After a great battle, EU and North America lost more than half of their forces. Apart from barely defending the current line of defense, they could no longer spare any troops to use force against Britannia. **Similarly, its own military strength is small, and after the loss of the war, Britannia's remaining combatable troops are less than half of the original, and it is impossible to mobilize more troops to launch an invasion. But neither side wanted to make things easier for the other, so after a few days of rest, both sides changed their strategies. They continued to engage in big battles and small battles. Intrusions and sneak attacks depleted each other's vitality as much as possible.

In this way, more than two months passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, the reinforcements sent from Britannia finally arrived at the North American front line, followed by the second prince of the empire.

"Welcome, Brother Schneizel." In the headquarters at the center of the base, Cornelia, as the owner, greeted the second prince of the empire, Schneizel el Brittania, who came with the army.

"Long time no see, Cornelia." Schneizel greeted Cornelia with a fake-looking smile.

"I don't know why I'm here this time..." Cornelia asked attentively while guiding Schneizel to a chair aside to sit down.

"The empire was shocked after receiving your battle report and decided to increase the use of troops against EU. Therefore, in addition to coming to read out the commendation to you as the temporary commander of the support force this time, I also served as the correspondent of His Majesty the Emperor to convey the message to you. Your Majesty's intention." Schneizel said gently.

"Oh?" Cornelia raised her eyebrows and looked at Schneizel with twinkling eyes. He is said to be a temporary commander, but who knows if he is here to seize power. You must know that both sides are each other's most powerful competitors in the fight for the throne. One side has outstanding military achievements, and the other side has outstanding political achievements. If possible, they would never let such a thing go. An opportunity to grab results. As for awards, as the princess who has the best chance of inheriting the throne, she doesn't pay attention to these things at all.

"I am only the temporary commander-in-chief. After reading out the commendation to you, I will step down as commander-in-chief and go directly to the Chinese Federation to formally propose marriage to the Chinese Federation Emperor Jiang Lihua for Brother Odysseus." Schneize You obviously also know what Cornelia's "oh" means. He said in a warm voice with a smile on his face.

"Really, that was really busy." Cornelia relaxed and said with a smile.

"Yeah..." Schneizel responded.

Then the two started chatting in the command room. After a while. At the reminder of Schneizel's herald, Schneizel stood up from his seat with a serious look on his face and read out the commendation order to the senior military officials standing in the command room.

"... I wish you all good luck in martial arts." Schneizel said at the end of the commendation.

"All hall charles!" All the officers shouted in unison immediately after the commendation was read out.

"Then I'll take my leave. I look forward to hearing about your triumphant return, Cornelia." Schneizel said to Cornelia.

"I wish you a safe journey, Brother Schneizel." Cornelia replied.

Then, accompanied by Cornelia, Schneizel boarded the large transport plane parked in the Central Square amid a roar. The plane slowly rose from the square, changed its direction in mid-air, and then flew quickly to the east. \u003chness" The officers collectively gave a military salute to Cornelia, turned back to their respective posts, and began to organize the new reinforcements.

At this time, only Cornelia, Cornelia's knight Guilford, and Ito Cheng were left in the square. At this time, Ito Cheng said, "That guy is very dangerous."

"Huh?" Cornelia raised her eyebrows, and her inquiring eyes fell on Ito Cheng who was speaking.

"The smile is fake. The eyes are calm. There have been no mood swings since I saw you. Every action seems to have been thought through. It is absolutely in line with the current environment. He is an extremely rational person. And it can be seen that he is very scheming. He has a very accurate grasp of the emotions and psychology of the people around him, and he can easily win the favor of strangers and take advantage of them. This kind of person is quite scary." Ito Cheng looked towards the east, as if he could still see the people on the plane. Schneizel is average. He said calmly.

"You can observe carefully." Cornelia said, "That's why he is my biggest competitor on the road to the throne."

"It's a pity that I don't see much chance of winning from you." Ito Cheng said without mercy.

"Really?" Cornelia said unmoved.

"Yes." Ito Cheng nodded and said, "Compared to Schneizel who sits at the center, although you have outstanding military achievements in fighting everywhere, your management in the upper echelons of the empire is completely inferior to Schneizel. And just xing Personally speaking, although you can win the support of upright hawks if you are strong-willed, Schneizel, who is also not thoughtful and always gives people a gentle image, is more likely to win the favor of the nobles. At least the corrupt nobles will not have to I'm worried that Schneizel will attack them after he ascends the throne."

"According to what you said, I seem to have no chance of winning." Cornelia said lightly.

"If you are determined, it is not impossible." Ito Chengdao.

