Law of the Devil Chapter 219: [Provocation]

Chapter 219 [Provocation]

Although the cold wind has repeatedly delayed the pace of spring, spring has arrived after all.

After March, the entire Northwest began to get busy.

On a land of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, Nulin province is in the east, the northwest corridor in the west, the Kilimaro Mountains in the north, and Loulan Lake in the south. The brigade's army was dispatched to various pre-set exercise locations.

This is a Roland Empire decree, the annual spring exercise of the entire territory of the empire.

The Roland Empire was founded by martial arts. A thousand years ago, the Emperor Aragon rose from the continent with shock and admiration. He conquered the east and conquered the north and conquered the north. This brought the territory of the entire continent together. Build such a huge empire. Since the beginning of Emperor Aragon himself, such an iron law has been established!

In order to ensure that the empire ’s army will not be depleted due to long peace, the empire ’s army will perform a spring exercise every spring.

These exercises were strictly performed during the Aragon era.

Although later generations, with the end of the Aragon era, the empires of the later generations have been flattened out for a long time, and this iron rule has gradually been abandoned. There has even been a history of imperial military forces that have not been exercised for more than a decade. But later, with the change of the current Augustinian dynasty, the iron law of Emperor Aragon was strictly enforced again.

After all, the current Augustin dynasty is only two hundred years old, and there have been some small-scale regional wars during this period, which has caused the empire's army to be vigilant and not overly relaxed.

In particular, I would like to thank the current Emperor Augustine VI. Although this guy is considered a tyrant with great joy, at least in his tenure, he has never attached more importance to the fighting and training of the army. Especially during the reign of Augustine VI, the imperial army exercised every year, and there was almost no interruption during this period.

Although Augustine VI did a lot of ridiculous things during the reign of the emperor, and the emperor was not too wise, the Northwest War was a futile effort and wasted national power. The situation of the South Ocean Expedition is greater than the harvest.

But it is undeniable that, thanks to the existence of this emperor's land, the current average combat effectiveness of the empire's army can be called the best maintained by the Roland Empire for more than a century.

With the spring breeze, the army advances.

The two provinces in the northwest are the sites of the Northwest Corps. Although the Northwest Corps has secretly resisted the ceremony with the Central Chamber, it does not listen. But this annual spring exercise has never been abandoned.

Not to mention, this annual spring exercise is also a show of strength for the Northwest Army. Use a little deterrence against the empire's central government and show a bit of toughness as your own political bargaining chip. Therefore, every spring exercise, the Northwest Corps spares no effort to execute. The troops with strict training and the strongest fighting force were mobilized, and they performed their exercises on the northwestern land.

Of course, at the same time, we will not forget to be alert to every move of the imperial capital.

It is worth pondering that, for the central spring of the imperial capital, the spring exercise every year is northwest. They are all places of special concern!

Hundreds of thousands of troops are transferred, and they still do n’t listen to the 200,000 troops they control. How can such frequent movements make the heart of the Empire not nervous? !!

Every spring, the Imperial Guard City of the Empire will mobilize tens of thousands of elite troops all the way to the west, stationed upstream of the Lancang Canal, and the soldiers will face the northwest. Be on alert. In case the Northwest Corps would rebel, what a real uprising would be done.

And the Northwest Corps. This is also the case. At the same time as their annual exercise, the two most elite cavalry divisions of the Northwest Army will drive all the way to the eastern border of Nulin Province, nominally a normal long-distance stretch, but in fact, they are also vigilant. He confronted the central guards of the King City in case the empire took the opportunity to mobilize the army into the northwest.

For the Northwest Army, every spring exercises, although it is necessary to always guard the Imperial Guard in the central city of the Imperial Guard, it can be a little disturbing. However, in recent years, the Central Committee has been unable to take care of the Northwest, and has not had the courage to fight hard to fight a civil war and completely eradicate the Northwest internal problems.

In the past few years, the main factions and the compromise factions in the commander-in-chief of the imperial military have fought and argued, and noisy and noisy. The hard-landlords are often the young and up-and-coming generals of the empire. They advocate the use of force to conquer the sovereignty of the Northwest, completely solve the status quo of the warlords separated by the Northwest Corps, and maintain the centralization of central power.

Although the Compromisers are resentful, these Compromisers are not the kind of cartilage they imagine. On the contrary, these people are not single-minded, and most of them are sincere people who worry about the country and the people. Whenever they quarrel with the main battle faction, they can also bring out a lot of information about the empire's financial and military expenses and The analysis of national strength, speaking from reality, the empire's national strength is now declining, and it is simply unable to fight a civil war. If the war is forcibly launched, even if it wins this civil war, the national strength of the empire will be greatly injured! The bad results that follow, under analysis, there may be two situations:

First, the Empire barely conquered the Northwest and settled the Northwest Army. But the prairie aliens rushed in: Imagine that without the Northwest Army's guarding the northwest, and after the civil war, where the empire suffered great damage, where can it draw so many troops to deal with the prairie wolf with hundreds of thousands of elite iron rides?

The second kind, even if the Northwestern aliens don't take advantage of it ... So, imagine, if the empire is going to fight a civil war, where will it mobilize its troops against the Northwestern Army? The closest to the northwest, the best option is naturally the King City Guards Corps. The King City Guards Corps, this is the relatives of the Aragonese era, the most brilliant "thornthorn army", in terms of equipment, combat power, and military strength, can be opposed to the Northwest Army ... But the problem is, if after the war Even if the Northwest Army is solved, if the Wangcheng Guards Corps loses too much, and its vitality is severely hurt ... then the direct military force in the hands of the central government of the Empire is too weak ... it is difficult to protect the northern army in the northern frozen forest. There are also the Southern Legion, or other powerful aristocratic lords in the empire, who will not have a different mind!

