The Lin family was a famous family in the Ghana Empire. The ancestor Lin Liefeng was one of the seven generals who supported Romanov to proclaim himself emperor. In return, the Lin family received Akinia, a prosperous territory in the southern part of the empire.

At that time, Akinia under the rule of the Lin family had a population of 1.2 million, and was allowed to form a standing army of 7,000 people. The annual tax amount was as high as tens of millions of silver coins. As gratitude, the Lin family always maintained its infinite loyalty to the Kojing Empire, but all this was broken by Romanov III.

As the most wise monarch in the history of the Ghana Empire, Romanov III, while opening up strong lands and reforming the imperial political system, also continuously weakened the power of the domestic princes, and the Lin family was the first to be affected.

In an unfair gambling called "the biggest bet in history", Lin Hantian, the head of the Lin family, lost the wealthy Akinia. As compensation, he obtained the harsh Rhodes County. Rhodes County, located in the north of the empire, had a population of only 230,000, with taxes of less than 2 million silver coins. The number of permanent troops of the princes was also reduced to 1,000.

Despite the opposition within the family, Lin Hantian, who was called a prodigal son, showed his loyalty to the empire. Under the surveillance of the Imperial Army, the entire Lin family moved to Rhodes County, but the Lin family's loyalty to the empire has begun to shake.

Eighty-seven years later, history repeats itself, but this time the greedy Romanov VI was even more exaggerated, replacing the Rhodes County, which was so hard-workingly run by the Lin family. The Lin family embarked on the way to Milanco with resentment towards the empire.

The old head of the family died on the way, and the young daughter of the head of the family, Lin Xiaohui, was hurriedly made her head. The Lin family, who was forced to come to the snowy land, built the desolate Milanko Plain with resentment.

The Milanco Plain is located in Buzhou Mountain, the Arctic Mountains, the west is Rode County, the east is the sea, and the Kunak continent is across the sea. In the south, Dagbis, except for a few areas close to Gbis in the south, most of which are covered with ice and snow, and the snow is not melted all year round. The area accounts for one-fifth of the Ghana Empire, but the population is only 20,000. Even if Dagasso resurrected and spent decades to build, he could only build a few towns on the Milanco Plain.

But a miracle happened. The Lin family discovered a gold mine with amazing storage in the Dagalo Mountains in central Milanco. People who were hoping to make a fortune rushed into Milanco. The lizard people from the Kunak continent even burned and killed and looted after landing, doing all kinds of evil.

The Lin family, which had only two hundred permanent troops, had no choice but to seek help from the mercenaries with resentment and suspicion of the empire. Tens of thousands of mercenaries came to Milanko under the banner of the Northern United Mercenary Group. At first, they played a great role in maintaining public order and eliminating the lizard men. However, later, the mercenaries gradually formed their own power and even threatened the rule of the Lin family. Some even wanted to collude with the lizard men and attempt to establish their own mercenary kingdom.

Lin Xiaohui expanded his army under this situation. Soon the civil war broke out in Milanco. Three thousand Lin's army opposed 7,000 mercenaries. In addition, the Lizardmen also added reinforcements of tens of thousands of people from the local area.

In the Lin family army, a Guantao named Bai Yunhang made great contributions. He led three infantry teams to surprise attack a mercenary unit of thousands of people. Hundreds of mercenaries were killed in battle, hundreds of people were captured, and the rest were disintegrated. The battle situation on the other fronts also entered a stalemate.

Seven months later, when the Lizardmen's transfer army arrived, the two sides launched an unprecedented battle in Milanko's history, known in history as "Milanko's Bloody Moon". A mixed alliance that the Lin family temporarily expanded, with more than 4,000 people. Faced with a coalition of 16,000 Lizardmen and 5,000 mercenaries, a total of 21,000 people showed great courage and strongest combat power. In one month and six days of battle, the entire army had 2,700 casualties and more than 2,000 injured.

