Section 51 Urgent tasks
In the southwestern plains of Seoul's territory, a team of 600 Knight knights galloped through the scorching sun, passing through one wooded after another, seemingly never stopping.
The leaders were Robit and Cook, who had just participated in the Battle of the Dragon City River, and they were accompanied by young Rossabar. After the procession had passed through the great plain, and once again entered a wood, and a tired Rossabar asked Cook, "Lord, let everyone rest in the woods for a while." ”
Cook exchanged glances with Robit, then replied, "Okay, remember to arrange for people to patrol around in case the enemy army is coming." ”
"Good knight, sir." After saying that, Rossabar turned around and went busy.
Cook rolled over and dismounted, sat down on the grass beside him, reached out and took out a handkerchief, and wiped the sweat from his forehead desperately.
Robit put the horse aside, sat down beside Cook, drank water, and said, "Is it hot, Cook?" ”
Cook showed a face full of unhappiness, he complained and said: "What is this Duke Thatcher doing, there are 30,000 Nila people besieging Seoul, let us go to rescue Seoul but refuse to send us people, let us take these hundreds of knights of the royal capital, this is obviously to make us embarrassed!" ”
Robit nodded slightly, his face showed infinite sadness, and he replied very depressedly: "Yes, I am afraid that it will be difficult to complete the task with this little force." ”
The knight sitting next to him replied, "I think the Duke of Dragon City is clearly suppressing us by doing this. ”
The two looked back at him together, and Cook frowned and asked the knight, "What do you mean?" Let's be clear. ”
The knight got up and replied earnestly, "We, Knight, have fallen all over the country, and now he belongs to Thatcher's Dragon City is the most powerful. He was afraid that after our royal knights slowly grew stronger in Dragon City, he was afraid that he would not be able to control us by then, so he asked us to go to Seoul to die. ”
Robit pondered and said: "Probably not, Duke Thatcher's personality, in the face of the big right and wrong, he will definitely not care about this." ”
Cook also replied, "Yes, there are not many knights left in the kingdom now, and there are still two knights in Seoul. The Duke asked us to rescue Seoul this time, hoping to safely transfer these two knights to Dragon City to garrison. If the Duke's insight is really so short-sighted, then he will not send us to carry out this mission, and rescuing the two Kingdom Knights will only make the Dragon City Knights even less status. If the Duke really wants us to send the Knights of the Royal Capital to death, then we should let us attack Neido alone, wouldn't we die faster? ”
"Hmm!" Robit agreed with Cook's statement, and he continued: "At present, the Knights of Dragon City are stationed in the mountain pass in the direction of Nedo, and the Duke has already begun to send people to implement Katerti's proposal to build the Fortress of Nedo, and the Knights of Dragon City will definitely not be able to transfer out of the Knights of Nedor Pass before the fortress is completed." As for the north side, there is at least the northern fortress of Dragon City as a barrier, and there are 2,000 archers stationed in it. ”
Cook nodded and added: "Well, now that many of our clansmen are gathered in Dragon City, the defense of Dragon City is very important, if even Dragon City is lost, then our Nate will really be completely finished." ”
Robit nodded slightly, and then asked Cook, "Cook, do you have any good ideas for rescuing Seoul?" ”
Cook pondered, "There are so few of us, and it's hard to get in touch with the knights in the city." ”
Robit smiled, he frowned slightly and looked at the sky, obviously he didn't have a good plan for this mission.
Cook continued to sigh: "Duke Thatcher is old, and he is still whimsically waiting for a miracle to happen. Not to mention miracles, if our kingdom had been able to exert the strength of the knights normally before, the kingdom would not have fallen to the point it is now. ”
"Miracle?" After hearing this, Robit smiled speechlessly: "If we can really complete the mission of rescuing the Knights of Seoul this time, it will really be a miracle." ”
A hundred miles away from them on the north side, this is the kingdom's famous eastern metropolis of Seoul! In the past, it was very lively, and the streets and alleys of the city were crowded with vendors, because Seoul was the largest commercial center in the east and the closest city to the Nila Empire! However, Seoul is completely different now, the gates of the city are tightly closed, the walls are full of knights on duty, and the surrounding fields outside the city are full of Nila military camps!
The head of the knights who was in charge of garrisoning Seoul was named Kudonst, and there were originally three other knight leaders in Seoul, but after several major battles, the Knight Knights suffered heavy losses, and in the end, he was the only one who survived! The original four knights stationed in the knights had to obey his dispatch alone, and Kudonster reorganized all the knights into two full knights, all of whom were commanded and dispatched by themselves as the head of the regiment!
Kudonster was a middle-aged man in his forties, and he looked west from the city wall every day, hoping that Wang Du would send a large army to rescue them! However, as time went on, the food and forage in the city became less and less, and yet the shadow of a knight appeared in the west! Kudonster is getting more and more desperate, they are completely besieged, no news from outside can come in, fear and hunger plague all the knights in the city, maybe tomorrow will be the end of Seoul!
The Nila people have been trapped in Seoul outside the city for more than a month, and the clever Nila people know that the supply in the city is limited, so they choose to besiege them instead of annihilate them, wanting to force them to surrender and sacrifice the city when they run out of food and have no way out, so as to reduce many unnecessary casualties for the army of the Nila Empire!
There were only 5,000 defenders in Seoul, all of whom were knights, the only remaining regular main army in the kingdom.
