Heroes of the Invincible Knight

Dragon City

It’s a good time in April, when old trees sprout green shoots, willows spit out new branches, and all kinds of flowers bloom on the streets of Wangdu, bringing the entire Golden Dragon City into the beauty of spring. In the past, this time was the most vibrant time in the city. The aristocrats in the city would always come out of the city in groups to enjoy the scenery, and the merchants seized the time to do business along the streets, pushing the prosperity of Golden Dragon Capital a few more times. point.

It’s just that this Spring Day seemed lifeless compared to the past. The Western Territory Army was defeated. The news that Crys City was besieged by orcs has almost spread throughout the city. It’s impossible to hide this matter. Sicheng is too close to the capital, almost the last barrier of the capital. The people of Clays City and the people of Golden Dragon City have frequent exchanges, and many of the people in the two cities are relatives. Before the orcs besieged the city, in order to reduce the pressure on food and grass in the city, Crys City evacuated a large number of civilians, most of them They all rushed to Golden Dragon Capital, and naturally spread the real situation on the front line.

The Golden Dragons are about to face the orcs' soldiers. The people of the capital, who have not suffered from wars for hundreds of years, are quite frightened. Most of them are either hoarding food to prepare for refuge, or they are looking for a way to leave the capital first. Refugees in the remote western region or the northern region, where they still have the mind to enjoy the spring time, the streets of Golden Dragon City are rarely depressed, and the occasional pedestrians on the road are also in a hurry, with worried expressions on their faces. There are only a lot more soldiers patrolling on the road, which adds to the tense atmosphere.

At this time, the Forbidden Palace is even more majestic than before, and the number of soldiers guarding it has increased, obviously they are on guard against something.

In the side hall, Ren and a few confidants were discussing something. Since the orcs broke through the Dragon's Breath, Ren rarely called the previous big court meeting with hundreds of people. Important high-level leaders such as Varys convened to discuss and decide.

"The orc army has completely surrounded Krystal City, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"According to the news from our black prison, the orcs have enough troops. They had the opportunity to complete the encirclement three days ago, but it was only yesterday that they completed the encirclement."

"What's the reaction in the city?"

"His Royal Highness did not break out of the siege, but instead took the opportunity to send away a group of civilians. He also expressed to the soldiers in the city many times that he would live and die with Cress City."

The orcs just played a simple method of besieging three and missing one. Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that they have no cavalry advantage or air superiority. The cavalry was entangled, and there was not even scum left to eat. The eldest prince just made the most correct choice.

It's just that this kind of thing is easier to know than to do. Before the great horror of life and death, many people would take some chances, otherwise there would not be so many successful cases in history.

After hearing that the eldest prince was completely trapped in Clays City, Ren was silent for a few seconds, and then said in a calm tone for a long time:

"You did a good job. With the strength of the Iron Guards, you should be able to buy some more time for the capital. The Golden Dragons haven't experienced war for too long, and their actions are too slow."

"It's our ineffectiveness, please punish us, Your Majesty."

When Ren said this, Prime Minister Left and Prime Minister Right looked at each other, and immediately pleaded guilty to Ren.

(It’s a bit repetitive, I’ll change it after writing it, and I’ll see it later)

Since the battle of Longxiguan, the relationship between the left minister and the right minister has been much better than before. No matter how they fight, they are the top vested interests of the kingdom, and the interests of the kingdom are basically the same. Bound, if it was replaced by human nobles who rebelled and wanted to overthrow the Charlemagne family, they might still have the possibility to change their family. After all, everyone belongs to the same class, and they will not make things too ugly.

But now the biggest crisis in the kingdom is the orcs. This group of alien races who once oppressed humans, even if the orcs are now vigorously recruiting humans, they can all know through various channels that the surrendered humans are extremely unpopular among the orcs. The orcs are also doing dirty work like cannon fodder. The orcs have done such an ugly job before they completely defeated the Golden Dragon Kingdom. When the Golden Dragon Kingdom is gone, there is no need to think about how the surrendering humans will be treated. Therefore, whether out of negligence or out of interest considerations, most human nobles have no intention of surrendering to the orcs.

Now that the situation is such that the battle between the left and the right is no longer important, or in other words, the two don't have to act for Rennes, and working together is what Rennes most wants to see at present.

