Chapter 427: Decision "Is Waiting Quietly Just Waiting?"
The old duke turned around and stared into the distance again, his deep voice, he didn't know whether he was talking to the girl, or talking to himself, after a while, he didn't turn around, just turned his back to the young people behind him, and said in a deep voice: "Are you really going to wait here and do nothing?"
"I've done all the things the teachers have told me to do, and I've done enough, and even more."
The girl's voice was smiling, at this moment, her smile like this, such a calm and calm smile, but it seemed to be a little cruel and cold, only to hear her say slowly: "The teacher once told me a word. ” "What" "The teacher said: In this world, everyone has their own role, everyone has their own duty, do their own duty, do their own thing, don't do less, but don't do more, that's it."
The girl shrugged her shoulders, and the corners of her mouth pulled out a little arc: "I'm just a weak woman, I can't carry it on my shoulders or lift it in my hands, and now the city is in chaos, what else can I do but carefully hide in your mansion, survive and wait for all this to pass." ” The duke smiled and said in a low voice: "Don't do less, don't do more, just do your part, that guy, always like to say these nonsense, it's annoying, but the most annoying thing is that these words make sense." ” He raised his hand: "Okay, you stay in my house, I promise, even if the city is turned over, the rebels will never come to my house to disturb me."
In my old man's life, there will always be some prestige.
Those little guys, no matter how bold they are, are not good at making mistakes in front of me. ” The girl nodded, she touched her face lightly, and then sighed: "Such a cold wind, blowing people's faces are wooden, Lord Duke, I will go down to rest." ” She turned to leave, Via was on the side, looked at the duke deeply, as if he wanted to say something and stopped, the old duke glanced at Via, and finally said: "If something really happens, I will try to save Adric's life, but that guy's surname, you should know better than me, but I am afraid that the real country will fall, and he will not survive." ” Via gritted his teeth: "Who cares about his life or death." ” But even though she said that, there was still a flash of gratitude in her purple eyes, and then she also turned around and walked into the room with the girl.
"Father" At this time, Luo Di finally spoke, his face was full of eagerness, he looked at the old duke, and clenched his fists: "Do we really do nothing, the family is blessed by the country, and it is at this moment" "That's enough."
The duke shook his head, his voice was a little tired, turned around, looked at his son, the expression on his face was majestic, but there was a trace of love in his eyes, and he whispered: "My old man knows these truths better than you.
For the sake of the country, the feast of the dead is not said with the mouth, when the moment really comes, my old man knows what to do, but now, you give me to stay at home honestly, I don't want to order you to be tied up and locked in the cellar anymore. ” "But" The old duke finally turned around and took two steps, his eyes pressed on Luo Di, and he said slowly, word by word: "What I want to do, you don't understand me and I don't expect you to understand now, I just tell you, at this time, compared to going to fight with the rebels, my old man has more important things to do I continue to live, it is far more valuable than going into battle and killing a few rebels."
The harbour area has been completely occupied by the rebels.
The fleet of the Landisians, as well as the royal fleet of the Byzantine Empire that had been stationed in the harbor, had already left the port in an urgent manner when the city was broken.
There were still some naval soldiers in the port area, and some of them did not have time to leave with the fleet, and resisted to the last moment.
When the rebels captured the harbor area, they were met with some resistance, especially in the arrow towers in the harbor, which were originally used against the enemy at sea, and the remnants of the defenders were confined to the arrow towers at the docks, and the rebels had to knock out the arrow tower strongholds one by one.
There were also a large number of supplies piled up in the warehouses at the docks, many of which were transported by the Landis through the sea transportation lines, and after obtaining such a large amount of supplies, a small battle even broke out within the rebels, and several rebels almost fought over the ownership of these materials, and finally Hughes himself came to the front to suppress the infighting.
After capturing most of the city of Osgilia, the generals, officers, soldiers, and almost everyone within the rebel army made a small fortune and looted enough benefits.
The pockets of these rebels were filled with looted money, and they didn't want to fight any longer.
