Chapter 908, Kislev 0 Years Celebration

A dwarven messenger managed to use the underground river built by the Norsca dwarves for hundreds of years to send an emergency military situation to Erengrad, which is located on the easternmost coast of the Sea of ​​Claws and the second largest city in Kislev. , a trade and economic center, but also a large deep-water port with developed industries.

The underground river of the Norscan dwarves connects the Giant Mountains underground to the Sea of ​​Claws. There is a hidden sea outlet under a coastal cliff, which allows the Norscan dwarves to travel to the sea without having to go around the entire Norscan coast. The news goes to Kislev or the Empire.

The Norscan dwarf lord Tolgard-Crimson's order was very timely, because the entire Dulong City was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Chaos troops in an instant about 30 minutes after the dwarf messenger left. , the news can no longer be spread.

The first to attempt to attack Dulong City was the Norscan Mountain Legion led by the Supreme King of the Norsca, Vamir Aislin, the God of Chaos. This army consisted of more than 50,000 barbarian warriors, including more than 3,000 It is composed of a barbarian champion warrior and more than 2,000 chaos warriors, including a large number of monster war gangs and many giant beast units.

The Norsca Mountains Group launched a fierce attack on Dulong City.

And the Maharaja Tolgard-the Crimson One is also ready for battle. Dulong City has set up ten lines of defense, hundreds of artillery vehicles and hundreds of cannons fired at once, and tens of thousands of dwarf hand crossbows sprinkled down to cover the sky. In the rain of arrows, the more than 30,000 dwarf residents of Dulong City were all mobilized to participate in the defense.

The war was extremely tragic, and Wamir Aislin was one level higher than Egil Redeye. Killed by the High Elf Warlord), another Supreme King of Norsca, no one knows how old Vamir-Aislin is, people only know that when the second Eternal Chosen Anointed Isa Kuval went south , Vamir Aislin was already one of the most powerful Chaos Champions in Norsca. He escaped his life in the Battle of Fasha, returned to Norsca, and restored his tribe. When Motkin contacted At that time, Vamir Aislin had already proclaimed himself the "Emperor of Chaos" and "Supreme King of Norsca". He had already stepped into the pinnacle of the sanctuary, and was ready to bring destruction and massacre to the cowardly southerners at any time.

However, Dulong City's defense line is far stronger than the Chaos army imagined. After five days and five nights of continuous onslaught, Dulong City's first defense line finally fell, but there are still nine defense lines in the deep mountains. When the Chaos army attacked, the Chaos army left more than 1,300 corpses, while the Norsca dwarves suffered less than 30 casualties.

The barbarian tribes and Chaos Warriors were all irritated, and then there was another heavy snowstorm, which made the onslaught intermittent. The retreating Norscan dwarves retreated to the second line of defense to build a stronger defense system. , the tens of meters high city wall, hundreds of cannon muzzles and narrow passages made the barbarians really tired of seeing it.

After the Great Holy War, the Norscans had besieged Dulong City for 35 years, but in the end it still failed. Dulong City has the ability to be self-sufficient,

At the same time, it can also obtain a large amount of supplies from the outside world through the undercurrent of the underground river (this is unknown to the barbarians).

What made Vamir Aislin even more angry was that they had to enter the deep mountains to continue their attack on Dulong City, which left no room for the giant beasts and monster warbands of the Norscan tribe, so Vamir Aislin After discussing with the chaotic champions and Norsca lords under his command, it was finally decided to leave a small number of troops to besiege Dulong City, and the remaining 45,000 barbarian army continued to go south, preparing to directly attack the empire from the Sea of ​​Claws Nord collar.

The Norscan dwarves gained a week's buffer for the humans in the south through active defense, but now these dwarves have been surrounded in groups in the four dwarf cities north of the Mourning Mountains. Before the defeat, they had lost all contact with the outside world.

Just above the snow-covered peaks, the Norscan lord Tolgard-the Crimson stood on a hidden mountain sentry, looking out with a telescope.

"Chaos and miscellaneous things seem to have given up temporarily." Maharaja Torgard put down the binoculars. He looked at the chaos army marching around the peaks of the mountains where Dulong City is located. The dark tide of destruction covered all ends of his sight. As endless as the ocean, Tolgard sighed: "I hope our battle can buy enough time for the human friends in the south and Thorgreen and the others to prepare."

"Roar!!!" A terrifying dragon roar came from the sky, a chaotic dragon spread its wings and flew across the sky. Doubt the power of Chaos makes the Dragon even more powerful.

"Chaos Dragon, Scurex-The Great." Maharaja Torgard-The Crimson put down the binoculars: "Oops, the scale of this Chaos invasion may be the largest after the Great Holy War."

"Southern people, have you heard from us?"

"We have received news from the Norsca dwarves, General Voroshilov." Just inside Erengrad's palace, an attendant is presenting to Erengrad's current State Duma representative, during the Winter War Lost soldiers and lost generals, was finally reported by Voroshilov, who was demoted from Marshal of Bear Cavalry to Admiral.

After the huge losses in the Winter War, it is clear that the old marshal has lost the trust of Katarin, but Voroshilov is old, and he also knows how to cater to his wishes, and has never offended the female czar. Drink some wine, and this guy is very good at judging the situation and being able to bend and stretch. When Katarin planned to question him after the war, he took the initiative to wear a simple animal skin and burlap clothes, and at the same time he pretended to be old and showed his white hair. Humility or even abandoning dignity and kneeling to apologize to everyone, this made the female tsar a little unbearable. Thinking about it carefully, the old marshal is also a loyal old man who has gone through three tsars. He has a high prestige in the army, and He seldom formed cliques and never participated in other things, so he was only demoted to general and no longer commanded the army. He was sent to Ehrengrad as a Duma representative, which was regarded as letting him retire up.

Although most of the Norse dwarves did not take the urgent report seriously, due to the stubborn request of the dwarves and the particularity of the news, the news that a large group of Chaos troops had assembled in the north of the Mourning Mountains was still sent to Voroshilov hand.

In the aristocratic mansion in Ehrengrad, the old marshal was wearing a bearskin coat at this time, leaning on the old man's chair, shaking and shaking, shaking and shaking, very comfortable. He sat in front of the fireplace and warmed the fire. With a bowl of half-drunk creamy mushroom soup and a half-eaten hamburger steak, he just finished writing an article praising the Queen's hard work and finally giving Kislev a rare harvest in history. , the state is very tired.

A month later will be the millennium celebration of Kislev, exactly a thousand years before Kislev's first female tsarina and the ice witch Empress Miska led Lady Kislev from the deeply corrupted Kurgan It took a few years for the grasslands to migrate, and finally settled here in Kislev, and before they knew it, a thousand years had passed.

In the past two years, Kislev has stabilized slightly, and the empire has resumed its food supply after being relieved. In addition, Beria's "gray livestock trade" and the opening of a trade route with Dulong City have allowed Kislev to The husband’s treasury received a huge income, and the kingdom in the ice and snow breathed a sigh of relief on the edge of the cliff and gradually stabilized. Voroshilov couldn’t wait to post a post praising Katarin for creating a new "Katarin" era".

Voroshilov's praise just happened to coincide with a rare bumper harvest. According to the female tsarist's reply, the old marshal thought that it would not be long before he regained the rank of marshal and was transferred back to Kislev.

"General, this is a message from the Norsca dwarves." An attendant came in and handed the message to the old marshal, who immediately signaled the attendant to fetch the reading glasses on the table and looked at them carefully.

Two minutes later, the old marshal took off his glasses: "Is the news true?"

"It should be true, but Boyer and the generals believe that this is outdated news. There is no doubt that the damn barbarian is targeting the dark elves." The attendant said.

"Hmm..." The old marshal has received dozens of reports like this during this period. Some of these reports come from Norsca spies, some come from businessmen who trade with barbarians, some come from northern front fortresses, and some The information comes from the Empire and the Dwarves, all of which are contradictory, making it impossible to tell.

