White raindrops like smoke fell on the quaint walls of Herrosburg, turning into a trickle of water along the pale stone steps to the somewhat whitish ground.

This drizzle, which at the same time wets people's spirits and clothes, is different from a waterfall-like rainstorm, but a very fine rain that makes it impossible to distinguish the drops, constantly sprinkling the white water on the mossy windowsill.

At the head of the castle, the banner of the Nord tomahawk fluttered, and on the slope below the castle, the camp of the great German army was scattered there, all shrouded in this fog-like drizzle

This is the 30,000 remnants of the army that the crown prince of Roude Yagrolida withdrew from the direction of Anrod half a month ago, and now it is now the last army in the central part of the kingdom of Roude that still has the ability to counterattack

Every time I think of what happened to the Anruod Line, the young and vigorous Crown Prince Yagrorida feels depressed, the short 2 days of the reversal of the Anruod Line, the sudden changes, and the extremely bad response make this young man who once thought he had comprehended the essence of the war like he was thrown off a galloping war horse, dizzy and overwhelmed

The Fourth Army, which was completely annihilated by the Falcon Army because of a mistake in decision-making, the Third Army, which mutinied because of the chaotic command of its favored ministers, the Fifth Army, which refused to fight because of the cruelty of military law, and the Seventh Army, which was almost routed by the Falcon Army because of lack of preparation, and so on.

In just 2 days, as if experiencing a terrible nightmare, the 150,000 troops at the peak of their military might were inexplicably lost two-thirds.

The Anrod Line, which had been shaken by the mutiny of the Third Local Legion, was met by the Varisian Legion, which appeared from the rear of the weakest legion and attacked with all its strength like a hungry wolf, and the defense line that was thought to be an impregnable wall was like a with thousands of holes and was quickly broken by the swift and tiger-like assault torrent of the Falcon Army

The whole army was scattered, and for a few days, Yagrorida felt like a lost dog, and her butt was almost smoking from being chased by the Falcon Hussars. If it weren't for the pouring rain, it would be dark. Lightning and thunder roared, tens of thousands of routs were drenched, and they miraculously stopped at the same time, and it was impossible for Yaglolida to take advantage of this rare opportunity to quickly gather the rout and rearrange a new defensive line in the direction of Khrusburg. It was able to stop the pursuit of the Falcon Army

It was precisely because of this sudden rainstorm that the pursuing Varisien Legion gave up its intention to continue the pursuit, and the southern mountain roads were rugged and difficult to navigate, and the heavy rain made the entire road muddy and difficult to navigate.

Even if the pursuing force sent by Varisian was a light cavalry unit, it was difficult to move in this soft soil and full of deep pits, and on several occasions it was almost counterattacked by the Germans. In the face of tens of thousands of German troops who had already stabilized their positions, the cavalry commander who led the team could only give up the plan to continue the pursuit with great regret and turn to the more tempting target of Goude Kyoto

Hold on to help. This was the plan of the crown prince, and although the Anrud defense line was lost, the stubborn crown prince believed that as long as he held on to Helusburg, reinforcements from Kyoto could be rearranged.

According to intelligence, this time the Falcon Army mobilized three main battle legions, accounting for almost half of the Falcon Dynasty's troops, to launch an invasion of the Kingdom of Vode, and the troops in the central region of the country have basically been emptied, up to the three northern counties. Down to Paravon, the Falcon Army had less than 20,000 troops left.

Yagrorida believed that this was a great opportunity to fight back, as long as the kingdom of Rad could survive, but unfortunately he waited for half a month. What I waited for was the news of the defeat in the Battle of Kyoto

God also deliberately set off this bad news to be extraordinarily tragic, in this late autumn season, the heavy rain came extraordinarily suddenly, but also came extraordinarily violently, bursts of thunder continued to shake the earth, thunder one after another, as if smashed open on everyone's head. Flashes of light swept across the sky, leaving long, irregular trails. ...,

The storm enveloped the whole of Herrosburg in a deep terror, and the castle, which had been fortified in the past, now felt like a helpless boat in the middle of the sea.

The raindrops the size of beans fell on the ground, mixed with a small amount of hail. Loud and sound. Though the powerful pastry and hail have smashed the brick houses here to pieces,

Many of the tiles were shattered by the hailstones, and rainwater poured directly down from the cracked tiles. Forming a spectacular scene of heavy rain outside and light rain inside, the people inside the house are not wolf in the face of this qiē, and the cold wind that sweeps from time to time. Bring a deep chill.

This anomaly made many of the soldiers feel hesitant and uneasy, and they all felt unprecedented surprise at the chill that had arrived so early, in their impressions. Winter doesn't come until November, but it's still August.

