Tomorrow's Ark is too real

Chapter 1073 The Battle at the End of the East
Huoyu Xiafeng is a person who is not threatened, and has been like this since the establishment of Heiyu.

In Victoria's most chaotic period, he never compromised because of any threats, because he understood a truth.

If you look forward and backward due to threats, you may lose more because of it.

His character and behavior have always been like this, and perhaps some choices seem stupid, even suicidal.

But it was precisely because of this that he was able to survive all the way until now.

Like a person blocked by a snow mountain in a bitter cold place.

If you want to cross the snow mountain, you have to bear the harsher natural environment and face the risk of being trapped on the mountain by a snowstorm.

If you choose to stagnate, willing to live a life of cold and hunger at the foot of the snow mountain, you don't have to take this risk.

How would you choose?
In fact, there is no right or wrong choice between these two choices, it just varies from person to person.

The former obtains high risks and high returns, while the latter seeks stability and earns a living.

If crossing the snow-capped mountain goes smoothly and you find the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss on the other side of the snow-capped mountain, then the first choice is correct.

If you encounter an accident and are submerged by a storm while crossing the snow mountain, then the second choice is correct.

However, what Xia Feng is facing now is not such a simple multiple-choice question.

The snow mountain in front of him at this moment is not static, but an avalanche that will destroy everything is about to happen.

Even the foot of the mountain is not a safe place.

That's right, no matter whether he faces Ying Wulan or not, he has to bear the risk, the difference is that it directly affects himself or others.

That being the case, Huoyu Xiafeng's answer is obvious.

He doesn't want to die, but he is not afraid of death. He has always firmly believed that only with the courage to face death can he put himself to death and survive.

Are black and white twins very strong, no.

To put it bluntly, it is just the user's weapon, and the weapon is just a tool that can be mobilized according to the user's mind.

A truly strong person is one who is free from any threats, is not bound by any factors, and has no weaknesses in body or mind. This is the real strength.

Of course, he pretends that he has not yet reached such a state, nor is he an unparalleled powerhouse.

But at least this time, Huoyu Xiafeng gritted his teeth and wanted to pretend, otherwise, he would never be able to defeat Ying Wulan who was willing to give up everything.

In this way, Xia Feng came to the mansion of the Nishinomiya family.

As the rear of the attacker, it is theoretically very safe in a short period of time.

In the next few days, while staying in the mansion, he received battle reports from the front line one after another. Unsurprisingly, the entire East Continent turned into a chaotic battlefield.

Victoria's military operation this time was held high in the name of crusade. In order to demonstrate national strength and play the role of "killing chickens to warn monkeys", the imposing Central Army did not even accept surrender.

The only principle of the Central Army is not to massacre civilians.

Under the perfect coordinated operation of various arms, the army attacking from three directions at the same time is like three steel giant dragons, easily tearing through the defense line of the Sakura Takeshi family at the border without any suspense.

Of course, the Sakura Takeshi family had no intention of surrendering in the face of such a terrifying Victoria Army.

Facing the sudden pressure of the army, Patriarch Yingwu Shanxiong responded fiercely after being caught off guard for a short time.

The "ghost army" that had been encircled and suppressed for several days before was at the end of its battle, and was forced into the deep mountains and could not move.

After a brief decision, Sakuratake Yamao resolutely gave up the army to enter the mountain to encircle and suppress, and chose to leave a 5000-strong army to continue the confrontation. The rest of them immediately returned to the front line to intercept the Victoria Army.

This time it was no longer Dongzhou's attack on Xichuan, but Xichuan's direction was mainly to rely on foreign aid to fight against the enemy. Under the huge pressure of the family's survival, Yingwu Shanxiong no longer cared about anything.

Under the death order of the Patriarch, the entire East Continent entered a state of forced conscription during wartime.

Regardless of age, all the males in Dongzhou, as long as they can hold a knife, must obey orders and gather to join the battlefield!

In addition, except for breastfeeding women and bedridden patients in every household, all Dongzhou people must obey their fate to send food and grass.

In this way, under the death order of the Patriarch, the entire Dongzhou was forcibly turned into a real soldier.

All the people are soldiers. This situation has long been expected by the Victoria Army.

However, the commanders of the Central Army did not expect the people of Dongzhou to execute such extreme orders so quickly.

In the early days of the crusade, the first batch of six divisions of the Central Army that arrived in Dongguo had only 6 people. When the troops were divided into three groups, each army was only 12.

However, Dongzhou had 40 troops returning from the inland to the front line, and following the frenzied conscription order of the Patriarch, a steady stream of militiamen entered the battlefield from all directions.

These forcibly recruited soldiers have not received any training, and they are not even fully equipped with weapons. Some are holding long guns, some are holding wooden sticks, and even hatchets and stones.

