Power and Empire Chapter 695: Close the door and hit the dog (5)
695 Close the door and hit the dog (5)
Swadian Kyoto, Paravin
Palavin in late autumn has begun to feel a little bit cool. The trees beside the city walls withered in the autumn wind, and the streets were covered with scattered leaves, and it was not long before no one cleaned them.
The autumn wind passed by, bringing up the dead branches and fallen leaves flying all over the sky, as if they were intertwined in the mid-air into fragmentary patterns. Some people say that this is a bad sign. The Paravin Rebellion is definitely the news that shakes the mainland the most in the past 20 years. This great and glorious city still seems to have not escaped its fateful curse. It is destined to coexist with blood and glory, just like the split hundreds of years ago. Like the civil war of Calradia in the millennium dynasty, the rebels and crusaders fought a **** tug of war in this area less than 30 kilometers away.
After the death of Dongting cavalry arbitrarily plundering the country, the two sides of the war, the armed forces of nearly 300,000 people, did not point their weapons at the Dongting people who were close at hand. Instead, they all pointed at the other side. An extreme irony and sadness
"The rebels do not die, the country is uneasy"
Vengeful crusaders began to approach under the walls of Palavin. The battle flags with various angry slogans written in bright red paint floated like an ocean over the camp opposite Palavin, looking from a distance. Go like a scary ocean of blood
The war between the two sides was an irreconcilable deadly battle from the beginning. Due to the large number of people, the crusaders had almost no basic formations, and they rushed towards the tall and solid walls of Palavin.
Kyoto Paravin is worthy of being the center of the mainland. The solid defense system that has been in operation for hundreds of years has caused a large number of crusaders to beat their heads, and they have not been able to achieve satisfactory results after many days of fierce fighting. More than 10,000 people, the bodies of soldiers from both sides piled up in the corner of Palavin,
The era never lacks ambition and ambition. This battle between the old and the new Swadian is like a huge whirlpool, involving more than 1,000 families and nearly 40,000 nobles. Come in,
There are more than 500 Swadians who are divided into two opposing factions, almost all over the central and southern Swadians. Other families are vacillating.
The local faction headed by the family of the Marquis of Bekda, the guardian of New York County, publicly threatened to support the second prince Harouskes as the Crown Prince, and in the name of safeguarding the kingdom’s orthodoxy and crusade against the rebels, raised a 6,000 The remaining local army marched towards Paravin,
This move made the local aristocrats who have been bullied by the Kyoto aristocracy gather like wolves that have smelled blood. If the royal power loses its temperance, then everyone should have the ambition to seize power.
Advocating such inciting slogans, this team absorbs new blood all the way, looting any villages it encounters along the way, and the people who join are also various, including hundreds of ragged peasants and soldiers. Little nobles, there are also high-ranking nobles with dozens of elite cavalry, small merchants who are in business and bankruptcy, and desperate bandits and bandits. This army is like a big sponge, absorbing all kinds of careerists and facing The beautiful place in their hearts advances,
Supreme kingship, hereditary glory, magnificent war, beautiful, endless wealth,
Whether it is a small nobleman or a wealthy family who desires greater power, they see what they desire before this sudden power storm. When they arrive at Reinhardt Castle on the outskirts of Paravin, this unidentified army , Has expanded to an extremely impressive 80,000 people
A third-party force of 80,000 people appeared at the center of representing the secular kingship,
This news undoubtedly shocked the crusaders and the second prince who were still immersed in the struggle. At first, they didn't care about the pranks of the nobles in these places. The 6,000-person miscellaneous peasants and soldiers are really not a big deal. To put it conservatively, one Thousands of well-trained cavalry can easily solve this problem, turning these unknowingly so-called hillbillies into corpses in the wilderness
But in only half a month, 6,000 became 80,000, and both parties suddenly realized that it was time to stop.
These 80,000 unexplained troops are like a group of ambitious careerists, who can bite the exhausted two sides at any time, or it is not an exaggeration to call them 80,000 locusts,
These local nobles are not like Palavin’s crusaders and rebels. Although the war was fierce, both sides deliberately avoided harming civilians and infrastructure, because both sides did not want it and worked hard to lay it down. The city is a worthless ruin,
But the local coalition forces are different. They have no scruples about this city and this land. They have no supplies and no logistics. This uncontrolled army is like a locust. The place it passes is often a mess. If I really lost the power of control completely, that kind of madness would completely ruin Paravin,
"This is an opportunity"
As the only adult prince alive in the royal family, the second prince Harouskes undoubtedly has more bargaining chips than the old ministers who have occupied high positions and refused to give up.
Because of the lack of superiority in the veteran aristocracy, the second prince Haroussques, while proclaiming himself as the prison crown prince, quickly brought the local aristocrats who had been bullied by the Kyoto aristocracy to one side,
Countless dukes, marquis, political officials, legion chiefs of all kinds who don’t need money. . . . Wait for the fancy titles~IndoMTL.com~thrown like scattered flowers to the vicinity of Paravin, the local nobles who have been eager to obtain higher status and glory,
These were not his at all, and they were extraordinarily cool when they were thrown away. He even directly gave the Marquis of Bekda, the guard of New York County, a title enough to impress most careerists, the Secretary of Military Affairs and Secretary of Finance. In exchange for the support of the local aristocratic faction that controls the victory and defeat of Tianping
"It's really messy"
Lidarcus looked back with some emotion, and outside the car window, Paravin, the most prosperous city with a population of millions of people, which maintained a delicate armistice, had become deserted and lonely, as if on the verge of death.
The autumn wind swept across the empty streets, and it seemed that the dampness of the air became more intense. The brutal atmosphere of the war can be felt outside the city.
The tall city walls are full of traces of fierce fighting, blood stains and broken corners abound, the charred rock walls burned by flames, the houses outside the city have been demolished, and the broad flat ground
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695 Close the door and hit the dog (5)
695 Close the door and hit the dog (5)