The candidate Brando thought of was naturally the daughter of the Duke with a flower-leaf collar, Miss Faina. This lady was a student of Veronica, and at the same time she was at the top of the imperial aristocratic circle, through her to understand this. The news is the most suitable candidate. What’s even more commendable is that there is no real interest entanglement between him and the Duke’s daughter, and there is no need to worry that the other party will lie to him for no reason. Although the young lady performed in the trade wind ring To be arrogant and disrespectful, but doesn't look like a cunning person.
What's more, he really needs someone to prove from the side whether the eldest son's supporters in the south are reliable.
When dealing with the local nobles of the empire, he has been very cleverly avoiding the topic of the eldest son of the empire—he described himself as Veronica and Mangrove as a member of the military forces in the northern part of the empire. Friend, this identity is innately close to a family of nobles who have a good impression of the eldest son of the emperor. In addition, Lenarit exposed some of the informants who were loyal to him to Brando. Through these people, Lando and his envoys easily established relations with the royalists on the side 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 way from the floating cloud hills to the Huaye collar. He did not expect to receive a reply for a while, but at this time, the nobles in the south gave it again. He brought a new message.
This information was also commissioned by Brando earlier to ask them to help inquire, mainly about some news about the current jihad. Almost at the same time as the jihad began, the Eruin envoys set out on their way to the empire, after passing through Ampere. In the prosperous areas of Seoul, they could still more or less inquire about the war, but as they entered the Balta Plateau and then turned into the mountains of Anzeruta, in these uninhabited areas , Really isolated from the world, in the past two months, except for this conflict with Earl Jean and Earl Alcons, they have been completely blank with all information from the outside world.
According to the Cruz nobles, since the big explosion in July and August, the retaliatory action of the lion man and the wind elves on the border opened the curtain of the holy war, which was fought from October to November. Each stalemate, and completely silent in the last month of the Year of the Sword, the farce between Brando and the southern aristocracy of the empire seemed to have attracted everyone's attention for a while, but made the ongoing war insignificant; wind; The elves began to shrink after the first round of offensive in the Wild of Four Realms. After all, this was a revenge action based on the tragedy of Aukins. Although it was regarded by all parties as the curtain of holy war, the curtain has not yet been drawn. Open, compared to the private actions of this local legion, the two huge empires still need time to react to this war. This is a unique spectacle in the third holy war, as if the limbs of the body are already in action, but the brain It is still operating slowly.
On the Lion’s side, it’s even more bizarre. When these people of the earth began to attack the fortresses in the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword Mountains, they seemed to fall into silence. I don’t know if it was because of scrupulous failure or because of the winter. The logistic difficulties here have never made progress.
These news, except for the Torquinine part, are not fundamentally different from what Brando and the others heard when they were in Amperexel two months ago.
However, the offensive actions of the wind elves are predictable. In this era, with the exception of Madara, the central authority of the empires is actually very limited. The Cruz Empire is slightly stronger, and the wind of St. Ossor The elves are a little bit slower, 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 time until the Slate War, and Faenza Secondly, Faenzan is a loose alliance, with the Iner people as the main body, and there are franchise countries such as the Knights of Grace, and the north is a fertile land of city-states, if it were not for the temple powers. , It’s almost hard to call it a country. Of course, it is very rare for the domestic situation to be so degraded as that of the Eruin Kingdom. The three empires are all undergoing internal reforms. Instead, the Wind Elves and Faenzan are at the forefront. The Cruz people At present, it seems that there are also attempts by the Silver Queen to make a highly centralized empire, and Lenaret is also ambitious, but for a while, these huge empires still rely on local nobles to maintain their operations.
The revenge of the elves of St. Osor was initiated by Orgins’ legion commanders and lords, although they were actually approved by the elven royal court; the counterattack launched by the Cruz Red Legion was not actually made by silver. The Queen gave the order to initiate the war, but it also got the acquiescence of the Supreme, and even the Temple of Flame did not oppose it. The tricky thing here is that both sides have already intended to continue this war, but both sides are not fully prepared at home.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that the wind spirit will come to a halt after suddenly launching an offensive.
But the movement of the lion is very strange.
Toquinine is a tribal country. This country has two main races, lion people and dwarves, as well as some ethnic groups of orcs or lycanthropes. Lions, dwarves, orcs and lycanthropes are formed respectively. Small and large clans and tribes are scattered among the great plains and the mountains in the north. They have kings, which are the great chiefs nominally recognized by all clans and tribes, and spiritual leaders, which are the high priests of the Earth Temple, or rather The prophet, theoretically, under the call of the chief and the prophet, these tribes gathered together and decided to launch a holy war, then it also means that this golden kingdom is ready for this war.
