Riding and Slashing

Chapter 346 The Queen's Decision

"That little princess... is the Three Prophets?"

Eric blurted out.

Several people looked at each other.

"Perhaps it is. It is well known that Brennus and the Three Prophets cooperated. If the army of the Fallen hadn't suddenly appeared, Qiaoyan Bay would have been captured long ago."

Godric sighed.

"But that's not right. At present, there is no territory for Brennus around Sarleon City... His sphere of influence only extends to the area of ​​Cane Castle. It is said that he has also clashed with the Fieldsweans of High Cliff Castle. He How to attack Sarleon City? Fly over?"

Alina stood up and said, "Besides, his son is still in my hands. He can't ignore Malbert's life, right? How could he attack Sarleon City?"

"It's possible for Brennus to do anything now, even if he wants to marry that little girl, I wouldn't be surprised...I even think he's just a puppet now."

Godric shook his head and looked behind Amy.

A map hangs behind Amy.

In the current Sarleon Kingdom, only the Eastern Region and Beibu Gulf are still under control.

Cliff Bay, Misty Fort, Caneburg and other places, that is, the northwest of the former Sarleon Kingdom, is now the territory of Brennus, or the territory of heresy-this place is full of heresy and fallen people .

Godric and Leofric were besieged by the Fallen and forced to evacuate Mirkhold.

Brennus got a respite, and then he made Princess Denise king, declared that his side was orthodox, and then launched a counterattack after the Fallen.

At that time, the Ravenclaws returned to the north, and the Fierzwei people suffered heavy losses in Lion Lake City. Brennus' counterattack was unstoppable for a while.

So he launched an attack all the way to the south, once breaking through Haringosburg, and hitting the city of Sarleon.

On the walls of Sarleon City, those stone-throwing and wall-cutting marks were left by Brennus' troops.

In fact, at that time, some people in Sarleon City defected to Brennus, and some nobles were lobbying Amy to surrender, and some nobles tried to cooperate with each other.

There are not a few people who take the opportunity to make trouble.

But after Amy led the female soldiers to personally arrest more than a dozen nobles, no one dared to mention surrender, and there was no noise in the throne room—she accused her of treason and desertion. , sentenced some of the nobles who had committed serious crimes to be hanged, and their families were expelled from the city.

At the same time, she also drove all the nobles who planned to defect to Brennus or surrendered outside the city, allowing them to face Brennus' army directly.

In fact, those people never got to see Brennus at all, because the first ones they encountered were the fallen ones.

This resulted in thousands of deaths outside Sarleon.

After Li Ang disappeared, Amy's heart was much harder than before.

Without Li Ang's protection, now, she has to protect herself.

Although this response quickly gave Amy the title of 'tyrant', in any case, the city of Sarleon was united and no one tried to stir up trouble.

Moreover, the fact that Brennus fought with the Fallen was completely exposed to everyone—the Fallen didn't know how to cooperate with the show, and they were responsible for the tragedy in Sarleon City.

After discovering that Brennus's army appeared together with the Fallen, most people in the entire Sarleon Kingdom now regard Brennus as a heretic demon, and they resisted extremely resolutely.

The Knights of the Lions, whose reputation was already bad, has become an existence that everyone shouts and beats.

After that, Brennus made no progress in Sarleon City, but Godric and Klose took the Silver Hand to attack Haringosburg successfully, cutting off Brennus's retreat, and Brennus had to quickly The troops withdrew and retreated to Cliff Bay.

After this, Brennus did not attack again.

Both Fieldsway and the Ravencrow Kingdom have also fought big battles against the Fallen, and naturally they will not cooperate with Brennus—although the kings of these two countries are not good people, they are one country after all. King, it is really impossible to join forces with the devil.

Therefore, the influence of Brennus, or the influence of heresy, is difficult to expand.

We all know that there are a large number of Corrupted on the Brennus territory, which is not easy to deal with. Of course, no one will attack them aggressively, but as long as they appear in other places, everyone will try their best to resist them.

The Howling Fort, Howling Village, Azgold and other places have already been captured by Filtzway.

Howling Castle and Short Howling Village are actually sparsely populated, but Arzgod is a big town, and Earl 'Red Sword' Aidin led an army to station here.

Kelledan Fort was occupied by the D'Shar lord Khalifa Tahir, which is also a densely populated city, but Tahir lost his influence in Singal after conquering Kelledan Fort——Ramon Drive Tahir's men and the Order of the Dusk from Singal.

Today, Singal is once again an independent city-state, denying the entry of lords of any country.

And the army of General Agathon is stationed in Luxin Village; the troops of General Kryon are stationed in Belmont Farley—these are the 'reinforcements' sent by the Bacchus Empire, and they are indeed helping the Sarleon Kingdom to fight. And these two generals would never harm the civilians of the Sarleon Kingdom.

But everyone knows that the continuous wars with Fierdsway and Deshar are all instigated by them...

Both Deerheart Village and Belmont Farley are located next to Deerheart Lake. They are important agricultural towns around Sarleon City, and were once the two most densely populated places in Sarleon Kingdom.

The army of the Bacchus Empire is entrenched in these two places, and their intentions are obvious—through Luxin Lake and the Sava River, they can quickly send all the output of the most fertile land in Sarleon City back to Bacchus territory!
Up to now, the Sarleon Kingdom has become poorer and poorer in this year, but the Bacchus Empire has basically recovered its vitality.

But in any case, there are indeed no Brennus or heretic forces around Sarleon City. In fact, only the Bacchus Empire has the ability to directly attack Sarleon City—Fieldsway was repelled some time ago Now, it should be unable to launch an attack for the time being.

Moreover, the two generals of the Bacchus Empire are also principled. They may not do their best when they encounter the Filtsweans or D'Shars, but they will definitely kill the heretics and degenerates.

No matter how powerful the heretic army is, it can't attack Lion City directly by crossing so many surrounding forces.

"Maybe, the letter from heresy has nothing to do with Qiaoyan Bay..."

Kavela suddenly mentioned a direction that no one thought of.

"If it has nothing to do with Qiaoyan Bay, then who is this letter sent to? There should be no spies in Sarleon City, let alone heretics—the female soldiers are patrolling every day, and everything is normal."

Godric was puzzled.

"I don't know, but... that little girl, what's her name... Denise, right? Where is her hometown? Is there anyone else at home? Her relatives and friends must want her to be king..."

Cavela asked.

The girl in the fishing village is indeed uneducated, but perhaps it is this simple logic that allows her to see the places that are most easily overlooked.

Of course, there is no one in Princess Denise's family. Her biological father is Ellen, her adoptive father is Ulrik, and her mother is the former queen—all of them are dead, even her maids are dead.

Therefore, everyone subconsciously didn't think about whether this little princess who was probably occupied by the three prophets had other "family members".

"Her hometown should be in Ballanley... I have to check it out. If something happened to Ballanley...then the problem will be serious."

Eric murmured.

The town of Baranley is Queenstown, and it is also the fiefdom of the queens of the Sarleon Kingdom. It is called the back garden of Sarleon City, and Ulrik is also buried there.

Due to the war for more than a year, almost all the western part of the kingdom fell into the hands of other countries. During this period, countless people who fled came to Baranley Town or Sarleon City.

In Baranley at this time, there might be more refugees than the population of Sarleon City—martial law had to be imposed upon entering Sarleon City, and most ordinary people stayed in Baranley.

Especially the central area of ​​Queenstown is now a place where tens of thousands of refugees gather, and it is also a place where Amy has been doing her best to help.

In order to keep those refugees alive, she even sold all the gold ornaments in the Sarleon Palace, and most of the food production from White Hart Castle and Maixiangling was consumed in this area.

……

A few days later, the Throne Room.

"...There was a riot in Baranley! Those refugees were instigated by some people with ulterior motives, and attacked our food distribution stations that were doing disaster relief. We were too short to deal with it, and the food relief was robbed..."

Eric frowned and said: "The current situation is difficult to control, it is best to block the whole city, we may have to face a difficult battle..."

"The patrol team has encountered some rioting refugees. General Kryon also sent a letter to mention this matter. Some mobs have gone to Belmont Farley... Kryon doesn't want to hurt civilians. He intends to withdraw temporarily, otherwise he will definitely A more serious conflict occurred..."

Godric was also very anxious: "But if Kryon withdraws, the Filtsweans and D'Shars will definitely turn all those refugees into slaves..."

"This was done by the nobles who originally lived in Queenstown. They claimed that the long war made them unable to live, and that they wanted to welcome Denise as king and end the war... But in fact, some of them took the initiative I went to Qiaoyan Bay a few times, and probably negotiated a deal with the Three Prophets."

Arina was holding a small book, which was the information obtained by her spies.

"Our manpower may not be enough to stop those instigated mobs... The reserves of Sarleon City are also..."

Eric is still carefully calculating military supplies.

"Okay... don't say anything..."