The government came under the gun. This principle, although the land of Roland is alien, the people here also understand it!

If due to the civil war, the central government is weak and the local situation is strong ... then once the chaos rises. It's not easy to calm down again!

For this reason, the empire seized the warlords of the Northwest Army, repeatedly appeasing them and appeasing them every year. Makes the tail of the Northwest Corps insignificant.

For the Northwest Corps, this annual spring exercise also has a huge benefit:

Money! grain!

Imperial Iron Law, an annual spring exercise. The required military expenditure is directly distributed by the Imperial Army. Weapons, horses, and grass are provided by local governments. The Imperial Army will compensate local governments with financial appropriations.

In the northwest, such a situation has made the Northwest Army even cheaper: the **** wartime decree that gave the Northwest Army the right to intervene in local government affairs more than 20 years ago. For each spring exercise, the local government must pay an additional military expense. Especially for the grass, the Northwest Army ’s army used the name of the exercise site, so many troops were pulled out and drilled back and forth across the two northwestern provinces. After each land, they directly asked the local government for money and food. Imperial military order.

Governor Bohan has been in the Northwest for many years and has been suffering from this situation for a long time. But this guy also made a little knock on the door. Two months before each spring exercise. He would order all warehouses in all places to be evacuated, leaving only a small amount of grain and supplies. Lest the locusts cross the border when the Northwest Army is conducting the exercise, it is really no more grass.

In these years, one robbing, one hiding, every year there is a good show of hiding cats in the northwest.

However, Dewey broke this convention this year!

The noon sun rises overhead. Under the blue sky and white clouds. Loulan City, the guards in this miracle city have been waiting.

From yesterday. The duke issued an order to restrict access to the city gate. Especially today, the gate is closed and anyone is strictly prohibited from leaving the city. Even those caravans who came from the north to the north got the wind early, so they chose to take a detour, bypass Loulan City, and go to some small villages and towns on the shore of Loulan Lake to replenish fresh water and food before moving on.

Some people are unwilling to make a detour, and have temporarily moved to villages and towns near Loulan City to stay temporarily.

When a dark shadow gradually appeared on the horizon in the distance, the dense iron hoof sounded like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and smashed into the hearts of the guards for a while!

The northwestern wasteland has a flat terrain and is most suitable for cavalry impact. At this moment, a dark line on the horizon is like a wave, and it looks like a dark cloud, and when you look at it, you can see that a dark cavalry is galloping, its horseshoes are thundering, and the dust is all over the sky!

Standing at the head of the city, some experienced veterans can discern the opponent's situation by watching the dust.

There are more than 20,000 people in such a large cavalry, and in Mercedes-Benz, the queue is not chaotic, but in a line of geese wave bands, it poses an unabashedly attacking posture towards Loulan City. Come!

The sky ’s dust almost obstructs the sky.

The guards standing on the walls of Loulan City were mostly elite veterans from the 4,000 rebels that Du Wei had subscribed to that day. These predecessors were the imperial capitals of the Imperial City. Looking at these cavalry from Mercedes-Benz, they couldn't help but slightly discolor!

The wind is rolling over the clouds, like a thunderstorm!

Almost a moment later, the large number of cavalrymen had already reached the city. With a sound of horns, the cavalrymen in the Mercedes-Benz immediately changed into a formation and stopped about a mile below the city, but it was a dark one.

Immediate cavalrymen are wearing the armor of the Imperial Northwest Army, except that everyone's armor is painted with a unique symbol of the Northwest Army with black ink.

From the banner, the two hundred thousand cavalry that came were a complete cavalry division. What made the guards in Loulan City angry was that although they stopped under the city, they brazenly displayed an attacking posture!

The horn of the Northwest Army cavalry array kept on, and then saw the banner roll over, and several thousands of men were immediately separated from the two wings, but they ran around. Obviously, according to the battle column, the trend of that siege!

Someone reported to the Duke's Mansion quickly. Du Wei listened to the report, but did not say anything, but he just said "I know."

In fact, the anger in Du Wei's heart was also forcibly suppressed.

Three days ago, the Northwest Army sent someone to inform Du Wei: This year's spring exercise, the Northwest Army ’s military department decided to choose the area near Loulan City for exercises. When this decision was delivered to Dewey, the other party declared that the army had already begun, and it would be three days later!

Due to such a move, Du Wei turned his face almost on the spot, but he was patient.

Why?

3 days away?

In other words, when the messenger from the other party came to report, the army had already set off!

This so-called messenger is even a cover! People's army has already set off, only to pretend to tell you! You promise, you promise, you do n’t, you promise! !!

At this moment Du Wei listened to the report and immediately ordered a change of clothes to go out. He hesitated for a while. He didn't wear the Duke's aristocratic Chinese costume or the magician's robe, but chose a set of armor. This armor was also produced by Du Wei in the shop of the Imperial City. It can be regarded as the same as that of Ruo Lin at the beginning, and the display effect has also been improved.

Du Wei was originally slender, with a weak body when he was young. After practicing the starry sky, he has improved a lot. In the northwest, he has gradually stood up, although his face is slightly With a touch of childishness, it is also restricted by age. But the majesty between manners is better than the day.

At this moment, this specially-made armor was worn on the body, and looked at it fiercely. Raising his hands, he was quite a bit of a young general.

Due to the order, Du Wei took all the guards and the elders of the guards, and immediately went out of the Duke's Mansion and went to the city gate.