Chapter 1021

On the third day of the round table parliament, Byrne's "duanjieshan expedition corps" had officially set out.

Judging from the hasty degree of emperor connord's notice, I'm afraid the fortress of duanjieshan has been attacked - in fact, Brandon's night watchman intelligence network has sent some rumors about the North:

A huge elf army is moving eastward along duanjie mountain, constantly destroying all small fortresses and outposts along the way, and approaching the "main gate" of blood skeleton Valley and duanjie mountain fortress.

Where there are fortresses and strongholds, there must be roads; As long as one fortress is taken down one by one, they can successfully reach the exact location of the fortress of duanjieshan in an ice field and heavy snow.

This crude and extremely simple method is really simple and unpretentious.

But for Conrad, this was bad news.

The destruction of strongholds and outposts and the loss of reconnaissance ability of the northern defense line are nothing. Anyway, they have at least played a role in exposing the enemy's targets - but this is a naked slap in the face for emperor Connor, who was born as the commander of duanjieshan fortress.

At present, these are only rumors, so he must act as soon as possible before the rumors become the "truth" to make the Empire believe that everything is under the emperor's control.

Therefore, Byrne and Boye must send troops as soon as possible to fulfill their commitments to the emperor.

A thousand Bain Rangers, as the vanguard of the bain army; In a sense, they are the embodiment of the two words "Byrne Knight" and "Knight's hometown";

Most of these knights who fight alone all year round, are good at small-scale combat and have received group combat training, ride horses with excellent endurance and use a variety of weapons.

In the rare Byrne of hussars, they generally shoulder the tasks of vanguard and reconnaissance. On the battlefield, they either attract enemy targets or guerrilla operations on the battlefield, and complete the tasks of great circuitous attack and sweeping with excellent endurance.

Three thousand Byrne knights as the main force of the whole army and the essence of Byrne, after the lorendron's "institutionalized corps", the men and the war horses finally wore the uniform armour of the basic system, equipped with the swallow tail flag gun, the cavalry zither shield, and two big swords.

The Byrne people are not good at using non armor breaking weapons. The original heavy Knight Sword is of little use against the basically armor free elves. It can't take advantage in front of the Azor long knife, so it has been replaced by the rough and crazy chopping knife of dwarf style.

Finally, 600 elite red blood castle guard knights and 400 sky wing demon hunters were used as the core guard of Loren; After the war of eboden, the floating city "horn fort", which was adjusted and equipped with the first version of "Jiao lightsaber", came out as an important and only long-range support of the whole army.

In order to ensure safety, the expedition almost transferred most of Byrne's strength - Bell lanmallos, Earl of Lake City, anvin regrell, Earl of white horse peak, ed gerant, Earl of glory tower, Aton glenwell, Earl of storm castle

Loren transferred all the cavalry commanders of Byrne at one time, and all of them participated in the war, with Eckert, the Earl of fury castle, as the adjutant; Mentor Dalton kand, Isaac Grantham, and Ayn Rand led the Byrne wizards' Union and the Wizards retreated from eboden to join the army in the floating city.

In addition, the main force of 20000 Byrne is under the command of the count of mountain rock castle, which is composed of square spear army, armed attendants and silver helmet mountain dwarf servants. Ur salald, the count of flaggun castle, Cedric ilandir, the count of broken sword tower, and Ganis Bowes, the count of loyal soul castle, serve as adjutants.

The infantry based regiment was stationed on the spot near the Byrne border in East Saxony and was ready to be dispatched at any time; In addition, another 1000 Hussars were called up to take charge of the liaison between the legions and Bain.

On the same day that Loren set out, the news that Boyi's conscription army - a total of 10000 Hussars - had set out, and had crossed the border between Boyi and East Saxony and rushed to duanjie mountain at a speed of nearly 70 kilometers a day.

At the same time, the battle of Conrad I, the 13th emperor of the Empire, has spread all over the Empire.

"To the Lord of Azores, his Majesty the eagle king:

You are the descendant of long ears, the leader of assassins and thieves, the friends of demons, the dog legs of evil gods, the recognized intellectual disability in the world of emptiness and the world, the fool in front of the kingdom of heaven and the abyss, and the common grey grandson of male poisonous snakes and female mice;

Today, we, the people of the saxophone Empire, officially declare that under the control of the 13th generation supreme emperor Conrad I, the warriors of saxophone, eboden, lottel, Elman, Bain, Boye and Arle have completely ended with you;

The sun is high in the sky, and history is recorded in books. The sky and the earth, mountains and rivers and seas will witness together. The Empire will never surrender, and the Empire will fight to the last person;

The Empire will not accept any peace or compromise negotiations until the war ends as we expect;

Therefore, please prepare your grave, customize your coffin and urn, so that we can dig your grave after completely destroying your army physically and mentally;

If you live a miserable life, the imperial crown you take away is the noose to strangle you;

If you die like a jackal, we will erect a pillar of shame for the Azores on your frustrated land;

Without warning or reminder, your majesty Connor and all the subjects of the Empire will accept your arrogant challenge, personally destroy you under the fortress of duanjieshan, and then destroy all the Azores who still dare to appear on the territory of the Empire one by one.

——————The sakran Empire and its loyal and brave subjects salute you with a final curse... "

"... this, this is really written by my imperial brother? It's fake. Why don't I remember that he still has this literary level, and this style feels more like me..."

In a regiment camp in Saxony, Brandon de sallion looked at the letterhead handed to him by Edward and the declaration of war with "different styles" on it. At the same time, Brandon de sallion looked at the places that could be modified with great appreciation:

"Well, it's more appropriate to replace 'long ear' with 'rabbit' in the first sentence. After all, elves may not understand this metaphor; the Empire emphasizes a little more, and reducing it once does not affect the expression of meaning;"

"And the 'grey grandson', I think it should be replaced by..."

