From the beginning, the Yongye military leaders were not satisfied with simple occupation. They also wanted to uproot the big tree that originally lived on this land and plant their own roots.
If anyone had made such remarks to Count Nicholls half a day ago, he would still have scorned him.
But now, isn’t that what the other party is doing?
Even the night attack in front of them was prepared for this.
The magic giant who looked like Sophia Liya had not appeared earlier or later, but appeared just when a large number of them gathered outside the Helian Mountain Pass, preparing to open the mountain gate and jump into the fault mountain range.
It definitely cannot be explained by coincidence.
It's more like the other side did this intentionally and then conveniently caught them all without even giving them a chance to beg for surrender.
The battlefield they chose became their tomb.
"It's such a good calculation, such a vicious method." Count Niklos, who had thought it through thoroughly, laughed sadly three times, drew out his sword, and wiped it towards his neck.
The sword was so fast and fierce that most of Count Niklos' neck was cut open, blood spurted out, and he lost his breath within a few minutes.
"Lord General..."
"Your Majesty the Earl..."
The lucky ones who followed Count Nicholls all let out pitiful cries of death.
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
Within a few seconds, many people raised their swords and followed in Count Nickles' footsteps.
It's not that they are stupid and loyal, but this method itself is a kind of relief.
They were now in a large steam furnace. Both inside and outside the Helian Mountain Pass had been enveloped in ferocious magical flames. The sweat on their bodies had just emerged and would evaporate before it had time to gather.
In just a few minutes, they will be steamed.
Compared to this way of death, Count Nicholls's death was actually more pleasant.
"The Helian Pass has fallen, and our only escape route is blocked."
"The situation is completely irreversible. Let's all run for our lives."
"The Flower Language Plateau is over! The Bryan family is over!"
"The Yongye Army has adopted vicious methods, and they are going to kill them all!"
The burning Helian Pass became the straw that broke the camel's back.
All the Huayu Plateau soldiers looked at the burning mountain pass with deep despair.
They didn't know what was happening here, they just thought that other armies led by the Yongye Army came from here and cooperated inside and outside, turning them into sandwich biscuits.
The coalition forces on the Huayu Plateau were completely disintegrated. Like headless flies, they fled along the mountain to both sides, trying to escape from the encirclement led by Yong Ye's army.
But they are doomed to despair.
Because the attack from behind was not a small force led by the Yongye Army, but five reorganized and strengthened main battle corps, totaling nearly 50,000 people.
It was only two of them that attacked them before.
The other three were setting up pocket formations in the direction where they could easily collapse, waiting for them to get inside.
Most of the soldiers from the Huayu Plateau who collapsed did not even see the soldiers leading the Yongye army, and fell on the blocking position.
From the beginning to the end, the leader of the Yongye Army had no intention of accepting prisoners.
It must be said that Viscount Copperfield Gold's view of the Eternal Night Army Leader is very accurate.
The military strength of Huayu Plateau and Yongye Military Leader is too disparate.
It is no longer difficult for the leader of the Yongye Army to annex the Huayu Plateau.
From Sean's perspective, the real difficulty is the governance issue after annexing the Huayu Plateau.
The Huayu Plateau is different from the crocodile tribesmen in the Despair Swamp, and it is also different from the Kentana barbarians on the Conversation Icefield.
When the Yongye Army annexed the two, they had not had a unified political power for many years.
In addition, they themselves were facing the crisis of changes in the general environment at that time, and the Yongye military leader could easily use this to divide and rule them.
The principles of Hua Yu Gao are different. The Bryan family has ruled here for more than three hundred years. Although their ruling methods are not very clever, the concept of orthodoxy has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Even though the Bryan family was forced to surrender due to the strong military strength of the Yong Ye army leader.
The placement of local dignitaries will become a big headache.
If it is too harsh, they are likely to rebel repeatedly.
If it is too gentle, it will not be conducive to the Yongye military leaders building a stable rear area and will continue to disperse their forces.
Under normal circumstances, the Eternal Night Army Leader might have spent ten or even twenty years slowly dividing them.
