[Phyllis: The useless Purple Spirit King said to throw it away, and a famous general here directly attacked the enemy’s king’s city, and the kingdom’s army is still cheering at the border. ]

[Irelia: Your Highness Ferris, can I interpret your words as envy and jealousy? ]

[Weinei: Phyllis has only white and blue cards. I think you should reflect on this.]

Felice was furious. It was fine if Irelia said so. But do you have the right to criticize me, Vene? Don’t you know your own situation? The Queen Experience Card is not as long as the Agent Card!

As he spoke, the situation changed again.

【King Dekalia requested peace talks, will you accept? 】

Seeing the prompt on the interface, Irelia pondered for a moment. Dekalia was already at the end of his strength and was obviously frightened. He surrendered before the battle for the royal city even began.

【Not accepted.】

Irelia directly rejected the peace talks.

We must not be soft-hearted at this time.

If every country invades and negotiates if they lose, then what is the point of fighting the war?

Not to mention, Irelia’s original intention was to establish an empire, and the biggest difficulty in this step lies in the expansion of territory.

At this moment, she suddenly understood why Ash had let Jessica fight the invasion first, because nominally this was still a defense war. Who asked you, Dekalia, to start first? What? You haven’t started the action yet, but you just have this plan? That counts too!

Take advantage of the chaotic situation on the mainland to launch a war of aggression. As for the chaos within the territory, there is no need to deal with it in a hurry, because after the turmoil is over, your territory is still your territory. Conversely, if you launch an invasion, then other people’s territory will also be your territory.

This has a different strategic significance.

Border defense? Territory expansion!

Of course, Ash would rather call it ‘Operation Paint’.

Come on guys, now is the much-anticipated painting session!

“So this is what Ash was thinking.”

Irelia suddenly realized.

“You are worthy of being my divine general.”

Just Yasuna, you want to snatch a man from me?

[In March 1784, Jessica ordered an attack on the Royal City of Dekalia. ]

[The next day, King Dekalia announced his surrender and became a vassal of the Purple Spirit Kingdom.]

Sure enough, he surrendered.

After Irelia refused to negotiate, King Dekalia was left with only two choices: either surrender and bring Dekalia under the management of the Purple Spirit Kingdom, or destroy the country.

On the map, Dekalia’s territory was incorporated into the Purple Spirit Kingdom, and the two became the same color.

[Dekalia has been placed under the management of the Purple Spirit Kingdom. You can issue decrees to it. ]

“Success!”

Irelia showed excitement on her face.

Conquering a city is not just about slaughtering people blindly. Who will work for you if you kill them? The best way is to suppress them militarily, bring them under your jurisdiction, and make them part of your territory.

Of course, complete assimilation is not as simple as it seems.

Even if the royal power is broken up, there will always be unruly people who want to revive and start a rebellion from time to time.

This is a headache.

[In April 1784, Jessica withdrew her troops.]

Irelia thought about it and dispatched 20,000 troops from the kingdom to the royal city of Dekalia, and then dispatched trusted subjects from the royal family to take over management. The Dekalia government must be in her own hands, and it must be in the hands of the Zi Ling royal family.

Foreign officials who have too much power are likely to rebel.

While Jessica was attacking Dekalia, other routes were also being carried out simultaneously.

Holy Legion Force Configuration:

Harvey City: 60,000

Cassi City: 60,000

Constantine: 80,000

A full 200,000 troops!

These troops were all trained by Ash by plundering the entire Elf Kingdom’s internal resources. For a Paradox player, when the resources, people, money and even the training mechanism are perfect enough, it is only a matter of time before a large number of troops are produced.

If it weren’t for the fact that the soldiers’ quality had to meet the standards and the troops had been deployed according to the general standards of a principality, this number could have doubled.

But even an army of 200,000 was a heavy blow to the queens who were watching the battle.

[Felice: His resource conversion efficiency is too high! Is this the hidden attribute of the gold card? ]

Irelia knew about it. When she visited Harvey City, she found that the system there was completely different from that in other places in the kingdom. Although the degree of exploitation was higher, the living standards of the people were not low. Overall, it embodied two words – efficiency.

Because it is efficient enough and the territory produces a lot, even if 99% is obtained by Ash, the remaining 1% is still enough for civilians to live on, and the life of civilians is better than that of civilians in other territories.

More importantly, safety is guaranteed!

