who would pursue such a crime?
"Mr. Hasen Rambo!" The captain of the Imperial Guards Eric looked gloomy when he saw Hasen Rambo silent.
"Cough cough, isn't the culprit of reselling military funds already committed suicide in Kyoto?" Hasen Rambo coughed dryly. After a long storm, he had never seen any scene. He said slowly and seriously, "I checked it some time ago, it was clear that it was all the merchants from the northwest behind the scenes. They had confiscated so many of the property of the northwest people. The smell of blood has been floating for more than a month. Now I'm going to arrest people again. What is Miss Julia doing?"
"Please note your words, Lord Hasen Rambo!" Eric groaned very dissatisfied, and several guards immediately surrounded him with murderous intent. Seeing that his posture was very meaningful to take action, a passionate guard held the sword directly in his hand, and his eyes flashed with murderous intent
Feeling the cold in the atmosphere, Hasen Rambo's face turned slightly cold, and said bluntly
"What? Do you still want to do it here? This is the corps headquarters of the Sixth Army, and there are three squadrons of the Sixth Army stationed outside! As long as there is a little accident here, they will rush in and tear you apart. In their eyes, there is no majesty of the imperial guard!"
"Don't misunderstand Mr. Hasen Rambo! Young people are ignorant!"
Eric's face changed, and he realized that he was in Hasen Rambo's base camp and quickly laughed. He glared at the guard with his eyes. He was Algeron Julia's confidant. This Kyoto Incident was caused by his own actions. The Ministry of Military Affairs was severely weakened in this incident. The military power fell into Algeron Julia's hands. His status also increased. Although he was still nominally the captain of the Imperial Guard, his power of supervision was even higher than that of ordinary generals. To Hasen Rambo, the outdated first general of the Empire, he was so polite to see the other party's position that he had helped redeem Algeron Julia.
According to the previous plan, if the other party has any objection to the matter, he would not mind arresting Hasen Rambo immediately. He believed that Hasen Rambo, as the main commander of the Western Front Army, had an unshirkable responsibility for the trafficking of military funds. It was too easy to make a charge, but he did not expect that Hasen Rambo was simply the kind that was not soft or hard.
Taking a deep breath, Eric suppressed his unwillingness and said, "Sir, you won't know the principle of eliminating evil. It's useless to just shovel dead branches. You must even remove the roots!"
The young guards' nostrils were facing the sky, and they said in a cold voice, "And the lady had received a secret report when she was in Kyoto. In the area where Lord Hasen Rambo was stationed, it is said that a large number of soldiers were running away! Instead of worrying about the worms, it would be better to care more about this! If this situation continues to expand, I don't know how many people will be left by the arrival of the Northern Army! But don't let the guys of the Northern Army see the joke. If the lady asks me to take it, I will bring it."
After Eric finished speaking, he blew up and left with a group of guards arrogantly. He had just stepped out of the door of Hassen Rambo's residence. Eric's face suddenly turned gloomy, and his eyes were shining with a hint of coldness.
The Imperial Guard officer next to him asked curiously, "Sir, according to the plan, we will directly arrest the old guy who was in trouble. They were all beaten like dogs by the Falcon Empire, and they still put on the title of famous generals in front of us. As long as he is here on the Western Front, we will find it difficult to arrest people. Even if he has three squadrons under his command, I don't believe that if I catch him, the troops below will still dare to move!"
"What do you know? Miss said that Hasen Rambo is a tiger. He is cautious by nature and has a different perception than ordinary people. He is not sure, so don't take action easily!" Eric looked at the black sky above his head, and said in a serious tone, "Don't compare Hasen Rambo with other generals. Just by escaping from the clutches of the Wikia Falcon's destruction of the enemy many times, you can know how powerful he is. The falcon's claws will never fall into nothing. This proverb that makes everyone feel frown. In this guy who is as quiet as a virgin and as moving as a rabbit, he has no effect at all. In the early stage of the Battle of Rusty, the Eighth Legion, which was attacking at the same time, was swallowed by the Falcon Army and the leather bones, but his Sixth Legion withstood the Falcon Army's attack throughout the winter.