The general environment faced by the Yongye military leaders did not allow them to adopt such a mild method.
The military staff headed by Chief of General Staff Kelman tailored a combat plan called "Wildfire" for the Huayu Plateau.
The idea is that wildfires can start a prairie fire.
The first step in this combat plan is to use the underground magic railway that the Eternal Night Army leader has prepared for many years to let his elite army jump behind the elites of the Bryan family.
Take advantage of their defenselessness to inflict heavy damage or even annihilate them.
It only took them half a day to accomplish this perfectly.
Led by Count Niklos, there were more than 38,000 people guarding the Helian Pass. Less than 3,000 of the defeated troops escaped. The remaining 30,000 people were all buried here, with only a few prisoners.
The leader of the Yongye Army announced that these elite members of the Bryan family, led by Count Nickles, resisted to the death and refused to surrender, and they all died in battle.
But only those defeated soldiers who crawled out from the pile of dead people knew that from the beginning to the end, the leader of the Yongye Army never gave them a chance to surrender. Some of them knelt down and begged for surrender.
took their lives.
There were only five main battle legions of the Lords of the Yong Ye Army who attacked Helian Pass at night, while the Southwest Front Army of the Lords of the Yong Ye Army that jumped into the Huayu Plateau had ten main battle legions.
The remaining five did not stick to the underground magic railway exit.
One main battle legion was enough to complete this task. At the same time, the remaining four main battle legions launched an attack to the southwest of the local aristocratic private army of the Huayu Plateau that had not yet converged.
Although their achievements were not as brilliant as those at Helian Mountain Pass, they were still devastating.
On equipment.
The private armies of the local nobles in the Huayu Plateau are still in the period of pure cold weapons.
The Yong Ye army leader has both hot and cold weapons, including rifles and cannons, which have been installed on a large scale.
Let’s talk about the quality of soldiers.
There has been no major war in the Huayu Plateau for many years, and the armaments are lax.
The Eternal Night Army has been in the process of expansion. In the past five years, it has fought bloody battles with unconventional enemies like the Undead Empire. All the legions have taken turns here.
On the level of command.
One side is in chaos and has no system to oversee it.
One side is a unified whole with a complete organizational structure, strict military regulations, clear combat objectives, and combat plans.
There is absolutely no comparison in all aspects. It would be damning if the Huayu Plateau side can make waves.
Regardless of whether there were more or less people, no battle between Yongye Army Leader and Huayu Plateau lasted more than half a day.
They all ended with the complete defeat of the private army of the nobles on the Huayu Plateau.
After the Yongye Army led the Southwest Front Army to achieve a series of brilliant achievements, they did not rush to fight quickly and quickly advanced towards Huayu City, the hometown of the Bryan family.
Instead, they set up a battle formation on the spot, as if fighting a long war.
On the contrary, the news that Count Nickles led the elite of the Bryan family to death in the Helian Mountain Pass was as if it had wings and flew all over the Huayu Plateau in the shortest time, making everyone aware of it.
This is step two of the Wildfire Plan - Autumn Wind.
The Yongye military leader must give those revolutionary parties a sufficient window period before they have the opportunity to burn out the aristocratic power in the Huayu Plateau.
Those revolutionary parties did not live up to the expectations of the Yongye military leader.
When they received the news that the private army of local nobles summoned by Archduke Christian was completely wiped out at the Helian Mountain Pass, they didn't need any encouragement at all. Many people took advantage of the opportunity and took advantage of the situation.
Some for pure hatred.
Some are for lofty ideals.
There are also those who take advantage of the situation and make a fortune from it.
Regardless of their purpose or reason, most of the people they target are the local nobles of the Huayu Plateau.
This wildfire completely entered a prairie fire state after the Ashes captured several towns in succession and issued the Declaration of Independence.
Many forces and people followed suit and declared their independence from the rule of the Bryan family. Before that, many people were simply ordinary citizens, but now they have become revolutionary parties.
How exploitative the ruling class was in the Huayu Plateau back then, the current methods of revenge are bloody and cruel.
