Chapter 416 What to do now
Emperor Lingang North Gate.
Seeing 'Elena' coming back with a large number of fully loaded carriages, the Maritim troops stationed at the city gate were very diligent and planned to check the carriages.
But this inspection led to a tragedy...
Those dozens of carriages were not loaded with supplies, but Leon's guards, the Silver Hand led by Klose.
More than two hundred strong men jumped out from the straw pile in the carriage, and more than half of the hundreds of Maritim soldiers at the city gate were killed in a few breaths.
The remaining few who did not participate in the search also had their heads smashed with short-handled hammers - the "farmers" driving the cars were all Glorious Knights, and they were very good at using short-handled hammers.
Of course, the Meritine soldiers were indeed well-trained. Before they all died, they successfully sent a distress signal to the Meritine soldiers on several other city walls.
The Maritim soldiers from several other military stations also rushed to the rescue, but as soon as they reached the north gate, they dared not move...
More than two hundred strong men were guarding the north gate, and more troops were coming from the north and quickly poured into Dilingang.
Judging from the scale alone, there are at least more than a thousand people following, and each of them has a horse accompanying them.
Of course, these more than a thousand people are the wounded who are unable to fight. If a real war breaks out, they will only be a burden.
But the Malite people didn't know this - the wounded soldiers who had just entered the city were all dressed neatly. If one only looked at their appearance, the only difference between them and the Silver Hand was that they didn't have the mithril arm armor...
And they brought horses...
Those horses were indeed Bacchus horses, which Leon had captured from Agathon's troops. But the heavy infantry of the Free Legion didn't know how to ride horses, and they were not suitable for riding with their injuries.
These war horses are now used as pack horses, carrying various equipment on their backs.
But for the Malites , this meant that a thousand heavily armed cavalry arrived here...
For them, now that the north gate of Dilingang has been lost, they have lost the geographical advantage;
The fleet at the port had just been driven away by His Majesty Kaspars two hours earlier, and there was no escape route from the port, which meant they were stuck in the city, and the enemy was 'cavalry' - they now had nowhere to escape;
The number of enemies is more than three times ours. They all look tough and powerful. I guess they are very strong...
And this is the enemy's home turf...
This is obviously unplayable.
Besides, His Majesty Kaspars is not here. Even if I fight to the death, His Majesty won’t be able to see it - wouldn’t it be a waste of life?
So the remaining 300-odd Maritine soldiers in the city wisely chose to surrender.
Dilingang returned to Alina's hands again.
Afterwards, the Silver Hand stripped all the captured Maritim, selected some brothers with suitable body shapes, put on Maritim equipment again and left the city...
The Knights of the Radiant Cross began to organize civilians to stand guard on the city walls - the wounded soldiers brought a large amount of equipment on their war horses.
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At noon the next day, Caspars arrived at Thrindir with his fleet.
It is actually very fast to travel from the sea to Thrindir. The 200-mile journey took only a dozen hours.
But Caspas wandered around in Serindir for a long time and didn't find anything. Instead, he ran into the troops he had sent to the west from Emperor Port.
Upon asking, we learned that these thousand people searched for "Li Ang" from Dilingang to the west, and did not encounter anyone along the way.
Got cheated!
Caspers was so angry that his face was twisted. He ordered his thousand men to return to the team and board the ship and rush to Dilingang Port.
In the late night, Caspers finally returned to the port of Dilingang.
He was still standing at the bow of the flagship - to be honest, this was a dangerous position, and a general leader would not stand there. The bridge was much safer...
But this time, what Kaspers saw was no longer an empty city.
“Woo…woo…woo…”
Just as Caspers' fleet entered the port again, the horn indicating the enemy attack sounded on the city wall.
At the same time, a large number of torches were lit on the city wall. The flames turned the entire city into a golden mountain. The entire Dilingang was as bright as day at this moment.
Under the torches, there were densely packed soldiers...countless soldiers.
All kinds of weapons flashed in the firelight.
And at the dock, there were hundreds of large trucks lined up - all overturned, forming a wall of cars and blocking all the space for disembarking.
At the back of the carriage, several rows of spears stood there waiting quietly.
A battle flag slowly rose up the watchtower on the city wall - it was the flag of Emperor Marius.
The fleet fell silent at this moment. The warship was still moving slowly forward and was less than two hundred meters away from the dock.
The city wall is high up and more than 200 meters is the effective range of the heavy crossbow.
Alina stood under the flag in military uniform and asked Loris beside her to greet Kaspars with a crossbow.
Knight Commander Loris was actually a good archer, but he did not hit Caspars. Instead, he deliberately shot at the figurehead of the battleship - the sculpture on the bow of the ship.
The prow is carved with Kavala.
Loris shot the wooden sculpture right in the head.
Kaspers was standing at the bow, and of course he saw the arrow, as well as Alina standing under the flag.
After being stunned for half a second, Kaspars snatched the shield from a Maritim warrior beside him and shouted, "Stop the ship! Drop anchor! Don't come any closer!"
Then, he carefully huddled himself behind his shield and slowly retreated to the bridge.
"Your Majesty, we'd better get out of here as soon as possible..."
Inside the bridge, Adjutant Leo frowned and made a suggestion - there seemed to be at least five or six thousand people on the wall, so what was there to fight...
All the Maritim soldiers also looked like they didn't want to die.
Kaspars was also somewhat shocked. He had never expected that so many troops would appear in Dilingang in just one day.
He even wondered if this was an illusion...
"Alina...you're a liar!! Liar!!"
Caspar stared at Alina's figure through the porthole and screamed hysterically.
But Alina certainly couldn't hear the roar in the bridge on the city wall.
However, Alina still waved at Caspers' flagship... She could imagine what Caspers' expression would be like now.
"Knight Commander Loris, shoot another arrow and send this letter to him."
Alina took out a crossbow arrow with a paper roll tied to the shaft and handed it to Loris.
"Shhh..."
This arrow still did not hurt anyone, because it was a whistle arrow, only used to make a whistle to send a signal.
"Your Majesty, a letter has been shot from the city..."
Adjutant Leo tremblingly left the cover of the bridge and went to the bow to retrieve the whistle.
"read!"
Kaspers' eyes were already bloodshot, and he had been staring at Alina fiercely. He saw the whole process of the flare being shot.
"To His Majesty Kaspars who has come from afar: Unfortunately, your great cause of conquering the continent of Pendor may end prematurely. I don't want to be your enemy, but I also don't want to be an enemy of His Majesty Amorian, the Emperor of Maritim. You should understand what a young, powerful, and invincible 'vice emperor' means to His Majesty Amorian? If you don't become the sole ruler of the Maritim Empire, you will never be able to win on other continents. I think I have made it clear enough, right? - Alina Justus."
As Leo read the letter, he glanced at Kaspers's expression.
Fortunately, Kaspers listened to everything calmly.
He rarely got angry, but frowned and asked his adjutant: "Leo, do you think we should go back to Maritim?"
Leo shook his head, put down the note and took two steps back: "Your Majesty, everyone knows the emperor's intentions... You have fought in many battles over the years and eliminated all the enemies for His Majesty, but... when there are no enemies left, you will be the emperor's last enemy... But no matter what, you are the one who makes the decision, and we obey all your orders."
"Perhaps you are right...but I cannot abandon the two thousand soldiers who have already been sent out!"
Kaspars closed his eyes and gritted his teeth: "Let the fleet retreat a little, out of their range, and drop deep anchor... I'm going to take a nap..."
After saying that, he left his helpless adjutant and turned to go into the cabin.
Leo sighed helplessly. He was Kaspars's personal attendant and the one who knew his majesty best. He knew that Kaspars would go to sleep whenever he encountered a problem, and would usually wake up quickly. After waking up, he would kill enemies like a demon until he won.
Leo felt that his Majesty might be suffering from schizophrenia.
Of course, this can actually be seen as "staying calm in the face of danger", the style of a famous general...
But unfortunately, Caspers slept from evening till noon.
This is already the third day since Caspas came to the continent of Pendor.
When Leo, who had been waiting for his Majesty for a long time, went to the cabin to look for him, he saw Kaspars huddled in a corner with a look of panic in his eyes...
He hugged his knees, his face pale, like a pitiful child.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Are you having a nightmare?"
Having followed His Majesty Caspers for more than ten years, this was the first time Leo saw Caspers like this.
"No... I wasn't dreaming... I wasn't dreaming..."
Kaspars murmured, tears welling up in his eyes: "I seem to have been abandoned by His Majesty Kavala..."
Leo knew that Kaspars admired Kavala, but he didn't quite understand what it meant to be abandoned by Kavala?
You must have been abandoned by Alina...
But Leo didn't dare to say it directly.
Although Kaspers was usually nice to his subordinates, if they disrespected Kavala, they would definitely be killed by Kaspers.
But now Caspers's condition was obviously difficult to communicate with, so Leo could only comfort him with practical actions - he did not wait for Caspers' orders, but directly ordered the troops to withdraw to Serindir again.
In fact, the adjutant's choice was correct. At least he should leave the "dangerous area" of Dilingang first.