The army has lost its will to fight, and almost all that is on the mind of the people is how to get rich, how to enjoy the looted wealth.
The attack on the palace has not made much progress, and it has not even been able to break the gate of the first to the palace castle.
Hughes and Salvador went to the Hagia Sophia to meet with the leaders of the church, but alas, the church still showed enough cunning and wall-to-wall nature, and the rebels did not get any promise of hope from the church.
Hughes understood that the Church would take a stand unless his own people cut off the emperor's head with their own hands, and the Byzantine Empire was completely dead.
Until then, those goddamn sticks can stay out of it.
However, he could not make the slightest gesture of persecution against the church, even in the course of the war, Huang Yanjing did not dare to persecute the church.
Because everyone knows that this church has one of the most terrifying forces on the continent: magicians No one is going to provoke the church, and once the church announces that the magicians are at war, no one can afford the consequences.
Hughes only tentatively made his request: he wanted to issue a proclamation in the name of the Pope to depose the Byzantine Emperor from the throne and declare the Emperor's status illegitimate.
But when this request was refused, he had to give up his efforts, and even had to order a part of the people to maintain order around the church to prevent the rebels from robbing and robbing the red-eyed soldiers in the city from disturbing the church.
At this time, no one wants to offend the church.
On the other hand, unable to effectively command the rebels to participate in the attack on the palace, Hughes had to retreat to the next best.
He could only do his best to ask the rebels to divide as much of their forces as possible to consolidate the garrison in the harbor area.
After the capture of the harbor area, after paying a certain price and clearing the remnants of the defenders, the rebels immediately occupied the arrow towers along the coast, and stationed troops according to Hughes's request, and carried a large number of bows and crossbows and other equipment from the dock warehouses to replenish the fortifications along the coast.
For this reason, Hughes had to make some concessions, he gave up his share of the large amount of supplies in the harbor terminal warehouse, to satisfy the greed of the other rebels, and in exchange, the defense of the harbor area finally reassured Hughes a little.
After realizing that he might have made a big mistake and missed the opportunity, Hughes immediately realized his situation: if he couldn't get the palace done as soon as possible and set the big picture, then the Landis would definitely fight back from the sea.
The Landis need to reap the benefits of going to war, so they will definitely send reinforcements, that's almost a certainty No matter what, he must complete the capture of the palace before the Landis land, as long as his blade cuts off the head of the emperor, then even if the situation is completely decided, those Landis have to give up participating in the war, and he can sit down and slowly negotiate with the Landis about the conditions for retreating.
Just when the time came to the fourth day of the breach, Hughes finally waited for news from the sea.
On the fourth day of the break, the Arc de Triomphe was still in bloody battles.
This time is already a day more than the three days that Adrick promised when he was boosting morale.
However, the soldiers of the Arc de Triomphe are still fighting bloodily, and the tight guardian camp, and the walls on both sides of the city gate are still resisting the rebels rushing on both sides.
The assault on the Arc de Triomphe was still carried out by El Salvador's army, who was well aware of his situation, he had not conserved his strength like the other rebels, and after four days of bloody fighting, both sides had fought to the point of exhaustion.
Salvador even sent his own guards to pounce on the Arc de Triomphe again and again.
Adrick dragged his wounded body into battle to boost morale.
He fought again and again, and at the same time used countless shouts to boost morale, although three days have passed, but the morale of his command has not collapsed.
In particular, the rebels were beaten out of a street by using a counterattack, and the rebel leader Salvador was almost killed by the counterattacking emperor in the chaos because he was on the front line and was too far forward, which greatly boosted the morale of the defenders.
The Arc de Triomphe was still firmly in the hands of the defenders, and Salvatore had really done his best, and he could not imagine how such a small group of defenders could still have such a stubborn determination to resist after the entire city had fallen.
The streets were full of corpses, and even in the bloody battle, both sides had no respite at all, and the corpses could only be left on the battlefield in the streets, the rebels and the defenders were all mixed together, and in some places, the traces of the fire were still clear.
The rebels tried to attack with fire, but a heavy snowfall at night caused the plan to fail.
