Power and Empire Chapter 3126: Imperial Tiger (14)
"Elder Aglan, please don't forget, I am the commander appointed by His Majesty the King himself"
Faced with the rude scolding of Grand Elder Aglan, Cateus finally lost his patience on his gloomy face, looked at Grand Elder Aglan coldly, and waved his hand to the guard at the door." The elders are so nervous during this period that they are incoherent and don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t mind too much. Come here and take the elders to have a good rest!"
"Cateus, what do you want to do, I am the elder of the temple" Agleen looked at Cateus with bulging eyes, pointed at Cateus, his eyes were full of disbelief
"Didn't you hear it! Please go down and rest!" Kathus turned his head, pressed his hands heavily on the table, and said with a snorted nose. A dozen guards wearing cross armor stepped on the heavy ones. Stepping in, grabbing Elder Aglen’s hand, forcibly lifting Aglen’s thin and old body, ignoring the roar of the Elder, and directly leading out of the meeting room,
"My lord, treat Elder Aglan this way, I'm afraid the temple..."
The other generals of Aden saw this scene, and they all looked at each other one by one. Although the temple and the nobles of the kingdom are two camps, the mysterious power and transcendent status of the temple always make the hearts of the nobles full of awe. , And Grand Elder Aglen, one of the four great elders of the temple, is second only to the chief great elder in the temple. In the past decade or so, the Kingdom of Aden has expanded its influence in the central region. In the fastest ten years, the great aristocracy in Aden still supports Agleun, the great elder who is gentle to the nobility
"For the temple, I will be in charge"
The corner of Cateus's mouth turned disdainfully. Of course there will be someone in charge of the temple, but he is not himself. He can't hold the temple. The person in charge is His Majesty the King. This is China and Biya, not in Aden. If it was in Aden, he would still dare not do anything to the elder of the temple, but in Zhongbia, thousands of miles away, the elder Agleon still despised himself so much, no one can be blamed, not to mention being the confidant of the king of Aden. , Cateus knows that His Majesty the King’s dislike of the Grand Elder Agleon has reached a considerable degree, because the Grand Elder of the Temple has stepped on the king’s bottom line
The temple does not interfere in military affairs. This is the most basic condition for the royal family to tolerate the coexistence of the temple.
But look at Agleun, the great elder of the temple, what he has done in Zhongbia over the past ten years. That one is not touching the scales of His Majesty the King, drawing in the great nobles, and taking in The wealthy merchants in Central and Bialand acquired incalculable wealth from merchants, and these wealth eventually poured into the temple continuously and became funds for the temple to cultivate their own talents
And so much wealth, which was originally supposed to be handed over to the royal family as gifts by merchants, has now become a temple. In the past ten years, the trade quota of the Kingdom of Aden in the Central and Biya region has increased. Eight times, but the taxes and other wealth collected by the Aden royal family from Central and Bahia are inexplicably declining year by year. The elder Agleon, under the name of the elder of the temple, blatantly grabbed money from the royal family, even The forces that are still blatantly expanding the temple in Central Biya have drawn most of the Aden businessmen into the camp of the temple, even if they are stealing money, they have not done it like this!
If it were not for the temple to control the trade east of the kingdom, the Kingdom of Aden would not need to start a cruel battle with the Erot Empire at the mouth of Cornelia, which would eventually lead to a battle of more than half a million people from the Lu family of the kingdom. The entire westward estuary was lost. The Kingdom of Aden, as one of the most valuable golden passages in the east and west, slipped from the hands of the Kingdom of Aden. For nothing, the cult and the empire took advantage of Cornelia. In the Falcon Empire, in just six months, the trade volume on the east side of the Inland Sea increased by more than 20%. The huge export tax that was originally controlled by the Kingdom of Aden has now flowed into the empire’s pockets
All of this was due to the fact that the elder Aglen robbed the control of the eastern sea trade from the kingdom of Aden. Although the nobles of the Aden had gained a lot of benefits in it, for the royal family, this Yage Elder Lun was extremely stingy. Not only did he reject the royal family’s request to expand the eastern region several times, he also forced the Kingdom of Aden’s navy to spend huge sums of money to set up the Central-Bahia branch on the grounds of protecting the eastern maritime trade. Fleet, the royal family has to spend a lot of manpower and material resources on this route every year, and the royal family can get it, but a few pitiful tolls
This is why, in the battle between the Navy of Aden and the Imperial Navy for supremacy in the southern waters of Central and Bahia, the Navy of Aden not only failed to show the resolute momentum to smash to the end with the Erot Empire in the Cornelia battlefield, but suffered a little loss. After that, they lost a series of strongholds in the southern waters of Central Biyah, which was just one of the reasons why the Mas Bay was retracted
This time I landed in Central and Bahia, even Kathus did not expect such luck
The man who made His Majesty the King hate his bones, unexpectedly ran into him. I thought that Elder Aglan had worked hard for more than ten years in the Central and Biya area, and he would definitely not come in person. I didn’t expect that because of six The city port suppressed the Aden people incident. This great temple elder who had the power to call the wind and rain in the Central Biya region would appear before him in such embarrassment. Apart from a dozen guards, the other so-called temple warriors who had painstakingly cultivated unexpectedly He was killed and wounded, and he was hunted down by a certain camp in China and Biyah. For seven or eight days in the countryside, he was extremely embarrassed!