But the current situation is that the lion, dwarves, orcs, and lycanthropes have gathered together to form an army, but this army has hesitated to move forward. This situation is propagated by the empire that the Toquinines are not good at all. Siege of the city, and the Rokozy Highlands-Broken Sword Mountain fortress group has a dangerous terrain and high walls. Therefore, these barbarians are simply 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 naturally and return to teacher.
Most of the nobles who brought this information to Brando believed this. The imperial wall was high and the city was strong. Unless it was an opponent of the same level like Saint Osor, how could it be possible to break the imperial fortress group? But for these blindly optimistic people, Brando really wants to remind that a fortress in their empire was breached not long ago, and the person who captured the fortress was just a Count Lord from a small border country, this Lord Earl. Now in front of you, shouldn't you think about the occasion as well
But in the end he shook his head. The pride of empires is traditional, and it seems that a deep-rooted concept has already formed. Once this concept is formed, it is basically no different from superstition, and it is impossible to listen to different opinions. of.
In private, he and Nimesis knew very well that Torquinine’s golden-maned lionmen were not good at attacking cities, but there were also mountain dwarves in this army, and the mountain dwarves were a group of people living in the mountains in Warnd. The dwarf tribe among them, in fact, they only exist in the Temple of Earth, in the Broken Sword Mountains north of the Holy White Plain. They have been living here since their migration from the Dark Ages, digging through the mountains and digging tunnels. They are good at Building underground palaces and halls, they have considerable research on architecture and mechanics. They are both craftsmen and warriors. They are the army that is best at siege warfare, and they are especially good at digging tunnels.
These Cruz people seem to ignore the artisan warriors who are best at siege.
As for another widely circulated theory, the stagnation of the Torquinin army is due to the problem of the winter supply line. In fact, it is also nonsense. When did you hear that nomads and clan people need supply lines, they fought Habits are plundering along the route and raising their own money on the spot. For such an army, it seems strange that they suddenly stop.
Brando looked at the map and looked at it, but in the end he didn't get a clue.
But he was thinking about another thing.
In history, when the jihad started, the Lions had a fierce offensive. They once broke through the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword Mountain fortress group. At the most important time, they almost endangered the battle of the Scarlet Legion in the Four Realms. However, at that time, the players of the empire were really too vigorous. They used their bodies to drag the Toquinine Lions to the north. It is said that it was the first time the players changed the course of history in the game. You must know the players of that era. The average level is not more than thirty-five, and the Toquinine side also has a large army of players. That battle can only say that the players on the empire are too united and too powerful.
Since then, the Lion can only look at the northern part of the Great Plain where the Broken Sword Mountain Range and Azeruta are divided into two, and has never recovered from then on.
Brando is thinking at the moment whether this history will happen.
Of course, what he is talking about is not the history of the player repelling the Lion Man, but the history of the Lion Man breaking through the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword Mountain Fortress. As far as he knows, the Lion Man breaking through the Rokozy Heights-Broken Sword In the battle of the mountain fortress group, the role played by Toquinine players is extremely limited, because the main force of the siege is the dwarf, and the dwarf is one of the races with the least player group. After all, the lion is tall and mighty. However, dwarves are not necessarily so, let alone women have beards. A race that cannot attract female players certainly cannot attract male players. This is an iron law of history.
The significance of this news for Brando is that if history is less disturbed, the more likely it is for Warend in this world to repeat itself.
But when he asked Nimesis about this possibility, he got a negative answer.
"It's nearly three years ahead of the holy war I saw in my dream, Brando," the female knight said, looking at his face, "It's because of us. You won't be unclear about it." One point, the current situation is completely different from that time."
Brando did not think so. The timing of the jihad was advanced, but this is not necessarily a bad thing for Toquinine. The mobilization of the clan people is very fast, and it is a great advantage to not have to prepare for logistics. What's more, their mobility is 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 Lions than in history.
He raised this point to Nimesis, but the female knight shook her head: "It looks like this, but the actions of the Lions 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-Broken Sword Mountain Fortress group was not very clean and tidy, but the whole process appeared to be very active, completely different from the current situation."
Brando frowned when he heard this. He knew that in the details of the game history in the year of Chunxiao, Senior Sister Bai Jia was better than him. His knowledge of that period of history came from the forum and some later players. It’s a memoir-like statement, but for Sister Bai Jia, it is mostly personal experience. There is a key difference. Before the 30th level, the game content and plot that the players are exposed to are very low-level, and the senior sister happens to be one of the few players above the 30th level in that era.
He listened to Nimesis' description, and couldn't help pursing his lips, thinking about where the difference appeared.
Seeing his thinking look, Nimesis reminded him aloud: "Did you hit the lion man of Torquinin?"
