Returning from the palace to the Duke's Palace, before he could sit down, Jiang Yuan received the news that Red Hitomi had been assassinated.

Three of the Duke's guards were killed, one of whom was killed as a result of the enemy's counterattack during an assassination attempt, and the other two were brutally slaughtered as the enemy broke through the encirclement.

The remnants of Olberg can be locked as Cassandora and Gilbert, and it is unknown whether there are any accomplices.

"Send someone to inform General Bude that I want to ask the First Legion to enter the city to garrison the Imperial Palace, and the Fifth Legion will seal the city outside the Imperial Capital, activate the Tulong Group, dig tunnels three miles outside the Imperial Capital, and prevent the enemy from retreating through secret passages, from now on, all residents of the Imperial Capital are not allowed to go out privately, and the Norr Chamber of Commerce will provide food until the end of the blockade, and within an hour, there will be no unrelated people on the streets, and the members of the night raid will be secretly hidden.

In the conference room in the atrium of the Duke's Palace, Jiang Yuan sat on the main seat, flanked by more than 20 high-ranking officials from various ministries, among which Le Su was located at the bottom of the left side, and an elderly marquis sat at the bottom right on behalf of the nobles.

"The Duke is angry." The old marquis's expression was complicated, it seemed that the importance of the red-eyed girl had to be raised a few more steps, generally speaking, there was a great possibility that there would be no gain from searching for the assassin afterwards, after all, people would definitely arrange a way out, but even so, the duke still made a big move, just to express his attitude to the outside world.

"I'm furious, do it right away." Jiang Yuan said indifferently.

"Understood." The crowd responded in unison.

More than two dozen people left the conference room in an instant.

Only Le Su stayed where he was, and asked with a smile: "My lord, what if someone tries to break through the blockade outside the city, such as a few great nobles who are in a hurry to leave the imperial capital." ”

"Since you're in such a hurry, let's get on the road early and pay attention to proportion, I don't mind if you take the opportunity to seek revenge, but don't get into trouble."

"Can you stay for dinner, the lieutenants can get things done."

"Go and get things done."

"Understood."

Only ten minutes after the assassination, the imperial capital immediately entered a state of total blockade, more than 60,000 soldiers of the Fifth Legion stationed outside the city approached the city wall, the celebration was canceled, all residents, including nobles, were ordered not to leave the residence without permission, after a troublesome count was hacked to death by the guards on the street, everyone realized the anger of the Grand Duke.

The south gate was wide open, and the First Legion entered the city and headed straight for the palace, Bud acquiesced in someone's impulsive behavior, and it seemed that from today onwards, the heir to the Northland would be decided.

Earnest secretly sent someone to prepare for the activation of the Supreme Throne, he was not sure of the true purpose of Midgard's actions, and judging from the reaction to this assassination, the other party was obviously different from the usual and cold image.

The new Sixth and Fourth Corps approached the outside of the city at the same time, and in order to prevent the Fifth Corps from rebelling, Bud and Earnest reached a rare agreement, and by the way, helped to strengthen the blockade.

A whole 100,000 troops guarded the various exits of the imperial capital, the caravan was denied entry, and the news was quickly transmitted to all parts of the empire.

The Fifth Legion led 10,000 elite cavalry into the city, and the secret garrison of the United Imperial Capital began to gradually search the inner and outer cities.

The wanted warrant was circulated as soon as possible, and the specific news of Olberg's assassination of the remnants of the association was worth thousands of gold, and after verification, it was confirmed that he was crowned the earl of the court, and the little emperor was quite sympathetic to Aiqing's anger, and he could persecute the honest and hopeful Midgard to such a point, it was simply hateful, and he had not seen the other party angry for five years.

Countless strongholds of the resistance army and Anning Dao were wiped out, after all, the Grand Duke's reaction exceeded everyone's expectations, hundreds of people were directly arrested, seeing this situation, Bude sent the deputy general to lead 5,000 people to participate in the search, and the internal erosion of the imperial capital was not good.

That night, a key member of the rebel army mutinied, and the Duke of Midgard rewarded thousands of gold coins as agreed, and the edict of rewarding the earl of the court was also issued as soon as possible.

The assassins include the two maids of the Contemporary Norfolk and the Assassination Society, and the three of them were still unwilling after the failure of the operation, and they were not ready to leave the imperial capital through the secret passage of the rebels until the target returned to the mansion, but the Tulong Group had already dug the tunnel outside the city and introduced the river to completely seal the possibility of escape underground.

Originally, the three of them planned to wait for the limelight to pass in the secret stronghold, but the scale of the search was unprecedented, and the person in charge of the stronghold felt that sooner or later he would be discovered, so he simply took refuge in the empire to receive a rich reward.

With thousands of men surrounding the secret stronghold, Norfolk holds the financial lieutenant who has a tryst with his lover hostage and offers to interview Duke Midgard, which then inspires the Emperor Crimson Aria and the two maids break out.

This provoked retaliation, and nearly 100 members of the rebels were beheaded in public.

Estes received the news and immediately took the newly formed hunter army to hunt down, and in return for someone not being involved in the hunt, Porus was sent to help.

……

Outside the secret stronghold.

Jiang Yuan rode on the back of the Yanruihu Tiger, took the letter handed over by the guard, and after reading it, asked, "Why is the financial adjutant Gozel in it, and Ernest can't even control his relatives?"

"My lord, according to the intelligence of the person in charge of the rebels, the original target of the Norfolk trio was the deputy head of finance, and the assassination of Miss was their private action." Le Su replied.

"You're the leader of the Incineration Force." Jiang Yuan looked at the burly man beside Le Su.

"Return, Lord, I'm Porus." Porus said nervously.

Le Su glanced at this guy, how could he feel that the other party was a little twisted.

"Lesu, inform the residents near the secret stronghold, withdraw within ten minutes, and Porus will prepare your imperial tools." Jiang Yuan commanded.

"Understood." Lesus turned his horse's head and went to prepare.

"Lord Duke, what if the enemy stuns the hostages." Porus asked after a long silence.

"Then they should blame the night attack, not me." Jiang Yuan said indifferently, "Your mentality is wrong, if you don't adjust, you will have to die on it sooner or later." ”

Porus was speechless, but he deserved to be punished for burning many innocent people for following the orders of the Empire.

……

At the same time, the night raid received the news of the purge, and Najehitan ordered all the members to go out to respond, and made contact with the two maids through the special bugs left by Maillard before the assassination of the Olberg Assassination Association, and the two sides jointly flanked the garrison soldiers, and barely opened the passage with the help of two long-range imperial tools.

But the delay in the battle caused Estes to catch up, and Gilbert and Cassandora retreated.

(End of chapter)