Chapter 129 Independent Southern Province

The plan to hunt down the muse failed, and nothing was achieved except killing several servants and killers. Arnold suddenly found that his conjecture was wrong, but it was too late. The plan to send troops to North Dofoss Province for early repression eventually died with a series of developments.

Because immediately after that, the news of Arnold's collapse came one after another:

In the year of creation of the gods, 36181, on January 1 of the sacred empire calendar, 1576, on the same day of the new year, Luolei, the southern province, declared its independence and established the Principality of Luolei. The highest executive and the highest military governor of Luolei Province handed over power without resistance, and the southern independence movement began.

Only 5 days later, Lomec Province, which borders the Elf Forest, declared its independence and established its capital as Romer and established the Duchy of Lomec. The only local prince nobleman killed the commander of the local army and controlled the army. The highest power of the province was handed over by the chief priest in exchange for his own life and his family.

Seven days later, while Belo Province declared its independence, Faria Province also declared its independence, expelling the political institution composed of clergy, led by the local prestigious nobles, and establishing the Duchy of Bello and the Duchy of Faria.

Only another day later, the Muse established the Southern City-States Association with the support of North Dorfos, Southern Dorfoss and Buck. He announced that he would accept the participation of any principality and fight against the possible invasion of the Holy Empire. This so-called city-state union is a loose alliance system, not unification, so it has been recognized and supported by many people.

Two days later, the Antarctic Province declared its independence and joined the Southern City-States Confederation, claiming to be the Principality of Antarctica. In this way, the influence of the southern city-states crossed the Dorfos River and reached the west bank of the Dorfoss River. York, the supreme leader of the regime of the Antarctic Principality, became the actual leader of the Antarctic Principality.

Subsequently, Faria and Belo and other independent principality joined the so-called southern city-state federation one after another, but they were not controlled by the muse. In this way, the Holy Empire ended its thousand-year rule in the southern provinces and completely lost its vast territory in the south.

Historically, several provinces that are completely subordinate to the mues are called southeast city-states, while the rest of the principality that almost do not obey any decision of the muuse is called the southwest city-state. This differentiation has led to a seemingly huge area, and many southern city-states in the provinces are actually scattered and do not have much combat effectiveness.

The Holy Empire had 48 provinces in its heyday, and now the actual control area does not exceed 10 provinces. No one can stop the fact that the Holy Empire has collapsed.

The current senior officials of the Holy Empire seem to have no other means of venting except anger, abuse and slapping the table. The only two forces in their hands are the newly formed seven legions in the north equipped with 50,000 strong crossbows produced by Rome Island, and more than 200,000 in Leon Barton's hands that have been south. The main force trained by the war.

Let our camera continue to go south, across the wider southern sea and come to Rome Island, where Arcado is located.

Yu Qianjun, a counselor with several reports, is reporting his trip to the southern city-states to Arcado. He is very proud at this moment, because through his operation, the southern city-states have finally fallen into a state of division, and Yu Qiansan's strategic plan has completed the first step.

"Your Excellency Arcado, up to now, the southern provinces have been divided into many countries with the secretly support of us and the Eternal Night Empire. Rome's eagle plan is very smooth at present, and now we can carry out our next plan." Yu Qian said confidently.

With his long black hair tied behind his head, Arcado looked at the counselor Yu Qianqian in front of him. Very good. It seems that the Eternal Night Empire should be holding a celebration banquet at this moment. They obviously don't realize the existence of our Romai. They do not seek higher-level cooperation except for buying weapons. This seems to be the negligence of their intelligence department. I'm glad that I don't want to appear on the stage of history so early, Yu Sir, according to the next plan, I will stop the joint footsteps of the southern city-states and send people to lobby to tell the principalates that if they obey the mues, they will lose their throne. Aka squinted and smiled. His slender eyes narrowed into a beautiful thin line at this moment, which made people unable to see his eyes clearly.

As expected by Arcado, the Eternal Night Empire was holding a grand celebration banquet. The ill-presperate emperor Ye Qiong personally presided over the award ceremony at the banquet to commend those who had made great contributions to the division of the southern province.

Out of exaggeration of their meritorious service, these awardees did not mention Rome Island's contribution to this matter at all, but took great credit to themselves, which made the Eternal Night Empire not pay due attention to the rising Rome Island, but at this moment of victory, who would have thought of such a boring What about the topic?

At this moment, the muuse was not idle. He ordered his loyal generals to lead the army to attack in the direction of Gustav's fortress under the supervision of the divine killer. Muse's idea was very simple. If he was lucky, he could take Gustav's fortress. If he was unlucky, he could also force Leon Barton's army to retreat. , leave enough safe space for yourself.

The number of troops of the Holy Empire responsible for the defense of the southern city-states is small, and most of them are recruits, so their combat effectiveness is limited. This battle is similar to a race from the beginning. The defenders of the Holy Empire run to Gustav Fortress, and the southern city-states who want to annihilate these sacred empire defenders desperately pursue them.

Soon, most of Gustav Province was lost, and the defenders of the Holy Empire shrank around Gustav Fortress, and the army of the southern city-states also advanced nearby. The two sides confronted each other. Another army led by Muse himself fought with the same sword as Archbishop Leon Barton's troops at his door. Ben Leon Barton was capable of defeating the Muse, but Leon Barton's army was sandwiched between the Green Dragon Army and the Muse's troops of the Eternal Night Empire, and did not dare to fight a decisive battle. Then came the news of Gustav Fortress. Leon Barton's army, which had dominated over the Muse, had to retreat to get rid of it. The dilemma.

Just as Leon Barton slowly retreated, he received the highest order from the Pope's Office of the Holy Empire, ordering him to return to Cayar to protect Gustav Fortress.