Rose Empire

The four-winged lizardman stared at the nobles in the center of the circle with red eyes, and roared unwillingly. Through the actual collision just now, he could feel that the close combat ability of the four-winged swordsman in front of him was not as good as his own, but the opponent was well-equipped. Even though the shield was damaged, he still had armor and a sharp knight's sword, while he only had a clamp stick.

This "clamp" is actually a large wooden stick with sharp obsidian pieces tied to it.

In the lightning-fast collision just now, the Lizardman took advantage of his faster reaction speed and hit the opponent with a stick first, but his stick hit the opponent's armor. Not only was the opponent not injured, but he also had enough time to stab the Lizardman back with a sword.

If the lizard man didn't retreat in time, he would be stabbed in the stomach. How could the lizard man accept this?

"Whose squire is this?" Charlotte asked, pointing at the squire knight who was shot down.

"I am your servant." An old knight who was guarding the carriage that Rosie and Sean were riding in bowed his head and said.

"Will you do it yourself or let Knight Garcia do it for you?" Charlotte asked in a cold voice.

"I..." The old knight glanced at Rosie's carriage, but there was no response from inside the carriage. He gritted his teeth helplessly and said, "I'll do it myself."

The old knight drew his dagger, stepped forward and killed the squire knight who was retreating from the battle.

"This is not a solution," Charlotte looked up at the night that had already fallen and said, "There are too many of us, but too few who can fight. Uncle, let's find a place to guard for one night and continue our journey tomorrow morning."

Count Philip nodded, pointed in a direction and said, "I remember there should be a manor over there. We can spend the night there."

The team followed the direction pointed by Count Philips and found a manor before it got dark. However, the situation of the manor seemed to be worse than that of Charlotte and the others.

The walls and most of the buildings of the manor had been breached, and a few survivors were hiding in a granary. Count Philip led a small group of knights to attack from behind and dispersed the tribesmen who were besieging the granary.

In the granary, there were only a few knights, a dozen teenagers, and an acquaintance of Charlotte's - the Minister of Finance, Count of Ifa, Rad Paster.

"Count Rad, why are you here?" Charlotte asked curiously, looking at the dusty Rad.

"This is my family's manor. Isn't it normal for me to be here?" Rad said.

It turned out that after leaving Count Philip's manor, Count Rad felt that he went back too early and might be considered by Queen Mary as not doing his best, so he procrastinated and spent a lot of time outside the city before returning. As a result, when he arrived at the foot of the city, he found that the city was heavily guarded, with flags flying, and it looked like it was ready for battle.

Count Rad thought something had happened in Platinum City and was afraid of getting into trouble, so he gave up entering the city and hid in his own manor to take a nap. As a result, he took a short nap and opened his eyes to see an ugly tribesman standing at the head of his bed with a bloody weapon in his hand.

After listening to Count Ifa's experience, Charlotte felt like laughing. This Count always had a kind of temperament that made Charlotte feel familiar. It was not obvious enough when they met before, but now Charlotte was almost certain that it was the temperament of a social animal who tried every means to get by and avoided troubles.

This temperament can be regarded as a breath of fresh air in the turbulent political arena of the Oran Empire.

At this time, west of Platinum City.

Unprecedentedly, the tribesmen built a camp outside the Platinum City. This was not only the first time that the tribesmen built a camp outside the Platinum City, but it was probably also the first time that the tribesmen built a military camp in thousands of years.

King Basha sat face to face with a man in black robes by the campfire, enjoying their dinner. King Basha's dinner was a large piece of roasted meat of unknown origin, while the man in black robes had simple bread and sauce.

"I have asked people from ten tribes to cut wood and build siege equipment according to your design overnight." Basha took a bite of meat and said to the man in black robe.

The black-robed man showed little emotion and said calmly, "You should have set up camp and built siege equipment before you go down today."

"I was planning to launch a surprise attack. What if Platinum City is not prepared?" Basha sighed regretfully. "Unfortunately, Platinum City is not so easy to attack. The casualties in the afternoon were quite heavy..."

"In fact, even if we have siege equipment tomorrow, Platinum City will not be easily conquered." The man in black robe poured cold water on Bashar again.

"I know, but it's definitely worth it." Bashar nodded.

The man in black robe paused while eating bread and said, "Until now I still don't understand why you came to attack Platinum City."

Hearing this question, Basha was silent for a long time before he said, "What do you think of the current tribal alliance?"

The man in black robes hesitated for a moment and said, "Very powerful..."

"Haha," Basha smiled and shook his head. "You don't need to say such polite words in front of me. The tribal alliance is now a mess. The tribal leaders appear to obey me, but in fact, they all have ulterior motives. I need a hammer and an anvil to break these unpresentable stones one by one, and then melt and forge them into a sharp blade."

"So you want to use Platinum City as your anvil?" The man in black robe could not hide his shock.

"It's not Platinum City, but the Orlan Empire. But since we are going to be the enemy of the Orlan Empire, what could be better than attacking Platinum City to anger the Orlan Empire and boost the morale of the young people in the tribe?" Basha said with a smile, "If you pay more attention in the military camp, you will find that the young tribal warriors are very excited and look forward to tomorrow's official siege."

After a long silence, the man in black robe said, "You are really bold."

"Thank you, that's very audacious. Can I take that as a compliment?" Bashar said with a smile.

"Of course," the black-robed man nodded, "After all, we terracotta sorcerers are also said by the church to be daring."

"Haha, that's perfect," Bashar laughed, "This shows that we are destined to become tacit friends."

The man in black robes did not respond to Basha's words. He was thinking on his own. Suddenly, he said, "If you really want to take something from Platinum City, you'd better hurry up tomorrow, because you probably only have one day to attack the city with all your strength. Because the Royal Griffin Knights will be recalled from the border soon, and your tribal warriors will have no chance of winning against them."

"Well, of course I know that." Bashar nodded.

Rad Paster Manor, inside the granary.

Count Philips was very grateful for the accommodation and hot food provided by Count Rad, so he said, "Tomorrow morning, I will send a few knights to take you back to Platinum City first."

"No need," Count Rad shook his head without hesitation, "I would rather go to the Oriole Castle with you."

Charlotte noticed Count Rad's attitude and asked curiously, "You really don't want to go back to Platinum City?"

Count Rad looked at Charlotte seriously and felt that the daughter of the Duke of Green Plains seemed to be smarter than her peers. After a moment, he laughed, leaned over to Charlotte and whispered, "Do you think your grandfather, His Majesty Ethel, is the biggest threat to the empire?"

Without waiting for Charlotte to answer, Count Rad answered himself: "No, although he thinks about rebellion all day long, His Majesty Ethel is not fatal enough. There are more serious hidden dangers than him in Platinum City."

"The potential threat is Henry Holloway?" Charlotte asked without hesitation.

"Ahem..." Count Rad almost choked on a mouthful of water. After wiping his mouth with a handkerchief, he continued, "No, I'm talking about your other grandfather. As long as that person is still in Platinum City, I dare not go back anyway."

As he spoke, Count Rad couldn't help but sigh, and he also looked very worried.

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Volume 100: Chapter 89 Chapter Blood and Fire Platinum City (V)

He is clearly a "slacker bureaucrat" who can choose to sleep soundly when the empire is in turmoil, but he can also show an expression of "worrying about the world before worrying about himself", which proves that Rad Paster obviously knows a lot of things.

But when Charlotte pressed him further, he changed the subject and it was obvious that he didn't want to talk about it anymore. The feeling of a veteran official was almost overflowing.

Charlotte was speechless. She really didn't understand how the aristocratic political environment of the Oran Empire could produce such a weirdo.

Perhaps the tribesmen were tired after the long raid and needed to rest. Or perhaps they felt that it was not worthwhile to storm such a warehouse, so they went to plunder other nearby villages and manors.

In short, that night, Count Rad's manor was relatively peaceful.

Lena was not afraid of spending the night in a warehouse for the first time. Instead, she was a little excited. She held Charlotte and whispered to her for most of the night. Charlotte fell asleep only after Lena said she was tired.

However, Charlotte felt that she had just fallen asleep for a short while when she was woken up again.

She yawned and glanced at the window, but the sky outside was still dark.

"Why are you calling me in the middle of the night?" Charlotte was a little annoyed.

"Miss, the knights on guard around here found that the tribesmen were mobilizing on a large scale. It is no longer safe here. Earl Philips asked us to set off early." After Renee finished explaining, she added, "It is not the middle of the night now, but the early morning. It is almost dawn."

Charlotte, who was seriously sleep-deprived, took a deep breath, then lifted the quilt and slapped Lena's perky butt hard a few times: "Good morning! Get up!"

The situation seemed extremely critical, and Count Philips proposed abandoning most of the property and most of the carriages, taking only a small amount of food and warm clothes, and those who could ride horses should ride as much as possible to speed up the journey.

The convoy of Melefield was composed of two families, and Count Philips could not have the final say, which was why he did not speak up in time to deal with the squire knight who retreated from the battlefield yesterday. Fortunately, Andre and Rosie did not raise any objections, and Count Philips's suggestion became an order and was successfully executed.

After abandoning most of their supplies, the Melfield family left the manor with light luggage and continued to move eastward in the dark.

Count Rad also followed with his knights and the dozen or so teenagers. Just as he said, he planned to go to Oriole Castle with Charlotte and the others.

Not long after they started walking, Charlotte saw the sky begin to turn pale.

Its daybreak.

Standing on the towering walls of Platinum City, Marco Lehman looked at the scene below the city with a somewhat gloomy expression.

The Minister of War, David Boyan, was at the border, so the task of guarding Platinum City naturally fell on the head of Marco Lehman, the Privy Councilor.

When Marco Lehman first heard that the tribesmen were coming, he didn't take it seriously. In his opinion, the presence of a few tribesmen was just a lapse in defense of the Principality of Bonan, and they were exploited. The number of tribesmen who could come to Platinum City must be very limited, a few thousand or ten thousand would be good, and they could be wiped out in a snap.

If it weren't for Queen Mother Mary's caution, Marco Lehmann would not have planned to send people to ask for reinforcements from the Royal Griffin Knights.

But in fact?

Last night, the tribesmen quietly mobilized their troops under the cover of darkness. When Marco Lehman got up in the morning, he saw a large mass of enemy troops to the west, north, and south of Platinum City. A rough estimate was that there were at least 50,000 troops.

Is this saying "good morning" to yourself?

However, there is not without good news.

The tribesmen were obviously going to attack the city in a big way. Marco Lehman was not afraid of the tribesmen attacking the city. The walls of Platinum City were tall and the city defense facilities were complete. The Edisar people were defeated by this mighty city, not to mention this group of tribesmen.

What Marco Lehman was afraid of was that these tribesmen would not only not attack the city, but would instead focus on burning, killing and looting around Platinum City.

The manors and farms outside Platinum City are all properties of the nobles. If they are all looted and burned to the ground, even if Marco Lehmann easily wins this battle to defend the city, he will be hated by all the nobles.

Sure enough, a long horn sounded in the west of Platinum City, and then horns echoed one after another, spreading to both sides, all the way to the north and south - the siege began.

The dark crowd began to move. They were like waves that suddenly surged on the sea, hitting the rock of Platinum City without hesitation.

"It's all show and no substance. Everything will be in chaos once the attack starts." King Basha sighed as he looked at his siege army.

During the years as a slave in the Oran Empire, Basha tried his best to learn all kinds of knowledge he could and brought them back to the tribe. Military reform was one of them. While conquering the tribes in the Campe Mountains, he taught the tribesmen how to detect the enemy, how to cooperate in combat, and how to attack and defend. This made the originally fierce tribesmen even more warlike, and also made Basha's army almost invincible in the tribal alliance.

But Bashar knew that it was all an illusion, and his reforms never touched the most fundamental thing - the organizational structure.

At present, the tribesmen still stick together as tribes, and the tribal leaders are their military leaders. If the relationship between tribes is good, they can cooperate, but if the relationship is bad, they may even fight. A tribe may have only dozens of warriors, or thousands of warriors, but Basha can only command them as a unit.

Basha knew very well that if his military reform stopped here, the army under his command would always be just a mob.

Although Bashar felt that his men were a mob, his mob gave Marco Lehmann a big scare.

Whoosh whoosh.

A powerful crossbow shot several thick bronze arrows onto the city wall, and then a group of tribesmen with slender hands and feet stepped on the arrow shafts and jumped onto the top of the city wall in a few seconds.

Marco Leman claimed that he was not a man who had not experienced war. When the Edisans invaded thirty years ago, he was also one of the nobles guarding the Platinum City, but he had really never seen such a way of siege.

There are also the siege weapons of the tribesmen. They are obviously just some simple wooden ladders and ropes, but as long as they are placed on the city walls, the tribesmen can easily climb to the top of the city walls, which are more than ten meters high, with their flexible skills.

Marco Lehmann had no choice but to mobilize the city guards to fight the tribesmen on the city wall. The bows, arrows and stones he prepared were not put to good use before the battle entered the stage of close combat.

Fortunately, although the city guards of Platinum City were whipped by Charlotte and dared not fight back, they were actually very elite. Facing these tribesmen with simple equipment and varying strengths, the soldiers of the city guards could easily fight ten to one, or even five to one. They lined up neatly and fought together, like a precise and orderly machine, constantly harvesting the lives of the tribesmen who rushed to the top of the city.

Every other section of the Platinum City wall had a high platform, on which was a dragon-shooting crossbow. The dragon-shooting crossbow's commanding suppression and terrifying power also caused considerable casualties to the tribesmen.