Brando nodded, making no secret of Nimesse. These days he has become accustomed to discussing such issues with the female knight. The feeling seems to be back to the past, making him faintly expecting: "History On the Cruz player... Cruz’s adventurers, you know they are people like us who dragged Toquinine’s army until July until the White Army joined the battle. The war started in May, but it was in the spring and summer. By the way, in winter, the White Legion will be in Leru further south, and their reaction time may be faster. We only need to find a way to delay the pace of the Lions for a while to succeed."
He paused for a while and continued to answer: "My arrangement, you should also be aware of it. I need a certain amount of prestige. My grandfather's identity is a big advantage, but Brando is too young to be so young. May inherit Darus’s position in the imperial army. Fortunately, his starting point is high enough. People are always willing to believe in some superstitions. If I can act just right to confirm some of their visions, then I It is still very hopeful to gain a relatively high position in the future jihadist army."
"According to Veronese, the situation in the empire has been turbulent, and history is no longer the one you and I have seen in my dreams, whether it is Her Majesty the Queen, or His Royal Highness, Duke Ludwig and Ben Kerr’s military power is still a temple, or we, if we want to take the lead in this game, 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 Hesitated, but Akane’s experience finally made me decide to take this path. I was really naive before, thinking that Eruin could take a corner and find a path of my own from the development of the Black Forest."
"But in fact, when the tide comes, no one can avoid it. You and I have witnessed this—"
"So there are things I have to do, and I have to do it." Brando replied in a deep voice: "The lesson for the southern nobles is just the beginning. I need them as a stepping stone to let the empire understand Eru. Because of the existence. But the only thing that can really connect Brando and Sword Saint Darus is holy war, but our current strength is very weak, it is impossible to trouble the wind elves of Saint Osor, the only chance Only in Toquinine."
Nimesis was silent for a while after hearing Brando's words.
"You did this to save a little mountain girl?" She suddenly asked.
"From a personal emotional point of view, it's like this," Brando replied, "It's as if you were planning to rescue us from Madara in Bunosson back then. It lacks reason, but it is natural to human nature. .You saved us because you are our team leader and promised to protect every member of your team. I rescued Akane because of the same reason. I promised her freedom and hope for the future. I must do this. a little."
"This is an obsession." Nimesis heard Brando's words, her mouth moved, as if trying to find a way of the second half of his words, because she understood that the'you' he heard was referring to her. But instinctively, the female knight did not agree that it was her, she thought it was just a piece of her dream. But this time, she didn't say the retort in the end, but replied that way.
"This obsession is the driving force behind my return to this world." Brando replied, "I don't want to give up the second time, senior sister."
"I am not..." Nimesis finally sighed: "Well, I want to tell you a little, Brando, you are too dependent on everything you have seen in your dreams. I don't know why you Always believe in that dream, as if it had actually happened. But dreams are dreams after all. For me, the biggest help to me is that it gave me a different life experience and made me mature quickly. , To stand out from my peers, but I never wanted to prove anything from this dream, because in that case, the world would seem too illusory to me."
"And I am in you, as if I see another me. You are always very forward-looking, but the more you rely on that dream, the less you can be free from it. This is for you-for a lord, a lord, a lord For the Earl of the Empire..."
The female knight looked at Brando's eyes, paused, and then replied word by word: "It seems too naive."
Brando was completely stunned. He never thought that Nimesse would say such a thing to him, but the other party’s tone was exactly like he had taught him how to become a qualified person. The head of the man.
"But..." he replied.
Nimesis seemed to have expected what he was going to say, and shook her head and said, "You already know what to do, Sophie."
Brando froze there as if struck by a flash of lightning, looking at the female knight as if possessed by a demon.
"It's just because of your dependence on that dream that you can't believe your own judgment," Nimesis shook her head, and changed her name again: "Do you understand now?"
Brando stayed for a long while, as if he had just understood what the female knight meant. He took a deep look at the other person: "You mean, I should analyze by myself what the Lion of Toquinine will do?"
"Didn't you analyze it well just now? I once taught you how to analyze the task and how to arrange the pace of the task. Today I can at least see that you have learned well," Nimesis smiled slightly: "If I were your Baijia-senpai, then I should be very pleased, but unfortunately I am not. And you are not Sophie anymore, Brando, you have more knowledge that even Sophie can't have, you are Egypt Lord Luin, you should be able to understand this."
Brando took a deep breath.
He moved his gaze back to the map.
"Okay, I understand," he replied softly, "In short, we still arrange the tasks with the priority of things. Since the guests have arrived first, we, as the host, can't neglect the guests. This is the Eruin ancient nobleman. Demeanor as it should be."
Nimesis nodded: "Exactly."
In the last ten days of the Moon of Winter Qin, the eyes of the entire empire were focused on a war that was not only unexpected but also expected. On this day, the army gathered by Earl Jin and Earl Alcons finally Arrived at Fuyun hills.