A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

Bright sunlight fell into the government room through the skylight and fell on the face of the young man with his eyes closed who was sitting on the chair by the window.

He held his cheek with one hand, tilted his body slightly, and breathed steadily, as if he was taking a nap.

The shadows cast by the slender eyelashes are reflected on the handsome face with sharp lines, and the thin lips are pursed, giving people an increasingly sharp look.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes suddenly.

Golden-red hues shine through the gaps in the dark hair.

At that moment, it was as if all the sunlight falling on his face was sucked into these deep and dark pupils.

The moment he opened his eyes, his originally steady breathing seemed to be slightly disturbed.

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The dark endless night...

The strange wind sounds that seem to never stop carrying the cries and wails of countless people...

The land of Aaron Landis is shrouded in darkness.

The heroic king fell in the small room, under the poison handed to him by the person he trusted.

The blood spit out from his mouth dyed the soft gauze by the window red.

He fell in front of his betrayer in pain and helplessness.

The young crown prince died in the battle among the rebels.

The sharp arrow shot from behind him penetrated the young man's chest.

He fell from his horse.

The long golden hair fell pale and feebly to the ground, amidst the mud and blood.

Then, the spreading flames mercilessly devoured the slender body.

Amidst the huge roar, the white blizzard came from the west like a torrent, completely burying the land of Aaron Landis...

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Heimos raised his hand and pressed it on his chest.

Even though he clearly knew that it was just a dream, as long as he recalled the scene in the dream where the young man fell to the ground and was swallowed up by the flames, the beating thing deep in his chest began to twitch violently.

He pressed his chest, and a hint of anger appeared in his golden-red eyes.

The gloom quickly spread and enveloped his eyes, and his dark pupils seemed to swallow up all the light, and he was about to fall into the deepest darkness.

Suddenly, a little green light reflected from the corner of his eye.

Heimos lowered his head and his eyes fell on his hands.

On the brown finger, the bright green malachite ring reflected the bright sunlight, refracting a little light into his eyes.

In an instant, the anger that was surging in his eyes like black mist all faded away as if it had been dissipated.

He looked at the ring, raised his hand, and touched the cool emerald malachite with his fingertips.

"Your Highness Heimos."

A voice came from the side, calling Heymos' attention.

Heimos looked up, and what caught his sight was the tall figure of Shamash's priest Shemuel.

Turning his head slightly, he looked through the window beside him and saw the sun rising to the center of the sky.

"I am asleep?"

When he could remember, the sun was still slanting in the sky.

"Yes."

"You should wake me up."

Heimos glanced sharply at Shermer and spoke with a cold tone.

At this critical moment, not a single second can be wasted.

"You are already very tired after working around the clock for days. I think if this continues, your tiredness will affect your thinking and prevent you from making correct judgments."

Xie Muer's face was expressionless and he also answered in a firm tone.

Heimos narrowed his eyes, looked at Shermer, and said nothing more.

It would be a waste of time to continue talking about this stone.

He touched the ring on his finger again, the ring made from Garlan's damaged malachite earrings.

He asked: "Has the relocation of all villages and towns outside the royal city been completed?"

The priest of Shamash gave Heimos a deep look, his eyes a little complicated, but he still answered Heimos's questions calmly and meticulously.

"In accordance with your order, all villages and towns near the royal city have been cleared."

Shermer said,

"Tens of thousands of people have poured into the Royal City in the past few days. The defenders from all the towns have also been summoned to the Royal City, and people have been arranged to organize them into an army."

After returning to the royal city a few days ago, Heimos took over the command of the entire royal city in the name of the prince.

His name as the 'Black Knight' and his outstanding achievements in the North made no one in the royal city dare to have any objections to this.

After all, even the Shamash priest Shemuel and the head of the Royal Knights Sago, who were die-hard supporters of the Crown Prince, acquiesced to this matter and expressed their obedience to Prince Heimos' orders, let alone others. Talking too much in such a critical moment.

The first order Heimos issued after taking over the command was to relocate all the residents of the villages and towns near the royal city, especially in the direction from which the Gastad people were marching.

Whether it is moving to a large city or moving to the royal city, everyone must move anyway.

At the same time, all food and materials in the villages and towns must be taken away. Those that cannot be taken away will be burned directly on the spot, leaving only an empty village and town without people or any materials.

Strong walls and clear fields.

This was a tactic that had never been used before.

As soon as Heimos gave the order, this strategy immediately caused great controversy and dissent in the royal city.

Many people have accused Heimos of treating the people harshly.