Correspondingly, among the five thousand mercenaries, in addition to nearly a thousand turning to fighting under the Lin family's banner, there were 1,600 people who died in battle and 2,100 people who were captured. The book "History of Mercenaries" directly said that "the Northern United Mercenary Group no longer exists", "the dream of the mercenary kingdom was completely shattered", and the Lizardmen suffered unprecedented casualties since the invasion of Milanko. There were more than 6,000 people who died in battle and more than 2,000 were captured, and only 3,000 people who survived the Kunak continent.

After the "Milanko's Bleeding Moon", the Lin family established absolute authority in Milanko County. Lin Xiaohui was the 18th Mixed Association, the magistrate of Milanko County, and the cryptocurrence of Milanko County, so the subordinates called him "General" and "County Chief", and only the Lin family's children said to be "Miss".

The conflict between the Lin family and the central government became increasingly fierce. The two sides were controversial about tax sharing and disarmament of Milanko. Despite repeated negotiations, the Ghana Royal still held a strong position and demanded that Milanko only allow the first infantry battalion to be retained, the Dagalo mining area was operated by the central government, and 90% of the Milanko taxes were handed over to the central government, and 10% of the remaining were given to Milanko, but the specific use was designated by the central government.

This attitude not only completely angered the Lin family, but also touched on the fundamental interests of the vested interest class. The officers and soldiers were also afraid of losing their jobs due to disarmament.

As a result, Lin Xiaohui sent Bai Yunhang to forcefully accept the tax and mining departments of Milan Co., Ltd., and forcibly intercepted 90% of the taxes, and occupied the Dagalo mining area and turned it into Lin Jia's private property. In this way, it expanded its armed forces and almost completely eliminated the foundation of the Ghana Empire in Milan Co., Ltd.

On the other hand, with the support of the Ghana royal family, the Henry family, which led the five northern counties, and the Lin family continued to conflict on the border, and even evolved into a considerable armed conflict. Both sides had their own victory and defeat, and the Lin family had a slight advantage.

As the conflict between the two sides became more and more intense, it eventually led to the "Lin Xiaohui Change".

However, this is a past history, and at this moment, a new historical fragment is being staged in the secret room of the association headquarters.

"The unknown has seen Vice Chairman Bai." With a pleasant voice, Ding Ying bowed to Bai Yunhang Yingying.

Bai Yunhang said directly to the local area: "Please sit down by Lord Ding Ying! In times of crisis, I hope you and I can cooperate sincerely and overcome difficulties together!"

Ding Ying cast acquiescent eyes: "Milanko's 300,000 soldiers and civilians all hope that the Vice-Chairman can defeat the bandits as soon as possible and restore the entire county, Ding Ying is no exception. In order to thank the Vice-Chairman for his loyalty, I am going to offer a lot of gifts. I hope the Vice-Chairman will accept it at that time!"

In fact, the two originally had a good relationship, but they were of similar ranks and were in charge of military and political affairs, so they would inevitably compete for trivial matters.

Bai Yunhang refused without thinking: "Thank you! But I don't need it, because I have nothing except loyalty."

Ding Ying smiled and said, "The vice-president will definitely like this gift!"

She knew that Bai Yunhang's life was always simple. She could wear a military uniform for three or four years, and would not change her hair when washed white. She paid 450 silver coins per month, except for a few of them, most of them were given to poor soldiers. Such things were endless, so she was extremely prestigious among the officers and soldiers, but he would definitely like such gifts very much.

Bai Yunhang smiled and said, "I also have a small gift for you to Lord Ding Ying! Please follow me!"

Ding Ying was very curious and followed Bai Yunhang out of the association headquarters and came to the officers' cafeteria.

It was dinner time, and I saw people coming and going in the cafeteria. It was so lively. Bai Yunhang took a big bowl and shouted loudly: "Give it a minute!"

The officers in line automatically made way and looked at the two military and political officials curiously.

Bai Yunhang walked up to the chef, handed over a large bowl, and said, "Give me a bowl of rice, some vegetables, a portion of tomatoes, and some beef! By the way, add more beef! What else does Lord Ding Ying like to eat? Okay, let's give me a portion of fish-flavored shredded pork, we can't lose the belly of Lord Ding Ying!"

Ding Ying's eyes turned and she understood what Bai Yunhang meant. She took the bowl from the chef, picked up two pairs of chopsticks, and handed it to Bai Yunhang.

Bai Yunhang smiled slightly, held a pair of chopsticks in his left hand, Ding Ying handed the bowl to the same place as the mouth, Bai Yunhang also took the bowl with his right hand, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and started to eat together.

When the officers saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel high morale and celebrating with high fives.

Milanko has always been rich, and military pay is not a problem, but the officers are quite confident and think they have strong combat power. However, the military and political disagreement are the biggest internal troubles of Milanko. Now, Ding Bai and the other two have put aside their prejudices and expressed their unanimous attitudes and shared the same bowl of rice. How come this is not surprising?

Many old people remembered the scene of suppressing the mercenary rebellion. At that time, the Lin family was able to attack the crowd with few, attack the strong with weak, and hastily formed a 4,000 army to defeat several times the elite enemy, but it was a very important reason that the superiors and subordinates were united and the commander was the leader. Lin Xiaohui always went to the front line to command, and Ding Ying went to all teams as a government official to express condolences. Bai Yunhang set an example and led his troops to rush 500 miles at snowy night, took the lead in climbing the cliff, capturing the lizard men's retreat, and then led the team to charge, stain the blood-stained conquest, and reversed the battle situation of Milanko in one fell swoop.

How come this scene is reappearing today, why doesn’t it make people happy? This scene remains in the minds of these officers until their death.

Of course, there are also people who cannot see this scene. Lu Da, the second bidding team of the 18th Mixed Association, is one of them.

At this time, Lu Dazheng became more and more angry: "Is this the way they deal with their own people? It's really a shame for soldiers to serve in this kind of army!"

Later generations called the "Lin Xiaohui Incident" a "big conspiracy with a beginning and a sparse conspiracy", which was not without reason. In October of that year, the Ghana Army ordered the troops to issue training tasks and transferred 180% of the main forces of the Mixed Association to Buzhou Mountain in the north to carry out winter offensive and defensive tasks. Although the 18th Association was actually the private army of the Lin family, it still maintained a semi-independent position. With Lin Xiaohui's approval, Bai Yunhang personally led the first bid and direct troops to Buzhou Mountain to participate in the exercise.

A few days later, Xuan Lin Xiaohui went to Rhodes County to mediate. Unexpectedly, as soon as Lin Xiaohui left, Henry's army secretly crossed the border and directly captured Milanco County.

As soon as the war began, the second bid had lost two teams. Lin Xiaohui took one team away, and the other team bravely resisted the invading Henry army on the border, and the losses were almost gone. At this time, the regular army stationed in the county city was only Lu Da's bid headquarters and a battalion of infantrymen, with less than 700 people. The enemy troops at the city had more than 8,000 troops, ten times more than that. He had to prepare to fight to the death and defend the lonely city to repay the kindness of the promotion of the alliance. He was dissuaded by Lord Ding Ying, so that he could temporarily tolerate and take the initiative to move forward.

Lord Ding Ying endured humiliation and personally opened the city to surrender. After a quarrel, he successfully kept his troops in his army. Soon he persuaded the enemy and took Catherine to the Buzhou Mountain area in the name of "persuading surrender" to inform Bai Yunhang. Before departure, he entrusted all the above and below the county town to him alone.

I knew the heavy responsibility of my own. On the one hand, I was forced to hold tears and deal with the enemy. On the other hand, I secretly transferred one battalion of infantry into the county city, and the other battalion of infantry was also transferred more than ten miles away from the county city. In addition, Ding Ying temporarily handed over the security team under his command, although he was still at a clear disadvantage, he finally had the ability to fight with barely.

