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In 381 AD, the second year after Alsophila returned to Vestapa, Gulanqi got married. His wife was Dany, the youngest disciple of Alsophila.
At the beginning, Gulanqi fell in love with Xiludi. Even though Xiludi's appearance was not as good as Dany's, and even though Xiludi was 30 years old, much older than him, he didn't care.
Not to mention that Xiludi looks no different from a 20-year-old girl because of her practice of magic swordsmanship, even if wrinkles appeared on Xiludi's eyebrows, he would still be willing to marry her.
Who made Xiludi the most beloved disciple of Alsophila spinulosa?
Marrying Xiludi means that he has an extra amulet!
Unfortunately, he was harshly rejected as soon as he expressed his love to Hermione. In desperation, he could only turn around and attack Dany.
Unlike Sylvia, who is determined to go back and change Treya, Dany prefers the aristocratic life in Vestapa.
When Gulanqi expressed his love to her, she agreed without hesitation.
She didn't like Guranki, but it didn't matter. If she married Guranki, she would be the queen of the Kingdom of Vistapa. She would no longer have to follow her master on that long and endless journey, and she could always enjoy the most luxurious life of Vistapa aristocrats.
It was so wonderful that any hesitation for even a second would be irresponsible to herself.
When hearing that Dany was going to marry Gulanqi, Alsophila was confused.
Is there such a combination?
But she still gave Dany her most sincere blessings.
【I hope you can love each other till old age. 】
From the very beginning, Alsophila spinulosa had no intention of locking all her disciples around herself. She wanted every one of her disciples to have a bright future.
Therefore, after the wedding of Gulanqi and Dany, she called all the remaining six disciples to her side.
[I may stay in Vistapa for a long time. You don't have to stay by my side all the time. Go and do what you want.]
Several disciples were very hesitant, but after Alsophila's persuasion, they finally decided to live their own lives.
summer.
Wana River Ferry.
Alsophila bids farewell to his eldest disciple, Xiludi.
[You don't have to worry about me, go back to Treia and change your hometown according to your ideas. I will come to visit you when things here are settled.]
"Master."
Xiludi felt a lump in her throat.
It has been exactly 14 years since I became Alsophila's disciple.
Although she had known that this moment of separation would come, she suddenly felt reluctant to leave when the time came. After all, the time she spent with her parents was not as long as that with Alsophila.
[Stop being so timid. How can you fight those who have made harsh laws in Treia? How can you change your hometown? ]
The scolded Xiludi hugged the Alsophila tightly until the ferry urged her to leave, and then she reluctantly let go of the Alsophila.
A big river flows eastward.
On the river, the wooden boat was swaying and the people on the boat were waving their right hands.
On the shore, Alsophila kept waving until the mist on the river covered the wooden boat. Then she raised her hand and wiped the tears from her eyes.
She is lucky.
In her long life, she always met people who loved her, and even God took good care of her.
Alsophila returned to the city of Vestapa and, like the nursery rhyme, quietly observed the changes in the world.
Since AD 381, human civilization in this world has entered a new stage.
This year, religion truly entered the historical stage.
In the same year, the political and military landscape of the main continent underwent tremendous changes.
In the east, with the fall of Longshan City, a number of port cities united together to form the Ocean Alliance. They vigorously developed the shipbuilding industry and even prepared to escape to other places by ship if they could not defeat the Kingdom of Vistapa.
In the south, when the city-states were still fighting, Xiludi quietly returned to the city-state of Treia. She wandered around Treia under the name of a Vestapa, gathering information and looking for companions. Finally, she joined the Treia army under a false name, ready to act when the opportunity arises.
In the Kingdom of Vistapa, Guranki began to promote the reform of the Knights Templar. Under his strong push, the Knights Templar were divided into the original Knights Templar responsible for local affairs and the new Knights Templar led by Broderick, responsible for guarding the royal palace.
This is an era where dangers and opportunities coexist. In the near future, conflicts will spread across the continent, but at least in the year 381, peace will be the main theme of the continent.
In 382, a rebellion broke out in Troia.
