Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 205 Preparing for Negotiations
After the Datang Empire issued large-value banknotes and new small-value banknotes, the financial pressure on the Datang Empire was immediately relieved, and the countries of the Seven-Nation Alliance, after learning that the Datang Empire had successfully issued banknotes, immediately distributed them to the Sharad Empire. A meeting between the seven nations was held in Fenny, the capital of the city.

The meeting was chaired by Shulik, Prime Minister of the Sharad Empire. The representatives of the other six countries participating in the meeting were all ambassadors to the Sharad Empire.

At nine o'clock in the morning on June 3014, [-] in the Tang Dynasty, the meeting was held as scheduled in the Prime Minister's Office in Feni City. As soon as the meeting started, Shulik, the Prime Minister of the Sharad Empire, said in a deep voice to the representatives of the other six countries: " Everyone is well aware of the current situation of this war, especially after the Great Tang Empire has successfully issued banknotes, it will become more difficult for our Seven Kingdoms Alliance to defeat the Great Tang Empire, so our Sharad Empire proposes to cooperate with The Great Tang Empire started truce negotiations to end this war with no end in sight."

The words of Shulik, Prime Minister of the Sharad Empire, did not cause much reaction from the representatives of the other six countries. Before this meeting, the Sharad Empire had already revealed to the other six countries of the Seven-Nation Alliance that they hoped to end the war as soon as possible. Ideas, while the representatives of the other six countries have already received domestic instructions.

According to the original agreement when the Seven Nations Alliance was formed, the Sharad Empire was designated as the Western Theater, and the military command of the Western Theater also fell into the hands of the Sharad Empire, but it fell into the hands of the Sharad Empire along with the command. Yes, there is also the obligation to guarantee the logistics of the armies of the countries in the Sharad Empire.

In other words, the Sharad Empire not only needs to be responsible for the logistics supplies of more than 1000 million army troops on the front line of the country, but also needs to bear most of the logistics supplies of the more than 1000 million Inroba Army and Noomi Army on the front line. The Omi Empire, if it wants to transport supplies to the eastern front of the Sharad Empire, it needs to go through a long railway transportation, and it can only rely on the Sharad Empire to provide most of the supplies, which makes the Sharad Empire suffer. Considerable logistical pressure.

The Sharad Empire has done its best to protect the three-nation army with more than 800 million troops on the front line, but problems of one kind or another still arise.

At the beginning of June, due to logistical problems, armed conflicts occurred between the Sharad Army on the front line, the Inroba Army, and the Noomi Army, and even the armies of the three countries suffered a lot of casualties.

Immediately, on the front line in the eastern part of the Sharad Empire, hundreds of thousands of armies of the three countries confronted each other, and an internal strife between the armies of the three countries almost broke out.

Although in the end, after the coordination among the three countries, this infighting did not take place, but it made the relationship between the frontline armies of the three countries very tense.

The conflict between the armies of the three countries immediately exposed the contradictions among the three kingdoms of Yingluoba, Sharad, and Noomi, so that the emperor of the Sharad Empire, Herris, could not help but germinate the idea of ​​​​ending the war with the Datang Empire. , and the success of the Tang Empire in issuing banknotes further strengthened the idea of ​​the Sharad Empire Emperor Heris.

What's more, the armies of Sharad, Yingluoba, and Noomi have been unable to break through the border defense line of the Tang Empire for a long time, which has turned this war into a brutal positional warfare. Voices calling for an end to the war have already appeared in the Sharad Empire.

In addition, the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire cut off the maritime trade of the Sharad Empire, which also had a great impact on the economy of the Sharad Empire. It reduced the finances of the Sharad Empire by a large amount of income, and the pressure on military expenditures increased. .

Originally, the share of the Sharad Empire in maritime trade was only second to that of the British Empire, and it could be said to be the second largest maritime trade power in the world.

The combination of the above situations made Herris, the emperor of the Sharad Empire, finally put his own ideas into action, and only then did this meeting between the Seven Kingdoms Alliance take place.

The ambassador of the British Empire to the Sharad Empire sighed and said: "Although I don't want to admit it, it is indeed very difficult for our seven-nation alliance to win this war. If we can end this war with the Tang Empire Well, I'm afraid that the Tang Empire will propose some harsh truce conditions."

