Chapter 18: Temptation
Unlike the two elven generals before her, Taftiel was not brave enough, and as a noble female elf, she was more adept at strategy than onslaught. The www.biquge.info of Pen Fun Pavilion also commanded very few sieges, so when her troops were about to attack the city, she would delegate command to her husband, Count Hylarton Bilal.
And this elf, but it was a real opposition to the elven nobles who let Yu Yu enter the Alpha Empire, and he had already made things difficult for the two of them before the siege of the city, so that the two of them dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so they could only endure their anger and gather their troops to prepare for the siege.
In terms of Licarter's strength, he is already one of the strongest in a country like Mirakesa. But compared to the Alpha Empire, which has a history of tens of thousands of years, Mirakaisa, a country founded by humans, beast-eared tribes, and fish-people with a history of only a few thousand years, is not very good. And if Likat is compared to the powerhouses within the Alpha Empire, he is not a strong man.
You must know that Tafertiel's rank is already the same as Lichard, not to mention that there are also two strong men of the same rank as Lichardt in this army, even if the two of them want to escape or resist, they will be ruthlessly suppressed and finally executed.
This is absolutely unacceptable to Licat who has a grand goal, so he chooses to endure the humiliation and wait for the day when he can kill all the elves such as Taftiel with his own hands! Now, however, is not the time.
"Licat, we must find a chance to escape, neither the elves nor the ghosts treat us as human beings, we will die if we continue like this!" Just as Lichardt gathered the Darker Cursed to follow the elves in another assault on the fortified fortress of Mordred, Medivan suddenly sneaked in and expressed his unease about the current situation.
"Medivan, you should have confidence in Lord Eldridge, those elven nobles are just keeping some fireless ashes in captivity, and they are not dangerous to Lord Eldridge at all! Moreover, we are not human, we are the most important subordinates under the command of adults! In the dark church, we are the ones with the best chance of replacing Archbishop MacDonald! With one idea in mind, Lickart tricked Medivan Arms into keeping his faith in Eldridge and secretly allegiance to Eldridge.
However, he didn't tell Medivan a little bit of what he thought in his heart, even if he saved himself in the first place, without Medivan, Licat's own would have been eroded into a geist by the monsters in the shadows!
"You're right, I shouldn't have doubted Lord Eldridge!" When Medivan heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "We will replace Archbishop MacDonald and become the strongest subordinate of the adults!" β
"It's good that you know, don't doubt adults in the future!" Seeing that Medivin Arms had been bewitched by himself, Lycutt immediately pretended to be very loyal to Eldridge, but secretly had no loyalty to him.
If Pulu has a so-called anti-bone theory, then Licatt must be a guy with anti-bones in the back of his head. For no matter who he was working under, he wanted to rebel and rob the object of his allegiance.
The human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant, and Licater is just like a snake that wants to devour an elephant, he doesn't care whether he can manage what he has taken and can manage it, he only wants more. I have been overthrown by my subordinates several times in my life, but I still don't repent, and I can only get power with one heart, how similar to those royals.
Hearing Lickhard's admonishing demagogy, Medivin Arms nodded vigorously, feeling that Lickart was right.
"You're right, we should be loyal to Eldridge, and we must not question the grace of our lords because of the slightest difficulty!" Medivin Arms grabbed Lycutt by the shoulder and laughed.
With that, Madison Arms turned away from Richhard's disbelieving gaze.
But the moment Medivan left, both Medivan and Lichardt hooked the corners of their mouths and showed a very sinister smile.
Obviously, both of them are ill-intentioned people, and they have not said any truth to each other, and all they want is to use each other!
However, every move of the two of them who have bad intentions and want to use the place is under the surveillance of the Duchess of Tafertier.
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"What are those elves doing? They are all assembled, but they do not attack us. Standing on the city wall, Touris looked at the elven army in the distance with a telescope, and asked Lu Ming, Lothric, and Raman Lath, who were sitting on the ground next to him, who were watching Miral and Henes make puppet soldiers.
"Why are you in a hurry? When they want to attack, they will naturally attack. Now we just need to recharge our batteries and give them a hard blow when the time comes. Lu Ming glanced at Touris lightly and asked with a slight doubt.
"But they've been standing there for more than an hour! They weren't tired of standing, but our soldiers were so alert that they were so nervous that they were dying! Touris glanced at the soldiers on the city walls, and looked at the soldiers of the army except for Diocalion and Yugsotus, because of the long wait and vigilance, these were just ordinary soldiers, they were not very resistant to pressure, if they could not be pacified, they were likely to be in danger.
Hearing Tures's words, Lu Ming and Lothric couldn't help but glance at those soldiers, and seeing that they were indeed nervous, they couldn't help but glance at each other, then stood up and said to those soldiers: "You don't need to worry about anything, those elves are just using this method to put psychological pressure on us, so as to reduce our combat effectiveness!" Even if we don't need to be nervous, the more nervous we are, the happier the elves will be, so we have to put pressure on them in turn so that they don't dare to attack us! β
"But how can we put pressure on them?" Hearing Lu Ming's words, a female knight standing in a group of soldiers suddenly asked.
Lu Ming glanced at her and found that she was Edsol's personal guard, so he replied with a smile: "We want to make them feel that we don't care about them, so that they will wonder if we have prepared the trap and dare not act rashly!" β
And Lothric continued, "So you all jump and sing for me, and leave the elves alone!" β
"Eh~~!!!" Hearing Lo Slick's words, Touris couldn't help but be surprised, and then he was surprised to see Lu Ming's personal guards and Los Ric's personal guards take the lead in pulling the personal guards of other commanders and start singing and dancing after hearing Lu Ming and Lo Slick's orders.
With them in the lead, the other soldiers began to dance and sing.
Soon, a relaxed atmosphere spread across the entire city wall, making those soldiers who were so nervous that they couldn't do it relax one after another, and minimizing the possibility of the camp roaring!
And the commander of the other party, Hai Lallton, after knowing what Lu Ming and the others were doing on the city wall, was so angry that he threw his sword on the ground and yelled to start attacking with the army.
But the Duchess of Tafertière stopped him, in her opinion, Lu Ming and the others suddenly turned to singing and dancing on the city wall after being on the alert for so long, and they were not worried about them attacking at all, it was very likely that Lu Ming and the others had laid a trap and were waiting for them to jump!
So she said to Hylarton: "Today's siege has been canceled, and tomorrow morning, while the opposing soldiers are asleep, we can take the fortress of Mordred in one fell swoop!" β
Because Taftiel's status and title are much higher than his own, he thinks that the other party is just playing tricks, and can only be strangely obedient and let the officers under his command inform the soldiers that today's siege has been canceled.
In this way, Lu Ming and Lo Slick resolved a crisis crookedly.
However, this is also because Tafertiel gave them psychological pressure as a means to let them know that the commander of the elves is an elf who is good at trickery. And the better she is at this, the more she will prevent others from playing tricks on her, and she will naturally think too much and let their plans succeed.
But you can only play it once, and if you play it a second or third time, you may roll over.
Therefore, after the elven army temporarily retreated, Lu Ming and Lothric began their old business when attacking the capital of the Principality of Yalu, making magic cannons.
Yes, Lu Ming and the others plan to take advantage of the time when the elves are not attacking the city to make some magic cannons to defend against the attacks of the elves. Of course, the power of these magic cannons is relatively small, otherwise it is very likely that something will happen.
For example, the magic cannon was too powerful, causing the excessive recoil to collapse the city wall, which was funny at that time. That's why Lu Ming and Lothric decided to make some less powerful magic cannons to avoid trouble. After all, they are not the besieging party now, and they can't use overpowered magic cannons.
However, wait for the next day......
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In the early hours of the morning, Lu Ming and Lothric came to the city wall early, commanding the magicians to set up the magic cannons one by one, and debugging them little by little, waiting for the elves to come and attack the city, so that they could know the power of the magic cannon, how it was, and what it was like to defend the city.
But they waited until more than eleven o'clock at noon, and the elven army did not show up, so that Lu Ming and the others were not depressed.
There was no way, so everyone had to go back to their rooms to rest, and handed over the task of guarding to Touris and Edsall.
As soon as he saw the magic *** Lacey, he couldn't help but run over, and suddenly hugged a magic cannon, and asked a magician from Yugsotus on the side for the ownership of this magic cannon.
The magician had no right to say anything about this, her status and rank were not high, so she was forced by Toures to almost cry.
Luckily, Raman Rath and Miral happened to be here at this time, temporarily relieving the magician's encirclement.
However, under the soft and hard bubble of Tourres, Miral was very spineless to accept Tourres's offer for the title of viscount, and let Raman Rath sign the agreement to transfer the two magic cannons.
The magician who harmed this was viciously reprimanded by Lu Ming, and it also caused herself and Raman Rath to be locked up by Lu Ming for nearly a month!
happily handed the transfer to Hamir and asked her to put it away, and then Touris saw the direction of the small city in the distance, and said: "I heard that this time the commander of the elf clan is a female duchess of the elf clan, although he is a nobleman without a territory, but he can be the commander-in-chief of an army with more than 100,000 elves, which is really enviable!" β
"Aren't you a general now?" Holding on to the wall, Raman Lass looked into the distance, smiled faintly, and asked Tourres.
"It's different!"
"What's the difference? It seems to me that the only difference between you is the rank and the number of soldiers you command. β
"Maybe in your eyes, but in my opinion, I'm not like her, at least she has freedom, and I don't."
Hearing Tourres's words, Raman Lass froze slightly, and then said very unhappily: "Do you really think freedom is good? Do you want freedom even if it kills Haymir? β
Hearing this, Touris couldn't help but be surprised, she looked at Lamanlas, and asked a little angrily, "Duke Unos, what do you mean by this!?" Are you going to report me to my brother?! β
"My dear, Miss Tourres, do you really think that your brother, Archduke Raels Hedis, really needs to be reported to know about you?" Raman Rath glanced at Touris and chuckled.
Hearing this, Touris couldn't help but glare at his guard, because she was sent by Raels to see him.
She didn't say anything, though, and didn't have time to say anything......
"The elven army is coming!" The soldier who was on guard suddenly pointed into the distance and shouted loudly.
As soon as Touris and the others heard this, they hurriedly sent people to call all the troops on their side. As for Lu Ming and Lo Slick and those who had been busy all night, they didn't bother them, so as not to be scolded.
They were all the ones who would be woken up by then, and there was no need for the soldiers to take any risk to wake them up.
"They're not going to play any more tricks today!" Once all the soldiers had assembled and arrived at the walls with bows and enough arrows, Edthor found that the army of the Alpha Empire had begun to advance towards the fortress, and it was not as grinding as it had been yesterday.
From the time they appeared to the beginning of the battle with Mordred's defenders, Alpha's men took less than fifteen minutes, and they didn't have a little respite for Raman Rath and the others to recruit soldiers, most of them had just put their arrows in their quiver sacs and were about to start fighting Alpha's army.
And after commanding the soldiers to fight with Alpha's army for a while, Raman Rath and the others began to order the magicians to start bombarding Alpha's soldiers with magic cannons!
As the magic cannon slowly charged, Raman Rath, Touris and others all felt that the madness of the elven soldiers had already noticed that there was a magic cannon on the city wall, and had already begun to charge it, as if they were crazy, they rushed up, and only a little bit broke through the defense line of Raman Rath and others, and attacked the city wall.
But all of this came to an abrupt end with the roar of the magic cannon......