Power and Empire Chapter 1671: Gaul Kyoto (1)

The impact of the fiasco of the Southwest Campaign is fading. In August, the Gaul region, withered and yellow, has become dense, and the once fertile land has become dry in the area east of Rusty. Gaul has not been greatly affected by the war. The province, at least on the surface, still maintains a prosperous scene, white frost is seen on the road, and in the villages along the way, notices of recruiting new recruits can be seen everywhere.

A group of young people from Gaul gathered around the recruitment office, pointing to the content on the recruitment notice

"Come and join the Imperial Army, eat and drink." The officer at the recruitment office has a loud voice, and they are doing their best to promote the benefits of joining the army. Behind them are several specially selected imperial infantrymen, dressed in infantry armor. It looks majestic in the sun, attracting the attention of many young people,

"Wearing gorgeous imperial armor, wielding a sharp knight's sword, 3 silver coins a month, maybe next time you come back, you will be the most influential person in the whole village, even if the village master sees you , I also want to lower my waist and call you a lord, glory, beauty, wealth, because there is everything, such rich conditions are not always available!"

"Is it true, this year's conditions are so good!"

A young man in the crowd stared at the notice, grunted and swallowed his saliva, his eyes showed uncontrollable longing. The conditions are too rich. In previous years, soldiers were recruited for one silver coin a month, but this year, one Three silver coins a month, three times more than in previous years, the military salary, except for the adventure passion, which young man has no intention of moving,

The man wields his sword to fight in all directions, and returns to his hometown with full of glory. Thinking about it makes people excited. What's more, in the interior of the Gaul Empire, the hierarchy is high, the nobility is superior, and the inheritance system is adopted. Common people To leap into the aristocratic class, there is only one way out through military merit.

"Come on, this young man who is destined to become a big man, come forward and put on your handprints. You are the material to become an officer. If you get the appreciation of an adult, you may jump. Become an eye-catching figure" The officer of the recruitment office looked at this heart-pounded young man, his face immediately bloomed,

He stretched out his finger and pointed to a row of sharply polished infantry chain armor and iron shields on the weapon rack behind him, and said, "I saw the soldiers behind me, the full armor and shields of the Imperial soldiers. Just put your fingerprints on the notebook, You can be the lucky ones who are envied by them like that. What a glorious thing this is!"

"Really? Reblu, let's join the army together!" A young man in linen looked at the majestic soldier behind the recruiter and couldn't help but whispered to his companion next to him

"Don't listen to him. I heard that the empire was defeated by the Black Demon Army in the northwest, and many people died!" The companion named Reblu was a young man with golden curly hair. Although his gaze was full of longing, but he said with some disdain, "Go join the army now. Just be cannon fodder!"

"Who said this, how could the empire's army fail!" The officer just heard the words of the two, his face changed slightly, and his tone was harsh.

"Not necessarily. My cousin just returned from the Rusty area in the west. The young man who just made the noise curled his lips and said unconvinced." She said that in Rusty, the Northwest Demon Army massacred a few A hundred thousand emperor team! The body spread out more than a dozen miles. I can't count many of them. Walking at night, you can clearly hear the sound of wild dogs eating corpses in the wild! "

"Yes. I also heard that the western part of the empire has been completely reduced to the control area of ​​the Northwest Demon Army." Another young **** sè hesitated and said, "The emperor has suffered heavy casualties on the front line, so it was launched in advance. Conscription, otherwise, according to the usual practice, conscription is usually only in the chūn season!"

"Nonsense, the early recruitment is because the empire is advancing in the northwest. The northwestern barbarians on the front line lost their helmets and unloaded their armor. As good men of the empire, it is a good opportunity for you to make contributions." Hearing your slander like this, I will immediately order you to be arrested!

"For those who don’t want to join, please go away immediately. Don’t delay my time. I really don’t know the heart!" The officer waved to the people around him angrily, and several soldiers behind him hurriedly came up and chased him away.

"What! I got angry so quickly, there really is a problem! Hurry up, hurry up, I don't want to die." The young people around the recruitment announcement rushed away, leaving an empty recruitment office

"Assholes, they are a group of selfish, cowardly guys!" The recruiting officer watched as he walked away, and suddenly cursed, several soldiers lowered their heads, and one soldier looked up. Looking at the sky, he hesitated and said, "Head, now there are news of frontline defeats everywhere, what the **** is going on! The notice that should have been recruited in the chūn season has been posted so eagerly now, it won’t be true. What's wrong with yours!"

"Hey, who knows!" The officer sighed helplessly, putting his hands heavily on the blank roster, and said dumbfoundingly. "I only know that the western front is tight, and there is an urgent need for additional troops, privately. Rumor has it that the empire’s army gathered in the west suffered a disastrous defeat, with hundreds of thousands of corpses spreading across the fields. Although such news has been fully blocked, it is inevitable that a small part of it will flow out. The officer in the recruitment office has heard of some senior officers. In private, the empire has lost more than 300,000 troops in the west, and the defense of the west is being dragged into the whirlpool. Once the fragile appearance is broken, the interior of the empire may be affected more widely, and the front lines will continue to demand force. Reinforce, otherwise, the empire will lose more than just the west.

"No, it won't be here soon!" A few soldiers were shocked and struck a spirit. They belonged to the local army in the Bayiqi area and were less than 400 meters away from the rumored Rusty area. Here, it’s just a province across,

"That's why we have to recruit so urgently! This time there is a strict order. Each recruitment office needs to recruit at least 10 people, otherwise the penalty will be deducted according to the standard of one silver coin deducted by one less person. The recruitment notice has been After hanging up for half a month, we recruited only eight soldiers. If in previous years, such favorable conditions would have recruited 100 people long ago, I really have to worry about it!"

The recruiting officer looked sad. He was only the lowest-level officer, similar to a general infantry captain and so on, only ten silver coins a month. This was because he was old and had been in the army for more than ten years. There is an allowance of 3 silver coins. If it is other lower-level officers, life will be even more constrained,

Of course, this recruitment is more than just punishment. If the number of recruits exceeds the standard, there will be one silver coin for each additional person. This is a condition just mentioned recently. All the infantry captains ran out to recruit soldiers, hoping to exhaust It is possible to recruit more young and powerful people to join the army, and the military resources in the region begin to become tense. As for the situation on the front line, the officer in the recruitment office is not clear. He is only a low-level officer. He is mostly heard about the news, but from the bottom of his heart, he still firmly believes that the empire will not fail.

The officer waited for a while, and saw that some passing young people were deliberately avoiding the announcement of the recruitment office? He realized that no one would be coming. So he ordered to his subordinates, "You can't wait any longer. Tomorrow is the final deadline. Clean up, let's go to Anqili Village!"

"Anqili Village? Head. That's a village of mountain people!" Hearing the command of the officer, several soldiers were startled, their faces were a little pale,

The so-called mountain people. It is the kind of hunter who lives in the deep mountains and forests all the year round. This kind of people are generally good hands, because their residence is not fixed. Therefore, not paying taxes to local tax officials is the group that tax officials hate most. In addition to the discrimination and driving away of some local nobles, conflicts often erupt between the two, and the relationship between mountain people and people outside the mountain is very tense

"No way, I can only go there and try it now!" The officer sighed with an ugly face. He is a middle-aged man of about forty years old. His temples are a little pale and he is wearing a washcloth. The whitish sergeant’s blue cross uniform, the recruitment notice has been posted for half a month, and there are fewer and fewer people willing to join the army in the nearby areas.

Thinking that he still lacks the last two places, the officer feels a headache. Looking at the hesitant gods of several soldiers, he smiles at the corner of his mouth. "Don’t worry, there will be nothing wrong. Although the mountain people are barbaric, it’s for our local army. We often maintain a certain tacit understanding. After all, we don’t want to provoke the mountain people with strong folk customs, and the mountain people don’t want to provoke the local army to encircle them. Sometimes, some young mountain people will go out of the mountains and join the army as mercenaries. In exchange for money, when I went last time, I also brought out three young mountain people! I heard that they have performed several missions in the 27th Infantry Regiment, and they all made a fortune."

"The 27th Infantry Regiment in the Aceh area? I heard that they also went to Rusty last month! I don't know what's going on now!" A soldier who was packing up a weapon rack was surprised when he heard the officer's words. Looking back, there was a silence all around, everyone stopped working, and their eyes focused on the officer

"What else is going on, I'm afraid it's more ugly!" The middle-aged officer said inwardly, his face solemnly looked at the red glow of the sky, and he let out a sigh of relief. At this moment, A faint rolling sound came from a distance, and several soldiers also felt something, and their eyes turned to one direction at once.

Western,

Under the blazing clouds in the sky, in the shadowy pale sky, teams of black cavalry swept across the earth like a gust of wind, and under their horses hoofs rolled up the snow on the ground, like a white dragon sweeping the earth. Volume

"That is!" The middle-aged officer's eyes were dull and completely frightened,

I saw a group of black cavalry, lined up in a fast moving black long line, gleaming dimly under the golden brilliance of the sun, and dense cavalry queues continued to emerge on the high hills, far away It looked like a black wall that suddenly appeared in the hilly area. The vast and hard ground gradually became clear amid the huge vibrating sound of the galloping horses. It was getting closer and closer, a golden mouth with teeth and claws. The falcon flag fluttered in the wind, and the wings made of gold thread burst into the sky, like a living creature staring coldly at the ground in front of him.

"It is the cavalry of the Northwest Demon Army!" The middle-aged officer shuddered and hurriedly yelled, "Everyone walks away." Several soldiers were so scared that they scattered to the sides,

"The enemy... the enemy attack!" A soldier looked at the black cavalry group that was violently attacking ahead. His eyes were dull, his lips trembled, his eyes almost burst out, and he stared at the cavalry black armor that could be clearly seen. , I felt a dry throat, and before I had time to run, I sat on the ground with soft feet,

The rushing black iron current drowned him

"Rilai!" The middle-aged officer who avoided to one side saw this scene with bloodshot eyes, and shouted the soldier's name with all his strength. The rumbling of horseshoes made his shouts look so vague and dark. The cavalry rolled forward, raising the dust in the sky, and the bursting wind passed through their queue, and the red tassels on the top of their helmets were blown neatly. Just like a bright red suddenly appeared, a chill that cools the soul is spreading in the wind,

There are all black cavalry armors in front of me, and the rushing steel torrent obscures the officers’ sight. The officers’ shouts are gradually faint, even revealing a sad despair,

He doesn't know why he saw the cavalry of the Northwest Demon Army here, but here is the hinterland of the area four hundred miles away from the front line!

It is conceivable that Relai, who had not had time to run out, was trampled by so many horses. At this moment, I am afraid that it has become indistinguishable minced meat. The black sè rolling over his corpse is the face of the rumored Northwest Demon Army. It is synonymous with death, blood, and cruelty!

"The whole army is accelerating and must enter the Regal area today!"

Hu Keqili was riding on a galloping war horse, looked up at the sky, and shouted. A black imperial general armor reveals the coldness of metal, behind which is a red guard cloak fluttering in the wind, the horse galloping like a wind, without the slightest slowdown. Speeding past a Gaul soldier who was completely scared and stupefied by the cavalry group,

Beside him, there is a gray-haired veteran, wearing the silver and white gold-rimmed general armor of the Gaul Empire. Efforts to control the horse to keep up with the cavalry group, his eyes stopped at the body of the Gaul soldier who had finally been completely paralyzed, and said with some dissatisfaction

"General Hu Keqili. After all, this is the hinterland of Gaul. You can easily cause unnecessary misunderstandings if you ride a horse like this!"

