Chapter 1140

In the south of the Millennium covenant Empire, there were only six provinces and eleven aristocratic autonomous territories. Further south, it was a primitive land. The fourth emperor of the Millennium covenant empire was so happy that he exhausted all the materials in the national treasury and made great efforts to build four huge armies to attack in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest in an attempt to dominate the whole southern continent. At the beginning, the commander of the four legions was the first Duke Sidun.

At the beginning, the war was quite smooth, but soon after, the four-way Legion encountered problems one after another, which led to the failure of the smooth implementation of the expansion of the Empire.

For example, the northern Legion was secretly sniped from the Emilia empire; The eastern Legion was frustrated by the war because of the Warcraft canyon; The Western Legion met the whole territory of the Principality of satagastan, which had the seat of the Dragon Knight at that time.

But it was the southern Legion that suffered the most.

The southern legion, then Duke of nanden, went all the way south. At first, it was quite smooth. However, after crossing the area of today's mei'an commercial city, it encountered the deadly interception of various indigenous tribes in the south. Even some fierce orcs from the barbarian tribes ran out to join the fun, which could be described as heavy casualties. But this is not over. When the South offensive has become an extravagant hope to withdraw, the retreat is ambushed by indigenous tribes from the three southern provinces, and the whole southern Legion is so thoroughly explained here.

After that, the emperor of the Millennium covenant empire was so angry that he didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to launch a counterattack.

After the whole country launched an all-out war, it finally took mei'an area at a great cost and built mei'an fortress here. Then we sent troops to the three southern provinces. On the southern land that had not yet formed the scale of the three provinces today, all men, children, adults and the elderly, were slaughtered, and women were taken away as booty. This also laid a hidden line for the first civil strife of the Millennium covenant Empire.

The civil strife broke out in the later period of the sixth emperor, and lasted for nearly a hundred years. At that time, almost the whole south of the Empire was in a situation of war. There was a grand occasion of mixed warfare among various tribes in a somewhat chaotic era - the three provinces in the south, the six provinces in the old land and the 11 autonomous aristocrats raised 72 anti flags.

The war lasted until the ninth emperor succeeded to the throne for 20 years before it was finally calmed down - the short-lived seventh emperor died of assassins sent by nobles in the civil strife in the South less than three years after he succeeded to the throne. The eighth emperor had been in power for nearly 70 years, and his greatest contribution to the civil strife in the South was the annihilation of the legions of 40 rebellious nobles, And greatly weakened the military strength of the other 32 rebel nobles.

After the ninth emperor calmed the war, the remaining rebellious nobles fled farther south across the Mayan fortress, and many of them even fled to the wilderness.

It seemed that he was deeply aware of the damage and impact this had brought to the Empire. Since the ninth emperor, he continued to send troops out of mei'an to the south. Until the middle of the 12th emperor's reign, he finally laid down the 13 provinces south of mei'an fortress, owned the whole southern territory now, and even built a wild fortress.

However, due to the division of interests in previous wars and many other factors, in fact, the whole southern empire was not monolithic.

Taking the fort of mei'an as the dividing point, the six provinces in the north of the Millennium covenant empire that have existed since the founding of the country are called the old South six provinces, and the 18 nobles who settled on this land - since the end of the hundred year southern rebellion, 11 nobles' autonomous territories have become 18 nobles' autonomous territories - are also called the old South 18 families, including the current zoanton family.

The three provinces to the south of the Mayan fortress are called the three provinces in the south. It is also the most important food base of the Millennium covenant empire. Although there is no aristocratic fief, there are seven great aristocrats in the three provinces in the south, which can be called the first-class aristocrats in the Empire. Therefore, these seven families are also called the seven families in the south. The first of the seven families is the family of the demon snake Marquis Antas. It is precisely because he has been secretly supporting all the old nobles that the civil strife in the Empire will last so long.

