The news of Jorgendigon's invasion of the empire was a bit too shocking, and everyone needed some time to digest it. After the four inner court knights left, everyone else also dispersed. Metissa, Charles and others had to prepare for what they might face next.
In preparation for the battle, other members of the envoy had their own concerns and were persuaded by Brando to go back. In the end, only Juta remained with him. The female mercenary leader was the nominal guard of the White Lion Guard accompanying the envoy.
Commander, you need to stay and wait for Brando's order.
But in addition, there were two uninvited guests. Chiara didn't notice them at all and still stayed aside with interest. The Duke's daughter didn't seem to be planning to leave.
After everyone left, Chiara asked: "Hey, what are you planning?"
Brando glanced at the little girl: "What are you doing here?"
"Why can't I stay here?" Chiara said: "You haven't answered my question yet."
"Of course it's to solve trouble, didn't I tell you earlier?"
"Humph, I can guess it even if you don't tell me," the little girl replied proudly: "But do you really plan to stand with the Cruz people?" She looked at Brando curiously, because he has rare Cruz blood.
, her eyes are naturally light blue, as transparent as glass.
"Now that we have common interests, why not?" Brando replied.
"That's true, but it's a little inconsistent with your style of doing things."
Brando heard it a little funny, and couldn't help but deliberately squeezed her and said: "Little lady Chiara, I have only been with you for less than a month, and I spent more than half of the time hiding in the carriage. What kind of behavior do I have?"
, you understand everything clearly?"
Chiara glanced at the Duke's daughter on the side: "Arbitrary and willful--"
"Stop!" Brando saw that the Duke's daughter moved her mouth, as if she wanted to speak, so he quickly stopped. He was already as big as two.
Chiara chuckled: "What's the matter? Although I don't know why, I always feel that you hate the Imperial people. At least you won't say such righteous words - what kind of loyal alliance of the Empire? Even if this kind of thing is...
Other nobles are just talking among themselves, I don’t believe your nonsense."
Brando glanced at the little girl from the Sifah family with some surprise. She was actually not much older than the little daughter of Grand Duke Golan Elson, but compared to the two of them, one seemed to be an adult and the other
She is still a genuine loli. Of course, Chiara still has the childishness of a girl, but compared to the latter, it is at least a world of difference. He did not expect that the other party has been observing him and even told him about his mentality.
In all likelihood, if the person who spoke was someone who was familiar with him, or someone as observant as his senior sister, then he might not be surprised at all, but it was a little kid who spoke.
"How about it, you're scared?" Chiara looked at him: "Actually, it's not a big deal. You've got your reputation written all over your face. It's not difficult at all. In fact, I know a lot of things. Why?
So, do you want to make a deal with me?" She looked at Brando and replied confidently: "You guys definitely didn't come to the empire for the jihad, at least not only, you don't have to lie to me, tell me
I don’t believe it. All in all, what you are going to do must be quite troublesome. Although you are good at judging the general situation, your brain is too dull. When playing chess, layout and ending are equally important things.
Even the latter often determines success or failure. If you ask me, maybe I will be kind enough to help you."
Brando looked at this arrogant man: "Then I really want to thank you."
"Actually, it's not necessary. I can see that you are very stubborn. You will definitely not be able to shame yourself to beg me." Chiara added, "But we can make an exchange. How about you tell me the knowledge inheritance of the Buga people?"
, let me help you make suggestions?"
Brando looked at the little lolita showing her fox tail and couldn't help but shook his head. This was not the first time. The other party seemed to be determined to gain his fictitious knowledge of the Buga people. But now
He was not in the mood to tell this little girl a bedtime story, so he could only answer casually: "The knowledge of the Buga people cannot be explained in a short time. Their knowledge recorded in scriptures can fill the White Tower. I'm afraid
When we left the empire, I hadn't even finished telling you the beginning. All transactions must be fair, and I will not make any unfair transactions."
"It doesn't matter!" Chiara blurted out, "I'm going to live with you for a long time anyway."
"Huh?" Brando looked at this guy inexplicably.
The little Loli patted her cheek gently and quickly changed her words: "I mean I can stay at your place for a while. Why, don't you welcome a lady as your guest?"
Brando looked at the little girl from head to toe, but couldn't see where this arrogant man had any connection with a lady.
At this time, a real lady, the daughter of Grand Duke Viero, finally waited for the opportunity, interrupted the useless conversation between the two, and asked: "My lord, did you know about Jorgendigon earlier?"
"What's going on?" Brando noticed the duke's daughter's suspicious eyes and was slightly startled.
