Vol 6 Chapter 112: Chess player

The imperial capital, the heavenly palace.
After the assassination night, the palace is now heavily guarded-at least two legionnaires stand guard in front of each door under almost every colonnade; and as the noble parliament hall and royal front cabinet, There is at least one entire 100-person shift guard at all times.
The style is completely different from that of Eckhardt II.
This made the nobles of the imperial capital very painful; indeed, they chose one of the most "perfect" emperors themselves, but this emperor was too perfect and too hard-working, so hard-working that he was almost hands-on.
Tax increases for nobles, war donations, logistics supply road planning, the establishment of warehouses at various supply stations in the empire, the requisition of local nobles ’granaries, negotiations with the Great Chamber of Commerce ... Emperor Connor I was just as the nobles expected at the beginning Like that, it is a born emperor.
He seems to be born to exercise the authority of the emperor, and he knows how to use the power of these authorities to the extreme within the principles of law.
The "Imperial Council" symbolizing the authority of the empire was changed from once a month to once a week, and the Yuqian cabinet was open throughout the week and discussed and discussed all the "new ideas" put forward by the emperor.
And Connor I, as the emperor of "all hopes", he followed the imperial code and allowed any imperial minister or noble to have different opinions from him and accept the requests and suggestions made by everyone.
Similarly, as an emperor, he also has the right to put forward "new" ideas to let the parliament continue to "discuss" when his ordinance is not passed-not to disband the meeting before discussing the results!
The locked gates, the heavily armed guards ... Even if the nobles are so bold that they want to stand up and resist, they have to measure whether they can escape to the sky dome where a whole legion is stationed.
After three days of "non-violent non-cooperation", looking at Connor I, who was still energetic on the throne, the nobles who were tortured to severe exhaustion and trance finally finally had to admit that it was the emperor who was stronger. a little.
As for the coup ... Connold, with the support of the Fortress of the Boundary Mountain and all the dukes, and even the church, is not afraid of any mutiny.
For those nobles who were blameless, the Emperor Connold gave them two options-either to be decapitated in jail, or he would dissolve the parliament and reorganize a "more loyal".
After one-fifth of the nobility went to jail, one-tenth of the nobility died suddenly in the parliament, and one-tenth of the nobility was beheaded, the remaining nobility finally understood what the "more loyal" parliament in the emperor's mouth was appearance:
The emperor is the parliament, the emperor is the empire, the will of the emperor is the will of the empire ... they, they will practice the will of the emperor-to be the most diligent servant, and the most faithful rubber stamp.
Under such "spiritual guidance", the imperial parliament became unprecedentedly efficient and unprecedentedly violent-all nobles and bureaucrats were recklessly implementing the emperor's ideas.
Only the Holy Cross Church has no action from beginning to end-apart from handing over donations and gold and silver utensils from the congregation, it has not taken to the streets to advocate for the emperor, nor has it stood up to rebelliously, and has been quiet from beginning to end.
This quietness made Connold smell strange; but in the present situation, he also has no spare time to interfere with the church's decisions and ideas, and he can only let it be under the premise that the other party maintains cooperation.
After gathering (scraping) all the materials and funds in the imperial capital, hiring (forcing) all the tools and livestock, and establishing a supply line between the imperial capital and Ebden, which is enough to support the squander of the 200,000 army, the price of the imperial capital also follows It soared to the point where even nobles could not bear it.
So Connor also started his next plan-to hire a large number of impoverished people in the imperial capital to form the so-called "Golovin Army", which became the cornerstone of the supply line and army logistics.
He had to do the same, otherwise, after searching for so many materials, the emperor would be hungry and rioting everywhere before the war began.
Only Golovin, a large city with a population of one million, can provide Emperor Connold with such huge supplies and manpower.
"Connold, Eboden has news."
A tone without any emotion sounded at the table of the Yuqian cabinet.
The ministers present here looked back silently, looking at the figure of Qianli who had just entered the door and sat down in a "hall of emperor"-a person who could appear unrestricted on such a big occasion and dared to call the emperor's name directly. One.
The long princess plus the current leader of the night watchman, His Royal Highness Fitlonay de Salion.
"Loren Turin suppressed the rebellion in Ebden, the army of the Azores has been on the ground?" Although the tone of the inquiry, Connold's expression was quite certain.
If he can't even do this, then it's not Duke Byrne.
"How many enemies?"
"One hundred warships, the whole army is not less than one hundred thousand; it is said that there are powerful alchemic trebuchets with a range of more than 500 steps."
After finishing speaking, Her Royal Highness Princess closed her eyes and raised her mind without saying a word.
There was a slight movement in front of the table of the Yuqian cabinet, and there was an exclamation of desperation.
"One hundred thousand ... The army in the hands of Loren Turin is about 20,000 or 30,000, most of them are mercenaries without fighting spirit, and the elite should be less than about 10,000." Staring at the map on the table, Connor De shook his head: "He can't hold it for too long."
"Metternich, how is our army preparing?"
"According to your will, we are continuing to assemble and build stable supply stations and garrison camps-the 20,000 troops of the Fortress of the Boundary Mountain. The soldiers of the Legion recruited by East Sakland are also going south." Bi Gongbi respectfully said:
"It will take time to complete the assembly completely."
"It will take some time ..." Connold sneered suddenly. "That is to say, before the destruction of Loren Turin's army and the destruction of the city, will you not let the army build up?"
Metternich looked startled: "Your Majesty! We never have ..."
"Okay, I don't mean to blame." Emperor Connold waved his hand and stopped the Minister of the Seal and the Secretary of the Army who still wanted to defend: "Since the army of the Empire is too late, let the other Dukes fulfill their promises. . "
"Open the East Sacran border and let Poe's hussars walk the Quartet to Eboden ... What about Lotel's army?"
"It has been drawn and is coming from the river valley." Military Minister Shen said, "A total of eight thousand people, mainly light infantry, and one-third are the most elite Longbow Army in Lotel."
"Send a church messenger to Lotel and urge the local church not to obstruct it." Connor ordered: "Send another messenger to write a letter to the Red Blood Fort, telling them in detail about the battle situation in Ebden . "
"I want to see how the loyal knights of Byrne will plan after knowing that their duke is in Ebden!"
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"boom------!!!!"
The "beam of light" ejected from the launcher glanced across the sky, and the dazzling fire burst through the walls of Eboden, sounding at the same time as the eagle's roar.
After a night of temptation, the real confrontation finally began.
Still maintaining the depth of the two wings, the trapezoidal array of elven fleets began to approach the port. By the early morning sea water tide and the morning wind of the warships, the sails opened their sails, just like giants in groups.
Almost every tower in Eboden ’s city wall has at least one heavy ballista; and in the space between the towers, a large trebuchet is placed in the rear-the only two in the city that can fight 500 heavy steps The catapult was deployed inside the ring fortress.
At the top of the tower, the expressionless dark-haired wizard still stood where he was last time, and looked far away at the approaching elven warship; Lussene standing behind him stared at Loren ’s flattened right hand, his heart tight. To the limit.
Obviously it was a very tiny movement, but it seemed to be very important.
Just as the long oars were protruding from both sides of the elven warship, the black wizard's right hand fell gently.
Lu Sien's pupils shrank suddenly, and he thrilled directly:
"Vertical flag!"
The surrounding Bayern knights were shocked, as if instinctively holding up the battle flags in their hands-twenty black gold lion flags on the black, appeared uniformly on the top of the tower, very eye-catching.
The next second, a curtain of steel chains suddenly tore the sea, ending at the circular fortresses at both ends and the ancient castle across the river, blocking the coast of Ebden.
Although the sailors of the elf fleet noticed the anomaly the first time the battle flag appeared, it was still a step late ... The first two battleships, the bow of the ship hit the chain straight.
"boom--!"
In the horrible loud noise, the wooden boards of the two battleships' waterline shattered the general response!
