Power and Empire: The whole nation fights in the year of 2004 (5)
Just off the northern border, the land covered by scattered snow is white, and the battle flag is flying in the coalition camp. Under the company of several guards, King Rila walked into a giant camp, his eyes swept across the tent. The first coalition kings, with ugly expressions, took a deep breath, and threw a report on the table. "The situation is getting worse and worse. Three days ago, the Hungarian East Road army had captured the capital of the Duchy of Reka. , Grand Duke Suro Rika fled to the Kingdom of Silas to take refuge. According to predictions, the Hungarians would gather food in the country for at least a month before they could really go out. Now that there is food for the Rika people, this time is inevitable. Will be greatly shortened"
" How could this happen! "There was a sound of sucking in the military tent, and the faces of the kings suddenly became ugly. The national power of the Principality of Rika is not very strong, but there are more than 20,000 troops, and its capital city wall High solid, the food in the three large granaries is enough to supply a hundred thousand army for half a year. With the strong capital, is it possible to stop the Hungarians? "
"Suro, that idiot, this time I really killed everyone!" Someone among the kings of the coalition forces angrily hit the table with a punch. Su Luo is the ruler of the Principality of Rika, and the other kings have expressions of anger. The trick to suppressing the Hungarians together is to control food and captives. Although the Hungarian cavalry is fierce, keeping war horses consumes a lot of food. Without food, the Hungarian cavalry cannot launch a large-scale attack. Without captives, The Hungarians cannot launch attacks on large cities. As long as these two points are controlled, the Hungarians will not be able to set off the big waves of the past. So over the decades, the sturdy Hungarians have actually weakened a lot. Many countries have always been tolerant in border disputes. In fact, in the general direction, the development of the Hungarians has been stuck in the throat. But this time, the Hungarians have undeclared a war against Rika. It is expected that they will be able to persist for a while. It’s really beyond the expectations of the kings that the Principality of Rica collapsed so quickly.
How is " a grand duchy with tens of thousands of soldiers, so it doesn’t fight like this?
Someone among the kings snorted heavily, isn’t it the traditional Hungarian siege by servants? Haven’t you never seen it before! It must be the guy Rika Suro who neglected to take precautions. He always wanted to benefit from both us and the Hungarians. As a result, the Hungarians even took the lair this time."
In order to limit the expansion of the Hungarians, the Central European and Baro countries will give the Hungarians the benefits of several critical countries, which is already an open secret. Among them, the Principality of Rica is the most important part of the shackles. The most important thing is, otherwise, the small territory of the Principality of Rika would not be able to make up a standing army of 30,000 people, and its capital would be invincible even if compared to the defenses of other major powers. In the first three, the needle team is the strong field of the Hungarians, and the siege is the essence of the second and fifth scum, and it is indeed several times that the Hungarians who want to expand out have come home! But this time, the wolf broke through the cage! Not only did Rika fall into the hands of the Hungarians, but even the large quantities of war preparations that had been hoarded for years in order to seal the Hungarians were all loosened by the Hungarians. How can we prevent the kings of the kingdoms from getting itching? /
"Actually, this time it is not completely incompetent by Suro!"
King Jorila took out a scroll from his pocket, took a deep breath, and said with a complex expression, "I have certain information that Suro still resisted stubbornly, but this time he was fighting in Hungary. In the name of revenge for the whole country, only the domestic strength of the army will be divided into two groups. It is the 70,000 people on the East Road of the military leader Baidurasu who have captured Rika, and the troops led by the prime minister Uya are full of strength. As many as 50,000, the forward 30,000 has already scored Billy! The Duchy of Billy is estimated to be unable to hold on for long! After Billy.
