The resistance of the rebels led by Lieutenant Varrokar was far more fragile than expected, and they spent much more time explaining to the defenders what they intended to do than they did to fight them, in fact, most of the soldiers of the royal court guard did not resist much, and after learning of their intentions, these soldiers did not hesitate to drop their weapons, and some even joined them with cheers.
So when the sky was shining, they had completely occupied the entire royal tent, and the entire Valley of Refuge had regained order at this time.
It was almost a perfect coup d'état, with few casualties and bloodshed from the time the rebels started, and in the end, the only difference between the whole royal court and the previous one was that the guards standing outside the prince's tent were replaced by rebels.
Unfortunately, the rebel soldiers found his body in the tent of Field Marshal Oslet, a veteran of the Second Orc War who was torn between loyalty to the royal family and loyalty to the kingdom of Fort Rapids, and finally committed suicide to save his honor.
On this very day, the Senate was formed, and this group of nobles, soldiers, priests, and commoners became the supreme authority of the kingdom of Rapids, and the two consuls appointed by it, Varokar and Amaron, held the military and political power of the kingdom, respectively.
The original prince Garin?
Torbain, as the titular ruler of the kingdom, was confined in his splendid tent, and had no more power over the company of fine wine.
During this stormy process of regime change, Saint Diego and his Storm Whip never appeared, as if they had no part in this historical event.
In the days that followed, the first thing Varocal and Amaron did when they came to power was to set about reassembling the kingdom's army in preparation for the recapture of Riptide Castle.
The Arathi people living in the Valley of Refuge are eager to move back to their homeland, away from the fear and precariousness of their refugee life.
In fact, at this time, they could see the grim situation faced by the Riptide Castle Kingdom, they couldn't even put together a full legion, and it wasn't until three new companies were selected from the refugees that they barely scraped together ten hundred companies with incomplete weapons and equipment.
And if it weren't for the timely delivery of a batch of food from the nearby Dabire farm, they wouldn't even have enough military rations to feed their stomachs.
But even these difficult conditions could not extinguish the flame of the Alahi people's desire for restoration, and a week after the coup, in addition to the two companies that remained, the new army of five companies, which Captain Niès, had already led three companies to support Fort Riptide on the day after the coup was completed, left the Valley of Refuge and headed for Fort Riptide.
Diego and his Storm Whip set out with this army, but as an elite assault force, the Storm Whip did not mix with these recruits, but went it alone.
The Syndicate is not ignorant of their arrival, in fact, as a criminal organization that started by stealing and looting, they are better informed than anyone else.
So by the time the New Army arrived at Fort Riptide, they were ready for battle.
However, they were not determined to fight the Arathi either, so they simply stood at the gates of the Upper City instead of Fort Rapids, allowing the new army to pass through the gates and the empty avenue and turn into the Lower City.
As the capital of the Arathas Empire, Fort Riptide was known for its impregnable defenses from the time it was built.
Looking at the strong walls, thick gates, watchtowers, and magnificent castles, it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a military fortress.
Not only the outer walls, but also the inner districts of the city were separated by walls and gates, so that even if the enemy captured a part of the city, the defenders could continue to fight in the streets and hold on to the strong internal fortifications.
This is also the real reason why Captain Nièss only relied on two companies to defend the cemetery and the lower city, and they only had to guard the exit to these two districts.
But even so, they still held extremely hard, you know, the Syndicate who occupied the upper city had seven companies, and the Ogre who occupied the city of the Tower of Arathor were seventy or eighty - the sheer size and strength of this race made them invincible even when fighting the humans - although the terrain was favorable, the Arathi were inferior in terms of numbers and equipment.
So when the new troops arrived, the defenders who were under pressure couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"This is the Upper Town, where the Syndicates have stationed about seven hundred men, and their chief, the Duke of Facurrest, lives in the main castle; This is the Tower of Aratho, and there are probably nearly a hundred ogres who have made it their lair, and their leader is Ocalal, a tyrannical fellow.
Among these ogres were about forty or fifty trolls of the Deadwood tribe, probably servants of the ogres.
As the most familiar with the situation, Captain Nièss pointed to the map on the table and told Valokar and the officers about Fort Riptide.
As she spoke, everyone's faces became more and more ugly, just from the converted paper data, the syndicates, ogres, and trolls had more troops than them, and even if they could be defeated, it would be a disastrous victory.
There was silence in the room, and everyone looked at the map as if they were trying to see flowers on it.
"Well, let's think about it carefully, there are always more ways than difficulties, and we will always find a way!"
Valocar did his best to cheer everyone up, but to be honest, it seemed like an unsolvable problem to him.
"How do these syndicates manage their food supply?"
In the midst of this dreary atmosphere, Diego suddenly asked.
He wondered what the Syndicates were living on when they were entrenched in the Upper City and seldom went out to raid.
"This ......"
Varocal looked at Diego with some embarrassment, as if he didn't know what to say.
"It's a granary!
It was Garin's haphazard maneuvers that gave the Syndicates an opportunity to take advantage of it, and they drove us down before we even had time to burn down the granary.
Captain Nièss said without mince words.
Truth be told, she hated the culprit for all of this more than anyone in the room.
"It's the warehouse that Arashi used to cope with the disaster year, and there is enough food in it to feed all the Arathi for an entire year."
Varocal said abruptly.
The land of the Arathi Heights was barren, and it was difficult to be self-sufficient in food, which the old king had bought from other countries using his treasury, and now it was cheaply syndicated.
"The Syndicate also controls the Northford Farm in the north, which can provide some output!"
Samuel?
Hawke added.
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As a baggage officer in charge of logistics, he also came to Fort Rapids with the team.
"So, what about these ogres, and what do they live on?"
Diego asked again.
"These ogres have always been fed by the Syndicate, they are more like thugs hired by the Syndicate, and sometimes these monsters will also snatch the corpses of people who died in battle back and eat them."
Nièss said angrily, in her opinion, it was a blasphemy against the warriors who had died in battle.
"How often does the Syndicate bring them food?"
"About once every three days, these ogres are all pot-bellied men, and if they give less, they won't have enough to eat."
"Do the Syndicates often go to the ogre's territory?"
"No, they rarely go to the ogre's side except to deliver supplies, because the ogre is very brutal, and if a lone human comes to them, they will usually only be eaten, and these monsters will not be the Syndicate or ours."
Diego suddenly remembered the strange recipe called "The Cooking Guide", which was invented by ogres, monsters who always had a special penchant for tender human flesh and could never resist their temptation.
In fact, ogres have a very mixed diet, not only humans, but other intelligent races, such as minotaurs, orcs, dwarves, and goblins, are on their food lists, and if they are really hungry and can't stand it, the sour and hard-wooded trolls can also swallow it.
"I think I've got an idea."
Diego said with a smile.