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Chapter 176: The Fall of Hillens

"For the king! Repel the savage invaders!"

"Don't retreat! We have no way to escape, and behind us is Hilens, think about your wives and children, and maintain the front line!"

"..."

Various slogans resounded in the sky above the Greek army positions outside the city of Hilens, and were quickly drowned out by the deafening gunfire, but they were still introduced into the ears of many soldiers, stabilizing their originally wavered will to fight.

This is outside the city of Hierence. The Rumont army has broken through their defense lines in the south and launched a siege from three directions towards the capital of the Hildi kingdom. The Hildi army in this area is still stubbornly resisting. , defending the kings and their capital.

However, their king and cabinet ministers had already fled to the safety of the north, leaving only the foreign minister who had been ordered to wait for the enemy to enter the city to negotiate diplomatically with the enemy, and the commanders of the divisions who had to stick to their orders.

The soldiers at the bottom did not know the news of the king's escape. They stubbornly obeyed the orders of their superiors, resisted stubbornly in their respective positions, and sent bullets at the enemy who launched the attack. In his eyes, it was those pot-bellied cabinet officials who were at fault, and their king was only blinded by greedy nobles.

However, they were soon disappointed.

The Rumont workers who were still lurking in the city were not affected by the failure of the previous riot. They were still lurking in the dark to collect any intelligence, and soon learned that the royal family fled north through the chess pieces buried in the palace. News - In order to stabilize people's hearts, the disguised king in the palace is just an old servant who looks like the old king.

As soon as they got this information, the Rumont workers immediately became excited, but they did not release the news immediately, but verified it. After this verification, they immediately noticed a lot of wrong things-the current king is reclusive , I didn’t even go to the garden I liked to go to on weekdays. The queen and princes also disappeared. The prime minister who used to enter the palace every day to report to the king on cabinet affairs also seemed to disappear out of thin air. The only cabinet minister who showed up seemed to be left. a foreign secretary.

Not only that, but they also got an unexpected surprise. They learned from a beggar who usually likes to sleep on the street north of the palace that a team of carriages drove out from the palace in the middle of the night a few days ago. He was escorted out of the city by guard cavalry in luxurious bust armor.

The convoy didn't notice the beggar hiding in the dark, and the beggar didn't dare to tell other people about it casually. If it wasn't for a Lumont intelligence officer who just prepared to buy the beggar for the next rumors to spread, this I'm afraid things will rot in his stomach.

Therefore, the Rumont workers basically determined the authenticity of this information, and then planned an action plan to expose the news of the king's north escape through various channels.

After the news was revealed, the entire city of Hierens and the front lines were immediately detonated. Citizens and soldiers were shocked by the news that the king had fled. Yes, people therefore chose to believe this news without thinking.

In this regard, the Hildi government tried their best to refute the rumor, but they could not produce any evidence that the rumor was false. The cabinet ministers almost ran away, and the remaining foreign ministers could only do nothing about it, and they were more convinced that the king had fled. rumor.

After that, a large number of nobles and wealthy businessmen took advantage of the fact that the road to the north was not blocked by the Lumont army, and fled the city with their family property as much as possible, leaving behind the middle-class citizens and poor people who had nowhere to go, and the streets were full of chaos. , no one dares to step out of the safe house unless necessary.

Under such circumstances, the local citizens who had been recruited by Lazhuang into the militia guarding the city also fled the training camp with their weapons in the chaos, and returned home to prepare to wait for the Lumen army to enter the city. The Hildi army, which was fighting outside the city, was also affected. Every night, soldiers escaped the battlefield under the cover of darkness and entered the city with complex terrain, becoming deserters who lost their restraints.

Under the blow of the king's escape, the fighting spirit of the front-line soldiers was greatly affected. More and more soldiers became deserters. The top military officials wanted to stop this wave of deserters, but the grass-roots officers who used to restrain and control the soldiers were early In the battle, they suffered heavy losses due to the sniping tactics of the Rumont Chasers. Even if they promoted new officers on the line of fire, it would not help.

Even more deadly, after obtaining the intelligence provided by the agents, the top officials of the attacking Rumen army adjusted their tactics in a timely manner and chose to focus on attacking hearts and minds. Their king has fled, they don't need to continue to resist, as long as they are willing to surrender, the crime of resisting will be forgiven, and they will soon be able to return to their hometown.

The king fled and went home early. These two points of desire of Greek soldiers touched many people. For a time, the call for surrender was raised to the top among the front-line army. Not only the soldiers at the bottom longed for peace, but also the officers who were killed by the hunters and put everyone in danger. Spontaneously assembled to make a surrender request to the superiors - throughout the war, the death rate of officers remained high, and if the war could not end, they would also follow as deserters!

Regardless of whether the Greek army on the front line was ready to surrender or not, the Rumont army was still attacking them. Under the situation that the general army was shaken, the Greek army's positions were continuously captured, and their defense lines were constantly retreating, and finally they retreated to the city. There is no turning back at the edge.

They had no way out. As the commander of the first troop took the lead in announcing surrender to the Rumont army, the other units of the Greek army also laid down their weapons one after another, walked out of their positions, and surrendered to the Rumont army who had persuaded to surrender.

The commanders of some of these units were unwilling to surrender~www.readwn.com~ They ordered to retreat into the city, relying on the previously built barricades to engage in street battles with the enemy, but then some officers led the soldiers to mutiny and captured the recalcitrant commanders Capture or kill, and then surrender to the enemy.

The Hildi army, surrounded by three sides, had no way out, unless they could pass through the city and leave from the north. It was for this reason that the commanders of the various units who saw no hope of victory made up their minds and announced their surrender.

August 11, 1754, was destined to be recorded in the annals of Rumont and Hildi.

After all the troops outside the city surrendered, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hildi Kingdom announced that the city of Hierens would be set as a non-resistance city, and then the second and fourth armies of Rumont entered the city from the main road into the city in three directions. this ancient capital.

Just like the government's declaration, no armed force appeared in the streets to resist the entry of Rumont's army. Inserted above the towers of the palace walls.

The city of Hirons has finally fallen.

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