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The heavy sound of horses' hooves echoed in the streets, startling the doors and windows of every house, and a few brave ones quietly opened the cracks in the windows to peek outside, but they could only see columns of cavalry in silver armor slowly passing through the streets, followed by groups of infantry with neat steps, it was the main force of the Silver Wing Knights who entered the city.

Cleverley sat on his horse, wearing a set of luxurious casual clothes that did not fit in with his surroundings, and his whole person kept looking left and right, and his expression was very leisurely.

This "second prince" doesn't seem to have any tension in the fight for the throne, but he looks relaxed like a son who is going out, and he doesn't forget to tease Prime Minister Paul next to him.

"Prime Minister, you seem to be nervous, nervousness is contagious, and it will put pressure on your subordinates."

Prime Minister Paul snorted coldly, and said in a flat tone: "Your Highness, you should take care of yourself." ”

In front of others, Prime Minister Paul certainly will not expose the true identity of Cleverley, who occupies the body of the real second prince.

It's just that Leon's death obviously made Prime Minister Paul very angry, so much so that even with his heart and quality in the political arena for so many years, he can't even do it with Cleverley at this moment.

But Cleverley completely ignored Prime Minister Paul's indifference, and had no intention of shutting up at all: "I don't quite understand, you see that the south city is already in flames, I'm afraid that Charles Avenue will be burned down by the group of cubs under Duke Lean, why are you still leading the army here to crawl forward unhurriedly?" ”

Prime Minister Paul took a deep look at Cleverley, and knew that if he didn't tell the truth, then this guy probably wouldn't shut up: "What does it matter to me whether they live or die?" ”

Cleverley laughed and couldn't help but sigh a few times in admiration: "Your cruelty is truly chilling, dear Prime Minister. Actually, if I had to guess, maybe you'd have wanted to get rid of the guys who live on Charles Avenue for a long time, after all, none of those guys stepped up to your aid when you were in trouble, did they? ”

Prime Minister Paul snorted again and did not continue to speak, but he was slightly surprised in his heart, because what Cleverley said was indeed what he thought in his heart.

In Prime Minister Paul's view, if he wants to be an out-and-out powerful minister, then the more important ministers, generals and aristocratic families of the empire on Charles Avenue will naturally die as much as possible, and it is better to have no one left, after all, there are many people who are both qualified and capable of stumbling and fighting for power.

Therefore, Prime Minister Paul is of course not in a hurry to march into the South City, compared with the magnificent and luxurious Charles Avenue, Prime Minister Paul hopes that what appears in front of him is a large ruin of Charles with broken walls and corpses everywhere.

At this time, a scout came to Prime Minister Paul: "Prime Minister Qiqi, the eight hundred knights sent by our army to the Ice Bear family encountered the five hundred knights led by General Brian, and after the battle, our knights were defeated, and it is roughly estimated that more than half of the casualties were lost, and the leader of the leading group was killed in battle!" ”

"What?" Prime Minister Paul subconsciously frowned, and a trace of anger flashed across his face: "A full eight hundred Silver Wing Knights, even five hundred Blood Knights can't beat them?" Who told me that the Scarlet Knights are no match for the Blade Knights? ”

The surrounding Silver Wing Knights generals all lowered their heads involuntarily after hearing this, and their faces also showed expressions of shame.

You must know that the Silver Wing Knights have always thought that their combat effectiveness is slightly better than that of the Scarlet Knights, but now they are being killed by others with more fights and fewer fights, which is really a bit unimpressive!

Of course, there are also some people who have other thoughts in their hearts, these people feel that this defeat is actually a crime of non-war, mainly because Prime Minister Paul killed General Powell, the supreme commander of the Silver Wing Knights, which caused the knights to lose their morale to the opponent, and Prime Minister Paul has to bear this pot.

Obviously, the people who think this way are those who are loyal to General Powell, after all, Powell has been in charge of the Silver Wing Knights for several years, and it is impossible to do without a few henchmen and cronies.

For the sake of the stability of the army, Prime Minister Paul did not immediately purge these General Powell's men after seizing power, and still let them lead the army in their original positions.

But even then, these people are unlikely to be loyal to Prime Minister Paul.

It's just that at the moment, Prime Minister Paul's side has firmly mastered the Silver Wing Knights, so these dissenting generals will naturally not jump out and go against the Prime Minister - that is simply looking for death, but once the seeds of rebellion appear, they are deeply rooted in their hearts, and once they find an opportunity, these seeds will be eager to take root and sprout, and finally devour the enemy with roots and leaves.

In any case, this news made Prime Minister Paul feel very unhappy.

You must know that these 800 knights were specially sent by him to protect his own mansion, after all, the mansion of the Ice Bear family is also on Charles Avenue, it doesn't matter if you burn other people's homes, it will definitely not work if you burn your own.

But now that these 800 Silver Wing Knights have been defeated, doesn't this mean that the control of the Ice Bear Family Mansion has completely fallen into the hands of the Scarlet Knights?

At this moment, the army is still a long way from Nancheng District, and even if Prime Minister Paul orders the whole army to advance quickly, I am afraid that the entire mansion will have burned to the ground by the time he arrives!

Therefore, although the Prime Minister was extremely angry in his heart, he could only press down and slowly lead the army to continue to advance.

Didn't you just burn down a mansion? Wait until you build a better, bigger, and more luxurious one! The Prime Minister comforted himself.

On the other side of the battlefield, Cleverley asked the same question to Duke Lean: "Uncle, Lord Duke, I think I should give an order to let these knights stop?" If this continues, the entire avenue of Charles will be burned down! ”

Cleverley was not wrong, at the beginning, the Scarlet Knights still broke into the door according to the pre-drawn list to carry out the extermination operation, but once the killing began, it was difficult to stop, when all the targets on the list had been cleared, the Scarlet Knights who had already killed the red eyes did not wait for the enemy-the Silver Wing Knights, so these Scarlet Knights naturally expanded the killing target to those nearby mansions that were not included in the list.

Anyway, the generals and adults are not there, so what can Lao Tzu do even if he kills a few more? Besides, even if I kill it, who knows? Now the whole Charles Avenue is all in chaos! Thick smoke and dust are billowing everywhere, who can see who did it?

Under this mentality, thousands of murderous Scarlet Knights turned the entire mansions on Charles Avenue into cemeteries and a sea of fire.

Unlike the knights who only had the intention of killing, Cleverley didn't want to offend all the magnates on Charles Avenue.

After all, in Cleverley's opinion, after he ascends the throne, he will have to rely on the support of these people to stabilize his rule, as long as he kills the die-hard faction who supports Prime Minister Paul, it is almost enough, and the rest can be lenient as long as they abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

But it's a shame that, at this point in time, Cleverley's words aren't all that useful – or, to put it more bluntly, not at all.

Duke Lean, who had just arrived at Charles Avenue with 17,000 infantry, looked at Charles Avenue in front of him, and sighed softly: "It's too late, Your Highness." ”

What Cleverley didn't know was that such an outcome was actually something that his uncle, Duke Lean, would like.

Otherwise, why was General Brian, the best person who could control the situation and restrain the knights from killing at will, be transferred and assigned by Duke Lean to lead the army to raid the Ice Bear Mansion?

Prime Minister Paul is not the only one who wants to be a minister.