A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

After kneeling down to Prince Garlan, the mature slave stood up without saying a word and directly picked out a man who had stirred trouble among the slaves not long ago.

While these people sneaked into the group of slaves and encouraged the slaves to cause trouble with their sharp tongues, he had been watching with cold eyes and silently remembered these people in his heart.

There were about a dozen slaves who also behaved the same way as he did. Together with him, they picked out all the troublemakers and handed them over to the city guards.

Although these dozen or so slaves came from poor backgrounds, they were all quite capable people and had great appeal and influence among the slaves.

In this way, they showed their determination to the prince.

When I came here, although Caijos didn't say anything from beginning to end, he had an unexpected gain before leaving. These troublemakers were obviously the same group as the dozen or so people he had caught before.

So, he unceremoniously took over these guys and took them back for interrogation together.

At this point, all the offline people that a certain man had managed to bribe in the city were almost wiped out.

After handing over the arrangements for tens of thousands of slaves to a general, Garlan did not stay here longer and turned around to return to the ruling government.

But on the way back, Seth frowned and was worried.

As soon as he stepped into the ruling house and the guards who followed him retreated, he finally couldn't help but speak.

"Prince, you want to liberate the slaves. This will cause dissatisfaction among many people. I'm afraid those people will cause trouble again in the city..."

He hesitated to speak.

Throughout the ages, occasionally one or two people would raise the slogan of liberating slaves.

However, all such people were attacked by noble officials and big businessmen who were slave owners, and ended up with a miserable end.

After all, for slave owners, slaves are their private wealth. If anyone dares to take away their property from them, they will definitely want to kill you crazily.

Now, if the prince wants to liberate the slaves in Tozes City, he will definitely encounter fierce opposition from the owners of those slaves.

Garlan glanced at Seth, who was worried.

"I never said I wanted to free the slaves," he said.

"Ah? But? You just clearly..."

Garlan shook his head.

Although it is known from the history of the world he came from that slavery will die out sooner or later, but that is a long-term process, and it is not possible to liberate slaves immediately by shouting to liberate them.

In this current world, as long as anyone shouts the slogan of emancipating slaves and abolishing slavery, that person will immediately become a public enemy of the world.

Everyone will attack him in groups and leave him dead without a burial place.

He wouldn't do anything that stupid.

"This is a special decision made under special circumstances."

Garlan replied.

If under ordinary circumstances, it would be absolutely impossible to ask the merchant nobles of Tozes to give up their slaves, even if he was a prince.

However, the current situation is that——

The largest slave owners, that is, the consuls, major officials, and big businessmen all committed serious crimes, and their property would be confiscated sooner or later. They were unable to object while in prison.

As for the smaller slave owners, now that the city of Tozes is about to be captured by pirates, they are all trembling like frightened birds.

“Do you think it’s the slaves or their own lives that are more important to those people?”

Garlan said.

"Just tell them to give me all the slaves and they will survive. Do you think they will object?"

If they could exchange their slaves for their own safety and preserve the property in their city, they would beg Garlan to accept their slaves and be grateful to Garlan.

Moreover, even if this matter spreads after the war, other nobles will not be too sensitive to it.

Because they all know that this method is not universal, it is just a special response to protect the city.

Seth thought, the prince was right, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

So, he changed his mind and immediately began to think about how to use these slaves in war.

As he thought about it, he frowned.

"Your Highness, you just said that killing a pirate counts as merit, but in a war, most of those slaves can only assist and serve as auxiliary soldiers, and they may not necessarily be able to kill pirates with their own hands. In this way, Come on, their credit calculation may be a bit..."

"Oh, that's just what I said casually, just as an analogy. As for how to calculate the specific military merits and how much it is worth to a pirate, that's all for you to arrange."

"Well."

Seth choked up at Gallan's understatement in blaming the matter on himself.

The blond knight next to him also spoke immediately.

"If the prince has to decide every detail, then what do we, the subordinates, need to do?"

Seth smiled bitterly, but he had to admit that Kejos was right.

The prince has to make the decision in everything and what he is asked to do.

"I understand." He said, "I will go and discuss this matter with everyone now."

Although arranging those slaves is a very troublesome matter, I'm afraid I will have to work all night long.

However, not only was he able to withdraw the nearly a thousand soldiers guarding the slaves, but he also obtained tens of thousands of new manpower. It must be said that the pressure on him, who was worried to death due to lack of manpower not long ago, has somewhat eased at this moment.