Although Harvey City is on the border, who would dare to attack it given Ash’s current fame? What is the most important thing in the border area?

‖∪0≤ˉ４々’八］Si er”‘㈨０㈤sＯuＳＵｏ: One, safety, two, having enough to eat.

When both are met, it becomes a holy place in everyone’s mind.

This has resulted in the fact that the scale of Harvey City is now no less than that of the Purple Spirit Kingdom, and its population has even exceeded 300,000.

The more people there are and the city’s level can keep up, the more income will be generated, which is like a snowball effect.

Of course, Ash was able to develop so quickly also thanks to the fact that the oppression of civilians by the nobles in this world is really outrageous. Not only is the oppression cruel, but their life safety and living standards are not guaranteed. It is indeed a status that is only better than that of a slave.

If everyone is like this, there is nothing we can do.

But when a less villainous person emerges among a group of villains, then this less villainous guy is a saint.

Ash St. Engel!

A master of sustainable fishing!

At this time, among the three armies, Jessica led the troops to Dekalia, while Navitt led an army of 60,000 along the border of the neighboring country Dikaner and began to build a defense line in the border territory.

[Phyllis: Doesn’t this guy want to lock up half of the border?]

[Weinei: It looks like it, but isn’t 60,000 a bit too few?]

The original territory of the Elf Kingdom covers the southwestern border of the continent. The southern part of the continent is connected to the Purple Spirit Kingdom, Dekalia, Dikaner, etc. The city of Cassi is close to Dikaner. Starting from here, go half a circle along the border to the other side. The area covered by this range is not small.

Obviously, Navitt was drawing a defensive line and looking at the Harvitdin line from a distance, which was like making dumplings for the people in the middle area.

But…isn’t the dumpling skin a bit too thin?

Havitandin is fine, as he has his own men dispatched by Ash, plus Irelia has sent tens of thousands of troops there, so it can be said that he is quite solid, and the route is shorter than the border.

After all, even people who have never studied circles can see that a straight line between two points is definitely shorter than an arc.

[Anonymous: It’s a lot. You don’t understand. The 60,000 soldiers of the Holy Legion are far more powerful than you can imagine… And this order must have been issued by Ash. How could he be wrong? ]

Wei Nei took a look and thought to herself what do you mean by ‘you don’t understand’, do you understand it very well?

And the last sentence made Wei Nei particularly confused.

It’s as if this guy knows Ash better than she does. Come on, Ash is her prince!

When Ash and I were killing people, you didn’t even know where you were!

However, she really had no clear idea of ​​the Holy Legion’s combat effectiveness. Dekalia lost too quickly, as if he was winning smoothly all the way. There was nothing interesting about a father beating his son.

At this time, Navitt spent more than a month deploying defenses on the border and blocking the border of the western continent into the territory.

At this point, the other countries also noticed that Ash seemed to want to “close the door and beat the dog”, but soon they became disdainful of Ash’s behavior. Tens of thousands of people want to block such a long line of defense? Dream on!

Just looking at the area on the western continent of Ash’s territory, there are already more than a dozen countries coming to share the cake, with a total of more than 100,000 people. With so many people attacking one point, is it impossible to break through?

More importantly, their country can provide reinforcements!

Once the fighting breaks out, the Holy Legion on the border will be attacked from both sides.

[‘Asher Engle’s success may be just a fluke, he just happened to have an army willing to fight for him. ‘——Marquis Frickland, commander of the Frankish Duchy, deceased. ]

[In February 1784, Ash divided his troops into three groups and began to attack the garrison in the Western Continent.]

The 80,000-strong army was divided into three teams.

Among the subordinates under Ash, in addition to Jessica and Navit, who are first-rate generals, there are also many second-rate generals whose three-dimensional attributes have reached purple cards. These people are more than capable of leading troops to fight.

Of course, letting these people lead the troops to fight would definitely cause greater damage, but sometimes as long as the goal can be achieved as quickly as possible, some insignificant losses are not that important. Ash calls this behavior “efficient.”

After all, if we take the imperial route in the future, there will be too many things to deal with, and he can’t do everything by himself.

Leading troops to fight? That’s what subordinates should do!

Therefore, from now on, Ash has been intentionally cultivating loyal and capable subordinates.

[According to later records, among the imperial guards under the command of the great demon king Ash, there are eight commanders with divine blood, each of whom is a unique general. According to gossip, they all admire Ash and call him “master” in private, and have an unclear relationship with Ash.]

