The commander of the First Detachment of the Imperial Northern Navy, Beus, stood in front of a two-story windowsill in the main city of the Austin Kingdom, holding a steaming glass of dark purple rum in his hand.

Outside the window, the branches of the chestnut trees draped with snowflakes shivered slightly in the cold wind blowing through, and there was almost no trace of pedestrians on the neat streets below, only the layers of checkpoints set up by the army and the martial law soldiers walking back and forth, bringing people a depressing atmosphere.

"Commander, it's really too deceitful, the Austins dare to secretly put us under house arrest" There was a heavy sound of opening the door behind him, and Belus saw his adjutant Sa and Dian hurriedly walking in from outside the door,

He threw the hat on his head heavily on the table and sat down opposite Berus,

"There's nothing to be angry about, it's expected, it's a bit too much to say that it's house arrest, at most it's just tightly protected!" Belus said with an indifferent smile on the corner of his mouth, "If something really happens to us, the food they want most will be lost, you can see the situation outside, and there are situations on other streets, but we are very calm here! If it weren't for the blockade outside, I'm afraid that this place will also be affected."

Belus said slowly, lowered his head and took a sip of the rum in his hand, feeling the spicy jam taste fall into his throat and reach his chest, turning into strong heat,

Through the window in front of him, on the street opposite near the three-way intersection, between the black pillars of a row of burned-out shop ruins, small black dots wriggled there, like ants searching for usable food, which Sa and Dian knew were the mass of homeless wanderers formed in the turmoil in the main city of Austin,

They are like a swarm of parasites, as soon as there are looted shops, these wanderers will appear, and the turmoil is often accompanied by killing and unordered looting, not to mention that this time it is the army faction that has always been known for its lawlessness,

The Austen's army had a habit of plundering in war, often occupying and plundering. So among the inland tribes, most of the tribes would rather support the murderous Asoru than help the coastal Austins for this reason.

In order to rally the support of the army. The army faction promised to allow the soldiers to plunder unscrupulously for a day after the success of the rebellion, and in this raid, the first to suffer were the nobles who had supported the navy and opposed the army faction.

Rebels rushed into their mansions in droves, looting anything that caught their eye if they resisted. and slay them all in the name of the rebels,

In just one day, more than 1,300 male nobles of Austin City were slaughtered, and countless ladies and ladies were ravaged by the rebels, and the fierce choice of the Austins was thrown into the moat that was still frozen in thin ice.

The piles of corpses even blocked the river for three days, and most of the noble properties in the city were burned, and then some wealthy merchants were affected. And finally, civilians,

Because the time was only one day, the citizens who were ranked last in the order suffered the least damage.

This policy is undoubtedly the best means used by the rebels to fight against dissidents, to gather wealth, to blame the uncontrollable rebels, and to exchange for a large amount of looting for a small price.

In the main city of Austin, where there is a shortage of food, no matter how expensive things are, they are not as valuable as a bag of grain, and the army faction has long been prepared to use part of the military rations to buy the looting income of the soldiers at a low price, and to reap the profits of the fishermen in the background

In recent times, the streets have been chaotic. Citizens passing by will hurriedly walk by, their eyes slightly glancing at the deep meaning of those wandering in the ruins,

Looking at these big men of the past in the icy biting wind, wearing shabby leather jackets and thin dirty shirts that can only cover their bodies, with a bit of rusty and turning movements, trying to be in the ruins that they didn't even look at in the past. Searching for anything that would keep them alive,...,

Most of them used to stand at the top of the food chain, but now they are a bunch of wanderers who have nothing, often fighting, arguing, and even bleeding over something.

They just wanted to live, and they would take the spoils to the remnants of the city to recycle, and although the nobles were looted, most of the precious furniture and utensils that had been smashed in the turmoil were coated with gold or silver dust for decoration, scraped off and clotted into pieces, which were exchanged with the outside world.

A group of people lying in the ruins turning over broken pieces of furniture, you can imagine how messy the scene is, and the practice of not letting go of even the destruction is very dishonorable.

So even ordinary citizens don't want to do this, and the army can only encourage these wanderers to do it.

For such a situation, the envoys Belu and Sahodian, who represented the arrival of the Imperial Northern Navy, also felt the feeling in the coming days,

Hearing Belus's ridicule, Sa Hedian said with emotion, "Listen to what you say, it's really like this, it's not just chaos outside, it's just lawless,

It's a strange city, there are troops patrolling it, but there is still no order to speak of, I just passed by and saw a mob looting the shops on the street of Esshad opposite, and a patrol turned a complete blind eye to it.