Obviously the old marshal is not good at intelligence, he almost subconsciously wants to put this information aside.

However, the old marshal suddenly realized that this was his chance to re-enter the sight of the female czar.

"Arrange a passenger ship, I will personally send this information to the Queen!"

"yes!"

A week later, the old Marshal arrived at Kislev City, Bokaha Palace as he wished.

The Kerim guard held a halberd and stopped Voroshilov outside: "General, you can't go in now."

"What's going on inside?" The old marshal tried to look inside.

In the main hall, the Boyer nobleman, General Kislev, and the ice witches were sitting together, and the female czar Katarin was sitting on her own czar's throne. Her tone sounded cold, as if there was something Feeling some kind of deep displeasure: "Destroy the barbarians, destroy the greenskins, and put down the rebellion. In the north, we just expelled the Belpine Forest Tribe to the other side of the Mourning Mountains. The Jiakova Fortress in the south is facing another greenskin attack."

"I have been on the throne for more than 20 years. How can I really let go of my mind and conduct a good research? This is the result of the recent peace and this bumper harvest!" Katarin sat on her tsar's throne, she There was a circle of ice witches sitting around, and they sat on the side of the female tsar, and they also looked at the State Duma representatives below with cold eyes: "I am not here for the prosperity of our Kislev, I am here again What is it for?"

The palace was very quiet, no one spoke, even a thin needle could be heard falling to the ground, the old marshal looked very ugly when he saw this scene, he knew that he came at the wrong time, so he could only stand outside and wait.

A very handsome, tall and tall officer, who even smelled of cologne, came from a distance. Voroshilov recognized him. He was Alexei, Kislev Ice Palace Sergeant sir.

That's right, Kislev also has a guard, but this guard is not as elite as the old guard of Brittany. The blood source is chosen entirely according to their appearance and height, which leads to the fact that the Ice Palace Guards with only a few dozen people are all handsome guys, but at the same time they are all handsome.

There were rumors in the court that this group of Ice Palace Guards was actually the royal male favorite group of the Ice Witch Sisters. The old marshal thought that this might be true, because most of these handsome guys did not serve long and would not survive. There are many people who disappeared mysteriously at the age of 30, and the Master Chief was personally appointed by the female tsarina. There have been more than a dozen people who have been in office for more than 20 years, and about half of them have disappeared.

The two sides greeted each other, and the Master Chief took the initiative to chat: "Hello, Your Excellency General, what brought you here?"

"Ah, it's nothing, what's going on inside?" Voroshilov asked in a low voice. The Master Chief was free to enter and leave the court, and he often participated in court meetings as a guard of honor.

"Hey, it's not that group of ignorant guys!" Alexei straightened his handsome face, full of expressions of hatred for iron and steel: "I just said, this year is Kislev's." The Millennium Celebration, such a grand event, so what if there is a little more tax? This year is a bumper harvest! Shouldn’t the surplus food be donated to thank His Majesty the Tsar for his gift?”

Before Alexei finished speaking, the conversation in the palace continued.

"Take this millennium celebration as an example. It has been a thousand years since Queen Miska set off from Kurgan with the tribe. Anyone who knows it knows that it is time for the Ice and Snow Kingdom to hold a grand ceremony of sufficient size. It's the celebration, people who don't know just know how to call me extravagant and desperate, you think I don't understand what everyone is talking about recently? Yezhov and Cheka have already reported to me." The female tsar then said coldly: " Am I not doing this for the national image of our Kislev?"

"Normally, if a Lord Boyer marries a wife, if he wins a victory, if he lives to be sixty years old, they will hold a big banquet, let the people in the neighborhood come to enjoy the food and the bonfire, everyone is happy, everyone will It is said that Boye has been blessed by Erson, strong and full of hope, and his reputation will spread throughout the old world with the banquet and celebration!" Katharine still remained silent when she saw the crowd, a little impatient: "Boye That’s true, the country should be even more so! If we don’t even organize a millennium celebration, not only will our Tsarist family lose face, but the entire Kislev will not be able to lift their heads in the old world!”