As the sun gradually rose, a thick layer of corpses gradually accumulated under the walls of Platinum City. Blood flowed down the walls, dyeing the originally grayish-white walls red.

In Platinum City, the Imperial Palace.

Queen Mother Mary is entertaining Brown Lexment, Marquis of Blackstone, Fernandez Pastor, Duke of Bonan, and Eddie Tonet, the new Duke of Penma.

Eddie Tone, who is only twelve years old this year, feels a little dazed sitting in such an occasion. His father is imprisoned, his mother is not around, and his grandfather Emperor Leopold, who used to take special care of him, has become the late emperor. He now lacks a serious sense of security.

When Queen Mary saw Eddie Tonet's appearance, she couldn't help but sigh and said to the maid beside her, "Take the child out for a walk. Don't be restrained here."

The maid was about to respond when Brown Lexman spoke up: "Let Arthur take little Eddie out to play. Arthur has taken the boy hunting before."

"Oh?" Queen Mother Mary looked at Arthur Lexman, the son of the Marquis of Blackstone Castle, and asked with a smile, "Then I'll trouble you."

"Yes."

Arthur Lexman took Eddie Tone's hand and left the banquet hall.

After Eddie left, Queen Mother Mary asked again, "What do you two think of the war?"

"Although the number of the tribesmen's troops exceeded expectations, it is still difficult for them to break through the Platinum City. Count Marco also said that he is confident that he can defend the city walls." Fernandez said with a gloomy face.

The strong wind and heavy snow, coupled with the blockade by the birdmen, made it difficult for the Giant Eagle Messenger to communicate with the Principality of Bonan. Fernandez still had no idea what had happened to the Principality of Bonan and why it was defeated by a group of tribesmen. It was impossible for him to be in a good mood.

Queen Mary could understand Fernandez's anxiety, but she still re-pointed to the topic and said, "You know, I'm not talking about the tribesmen outside the city. I'm talking about the war in the Kingdom of Cato. Ethel Hollowen will definitely rebel when he returns this time. We can't just count on Count Wolfheart and his 'claws' to successfully get rid of Ethel Hollowen. Instead, we have to think about how to quickly put down the rebellion."

Brown Lexman pondered for a long time and said, "Queen, if you want to plan how to quell the rebellion, you must first find out how many troops the rebels have. Thirty years ago, His Majesty Ethel dispatched 20,000 knights to rescue Platinum City, but that was thirty years ago. I don't know how many troops the Kingdom of Cato has now."

"According to the intelligence obtained by 'Claw', if Ethel Holloway rebels, he should be able to mobilize 35,000 knights. This does not include Ethel Holloway's supporters such as Marquis Nuin," said Queen Mother Mary.

"Thirty-five thousand?" Brown Lexman's face was a little solemn. "Is this number accurate?"

Queen Mother Mary nodded: "This number was provided by Axel Hollowen's confidants, so it should be accurate."

Queen Mother Mary showed a worried look again. "Even if we recruit all the knights in the Ryūn region to pledge allegiance to Your Majesty, there are only about 30,000 of them."

The Ryon region that Queen Mother Mary mentioned was not the entire Ryon Sea, but the territory between the west coast of the Ryon Sea and the Campe Mountains, which belonged directly to the emperor. This area was close to Platinum City and had the highest loyalty to the emperor.

Opposite to the Ryon region is the Byron region to the north of the Ryon Sea. This region is a large plain with fertile land, the largest granary in the entire Orlan Empire, and nominally a territory directly under the emperor, but it is close to the Kingdom of Cato. Many nobles in the Byron region are more willing to support Ethel Hollowen, and the representative figure among them is the Marquis of Nuin, Roy Beckett.

So, Queen Mother Mary didn't even bother to mention that place.

Another area of ​​the emperor's direct territory is the Isis region located east of the Ryuk Sea. However, the journey there is quite far. By the time the mobilization in the Isis region is completed, Ethel will probably have already reached the Platinum City. It can only be used as a backup in the counterattack phase.

"If the Queen Mother allows, I can draw 5,000 knights from the Blackstone Fort camp, and recruit another 5,000 knights from Duke Panma, land by water first and control the Byron area to prevent His Majesty Ethel from fully recruiting the troops in Byron." Brown Lexman said, "And if I land in Byron, I can threaten His Majesty Ethel's retreat. He will definitely eliminate my troops before marching into Platinum City. As long as I can hold on for a while, and wait for the Queen Mother's 30,000 troops and Duke Bonan's... troops to join forces to suppress the rebellion, we can compete with His Majesty Ethel in Byron."

"I can also send out 10,000 troops...it should be 10,000." Fernandez had no confidence in what he said because he didn't know the specific situation in the Principality of Bonan.