Chapter 417: People who are used to winning by doing nothing
"I'm dead now... I'm dead..."
Li Ang muttered to himself as he hurriedly put on his clothes.
"What's the death?"
Alina adjusted her shoulder straps, got out of bed, shook out her skirt, gathered her messy hair, and tied it casually at the back of her head - this completed her dressing.
This girl has always been quite efficient and never wastes time in front of the mirror... Of course, probably the main reason is that she doesn't know how to put on makeup at all.
"What do you think? If this gets out, will your reputation be ruined?!"
Leon glared at Alina while pulling at his clothes with one hand, but then he turned his head and glanced at the door in frustration, and asked Alina in a low voice: "Knight Commander Loris should not be someone who talks nonsense everywhere, right?"
"My reputation has never been very good... I don't care."
Alina looked at Li Ang's nervous expression and suddenly laughed: "So you are worried about me?"
Indeed, Alina's reputation was not very good in the past - she had always used the title of 'Son of Prophecy' to reject all men's pursuit. For more than two years, there were rumors in Bacchus that Alina liked women.
This rumor spread at that time mainly because Alina killed many nobles in Siyuan City, and her father Justus also killed many nobles in Boshi City. It was normal for her to be deliberately discredited by the nobles.
But now, Alina is already twenty-two years old - if she is not engaged at this age, then it would be really abnormal in the eyes of most people. After all, the average marriage age for women in this era is less than eighteen years old.
At this point, most of the Bacchus people believed the rumors and thought that Alina was very likely to like women - and probably liked elf girls, because she was often with Wendy.
Only Knight Commander Loris knew that Alina really intended to marry the Son of Prophecy...
"Ahem! Ahaha! Lord Justus! When did you come to Imperial Port?!"
Outside the door, Loris suddenly made a loud voice.
Leon and Alina were petrified at the same time...
Obviously, this Knight Commander was actually very "sensible", but it was probably too late to tip him off at this time - this bedroom only had one door...
The smile on Alina's face turned into a bitter smile: "My father must have met Ales, so he rushed here so quickly..."
"Hurry up, help me put on my clothes!"
Leon was still only wearing pajamas, with his right hand shaking his emblem jumper...
His left hand was tied and bandaged around his neck to avoid tearing the wound under his armpit, so his efficiency in getting dressed was of course very low. It was basically impossible to put on the pullover without help - he had a servant to help him take off his clothes last night.
Alina grabbed the pullover and put it on Leon.
"Loris, is His Majesty Leon in there?"
This is Justus' voice.
"In...oh no...this ..."
Knight Commander Loris is obviously an honest man who is not very likely to lie.
The door was pushed open again - and then immediately closed...
"Ahem... the weather is nice today..."
This was Justus' voice, and it sounded a little awkward.
"Yeah... the wind is quite cool, and the waves are only three meters high..."
Knight Commander Loris looked at the sea in the distance, then at the gray sky, and then at Justus's hair which was blown messy by the strong wind.
When Justus opened the door, he saw his daughter helping Li Ang put on his clothes face to face. Her movements were very intimate and somewhat gentle...
Justus's mood is actually very complicated now...
It seems that my daughter has found someone she likes?
This is of course a good thing. At least the problem that has troubled him for several years can be solved...
But the problem is that the guy my daughter likes is a married man - and he has two wives!
This is troublesome...
My daughter's status is different... Not only does she have a biological father who is a governor, but she also has an adoptive father who is an emperor!
With such an identity, how can...
Li Ang, this bastard! The decree he issued to allow people to marry three wives, was it premeditated? !
Justus gritted his teeth as he thought about it, and his originally gentle appearance now looked a little ferocious.
When Leon went out, he saw Justus' rather distorted face and Knight Commander Loris' concerned eyes.
"Ahem... the weather is nice today..."
Leon nodded to Loris, using the same tone and opening remarks as Justus.
Loris sighed: "The wind has been blowing for two hours, Your Majesty Leon...the storm is coming."
"Yeah... the storm..."
Leon looked at Justus' face carefully: "Lord Justus , have you seen Ales?"
"Leon, I need to talk to you..."
Justus pulled Leon up and walked away, his movements rough and his tone arrogant.
Alina hurried out, but she only had time to see the backs of her father and Li Ang - Li Ang kept looking back with a panicked look, like a little hooligan who had just been caught for defrauding someone's daughter.
…
While Leon and Justus were discussing life, His Majesty Caspars, who came to Thrindir again, encountered the first tragic failure in his life.
In fact, Caspars was lucky. His fleet docked in the shallows of Thrindir before the storm came - the place where Leon had dealt with the python knights of the Dread Legion.
To avoid the storm, he anchored his fleet off the beach of Thrindir.
Although a warship could easily run aground in the shallows due to low tide, at least it could avoid the huge waves on the sea and avoid a catastrophic disaster.
Caspars and his lieutenant Leo originally planned to temporarily station in Serindir, then find the two thousand troops that were sent out and return to Maritim with the troops.
They no longer planned to continue their "conquest" in the continent of Pendor. After all, looking at the number of "troops" in Dilingang, this great ideal was indeed impossible to achieve - without a foothold and outpost like Dilingang, it was obvious that a lone army could not gain a foothold.
After landing in Thrindir, Caspas led a large army into the village to avoid the wind and rain.
Although there were no intact houses in the village, camping among the ruins could at least block the wind and was much safer than staying on the boat.
Not long after they set up camp, a small group of troops dressed in Maritine attire appeared nearby, about two to three hundred people.
It was windy and rainy at this time, with low visibility, and the small troop looked completely soaked.
Kaspers blew the assembly call, intending to have the small force join the camp in the village.
But at this time, an accident happened.
That troop had indeed 'returned', but they did not come to Caspers's main camp, but went straight to the warships in the shallows.
In fact, Kaspers understood this situation very well. The sky was gloomy at the time, and there was naturally no flag raised in the strong wind and heavy rain. Kaspers' camp was among the ruins in the village and was not easy to find.
It is very likely that the small force did not discover its own camp at the first time, but instead saw a more obvious warship near the coast - the mast of the Maritine dhow was quite high, and there was no obstruction on the sea, so it was indeed quite conspicuous.
It is normal to gather at the location of the warship immediately after hearing the assembly call.
In Kaspers's opinion, there was no problem for the small force to get on the warship. He actually left more than a hundred people on the flagship, and his adjutant Leo also stayed on the flagship - these warships were the necessary vehicles for the large force to return home, so people must be left to guard them.
In the face of the storm, those who dare to stay on board to protect the warship are truly brave.
But then, the roars and screams of these brave men were completely drowned out by the wind and rain...
That army of two to three hundred people was of course the Silver Hand led by Klose.
Back then, the Silver Hand was fighting against the Python Knight in such storms, and they didn't care about this little bit of wind and rain.
Right where the Silver Hand was established, Klose, under the noses of the enemy's large army, openly rushed onto the enemy's warships, killed all the Malits who remained on the warships, and then... let all the warships run aground, just like those broken ships of the Legion of Terror.
These warships were not stranded, but were anchored normally. They just stayed outside the shoal to avoid the storm - mainly to avoid the hull from encountering reefs in the storm and causing damage.
But it only took the Silver Hand half an hour to make these dozens of large ships capsize and sink to the bottom - the bottoms of the ships were completely pierced.
Afterwards, Klose left calmly with the Silver Hand from under the noses of the enemy's main force - the people of Mettenheim, who were used to coastal battles, knew that no one would chase them in the wind and rain. The visibility was poor in the storm, and they could not find clues such as footprints. These Maritines were not familiar with the surrounding environment and could not catch up with them.
In fact, Kaspers didn't realize that these people were here to launch a sneak attack.
Or rather, he never thought that someone would come and secretly sink his ship in the storm...
It was not until all the warships capsized and no longer floated up and down, but became tilted in the shallows, that Kaspers realized that something serious had happened - he might not be able to return...
Adjutant Leo was killed in the battle.
The hundred or so brave soldiers guarding the flagship also died in the battle.
As for how much the Silver Hand paid - the Silver Hand was also wearing Maritim's armor, and they all fell into the water and it was impossible to tell who was who...
Caspar cried in pain, then tried to sleep again...
Alina and Ales deceived him, Kavala abandoned him, his right-hand man, Lieutenant Leo, left him forever, and the "war" on the continent of Pendor was completely different from what he imagined...
Without Kavala's help, he was no longer the invincible general. He had no idea what to do and his mind was a mess.
People who are used to winning without doing anything will certainly not be able to withstand the storms.
During the hours that Kaspars slept, the Maritine soldiers grew anxious—they all realized that they might not be able to return home.
The respected adjutant General Leo was killed in the battle, hundreds of brothers were killed, two thousand brothers were missing, and all the ships sank on the beach.
Now the storm is raging and there is no way out, and we are trapped alone in this strange continent...
The morale of the army was low and the will of the army was unstable, but their Majesty was sleeping without caring about anything?!
Originally, it would only take a few words to appease him - such as "A good rest will give you enough energy to avenge General Leo"...
But adjutant Leo was killed in the battle, and there was no one to comfort and inspire the soldiers for Caspar.
Then, for the first time, deserters appeared in Kaspers' army.
It takes long-term effort to gain the support of your subordinates, but it only takes a few days to make them give up.
At dusk, the wind and rain subsided and the setting sun came out.
When Kaspers woke up, Kavala still did not appear in his dream, and his subordinates dispersed and began to find their own way out.
At this time, Kaspers was no longer at a loss. He finally made up his mind to make a name for himself.
But the spirit he had finally regained collapsed again immediately after he gathered the troops - there were only about 800 people left around him.
Moreover, he once again saw a force of two to three hundred people appear nearby.
And this time, that troop was not wearing the equipment of the Maritines.
They wore heavy armor and held shining swords. Their shiny arm armor and gloves gleamed in the setting sun. The entire army looked like it was made of silver.
"Silver Hand, charge!"
"ha!!"
Kaspers heard a rough voice and a unified war cry.
…
Three days later.
Klose returned to Dilingang with the Silver Hand.
At the same time, Dilingang also welcomed the first reinforcements. This was the garrison that Wendy urgently recruited from Malasburg. There were not many people, only more than 500 people.
Their arrival is enough to ensure the safety of Dilingang.
Because Wendy and Klose brought back a prisoner - His Majesty Kaspars of Maritim.
Wendy did not go to Siyuan City because after she left Dilingang with Ales, she met Governor Justus as soon as she arrived in Malasburg.
Justus originally came to attend the funeral of Emperor Marius and did not bring many people with him, but since she met him, Wendy naturally did not need to go to Siyuan City in person to ask for help.
So Wendy rushed back with the garrison of Malasburg.
After sinking the warship of Kanmaritin, the Silver Hand encountered the reinforcements brought by Wendy on their way back, so Klose used his own team of less than 300 people to attack Caspers, causing chaos to Caspers's low-morale and incomplete team, giving Wendy the opportunity to capture Caspers.
In fact, the main force of the Malites did not suffer too many losses. There were probably nearly 4,000 Malites scattered everywhere...
Sigismund lured about a thousand men to the area around Walwyn, and it was estimated that they would soon encounter the Noldor army led by Lisadiran;
Another thousand people were probably still wandering around Rudy Village—that was a wetland meadow in Bacchus, where pigs were raised on a large scale. It was a hilly wetland, and it was easy to get lost…
These two teams were sent out to pursue Leon after Kaspers was deceived, and they have not returned yet.
In addition, there were nearly two thousand people scattered around Thrindir, some of whom deserted and some were dispersed.
But these stragglers can no longer pose any threat.
Leon and Alina did not make things difficult for Caspers, and neither did Justus. They even sent people to help Caspers repair some of the warships that were overturned on the Serindir beach, and helped Caspers recall some of the troops.
However, Leon forced Kaspars to write a letter of allegiance to Alina...
