Section 100 Compromise

"Hey, Ashrufat, it's a real pleasure to see you're safe and sound. Essien greeted with a smile on his face. It didn't look like the two sides were fighting each other at the moment, but two friends met by chance on the road.

"Essien, what do you want to talk to me about?" Ashrufat was unappreciative.

"Oh, why do you always look so cold?"

"The night before yesterday, when you led someone to block me, you weren't as enthusiastic as you are now. ”

"Yes? It was just a misunderstanding. Okay, I admit that I was wrong, but you have to understand that people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, and I was just a matter of eating the king's loyalty at that time. ”

"The monarch you swore allegiance to was not Byron's thief, but Her Majesty the Queen. ”

"Well, we all know that Lord Byron is much more important to me. If it weren't for that lord, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to even see the Queen, let alone accept the canonization from her. And without the little queen, I will change the host of the canonization ceremony at most. Essien replied with a smile.

"You said negotiation...... You're not talking nonsense, are you?"

"Ah, of course not, in fact I want to tell you a few things. Essien said. "Then let's make a deal. ”

"What kind of thing?"

"That's right, at this moment, all the grain warehouses in the city are guarded by my men. Each warehouse is prepared with something to be lit at any time. And I have one cannon by my side, and three other cannons under my city. As long as someone lights the fuse of any cannon, a large firework will be set off that can be seen by the whole city. My subordinates, when they saw this signal, set all the grain warehouses on fire. ”

"Do you know what will happen if you do this?" asked Ashrufat. "Will Byron allow it?"

"I? I'm going to die if I do that. Essien replied. "As for the Duke of Byron...... You may not know it, but Duke Byron has already evacuated one step ahead of schedule, and now there are only me and hundreds of subordinates left in this city. It doesn't matter if I die, my life is not worth anything anyway, and it's good that someone can bury me with me...... But our little queen will probably get a royal city in starvation. Maybe that's a trifle, maybe ...... That's an irreparable mistake. ”

"What do you want?" asked Ashrufat.

"What I want is simple. That's ...... I think tomorrow at noon...... When I leave with my men in the morning, can you make way for me and my men to evacuate safely?" replied Esin. "By the way, because martial law is in place in the city, residents are not allowed to go out. Although I didn't have a lot of men, I still had them form cavalry squads and patrol the streets every once in a while. I'm sure the civilians don't know yet, and the city has become very empty...... When the granary is set on fire, there will certainly be no one to stop it. ”

Ashruphat groaned. "Tomorrow morning?"

"To tell you the truth, I'm just delaying your time so that you don't have a chance to chase after the departed Duke Byron. Essien said. "If the queen can make this promise to me personally, I will lead my men away immediately. ”

"What if I would rather risk the food being burned?"

"Ah, Ashrufat, I'm sure you won't do that? What will you do if you catch up? Will you be able to guarantee the killing of Duke Byron? Of course it's impossible. He must have prepared a few fast horses for himself a long time ago, and as soon as the military situation changed, he would flee on fast horses as soon as possible, which was more slippery than an eel. You may be able to chase down and destroy the thousands of men around him, I admit it, but trust me: you only have a slim chance of killing him. No gambler would take part in such a gamble: the cost is high, the odds are low, and the benefits are small. You won't lose anything out of taking my advice. ”

"How do I know you're going to ...... Keep your promises?"

"I'm in town. Essien replied. "Although my life is not valuable, you don't think that I belong to the type who has no love for life and has long been bent on death, right?"

Ashrufat rode away, and Esin at the head of the city couldn't help but exhale. Although Ashrufat didn't say anything, he knew that he had won this adventure.

"Essien, do you think they're going to sneak up on the cannon?" Creo asked, still uneasy.

"That's a pointless thing. Essien shook his head. "Dear Lord Clio, you know one thing, that is, in fact, Ashrufat also knows that even if he leads his army to pursue, he will not have much chance of killing Lord Byron. ”

"That's right. ”

So it's just a boring adventure for him to do it. But then again, we can't afford to be unaware of this, so I made a false statement about the number of cannons. ”

"Cannon ......"

"Actually, there are only three cannons, and I say four. They must determine the location of the cannons before they attack them, and if they don't find all the cannons, a sneak attack is too risky. Essien replied. "Of course, the precautions of this little trick are only better than nothing. But from what I know of Ashrufat, he's not the one to take that risk. ”

"But...... They might also send troops in and attack the soldiers who burned the warehouses. ”

"That's another detail. That's what they don't know about our real strength...... If too few people climb over the wall, they won't be able to attack, and if too many people are discovered, they will be in trouble. There was also a matter of time, and even if they did, the battle would not end until dawn. Why should they take such a risk? Wait for half a day and everything will be settled. ”

"I see. Clio said.

