When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 542 Who would surrender without conditions?
Looking at the castle covered with traces of fire and axe chopping, Garignon swallowed.

He stretched out his hand and was about to pull the reins to stop, but was suddenly caught by the two squires beside him.

"Can't I just drink a sip of water?" He could hear the cowardice in Garignon's tough tone.

The two attendant knights said with a wry smile: "Of course, please go ahead."

But they showed no intention of withdrawing their hands from the reins of Garignon's horse, which made Garignon even more distressed.

It was clear that he was not prepared to do anything under Prince Kongdai's nose from the beginning.

It was Count Sampoli who won him over, and he wanted to kill two birds with one stone: first, sit on the fence and wait and see, and second, unite in resistance.

With the idea of ​​keeping a safety net, he participated in the communication with Meliati and the operation to assist the Saint Sun Righteous Army.

In the end, he was the one who was arrested, even though he was not the mastermind!
But he couldn't even give out the mastermind, otherwise, given Prince Condé's temper, he would probably have launched a purge.

In the end, he could only embark on this one-way journey with tears in his eyes, following Count Sampoli's oath, "I will take care of your wife and children."

As for the other nobles of Hotam County, they naturally "abandon your small self and fulfill my big self" to appease Prince Condai's anger.

The current battle situation is undecided, so we can't rush into a falling out.

But as far as Guerignon was concerned, the outcome of the battle was certain - that is, Prince Condé was about to win.

There were corpses everywhere before their eyes, and the walls were hacked with swords and axes. As they approached, they could hear the sound of strings being pulled tight on the walls...

Garrinnon was about to cry. If you had this method, you should have told me earlier. Why should we, the nobles of Hotam County, sit on the fence?

This intensity is not the intensity of besieging a point and attacking reinforcements, but rather the intensity of a real siege.

To be precise, the church army was indeed conducting a siege.

Just as Lacunio underestimated the Salvation Army's recruitment and deployment capabilities, Horn also underestimated one thing.

He thought that the reinforcements sent by Duke Osra were only the local servants, but he forgot that the territory of Gravel Plain was almost a vassal of Duke Osra.

Putsilio's younger brother Arnold had already led nearly 10,000 noble coalition troops to the border of northern Mound County.

At this time, because of the Innocent Dam incident, the nobles were monitoring possible riots among the shepherds, which just happened to cover up the troop movement.

The so-called siege and attack on reinforcements is just to hope that Meliati will think that this is a war of attrition.

Lacunio wanted Meliati to believe that they still had a chance to rescue the Gray Horse Knight Wayne.

Once Meliati leads his troops out of the country, facing the powerful enemy Prince Kongdai, the main force will definitely be sent out in full force, and the rear will definitely be empty.

The noble coalition forces of the Gravel Plain could take advantage of this opportunity to cut off Meliati's retreat and completely surround and kill her in Lujiao Township.

Therefore, the idea that Meliati took ten days to arrive at the battlefield and then waited another ten days to wait for Horn to arrive did not exist.

Fort Sentinel should have been captured before Meliati even arrived at the battlefield.

Even if Meliati wanted to return at this time, her retreat was blocked by the coalition of gravel nobles, and she could only fight a decisive battle with the Imperial Order Company with her retreat cut off.

Instead of dragging our feet in a war of attrition, it is better to fight a decisive battle quickly. Otherwise, it will be a big trouble if the two forces join forces.

Unlike Arman and Mizam, Lacunio never underestimates any enemy.

After learning that Meliati had already sent troops, their only goal was to capture the castle before Meliati arrived.

As the name suggests, the castle is just a sentry post. Wayne just built a circle of fortifications on the periphery.

However, this camp was breached in just two days by the Imperial Order Company that arrived early.

Now, there are only 1000 defenders in this castle, and they have to face an attack from enemies that are ten times their number.

And they were not just ordinary enemies, but four imperial companies with 4 men, three elite mercenary regiments with 1200 men, plus 3 conscripted guards and armored sergeants, and 7500 local country knights.

Yes, due to a crisis of trust, Prince Conte did not bring any of the noble troops from Hotam County.

As for the strength of this army, there is no need to say much.

As for the three mercenary groups, the North Mound Mountain Knights who had fought against them would never classify them as guards or armored sergeants.

