Chapter 34: Night Attack
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Before Taylor left, Milan gave him a large bag of money. All this money she saved when she was working in the Bluestone Palace, Milan didn't spend much money on weekdays, so she saved all her salary, and wanted to find an opportunity to send it home, but she never found an opportunity. At the New Year's party, Milan noticed Taylor's speculation with a maid of the guard, she didn't know that Taal was going to summon Taylor to the Bluestone Palace, thinking that the maid was definitely going to marry, so she was going to give the money to Taylor for him to use when he married.
Erin also had a lot of money on hand. She borrowed money from Lulu before, and Lulu felt that the New Year was approaching, and Erin would definitely come to the New Year's banquet, and she was going to give her the money after Erin came to Bluestone Palace. After Erin followed Bifur to the Bluestone Palace, Lulu gave Erin a sum of money.
Lulu persuaded Erin that you have been married for so long, and you should spend money sparingly. She touched the clothes Irene's was wearing and estimated the value of the outfit. With Bifuer's monthly salary, if you want to buy this outfit for Erin, you have to save for at least four months without eating or drinking, and Erin's consumption has obviously exceeded Bifuel's financial ability.
Erin nodded disapprovingly, not taking Lulu's words to heart. She asks Lulu when she and Maier are going to be married, much to Lulu's disappointment. She said that because of Leah, the wedding date for her, Ista and Yu Mingli may have to be postponed until June this year.
In this way, Erin took Lulu's money and asked Bifuer for money before leaving. She took Taylor to squander in Hope City, and in just half a month, she ruined all the money they had on hand.
On January 10, 140 years of the new calendar, the murder case of Qingshi Palace was still not solved. Mel didn't want to delay Bifuer's work, so he let him go back to the city. Before leaving, Beavor tells Maier to keep an eye on his safety and explain the current situation of Rimi City. Maier has long known that there are rebel forces in Rimi City, and a while ago, the Supervisory Council also speculated that there are high-level internal ghosts in Rimi City. Don't look at the fact that the Inspectorate has nominally withdrawn from Rimi City, but their eyes are constantly glued there.
Maier gave Beamore a weapon. The miniature weapon, known as the "Pocket Arrow", was a new invention of the Ministry of Scientific Research, and Liu Xiu said that it was a weapon used by the Assassins, but Maier tried it but thought it was a self-defense weapon. Now that the situation in Rimi City is complicated, Maier fears for Beafuer's safety, so he gives him a set of Hidden Arrows to defend himself
On January 13, Bifur returned to the city of Rimi. To his surprise, Erin and Taylor hadn't returned yet. Before Beavor could find someone, Alain came to the door.
After Beavor and Erin leave Rimi City, Alain begins to prepare a plan to take revenge on Erin. He thought that Erin would be back by January 6 at the latest, so he was ready to do it on the 7th. As a result, on the 7th, both Bifull and Erin were nowhere to be seen, and Taylor, who had gone to the banquet with Bifuer, did not return.
Alain is worried about Beafer's safety, and he is also worried about Erin's safety. He was afraid that Erin would die in an accident, wouldn't this be a bargain for her? In order to get revenge on Erin, Alain has a whole set of plans. He plans to get Erin to an underground brothel and get her money back for spending her own money, even with interest. Alain will also take care of Erin's business, but he won't pay, it's Erin's moral compensation for him.
Some people may find it strange that Alain is so engaged in Bifuer's wife, won't Bifuer find out?
The answer, of course, is no. Ever since Erin had lost her heart to Bifuer, the couple had become the closest strangers to each other. On weekdays, Bifure doesn't care about anything but giving Erin money. Sometimes Erin doesn't even go home for a month, and even if she does, she just comes back to get the money, and leaves after taking the money.
Erin didn't see Bifull very often. The longest time the two have not seen each other is 85 days, and the two have not seen each other once in 85 days. After Beauffer paid his salary, he left a small pocket money and threw the rest of it home. After payday, Erin would go home during the day to get her money, because Bifur was not home at this time.