"How?" Cornelia asked.

"Seize power by force and force the position through military force." Ito Cheng said simply and neatly.

"I now have some doubts about whether you want to provoke civil strife in the empire." Cornelia turned around and stared into Ito Cheng's eyes. At the same time, Guilford, who was on the side, put his hand on the sword beside him very cooperatively and stared at Ito Cheng with a wary expression.

"Whatever you think." Ito Cheng shrugged and said, "I'm just telling you what I observed. After all, you are my collaborator. I can only get more if you climb higher, right?"

"Humph." Cornelia snorted coldly upon hearing this, turned around and walked back to the command room.

"If you don't want to engage in a coup, you can actually assassinate me." Ito Cheng followed Cornelia and said with a smile. Unfortunately, Cornelia completely ignored Ito Cheng's intention and walked into the command room expressionlessly. She stood in front of the re-made military sand table in the center of the room and thought about the following strategy.

Seeing this, Ito Cheng curled his lips in boredom, walked to Cornelia's high-backed chair and sat down on his own, staring at Cornelia admiring her leisurely expression as she exuded a different kind of charm in her thoughts. got up.

Three days later, Cornelia's troops were reorganized. At noon that day, Cornelia summoned all the senior officers and arranged tasks around the sand table in the command room. That same night, Cornelia and Her Guards Knights led the troops into several groups, took advantage of the night and rushed out of the base, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

After a period of rapid march, the troops dispersed into dozens of teams all arrived at the designated location in the early morning. After resting for more than an hour, at Cornelia's "attack" command, they quickly launched an attack towards the EU joint defense forces.

Completely unprepared, the EU coalition forces caught up with them and were depleted. They were caught off guard by Cornelia's sudden attack. Until the end of the battle, the EU coalition forces failed to organize an effective counterattack and had no choice but to lose. The lower line of defense led the defeated army to move to the next line of defense.

But with Cornelia's character, how could she attack only one line of defense after a sneak attack? Therefore, when these defeated troops arrived at another line of defense, they did not get the rest they imagined, and were once again attacked like wolves and tigers. After the Litanian troops swallowed up some of the soldiers, they had to mix in the newly joined defeated troops and continue to move.

In this way, EU United's defense line lost five to Britannia's attack overnight. When they came back to prepare for the counterattack the next morning, they had already prepared defense fortifications and arranged the defense line. The Brittanian army once again gave these EU tired troops a head-on attack. After leaving behind more than a hundred EU robots and a small number of armored troops, they reluctantly retreated back, handing over these five lines of defense. To the Brittanian army.

The next situation completely entered the rhythm of Britannia or Cornelia. With the cooperation of Cornelia's tactics of sneak attacks, harassment, storming, or destruction, in two months, eu Fully half of the joint North American defense line was lost. The loss of large areas of land and the increasingly serious rebellion in EU forced the EU leaders to consider peace talks with Britannia to temporarily end the war and reduce the rebellion in the country. Suppress it.

But Britannia, as the party with immediate benefits, did not want to simply enter the negotiation process. After delaying it for more than a month, under the threat of the EU preparing to launch a full-scale war with Britannia, The Britannian military headquarters finally issued an order for a truce and peace talks. As for the subsequent wrangling of negotiations, it has nothing to do with Cornelia.

At this time, Cornelia, who had resigned from the position of frontline commander, led several Guards knights such as Ito Cheng and Guilford to fly to the empire on a plane.

As Yi Tengcheng who had been accompanying the army during Cornelia's battle, in addition to obtaining the rich soul energy that permeated the entire battlefield, he also selected 15,000 people of suitable age from the people in the war-torn area as The slaves were taken into the Rubik's Cube world. After building houses for them and providing them with the initial living supplies, they were all handed over to Rena Ito and asked her to be responsible for arranging their farming work...

"I can finally see Yuffie." At this time, Cornelia, who was sitting on the plane flying to the capital of the Britannia Empire, looked out the window and admired the leisurely white clouds, said with longing.

"Have you thought about it? Do you want me to help you get rid of Schneizel when you return to the empire?" Ito Cheng, who was sitting next to Cornelia, interrupted Cornelia's thoughts and asked.

"No need." Cornelia said calmly. Cornelia, who has seen how Ito Cheng wiped out fifteen thousand slaves, is increasingly grateful for her choice and agreed to trade with Ito Cheng, so now she is more and more concerned about Ito Cheng's remarks that can easily make people angry. It's becoming more tolerable.

"Forget it, but how are you doing with the people I asked you to investigate?" Ito Cheng asked. (To be continued...)

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