Chapter Seventy-Six: The Decision of the Three Great Families
In the evening, the sun emitted a dazzling glow, a dark red glow in front of the gates of Amber Town, shining on the extremely oppressive atmosphere of the battlefield.
At the gate of Amber Town, about 500 meters away from the city gate, 60,000 base soldiers lined up neatly in front of the city gate, standing like sculptures. The soldier with the large shield erected the shield at the front of the army, protecting the soldiers behind.
At the head of the city, the few crossbowmen stood next to the battlements, showing half their heads, staring at the enemy below, not daring to blink their eyes. Other miscellaneous troops lined up at the head of the city to prevent the enemy from attacking the city.
Amber Town is located in a relatively flat depression, and the trees around it have been uprooted, with only a few trees scattered for passers-by to cool off. Therefore, it is impossible to sneak attack Amber Town, only a strong attack in the open, open the formation and do a big job.
Amber Town is the most marginal town in the Duchy of Heigang, located in the northernmost part of the Duchy of Heigang, a subordinate town of Lourdas City. It is two days away from the city of Loldas.
Amber Town has two gates, the one facing north to the Forest of Chaos, and the other facing south to Loldas, the capital of the Duchy of Heigang.
At this time, Emperor Xiaoyao saw the scene in front of the north city gate, the city gate leading to the Chaos Forest, and at the south city gate, the city gate leading to the inside of the Heigang Principality, Yao Di led more than 26,000 people to block in front of the south city gate, and the aura of slaughter was pervasive. Today, the entire town of Amber is shrouded in the shadow of war.
There are only more than 1,000 soldiers of the Heigang Principality in the entire Amber Town, although in terms of the number of professionals, the proportion of professionals in Amber Town is higher than that of the regular army of the Heigang Principality, but the quality is difficult to guarantee. The loose management system allows them to have low team combat ability.
At this time, Yaodi was giving combat missions to the master group. In this siege, Yao Di was going to let the fifth- and sixth-order soldiers cross the city wall and rush directly to the three major family stations and the town lord's mansion in Amber Town when the low-level (first, second, third, and fourth-order) soldiers were attacking the city, and most of the fifth-order soldiers in Amber Town belonged to the official fifth-order soldiers of the Heigang Principality, most of them were at the head of the city, and some were in the town lord's mansion.
In the Li family of Amber Town, there are five fifth-order professionals and one sixth-order professional, so Yaodi sent fifteen fifth-order base soldiers to the Li family, the South Gate family, one person in the sixth order, four people in the fifth order, and sent thirteen fifth-order base soldiers to the Nanmen family, and the Zhang family, five people in the fifth order, sent ten fifth-order base soldiers to the Zhang family.
Yao Di estimated that there should only be two fifth-order Heigang Duchy soldiers left in the Town Lord's Mansion, and the sixth-order peak town defender should also be in the Town Lord's Mansion, so he sent four fifth-order base soldiers and the only sixth-order base soldier, the Giant Hammer Warrior, to the Town Lord's Mansion.
Among the remaining soldiers, Yaodi rearranged the soldiers. That is, 10,000 second-order soldiers were mobilized to go to the north city gate, 10,000 eleven-order soldiers were mobilized to the south city gate, and soldiers of other ranks were also deployed. In order to ensure that the gap between the forces attacking the north and south gates is not too large.
After Yaodi gave the order, he began to adjust his troops.
The soldiers of the Heigang Principality at the head of the city were filled with despair when they saw so many enemies under the city walls. And the ordinary people and major families in the city are not easy.
The people are looking forward to seeing the sun tomorrow, and the major families are gathering their clansmen to discuss. After all, they don't belong to the army of the Heigang Principality, and they don't have to resist the enemies from outside.
These families can surrender to the invaders, and they can also help the Heigang Principality resist the invasion of the invaders. Different approaches have different results.
In the South Gate Family, in the council hall, all the family elders, the former family head, the current family head, and the fourth-order clan members gathered here. Outside the hall, all the clansmen gathered here, waiting for the decision of the upper echelons of the family.
Everyone's hearts were extremely nervous.
Inside the meeting hall, it was not Nanmen Chanshen who was sitting on the main seat at this time, but Nanmen Yintai, the previous head of the Nanmen family. Below the South Gate Yintai, the current head of the family, Nanmen Chan Shen and the Great Elder Nanmen Yinyan sat first on the left and right, and the other elders sat down in turn according to their status.
Nanmen Yintai looked at the clansmen sitting below, turned his eyes to Nanmen Chan Shen, and said in a calm tone: "Zen Shen, you come." After all, the current head of the family is Nanmen Chanshen, and all family affairs should be presided over by the head of the family. It is difficult for other people, including themselves, to survive, and for a family to survive, there must be rules.
Hearing this, Nanmen Chanshen was not too surprised, turned his head to look at Nanmen Yintai and said, "Yes, Father." After speaking, he turned around and said to the clansmen who participated in the meeting: "I believe everyone has heard about it, I don't know which side is going to attack Amber Town, and the troops have already come to the city, the main issue we discussed in this meeting is whether to help the Heigang royal family resist this invasion, of course, the fourth elder Nanmen Weiyu does not need to attend this meeting, you immediately go to the town lord's mansion to report."