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A heavy snowfall gave Adric's men some respite, at least the rebels' plans for a fire attack failed.
And the heavy snow made the defenders, who had been without water for two days, finally get some water.
The soldiers hurried to boil the concentrated ice and snow in a large cauldron, and then carefully put this limited amount of water into the hands of each soldier.
"Hold on any longer, we've held out until now, from now on, every hour, the Landis may be killed from the sea, we are almost waiting for the dawn, for the Empire to fight" Adric raised his knife and shouted, in this way, he doesn't know how many times he has said it in the past few days, but now, no matter how hard he tries, his voice can't be as full as a few days ago, his breath is a little weak, during the fierce battle yesterday, he was stabbed in the chest, although most of his strength was blocked by the armor, but the opponent who slashed him was a rebel general, and the strength of the fighting spirit still caused damage to his body, Adric suspected that his chest ribs might be broken, but he could only force it, He is now the only sustenance of the whole army, and he must not show the slightest decline Maybe the next moment, the Landis will arrive.
Almost everyone has this thought in their hearts, although some people have begun to doubt and begin to waver, but at this moment, they have no choice but to believe in this thought On the fourth day, the defenders of the Arc de Triomphe, inspired by General Adric, repelled eleven charges from the rebels, and fought until the end of the day, when the rebels finally retreated a little.
In the barracks, there was no one who could stand, the rebels had just retreated, almost everyone sat directly on the ground, whether it was the general or the soldiers, they were all gasping for breath, only the doctors who came up from behind, nervously running back and forth under the wailing and shouting of the wounded soldiers, seizing the rare time to rescue the wounded soldiers.
After four days of fierce fighting, there were originally nearly 8,000 defenders, and there were less than 3,000 left.
Adric knew in his heart that with the remaining strength in his hands, it was absolutely impossible to hold out until tomorrow.
Maybe today, it's my own people who will see it for the last time in my life.
There were less than 3,000 defenders, all wounded, all exhausted, most of them had not closed their eyes for three days, fatigue, wounded soldiers, hunger and thirst, and the fear of death were tormenting their will.
Some soldiers were so tired that they vomited blood, and the archers could no longer hold their bows, and some of the archers had their fingers cut to pieces by the bowstrings, and some couldn't even lift their arms.
The last one may fall.
When the sun was setting, everyone, including Adric, couldn't help but look to the west, watching the sun set and the afterglow of the remnant sun disappearing at the end of the sky little by little. ” An officer limped to Adric's side, his armor no longer recognizable, his shoulder slashed open, his flesh blurred, and only three fingers left on one hand, wrapped in gauze.
The officer stood beside Adric, and then bent down deeply: "It is my greatest honor to be able to fight alongside you."
With the first one, one by one the officers gathered around Adric, everyone saluted Adric, and then silently looked at their commander.
Adric took a deep breath, and at this point, he realized that he could no longer say anything to boost morale, and at this moment, everyone knew that they had really reached the point of exhaustion.
At this time, it would be ridiculous to talk about those generous words that boost morale.
"Thank you" The general also solemnly returned the salute, and then Adric took a deep breath: "I don't have anything else to say, I'm proud of you, everyone, you are real soldiers of the empire, you are heroes, I can't make any other promises to you, I can only say that I will fight with you, and when the last moment comes, I will also die with you" No one spoke, everyone looked at Adrick quietly, and there was no wavering in everyone's eyes.
Adrick burst into tears, and then he took a deep breath: "Blow the trumpet, blow the Victory Triumph and let the palace hear us, let them know that we are still fighting, and we will continue to fight" The soldiers who blew the trumpets were already exhausted, but at this moment, under the orders of Adric, several officers stepped out of the crowd, took the horns, stood in a line, and blew the horns The mighty and majestic Imperial Triumphant Victory Bugle sounded, and at this time of falling, with the last rays of afterglow, echoed in this ancient city, and the generous tone, at this moment, seemed to carry a kind of tragedy that cannot be described in words The sound of the horn sounded again and again, until the afterglow of the sun finally disappeared completely "Ready."