Amy stood up, bowed her head, and propped her arms on the conference table.

"Nobles...hehe...nobles! Do they want Sarleon City that much?...For power, they can collude with the devil, betray anyone, and even sit back and watch everyone become degenerates..."

"Perhaps, it's because I'm a woman... And, I'm also a tyrant!"

Amy sneered, suddenly got up and walked off the Silver Throne, walked to the middle of the throne room, looked up at the dome.

"Everyone... I dreamed about Li Ang last night. He was covered in injuries, with a beard and hair longer than mine..."

With her back to everyone, Amy suddenly spoke of her dream on this solemn occasion.

"I remember what he said to me, but I couldn't hear it... I was shouting at him, but he couldn't seem to hear it either."

"I could see him holding a handful of magic gold coins, as if he was looking for something - probably looking for his lost coins... Maybe he was saying that he left me so much wealth, but all Exhausted by me!"

As she spoke, Amy burst into tears.

She wiped away her tears, closed her eyes, and turned around: "I think he's coming back soon."

"Amy... child, you are probably tired... you go to rest, I will take care of this. Eric, put your hands..."

Godric hugged Amy's shoulder distressedly to comfort him, and then turned his head to arrange affairs.

"No, father, I want to give up Sarleon City! Just like Li Ang asked Emperor Marius to give up Siyuan City... I don't want to sink into this quagmire anymore..."

Amy walked back to the throne.

"Leon once left us the most wealth in the entire continent, but it was completely consumed by this bottomless pit in this year! Thousands of people were sent to the battlefield by us, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were displaced... Like an abyss!"

"Alina has persuaded me many times to give up Sarleon City...but I am not reconciled...I was wrong, Alina, I should have returned to Changhe Town long ago!"

"This time, I have made up my mind...and I hope you will let me be so willful-I will take everything in Sarleon City, including everyone who is willing to leave. Send the city together with Haringosburg To those greedy nobles!"

"Don't they want this city?"

"give them!"

……

The night of the first full moon in October, Winterfell.

In Baranley Town, beside Luxin Lake, in a gorgeous cemetery.

A disheveled, ragged man was being picked up from the lake.

"This guy looks like he's about to die... Refugees are everywhere, why bother with him... and he's a man! We're in the cemetery now, so we're easy to spot!"

A woman warrior with a shovel persuades another woman.

"It's Winterfell today, and nobody's coming to the cemetery, and the town just rioted, and nobody's going to bother us. Don't you see what he's holding? If I'm not mistaken, it's gold coins! I'm running out of money right now..."

The woman who was salvaging the man looked to be in her thirties, wearing a blue unicorn burqa—it was a nobleman, and a Ficavian nobleman at that.

Blue background, white unicorn, which was once the coat of arms of Queen Ficavia.

"Your Majesty, but you shouldn't touch these dirty low-class people..."

The female warrior shook her head, stretched out her hand to separate the 'Queen', and pulled the man floating in the lake with a shovel.

"I've been kicked out of the throne, so I don't care so much... Wait, this guy is a nobleman! Look at his clothes..."

The woman known as the queen suddenly screamed.

For the man in the lake, a small golden coat of arms, a golden griffin, could be vaguely seen on his tattered black clothes.

"It's true... How can commoners have gold coins... Since they are nobles, it doesn't matter..."

The female warrior threw down the shovel, grabbed the man directly from the lake, and dragged the man out of the lake—it seemed that she was only willing to touch nobles with her hands...

"Is there any help? Hey... what kind of gold coin is this? I haven't seen it before..."

The 'queen' began to snap the man's fingers, and pulled out a few shimmering gold coins from his clenched palm.

"His heartbeat is very slow, it is estimated that he cannot be saved..."

The female warrior touched the man's heart and shook her head.

"Then bury him, I took his money, then I should find a good place for him to set up a grave... There must always be a reward."

The 'Queen' sighed regretfully: "Unfortunately, if he can be saved, he might be able to bring more money, or bring some troops..."

"Then... let's just bury him in this tomb? This is the tomb of King Sarle Lion... and he is worthy of him. Hurry up and dig the tomb, Your Majesty, the burial objects of Sarle Lion King must be more valuable than those few gold coins." ! You can’t build an army with such a small amount of money..."

The female soldier retrieved the shovel and pointed to a tombstone not far away.

The tombstone reads: "King Ulrik is buried here, a promising king who inherited the wisdom of the great ancestor Wu Lie and the previous king at the same time."

(End of this chapter)