"If we don't do a good job, how will the stability and prosperity of the past few years after the Winter War be shown to everyone?" Katarin opened her slender phoenix eyes, and the facial features of the female tsarina would not be particularly amazing if singled out. Combined together, there is a very well-proportioned beauty. The small oval face and the long black hair parted in the middle hang down from the ears with crystal pearl earlobes.

After tidying up her dark blue long skirt and putting her calves wrapped in white silk pantyhose together, the female tsarist stared closely at the people in the State Duma: "In this way, the northern barbarians and green skins will look down on us, even the old The humans and dwarves in the world will also look down on us! The greenskins and barbarians will look down on us, and they will fight over! The humans and dwarves in the old world will look down on us, and they will not accept us!"

"That's all I've said, I'm still against the Millennium Celebration, you can speak!"

The Boyer nobles and generals below looked at each other in blank dismay, but none dared to raise objections. Marshal Rokossovsky of the Bear Cavalry knelt on the ground and dared not raise his head. What about?

After thinking for a while, the Marshal of the Bear Cavalry said carefully: "Returning to Your Majesty, we are not against holding the Millennium Celebration, but the timing is not right now."

"Why isn't it appropriate? The Empire in the south came back from the Norse Expedition and held celebrations for twelve consecutive days. Britannia in the west returned from the Expedition of Eight Peaks and the Great Expedition of Obien, and held 10 consecutive days of celebrations. Two-day and five-day large banquets!" Katarin said coldly: "Our millennium celebration only happens once in a thousand years!"

"But..." Rokossovsky wanted to say something more, he immediately felt Kislev Grand Marshal Dimitri Zayev tugging on the corner of his clothes, and the Ursar Marshal shut up knowingly .

"But what?" Katarin became more and more displeased. The female tsarina thought that the emperor Karl Franz was just a grand prince who had the name of emperor but couldn't command Rick. It's not because of Marquis Suria, the prostitute who married the duke, but after all, it's because of her nepotism, so what if she can fight? It's just a desperate reckless man.

Look at the generals and boys below this palace are all waiting for my order, I am the kind of person who can employ people, not to mention that I am a strong man in the sanctuary, and I have the blood of the Miska tsar, so I am no better than the He is bad.

"No, Your Majesty is thinking about the long-term. I didn't expect it." Rokossovsky suddenly had the face of Lieutenant General Ugor in his heart. Haunting in people's mind, he struggled and chose to give up.

"That's it."

After everyone adjourned, the female tsar, who was still angry, got a report from the guards of Kerim, saying that the old marshal wanted to see him.

"Voroshilov, what's the matter?"

"I brought you a congratulatory gift and a new eulogy for our millennium celebration, Your Majesty!" The old marshal knew that the czarina was in a rage, so he told the czarina's happy things first, seeing Katarin's face brightened At one point, he whispered: "Also, the Norscan dwarf lord Tolgard-Crimson has sent news that a Chaos army of at least 150,000 in the north of the Mourning Mountains is gathering."

"I know, I know." The female tsarina said calmly: "We all know that the neighbors in the north want to fight the dark elves to the death. The information of the dwarves is really outdated, so there is no need to talk about it."

"Yes." The old marshal had no choice but to stop.

"Oh, by the way, since it's the Millennium Celebration, the soldiers on the front line can't forget it. In this way, there is a lot of food this year. Go and distribute two bottles of vodka, three pieces of black bread and a piece of bacon to each of the defenders on the mountain pass and the northern front line." " Katarin thought of the defenders on the front line, and the female tsarina said casually: "You should inform the State Duma about this and let Vlasov do it."

"clear."

In this way, the heart of the entire Ice and Snow Kingdom began to beat vigorously, preparing to welcome its own millennium celebration with enthusiasm and vitality.

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