This rebellion came extremely suddenly. Originally, Xiludi planned to start the uprising at the end of the year, but because someone leaked the news, she had to start the uprising ahead of time.
Fortunately, the result was pretty good. Although the rebels were once forced into a desperate situation, after a shocking shift, the rebels successfully broke out of the encirclement, became stronger and stronger in the subsequent battles, and finally successfully overthrew the ruler of the Treia city-state.
But the crisis facing Xiludi is not over yet. Some surrounding city-states regard Treia as fat meat, and she needs to do everything she can to defend the fruits of the rebels' victory.
In the following years, the southern city-states fought more fiercely, and Gulanqi gradually gained control of some military power through a series of struggles.
Now he is the king of the Kingdom of Vistapa and is also considered by some civilians to be the chosen one of God. Unless he does something terrible, his throne will be difficult to shake.
It's time to show your ambitions!
In 386 AD, Guranki once again launched a war to conquer the Ocean Alliance.
Because of the endorsement of Guiyi Christianity, civilians were much less resistant to this war, and the morale of the army also increased accordingly.
This war is still difficult, but we are no longer beaten badly right from the start like before.
It took a year and a half for the Kingdom of Vistapa to capture most of the cities in the Ocean Alliance. Some people in the Ocean Alliance chose to surrender, while others fled by ship as planned.
After all, the shipbuilding and navigation technology of that era was still a bit poor. Seeing that those who went out to sea by boat were about to be trapped and died in the vast ocean, Tong Yao took action.
She built a huge island in the sea and then used ocean currents and hurricanes to lead the fleet to the island.
The reason for doing this is mainly to speed up the migration of this world civilization. Nowadays, all civilizations are active on the main continent, and the other four continents are really too deserted.
After this incident, Tong Yao found that she had a new vest——
Poseidon!
It doesn’t matter. I don’t have to worry about having too many vests.
She continued to watch the changes in the Kingdom of Vistapa.
Vistapa's conquest of the Ocean Alliance was not thorough, mainly because it expanded too quickly and the Ocean Alliance was far away from the city of Vistapa, making it difficult to rule effectively.
But Gulanchi doesn't care. Wasn't Eldino's conquest of the barbarian tribe not thorough?
As long as the Ocean Alliance expressed submission and was willing to pay taxes, it would be enough. What he really cared about were the city-states in the south.
When the expeditionary force returned to Vistapa from the Ocean Alliance, Guranchi's reputation skyrocketed. On the streets and in the countryside, people everywhere said that Guranchi was a wise ruler comparable to Eldino.
To be honest, Gu Ranqi was not very happy.
Comparable to El Dino?
fart!
He is much better than Eldino!
Gulanqi urgently needs to find another weakling to pick on.
At this time, the believers of Guiyi Church brought news that there was a group of orcs who believed in the Holy Fire living in the south of the Ocean Alliance. These orcs not only believed in false gods, but also tried to spread their false god beliefs to humans. The hateful thing was that there actually was a group of humans who became believers in the Holy Fire.
Tolerable or unbearable?
The new soft persimmon is decided to be you!
Gulanqi sent out an army to scatter the ashes of those orcs.
But the outcome of this war was beyond everyone's expectations. The expeditionary force was defeated. Fortunately, the orcs were kind-hearted, so the expeditionary force suffered little losses.
“They rushed over shouting ‘Holy Fire, Lord of Glory, Apparition of Ancestors’. Before we could figure out what was going on, the general was knocked unconscious. We had no choice but to run, and we ran back.”
"Ahhhh-"
Gulanqi was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
After strong persuasion from the congressmen, he gave up the idea of sending more people to fight with the orcs who believed in the holy fire.
But this matter cannot be easily covered up.
If you suffer a loss in the East, you must get it back in the West!
Gulanqi decided to formally take action against the southern city-states.
This was also a protracted war, and as the war progressed, some civilians in Vistapa discovered something very outrageous.
Didn’t we agree to defeat the false god faith and bring more people back to the embrace of Vitis so that everyone can live a happy life? Why are we living an even harder life now?
Damn, is there something wrong with this!
