A month later, count Eduardo and his vassals alongside their families arrived in Patagonia, they were first camped outside the town as the agents from homeland security and administrative officers performed interviews and registered the new immigrants who still had to be placed under watch by the Shadowcorp.
No one was an exception, even the nobles, especially the nobles. The nobles of course took offense with the practice and sometimes tried to act out but under the threat of bodily injury and imprisonment from the police and homeland security they just grumbled inwardly.
After a while, they were accepted into the town after orientation, those who were not accepted were asked to leave their borders but really they were abducted by homeland security in conjunction with Shadowcorp. They were deemed a threat to national security and for that reason they might never see the light of day again.
These new citezens would now be incorporated into Terra as a new workforce and possibly recruits for the armed forces.
A week later, there was a huge parade in Patagonia, even people from Gama were there. Soldiers in their combat uniforms marched in straight formation with pride getting cheers from the crowds at the side of the road . After they marched round the town, they lined up in the town square or rather now the city square and were soon joined by others.
A large high platform had been raised, in top of it were the heads of the various departments who stood beaming with smiles and even waving. Then came Ceaser, dressed in full combat uniform the same with the army but all black plus we wore a long leather coat. He had a calm blank expression on his face as he walked up the steps. When he eventually reaches the podium, he looked at the cheering crowd intently before raising his hand to quiet them down.
" Citezens of Terra, good afternoon. I Augustus Caesar applaud you for all the work that you have done to usher us into a new age." Ceaser said and they crowd burst out into an applause.
" But what kind of human beings would we be if we stay holed up in this city and refuse to help out our brethren who are being plagued under the tyranny of the Blackthorn empire.
We are not strangers to their ways, the way they murder , the way they rape , the way they subjugate into slavery and the way they turn men against each other as they have done with our friends in Fantasia.
They are murderers and sons of murderers,slavers and the sons and daughters of slavers but we will never run , we never ran instead we will march to the towns , villages and cities under their yoke and liberate them and we will do it until we wipe out the scourge that is Blackthorn from history." He said as the crowd kept applauding, they were eating up every word that was falling from his mouth.
" I Ceaser declare before you here, upon my life and honor, for the peace and bounty of all beings, my full allegiance is to our empire Terra.
And with that I hereby declare myself, Emperor of Terra ." Silence washed over the entire square, people were wondering " was he not already a monarch " because he was already a monarch in all but name.
Suddenly someone in the crowd shouted " long live the emperor." And then the entire crowd shouted back , long live the emperor, long live the emperor.
It has taken three years, but finally Ceaser was ready for conquest or this time reconquest.
Three days later fifteen thousand men , three hundred 105mm cannons and a logistics team of about one thousand men were gathered, Ceaser and lieutenant general Alfred were going to be leading the army. At a point they would be divided into two armies which Ceaser would take command of one half while Alfred would take half .
In Patagonia the remaining garrisons were under the command of a Colonel Hans. He was given orders to secure the city, train more men and send reinforcements .
All major decisions would be put to a vote by the directors of the various departments.
Wagons had been prepared for transportation of personnel, weapons and ammunitions. Extra horses for the scouts and the senior officers.
Soon the army began their journey and within three days because of the new road constructions. Soldiers from the garisson in Gama all came out saluting the passing soldiers. Although one thousand two hundred of the men in the gamma garrison were coming along, most of them wished that they were among the people who were going on an adventure to reclaim their lands.
A day and half later they came upon a farming village with just few guards, the inhabitants of the village were forced to house Blackthorn soldiers and the demand and increase of taxes was a regular occurrence, of course Ceaser didn't know this but still he sent just twenty men to take the village. It was over within minutes, the garrisoned soldiers didn't even know what hit them, they didn't even get the chance to surrender.
Within another week,they had liberated five more villages and had stationed fifty men to be garrisoned in the various villages.
Ceaser didn't necessarily need to take over the villages at this point but he realized that if they start hitting up major towns and cities, there would be some dregs who would want to hide out in this small villages and could even end up causing havoc and spreading insurgency .
Word had already been sent to the administrative department and soon these villages would be fully incorporated into the empire of Terra.
At the designated point, the army was divided into two with taking six thousand men and three hundred cannons mostly 105mm while Alfred took seven thousand nine hundred men and the remaining cannons which most of it was 75mm .
They were to capture all the land east of the kingdom of Alfonse and bring it under their area of influence.