Chapter 472: The Sword and the Kingdom
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The gray-robed old man with the same face continued to storm the inner city, and after the initial panic, the scattered kingdom army regrouped under the leadership of several captains and formed an effective defensive line out of the ruined city walls. Even if the clones of the gray-robed old man were endless, they could not break through the combined forces that occupied the natural danger for a while.
The frontlines are not only the soldiers of the Kingdom of Talon, but also the civilians, adventurers, caravan guards, and even the Assassins of the Silent Rose who are more determined than ever to stop the invading enemy.
"Your Majesty, please return to the palace!" this is the third time Coria has persuaded Riya.
Now dressed in light armor and wielding the sword of the king, Leah stands on the highest tower of the first line of defense to get a bird's-eye view of the enemy in the distance. The sudden sand wave buried the entire market area in the desert, and above the sand waves, there were countless Chaos Cultists. In addition to the endless clones of the old man, they appear in the crevices of every corner of the market area and constantly transmit new power to the battlefield.
They were dressed similarly, and they all looked at death as if they were at home.
Looking at the vast figure, even Ke Liya was a little lacking in confidence. If this line of defense is breached, then the Combine will not be able to retreat back to the second line of defense that has been improvised in front of the palace, which is also the last line of defense of the Kingdom of Tarun. She knew that Leah didn't know how to do swordsmanship, and that the role she could play on the front line was a spiritual boost.
To everyone's surprise, Ziegler played an amazing role in the face of the onslaught of the enemy.
He first arranged a reasonable allocation of personnel according to the situation in each area, and then arranged elite troops on several favorable terrains, and successfully blocked several enemy attacks. His command of the battlefield made up for the vacancy of Captain Salfin, while Julius and his troops were much more direct, and under his leadership, his soldiers rushed into the battlefield like chickens.
"But all the advantages that you see, are temporary. Corria said again.
No matter how heroic the battle is, it cannot withstand the endless rebirth of the enemy, but the physical strength of the soldier has a limit. Everything they did was to protect the kingdom, and Leah was the last spiritual pillar of the Combine Army, and if the Empress was killed, the entire army would collapse in an instant.
"That's why I can't leave. Leah said firmly, and if possible, she even wished she could rush to the front. She was different from her father, who had been through most of the wars and could command the most rationally in any situation, but she had never seen a few battles between knights, let alone tactical help, since she had been born in the court.
The only thing she could do was to stand on top of the tower and inspire those who fought for the kingdom.
"After my father's death, I was so confused that I realized that I was not ready to accept the status of empress at all. "I also realized that everything that was happening in this kingdom was different from what I had seen before, the discord between the nobles and the merchants, the hatred of the nobles among the commoners, and the potential threats to the frontiers, all of which my father never mentioned to me. ”
Even on the eve of Luther's coup, her father laughed and lulled her to sleep, convincing her that the kingdom of Tarun would be better tomorrow.
Her teacher, Lin Qiu, tells her that beyond the mountains there is a group of Vikings and a strange world.
Until the moment she put on the crown, she was not the truth. There were no Vikings beyond the mountains, but a world full of monsters and dangers, and the kingdom of Tarun was not as good as my father said it was - the market towns were in chaos, the contradictions between the different classes were becoming more and more obvious, the poor people had become bandits, others had starved to death in the streets, and the caravans were often attacked by monsters, and many merchants chose to leave.
So in the early days of her reign, she carried out two major conscriptions to improve the defenses on the periphery of the kingdom, and she encouraged exchanges between nobles and commoners in an attempt to ease the tension between the two. However, Leah soon discovers that she still doesn't really understand the kingdom her father left her.
She could never guess whether what the nobles said was true, and what they were saying.
"But now it's different. ”
Leah's eyes were on Ziegler and Moll Powell, who were arguing at the walls, this time not about the distribution of forces, nor about the endless and meaningless struggle for power.
"Don't stop me, Ziegler, I'm not old enough to fight!" Moore rolled up his sleeves, and his menacing voice came: "I've been in a much worse situation than now!"
Moll Powell and her father were knights of the same era, and he hadn't held a sword for more than a decade since the war had subsided.
"Sit down calmly, I'm the commander-in-chief!" Ziegler pressed Mohr to prevent a nobleman with a fiery temper from charging out with his knights to fight the invading enemy. This is really hell, the huge kingdom of Talon probably does not have knights who are rarer than Moore Powell, and now after arranging him with the task of guarding the rear, he is not happy.
After a while, a louder shout sounded than theirs: "I advise you to flee quickly!
The townspeople, led by Martin, managed to climb the city walls, collecting a series of miscellaneous items such as stones, wooden piles, and torches, and throwing them under the walls. And not far from him, Bishop Anthony stood alone on the city wall, staring solemnly at the members of the Chaos Cult, despite the obstruction of many nuns.
"Coria, I've never felt like I've felt like I've had the whole kingdom at my fingertips. ”
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Inner City, Hayvog Family Estate.
"Lilith, Richard, I brought you here as if you were friends, don't tell anyone about this!" the sneaky trio hid under a tree outside Hyvog Manor. Even though the servants of the family had urgently gathered at the palace to assist in the logistics, he instinctively kept his voice down.
Because this secret is extremely disgraceful to the Hyvog family.
"This is the neighborhood!" If there's anything unusual in the inner city lately, it's the Hyvog family.
Speaking of his father, even White felt gloomy—he could occasionally hear the confused gasps coming from the room when he came out at night, and her father was probably the most corrupt of the nobles of the Taryn kingdom in terms of private life. But the secret he plans to tell the two now has nothing to do with his father.
"Trust me, my house is haunted!"
"That's it?" Lilith was eager to give him a kick, and White ran away with them all the way in hiding, just to say something like that?
They're the enemy right now!
"No, no, no, you don't understand what I mean! I suspect the haunting has something to do with the Chaos Cult!"
Before Lilith could give him an old punch, White hurriedly explained.