Because Prince Sindar ignored the mistakes of the two legionnaires for delaying the plane, Sir Kim Valle changed his attack strategy the next day, pretending to continue the assault on the northern walls of Ellukburg, while secretly asking his men to spend a lot of money to buy the merchants of Tyre Town, allowing them to infiltrate the southeastern hinterland of El Luk in order to help him create chaos in the northern walls.

But what Sir Kim Valle did not expect was that very afternoon, the merchant he had bought off sold his information to the rebels at a much higher price!

The city's defenders transcribed all the words he had given to the Foot Traders and sent them to Sir Kim's desk, where he angrily slashed and killed the other two foot traders who were on his secret mission.

While Sir Kim and his staff were about to discuss other countermeasures, an order came from the command in the central barracks: assemble at least one corps and attack the walls northwest of the castle tomorrow morning.

The northwestern part of the city is an intricate series of walls and moats.

Sir Kim took the order in his hand and read it more than three times, and his chief of staff, Sir Oro Ibby, said: "The command is looking for a breakthrough in this area. He looked at the simple plan map of Fort Iruk in the camp: "Although this wall seems to be strong, it is precisely because of its complexity that it is impossible to garrison more soldiers, and in front of the wall is a flat ground that is conducive to the deployment of a large army. ”

"The rebels placed a large number of heavy crossbows and catapults here, and the open area was equally advantageous for the enemy's heavy weapons. Sir Kim frowned, "I don't want to be like the Sixth Legion who was abandoned in a corner by His Royal Highness the Prince after exhausting its elite troops. ”

Ser Oro corrected, "The Sixth Legion has not been abandoned, and Prince Sindar is replenishing the Sixth Legion with better equipment. ”

Sir Kim tugged at his slightly tightened belly armor and said with a slightly disdainful expression, "Come on, a group of knights who have just come of age with their own private soldiers and subordinates, they are just pawns of His Royal Highness the Prince to control the Sixth Legion. ”

"But it is undeniable that the Sixth Army will gain a higher status as a result. ”

"This maybe," Kim said after he stopped abruptly in the middle of his sentence, stared at his chief of staff with a pair of sharp eyes for a few seconds, and then said, "immediately give the 10th Corps an order to move as quickly as possible to the northwest of the Iruk Territory... Remember, make sure that the 10th Corps has enough combat supplies. ”

The Chief of Staff, Sir Oro, took the order, and Kim was so excited that he began to fantasize about the status and rewards that would be awarded if he won the war, but what Kim didn't know was that Prince Sindar had sent the same order to both the Eighth Legion and the Provisional Fifteenth Legion.

...

At a time when the war at Fort Iruk was in a stalemate, the situation around the Yekjar military port was also changing.

First of all, at 9 o'clock on the morning of the 8th, after the Nexus City fleet (formerly the fourth and fifth detachments of the combined fleet) failed to deceive the combined fleet into patrolling near the Masen Islands, the two sides engaged in a two-hour chase battle in the western waters of the Masen Islands.

At a quarter past three o'clock in the afternoon, the elven fleet launched an attack on the combined fleet stationed in the masson islands in order to seize sea supremacy from the southwest to the southeast of the Yekjar military port.

The two sides fought for ten hours in the waters west of the Masson Islands.

At around one o'clock in the middle of the night the next day, Colonel Buck, who had run out of crossbow arrows, led the combined fleet in a brutal broadside battle against the elven and werewolf fleets under the cover of the mage tower fleet.

After two hours of hard fighting, the Mage Tower fleet sent an emissary to Colonel Buck, "We have few spellcasting materials left, and the mages are exhausted, Commander Koba will order the fleet to withdraw from the combat area after half an hour." ”

Colonel Barker, who had just retired from the front line, roared angrily when he heard this: "You have just joined the battle for less than two hours, and our soldiers have been fighting for more than twelve hours, are you qualified to tell me that you are tired?"

"Mages don't fight in the same way, Your Excellency Colonel, we..."

"Puff" Crimson blood spurted like a pillar, and a smiling head spun in the air a few times before rolling on the deck with a "thump... Boom...". Then, a headless corpse fell to the ground with a "pounce", blood... Sprinkle all over the second deck.

Buck, who was trembling with anger, directly lifted the scimitar, which had not yet withdrawn its scabbard, and cut off the head of the messenger!

"You damned deserters!" Colonel Barker roared.

"Colonel," said Captain Merlot, who approached, calmly gazing at the corpses on the deck, "give the order to retreat." ”

At around four o'clock in the morning on January 9, the Combined Fleet, which had been fighting for more than fourteen hours in the waters west of the Masson Islands, was forced to withdraw from the battle because of the retreat of the Mage Tower.

This retreat also announced the complete withdrawal of the Combined Fleet from the struggle for sea supremacy in the port of Yekjar, and at the same time, the defeat of this battle marked the complete history of the Imperial Navy.

From now on, nearly two-thirds of the sea area of the Alan Continent will have elves and werewolves in charge!

By the time the news reached Fort Caval, Crewe, it was already 9 a.m.

When Pedi heard the news, he ended his meeting with the Kru nobles and immediately summoned his henchmen.

Thousands of miles away, in the imperial capital of Suke, Duke Nick knew about the situation two hours before Pedi.

But Duke Nick did not immediately make the news public, he only went to the church before going to the prime minister's office, and talked to several bishops of the church for half an hour.

Then, Duke Nick came to the Prime Minister's Office as usual.

The Imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer, Count Stu-Gara, had been waiting outside the Prime Minister's office for a long time, and after a brief greeting, the two entered the office side by side, and Count Stu first said: "According to the latest tax statistics, the Empire's financial situation will improve in two months. He's lost a lot of weight lately, at least a lot more when he looks through the papers, "It's not going to completely change the Empire's poor economic climate, but it can finally give us a breath of relief." ”

Duke Nick didn't show a happy or happy expression, he nodded and said, "What is the attitude of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance now?"

Count Stu smiled, "What can I do, soon the goods they have hoarded at a high price will become worthless, and just yesterday many merchants consciously withdrew from the Chamber of Commerce alliance and began to sell their goods at the market price." ”

"I'm not interested in these everyday items. Duke Nick stared at Count Stu and said solemnly: "I need the war materials in their hands, you go, you go and tell them in person, the war materials in the warehouse in the Normaburg area must be liquidated three days ago, and the handover with the officials sent by the Prime Minister's Office must be completed." ”

"Duke, this will..."

"If Viscount Dempto does not agree, I will sentence all adult men of the Bob family to death by hanging for collaborating with the enemy. The Prime Minister's cold voice made Earl Stu fall into an ice cellar, "It seems that the hanging tree in the ancestral cemetery has not been hung with new corpses for a long time, right?"

"Those people weren't as easy to deal with as the trade unions. Count Stu reminded the Imperial Prime Minister, "The Fort Norma region cannot afford turmoil!"

Duke Nick said in a flat tone: "My friend, the empire is now in a time of war, and you need to learn to think about the Chamber of Commerce alliance with war thinking... The Heavy Cavalry Regiment is not putting on a show in the southwestern region of the Suke Plain!"

Hearing this, Count Stu frowned, and after a few seconds of silence, he said, "I hope your decision is correct." ”

"The right decision depends on what we're going to do next. "Duke Nick didn't care about the threat of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance.

"Well," said Count Stu, who was not going to dwell on the matter, pulled out a few rolls of thick paper full of words in his bosom, and said, "This is a proposal for new taxes, and if you have no opinion, I will announce it in the name of the Cabinet." ”

Duke Nick took a general look, this is the result agreed a few days ago, and there are many new tax items, such as: inheritance tax, luxury tax, personal tax, public land tax, and so on. These items were not decided by the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Finance, but were enumerated by representatives of the Confederation of Trade Unions, and it is worth mentioning that one of the leaders of the Confederation of Trade Unions, Sim-Erke, held the post of Under-Secretary of the Fourth Seat of the Reich Treasury.

Ten minutes later, Count Stu left with a bag full of papers.

Later, Duke Nick summoned his retinue.

...

Eleven o'clock in the evening,

North of Fort Norma, in the southwestern region of the Suke Plain, the base camp of the Chamber of Commerce... In the Merolini Manor in the newly built market town of Sima by the merchant aristocracy, more than a dozen high-ranking officials of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance are walking out of the manor villa one after another after a full day of meetings.

The noisy quarrel was not interrupted by the end of the meeting, and the two nobles with different opinions even drew their swords at the door, if it were not for the obstruction of the people around them, they were afraid that they would really fight hard.

"Pounce"

Suddenly, an arrow slashed through the dark night sky and pierced the throat of a merchant.

A smear of blood was particularly dazzling under the reflection of the surrounding torches,

"Pounce"

Before these pampered merchants could react, another arrow took the life of another merchant again!

"Be careful, there are assassins!" the guards reacted, drawing their swords and raising their shields in an attempt to rush to their master's side as fast as they could, but the lack of command and coordination only made the scene more chaotic throughout the manor.

"Step... Tread..."

The sound of horses' hooves speeding along the stone pavement was particularly loud, and a dense line of torches floated up and down to reach the outside of the manor.

"Poof" A light that seemed to be able to cut through all darkness suddenly rose into the air at the gate of the manor, and the iron gate was melted in an instant, and the low courtyard walls around it collapsed with a bang.

"Get in!" a cold, emotionless voice came from outside.

The chaotic sound of horses' hooves began to become rhythmic, coupled with the scorching flames at the gate and the constant 'clanging' of weapons colliding, which was enough to confuse the noble merchants in the courtyard, and the few calls such as 'calm down' and 'steady' did not silence these nobles.

"Bang. The door to the manor house slammed shut.

"Open the door!" the nobles shouted heartbreakingly, slamming the windows and doors around the villa.

"Temple, you devil who deserves to go to hell!"

"Bastard Temple, open the door!"

"Shit, open the door!"

"Gracious Viscount Temple, please open the door..."

The cursing and pleading did not open the closed door, and soon a group of cavalrymen in black leather armor rushed into the courtyard.

After a few seconds, the screams of wild ghosts began to resound in the sky, accompanied by the silent dripping of crimson blood under the night sky.

In just two minutes, the battle was over.

Five minutes later, there was not a single living person in the manor compound, and the nobles and their guards who had gathered in the courtyard were all stabbed to death, and the black cavalry had long since left.

Ten minutes later, the warehouse area in the northern part of Sima Market Town was swept by fire, and the supplies piled up there were snatched up by a group of black-clothed cavalry, and then burned by them!

On the balcony on the second floor of the villa at the scene of the massacre just now, Dempto looked at the fire in the distance and said to the two people beside him: "The anger of the Imperial Prime Minister is not something that anyone can bear, how about it?

"Duke Nick has already made the decision for us, hasn't he?" a young man muttered, looking at the corpses in the courtyard below with hatred, "We'll settle this account sooner or later." ”

"You have more enemies than you thought of the Prime Minister of the Empire, but he still sits on a high place and looks down on us. The bald middle-aged man in a black brocade robe said to the young man: "Don't mention this kind of thing in the future." ”(https:)

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