[In March 1784, the garrisons of various countries were attacked repeatedly by the Holy Legion, suffering heavy losses, and several countries withdrew from the territory one after another.]

[In the same month, the powerful duchies of the southern continent, such as the ‘Duke of Frank’, the ‘Duke of Atli’, and the ‘Duke of Cospaia’, jointly formed the ‘Ten-Nation Alliance’. In the name of ‘resisting the atrocities of Ash’ and ‘striving for self-protection’, they jointly launched an attack on the territory of Ash, which was known in history as the ‘Ten-Nation Invasion Rebellion’. ]

[In April 1784, the commander of the Frankish Duchy, Frickland, led an army of 4 to attack the city of Saint-Bello.]

The City of San Bello is another city built by Ashe with Mount San Bello as its center. Its strategic purpose is to provide effective support and protection for Constantinople, which is commonly known as the “pincer” strategy and was a tactic loved by generals during the Three Kingdoms period.

There are only 2 defenders in the city of San Bello, and the city level is only level , but because of its great strategic significance, as long as it is captured, the Havetandin Line of Defense can be cut off and the material supply of the mountain army can be cut off. Therefore, the Duchy of Franks, as the “leader” jointly elected by the coalition forces of ten countries, took the lead in taking action.

“Only 10,000 men?”

Irelia clicked on the defense situation of Saint Bello City. The city’s defense level and military strength were not high. She frowned slightly, hesitating whether to send reinforcements.

But when the next action round began, the kingdom’s army she sent was also attacked by the coalition forces of ten countries.

[Felice: Irelia, I think you should send troops to reinforce Ash. ]

[Weinei: She probably doesn’t have any extra troops. The expansion order has just been issued, and the situation in the South China Sea is critical. Kawi has already sent back news of defeat in several rounds.]

[Felice: I’m afraid you’re not happy about Irelia becoming the queen. When Yasna was in power, Kawi never had any problems guarding the South China Sea border.]

Irelia’s mouth twitched slightly, and she wondered how that time could be compared to now?

People who are familiar with the sea tribe know that this group of ugly guys like to take advantage of others’ misfortunes. This was also the case when the elves took action before. Do you really think that the sea tribe will listen to the elves? It’s so funny.

But this damn coalition of ten nations is also very annoying. They are doing disgusting things under the guise of morality. They are no different from the guys in the Holy See.

It is hard to say whether there is no shadow of the Holy See behind this so-called coalition.

Unfortunately, just as Wei Nei said, she really did not have any extra troops under her command.

Recruiting troops and expanding the army will take time. There are quite a few troops in the various noble territories, but they obviously will not reinforce Ash, especially the noble faction headed by Duke Had, who are still persuading her to take back the governance of the territory to prevent Ash from rebelling against Tian Gang.

But Irelia knew that these guys were not really worried about the kingdom, they were just worried that their own interests would be violated by Ash.

The scene changes.

The Frankish commander, Frickland, led his army to the plain outside the city of Saint-Bello.

[‘Asher Engle, do you dare to fight me? ‘]

[Frickland uses the famous general skill ‘Unmovable as a Mountain’, and all soldiers’ defense capabilities are increased by 20%. ]

The Frankish army has always been famous for its excellent defense. Most of the soldiers are heavily armored. The special soldier is the shield warrior, who holds a large shield with a blade on the edge. He has both defensive and offensive skills.

However, this situation requires a very high strength attribute of the soldiers. Not only is it difficult to train, but the equipment requirements are also high. Generally, a country will not spend so much energy to train shield warriors. After all, shield warriors are good for defensive battles, but their offensive capabilities are too low. If you have this cost, why not charge for cavalry?

But it must be said that Frank achieved good results in many battles by virtue of his advantage in shield warfare.

[Phyllis: This guy really thinks he’s a big shot! ]

Why are you shouting at a city with only 10,000 soldiers? Ash is fighting in the front. If you have the guts, go find him.

A purple card is chirping and screaming, is it giving you face?

[‘Frankish warriors, attack and crush this city! ‘]

[Famous General Frickland uses the skill ‘Strong Attack’. For five action rounds, all soldiers’ attack power increases by 10%.] Q

The next moment, 30,000 troops launched an offensive towards the city of Saint Bello.

Among these 30,000 men, there were 20,000 shield warriors, the rest were cavalry and archers, and there were also several magic cannons used as siege weapons.