Heart of Empire

Chapter 369: Unmoving like a mountain

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Ou Ze hopes that Dane can continue to put pressure on Conley in the south in order to bring about a turnaround in the overall situation. For this reason, he specially sent a sword falcon knight to find Dane's main army, and handed a letter to Harder who stayed in Dane's army.

As Oze's envoy, Hader has been by Dane's side since he arrived at Iron Spike Hill. Halfway through, Dane's attitude towards him was indifferent for a period of time, which made him a little worried. Even, when he recalled that he was in Dane's army, his mind seemed to be in a daze for a while, and he suspected that Dane had used some means in it.

This once made Harder very angry, but later, when the situation in the north changed dramatically, Dane eased towards him.

He's a smart guy who is largely in control of his emotions. In fact, he also guessed what Dane's idea was at the beginning—it was nothing more than sitting on a hill and watching tigers fight.

However, these things are no longer important now. Harder adjusted his mentality very well, forcibly ignoring and forgetting the memory that he had been bewitched by spells for a period of time.

The order he received from Governor Oze was to do his best to urge Dane to step up the Northern Expedition and put more pressure on Conley. In this way, Harder's next task still needs to deal with Dane, which requires him to hide all his unhappy thoughts.

When he found Dane, the two sides happily reached an agreement.

Harder's attitude made Dane very satisfied, and Ou Ze's attitude made him even more satisfied.

In Ou Ze's personal letter to Dane, the domineering governor who has dominated Schindler's East for so many years spoke quite sincerely. This reminded Dane of those years, when the war was fought in the Eastern Wasteland, in the eyes of everyone, he was just a "horse boy" under Morno, even Morno was nothing in the eyes of Oze , let alone him.

Even after that, when Dane became prosperous in the south, Beast Blood Castle only regarded White Wolf Castle as his little brother, and he was still not very obedient.

To this day, in the letters written by Ou Ze, he already treats Dane as a person of the same level as himself. Dane's tone was quite respectful.

This somewhat made Dane feel a little dark in his heart.

In fact, Dane knew what he should do without the need for Harder to look for him or Ou Ze's handwritten letter. He will definitely continue to go north and continue to trouble Kangli. After all, he also very much does not want to see Ou Ze defeated, it will not benefit him at all.

On November 26th, the army led by Dane was in full swing.

After Mihe City was taken by him and the surrounding area was completely cleared, from Mihe City to the north, until Cinderella, there was no town or checkpoint that could bring any trouble to Dane's advance. . He easily killed Cinderella's city within a few days.

This capital city really deserves to be the largest city in Schindler.

Hundreds of years ago, before the establishment of the Second Caesar Empire, the territory of the original empire was still a place called the Southern Cross Alliance, a multinational loose alliance system. At that time, the strength of the orc empire was at its peak. At that time, the entire east was dominated by orcs. Not to mention Schindler, even looking west, half of the Duchy of Florence was the pasture and territory of orcs hundreds of years ago.

And Cinderella was the western capital of the orcs at that time. This was a huge city once inhabited by 300,000 orcs. It was in this city that the chieftain and emperor of the orcs commanded an army of hundreds of thousands of orcs, constantly creating unbearable pressure on the western human world.

That was when Cinderella was at her best. The palace of the orc emperor was built here, and all kinds of treasures plundered from the western human world were piled up all over the city.

Of course, the orc empire later disintegrated. After the establishment of the Second Caesar Empire, Caesar's Legion came from the south, the Knights of the Principality of St. Victoria came from the west, and the barbarians from the Argus Highlands in the north went south. The three forces combined to wipe out the great orc empire. , and drove the habitat of the orcs hundreds of kilometers deeper into the eastern wasteland.

At that time, after Cinderella was captured by humans, it was rebuilt as a fortress city. Later, after the collapse of the New Caesar Empire, the so-called Second Caesar Empire, and the endless civil wars, the province of Schindler became an autonomous territory, and gradually transformed into a general situation of warlord separatism and struggle. Among them, Cinderella, as the capital city and the largest city, has always been controlled by the most powerful governor.

In other words, in fact, whoever controls Cinderella has the right to rule the entire Cinderella—at least in name.

This is the history of Cinderella. And now, Cinderella, controlled by Conley, ushered in a challenge from Dane.

However, this challenge does not appear to be very powerful.

Conley, who failed to fully control the city, has very little control over Cinderella. This is also the reason why he has to leave a considerable part of his soldiers in Cinderella no matter how tense the situation becomes. Without the suppression of these soldiers, Cinderella would immediately become a powder keg.

But Dane wanted to take the initiative to attack Cinderella, that was also a dream. This is the largest city in Schindler, and it is also the strongest fortress in Schindler. Looking at the tall city wall, the cannons with the gates on the city wall, and the arrow towers everywhere, Dane had no intention of leading the troops to attack the city at all.

He can rely on the bravery of the soldiers and the absolutely excellent siege equipment produced by his equipment workshop to conquer Mihe City in one fell swoop with an upright posture, but Schindler is a completely different concept . With five or six thousand defenders still in the city, if Dane dared to lead troops to attack the city head-on, he would really be dead.

This point was well confirmed after he tentatively dispatched artillery troops to confront the cannons on the city wall for a while, but was blasted into disgrace.

He is very convinced now that he will definitely not be able to beat Cinderella. As for Kang Li, he would definitely not have the slightest idea of bringing the army out to fight him in the field, nor did he intend to transfer troops from the Northern Army to come back to support him.

Anyway, you, Dane, can't do anything to me, so I'll just stay the same and see what you can do to me? (To be continued.)