Standing on the tower in the palace of Tiamat, Alexander looked at the last dark red afterglow in the west, and he suddenly felt a little uneasy. The sun had sunk below the horizon, but its light was still shining in the sky, even though the night had eroded its light, and it had already turned the clouds a dark red.

"Will light be dyed with color?"

Alexander muttered to himself, usually he was not a person who liked to climb high, and it was difficult for him to have time to enjoy the sunset, but today, he suddenly wanted to take a look at the city and take a good look at the city.

However, the scenery of Deweide did not calm the emperor's mood, and the waves in his heart had long since churned out of the city and began to extend to the end of the horizon.

From beginning to end, he was closely watching Swain's every move. At first, he just thought that Swain was too close to Katarina, and the accident happened the day after Catalina returned to Tiamat Palace from Karin's castle, and Alexander couldn't make sure that Swain wouldn't notice anything, so he was in a hurry to deal with him. However, before Alexander could figure out how to do it, and there was no agreement with Prime Minister Pitt and others, Swain began his operation. It was only then that Alexander discovered what kind of action this count, who had only been in the imperial capital for three months, had.

Inviting a number of celebrities and high-ranking officials of the imperial capital to attend his banquet in Govélenburg, and successively visiting Ernest and Baron O'Brien, the two people in charge of the defense of the imperial capital, Alexander sensitively felt that Swain was pulling the power around him, and once someone dared to win over so many important ministers of the empire, then the emperor would inevitably be suspicious.

Alexander did not dare to wait any longer, he could not trust the people around him, especially Prime Minister Pete, who, according to the report, had decided to go to Govélenburg for a banquet, which, in Alexander's view, was almost equivalent to announcing that the Prime Minister of the Empire had chosen to side with the latter between the Emperor and an Earl.

Alexander, who felt the pressure and threat, also had to get up in a hurry, and used the last resort in order to completely clean up the dirt on his body.

Walking down from the tower, Alexander's expression was a little dazed.

"Has Lieutenant Colonel Glass left?" he asked the court attendants beside him.

"Yes. The squire bowed his head and replied cautiously, "Half an hour ago, Lieutenant Colonel Glass had already set out with five hundred royal guards, and he did not come to you to bid you his leave, because he wanted to keep it hidden. ”

Alexander nodded, which he could understand.

"How many people have gone to Glamorgan, to Govélenburg?" said Alexander, striding towards the restaurant, where he had not yet eaten dinner, though it was already completely dark.

The palace attendants who followed behind him still bowed their heads and replied very respectfully: "Prime Minister Pitt and Marquis Phil have already set off in the afternoon, and then the Duke of Pesa, His Excellency the Minister of War Guderian and the Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Menken have no intention of going out, so they should not go." ”

He only said a few more important people, and the rest were relatively insignificant, which he did not report and would not be interested in coming to Alexander.

"Duke Pesa?" Alexander remembered the bearded duke, "did he go too?"

"Yes. ”

Alexander thought about it, although the Duke of Pesa is a celebrity in God's social circle, and he has a very close relationship with many important ministers of the empire, but after all, he can only be regarded as an idle cloud and a wild crane, and he does not hold a public office in the government, so Alexander doesn't care about him very much, not to mention, this duke's good popularity is also famous, and it is natural for him to go to Swain's banquet.

Walking into the dining room, Alexander suddenly lost his appetite, and he sat at the table, flanked by his two sons, Alexei and Paul, and only the two of them.

The younger Paul sat restlessly in his chair, his eyes constantly rolling, as if looking for his mother. Since that day, Queen Anna has not appeared before the two princes, and the two princes have not received any news from their father.

The two princes who had been waiting for their father were already hungry, but because of their father's strictness, neither Alexei nor Paul dared to start first.

Looking at his two sons, the emperor's heart settled down slightly.

After praying, Alexander took the lead, and Alexei and Paul were finally able to eat.

In the huge restaurant, there were only three fathers and sons, and the night had already fallen, and the restaurant was also very dim, which made the two young princes feel a little uneasy.

"Alexey. ”

Hearing his father call him, Alexei subconsciously put down his knife and fork and looked at his father with a straight posture.

"Broccoli is a very nutritious food and you can't leave it behind. ”

"Yes. Alexey looked at the broccoli on his plate, he didn't like to eat this vegetable very much, but since his father had said so, and there was no mother to protect him today, he could only eat these vegetables honestly.

"Paul. Alexander called the name of his second son again, "Eat more, you are still growing your body, you can only grow when you are full, you know?, but don't eat snacks, especially candy, it's not good for your teeth." ”

Paul bowed his head, his little face wrinkled and looked sad, but he did not dare to disobey his father.

The atmosphere was very depressing, and the two princes ate dinner silently, not daring to say a word. Since the death of Nicholas I, Tiamat Palace has been much deserted. But even in the days immediately after the death of Nicholas I, the atmosphere in the palace had never been more uncomfortable.

