A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

Bright sunlight fell into the government affairs room through the skylight, and fell on the face of the young man who was sitting on the chair by the window with his eyes closed.

He propped his side cheek with one hand, leaned his body slightly, and breathed steadily, as if he was taking a nap.

The shadow of the slender eyelashes was reflected on that handsome and sharp face, and the thin lips were tightly pressed, giving people a more sharp feeling.

Suddenly, he snapped his eyes open.

A golden-red hue peeked through the crevices of the jet-black hair.

At that moment, it seemed as if the sunlight falling on his face was sucked into these deep and dark pupils.

The moment he opened his eyes, his originally steady breathing seemed to be slightly disturbed.

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The dark endless night...

The eerie sound of the wind that seems to never stop carrying the cries and wailing of countless people...

The land of Aaron Landis is shrouded in darkness.

The brave king fell in the small room, under the poison handed to him by the man he trusted.

The blood spit out from his mouth stained the soft veil by the window red.

He fell in front of the betrayer in pain and helplessness.

The young crown prince died in battle among the rebellious army.

The sharp arrow shot from behind him pierced the boy's chest.

He fell off his horse.

The long blond hair was limply scattered on the ground, scattered in the mud and blood.

Then, the spreading flames ruthlessly devoured that slender body.

Amidst the huge roar, the white blizzard came from the west like a torrent, completely burying the land of Aaron Landis...

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Heymos raised his hand and pressed it on his chest.

Even though he clearly knew that it was just a dream, as long as he recalled the scene in the dream where the boy who fell on the ground was swallowed by the flames, the beating thing deep in his chest would twitch violently.

He pressed his chest, and there was a hint of hostility in his golden-red eyes.

The gloom quickly spread and covered his eyes, his gloomy pupils seemed to swallow all the light, and he was about to fall into the deepest darkness.

Suddenly, a little bit of Cuiyi refracted a little light, passing by the corner of his eyes.

Heymos lowered his head and his eyes fell on his hands.

On the brown finger, the bright green malachite ring reflected the bright sunlight, refracting a little light into his eyes.

In an instant, the hostility surging in his eyes like black mist faded away as if dispelled.

He looked at the ring, raised his hand, and stroked the cool emerald green malachite with his fingertips.

"His Royal Highness Heymos."

A voice came from the side, which caught Heymos' attention.

Heymos looked up, and what caught his sight was the tall figure of Shemur, the priest of Shamash.

Turning his head slightly again, he saw the sun rising to the center of the sky through the window beside him.

"I'm asleep?"

As long as he could remember, the sun was still slanting in the sky.

"Yes."

"You should wake me up."

Heymos glanced sharply at Shemuer, and his tone was cold.

At this critical moment, not a single minute can be wasted.

"You have been working nonstop for days, and you are already very tired. I think that if you continue like this, fatigue will affect your thinking and prevent you from making correct judgments."

Xie Muer had no expression on his face, and also answered in a stiff tone.

Heymos narrowed his eyes, looked at Shemuer, and said nothing.

Facing this stone, it would be a waste of time to continue talking.

He touched the ring on his finger again, the ring made from Garlan's damaged malachite earrings.

He asked: "Has the relocation of all the villages and towns outside Wangcheng been completed?"

The priest of Shamash took a deep look at Heymos with complicated eyes, but he still answered Heymos' question calmly and meticulously.

"In accordance with your order, all the villages and towns near Wangcheng have been cleaned up."

Shemur said,

"Tens of thousands of people have poured into the royal city in the past few days, and the defenders of all towns have also been summoned to the royal city, and people have been arranged to organize them into an army."

After returning to the royal city a few days ago, Heymos took over the command of the entire royal city in the name of the prince.

His name of 'Black Knight' and his outstanding achievements in the North made everyone in the royal city dare not have any objections to it.

After all, even Shemur, the priest of Shamash, who is a die-hard supporter of the crown prince, and Sage, the head of the Royal Knights, acquiesced to this matter, saying that they would obey Prince Heymos' orders, let alone others. Talk too much in this critical time.

And the first order that Heymos gave after taking over the command was to let all the residents of all the villages and towns along the road move away from the vicinity of the royal city, especially in the direction from which the Garstads marched.

It doesn't matter whether it is relocated to a large city or to the king's city, everyone must relocate anyway.

At the same time, all food and materials in the villages and towns must be taken away, and those that cannot be taken away will be directly burned on the spot, leaving only an empty village and town with neither people nor any materials.

Strong walls and clear fields.

This is a tactic that has never been used before.

As soon as Heymos gave the order, this strategy immediately aroused great controversy and dissent in the royal city.

Many people have accused Heymos of treating the people harshly.

Others questioned whether the never-used tactic worked.

Moreover, this order did arouse strong dissatisfaction among many people around Wangcheng. They were unwilling to leave their homes, let alone burn down their own houses.

But Heymos ignored the dissatisfaction of the people at all. Hearing that the people were unwilling to relocate, he directly sent troops to force them to relocate.

Those who refused to leave had the soldiers forcefully drive them out, and then directly set fire to the entire village and town, forcing them to move out.

All of a sudden, there were bursts of green smoke on the ground, and small villages were burned to the ground.

Although the people whose homes were burned were furious, they had no choice but to drag their families and flee to the nearest large city, or the royal city.

And after this incident, the 'Black Knight', who had a terrifying reputation among the people, became even more vicious.

His resolute behavior and ruthless methods made everyone fear him.

Heymos didn't care about that.

At this moment, he casually flipped through the report submitted by the subordinate who was in charge of cleaning and driving away the people, and continued to ask Shemuer.

"How long will it take for the Gastadians to reach the royal city?"

"One day and one night, it is estimated to arrive in the evening of tomorrow. Because of the harassment of the cavalry you sent all the way, their marching speed was two to three days later than expected."

The priest, who had long been familiar with the general situation, answered.

After Heymos gave the order to relocate all the people around the king's city and along the enemy's road, the second thing he did was to dispatch more than 2000 elite cavalry, divided into dozens of small cavalry squads, and continued to attack Gasta along the way. The German army harassed.

They do not face the enemy head-on, and often run away when they are not prepared for a sneak attack, or shoot arrows from a distance in the middle of the night.

Even if they were driven away by the army, they circled around and came back to continue to harass, which made the Gastade people very annoying.

For them, these cavalry squads that harassed the army from time to time were like mosquitoes that buzzed around them but couldn't beat them.

In this way, although these cavalry squads could not cause substantial damage to the Gastadians, they greatly delayed their marching speed.

Otherwise, according to the original marching speed, the Gastadians would have already approached the royal city at this moment.

Heymos hummed and stood up.

He is currently on the high tower in the palace, and through the window, he can look at the city gate closest to the palace from a distance.

The city gate is extremely crowded at the moment.

Countless people who were forcibly driven out of their homes by him are still entering the royal city in an endless stream, dragging their families with them, all with ugly faces and complaints.

Following his gaze, Shemuer also saw the situation at the city gate.

These days, the gates of Wangcheng have been like this.

The priest of Shamash frowned.

To be honest, he didn't agree with Heymos's approach at the beginning - self-injury before the enemy came - this tactic was simply unheard of.

He looked at Heymos' profile.

The prince's face was extremely handsome, but those golden-red eyes looked down at the people at the city gate without any emotion.

The way he looked at those people was like purely looking at the pieces on the chessboard that were at his mercy.

Shemur remembered that day.

That day, when Heymos proposed this strategy, he had the same look in his eyes now.

Before he could open his mouth at that time, the head of the royal knights, Sage, had already stood up to object.

"I disagree!"

The burly man with short dark brown hair frowned and said displeasedly.

"Before the Gastadians come over, we will let ourselves suffer losses first. What kind of ridiculous strategy is this?"

Facing Sage's questioning eyes, Heymos still sat firmly, with a calm and calm expression.

He said, "There are always losses in war, and whether you win or lose, it's just the difference between more and less."

"That's no reason to harm yourself before the war! I don't agree! Priest Ximuer would not agree either!"

Heymos glanced at the two of them indifferently.

"Don't forget, the order given to you in Garlan's secret letter is to completely obey my command."

"........."

Sako couldn't deny it.

The Dauphin ordered in a secret letter—ordered them as the Dauphin.

They must obey all orders of Heymos unconditionally.

He frowned tightly and said, "Can't you think of a better strategy?"

"Best strategy? Yes."

Heymos raised his eyes, and looked at the two of them with his indifferent eyes like golden-red colored glass beads.

"In my opinion, the best strategy is to abandon the royal city."

"!!"

Ignoring the anger in Sako's eyes, Heymos folded his hands on his knees and continued speaking on his own.

"Abandon the royal city, abandon the northern front, abandon the eastern front, gather all the remaining legion forces to retreat to the northwest, and completely abandon the eastern region of Aaron Landis. In this way, we can use the natural danger of the Oya River As a line of defense, at the same time relying on the friendly country of Tasda, it can advance, attack, retreat and defend."

"And once we evacuate the eastern region, the Geshu people will go south, and the Yis people will go west, and they will not let go of the fat meat of the royal city. If the Gastad people want to defend the royal city they just captured, they have to fight with this city." Two countries fighting."

"When those three countries were fighting each other, we stayed in the northwest to slowly accumulate strength and rebuild the legion. After a year and a half, when those countries were almost exhausted, the initiative was in our hands, whether we wanted to cut off the It is up to us to decide whether the Gastadians should retreat or deal with the Geshurians in the north first."

Heymos spoke this passage calmly, his voice so calm that it was almost cruel.

Sako, who was angry at first, opened his mouth and was speechless for a while.

He couldn't agree with Heymos's decision to abandon the royal city, but he couldn't refute this strategy either.

This is indeed the most effective strategy at present, and the strategy that can best preserve the strength of Aaron Landis's army.

Yes, the strength of the army can be preserved.

But what about the people of Aaron Landis?

The army retreated to the northwest, abandoned the eastern region, and allowed the three countries to wreak havoc on the land of Aaron Landis, then during that time, the people of Aaron Landis on the eastern land would be endless What cruel treatment in the endless war?

Xie Muer, who was thinking so, opened his mouth, but after all, he still didn't ask this sentence.

He knew it was pointless to ask.

Because His Highness Heymos never thinks about things he doesn't care about.

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Waking up from the memory and returning to the present, Shemur looked at Heymos.

He has a feeling.

If there was no Prince Garlan, or if the prince died in Judas City and the secret letter could not be sent, Heymos would really implement that cruel strategy.

Heymos didn't look at Shemuer's complex expression when he looked at him, and Heymos' eyes had already moved away from the noisy city gate.

"At noon tomorrow, all city gates will be closed."

On that handsome face, a pair of sword eyebrows were as sharp as a blade.

He turned to leave, his dark blue cloak billowing behind him.

Heymos said: "Since then, without my order, anyone who wants to enter or leave the royal city will be killed on the spot."

The sun sets in the west.

After one night, it rises again.

When the sun rose into the sky, the gates on the three sides of Aaron Landis's royal city slowly fell, completely blocking the entrance and exit passages.

Then, at the moment when the sun was about to set on the earth.

On the distant horizon, a white army appeared in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Accompanied by the sound of horseshoes shaking the ground, they rolled in like snow and ice collapsing in the snow mountain.

The army of Gastard approached the city of Aaron Landis.

On the high city wall, Heymos stood there, looking down at the earth and the army of Gastard in the distance.

A suit of black and bright armor was covered with the rays of the setting sun.

The strong wind blew his pitch-black forehead hair, and the golden-red pupils seemed to burn with the burning clouds in the sky.

He lowered his head, raised his hand, and gently kissed the emerald green malachite ring on his right hand.

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I will defend the royal city.

As long as it is your wish, your wish, I will make it come true for you.

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The wind howled, swept across the sky, and blew across the distant land.

After one night, when the sun rose, it blew to the city thousands of miles away.

The gentle wind in the morning passed over the cheeks of the young man standing on the ground on a horse, and lifted the long golden hair on his cheeks, letting it gently brush against the white earlobes.

The soft touch when the hair brushed the earlobe was as gentle as someone kissing.

There was an inexplicable movement in his heart. For some reason, Garlan raised his hand subconsciously and touched the empty earlobe.

Then, he turned his head and looked towards the east.

The direction in which the sun rises.

The direction where Aaron Landis King City is located.

Presumably... Heymos had already received the message he sent back.

Garlan quietly stared in that direction.

The reason why he chose to stay here to counterattack instead of rushing back to the king city was because he knew that even if he returned to the king city, he would not be able to defend the king city under such a dangerous situation.

However, Heymos is different.

He believed.

As long as Heymos is still in the king city, no one can make the king city fall.

He believed.

Under such a dangerous situation, Heymos is the only one in this world who can still defend the royal city.

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Following the Judas City counterattack that ended overnight before the world could react, the much-anticipated Aaron Landis King City Defense Battle followed closely and was about to begin.

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According to historical records.

The Battle of Aaron Landis King City was the first battle in the world to use the strategy of "clearing the walls and clearing the fields".

It was recorded in history as a classic battle.

Ancient history books also record that Heimos, the military strategist of Ancient Aaron Landis, created this strategy.

In later generations, the strategy he created was used for reference by countless outstanding military strategists, and it is still in use today.