Chapter 146 Battlefield Conversation
"Woooooooooooo!" A blast of horns so loud that it penetrated the sky made everyone's hearts tremble. The Grand Duke and many noble lords were all covered in armor and stood at the top of the city with elite soldiers. And Olina and Carmon, also wearing the armor of the Knights, led the dismounted knights to guard several important city gates and key weak defense lines.
It can be seen how reluctant these knights are. After all, for knights, besides honor and loyalty coming first, their horses are the most important. They were asked to abandon their horses and fight on foot like those soldiers, which was more or less contradictory in their hearts. However, in such a solemn atmosphere at the moment, it was difficult for them to protest against the lord they were loyal to.
“Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo for of of of of call on the opposite side. However, the voice was obviously much lower this time. Before many soldiers could react, a group of knights suddenly came from the middle of the tide-like army on the opposite side. Holding a totem flag with the head of a roaring bear and a two-headed flying dragon. That is the flag representing Malta and Aixinche. The team came to a stop just where the bows and arrows could no longer shoot. Two flags were planted in the soil, and the leaders were an old man and a young man wearing gorgeous armor.
Grand Duke Victoria had never met Philip or Lex. But that didn't stop him from knowing that these two flags meant the king on the battlefield. The Grand Duke was silent for a while, then turned around and walked down the city wall without saying a word. He and the kings and knights behind him mounted their war horses and carried the eagle flag, the flag symbolizing the Principality of Kasmi. Came to the city gate.
"Grand Duke, be careful. Philip, everyone calls him the Oathbreaker in private. If he suddenly attacks during the meeting, we will be doomed." He had just approached the city gate with fifty members of the King's Knights. , the Marquis of Camon, who was riding a horse, came forward nervously to advise the Grand Duke. The Grand Duke glanced at the very nervous Marquis Carmont, and showed a rare gentle smile: "Don't worry, my Marquis. No matter how little Philip doesn't value honor, in this situation, if he attacks me, he will use such dishonest means. Next, the Engelland Empire will definitely not give up." After that, the six huge city gates in front and back slowly rose up with a rumble after a group of soldiers on the tower turned the wheel.
Four mesh gates made of steel inside and outside and two very solid oak doors half a meter thick in the middle were entered into the city gate with a loud rumbling sound. The Grand Duke didn't say anything and led the knights out on their war horses first. As soon as they left the tunnel-like city gate, they were greeted by the smell of putridity and blood.
The war horse wearing chain mail and robes swung its hoofs uneasily. The Grand Duke on the horse stared. He could clearly see not far away, in the trench dug at the suggestion of the Marquis of Carmont, countless corpses, including me. The bodies of Fang's warriors and local swordsmen were covered with rusty spears and cross swords, shields and arrows in their flesh. The flesh of the corpse had rotted and turned a disgusting dark green color. Flies and maggots swam freely in the pile of corpses.
But none of this surprised the Grand Duke. What surprised him was that these huge numbers of corpses might not only cause a plague, but even fill up the trenches used to block the tower! That means that the enemy's towers can run over the trenches filled with corpses and attack their own city walls!
Looking at a lot of pen and ink, it actually only lasts a moment. The team ran towards the two kings in the distance without stopping. The Grand Duke just looked at these corpses solemnly without saying a word. Yes, he had already made up his mind. As soon as the fighting subsides, all these corpses must be burned with kerosene! Because this not only provides a bridge for the enemy, but may also bring them a plague that will cause drastic changes! In fact, some soldiers have reported this situation before.
However, there were not many corpses at that time, and because the trench was too deep, it was difficult to retrieve the corpses inside. So they left it alone. But during the battle that Philip fought with human lives for more than ten consecutive days, the trench, which he thought would be no problem, turned out to be full! The number even reached the point where they could not clean and bury them, but had to burn them with fire!
The frowning Archduke led the knights to the two kings. The knight knew the rules and stopped ten meters away. The same is true for the guards on the opposite side. The Grand Duke looked back at the majestic and tall city wall in the distance, as well as the vaguely floating castle pointing to the sky in the distance. He turned back again and looked at the two enemies he had been fighting with for nearly a month, Ai Xinzhe and Malta. The king then rode forward.
The three giants gathered together, and Lex, the youngest and rebellious new king, was the first to say hello. He smiled slightly and took off the gold-plated helmet with a crown on his head, revealing his elegant purple hair. Showing what he thought was a charming smile, he put his helmet on his chest while riding, and said with the etiquette of meeting his elders: "The first-class Grand Duke of the Engelland Empire, Victoria. Aixinzhe's new king Lex, Apan Lagang ten It is an honor to meet you on the battlefield, please accept my respect for you."
The Archduke stopped his horse and looked slightly surprised at Lex's behavior. Although he heard that a marquis' son conspired against Ai Xinzhe and became the king, Lex's age still surprised him. And when he was surprised, the old man whose hair was obviously turning gray also took off his helmet with a crown, revealing his long black and white hair. He nodded and said, "Nice to meet you, Grand Duke Casmi. I am the King of the Kingdom of Malta. Philip, Longbit. As King Aixinzhe, he has invited reinforcements." The Grand Duke nodded, took off his helmet and covered his left chest with his right hand and said: "Two kings, I am honored to meet you. But now we are at war. In the meantime, I hope to know what else we both have to say."
"Grand Duke, don't be so cautious. You have seen this mighty army. You have lost. Why are you still resisting to the end? As long as you are willing to cut off three provinces and hand them over to me and King Philip, we will still be the same as before. We have been friends on equal terms as our ancestors had done for hundreds of years." Lex vowed to say this, but in exchange, the Grand Duke couldn't help laughing and taunting him: "His Majesty King Aixinzhe, you were originally the son of a marquis, and you betrayed your loyalty and killed the monarch. , and also combined with foreign attacks on the balance of the three countries surrounding the Warcraft Forest... Haha, forgive me for the conflict, you are simply ashamed of your surname, Apan Lagang. Compared with the late king who was murdered by you in a dirty and despicable way, you are far away Far inferior to his wisdom.”
"Hmph!" Lex was young and energetic after all, and he was extremely angry after being ridiculed by the Grand Duke. But at this moment, Philip on the side immediately stopped Lex's possible impulse, looked at the Grand Duke with a calm face and said: "Maybe my reputation is very bad, and as the Duke of the Engelland Empire, I have no intention of offending you. And a powerful empire. But you must know that when my soldiers capture your fortress, kick open the doors of the people under your rule, and plunder wealth and livestock, it will be too late to regret."
"Hahahahaha!" Just as Philip finished his words, the Grand Duke suddenly looked up to the sky and smiled! Ignoring Lex's shock and Philip's gloomy expression, he nodded happily and said: "If you are sure of victory, do you still need to call me out to talk? Dear Philip and Lex, the two noble kings. You guys Such an action told me that my empire's reinforcements will arrive soon. You are panicking! You are as panicked as sewer rats when they see the sun! Hahahaha!"
The archduke burst out laughing violently, suddenly stopped smiling, pointed at Philip and Lex and said: "Tell me with sword and shield, you stupid coward!" After that, he turned around and rode away. He quickly rushed back to the city gate with the fifty knights waiting behind him. The six door frames in the city gate also closed with a rumble.
"Hmph, Grand Duke Victoria... I thought he was a genuine third-rate nobleman who inherited the merits of his ancestors, but I didn't expect that he also had some eyesight." Philip, who also turned back to his army, had a strange smile on his face and murmured softly. . Lex next to him said with a sad face: "The scouts reported that the army of the Engelland Empire has arrived at the Dokenna River, and they will reach here after marching for ten days. In ten days, we can capture This fortress?" "Capture it? No, no, no, my dear King Lex."
Hearing Lex's worries, Philip shook his fingers, and the strange smile on his face became more and more weird: "Just capturing it will not satisfy me at all. I will completely destroy this eye-catching stone city, and there will be no bricks or tiles." Completely crushed on this plain!"
And just when Philip was determined to launch a fierce attack, a scroll stamped by Philip was sent to the hands of the second clone Donald. As expected, Philip asked Donald to serve as the frontline commander for the first attack and lead the soldiers to launch the first wave of offensive against the fortress. Although the scroll was written in a tactful and somewhat sensational way, saying that it was heartbreaking for the destruction of Donald's army.
But everyone knew that Philip was ordering Donald to die. But Donald's clone, controlled by Paladin, didn't care at all. Contrary to the expectation that the messenger would be furious, Donald just took the order silently, nodded very calmly and said: "I will prepare the armor and light up the soldiers."
But what he was thinking was: "This is just right. I can take the opportunity to be captured by the first clone Alfred, and then the next war will have little to do with my clone. If the principality wins, at least he will not be sent to death again." . If the principality loses, he can also continue the relationship between the clone and the original body, secretly approach some important nobles and assassinate them, in exchange for military glory. At the worst, he will die, Fang Zheng is just a clone. "
Thinking this, Donald's clone stood up, with a sinister smile that looked very similar to Paladin's on his ugly face that had been baptized by war.