A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

"What did you say? Prince?!"

The man who was drinking tea leisurely in the room and watching the drizzle outside the window suddenly stood up.

The teacup in his hand slammed heavily on the table and made a cracking sound.

The pleasure of having everything under his control a moment ago was slapped away in an instant, and the man's face was rather ugly.

Not only was the success on the verge of failure, but many of those people who had been bribed by him and lurked in the crowd suddenly disappeared.

The man had a sullen face.

Obviously everything is already within reach, but just one step away, the city is completely over. Unexpectedly, the prince who suddenly appeared disturbed the situation when it came to an end.

He is obviously a noble person, but he wants to stay in this dangerous city.

That prince must be mentally ill.

he thought unhappily.

Wait for me!I must fix this city.

The man said cruelly in his heart.

No matter how bad the man's mood was, the matter was a foregone conclusion. The people gathered in the square had left one after another and returned to their homes.

Before leaving, many people turned their heads and bowed to apologize to the soldiers who had been torn and scolded by them just now.

They remembered what the prince said just now, the soldiers who were unwilling to flee with the consul stayed and died with the city of Tozeth, and their crazy behavior just now, their faces were a bit ashamed, and they spoke a little Nah.

The soldiers who were guarding the gate of the Consul's Government had been scolded and torn into embarrassment by the crowd, but now their faces softened.

They nodded to the citizens who apologized to them, and then continued to stand at the gate in the drizzle, guarding the Consulate.

In the dark night, the backs of the soldiers stood straight.

As long as they think of what His Royal Highness said just now, they will feel infinite energy in their bodies and feel proud from the bottom of their hearts.

…………

On the coast outside the city, Basha, the pirate leader who has been paying attention to the situation inside the city, saw the faint message in the dark night sky.

His originally lazy expression turned gloomy in an instant, a ruthless look appeared in the small slits of his eyes, and he let out a heavy snort from his nose.

Useless things.

Thinking so in his heart, he stood up and impatiently kicked away the noisy subordinates surrounding him.

"Okay, let me go back and lie down obediently."

He said in a very uncomfortable tone.

"Tomorrow morning, continue to attack the city."

After speaking, he shook his hand and left.

The pirates, who were still waiting for the boss to speak, took advantage of the night to look left and right, and scattered, and each went back to lie down.

…………

The city of Tozes in the dark finally returned to calm. Garlan did not return to the guest room in the tower next to the Consulate, but randomly found a room near the Government Affairs Hall in the Consulate and stayed there.

In this case, it will be more convenient for the generals of Seth to report to him.

Not long after he entered the room, there was a knock on the door.

Then, the blond knight stepped in.

Garlan looked at his guardian knight, feeling a little guilty for some reason.

"Are you angry, Keyhors?" he asked.

Kyhos raised his eyes and met Garlan's gaze.

The young man who was still calm in front of thousands of excited city residents on the square just now looked at him with his head slightly tilted like a child who got into trouble.

Just seeing the look in the boy's eyes, Kaihos's heart softened into a mess.

He raised his hand and stroked his soft blonde hair.

"Your Highness, as I said, I am your knight."

He looked softly at his prince.

"So, please continue to carry out your will without any scruples."

"And I will always be by your side."

Even death.

Swallowing the last words back, Kyhoes smiled at his prince, and then began to talk about the dozen or so people who were captured.

Because of time constraints, he only had a quick interrogation.

"It has been clearly known that they are indeed instructed by others, but they don't know who it is. Most of them just accept the other party's property and do things for the other party."

"I sent someone to look for the place they said, and it's already empty, probably moved."

"The only thing I know now is that they don't have many members, and more than half of them are now in our hands. And they don't have much loyalty to that person. It's okay to just spread rumors. They really want to do something terrible. ...wouldn't do it."

"As long as the city residents calm down and are not bewitched by them, they will not be able to stir up trouble."

Keyhos finished his report, and then continued.

"Your Highness, what are you going to do about what you told Seth and the others that there will be reinforcements in four days? It's always not good to deceive them like this."

"It's not cheating."

"However, no matter what, it is absolutely impossible for the reinforcements from Wangcheng to arrive within four days."

"Kaihos, haven't you noticed that there is someone missing from my side?"

"Ok?"

When Garlan said this, Kaihos immediately reacted.

By the way, where is Tar?

He usually hangs around His Highness, but he disappeared all afternoon?

Because things happened one after another, and the little fat man didn't have much sense of existence, he actually forgot about him.

Tal was indeed very timid, but it would be unbelievable to say that he abandoned Garlan and fled to Kyhors.

Over the years, he knew very well how much that little fat man was devoted to Garlan.

That guy simply worshiped Garlan as his own god. Even if he died, he would definitely hug the prince's thigh tightly with snot and tears all over his face.

"Whether we can wait for reinforcements after four days depends on him."

"You mean...?"

"I had a few personal guards protect him, and I broke out of the city before the pirates encircled him in the afternoon." Garlan said, "He took the token and went to the country of Eilson for help."

"The token? The earrings that the little princess gave you?"

"Yes." Garlan nodded, "They are the only ones who are close, can contact us as soon as possible, can rescue us within four days, and have a navy powerful enough to fight against pirates. And not long ago, we It’s more or less a good relationship with them.”

He said: "As long as the Allson Navy can come to rescue Tozes City, we can last until the reinforcements from King City arrive."

Kehos frowned, remembering the way that little fat man used to hang around Garlan and flatter him.

"Your Highness, for such an important matter... It is too reluctant for Tal to be sent as an envoy to a country. Besides, although Eilson is not recognized, he is a country after all. Even if there is that kind of kindness, it is still necessary for a country to send troops to rescue This is a very difficult task in other cities. With Tal's ability, I'm afraid he will not be able to complete your task at all..."

"Do not."

Garlan interrupted Keyhors, saying, "He can do it."

The prince looked at his knight with bright golden eyes.

"I trust Tal, just like I trust you."

There was silence for a while.

Then the one-eyed knight bowed his head and bowed to his prince.

"I understand, Your Highness."

He says,

"Now, it's late at night, please rest well"

From tomorrow, Tozes City will be in the most difficult predicament.

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As the night passed, many people in Tozes City could not sleep all night.

I don't know how many people are praying that the night will never pass and the sun will never rise.

However, no matter how much they prayed, the sun still slowly rose from the sea level.

Almost in the early morning, fierce shouts of killing rang out on the city wall.

The tall and spacious city wall was already full of people, and the soldiers of Tozes had already been standing on the wall.

Under the command of their respective captains, they firmly guarded the city walls they were responsible for.

Pushing away the wooden ladder, the pirate who climbed the wooden ladder screamed and fell from the sky.

Splash oil on climbing pirates, drop torches, and burn those pirates into fireballs.

They tried their best to defend the city wall, but compared to the pirates who were several times their number, their number was really not enough, especially the pirates had the support of warships.

Countless arrows poured from the warships, forcing the soldiers to squat down and hide under the city wall.

Some pirate ships also have small trebuchets, which constantly throw stones over the city walls, creating potholes. If soldiers do not have time to avoid them, they will be knocked unconscious by those stones.

Under such circumstances, soon some pirates boarded the city wall and slashed fiercely with their knives.

The soldiers began to fight hard on the city wall with the pirates who climbed up the wall. However, this would cause more pirates to climb up the wall.

The battlefield on the city wall near the sea is in danger everywhere.

Nearly a thousand soldiers, led by the commander of this war, Seth, were cruising on the city wall, rushing forward whenever they saw danger.

Under the bloody battle of all the soldiers, although they were in danger several times, they barely survived the day.

Seeing that the sun was about to fall to the sea level, although the pirates were unwilling, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops and retreated again.

As soon as the pirates retreated, many soldiers slumped on the ground, panting heavily.

Sweat, blood mixed with dust made them all look embarrassed.

They were sitting next to their companion's corpse, with sad expressions on their faces, but they were too tired to speak.

After a long time, they supported each other and managed to walk down the city wall.

In the evening, Seth, who hadn't eaten all day, and several other generals looked very ugly.

"Your Highness, the casualty statistics have been released."

He said with a heavy expression, "The casualties of the soldiers have almost reached half."

Originally, all the city guards in the city plus his navy, and even the reserve team, had a total of 8000 soldiers, and nearly a thousand soldiers were lost on the first day of the battle.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, but we are incompetent. The pirates have the cover of warships, which is really not good for us."

Seth gritted his teeth.

Keyhos, who had finished reading the information, spoke.

"According to today's situation, if this continues, let alone another three days, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on tomorrow."

He frowned.

"Even if I go up with all my personal guards, the number of people is too small to help."

For a while, everyone fell into silence.

Make bricks without straw.

No matter how powerful a general is, if he has no soldiers at hand, he can't do anything.

"Seth."

Garlan spoke suddenly.

"Yes?"

"You said there should be [-] soldiers, but on today's battlefield, I don't think there are that many."

"Yes, Your Highness, there are more than 1000 city guards guarding the slaves in the wood factory in the west of the city."

"Slaves?" Garlan was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you say last time that you have already eliminated all the rioting slaves in the upper city?"

"Those rioting slaves have indeed been dealt with, but, Your Highness, those slaves who did not participate in the riot in the upper city and all the slaves in the lower city add up to tens of thousands." Seth said, "We must send troops to guard them." Those slaves, otherwise, if the tens of thousands of slaves make another mess when the pirates attack the city, we will be completely finished."

Garlan didn't speak anymore, he just sat there, lowered his eyes, and meditated for a long time.

After a long time, he pursed his lips, as if he had made up his mind.

Looking up, he stood up.

"Seth, take me to where the slaves are held."

"Huh? Why do you..."

"Going right now."

Garlan said firmly.

…………

There is a large area in the west of Tozes city is a large wood factory, usually people come and go, bustling and lively.

Of course, it's now down.

Yesterday afternoon, Seth transformed this place into a simple large open-air cell, drove most of Tozes's slaves into it, and sent nearly a thousand city guards to guard them outside.

He ordered that any slave who dared to take a step here would be killed on the spot.

Many slaves didn't know anything about the upper city, they were driven into the wooden fence for no reason, and they saw the pirates attacking the city from a distance, and the flames were everywhere, and they couldn't help but feel uneasy.

The slaves stayed here for two days and one night. No one gave them food, and they were all very hungry. Fortunately, it rained last night and they were able to drink a few sips of rainwater.

During the day today, listening to the sound of fighting in the distance, and seeing the unkind eyes of the city guards, they huddled together and became more and more nervous.

They were really starving.

News began to spread secretly among them, saying that the citizens of Tozeth City were worried that they would riot again and wanted to gather them all and kill them all.

A few people were agitating, saying that they would die anyway, and that it would be better to fight than starve to death or be killed.

One day passed, and in the evening, the slaves who hadn't eaten for two days were already dizzy from hunger.

The hunger made the panic in the hearts of the slaves come out little by little.

Are those people going to let them starve to death?

The few people who sneaked in secretly pretending to be slaves saw the effect and became more active. They encouraged them, saying that they had tens of thousands of people, and the city guards were only more than 1000 people. Everyone went together, or they would have to wait for death and so on. .

However, no matter what they tried to do, the habit of being slaves for a long time and the recent suppression in the upper city made these slaves dare not do anything for the time being, and continued to endure as usual.

However, that dissatisfaction inevitably gradually fermented.

No one knows how much this dissatisfaction will grow and when it will explode.

Before it was dark, suddenly, this group of starving slaves smelled the fragrance of rice porridge. They all raised their heads, sniffed vigorously, and looked towards the place where the fragrance wafted out.

The wooden gate that had been closed for two days was opened, and several cars were pushed in. The aroma of porridge came from the huge vats on the wooden carts.

They subconsciously swarmed up, but before they could squeeze in, they were pushed back by the city guard.

The city guards yelled and asked them to line up, then distributed porridge to them with poor-quality gourd ladles, and each of them could get a rough buckwheat cake.

The extremely hungry slaves almost devoured the food. As soon as there was something to eat, their dissatisfaction dissipated a lot, and they didn't pay attention to those few guys who were pushing.

The slaves who were busy eating didn't notice, there was a group of people watching them not far away, behind the city guard.

Seth smiled wryly: "Your Highness, when is this, do you still have time to worry about whether these slaves have enough to eat?"

Garlan glanced at him.

"Didn't you say that there are not enough guards?"

"It's not enough, but what does this have to do with these slaves..."

Halfway through the speech, Seth stopped abruptly, as if he understood something.

"No! No, Your Highness!"

He objected vehemently.

"This group of slaves is not worthy of trust! You know, the slaves in the upper city rioted not long ago! Although the slaves here did not participate, they are also slaves, and they might have the same thoughts. How can you—— "

"Those slave riots were about freedom, weren't they?"

Garlan's eyes lightly swept over the tens of thousands of slaves.

"Okay, I'll set them free," he said.