Alexander ate very slowly, in fact, he felt that the taste was like chewing wax, and he had no appetite at all.

Alexei and Paul saw that their father had a bad appetite, but neither of them dared to persuade him.

This dinner is like a candle flame about to burn out, dim, and what shines out is only a suppressed light.

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"The Munster and Connaught armies were stationed in the western suburbs, the Yanwan army defended the northern part of Deweide, and the imperial capital garrison was transferred to the southern and eastern defense lines of the imperial capital, and they were all outside the city. However, it will take a series of tedious formalities, and it will take about thirty minutes before they can send the herald to the barracks to deliver the order, so we don't have much time, and in the best case, we will have two hours to storm the Tiamat Palace, but if Guderian reacts quickly enough, then it will only be an hour at most. ”

Sinjid listened to Swain's analysis, but there was no nervous look on his face.

"It's nothing, the defenses of Tiamat Palace are weak, as you expected, the Emperor sent half of the royal guard to Glamorgan to capture you, but in fact you are in Germany, with more than a thousand elite soldiers, waiting to stretch out your claws against Tiamat Palace. ”

Swain glanced at Sinjid, then at the soldiers he had brought with him, and although they had seen them once in Port Leon, they could only truly witness their strength now.

"If news of the attack on Tiamat Palace spreads soon, the half of the Royal Guard will soon return. But it doesn't matter, until then, the Munster army and the Imperial Capital garrison will definitely attack us first. ”

Swain took his pocket watch out of his bosom and checked the time.

"It's 7:45, and when it's 8 o'clock, we'll attack. As he spoke, he looked at Sinjid again, "Since this is your troops, let you command them." ”

"Please admire ......" Sinjid raised his hand high, and then raised it across the night sky to his chest, the corners of his mouth curled to match his exaggerated etiquette, like a devil's grimace.

"The victory I brought you. ”

With that, Singid gathered his soldiers and began to pour into the Glory of Justice Square from all directions, facing the gates of the Tiamat Palace, in formation.

"What's that?" Seeing this scene, the surrounding crowd couldn't help but point out curiously to the neatly arranged soldiers, the soldiers were not wearing imperial uniforms, but black long-swing uniforms that were very incongruous with the weather, so they didn't think this was an army parade, but regarded this scene as a parade and demonstration, after all, after the civil war, such a thing did not happen before, but the scale was too small, and they were quickly driven away by the police, and no one dared to demonstrate in front of the Tiamat Palace.

However, the next scene immediately made them realize that things were much more serious than they thought.

At Sinjid's command, the soldiers took out their hidden guns and began to march in unison towards the palace of Tiamat.

"Frontal attack?" Swain, who was still in the shadows, watched Sinjid's performance, and his eyes gradually sank, "Do you want to take Tiamat Palace as soon as possible, or do you want to make enough noise to notify someone?"

On the other side, the royal guards who stayed behind in the Tiamat Palace quickly noticed the movement in the Plaza of Justice and Glory, and when more than a thousand soldiers appeared, the royal guards guarding the gate were immediately on alert, for the royal guards, the shame of the Tiamat Palace being breached was enough once, enough for them to keep vigilant for this shame for the rest of their lives.

When Sinjid's soldiers began to raise their guns, the royal guards at the gate opened fire without hesitation, and they would not give the other party any chance to get close to the palace of Tiamat.

However, Sinjid's soldiers were more capable of fighting than they had imagined, the soldiers covered each other to launch an offensive, and due to their speed, the first round of shots at the Tiamat Palace did not achieve much success, and before they could reach the gates and walls of the Tiamat Palace before they could fire a second volley.

Because Alexander transferred half of the royal guards, there were only about a hundred people guarding the gate at this time, and the firepower was not enough to suppress the opponent, although it had a defensive location, but this was the Tiamat Palace after all, and the steel gate could not turn it into a real military fortress.

The surrounding populace fled at the sound of gunfire, and the sound of the Pritown attack and the civil war in Germany was so familiar that fleeing had almost become a skillful technique.

"It's time to show how powerful my soldiers are. Sinjid smiled coldly under the protection of the soldiers, although the soldiers he had trained were not as good as Manfred's creations, but in terms of physical fitness and combat ability, even the royal guards of the army's elite were not comparable to them.

The excellent jumping power made it easy for them to jump onto the city wall, and the royal guards guarding the city gate obviously did not expect the other party to have such jumping ability, although they reacted quickly and immediately engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, but because there was no commander with enough qualifications to command the whole army at this time in the Tiamat Palace, the resistance of the royal guards was scattered, and it was not long before they lost the gate, allowing Sinjid and his soldiers to drive straight in.

Sinjid passed through the gates of Tiamat Palace, and the Imperial Hall was already in sight.

"Attack, let them see, you guys are amazing!"