Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 264 Tide

The involvement of a single Neren family in the war, and the simultaneous involvement of the two count families in the war with the Samir people, would have a completely different impact on the situation in the north.

With the massacres in Slovens and Klange before them, whether the Neren family started a war with the Samir people from the perspective of safeguarding their own honor, or from the perspective of appeasing the people under their rule, at least there were procedural issues. No problem.

At the same time, the current Count of Neren, Kames Neren, also grasped the scope and proportion of the war very well. He did not directly declare war on all Samir people, but pointed his sword at Albert and Joseph alone. The Samir clan, whose territory borders the village of Kelange, has made it clear from the beginning of the war that it only avenges the victims of the two massacres.

On the other hand, Kames Neren also imposed strict restrictions on his troops. In the more than a month since the war broke out, the soldiers and knights of the Neren family had only fought against the Samirs on the frontal battlefield, and had no choice. Bring the war to the heart of the Samir tribe.

In the treatment of prisoners, Count Neren strictly prohibited his subordinates from committing any ill-treatment, and also strictly ordered the army not to attack unarmed Samir civilians. Therefore, although local conflicts between the Neren family and the Samir people have broken out five times, with more than 300 casualties, both sides of the war still maintain basic sanity.

In other words, as of June 14, when the Helia family participated in the war, the war in the north was still relatively controllable. As long as both sides could negotiate a solution that they could both deal with regarding the two incidents of Slovens and Krongle. If the explanation is accepted, there is still the possibility of ceasefire negotiations.

Because of this, both the Northern Guard and Rodel generally have a positive attitude towards the actions of the Neren family, and Godwin himself also agreed with this - until Countess Glen Helia unilaterally announced it ten days ago. With the declaration of participation in the war, the dangerous balance that had been maintained in the North was suddenly shattered.

On June 14, Glen Helia publicly issued a statement against the 16 Samir clans in the territorial seat of Lannia City. In the statement, the two massacres of Slovens and Krong were blamed on all Samir clans. In a rebellion that had been planned for many years, the clan openly declared that the Samir, like the remnants of the giants, were destroyers of the Golden Order and must be eradicated.

On June 17, Northern Guard Ossarion Ovnir finally received the military intelligence report that the Helia family should have delivered three days ago. At the same time, the most elite Wolfhunter Knights of the Helia family They had already made a big circle, detoured back to the rear of the Milan clan, which had not participated in the war, and launched a surprise attack in the early morning of the 18th.

On June 18, the Milan clan, which was already at the bottom among the sixteen clans of Samir, was suddenly attacked. The temporarily organized resistance was shattered by the Wolf Hunter Knight, and what followed was a brutal pursuit. Escape and massacre.

The massacre lasted until the evening of the 19th. Three villages under the Milan clan were uprooted by the Celia family. The Wolf Hunters killed all living creatures in sight, and then chopped down the statues and flags in the villages and towns. Burn down all the houses and farmland in sight.

Finally, they cut off the limbs of the Milan clan patriarch and his family, injected incense, and nailed them to the flagpole at the entrance of the village. They also left an inscription on the stone tablet beside them, claiming that this was to repay the Kehir family of Slovens Town. Blood feud.

On the 21st, the six neutral Samir clans jointly declared a full-scale war against the Neren and Xilia clans. The other seven clans were also negotiating closely and deploying troops to prepare for war. The sparks that lasted for several months in the north finally turned into a prairie fire. .

On the 24th, when the intelligence personnel finally analyzed and summarized a military intelligence report with high enough credibility through various channels and presented it to Godwin, the northern guard Ossarian, who should have been the first to respond, has been There is still no news - the report from the governor's office may be on the way, or it may still be in the stomach of the governor.

Seeing his master's angry look, Weidam also suppressed deep anger in his heart. In terms of intelligence priority, Rhea Lucaria's movements were more important than a local battle in the north, so he also He chose to report on the situation in the Western Territory first.

However, considering the current intensifying trend of this battle and the possible consequences, the crisis in the Northern Territory is most likely to be much more serious than that in the Western Territory. Ossarion has made a huge mistake in just a few days.