"Did you know what is happening right now?" The Duke's daughter stared at Brando closely. She had been wanting to ask this question since before - when Brando, Rogers and others said that,
She immediately remembered Brando's promise - although he had been at odds with the Cruz people before, if he could really take action to save the situation at this time, what he had done before would not only bring him trouble, but would
It will also become his glorious emblem, a nobleman who will neither surrender to the power of the empire nor abandon justice because of personal hatred, and who can distinguish right from wrong. Coupled with his performance in this war, it can be imagined that no matter in
The empire or the kingdom will bring him great fame and reputation.
But what made the Duke's daughter start to feel a little scared was how he guessed all this? How did he expect Jorgandigan's attack? How did he expect that the empire would be in trouble?
If this was a pre-arranged layout, it would be too scary.
Brando glanced at Oni, as if he had anticipated what the other party was thinking, and nodded simply: "Yes, Miss Oni, it was actually me who contacted Qiao Gendigang to make the underground people form an alliance with the lions of Tuoquining.
Then I ordered them to attack the Empire. You know, I have an Earth Sword in my hand. Although it is broken, it can still be used. I have seen them in the Ring of Trade Winds earlier. They were crying and shouting to let them go.
I went to be their chief, and they said they wanted to marry a saint to me. However, based on the principle that different species cannot intermarry, I refused righteously. By the way - you have seen their saint.
?"
The Duke's daughter stared at the Earl with wide eyes, but the more she listened, the more outrageous she became. Finally, she realized that the other person was just teasing her: "You..." In the end, she could only snort bitterly, knowing full well that this was
The guy will never tell the truth to himself.
On the side, when Juta heard Brando talking about the lion-man's saint, he finally couldn't help but chuckle, thinking that he, the lord, was really too unruly, and those words just now were about to reach the lion-man's ears.
, I’m afraid that the enemy of the golden-maned Tuoquinin tomorrow will not be the empire, but Eruin’s new head of the envoy. She chuckled, causing Brando to look here as well. He hadn’t seen it before.
With the beautiful mercenary leader under him looking like this, Yuta almost immediately realized that he had lost his temper. He quickly calmed down and lowered his head to complain to his lord.
Although Brando's words were absurd, they did not deny Ouni's doubts. After thinking about it for a while, the Duke's daughter understood what it meant. She has been frightened these days, and although the current situation seems more serious
It was broken, but it gave her more or less a glimmer of hope - at least it seemed that their head of envoy was not so unreliable. How many people said he was a madman, but how many people expected this day?
?
She was silent for a moment, and seemed to gain a little more confidence: "Your Majesty, Earl, are what you said to those Cruz people true?"
"I talked to them a lot, and there were inevitably some lies in it," Brando replied, "But which part are you asking about?"
The Duke's daughter rolled her eyes at him angrily: "You said you could save the situation, weren't you kidding?"
"Not entirely," Brando replied: "Miss Oni, this is the beginning of a huge war. There are very few things we can control in this war. Seriously speaking, at least until now, we have no control over it.
Neither us nor the outcome of this war will make much difference."
The Duke's daughter's eyes widened again. She knew diplomatic etiquette, but knew nothing about military matters: "But you still said that to them?"
Chiara couldn't help but laugh when she heard the conversation between the two.
"Miss Oni," she replied: "This is the cunning thing about this guy. In a war, any factor will have an impact on the outcome of the war, but the key to the question is how much. Of course he can save the situation, but
The key is to what extent it can be restored. It's hard to say. No one is a god in the sky and can guarantee this kind of thing."
"So you are lying to them?" The Duke's daughter felt that she had to take back her previous thoughts. She was a knight of the empire and a secret agent of the royal family. What is the difference between this and lying in front of the supreme leader of the empire?
"You can't call it a lie. We can indeed leave. I just tried to give them a little confidence - after all, it is their duty to defend the empire, not ours. If we stay to help them, it is already
All benevolence and justice have been exhausted." Brando replied: "Don't worry, no one knows how bad the situation will be in the end, or how good it will be. We do not need to defeat Qiao Gendigang, but as long as we do better than others
That’s all. As for what happens when the time comes, it depends on what we say.”
The Duke's daughter finally got a clue. This seems to be no different from foreign affairs, because they are all the same shameless: "Your Majesty, what are you going to do next? Will the envoy be in danger?"
Brando shook his head this time. He couldn't answer this question. Just as Nymesis said, history has brought everyone back to the same starting line. Qiao Gendigang's participation in the war has completely changed the world he knew.
History. Qiaogendigang is not a country in the true sense. Perhaps it can only be called a country. It is a collective name for the underground world. In the dark underground, there are only lords, city lords, clan leaders, and different ethnic groups living together to form
There are scattered forces of all sizes, and now he doesn't know which lord or lords are connected with the Tuoquining Lion Man, but Brando has a vague hunch in his heart that this invasion is not
not simple.
The composition of Qorgendigan's forces determines that its lords rarely carry out large-scale military operations, but if the current situation is as he expected, it is a rare move in the underground world, and it may not only include the actions of a few lords.
, but Brando felt that this idea was too absurd, and even he could not accept it.
