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The "Wise King" and "Masked Aiur" praised by the Estalians, whose rise was quite legendary, died less than half a year after Margarita was attacked by the Tyrells' naval artillery.

He led his army that defeated the green-skinned Waaaagh, and with perseverance and tenacity unimaginable by ordinary people (actually it was opening a portal), he crossed the Inara Mountains, rushed into the heart of the Tyrell Kingdom, and launched an unexpected attack on the enemy.

It took less than ten days from the emergence of military intelligence to the fall of the city. Miragliano was declared fallen, Aiel rode a griffin into the city, and the prince and his wife surrendered with all the dignitaries in the city.

The South was shaken.

The Grand Patriarch of the East in Miragliano was debating with the Patriarch Gregory of the United Kingdom. He got angry and challenged Gregory to a duel, arguing for the orthodoxy of doctrine to the death. In front of tens of thousands of people, Gregory pierced his chest with a spear and killed him. That night, it was said that the statue of Myrmidia in the Great Temple shed tears of blood, and several nuns and priests committed suicide in the temple, saying that they were martyred for their country and religion...

Chapter 79: Tyrell Rush

In February of 2694 Imperial Calendar, Aiel led his army south to Trantio, defeated the -strong Tyrell coalition, and marched straight to Remas. When the battle report came back, a pro-peace coup took place in the Tobarro Council, attempting to negotiate peace with Aiel on behalf of the Tyrell Kingdom, but to no avail.

In March, the Aiel army surrounded Remas and defeated the southern army that came to the north to rescue at the famous ancient battlefield of Lavrafa. Then Remas was captured.

In May, the Double-Headed Eagle arrived at Verezzo. This principality, which had long been an inland country and whose people generally enjoyed a peaceful life due to its fertile land, chose to open its gates after the situation became hopeless. Members of the parliament surrendered en masse, and a few fled south.

In June, in Lusigny, the oldest city of the Tilers, their place of origin (like Rome), two families in the principality that were hostile to each other and claimed to have the blood of the ancient king gave up the confrontation, united against the outside world, and killed the envoys who entered the city to persuade them to surrender, in order to express their determination to resist to the end:

"We will not leave even a grain of sand or a drop of water for the Beastman bastards and their Estalia lackeys! --- Only a shameful death will be left for the invaders!!!"

So Al ordered a siege on the city. The artillery collected along the way and the hand-made artillery of the legion roared non-stop. After a siege that lasted for half a month, there was hardly a single intact building in the entire Lusigny. Al then ordered an all-out siege on the city, and Lusigny was captured within a day.

Among the Tyrell lands, only the principality of Tobarro still maintains its independence, carrying the banner of the last flame.

Most of the representatives of the Lusignan Parliament were captured, and then Eyre executed all those who insisted on fighting.

"Too many people have died in this war. You brought soldiers, sailors, and people to the altar and told them that this was for the kingdom, for glory, and for the goddess. They have already made their own sacrifices and made enough contributions!"

“I have always believed that the people trust the rulers, and the rulers must not let the people down.”

"Now, it's your turn to bleed" - Al said to the representatives who came to surrender on the ruins of the Lusignan Parliament.

Then there were the two families that dominated the Lucinian Council and had been fighting each other for hundreds of years. Al also dealt with them very harshly:

He ordered all male members of the clan to be executed, and underage males were forced to return to their maternal families or be taken abroad by their mothers or sisters, such as to the New World, Araby, or the Border Princes.

The attack on Lusigny was the one with the highest ratio of casualties among the defending military and civilians in the entire Southern War. Due to the influx of refugees and exiles, Lusigny, which once had a population of 300,000, cleared at least 60,000 bodies after the war, and the number of people injured in the war was countless.

A large number of civilians were mobilized to take up arms and go to the battlefield to contribute their strength to this war that concerns the survival of the country. Ai'er respects their choice and deeply hates those powerful people who insisted on defending the city but failed to set an example and sacrifice themselves to the end.

