Brandon Hunt, known as "The Cliff", is the nephew of Duke Roland, the head of the Knights of the Burning Sun, but the two have very different personalities. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

If Duke Roland is a Confucian general who strategizes thousands of miles away, Count Brandon is a tiger general who is brave and brave. He is a well-known main battle faction within the Knights of the Burning Sun, and he writes dozens of long letters to the headquarters every year, listing the various threats posed by the Hill Empire to the south and the many reasons why he had to go to war with the Hill Empire.

Although Duke Roland supported his nephew's idea, as the head of the Knights of the Burning Sun, he did not have the power to declare war. The one who had the power to declare war was the military priests placed by the Red Sect in the Knights of the Scorching Sun, and were held by twelve venerable red-clothed priests. The military priest did not agree to go to war, and Duke Roland could not help it. The Knights of the Burning Sun are loyal to the Rhine royal family, but they are subject to the Red Cult, which is one of the reasons why the Knights of the Burning Sun are not as powerful as the Bright Crusade.

Now it seems that the Earl of Brandon was prescient and had foreseen the coming of war...... However, until the Hill Empire suddenly declares war, no one can guarantee that war will actually happen. The military priests of the Red Sect were not cowardly, but they were unwilling to take responsibility for starting the war.

With the thirteen southern principalities growing stronger and fighting each other, it is impossible for the Red Sect to agree to the initiative of the army just because the Hill Empire is "a threat". The history of the continent of St. Ainos tells them that every dynasty perishes because of internal and external troubles. Once the Knights of the Burning Sun agree to attack and the war is lost, the responsibility rests with them.

Therefore...... They would rather wait for the Hill Empire to break the peace.

As a result of the wait, Count Brandon repeatedly asked for additional troops to the Duchy of Gay, but the military priests were worried that he, the main battle faction, would cause trouble if he was too strong, and refused to increase the troops on the grounds that the principalities refused to allow the Knights of the Sun to cross the border. This has led to the lack of military strength of the Principality of Guy, even if it is less than 100,000 people with the Principality of Guy's own army, it is simply unable to resist the army of the Hill Empire, and even the Knights of the Cathar can't defeat it.

Although Lucas Gay claims to be the sixth strongest man on the continent, it looks like that, but ...... He is not strong enough to be ten thousand enemies. Unless the Lord God manifests, no mortal can change the tide of battle on his own.

Infiltrating the enemy camp and killing the enemy commander, Lucas can do it, but the risks are not proportional to the benefits. The Hill Empire's military system is quite mature, and if a commander dies, a new commander will immediately replace him, eliminating the possibility of the army falling into chaos due to the enemy's decapitation operation.

That's what Lucas told Aluca and Cinnon about, and he confirmed the rumors that Mi'er was talking about...... The Knights of the Guardians of the White Cult have indeed gained supernatural powers. Otherwise, the front would not have collapsed so quickly, and eighty percent of the country's territory would have fallen in less than half a month.

"In this case, Count Brandon still does not agree to surrender......" Lucas did not see any emotion on his face, not knowing how he felt about Count Brandon's decision, "We have less than 30,000 troops left, all infantry, and are now stationed outside the city of Eyre...... Moreover, there are more than 10,000 wounded soldiers out of 30,000 people, and the combat effectiveness is very weak......"

Aluca asked, "What about the White Sect's army?"

"At present, they have only sent the Knights of the Cathars, and there are more than 100,000 fresh troops in the border, and the Bright Crusade has never been dispatched......," Lucas smiled bitterly and said helplessly, "We don't even have the ability to force out the main army of the White Sect, and if we don't surrender, we will only be annihilated." The Duke of Roland knew the character of Count Brandon, so he ......"

Aluka said in his heart that this was much wiser than Song Gaozong's twelve gold medals to recall Yue Ji, and directly killed people, and the crime was pushed to the head of the White Sect, so as not to leave a stench for 10,000 years. And the truth is not necessarily that the Duke of Roland has compassion for the people of the Duchy of Guy and does not want them to suffer from war again. Behind Duke Roland stood the Rhine royal family, or Catherine, and what she was thinking was only known to herself.

According to Aluca's guess, this war was secretly instigated by Catherine, and now she has instigated the surrender of the Duchy of Gay...... Didn't she mean she didn't want to win the war in the first place?

As soon as the Duchy of Guy surrendered, this was an example of abandoning darkness and turning to the light. When the other twelve principalities found that they could not resist, they surrendered in turn. The Hill Empire stated before the war that after the occupation of the South, it would not force Southerners to convert, and the Red Religion would continue to exist. In this way, there will be no reason for the major principalities to resist desperately, what is the difference between the Rhine royal family and the Hill royal family?

Somewhat resistant to Duke Roland's orders, Sinon said to Lucas, "I don't think it's a good idea to assassinate Count Brandon, he is a glorious warrior who deserves to die on the battlefield and not by the sword of his own people." ”

"I am also a devout believer in the Red Religion, but I am also the lord of a country, I have to think about my people and soldiers, and I can't let them die in vain......" Lucas did not comment on Sinoon's attitude, but asked Aluca, "What do you think?"

"I'm ......"

Aluca remembered what the Duke of Roland had said to him at the dinner party, that most people could see the light and live happily and quietly because someone had resisted the darkness for them. Light and darkness always go hand in hand, and there is no such thing as a pure and immaculate world.

Was Count Brandon wrong? He wasn't wrong, he was just loyal to his country. The word surrender is not included in the dictionary of the Red Sect believers, and the responsibility for the defeat should be borne by the military priests. They refused to face up to the threat of the Hill Empire, and did not increase the troops in the Principality of Guy's branch, otherwise they would not have lost so badly even if they were still defeated.

And now the headquarters of the Knights of the Burning Sun has to sacrifice Count Brandon for their own purposes...... It's like someone in the village telling the villagers all day that the river outside the village is going to flood and we need to repair the dam quickly. The villagers did not listen to him, and when the flood came, they sacrificed this person to the river god to appease the river god's anger, selectively forgetting that this person had warned them a long time ago.

It's obviously unfair, and Aluca doesn't like that.

But if you don't surrender...... As a result, 30,000 soldiers who could have been immortal were sent to their deaths in vain, and they could not even do any damage to the enemy, not even the burning of jade. In the process of defending the city, it is not known how many innocent civilians will die.

Is it to sacrifice a few to protect the few, or to resist desperately for justice and faith?

"Is it another issue of splitting tracks......" Aruka was very unhappy at the moment.

The railway has two forks on the left and right, both of which are abandoned. There was a child on the fork on the left, and a group of children on the fork on the right, and none of them made a mistake. But today, a train is inexplicably coming on the abandoned railway, who is to blame for this? In the case that no one is wrong, it is Aluca, who made the choice, is wrong.

"Forget it...... I don't go to hell, who goes to hell. Aluka sighed, "Someone has to do it, sacrifice him, and make thousands of families happy, and I will take this job." ”

Sinong frowned and said, "Aluca, we don't have the power to decide the life and death of others...... I believe that the soldiers who have fought so far do not want to sacrifice Earl Brandon for their own survival, they are not cowards. ”

"Yes......" Aluka finally understood the words of the Duke of Roland, someone must carry the darkness, the point is to let the people living in the sun not even know that there was darkness, "We do not have the power to decide the life and death of others, but we have the ability to decide." If those who are able to do so don't make a choice, then who will do it? Even if the remaining 30,000 soldiers have a heart that wants to die in battle, they can't help it......