Moreover, half-grown children and elderly people were mixed in the ranks, which made it impossible for the attacking Central Army to tell whether they were facing civilians or not.

War is cruel and ugly.

During the attack, sometimes the villages passing by rose up to resist. After a bloody battle, the samurai seemed to have been killed, but those who looked like civilians rushed over the second the soldiers put down their weapons.

As long as there is a samurai alive in the crowd, in the eyes of Dongguo people with deep-rooted class ideology, all civilians will obey orders and take up arms.

In this way, the real and cruel crusade began.

Burning villages, muddy land, streams of blood, corpses everywhere.

From the east of the border, this bloody and cruel picture fills every corner of this land.

Gradually, the concepts of justice and evil become blurred in the conflict of positions, and the beliefs of crusade and protection become confused in the killing.

From the subjective perspective of everyone in this war, they have the power to support their actions.

There is nothing wrong with the central army, they are just the Yingwu family who committed crimes in their own country before they were ordered to crusade.

There is nothing wrong with the Dongzhou people, they are just obeying the order of the Patriarch to protect their homeland.

The Yingwu family is not wrong either. In the face of life and death, they have to do whatever it takes to survive, because in the land of the Eastern Kingdom, not only them, but also the rulers of all dynasties.

However, the complicated and confusing battle situation soon became clear, and the scale of victory and defeat began to gradually become unbalanced in the gap between "advanced" and "backward".

Sophisticated equipment, perfect medical treatment, efficient communication, and military command that is accurate enough to look at the battlefield have enabled the Central Army to regain the state that an ace division should have.

The mission of crusade for the country finally defeated the guilt of massacre.

Once upon a time, a similar dark picture happened in their country.

And what they are doing now is to use the weapons in their hands to completely end that heavy history.

Facing the fierce offensive of the Victoria Army, Yamao Sakuratake was on the verge of collapse.

The Sakura Takeshi family has an army of 40. Even if they failed to hold the line of defense for some reason in the early stage, the subsequent emergency mobilization did not commit a theoretically irreparable disadvantage.

Moreover, the Sakura Takeshi family is fighting in the local area, and is very familiar with the Dongzhou environment.

According to the investigation of intelligence personnel, although the enemy army looks fierce, its number is only more than [-].

Occupying the numerical advantage and the home field advantage, the generals of the family should withstand the pressure and wipe out all the invading enemies in their positions.

But a week has passed.

There was no good news from the front line, only the news that the various units were defeated due to loss, and several generals died in heroic battles.

"Trash, it's all trash!"

No matter how Sakuratake Yamao yelled, the trend of defeat could not be reversed.

Just like a dam against floods, as long as a gap is opened, it cannot be stopped.

Ten days after the start of the Victoria Central Army's all-out crusade against Dongzhou, a heavier external force fell on the struggling Sakura Takeshi.

On the south coast of Xichuan, the allies of Sami and Sargon have arrived.

Arriving with the coalition forces, there is also the second batch of landing troops of the Victoria Central Army, a total of 15 troops.

So far, nearly 30 crusaders have set foot on the land of the Eastern Kingdom.

The new force joined the battlefield, and the exhausted combat power of the Central Army was once again raised to its peak state. Finally, the mob of the Sakurabu family, a mixed army of soldiers and civilians, could no longer rely on the so-called samurai spirit to contend.

Inch after inch of land was given up, one city after another was captured, and what was lost was not only the position, but also the most important supplies.

The land run over by the army was strewn with corpses, and the shocking scene was unbearable to look at directly. Even the generals of the Central Army who had experienced many battles were still pale.

However, the pace of attack will not stop because of this.

They can only blindly believe that the way forward is to stop this war completely.

In the deep winter of 1094 in the Terran calendar.

In Dongguo, which was once forgotten in a corner by all countries in the world, a battle has erupted that has attracted the attention of the whole world.

This unequal war waged by the Central Army of the Victorian Empire was called the [Eastern End War] by later generations, which means the final end of the Eastern Kingdom.

A few years later, a famous Victorian historian wrote this in his book "Afterword to the Dark Ages".

[The explosive rise of Origin Stone technology has brought huge advantages to the countries that took the lead in mastering the essence of this development, and those countries that are self-proclaimed and have outdated rulers are destined to be ruthlessly run over by the wheels of history. Victoria’s The crusade is just an accident in necessity.No one can stop the trajectory of civilization development. This is an irresistible powerful driving force. For the dead soldiers, this may be a tragedy, but for the people in the Eastern Kingdom and future generations, This is a blessing.The last winter of 1094 in the Terra calendar is destined to be recorded in history, because it is the last trace of the Eastern Kingdom in the Terra world. When the old year is over and the cherry blossoms bloom again, there will be no Eastern Kingdom in the world. 】

(End of this chapter)