This is already the case, what qualifications do you have to teach people here! If it’s not for the identity of the other side’s temple elder
"Come, send people to the north immediately, and find out the situation of the Ninth Army and the Eleventh Army" Cateus ordered to the guard at the door, and if he had an opinion on Elder Aglan, it doesn’t mean it’s complete. Ignoring the great elder, Cateus is still qualified as a commander in command. If the situation said by the great elder Agleon is true, then the Ninth Army and the Eleventh Army who are going to grab food in front of the North are afraid. There are many evils, but Katwus does not believe that the Chinese and Bianyan people really dared to ambush an Aden regular army with tens of thousands of people. With this determined fluke, in the afternoon, the situation from the north finally came back.
The whole army of Aden shook again. The generals of Aden in the conference hall scanned the reports placed on the table one by one. They were short of breath, and their eyes were full of complex expressions. The Ninth Army and the Eleventh Army A total of more than 13,000 troops, all turned into corpses in one night, because too many people died, so that the people in Aden who went to check all vomited.
"What, I'm sure there is no mistake, tens of thousands of people have not found a living!" A general Aden muttered in a low voice
"It's so miserable, the flags of the 11th Army are all mixed with the mud and flesh, and the corpses are everywhere...!" The colleague next to him took a deep breath. "The Eleventh Army's Gula Bik’s disappearance, it is estimated that the death is too miserable, the investigators can’t identify them one by one, but Abel, commander of the Ninth Army, can easily find it, because his head is stuck with a flag of the Ninth Army of Aden. On the gun, the blood stained the entire banner. This is a demonstration. You know, tens of thousands of people disappeared overnight, and I don’t know who did it!"
"Is there no clue?"
"There are still some, the attacker can’t be sure, the opponent cleaned it very cleanly, and even the arrow clusters on the corpse were taken away, but it can still be judged from the traces on the battlefield to squeeze the Eleventh Army. At the time, the opponent dispatched a large number of shock cavalry, and there may even be traces of heavy cavalry. The Ninth Army was destroyed by the opponent’s heavy infantry. The corpses were all traces of heavy weapons. The investigators were also terrified. I dare not stay for too long..."
'"Heavy Cavalry!"
There is a sound of inhalation in the conference room. Everyone is a general. We know what the heavy cavalry represents. The heavy cavalry itself is not important. The important thing is that the heavy cavalry cannot be equipped with small-scale troops. Even the general regular army does not necessarily have heavy cavalry. The training of heavy cavalry and the training of war horses requires considerable resources and time, and the general army can’t afford it. That is to say, the eleventh army and the first army were killed. The Ninth Army is a big guy, a huge group that can swallow 13,000 Aden’s troops in one bite. At this moment, he is facing himself in the north of Longchang.
The tens of thousands of Aden troops who originally thought they landed landed at the extremely weak spot of Liucheng Port. The strong military force is enough to crush all resistance. Now I discovered that this is not a small area with a shortage of troops. It is probably the old nest of a large group of Central and Bianbian army. It feels like I wanted to run into a cave to beat a hare. After I ran in, I realized that it was not a hare at all, but a giant bear that was disturbed. , This situation is not just funny, but horrible. Cateus feels like the hapless guy who accidentally rushed into the bear cave!
