“…… Your Majesty Caspers, I hope your troops will have a good time catching that hateful bastard......"

In the study of the Doge's Palace, 'Alina' was pitifully telling Caspars about Leon's coercion of her.

"Don't worry, my dear, I've already sent three thousand people to chase after him, and that guy from Leon can't escape!"

Caspars comforted the beauty in front of him with a confident smile.

And 'Elena' was quietly muttering to Leon outside: "How did this kind of brain become the 'Vice Emperor'?" ”

"Probably because of this kind of brain, he can become the vice emperor...... Otherwise, how could the emperor of Marittin let him grow......"

Li Ang also whispered in a low voice.

In fact, the 'Elena' next to Leon is Alina, and it was also Alina who fooled Caspars at the dock before.

The poor girl in front of Caspars was actually Elena......

The two of them do look alike and are both beautiful, but as long as they change their makeup with each other, people who are not familiar with each other really can't tell who is who, and besides, Caspars has never seen them.

The reason why they want to swap identities is actually Elena who took the initiative to ask for it.

As Alina's friend and best friend, Elena knows that Alina can't play the kind of 'weak woman who needs protection' no matter what.

When it comes to power strategy, Alina is naturally the best among women.

But if you want to attract men...... That's not Alina's forte.

Although she is very beautiful, and although several people have tried to ask her for marriage, in fact, she has never been coquettish with any man in her life.

- All suitors, including Malbert, were looking for Justus, for no man had been disgraced before her since she was fifteen......

So Alina really doesn't hang men...... She really has no experience.

In addition, Alina is a bold and strong character, and she is too sharp when she speaks, which sometimes inevitably makes people feel a little sharp - in short, she seems too independent and too smart, which is easy to make people wary.

But Elena is a gentle lady, and her behavior habits are quite soft, and if you look at it by the standards of ordinary aristocratic girls, Elena is more like a lady - and it is the kind that can easily arouse people's desire to protect.

Of course, the most important thing is that Alina can't stay in the Doge's Palace forever.

She had to gather the surrounding troops and send people to secretly regain control of the port, which Elena really couldn't do.

Therefore, leaving Elena to hang Caspars in the Governor's Palace, Alina can sneak out to do business.

Elena does act like a lady who was almost bullied by a villain now - she doesn't cry, but from time to time she will show grievances and unwillingness; She didn't deliberately seduce Caspers, but her soft voice and graceful figure always inadvertently made Caspass's eyes straight.

It's a skill that Alina won't want to learn for the rest of her life......

In fact, the main reason lies in the word experience.

In the past few years, Elena has been an attendant to Emperor Marius - she is not a maid, but an attendant left by Alina to Emperor Marius, which is officially established and belongs to the guard formed by Alina, and her brother Brutus is the captain of the guard.

Although she usually worked with Emperor Marius and was unaware of her existence, the members of the guard came into contact with her on a daily basis - as the only girl in the guard, and a beautiful and gentle aristocratic girl, Elena naturally faced a vast number of suitors.

The guards who like Elena can make up at least half of the entire guard......

Elena did not resist her brother's pursuit of these more reliable guards, but due to her previous experience of being persecuted by the nobles, Elena was more cautious about men, so she has not accepted anyone until now.

But she didn't want to hurt the feelings of the guards, and she had a relatively gentle temper, so she wouldn't easily reject anyone completely......

As a result, Elena became a ...... with many suitors, but kept her distance from each of them Aquaman.

Yes, if you look at Leon's perception, Elena is a sea king.

But in this day and age, this is actually a very normal thing for beautiful aristocratic girls.

Most aristocratic ladies do this when faced with multiple suitors, that is, they do not agree, do not refuse, do not flatter, do not offend, do not intimate, do not estrange...... Six no-principles.

Unless they are married, they and any suitor will remain in a state of separation—not just for the sake of being Aquaman, but for the sake of the family's dignity and safety.

Of course, if you meet someone you really like, it's different.

Elena now only sees Caspars as a suitor, and she has put the 'six no's' principle into full play.

As the proud son of Maritin, Caspers, who has been smooth sailing since the age of eighteen, has certainly seen many girls, but he has never really gotten along with women.

After all, it has always been women who take the initiative to give them arms.

Caspers's arrogant temper and the way he courted girls were often carried out by threats or force — as he had written in his letter of surrender to Justes last year.

And now Leng Buding has met a gentle and gentle sea king......

Elena is so beautiful, so good-mannered, soft-spoken, and so pitiful in her look, of course Caspars wants to 'protect her'.

So, under the joint deception of Leon and Elena, Caspars sent 3,000 men to pursue 'Leon' from all directions, including 500 cavalry who had traveled thousands of miles from Maritin.

Of course, he himself did not leave the port of Emperor Lingang - he was reluctant to leave his 'poor fiancée Alina' now......

At present, Caspars has left only 1,500 troops in the port of Dilin, 1,000 to defend the city, and 500 to guard the governor's palace.

Two-thirds of the Maritinium forces have been temporarily redeployed.

Elena's current identity is Alina, and she is also the 'soon-to-be queen' Alina, and Caspars will neither use force nor harm her life, and her safety is actually guaranteed.

Alina left the port in Elena's name - she was going to organize the people around the port to 'welcome the new king' and 'buy some supplies for the feast'.

Leon also left the port of Terringang as Ahlers - he wanted to 'go back to Bozhi City to persuade Justus to heal his wounds by the way'.

Caspars even sent twenty soldiers and a carriage to protect the 'eldest brother' back to the city......

At night, more than 20 miles outside the emperor's port.

"Your Majesty, they've all been killed, and none of them have escaped. What do we do now? ”

Klose carried a bloody sword, and after identifying the corpses of the twenty or so Maritins on the ground one by one, he ran to Leon to report back.

Those were the twenty Maritine soldiers who were responsible for escorting Leon 'back to Bozhi City'.

"Klose, do you remember Serindil?"

Leon looked at the corpses of the Mariting soldiers on the ground.

"Of course, that's where the Silver Hand was founded!"

Klose nodded: "But...... That's not a good place......"

"Find a few clever brethren and put on the armor of the Maritins to go to the port of the Emperor to summon the news, and say that the army has found Leon, who is in Serindil, presumably trying to escape by boat...... The others are now rushing to Buyulin to find Alina and listen to her dispatch......"

Leon began to tell the brothers one by one the plans.

……

On the other side, Alina has already appeared in the village of Buyulin.

"Miss Alina, Sigismund has led away the Maritinians who are coming this way, as His Majesty Leon and you have commanded. The number of enemies was about a thousand, and he had been led north by Sigismund two hours earlier. ”

Ser Loris of the Knights of the Radiant Cross said of the current situation: "The scouts they sent to deliver the message to Dilin Harbor have been intercepted by us, and there should be no leaks. ”

The 1,000 Maritins were one of the troops that Caspars sent to 'pursue Leon', and he sent a total of 3,000 men to pursue them in three directions.

In the previous battle of Buyulin, the Freikorps had too many wounded soldiers, and Sigismund had been staying in the village of Buyulin to prepare the wounded.

Before Caspars met Leon, Sameer had already gone to the village of Buyulin to send a message to Sigismund, telling him and the Knights of the Radiant Cross to keep an eye out for him, and to lure them away under the banner of Leon if any Maritin troops came over.

If the Maritinians would send someone back to the Emperor's port to deliver the message, let the Knights of the Glorious Cross, who are familiar with the terrain, intercept and kill them.

Now it seems that this job has been done.

"Five hundred Maritinne cavalry should have also come, how many people did Sigismund take? He's not going to be overtaken by those Maritinins, is he? ”

Alina was a little worried, after all, the troops here were basically wounded.

"Sigismund only brought more than a hundred scouts, but I don't think the cavalry of the Marittin could catch up with him, and the scouts under that guy ran faster than the cavalry......"

Loris said with admiration on her face.

Indeed, Sigismund was now a master of seduction, and his men, especially the scouts who had seduced the Fallen, were now all Scuds.

"Then leave him alone, let the thousand Maritins go to the Noldor Forest and slowly find Leon to ......"

Alina nodded: "Organize the wounded soldiers and gather all those who can move...... I've got to get back to Dilin Harbour quickly. ”

At present, there are about 800 lightly wounded and more than 200 seriously injured in Buyulin Village, basically all of them are Li Ang's subordinates, and most of them are members of the Free Army.

The seriously wounded were not fit to move and, of course, could only remain in the village.

The lightly wounded brother has already stopped the bleeding and bandaged it, and it is still possible to do it on an ordinary march, but it certainly cannot be used for battle.

"Most of the wounded soldiers are not able to fight now......"

Loris probably thought that Alina was going to fight with the wounded.

"No, it's not for them to fight, just let these wounded soldiers be transferred to Dilingang, I just need to let them bring the equipment here to Dilingang."

Alina shook her head: "We have to leave soon, and we will be in the middle of the night to reach the port of Dilin...... Leon will probably only be able to buy us a day, from midnight today to tomorrow night. ”

The Battle of Buyulin killed thousands of Serpent worshippers, and the members of the Shadow Legion who died with Agathon in the battle left behind quite a lot of equipment such as horses, weapons and armor.

But Loris still didn't understand a little: "We only have more than a hundred knights with combat effectiveness now, and the plague exorcists are all in Siyuan City...... Do you want to retake the port of Dilin with more than a hundred knights? ”

"Of course not...... We still have the hand of silver, and the nearly 10,000 inhabitants of the Imperial Harbor......"

Alina shook her head: "You are the Knights of Radiance, and your appeal is much higher than mine, probably second only to His Majesty Marius...... As long as you show up in the residential area of Dilingang, let the residents come with you. ”

Loris frowned and was silent for a while: "Alina, did you bring the equipment back to let the civilians fight?" Untrained civilians ......"

"No, don't get me wrong, Lloris, I'm not going to plan any more civilian uprisings...... All I have to do is have the residents put on their gear and stand with you, and stand on the walls of the Emperor's Harbor. ”

Alina shook her head and smiled: "Sometimes you don't need to fight to achieve victory. ”

……

After dark.

Emperor Lingang, Governor's Palace.

Caspers, who was wandering around Elena, began to receive good news one after another.

"Your Majesty, the troops pursuing to the west have discovered the traces of Leon, who is now in a deserted village called Serindil, two hundred miles to the west, with more than three hundred people around him. But his guards are so strong that we only have a thousand men there, and it is possible that they will not be able to surround him...... The teams from other directions do not know where they are yet, so for the sake of safety, please ask Your Majesty to send reinforcements. ”

A leading lieutenant came to report back.

"Sure enough, I caught it? Hahaha...... What is Serindil's place, Alaina, do you know? ”

Kaspas was in a good mood, because Elena had always been gentle with him, even a little ambiguous.

"It was a deserted fishing port...... Leon most likely wanted to escape by boat! Your Majesty, don't let him run! ”

Elena looked a little resentful, as if she was going to put Leon to death......

"Hahaha...... Fishing port? If he wants to run away by boat, my fleet will let him feed the fish!" ”

Caspars flipped out the map and looked at it: "Go and give the order to let the fleet sail to Serindil...... Wait, Alina, do you want to see that bastard captured by me? ”

"What? Your Majesty, I will not fight......"

Elena was a little flustered right now.

"No, what kind of fighting, I just want you to accompany me to the ship - we'll sail to Serindil."

Caspars had a smile on his face: "Don't you want to see my flagship?" ”

"But it's night...... I can imagine what kind of gaze the men of the entire warship would stare at me at night...... Your Majesty, fighting is your man's business, and I am here waiting for you to capture Leon back. ”

Elena frowned slightly, shook her head and refused.

"That's ...... too"

Caspars sighed with some regret, Elena's reason was good for a man - the army was full of men, and all men who had just made a long voyage and had not seen a woman in a long time......

"Don't worry, I'll get him back, and I'll make him repent at your feet...... I'll be back tomorrow night. ”

Caspars picked up his mask helmet and went out: "Gather the fleet and get ready to go!" ”

Elena let out a long sigh.

Soon after, the Maritin's fleet headed west, leaving only 500 men in Caspars to garrison the port of Tilin.

And 'Elena', that is, Alina, at this time, took more than a hundred 'farmers' and dragged dozens of carts of 'supplies' back to the north gate of Dilingang.

(End of chapter)