"Ding Biaotong, OK!" A voice interrupted Lu Da's thoughts. After a closer look, he found that he was an old man who was about fifty years old. He was dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked a bit lucky.

Seeing this, Lu Da forcibly curbing the anger in his heart and said, "Hello, Mr. He Yi!"

Mr. Lin Heyi can be said to be Lin Xiaohui's uncle. He went to Rhode County with Lin Xiaohui. After Lin Xiaohui was martyred, he was also captured. Soon after he turned against him, he colluded with the Henry family and relied on his familiarity with the Lin family. After the city was broken, he arrested the Lin family's bullets everywhere, causing great damage to the Lin family.

Lin Heyi smiled: "What is Lu Biaotong thinking?"

Lu Da said: "Lu Da is thinking about how to repay His Majesty's great kindness. This year marks the 15th anniversary of His Majesty's ascension to the throne. What kind of gift do we want to give?"

Lin Heyi said with a sneering expression: "Is that true?"

He then said, "Commander Lu secretly mobilized troops stationed abroad back to the county town and summoned military and civilian secret discussions, right?"

Lu Da was shocked and pressed his hand on the scabbard.

Lin Heyi whispered: "No need to say, Lu Biaotong, I am also a member of the Lin family, and I will never be a hawk of the Henry family! Anyway, how can you hide it from me? Everything in the past was a last resort to maintain its usefulness. When Ding Biaotong takes action, I will respond and fight to kill the enemy to avenge my shame!"

Lu Da couldn't help but shouted OK, held Lin Heyi's hands tightly, and said, "Thank you Mr. Heyi!"

After a while, he said, "By the way! Yunhang brought the news, and he immediately led the elite troops of the association south."

When Lin Heyi heard this, he couldn't help but burst into tears: "Lu Biaotong is not a child of the Lin family, and he can still be loyal to the eldest lady, which makes He Yi very ashamed. However, the 600-mile ice field will be marching urgently before returning to the county town for fifteen days. How can Vice Chairman Bai go south quickly? It's not time for me! If Dagaro loses and the enemy returns, everything is over!"

Lu Da shook his head and said, "I don't know, but Yunhang must have a solution!"

On the other side of the county town, Commander Garnett was smug.

Thinking of the unfortunate Katifen and Salia Biaotong, I know how smart they are, and they take the initiative to stay in the county and ask the two Biaotongs to attack the Dagalo mining area.

Now I can hide in the warm room, taste delicious food and wine, look at the silver coins everywhere, and enjoy the moving jade bodies of two beauties.

As soon as they left the city, Katifen and Salia complained in succession, saying that it was snowing heavily and the Lin family's gangsters were raiding from time to time, and they were in difficulty in progress and were not allowed to provide supplies. Please provide support.

Just think about how happy it would be to lead the two fools to slowly advance with their troops in the wind and snow, endure hunger and get in a dilemma. Who told them to dare to steal the limelight from their son?

The steps to annex the Lin family were as planned, even much smoother than the plan. I thought I would encounter fierce resistance under the county city, but I didn't expect that the troops guarding the county city were frightened when they saw their military power. They didn't even fight and directly surrendered to the city.

The officials competed to express their loyalty to His Majesty and their previous favors to the head of the family so that they could clearly define all relationships with the Lin family. The prison had already been detained for the Lin family and the Lin family's best friends. Ding Ying, the government official who took the lead in surrendering, went to Buzhou Mountain to persuade Bai Yunhang to surrender.

As for another object that he was originally worried about, Princess Catherine brought the letter and everything went smoothly. The Vice-General of Baiyunhang had announced the surrender of his troops and arrested Lin Xiaohui's close friends. The largest armed force in Milanko had expressed his intention to surrender to his family. If nothing unexpected happens, after the New Year, the troops will be sent to Grimis as cannon fodder. As for whether they can survive, it can only be seen whether God is standing on their side.

