I have to admit that the city of Crodina is indeed a fortified city, impregnable!

But a strong fortress is easiest to disintegrate from within!

The combination of Higg and Sklell, using the resources of the Thieves' Guild, launched an offensive without gunpowder against the city of Crodina and the army of Arad, and the direct result of this offensive was naturally the demoralization of the army, the enemy was in chaos, and all kinds of contradictions were completely intensified, expanded, and even detonated. The usurpation of the crown prince Nicholas is a surprise and the most typical representative. But in addition to the direct results, there will be more indirect gains, which will also take time, let time ferment these rumors, these invisible swords, will definitely give people more surprises...... Higg and his Fifth Legion, as long as they firmly control the situation outside the city, when the chaos in the city continues to ferment to a certain extent, there will naturally be people from the Thieves' Guild to guide the way, although this is still difficult, and the heat is difficult to handle, but what can it be? It's a big deal, it's a little more difficult, there is no suspense for a powerful army to attack a city that is completely chaotic and has no morale!

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This is the case in the city of Crodinah, and the situation of the defense line along the Fender River is basically the same, the army has completely lost any fighting spirit, no matter how the generals try to make an example of the city of Crodina to stop the city of Crodina has been breached, Arad has abdicated, and the gossip that has become a prisoner spreads, but to no avail, the general trend has gone. Gossip is more ferocious and lethal than the plague!

The first to be shaken is, of course, the non-descendant Seventh War Zone, that is, the former Catherine's Fourth Army, and the marshal is the old Marshal Gomez! Originally, Gomez was the last big force to defect to Arad, and it was not until Arad ascended the throne as emperor that the Fourth Army was renamed Arad's Seventh War Zone.

Gomez is a shrewd man, leading troops to fight in general, but playing political means, he is not soft, otherwise he will not drag it out until the end, and take advantage of it before he defects to Arad! After defecting to Arad, he still maintained the independence of his army, and was extremely repulsive to the officers and eyeliners that Arad had planted in his army, and always firmly controlled the military power in his own hands, otherwise, he would have been changed by Arad no less than ten times.

Only with strength can you have the capital to compete for power in troubled times, so that even if you surrender, you can ask for conditions from the other party. Gomez knows the essence of the power game, the biggest wall grass in the Alasia Empire, and has never done his best for Arad. Since Vice Marshal Curdes provoked the Fifth Legion, he was ordered by Simak of the Fifth Legion to "not take prisoners and not surrender to the army of Gomez, who was still called the Fourth Legion at that time"! Gomez learned to be obedient and never get himself into trouble. But Curdes, who did not understand his spirit, still had to compete with the Fifth Legion, and directly called for a fair duel with the Fifth Legion, and was finally annihilated by Mevo's more than 30,000 infantry and more than 30,000 cavalry, and Curdes himself ended up in disrepute. Since then, Gomez has been on pins and needles, far away from the Fifth Army, hiding in the westernmost Andean foothills of Erathia, tepidly carrying out a posture offensive against Catherine's upper Fender River line, symbolic defense, never playing the leading role!

Gomez has always been in contact with Catherine's court dignitaries, and even Arad knows this, but there is no way, as long as Gomez is still in his camp, Arad can only turn a blind eye and pretend to be confused, otherwise, Gomez will be pushed to Catherine's side.

Now the opportunity has come again, the wind is in a different direction, and the grass on the wall is starting to turn to the other side again!

"We must lay down our arms and fully accept the reorganization and rectification!" Kress, the staff officer of the First Army Corps who came to contact, said in a surprising voice, "This is Marshal Krusov's final bottom line, Marshal Gomez, you don't have any capital to negotiate conditions!" ”

"Hey, Marshal Krusov?" Gomez said with a smile, "Marshal Ben thinks that Marshal Krusov and General Kress have made a mistake, and it can only be Her Majesty the Queen who will surrender to our army, and Ben Shuai will not accept the incorporation of our army in the name of the First Army!" ”

"Hey, Marshal Gomez, when are you?" Kress said, "Marshal Krusov promised not to pursue your defection back then, which is already extraordinarily gracious, and you still pick the fat and choose the thin and do not accept the reorganization of the First Army?" Okay, in that case, you can go over the defense zone of the First Army and go directly to Zorma City to negotiate! ”

"Too much deception!" Gomez said angrily, "This commander still has an army of 400,000, and even if he can't defeat your first army, he can make you pay at least 200,000 people!" ”

"Marshal, you can try!" Kress sneered, "Is your army iron-clad?" No need to eat, no weapons to kill? Your army has been out of food for nearly a month, and all the horses have been secretly killed by your subordinates, right? You have 400,000 sheep, sheep to the slaughter! If they were wolves, you could still negotiate terms with the hunters, but now they are just a herd of docile sheep, and they have to divide territory with the butcher, hehe, I really can't figure out what the hell are you going to do Marshal Gomez! ”

