Chapter 32
My Empire Chapter 32
2020-11-03
Chapter 32 32 Good LuckWhen is a company most able to attract talent? The answer, of course, is when it comes to making money... Alanhill dukedom is really a rising "company" now, so it also has the ability to attract a lot of talents to join.
Maudelaire is one of these talents - he is a very capable person and a very responsible person.
As soon as he came to Chris's account, he planned to give Chris a welcome gift. Chris was unwilling to face the situation of storming the enemy's castle in front of him, so he was very tempted by Mordelair's request.
However, he did not immediately agree, but hesitated for a while and asked, "Will there be any danger in letting you go so rashly?"
Can have A leader who cares about his own safety at all times is a very good experience. Chris asked this question before Mordelair decided to go to Vast Sea Castle, and it was also a choice after careful consideration.
Two birds in the forest is worse than one bird in hand - the talented Mordelair who has fallen into his pocket is definitely more important than Wilkes who is still standing on the opposite city wall . Chris thinks very clearly, so he does not intend to give away a talented person for nothing.
Hearing Chris say this, Mordelair was very relieved, he got on his horse and said, "I'll go back when I go, I think Wilkes doesn't want to fight like this anymore, this is completely There's no sense of honor in wasting time."
He was right, in fact Wilkes didn't want to fight anymore. The third round of shelling hit the city wall, and the entire city wall of Hanhai Castle was on the verge of collapse. Cracks have appeared in some places, and these cracked city walls are already very dangerous, and it is not surprising when they collapse.
Once the city wall collapsed, seventy percent of the fortifications of the vast sea were destroyed. There will be a large number of casualties in the tragic street fighting, which is not what Wilkes wants to see.
Chris can completely occupy the city wall, consuming Wilkes' remaining troops a little bit by nibbling away—at that time, he will not surrender actively, but surrender passively.
A wise monarch knows when to fight to the death, and he also knows when to raise his hand to surrender: surrendering after exhausting all the strength to fight back will only make the situation worse and lose all his negotiation chips.
Modler, who rode forward, approached the city wall of Hanhai Castle, and at this time, Chris had ordered the artillery to stop firing again. The gunpowder smoke on the city tower has not yet dissipated, and many people are cleaning up dead bodies and broken stones.
"I'm Alanhill's messenger! Please your Lord Wilkes come out and speak!" The Mordelair man, who was middle-aged, was riding a horse and shouted loudly from under the city. : "My name is Mordelal! Please your City Lord, Lord Wilkes, come out and speak!" Mordelair at the bottom of the city squinted his eyes and shouted to the bottom: "I am Wilkes! I have long admired the name of Mordelair... But now there is a war, if you have anything to say, just say it! "
"Lord Wilkes City! Now in this situation, you have no reason to hold on! Now stop the war, follow me to Chris Your Majesty, no need to let innocent people die in vain I'm done."
"It was Chris who came to beat me..." Wilkes, who was standing on the top of the city, replied with a heart, but he looked at the diffuse black smoke and the ramblings. The soldier, he forced his voice down.
In all fairness, if he has such a strong battle strength, he will also go south to sweep the North County and the earth fort... Even he will defeat Serris and build a strong country.
However, this kind of thing is my turn, and it is still a little uncomfortable after all. He pressed the crenel and shouted to the bottom: "Wait!"
After finishing speaking, he turned around and prepared to walk down the city wall. His adjutant Bourgeois followed with his sword, followed Wilkes downstairs anxiously, and asked, "Sir! What are you going to do?"
"open the city gates! I'm going to see the former Lord of Serris City... Forget it, there's no need to struggle with this title at this time... I'm going to see the Archduke of Alanhill to find a way out for our vast ocean. ' said Wilkes.
"My lord! I'll go! You are sitting in the city..." Bourges stopped Wilkes nervously and persuaded: "Let me go, lord, you must ensure your own safety. Ah."
Walking his hand, Wilkes laughed and said to Bourgeois: "If you have such an absolute advantage, would you do anything small? He doesn't need to do anything to me. Whatever he does, he can win...even more how, he still has to care about some face."
