Chapter 140: The Great Gift
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and a guard knelt outside the door of the imperial study with a soldier covered in blood, and the soldier took a few quick breaths and said in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, the Orc Empire has sent troops to capture the city of Kangtan, and less than a tenth of the 30,000 defenders have fled back!" Phil Kotler suddenly stood up when he heard this, his eyes were black, his body shook and he fell to the throne.
"Your Majesty!" Lorraine hurriedly held the emperor up, and Kate also looked at the soldier who came to report with a shocked face, and her heart couldn't help but set off a monstrous wave.
Kangtan City is about two hundred miles away from the orc forest in a straight line, the terrain is rugged, there are many important places in the form of stars and moons to surround Kangtan City, if one is attacked, other important places can support each other, this defense line is specially established to defend against the orc empire, together with the key area of Kangtan City itself, the strength of more than 50,000 troops, plus there is a terrain advantage, if you want to break through this defense line, you must need at least 80,000 troops to do it.
The Orc Empire's capture of Kangtan City can only prove one thing, many important places were directly pulled out without even sending a signal for help, and the unprepared Kangtan City was directly attacked by the long-planned orc troops, this is an unknown conspiracy, but why is it at this time?
Why did you receive this military report when you read the letter? This kind of coincidence that should have been a coincidence, in this situation seems too weird, when the emperor put his eyes on the letter, he actually subconsciously threw the letter on the table, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, Lorraine and Kate did not know what was going on, how could a letter make the emperor who had always looked like this, could it be that the letter had something to do with the war?
The rapid breathing gradually subsided, and the emperor stared at Kate and said, "Has this letter always been in your space ring? from leaving the Orc Empire to the present?" Kate shook her head and said: "Your Majesty, this space ring is not mine, I got it before I arrived in the Holy Capital, before that day, this letter has always been in my chest pocket, and after that it has been in the ring, this letter has definitely not been dropped, and has always been kept by me." ”
Kate understood what His Majesty Phil meant, and at the same time wondered what was going on, could it be that the letter contained information about the attack on the city of Contin? Kate immediately denied this idea, but then immediately affirmed this idea, and the only thing that can surprise the king of a country is when the content of the letter is consistent with the content of the military newspaper, which is the most terrible!
For the first time, Kate thought of the oracle who was just over her waist, and his smile with a hint of evil intent, but Kate didn't believe that Ryan could calculate things to this point, it must be a coincidence, however, he immediately overturned this idea, and then Kate felt that her brain was in chaos, and her face couldn't help showing a painful look, but at this time, several people present did not notice his expression, and everyone's attention was on the emperor.
After getting Kate's affirmative return, Phil Kotler also reacted that this was just a coincidence, the distance between Quentan City and the Holy Capital, even if it was fast, would take at least ten days around the clock, and the use of griffins could only reduce the time by three days, seven days ago Kate had already returned to the Holy Capital for two days, how could things be so coincidental?
Thinking of this, the emperor also regained his composure, and after sitting upright, he asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"
The soldier covered in blood first took the water handed over by the guards, calmed down the tension and told the matter again, this soldier is the scout captain in Kangtan City, the patrol team did not return to Kangtan City on time ten days ago, and the guards who found that something was wrong sent three hundred squads before and after, but the result was that they were all gone, and finally dispatched the only five hundred light cavalry in the city, this time the light cavalry came back, but only a tenth of them came back, and everyone was wounded, two of them were more seriously injured and fell to death under the horse without even entering the city gate。
The people who came back reported what they saw, and the peripheral important places did not know what was going on, and they had been quietly pulled out by the orcs, and the nearest between the important places was only three miles, even if it was so, there was still no distress signal, and if it was not attacked at the same time, it would definitely not achieve this effect, so the city lord of Kangtan City immediately ordered to block the city gate, and at the same time asked for support from the rear, but as soon as the order was delivered, some soldiers reported that they found a large force of orcs less than five miles away from Kangtan City, numbering about 30,000, and also found that there were at least many catapults and two medium-sized battering rams in the team。
Immediately afterwards, traces of orcs were found at the four city gates, the most was 70,000, the least was 10,000, the total number had reached 150,000, and the defenders of Kangtan City were only a little more than 30,000, how the orcs appeared is no longer a problem, the key is that the orcs have come, the city lord saw the orc army and knew that once the war started, the people in the city would naturally be killed and injured countless times, so he first sent people to negotiate with the orcs, but the negotiations were unfavorable, and the people who went to negotiate never came back, and a day later, at least thirty taels of catapults were erected around Kangtan City, and the defenders in the city did not wait for the defenders in the city to reactThe catapult poured stones on the walls of the city of Kantin with the earth-shattering roar of the orcs, and at least nearly a thousand people were killed and wounded on the walls at the beginning of the battle.
