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Ambra figure.

The "reinforcements" from Viscount Lanwan's territory dragged on for a whole night and finally arrived outside the city of Ambulatu at dawn.

At this time, the little Sassini detachment, which had been burning, killing and looting in the city all night, was withdrawing from the city of Ambrato.

Seeing this scene, Charlotte's eyes lit up and she commanded: "Knights, chase after them and save Ambratu!"

Hearing this, the knights and their attendants, who had been feeling bored after a whole night, perked up and raised their swords and guns, ready for a battle.

However, something that left everyone speechless happened again.

Charlotte kept shouting "charge" and "save", but she didn't urge her horse to move, and her horse continued to walk slowly.

At first, the Sassenians were very nervous when they saw this strange heavy cavalry suddenly appearing. Sandro, the leader of the cavalry, even ordered his men to form a battle array and prepare to meet the enemy. However, when they stopped to form a battle array, the heavy cavalry also stopped moving.

After waiting for a long time, the enemy showed no intention of charging, so Sandro had to order his men to continue retreating.

When the Sassenians retreated, the heavy cavalry followed slowly from behind. When the Sassenians stopped, the cavalry stopped, and when the Sassenians walked, the cavalry followed leisurely.

It was undoubtedly a very wrong choice for the infantry to expose their backs to the cavalry, but, paradoxically, the heavy cavalry followed the Sassenians all the way until they boarded the warships and left the coast. Some of the cavalry waved goodbye to the departing ships.

It can be said that it is very polite.

"Very good. We have driven out a powerful enemy for our neighbor without any casualties. This is a great victory."

Charlotte waved her hand as she made a satisfied summary, then turned back to give detailed instructions to her subordinates.

"Later, we will go into the city to rescue the suffering people of Ambratu. Remember to emphasize to every citizen that it was us, Viscount Lanwan, who repelled the Little Sasini invaders!"

"Ah..." The knights looked at each other in confusion.

"Remember that!" Charlotte frowned.

"Yes!" the knights answered in unison.

Just as the infantry of the Lesser Sassenians left, another cavalry entered the city. The Ambratus were panicked for a moment, but they soon discovered that this cavalry was not here to kill or plunder.

The knights and their knight squires followed Charlotte's orders and helped the people of Ambratu maintain order, put out fires, carry the wounded, rescue supplies, and of course - they told everyone that it was Viscount Lanwan who led them to repel the evil Little Sassini citizen militia and saved Ambratu from danger.

The people of Ambratu were deeply moved by the help from these "good neighbors".

John Rice, an elder of the oligarchs, did not follow Antanas because of his old age and frailty. Last night, the Sassenians attacked the city, and he led the residents of the slums to resist the Sassenians all night. He thought that he would get support from the citizen militia after a short resistance, but until dawn, the democratic elders did not organize the citizen militia to resist the invaders.

Instead of the citizen soldiers, a group of strangers arrived.

"We are knights from Viscount Lanwan's territory. Do you need any help?" Herman Green introduced himself after helping John Rice and others move a collapsed rubble and rescue the injured inside. Finally, he added reluctantly, "Viscount Lanwan has led us to repel the Little Sassini."

"You repelled the Little Sassenians?" John Rice looked at Hermann Green's clean armor and wanted to ask - how did you repel the Little Sassenians?

Herman Green was embarrassed by John Rice's suspicious look.

Olivier Carpino also had the same feelings as John Rice at this moment.

Just now Charlotte had been boasting to him about how they had fought a bloody battle, suffered heavy losses, and finally defeated the Lesser Sassenians with a smaller force.

Olivier looked at Charlotte's neatly arranged long hair, and he couldn't help but think: How did you fight off the little Sassini?

For the first time, the Ambrato democrats and oligarchs, who had long been divided, had the same thoughts on the same issue.

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Volume 61: Chapter 53 Chapter Drunken Talk

Antanas was killed, and the morale of the Ambulatu citizen soldiers who were ambushed finally collapsed.

Although the Little Sassini militiamen wanted to kill all the Ambratu militiamen, Apo stopped them and accepted the surrender of the Ambratu militiamen in the valley.

Because even if this Ambrato citizen militia was annihilated, the young Sassini's troops would still be at a disadvantage.

From the captured Ambratu citizen militia, Apo learned that Salius still had 300 mercenary extraordinary soldiers and more than 400 Ambratu citizen militia extraordinary soldiers, as well as more than 3,000 elite ordinary Ambratu citizen militia. This army was still enough to compete with the Little Sassini citizen militia.

Apo cut off the head of Antanas and gave it to a captive of Ambratu named Avery, saying, "Take this to your elder of Zaryus. By the way, tell him that I am Apo. Surrender to me and no one can blame him for incompetence."

Avery was one of the few Ambratu militiamen who surrendered the fastest, because he didn't want to fight this war in the first place. Avery couldn't see any meaning in these inexplicable wars, except that they took away his relatives one by one.

This "meaninglessness" was not Avery's subjective conjecture, but the judgment given by the Citizens' Assembly and the Council of Elders. Avery believed that after the failure of this battle, their expedition to Minor Sassenia would be defined as "meaningless" by the Citizens' Assembly and the Council of Elders.

It is better to survive than to die in a meaningless war. Avery has an elderly mother and a newly married wife at home. If he dies in this "meaningless" war, he believes that the city-state will not even give his mother and wife a death allowance.

Avery brought Antanas' head to Zaryus's camp. Zaryus was frightened by Antanas' pale face with his eyes open.

"What, what's going on?"

Zaryusu asked with a trembling voice.

"Elder Antanas led us on a night trip, but we were ambushed by the Lesser Sasseni..." Avery gave a brief account of their experience.

Even though Salius had no experience in commanding a battle, he realized that they were probably deceived. The city was empty inside the mountain city. Even if they fought hard to stop three waves of attacks, it was actually just a spent force. The army in the camp behind them was just a show, a bluff, and was not the main force of the Lesser Sassini. The main force of the Lesser Sassini citizen militia had been waiting in the mountains to ambush the Ambratu citizen militia who came back to rescue.

However, it is too late to understand now.

Awa has already led the main force of the Little Sassini back. If Zaryusu launches an attack at this time, it will be equivalent to a decisive battle with the main force of the Little Sassini.

Perhaps the Umbratu militia still had the strength to fight a decisive battle, but Zaryusu did not have the courage.

Not only did he not have the courage to fight, Zaryusu also did not have the courage to surrender.

Avery also brought Zaryusu the words that Awa asked him to bring.

Surrender to me, no one can blame you for being incompetent. What Apo said was neither arrogant nor ignorant, because he was qualified to say so.

To be honest, when Zaryusu heard that the general facing him was Awa, his heart skipped a beat. Elders of his age were basically Awa's peers. When they were young, they heard the stories of Awa and his red-armored mercenaries. For these foreigners, Awa could be called a legendary general.

It shouldn't be considered shameful for a rookie like Zaryusu to surrender to Awa when he was commanding an army for the first time.

But reason is reason, and reality is reality.

The democrats and the citizens' assembly didn't care whether Salius would fight or not, or why he surrendered. They would only recognize one fact: Salius led half of the troops of Ambratu to surrender to the Sasseni Minor! With this fact, even if the Sasseni Minor really didn't kill him, the democrats and the citizens' assembly would not let him go if he returned to Ambratu in the future.

Removal from office, confiscation of property, and deprivation of civil rights are all light punishments; even direct hanging is not excessive.

Not wanting to fight, nor wanting to surrender, time passed by as Zaryusu hesitated.

During this period, Awa deployed his troops, assembled the army, and lined up in front of the Ambratu military camp, preparing for a battle.

At the same time, the friendly forces that returned to rescue were annihilated, and the news of the death of Elder Antanas spread in the Ambulatu camp. The Ambulatu citizen militia surrounded Zaryus's tent, wanting to find out the truth, but Zaryus refused to let anyone in.

This evasive attitude has actually confirmed the authenticity of the rumor.

At noon, Zaryusu finally no longer had to hesitate or worry.

Three hundred mercenaries from the city-state of Dorukocha helped Salius make the decision. There was no need for the mercenaries to die here for a little salary, and there was no unsolvable blood feud between the city-state of Dorukocha and the city-state of Little Sassini. After they surrendered, Little Sassini would probably agree to let them use ransom to exchange for their freedom.

Therefore, the three hundred mercenaries were the first to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Lesser Sassenians.

After losing three hundred extraordinary people in an instant, Salius completely lost the courage to fight. He announced the death of Antanas to the Ambratu citizen militia, and then announced his surrender to Sassini the Younger.

Of course, not every citizen militiaman of Ambratu was willing to surrender, but without a leader, they could not cause any trouble under Awa's suppression.

"What should we do with these prisoners?" an elder asked Awa.

"Strip off all their armor and clothes, have the extraordinary people bleed them, and then drive them all into the mine in the back mountain. Block the entrance of the mine with stones. I'm going to take the citizen militia to Ambulatu, and we can't leave too many people to guard these prisoners. We'll move the stones away when we come back." Apo said.

"We still need to go to Ambratu?" another elder asked curiously, "Why?"

"I've said it before. This time I'm going to completely wipe out Ambratu." Apo said as if he was planning a strategy. "Ambratu is the weakest it has been in two hundred years. There are almost no decent defenders in the city. If we don't seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we will definitely regret it in the future."

As he spoke, Apo laughed again: "Come to think of it, I didn't expect that Antanas would bring out almost all of Ambratu's combat power. If I had known, I would have told Sandro not to come back directly, to capture Ambratu, hold on for a while, and wait for me to support him."

The elders were moved by Awa's words, and a sense of heroism arose in their hearts, and they all laughed.

Not long after, Sandro, who led the fleet and the detachment to attack Ambrato, returned and brought Apo some not-so-good news.

"Did you encounter a heavily armored cavalry on your return?" Apo was a little surprised after hearing Sandro's words.

"Yes." Sandro nodded.

"Where did Ambratu get the heavy cavalry? Mercenaries?" Apo frowned in confusion.

The main arms of the city-states in the Sokya Peninsula are heavy infantry. Even if some city-states have cavalry, they are generally light cavalry. Heavy cavalry that is as heavy as a tin can is really rare. This is determined by the mountainous and hilly environment of the Sokya Peninsula.

Even among the Sokyan mercenaries, it was rare to see cavalry, let alone heavy cavalry.

Sure enough, Sandro also shook his head and said, "Those people are well-equipped and well-disciplined. They don't look like ordinary mercenaries. If Sokya has such an elite mercenary group, we would definitely have heard of it."

"Then who are they?" Apo was even more confused.

Sandro tried hard to recall the strange cavalry at that time, and then provided a fairly useful clue: "There seemed to be a shield symbol with a purple leopard painted on the armor of those cavalry."

"Purple leopard?"

In other city-states, perhaps no one would know what the shield with a purple leopard painted on it meant, but across from Little Sasini was the Principality of Green Plains. Before Apo could remember, an elder gave the answer.

"That should be the coat of arms of the Duke of Greenfield, the Melfield family!"

"The Melefield family? Could it be that the people of Ambratu have colluded with the people of the Oran Empire?" Apo's expression became solemn.

For little Sasini, the Orlan Empire was undoubtedly a behemoth. When facing Ambratu, who was stronger than him, Apo could still use his strategy to defeat him, but facing the overwhelming griffin knights of the Orlan Empire, even if Apo was as smart as a demon, he could only sigh and sigh.

Even if it wasn't the Oran Empire, just the Greenfield Principality was enough to make little Sasini in awe.

"The knights of the Melefield family did not fight with Sandro, which means they do not want to conflict with us," said an elder. "In this case, it is not easy for us to take the initiative to provoke the Melefield family, otherwise they will inevitably think we are rude."

In fact, in Apo's opinion, even with those hundreds of knights, the citizen militia of Little Sassini would have a great chance of capturing Ambrato in one fell swoop.

But when he saw the other elders nodding in agreement, Apo knew that the Council of Elders did not want to offend the powerful Greenfield Principality and the Melfield Family.

Apo could only sigh and said, "Okay, let's temporarily postpone the attack on Ambratu. However, we can send an envoy to Ambratu to ask their Council of Elders why they sent troops to invade us."

"Yes, yes, yes. Question them. We must question them and demand compensation..."

The elders were relieved to hear that Apo was not going to attack again. Apo had led the Little Sasini citizen soldiers to an unprecedented victory. If he raised his arms now, he would really be able to lead the hot-headed citizen soldiers to attack Ambratu. It would be difficult for the Council of Elders to stop him.

Ambra figure.

Although Olivier Capino wanted to complain about how Charlotte and his knights managed to repel the small Sassenian citizen militia that outnumbered them by several times without any flaws, he was an old politician after all, and not showing his emotions was a basic quality.

After listening to Charlotte's exaggeration, Olivier Carpino expressed his sincere gratitude to Charlotte and her knights, and invited Charlotte to a banquet at his estate.

Charlotte gladly accepted their invitation.

Before going to the banquet, Charlotte specifically asked, "Where is Knight Harvey Sherwin?"

The elders of Ambratu thought they understood what he meant, and immediately sent someone to invite Harvey Sherwin to the banquet.

As soon as Harvey Sherwin saw Charlotte, he began to complain: "Miss Charlotte, you don't know how dangerous it was last night. If you hadn't come to rescue me in time, I might have died here..."

Charlotte's eyes passed over Harvey Sherwin and immediately fell on Robin Mancini behind Harvey Sherwin.

Robin Mancini also noticed Charlotte's gaze, and he nodded slightly, indicating that the plan was going well.

Charlotte then smiled and responded to Harvey Sherwin: "I am sorry to scare you, Knight Sherwin. I thought Ambratu was a peaceful city-state, but I didn't expect the war to break out so suddenly."

While ordinary citizens of the city-state of Ambratu were still digging for the remains of their loved ones in the ruins after the fire, the servants of the Capino Manor served delicious food and wine to the banquet of the nobles. In the corner of the banquet hall, several musicians played melodious music to accompany the nobles' meals.

Martin Kramer, who thought he was quite familiar with Charlotte, raised his glass and toasted Charlotte, saying, "Your Excellency the Viscount is right. Our Ambratu should be a peaceful and tranquil city-state. Even the war of the alliance would not affect us. It was all because of that guy Antanas. He acted on his own and provoked the war, totally disregarding the lives of the citizens!"

Charlotte naturally raised her glass and asked what happened in the war in Ambrato. Martin Kramer gave her a general account of the war. Of course, his words were mixed with a lot of personal opinions. He belittled the oligarchs and boasted to Charlotte that he had given Harvey Sherwin a house.

Martin Kramer's words provided Charlotte with another perspective to examine the war, and also answered a question in Charlotte's mind - why the Giant Eagle responsible for reconnaissance did not see the whereabouts of the Ambratu army, it turned out that they were walking in the mountains.

After listening to Martin Kramer's story, Charlotte sighed softly and said, "The damage caused by the war to Ambratu is really too great. In order to show our concern for the people of Ambratu, we should cancel the tariff compensation next year."

The elders of the Popular Party were immediately delighted when they heard this. Although the exemption of one year's tariff compensation was not much, the oligarchic party had just suffered a crushing defeat. The comparison between the two was enough to prove how dedicated, shrewd and capable the elders of the Democratic Party were.

The atmosphere at the table suddenly became more lively.

The elders toasted Charlotte one by one, but Charlotte said she couldn't drink much and asked her "relative" Harvey Sherwin to do it for her.

Harvey Sherwin also accepted everyone who came and soon became about 70% drunk.

Just as everyone was drinking and chatting animatedly, Robin Mancini, who was also drunk and sitting next to Harvey Sherwin, suddenly slammed the table, attracting everyone's attention, and then shouted: "Knight Sherwin, you are right! If it weren't for you, the people of Ambratu would have no chance of survival!"