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The night passed and the sun rose.

As soon as day broke, the pirates began to attack the city of Tozes with full confidence.

Judging from yesterday's battle situation, the manpower defending the city in Tozes City is seriously insufficient. The defense lines on the city wall are in danger and there are loopholes everywhere.

So today, the pirate leader Basha decided to send more troops to attack the city, crushing it with numbers, and captured the city of Tozes in one fell swoop.

However, when nearly twice as many pirates as yesterday attacked them again, they were shocked to find that the number of soldiers guarding the city was actually several times that of yesterday.

All the loopholes that originally had relatively few manpower were tightly blocked today.

As soon as he saw the situation on the city wall today, Basha's expression immediately turned ugly.

Especially when he heard the retired subordinates say that most of the new people were branded, as if they were slaves, his face turned a little blue.

That trash in the city!

He cursed fiercely in his heart.

Then, he gritted his teeth and waved his hands to let his pirates press forward crazily.

Fight!

The longer it takes, the more dangerous it becomes. He must capture Tozes City as soon as possible.

Seth, who was standing on the city wall, kept shouting and commanding everywhere.

Now that there are many more manpower, the battle line on the city wall is no longer as precarious as before.

Slaves divided into nearly a hundred teams were assigned to various places. Their main tasks were to prevent pirates from climbing up, push away the ladders, poke the pirates who climbed up with spears, and pour boiling water and oil on the pirates on the wall. Torch.

It is the well-trained soldiers who really fight against the pirates who seize the opportunity to climb up.

But the slaves were not worried, because each slave team had a team leader leading them, telling them that even if they did not kill the pirates with their own hands, the team leader would record their achievements.

The most conspicuous among the slaves is a slave team of less than a hundred people.

The slaves in that team were all big-bodied, stout, and powerful—most of them were slave gladiators. In order to entertain the noble merchants, they usually had to fight with beasts or kill each other.

These slave gladiators fought from the dead were much more ferocious than ordinary soldiers.

This team was led by the mature slave who spoke to Garlan yesterday. They kept shuttling back and forth on the city wall. Wherever the battle was fierce and where there were many pirates climbing up, they killed them. They seemed to have inexhaustible strength. Likewise, you can see them everywhere.

Every time they killed a pirate, they would cut off the piece of skin with the pirate tattoo on the pirate's arm and put the bloody piece of human skin into the bag on their waist as proof of their military exploits.

Therefore, although the pirates who attacked today were twice as many as yesterday and more ferocious than yesterday, due to the tens of thousands of slaves who helped defend the city and the group of powerful slave gladiators, the battle situation turned from yesterday's one-sided situation to It's pretty much the same.

The two sides were in a stalemate on the battlefield.

And this was enough to make Seth and other generals overjoyed.

After all, everyone thought they couldn't last one day, but now they have survived two days.

Two days to go.

they thought.

In two days, the reinforcements the prince said will arrive.

They are trying their best to survive these two days!

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It's still quiet inside Tozes City.

In the upstairs room of the Consulate, Garlan stood by the window, gazing at the battlefield in the distance.

The moist sea breeze blowing from the sea blew his long golden hair hanging down the side of his neck, and the wind also vaguely carried the smell of blood brought from the city wall.

Even the shouts of killing, roars, and screams came faintly from the wind and reached his ears.

Garlan raised his eyes, moved his eyes away from the battlefield on the city wall, and looked at the endless sea.

His eyes seemed to be looking across the sea to some distant place.

Everything I can do has been done.

Tal.

The rest is up to you.

You must bring back Elson's reinforcements.

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On the other side, Tal, who was cared about by Garlan, had already rushed to Elson Island in a dusty journey.

On the afternoon when the pirates attacked the city, he failed to persuade Garlan to leave, but instead he was given an important task by Garlan.

When he was ordered to do something in danger, he was a little panicked and had no confidence in this important task.

However, when the prince said he believed he would do it, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Even if he risked his life, he would not betray the prince's trust!

At that time, before the pirates had time to encircle and block the city gate on land, he broke out from the city gate under the protection of dozens of personal guards.

Then, he ran all the way, made a big circle on the land, and rode horseback all night. When it was dark, he rushed to the small port of the nearest fishing town, hired a small speedboat, and hurriedly set out to sea.

After sailing on the sea for a day and a night, Tarr and his party finally arrived at the only port open to the outside world on Elson Island.