When the defenders moved their catapults out, they were depressed to find that the distance of the orcs' phalanx was actually outside the range of the catapults, and the orcs' catapults could easily hit the city, and the unbelieving defenders replaced them with relatively small stones, but still did not have any impact on the orcs, but the orc troops seemed to have detected the phalanx of the catapults in the city from the trajectory, and as a result, in the evening of the same day, all the catapults adjusted their directions, and all the stones poured on the city wall were smashed into the catapult phalanx, nearly fifty taels of catapults were all smashed into waste, and this mutual contest led to the soldiers killed and injured about 100 people in the process of dodging the stones。
That night, the orc forces planned another night attack, but retreated out of range of their bows and arrows.
"Strange, did they just plan a night raid?" asked Kate with some confusion, this didn't seem to be the Orc Emperor** The style of the team is right, according to what I have seen before, the orcs should not let the defenders feel better, the soldier was angry at first, because Kate interrupted his words, but when he listened to Kate's words, his face looked like a ghost, how weird and weird, the emperor and the finance minister were also puzzled when they saw this scene, but the soldier quickly recovered and continued to recount the fall of the city of Kangtan.
As Kate thought, such a night attack was carried out more than once, and in fact the harassment methods used by the orcs on this night were beyond the imagination of the defenders, because the next day there was an unusual sense of depression in the already panicked city, and the catapults of the orc troops began to attack non-stop again.
At this time, the defenders were desperate to discover that the orc forces were not trying to capture the city of Kontin, but to destroy it, and that they could achieve this effect with very cheap stones. During the day, the stones whizzed through the air, destroying everything in their path, and at night the orcs would take turns in battle, constantly renovating their tricks, doing their best to make the defenders fall deeper into exhaustion.
Three days later, the defenders' hearts were fluctuating and almost desperate, if it were not for the usual strict control of the city lord, I am afraid that it would cause a mutiny, and it was at this time that the orc troops finally began to attack the city.
Because of the three-day trebuchet attack, the defense of the city of Kangtan was greatly reduced, and just as the orc army began to move, one of the walls of the catapult that was gathered together made a hole in the hard stone wall in less than fifty breaths, and the orc troops rushed into the city along this gap.
One morning, just one morning, not counting the morning time, the fall of the city of Kangtan!
"They are well-equipped, our knives are directly curled when they are cut down, but their weapons are very sharp, and the imperial armor can be cut in one click, and many people are directly split in half, and we are defeated and retreated until we retreat to the city lord's mansion, and the other party stopped attacking. ”
"Then how did you escape?" After listening to the soldier's statement, Phil found a question, if the other party had already surrounded the remnants of the defenders, why did this soldier who reported the news appear in front of him? In fact, not only the emperor, but even the guards next to him were vigilant, if it wasn't for the other party's nameplate, I'm afraid this soldier would have been in a different place.
Hearing this, the soldier who was kneeling on the ground immediately showed a look of shame, and then said humiliatingly: "Your Majesty, I was released, and the other party only began to persuade us to surrender after the main city lord's mansion, and the city lord had no choice but to at least surrender, and we were the ones who were singled out to deliver the news, and ......" The soldier hesitated for a moment and continued: "The other party even provided us with mounts!"
As soon as the words fell, the soldier obviously felt that the temperature of the imperial study had dropped significantly, and there was already a trace of anger on the face of His Majesty the Emperor sitting on the throne, and the soldier lowered his head deeply, quietly waiting for his own death to come.
However, to the surprise of the soldiers, the emperor did not get angry, but waved his hand to let him go down, and instructed the guards to treat his injuries as much as possible, and wait until the soldiers were in better condition, and then ask questions.
When there were only three people left in the imperial study, Phil Kotler suddenly sneered, first stared at Kate for a while, and then glanced at the Chancellor of the Exchequer and said calmly: "What a big gift!"
After saying that, he picked up the letter that Rien asked Kate to transfer to him again, which read: If you don't know that I gave you a gift, it would be a pity, so we will find someone to inform you, please be sure to accept it!
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