There was also a thick fog in front of him waiting for him to clear it. His understanding of history was quietly disintegrating, and what was left to him was only the experience of two lives.
Brando replied in a low voice: "I have a vague idea, but I still have to wait for confirmation; before that, we must try to reduce conflicts with them, but we still have to focus on breaking out. If we accidentally fall into those underground creatures
If we are surrounded by people, then we can’t do anything.”
"Breakout," the Duke's daughter asked, "in which direction should we break out?"
"It's best to break out toward the inland sea."
"Inner sea?"
Brando nodded.
The snow on the mountains of Anzeruta melts to form rivers. These rivers flow westward through many principalities, into the Sea of the Dead Moon, southward into the territory of Eruin, and finally into the Sea of Shining, while the rivers flowing northward form the inner
Land rivers, these rivers flow through the north of Andzlova, gradually carving out a hilly area, which is today's Fuyun Hilly area. The most famous one is Yonghe River, which cuts across Andzlova and opens up the Yongyin Valley.
, the south of the valley is called the Vargos area, including Vargos, Hemlock and other large and small towns, while to the north is the Bear Lake area, where the river forms a lake on the hilly platform, and then in the short
Blocked by the Zong Mountains, the flow turns eastward and flows into a huge inland lake.
And this lake is what Brando calls the inland sea - the empire's inland sea.
The Imperial Inland Sea is also called the Sublime Inland Sea. It is a huge inland lake in itself, but it spans dozens of areas, and the lake water has extremely high salt content, so it is not an exaggeration to call it a sea. The Sublime Inland Sea starts from Cloak Bay in the west and ends in the north.
To the Metz region, it reaches the Short Mane Mountains in the east, close to the Evergreen Walkway, and to the south is the end of the Rocozy Plateau, a fertile alluvial plain. The entire sublime inland sea almost stretches the empire from east to west, and from south to north.
It was divided into two, but it gave birth to the most glorious civilization of the Cruz people. Countless ports and cities dotted along the coast have closely connected this huge empire over the past thousand years. In the long river of time, the entire
The area around the inland sea almost forms the most prosperous and elite area of the empire, including the continuous southern plains, Cloak Bay with prosperous trade, Bandylon, the hometown of shipbuilding industry, and the heartland of the empire - Violet Valley.
We can even bluntly say that if the entire empire is a sophisticated magical machine, the sublime inner sea is the magical core of this machine. It provides the empire with a steady stream of abundant power and energy, materials, manpower and money, and even
Government orders from the center of the empire are transmitted to all corners of the empire through this inland sea.
As for the Sublime Inland Sea, to the west of the Floating Cloud Hills, the estuary of the Yonghe River emerges. Brando knows that there is a port called Loen there. This port is not famous, but it is connected with the Asia south of the Evergreen Walkway.
Asa stands in the north and south. If Asa falls, then this port will be the final springboard for the empire to counterattack into Andzlova in the future. Of course, Jorgendigan cannot let go of this port, but the problem is that Brando can be sure
The focus of the opponent's attack will definitely be Asaph and not Loen, because there are numerous local legions stationed in the Violet Valley to the west of the Evergreen Corridor and the Mosaic and Leaf Territory to the north, not to mention the Red Army in the Wilderness of the Four Realms.
If they can't capture Asaph in the shortest time, even if Tuoquinin's golden-maned lions capture the Rokochi-Broken Sword Mountain defense line, they will be defeated by the imperial legions from all sides who came after hearing the news.
Blocked in Vargas, by that time, if we want to capture Asaph again, we will probably have to pay a heavy price.
On the other hand, after taking Asaph, dealing with the small port of Loen will be a matter of catching a turtle in a urn. Even if the Cruz people react by then, they will never be able to let the army of Violet Valley swim across the Sublime Inland Sea.
Are you going to support Roen?
When Loen fell, the Imperial Navy lost its fulcrum for landing. The center of the war could only return to Asaph, and the Empire had to break through by land. This is obviously what the underground people of Qiaogendigang want to see most.
matter.
The Duke's daughter seemed to understand Brando's thoughts, but her eyes fell on the map. From Vargas to Loen, there were at least three regions spanning between them. Obviously, this journey would not be too smooth.
It doesn’t just matter what kind of breakout you have to go through.
"This road is not easy to walk." Different from the silence of the Duke's daughter, Chiara asked directly: "Qiao Gendigang has already walked in front of us, are you sure of breaking through their blockade?
?”
Brando shook his head slightly, and his confidence was based on certain information. However, at this moment, all they could do was wait - I believe that the exact news will come back soon. From Vargas to the Bear Lake area,
Where did Qiao Gendigang's army advance during this day? Did the imperial troops stationed there, especially the private troops under the nobles, resist? Or, even if they escaped, where did they flee to?
It's all the information he needs.
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