Adric gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "They will definitely take advantage of the night to raid."
Guys, this may be our last battle, all for the Empire."
"For the Empire" all the officers straightened up.
Just when the last tune of the Triumph finally fell, the sound of the horn stopped abruptly, and the echo gradually disappeared, suddenly, in the distance, accompanied by the sound of the wind, there was a slight movement, which made the muscles in the corners of Adric's eyes tremble Suddenly, he jumped onto a pile of boxes and looked nervously to the south.
With the sound of the wind, the distant voice, intermittently came, not clear, but fell on Adric's ears, and at this moment it seemed like thunder "The trumpet is the trumpet," Adric muttered to himself, his voice trembling, and suddenly his eyes flashed, and he shouted: "It's the Landisian trumpet, it's the Landisian trumpet" The sound of the trumpet was faint, but soon, a roaring sound came from the south, like a muffled thunder, accompanied by gusts of wind.
In the distance, in the south, in the direction of the harbor, I saw one by one the lights rising into the sky, rushing into the air, bursting open, and scattering a piece of light "It's the signal of the sea, it's the signal of the sea, the signal from the Landis warship, the fireworks" Adric suddenly shook his body, only to feel as if the strength of his whole body, at this moment, but instead was evacuated, he stared at the southern sky with wide eyes, when the night had fallen, the fireworks of the signal were so clear in the sky "It's coming, it's finally coming" At night, the earth was still white.
The dense sound of horses' hooves already looked tired and somewhat chaotic.
When the horse team rushed into the city gate with the wind in his pocket, Char finally breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had held back a breath of strength all the way, and finally dispersed at this moment.
When he rushed to the city, under the response of the cavalry who greeted him, Char almost turned over and fell off his horse, and when several cavalrymen from Denzel City came up to pick him up, Char was already cold all the way to the cold wind and ice, so that Char could not continue to hold on.
His body was numb, and he was almost carried into the garrison by the soldiers.
Although it was night, when Char came back and entered the city, the news came, and all the officers and generals in Denzel City urgently gathered in the garrison mansion.
Char didn't rest, he didn't even have time to change his clothes, he didn't take a sip of water, and he was immediately carried into the conference hall of the garrison mansion.
Below the old mad dog Green, almost all the high-ranking generals of this small group under Char's command gathered here.
Seeing Char's return, everyone was a little surprised, a little surprised, and Old Green was even more pale.
"I don't have anything else to explain."
Char's lips were blue, and he refused a guard who was about to come up and drape him with a blanket, and walked to the front himself, stood at the boss's table, and looked at everyone: "Now, everyone, listen to my orders" There was a stir below, everyone didn't expect that the coach who had been away for a long time suddenly came back, and he immediately wanted to give some orders, and looking at his tone and expression, it was unprecedentedly solemn and serious.
"The whole army, enter the emergency preparations" Although Char's voice was hoarse and tired, his tone was absolute "The First Corps, immediately enter the combat readiness, I will only give you two days, the ordnance will be distributed to each soldier, and the insufficient will be collected from the Quartermaster Cato I know that the food reserves are insufficient, from now on, all the food in the war period will be given priority to the army, I don't care what method you use, within two days, get all the food you can get to the reserve that can cope with at least thirty days of war, the Second Corps, one flag regiment in Denzel City, one flag regiment in Mesta, and all the others will go into reserve equipment, Fight as a second echelon at any time, this order is not allowed to be disobeyed" There was an uproar Green was immediately furious, he seemed to be about to stare and ask something, but Char's fierce eyes glared over, Green saw Char's eyes were unprecedentedly serious and absolute, he subconsciously closed his mouth, took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said in a deep voice: "What about the direction of our attack?"
"Manninger in the south, Odin, Red Snow Army" Char looked coldly at the people below: "I know you have doubts in your hearts, these questions are kept, go prepare for the war first, do what you should do, as for the explanation, you will get but not now remember your duty and do what you should do, don't do less, don't do more" ` To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: