Chapter 1249: The Great Army Siege the City; Sinners of the Temple
Imperial Capital, Queens.
As a gathering place for veteran aristocrats, today, this is destined to be the time of disaster for swordsmen!
The first to do the first thing was Prince Oberon himself. The door of his huge manor opened, and the sound of horses' hooves rang out in a neat and shocking way!
I saw that from the manor of Prince Oberon, a full five thousand iron horsemen rushed out like this, heading straight for the front door of the palace!
Seeing this scene in the eyes of other veteran nobles, it immediately aroused everyone's infinite confidence, His Royal Highness the Prince is really powerful, and he actually hid a full five thousand elite cavalry under the emperor's nose!
5,000 regular troops, or dignified cavalry, this is far more powerful than thousands of assassins!!
And some people took the lead, and other veteran nobles naturally followed suit.
Next to the estate of Prince Oberon is the residence of the Marquis of Maple Leaf of the Empire. This Marquis of Maple Leaf is the Imperial Loren Line. The largest hereditary nobles in the province, with a fief the size of one-third of the province, their conflict with the royal family is naturally intensifying.
Therefore, getting rid of the current emperor and supporting a generous emperor like Oberun who is willing to rule the empire with the old nobles is the appeal of a large fiefdom nobleman like Marquis Maple.
At this moment, in the originally quiet Marquis's Mansion, there was also a shouting of killing, and the entire three thousand Marquis Maple Leaf smuggled from the fiefdom to the imperial capital of the private army rushed out of the Marquis's Mansion, followed by Prince Oberon's five thousand cavalry, and attacked the imperial city together!
With these two families taking the lead, hundreds of other nobles also sent out the private armies of the nobles who had already been prepared, and in a short period of time, a full army of 50,000 was gathered!
Although these aristocratic private armies are not unified in terms of equipment, training or command system, 50,000 people are 50,000 people, and Wuwuyang is densely packed, and in this imperial capital, it is simply a power that can turn things upside down!!
Not only that, but in order to ensure that the . The anti-energy succeeded in one fell swoop, and many veteran nobles can be said to have dispatched their last strength and squeezed their last drop of blood.
Even the guards, attendants, and servants such as gardeners and miscellaneous servants in the mansion were equipped with shields and bows and crossbows that could only be used by the army, and hundreds of nobles gathered together 20,000 or 30,000 miscellaneous cards, adding up to the 50,000 in front of them, a total of 80,000, known as 100,000 troops, and covered the past towards the imperial city!
Such a large army quickly eliminated several groups of imperial capital city guards who rushed to hear the news, and attacked the queen's district, they shouted slogans such as "Long live His Majesty Oberon", "Odysseus is dead", "Long live the new emperor", lined up in an array, almost killing people when they saw them!
In just a moment, they disrupted the entire imperial capital, and the city guards who were originally responsible for maintaining the security of the imperial capital were also sent to the palace to suppress the assassins because the emperor was assassinated today, resulting in a serious shortage of manpower in other places, and they were unable to stop the rebels!
It can only be as if they were sending them to death, sending small patrols to kill the rebels.
Of course, the city guards, with a total number of no more than 30,000 people, would definitely not be able to stop these noble rebels even if they were fully established.
For a while, half of the imperial capital fell into panic and chaos, and there were screams everywhere, especially the military discipline of these nobles' private armies was very poor, and they did all kinds of evil acts of burning, killing and looting along the way. Even if they set fires, they are all good hands. Not only did they kill countless civilians, but they also burned half of the imperial capital!
Now, only the royal guards stationed at the periphery of the imperial capital and the city gates were sure to put down the rebellion.
After all, the Royal Guard, however, has a full 200,000 establishment, which is a large . The recognizable elite legion on land is also extremely well-armed, with everything from magic cannons, counterweight giant trebuchets to bed crossbows, and dwarven muskets!
The Royal Guards stationed 160,000 troops in the six acropolis outside the city, and 40,000 troops were placed near the walls of the imperial capital to be responsible for the defense of the imperial capital.
Not only that, because the imperial capital is divided into two by the Rhine River, therefore, in the upper reaches less than twenty kilometers away from the imperial capital, there is a huge military port, where the naval fleet has hundreds of iron warships loaded with magic cannons and bed crossbows.
It is no exaggeration to say that whoever controls the Royal Guard will almost control the political situation in the imperial capital!
At this time, it was only more than ten miles away from the imperial capital in an acropolis.
It was home to the headquarters of the Royal Guard, with a total of 60,000 troops, more than three times the size of a normal acropolis.
Inside the barracks of the Acropolis, the headquarters of the Royal Guard.
Several generals, more than 20 commanders, and hundreds of officers were gathered in the commander's tent to discuss matters.
This place is so close to the imperial capital, and all the new news of the imperial capital can be transmitted within twenty minutes.
In the tent, there was a calm middle-aged man with a square face sitting at the top of the main seat, he was not wearing armor, nor was he wearing a knight's sword, but the demeanor of a soldier could not be concealed.
His name is Longstedt, he was born in a traditional martial arts family in the imperial capital, and there have been more than 20 fiefdom nobles in the family, and he himself is the duke title of the emperor himself, and he has a fief equivalent to half the size of a province in the imperial territory.
Of course, the fiefdoms of the imperial domain, the nobles have no right to manipulate, there is no private army, and the local officials can only be appointed by the emperor, and the only benefit of the imperial nobles is that they can receive some taxes every year.
Therefore, the royal nobility did not belong to the traditional fiefdom aristocracy, but to the new nobility.
Rundsted, who is now in his fifties, is the supreme commander of the 200,000 Royal Guards and the absolute confidant of Emperor Odysseus.
At this moment, Rundstedt sat in the position belonging to the manager, looking around at the dense officers around him, his eyes were extremely complicated, and there was a trace of this ...... I can't bear it.
Soon, the tent was full, and most of the officers of the Royal Guard and above the middle rank had arrived.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the emperor has been assassinated, the rebels have risen one after another, and the imperial capital is in chaos, what do you think?" Rundstedt's fingers rhythmically tapped on the table, and said lightly.
"Naturally, the whole army will be mobilized immediately, and His Majesty will be rescued quickly and the riot in the imperial capital will be suppressed!" A young general in silver armor hurriedly said.
"Yes, time waits for no one, you have to act now."
"I heard that the rebels burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, my wife and children didn't know if something had happened, and their subordinates applied to be the vanguard to quell the rebels!"
"Marshal, give the order!"
"We swear allegiance to Your Majesty!"
A noisy voice resounded in the camp tent, and most of the officers and generals were all angry, and the core meaning was only one, that is, to immediately return to Shiqin Wang and quell the rebellion!
With the strength of the Royal Guard, it is not too easy to wipe out the rabble composed of a group of noble private armies.
Hearing the speeches of the officers around him, Rundstedt's face became more and more gentle, but the coldness in his eyes made people shudder.
"Very well, you are all loyal ministers."
Rondstedt finally spoke, and then said gently: "Since this is the case, then you will accompany Your Majesty to the underworld together." ”
As soon as these words came out, most of the people present were stunned.
A general looked at Rundstedt with some astonishment and said, "Marshal, you are joking...... Yes!! ”
A scream interrupted the general's words, and he saw a pitch-black sword tip suddenly burst out of his chest!!
"Flutter!"
The pitch-black sword was drawn, and the general fell silently on the table.
In the eyes of everyone, most of the officers are a little crazy!
What's going on?
Don't...... Could it be that Lord Rundstedt, who has always regarded himself as the emperor's absolute confidant, actually ...... Betrayed Your Majesty?
Thinking of this, some smart people among the hundreds of officers present hurriedly turned around and ran outside the camp tent!!
After all, if Rundstedt really betrayed the Empire, then he would definitely not let them go, royalists!!
However, they were still a step late.
Several officers who fled to the gate of the tent were assassinated in the blink of an eye by a pitch-black sword that came out of nowhere, and other officers loyal to the emperor began to be bloodied!
Although almost all of these officers were knights who had cultivated their fighting spirit, and there were even three great knights, however, in front of these pitch-black swords, there was not much room for resistance, but in a moment, they were all killed!
So much so that above the ground, rivers of blood flowed!
By the time the last officer loyal to the empire fell, there were only about twenty officers left...... and corpses all over the ground.
"He is worthy of being the most effective night guard under the command of the Lord of Shadows, and he is really fast." Rundstedt smiled faintly and praised the air.
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency the Marshal has gained a good reputation, the Lord of Shadows is now the servant of the great Lord of the Dawn, and it is His Majesty that you should praise the Lord of the Dawn."
A hoarse voice sounded in the air, and then, a figure shrouded in black robes appeared in front of all the people who were still alive in the tent.
"Oh, praise be to the great Lord of the Dawn."
Rondstedt bowed slightly at the black-robed man, then looked at the absolute henchmen around him, and suddenly pulled out the long sword worn by the adjutant next to him, and shouted an order: "Pass my military order, the whole army gathers!" Enter the imperial capital and get rid of the tyrant! ”
"Enter the imperial capital and get rid of the tyrant!"
"Enter the imperial capital and get rid of the tyrant!"
Without hesitation, the officers who had followed Rondstedt all the way to the dark scattered to gather their own deployments, as well as the deployment of the slain officers.
For a time, there was chaos in the barracks, and there were doubts about this order in many places, as well as large-scale firefights!!
However, in the face of the mutiny of the Supreme Commander Rondstedt and the assistance of the Shadow Assassins, all the soldiers and officers who dared to question this order were killed on the spot, and in a moment, the acropolis, which was garrisoned with 60,000 troops, was killed at least four or five thousand people!!
In such a dread. Under the terrible slaughter and the prestige and means of Rundstedt itself, this elite army cultivated by the empire with a lot of money and sworn allegiance to the emperor has finally become a sharp blade in the hands of the rebels!!
At this time, Rondestedt finally put on his armor, mounted his war horse, and shouted in front of the assembled array:
"The whole army set off, target the imperial capital, and those who block the army will be killed on the spot!!"
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In the other five acropolises, the royalists and officers loyal to the empire were slaughtered in surprise and surprise, and the 40,000 royal guards who were responsible for guarding the walls of the imperial capital were also seized by the rebels, and the entire 200,000 royal guards completely fell into the hands of the rebels and drove towards the palace!!
At the same time, within the imperial capital.
Just a stone's throw from the long street where the assassination took place, the vanguard of the rebels, the 5,000 cavalry of Prince Oberon, was blocked.
It was not the Thorn Flower Knights around the Emperor or the powerful court warriors who stood in their way, but the people.
Tens of thousands of panicked people trying to hide from the Assassins and rebels were crowded in the middle of the road.
"Your Royal Highness, we can't get by, what should we do?"
A middle-aged man in pitch-black armor bowed his head profusely and said nervously to Prince Oberon.
Hearing this, looking at the clogged streets in front of him, Oberon, who was riding on a horse, glanced at the general who had followed him for many years, and said in an almost ruthless tone:
"The cavalry is in line, and those who stand in the way will be killed!"
Hearing this, the general suddenly felt a chill down his spine, and almost said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness...... There are tens of thousands of people here, we ......."
"Nothing!! We are making. On the contrary, the time is fleeting, do you want me to wait for these ants to disperse, and then storm the palace and kill my stupid nephew? ”
Oberon drank coldly, and his violent eyes made people shudder, so frightened that the general quickly turned his horse's head, personally galloped to the front of the cavalry, and shouted an order: "The whole army charges, and those who stand in the way will be killed!" ”
At this order, all the rebel soldiers were stunned.
Although they are not good people, they have never done anything less than burning, killing and looting, and most of them are not from the imperial capital, so it is unlikely that they will accidentally injure their relatives, but letting them wave butcher knives at tens of thousands of people on the street is also extremely psychologically stressful!
After all, they are also people, and they are not eastern. The orcs who feed on people on the Arctic Sheet!
Seeing that the cavalry was actually stagnant, Oberon suddenly became anxious, if it dragged on like this, it would be impossible for his emperor's nephew to run away!!
In the event that the emperor escapes from the imperial capital, then the loyal to the emperor in the empire. The central army can definitely tear him to pieces!!
The Emperor must be killed in the Imperial Capital!!
"Charge the whole army, immediately!"
Oberon himself rode his horse to the front, and his shouting voice was full of coldness: "Death to those who violate the order, not only you will die, but your whole people will be reduced to slavery!" ”
Before the words fell, Prince Oberon pulled out his saber and directly cut down one of the nearest cavalrymen to him, killing chickens and monkeys!!
At this moment, the helpless cavalry finally had to draw their swords, ride their horses forward, and slash and kill those who stood in their way!!
Soon, a large area of people in the outermost part of the crowd was cut down, and in the crowded crowd, many people reacted and wanted to retreat, but after all, there were too many pedestrians on the street, and everyone was crowded, and most people couldn't avoid even if they tried their best to dodge!!
All of a sudden, there was a wail everywhere!!
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