After 85 days, the two also saw each other, and this was because Erin had no money and came to Bifuer to ask for it. Beavor borrowed money from a friend and gave it to Erin, who took the money and left. Beamore will find a way to repay the money after borrowing, and Alan doesn't want Beavor to live with debts, so he always secretly helps him pay back the money.
Alain has spent a lot of money on this plan in order to get revenge on Erin. Now that Erin was nowhere to be seen, how could he not be in a hurry?
Biller was originally very calm, but after the anxious Alain came to him, he was infected by his friend's emotions and became anxious. The two hurriedly gathered their men, inquired about the whereabouts of Erin and Taylor inside and outside the city, and sent people to look for them along the official road from Byron City to Limi City.
On January 13th, while everyone was anxiously looking for Erin and Taylor, the send-off party of the Kingdom of Alt arrived at the border of the Kingdom of Byrons. The Bluestone Palace sent a cavalry unit to meet and guide the family to Byrons City. The rebellious forces of Rimi City want to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble and attack the send-off team of the Elt Kingdom.
This plan was proposed by a group of merchants, and Dan Yunha was responsible for carrying it out. The merchant group prepared a group of outlaws for Dan Yun Ha, and they asked Dan Yun Ha to select some disobedient officers and soldiers from the Defense Bureau, and trick them into going on a special mission to attack the send-off party of the Elt Kingdom with these outlaws.
This move is intended to sow discord between the Kingdom of Byron and the Kingdom of Elt, and if the princess of the Kingdom of Elt is killed in the territory of the Kingdom of Byrons, the Kingdom of Elt is likely to declare war on the Kingdom of Byrons.
Of course, this is only the ideal scenario. How easy is it to kill the princess of the Elt Kingdom under the protection of the Elt Guardsmen? And this time it was not an ordinary princess who was married, but Princess Leah, who was very famous in the Elt Kingdom. Rumors spread throughout the city that Princess Leia could single-handedly take on thirty professional samurai and kill them all with a single move.
Of course, this is just a false rumor from the people, and it is not credible. As mentioned earlier, Leah's true record is twenty-five, and all of them have defeated their opponents in one-on-one situations. The people of Rimi City don't know the real situation, but since such exaggerated rumors have spread here, it means that Princess Leah must be very capable of fighting. As for how good Princess Leah is, people don't care.
For them, this rumor is just an after-dinner conversation. People who hear false rumors have a low social status because they only spread at the bottom of society. Even if these people work hard for several lifetimes, they will not be able to marry even a princess of a small force, and it is impossible to even become her entourage. Such people have nothing to do with the protagonists of the rumors, they are keen to talk about these things, just to have fun in the bitterness and make their lives easier.
The mission was personally commanded by Dan Yunha, who divided the participants into six squads, each with about 30 people, each commanded by a close confidant, and he himself did not directly participate in the operation. The city defense troops participating in the operation were dressed in civilian clothes, but the weapons used by the attacking troops were taken from the city defense army warehouses.
The outlaws all received an order before the operation, that is, once the operation failed, the city defense troops in the team must be killed as soon as possible, and there must be no survivors.
The city guards who participated in the operation had no idea of the contents of the operation, and Dan Yun-ha lied to them that he had received accurate information that a group of robbers was disguised as a family party from the Elt Kingdom and wanted to rob a town in the Kingdom of Byrons. The marriage between the Elt Kingdom and the Byron Kingdom is already well known, and if there are outlaws who want to pretend to be the Elder Kingdom's family sending party to rob the town, from the mouth of the head of the defense bureau in Rimi City, basically no one will suspect it.
Dan Yunhe said that this matter should not be known by foreigners, otherwise it will affect the reputation of his country. He said that it was a top-secret mission, and that those who participated in the mission could not go home and contact their families after receiving the mission, so as not to leak military secrets. He also asked the city guards who had been called to join the mission to take off their uniforms and equipment and change into civilian clothes, deceiving them that this was also for secrecy.
The send-off procession of the Elt Kingdom directly crossed Mount Rimi and entered the territory of the Byronic Kingdom. Dan Yunhe did not make a move in the administrative area of Limi City, because there were enough things in Limi City, and the cavalry troops sent by the Byron Kingdom to receive the relatives were very vigilant, and he had no chance to attack at all.
