CHAPTER XXI

The early morning sun shone on the capital, and the people of El woke up from their dreams as usual to start a new day, as if Mark's army were not outside the city. www.biquge.info They also knew about the army outside, but the new queen gave them absolute confidence.

Evan stood at the end of the city wall and looked at the Mark garrison in the distance, and wondered in his heart, why didn't they attack the city after they had been here for several days?

"Evan, you say Mark can take a few days to conquer the national capital"?

Evan looked around and whispered, "Big brother, we are the general who guards the city appointed by the queen herself, how can we say such things."

"Defending the General"?

Xius sneered and said: "Princess Anna only ordered you and me to be the generals of the city last night, and those who understand know that the barrier in front has disappeared, and although the food in the city is enough at present, do you think that untrained soldiers can stop the attack of those barbarians?"

Evan didn't speak, still looking into the distance. In the past few years, his experience in officialdom has allowed him to practice a kind of kung fu that does not write all his expressions on his face. Although he also knew that it was a chore, it was not an opportunity for the family, although the city was broken and people died, but if a miracle happened, then the family would return to the top again.

Theseus walked up to Evan and patted him on the shoulder, "Brother." I'm a person who can only wield knives and guns, I don't know how to bend the road, my father and family rely on you, I'm a little tired, go sleep first."

For the first time since he was born, Evan heard Hughes call himself by the title of his younger brother, and it seems that the family's downfall has hit the eldest brother, a high-spirited person, a lot of blows, and he also understands the meaning of Hughes's words, for the sake of the family, he can not even want his life. He suddenly remembered Ivah, his only friend.

He lived a carefree life. Even if the matter of eloping with the princess was not pursued by the empire, he still has a good master after all, if he can help ......

Never mind.

Evan dismissed this unrealistic thought, and when he decided to give up his status as a warrior, he swore to himself that he would never disturb Iv, after all, he was his only friend. The only friend!

Outside the city, at the station of Mark's army, sweaty soldiers gathered together, and the waiting generals also wiped the beads of sweat on their foreheads and whispered about it. These people were waiting for the king's orders. Cassis, who had been reluctant to show up for a long time, was now in Aihua's tent.

"Why? Don't want to be reunited with Anna?"

Aihua put down the clothes in his hand and stared at Cassis for a long time and said, "I remember, I should have said that I didn't want to participate in this war, haven't you heard"?

Cassis nodded and said, "Yes, yes."

"Did you tell me this"?

Aiwa had already put his hand on the bloody blade, and he felt that Cassis must have no good intentions to be the head coach himself.

Cassis sighed, got up, walked to the door of the tent, pulled the curtain and said, "My dear King of Valian, what do you see, my friend?"

"Soldier".

Iva looked at Cassis, who had a bad face, and then said, "It's my Mark's soldiers, brave and indestructible soldiers, are you satisfied?"

"Very good" But Cassis didn't put down the curtain in his hand, his eyes stared at Aihua and said, "And that"?

"What else?"

Saying that, Aihua looked carefully, feeling that something was wrong but didn't know what it was, he shrugged his shoulders and said that he didn't understand.

Cassis lowered the curtain and walked over to him, bent down and asked softly, "What is written in the first article of the regulations on the assembly of the army?"

"It is not allowed to whisper when the army is assembled, the soldier is heavily responsible for fifty military sticks, and the general is beheaded"

In an instant, he understood that this seemed to be a small matter, but it was a big thing for the army, especially when assembling, if someone said that the purpose of this time was to leak military secrets, and if the general said that he could not defeat the enemy this time, it would shake the morale of the army.

Aihua tilted his head and said, "It's just a small thing, don't be so nervous, right?"

"A small thing"? Cassis stretched out his hand and shook his head over and said, "You know very well what the consequences of such a small matter will be, what will happen if we don't attack with superior forces today?

"Stick"

Cassis slammed his fist on the table and said, "I should have killed them like I had killed two great families, dug up their flesh little by little, and fed the corpses to the wolves."

After a while, Cassis's body softened like a noodle and said wistfully: "But I can't, do you know why? Don't you know, if I kill them all, will I go to war as a king? Do you think this is possible? No, it is impossible, and I have to endure the use of these cowards to lead brave soldiers into battle, isn't it ridiculous?"

With tears in his eyes, Cassis got up and took his hand and said, "Now you are the only one who can help me."

He looked at Cassis and said, "This is the last time"?

The latter glanced to the side and said, "Definitely not."

He let go of Cassis's hand and looked at the bloody blade, silently put on the armor on the side, picked up the bloody blade and walked to the door without replying, and said: "Then everything in this war is up to me"?

Cassis leaned against the table and said, "That's nature, you're in charge of getting into trouble, and I'm in charge of cleaning up the mess, isn't that what we have already stipulated?"

Iva smiled contemptuously, he didn't have to look to know what Cassis was like now.

Lifting the curtain and the sun shone on his face, Aihua closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He seemed to hear the cries of the weak, and the smell of killing.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw a blank soldier and general, he drew his bloody blade and walked to the crowd and shouted: "I am the commander this time, and my order is to behead those who violate the holy decree ......."

Before Aihua could finish speaking, a general stood in front of him and said, "What are you, we only listen to His Majesty's ......."

"Puff"

The bright red blood scattered Aihua's body, and a headless corpse fell in front of him, and he would never have thought that this Aihua would kill him.

"Battlefield Disobedient Slash"

A man in the general's armor half-knelt to the side and said, "Boss, I suddenly feel unwell, please let the general rest for a while."

"Puff"

"Greedy for life and afraid of the dead"

Ai Hua walked to the center of the soldier and held up the bloody blade and said, "I guess you all know me, and I won't say much."

The soldiers led by Beer De knelt down one after another and said, "Respect the general's military order."

Aihua walked to the front of the national capital with his soldiers, looked at the walls of Takamatsu, and turned back and asked, "Beerde, do we have large siege equipment?"

Beer De glanced around and whispered: "General, you don't know that our country has always been short of resources, so ......."

"Hmm"

Aihua raised his head and looked at the clouds above him, and after thinking for a while, he said, "It's almost noon, order the soldiers to eat."

Although Beer De didn't know what Aihua was going to do, he still went to recruit a soldier. In a few moments, smoke rose from the camp. Ewen on the city wall thought that the enemy army would attack immediately when he arrived at the city, but he didn't think about it, but what did he want to cook?

He turned back to the adjutant general and asked, "Do you know who the general on the other side is?"

"Belong, subordinates don't know".

"Damn" Evan scolded in his heart, and now he doesn't know who the main general on the other side is and what he will fight.

A stream of meat passed into Evan's nose, and he looked at his subordinates and asked, "We haven't eaten yet......?"

Evan looked at the soldiers swallowing saliva and was helpless, the food in the army has always been bad, in peacetime they can still rob passers-by, but now at this time, how can they still be allowed to do such a thing?

The smell of meat became more and more seductive, and the soldiers began to whisper about whether there would be meat for the next meal. But Evan clearly knew that the food in the national capital originally depended on the supply of the outside world, and he had to give the best to the nobles, these soldiers had not eaten meat for a long time, and if they continued like this, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Evan turned around and walked down the tower to wake up the sleeping Xiuth and said, "Big brother, you are here now to stabilize the morale of the army, I will go out first."

"Oh," Theseus asked, rubbing his eyes, "where are you going?

"No, I'll leave it to you, big brother."

Not long after Evan left, Hughes fell asleep, and in his mind there was no need to protect here, and the city was only a matter of time before it was broken.

Iva was eating in the tent when he heard the herald say that a man named Evan had come to meet him.

What is he doing here?

Aihua put down the piece of meat in his hand and said, "Let him wait for a while, and then have a meal when he comes in."

Evan waited at the station and watched as several large cauldrons of meat were boiling in the cauldrons, and several soldiers were adding spices to them. This made him more and more curious about who the other party's coach was? After waiting for a while, Evan received a notice to go in, and as soon as he walked into the tent, he was stunned, Aihua?

"Are you here, sit down" Aihua said politely, but he still sat in place and did not move, if someone else had already thrown his sleeves and left, but Evan only had bitterness in his heart, and he didn't know how to speak the prepared words.

Evan, whose brain was already in a mess, walked to the table next to him, and subconsciously picked up the chopsticks in his hand and put them down. He constantly reminded himself of the purpose of his visit and the responsibility behind it.

