Scene 69 The Timeline of the Jihad II

In Warnd, the Sabbath day is used as the dividing line every year, marking the arrival of the end of the year. Whether it is a commoner or aristocrat, they will gradually reduce their outings after this day, whether it is work or private travel; It seems that the hustle and bustle of the whole year has been quieted down in this month. People began to hold various celebrations and banquets to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. In the region, every household began to prepare and pray for the coming year, praying that the gods would bless the new year with calm and smooth waves and everything goes well.

But it seems that since the insignificant conflict that took place on the border between the Kingdom of Eruin and the Cruz Empire at the end of the year of the Year of the Sword, a farce has officially been staged from south to north on the southern border of Cruz, breaking this past. From the beginning of the Frost Moon, people seem to have gradually become accustomed to one after another breaking news coming from the south. First, the Eruin captured the fortress of the empire, and an earl from Aruin tried to challenge the empire. majesty. However, in the ensuing rumors, the earl became the party who occupied the right again, and what he did at the Black Sword Barrier was just to retaliate against some arrogant nobles-in this year, The pride of the Cruz people has not yet reduced to the need to show their sense of superiority over a small country. On the contrary, the tolerance of a big country makes the citizens of the empire pay more attention to moral righteousness and legality-so they are more willing to stand emotionally. On the side of Brando, he went to fight against the image of the arrogant, stubborn and rigid imperial aristocrats, so every time Brando won a victory, there was a lot of trouble among the common people and even the lower nobles of the empire. Applause.

'You should teach those noble gentlemen a lesson and make them understand. '

This is the common view of almost all the lower-level people in the empire. This does not mean that the upper-level people in the empire have lost their hearts, and the pyramid structure will be crumbling. As long as Brando raises his arms, the empire will fall apart. Most of the above mentality is a kind of mentality that has nothing to do with oneself and gloats about other people's misfortunes. This kind of counterattack from the bottom to the top is always a drama that the common people love to see. Of course, it is not ruled out that a small number of conspirators are eager to move because of this, and even planned a few small rebellions, but these unlucky people who misjudged the situation were seized by the Silver Queen and organized several operations to eliminate dissidents. , from this aspect, the supreme man of the empire really has to thank Brando.

As a result, the south of the empire was bustling like never before, while the center of the empire became more stable than ever.

In any case, regardless of willingness or reluctance, Brando and his envoys continued to march north, and rumors about the Earl still gathered from all directions to the center of the empire.

On the last day of the month of Winter Qin, St. Osor's Sleep Festival, which is called the recovery celebration in other regions, Brando defeated the private army of imperial nobles standing in front of him, a famous local After the Knights of the Summer Solstice formed by the sons of the country gentry, and the Anzeruta Local Defense Corps led by the Earls of Jean and Alcons, the size of the envoys has suddenly expanded from the original medium size of a hundred to ten people. There was a large convoy of hundreds of people. In addition to the carriages of the mission itself, there were more than a dozen large caravans behind the team.

It was full of imprisoned imperial nobles, old and young, and most of them had names in history. This 'hostage' convoy was only one or two carriages at the beginning, but after each battle, more people would be added. Compiled one or two cars, and finally formed the scale of the long car queue now.

For these imperial nobles, Brando did not embarrass them, at least let them maintain a minimum of decency, and even allowed them to keep attendants and followers-of course, the scope of the abilities of these attendants was limited to running errands and preparing some for their masters. Eating, drinking, and solving the problems of keeping out the cold and living. In this way, Brando doesn't even need to worry about the rations of these captives himself, and they can solve it by themselves. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are some hardliners among them who want to cause trouble for him, and those who would rather starve to death than consume the rations of the Brando envoys. His solution is very simple, just give these guys who are pampered Basic rations were provided, and it turned out that those guys contacted their attendants with tears in their eyes after they hadn't eaten two meals of hard bread.

Brando didn't care that these people would run away. There were magic alarms provided by wizards around the convoy around the clock, and there were gargoyles patrolling in the sky. How far could ordinary people run in this snow-covered barren forest? At first, a few people tried to escape, and Brando didn't even stop them. After a few days, those unlucky guys returned to the convoy, cold and hungry, as if they were savages. They voluntarily wanted to continue to be prisoners, Bran Duo intentionally relaxed the monitoring of these unlucky guys in the convoy, and as a result, through their mouths, everyone soon knew what happened to them, and it also had a good deterrent effect for a while.

The reason for the second escape came from the fact that the envoy passed through a relatively prosperous area near Rusev. The successful 'escape' of several nobles gave the hundreds of captives in the entire convoy a shot in the arm, and then they began A large-scale escape operation was launched. Every evening, there was an endless stream of people fleeing the convoy, but almost without exception they were caught back. Then the imperial nobles who did not give up began to contact the people outside the convoy through their entourage, and launched operations of wits and courage to rescue the hostages again and again.