. . . . . King Rila's voice paused,
He looked at a king in the tent whose face was as white as paper. It was King Uduya with short hair on his head. The kingdom of Uduya was a peninsula mountain kingdom near the Inland Sea in Central Europe. The shield war light infantry that sprouts after drinking alcohol is famous. Although the Wuduya warriors are not afraid of death, and they are more powerful in their madness, it is a pity that the Hungarian cavalry has always been the natural enemy of the shield war light infantry with weak defense. This time the Hungarians swallowed Rika in one bite. When the rations were prepared and the army invaded, the Uduya Kingdom, which had only light infantry, was really dead and even scum.
Thinking of the sight of boat tooth bows swarming in by riding the sea, at this moment, King Wu Duya still has a thoughtful discussion. His face is as if water is dripping, and he is ready to leave at any time. , Even if you can’t win, you should transfer your belongings first. Even if you learn from Suro to flee, you won’t be too embarrassed anyway.
King Rila retracted his gaze and his tone gradually sharpened. He glanced at the sitting kings, and continued, "The Hungarians used 80,000 Rikas as cannon fodder this time when they attacked the capital of Krika. The corpse filled the wide trenches in the outer city. It was exactly a hundred years ago that the Hungarians used war to support war. This is an extremely dangerous signal. This time, the Hungarians are playing for real. They want to fight the war a hundred years ago to the end! Our negotiations with the Falcon Empire must end immediately. No matter what the conditions are, we must agree first, otherwise, once the Hungarians gather together the Hungarian servants, they will do a great deal. Push it forward, then it’s overwhelming!"
"Hungarian Servant Junhai!"
As soon as said this, the eyes of the kings flashed with horror at the same time, and various complex expressions surged. If there were some feelings of watching jokes before, it would become heavy at this moment,
The hungry wolf of Hungarian Yah is simply carrying out the plunder and massacre of the entire Central Europe in the name of national revenge, just like those arrogant and cruel steppe men who trampled the nations under their horses a hundred years ago. That war set off a **** sea of blood in Central Europe, and the rest of the waves are still spreading. Fortunately, the countries have spent decades. In addition, Hungary is also power turbulence. Several generations of Hungarian kings have changed in rotation. With constant fighting, it finally became a big cage that imprisoned the Hungarians, blocking the trend of the Hungarians from continuing to expand, but now, this cage is undoubtedly no longer effective.
The Hungarians are best at fighting by fighting. Hungary has only seventy to eighty thousand troops. It is not easy to raise horses. Among them, there are no more than 30,000 cavalry. However, the Hungarians are naturally good at fighting, as long as they are adult men. A bow in hand is a qualified warrior, and armor is a warrior who can charge into battle. I don’t know how he was driven here by the enemy, but once he was allowed to open the line of defense, he would plunder with all his strength and be armed with the financial resources of other countries. More soldiers and their captives swelled like snowballs. According to records a hundred years ago, the Hungarians once drove more than 300,000 prisoners to attack the city.
three hundred thousand. . . .
. The kings have no daring to think about this number. This kind of power cannot be resisted by any country alone. Once the Hungarian two armies continue to push and support, who else can stop such a sea of people. Chao, this is a catastrophe!
The kings have ideas in their hearts, but the same thing is that they must not reproduce the miserable scene of a hundred years ago. The war with the Falcon Empire must end. Central Europe cannot fight on both sides, and it needs to draw troops from here. Turning back to fight against the Hungarians, but this feeling of aggrievedness made it difficult for the kings to speak. It was clear that the one who killed the Hungarian king was the Falcon Empire, so why did his inner courtyard catch fire in a blink of an eye! Moreover, the Falcon Empire’s negotiation requirements are too excessive. The Falcon Empire requires the coalition countries to give war compensations of 20 million, and also requires the countries to liberalize their domestic markets, and implement tax exemption for the Falcon Empire caravan’s goods.
