My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

The moment he learned the news, Lit found Lucius and wanted to ask why.

Lucius just smiled at Litt and then told him his reasons.

"The enemy's military strength is not weaker than ours, and they have the royal family behind them. It is our duty to do this."

Helplessly, Lit could only nod.

Fortunately, Scaloni was also a loyal man. He did not abuse the military power and did not deliberately suppress the Antican army. On the contrary, he reduced the areas originally under the responsibility of the Antican army and handed them over to the Imperial Army.

Doing so is certainly for the sake of gaining military merit, but it will also reduce the pressure on the Antican army, thus reducing

Antican losses.

On the other hand, things were not peaceful in the city of Romulus.

This was the first time Donnie got the military power from Giovanni these days, but his mission was not to guard the city walls.

Giovanni gave Donnie five thousand soldiers to form a temporary inspection team in the city, responsible for the night curfew and daily security work. Once a suspicious person was found, they would arrest him directly without having to report to Giovanni.

This task seems simple, but it is actually very troublesome to implement.

There are many people to catch every day, but too little time left for myself.

At first, Donny wanted to enforce the law impartially, interrogate the arrested people one by one, and reduce their sentences or let them go directly according to their purposes.

But later, due to the shortage of supplies in the city, many people chose to go out to ask relatives and friends for food during the lockdown, and they were also imprisoned by mistake. Tony had no choice but to order them all to be imprisoned.

Out of a population of hundreds of thousands in Romulus, nearly ten thousand were captured in just a few days.

Even the prison cells were packed with people. When the original designers designed it, they never imagined that this prison could hold so many people.

Subsequently, the shortage of supplies spread to the prison.

The food was distributed among the soldiers, leaving only a portion of the rations for the citizens, and even less for the prisons.

At first, they could guarantee two meals a day. After a week, as more and more people were arrested, the prison’s food supply ran out, and eventually they could only provide one meal a day, and it was only a simple bowl of oatmeal soaked in water, which was barely enough to fill their stomachs.

These citizens had never experienced such abuse before, and they immediately rebelled in prison, which eventually turned into a riot, which was naturally suppressed.

The population in the prison suddenly dropped by one third. People inside were much more peaceful, but there was still not enough food.

In desperation, Downey could only conscript some young and strong prisoners to go up the city wall, and the rest of the people continued to stay in the prison and survived by eating a bowl of oatmeal soaked in water every day.

However, as visitors could not see their relatives, all kinds of rumors began to spread in the city. Public security did not improve as a result of the arrests. Instead, it was somewhat impossible to suppress the citizens of the city. Some citizens began to hold secret meetings during the limited open hours and discussed taking to the streets to protest.

Eventually, it evolved into what it is today.

Outside the Duke's palace, tens of thousands of Romulus citizens blocked the streets, demanding that the Duke give a reasonable explanation for the violent suppression in the prison, stop abusing the prisoners, and let them go home.

Inside the mansion, Giovanni sat in his office, looking at Donnie who was standing in front of him with his head down and keeping silent, and sneered.

Donny thought Giovanni was dissatisfied with him, and the bad memories came to his mind again. He trembled and quickly lowered his head to admit his mistake.

But unexpectedly, Giovanni's next words were not a scolding to him.

"Those untouchables, do they think they can resist me by twisting themselves into a rope?"

"Donnie, let me ask you, as a duke, what should you do when you encounter such a thing?"

"In reply to father's words...we should communicate with the leaders of the march, understand their demands, listen to their wishes, and then negotiate a result that both parties can accept."

"No." Giovanni shook his head. "This should be something that you learned at the Imperial Academy, right? They have never really ruled a territory, and they are always idealistic. This method is useless."

Having said this, Giovanni began to teach Donnie his own philosophy.

"Donnie, I'm only going to tell you this once, and I'm only going to show you this once."