However, the Nila people besieging Seoul were cunning, and they blocked the exits outside the three gates in the southwest and north with stones and silt, leaving only one way out at the east gate. However, outside the East City Gate, the Nila people laid down an army of 30,000 people, surrounded the entire East City Gate, and dug many trenches around it, so that the knight army could not pass smoothly. Kudonst had also considered leading the Knights to abandon the city and break out, but because he was afraid that he would be punished by His Majesty the King, he had been hesitant to give up Seoul easily, so that he missed the best time to break out! By the time the Nila blocked the road outside the three gates with obstacles, it was too late! The defenders inside the city can only sit back and wait for death, because they are completely unable to break through the encirclement of the 30,000 Neela army outside the northern city!
Robit and his party only had 600 knights, and in the face of Nila's 30,000 troops, the 5,000 knights in Seoul couldn't break through, let alone them. It seems that the two knights who are besieged in Seoul will succeed in rescuing them, unless a miracle happens.
But miracles, as they say, do happen.
During the Battle of Yuguan, Deske received an order from Duke Connor to take the Knights of the Vedun Territory to support Yuguan that night. But before the Dersk knights arrived at Yuguan, Yuguan had already been lost. Seeing the tide of the Tuppis army, Desk made a slight resistance, and had to lead the whole army to withdraw quickly. Deske wanted to retreat to the territory of Widun, but the barbarians marched very quickly, and then Deske had to take the goods of the territory to Cobilon and then to the territory of Seoul.
After arriving on the plain west of Seoul, Deske happened to meet Robitt and his party who came to rescue the defenders of Seoul, and he was overjoyed with excitement.
Under the woods next to a small river, the two teams merged together to rest, Deske knelt down in front of Robit on half a knee, and wept bitterly and reported: "Dear Lord Robit, I failed to protect the First Duke, nor did I protect the territory of Victoria, I Deske is guilty, and I am ashamed of the Duke's hard work on me." ”
Deske didn't fake crying, he was really sad to the extreme. He was sad because of the fall of his kingdom, but also because of the loss of his realm and the death of Connor, and he could not accept this cruel reality. Now that he saw Robit, the survivor of the First Duke's Palace, he felt very relieved, and he couldn't help but shed tears of sadness when he was excited.
Deske's arrival was a relief to Robit, who had been feeling sad all these days, for he was the only one left in the vast Duke's Palace. Now, he finally saw the surviving knights of the First Duke's Palace, the only legacy his father left him.
Robit stretched out his hand to help Desk, gently pulled him to sit on the stone beside him, comforted him and said, "Don't be sad, Captain, as long as I, Robit, are here, our First Duke's Mansion will never disappear." ”
Deske wiped away a handful of tears, nodded again and again, and said: "Of course, according to the custom of the kingdom, you are now the sole heir of the First Duke's Palace, and from now on you will be the first Duke of our Nete." ”
Robit nodded, reached out and pulled out the knight's sword from his waist, handed it to Desk, and said, "Captain, look, I got something back!" ”
Deske polished his eyes and looked at the sword carefully, the word Connor on the sword once again brought tears to his eyes. I saw him holding the sword in both hands, kneeling on the ground with a thud, and crying loudly to the sky: "Lord Duke, you have been worried for the past ten years, and you always say that no successor to the Duke's Mansion will be destroyed in your hands. Take a look, the sword you gave to outsiders is back, and with my Deske, I promise that your child Robit will inherit the glory of the First Duke's Palace. ”
When Robit heard this, his nose was sour, and he couldn't say a word of sadness, and tears kept rolling in his eyes.
After seeing this scene, Cook immediately helped Desco up and persuaded him: "Don't be too sad, Captain, we still have a lot of things to do at the moment, let's discuss the next action first, right?" ”
Deske wiped his tears and nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay Cook." ”
Cook looked at Robit, and seeing that he was still in a low mood, he said to Deske: "This time Duke Thatcher sent us here to rescue the besieged Knights of Seoul. At the moment, we don't have enough troops, only 600 people, and it is almost impossible to complete this task, so we have to rely on you, the commander. ”
Deske was stunned for a moment, he hurriedly wiped away all his tears, looked up at Robit, and then shouted at Cook, "What? That old man in Longcheng asked you to rescue Seoul, and he only gave you 600 people? ”
Before Cook could speak, Robit immediately replied, "He didn't give a single knight, these 600 people are still Cook's father's royal knights." ”
"The knight of the royal capital?" Deske was a little surprised when he heard this, he got up and looked around Cook's knights, and asked the two of them, "That's all there is left in the royal knights?" ”
Roshabal replied, "Yes, Captain, this is our detachment of knights from Lord Teresa, plus our brigade of 100 bandits. ”
Deske nodded after hearing this, and then suddenly scolded angrily: "This damn Thatcher, this is simply bullying you young, what qualifications does he have to give orders to you, does this person want you to send you to death?" ”
After speaking, Deske turned around and put on a neat posture, and then knelt down on one knee in front of Robit respectfully: "Lord Robitt, I, Deske, was born as a person from the First Duke's Palace, and died as a ghost of the First Duke's Palace, and in the future, I will always be loyal to you as loyal to Duke Connor, please give the order." ”
Robit was very moved to hear this, he got up and straightened up, made a knightly salute to Chaodesk, and then politely lifted Desk up from the ground again.