As for the whole process, it was full of aristocratic wisdom and whimsy. For example, the passing circus invited Brando, the earl, to visit, or the troubled noble daughter asked him, a foreigner, for help. The romanticism of the knights, and some even made Brando dumbfounded. As for the result, Brando taught him a few times to pretend to be robbers, businessmen, secretaries, mercenaries, noble family members and even circuses. After the members of the noble knights from all walks of life, the caravan convoy behind the envoys unexpectedly increased by another section.

After a month of back and forth, the nobles of the empire finally realized that their futile escape plans would not work in Brando's eyes. Although the Earl looked only twenty years old, he But he was as shrewd as the head of the old mercenary regiment who had been walking on the mainland all his life. The disguises and ghost tricks that adventurers, mercenaries, and nightingales used to were no different in front of him. Of course, they didn't expect that Bu While Lando was teaching these whimsical guys, he was also snickering. These people actually played with him--this is something he played badly in his previous life. Playing is much more exciting than these naive nobles, and there are some things that they have never even thought about.

There is a famous case in the Second Epoch. In order to ambush the mountain king Sharifinger, a player used illusion to create an identical rock fortress less than five miles away from Alice Anna, and then used barrier spells to turn it into a fortress. The entire Alice Anna disappeared from the map, and no one expected that someone would play such a big trick under the noses of countless people, even the famous npc like Xialifinger, the king of the mountain, was the same. If the player's guild hadn't made a mistake at that time, I'm afraid they would have to complete the great feat of killing Xialifinger. It can be seen that the tricks of these nobles are really boring to Brando.

He, Sophie, had been the team leader on and off in the game for almost thirty years in the last life. This is not a particularly outstanding experience among game players, but it is very impressive among npcs. Even old mercenaries like Fern and Utta may not be able to do this qualification.

Not to mention that there is an older leader beside him, Nimesis. Although the female knight is not willing to admit her identity, this does not prevent her from using her experience.

The two often spent the night in the carriage studying the tricks of these nobles, and the result was naturally that some unlucky ones were eaten to death.

Leaving Rusev, the envoys began to gradually leave the territory of Anzeru Tower. At this time, some small noble families in the long motorcade finally couldn't bear it anymore. They began to ask for redemption one after another. For these people Brando was not particularly embarrassed, he released people generously after receiving the money, this kind of generosity made him famous among some minor nobles, and the rumors about the Kicking Sword Master and the Mad Earl were not like the beginning So bad. Of course, this is just one aspect. On the other hand, the nobles that Miss O'Neill let go under his instruction finally started to play a role. Under their embellished publicity, Brando's identity successfully became a different person from a foreign land. The well-behaved and unwelcome foreigner has evolved into the image of a great devil.

There is nothing wrong with their propaganda like this. After all, if you don't describe Brando as insidious and cunning, and how good at manipulating people's hearts, wouldn't it seem that the guys who were arrested by him are very incompetent? After all, losing to a strong opponent may show that you are weak and incompetent, losing to a wise opponent may show that you are a complete idiot, losing to a seasoned opponent may point out your childishness and naivety, but if Your opponent is mean and shameless, so at least you can win the sympathy of the audience. After all, kindness is innocent, isn't it?

So in their description, the treatment and decency given to the nobles by Brando disappeared, and the daily life of the nobles caught by Brando was worse than hell. Bare naked, starved of food—although people may wonder what a majestic Earl Eruin is doing by robbing them of their clothes and rations, but such a description is in line with the conjectures of the barbarians in the hearts of the imperial people about the effect of foreign countries, so these The statement of the nobles successfully aroused the indignation of almost all the nobles of the empire in the entire Anzeru Tower.

Of course, this kind of indignation has always existed from the very beginning, but Earl Jean and Alcons have not yet thought of how to stand on a moral and axiomatic basis, so that they can have a reason to continue to attack this Eru It was only due to the actions of the envoys, and now they finally found a reason to go to war under the guidance of the Duchess from Viero, but how absurd and unbelievable this reason sounds, but it is used to convince Her Majesty the Queen should be enough.

So under the watchful eyes of the entire empire, the two Earls began their actions to save face.

As described at the beginning, this farce that started from the border of the empire and went all the way to the hinterland of the empire has been staged again. Now it is obviously its second season. As for whether there will be a third or fourth season, it is still unclear. easy to say.

The envoys of the Eruin finally passed through the last barrier of the Anzeruta Mountains this season. The location they are now in is called Floating Cloud Hills on the empire's map, which is a quite famous place for the empire. The location - in the battle of the saints, this is the Great Plains, looking east from here, it is an endless wilderness - that is, the southwesternmost end of the Four Realms. And to the north of this place, through a long and narrow corridor called the Evergreen Corridor, it is connected to the famous flower and leaf collar in the north; and to the east of this place, close to the Broken Sword Mountains, is the Rokozy Highlands, which is the closest In the place of the Great Plains of Tuo Quining, there are countless fortresses and barriers at the junction of the mountains, blocking the offensive from the lion people.

