Scene 70 The Timeline of the Jihad III

The candidate that Brando thought of was naturally the daughter of the Duke with the flower and leaf collar, Miss Faina. This lady is a student of Veronica, and at the same time she is at the top of the imperial aristocratic circle. Through her, I can learn about it. The news is the most suitable candidate, and what is even more commendable is that there is no real interest dispute between him and the Duke's daughter, and there is no need to worry that the other party will deceive him for no reason. Arrogant and disrespectful, but doesn't seem like a cunning person.

What's more, he really needs someone to prove from the side whether the emperor's eldest son's supporters in the south are reliable.

When dealing with the local nobles of the empire, he has always avoided the topic of the eldest son of the emperor very cleverly-he described himself as a member of Veronica and Mangrove as the military forces in the north of the empire overseas. A friend, this identity is naturally close to a line of nobles who have a good impression of the eldest son of the emperor, and in addition, Lenarrett exposed some informants who were loyal to him to Brando. Through these people, Brando and his envoys easily got in touch with the royalist forces of the empire.

But these people are not worth relying on after all, and Brando knows this very well.

He immediately wrote a letter to Faina. There was still a long journey between Floating Cloud Hills and Huayeling, and he did not expect to receive a reply for a while, but at this time, the nobles in the south gave He brought a new message.

This information was also entrusted by Brando to ask them to help inquire. It is mainly about some news about the current jihad. Almost at the same time as the jihad started, the Eruin envoys started on their way to the empire. When they entered the prosperous areas around Er, they could still get more or less information about the war, but as they entered the Balta Plateau, and then turned into the mountains of Anzeruta, in these uninhabited areas , It is really isolated from the world. In the past two months, except for the conflict with Earl Jean and Earl Alcons, almost all information about the outside world has been completely blank.

According to the nobles of Cruz, since the big explosion in July and August, the revenge actions of the Lion Man and the Wind Elf on the border kicked off the jihad, which was fought between October and November. Each stalemate, and completely silent in the last month of the Year of the Sword, the farce between Brando and the southern nobles of the empire seemed to have attracted everyone's attention for a while, but made the ongoing war trivial; The elves began to shrink after the first round of offensive in the Wilderness of the Four Realms. After all, this was a revenge action based on the tragedy of Okins. Although it was regarded by all parties as the curtain of a holy war, the curtain has not yet been drawn. Well, compared to the private behavior of this local legion, the two huge empires still need time to respond to this war. This is a unique spectacle in the third holy war. It seems that the limbs of the body have already moved, but the brain Still working slowly.

On the side of the lion people, it seemed even weirder. When the people of these lands began to attack the fortresses in the Rokozy Heights - the Broken Sword Mountain Range, they seemed to have fallen into silence.

I don't know if it's because of scruples about failure or because of the logistical difficulties encountered in the winter, but I haven't made any progress.

These news, except for the part of Torquinine, are not fundamentally different from what Brando and the others heard when they were still in Ampersel two months ago.

However, the offensive actions of the wind elves can be expected. In this era, apart from Madara, the central government of each empire has very limited restraint on localities. Among them, the Cruz Empire is slightly stronger, and the wind of St. Osor The elves are slightly inferior, because the territory of St. Osor still faces the problem of contradictions between the two main races of humans and elves. This problem has not been resolved in Brando's era until after the Slate War, while Faenzan What's more, Faenzan is a loose alliance, with the Inirs as the main body, and there are joined countries such as the Knights of Gracius in the interior, and the north is a fertile soil for the city-state system. If there is no temple power , can hardly be called a country. Of course, it is very rare for the domestic situation to be as corrupt as the Eruin Kingdom. Each of the three empires is carrying out internal reforms. Among them, the Wind Elf and Faenzan are at the forefront, and the Cruz people At present, it seems that the Silver Queen is also trying to make a highly centralized empire, and Lenarrit also has great ambitions, but for a while, these huge empires still have to rely on local nobles to maintain their operations.

The revenge of the elves of St. Osor was initiated by the commanders and lords of the Legion of Okins, although in fact they had the tacit permission of the Elven Court; The queen ordered the war to start, but it also got the acquiescence of the Supreme One, and even the Temple of Fire did not object. The tricky thing here is that both sides are already interested in continuing this war, but neither side is fully prepared yet.

Therefore, it is also predictable that the wind elves will come to a standstill after suddenly launching an offensive.

But the lion man's movements are very strange.

Toquinin is a tribal country. There are two main races in this country, the lion man and the dwarf, as well as some orcs or lycanthropes. Clans and tribes, large and small, are scattered in the Great Plains and the mountains in the north. They have a king, who is the chief chief recognized by all clans and tribes in name, and a spiritual leader, who is the high priest of the Temple of the Earth, or Prophet, in theory, under the call of the chief and the prophet, these tribal peoples gathered together and decided to launch a holy war, which means that the golden kingdom is ready for this war.

But the current situation is that lions, dwarves, orcs and lycanthropes have gathered together to form a large army, but this army is hesitant to move forward. Siege, and the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword Mountain Fortress group is dangerous, with high walls and strong walls, so these barbarians are completely unable to launch an effective attack on the empire. They can only look at the wall and sigh. When winter passes, they will naturally persist Live and return to the teacher naturally.

Most of the aristocrats who brought this information to Brando firmly believed in this. The walls of the empire were high and the city was strong. Unless it was an opponent of the same level as St. Osor, how could it be possible to break through the fortresses of the empire? But for these blindly optimistic people, Brando really wanted to remind them that one of the fortresses of the empire was breached not long ago, and the person who captured the fortress was just the Earl of a small border country. Now in front of you, should you also consider the occasion if you are arrogant?

But in the end he shook his head. The pride of the imperial people is traditional, as if they have already formed a deep-rooted concept. Once this concept is formed, it is basically no different from superstition, and they cannot listen to different opinions. of.

But he and Nimesis knew very well in private that the golden-maned lionmen of Torquening were not good at attacking cities, but there were also Chongshan dwarves in this army. Among the dwarf tribes, in fact, they only exist in the Temple of the Earth, in the Broken Sword Mountains north of the Holy White Plains. They have settled here since the migration of the Dark Ages, digging mountains, digging tunnels, and are good at Building underground palaces and halls, they have considerable research on architecture and mechanics. They are craftsmen and warriors. They are the army best at siege warfare, and they are especially good at digging tunnels.

These Cruz people seem to ignore these artisan fighters who are best at siege.

As for another widely circulated statement, the stagnation of the Toquinin army is due to the problem of supply lines in winter. In fact, it is also nonsense. The habit is to plunder along the line and raise money on the spot. For such an army, it seems strange that they stopped suddenly.

Brando looked at the map again and again, but finally couldn't figure it out.

But he was thinking of something else.

Historically, when the jihad started, the lionmen attacked ferociously. They once broke through the fortresses of the Broken Sword Mountain Range, the Rokozy Heights. At the most critical time, they even almost endangered the battle of the Red Army in the Four Realms. But at that time, the players of the empire were too vigorous, and they used their bodies to hold back the pace of the Toquinine Lions going north. It is said that it was the first time that the players changed the historical course of the game. You must know that the players of that era The average level is not more than thirty-five, and the Toquinin side also has a huge army of players. In that battle, it can only be said that the players on the Empire side were too united and powerful.

Since then, the lion people can only look at the north of the great plain divided into two by the Broken Sword Mountain Range and Anzeru Tower, and have never recovered from it.

What Brando is thinking at the moment is whether this history will happen again.

Of course, what he was talking about was not the history of players repelling the Lionman, but the history of the Lionman breaking through the Rokozy Heights—the Broken Sword Mountain Fortress Group. In the battle of the mountain fortress group, the role played by the Torquenin players is extremely limited, because the main force of the attack is the dwarves, and the dwarves are one of the races with the smallest player population. Lai, dwarves may not be, let alone dwarves have beards even for women. A race that cannot attract female players will certainly not be able to attract male players. This is the iron law of history.

And the significance of this news to Brando is that if the history is less disturbed, the more likely Warnd in this world will repeat itself.

But when he asked Nimesis about this possible surname, he got a negative answer.

"It's nearly three years earlier than the holy war I saw in my dream, Brando," the female knight looked at his face and replied, "It's because of us, you don't know this One thing, the current situation is completely different from that time.”

Brando didn't see it that way. The timing of the jihad was advanced. However, this may not be a bad thing for Toquinen. The mobilization speed of the clan people is very fast, and it is a great advantage not to have to prepare logistics. What's more, their mobile surname is already very strong on the prairie, but for the empire, it means less time to prepare, so the current situation seems to be more favorable for the lion people than in history.

He brought this up to Nimesis, but the female knight shook her head: "It seems so, but the actions of the lion people are very abnormal. They did not behave like this in previous wars. In that dream, What's more, their battle to capture the Rokozy Heights - the Broken Sword Mountain Range fortress group was not very clean and tidy, but the whole process was very active, completely different from the current situation."

Brando couldn't help frowning when he heard this sentence. He knew that Senior Sister Bai Jia was superior to him in the details of the game history in the Year of Spring Dawn. His knowledge of that period of history came from the forum and some later players A memoir-like statement, but for senior sister Bai Jia, it is mostly personal experience. There is a key difference. Before the 30th level, the game content and plots that the players come into contact with are very low-level, and the senior just happened to be one of the few players above the 30th level in that era.

After hearing Nimesis's description, he couldn't help pursing his lips, thinking about where the difference appeared.

Seeing his thinking expression, Nimesis reminded aloud, "Have you set your mind on Torquening's lion man?"

Brando nodded, not hiding anything from Nimesis. These days, he has been used to discussing such issues with this female knight. The feeling seems to be back to the past, which makes him look forward to it: " Historical Cruz players... Cruz adventurers, you know our kind, dragged Torquinen's army until July until the White Legion joined the fight, the war started in May, but it was in the spring At the turn of summer, in winter, the White Legion will be in Leru, further south, and their reaction time may be faster, we just need to find a way to delay the pace of the lion people a little bit, and we will be successful."

He paused and continued to answer: "You should have seen my arrangement. I need a certain reputation. My grandfather's identity is a great advantage, but Brando is too young, so young that he hardly It may inherit Darus's status in the Imperial[***] team. But fortunately, he is also high enough. People are always willing to believe in some superstitions. If I can behave properly, I can confirm some of their hearts. vision, then I still hope to gain a relatively high position in the future jihadist army."

"According to Veronese, the situation in the empire is cloudy, and history is completely different from what you and I have seen in dreams. Whether it is Her Majesty the Queen or His Royal Highness, Duke Ludwig and Ben Kerr’s military power, or the temple, or we, if we want to take the upper hand in this game of chess, we must be able to determine our own destiny. The only way is to be a chess player instead of a chess piece. I still have some Hesitation, but Qian’s experience finally made me decide to take this path, I was really too naive before, thinking that Aruin could settle down in a corner and find a path of his own from the development of the Black Forest.”

"But in fact, when the tide comes, no one can escape, you and I have witnessed this—"

"So there are some things I have to do right now, and I have to do it." Brando replied in a deep voice: "The lessons for the southern nobles are just the beginning, and I need them as a stepping stone to let the empire understand that Elu The existence of the cause. But the only thing that can really connect Brando and the Sword Saint Darus is Jihad, but at present our strength is very weak, it is impossible to trouble the wind elves of Saint Osor, the only chance Only in Torquinine."

Nimesis was silent for a while after listening to Brando's words.

"You did all this just to save a little mountain girl?" She asked suddenly.

"From a personal point of view, it is like this," Brando replied: "It's as if you planned to rescue us from Madara in Brunosson back then. It is irrational in itself, but it is a human being Of course. You rescued us because you were our leader and promised to protect every member of your regiment. I rescued Qian because of the same reason. I promised her freedom and hope for the future, and I must do it at this point."

"This is an obsession." Nimesis moved her mouth after listening to Brando's words, as if trying to solve the second half of his words, because she understood that the "you" he heard referred to her Another experience of her, but instinctively, the female knight did not agree that it was her, she thought it was just a dream of hers. But this time, in the end, she didn't utter the rebuttal, but replied like this.

"This obsession is the driving force behind my return to this world." Brando replied, "I don't want to give up a second time, sister."

"I'm not..." Nimesis finally sighed: "Well, I want to tell you something, Brando, you are too dependent on everything you have seen in the dream, I don't know why You always believe in that dream so firmly, as if it had really happened. But dreams are dreams after all. For me, the biggest benefit to me is that it gave me a different life experience and made me mature quickly. To rise up and stand out from my peers, but it never occurred to me to prove something from this dream, because then the world seemed too unreal to me."

"And when I am on you, it's like seeing another me. You are always very forward-looking in your actions, but the more you rely on that dream, the more you can't get rid of it. This is for you—for a lord. For a Count of the Empire..."

The female knight looked into Brando's eyes, paused, and then replied word by word: "It seems too naive."

Brando was completely stunned. He never thought that Nimesis would say such a thing to him, but the tone of the other party was completely as if he had taught him how to become a qualified The head of that person.

"But..." he replied.

Nimesis seemed to have expected what he was going to say, she shook her head and said, "You already know what to do, Sophie."

Brando froze there as if struck by a bolt of lightning, looking at the female knight as if possessed.

"It's just because of your reliance on that dream that you can't trust your own judgment." Nimesis shook her head and changed her address again: "Do you understand now?"

Brando stayed for a long time, as if he understood the meaning of the female knight, he took a deep look at the other party: "You mean, I should analyze what Torquinen's lion man will do by myself?"

"Didn't you analyze well just now? I once taught you how to analyze tasks and how to arrange the pace of tasks. Today I can at least see that you have learned well," Nimesis smiled slightly: "If I were your senior sister Bai Jia, then I should feel very relieved, but unfortunately I am not. And you are not Sophie, Brando, you have more knowledge that even Sophie can't have, you are Aye Lord Earl of Luyin, you should be able to understand this."

Brando took a deep breath.

He turned his gaze back to the map.

"Okay, I understand," he replied softly: "In short, we still arrange the tasks according to the priority of the matter. Since the guests have arrived first, as the hosts, we naturally cannot neglect the guests. The manner it should be."

Nimesis nodded: "Exactly."

In the last ten days of the Winter Moon, the eyes of the entire empire were focused on a war that was both unexpected and expected. On this day, the army assembled by Earl Jean and Alcons finally Arrived at the Floating Cloud Hills. (To be continued.)

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