After the last remnants of the army rushed out of the cedar forest, Alexei hurriedly issued an emergency mobilization order, and all the citizens of the empire put down their work and rushed to the front line to build major fortifications.

After this battle, the psychological shadow caused by the forest on the Imperials may be with him for life, and in desperation, Alexei can only suspend all use of troops against the barbarians.

And, on the contrary, he had to face a counter-offensive that the barbarians could launch at any time.

However, thanks to his strategic vision, he planned the defensive circle of the colony in advance, which greatly reduced the cost of defense as soon as it was opened.

However, with the end of the conflict, the situation that follows is the biggest trouble.

In the end, less than 40,000 of the 300,000 Imperial Expeditionary Force broke out of the siege, and the rest became snacks for the monsters in the forest.

Even the remaining survivors were almost all terrified, in an extremely unstable state of mind, and even in a trance for several days after escaping and ascending to heaven, sometimes they would suddenly scream hysterically.

Marshal Alexei feared that some of the soldiers would commit suicide as a result, so he sent one of them, who was suffering from serious mental illness, back to the camp to recuperate.

There are many military doctors who come to the Northern Regions, but there are none of them who can treat mental illness, and in the end, they can only let the mages release the [Tranquility Technique] to appease the patients.

The defenses were severely undermanned and simply not enough to deal with the barbarian attacks.

To add insult to injury, without the guards of the soldiers, the miners were much more motivated to work than before.

Sentiment fluctuated, and some of the thorns saw the opportunity to force officials to improve the treatment of their miners by organizing strikes.

The indecisive nature of the Imperial Archons, who were in charge of the mining work, was unable to appease the populace during this extraordinary time, and had to make repeated verbal promises to appease the miners, only to intensify the strike wave.

Seeing the consul's nest and incompetence, Alexei simply intervened directly beyond his authority and sent soldiers to directly arm and suppress it.

Killing thousands of troublesome miners and crucifying their bodies for public display finally brought down these restless workers in such a savage and cruel way.

However, Alexei also had to be appeased by raising part of his working salary, and the thousands of people who died for this were forgotten by everyone.

But this is a bad precedent.

The lack of combat personnel and management personnel made the marshal have to open his mouth to the emperor again.

Alexei himself understood the current situation in which the empire was located, and the war of the four kingdoms involved the future of the entire country.

However, if there were no reinforcements this time, when the barbarians attacked again, he would have to lead the rest of his men out of the Northern Regions.

However, this defeat cannot be borne by oneself alone, and in a sense, asking for help is just an excuse for a dignified retreat.

However, to Alexei's surprise, the imperial capital Fang Yuan readily agreed to the request for assistance.

……

The all-out war of the Empire is finally over.

A force from the same outside as the Sabbatarians came to the aid of the Kishutar Empire in time, sending the legendary Red Dragon Knights to fight the Triple Alliance, and even single-handedly changed the entire occupation.

The total number of casualties in this battle between the Kingdom of Kyle and the Kingdom of the Divine Wind exceeded 700,000, and in addition to the series of wars launched before, by the beginning of the Kishutar Empire's invasion of the Kamikaze, the two countries had more than a million casualties each, coupled with the loss of a large number of firearms and equipment, the military strength can be said to have been set back by more than ten years.

The cost to the Empire is greater than the sum of its parts, but when the situation reaches its final stage, it is best to stop the car in time.

At the end of the war, both the Kingdom of Kyle and the Kamikaze failed to achieve that grand strategic goal, but they were compensated by land cession and indemnity from the Empire.

Kishutar ceded the three frontier provinces to the Kingdom of Kell, and the Kamikaze Kingdom received the land of the two provinces, both of which were rich in minerals.

The Sabbatarians suffered the least losses in this battle, but they gained the most.

Not only did it succeed in mastering the large debts of Kyle and Kamikaze, but it also received a large amount of reparations from Kishutar as the victorious power, some of which were paid at the equivalent price of various high-tech and some weapons and equipment.

After this war, the pattern of the continent changed as desired.

Each of the three kingdoms has different degrees of weakness, and the heterogeneous forces have successfully gained a foothold on the mainland, and the three kingdoms may compete for hegemony instead of five heroes.

The Red Dragon Knights, who suddenly appeared at the last moment, claimed to have come from the Hongchen Continent, and that place was none other than Hongchen Province, one of the 'core nine provinces' of the Ixion Empire, and its status was tied with the Blue Sky Province.

The Iron Prime Minister accepted the other party's assistance and successfully reversed the occupation, but just as he was about to negotiate an armistice, the Red Dragon Knights stated:

"The war is not over, and the enemies of the empire have not yet been reached, so why does Your Excellency the Prime Minister want to stop the war?"

The other side seems to have the intention of coercing the empire to continue the war.

Seeing this, Prime Minister Otto finally understood the true purpose of the other party.

It is easier to invite God than to send God, and military aid can be gratuitous, but it is not up to the Empire to decide whether to send reinforcements after the war.

The current empire definitely does not have the strength to continue fighting, however, the prime minister is not sure that he will take down the entire Red Dragon Knights.

The Red Dragon Knights were not only three thousand, these were only the number of people who fought at that time, and the true number of the Knights may be beyond the imagination of the Iron and Blood Prime Minister.

Before the negotiations between the four countries began, the empire had to negotiate with the Red Dragon Knights, who had come from the province of Hongchen.

Ceded a province of the Empire as the Knights' state, all the citizens in the territory are subordinate to the subjects under the Knights' Order.

In addition to this, the Kishutar Empire will have to pay a large construction fee to the Knights, and the new Knights will exist as a sovereign state on an equal footing with the Empire.

And after the founding of the state, the Knights concluded a military alliance with the Kishutar Empire.

Otto would not have agreed to such harsh conditions if it had been before the war, but after the war, when this support army became a new threat roaming the territory of the Empire, territorial cession was logical.

However, Kisutar still had the option to cede territory.

With the Prime Minister's strong interference, the sovereignty of the Northern Regions, which is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Empire but has not yet been truly ruled, will be officially transferred to the Red Dragon Knights.

The northernmost region, which the Empire had not conquered for decades, was transformed into the founding place of the Red Dragon Knights.

And the biggest reason why the prime minister made such a choice was after receiving Marshal Alexei's request for help.