Fortunately, the owner of the shop found out that something was wrong, and ran away ahead of time with his little daughter wolf Bèi, so there was no tragedy like the one killed a few days ago, but all the things inside were looted, and I don't know how they will survive in the future" Adjutant Sa Hedian looked angry, his hemp hair was a little messy, and his thin and straight body exuded an unruly heroic spirit

"Mobs, do you really think those are really mobs?" Hearing Sahedian's description, the corners of Berus's mouth pursed disdainfully, "The current Austin rebels urgently need a lot of money to trade with us,

Didn't you notice the order of this riot! The day before yesterday it was Radisson Street, the central axis of the city, yesterday it was Rikeai Street, and today it was Essad Street.

To say that there is no manipulation by the city controller, this is absolutely impossible, since you have no money, then rob from the city, speaking of which, we can also be regarded as one of the accomplices"

"This, it seems to be true......

Sa Hedian was stunned for a moment, and was silent for a while, before he said with a strange face, "Commander, I really don't understand why we should give the food we have to the Austin people again,

Although nominally it is said to be sold, the price is too low, only 5 million gold coins for 400 tons of grain, such a price, I am afraid that there will not be in the entire cold region of the north! That is a kind of goods that will be snatched up as long as it is sold, and if it is sold in the inland of the northland, it will cost at least 8 million gold coins!"

"That's what it means, it should be for the sake of balance!"

Belus sighed and said with a look of regret, "Speaking of which, because of the participation of our Northern Navy, the tripartite balance of power that led to the civil strife in Austin was broken."

"What do you mean by breaking the balance?" Sa Hedian asked with a stern face and a puzzled face, "Isn't it a plan designated by the Admiralty to send troops to the Austin Sea to disrupt the situation in the North Sea and seize the hegemony of the North Sea? Now that we have defeated the Austins and controlled the North Sea, how can we say that we have broken the balance?"

Belus put his hands behind his back, looked at the sky outside the window, and said, "Plans can never keep up with changes, this is still when I was a Samar guard, I heard the words of the falcon that His Majesty often hung on the side of his mouth, and I didn't understand what it meant at the time, but now I know that only when I stand at a certain height, I know that many times, plans can never catch up with changes,...,

"According to the intelligence, the new king who fled the main city of Austin has privately promised to give up the throne of Austin Carlos to Austin Carlos as long as Austin Carlos can help the royal family return to the royal city.

Obviously, Austin Carlos will not refuse the temptation of such conditions, it is only a matter of time before he agrees, once Austin Carlos, the strongest of the three forces, agrees to ally with the Austin royal family who fled the main city, the current seemingly advantageous form of the Austin rebels will take a sharp turn,

Austin Carlos's advance had apparently stalled, the coalition of southern coastal princes gathered around him had expanded to 25,000 men, and the Austin royal family had gathered 16,000 counterinsurgency troops in Scandnaya on the second line.

The total strength of the rebels against them is less than 30,000 troops, and under the attack from both sides with a huge disparity in strength, coupled with the lack of food in the rear, the rebels will inevitably collapse without a fight!"

"Isn't that great?at least one of Austin's three-point forces collapsed without fighting, and the other two were also badly damaged!"

He didn't come from a commanding position, and for him, killing an enemy was a victory, and one less enemy was always better than one more.

The corner of Bellus's mouth smiled bitterly, "If you collapse one, it is not necessarily a big loss of vitality, there are less than 50,000 Austins involved in civil strife, compared to Austins with a population of 170,000, the time of this civil strife is too short, and it is far from the time when the Austins are really broken!

Once the spearhead of the Austins is quickly pointed at us from outside, and we lose the support of the land, all the things we have worked hard for may be in vain.

The shape is severe, even if you know that it is a tiger skin, you have to do it"

"Well, it shouldn't be, our army hasn't already occupied the interior of the Northlands, can't they be a little helping...... Regarding Belus's statement, Sa Hedian seemed a little unwilling, and asked stubbornly

"It is true that the army has just defeated the East Ile at Andrade, and in one fell swoop the leader of the East Elle, shaking the entire Northland, but since the landing of the army in the Northland, there have been fierce battles and many losses, plus the soldiers are in urgent need of adjustment, and the time of the march to Austin also requires at least a month of recuperation,

"During this time, ensuring the balance of the three forces of the Austin Civil War is the only way to protect ourselves,

That's why the Admiralty gave us this order."

Belux's five fingers clasped together, "The best way to keep people weak is to let his blood drain slowly."

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