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From 381 to 389, Gulanqi prepared for eight years before officially launching an attack on the southern city-states that he had long coveted.
During these eight years, he consolidated his throne through a series of reforms, and with the support of those won over parliamentarians, he trained a new army under the pretext of an eastern expedition to the Maritime Alliance.
This new army has a strong fighting capacity. After absorbing the surrendered soldiers from the Ocean Alliance, it is now fully worthy of the title of the best on the continent in terms of naval warfare.
Having a strong army as a backing is not enough. In order to ensure the final victory, starting in 386, Gulanqi sent a large number of clergymen of the Guiyi Church to infiltrate the southern city-states.
These clergymen were preaching in the name of missionary work, but secretly they were doing the work of spies.
Thanks to their special status, they have achieved quite gratifying results in collecting intelligence.
In just three years, Gulanqi had gained a thorough understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the southern city-states and had a considerable understanding of the topography of the land he had never set foot on.
The only pity is that the clergy of Guiyi Church were repeatedly frustrated when they tried to find internal support in the southern city-states.
They tried to contact some of the rulers of the southern city-states. Except for a very small number of people who were doing very poorly and were willing to defect to the Kingdom of Vistapa, everyone else would immediately become alert when they heard them bring the topic to politics.
Because they were worried about exposing their true intentions, they had to give up.
In general, the rulers of the southern city-states all recognize the strength of the Kingdom of Vistapa, but this does not mean that they will easily succumb to the strong.
Their mentality can be described in eight words: It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix!
If they surrender to the Kingdom of Vistapa, they can only become members of parliament at best, and will be subject to various restrictions. Why bother? It would be better for them to stay in their hometown and be local emperors, doing whatever they want.
After learning that neither inducements nor ordinary threats could move the rulers of the southern city-states, Gulanqi did not delay any longer and immediately began mobilizing for war.
After all, this was a national war, not a fight against bandits, so he found an excuse before officially sending out his troops.
He accused some city-states in the south of believing in false gods and attacking the believers of Vitis at the behest of the false gods, which posed a serious threat to the security of the trade routes of the Kingdom of Vistapa. He demanded that these city-states eradicate the belief in false gods and return to the arms of Vitis, otherwise, as the orthodox guardian of the Vitis faith, he would send troops south.
Faced with the threat from Guranchi, it was obviously impossible for those city-states to surrender.
If you ask me to change my beliefs, will I?
If I really dare to do this, I won't need you to come. The riots of the civilians will be enough to make me suffer.
The reactions of these city-states were completely within Gulanqi's expectations.
If you don’t surrender, you will die!
On the day the messenger returned to Vistapa, he ordered the army, which had already been assembled, to march south.
In the spring of 389 AD, the largest army in history appeared on the banks of the Wana River.
The army crossed the river in batches and in different places. The action was so swift that the southern city-states had no time to react.
When the army gathered in one place and rushed to the nearest city-state along the tributary of the Wana River, the other city-states that were still fighting each other when Gulanqi sent envoys to condemn them finally reacted.
Shit! If they continue fighting at this point, they will be defeated one by one by the Kingdom of Vistapa!
It was at this time that the Treia city-state, which had been besieged for several years, finally had a chance to catch its breath, but Xiludi did not relax.
She had stayed in the city of Vistapa for a long time with Alsophila, and she knew the power of Vistapa better than any other city-state lord in the southern city-states.
Especially after the city-state closest to the Vana River surrendered under the pressure of the Vestapa army, Treia would soon face the Vestapa army.
What to do at this time?
Xiludi considered asking Alsophila and Dany for help, so that Guranki could leave a way out for the city-state of Treia, but in the end she gave up the idea.
She didn't want to embarrass Alsophila.
She knew that if she came forward to ask, Alsophila would most likely help her, but doing so would certainly damage Alsophila's reputation.
The Sword Princess of the Snow Tower has never had a stain on her body in the past seventy years. As her disciple, how could she allow such a noble Sword Princess master to be cursed at the twilight of her life?
Asking her to ask Dany for help was even more impossible.
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