Chapter Ninety-Seven: Loyalty

As the soldiers rushed over noisily, there was a low voice of inquiry from the emperor's carriage. ()

Then several attendants poked their heads out, and after discovering the situation outside, they hurriedly shrank their heads and returned to the car. My father's soldiers had collided with Stellant's, but both soldiers were pointing their weapons into the sky and did not attack each other with their weapons.

Shouts and scolding came one after another, and the people in the auditorium also poured out, looking curiously at the doorway, which had been calm just now and now boiling, and the smarter people had quietly hidden in the surrounding courtyard from the side alley. There is absolutely nothing wrong with leaving this kind of place where disputes arise for the little people.

After a little observation, my father found that there were almost four hundred soldiers in Stellant, and it was impossible to send more than four hundred to guard the emperor to receive the envoy at night. But compared to this, it was even more strange that the sentry had just come to announce that a new force was approaching.

Since there are Kujits, then the steppe people are already involved, and who is there another force? Who would be fighting Strant at this time?

"Colin Colin" Father saw Colin walking in the distance and beckoned.

"Yes, sir." Colin, whose face was full of consternation, pushed away the heavy soldiers and walked in front of his father, "What are your orders?" ”

"What about Earl William?"

"My lord, I have come here to tell you that the Count has just left. The new soldiers picked him up. ”

"Who are those soldiers? How did they suddenly appear, were they with the people of Sdeland? ”

"Not together. But they came too coincidentally, and it can only be said that they were ready before, and they will feel it so timely at this time. My lord, I suspect they have been hiding in the surrounding warehouses and courtyards since at least the afternoon. ”

Father looked up at the chaotic soldiers, and felt that he was rapidly being swept into the whirlpool.

"Captain Arcadio, what should I do?" An emperor guard walked out, anxiously asking.

"Please get out of the car and return to the auditorium, and don't let the soldiers touch Your Majesty."

"Yes, Captain."

Soon the guards passed through the guards and came to the emperor's carriage. The father saw the guard talking to the people in the car with an embarrassed face, and it was obvious that the guard did not get a positive response from the people in the car.

By this time, the soldiers of Sdelant had already seen crowded shouts, and their order began to be chaotic. At this time, it is no longer necessary to think about whether the soldiers of Stalant have impure intentions, and what we need to do now is to let His Majesty stay away from those soldiers of unknown origin as soon as possible. Any mistake would have turned into a big mistake, and my father knew the seriousness of the Emperor's problems in his own security mission, and if Emperor Fiderick was harmed, his father's future and even his life could be ruined.

Father walked to the front of the carriage, "Your Majesty"

"Captain Arcadio, what the hell is going on?" A voice came out, "What the hell is going on?"

"Your Majesty, all I know is that I want to keep you safe. Today's troop movement is very strange, and it makes me have to be vigilant. Your Majesty, I think we should go back to the Great Hall first, anyway, there are too many people here, it's too dangerous."

"These are all my soldiers, all my generals, what's the danger"

"Your Majesty said so, but even if one of these soldiers is not good for you, the consequences will be too serious, please return to the auditorium"

There was no sound in the car, and several attendants around looked anxiously at the soldiers who were gradually getting out of control, and they were a little overwhelmed.

The father looked at the attendants, "What are you waiting for, after tonight, I will take all the responsibility to invite His Majesty into the auditorium, hurry up"

Those attendants, you look at me, I look at you, but I still don't dare to do anything. Colin walked over, "Your Majesty, if something happens, can you take it?" ”

One of the attendants was finally moved, and he knocked on the door of the carriage.

But before he could speak, the door opened, and the Emperor walked out with a grim face.

Under the cover of several guards soldiers, the emperor began to walk towards the auditorium, because the soldiers were crowded on the small square, the scene was very chaotic, so the emperor had already left the carriage without much attention.

The father said to Colin, "No one is allowed to enter the auditorium later, you know?" If the soldiers outside had not dispersed, no one was allowed to enter except the guards. Also, send someone out of the backyard and go to the palace to transfer troops. ”

When Colin listened, his father told him to repeat the order and let him go.

Now, my father had to confront the hundreds of soldiers in the square, and, worryingly, an unknown army was approaching not far away.

"Arcadio" a voice came, and when the father looked up, he saw Sderant, dressed in a military uniform, standing in front of him. After entering the General Staff, Sdurant mainly wore the robes that had become civilians, and now his appearance surprised his father, and he couldn't help but think of the battlefield on the Plain of Garmic a long time ago.

Father looked up at Sdeland, not taking it lightly, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff"

"What's going on? What do those soldiers mean? ”

"I don't know what those soldiers are here for, just as I don't know why you're bringing so many soldiers. All I have to do now is keep Your Majesty safe."

"Hmph, don't those people have anything to do with you? What a coincidence, as soon as you stopped me, those people seemed to come out of the ground. ”

"Your Excellency can't say anything clearly here, but you should know that my loyalty I have already said, what I do is to protect the emperor, as for other conflicts, I have no intention of participating in the chief of staff, I have heard some kind of rumor, although I don't know what you are going to do, but I hope you will not live up to your glory as an emperor"

Strand suddenly showed a somewhat strange expression, "Okay, okay. ”

The chief of staff looked at his father again, then turned and disappeared into his own soldiers.

The situation now was that dozens of my father's soldiers and royal guards were guarding the innermost part, and they blocked the entrance to the Great Hall;

A little farther were the soldiers of Stellant, who had formed a formation on the aid of several wagons and horses;

The only character who doesn't appear now is the unknown group of soldiers.

But it didn't take long for the identities of those people to be revealed.