"This letter was ordered by his majesty Conrad and commissioned to be compiled by the parliament of the Empire."

Seeing that the topic was about to be taken to a strange direction by the prince, Edward, the night watchman with temple pain, quickly said:

"It should be because your majesty is eager to send troops, so he released it directly without waiting for review."

"What, he didn't write it..." Brandon spat with disappointment on his face:

"Cut, it's boring."

"..." Edward.

Brandon, who didn't notice the expression change of his night watchman leader, shook his head, looked at the "Declaration of war" in his hand seriously, and the corner of his mouth suddenly popped up.

"No, no, that's what he meant - maybe he didn't write it himself, but he must have inspired it."

Edward didn't show any expression and listened carefully with puzzled eyes.

"Does this declaration of war have any substantive significance to his Majesty the eagle king? No, certainly not - whether we fight or not, he is already in the glacier wasteland north of duanjie mountain."

"In that case, attacking duanjieshan fortress is his only choice; whether this letter can be sent to him or not, it will not change anything."

Holding the letterhead in his hand, Brandon smiled playfully: "therefore, his letter is not addressed to his Majesty the eagle king, but to us. More accurately, it belongs to the nobles who are still 'observing the situation' throughout the Empire."

"If the previous' all-round mobilization 'can also be regarded as the emperor's own attitude, then this letter is the final' Declaration of war 'issued in the name of the imperial aristocracy; from today on, no one can expect to surrender or compromise to the Azores."

"At the same time, this is also a response to the previous rumors about duanjieshan Fortress - the emperor knew everything and was already ready to meet all the enemies."

"In this way, my beloved brother's reputation will definitely increase instead of decrease. In addition, the enemy's attack from the fortress of duanjieshan in the north can increase the Empire's confidence in victory."

"Of course, the premise is that he can really win..."

Brandon murmured.

"Are you worried that your majesty will lose?" Edward frowned with some worry.

Of course, what he was worried about was Brandon's expectation that emperor connord would lose.

"No, it's up to my brother to win the war." Brandon waved his hand hard, and his hesitant expression never eased:

"It's just because it looks like winning, that people worry about accidents..."

According to the intelligence collected before, the Azores have reached a very detailed level of understanding of the Empire. They must know the fortress of duanjieshan. In that case

No, even if you don't know, which fool would leave the gem river more suitable for invasion and attack from the desolate ice field that can't provide any supplies?

Unless they have a reason to do so.

To attack the Empire on three sides? This is possible, but it can not reverse the disadvantage of ice field operations. Moreover, the separate attack itself violates the basic operational principle of "separate advance and joint attack".

When they fight within the Empire, they have no advantage in local operations. Large-scale troop distribution will seriously weaken the combat effectiveness of all armies, objectively creating the possibility of being defeated one by one by the enemy.

So... What makes the enemy "have to" use this way to force brother Connor to go north and fight him at duanjie mountain fortress?

The messenger who broke into the camp interrupted his thinking, bowed to Brandon after handing Edward a letter, and then hurried away.

"Wait a minute, let me guess first."

Stopping Edward who wanted to report immediately, Brandon said with a smile: "it's bad news, isn't it?"

"Yes... No."

The night watchman gave a very ambiguous answer.

"Your enemies, exactly those East Saxony nobles you call 'rebels', after collective discussion, about a quarter decided not to accept your negotiation conditions, and decided to formally appeal to the sky palace and request the court for trial; if the imperial court does not accept it, then ask his majesty connord to come forward in person and hold a pre imperial trial."

Brandon sat up straight and winked at Edward. "So... What happened?"

"His highness connord refused their request for pre imperial trial, but the imperial court accepted the trial - when we confronted these rebels, their representatives had gone to the imperial capital to participate in the trial."

Edward said in a deep voice, "what the man just sent is the final resolution of the imperial Parliament and court."

"Well, that should be bad news. What's the good news?"

"The good news is that the imperial court finally ruled that this problem belongs to the internal contradiction of East Saxony, which should be discussed, handled and solved by the prince of East Saxony and the nobles of East Saxony;

It is absolutely not allowed to interfere in the next battle of duanjieshan; in addition, the Empire and the heavenly palace only accept the final unanimous decision of East sakran, and do not accept the separate requests of anyone else, including yours. "

It took Brandon a whole minute to figure out what this passage meant.

"That is to say, no matter what kind of fight I have with these rural landlords, as long as we don't let them die completely in the end, we can pull out a group of people to stand on my side and say that the civil strife in East Saxony is over, you don't have to worry anymore - the sky palace doesn't care?"

"It should be understandable." Edward nodded, a little uneasy.

He had also thought that the Empire would take the opportunity to intervene in the affairs of East Saxony to weaken Brandon's power in East Saxony; As a result, they gave up and said, "this is your business. Don't bother us.".

In other words, after negotiating with the emperor, the nobles of Western Saxony have decided to give up their "rural relatives" in Eastern Saxony and no longer care about their life and death.

This, this is too... Huh?!

Vaguely aware of a murderous spirit, Edward suddenly raised his head and saw the prince smiling at himself. His expression was very bright and simple like a child.

And it's hairy.

"This is really good news..." Brandon, who murmured in a low voice, stood up slowly from his chair, as if something was shining in his eyes:

"Now that the heavenly palace has ordered, we don't have to wait any longer - send orders to the whole army and give them half a day to get ready; tell everyone that we don't accept any form of surrender, the rebels die, those who surrender are imprisoned, and hand over the fief and half of their property for redemption."

"As for those guys who dare to cheat me and sneak to the imperial capital to complain... Well, don't say anything and don't threaten them. I'll talk to them myself."