Chapter 1140 (1/2)

In the south of the Millennium covenant Empire, there were only six provinces and eleven aristocratic autonomous territories. Further south, it was a primitive land. The fourth emperor of the Millennium covenant empire was so happy that he exhausted all the materials in the national treasury and made great efforts to build four huge armies to attack in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest in an attempt to dominate the whole southern continent. At the beginning, the commander of the four legions was the first Duke Sidun.

At the beginning, the war was quite smooth, but soon after, the four-way Legion encountered problems one after another, which led to the failure of the smooth implementation of the expansion of the Empire.

For example, the northern Legion was secretly sniped from the Emilia empire; The eastern Legion was frustrated by the war because of the Warcraft canyon; The Western Legion met the whole territory of the Principality of satagastan, which had the seat of the Dragon Knight at that time.

But it was the southern Legion that suffered the most.

The southern legion, then Duke of nanden, went all the way south. At first, it was quite smooth. However, after crossing the area of today's mei'an commercial city, it encountered the deadly interception of various indigenous tribes in the south. Even some fierce orcs from the barbarian tribes ran out to join the fun, which could be described as heavy casualties. But this is not over. When the South offensive has become an extravagant hope to withdraw, the retreat is ambushed by indigenous tribes from the three southern provinces, and the whole southern Legion is so thoroughly explained here.

After that, the emperor of the Millennium covenant empire was so angry that he didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to launch a counterattack.

After the whole country launched an all-out war, it finally took mei'an area at a great cost and built mei'an fortress here. Then we sent troops to the three southern provinces. On the southern land that had not yet formed the scale of the three provinces today, all men, children, adults and the elderly, were slaughtered, and women were taken away as booty. This also laid a hidden line for the first civil strife of the Millennium covenant Empire.

The civil strife broke out in the later period of the sixth emperor, and lasted for nearly a hundred years. At that time, almost the whole south of the Empire was in a situation of war. There was a grand occasion of mixed warfare among various tribes in a somewhat chaotic era - the three provinces in the south, the six provinces in the old land and the 11 autonomous aristocrats raised 72 anti flags.

The war lasted until the ninth emperor succeeded to the throne for 20 years before it was finally calmed down - the short-lived seventh emperor died of assassins sent by nobles in the civil strife in the South less than three years after he succeeded to the throne. The eighth emperor had been in power for nearly 70 years, and his greatest contribution to the civil strife in the South was the annihilation of the legions of 40 rebellious nobles, And greatly weakened the military strength of the other 32 rebel nobles.

After the ninth emperor calmed the war, the remaining rebellious nobles fled farther south across the Mayan fortress, and many of them even fled to the wilderness.

It seemed that he was deeply aware of the damage and impact this had brought to the Empire. Since the ninth emperor, he continued to send troops out of mei'an to the south. Until the middle of the 12th emperor's reign, he finally laid down the 13 provinces south of mei'an fortress, owned the whole southern territory now, and even built a wild fortress.

However, due to the division of interests in previous wars and many other factors, in fact, the whole southern empire was not monolithic.

Taking the fort of mei'an as the dividing point, the six provinces in the north of the Millennium covenant empire that have existed since the founding of the country are called the old South six provinces, and the 18 nobles who settled on this land - since the end of the hundred year southern rebellion, 11 nobles' autonomous territories have become 18 nobles' autonomous territories - are also called the old South 18 families, including the current zoanton family.

The three provinces to the south of the Mayan fortress are called the three provinces in the south. It is also the most important food base of the Millennium covenant empire. Although there is no aristocratic fief, there are seven great aristocrats in the three provinces in the south, which can be called the first-class aristocrats in the Empire. Therefore, these seven families are also called the seven families in the south. The first of the seven families is the family of the demon snake Marquis Antas. It is precisely because he has been secretly supporting all the old nobles that the civil strife in the Empire will last so long.

To the southeast of mei'an fortress, that is, the thirteen provinces composed of the golden left road and the gold digging Road, are called the golden thirteen provinces, together with the 21 large families in the thirteen provinces, which are also called the golden family. However, this kind of address, to put it bluntly, is just a self proclaimed way of raising their status, and it is only in the south of the Empire - of course, the most important thing is to distinguish their respective positions.

The 21 golden families, the 13 golden provinces, the seven Southern families, the three southern provinces, the 18 old southern families and the six old southern provinces constitute the southern pattern of the entire Millennium covenant empire.

However, with the fall of Mayan fortress, the tripartite pattern has been really cut off.

In terms of overall strength, the golden 21, which controls the real voice of the 13 provinces, is undoubtedly the strongest. Therefore, even in the face of the strong attack and fierce attack of little Lucas and Rick, it will not be fully occupied for a while and a half, but with the passage of time, it will only be a matter of time.

The second strongest in terms of apparent strength is the six provinces of the old South and the 18 aristocratic autonomous territories. However, with pushus zoanton becoming the Duke of South Devon, all the nobles of the old six provinces and the old eighteen provinces had to obey the Duke's orders. In addition, the old Duke did have unique skills, so after integrating all the forces of the old South, he became the strongest existence in the south of the Empire.

If the old Duke didn't have amazing skills and didn't hesitate to immediately launch a fierce attack on mei'an commercial city, I'm afraid that the three southern provinces, which are the weakest in both apparent strength and real inside strength, would have been broken by the army of the dead.

After all, although there are seven families in the three southern provinces that can be called first-class, in fact, only the Marquis of the devil snake really has extraordinary heritage and strength.

It was precisely because of the fierce attack launched by puhughes that the army of the dead who were going deep into the three southern provinces had to withdraw to the commercial city of mei'an to resist.

The counterattack speed from the human Empire side was slightly faster than that predicted by Rick and little Lucas.

The progress of the second legion of the dead is much slower than expected. In addition to part of the reason that there were several holy land strongmen in the province, which led to the failure of the first war and the inability to sweep with the general trend of rolling, it was also another key reason for the loss of 50000 souls caused by Sean's horizontal intervention.

All these changes in the situation have led to the abnormal and strange war situation in the south of the Millennium covenant empire.

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