"Your Majesty, it seems that we are right to choose to abandon the siege troops and lead the rest of the troops to decisively evacuate Riptide Fort!" Just as Yuri looked at the steel torrent composed of the soldiers of the Water Qilin Empire and left into the distance, in the army of the Water Qilin Empire in the distance, an old manager with a fat face and a civilian uniform looked at the Incentive Fort behind him with a happy face, and said while wiping the sweat on his forehead with the handkerchief in his hand: "Your Majesty is just like a god, and you can actually calculate that the reinforcements that the sun does not set will arrive at Fort Riptide today, if we hadn't prepared for the retreat before, or hadn't evacuated Fort Riptide in time,, I guess we're going to be eaten by those murderous orc warriors who never set the sun. ”

"There is no one in this world who really anticipates things like a god, only a person who can use his subordinates to make the most of his strengths." The answer to the fat manager was a middle-aged man with blue eyes and a goatee who had taken off his head helmet and held it in his arms: "But what you said is right, if we really evacuate Rapids Fort a little later, it is estimated that we will now have to face off against a group of up to 90,000 people outside the city, including 40,000 Sunset Warriors known as the most elite long-range troops, with the equipment and physical strength of the soldiers we have on hand now, it is estimated that even if the sea god descends to earth, he may not be able to win............ By the way, Rambold, have you finished counting the troops in the evacuation army? ”

"I've done my Majesty, but I seriously hope that Your Majesty won't be too angry in the future, because our losses in this battle of Riptide Castle seem to be a bit heavy." After looking at the middle-aged man with a goatee in front of him, or the emperor of the Water Qilin Empire, August, who was willing to listen, the fat man who was the head of the court of the Water Qilin Empire took out a piece of parchment from his sleeve and read it to the emperor he was loyal to: "According to statistics, all the Sante crossbowmen, Imu spearmen and Watt guards that we lost in the first battle of Fort Riptide this time, in addition to our Watt heavy infantry and Barnum militia legions, have also suffered heavy losses. There are more than 50,000 Barnum militia who can still take up arms and fight, and more than 30,000 Watt heavy infantry, in addition to nearly 10,000 wounded in our army.......... which are usually water unicorn warriors who can fight again after a month or two of rest, and those who were seriously wounded we abandoned them in the city when we evacuated. ”

"Alas, .............! No way, this is war! I hope that the sea god can protect them from the abuse of the soldiers of the sun, at least not to become the rations of those orc warriors of the great empire on which the sun never sets. August said in a sad tone, but his face was not moved in the slightest: "With the hundreds of thousands here, it seems that we have lost at least more than 3/4 of the invading army in this invasion of the Western Continent, but I think the sun does not set on the side is not so good, especially the eight conquerors of their empire killed at least one more in this battle." ”

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, since we have chosen to retreat, why did we spend so many troops to attack Fort Ozkov, Fort Rapids, and the Four Counties? Even for this we lost our general Farabino. After seeing that the emperor to whom he was loyal learned of such a huge loss in this battle, he did not feel a trace of sadness, and Rambald finally couldn't help but ask Auguste: "And Your Majesty, the reason why we were able to recruit so many second-line troops and private soldiers in the hands of various nobles in the country to participate in this westward expansion plan under the condition of our lack of troops is that we have played the banner of holy war, but now our holy war has failed, And if the news spreads that we are going to give up all the areas occupied by the Western Continent at that time, then wouldn't it be ......... the balance you maintain in the country?"

"Isn't it out of balance? But in fact this is the effect I want" Looking at the fat chief who had changed from a nervous face to a frightened one, Auguste showed a mysterious smile on his face: "First of all, my lovely servant, I want to tell you one thing, don't look at the loss of so many in our defeat this time, but in fact, the real loss of our Water Qilin Empire is only tens of thousands of Water Qilin soldiers, more than 200,000 levies and a general who was sacrificed, in fact, the money and materials spent to start this war are all provided by a mysterious force, Even the armor on the soldiers, the mysterious power also provided the corresponding wealth for forging them, so in fact we didn't lose much in this war, but the number of people in our Water Qilin Empire was a little lower. Of course, as for what kind of potential force this mysterious force is, this will be another unresolved question in the history books of our Water Qilin Empire. ”

After pausing for a moment to make the dumbfounded fat steward come to his senses, August continued: "In fact, I estimate that the force has long guessed that we will be defeated, and the side that the sun never sets will also win with a crushing victory, otherwise it is impossible for that force to be so generous to give us the baggage that can build an army of more than 400,000 after agreeing to provide financial and material resources for us to start a war, I think their real purpose is actually to let us fight with the great empire on which the sun never sets. In order to weaken our Water Qilin Empire and the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, which are now in the limelight. But how could they possibly know that what I needed was such an opportunity to break the weak balance of the three major forces in the Water Qilin Empire? ”

"What! Your Majesty, are you taking advantage of this defeat ........." As if thinking of something, the fat manager looked at his majesty with a serious face, and stammered.

"That's right! The power of the emperor, the divine right and the power of the nobility can never be equal! This time I weakened the forces in the hands of those nobles, and after the defeat and could not get the interests of the Western Continent, they will definitely jump out to make trouble for me, and even those magic sticks will definitely jump out to seize the rights in the hands of my royal family, in this case, our Water Qilin Empire will definitely fall into civil strife, which is what all the forces will see, but all the forces in the world do not know that this is actually the first step I have taken for the reform of the power system of the Water Qilin Empire, because when the time comes, these clowns will find out, The forces in the hands of the Water Qilin Imperial Family have not diminished, and the so-called allies beside them have already begun to betray each other, and they also have the daggers equipped by the dead soldiers in my hands hanging from their necks! ”