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At this time, Al personally led his army to camp under the city.

This was the day after he arrived in Galazia and drank from the Magdaz River.

He only stayed for three days, no, two days.

After dusk today, this city did not give El a satisfactory answer as it did to Weiling and Cheborio. He would launch an attack after midnight, using the racial advantage of the beastmen to seize the outer city at night when the enemy was unprepared.

His ultimatum had been delivered to the so-called "autonomous city council" through an insider in the city, and before that, it had been delivered in public to the citizens of the city through an insider who was not afraid of death and dared to risk being imprisoned or killed.

"A letter from King El of the tribe to all the people of Estalia"

"Estalia - the United Front against Greening in the Southern World"

The approximate content is:

The people are suffering (disordered)

The tribal coalition posted a notice to the people: Our tribe has lived in the Pina Forest for generations, and has been a friendly neighbor to the Kingdom of Estalia for a long time, and we have never interfered with each other... Here we will omit the part about the traditional friendship between the two sides, blah blah; however, the fate of the world is unpredictable, the greenskins are violent, and they have brought with them a large group of bandits and robbers, and they have led a large army across the sea to attack. The kingdom was not careful and was defeated, the fleet sank in the port, and the royal city fell; in a short time, thieves swarmed, the greenskins were rampant, poisoning the people, and killing lives. The world is in danger of being overturned, and the people are in urgent need of upside down, blah blah...

King Aiel of the tribe, a man of both civil and military talents, inherited the will of the four mothers and responded to the people's sentiments. Seeing the suffering of the neighboring countries, he could not sleep and was uneasy. He knew that the lips and teeth would be cold if they were separated. Finally, he decided to follow Sigmar, the High King, the Empire and the Dwarves, led 100,000 warriors of the tribe, went out of Pina, fought the greenskins, formed a holy alliance with the Estalia, resisted the foreign invaders, expelled the enemies, upheld justice between the two oceans, and restored peace to the land of the South.

Today, I personally lead the coalition army of 100,000 warriors southward, and 100,000 tiger soldiers, straight to the land of Margarita; the eagle flies to the sky, reopening the sky of the southern kingdom; restoring the southern kingdom, and marching north to defeat the enemy is just around the corner;

Everything along the way has the spirit of resisting the green and saving the country, because the city will be opened immediately and no one can stop it. People with lofty ideals are also welcome to join the volunteer army and fight for the country, blah blah.

If there are those who do not understand the will of heaven and the will of the people, and who resist the royal army for their own selfish reasons, the army will be able to destroy the greenskins with ease wherever it goes, and destroy cities and strongholds without any effort. By then, no matter how much regret they have, they will not be able to escape the judgment of the coalition forces!

The content is roughly the same.

Of course, it was converted into words that the Estalia people could understand and accept better.

Otherwise, it would be very embarrassing if the El sent out a green manifesto and the Estalia people said they couldn't understand it.

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"No movement yet?"

Al asked without looking up from the map.

The little centaur Alia who was standing by went out, and came back after a while and shook her head slightly.

"Not yet. The Galazi Council seems to have been paralyzed. There are quarrels all the time. Our people reported that the city is in chaos and there is no reliable information."

"Then prepare to attack the city."

Al knocked on the table. The blueprints recording the city's topography and structure had already arrived at the tribal army several days in advance.

"Let the new troops attack from the north and west gates to see if it works first. If it doesn't work, wait until night, let the trolls go ashore, and break open the city gate from the southeast."

Al likes to be extra prepared.

He was prepared for the possibility that the Galatians would have a brain attack, just like what happened in Seris after 1644, and would have to eat human flesh in order to resist the coalition attack.

After all, it wouldn't matter if the Ming army took it down at that time, but if they couldn't hold it, the Eight Banners leader would really massacre the city when he arrived.

Such preparation.

So two days in advance, before the Galaz people realized that the situation in the entire south had taken a new turn, they arranged for the troll commander He Shuhan to lead his group of clumsy fellows to lurk in the upper reaches of the Gedaz River. The plan was to wait until night, swim downstream, launch an attack from the river beach, and attack the less defended city in the southeast.

Xiao Ma took the order and was about to leave with his father's arrangements when suddenly a messenger came hurriedly to report.

"The Galazians have opened their city!"

"The parliament and the citizens are waiting outside the city to welcome our army!"

Al rubbed his hands together and rubbed his daughter's head.

The Centaurs had a racial advantage. Although the Centaurs were "small" at that time, they had to lower their heads so that El wouldn't have to stand on tiptoe to touch their heads.

"Good, let the new troops enter the city to control the situation, and the main army will camp outside the city."