The Elson Country does not allow men to enter the country. This port is specially set aside for foreign trade. However, due to the hostile or indifferent attitude of the countries around it, this trading port is not prosperous, with sparse shops, not many people, and only a few merchant ships moored in the port for trading.

It was almost noon when Tarr arrived on the island. As soon as Tarr landed ashore, he went directly to the administrator of the port and asked to see the queen. He was considered mentally ill and the other party almost kicked him out.

It wasn't until Tarr showed the silver-white earrings and the female administrator saw the unique pattern of the Elson Kingdom on it that she reported the matter to her superiors with suspicion.

After Tal waited anxiously outside for more than an hour, news finally came from above.

A team of Aielson female warriors came out and took him in alone, while the other guards could only stay at the port.

Eielson is a small island country, consisting of a large Eielson Island and adjacent small islands.

The palace where the queen lives is not grand and huge, but rather exquisite in shape, and the interior decoration is also exquisite and beautiful. Since the palace was built, only a few dozen men have been able to enter it. However, given this rare opportunity, Tal was in no mood to visit the palace. His chubby body was spinning around in the reception room, waiting impatiently.

There was a sound of brisk footsteps and the door opened.

The female general Elson, wearing light purple leather armor, appeared in front of Tal.

As soon as she saw Tal, she looked disappointed.

When the female warrior below reported that a messenger was coming from Aaron Landis, she thought the person who came was the blond knight she was thinking about.

However, as soon as they returned to Elson Island with the little princess, this little fat man followed them.

Looking at his anxious look, I didn't know what was urgent.

"General Venier, you don't know about my request to see the queen..."

Viniel nodded and said, "Follow me. The queen is very grateful to you for helping the little princess and agreeing to summon you."

Following General Aielson to the palace hall, Tal finally met Queen Aielson.

This queen is tall and slender. She is not wearing any gorgeous long dress. Instead, she is dressed in a strong suit, with a long sword on her waist and a long cloak hanging behind her. There is a bit of awe-inspiring majesty between her brows.

With her arms spread wide, she sat boldly on the throne, with a heroic appearance and a radiant look. At a glance, people felt that this was the outstanding style of the legendary female warrior Elson.

And the queen also spoke crisply and pointedly to the center.

"Messenger Aaron Landis, I am deeply grateful for your help with my daughter."

she asked bluntly.

"You rushed here to see me so eagerly, is it because you have encountered difficulties and need my help?"

Seeing that Queen Elson spoke so readily, Tal stopped beating around the bush and quickly explained the current situation in Tozes City.

Then, he explained to the queen that the prince requested the country of Elson to send a navy to rescue the city of Tozes.

Queen Elson pondered for a moment, then shook her head.

"Feel sorry."

"I can only say no to Prince Aaron Landis' request," she said.

"Her Majesty the Queen——"

"Messenger of Aaron Landis, I am very grateful to your prince for saving my daughter. If I were a mother and wanted to repay the prince's kindness, I would not hesitate to go to the battlefield for him. "

The Queen interrupted Tal's words and looked at Tal with bright eyes.

Her voice and words are as strong and decisive as her appearance.

"However, as the queen of Elson, I cannot send my soldiers of Elson to the battlefield just because Prince Aaron Landis saved my daughter."

"But, Your Majesty, if the city of Tozes falls, hundreds of thousands of people in the city will be massacred by pirates."

Tal said eagerly.

"Even if I ask you to have mercy on the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in that city..."

"The mission of General Airson is to protect the people of Airson. Their existence is not to die in battle for my personal favor or emotion - let alone sacrifice their lives for the people of other countries."

Queen Elson once again flatly refused.

It can be seen that the Queen is a person with a strong personality and decisiveness in situations.

Once she made a decision, there was no room for change.

"Messenger of Aaron Landis, if you are willing to stay in Aielson, or that prince is willing to come to Aielson, I will protect your safety."

"However, there is no need to mention the matter of letting our army go to sea to rescue Tozes City."

The last word fell and the queen stood up.

He swung his cloak behind him and turned around to leave.

Tal stood there with his mouth open, but was speechless. He could only watch the back of Queen Elson disappearing before his eyes.

If Elson's reinforcements cannot be brought back to Tozes City, then the prince...the prince will...

I remembered the trusting look in the prince's eyes when I sent him away.

At this moment, Tal felt more desperate than ever.