When the send-off party left the administrative area of the city of Rimi and arrived at the administrative area of the town of Buta, the cavalry troops of the Kingdom of Byron were somewhat relaxed. On the night of 14 January, the family send-off team set up camp outside the town of Buta. Dan Yunhe led the attacking troops to the outside of the camp of the family sending off team, and asked the troops to attack the camp from six directions.
The attacking troops were all dressed in civilian clothes, so Dan Yunhe gave them an order to kill those in armor and uniforms if they saw them. Tan Yun-ha hurriedly left the scene after the attack force began to operate, leaving the six cronies to lead the troops to fight separately.
Counting the cavalry units of the Kingdom of Byrons, the number of combatants in the send-off team exceeded 500. The attacking force consisted of less than one hundred and eighty people, and was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers.
The escort force of the family send-off team is carefully selected soldiers, and the cavalry units of the Byronic Kingdom are also the elite of the regular army. After the attack on the camp, the guards did not show the slightest panic and calmly resisted the enemy's attack.
Leah heard the shouts outside, so she picked up the two-handed greatsword that she had placed beside her and walked out, calmly directing the battle. She herself led several personal maids with long shields and short swords to the front line, killing six attackers with her own hands, including the commander of the squad, who was a close associate of Dan Yunha.
The attack failed without exception. Seeing that the situation was not good, the outlaws killed the city guards around them as quickly as possible, and then fled. Two of Dan Yoonha's cronies died, one died at the hands of Leah, the other was stabbed in the back by the panicked outlaws, and the remaining four fled back to Limi City in a hurry.
After the battle, only a few people were injured on the side of the send-off team. Because the enemy was too weak, the guards did not pursue and let them flee for their lives. Early the next morning, the cavalry units of the Kingdom of Byron counted and examined the bodies of the attackers. Eighty-one people were killed and no wounded, 26 of whom appeared to have been killed by their own men.
Leah also had the send-off party inspect the body of the attacker. They found that the weapons used by the attackers were uniform in style and average in workmanship, but they were sturdy and durable, and at first glance they were standard weapons. Leah, who had been to the Kingdom of Byron without permission, had seen the same weapon on the patrolmen at Simon Trading Post, so she asked the guards to send the news back to the country and let the country send someone to investigate the matter.
Leah now very much hopes that this is the work of the Byrons family, because then she will not have to marry Mel, and she will not have to go to Byron City and Bluestone Palace. Bluestone Palace and Byron City have caused deep psychological trauma to Leah, and she now sincerely doesn't want to go there or see Myer. However, the task of her trip was to go to the Bluestone Palace to hold an engagement ceremony with Maier, after which she would stay in the Bluestone Palace, and by mid-April she would have a wedding with Maier.
After the wedding, Leah became a member of the Byron family. She was going to stay in the city of Byrons, live in the Bluestone Palace, and live with the people of the Byrons family. The people of Byron City, the people of the Bluestone Palace, and the people of the Byrons family are extremely hostile to her, so her future life is destined to become lonely and miserable.
After returning to Loton City, Leah, who was unable to get the Taeyong Elf, had to make a deal with the king with a special pass, hoping that he would cancel the marriage. But during her absence from Lotton, her father and grandfather had convinced the king once and for all. The king believed that Leah's presence might threaten his power, and he was determined to marry Leah to the Byronic family.
If the fact that the Byrons family sent someone to assassinate Leah is confirmed, then even if the king is reluctant, for the sake of the face of the Elt Kingdom, he must tear up the marriage contract and break the alliance with the Byronic Kingdom. Leah still had a glimmer of hope for the king, but the truth was that even if the Byrons did send someone to assassinate Leah, the king would turn a blind eye.
Even Leah's problems aside, the king doesn't want to be at odds with the Byrons now. If the Kingdom of Elt is actively preparing for war, it is ready to join the worldwide war against the Mingji people in July this year to eliminate hidden dangers for the kingdom. To cope with this war, he needs the power of the Kingdom of Byrons.
In other words, the rebel attack was a bamboo basket and did not play any role.