After the topic was finished, Nanmen Chan Shen added another sentence that Nanmen Weiyu was the captain of Amber Town's city defense and the military commander of the Amber Town garrison. Therefore, while he is a member of the Nanmen family, he is also a military attache belonging to the Principality of Heigang, and it is a felony not to lead the troops to fight when the Principality of Heigang is invaded by foreign enemies.
Nanmen Weiyu stood up, "Yes, Lord of the Family, grandfather", he clenched his fists to Nanmen Yintai and Nanmen Chanshen, exited the meeting hall, put on his battle armor, and rushed to the town lord's mansion.
Nanmen Wei Yu left, and Nanmen Chan Shen opened his mouth and continued: "You may not know much about the army of the foreign invaders, according to the report of the clansmen, there are at least 80,000 troops from outside, and the most important thing is that these troops are all professionals, so Amber Town must not be able to hold it."
"If we help the Duchy of Heigang resist these armies now until the army of the Duchy of Heigang arrives, then we will be rewarded by the Duchy of Heigang, supported by the Duchy of Heigang, and strengthen our family. At the same time, it may also cause the death of a large number of people, or the extinction of the race."
"If we don't help the soldiers of Amber Town to defend the city, then, when the Duchy of Heigang repels the incoming enemy afterwards, we will have no place in the Duchy of Heigang, and we will even be hunted down by the Duchy of Heigang, and the possibility of us being taken in by other countries is very low. One more thing, will these troops outside the town let us go."
Nanmen Chanshen said the two choices faced by the family at this time. As for throwing himself to the other party and betraying the Heigang Principality, I believe that the clansmen will not do this, after all, neither they nor they think that the invading enemies outside the town can compete with the Heigang Principality.
So the final winner will definitely be the Duchy of Heigang, and Amber Town may only be temporarily breached.
After talking about the content of the topic, Nanmen Zen Shen said: "Let's talk about whether we will help or not."
As soon as Nanmen Chanshen's words fell, the clansmen below began to discuss, noisy and noisy, like a vegetable market.
Nanmen Chanshen looked at the noisy clansmen, and then looked at his father's ugly face, slapped the table at the noisy clansmen, and said angrily: "What is the noise? There are no rules?"
The hall fell silent in an instant, and everyone was silent, not daring to make a sound.
Looking at the clansmen who no longer spoke, Nanmen Chanshen's face turned flat, and he looked at the great elder who was there with the old god, and the south gate was silver.
Nanmen Yinyan drank tea quietly, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him. Sensing Nanmen Zen's cautious gaze looking at him, he coughed lightly and said: "My idea is that we have to help the garrison of Amber Town defend the city, after all, the final victory belongs to the Duchy of Heigang, we help them defend the city, if we can't hold it, we can also retreat." In this case, the most that the Heigang Principality will do afterwards will not give us a good look, and there will be no other excessive actions. If we don't help the Amber garrison defend the city, then we'll have to flee the Duchy of Heigang now. Anyway, I personally think that we should help the Amber garrison defend the city."
After the Great Elder finished speaking, he went to drink tea again.
The others sitting below also nodded, thinking that they all agreed with the Great Elder's statement, and they all had the same idea as the Great Elder, helping the Amber Town garrison to defend the city.
Seeing this situation, Nanmen Chanshen and Nanmen Yintai glanced at each other, and both saw a hint of coldness in each other's eyes.
The two looked away, and Nanmen Chanshen said: "Everyone raised their hands to vote, and agreed to help defend the city", saying that Nanmen Chanshen first raised his hand.
The vote came in, unanimously passed, and everyone agreed to help the Amber garrison defend the city, or rather, agreed with the Great Elder.
Seeing this, Nanmen Chan Shen glanced at everyone, and said with a faint expression: "In this case, we will help the garrison of Amber Town to defend the city, gather the clansmen, and go to the city tower."
After saying this, Nanmen Chan Shen threw up his sleeves and left, and Nanmen Yintai also got up and left the meeting hall. The Great Elder Nanmen Yintai put down the teacup, looked at the two who left, and sneered in his heart: Nanmen Yintai, don't think that if you pass on the position of the head of the family to your son, he will be able to completely control the family, fight with me, he is still a little tender, hum.
Turning around, Nanmen Yinyan said to the other (her) people: "You two elders stay, and the other clansmen (fourth order) will lead the children of the family to the city tower first."
After the south gate Yinyan finished speaking, the clansmen of the fourth order left, and rushed to the city tower with the clansmen outside the meeting hall. The three elders were left in the hall, not knowing what they were talking about.
And in the other two big families in Amber Town, the Zhang and Li families also appeared in the same scene, started a family meeting, came to the same conclusion, helped defend the city, and did the same thing, sending the clansmen of the fourth order and below to the city tower.
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