The rebels have surrounded the royal capital!
The moment he heard the news, Xiao Lin thought that Liang Taibai was joking with himself, but the other party's bloodshot pupils and haggard anxiety on his face made him understand that today was not April Fool's Day, and now was not the time to joke.
Xiao Lin got dressed as fast as he could, and then hurriedly followed Liang Taibai into the palace.
"Didn't it say during the day that the rebels were still a month away from us, and there were troops sent by the royal family to intercept them, how could they be here now?"
"We're trying to investigate, but now is not the time to think about that."
Liang Taibai sighed.
"How many troops are there in the royal capital?"
Xiao Lin guessed something from Liang Taibai's face.
"There are three thousand left."
"What about the rebels?"
"The details are not clear, but according to a rough estimate of the guards at the head of the city, the number is at least more than 20,000."
"Holy!"
Xiao Lin couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, even if it is more advantageous to defend the city than to attack the city, the gap in the number of people is too big.
Liang Taibai strode away, and continued to say worse news: "The 3,000 people defending the city are basically old, weak, sick and disabled, because the main force was sent by the king to intercept the rebels not long ago, and the ghost knows what those idiots did along the way, you must know that they have just left a few days ago!"
Even Liang Taibai, who had always been gentle and elegant, couldn't help but curse angrily, and his words were very contemptuous of the combat effectiveness of the principality's army.
Xiao Lin bowed slightly, and fell silent thoughtfully.
A quarter of an hour later, the two of them had arrived directly at the palace, although the royal capital had imposed a curfew for a long time, but under the privilege of the special pass of the embassy of the Dawning Academy, the road was unimpeded, not to mention blocked, and no one even dared to interrogate.
In the palatial palace, Xiao Lin saw the king of the principality, and although the previous escort list included almost all of the king's children, only the king himself was excluded.
Originally, according to the military's plan, as a sincere negotiation with the rebels, this unlucky king just voted for his name, and Xiao Lin had heard from Liang Taibai that many high-level leaders of Dawning Academy were dissatisfied with this king, not only because of the civil strife in Rose that caused a lot of additional trouble to Dawning Academy, but also because the relationship between Rose and Dawning has not been very good over the years, and even when Dawn proposed to build more resurrection towers in Rose two years ago, it was rejected by this king with prevarication.
Obviously, even without this incident, it would be difficult for the Dawning Academy to tolerate this guy continuing to sit on the king's throne, and this was the first time Xiao Lin had seen this king who dared to oppose the Dawning Academy since he came to the royal capital.
The king's sideburns are gray, his beard is sparse, and he looks old, but in fact, Xiao Lin Xiao Lin has long known from intelligence that this king is only in his forties.
Officially, he wears a crown, but it is not very lavish, with only eight red diamonds in the shape of roses.
In the palace is a huge round table, the ministers sit near the round table, and the king sits on the front steps overlooking the people, of course, as the ambassadors of the Dawning Academy, Xiao Lin and Liang Taibai do not need to sit on the seat that is overlooked, but set up two additional stools next to the throne, which is regarded as equal to the king.
Since the intensification of the civil strife, the ministers of the royal capital have long run and hid a lot, and there are only seven or eight people who still appear in this palace, and they are all waiting, but they are somewhat surprised by Xiao Lin's arrival, but for them, what they need is the representative of Shuguang Academy, and it doesn't matter who they are.
After Xiao Lin and Liang Taibai sat down, this temporary meeting officially began, and first of all, a fully armed general-like person stood up to report the current situation.
"Shortly after nightfall, there was movement in the automatic guard tower at the east gate, and of course a few soldiers in charge of guarding the city thought something was wrong and went out to check it out, and then there was a brief confrontation......
I happened to be nearby, and then I realized that something was wrong, and turned on the searchlight that was funded by the Dawning Academy, and then I noticed that a large army was approaching, and it had basically formed a circle......"
Liang Taibai immediately asked, and asked a lot of information in detail, such as the number of enemies and the forces they belonged to, including formations and equipment, etc., but because it was too hasty, the general did not have much information, and he was shocked at that time, and he immediately ran back to report this matter first, waiting for the king's decision.
"It's definitely a rebel, don't think about it!"
Some people were a little dissatisfied with Liang Taibai's questioning, but it was not easy to show this emotion too explicitly, so they turned to the king and said anxiously: "Your Royal Highness, while the enemy has not yet been completely encircled, and the cover of the night, please immediately organize troops to carry out a surprise attack!"
” "Yes!
Please leave immediately!
Only His Highness must not be caught, otherwise we Rose will have no future!
” "Please leave immediately, Your Highness!
Now that the royal capital has almost no defense, as long as we break through and join up with the army sent two days ago, we still have a chance!
” Several ministers spoke earnestly, all of them were persuading the king to immediately and immediately, and they would also cast angry glances at Liang Taibai when they spoke, of course, they also knew that Shuguang Academy deliberately removed the king from the escort list, intending to let the king die.
The king waved his hand slightly to signal the ministers to calm down, then turned his head to look at Liang Taibai, and asked slowly, "I don't know if you two have any suggestions and opinions on this?"
” The king's old face was very calm, and he did not show the slightest panic because of the siege, and he didn't know if he was pretending to be calm, or if he knew that he would inevitably die if he became an outcast of the Dawning Academy, so he gave up on himself.
Xiao Lin secretly speculated, but whatever the reason, he had absolutely no good impression of this king he met for the first time, it had nothing to do with the Dawning Academy, it had nothing to do with this principality, and it had nothing to do with the hungry and cold poor people in the principality, just because the man sitting on the throne was Ibeya's biological grandfather!
Although Ibeya's cute little Lori is true and false, making it difficult to distinguish between true and false, but in terms of her life experience, Ibeya basically has no lies, which has also been confirmed by Xiao Lin from various aspects of quiet investigation.
Ibea is indeed a hybrid of human and vampire races, and her biological mother is the eldest princess of the Duchy of Roses, that is, the daughter of the king in front of her, so Ibea is naturally his own granddaughter.
But Ibea's childhood was very miserable, the blood of the St.
Croix family in her body made her destined to be in danger at the same time, his father was hunted to death, and the royal family of the Rose never recognized her existence, and even forcibly expelled the eldest princess from the palace, and after the eldest princess died of blood loss after giving birth to Ibea, Ibea lived with his uncle, the old man.
(To be continued.) )