"The main thing is that our Duke's orders are relatively simple. A day's time has passed, and the patience of others has passed. If it's two days or three days or something, the risk is just too great. ”

"Essien, your foresight is really beyond my expectations. Clio replied. "When we meet up with the Duke, I will definitely report all the details to the Duke. ”

"It's just a little cleverness, and no match for our Mr. Ishrufat. Essien sighed softly. "If I were him, then I would never hide that I am a magician, pretending to be an ordinary person. If I were him, and after escaping Eagle City with the little queen, I would definitely feel that I had done my duty, and I would not venture to the Legion of the Guards to try to fight back. It's like escaping from the wolf's den and entering the tiger's mouth, by the way, Cleo, what do you think of this?"

"Pointless dying throes. Clio replied.

"Even if it's a dying struggle, it's a struggle after all. Essien sighed. "To be honest, I wish I had a showdown with him for the first time, not a small villa worth 50,000 gold Oli. If we had judged him more correctly at that time, we might have succeeded in drawing him into our camp. ”

"Isn't he a Chaos Wizard? I heard that he summoned a great demon to clear the way in order to escape from the royal city. ”

"That was just speculation...... Now it seems that it is really unlikely that he is a Chaos Wizard. In my opinion...... Maybe he just learned how to summon demons somewhere. Of course, I don't know much about magic, but let's be honest, if there is a magician from Gruni who wants to learn those chaos sorcery...... He's probably going to have a lot of opportunities. ”

"Essien, it seems that you have a good opinion of this Ashrufat? I remember you weren't like that in the past. ”

"I've changed my impression now. Essien replied. "It's a pity that he's in a camp that's doomed......" he shook his head. "Courageous and admirable, there is no hope for it. ”

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"Shogun!!"

Robin's voice was really loud, which scared Bayral's hand trembling, and the teacup in his hand fell directly to the ground.

Robin...... You scared me. "I can't tell if Bayral's frightened just now is fake. If this is pretending, he did drop the teacup in his hand, if this is true, then he has no frightened expression at all except for the moment when he dropped the teacup.

"General, you are obviously in good health, but you are pretending to be sick at home. This time, His Majesty the King asked you to attend an emergency meeting...... You're good at this. If someone knows that you are faking your illness, do you know what the consequences will be?"

"Shh......h Lighten up. "Bayrell doesn't blush at all when a normal person is exposed to the scam - well, in fact, Robin knew a long time ago that Bayor is the kind of person who is thick-skinned. "I just want to be lazy, why are you going to talk about those things on the line?"

"But that's the Imperial Council!" Robin froze. Attending the Imperial Council, presided over by the king himself, was the highest honor of a nobleman, and it also meant that this person had become the true ruling core of the country. But I don't know which tendon in Beller's brain went wrong, and he actually fell ill and retreated—and he was pretended to be sick. If it's a different person, I'm afraid I'll have to go even if I'm sick.

"I know what they're talking about. In fact, His Majesty our king sent me one. Beller said without remorse. "You may have heard that...... That's what happened to our neighbor Gruny. ”

"You mean...... Is that the rumor? about the little queen......"

"Ah, that's not a rumor, it's true. Baylor smiled. "Then again, now that magic communication is so developed, how can such a big thing be hidden?"

"The little queen staged a coup d'état and put the regent ...... Duke Byron ousted him?"

"It's not like that, but the end result is pretty much the same. Bayral corrected. "In fact, it's a little more tortuous, as you know, that it was Byron who staged a coup d'état in the beginning, and then the little queen escaped from Falcon City......"

"In short, letting the little queen escape is the root of all mistakes, and Byron is really incompetent. Robin said softly.

"I've seen him," Beller said. "It doesn't look like that kind of idiot...... At least not stupid enough to that extent. Maybe there's something behind it. Maybe it's careless, maybe something unexpected happened, anyway, the opponent is also the queen, and some secret methods are inevitable...... In short, it can now be confirmed that the little queen has escaped from the city, and immediately ran to the military camp on the outskirts of the city, and pulled up the guards to come and counterattack the royal city. As he said this, Bayral showed an expression that he did not know whether it was sarcasm or exclamation. "And then there was no then. ”

"Duke Byron is dead?"

"No, I escaped. After the little queen escaped from the royal city, he knew what it meant, so he made the smartest choice in this situation. Escaped from Eagle Falcon City with his men. ”

"Not being pursued in this case?"

"After escaping early enough and fast enough, and sending capable subordinates to break off, I bought some time more or less...... Except for the normal escape of the people in the middle of the way, he returned to his own territory without any other losses. ”