All the soldiers of the Great Virtue quietly curled up in the corners of the castle houses, staring blankly at the heavy rain outside, and at the same time enduring the inner torment, many of them looked very depressed, and the continuous movements of the hands clearly expressed their inner anxiety. The sentry who was originally standing was completely gone at this time. One by one, they quietly shrank back under the eaves to hide from the rain,

The officers on patrol also seemed to be much more lazy, and it was not possible to see a few officers smoking silently under the eaves. Everyone's face looked a little stiff, as if their hearts had been emptied.

The Battle of Kyoto was lost, nearly 100,000 troops were killed, and even His Majesty the King was dead.

At first, the military judges also arrested these daring fellows and trampled them to death with war horses according to the military law of great morality, but as more and more people fled, deserters also appeared in the ranks of the military judges.

These military judges are all composed of the children of high-ranking nobles in Kyoto, and now even Kyoto may be captured at any time, who still has the spirit to care about the affairs here, many people are in the form of illness, trying to rush back to Kyoto, at least from the news from Kyoto, the Falcon army besieging the city is relatively mild, and the refugees and nobles who fled to Kyoto have been released, but those who are not allowed to go in are allowed to come out again,

When the news of the defeat at the Battle of Kyoto and the news that the king might have died in battle reached the thunder, Rao Shiya Glorida seemed to have sensed something. I couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. He trembled violently and almost fainted, but fortunately he held on to the table next to him and barely collapsed. But his breath. His eyes. His movements were not much different from dead people at that time.

My father is dead! Kyoto is besieged!

For a moment, Agrorida felt that there was only one piece of information in his mind, and he felt that the sky was falling, his eyes were full of stars, and all the thoughts in his head were emptied, leaving only a large blank space.

Let's be honest. Yagrolida's psychological endurance is still very strong. But for this crown prince, who thinks he has reached the pinnacle of power, the impact is too great, and the consequences are too unimaginable. Whether it's anyone else. It's impossible to accept this message.

"Whoever dares to leak the secret will be killed!" Agrorida roared violently, tearing the report in his hand to shreds, with a trace of bright red blood on the corner of his mouth, he knew that once this news leaked out, the future of the entire army would be ruined. The siege of Kyoto marked that he and all the current troops had been cut off from the last retreat by the Blue Feather Army.

Where to go, we must make a choice as much as possible. ...,

It took almost half an hour!Yagrorida reacted from a kind of ignorance, he gritted his teeth and ordered the relevant news to be strictly sealed, but this practice was almost meaningless, most of the officers still had their own families and relatives in Kyoto, and it was impossible for such news to be blocked even if they wanted to.

The news of the fall of Kyoto quickly spread among the Nord army in Herusburg, and by this time the officers were talking. The soldiers were talking, even the cooks in the castle were talking, "You say, are the Falcon army really going to slaughter the city?"

"Bang Bang"

An attendant knocked softly on the door behind Agrolida, in the dim light. Seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was standing in front of the windowsill, raising his head, and looking at the ridge in the distance as if he had no reaction,

Since the news of the fall of Kyoto came, Yaglorida has locked herself in her room alone for three consecutive days, except for eating, almost no one has been seen, and it is rumored outside that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has changed to autism because he can't bear the blow.

"Is it dinner? Or is there something else?" Agrorida heard the door open behind him, retracted his target from a distance, and turned around, he glanced at the attendant in some surprise,

There was no dining car in front, and there was no food, it was empty, except for the attendant officer holding an encrypted red envelope in his hand, and his expression was a little restrained and nervous.

From the look of the attendant, Yagrolida seemed to sense something, and said without any fluctuation on his face, "What is the thing in your hand? is it a letter of surrender or an invitation to a decisive battle?"

Agrolida's voice paused, revealing a look of self-deprecation, "Or, maybe it was a mocking letter that simply said, "Bastard, you killed yourself."

"Temple. Your Highness!"

The squire's face looked a little ugly, and even a little dazed, he didn't know how to answer Agrorida, so he could only put the red letter in his hand on the desk with great caution,

"This morning, we received a letter from the Falcon Dynasty, and the Supreme Commander of the Falcon Dynasty hopes to invite His Highness to meet at an appropriate time."

"Supreme Commander, who are you talking about?"

Yaglolida's face was stunned for a moment, the vague tone of the attendant officer was like a hide at all, making it difficult to understand the meaning, he came to the desk in confusion, picked up the letter on the table, opened the sealed seal of the letter, his eyes swept over, and suddenly his body trembled slightly, like a wood carving,

"Hehe, it seems that I am not a waste in the eyes of the enemy!" His eyes were glued to the letter, Yaglorida suddenly sneered, his calm face became wild, he picked up the quill on the table, and with a rapid sound of brushing and writing, he returned to calm

He handed the letter to the attendant and said, "Exchange the letter back, I appreciate this kindness, but now I am not only the crown prince of Virtue, but also the king of Virtue!"

