Chapter 938 Return

The looting of Ariel lasted for 7 days and 7 nights.

It took the soldiers of the Eastern Army 7 days to successfully plunder Ariel.

From precious jewels to edible livestock, they were all plundered by the soldiers of the Eastern Army of the Britannia Army.

Even the food of the civilians was not spared by the soldiers of the Eastern Army.

Under Su Cheng's instruction, only enough food for the civilians in the city to eat for one month was left, and the rest of the food was "collected".

After completely looting Ariel, the secondary capital of the Holy Hilan Empire, the soldiers of the Eastern Army rested in the city for another 3 days before returning home with their mountains of spoils.

As early as when the main force of the Eastern Army had not yet entered Ariel, Su Cheng had already sent messengers to the soldiers of the Western Army to let them return with their spoils.

According to the current time, the messenger should have successfully arrived at Otto City and successfully conveyed Su Cheng's order to return to the knights of the Western Army.

When the Eastern Army left Ariel, they did not forget to plant the flags of their Britannia Empire on the walls of Ariel.

Even if they were going back home, they did not forget to disgust the Hilan people again.

The Western Army successfully captured Otto City, and the Eastern Army also successfully captured Ariel and defeated the reinforcements of the Holy Hilan Empire. Both the Western Army and the Eastern Army successfully completed their combat objectives.

Therefore, this "Aurora" offensive can be said to be an unprecedented success, a rare complete victory.

Although this offensive did not capture a city or a place of the Holy Hilan Empire, the blow suffered by the Holy Hilan Empire in this offensive was undoubtedly far greater than the damage caused by the loss of cities and lands.

Once again, a large number of troops were lost, and a large amount of wealth was lost.

The greatest harm that the "Aurora" offensive brought to the Holy Hilan Empire was that it created millions of refugees in the territory of the Holy Hilan Empire and turned countless farmers and citizens into refugees.

The Britannia Army was divided into two routes in this "Aurora" offensive. Both the Western Army and the Eastern Army burned, killed, looted and killed all the way when they attacked their respective target cities.

All the villages along the way

suffered a devastating blow from the Britannia Army.

The farmland was trampled, and all the livestock used for farming went into the stomachs of the Britannia Army soldiers. Farm tools such as hoes and plows were treated with special attention by the Britannia Army soldiers. The farm tools that the farmers relied on for survival were all collected and burned.

They did this for only one purpose - to turn these farmers into refugees.

Not only farmers, but most citizens are also likely to become refugees.

Although many cities chose to surrender obediently and avoided the massacre of the Britannian Army, the Britannian Army did not show any mercy to these cities that surrendered obediently.

Although their slogan was "As long as you surrender obediently, we will leave half of the property for you."

Although the slogan sounded good, how much is "half of the property"?

All the food that belongs to humans in the city was confiscated, and only the food that livestock eat was left for them - from a certain perspective, this is also only half of the property.

Confiscated all the food that humans eat, and left the other half of the food - that is, the food that livestock eat for the citizens in the city. This is indeed only half of the property.

Precisely because the specific meaning of this slogan is ambiguous, when confiscating the property of those cities that surrendered obediently, the Britannian Army never confiscated only half of their property...

Thanks to the efforts of the Britannian Army, the originally stable western territory of the Holy Hilan Empire now has millions of refugees.

The farmers lost all their farm tools and livestock, and even if they returned to their hometowns, they had no way to immediately resume their original production.

The citizens were also like this, losing a lot of property, and merchants and craftsmen had no way to immediately resume their original production.

These millions of refugees will cause great harm to the Holy Xilan Empire.

If these refugees are not properly handled, they will most likely riot.

If the refugees riot, they will become one uprising army after another.

By then, the damage to the Holy Xilan Empire will be even greater.

Therefore, anyone with a little wisdom knows that they must quickly appease these refugees and let them resume their original production and life.

The Holy Xilan Empire needs to transport a large amount of food to the west for these refugees to eat and drink.

It is also necessary to manufacture and transport a large number of production tools such as hoes and plows and various livestock for farming, so that these refugees, who are mainly "original farmers", can resume their original production.

As long as the original production can be restored, the original life can be restored.

However, whether it is transporting food or production tools, it costs a lot of money.

In addition to dealing with these refugees, they also need to rebuild the already devastated western region and rebuild the army...

In short, the Holy Hilan Empire needs to spend an astronomical amount of money and at least 10 years to heal the pain of this defeat...

The damage caused to the Holy Hilan Empire by this "Aurora" offensive is really too great.

Coupled with last year's "Overlord Counterattack", the Holy Hilan Empire has suffered a heavy blow that has never been seen since its founding in the past two years, and the foundation of the country has been shaken.

The former superpower has fallen from the throne and is no longer able to compete with the Britannia Empire on its own...

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Because there are no enemy soldiers or enemy cities blocking the way, both the Western Army and the Eastern Army retreated to the border of the Britannia Empire at a very fast speed.

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