"It is basically a certainty that all the fifteen remaining clans of Samir will join the war. Perhaps at this moment, the knights of Samir from the fifteen clans will have already entered the territory of the Xilia family. By then, the nearby Hein and Srol The De and Mosiah families are bound to be dragged into the flames of war," Godwin said. "In less than two months, this battle will evolve into a full-scale war between the northern nobles and the Samir people."

"This is not the end yet. The nobles in the north may not be the opponents of the Samir people who are coming out in force. What should we do then - should the garrison and the Flame Temple participate in the war? If these forces are used, it means that the war is beyond the limit. The scope of the nobles' personal behavior has risen to the dynasty's liquidation of the Samir clan. At that point, who can tell whether Poleleus on the frozen lake will take action, and what the remaining rebels in the north will do. ?”

"Ossarion, this complete waste!" Godwin slammed his fist on the table and cursed in a rare rage, "Don't he know that even if Duke Duolis is gone, his mother and His Majesty Radagon will not tolerate a man who lets the North go unchecked. Is the situation completely broken?"

Weidam hesitated for a moment, and after repeated thinking, he finally said: "Your Highness, I believe that no matter how short-sighted and ignorant the Marquis of Ossarian is, he will not be so bold as to condone the northern nobles to provoke and start a war, while at the same time not making any demands to the royal capital. In the case of any report, maybe the messenger from the garrison was just intercepted on the road by someone with ulterior motives."

"The important military information that guards the first level requires at least ten elite knights to escort, and more than three copies must be sent in a row. If you don't receive a reply, you should immediately investigate the reason. It is impossible that there is no news at all -" "Then the reason is There is only one kind left -" Weidam took a deep breath and said, "It is the kind that His Highness has been avoiding and does not want to think about deeply."

Godwin's whole body suddenly stagnated, and his boiling breath inevitably fell. He leaned back on his seat, feeling a sense of weakness penetrating into his heart for a moment.

Yes, of course there is only one reason left.

Ossarian would never have dared to make such a decision three years ago, nor would the new party's military nobles represented by Count Xelia be so radical as to be so arrogant.

Three years is enough to change a lot of things. For example, the struggle between the old and new parties that lasted for more than ten years in the Golden Dynasty has evolved from being able to maintain mutual checks and balances based on basic rules under the table to a life-and-death situation on the table.

The struggle between the goddess and the new king, which was once just a hint of a battle, has unknowingly entered a situation of incompatibility.

When Radagan himself showed an increasingly ruthless and decisive attitude when facing forces outside the gold system, this style spread from top to bottom to the entire dynasty.

Nowadays, even the Kaliya and Gurung dynasties have become "heresies" that fundamentalists dare to whisper, and aliens such as the Samir people who are not welcomed have become rotten parasites living under the golden tree in their eyes. Create cancer.

That's why Count Celia could pull out the butcher's knife so easily, so Ossarion stood at a higher level of vision and had already begun to choose to bet between God and the King.

Godwin believed that the information that could be put on his desk might have been put on the desks of his mother and Radagan earlier.

But they all responded with silence.

If Radagan acquiesced, what about the mother? After retreating again and again in the face of the New Party’s pressing pressure, did she finally choose to give up?

Godwin closed his eyes tiredly. He still remembered that when he was young, his mother had high hopes for him, hoping that he could become a greater hero than his father.

It's just that I don't know when his position gradually diverged from that of his mother. At that time, he wanted to practice his ideals with passion and prove to his mother that the path he chose could lead the world to a better place. In the future, he never noticed that his mother's eyes gradually became disappointed and distant, until they were filled with an indifference that made him feel strange and helpless.

In the final analysis, Radagan and the New Party chose war, while Ossarion chose the New Party.

As a result, even with his energy, he could not forcefully change the situation after it was established.

It now seems that compared to Radagan's behavior of just cultivating party members three years ago, my mother's willingness to defy all opinions and re-employ Duolis is the one who truly stands on the level of the eternal queen and contributes to the future of the dynasty and even the border area. effort.

With her support, Duolis could have brought a long-lasting peace to the North. However, the fruits of the bloody war in the past only lasted for three years, and were easily destroyed by the tide of the times.

Maybe the next time something breaks out in the far north ice sheet will be a storm that even he can't put out, right?

(End of this chapter)