rise of empire total war

Chapter 385 Dark Night Coup

"Stop! Who are you?"

On the palace wall of Rodenlins Palace, the soldiers of the Imperial Guard who were in charge of guarding the place shouted to a group of soldiers standing outside the city gate, and the soldiers outside suddenly rushed out from the darkness, saying anxiously that there was something urgent to do. Reporting to the Grand Duke, this was really a bit caught off guard.

"We are the soldiers of Lord Anwar, the military chief. We have urgent matters to report to His Majesty the Grand Duke. Quickly open the palace gate and let us in! If we delay, not only will we die, but you will also be buried together!"

"So serious?" A few soldiers on the city wall heard the words and peeped at each other. They didn't know what to do. They didn't answer the soldiers outside immediately, and they surrounded them. Let’s report to His Majesty the Grand Duke first, seeing what they are saying is very serious, if there is really something important, won’t we be finished if we delay it?”

"No, His Majesty is currently hosting a banquet for the King of the Winsters. If we rush in rashly, we'll finish the game before they finish. I think it's better to let them in and report by ourselves," another person said.

"That's right, that's right, I also agree with what Old Tok said, let those people bear the consequences, anyway, it won't involve us." Several other people echoed.

Seeing that everyone else agreed, the person who spoke first had no choice but to agree, leaving only two people to continue to stand guard on the palace wall, and the rest were about to open the heavy palace door when they walked down the palace gate, they didn't notice, Just as the palace door was slowly opening from the inside, the anxious soldiers outside suddenly sneered, with one hand behind their backs as if they were holding something. After the palace door was fully opened, they walked into the doorway and faced Looking at the soldiers of the Imperial Army, just when the latter was about to speak, they suddenly took out a small cavalry crossbow from behind, aimed at the soldiers of the Imperial Army with lightning speed, and pulled the trigger, only to hear There were a few muffled sounds of sharp weapons piercing into the flesh, and a crossbow bolt with its tail still trembling appeared on the throats of those forbidden soldiers. They couldn't even scream, so they fell to the cold ground with a thud, their eyes wide open. Get big, die with regret.

Such a weak voice could not attract the attention of the soldiers on the city wall. The few people in the doorway quickly hid the body of the fallen imperial army in the darkness behind the palace gate, and ran up the stairwell while winding the cavalry crossbow in their hands. On the city wall, before the imperial guards on the palace wall could react, a few arrows hit their vital points and shot them to death.

I don't know if it was because Richard was in the palace. The patrolling guards on the palace wall were very strong. It took only a few minutes for these soldiers to wipe out the Lasik soldiers near the city gate. The torch waved around the palace wall, as if releasing some kind of signal to the outside. After a while, groups of heavily armed soldiers rushed out from the street. They were wearing chain mail, holding round shields and long spears. The sword is obviously the round shield swordsman in Winster's army!

"Fast forward!"

Amidst the shouts of the officers, the round shield swordsmen filed in along the wide open palace gate. After entering the palace gate, a brigade of five companies either advanced along the city wall, or ran directly towards the palace. , this group of troops that appeared suddenly was quickly discovered by the imperial guards in the palace, and they immediately rang the warning bell in the palace, and assembled in an emergency to attack this group of illegal intruders.

In the hall where the banquet was held, the sudden sound of the warning bell made everyone stunned, especially the Archduke Felicias who was about to toast Richard in the main seat. , immediately stood up from the main seat, and was about to call the soldiers guarding the door, but Richard moved faster than him. While Felicias called out the guards, Richard called out to the surrounding lieutenants With a wink, the latter immediately understood, stretched a hand to his waist, and held the hilt of the sword that was still warm.

"Guards! What happened? Why did the alarm bell ring?" Grand Duke Felicias shouted loudly. As soon as he finished speaking, a group of soldiers rushed in from outside the door. They were half kneeling on the ground, their voices trembling Said: "Your Majesty, the palace wall has been breached, and the enemy army has broken in!"

"What? Where did the enemy come from?" Felicias was startled, his eyes passed over several guards in front of him at the same time, and he looked outside. Under the faint moonlight, the two armies fought fiercely with each other. One side can clearly see that it is their own Forbidden Army, but the other side cannot see the forces it belongs to because they did not raise their flags.

However, the more Felicias looked at it, the more he felt that the soldiers in the army were from the Kingdom of Winster?
He was startled, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Richard and his lieutenants behind him, only to see that Richard drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and then threw the glass to the ground. There was a crisp cracking sound in an instant. At the same time as the sound sounded, Lieutenant General Winster, who was still sitting in his seat, suddenly got up, pulled out a sharp dagger from his waist, and rushed towards Felicias with a loud shout. !
"what--"

Amidst the piercing screams of the surrounding maids, the lieutenant general of Winster's army rushed over to fight with several guards who hurriedly got up to fight, while Richard still sat leisurely in his seat, picking up a new Tasting the fine wine in the cup, behind him, the servant who was responsible for pouring the wine was trembling, holding the bottle and not daring to leave without authorization, Richard seemed to feel the fear of the people behind him, he smiled slightly and said comfortingly : "It's okay, as long as you stand behind me and don't move, everything will be fine."

However, Richard's comfort not only had no effect, but made the slave girl even more frightened, fearing that the lieutenants holding short swords would not be able to defeat the well-trained guards and would involve herself.

While Vice General Winster was fighting with the guards, Grand Duke Felicias turned around and ran out when he saw the situation was not good, but just as he ran out of the hall, he saw that the Imperial Army resisting Winster's army had been defeated. After escaping and defeating the imperial army, Winster's army rushed towards his direction, and suddenly saw a large group of big Danish men rushing towards him full of murderous aura, which frightened the old man almost limp on the ground , The strong desire to survive made him turn around and run away, but saw that the battle in the hall was over, several guards were cut down by daggers, and the lieutenants of Winster rushed towards him bloodied and murderous.

It is true that there are wolves before and tigers behind!Grand Duke Felicias suddenly collapsed to the ground, his former glory instantly disappeared. He closed his eyes in despair, waiting for the judgment of fate.

(End of this chapter)