Most people, especially those at the bottom, do not have such a long-term vision and will consider the future. They have more of a muddling-through mentality.
As for what fate is waiting for them in the end, waiting for Huayu Plateau, most people don't care at all.
This is a carnival for ordinary people on the Huayu Plateau, but it is the end of the aristocratic class, including those wealthy businessmen, regardless of whether they were benevolent or cruel in the past.
Because those revolutionary parties became extremely cruel and bloody under the influence of the general environment.
Their wealth was divided, their wives, daughters and families were raped, and their lives were slaughtered.
What was once their home, what was once their paradise, has become their hell.
Even if I want to escape from here, I can't find a way.
On this land, as long as there are people, there is no safety at all.
It is impossible to escape even if you want to, because all the safe passages to escape here have fallen under the control of the Yong Ye Army Leader.
The current attitude of the Yongye military leaders is very ambiguous. Although they do not openly support the Revolutionary Party, their silence is the best connivance and acquiescence to them.
They even used spies as an excuse to refuse any Huayu Plateau people from entering or leaving their territory, including those who had had economic dealings with them.
These people have now lost their use value. Once the Yongye Army leader swallows up the Flower Language Plateau, there will be no need for them to be middlemen and hand over some of their interests.
Huayu City has become the last haven for most nobles.
Archduke Christian became their last hope.
There are tens of thousands of elite members of the Bryan family here who did not go to the Helian Mountain Pass and survived.
If this army were to fight against Yong Ye's military leader, it would only be delivering food to people, which would not be enough for them to eat for half a day.
But it is more than enough to scare those revolutionary parties.
After all, the Revolutionary Party now only occupies a large number of people. In terms of equipment and training, it is still a rabble.
There are still differences and conflicts among various organizations and parties, let alone cooperation. It would be good if the two sides did not start fighting when they met.
If they want to capture a big city like Huayu City, even the Ashes Party, known as the largest revolutionary party, will not be able to do so in a short time.
Before dawn, the outside of Archduke Christian's castle was already crowded with nobles who had fled from all directions.
"When will His Majesty receive us?"
"This is already the fifth day, and His Majesty still refuses to come forward to receive us?"
"Escape will not solve any problem. If your Majesty continues to escape, all of us will die without a burial place."
Seeing that the sun had already passed its peak, Bryan Castle was still lifeless, with no signs of receiving these noble lords.
These noble lords could not sit still.
Even if the other party is his own king, he can't help but accuse him.
Their territory is being ravaged by mobs, and their wealth is being divided and plundered.
For every day of delay, they will suffer huge losses.
Many of them still have hope that Archduke Christian can lead them to turn the tide. At least on the way to the Flower Language Plateau, they have hope.
But Archduke Christian's various performances really poured cold water on them.
It has been several weeks since many people arrived in Flower City, and they have not even seen Grand Duke Christian. In the past week, he has completely sealed off his castle and refused to receive anyone.
The reason is that Archmaester Adonia, who has served the Bryan family faithfully for more than half a century, died of a serious illness, and Archduke Christian wants to pay his respects at his funeral.
If in normal times, Archduke Christian would do this, everyone would not hesitate, and would even praise his kindness. After all, no one dislikes a ruler who cares about old feelings.
But under the circumstances in front of Huayu Plateau, if he does this again, it will be very problematic.
In the eyes of many people, Archduke Christian was using the funeral for Archmaester Adonia as an excuse to escape from the cruel reality that the Bryan family was facing now.
"Please forgive me for your majesty's difficulty. A few weeks ago, your majesty received the bad news that Count Nicholls died in battle. Now the bachelor has left your majesty again. The situation on the plateau is changing at an unsatisfactory rate.
Worse, even an iron man cannot withstand such a series of blows.
I understand the anxiety in the hearts of all of you, but we are one, so His Majesty is not anxious, and even above all of you, let us give His Majesty a little more time, and I believe that His Majesty will be able to lead us out of this predicament."
Calvin, the intelligence minister of Archduke Christian, worked hard to defend his king. As for whether he completely believed these words, only he knew.