Chapter 118: The Story of the Eagle in the North and South 24

Camp Rhodoc.

The heavily armed soldiers at the entrance of the camp were like a made of black iron: their rectangular shields covered most of their bodies, their helmets fluttered slowly in the breeze, and their spears pointed straight at the sky, giving a sense of majesty. These soldiers were stationed here on Garcia's orders, and since welcoming back the envoy from Aaron, Garcia knew that the war was coming to an end. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the Kamich Fortress to be contacted.

In the evening of the previous day, a group of Salander archers had approached the Rhodok camp on horseback, and when the soldiers spotted them, they blew their horns, and the Rhodok archers quickly climbed into the camp with their bows and waited with great antiquity. These Salanders did not seem to be the scout squad that had come to peek at the reality, and a strong Salander soldier fired three arrows at the Rhodok battalion, and then the Salanders retreated. The Rhodok soldiers soon discovered that the arrows had been pulled out of their sharp arrows and were only three training arrows. Tied to the top of these arrows was a letter addressed to General Garcia, the same as the sender of the letter "Adil, General of Garmichburg, Sultanate of Salander".

Garcia did not seem at all surprised by the request for contact from Salander, and he simply replied to the signal as agreed in the letter, lighting nine bonfires at equal distances in the evening--- and when the Salanders saw the agreed signal, they knew that the Rhodoks had agreed to peace talks. The next day, more than three hundred Rhodok soldiers were asked to put on their most ornate armor and line up at the gate to wait for the messengers of the Salanders.

At noon, the Rhodok scouts returned to the camp to report that a convoy of Salander had left the fortress of Gamic and was heading straight for the Rhodoc camp. The Roudok cavalry approached the Salanders, and the Salander soldiers did not form a battle formation, but when the Rhodoks approached too closely, the Salander soldiers slowed down vigilantly. Under the mutual temptation of the two sides, the Rodoks finally determined a distance to monitor the Salanders without causing panic among the Salanders, and the two sides tacitly maintained this distance and slowly moved to the Rhodok's camp.

The leading cavalry of the Salanders held a pure red banner to sign peace, and when the Salanders were already close at hand, the door of the Rhodok camp suddenly opened, and the soldiers began to charge in unison. The Salanders were shocked, and the cavalry who turned their horses and the infantry who had not had time to line collided with each other, and the formation was in disarray.

Seeing that Rhodok's elite soldiers rushed in front of him, a fight seemed inevitable. It was at this moment that the Rhodok suddenly stopped, buckled his shield to the ground, and stopped with a loud boom. A Sergeant Major Rhodok looked at the collapsed ranks of the Salanders with a satisfied smile, and said loudly: "I am here to welcome the messenger from the fortress of Garmic on the orders of General Garcia."

The leader of the team, Salander, had an ugly face, but he was very personable, and he straightened his turban and motioned for his men to follow along. The Rhodok soldiers gave way to a narrow path, and the Salanders could clearly feel the aggressive and provocative eyes of the Rhodoks as they passed. Not a single Salander soldier wanted to do this, the siege had only just begun, and the Rhodoks did not have a clear upper hand, so there was no need to grovel. None of the soldiers knew why General Adile's attitude had suddenly changed, and took the initiative to contact General Garcia.

Garcia met with the Salanders in his tent, and the Salander envoys brought several cartloads of gifts and handed over General Adil's peace proposal.

Garcia looked at General Adil's letter and saw that there was nothing new in it that was new to him. Garcia actually knew better than anyone that Fort Gammage would stop resisting soon after the war began. Long before Rhodok went to war, Garcia knew what was going to happen today. But Garcia didn't say a word to anyone, and even when Sabel offered to attack the fortress of Garmic, Garcia didn't remind him that it was unnecessary, and it was as if it were a real war.

Rhodok's purpose in attacking the Salanders was only to divide the Salanders.

When the Salanders decided to fight alongside the Kujits, General Garcia was already thinking about how to make the Rhodoks more profitable. Most of the troops sent by the Salanders to the Swadia front came from the northern provinces, while the Sultan still had a strong military presence in the southern provinces and around the capital, and the second prince had no chance of launching a northern expedition at that time.

The participation of the Rhodoks in the war made the front line of the Salanders a lot tighter, although the Salander Sultan had long expected that Rhodok would join the war sooner or later, but he did not expect the Rhodoks to move so quickly. The Sultan had calculated many things correctly, but had miscalculated the strategic intentions of the Rhodoks, believing that the Rhodoks were aiming to restore the Rhodoks to their original territory, and that the Rhodoks would be dragged down in the strongholds that the Salanders had painstakingly managed. But the old man did not expect that his second son, in order to get support, had already reached a negotiation with the Rhodoks: the Rhodoks were responsible for putting pressure on the Salanders to send as many troops as possible to the southwestern front, and then the second prince would take the opportunity to attack the capital.

The Rhodoks are doing a very good job, in order to prevent the ambitions of the Rhodoks, the Salanders have transferred most of the central provinces in more than a year, and these people are now waiting for the Rhodoks to attack in dozens of fortresses on the Salander border, but at this time the Rhodok soldiers are only stranded in the Garmic Plain, and they have fought a siege battle in a decent manner.

Just as the south-central provinces of Salander were attracting attention from the Rhodoks, the Second Prince's army quietly set off from the southern port of Sharez and conquered the capital in one fell swoop.

It is said that the fighting in the city has been going on for nearly a week, and the civilians have been unable to distinguish between their sides in the chaos; Countless aristocratic families were in flames, and huge wealth caused a wave of looting; Everyone in the city, from nobles to commoners, was in danger, and the rebel army took the opportunity to plunder everywhere.

The Mamluks rose to fame in what came to be known as the "Shagang Coup", not because of their fighting power, but because of their loyalty. The Mamluk officers had been bribed by the second prince, but when the officer ordered his soldiers to assist the southern army entering the city, the Mamluks rejected their officers and left them with whips and scimitars, and most of the Mamluks remained unwavering. Eventually, the officer took only a few dozen men with him, and when the men rode away, the ownerless Mamluks marched to the palace after getting dressed for the last time.

The Mamluks fought to the death in front of the royal palace. For several days, their armor was full of broken arrows; Their armor was covered with blood; Their scimitars are full of chips. The Mamluks tried to persuade the Sultan to leave, but the old Sultan refused the request of the pro-army. The Mamluks did not give up even the slightest effort, and they guarded every gate beam and every garden until they were forced by the overwhelming Southern army to the temple where the old Sultan was chanting.

The Southern army was stunned by the will to fight of this mysterious Mamluk army, and was unwilling to kill them all in their hearts. In the midst of the confrontation, the old Sultan came out, and the Southern army knelt down after a little hesitation.

The old sultan looked coldly at the soldiers in the garden, this scene the old sultan had imagined countless times, and the sultan did not even deliberately avoid this matter. The Sultan kept reminding his eldest son, but never broke it, and the old Sultan gave everything to Allah. Allah ended up leaving the old sultan with only a few dozen loyal Mamluk soldiers and a burning capital.

The old sultan asked to see his second son.

After the second prince of Salander saw his father, under the stern gaze of the old man, he still trembled and knelt down, and took his father's hand and kissed it with tears.

The old sultan was not overly harsh. He touched his son's face,

"You are not a good son", the old sultan took off his crown.

"You are not a good brother", the Sultan unscrewed one of his own rings as a symbol of power.

In the end, the old sultan pulled up the son.

"But I hope", the old Sultan gave the tiara and ring to the second prince, "you are a good Sulse".

The old sultan passed the throne to his second son in the palace. The coup quickly caused aftershocks throughout Salander. Every Salander soldier was thinking of a way out with doubts, and some said that the eldest prince had fled abroad to take over the army, and would soon return to Salander; It is also said that the second prince has executed the sultan and the eldest prince one after another, and the sultanate will soon adapt to her new sultan.

Only the second prince, who was present at the time, knew that the old sultan turned around and entered the temple chapel, and in a short time, flames rose into the sky. The remaining Mamluks wept bitterly, and all of the forty-seven committed suicide under the temple steps.

The second prince buried these warriors and ordered the hundreds of soldiers present not to make the affairs of the present day and place public, or else they would kill the whole clan. The wise soldiers soon left, and only those who thought of rewarding the soldiers remained, vainly thinking of the generosity of the new sultan. Soon, the soldiers who did not understand what was going on were imprisoned on charges of rebellion, and most of them were later executed, and a few were sent to some oasis in the middle of the desert to serve as garrisons. Those soldiers did not understand a truth: do not witness the dirty moments of history at will, otherwise some people will often clean up these witnesses in order to cover up these moments.

The only thing that upset the second prince was that the eldest prince, with the help of some nobles loyal to the Sultan, fled the capital.

The various castles and cities of Salander are now islands. These castles and cities often received orders from both governments during that time. Fearing punishment after the dust settled, various regions did not dare to express their stance lightly, for fear of being on the wrong side. These neutral areas are being fought over by the subordinates of the Grand Prince and the Second Prince of Salander. As Salander began to slide to the brink of collapse, General Garmic Adil was whispering to General Garcia for peace.

The terms of Adil's agreement were that the Rhodoks would return to the Amera fortress and that in return, all west of the Mill Hill watershed would be given to Rhodok. Garcia sent Salander's messenger away, saying that he would consider it.

The emissary, who had been treated coldly, returned to the fortress of Garmic in disgrace.