With regard to the question raised in the previous sentence

"Hehe," Gina said, taking the crystal, "you really can't be considered an insightful man." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"In that case, you can't be considered a prudent woman." Sogrend replied with a smile. (Can anyone find out the source of these two sentences, haha)

I now publish the answer, and the source of this dialogue is the story of Fiameda on the first day of the Decameron, which reads: "If an insightful man always seeks a woman of higher status than himself; Then, any prudent and sensible woman should know how to protect herself and not let a man who is higher than her own to win her love. ”

It's a pity, I thought someone should know. In fact, there are many places in this book that quote some lines and passages from famous books, but no one seems to find such fun.

―――――――――― lazy dividing line――――――――――――――――――――――

April 12, 345 Gregorian Calendar, Mastar, Regina.

By mid-April, it was already quite hot in Mastar, even in the north. In the southern part of the Massarian Plains, temperatures are rising slightly faster than usual due to persistent good weather. However, this was not good news for the rulers of Shurasa, because if a few heavy rains could come, it would at least allow the southerners to rest in the hills of the central part of the empire for a little longer.

Archduke Leon Fields stood on the tower of the fortress city of Regina, looking out at the army of the Marquis of Rossi not far away. This has been repeated for several mornings, and while Leon himself is not worried about any loss of the city at the moment, it is difficult to say what the final outcome will be if it continues like this.

As a proud Central Army, being forced into the current situation is really embarrassing. Many people feel that it is better to rush out and fight to the death with those southern miscellaneous troops than to stay in the city like now. The irritability and restlessness of the army are like mudslides that are ready to erupt at the slightest external force.

"Your Highness, how is it today? Are we going to strike? Hayes asked.

"Forget it, have you forgotten Your Majesty's orders?" Leon reluctantly touched the hilt of his sword.

The morale of the Central Army was still in good shape, thanks to the fact that Sigrani had set a good example. Everyone knew that Her Majesty was about to give birth, but Sigrani, who was in such a physical condition, did not take advantage of the previous gap to return to Shurasa first, but remained in Regina. Of course, the problems caused by the tire gas more than ten days ago are also a reason. However, the sergeants below did not know it, they just thought that their empress was still as brave as she had always been on the front line, and would stay with them steadfastly.

"Your Highness, Your Excellency the General," a herald ran in, "and our dragon knight appeared in the sky, but he was bitten by the enemy's dragon knight, and it seemed that he was flying right here. ”

"How many dragon knights are there in the city now, order them to take to the air urgently to respond. If you are not sure, send 300 strong archers to prepare for support, and save my own people anyway. Leon immediately gave the order.

And in the sky north of Regina, about seven or eight wyverns were entangled with each other. One of them was under siege, and its knight had no intention of grappling, but was hoping to land in Regina as soon as possible. But there were three wyverns on the other side who were stubbornly guarding the low altitude, and the rest of the wyverns were constantly leaning up to stop its fall, and some kept shooting at him with crossbows. In order to avoid the opponent's attack, the dragon knight could not reduce the speed of the flying dragon, so there was no way to land.

This was the third time in just a few minutes that it had flown over Reggina, and the dragon knight was complaining about his slow reaction, when he suddenly heard a few long hiss of wyverns in pain, and looked down, two of the three wyverns in a low position were planted to the ground in a spiral, and the other one was also rapidly rising.

"Ah, yes, Atalanta is such a good archeryman." Hayes doesn't seem to miss any opportunity to be courteous.

"It's unlucky, I thought it was all three that fell, but the centurion to the west was too slow to react. Lord Hayes, how do you train them, I really doubt the level of training of your men. "Atalanta never gave him a chance.

"Yes, yes," Hayes immediately shouted at the centurion, "I usually tell you to be diligent, but if you don't listen, you'll be disgraced today." ”

"Don't talk about it as if it's none of your business, haven't you heard the truth of a nest of bears? It's all your problem. Okay, I'm not going to talk nonsense with you, Your Majesty is still waiting for me to take care of it. Put the bow away for me. Atalanta shoved her bow into Hayes's hand, flicked her horse's tail, and staggered down the tower.

"Wow, Miss Gautier is still so fierce to our Excellency Hayes, I guess the future is good." The soldiers began to whisper.

"Look, I usually say that you don't understand women, but you still don't believe it. I think it's basically a drama. ”

"Why?"

"You see, what did Mademoiselle Gautier give him before leaving?"

"Bow."

"That's right, would someone who is known as a marksman leave his bow for someone to keep? Like would the emperor casually find someone to keep his crown? That's a truth. ”

Even the soldiers understand the truth, of course, the main general cannot be confused. Someone is in a state of self-absorbed happiness and should have completely forgotten what his last name is.

The few dragon knights in the city also took to the air to help their allies, and the dragon knights of the Rossi family found that they could not get any advantage, and the main camp had no intention of supporting them, so they had to shoot at each other indiscriminately and retreated. However, both the rescued Dragoon and his mount were injured, especially his mount, which was unstable after landing and nearly threw his own owner out.

"Where do you belong and what is the important purpose of coming here?" The ground crew asked after helping him stabilize the Wyvern.

"I am part of the Dragon Knights Squadron attached to the Templar Order, and I have an urgent military situation to report to Her Majesty."

"Your Majesty is due now, but you can go and see His Highness Fielders, who is now the Supreme Commander here." An officer replied.

"I see, then please find someone to take me there, I can't afford to delay this."

On the other side outside the city, Marquis Rossi watched the confrontation in the air while using his morning tea. On their own side, the seven dragon knights actually failed to shoot down one of the opponent's lone dragon knights, but were shot down by the opponent's archers at one time, and the result of injuring a dragon and a knight was greatly angered. Immediately called the commander of the dragon knight and scolded him.

"Pass my orders, all units are ready to attack, and today we must teach this group of northerners a good lesson." Marquis Rossi seems to have to do a lot of work to satisfy himself.

"Count Ancelotti, how's it going, how about going into battle with me today?"

Hearing the marquis's invitation, Count Ancelotti was playing with his own ideas, and the air battle in the morning made the veteran of the battlefield smell a little bit of crisis. So he replied to the marquis like this: "It's still not necessary, the military affairs are heavy for days, after all, the old man is already old, and he can't be compared with the marquis's prime of life, so please allow the old man to rest today." ”

"Well, you also have to pay attention to your body, after all, Your Excellency is also an indispensable talent for rebuilding the empire." The Marquis of Rossi instructed the veteran with concern, and he stepped on his mount with great ambition and led the soldiers recruited later to launch a new offensive against Regina.

For the chroniclers of warfare, siege warfare is often the battle that makes them lazy and save ink and paper.

"First-class battles often don't need to fight; Third-rate battles often only need a flashy general attack to end; As for the battle that fell to the bottom, it is to train a bunch of excellent soldiers after skillful operation day after day, and then it is stopped by factors other than the battle field. A scholar specializing in the history of war taught the students.

However, one student echoed the teacher's observation: "The destruction of humanity by war, which has been condemned so much, should actually be attributed to the last battle and the people who caused it." ”

For such a smart student, the teacher's way to deal with him is to throw him to someone who has a bad relationship with him, so the student was kicked by the teacher with a letter to the professor of the philosophy department who has always been on good terms with him.

Let's take a digression and look back at the fourth day of the Reggina offensive and defensive battle, which should finally be attributed to the "last battle".

As the commander of the attacking side, the Marquis of Rossi himself did not have much military talent, but as we said earlier, the battle was more often a technical one. Therefore, thanks to the old Ancelotti, the Marquis's group of temporarily assembled militia has been well trained and can afford the tasks entrusted to them.

The reason why the city of Reggina caused great difficulties to the southerners could not be attributed mainly to the subjective conditions of both sides. Regina is already within the boundaries of the Plain of Massaria, unlike the hills of Vesuvius. There was no geographical shelter outside the city, and the plains were densely covered with water networks, and the city of Reggina could build a relatively large moat for itself. In addition, there is a lack of wood nearby, so it is impossible to equip the attackers with enough siege weapons in a short period of time.

And in the confrontation of long-range weapons, since the attacker cannot achieve numerical superiority, the condescending defender will have an advantage anyway. The current situation is not so much that the southerners are besieging their opponents as that the two sides are facing off here.

As in many cases, the offensive and defensive sides first engaged in a long-range firefight. The light infantry of the attacking side, carrying sand and weapons on their backs, quickly advanced under the protection of the few Phalanx troops in the south. After the previous three days of hard work, the moat of Regina, which was originally quite large, has been almost turned into a shallow pit of sand, stones, and corpses, and it is believed that today will be the day when it will disappear completely.

The first to reach the city threw sacks of sand into a large pit that had been a river three days before, and as soon as they had done so, they quickly clinged to the walls and hid in the corners where the archers had fired. In fact, this is also a contradiction that has always existed in the design of the city wall, if the city wall is made straight, then there will be such a shooting blind spot; If you create a certain slope, the shooting dead angle will be gone, but the opponent's siege ladder will be more difficult for you to push it, and it will create some opportunities to climb with your bare hands. The walls of Regina were built quite early, so they were completely perpendicular to the ground; The walls of Gresden, like those in France, have a certain slope. In the era of Black Fire Yao, the city wall with a reasonable slope could better defend against the artillery of that time, of course, this is a later story.

Let's put aside the topic of the city walls and continue to look at the battle situation in front of us. For the enemy hiding under the city walls, the defenders could only kill and wound the enemy by cutting the ropes that tied the stones hanging from the battlements. However, because there is a considerable shortage of stones in the plains, more stones have to be supplied to the trebuchets in the city to suppress the opponent's siege weapons, so there are not many such things to prepare and cannot maintain continuous damage to the opponent. Moreover, the attacker's long-range firepower is extremely ferocious, and the use of these rolling stones often costs one or two casualties. Thus, after the first southerners suffered heavy casualties, the later soldiers were in a relatively safe position.

The follow-up siege troops, having paid a certain number of casualties, erected the ladders one by one with the help of the soldiers who had previously managed to hide in the shooting corner. Very well, the archers and throwers of the attacking side consciously fired suppressively at the support points on the ladder, and then the light infantry began to climb the ladder.

However, the commanders of the Southern Army's Front Army, who had experienced three days of front-line fighting, discovered a strange phenomenon: the fire they had suffered today from the defenders was somewhat perfunctory, and it could be said to be an understatement compared to the previous three days. However, this didn't seem to be his concern, so he just closed his mask and continued to protect his light infantry.

Many southerners climbed the walls of Regina with ease, but the vast majority of them did not make it to any side of the walls.

In the eyes of the Central Army, whether it is the craftsman of Nabrus or the farmer of Brescia, they are just fish on the cutting board. Therefore, in the initial stage of white-knuckle combat on the city wall, it is common to see a soldier of the Central Army rushing into the crowd of southerners who have just climbed up like a tiger into a flock. But even a goat, when cornered, will use its horns to resist a wolf, let alone a living person?

War is the best way to learn about killing, and humans have always excelled in the classroom. Soon, the front-line soldiers of the Central Army began to feel the pressure exerted by the other side, although it still took three or four southerners to replace a Central Army, the bloodshed of the battlefield had completely driven the docile common people into complete madness.

Marquis Rossi watched with satisfaction the slaughter at the head of the city, and in his opinion, even if Regina could not be captured today, under this situation, the city of Higrani would be destroyed in two or three days. The Marquis's observation was not wrong, and any military strategist would have come to the same conclusion if he had seen the situation before him. But the reason why Marquis Rossi did not become a military strategist was because no military strategist would look at the battle situation in front of him in isolation.

Leon, who was standing in the command tower, looked at the city wall in the midst of a fierce battle, looked up at the position of the sun again, and said to Hayes beside him: "It's almost time, it's time to drive all these southerners down." ”

"It's time, from what I know Redknapp, this guy is an impatient."

"Herald," called Leon behind him, "give me the order, and the Fourth Wing will give me all the infantry, and give them a quarter of an hour to assemble, and a quarter of an hour to drive down all the rebels on the wall." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." The herald immediately trotted downstairs.

"Then I should also go and prepare, always hiding in the city, the southerners will say that we don't have chivalry." Hayes owes Leon and is going down.

"Then I wish Your Excellency prosperity and victory."

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your blessings."

However, just as Hayes was about to leave, Cosette hurried to the command tower with her skirt in hand.

"Miss Lance, what's the matter? Look at you panicking like this. Leon asked.

Cosette swallowed his saliva, gasped and said, "Your Royal Highness, Your Majesty is ......"

"What's wrong?" Leon sensed the ominousness in the other man's tone, and rushed forward, grabbing the other's shoulders and shaking them violently.

"Your Majesty...... Under...... She was born prematurely and was ...... soon It's about to give birth. Cosette felt like she was about to be shaken apart.

"What's going on, didn't the doctor say everything was stable in the morning?"

Looking at the excited Leon, Hayes felt that he was a little panicked, and completely forgot what he should be concerned about. And it's up to him to do it for him," then, Miss Reims, what is the opinion of the doctors? Are you sure? ”

When Leon heard this, he remembered that it was no longer important what caused Sigrani's premature birth, what was important to him was whether he could ensure Sigrani's life. If Sigrani dies in the delivery bed, then everything he and the Central Army have done now will become meaningless, and his own life will seem hopeless.

So, he also asked, "What is the opinion of the doctors, no, whatever their opinion, please convey to them what I mean: no matter what, at all costs, to keep Your Majesty, and to give up the child if necessary." Yes, give up that child, and you must ensure the safety of Your Majesty. Do you understand what I'm saying? ”

"I understand, but ......"

"Nothing but, Lord Hayes is going to attack now, you go quickly (said to Hays, the other party left). We men can't help much at this point, you just have to get my message to the damn doctors. There is also a telling Your Majesty that you must hold on, and the soldiers and I can only bless her with a victory. May Goddess Juno bless her. Leon finished his sentence and hurriedly sent Cosette out.

Cosette sighed slightly as she walked down the tower, not knowing if it was right not to tell Leon about Sigrani's instructions to the doctor. In her first labor pains, Sigrani told the doctors in a resolute tone that she must save the child in her womb no matter what, and sacrifice herself if necessary, and if the child cannot be saved, then all the doctors should wait to go to hard labor.

But now was not the time for anyone to slack off, Cosette interrupted his thoughts and trotted over to the Empress's bedchamber with her skirt in hand. And on the city walls, the 4th Wing, relying on a powerful counterattack, had already driven all the enemy down. The battle seems to be at a low ebb, but the lurking climax is about to take place.