Kingdom’s Bloodline

During the long period of depression, Duke Cullen was the first to sigh:

"I think dividing troops is their second mistake?"

Thord Red's face was tense, and he kept silent.

At the head of the long table, King Kessel sat up straight, revealing his stern face from the darkness for the first time:

"Gilbert?"

The foreign minister who hadn't spoken for a long time, "Cunning Fox" Gilbert nodded slightly with a dignified expression.

"Perhaps in terms of thought, the people of Exeter understand the pros and cons of this matter, but in action... they can't do it."

Thales' teacher had sharp eyes and began to analyze the situation:

"Qiyuan City has vital interests and the most motivation, so it seeks to make progress."

"It's none of your business to guard the city, be cautious, and of course seek stability."

Gilbert snorted softly:

"As for Dragon Clouds City, one is that the Palace of Heroes has a profound heritage and is feared, and the other is that the female lead Walton is in power and is despised by others."

"The most embarrassing position, a dilemma."

Thales felt a heavy heart.

"It's normal for them to tend to surprise and gain reputation."

Gilbert sighed slowly:

"I think the considerations behind this choice are not military, but political."

"A hundred wise men who are stubborn in their own opinions are not as good as a hundred fools who work together."

Thales looked at the split white pieces on the map, feeling confused.

No.

Selma, what did you think at the time?

"Speaking of politics..."

Joke Man interrupted this moment of little solemnity, only to hear the chief financial officer doubtingly say:

"This war was started by the kinslayer,

The battle was in full swing, so Lumbard didn't do anything behind his back? Such as prices and food, intelligence and public opinion? To challenge the Duke of the Three Cities? "

Suo Duo looked at the scar-faced man in the secret department.

The latter put away the information in his hand and nodded:

"Since Charman's coronation, the black sand leader has been stumbling the princes who disobeyed the king's order. This is the norm."

But the tone of the scar-faced man changed:

"But this time is very strange. From declaring war to enlisting troops, from launching to accepting battles, from spying to officials, the black sand leader stopped almost all internal and external means of harassment and obstruction, and did not interfere in the war in the three cities, only concentrating on dealing with his own affairs. Calm internal affairs."

All the princes at the imperial meeting were taken aback.

The King's eyes turned to the Foreign Secretary.

I saw Gilbert nodded, but worried:

"Yes, in terms of diplomacy, King Charman even issued a circular to express his support, condemning the Freedom Alliance, fully supporting the Three Cities West Expedition, and seeking justice."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was startled again.

Only Thales bit his lower lip tightly.

"So this time," Prime Minister Cullen rubbed his chin thoughtfully:

"Rumba is not only free of hands and feet, but also more like a generous and selfless king than ever before?"

The princes looked at each other in blank dismay, very puzzled.

Until the king's words broke the doubts, as if throwing a piece of ice on the lake:

"He moved."

King Kessel clasped his hands tightly, his eyes flickering coldly:

"In a non-moving way."

After the voice fell, many people still did not understand.

"Moved? Moved hands and feet? In a non-moving way?"

Viscount Coney was puzzled:

"Your Majesty, I don't understand."

"You mean, Rumba has an undisclosed private deal with them?"

The king didn't answer, but just raised his eyes.

"Thales."

On the long table, the only boy subconsciously clenched his knees.

But King Kessel's voice still sounded coldly, and got into his ears without hindrance:

"Tell me why King Charman moved."

"How did he move?"

Thales felt a chill in his heart.

Why did Charmain move?

All eyes came to him, and he raised his head with difficulty.

Thales stared blankly at the king.

On the other side, although Gilbert was full of worries, he coughed lightly and encouraged him with his eyes.

Thus, the words of Thales, Duke of Xinghu, sounded for the first time in the imperial meeting.

"After Nunn's death, the only motivation to unite the three families of Walton, Ronnie, and Lyco is King Charman's unruly and merciless means, which made them feel threatened."

The second prince took a deep breath, tried not to think about other things, and said slowly:

"But when King Charman made it clear that he backed down and didn't want to get involved in their affairs..."

Thales did not continue.

All the ministers looked at each other with a little understanding.

But the king's words sounded faintly again, with the meaning of scrutiny and even questioning:

"anything else?"

Thales' knees tightened.

It took him a lot of effort to release the palm that was clasping his knee.

"Originally, Long Xiao, Qi Yuan, and Jie Shou joined forces to conquer the Freedom Alliance, which was a move against the king."

The Duke of Xinghu spoke again. This time, everyone listened carefully to his analysis:

"However, after experiencing the scene of Rumba's surprise visit to Dragon Clouds City on the day of the hearing, the whole country of Exter knows that the king has won a complete victory in the political battle."

Hearing Day.

Thales tried hard to shake off the shadow of that day:

"It will be meaningless for the three cities to use this war against King Charman."

"They lost the greatest motivation to fight against the king, but they were forced to mobilize to go out in order to fulfill the covenant because they could not take back their promises."

The princes at the meeting whispered and nodded to each other.

Taylor let out a sigh of relief.

"anything else."

The king's words sounded again, and he seemed unwilling to let him go.

Thales was silent for a moment.

At that moment, he vaguely knew what King Kessel wanted him to say.

but……

Thales was expressionless and confused, but he spoke instinctively:

"On the day the alliance was made, Prince Xingchen, who was a hostage of Dragon Clouds City, secretly hooked up with King Charman..."

All the ministers looked back and forth, meaning unclear at that moment.

Thales breathed in a trance:

"Afterwards, he was suddenly kidnapped and disappeared."

"That not only messed up the situation, but also made the three cities who made the covenant lose trust... Mutual suspicion."

Having said that, Thales felt empty.

Yes.

All things are connected together.

It was his choice on the hearing day that affected the battle situation in Fort Liberty thousands of miles away at this moment.

Perhaps this was what King Kessel wanted him to say.

Among the factors that caused the three cities to be separated and the little slippery head to fail...

have him.

Thales felt a pain in his heart.

"That's it. For this expedition, Longxiao City is in the name, Qiyuan City is for profit, and Jieshou City is swinging between them, seeking profit."

Thales tried to open and close his lips, as if talking about something irrelevant to him:

"They have lost the biggest foundation of sincere cooperation, and there is only a seemingly incompatible relationship with each other."

"Whether it's a disagreement or a division of troops, it's all doomed."

yes.

Each has a ghost, and they seem to be in harmony with each other.

Isn't this the biggest thing he has seen and heard in the Northland in recent years?

Isn't it the strongest weapon he used to counter Rumba in the night of dragon blood?

After the prince finished speaking, his face became stiff, and he remained silent for a long time on the long table.

After a while, Kessel snorted softly.

He rarely (perhaps for the first time in his life) praises his son:

"very good."

On the other side, Gilbert sighed.

"The sky is high and the throne is far away, and the enemy is eliminated and ghosts are born."

The words of the Foreign Secretary were full of emotion:

"In the far west of the border, King Charman just deliberately didn't move, and let the previous things slowly ferment, making the people of the North forget why they stood together and why they fought side by side."

In the Ballard room, everyone was immersed in the unspeakable atmosphere of this moment.

Until Suoduo took a long breath.

"Your Highness is right, and Earl Caso is also right."

"This is not war, it is not military, it is not chess," said the military adviser with exhaustion in his eyes:

"It's politics."

"Maybe at the negotiating table and in the banquet hall, facing the king's every step of the way, with a common purpose, the alliance of three cities can be as close as brothers."

"However, under such circumstances, when the army goes out to command the battlefield, and the actual stakes are life and death, the three cities have their own calculations and do not belong to each other, and there is no strongman like King Nun to suppress them..."

Su Duo looked sad:

"Then it is inevitable that there will be discord, difficulty in working together, and even differences in ideas and fighting each other."

Thales closed his eyes gently.

At that moment, what flashed through his mind was a fragment of memory from a long time ago, which seemed to be a few ancient poems:

[The army is not in full force, hesitates and walks wildly. 】

Viscount Coney coughed:

"I have a feeling when I travel in the north... when to be strong and take risks, and when to show weakness and retreat, every move of the kinslayer king is clear, and he can see everything clearly, my lord There must be a superior person to make a decision.”

On the other side, the scar-faced man from the Secret Department nodded.

"'Night Owl' and Lhasa Cambida have entered the key list of the secret department," he replied cautiously:

"We are paying full attention to his every move, whether it is to meet the king, or to go home for leave."

Viscount Connie nodded in satisfaction.

The king tapped the table:

"continue."

After experiencing the feelings and sighs just now, the imperial meeting returned to the previous atmosphere, and the voice of Soduo Red sounded again:

"After the division of troops, Kierkegaard of Dragon Clouds City personally led the army and attacked along the Shanliu River day and night, biting down on the only elite group of the Freedom Alliance."

He picked some of the three white chess pieces and placed them on the side of the black knight.

Thales, who was in a bad mood, watched the battle deduction on the long table, and suddenly remembered the first time he and Ashda met on Red Square Street many years ago.

It was also a chess room.

The Qi magician also strategized and moved the chess pieces.

It's just that time has passed and circumstances have changed, and things have changed.

"It went well at first, but as the battle progressed..."

The next moment, Su Duo's pupils shrank, and several white chess pieces in his hand fell down one after another.

"One-armed is captured."

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

Including Thales.

In the next second, there was an uproar in the conference room:

"How did you do it?"

"That's Kierkegaard!"

"The elite soldiers and generals of Dragon Clouds City..."

"Even without the support of the other two cities, you shouldn't lose to such an opponent, right?"

Facing the tide of doubts, Su Duo also had a solemn face, and he shook his head:

"Without intelligence, all we know is: coincidence, luck, it just happened."

The scar-faced man from the secret department nodded, affirming the military adviser's answer.

Thales' complexion was cloudy and uncertain, and he recalled that Kierkegaard.

The "most capable man under King Nuen".

It was hard to believe that he would lose to a lone army from an unknown small country in a head-to-head confrontation, and even miss and be captured.

The scar-faced man dug out the information:

"We only know that after the commander was captured, the troops of Dragon Clouds City lost their minds."

"They retreated steadily under the flexible attack brought by the enemy with the victory, and even their command failed at one point, and they couldn't care about each other from head to tail."

"Even the Grand Duchess herself was lost among the chaos and her whereabouts are unknown."

"The dragons have no leader, and they are almost walking corpses."

Lost among the chaos.

Little cunning.

The prince took a deep breath and tried his best to keep his expression unchanged.

Thales felt that Gilbert's hand pressed his palm, signaling him to be calm.

Soduo's words sounded again, repeating the battle situation thousands of miles away:

"At the same time, on the frontal battlefield, Qiyuan City's troops are on the front line, wanting to take advantage of the emptiness inside the other side and go all out to attack the city."

But in the next moment, Su Duo's face became gloomy, and his fingers kept tapping on the side of Fort Liberty on the map, shaking the black and white chess pieces with great disparity.

"The Exeters suffered more damage than expected-this time, the soldiers and civilians of the Freedom League risked their lives, were determined, and resisted very tenaciously."

"Qiyuan City has been attacked repeatedly."

The words are dignified, and the meaning behind them is even more worrying.

"Repeated attack..."

Gilbert repeated these words silently, as if feeling something.

Amidst the doubts of the ministers, Soduo coughed, shifted the second set of white chess pieces to the flank, and continued to explain:

"As for the lords of Jiecheng City, they went to the surrounding area to consolidate the front line, collect food and grass by the way, and maintain law and order."

"But not only did they have nothing to gain, but they were desperately resisted by countless poor people, and the morale of the army was low, as if they were in a quagmire."

The king at the end of the long table frowned and looked at the foreign minister:

"Poor people?"

Gilbert raised his glasses and opened a record at hand:

"Most part of the Freedom Alliance, the eastern part of the North Sea Kingdom, including the western part of Qiyuan City, these areas were originally part of the Empire's Xitao Province, and the aborigines there were called Xitao' bitter people."

"Although they are at the end of the golden corridor, most of them live in poverty and have a low status. For hundreds of years, whether it was the people of Exeter and Commas who took over successively, or the Senate of the Freedom Alliance established by high-ranking officials and nobles in compromise, They are very strict with them.”

When Thales moved, he remembered the story of the miserable people in Xitao that the heir of Qiyuan City, the "hate" Ian, had told him.

"I do not understand."

The Minister of Commerce and Trade, Viscount Coney, spoke out to everyone's questions:

"When I visited the Golden Corridor, the army and people of the Freedom League... shouldn't be so tough? Let alone facing the Yankees?"

Soto shook his head:

"No, it's because they are facing people from the Northland."

This time, Sodo looked at Xingchen's cunning fox.

Gilbert sighed, and he opened the record again:

"Twenty years ago, Suriel Walton, the son of Nunn, led an army to conquer Liberty Castle."

"After breaking the city, in order to avenge his dead subordinates, he massacred the city for three days, looting without limit, leaving ten rooms empty and the people starving."

Thales frowned.

This information...

In the records of the Exeters...

No.

Chief Financial Officer, Joke Mann nodded gloomily:

"I remember that incident. It is said that the people in the North wanted to block the news at the beginning—what's more, they even compared that inhuman beast with Prince Horace. It was a big laugh."

Gilbert frowned and continued:

"The governor of the Alliance was cut off with ten fingers, dragged around the city for twenty miles, and died. His body was hung up to show the public as a warning to others. The tragic appearance shocked the surrounding area."

The Foreign Secretary put down his glasses and closed his notebook:

"And the current governor of the alliance is the grandson of the previous governor."

Thales looked at Gilbert's notebook.

The history on paper is understated, while the past in reality is heavy and oppressive.

"So they're going to rebel."

Hearing this, Prime Minister Cullen sighed deeply:

"When tyranny reigns supreme, there is no place where people are born cowardly and ready to be slaughtered."

Perhaps this sentence hit something, the imperial meeting was silent for a while, and no one answered.

Only Gilbert nodded and said with emotion:

"All causes and effects, the current appearance of this war was actually doomed twenty years ago."

"Now, the Northlanders are just paying for their previous cruel atrocities..."

"It's just paying off the debt."

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