The breaking-off fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire had the greatest impact on the British Empire. It must be known that almost a quarter of the annual financial revenue of the British Empire came from customs duties. The maritime trade of the Roba Empire not only cut off the customs revenue of the Anglo-Pa Empire, but also affected all aspects of the Anglo-Pa Empire.

After learning that the Sharad Empire had the idea of ​​ending the war, Penelope, the emperor of the Inlob Empire, decided to agree to end the war with the Tang Empire after discussing with Prime Minister August and other ministers. The Inaba Royal Navy creates time to recuperate.

Shulik, Prime Minister of the Sharad Empire, immediately said: "Although the navy of the Datang Empire currently has an advantage at sea, on land, the army of our Seven Nations Alliance and the army of the Datang Empire are still in a stalemate. There is nothing we can do about it, the Great Tang Empire does not have the capital to speak loudly, if the terms of the armistice proposed by the Great Tang Empire cannot be accepted by the Seven Nations Alliance, then we can only continue this war with the Great Tang Empire."

The ambassador of the Orenza Empire to the Sharad Empire said loudly: "Our Orenza Empire agrees to negotiate a truce with the Datang Empire. Now this kind of positional warfare is a huge waste for both sides of the war. Presumably the Datang Empire is not I am willing to continue fighting with our seven-nation alliance."

The ambassador of the Gysk Empire to the Sharad Empire followed up and said: "Our Gysk Empire also agreed to negotiate a truce with the Tang Empire. If we look at the current positional warfare, this war may not be over for a few more years. "

The Orensa Empire and the Jisk Empire now need to face the army of the Tang Empire on their own borders. The pressure is much greater than that of the other five countries, so the Orensa Empire and the Jisk Empire have long wanted to end this war. A war with the Tang Empire began.

The ambassador of the Monia Empire to the Sharad Empire sighed and said: "Now the navy of the Tang Empire has seized the command of the sea, so that our Monia Empire has tens of millions of troops, but we cannot join the western and southern battlefields. The Monia Empire also agrees with the truce negotiations."

Then the ambassador of the Rielland Empire to the Sharad Empire also nodded and said: "Our Rielland Empire has no objections either."

At this time, the ambassador of the Noomi Empire to the Sharad Empire frowned and said: "Everyone, the Tang Empire has annexed the Liuyun Empire, the Sky Star Empire and the Ziyue Empire one after another. The land area even exceeds 700 million square kilometers, and the population It has even reached 50 billion, if our seven-nation alliance admits defeat this time, it will be more difficult to restrict the development of the Tang Empire in the future, and the Tang Empire will completely destroy the order of our white world."

Shulik, Prime Minister of the Sharad Empire, shook his head and said: "It is precisely because the Tang Empire is so powerful at this time, so even if our Seven Nations Alliance continues to fight this war, it will be difficult to completely defeat the Tang Empire in the end. If it is not good, it will be a lose-lose situation, and if the current situation continues, I am worried that it will be our seven-nation alliance that will not be able to persist in the end."

The meeting of the Alliance of Seven Nations held in Feni, the capital of the Sharad Empire, ended after only one morning. The seven countries agreed to negotiate a truce with the Datang Empire. The Tang Empire expressed its hope to start truce negotiations to end the war.

On the afternoon of June 3014rd, 23 in the Tang Dynasty, in the Xiande Hall of the Imperial Palace in Chang'an City, Su Yi asked more than a dozen military and political ministers of the Tang Empire: "What do you think about the fact that the Seven Kingdoms Alliance wants to negotiate a truce with our Tang Empire?" look?"

As soon as Su Yi finished speaking, Wang Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy of the Great Tang Empire, said, "Your Majesty, I think you can talk about it. At present, our Great Tang Empire can be said to have an advantage in this war. Even if it is a negotiation, we The Great Tang Empire also participated as a victor, and through this war, our Great Tang Empire merged with the other three major powers in the Eastern Continent, making our Great Tang Empire the number one military power in the world, with the largest land area, The country with the largest population, our Tang Empire has already earned enough from this war."