"By the way, send some more people south quickly. I want Permoz to join us within a week. Within a month, the entire southwest must be under the banner of the 'coalition'."

Taking into account the actual annexation, most of the population fled to the three cities of Pina, Cheborio and Marus in the forest.

In this way, nearly half of the cities and one-third of the population in the southern part of Estalia fell into the control of El. Of course, in name, they still belonged to the united front of the "Tribe-Kingdom" coalition.

Moreover, these lands and populations were also the lands that the tribes "recovered" for the kingdom's allies. There were only two forces that could represent the orthodoxy of the Kingdom of Estalia. One had been broken into submission, and the other was isolated in the north. They were facing tremendous military pressure and had reached a critical moment of life and death.

So it is only natural that the tribes are temporarily managing the land that they are unable to take over and control on behalf of their allies, right?

"El! Ulla~!!!"

In the military camp, the news of the peaceful opening of the city has been spread. The beastmen will not have any extra feelings about this. To them, it is just an ordinary human city that has chosen an ordinary path.

The morale of the new army and the rebels who surrendered was greatly boosted. Taking Galazi was the first step to continue the eastward expedition, and the peaceful handover showed the justice and legitimacy of the coalition forces, and that although the southerners were forced to surrender to the greenskin conquerors, they still stood on the side of justice! They were not fighting alone, nor were they lonely warriors surrounded by traitors and self-protective people.

"The first was Verin, then Galaz, and then Bomoz. We advanced along the way, liberating along the way. What greeted us were flowers, glory, the tears of the people, and a decisive battle with the enemy!"

"Defeat the greenskin invaders! Liberate Margarita!"

Chapter 46: Three Articles of the Law of Al

Flowers and cheers paved the way for the Allied forces to enter the city.

It is not easy to find this batch of flowers in such a short time.

Entering the city was smooth. Given the absolute strength comparison between the two sides, there was no possibility of false surrender, luring foreign troops into the city, and actually ambushing and killing them in the city.

Unless the Galatians were collectively mad, there was no other reason for them to serve the invaders in a way that would bring them infamy for eternity and put them at risk of being massacred right now.

The new army took over the affairs of the entire city very smoothly. Then a team of soldiers went to the Galazi City Council with Aiel's order and announced that the puppet council that had been formed under the supervision of the Sartosa people and was forced to serve the greenskins would be dissolved immediately; at the same time, the Galazi People's Representative Assembly was formed, which was directly responsible to the coalition forces.

Affiliated to the Horde - the Kingdom's coalition forces are united against all invaders led by the Greenskins.

The members are composed of people with no bad records in the former puppet parliament, prestigious civilians, and representatives of industries, villages, towns and regions.

Mainly responsible for three items:

Matters related to the restoration and construction of the local area, public security and city defense, and the recruitment of new soldiers.

Because El did not want to retain too much of the old institutional framework of the Estalia people, giving them a feeling of "finally returning to the past" after the war, which would affect his subsequent actions, so he simply disrupted everything, making everything simple while adding wartime elements. Anyway, there was the unquestionable righteousness of "overthrowing the puppet parliament", and the coalition forces also had a legitimate reason.

Through the city-state assembly and the municipal constitution, thieves were sentenced to labor and murderers were put on public trial... It was probably a simplified framework that the tribe implemented in the Pina Forest.

It's crude, but useful enough.

The issue facing the tribe at present is still military. Even the development of the Pina Forest itself has to give way to this. Ai'er has only two requirements for the Estalia areas that he has occupied:

Don’t be against yourself;

The tribe can obtain even the minimum amount of manpower and material supplies from it, which can be described in Paradox terms as a "demilitarized state" with "autonomy".

For the tribe, even though it had suffered two devastations - the arrival of the greenskins was the first, and the second was when they were forced to obey the butcher's knife and had to hand over their strong laborers to serve the greenskins.

The human and material resources that the southern regions, which had suffered two devastations, could provide were not comparable to those of the less than 300,000 people in the Pina Forest and the forest that was in urgent need of development.

Recruiting a large number of southerners to serve as artillery... and auxiliary troops was the key for Aiel to win the next series of wars.

Take the city of Galaz as an example. Before the start of Waaaaagh, Galaz had a population of nearly 80,000 at its peak. By the time the tribal army liberated the city, there were only over 30,000 people left. More than 1,500 people in Galaz alone were recruited as laborers to follow the army north.

Among them, eight hundred people were lucky and were forcibly conscripted into Viling, converted from civilians to soldiers, and became the vassal army stationed on the spot to monitor Pina. After the riot of the lower-level soldiers instigated by Lucius and others, which was condoned or participated in by almost all members of the command level of the vassal army, developed into an uprising, the defenders killed the pirate supervisors and the greenskin messengers who came to check the situation, built barricades, and prepared to defend against the greenskins' attack.