"Why do I need face?" On the hillside in the distance, Chris said to Captain Walter beside him. with a smile: "It can reduce our losses, reduce the consumption of artillery shells, and lose a little reputation?"
He looked at the open city gate of the Hanhai Castle and said to Walter: "For a while If he doesn't cooperate, you can arrest me! Detain him first, let the tiger returns to the mountains, and I won't do it."
Just as Chris has already decided to face shameless When the shells were saved, Wilkes had already rushed to the front of Mordelair. The two greeted each other, and then chatted about the battle in front of them.
"I've come all the way... Northshire has indeed fallen." Mordelier quenched Wilkes' last hope and said, "There is no more behind Alanhill's army. The army, but the caravan and the carriage."
Wilkes was stunned for a moment, then looked towards Mordelair: "You mean, Chris has no reinforcements?"
"He doesn't have reinforcements because he simply doesn't need reinforcements. Whether it's a field battle or a siege battle, his troops are invincible here." Mordelair knew what the other party was going to say, so he said: " Do you think you can get away with eating this army of more than 1,000 people, and you can win?"
"In less than a year, he can assemble more such troops to kill you, and There will be no essential change in your strength." Mordelair is a more comprehensive general than Wilkes, and his analysis of the situation is more comprehensive: "No matter from which point of view, You will only fail."
"Surrender now, and defeat after killing the red eye, are not the same concept." Modler gave Wilkes a multiple-choice question and said one word. One sentence persuaded.
"I understand what you said...I also understand." Wilkes looked at the head a little lonely and sighed: "But, I surrendered to him, for Hanhai, there is another What kind of benefits?"
"Benefits? I've seen along the way, that the carriages are full of cloth and other things, and all your people will be Chris's sons from now on. He is responsible for feeding these people and raising them better... Isn't this a good thing?" Mordrel asked rhetorically.
"This..." Wilkes nodded, believing Mordelair's statement, he looked at Alanhill's army formation in the distance, and agreed: "As long as you say, To keep me and my soldiers safe, and to keep my people safe and secure, I'm willing to offer my loyalty."
Chris doesn't know yet, he's already decided on a black-belly goal and is now ready to clean up Packed up and surrendered. He rode his horse on the hillside, waiting for the opponent's next move.
Then, he saw a huge white flag hanging on the top of the Hanhai Castle, looking so dazzling.
"Hanhai... surrendered." Walter, the commander of the regiment, who was also pulling the reins, looked at the white flag in the distance and reported to Chris: "They surrendered."
Chris grinned, he could be said to be extremely lucky today: first a high-level commander who recommended himself to come to the door, and another high-level commander surrendered.
He still had some of the shells left to attack the castle, and he took down the entire Vast Sea Castle completely. Now his territory is bigger, more people can support his expansion, and more people can support his industrialization.
"I saw it!" Pulling on the reins of the warhorse, Chris remembered the famous line "proud of one's success horseshoe disease". On the plain in the distance, thousands of Alanhill Grenadiers raised their weapons and shouted for victory, and the sound of joy could be clearly heard across several hundred meters.
Seeing that a battalion commander brought his soldiers into the vast sea castle, and saw his royal flag fluttering at the head of the vast sea castle, Chris raised his chin and announced loudly: "Now , we have six large castles, hundreds of villages and market towns. With a population of more than one million, I can finally say that I am a qualified dukedom."
However, after he was overjoyed , there was a problem that quickly haunted his mind: three more dukedoms were annexed by him, and the tax of the Arrant Empire in the northeast was reduced by 3000gold coin again.
According to the custom of the Arrant Empire, Alanhill dukedom has to pay more taxes in exchange for the recognition of the Arrant Empire. However, in this case, whether the Arrant Empire will sit idly by and watch Alanhill dukedom rise in the Northeast is another matter.
It is very likely that the Arrant Empire will not recognize Chris's dominion over Earth Fort, Northshire and Vast Sea, and will force Alanhill dukedom to hand over these territories.
Of course Chris would never spit out the fat he had already swallowed. So, Chris restrained his smile, and the expression on his face became solemn - maybe, a fierce battle will start immediately, and once it begins, this battle will not end easily.
(end of this chapter)