In other words, this place is probably the closest to war for the empire at this moment, except for the Wilderness of the Four Realms and the eastern foot of the Broken Sword Mountain Range. Since July, this place has been on alert. The atmosphere of festivals in other places is no longer seen here. There are few pedestrians on the roads between towns and commercial stations, but patrols have begun to appear frequently.

This place is currently the military depot of the two battlefields, and it is also one of the weakest links of the empire. On weekdays, Brando is really worried that the two Earls of Anzeruta will find a way to convince the two legions of the North and the South Some great imperialists came to chase and intercept him, but now, the soldiers of the empire are fighting bloody battles, and it is obviously unlikely to participate in the petty games among these nobles.

At this time, Brando finally contacted some of the imperial nobles who favored him through Lenarrett's influence in the empire—but the nobles he first came into contact with were not the hardcore supporters of the eldest son of the emperor— After all, the spheres of influence of the military nobles are mostly in the north and the south, which is the traditional sphere of influence of local nobles and temples. And these nobles that Brando came into contact with happened to be some local forces that were emotionally inclined to the eldest son of the emperor. They had a common characteristic, that is, their positions were vacillating, and their strength was far less than enough to affect the situation of the empire. Some said it was made with soy sauce.

But these soy sauces are very important to Brando at this moment. Through them, Brando finally understands some of the internal situation of the empire at this time-especially the key is that Veronica and Mangrove returned to the empire. What happened afterwards, after the changes in the entire history, although Brando still had a forward-looking judgment on the customs of the empire in this era and the habits of the nobles in handling affairs, he had no doubts about the empire after the big bang, the jihad The specific direction of the previous details, but it is rare that his eyes are smeared. In fact, since he returned to this era, this is the first time he has encountered such a situation.

And after getting in touch with these small families, he finally understood what happened after that intermittently. Sure enough, as Veronica expected, she was deprived of military power as soon as she returned to the empire, but the Silver Queen did not convict her Instead, Veronica's elder brother was appointed as the head of the legion, and at the same time took over the position of the head of the Ericho family. She did this on the surface to appease the military forces so as not to offend too much the people she will use, but Brando knew there was a deeper reason for it, because he knew that Ms. Veronica was actually It is just a scapegoat in the whole incident. In the eyes of those who don't know the truth, this incident is the punishment for Veronica's inadvertently bringing the royal family into trouble, but in fact this is just a cover-up. Her Majesty knows it well. Knowing the role she played in it, it was inevitable that she would feel a little guilty about comforting the Ericho family in this way.

But what makes Brando a little puzzled is that Veronica was not released back to her territory, but was placed under house arrest in **, which made him a little incomprehensible. Could it be that Her Majesty the Queen really With a heart of stone, you want to punish the leader of the legion? No matter how he thought about it, he didn't think it was necessary. The Silver Queen would not be ignorant of Veronica's abilities. She didn't seem to need to offend Veronica to death.

However, after Brando heard the news, he didn't think deeply about it. He didn't react until Nimesis reminded him that there might be a conspiracy in it—something was indeed wrong.

After learning the truth of the whole incident, Nimesis gave him the original words: "His Majesty the Emperor of the Cruz people will make a big move."

"What's going on?" Brando knew that his political experience would not be much better than a certain righteous knight Mr. Eco in the mission, so he didn't feel anything wrong and asked directly road.

Nimesis glanced at him, and there was a rare look of hatred in her eyes, which was very similar to the way her senior sister looked at him back then: "Think about who Veronica is, his Can my brother become a master? Since you and I both know this, how could the Silver Queen not know that what she did was to say that the Blue Legion was left hanging in the air. What kind of forces are there in the central area of ​​the empire? After the loss of the Blue Legion, the power A mature politician would not make such a risky move, but she did so, which shows that she has some intentions, and she has no idea that the risk is directly proportional to the benefit. Her actions must be It won't be small."

The female knight paused for a while before replying flatly: "It's just that we have too little information to deduce what she wants to do."

Brando's heart skipped a beat when he heard it. He looked at the lady knight who was usually taciturn, and only occasionally said a few words when discussing tactics against the nobles with him during this period of time. The familiar feeling seemed to return to the other party. When she said those words before, it was very similar to the scene when the senior sister gave them an analysis task. It's just that at that time, senior sister Bai Jia was much more gentle.

He pursed his lips, and thought about what Nimesis said seriously in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.

But whether the action of the supreme being is good or bad for them, just like Nimesis said, because there is too much information missing, it will not be possible to deduce it for a while.

"This matter is really getting more and more complicated," Brando couldn't help but said to himself, "But His Majesty's actions probably won't have anything to do with what we're going to do next. What we're going to do now The only thing we need to do is to deal with the two Lord Earls, and only if we do this well, can we take the initiative in the next trip to the empire."

The female knight was noncommittal after hearing this, but Metisa who was at the side replied, "My lord, I think it's a good thing to focus on one thing, but we'd better inquire about it."

Brando nodded this time. In fact, he already had a suitable candidate in his heart.

Speaking of which, the other party was the only person he knew in the empire.

Coincidentally, they are still very close geographically at this moment.

... (To be continued.)

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