There was a 'huh' exclamation from among the soldiers, and the father stood at the top of the steps of the auditorium, frowning as he looked at the soldiers pouring out of the square on the left and right sides.

The soldiers on one side were, as the sentry said, Kugit. The Kujit infantry had been rearmed, and the leading soldiers were dressed in sturdy, shiny Chiba armor, armed with scimitars and shields covered in cowhide, and their helmets were very distinctive, rising high and then falling down their cheeks to protect their heads, and their helmets were adorned with bright red tassels.

The soldiers on the other side were equipped with the same equipment as Sdelander--- those were infantry regiments. But someone recognized the banner of those soldiers, and it was the Frost Castle people. This unit was called the Annexation Army a few years ago, and their commander was named Sloin. Wright.

A soldier rushed over and told his father the information about the army that had appeared. After learning the origin of the two groups of people, my father was a little speechless all of a sudden, how did these people get together?

The soldiers began to move closer, and the open space in the middle of the square was pressed under the feet of the soldiers, and disappeared into the black sea of armor.

As the shield-bearer pressed his shield to the ground under the command, there was a roar, and the soldiers on both sides forced each other to look at each other at a very close distance.

Sderant's herald walked between the two groups, "Who is your leader?" Why is it here? We are responsible for the protection of Your Majesty, and if you continue to stay here you will be suspected of infidelity, please disperse as soon as possible."

The soldiers on the opposite side seemed unmoved, and no one showed signs of surprise.

At this time, the soldiers on the opposite side dodged a passage like a wheat field where a wolf had run, and a man walked out.

My father didn't see what the man was looking like, but he could see the gown--- which was a simple dress for officers to wear at any time in the officers' lounge--- Earl William came over with a group of personal soldiers.

"I am the soldiers opposite the palace deacon, Earl William, and I have received a report that someone will move the soldiers without permission tonight with bad intentions. Now Your Majesty is around, and we will take care of Your Majesty's security in the future. ”

"Nonsense," Sdelant personally responded, "a team of emissaries has just arrived, and it happened suddenly, and we are transferring it without permission?" William, it's really strange why you're here."

"To take Your Majesty to the emissary, do you need to bring a few hundred soldiers? What is the emissary that has such a high specification? ”

"It's not that the emissary is of high standard, but if these soldiers don't bring enough, I'm afraid that they won't be able to receive Your Majesty at all."

"It's a hijacking of Your Majesty."

"Hmph, do the people who hide the soldiers in the storehouses and outposts dare to say that others have bad intentions?"

"What did you say?" William paused as he spoke.

"Why is it so coincidental that William, I don't care who the envoy is, why did I just receive the news that there are soldiers secretly assembling, and some envoys have arrived in the north of the city? Why did the order to transfer my troops arrive before the herald I sent to His Majesty returned? Why did you just appear when I arrived at His Majesty the Emperor's side? What kind of scene would you like to show Your Majesty? ”

"Sted''''Rand''I have received the news that you pioneers intend to control Your Majesty, and are ready to take Your Majesty as a hostage and attack the loyal people around Your Majesty. I won't let you get your way, the pioneers' machinations have been exposed. Soldiers, the time has come to protect Your Majesty, go and capture this Stellant."

Even a person like my father, who is not sensitive to politics, can feel the level of the two groups at this time. Sdurant did not reveal his identity from beginning to end, and William was already in a hurry to tie Stellant and the pioneer together to discredit him.

"Oh? Our conspiracy exposed? Okay, I've detained those so-called messengers, and we can slowly get out of those mouths in the future. Let's see who the hell has the conspiracy."

William listened to the words of a few close attendants around him, squinted at Striant, and did not speak.

Stellant said: "I don't know why you so-called nobles are so nervous in order to clear themselves, and even sentence your younger brother to prison to show your innocence, I have read the so-called letters for my brother to feel wronged, I only saw a noble nobleman generously refused the enemy's invitation, I don't know how you see that he has a conspiracy"

"Also, why do the pioneers make you jealous? Whoever is supporting our Emperor, who is transporting supplies for us, who is convincing the princes and princes on the mainland to turn in favor of us, who are jealous of this ally, how can you people send the Emperor back to Paraven? ”

"Who do you think you are? Is it a traitor not to cooperate with you? Your brother is a traitor, I am a traitor, all kinds of people are traitors? The good situation has been messed up by people like you, why do you have to have someone record a meeting of more than three people, what do you want to encourage and denounce traitors to suppress in the face of officers with no background, when you meet a noble family, you can be polite in every way, and even your family can be sacrificed for your own purposes, who do you think you are? ”

"William, wake up, His Majesty Fiderick is not the second Harauth, not the second lord leader. He is the emperor of the empire, he is the emperor of all his subjects and all his soldiers, he is the emperor of all Svadians, you are not going to eliminate and exclude the pioneers, but the ambition of the emperor, it is the ambition of the Swadians, wake up, William"

Sderant's rebuke overshadowed the soldiers' voices, and for a moment only Sderant's voice rang out in the air. Even his father had to admire that Sdurant was really a member of the General Staff. Several attendants at the door kept informing the emperor of the situation outside.

"Say no more," William shouted a little sharply, "soldiers, the chaos and injustice that has been brought about by these rebels these days, and if you capture them, all problems will be solved."

William wore a gown and commanded his followers like a prophet.

It was embarrassing that not a single soldier went into action.

Stellant snorted, "Are you going to wait for the Emperor to give the order himself?" ”

As soon as the voice came out, several Kugit soldiers wearing Chiba armor and heavily armored Frost Fort soldiers ran out of the ranks.

The men gathered around William and took out the ropes---William was finished.

But the pioneers are far from done.