Straight and slender chains in front of the battleship, like a long sword-after the burst of "wailing" sound, the completely deformed keel of the keel was finally broken into two pieces.
The sound of broken decks, the sound of broken sails, the panicked sailors, the warriors who fell into the water ... The curtain of steel chains not only completely destroyed the two warships, but even the warships with the back row unable to retreat were trapped. dilemma.
Almost at the same time, the Circular Fortress roared with all the trebuchets on the front of the coast-the long rocker arm dragged the leather bag full of ammunition and fuel oil tanks, and threw it out in the direction of the chain.
There is no need to aim at all, because all the catapults and ballistas were fixed at a range of sight two days ago, all within 20 steps before and after the chain!
"boom------!!!!"
Thunderous loud noises rushed one after another as the shadows rushed to the surface; many fire oil cans filled with hot oil and igniting agents shattered in the air without falling, and the golden-red "rainwater" poured down Down.
The deck, the sails, the mast ... the collapsed and sinking warship, gradually turning the originally scattered flame into a sky-high fire, the whole sea surface was vomiting with golden red tongue.
The elf warriors who had not been able to evacuate were too dense and were almost blocked in groups in the cabin. Before they could escape, they were already swallowed by the flames, or they gradually sank underwater with the warship ...
The elf sailors who finally escaped were either roasted alive on the surface of the sea, or turned into targets for catapults and ballistas-at a distance of nearly five hundred steps, the ammunition was of course difficult to target; but the stone ball exploded The waves of the water are enough to recapture the dying elves back to the bottom of the sea.
Looking at the cruel scene in front of him like a on earth, the soldiers on the city wall have been collectively silent; but the soldiers behind the city wall and the tower can't see anything. Until the order comes or the ammunition is empty.
Loren didn't mean to stop at all.
If you want to seduce the enemy to attack the castle, you must take advantage of the fact that you are now hurting the other party so badly that he will never dare to attack Ebden in such a hard way, until it hurts them.
Two or three warships are far from being hurt.
"Let the rear projection forces gradually slow down the offensive and put the enemy's dinghy into the port." Loren ordered: "All city defense troops immediately entered the fortification position and prepared for defense."
"We are going to hurt them fiercely under the wall!"
"Observe!"
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The crystal lens of the single-pass telescope accurately showed a sea of ​​fire in the distance, and the scene of the elf warriors struggling and wailing in the sea was presented in front of the little prince.
On the silent deck of the raven, the elf warrior gates frowned, their expressions painful or their faces fierce, or they could not bear to look straight at them.
None of them noticed the corner of the little prince's inadvertently quietly raised mouth.
"His Royal Highness, do you want to order the evacuation ... to gather the rest and reorganize the army?" Alice Sandra, chief deputy governor of the court, when she was about to say "retreat", was used by the sharp elf girl Lolly. He tapped his calf lightly and quickly changed his mouth:
"If your Highness needs it, I would like to take the lead to charge and capture the enemy chief port for you!"
"Don't look so serious, Miss Alexandra, the enemy is just bluffing-the more they use this method to hinder us ~ EbookFREE.me ~ the more they show that their army is vulnerable to the elf warrior. "
The little prince smiled softly: "Let the warship in front gather the remaining parts as quickly as possible to make room; then put down the boat and land to attack."
"Oh, that's right! Tell Master Chief Eugen, the Chief Executive, and say ... it's time for him to act."
"Yes!"
Alexandra nodded vigorously and turned to look at the deck: "May I be the soldier who will die for His Royal Highness Rodria, come with me!"
In the chaotic footsteps and the uniform response, nearly half of the samurai were on the deck of the flagship.
Only the blindfolded elf girl Loli, with a group of imperial court warriors, still stood in place.
"Oh, the noisy guys have left, so much quieter." A small prince who smiled happily, reassuredly picked up the binoculars, the transparent lens was re-aligned in the direction of the tower, and the corner of his mouth was raised :
"The beginning ... always full of surprises!"