Others question whether the tactic, which has never been used before, actually works.

Moreover, this order indeed caused strong dissatisfaction among many people around the royal city. They were unwilling to leave their homes, let alone burn down their houses.

But Heimos ignored the dissatisfaction of the people at all. When he heard that the people were unwilling to move, he directly sent troops to force them to move.

For those who refused to leave, the soldiers forced them out, and then set fire to the entire village and town, forcing them to move.

For a time, green smoke burst out from the ground, and small villages were burned down on the ground.

Although the people whose homes were burned were furious, they had no choice but to flee with their families to the nearest large city or the royal city.

And after this incident, the 'Black Knight', who originally had a terrifying reputation among the people, became even more vicious.

His resolute actions and ruthless methods made everyone fear him.

Heimos didn't care.

At this moment, he casually flipped through the report submitted by the subordinate responsible for cleaning up and driving away the people, and continued to ask Shermer.

"How long will it take for the Gastard people to reach the royal city?"

"It will take one day and night, and it is estimated that they will arrive tomorrow evening. Because the cavalry you sent harassed them all the way, their march is two to three days later than expected."

The priest, who had long been familiar with the general's love, answered.

After Heimos issued the order to move all the people around the royal city and along the enemy's road, the second thing he did was to dispatch more than 2,000 elite cavalry, divided into dozens of small cavalry squads, and constantly attack Gass along the way. Dade's army carried out harassment.

They do not face the enemy head-on. They often sneak attack and run away when they are not prepared, or they shoot arrows from a distance in the middle of the night.

Even if they were driven away by the army, they would circle around and come back to continue harassing them, making the people of Gastad extremely annoyed.

To them, these cavalry squads that harassed the army from time to time were like mosquitoes buzzing around them but unable to hit them.

In this way, although these cavalry squads could not cause substantial damage to the Gastards, they greatly delayed their march.

Otherwise, according to the original marching speed, the Gastad people would have already arrived at the royal city at this moment.

Heimos hummed and stood up.

He was currently on the high tower in the palace. Through the window, he could see the city gate closest to the palace from a distance.

The city gate was crowded at the moment.

Countless people who were forcibly driven out of their homes by him are still entering the royal city in an endless stream, dragging their families with them, all of them looking ugly and complaining.

Following his gaze, Shermer also saw the situation at the city gate.

These days, the gates of the royal city are like this.

The priest of Shamash frowned.

To be honest, he didn't agree with Heimos's approach at first - damaging himself before the enemy attacked - this tactic was simply unheard of.

He looked at Heimos' profile.

The prince's face was extremely handsome, but his golden-red eyes looked down at the people at the city gate without any emotion.

He looked at those people as if he were simply looking at the chess pieces at his mercy on the chessboard.

Shermer thought of that day.

That day, when Heimos proposed this strategy, he had the same look in his eyes now.

Before he could speak at that time, Sage, the leader of the Royal Knights, had already stood up to object.

"I disagree!"

The burly man with short dark brown hair frowned and said with an unhappy expression.

"We are going to suffer losses to ourselves before the Gastad people can attack us. What kind of ridiculous strategy is this?"

Facing Sage's questioning gaze, Heimos still sat steadily, looking calm and calm.

He said, "There will always be losses in wars. Regardless of victory or defeat, it is just the difference between more and less."

"There's no reason to harm yourself before the war begins! I don't agree! Neither will the priest Shemu'er!"

Heimos glanced at the two of them lightly.

"Don't forget, the order given to you in Garlan's secret message is to completely obey my command."

"…………"

Sage couldn't deny it.

The Dauphin gave the order in a secret letter—ordering them in his capacity as the Dauphin.

They must obey all orders of Heymos unconditionally.

He frowned tightly and said, "Can't you think of a better strategy?"

"The best strategy? There is."

Heimos raised his eyes and looked at the two of them with inorganic and indifferent eyes like golden-red glazed beads.

"In my opinion, the best strategy is to abandon the royal city."

"!!"

Ignoring the anger in Sage's eyes, Heimos crossed his hands on his knees and continued speaking.

"Abandon the royal city, abandon the northern front, abandon the eastern front, concentrate all the remaining legion forces to retreat to the northwest, and completely abandon the eastern area of ​​​​Aaron Landis. In this way, we can use the natural danger of the Eya River to As a line of defense, and backed by the friendly country Tasda, we can advance, attack, retreat and defend."

"And once we evacuate the eastern region, the Gesu people move south, and the Yis people move west, they will not let go of the fat city. If the Gastad people want to defend the newly captured royal city, they must fight with this Two countries fighting.”

