rise of empire total war

Chapter 417
"I didn't expect that I would end up like this."

Riding his horse on the paved road, Cassiano Chavallia sighed helplessly.

Beside him is a group of heavily armed citizen cavalry. They did not say a word, but escorted themselves to Patri Dava. They said they were guards. Casciano was like a mirror in his heart. This was clearly an escort .

Just two days ago, after experiencing the disastrous defeat in Amatlia, he led the army to retreat to the stronghold of Elia. His army was in a state of disarray and demoralized. None of the ten cannons that came came back.Fortunately, the Winsters did not take advantage of the victory to pursue them, otherwise their losses would have been even greater.

The Allied troops who had withdrawn to the Elia stronghold had no morale to continue fighting. They refused to fight again, saying that they would wait until follow-up reinforcements arrived before considering the attack. Several of the officers even publicly angrily criticized Cassiano's command as incompetent, thinking that he was incompetent. Should bear the main responsibility for this defeat, if he had not ordered the withdrawal of troops, the soldiers would not have gathered to give the enemy a chance to surprise.

The words of these officers quickly won the support of most of the soldiers. In such a fiasco, they most need someone to take the blame, and looking around, the only person who is most suitable to take the blame in the entire army is the commander-in-chief Cassiano Chavallia.Therefore, Casciano became the target of accusations by the soldiers, and his reputation in the army fell to the bottom for a while, and the prestige of successive years disappeared at this moment.

Thinking of this, Casciano couldn't help but feel chilled. He had led the army for decades, and he never thought that he would end up like this. He was disgusted by the soldiers of the army. He must be humiliated in every possible way by those who opposed him in the parliament—he had already learned about what happened in the parliament from those who supported him, and he had also heard a little about the rumors circulating in Patri Dawa, but he did not There was nothing he could do but wait until he returned to Patri Dawa to defend himself.

"General Chavalia, stop and rest for a while."

At this moment, the cavalry captain who escorted him suddenly spoke. Listening to his suggestion, Casciano nodded and did not refuse. In fact, he had no right to refuse, although they still respected him on the surface. , but in fact he has been treated as a prisoner.

After getting the consent, the cavalry captain told his subordinates to stop advancing, took the lead to get off the horse, and was about to sit down on a stone beside him, but at this moment, there was a sudden whizzing sound of arrows piercing the air in the silent air Before this group of citizen cavalry could react, clusters of arrows flying from all directions flew towards the group like raindrops, instantly knocking down several knights who were still on their horses, and a few dismounted knights were also unlucky An arrow in the ground fell to the ground.

When they were attacked suddenly, those knights who were still sitting on their horses hurriedly jumped off their horses before the next wave of arrows flew, and hid behind their horses. At this time, staying on horseback was like a living target.
"Damn! Enemy attack!"

The captain of the cavalry roared, his reliable sixth sense allowed him to avoid the arrows flying towards him, and then he hid behind the stone. He didn't dare to put his head up, and could only listen to the sound of pulling strings and arrows from time to time. The sound of breaking through the air when flying over his head.

"Protect General Chavarya!" he yelled again.

This time, his subordinates finally did not disappoint him. One of the soldiers flew in front of Casciano and used his body as a shield to cover Casciano and hide on the side of the horse.They didn't know how many enemies there were, so they could only hide behind their horses and be beaten passively.

"Damn it, I should have just rushed there on horseback." The cavalry captain thought bitterly in his heart, but now is not the time to regret it. He must lead his men to escape here, or at least send Cassiano out safely.

But at this moment, the arrows flying over his head suddenly stopped, the cavalry captain was startled, he quickly popped up from behind the stone and looked at the bushes on the side of the road, which shocked him , I saw many soldiers in black robes and holding long swords rushing out from the not-so-low bushes.

"Who are you?" He shouted loudly, and at the same time subconsciously pulled out the sword at his waist, shouting: "Defend the enemy!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the group of black-robed soldiers rushed towards him at a faster speed. He only had time to raise his sword when the enemy's sword fell in front of him. He was shocked and quickly blocked the cut with the blade of his sword. The incoming long sword heard a "clang", and the weapons collided violently. He took a few steps back. The next moment, several soldiers rushed from behind the enemy. Before he raised his sword to defend, the enemy's sharp sword cut open. He took off the armor around his waist, and made several big gashs in his body.

thump.The cavalry captain's legs gave way, and he fell to his knees. The strength in his whole body seemed to flow from the wound on his waist. He wanted to struggle to get up, but the black-robed soldier who was fighting him had already walked up to him, with a long sword in his hand. When he chopped down, a human head fell into a pool of blood, and then bounced to the side while blood gushed out.

After the death of the cavalry captain, his men were quickly annihilated by the black-robed soldiers. Only Cassiano survived. Before he could ask the black-robed soldiers who caught him, Cassiano was forcibly put on his head. Then he was beaten unconscious and taken away.

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The news of Casciano's disappearance quickly spread back to Patri Dava, which undoubtedly aroused even greater anger in the parliament. Without careful investigation, the incident was fueled by the initiative of Congressman Jordi and the fuel of the General Speaker Lovell. It was determined that Casciano colluded with foreign enemies to kill the escort in order to avoid trial, and he himself was directly convicted of treason, all his family property was confiscated, his family members were reduced to slaves, and the missing Casciano was wanted all over the alliance.

There is not much opposition from the people to the judgment made by the parliament. The rumors of Jordi’s walk itself made the civilians suspicious of Casciano. If he can return to Patri Dava safely to defend himself, maybe He was able to escape safely, but now that this incident happened on the escort road, many people believed the rumor that he was bought by the Winsters.

Therefore, with anger towards the "traitor", the civilians put Cassiano's contribution to the alliance behind and demanded that the Congress arrest this former hero and bring him to justice for a "just" trial.But how does the Congress know where Cassiano is now? They can only order the alliance countries to step up the search for Cassiano while appeasing the civilians and promising them that the traitor will be arrested as soon as possible.

At the same time, the newly appointed commander also arrived at the Elia stronghold to take over the demoralized army.

(End of this chapter)