In the late stage of the Battle of Rusty, when the Eastern and Central Lines were fully in the fall, he held the Western Line for 18 days. Finally, under the siege of the Falcon Army, he still jumped alive and led tens of thousands of troops out of the encirclement. At this moment, all the Gaul generals were trembling in their hearts when they saw the Falcon Battle Flag. Only he dared to go up against the wind and lead more than a dozen guards to patrol the sidelines once a day. To be fair, if the Gaul generals could be like him, the empire would not have become what they are today in just two years!"
"Then why do you still target him on purpose?" The officers of the Imperial Guard became more and more confused when they heard this. Why should such a famous general be treated like this?
"Empression is appreciated, Rusty's battle has shown that Hasen Rambo can't stop the Falcon Army!" Eric sighed, "The 110,000 troops of the Northern Army advancing west are about to arrive, and the army needs a commander. In terms of qualifications and reputation, as well as experience in fighting the Falcon Army, Hasen Rambo is the best choice. This is the lady who doesn't want to see it. The Northern Army is the last elite force in the empire. If possible, the lady hopes to send someone who is most trusted to command! That's why she has to suppress Hasen Rambo and finally let him give up this idea directly!"
In the autumn harvest season in August, the golden wheat waves turned into wheat straw piled up several meters high in the fields, and the fragrance of smoke was floating in the wind.
With a slight obscure and helpless mood, Xu Lidong, the special envoy of the Central Biya Empire, looked at the scene outside the carriage. The half-falling sunset shone on the river in front, and the stones and water surface were all glowing with golden luster. After entering the Falcon Empire controlled area from the border of the Gaul, Xu Lidong seemed particularly attentive to everything outside the car window.
This is the first time that the Central Bian Empire has contacted another powerful empire, the Falcon Empire. It seems that the Rusty area, which has caused the Gauls to lose troops and generals, has basically returned to normal. Although the roads are still a little bumpy, compared with the large ruins on the battle line, this place is already a very generous place. This was originally a very ordinary scene, but Xu Dongli felt it a lot.
August is supposed to be a season of harvest. In Zhongbya, its homeland, the desolation of the fields became increasingly serious due to the war. A large number of strong laborers were forced to join the army and were constantly consumed on the battlefield. Even with the strong population of the Central Bible Empire, there was a shortage of human resources. Of course, the most important thing is that the northern region, the densest population of the Central Bible Empire, was trampled by the iron hooves of the nomadic Dongting people, and a large area of fertile land became an uninhabited area where the bones fell. The fine fields grew weeds that were as tall as humans. When the wind blew, it made a trembling sound that made the whole body shook.
The Dongting people did not have the tradition of managing population. In their eyes, the people in the occupied areas were wasteful of food except becoming slaves, and the waste had no value left.
It should be killed all of them, and the land that is contaminated by blood is the most valuable thing. This is the most direct idea of the Dongting nobles. They led cavalry to massacre the Zhongbi's people everywhere, turning fertile fields into wastelands, and each city has turned into a dead land, stringing the heads of dead people on the city gate, and stringing the skeletons make trembling whimpers when the wind blows.
The brutal Dongting people firmly believed that what they did was the inspiration of immortality. They were following the will of immortality, and even the slaughtered righteousness. The places where nomadic cavalry traveled south were almost everywhere, and the scene of the city being destroyed and the family being destroyed, one-tenth of the population of Central and Bijaya disappeared.
The once powerful empire was shattered by the rolling horse hooves from the grassland, and was overwhelmed by the scimitars of the grassland people. The north fell on a large scale. What made the Central Biya Empire most anxious was that large areas of iron ore in the northern region also fell into the hands of the Dongting people. In the past, the equipment of the Dongting cavalry was mainly leather armor. Now iron armor is becoming more and more popular, and there are enough iron for forging arrow clusters. The Dongting cavalry arrows fell down like money. In the past, the Dongting cavalry went to battle, and there would be no more than twenty arrow clusters in the quiver, and they would draw their swords to charge after shooting. However, now, a quiver was filled with stuffed bundles of spare arrows in the back with a carriage. As soon as the war started, it would shoot! Shoot! Shoot! The infantry of the Zhongpyean Empire could not withstand such tactics and were almost phobic. The report submitted by the forging officer this year also made the emperor of the Central Biya Empire panic.
Now it is the Central Bayan Empire that is short of iron. There are not many iron ore in the southern part of the Central Bayan Empire. The consumption of the front line has reached the bottom line of inventory. Just as if a large number of iron ore cannot be found in half a year, the soldiers on the front line will face a miserable situation where there is no arrow to shoot and no armor to wear.
Think about fighting against the unparalleled grassland cavalry, without arrow clusters or iron armor, it would be a fate of being slaughtered.
Since there is no such thing in China, the Central Biya Empire put its ideas on the Gauls. After fighting for so many years, the heavy armored infantry legion of the Gauls with extremely poor power has always been the target of the Central Biya Empire to ridicule. But now, it has begun to make the Central Biya feel jealous. How much iron does it have to be used for that legion and one legion!
"Sir, will the Falcon Empire really agree to our deal?"
Deputy envoy Gongsun Liang sat opposite Xu Dongli and asked worriedly. He looked out the carriage window with a panic. They were originally ordered to go to Gallic to negotiate weapons trade, but after staying in Kyoto Gallic for two months, they found that the entire Kyoto was almost becoming a big foundry. The speed of 20,000 sets of infantry armor per month was very fast, but in the face of a huge gap, they could not even take care of the number of such weapons and could not supply Zhongbiya in a short time.
"This is not a solution!"
The two men, carrying important tasks, continued to go west. It was said that it was because of a very terrible opponent in the west of Gaul that the Gaul talents fell into such a miserable situation. The two, with more than thirty subordinates, spent more than a month across the entire Gaul. The sound of Falcon Junrui was heard along the way. The two wanted to turn around and go back several times, but when they thought of the disasters and the disasters of the Central Biyans, the Imperial Warriors who needed armor and weapons to resist the invasion of the grassland people, they gritted their teeth and continued to go west. On a clear afternoon, the regiment passed the Gaul controlled area with a desperate heart and entered the controlled area of the Falcon Empire. The Falcon Empire cavalry patrolling along the way thought that the other party was a caravan, so they let it go without too much embarrassment.
Seeing the so-called cruelty, it was the peace after the harvest in various places. The fields that were cultivated in some lands were not comparable to those of the Gauls who randomly grabbed a few handfuls of seeds and threw them into the fields. When passing by a river, the eyes of the two suddenly became inseparable from the car window.
A huge roulette-like thing that was directly several meters above the edge of the river attracted their attention. The water flow hit the disc, and bursts of white water splashed. The roulette was rotated by the impact of the water flow. The water stuck on the roulette easily poured the lower terrain into the waterways. The river water followed the stone-stacked water into the fields at high places.
"It's such an incredible thing!" Xu Dongli, one of the foundry officials, had his eyes almost shook by the waterways. He irrigated the water into the fields without using any manpower. In this way, his view of the Falcon Empire was reversed. This was still in the battlefield area. I don't know what other areas would look like. Three days later, the regiment entered the prosperous southwest area. On the side of the regiment, a team of guarding black armor appeared. The whole body of these cavalry was covered with black armor. Although it was a little black, it had a dark luster.
The cavalry above all looked fierce and murderous, and they were really elite troops. Although they had already learned from the Gauls that these cavalry were covered with black armor, they were actually the Central Army with extremely noble status in the Falcon Empire.
Weapons are not the common large and heavy bow and arrow spears, but are carrying a bow and shooter called a crossbow, with an arc-shaped sword on the waist, and on the side of the war horse are cavalry spears hanging. These strange-looking ground weapons have created the power of the Falcon Army.
According to the Gauls, the crossbows behind these Falcon cavalry can shoot through the target 200 meters away, and the arc-shaped long sword on the waist can cut the strongest armor.
There is also a huge crossbow as big as a bed frame, which can shoot out 500 meters, and a weapon that can be like thunder flash. That is the real killing weapon. Just the sound can scare the recruits who have been on the battlefield for the first time.
In the past, Xu Dongli thought that this was the exaggeration of the Gauls towards the enemy in order to conceal their own failure.
But when he saw a fat man in Zhongbiya wearing black armor, he raised a crossbow shooting tool with his hand and nailed a big wild boar that rushed out of the woods by the roadside to the ground with a roar. Xu Dongli's eyes were so bright that he could no longer live without the crossbow. His saliva was almost gone, and he was simply a magic weapon to deal with the grassland cavalry!
Chapter completed!