The tribal army, which had been lying in ambush for a long time, suddenly rushed out when the greenskins began to attack, launched an attack and wiped out all the greenskin troops in the west city of Viling, completing the occupation of Viling.

During the whole process, our casualties were less than a thousand. The greenskins who were caught off guard were first stabbed in the back by the "human shrimp" who they looked down upon, who were even lower in status than the goblins, and then they were shaken by the earth vein spells released by the tribal shamans. And then, nothing happened.

The eight hundred Galaz soldiers are now in the Aiel army, their morale is high and everyone has a happy look on their faces. When they left, they were forcibly conscripted as laborers and slaves, but when they returned, they returned as the regular army of the kingdom, liberators of their homeland, and victors, with an incomparable glory.

As for those who were not lucky enough, they followed the greenskin army to the north, and their current situation is unclear.

And in Galazia an uprising was declared and the city was opened peacefully.

For the first time, after Al promulgated the "Provisional Constitution" in an area outside the tribe, he stayed there for two days. Within two days, hundreds of people took the initiative to join the army and were willing to join the army and fight under the banner of the coalition forces.

Naturally, Al accepted everyone who came. As long as they did not have too serious physical defects, they were all incorporated into the six new regiments under the new army. The instructors and captains were all veterans of the new army. When it came to the hundred-man team, the standard combination was a horned beast with two human adjutants.

All officers are selected from loyal and reliable Blood Mother believers, and are equipped with combat priests who take on the responsibilities of both preaching and commanding operations.

Although according to the tribe's standards, the level of these six newly established regiments is not as good as the new army that was beaten to a pulp by the advance troops in the initial exercise, but war is the best melting pot. Ai'er believes that under the watchful eye of the Blood Mother, after experiencing the smelting of mortal blood and fire, these guys who can only be called militiamen at present will also become warriors like the new army. Although there may be huge casualties... but after the life and death selection, the ones left are exactly the warriors he wants.

By then, these warriors will become tribal warriors who are loyal to "Air" rather than "the Kingdom" and practice the ways of the Blood Mother rather than Myrmidia, with one victory after another.

Because it was promised that soldiers who did not want to continue to join the army would be allowed to choose to return home, most of the 800 Galaz laborers also left. In addition, those who chose to leave first after arriving in the human city were dismissed. In fact, the strength of Ai'er's subordinates, on paper alone, did not increase but decreased.

Galaz accepted several hundred people, but within two days, thousands of them applied to leave.

But it doesn't matter. After all, not everyone is willing to fight for the illusory glory. Besides, this is just a foreplay. When the overall situation becomes clear, Al will not lack soldiers.

In pursuit of speed, Ai'er changed the strategy of occupying the two cities of Vering and Marus. After taking Vering, he sent troops to Marus. The purpose has changed from occupying the port city and forming a corner with inland Vering to cut off the land connection between the greenskins and the south, to destroying it as much as possible so that Marus cannot be used by the enemy or us.

The main force moved south and captured Galaz as quickly as possible, thus gaining a key node for crossing the Gedaz River and marching eastward.

Aiel semi-forced his army to sweep away the residents of Cheporio who had surrendered to the greenskins in exchange for a temporary peace, and then used spells to punitively destroy the city walls and buildings. The city has now been abandoned.

In this way, of the three cities in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Gedaz River, only Galaz in the middle reaches and Port of Bermoz in the lower reaches are left. After Galaz is in the hands of Aiel, he can go south smoothly to take Bermoz - and radiate to the Miramare Hills in the southwest, where there are still many small groups of volunteers fighting guerrilla warfare under the banner of saving the kingdom, fighting against the greenskins and the puppet parliament.

The largest force is the one that had previously strategically retreated, opened the door to the underground palace of the Estalia Kings' Tombs, and started an underground war with the greenskins. It is also the strongest force among all the kingdoms in the southwest.

However, due to the heavy losses in the continuous fighting and the inability to go out, the greenskins left a mobile force composed mainly of goblins and greenskin boys to garrison on the hills, going out from time to time to sweep and keep an eye on the former.

To the east, you can go directly through the central wilderness, following the same route as the Northern Legion's previous march south to defend the king, marching eastward along the central plains and heading straight to Margarita.

There are few people along this road and a lack of supplies, but the terrain is flat, which is conducive to marching and decisive battles.

It is not a good thing for the human army to confront the overwhelming green tide in such a place, but for the tribe, the wilderness and plains are conducive to galloping, and can also maximize the impact of the beastman army.

Ironically, perhaps the massacre caused by the first greenskin rebellion was too terrible, which led to the three cities in the southwest: Newgard Port, North Karpath, and Desuya, under the surveillance of pirates, no longer daring to support the rebels in the underground palace. Instead, they were forced to supply large quantities of supplies to the greenskins to use as a force to kill their fellow countrymen.

Ai'er obviously doesn't want to see this happen. Moreover, if the tribe does not completely destroy the greenskin military deterrence in the southwest and prove its own strength, how can it convince several cities in the southwest to change their flags with just words?

What's more, it is always dangerous to have a small-sized greenskin army behind you during the Eastern Expedition. If you are not careful, they may appear and stab Ai'er's ASS at the critical moment.

So the path ahead for Al is clear.

He must first go south, then west, to find and capture the troops left behind by the greenskins, quickly inflict heavy damage or even destroy the enemy, and then he can naturally take over the southwest and gather strength to launch an eastern expedition.

Everything has to be fast.

It took him less than half a day to defeat Weiling. While launching the attack, representatives of the Northern Parliament were still arguing with the pirates at the negotiation table.

It took three days to travel to Galaz by night. Galaz opened the city and surrendered when the sun was about to set on the second day. Then we stopped for another two days and started heading south. The whole process took exactly one week.

With any luck, the greenskins should have just received the news and realized that their retreat has been stolen.

But the war in the north had just begun, and the Greenskins Alliance had dealt a heavy blow to the Estalia. The latter had to grit their teeth and hold on, and would no longer believe the Greenskins' nonsense in the peace talks.

Moreover, once the war broke out, Sahagen was left as an isolated city and St. Louis had already fallen. As long as the greenskins advanced northward and surrounded the city on all sides, it was unknown how long Bilbao could hold out.

If Al was a greenskin, he would never give up the great opportunity to retreat.

Besides, withdrawing troops will take time.

The greenskins were in high spirits. When they were marching north, they claimed to have an army of 600,000, but in reality, it should have been around 200,000. Just transporting the baggage and food was a big problem. Even the warlord who had a brainwave said: Damn it, I was fooled by the beastmen!

If we insist on going south to fight Ai'er, we can at least give the tribe a month or so of free time.

If all else fails, Al will take the population and supplies and throw them into the forest, have a fight with the greenskins, and then instigate the Margarita people in the east to take this opportunity to launch an uprising. He can still sit back and relax.

In other words, half of the world became one quarter.

However, time is not on Ai'er's side in some aspects - if he delays for too long and foreign forces intervene, it will not be so easy for him to swallow up the country; but in some aspects, time is on Ai'er's side - with the fertility of the beastmen and the bonus of the Blood Mother faith to the army, if he is given another year, he is sure to increase his military strength by one third. If he can pack up the population and materials of the three cities of Galaz, Bomoz and the southwest and take away the numbers, the numbers may be even more exaggerated.

Chapter 47: Al: How can I indulge in women!

By the way, when he first learned about the Greenskins' robbery alliance, Al was pleasantly surprised but not too surprised. After all, this was exactly what a despicable race like Greenskins, Pirates, Skaven, and the Alliance of Destruction Camp would do.

I'm just worried that the northerners will be stunned by this attack and won't be able to withstand the subsequent siege. If Aiur hasn't broken Margarita yet and the greenskins break Bilbarri first, the situation will be very unfavorable to the tribe.

However, from the intelligence obtained from the Council of Scholars later, it was learned that the northerners had shown a desperate spirit this time. Even the council, which usually bickered with each other, made a decision to hand over the highest power to the Committee of Ten Generals. The city was directly placed under military control, and all resources were to be prepared for the upcoming war.

I hope they can hold on this time... but don't do it too well. After all, the brutal invasion by foreign races has caused the loss of most of the precious land. The enemy is at the gates, the last line of defense... In Ai'er's memory, these elements are too easy to trigger a buff called "Patriotic War". When the situation turns around, if the northerners with martial virtue drive away the greenskins by their own strength, their sense of honor, self-confidence, and military strength will usher in a huge increase.

If Ai'er were to conquer the north again, the difficulty would be much higher, and the Estalia people, who had successfully resisted a foreign invasion once, would not be as easy to rule as the Estalia people who had lost their country and families, lost all hope, and were forced to submit to the enemy.

We are afraid that our allies can’t bear the pressure, and we are also afraid that our allies can bear the pressure too much.

That's the mentality.

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Al held the file in one hand and flipped through it with the other, casually glancing at the visitor out of the corner of his eye.

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