"You don't have to listen to these lowly people. Our blood is naturally nobler than theirs. Everything has its own rules. One of them is that the lower class obeys the higher class. If they resist us, they are violating the rules."

"And if you break the rules, you need to be punished."

Having said this, Giovanni stood up.

"Come on, Donnie, follow me to the rooftop balcony and see what we should do."

Donnie nodded quickly and followed Giovanni.

Coming to the balcony, Donny could see that a huge group of people were crowding at the gate of the manor. One of the young men was saying something to the guard at the gate with righteous indignation, but the guard simply couldn't hear him.

On the other side, in the crowd of demonstrators, the leader was stating his demands righteously.

“We only

We need the Duke to come out and talk to us, to give an explanation to the victims and to the citizens!"

At this time, a man wearing full body plate armor walked out from the Duke's Mansion.

He walked on the ground, and the plate armor made noises with his steps.

When he came before the leader of the citizens, he said only six words.

"Get out or die."

The other party obviously didn't care about this threat and still didn't back down.

Then, a sword pierced his heart.

Then, the guards of the Duke's Palace rushed out and began to disperse the crowd by force.

The demonstrators instantly fled in all directions, uttering all kinds of cries of fear.

However, at this moment, on other streets, part of the troops originally guarding the city gates also came to suppress the crowd.

For a moment, everyone fell into despair.

Donny stood on the balcony, looking at the hell on earth outside the Duke's door, and looked at Giovanni in disbelief.

"Father...you really...don't care about your future reputation?"

"Donny, you have to know that reputation is far less real than rule," Giovanni said earnestly.

The corners of his mouth were even slightly raised, as if he was enjoying it.

Donny just felt that his father was probably crazy.

Chapter 110: Title in Exchange for Alliance

Giovanni was very cunning. The soldiers who suppressed the citizens of Romulus were not locals. Most of them were soldiers from other areas of the Duke of Naples. Therefore, when facing these strangers, they were willing to execute orders firmly and wield the butcher knife.

As for the soldiers who were citizens of the city, they had no chance to find out what was happening in the city. Their attention was completely attracted by the siege outside the city, and their superiors did not allow them to leave the barracks on the grounds of keeping military secrets.

This bloody crackdown ended at minimal cost.

Among the tens of thousands of Romulus citizens who participated in the demonstration, 50% died. Although the rest managed to escape with their lives and return to their homes, after witnessing the Duke's tough tactics, they dared not launch demonstrations again.

After all, the Duke really doesn't regard them as human beings.

The besieging troops outside the city were unaware of the tragedy that had occurred inside the city and were still carrying out the siege orders step by step.

After this incident, the public security in the city of Romulus stabilized. Because many people died, even the supplies that were originally in short supply became slightly more abundant.

This was not a bad thing for the Duchy of Naples, at least not for Giovanni's reign.

At this moment, outside the city of Romulus, the siege equipment had been set up.

Traditional engineering equipment such as catapults, siege towers and ladders are all ready. From today on, the walls of Romulus City will never be peaceful again.

"According to the time, we're almost there." That day, standing by the window on the top floor of the Duke's Palace, Giovanni looked at the city wall on one side and sighed.

The North Wall of Romulus.

The soldiers were still guarding the city wall as they had done in the previous few days, with a sentry post every five steps and their positions were very dense.

Because since this morning, a large group of imperial soldiers have gathered in front of the north city wall, along with the siege equipment they have built over the past few days.

Standing on the city wall, the soldiers with good eyesight could see siege equipment being built in the military camp outside the city every day. However, due to the difference in the number of troops, Napoli did not dare to leave the city to obstruct the enemy. They could only watch the enemy assemble the big killer step by step, calculating their own death.

The soldiers under the city were obviously preparing to seize the city wall after the ammunition of the first round of siege equipment was used up. The soldiers of Naples did not dare to relax at all. Although they knew the danger on the city wall, they could only obey the orders of their superiors and guard the city wall.