August 29. Send someone to bring a handwritten letter to Yagrolida, who was still carrying a remnant of the army, and Yagrolida laid down his arms and surrendered to the falcon to avoid unnecessary casualties.

In the letter, the fat man promised that the Falcon Dynasty would ensure the safety of the lives and private property of the Goude soldiers, and that he would do so in due course. Meet Yagrorida in person, however, this Jianyì was rejected by Yagrolida's reply

"Thank you for your kindness, but the monarch of the Virtuous. A coward who has never surrendered, though it would be too high to be worthy of your friend, I am grateful that you were able to give me a decent and glorious choice at the last moment!" Agrolida added at the end of the letter. ...,

In the palace of the king of Virtue, the rain has gradually become lighter, the thunder has stopped, and the lightning is gone. The hail also disappeared, and the raindrops, which were the size of beans, gradually turned into wisps of rain at this time.

If it weren't for the bitter chill. It feels like a spring rain. Full of poetry. A misty drizzle fell on the courtyard outside the doorway. Splashing crystal water, ripples on the surface of the water. Slowly dissipating at the edge of the courtyard.

Looking out of the window, the whole of Kyoto is gray, like a beautiful oil painting, and every object is cleverly hidden by the rain.

The calm of the courtyard of the deep palace was broken by a rush of footsteps, a woman with a helmet. Surrounded by several general generals, they were hurrying through a long corridor in the palace, and the oncoming palace ladies hurriedly retreated to the sides.

Wearing a well-fitting female knight chain armor, the dreamlike cold temperament belongs to the kind of coldness that people dare not blasphemy, the beautiful and coherent like the bright moon, and the smooth skin like ice and snow, with such a strong temptation.

"Duke Stankhoff, tell me the truth, how many people can we gather now!" The woman's face was heavy, and in a voice as beautiful as a yellow warbler, she asked an old man in armor next to her as she walked,

"Thirty thousand. If you count the rout army that escaped, it will probably be able to gather more than 50,000 people!" the spirited veteran hesitated for a moment before answering her, "But Her Royal Highness Princess Aghelen, these soldiers and routs who came with temporary signs, even if they can be on a par with the Falcon Army outside the city, I am afraid that they will not be of much use. With the combat power of the Falcon Army, it is completely easy to break through the defense line formed by these soldiers!"

"I didn't think about letting them fight!"

Arghelen paused solemnly, she stopped, and glanced at the palace outside the ornate walls of the palace, the palace was built on a high slope, and the whole city was expanded around this high slope, and from the position where she stopped, the whole city could be seen at a glance.

"I need to have enough people to keep the whole of Kyoto safe!" said Arghelen unexpectedly slowly, with a straight nose, delicate lips and smooth cheeks, so just right together,

But in this dazzling beauty, there is a stubbornness unique to the great people,

She pointed to a few places in the city where black smoke was coming out, and said, "I don't want there to be a riot like last night, we may not be able to defeat the Falcon army, but we can't mess with ourselves, let alone kill our own people, if these small riots can't be effectively controlled, the riots will turn into turmoil, and hundreds of thousands of Ottoku people in Kyoto will be involved.

The reason why the Falcon Army outside the city has an absolute advantage and still does not take a strong attack is that they want to make us mess up first, and then they can enter Kyoto with the attitude of a savior and completely conquer the entire Kyoto psychologically!"

"This ...... Probably not!" In the face of Yaghelen's accusation, Duke Stanhe, the defense officer of Kyoto, was stunned, although it sounded a little appalling, but it was not completely unreasonable when you thought about it

He hurriedly said, "It's my mistake! I really didn't expect those rout troops who entered the city to do this, you said that they all grew up in Kyoto, how did they go out and fight a defeat, and it became so unbearable, they are still virtuous soldiers, even I feel blush when I say it!"

"I hope we can control it, otherwise, you and I are the sinners of all the Virtuous people!" Yaghelen waved his hand at him, "As for the Falcon Army outside the city, don't worry for the time being, isn't there a negotiation tomorrow?, I can also take a look at whether this continental god of war is as the outside world has said! I believe that before the hope of negotiation is broken, the Falcon Army will not take any tough offensive!"

"Your Royal Highness, you are the princess of the royal family, and you are now the backbone of the entire Virtue Kyoto, if you are involved in danger except for accidents, how do you let your subordinates explain!"

When Duke Stankhoff heard that Aaghelen was going to negotiate tomorrow, he immediately panicked, and his face turned pale and several generals behind him knelt down on one knee at the same time, and the guards behind him also fell to their knees and loudly dissuaded

"I've decided," Arghelen snorted coldly, her crisp voice with unquestionable authority

'If there is no representative of the royal family, how can the Falcon Dynasty recognize the validity of this negotiation, or do you expect Vekia Falcon to attack the city with all its might!

Ignoring everyone's ugly faces, Agnhelen turned and walked away (to be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )