Duke Eric doesn't have the patience of Duke Nick,

Moreover, he does not like to quarrel with people,

Therefore, after the emperor expressed his position, he said firmly: "There are many ways to win the war, and if you insist on using your methods, then, even if you win the war, you will lose most of the empire, because the subjects of the empire will no longer trust their emperor." ”

"The Emperor doesn't need anyone's trust!" Laubert shot back coldly.

When Duke Eric heard this, he stared at the Emperor for more than three seconds, then turned and left.

After leaving the Emperor's command post, Duke Eric approached Count Omar Reagan, the Prime Minister's eldest son and commander of the Crewe Territory, and told him, "The Emperor needs to see our sincerity. ”

An hour later,

Count Omar met with the Emperor and had a brief conversation with the Emperor in the meeting room of the command post in the town of Kwyn.

Ten minutes later, Count Omar walked out of the conference room.

Over the next two hours, the emperor summoned more than thirty high-ranking military officers.

May 30, 8 p.m.,

His Majesty the Emperor Laubert urgently convened a military meeting at the command post in the town of Kwyn,

The meeting was to discuss how to reinforce the city of Crane, and the meeting lasted until 3 a.m. the next day.

On 1 June, the 30,000-strong Legion of the two regular legions at Kwyn Town was reorganized into the Seventh Combined Legion of the Empire, and at the same time, Count Omar was appointed Lieutenant General of the Imperial Army and served as the commander of the Seventh Combined Legion.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the newly formed Seventh Combined Army Corps hurriedly set out from the military camp in Kwen Town without even having time to prepare reserve military supplies, aiming at Klan City.

On the afternoon of June 2, the 7th Combined Legion marched to the junction of the borders of the Klan Territory, the Central Empire, and the Karen Territory: the Great Forest of Brutel.

At a frontier post of the Karen, in the western part of the Great Forest of Brutel, Count Ormar meets with Korich Dyna, the Grand Lord of the Karen Territory of Zekola Fort.

Three hours later, the two signed a draft agreement.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Emperor Laubert of Kwyn received the agreement, and at one o'clock in the morning, a warrant written by the Emperor himself was magically transmitted to the imperial capital, Lion Castle.

The warrant was addressed to Prince Sinda, and the content was simple, asking him to go to Karen on behalf of the Emperor.

When Empress Diper heard the news, she smashed her favorite tea set and asked coldly, "Is that idiot this suggestion to our Emperor Majesty?"

"It's Duke Eric. The waiter replied subconsciously.

The queen's face was slightly ordinary when she heard this, and then, she glared fiercely at the person who answered, and finally, she had to sit down helplessly, she didn't want her baby son to take risks, but when she was going to find some reason or find someone to help her son push off this errand,

She suddenly discovered,

There is no reason to find,

And no one can help her!

The queen looked at herself with blond hair in the mirror, and a deep disgust was born from the depths of her heart,

She loathed her own incompetence,

disgusted with the blond hair that disgraced her,

Yes, the queen hated her blonde hair very much, because, this is not the sign of the Jean family, all the direct members of the Jean family are silver-haired, but she is the only one, because her mother got blonde hair.

The queen had always been paranoid that it was her blonde hair that made her marry Laubert, rather than her sister or sister.

In the mirror, a slightly old face reminds the queen of the loss of her years,

"Huh. She chuckled bitterly.

She is almost forty years old, and after so many years, she has not gained anything,

The only thing that could bring her comfort was her son.

So, she was nervous, she was afraid.

She was afraid of losing the only flesh and bone she had.

But there's nothing she can do now.

...

The emperor asked for departure on June 5th.

Time was rushed, and there was so much to prepare.

For example, the formation of the prince's guard, the selection of casual officials, the issues to be discussed in the negotiations when arriving at the Karen, etc., but none of this has anything to do with Prince Sinda, he just needs to wait quietly and wait for the arrival date of the envoy.

On the morning of June 3.

The weather in the imperial capital in this season is very comfortable, neither hot nor cold, and the occasional breeze blows through, which will be refreshing.

In the tea room on the first floor of the Navis Hall, Prince Sinda, Queen Dipper, and Penny enjoy the best black tea, and two plates of freshly baked desserts are placed on the exquisite coffee table.

"Time is a bit short, you have to be careful, I heard that the Cliff family has amassed more than fifty thousand troops at Fort Zecora. Empress Dibert looked worried, "I really don't want you to go to Karen to get into danger. ”

Prince Sindar immediately said: "There is no danger in the Karen Territory, Mother, the soldiers they have assembled are used against the orcs, I believe that the people of the Cliff family are not stupid, they dare not aim their troops at their own people at this time." ”

The prince's personality is not at all like his father's, and he likes to think about many things on the bright side.

If he was born in an ordinary family, his character is a good quality, but he was born in the Danediv family, for such a family, his temperament is generous when he says it well, and cowardly when he says it badly.

"You are too optimistic, Your Highness, your attitude is very dangerous. Penny said at the queen's suggestion: "Even if the Karen Collar has no ideas, but have you thought about other people, it is not a trivial matter for you to go to the Karen Collar this time, and your safety is no longer just about you when you step into the Karen Collar, you must understand that you represent the Emperor and the entire empire." ”

"What do you mean?" Although the prince didn't like to be lectured by his fiancée, he could hear that the other party's words had some truth, so he asked subconsciously.

"How did the Duke of Chester die?" Penny stared into the prince's eyes.

"Well?" the prince reacted immediately, "You mean the man who assassinated the Duke of Chester?"

"My child, these people are the real scary. Empress Diper put down the teacup in her hand, "Think of the Duke of Chester, he was assassinated in the inner city of the imperial capital, and during the meeting of the six dukes, this kind of thing is terrifying just to think about. ”

"Don't worry about me, Mother, the knights of the guards will protect me. Prince Sinda comforted his mother, "If they can't protect me, we won't be safe in Lion Castle." ”

The queen frowned, "The purpose of your visit to the Karen Collar at this time is to apologize, so, your casual personnel will not be too many, and the number of escorts will not exceed thirty..."

"But there are thousands of troops escorted along the way, Mother, I am the eldest son of the Danediv family, and all this is what I am destined to go through, and what you need to do now is to bless me as the Empress of the Empire, and not to babble like a peasant mother!" the prince showed the impatience of the average child.

"My precious son, your words are so sad, I am only a mother, and then a queen. The queen couldn't help but sit down beside her son.

"You should put the identity of the queen first!" Prince Sinda pulled out his mother's arm and grabbed him, stood up suddenly, and walked quickly towards the door of the teahouse.

When he was halfway there, he looked back at his mother and said, "Also, don't call me 'baby' in the future, I'm an adult!"

The conversation between mother and son gave Penny a sense of powerlessness in her heart, and she could clearly sense that the prince did not pay enough attention to this mission to Cullen, and he only regarded this mission as a test for his son.

But the truth is that the fate of the entire empire is at stake for this meeting!

If it goes well, then Cullen will immediately join the war against the orcs, if it doesn't go well, or what danger the prince will encounter in Cullen, Penny really can't imagine.

The queen, on the other hand, only cares about the prince's personal safety.

"Hey!" the queen sighed, and then looked at Penny with a wry smile, and she saw that Penny's dignified demeanor and proper smile suddenly improved.

The queen is very satisfied with her son's fiancée, of course, there is also some disgust, that is an indescribable disgust, that disgust is not to hate Penny as a person, but to dislike some things,

For example, as soon as the queen thinks of her son's marriage and regrets leaving her, she involuntarily begins to dislike Penny, which is an uncontrollable disgust.

Penny naturally didn't know what the queen was thinking, she glanced at the direction the prince left, thought for a while and said: "Your Highness just wants to do something to prove yourself, you don't have to worry too much about him, although His Highness's guards can only arrange thirty people, but the three chief guards are all paladins arranged by the church, and there are several magicians with rich combat experience." ”

"But, Karen Ling..."Maybe it's because the queen is from the Jean family, and she didn't have a good impression of Karen since she was a child.

Penny smiled, "If you're worried about Your Highness's safety in the Karen Territory, then you don't have to, because the Karen Collar may be more worried about His Highness's safety than we are..."

"No one cares about him more than I do," the queen couldn't help but interrupt.

"Of course, I'm just using an analogy. Penny's right fingers couldn't help but move, "I just wanted to say that in the Cullen Collar, His Highness's guards will be tighter. ”

"I hope so," muttered the Queen, and then cursed, "blame the orcs for this damned war." ”

Penny couldn't help but nod when she heard this, and when she talked about this war, she suddenly missed her relatives, her father and her two older brothers, who were all running for this war.

Far north, Pedi is also missing his relatives, his two sisters, his father, and his mother and brother, whom he has not seen for many years.

Here, in addition to the white expanse of snow, it is snow,

Here, there is no place to spend your time.

Such a bad environment can easily make people lonely, and loneliness can easily make people miss their hometown and relatives.

Duke Eric's handwritten warrant has arrived for a day, and the military report from Crane has already arrived, and the military report and the warrant are put together, and Pedi instantly understands Duke Eric's plan,

The order was not mandatory, but Pedi could sense what Duke Eric expected of him.

war

Pedi didn't understand the word well before, and for Pedi before, it was just a word.

But the real war is written in blood and tears, and in the beginning of the battle, Pedi saw hundreds of casualties, but the battle report from the fortress of Anku was hundreds or thousands of casualties!

Pedi had seen the heart-wrenching spirit of tens of thousands of troops marching a few days ago, and he really couldn't imagine the scene of such a huge army facing each other, and the scene of such a huge army dying on the battlefield.

"What kind of scene is that?" said Peddy to himself more than once.

"What did you say? Wren followed Pedy's side.

At this moment, Peidi was patrolling the newly built walled city, and from time to time there was a shocking shout of killing in the barracks in the distance, which was the newly formed corps training.

Peddy glanced at Wren and tightened his cloak against the cold north, ignoring the question of obedience, and after patrolling the wooden walls, he retreated to the command post.

"You go to the Britt Forest camp and bring Sir Ike here, and say there's an important military meeting. Pedi commanded Wren.

He decided to take the risk and try to meet the barbarian named Kebot.