Chapter 505: Lay down your arms

When the combined forces of Leighton and Leo approached the royal capital, the momentum was so great that they almost captured the royal capital and knocked Regar off the throne. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And at that time, there were still many forces in the royal capital that supported Leighton and Leo, after all, they were not in vain for so many years in the royal capital.

They were too old and had a lot of power in the royal capital, and Leighton was the most popular among the nobles.

And Leo has the support of the local tycoons and nobles, and the momentum of both of them has to steadily surpass Leiga, no matter how you look at Leiga, it is a defeat.

However, with the defection of Wren, it directly led to the rout of the Leighton and Leo alliances, and the forces supported by the two of them in the royal capital were also bloodily purged.

At one point two years ago, hundreds of people in the royal capital were sent to the square every day for public execution, many of them famous figures.

For example, the Marquis of Gortat, because of the crime of fornicating with the second prince Leighton, more than 100 members of the family were executed, bloody and terrifying, and the death was miserable.

Another example is General Herrera, although the general himself is loyal to the Empire, he has been reported to have colluded with Leo, even if there is no real evidence.

Herrera's entire family was still hanged, and General Herrera himself was hanged on the city wall for three days.

After Leo and Leighton were forced to withdraw from the vicinity of the royal capital, they confronted Wren's border army and the army that Rhaegar had gathered from all over the country.

After a series of wars, Leoreton lost, and the two failed to reach a consensus on some aspects, and the two divided their forces, one to the north and the other to the west.

Eventually, Leo gave up his refuge for some unknown reason, and his fate was unknown after he broke out of the siege under the desperate protection of his personal guards.

Of course, the royal capital gave the statement that Leo had been executed, and Rhaegar needed to use drastic means to stabilize the situation, even if he couldn't find Leo himself, just find someone with a similar appearance, and Leo's rout caused Leighton to be alone, and he retreated to the west of the empire.

At its peak, Leighton had twenty legions to follow, but now there are only two legions left around him, and he is surrounded by Wren.

Not to mention that Wren had thirty legions of elite border troops at this time, even if there were only three, Leighton would not be able to defeat this younger brother who was the same father and mother as him.

"Your Highness, although we are surrounded by many now, I will definitely fight my way out of the encirclement and send you out, that bastard of Rennes, if it weren't for his anti-water, Your Highness would have been sitting on the throne at this moment, where would it be the turn of that beast to show off your might!"

An old general, who was already in his sixties, looked at the firelight on the three layers of the outside and the three layers outside, his expression was urgent, and his eyes were resolute.

Anyone who has been on the battlefield is all too familiar with his eyes, this is already ready to die, he did not think that he can live.

He was a veteran of the last dynastic war, when he was at the peak of a man's physical and mental strength.

Although he is also a general, and he is also a person of the same era as Landau and Adolf, his reputation cannot be compared with those two after all.

In the past, he was known for not being afraid of death in the army, and he didn't know how many injuries he had suffered, and several times the military doctor thought he was dead.

But he still crawled back from the brink of death again and again, and he was not an officer of the Lion family at the beginning, but a member of the Aries dynasty.

It's just that after a war, he was saved by Layton and Wren's mother, who is also the queen, and in order to thank the queen for her kindness, he decided to spend the rest of his life serving the lion family, especially the queen's son, His Royal Highness Leighton, who has been identifying Leighton as the emperor of this country since many years ago.

"I've been driven to this point, where can I run away? Brother, he has made a choice, and I should make a choice. ”

Layton smiled dismally, his otherwise handsome cheeks were exhausted, he hadn't closed his eyes in days, and he was in a terrible situation.

"Your Highness, you are the hope of this country, you are a natural emperor, this is the wish of Her Majesty the Queen, you can't give up like this!"

The old man was stunned, and soon persuaded him bitterly, it was his lifelong wish to support Leighton to ascend to the throne, and he could lose his life without hesitation!

"I know what I have to do, give the order to everyone to lay down their arms and give up resistance, you have paid enough sacrifices to follow me, too many people have died because of me, I can't go on like this. Layton shook his head, and he looked at the stunned soldiers around him.

These soldiers were very young, and they were all recruited on a temporary basis in the local area, after all, he did not hold military power himself, and he was recruited on the basis of personal charisma.

Soldiers gathered from villages with dreams of a better life, and most of them were in remote areas where they could not marry wives.

When Leighton took them away, he promised that each of them would have a good life, and everyone would be able to marry and have children.

But after more than two years of fighting, there were only so many people left in the original twenty legions, and the immature faces didn't even have time to wait for this chilling snowfall, if he persevered, how many people could wait for the snow to end?

"No, Your Highness, you can't do this, you can't give up on us, we can give our lives for you, we must not give up!"

The soldiers looked at him blankly and began to shout, this is not a big blow to them, what have they asked for more than two years?

Isn't that the thing called hope? If Leighton gave up now, wouldn't what they were doing be meaningless?

"It's enough, I'll go to see Wren, my own brother, if I go to the royal capital, it's enough for me alone, if he still has my brother in his eyes, he will let you go, it's been hard for you all the way, but it's enough, give up the weapon, don't follow me." ”

Layton shook his head bitterly, he once had great ambitions, but after all, he was still no match for this ruthless reality, and he still came to this point.

"Don't do this, Your Highness, please don't abandon us, Your Highness, you are more uncomfortable like this than killing us, Your Highness!"

The old man and the soldier cried out in despair, this was not what they wanted to see, even if they died in battle, they would never want to see Layton captured.

"This snow is really beautiful, always obsessed with other things, but ignoring too much, Leo, Leo, I finally understand your feelings, but my good brother, what will you do with me?"

Layton looked up at the snowfall, which fell on him in a torrent of snowflakes, and he walked slowly, leaving a line of shallow marks.

Is the Imperial Civil War, which has lasted for two and a half years, finally coming to an end?