Although the abandoned fishing ports in Thrindir were not suitable for warships to dock, it was a good choice to stay there and wait for the two thousand troops that had been sent out previously.
However, whether you can get it or not depends on your luck.
The Meritine fleet left again...
There was a cheer from everyone in Dilingang.
In fact, there are only more than 200 soldiers in Dilingang at present, and more than 100 of them are new recruits among the militia.
The densely packed "soldiers" on the city wall were all civilians.
Anyway, if you put on armor and hold weapons, no one can tell from a distance.
These pure civilians certainly have no fighting ability, most of them would just scream at the sight of blood...
But it can still be used to scare people, at least Caspers' fleet was indeed scared away.
There was indeed no need to fight to achieve victory. The only small-scale conflict was when the Silver Hand killed more than a hundred Meritin soldiers when they captured the city gate, and that was mainly because the enemy was too cooperative - if those Meritin soldiers had not intended to check the carriages, even this small conflict would not have happened.
The only price was that Alina didn't sleep for three days and three nights - from Kavala to Kaspar, Alina didn't get any rest after a series of events.
Although she usually sleeps very little, she really can't bear not sleeping for three consecutive days.
On the contrary, Li Ang rested well and the wounds on his body were scabbed over.
Li Ang is also at Dilingang now. He didn't go far. He just waited outside Dilingang for one day and then came back with the wounded soldiers - he couldn't run far with his injuries.
When Kaspers' fleet left, Alina prepared everything and returned to the Governor's Palace. It was already night again.
Alina, who hadn't slept for three days and three nights, naturally wanted to catch up on her sleep, so she rushed into the bedroom of the Governor's Mansion and lost consciousness as soon as she hugged the quilt - she fell asleep in a real second.
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early morning.
A bedroom in the Governor's Mansion in Dilingang.
"ah!"
It's a soprano.
"ah!!"
This is a tenor.
“Someone come…” “Someone come…”
This is the same subconscious reaction of both men and women.
"Shh..." "Shh..."
This was the same subconscious reaction of the two. They both changed their words halfway through shouting "someone come here" and covered each other's mouths - even the actions were the same.
Then there was silence for several minutes.
"You...why are you here?"
Alina lowered her voice and pulled the quilt over her chest.
"I wanted to ask you something... I didn't notice anyone in this room when I went to bed last night! And... this is my room! My room, understand! When did you sneak in?!"
Li Ang also lowered his voice and pulled the other corner of the quilt over, probably trying to cover his chest... but Alina held on tightly and he failed.
"Um... let me think... so... I walked into the wrong door?"
Alina looked around and realized that this really seemed to be Leon's room...
She lifted the quilt and took a look, then let out a long sigh, laughed dryly with a bit of embarrassment, and then threw the quilt to Li Ang.
Alina's skirt was still on, although because of her dishonest sleeping posture, the hem of the skirt had been lifted to her thighs and was pulled diagonally across her chest - there was a little bit of exposure, but at least she was not naked.
Li Ang now understands what is going on.
After he returned to Imperial Harbor, he asked Klose to change into the equipment of the Maritim with the Silver Hand and leave the city. In other words, his guards were preparing to ambush the enemy in Thrindir, and they were not guarding in front of his bedroom - so Alina was exhausted and went to the wrong room in the middle of the night, and no one cared.
"Hey, hey, you're still laughing! What do we do now?!"
Li Ang pulled the quilt to cover his chest, huddled in the corner of the bed and asked.
"What should I do? Since nothing happened, then of course nothing happened..."
Alina said confidently.
"I mean, how do we get out? See if there's anyone outside..."
Li Ang was a little panicked, even more panicked than when he faced a large enemy force. If he was seen by others, he would never be able to wash himself clean even if he jumped into the Endless Sea.
Although Wendy usually looks like a little bird, if she encounters this kind of thing, she will probably have to use her sword to heal people with full martial virtue - and Leon can't beat her...
"Your Majesty, Leon, you...hiss...I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything..."
What I thought came true. I was just wondering if there was anyone outside, and then someone came and pushed the door open directly - this was the doctor who treated Li Ang's injury, and he came to change Li Ang's bandages.
The doctor from the Knights of the Glorious Cross came to treat the patient every day during this period. He was no longer shy with Leon. When he heard someone shouting "someone come in", he went straight in.
But today, the doctor brought Knight Commander Loris with him...
Loris actually just came to say hello, but he didn't expect to see Leon and Alina in bed!
Moreover, Li Ang was naked and Alina was disheveled...
The doctor was very calm. He covered his eyes, turned around and closed the door.
Lloris opened his eyes wide and was still peeking through the crack of the door - his behavior was quite similar to that of Klose.