"My king wants me to rush to Kyoto in Gaul within five years. Although it is a bit reckless, I ask your Excellency Feitanli to forgive me! "Hu Keqili smiled disapprovingly right away" and I believe his subordinates Our riding skills, they are all well-versed in battle, they are used to seeing the sea of ​​swords, guns and arrows, so the most basic dodge skills are not a problem! Instead, they came all the way and saw the scene of recruiting soldiers everywhere. Come to your country and have other hopes for the armistice agreement"

"Where, it's just the annual conscription!" The veteran Fetanli blushed, and the hand holding the rein couldn't help sweating, shame! The other party’s ridicule is so obvious, but he can only pretend to be calm. He is the deputy commander of the Gaul Sixth Army and was ordered to accompany the negotiator of the Falcon Empire to Kyoto in Gaul.

Gaul lost the left wing of the Rusty area, and the situation has taken a sharp turn. The Sixth Army Commander Hasen Rambo issued the order to fight to the death, and he is ready to make the Sixth Army more than 100,000 people fight to death. , Desperately to block the Northwestern Rebels’ fronts in the Rusty area,

But I don’t know why, the Northwest rebels, which dominated the situation, suddenly stopped their strong attacks on the right wing. Instead, they sent envoys to propose that the two countries sign an armistice agreement in the name of the country. Bo was overjoyed,

According to the agreement, the Gaul Empire recognized the Falcon Empire’s occupation of the southwest and northwest regions, and the Falcon Empire ceased its invasion of the Gaul hinterland, and the two armies rested and reorganized with Rusty as the center line.

Although Hasen Rambo, commander of the Sixth Army, knew that once this agreement was signed, the Gaul Empire would truly lose its nominal management power over the southwest and northwest regions,

But if you don’t sign, once the Falcons attack with full force and the Rusty area is breached, Gaul will fall into a crisis of turbulence throughout the territory,

With ambivalence, Hasen Rambo had to report the armistice agreement to Gaul Kyoto, and said that the fighting situation in the Rastiya region was almost collapsed, and the army was short of troops. It was no longer able to continue fighting. Although the armistice had losses, the empire had lost. You can get a period of cultivation time, as long as you regain your strength, you can regain the southwest and northwest! "

Gaul-Kyoto quickly responded, allowing the two sides to cease the war, but the truce agreement must be signed in Gaul-Kyoto,

For the requirements of the Gauls~IndoMTL.com~Fatty just smiled disgustingly, "I'm almost scumbed, and I don't forget to take care of my own face!"

Obviously, the Gauls also knew that they could no longer fight, but the Gaul Kyoto was holding a celebration. At this time, the Northwestern rebels forced the signing of the armistice agreement, which would undoubtedly slap their faces severely, but if the Northwestern rebels send people to it The signing of Gaul-Kyoto is another matter. Gaul-Kyoto can fully explain this truce, which is actually a gift to the Northwestern rebels.

"Let's go!" The fat man threw the Gaul's reply to the confidant Hu Keqili next to him. "I will give you a thousand cavalry guards to accompany you, don't lose my Falcon Empire Face, the celebration of Emperor Gaul, if I have the opportunity, I would like to go, but it’s a pity"

The fat man sighed, looking a little vacant, and said, "Remember, the most important thing is..."

"Surveying the terrain and provinces along the way, paying attention to the changes in Gaul, right? My Majesty!" Hukochili raised his head and suddenly said with bright eyes

"Yes, this is the real reason for sending you to Gaul Kyoto. Saron is too rough in his mind, and he doesn't understand military affairs. Only you are the most suitable person to go to Gaul Kyoto!" The corner of the fat man's mouth haha Smile, open the corners of your mouth (to be continued...)