At ten o'clock in the morning, under the command of Scaloni, the besiegers concentrated all siege equipment at the north gate, and then dozens of catapults fired at the same time.

The boulders launched by the catapults will be strengthened by the magician, and will explode when they hit obstacles, creating an effect similar to that of a cannonball.

In an instant, casualties appeared on the city wall.

Although the catapults had a low hit rate, they still caused considerable casualties to the Naples army due to the numerical suppression.

Fortunately, Giovanni has been working hard to build the city of Romulus over the years, and the city walls have been repaired several times, so there are no gaps after several rounds of bombardment.

It took three hours to use up all the stored stones. At this time, although the walls of Naples looked dilapidated, there was no collapse at all.

Therefore, the siege troops still have to pass

Climb up the city wall using ladders and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

"I never expected that although Giovanni made a mess of Napoli, he never neglected the management of the base."

In the military camp, Scaloni listened to the report from the front line and couldn't help but complain.

"If Giovanni is really that incompetent, he wouldn't have caused us so much trouble before." Lucius said on the side.

"Indeed." Scaloni nodded.

Scaloni had great respect for this battle-hardened general. If he had not brought the order of His Royal Highness the Prince with him on this trip south, Scaloni would have preferred to hand over the command of the army to Lucius.

But he also knew that if he wanted to become the next Lucius, he couldn't just follow him, he had to surpass him.

"Let's send 5,000 men to the city wall to test the enemy's will to resist. If they are still determined, we will surround them for a while longer and then make a breakthrough."

After briefly determining the strategy for this stage, Scaloni called in a messenger to convey his orders to the besieging troops in other directions.

……

Just half a month ago, Arthas used his military power to hold a generals' meeting in the army without the participation of the emperor.

"Everyone, the current situation in the Duchy of Naples is still unclear. I am worried that Duke Antica will not be able to capture Naples in a short period of time."

"As you all know, Duke Giovanni of Napoli is likely the one who plotted the murder of Duke Francis and sent people to assassinate my father. In order to bring him to justice as soon as possible, we have to send troops to help Duke Antica. Fortunately, the situation on the border is not so tense now, so we can spare some time."

After hearing what Arthas said, the generals present more or less understood what he meant.

It is time to choose one of these people to be the Duke of Naples.

As a result, many people looked at each other and began to think about who to nominate to lead the troops south.

Arthas looked at Scaloni and said:

"The last time we discussed sending troops internally, it was General Scaloni who was the most determined to send troops. So, I think General Scaloni should be the commander-in-chief of this southern expedition."

After saying this, many generals nodded.

Except for Scaloni, the generals of the empire were either too senior and had already been awarded titles, making it inconvenient for them to occupy the title of Duke of Napoli, or they did not have enough seniority and ability.

After deciding who would lead the troops, the generals discussed how many soldiers to lead.

After the meeting, Arthas found Scaloni alone.

"General Scaloni, I have high hopes for you." Arthas looked at him, his eyes full of admiration.

"You are the next person who can become a pillar of the country like General Lucius, so please win this battle beautifully."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will do my best."

"Well... and, General Scaloni, your daughter is very nice. I admire her very much. I hope to invite her out more often in the future. I heard that you are quite strict about this kind of thing, so I came here specifically to ask you."

When Scaloni heard what Arthas said, he was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

"Your Highness, you are joking. I did this just to prevent my daughter from coming into contact with some questionable people. Your Highness personally invited her, so how could I refuse?"

"That's good." When Arthas heard the other party say this, he also smiled.

In this way, he had completed the task that Rosaline had entrusted to him.

Chapter 111: Being used?

Milton is dead.

When the guards from Saint Laurent City broke into his temporary residence, Milton had already hanged himself in the room.

All this is thanks to a cleaner.

The place where Milton died was an inn. He had rented a room in this inn earlier, but did not live in it until the incident in Saint Laurent City, when he secretly moved into this inn.