The coalition stubbornly insisted that this negotiation is a truce negotiation, not a surrender. Although the main force of the coalition is damaged, it still has the strength of the First World War, and the coalition is backed by the homeland. As long as the Falcon Empire does not swallow the coalition forces in one bite, it will continue to fight endlessly. The kings of the coalition forces only agreed to give the Falcon Empire a truce fee of two million gold coins. The domestic market can be opened but for the Falcon Empire's caravans. The lowest goods can only be given a tax-free 80% discount. Every country knows that the Falcon Empire trade goods are almost all over the entire Obaro, and the value of the goods involved is more than ten million
The kings are not stupid. In fact, in this turbulent world, those who can climb to the position of the king are savvy people. Many of the luxury goods used by the royal family are mostly from the supplier group of the Falcon Empire. Goods account for more than one-third of their domestic market. This is still subject to multiple restrictions. First, if it is completely tax-free, it will be fine. I am afraid that the impact from the commercial products of the Falcon Empire is even more terrible. This kind of big loss business , Who is willing to do it! The talks between the coalition forces and the Falcon Empire have lasted for four days. Although both sides realize that the war has moved to the negotiating table, when it comes to actual interests, it is indispensable to pull back and forth.
The half-talking location was set up on the center line between the Empire and the Allied Forces. Each of the two sides could bring a hundred soldiers to accompany each other. The two sides in the tent kept bargaining, and there was silence outside the military tent. A circle was pulled up outside the tent to block the line of sight. On the outside, the soldiers brought by the two sides stood on both ends of the outside, looking at the opposite side. The coalition forces were mainly the kingdom guards of King Rila, all strong men over 1.8 meters tall, wearing Rila chains. With heavy armor, holding a long-handled battle axe like a crescent moon, the red wing on the top of the head is scattered, and the lined up is also majestic,
The empire is naturally the empire guard of Obalo in the epicentre. It has a black exquisite and heavy armor, a white thorn flower on its chest, a large red cloak hanging down to the ground, and a curved long-handled war knife across the waist. , An imperial assault crossbow straddles the slot of the large leg armor, and a heavy infantry crossbow is carried on its back. It looks like an active weapon arsenal, a pair of cold eyes, constantly looking disdainfully The guard of the Kingdom of Rila on the opposite side basically swept over the important part of the throat on the heavy armor of the opponent, making the guard of the Kingdom of Rila on the opposite face a little pale.
"These murderous lunatics!"
A tall and slender guardian of the Kingdom of Rila, wearing bright and heavy armor, swallowed hard and muttered with a voice that only he could hear. The gaze on the other side was like a knife, making people feel chills all over the body. , I have long heard that the guards of the Falcon Empire are all murderous lunatics. Each can be called a hundred people beheaded. Sure enough, the other party is simply standing opposite, and there is a wave of invisible murderousness. The long handle of the war knife with its handle diagonally across the waist is half red and half black with blood stains. At first glance, it is cruel and black that rolled out of the pile of dead people. This time, more than 100,000 of the main coalition forces fled back to 5,000. Many heads were chopped off on the opposite side, and the blood on them might be the blood of the two ace warriors of Rila!
In the camp, the negotiation between the two sides has reached a critical moment
The governor of the southwestern district of the largest commercial area of the empire, together with the big red man under the seat of the Falcon Emperor, and the one-eyed Saron who has experienced hundreds of battles and achieved the name of the imperial dragon general. At this moment, the so-called demeanor has long disappeared. One-eyed, finally settled the bottom line of the final 30% tax with the other party, loosened the elastic collar, and sat down on the bench.
"Quick, water!"
Saron’s voice was a little hoarse, and his throat was sore and smoked. It was more tiring than a fight. King Rila on the opposite side behaved similarly. He received a large cup of throat syrup from an attendant. After a few slurs, he picked up the pen on the table and signed his name on a text of the agreement between the two parties.
"Since the armistice agreement has been signed, you can't make military operations until we safely withdraw to the border!" King Rila has red eyes like rabbits, although it has been internally agreed to end the war with the Falcon Empire as soon as possible, but This kind of thing should not be exposed to the half-table discussion. After three days of pretendingly reserved Saron with the opposite Falcon Empire, King Rila felt that this agreement could be finalized, and the compensation had been greatly reduced. For countries, the conditions for opening up the domestic market are not a problem. As for the tax exemption, it can be considered a small improvement. This is a decent agreement. The most important thing is that the Falcon Empire promised five years. Over the course of the year, the 100,000 captured coalition soldiers were released in batches. As for the officers, the Falcon Empire also agreed to allow the families of these generals to redeem them with money in accordance with war practices.
"Don't worry, your Majesty has never had a record of dishonesty!"
Saron's mouth sneered disapprovingly. The Falcon Empire was making a huge profit this time. After some bargaining, the coalition finally agreed to agree to five million war compensations, although it was not paid in one go, but divided into three. It was paid off in the year, but finally the funds for this battle were dug back from the coalition forces. There was not much persistence in this article. His Majesty Falcon did not want the coalition forces to be really burdened to smash with the Hungarians. , Agreed to liberalize trade restrictions, and only imposed a 30% tax on imperial goods. Although Salon looked unwilling, she actually laughed in her heart.
30%! In the face of the upcoming Central European Market, which is about to be fully opened, one point is calculated at one hundred thousand. Thirty is more than three million. He is now the governor of the southwest region, and he is the largest trader in the empire. I have also had a lot of contact with business matters. It was not the same battlefield butcher who only knew to slash people with two knives. Although the initial condition was a complete tax exemption, in fact, both sides knew that it was impossible. , Sitting on the ground to pay back the money, even the fat man did not expect to reach 30%. The bottom line he gave to Salong was to do his best to reduce the tax to 50%.
You need to know that this 50% is already a huge advantage after the competition of the same products. With this advantage, coupled with the full opening of the business districts of the Central European and Baro countries, the imperial commodity has a huge market share. In the case of a large advantage, within five years, the entire Central European Baro market will be occupied by the Empire. Once this condition can be negotiated, in fact, the southwestern area of the Empire will benefit the most, because the goods in the southwestern area can pass directly through the Gangs. The non-northern transit station has flooded into Central European and Baro countries. In terms of transportation distance, it is far shorter than the distance from the general area by more than 300 miles.
The two sides have negotiated. The next day, the coalition forces began to withdraw from the border.
First, the Falcon Empire army evacuated five miles after the contract, releasing a safe zone sufficient to deal with sudden changes. The coalition forces were extremely afraid of the imperial cavalry raids. They saw the black army in the distance retreating like a tide, staring at all this. King Rila finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to gather the troops. The embarrassed coalition forces took a very sad posture, took the team as the base, and withdrew from the level backwards, leaving the final battle for this non-northern convention. IndoMTL.com~A coalition king stopped his horse and looked back at the place where he had stayed for more than a month. It was the wilderness at the end of February. Most of the snow melted, revealing the patchy land below, like a cold air. The river is flowing on the ground, so calm and undercurrent, the blue sky is like a beautiful canopy, and the white snow and blue grass terraces set off this land like a dream that never wants to wake up. ,
This is a vibrant land, where the Gangfei people founded the country. Hundreds of thousands of troops were blood-stained by this. There are lush grasslands where precious horses can grow, and there are also land infested with the blood of more than 100,000 coalition soldiers. , This place should have been the most dazzling jewel in the rise of Central Europe, but now it has become a mark of shame forever.
"After this battle, the ambition of Central Europe passed away with the wind." The coalition king sighed with a sullen expression, his eyes swept across the same despairing kings behind him, showing exhaustion and loss on his face.
Central Europe’s full-fledged battle, who can believe that the vigorous and vigorous, panic victory that broke into the northern part of the country for hundreds of miles, just like this, it ended with the destruction of more than one hundred thousand troops, with millions of compensation and the country. Fully open as a price,
The most important thing is that the army that has withdrawn from the country will not even have the opportunity to rest and rehabilitate, and will soon have to face the brutal and brutal Hungarian army. In the face of this catastrophe, who can turn the tide! There were Rila people a hundred years ago, but now I am afraid that Rila people are unreliable! (To be continued) [This text is provided by Qihang Update Team@安乁小超] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. )