"When those three countries were fighting each other, we stayed in the northwest to slowly accumulate strength and rebuild the army. After a year and a half, when those countries were almost exhausted, the initiative was in our hands, whether we wanted to cut off It is up to us to decide whether the Gastad people's retreat route or whether to deal with the Geshur people in the north first."

Heimos said this calmly, his voice so calm that it was almost cruel.

Sage, who looked angry at first, opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time.

He couldn't agree with Heimos's approach of abandoning the royal city, but he couldn't refute this strategy either.

This is indeed the most effective strategy currently and the one that best preserves the strength of Aaron Landis's army.

Yes, the strength of the army can be preserved.

But what about the people of Aaron Landis?

The army retreated to the northwest, abandoned the eastern region, and allowed those three countries to wreak havoc on the land of Aaron Landis. Then during that time, the people of Aaron Landis in the eastern land would be in endless trouble. How cruelly was he treated in the endless war?

Thinking like this, Xie Mu'er opened his mouth, but in the end he still didn't ask the question.

He knew there was no point in asking.

Because His Highness Heymos never thinks about things he doesn't care about.

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Waking up from his memories and returning to the present, Shermer looked at Heimos.

He had a feeling.

If Prince Garlan did not exist, or if the prince died in Rudas City and no secret message was sent, Heimos would really implement that cruel strategy.

Without looking at the complicated look on Shemuer's face as he looked at him, Heimos had already moved his eyes away from the noisy city gate.

"At noon tomorrow, all city gates will be closed."

On that handsome face, a pair of sword eyebrows were as sharp as a knife's edge.

He turned and left, his dark green cloak flying behind him.

Heimos said: "From then on, without my order, anyone who wants to enter or leave the royal city will be killed on the spot."

The sun sets.

One night later, it rises again.

When the sun rose in the sky, the gates on three sides of the royal city of Aaron Landis slowly fell down, completely blocking the passage in and out.

Then, at the moment when the sun is about to set on the earth.

On the distant horizon, the white army appeared in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Accompanied by the sound of horse hooves that shook the earth, they rolled in overwhelmingly like ice and snow collapsing in the snow-capped mountains.

The army of Garstard came to the city of Aaron Landis.

On the high city wall, Heimos stood there, looking down at the earth and the army of Gastad in the distance.

A suit of shiny black armor is covered with the glow of the setting sun.

The strong wind blew his dark hair, and his golden-red pupils seemed to burn with the fiery clouds on the horizon.

He lowered his head, raised his hand, and gently kissed the emerald green malachite ring on his right hand.

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I will defend the royal city.

As long as it is your wish, I will make it come true for you.

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The wind roared across the sky and across the distant land.

After a night, when the sun rose, it blew to the city thousands of miles away.

The gentle wind in the morning swept over the cheeks of the young man standing on the ground while riding a horse, lifting up the long golden hair on his cheeks and letting it gently brush against his white earlobes.

The gentle touch of the hair as it brushed against the earlobe was as gentle as someone kissing her.

His heart moved inexplicably. For some reason, Garlan unconsciously raised his hand and touched his empty earlobe.

Then he turned his head and looked to the east.

The direction in which the sun rises.

The direction of the royal city of Aaron Landis.

Presumably... Heimos has received the message he sent back.

Garlan stared in that direction quietly.

The reason why he chose to stay here and counterattack instead of rushing back to the royal city was because he knew that even if he returned to the royal city, he would not be able to defend the royal city in such a dangerous situation.

But Heimos was different.

He believes it.

As long as Heimos is still in the Royal City, no one can make the Royal City fall.

He believes it.

In this dangerous situation, Heimos is the only one in the world who can still defend the royal city.

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Following the Rudas City counterattack that ended overnight before the world could react, the Aaron Landis King City defense battle that attracted much attention followed and was about to begin.

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According to historical records.

The battle to defend the Royal City of Aaron Landis was the earliest battle in the world that used the strategy of "strengthening the wall and clearing the field".

It has gone down in history as a classic battle.

Ancient history books also record that Heimos, the military strategist of ancient Aaron Landis, created this strategy.

In later generations, the strategy he created was borrowed and used by countless outstanding military strategists and is still used today.

The author has something to say: Ah...I just realized that there are already two hundred chapters...

Please give me some white liquid.

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ps: Well, in the previous lives, there was no "strengthening the wall and clearing the country". Heimos used the method he said of abandoning the royal city and abandoning the people...