Unlike the miscellaneous mercenary groups hired by Booloo and Putsilio, these mercenary groups had all participated in the Battle of Windmill Land.

The Death Corps and the Eagle Corps are both ranked among the top ten and striving for the top five in the current mercenary market.

Although Hakuto's former employer, the Baifeng Mercenary Group, is not as good as the previous two, it is at least at an upper level.

These people are real veterans of hundreds of battles and are familiar with large-scale corps operations. If Prince Kongdai is willing to sign a 100-year contract with them in the future, these people will smoothly become servants of the country.

If it wasn't for the purpose of luring Melia to bring it up, with only a thousand people, they would have been defeated by these elite infantry yesterday.

The outcome of the battle was decided, and he was doomed to die. Garignon drank the strong liquor in the water bag to give him courage, and finally he couldn't stop crying.

How could you be so blinded by lard that you think Meliati can fight against the monster Horn?

"What are you here for?"

Two squire knights holding white flags shouted loudly to the castle: "Are we here to send envoys to negotiate with you?"

"Negotiation, what's there to talk about? God bless us, we can only fight to the death!" The mountain knights' heroic response gave Garignon a glimmer of hope.

But I don’t know what the people in the castle said, but they still lowered a hanging basket.

"Master Galinon, do you need us to ask you for help?"

Galinon wiped his tears and snorted, "No need."

Then he fell off the horse and could only stand up by holding on to the saddle. Being in the basket meant death.

If there were territorial disputes or wars over title claims between ordinary lords, there was still a custom of not beheading envoys and allowing knights to redeem themselves.

But the intensity of the conflict between Meliati and the Church could even be considered a heretical holy war.

Moreover, the task that Prince Conde gave to Galinon was to force the Grey Horse Knight Wayne to surrender, but he did not have the power to promise any conditions.

What's the point of talking about this? Isn't this just sending him to die?
Who is the Grey Horse Knight? He is the old duke’s subordinate, Meliati’s swordsmanship teacher, and a titled knight!
How could he surrender?

The basket slowly rose into the air, his body swaying with it, and Garignon felt that his soul was also rising into the sky with the basket.

Being escorted by several soldiers, the crying Garignon was even in a trance when he was sent to the commander's room.

"Are you the messenger from Ciel?"

He opened his tearful eyes and saw a handsome middle-aged knight with a sad face sitting in the main seat.

The knight had a bandage on his left hand and was looking him up and down. He was probably Wayne, the gray horse knight known for his handsomeness.

The middle-aged bearded man next to him looked familiar to Garignon, but he didn't recognize who he was.

After the bearded man whispered a few words to the handsome knight, Wayne was stunned for a moment, then he looked at him with a smile: "Are you the unlucky guy Galinon? The one who was imprisoned because of a deal with the Holy Sun Volunteer Army?"

Garignon's sobbing suddenly stopped. He was not famous enough for the titled knight to recognize him at a glance.

"It's me, Sechinger." The bearded man spoke, "Garignon, do you still recognize me?"

Garinon was stunned. When he built the castle and palace, he found Sechinger as the wood supplier. Wasn't he a nobleman from North County? How did he get here?

But now he was about to die, so he had no time to explore these things.

Garignon tried to stop crying, but the tears kept falling. He choked and said, "I'm here to persuade them to surrender."

"Well, what next?" The Gray Horse Knight waved his hand and asked his soldiers who were watching and trying not to laugh to go out first, leaving only Sechinger, Wayne and Garignon.

"Gone."

"There must be more."

"It's really gone."

"Let me ask you, are there no conditions?" Wayne lowered his voice.

"No, no."

"Who would surrender without conditions?" Wayne's eyes widened. "Are you taking kickbacks for all the benefits you gave me?"

"what?"

Garignon and Sechinger screamed in unison, their tears and smiles disappearing.

Sechinger looked at Wayne's face as if he was meeting him for the first time.

"There is an old saying in the Ai'er Empire that those who understand the changes in things are heroes." Wayne waved his hand, "I already know that I will definitely lose, not only this castle, but also the entire battle situation.

If this is the case, then why go against the will of the Holy Father?
Go back and tell Prince Condé that I want the title of earl, fifty beauties, and one thousand pounds!"

(End of this chapter)