Gomez gasped, sat down on the commander's seat, and said slowly: "If this commander is surrendered to the First Army, what position will he have?" ”

Kress smiled: "The First Legion has its own Legion Retired General's Courtyard, Marshal Gomez, you can go there to retire, the First Legion will give you the treatment of a retired marshal!" ”

"Pension?" Gomez stood up again angrily and said, "Isn't that to be slaughtered?" Do you really treat Ben Shuai as a sheep? ”

Kress changed his tone and said earnestly: "Lord Marshal, you are almost seventy years old this year, although you are old and strong, but you are also thinking about the old handsome's body, there is no other meaning!" ”

"General Cress, you are not negotiating, you are here to give Ben Shuai an ultimatum, and Ben Shuai will never accept such conditions!" Gomez did not dissipate his anger because of Cress's soothing tone, and said loudly, "Someone, send off!" ”

Kress stood up, smiled, saluted casually, and then turned and strode out of the tent......

"Where is the envoy of the Second Legion in Guayada, Ben Shuai wants to see him!" After Kress left, Gomez said to his lieutenant next to him.

The adjutant general said: "The messenger of the Second Legion has already left our camp this morning!" ”

"Left?" Gomez asked in surprise, "Didn't he come to negotiate, why didn't he leave before he talked?" If you don't have anything left, do you ask Ben Shuai to send someone to talk to him? ”

"No words left!" The adjutant general said, "Last night, the envoy of the First Legion, General Cress, met with the envoy of the Second Legion, and I don't know what to talk about, and the envoy of the Second Legion left in a hurry early this morning!" ”

"Bastard!" Gomez was furious: "Why did you group of people who eat inside and outside let the envoys of both sides meet?" ”

The adjutant general hurriedly said tremblingly: "Lord Marshal, now the army is already in chaos, and the external defense is not strict, let alone the camp?" ”

"That's your explanation?" Gomez sneered, "I'm afraid, Kress is not only seeing the envoys of the Second Legion, but also you, right?" Ben Shuai has not officially surrendered to the enemy yet, so you dare to fool Ben Shuai like this? Did Kress give you any benefits, or did he promise you anything to deal with the boss together? ”

The adjutant general defended: "Your Excellency Marshal, the last man will vouch for his head, and there is absolutely no personal contact with General Cress!" ”

"Forget it, it's all normal!" Gomez sighed a little frustratedly, "What can you do for your own future, Ben Shuai?" Hehe, Elva surrendered to the Fifth Army as a lieutenant commander and obtained the corresponding position and military power; The Fourth Theater Marpot surrendered to the Fifth Legion, and also got the power of autonomy, and completely retained the Fourth Theater Army structure and his own position, the commander surrendered to the First Theater Krusov, but he had to reorganize the army, and let the commander live for the rest of his life, how could this Shuai swallow this breath? If Ben Shuai surrenders to the Fifth Army, what will be the result? ”

"It's totally unrealistic!" The adjutant general said, "My 7th Theater of Operations does not border the 5th Theater of Operations, the nearest is the Karaka Fortress, which is guarded by Elva, even if the Fifth Army agrees to surrender, we will not be able to cross the defense zone of the 1st and 2nd Theaters!" If we surrender to the Fifth Army Corps, the most likely thing is that the Fifth Army asks us to kill in the first and second theaters so that the two armies can border, but it is necessary for us to surrender, and we will still lose our troops and even face the risk of being wiped out? ”

"Hehe, do you think the first and second war zones will lose iron?" Gomez smiled, "Ben Shuai has become sheep, they are still the army of tigers and wolves, is it possible?" Presumably they themselves are also in contact with each other's people, at this time, who doesn't think about their own future? If Ben Shuai were to march towards the fortress of Karaka, would they be able to attack us while they were in the middle of negotiations with the other side? Wouldn't that offend Catherine by attacking us? ”

"Whoever surrenders to him, he can't surrender to the Fifth Legion!" The adjutant general hurriedly said, "Lord Marshal, I forgot, the Vice Marshal of the Fifth Army of Simak killed his staff officer Andrew because of Vice Marshal Curdes, but he gave a kill order to our army, and he didn't even accept the prisoners, how could he accept the surrender of our theater of operations?" Although the marshal of the Fifth Army is Count Higg, it is Deputy Marshal Simak who has actually been in charge of the army all these years! Lord Marshal, this guy is ruthless enough, he will be revenged, he is simply a madman, the king of Hades, we can't put our necks on other people's knife edges! ”

"Curdes, this brainless bastard! We must unite with the Fifth Army to fight to the death and cut off our back road! Gomez scolded angrily, turned his face and said to his lieutenant with a sneer, "Hehe, you also said that you didn't have the benefit of taking Cress, and the commander listened to you, there is only one choice, that is, the First Army, isn't this exactly what you want?" Wait and see, wait and see, there's still a little time! ”

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