Cateus’ expression was quite ugly, he raised the report on the table, glanced over the generals who seemed to have not recovered from the shock, and said in a condensed voice, "It seems everyone can see it too. The one to the north of us is definitely not a guard regiment. How can the guard regiment think that it can have such a large number of cavalry, it can only be a regular army, and it is also a regular cavalry group in Central Biyah with an astonishing number of cavalry"
"My lord, my subordinates believe that this report should be read by Elder Aglan. After all, I have lived in Central and Bia for more than ten years. When it comes to familiarity with Central and Bia, it is definitely above us At present, the army is struggling in Liuchenggang, and the army is in need of food. I still don’t know what is going on in the north, and the surrounding situation is completely unclear
"If anyone can lead a clear path, the subordinates believe that only Elder Agleon can do this!" A general Aden hesitated, stood up slowly, and put his right hand on his right. The breast position, the look is very solemn and said
"Yes, in this strange land, we don't know the situation at all. We need the guidance of a wise man who is familiar with the situation" someone inside the general said
"The wise man?" Cateus frowned. The situation in front of him made him feel a little out of control. The wise man is the name of the knowledgeable and prestigious old man in Aden, and now here, except for Yag Lun, who else has such qualifications,
"Now I don’t know anything. I don’t even know that there is a Chinese and Bahrainian army nearby. Who knows if there are any other dangers watching." The generals said one after another. On them, Aglan worked hard. The contacts in the aristocracy for more than ten years began to show effectiveness. These were selected as the first batch of Aden’s aristocratic generals to land. The family itself was connected to the Eastern Continent. Many families had merchants in Central and Biyah. Elder Agleon’s relationship is quite good. In fact, Cateus has trouble with Elder Agleon, and everyone knows it well
Although this elder Agleon is a rare moderate in the temple, he is rarely tough on the royal family. He has repeatedly made the royal family attempt to get involved in the conspiracy of China and Biya to abort, and for this situation The big families are also happy to see it happen, and they are even secretly holding back the royal family. Who doesn’t want to make more money, as long as the business route of China and Bahrain is in everyone’s hands, everyone will have money to make. If it is handed over to the royal family In the hands, let alone making money, I am afraid that the various kingdom taxes of various names are enough to send more than half of the benefits of the big families into the royal vaults. It is precisely with the acquiescence of the nobles, the Yaglunda The elders can monopolize China and Bahia through merchants of various families
"You guys!" Cateus's expression changed. He didn't expect that Elder Aglan's influence would be so strong that even his subordinates would intercede for him. Finally, he picked up the report and handed it over. Said to a guard behind Xiang Xiang, "Send this report to Grand Elder Aglan, and then bring back his reply!"
"Yes, my lord" the guard took the report and left. After ten minutes, the guard returned with hesitation on his face
"Has the Great Elder watched it?" Cathaus asked solemnly,
"The elder read the report," the guard replied
"What did the Great Elder say about this report?" Kathaus's voice trembled. In any case, the destruction of the Eleventh and Ninth Army was a failure of him and was exposed face to face. It feels more painful to open the scar
"The elder asked me to bring this to an adult." The guard took a note from his pocket and handed it to Cateus. Cateus took a look and frowned slightly. Immediately ask your subordinates to take the map of China and Bia, and let their eyes slide down to the south of Liucheng Port on the map~IndoMTL.com~Luzhou?
The guard cautiously said, "The elder said, this is the home base of a wealthy family in the south of Central Bahia, and this wealthy family has a considerable position in the south of Central Bialand, and its strength is also quite strong. Through trade The relationship of partnership has been personally confirmed by the great elder. It is conservatively estimated that the stock of military resources in the camp can support an army of 200,000 for half a year. It is only because of the previous war with the empire, the main force of this big family soldier is far away at this moment. In places where there are less than 10,000 people staying in the camp now, this is a god-given opportunity for adults. As long as it can be taken down, then let alone the supply of tens of thousands of troops, the supply of subsequent troops can be completely solved! "
After hearing the words of the guards, Cateus's face was silent, and his heart was full of contradictions and complications. The Luzhou mentioned by the elders simply met all his requirements, like a huge gift for himself, etc. I tried to pick it by myself, but can I believe what I said from the mouth of Elder Aglan? The report sent back to the country by Elder Aglan, as of now, there is no one who can match it, saying that the Six City Port is rich in materials, but there are six empty cities, saying that China and Bahia have no troops stationed here, but the result is unknown to the north. The famous Zhongbian heavy army group killed tens of thousands of its subordinates overnight, and there is this military group called Luzhou to the south. According to the elder Agleon, it is also a military group with considerable strength
I landed in Liucheng Port, directly under the opponent's double-sided attack. Elder Nayaglen proposed to land in Liucheng Port. What is it?
"My lord!" The other generals looked at him.
Cateus's blinking eyes closed and opened, and shouted to his subordinates, "Send my order, the whole army will go south! Before the heavy army in the north is overwhelmed, we can only fight hard!"