"Brown! Are you still insisting at this time? Do you really have to wait until the sun sets to take over the Holy Light Harbor before you retreat? Angrily slamming his fist off the table, Chris who put back on the Legion-level officer armor roared angrily at Brown, who was looking at him with a sneer.

"Hehe, don't threaten me with the Holy Light Harbor, if you really think you're right, then why don't you answer my question just now? What if it's a trap? When the time comes, won't all the 100,000 souls loyal to the God of Light be turned into unjust souls because of you? And everyone present knew that if these 100,000 soldiers died, do you think that with the remaining less than 100,000 defenders, and all of them are militia-level defenders, they will really be able to hold the Holy Light Port? ”

"But if we don't attack, we'll be waiting for death."

"But if we attack, we'll die!"

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In the huge council hall, Brown and Chris are now arguing in full swing, and as the city lord who actually convened this meeting, he sat in his place and watched the quarrel between the two coldly, while the other new and old nobles and legion captains who participated in this council this time stood behind Chris or Brown respectively, or whispered or made eye gestures to each other.

"Hey!" After a slight sigh in his heart, the city lord of the Holy Light Harbor sitting in his seat was only left with endless sadness in his heart at this time, although in the current council hall, everyone seemed to be discussing whether to continue to hold on to the area occupied by the defenders of the Holy Light Harbor, or to send troops to counterattack and recapture the port area while the Naga Legion had not stabilized the port area of the Holy Light Harbor. But in fact, only the city lord himself knows the truth, and this is not discussing the battle situation at all, but discussing whether to go or flee now. Or in other words, the two people who have been pushed to the forefront in front of them are actually expressing the views of the two powerful forces of the Holy Light Harbor on the current battle situation, and the purpose of letting these two guys debate so fiercely at the council table is to force the city lord to decide who to choose.

In fact, the real leaders of the two parties had already come to see the city lord of the Holy Light Harbor long before that, and they also expressed their methods of the current situation in the process of visiting, among them, the plan proposed by the old aristocratic faction was indeed as Chris said on the surface. Send the elite units of the defending force to join the rest of the militia forces and launch against the Naga Legion, which has occupied the port area.

Of course, in fact, this practice is just to cover up their real practice, the real idea of the old nobles is to say that it is better to say that it is called the thirty-six plan to go up, and to say that it is difficult to say is actually to escape. That's right, it's an escape.

Because in the eyes of these old nobles, everything is not as important as their own lives, as the so-called staying in the green mountains does not worry about no firewood, their lives are saved, their families are saved, and they can make a comeback wherever they go. But his life was lost or his family was gone. So what's the difference between oneself and death? Moreover, these old nobles are either related to some bishops of the Holy Light Sect, or the old nobles who have existed in the Holy Light Empire for hundreds of years, these old nobles not only have power in other parts of the Holy Light Empire, and even some of them are just a branch of those old noble families, and there is almost nothing to lose when they leave the Holy Light Harbor except for a profit-making place in the city, so in the eyes of these old nobles, it is better to leave if they stay here in the Holy Light Harbor for nothing.

Of course, it is obviously not possible to leave quietly like this, and it is very likely that you will be caught by your opponent or other people, or even by the terrifying heretical ruling. That's why the old nobles came to pull the relationship between the city lord of the Holy Light Port, except because the city lord of the Holy Light Port was basically the same as them. The most important thing is that the power behind the city lord of the Holy Light Harbor is great, if the city lord of the Holy Light Port takes the lead in jumping with them, then everything will be easy to say at that time.

Moreover, in order to be able to escape with their families and property, the old nobles did not hesitate to hand over more than 80% of the command of the nobles' private soldiers in their hands to the city lord to let them be the troops of the palace, and even concealed those who were chosen by them to go to the palace, including the most important chess piece in their hands, Chris, such a huge "pay" did make the city lord of the Holy Light Port feel moved at the beginning, but then the nouveau riche representative who came to visit poured cold water on the city lord, And let him know that this option is not completely safe.

The concept of the upstart faction is very simple, that is, to hold on to the Holy Light Harbor and wait for the arrival of reinforcements, which is completely different from the old nobles' practice of harming others and benefiting themselves, but in fact, the nouveau riche full supporters are also forced to choose by faction: what is the nouveau riche is those who have a large base and climb up to the aristocracy with their own ability, compared to those old nobles who are like moths attached to the Holy Light Empire, these new nobles may not have the strong foundation of the old nobles, but they have high vitality and excellent ability, It can be said that the reason why the Holy Light Port has been able to maintain its current operation is that the people who have achieved the dominant position and the people who maintain the system are basically these upstarts.

It is really because of this that these nouveau riche can't allow the fruits of their victory to be abandoned, because the roots of these upstarts are here, they are different from the old nobles who have backgrounds, if they choose to abandon the Holy Light Port, then after leaving the Holy Light Port, they are equivalent to commoners, and those noble titles obtained by their own hands in the Holy Light Port will only become trampled on by others in other parts of the Holy Light Empire, so that those who have managed to climb out of hell to heaven will enter hell again, These people will not say yes at all. And most importantly,

According to the response from the rear, as long as the defenders of the Holy Light Harbor hold on for another 1 and a half days, then the regular troops of the Holy Light Empire with a number of 50,000 will arrive at the Holy Light Harbor, and the follow-up troops will also arrive one after another, and the sun does not set on this side is just a group of navies, and the only ones who really pose a threat to the defenders are the tens of thousands of Naga warriors, and only those who obediently continue to hold their positions for a day and a half will usher in victory.

Moreover, this upstart representative also reminded the Holy Light Harbor City Lord that although escaping was indeed a good choice, what if the Holy Light Sect's Pope personally came down to investigate the matter thoroughly? You must know that the Holy Light Harbor is not just one of the most important ports of the Holy Light Empire now, because the Holy Light Port also maintains the lifeline of the front-line Holy Light Empire troops, that is, the supply line, if the front-line battle is not determined to be a failure because of the fall of the Holy Light Harbor, then it will be useless for this Holy Light Port City Lord to be hard in the background.

As for the nobles who ran away with them, is it possible that they will come out and bear the blame? Even the city lord of Shengguanggang himself thought in an instant that this was impossible, because these guys could sell a million soldiers and civilians in Shengguanggang once in order to save their lives, then they could also sell themselves once, anyway, everyone knew that if the battle failed, if the reason was found from here in Shengguanggang, then in fact, it would be enough to find a substitute for the dead ghost at that time, because everyone knew that the old pope could not go back and move those old nobles, Because moving them will only make the already uneasy situation of the Holy Light Empire more uneasy again, and if there is a rebellion of the nobles at that time, it will be a big game, so the city lord of the Holy Light Harbor himself knows that if there is really that time, the old pope will definitely use the "steps" given to them by those nobles to give him death.

And it was at this time that the city lord of Shengguanggang found that if he chose such a new nobleman this time, then as long as he survived the crisis, Shengguanggang would usher in a new era - if he chose the old nobles, then the city lord of Shengguanggang and the old nobles could only exist in the way of cooperation between the two sides, but the choice of new nobles was different, the roots of these new nobles were here, and choosing them was undoubtedly equivalent to giving them a chance to be reborn, so as long as they survived this crisis, Then the relationship between the two sides will definitely be allies, or even better than allies, so that when the time comes, as long as he suppresses the old nobles again, then he and the new nobles will be able to become mutually beneficial existences in the Holy Light Port, and the rights he will control will inevitably be more and greater.

But if you really choose to do so, what if you can't hold it on your side when the time comes? If you want to know that Lu Dao chooses the upstart, then he can only control the strength of 3 regular legions and 10 militia legions on Brown's side at most, maybe the 4 legions in Chris's hands are obedient to him to a certain extent, but it is better to command them than these legions that may plant the root cause in the troops under his control, not to mention more than 10,000 noble private soldiers.

The city lord of Shengguang Harbor even believes that as long as he chooses the upstart, maybe the next second these 10,000 private soldiers will leave here under the command of those old nobles with their family wealth, then he will be in a dilemma - if he chooses to intercept it, there may be a conflict and there will be casualties, then it is equivalent to realizing and weakening the strength of the defenders, and if he chooses not to go, you must know that nearly a million civilians in the city are now looking around, and the departure of the 10,000 convoy will definitely be discovered, Then at that time, not only will you face the problem of low morale, but even the inhabitants of the city will riot, and even the militia will have problems at that time - you must know that the soldiers in these militias are all strong men captured from the residents of the Holy Light Port.

"Let's be quiet, two legion commanders." In the end, the Holy Light Harbor City Lord still stood up and said to everyone with a wry smile, "What the two legion commanders said is reasonable, I can't make a choice, so I hope everyone will go out first and give me a time to think, and come in in 5 minutes, and I will announce my own answer at that time." ”

"It's finally time to make a decision." Except for a few legion-level figures who were still in the dark, everyone else secretly breathed a sigh of relief and whispered in their hearts, and on their lips, everyone, including the legion-level figures, bowed slightly to the city lord of the Holy Light Port, and then said, "Yes." And in turn exited the council hall.

"Huh? Guru? On the other side, just as Brown stepped out of the council chamber and was about to find a place to sit and rest, he suddenly noticed that in the corridor, the black-robed man who had left before reappeared in the corner and waved his hand to him, and then Brown walked over without thinking............ (To be continued......)