"Forget it, I also have the responsibility to recruit another batch of volunteers as soon as possible. General Wood is complaining to me again today that there are too few people under his command."

The biggest problem of the Golden Dragon City now is that it has a large scale, but the number of defenders is seriously insufficient. The Forbidden Army was originally one of the most elite troops in the Golden Dragon Kingdom, but most of them were sent to fight at Longxiguan before. It has become a defeated army, and now the defenders of the capital are mainly a small number of forbidden troops left behind and the garrison corps that have been trained in an emergency. It can be said that there are regular troops with combat effectiveness, at most hundreds of thousands of people, which is worse than the situation in Clays City. Slightly worse.

In order to supplement the troops, the capital has recently been recruiting volunteers, that is, ordinary people to participate in the defense of the city. Over the past few days, tens of thousands of people have been recruited. For the huge capital, this amount of troops is still just a drop in the bucket.

"Your Majesty, the recruitment of volunteers has slowed down a lot in the past two days. Those who are willing to help defend the city like the Volunteer Battalion have basically joined. If we don't use coercion, it may be difficult to recruit more people."

Golden Dragon City has a population of over one million, and only 50,000 volunteer soldiers have been recruited. It seems that the number is not large, but in fact, this is the result of the people generally supporting the kingdom. After all, there are more than 50,000 young and strong soldiers without coercion. Volunteer to participate in the defense of the city.

"What is the reaction of the nobles now?"

"Most of the nobles in the city are organizing their own guards, preparing to fight the orcs to the death!"

The Golden Dragon Kingdom is, after all, a country with a semi-centralized and semi-feudal system governed by the king and the nobles. The nobles are very powerful, and they usually can't squeeze much power from the people. It depends on how much the nobles can contribute.

When Ren asked about the situation of the nobles in the city, the right minister immediately stood up and told Ren the "good news".

However, Ren obviously did not believe that this group of guys could be so righteous. It might not be possible to say that these people would actively collude with orcs to betray the country, but it is absolutely impossible to be so impartial.

Ren turned his gaze to Varys, the leader of the black prison. The intelligence leader immediately stood up. He was not afraid of offending the nobles of Golden Dragon Capital, and said bluntly:

"Recently, every family has smuggled supplies out of the city again. The two marquises who have gone too far have transferred more than half of their family property, most of them went to the south, and a small part went to the west and the north. Go out of the city, there are still many nobles who leave the city at will with documents in their hands."

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As for the situation of the nobles in the capital, if the black prison wants to investigate, they can find out which mistress's house they spent the night before. Such a big move cannot be hidden from the black prison's investigation.

Being directly slapped in the face by Varys, the right minister was also a little embarrassed, because he was also one of the people who transferred the family property outside. Although others were here, they did not intend to escape from the capital, and even prepared to live and die with the capital. But it doesn't mean that he doesn't arrange a way out for his family. He bought property in the south long ago. Even if he died in the capital, his family can still live a wealthy life as long as they escape to the south.

The right minister stood there, speechless for a long time, but Ren was rarely angry, but ordered after a little thought:

"There is no need to check the documents for customs clearance. The nobles of each family can leave the city if they want to leave, but private soldiers are not allowed to leave. Knights can only leave at most one person per family. Children and women can leave the city in advance. They are willing to take away gold and silver wealth. You can take as much as you want, but you can only carry part of the rations, let the knights of each family lead their private soldiers to report to General Wood, and no one from the family without private soldiers is allowed to leave the city."

"Keep an eye on Varys. If any family dares to go out of the city or move food and grass in violation of the rules, stop it immediately. Not only will the title be confiscated and the land taken back, but the whole family will be dealt with according to the old rules of the Pagadt family."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

What is the old rule of Marquis Pagata? Because of participating in the rebellion, no one in the whole family survived, and even the house was taken back and given to Richard. Now Renn is equivalent to equating a noble who wants to run away without making any contribution. The rebellion will directly exterminate the clan.

If Rennes only had coercion, it might cause a large-scale backlash from the nobles in the capital, but Rennes' brilliance is that he made a certain compromise while being tough. He could allow a knight to leave and take the old and weak of his family with him. And part of the family property, it is equivalent to leaving a retreat for every family.

With no way to resist Rennes, most of the nobles in the Golden Dragon City probably have to pinch their noses to recognize them. There are hundreds of nobles in the city, and at least they can gather tens of elite fighters and hundreds of knights. The effect of recruiting 100,000 volunteers from among the common people is even greater.

"What about the Northland? What's the reaction from our King of the Northland?"

"According to the intelligence sent back by the spies from the Northland, the Hunter family has already mobilized for war, and the army is gathering. Before the Northland Army occupied the city of Sulgrad, there is a high possibility that the Northland Army's army will be directly in the snow. Board the boat in the city and go directly along the Longjiang River to the city of Sergele."

"Over 500,000 troops have been mobilized in the Northland this time, all of them are armored elites. The spies also found a lot of dragons and giants. If they can arrive at the city of Sylgrad in time, there will be nearly 800,000 troops in the north." , even if the orcs break through Krystal City, they will be scruples about Sylgrad in the north, and dare not attack the capital easily."

When Varys said this, the faces of the left and right ministers on one side were a little smiley. If usually, such a powerful army in the Northland also controlled the barrier to the north of the royal capital of Sylgrad City, it would definitely make the central The grown-ups can hardly sleep and eat, and have to think of ways to cut down the feudal clan all day long, but in this situation, the reinforcements from the Northland should naturally be as strong as possible. As for whether the Northland will be too big to lose in the future, that is after defeating the orcs.

Even Renn smiled when he heard it:

"It's a good thing this kid has a conscience."

Central Great Plains

The orcs' siege of Krystal City has never stopped, but the intensity of the attack has not been strong or weak. Every day, they drive a group of surrendered human cannon fodder to fill the ditch and consume the supplies and physical strength of the defenders. The real orc warriors are behind. A little bit of thought, even the most important white dragon has not participated in the attack, and the defenders are happy to see the orc's attack method. No matter what the orc's intention is, they are willing to accompany the orc to delay the time.

At the same time, another army of orcs bypassed the only barrier to the east of Golden Dragon City, Kryce City, and headed straight to the northwest.

More than 50 miles northwest of Krystal City, the orc army marched quickly along the road built by the Golden Dragon Kingdom. From the air, the entire road was full of densely moving black spots, which could not be seen at a glance. Hundreds of thousands of orcs marched Just like an army of ants, they devoured all the human villages on the road, creating a scene of hell along the way.

"General Skaar, why did we suddenly go to the northwest? If we attack with all our strength, Krystal City can definitely be taken within a week. The capital of human beings is just around the corner. Now we are dispatched to attack another city in the northwest. , Let others take advantage of all the advantages.”

The orc troop in this march was obviously drawn from the army that attacked Krystal City before. Krystal City was originally vulnerable in their eyes, and the Golden Dragon was regarded as the credit for their acquisition. The result was inexplicable. He was transferred to the northwest to attack a city that he had never considered before. At this time, the generals in the army had some suggestions.

"You ask me, how do I know, but this is the order of the great shaman, just follow the order!"

The commander of the hundreds of thousands of troops was obviously dissatisfied with the order to be transferred to the northwest, but he didn't dare to show disrespect to the big shaman, so he could only yell at his subordinates. After all, his previous goal was to take down the capital of the human king , and the distance from success is already close at hand, if he is suddenly transferred to another direction, anyone will be upset.

After being reprimanded by the coach, the others stopped talking and could only follow the order to continue towards Sirgler.

"Where is Skarna's road now?"

"Report to Your Excellency the Great Shaman, General Skaar has set off according to the order, and now it is about two hundred miles away from Sylgrad, and it will arrive within five days."

"Okay, order the army to speed up, and within five days, we will meet Sgar under the city of Sylgrad!"

"Yes, Your Excellency the Great Shaman!"

In addition to the nearly 500,000 troops drawn from Krystal City, there is also an Eastern Route Army led by the Great Shaman himself, which is also rushing towards Sylgrad. Originally, this army was going south to encircle Golden Dragon City. And then the people who entered the western region, at this time, did not know why they were going crazy. Two orc armies, with nearly a million soldiers, rushed towards Sirgler