He knew that if he accepted this group of ruling class whose backbones had been broken, it would at least have a great impact on his rule in Lusigny in the early stage, and the cruel mass executions would also cause strong dissatisfaction among the people. This fear mixed with anger and grief would degenerate over time and eventually turn into a riot and a hotbed of uprising.

But Al was unhappy, especially after seeing that both the enemy and our side had suffered considerable additional casualties as a result. So he rarely expressed a negative attitude towards the idea of ​​breaking the leg and taking him in as a dog.

In the Battle of Lusigny, the ruling class of this arguably oldest principality was almost wiped out. The Aiel would be tolerant of the common people, but the vested interests would raise their butcher knives without mercy.

The floating corpses in the port of Lusigny even drifted to the free city of Sartosa, which was connected to the city by only a shallow strait and some islands and reefs in between. The "free people leaders" there were extremely afraid that Aiel's army would be directed at them next.

And Aiur did just that. He ordered his second son Kael'thas to collect ships and build vehicles. He also summoned sailors and deployed the army on the land opposite the Free City, pretending to cross the sea and attack Sartosa.

The Sartosas had helped the orcs attack Estalia during the Greenskin War. Although the Free State cut off those pirates after the victory of the Great Patriotic War, one of the seven pirate lords of the Sea Freemen (Pirate) Alliance was killed in an internal conflict and his body and his ship were sent to Margarita to apologize. But Al knew very well that only one pirate lord, or even the entire pirate alliance, might not be able to create the same momentum as during the Great Patriotic War.

The Free City of Sartosa played an important role in this. When the greenskins were advancing all the way, many scumbags came to Estalia with a purpose that was not evil, but the road was extremely despicable to make a fortune. As the only two "allies" of the greenskins, these scums had no strength on the battlefield, but in other occasions, such as local security and the process of suppressing uprisings, they did everything they could, including arson, robbery, rape, and massacre...

The Estalia people's hatred for the greenskins, who are born warlike beasts, is not as strong as the scum who follow the beasts to do all kinds of evil!

Because the former is more of a "natural disaster" that cannot be avoided in the mortal world, but the latter is completely a man-made disaster.

During the process of Al's rise, even if he had to completely overthrow those pseudo-governments and puppets suspected of treason, unless they had done something really bad, he rarely chopped off their heads, because Al believed more in the saying: "Human heads are not leeks, they cannot grow back after being cut."

But for captured pirates, basically they would be publicly tried and hanged in the nearest place where there were people, no matter where they were caught.

Some of the most heinous crimes were preceded by torture, such as using methods pirates used to intimidate their enemies to torture captives, hanging people up, peeling off the skin from their backs, tying them to flagpoles, leaving them to burn in the scorching sun and be eaten by birds. To this day, such flags are still flown in the port of Margarita, with the dried black bones of pirates hanging on them.

The longest record was that of a pirate gang leader. After the local residents cut off his water supply, he managed to survive for a week by relying on a rainy day. In total, he was hung for nearly half a month before he died.

Perhaps it can also be said that if the Five Seals represented by Aiel relaxed the threshold a little bit and implemented the doctrines promoted in the United Kingdom in a "more radical" way, bloody killing, competitiveness, and the pursuit of endless bliss... would be very much in line with the appetites of these scumbags. And there are indeed quite a few Chaos - Four Mothers believers active in the Pirate Principality.

If Ai'er wants to conquer Sartosa, the best option is to use religious means, strengthen infiltration and then unite internally and externally.

But he hasn't thought about doing that yet.

The Pirate Principality of Sartosa, now euphemistically called the "Land of the Free Men," the "Free State," and the "Free City," is a cesspool of criminals, scoundrels, and dishonest people.

Vampires, the Undead, the Border Princes, the Empire, and even Osun all have tentacles here.

Even the proud Tomb Kings across the sea have set their sights on this place. It is said that among the nine free folk elders there are several who never reveal their true faces, and one of them has the bandaged bones of Nehekhara beneath his mask.

Although there is no offense to any forces if Al takes this place down, this place has absorbed too many dark secrets, many of which are even secrets that can make the old world abuzz. Al does not want to uncover them for the time being.

So after the second group of Sartosa envoys arrived, first offering five corpses and then twelve ships loaded with all kinds of gold, silver, antiques, treasures, and a total of more than four hundred terrified pirate scum, Al accepted the Sartosa people's request for apology.

The five bodies were five of the six remaining members of the original pirate alliance.

The remaining one has been active in the north, specifically targeting the ships of the Norsemen and robbers. She is a notorious "pirate habitual offender" in the pirate world and a legendary female captain. It is said that she will track down the pirates who go out to sea to plunder, and wait until the other party finds the target and starts fighting before approaching them, asking for a price from both parties at the same time, but basically she chooses to extort a fortune from civilian ships and then kill other pirates.

Of the seven pirate lords, six were killed because of Al.

Those ships were loaded with wealth that was said to have been collected by free people and flowed out of Estalia through pirates during the Patriotic War, so the wealth was returned to the original owners. As for those pirates, most of them were subordinates of the pirate lords. They were guys who had indeed "been to Estalia" and had traces that could be traced. They were not unlucky people who were just pushed out to die.

As a pirate, "having been to Estalia" is an unforgivable capital crime in today's United Kingdom.

Al did not kill them immediately, but waited to send them back to their homeland before sending their heads to various parties.

The people of Sartusa surrendered, so Al temporarily ignored this dirty and smelly septic tank, which could at least hold dirt and filth. He would wait until he was absolutely sure that everything would be gone before dealing with it, such as blowing it up.

As for these scums who have only upper limits but no bottom line, they are capable of doing things and can use any means to carry out Al's will more and more severely. He really doesn't want to have such a bunch of scum under his command.

Even though they believed in the Four Mothers, Al still felt uncomfortable. Since when did the great cause of fighting against chaos, saving the world, establishing new gods and opening up a new era require the presence of these insects?

After the Sartosa people surrendered, Aiur led his troops north, all the way from Lusigny to Remas, and on the way he cleared out uprisings and resistance movements in various places. The envoy of Tobaro, or now it should be said that the "last Tyrell force", was also sent.

I can't fight anymore.

Chapter 80: Lone Star

"We were defeated, we were beaten, we lost the war!" - Giovanni Leonardo, captain of the Tobaro mercenaries.

When the news that Lusigny fell and the members of parliament and ancient families who persisted in resisting were massacred by El reached Tobaro, it was as if the sun had fallen from the sky.

As soon as the messenger who delivered the war report got off the ship, he staggered and prostrated himself on the dock, crying and trembling for the fate of the country. It was the onlookers who learned the news from his intermittent words and the supplements of his entourage. Then the news spread from one person to ten, ten to a hundred, from the dock to the prince's palace, the parliament...

Everyone was watching and thinking about this matter, and overnight, the Tobaro people woke up and found themselves orphans and only children in the kingdom's land.

To their north, the overlord Miragliano was the first to fall under the banner of the double-headed eagle. Afterwards, the enemy did not even bother to pay attention to Tobaro, the isolated enemy, and marched south with their legions, conquering a duchy almost every month at a speed that was unimaginable to the Tirells, until they had conquered the entire Tirell.

The streets were filled with discussions about the battle reports and speculations about the future. People were talking about it, anxiously discussing and debating. After a while, it was as if a switch was pressed. Suddenly, no one knew where it started, just like a city at night, the lights and the noise went out one by one, and the whole city was instantly muted. Deathly silence enveloped the city, and people on the street looked at each other.

Discuss, argue...what's the point?

Isn't the two-headed eagle now preparing to conquer all of Tyrell, the last bastion that resists him?

Aren't we now the orphans, the last and loneliest warriors in the entire land of Tyrell?

The enemy has already defeated all of our brothers and sisters. Can we still expect him to turn a blind eye to us?

The crying that started from nowhere was like a rapidly spreading plague, constantly appearing from everyone and everywhere. The women ignored the virtues of ladies and cried loudly for the future of the country. The men shed tears and clenched their fists. On one side was the sea, and the rest were mountains. In front of them was the motherland, and behind them was the family. They didn't know where to go.

In the two consecutive major battles that broke out in the south, the Tobaro people had done their best. When El went south to Trantio, the Tobaro fleet continuously sent its soldiers across the sea to participate in the war. After one battle, the Tobaro people suffered more than 6,000 casualties.

Then they realized that the Tyrells were now unable to resist the army of Aiur, and a pro-peace "coup" took place in Tobaro - in fact, it was just an unspoken trick within the principality. The original ruling families were tacitly "driven out" by their opponents, and a new force came to rule Tobaro, trying in this way to please the victor who had already gained the advantage and obtain more lenient conditions.

After all, this is a city that can elect a pig as the city prince and "rule with benevolence" for more than ten years. It is not surprising that some fancy things happen.

However, the attempt at peace talks was rejected by Al:

"It's impossible that the Tyrells initiated the war just to capture Margarita, and then do nothing else and withdraw the legion, right?"

Then the messenger half threatened and half begged, saying, "The Tyrells will resist to the end. We have been competing with the Estalia for thousands of years and have never been conquered by a powerful enemy! I heard that Your Majesty has always been known for his kindness and tolerance. For the sake of the people of the two countries and for your legionnaires, please stop the war for now!"

Al refused outright:

"Then we can discuss the issue of 'peace' after I conquer all of Tyrell!"

They then continued their march southward, and the Tobaro people provided all the assistance they could in the rescue of Remas and the defense of Lusigny.

Tobaro has long been on good terms with Estalia, which makes him an outlier in Tirell. Although his location is relatively isolated, half of the ships in the port are from Estalia, and mining and maritime trade are the mainstays of the principality.

His troops were mainly composed of sailors and miners, and they were badly damaged in the successive wars. Even with the support of fortresses and the precipitous Fool's Reef, he was definitely unable to resist the attack of the Double-Headed Eagle that had conquered the entire southern world.

The Tobaro people have already understood that they are facing a war without suspense and they are bound to lose, but as the last spark of the Tirells, there is no doubt that they are the only ones who are now waving the banner of "orthodoxy". If they choose to surrender, the psychological cost will be almost infinitely raised. Some people are even so pessimistic that they have extremely pessimistic thoughts such as "It would be better if we were the first or second to be beaten, so that the surrender can be done by others."

In the last attempt at peace, Aiur proposed a condition to Tobaro - a condition that the Tyrells would never agree to at the time.

"The two southern countries originally came from the same origin, but they have been in conflict for a long time. Ultimately, this is due to geographical reasons. The earliest ancestors may have migrated from the east to the west, or from the west to the east. The protruding corridor of the Inara Mountains has thus severed the two regions that should have been closely connected."

"The two countries competed with each other and opposed each other. In the end, what should have been a family of one blood and one branch developed into a situation where brothers were fighting each other all day long. It is really sigh-worthy..."

Al paced back and forth in the tent with his hands behind his back. "I can't help but think that the cause of the Patriotic War was the confrontation between the North and the South, the quarrel between brothers, which gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of the situation."

"This war was started by a small number of ambitious and greedy nobles among the Tyrells, and eventually affected the people of our two countries. I really cannot tolerate this, so I must eradicate all evil. This time I led the army to Tyrell to settle accounts with these ambitious, usurping, and greedy nobles!"

"You said that war will affect the people. I understand that. But if I just leave after the talks, although the two countries may seem to have achieved temporary peace, in the long run, the hidden dangers of conflict and the fuse of war will still exist. As long as the southern world continues to be divided and the people of the two countries discriminate against each other, the threat of a second, third, or fourth war will be inevitable in the future."

"How can we ensure that this kind of thing will not happen again through peace talks?"

"In my opinion, if the two countries become 'as close as one family' from now on, these problems will not be a problem to worry about."

......

He doesn't want ceding territory or compensation!

Aiel's appetite is greater than that of all the merchant princes in Tyrell's history combined!

What he wants is the entire Tyrell Kingdom!

After the Battle of Trantio, Tyrell still had the strength to fight. Let's not talk about the thoughts of the Tobaro people. Tobaro itself was isolated overseas, and its relations with other city-states in Tyrell were not very harmonious. Because of its good relations with neighboring countries, it has always been suspected of "collaborating with foreign countries". It is impossible for the Tobaro people to represent other principalities except the Miragliano and Trantio families that have been eliminated to negotiate such a national demise clause with the Double-Headed Eagle!

If that happens, I'm afraid Tobaro will start a civil war first - those exiles from the conquered areas will never accept such conditions!

So the first round of peace talks ended in failure without a doubt.

After the negotiations failed, the city prince who was elected to power after the "coup" accidentally fell down while inspecting the defense of the city wall. He broke his leg and had to recuperate at home from then on. So people had to hurriedly elect another prince to power.

This time, perhaps he heard some subtle rumors, such as that after Aiur captured Miragliano, he placed all the nobles who surrendered from the city under house arrest in a manor outside the city, but specifically brought Prince Rodrigo and his princess Isabella, the "clawless spider" who is constantly cursed by the Tyrells whenever they mention it, with him.

I heard that the prince was wearing women's clothes when he surrendered, and he has been dragged away until now. A couple with the same extraordinary charm, the man is wearing women's clothes, and he is the culprit who provoked the war. He and his mature and beautiful wife were taken by the conqueror...

I heard that the group of people who are most concerned about this southern war abroad, apart from those state advisers and intelligence organizations, are the famous "Atriti artists" who have been banned by multiple secular forces.

In some private salons and gatherings held on the island of Osun, some secondary creations based on some of the fantastic plots of this war have begun to circulate.

For example, "The Prince of Defeat and the Beautiful Wife!" ! ", "Young husband, mature wife, wild beast, conqueror of the world,", "The monarch of the same year, a violent prince, an adult's wife, a crying prince!" ! 》《The king and his wife entered the harem for a time, and the people's front was the ultimate burst of cum! ! ! 》

Etc., etc.

There are the ultimate insults to the second male path, the evil and promiscuous love, there is first bull and then pure (the prince and his wife finally escaped from the clutches of the enemy and lived together), and there is first pure and then bull (first depicting the sweet daily life of the prince and his wife, and then changing the style to be severely punished by the enemy who plays Al).

There are texts, illustrations, and even a live COSplay performance theater!

The photo stone used to record this thing has even been circulated to Margarita's court. Sheep Mom called him twice in a row, worried that he was going to pick on other men, which made Alina look at him strangely. The "Adopted Son Happy Halberd" seemed to be echoing the mentality of its owner. Every time Al passed by, it would flash a cold light, which made people shudder.

......

These things are off topic.

Anyway, that's what happened.

Then, the Tobaro people specially selected a beautiful wife from each family who was not too old, but pretty and had some brains to come to the stage.

"It's decided to be you, Madam!"

"To save the country, please become the Prince of the City!"

Although it seems quite embarrassing, the Tobaro people don't care about it. They are very pragmatic at heart. For example, their average wealth level is among the highest in Tirell, but their demand for luxury goods has always been very low.

If, if, during the later peace talks, Al fell in love with this beautiful princess, and the talks ended up in bed, they would only clap their hands and celebrate.

If this could lead to some concessions from Aiur to Tobaro (Tyrell), even if it didn't involve going to bed, but just giving him a little insignificant preferential treatment simply because he was good-looking and in a good mood, then it would still be a win.

They have nothing to lose anyway.

Chapter 81: Armistice Conditions

The capital of the Republic of Remas.

Remas Senate.

In this unusual "republican" country, political power is ruled by three oligarchs elected every year.

On the outer wall of the Senate, the traces of the flames of war have not been completely cleaned up. In the war three months ago, the people of Remas put up a resolute resistance, but all this was reduced to ashes after the southern reinforcements were defeated in Lavrafa and only one tenth of the coalition forces heading north survived.