To the southeast of mei'an fortress, that is, the thirteen provinces composed of the golden left road and the gold digging Road, are called the golden thirteen provinces, together with the 21 large families in the thirteen provinces, which are also called the golden family. However, this kind of address, to put it bluntly, is just a self proclaimed way of raising their status, and it is only in the south of the Empire - of course, the most important thing is to distinguish their respective positions.

The 21 golden families, the 13 golden provinces, the seven Southern families, the three southern provinces, the 18 old southern families and the six old southern provinces constitute the southern pattern of the entire Millennium covenant empire.

However, with the fall of Mayan fortress, the tripartite pattern has been really cut off.

In terms of overall strength, the golden 21, which controls the real voice of the 13 provinces, is undoubtedly the strongest. Therefore, even in the face of the strong attack and fierce attack of little Lucas and Rick, it will not be fully occupied for a while and a half, but with the passage of time, it will only be a matter of time.

The second strongest in terms of apparent strength is the six provinces of the old South and the 18 aristocratic autonomous territories. However, with pushus zoanton becoming the Duke of South Devon, all the nobles of the old six provinces and the old eighteen provinces had to obey the Duke's orders. In addition, the old Duke did have unique skills, so after integrating all the forces of the old South, he became the strongest existence in the south of the Empire.

If the old Duke didn't have amazing skills and didn't hesitate to immediately launch a fierce attack on mei'an commercial city, I'm afraid that the three southern provinces, which are the weakest in both apparent strength and real inside strength, would have been broken by the army of the dead.

After all, although there are seven families in the three southern provinces that can be called first-class, in fact, only the Marquis of the devil snake really has extraordinary heritage and strength.

It was precisely because of the fierce attack launched by puhughes that the army of the dead who were going deep into the three southern provinces had to withdraw to the commercial city of mei'an to resist.

The counterattack speed from the human Empire side was slightly faster than that predicted by Rick and little Lucas.

The progress of the second legion of the dead is much slower than expected. In addition to part of the reason that there were several holy land strongmen in the province, which led to the failure of the first war and the inability to sweep with the general trend of rolling, it was also another key reason for the loss of 50000 souls caused by Sean's horizontal intervention.

All these changes in the situation have led to the abnormal and strange war situation in the south of the Millennium covenant empire.

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Green Castle was originally an outpost Acropolis built to cooperate with Mayan fortress.

However, with the change of the war value of mei'an fortress, the fortress was gradually abandoned. It was not until the prosperous period of the golden left road and the official establishment of the provincial status that a great noble privately funded the repair and reconstruction.

The whole Green Castle covers an area of about 32000 to 35000 square meters, and the specific area can not be known, because in the process of many repairs and alterations, some additions and deletions have been made to the original design drawings. In addition to the reinforcement of the city wall, the number of arrow stacks has also been increased, but the arrow tower has been slightly reduced. At the same time, a lot of greening has been added in the Green Castle, taking into account some of the beauty of the castle.

As we all know, there are five famous castles in the southern continent.

This emerald castle, commonly known as the Green Castle, is one of the five major castles in the southern continent, which is as famous as the black swan castle in the void principality and the black rose castle in the * * * kingdom. The other two castles are the Dragon Castle in the Principality of satagastan and the six leaf Ling castle in the Principality of oekiri.

The emerald castle was built close to the forest. Although it is not close to the mountain, it has only built three towering walls, and there is no wall around the forest. This is mainly because this forest is a primitive forest. It not only has a vast area, but also has a very complex terrain. There are even natural dangerous places such as bottomless swamps and poisonous fog, and even many extremely powerful Warcraft. Therefore, it is not important whether to build a city wall or not.

Of course, the location of the castle here naturally makes use of the location of these dangerous places. It is absolutely impossible to sneak into the castle by going deep into the forest and detouring back to the emerald castle through the side where there is no wall. In fact, the side close to the forest is also the original owner of the ancient castle. In order to prevent the castle from being besieged and unable to break through from the front, he deliberately left such an escape route for the defenders in the castle to retreat.

At this time, a team that had been lined up gathered in front of the virgin forest.

Most of these people are old people and children, their faces still have the color of fear, and many people tremble - not cold, but frightened. If it weren't for this time, many soldiers like guards in the castle were in charge, I'm afraid these people didn't know what to panic into. However, even so, in the empty field near the forest land, the atmosphere of depression and despair still remained.

And all kinds of shouting and killing sounds still came from time to time in the distance, but also showed the situation of the Green Castle at this time.

A middle-aged man with a ferocious centipede scar on his face looked at the forest land with a worried face, and then took his eyes back and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid few of these people can pass through this dead land."

The scar on the man's face fell straight down his right cheek from his forehead and crossed his right eye in the middle, so he had only one left eye to observe things. The scar is slightly red at this time, and there is blood overflow from time to time. It is obviously a new wound. I'm afraid it won't last more than ten days. Normally speaking, there must be abnormal pain in this case, which ordinary people are determined to be unbearable, but the middle-aged man seems to have no injury on his face, giving people a sense of calm and stability.

"We tried our best, and the rest can only be left to fate." The reply was a middle-aged man with slightly gray hair. His age was clearly only middle-aged, but his hair was so white that people could see at a glance that it was not that kind of silver, but that it was similar to the gray where the spirit had come to an end. "Although the right side was also extremely dangerous, after all, there were many strong people. If they could successfully cross this forest, At least the hope of survival is much greater than here. "

They were just saying this, but they heard a roar.

The sound was like thunder, and suddenly sounded again. I was afraid it would be startled when I heard it roughly.

However, the voice had sounded two or three times in one night, so not only the two people on the city wall had no response, but even the team at the edge of the forest was numb. Of course, many people are still slightly worried about looking at a certain section of the smoke and dust wall, because their relatives are fighting bravely over there at this time, in order to give them these old people and children who have no combat ability a time to escape and avoid becoming the end of the material of the army of the dead.

"It's my turn to go." The middle-aged man with scars on his face said in a deep voice, "when the left city wall collapsed, it was Mr. Moro who turned the tide. At this time, he was dragged by the battlefield over there, and it was impossible to separate. Now the right wall has collapsed. There is the main force of the undead army. I'm afraid I have to go to the town to solve it It's the fog spirit. I'm afraid I'll find a chance to attack you soon. "

"I can also use a deadly spell." The man with gray hair said faintly, and his voice was calm without waves, "but it's the last time."

The middle-aged man with scars on his face was silent, but he sighed helplessly: "I don't know what crazy these undead are. They have been fighting since the sudden attack last night. Even if they lost more than half, they don't retreat at all, which makes us unable to burn the bodies of our dead companions. On the contrary, we have restored some of their sources of troops."

"They are in a hurry. I'm afraid something has happened." The gray haired middle-aged man whispered, "you and Mr. Moro are not his opponents. Now general hanvince is seriously injured again. We must send him to the right side as soon as possible. There is at least a great sacrificial Hall of the temple of life, which may make general hanvince recover. Therefore, the only one who can fight with the fog spirit is me who can still perform the desperate skill. "

"But..."

"I'm ready to die with him." The gray haired middle-aged man interrupted his companion, "you'd better hurry to reinforce. Otherwise, we will not be able to withstand the pressure. If we let the army of the dead rush in, I'm afraid the old people and children will not escape if they want to escape. In this way, we will have no way to send general hanvince away secretly. "

"Hey." The middle-aged man with ferocious scars on his face smiled, immediately picked up the long gun next to him, and then turned to walk towards the smoke filled wall section. He took dozens of meters in one step, "it's my honor to fight side by side with you If I die in battle, I will destroy myself with the self explosion of the field, so that they will not use my body to create any monsters to kill. "

Looking at the back of the middle-aged man who left, the gray haired man sighed: "me too."

Then he turned his head and looked into the air not far away.

Because there, there is a black robe rising in the air, which is constantly emitting a strong black fog at the hood, cuffs and hem of the robe.