He Yunfei, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire, said afterwards: "Your Majesty, I also feel that it is not necessary to talk about it. Now the three battlefields on land have been in a stalemate. Our Royal Army has tried to launch some attacks. Even Some newly equipped medium tanks were also dispatched, but the offensive effect was not great, and if this war continues, these three battlefields are likely to evolve into a longer war of attrition."

The medium tank that He Yunfei mentioned refers to the Matilda 17 tank obtained by Su Yi through upgrading the Renault FT-2 light tank. This tank with a total combat weight of 26.9 tons was adopted by the Royal Army of the Great Tang Empire. Classified as a medium tank.

Cabinet Prime Minister Xu Haoming hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, since our Tang Empire has no plans to cede land to those seven countries, we might as well take this opportunity to end this war with the Seven Nations Alliance. In this way, Our Datang Empire can invest more funds and materials in economic construction."

In fact, in Su Yi's heart, he is not willing to start the armistice negotiation with the seven-nation alliance now. Su Yi hopes to use this war to completely defeat the seven-nation alliance and make the Tang Empire the only hegemon in the world.

However, the Seven Nations Alliance is after all a veteran power. The seven countries combined cannot be easily defeated by the Tang Empire. For example, the combined army of these seven countries is even more than the 800 Royal Army of the Tang Empire. There were more than [-] people, and the combat effectiveness of the armies of these seven countries was not weak. On the three land battlefields, the Royal Army of the Tang Empire was forced into a battle of exhaustion.

Su Yi also had to admit that it was almost impossible to completely defeat the Seven-Nation Alliance. The war between the Tang Empire and the Seven-Nation Alliance could only be ended through armistice negotiations.

Su Yi sighed and said: "Although the three battlefields on land have been in a stalemate, every day the three battlefields add up to thousands of casualties, and the number of casualties in a month may be as high as If it reaches 10 people, even if our Royal Army can bear this kind of consumption, I really don’t want to continue fighting, so let’s talk to the Seven Nations Alliance!”

The next morning, in a mansion in Chang'an City, a 28-year-old young man said to a middle-aged officer wearing a gray-green military uniform in a deep voice: "I have learned from my father that Su Yi is going to Armistice negotiations with the Seven Nations."

The gray-green military uniform is the combat uniform of the Royal Army of the Great Tang Empire, and according to the nameplate worn on the chest of this middle-aged officer, it can be determined that this middle-aged officer is a regiment-level officer of the Royal Army of the Great Tang Empire.

The eyes of the middle-aged officer brightened, "Master, can we prepare to do it?"

The young man hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's wait until the armistice agreement is formally signed with the Seven Nations Alliance, and then we will look for opportunities to do it!"

The middle-aged officer smiled wryly and said, "Master, those members of the Military Intelligence Bureau have been acting like crazy dogs recently, causing us to lose a lot of peripheral personnel, and even a few core personnel, because they were implicated by the peripheral personnel, they had to Silenced by our own people."

The young man sighed and said: "Remember the list of victims. When we finally succeed, we must provide the most generous compensation to the families of these victims. If this war with the Seven Nations Alliance is not over, we will definitely You can't do anything to Su Yi, once Su Yi dies, it will be cheaper for the Seven Nations Alliance."

The middle-aged officer hesitated and asked, "Master, can you continue to operate and transfer more of our people into Chang'an City? There are not many First Guards Division and First Field Division stationed in Chang'an City at present." Our men, especially the [-]st Guards Division, not even one of our men."

The young man shook his head and said, "It's no different than it was in the Ziyue Empire. Our foundation in the Royal Army of the Tang Empire is very shallow. It's not that we can transfer people just by transferring people. What's more, our current goal is just to get rid of Su Yi. There is no need to use military power at all, and we don't have many troops at the moment."

"Master, in fact, the power in our hands is not weak, why not put all your eggs in one basket and take a chance?"

"Alas—although we have contacted many nobles from the four kingdoms of Yuan Cangyu, Liuyun, Tianxing, and Ziyue, these nobles no longer have a regular army in their hands, and we cannot estimate how much power they can put out. The number of troops that can really be controlled here is really too small, let's figure it out slowly!"

(End of this chapter)