As for the rewards he received, he was even more generous. Milanko was really as rich as the legendary country. As soon as he entered the city, the chamber of commerce immediately offered a "consolation fee" of up to 200,000 silver coins. After that, the officials and merchants made continuous contributions. Not only did they give their brothers rewards of more than 300,000 silver coins, but they had also accumulated nearly 100,000 silver coins in their pockets.

I guess if I stay for a few more days, the silver coins in my pocket will probably double. However, even if they offer more money, it is useless. The central government's exclusive Dagalo Minerals was decided by His Majesty, and of course his family will also gain a share.

However, Commander Garnett did not expect that it would cost a price to obtain anything, and this time the Henry family would pay the heaviest price.

Like the Lin family, the Henry family was one of the seven generals who supported Romanov to proclaim himself emperor. Unlike the Lin family, which suffered repeated attacks, they have always been favored by the royal family and passed down to this era. There were as many as five counties in the territory. There were three regular troops in the territory, and there were nearly 50,000 people in the territory, with informal troops such as the security forces, self-defense forces, and security forces, with a total force of up to 80,000.

According to the military system of the Ghana Empire, the town is the largest unit with about 12,000 people in each town. The commander is called the commander. During wartime, two to three towns can be organized into one army. The army is a temporary unit in wartime. It is not permanent. Each town is under the jurisdiction of two infantry and cooperative units, with less than 4,000 people in each association. The commander is called the commander. Each association has two infantry standards, and each association is generally less than 2,000 people. The commander is called the bidding system, and the commander is responsible for the third battalion, with 600 people in each battalion. The commander is called the commander. The battalion is responsible for four teams, with about 140 people in each team. Each team is called the team officer, each team has three rows and three shifts.

As for the Mixed Association in the Imperial Military System, it is an extremely special strategic unit. Unlike the ordinary infantry association with less than 4,000 people, in addition to the two infantry units directly under the command of two standards, it also directly under the cavalry, with one battalion of each city, one project, and one baggage team. The total association has more than 5,000 people. In terms of application, its combat power is also far from the infantry association. Thanks to the prosperity of Milanko, the 18th Mixed Association not only has a full capacity, but also has more non-commissioned officers' teaching teams, officers' teams, communication teams, reconnaissance teams, medical teams, etc., with nearly 7,000 people in the entire association.

In addition to the 36 towns in the imperial capital, there were three towns of imperial guards, six towns of cavalry, and forty-five towns. In addition, there were twenty-three mixed associations and seventeen standards, totaling seventeen thousand regular troops, but only seventeen towns and nine teams in the hands of the nobles. The Henry family occupied three towns and one association, which was extremely favored. This shows that.

But since there is a huge army, of course, it requires a large amount of military expenditure, plus the family's operating expenses, financial subsidies from each county, the family's senior management's needs for luxurious life, and the war expenses that occur from time to time... In short, the survival and development of the family requires a huge amount of money as a backing.

The first one to fall into the sight of the Henry family is the neighboring Lin family. The Henry family is not unfamiliar with the Lin family. In addition to historical interactions, seventeen years ago, after Rhodes fell into the hands of the central government, after a very secret operation, the Henry family acquired Rhodes with a large amount of money, and the Henry family's black hands were also behind the scenes when the Milanco Civil War was operated.

Relying on the Dagalo mining area, the Lin family earns more than 500,000 gold coins every year, which is tens of thousands more than the Henry family. However, in terms of military strength, the Lin family only has one mixed association and one independent garrison battalion. In terms of human power, the Milano family only has a population of 300,000, and the Lin family is incompatible. It is definitely a slaughter of the Lin family with the strength of the whole family, and it is definitely as easy as taking things out of their bags.

He took the initiative to provoke the border and took the opportunity to raise compensation that the Lin family could not accept, and finally annexed the Lin family. This plan is wonderful, but unfortunately it is not the case in operation at all.

The conflict was indeed provoked, but he suffered a lot of losses. Lin Xiaohui did feel tough as he imagined, but the main force of the family was dragged down by the invasion of the Lot Empire. Not only that, he also wanted to bless Lin Xiaohui not to take a whim, which made the family open a long front and lead to the complete bankruptcy of the fragile finances.

In the end, the Henry family united with the royal family Lin. Because Lin Xiaohui forced the deduction of 90% of the central taxes, the royal family lost 200,000 yuan a year, which led to the irreconcilable situation between the royal family and the Lin family.

The imperial guards transferred Snell to the south, forcing the Lott army to retreat. After a secret discussion, the Dagalo mining area was exclusively occupied by the royal family, but the Henry family could share 30% of the income.

Based on this consensus, the two sides jointly staged the "Lin Xiaohui Incident". Later, Henry's army quickly invaded Milanco and took the county town. All this was almost perfect, but the subsequent movement was smashed by Garnett.

Later historians did almost nothing except launching the endless Dagalo strategy battle after the Henry family occupied Milanco County, which was busy plundering money and tried every means to arrest Lin's children and officials and merchants loyal to the Lin family in order to demand high ransoms, which was extremely puzzled.

The result was that the main force of the 18-year-old association returned to the army, which also aroused unanimous disgust among the people of Milan County. Historians criticized it as "no different from an idiot", "losing the opportunity to restore the Henry family", "swallowing the bitter fruits by themselves", and the reason why the "Lin Xiaohui Incident" was called "a big conspiracy with a beginning and a miserable end" was also due to this.

Of course, there are very few exceptions. In the south city of the county town, an extremely capable woman was urging the soldiers to speed up the construction of fortifications. Her silver armor could not conceal her toned body, her wild gaze, bright red lips, and her bronze skin exposed outside the silver armor made the soldiers drool in secret.

However, based on the painful past experience and the huge gap in strength and status, this idea was just a thought. The soldiers were more puzzled. At this moment when other troops were trying hard to make a fortune, the female superior led everyone to build a construction site in the mud with the cold wind.

Vice-General Julia, a woman who later performed extremely active in Milanko's offensive and defensive battles, gave Bai Yunhang a headache. She was almost unknown in the early stage of the first Milanko's offensive and defensive battles. She was even deprived of military power because she offended Commander Garnett and could only control the first battalion of infantry, but this strong female leopard could still give the Lin family a heavy blow.

On the ice field at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, the two people who were already open and rode horses to vent the pain in their chests.

It was not until the horse ran until it was sweating like rain that Ding Ying grabbed the reins and smiled slightly at Bai Yunhang: "Thank you, Vice Chairman Bai, if the Lin family can be safeguarded this time, Yunhang should be the first to be the best."

Bai Yunhang Newspaper smiled bitterly: "Mr. Ding Ying, others don't know your suffering, don't I know your suffering! If you didn't have Master Ding Ying, you have to maintain it with all your strength, the Lin family would probably have been..."

He stopped, shook his head, and then said desolately: "Actually, who is the harder you are!"

After hearing this, Ding Ying touched the sadness. Two lines of tears burst out from her eyes. She stood there for a long time. Bai Yunhang handed over a silk handkerchief. Ding Ying took it and wiped the tears. Then she said, "The unknown is just doing his best. When my husband was alive, he said that everything depends on Yunhang for battle on the battlefield. Now that the enemy is in front of him, the four crisis points are in danger. Ding Ying is not a warrior. I wonder how likely the Vice Chairman of the Bai League has to win?"

Bai Yunhang smiled desolately: "There will never be a winner in war. I understood this truth the first time I went to the battlefield!"

He looked into the distance, and the place where he saw was ice and snow, and the vast earth, and there was no end. He slowed down for a long time before continuing: "There is a spring breeze behind the snow! As long as I work together and don't hide my own thoughts, are you still afraid that I can't shine the Lin family! Bai Yunhang has nothing else, only a cheap loyalty dedicated to the young lady!"

Turning his head, the two of them looked at each other and saw the fire-like enthusiasm in each other's eyes. Even in the biting cold wind, they could feel this little warmth.
Chapter completed!