Ai Hua, who was secretly observing, asked, "Why don't you eat it?" I remember that the national capital should have been besieged for more than a month, and there should not be much food in the city."

"Oh? Ahh

Evan sorted out the thoughts in his mind and prepared to fight back: "This doesn't bother the general, remember the restaurant we went to when we were children? It's still as lively as before."

Evan smiled slightly and did not deny it, he knew very well that it was impossible to be a thousand-year-old country without stocks, and these stocks could last for a year, two or even ten years, but these things were in the hands of the nobles, and it would be much more interesting if the people at the bottom revolted.

Ai Hua smiled and said: "Don't say it, I really want to go to the restaurant at that time to eat, so that when I hit the national capital, I invite you to eat, what do you think"?

If he took him to dinner, wouldn't it mean that the capital of the country had been breached? He picked up his wine glass and said strangely: "Okay, I don't know when you will take me there."

Aihua pointed at Evan and laughed, "You, you." He waved his hand to let the soldier go down and said, "There are no outsiders here, and you don't have to hide it from me, saying, what are you doing this time?"

"What?" Evan looked at the midweek marker, as if laughing at himself and sighing. "I thought General Mark could seduce with food, and I thought it was a master, but when I came here, I knew that it was you, and I made people, and I made people."

Aihua lowered his head and said, "A little trick is not enough to worry about." When he was the commander, he thought that the general of the city might be Evan, but he didn't expect it to be him.

"Isn't it enough to worry about it? Aihua, your face is really big." Evan staggered from his seat and pointed at his nose and scolded: "Do you know what kind of blood is on your body? Hmph, I don't know if you look like you now, let me ask you, the Mark soldiers are fierce, they know how they kill us, what is the difference between these and robbers? And you are doing things for them now, what is the difference between you and these brutes"?

Aihua looked at the crazy Evan and took a sip of the wine glass.

"Speak, speak, you now".

"Enough". Aihua slammed the table and said, "I don't know that people will die in war? Do you think I don't know what country I am? This war has been fought for 500 years, and it's time to end it."

Evan, who was a little flustered, leaned on the table and chair and scolded: "With your strength, if you don't go to that city as a general, why do you go to Mark"?

"The city? I ask you, if the soldiers defending the city catch a passer-by and ask for money, is it not common? I'm asking you, every city lord is passed down from generation to generation, right? Have you ever seen a child who doesn't know anything sitting on a chair looking at the whole city, and managing it indiscriminately, and you said that the general would go down and beg his opponent in a low voice because of the use of force with others, do you know all this?"

"No, you don't know, you have lived in the capital since you were a nobleman, and you take it for granted, but I tell you, all this is wrong, and the money of those passers-by is also earned by them, why can a child become the lord of the city, isn't it because he has a good father? Oh no, because he has an ancestor who can fight well."

"The rotten system should be destroyed, and you nobles will be gnawed by them without even the dregs left, and I'm telling you, do you know why these people don't dare to resist?

"No, no, all this you said is false, you are lying to me".

His words exploded in Evan's mind like an atomic bomb. Evan, who was educated as an aristocratic child, thought that what he said was a lie, but the truth was that he also connived at the behavior of the soldiers when he was the general of the city.

"I'm going to kill you," Evan howled and rushed forward.

"General"

Beer De rushed into the tent with his soldiers to take the unarmed Evan as the master, he turned to Aihua and said, "General, are you okay?"

Aihua sighed and patted Beer on the shoulder and said, "I'm fine." He drew his sword and put it in Evan's hand and said, "If you think what I said is wrong, kill me, and I will not complain."

Evan looked at him, looked at the trembling sword in his hand, and just raised his hand, the soldier next to him took a step forward with his spear.

Evan smiled bitterly and turned around and stabbed his long sword on the ground and said, "You and I will meet on the battlefield, and we will never die."

Watching Evan walk out of the tent, Ivan slumped on the ground, and Beer quickly helped him up and said, "General, do you want to take a break."

"No"

Ai Hua hurriedly stopped: "Now the enemy will be disturbed and his morale is insufficient, so he will pass on our military orders and march with drums."

Beer De helped Aihua to the chair before stepping back and said, "Respect the military order, the general pays attention to the body."

Ai Hua picked up the blood blade and said in the direction of the national capital: "The matter has come here, no one has a way out, I hope you and I will not meet on the battlefield."