Full Time Mage Lord

  Chapter 677 The Disintegrated Fortress III

   "What's going on here? Who lowered the drawbridge!?"

  Charlie shouted, the fire burning inside the city wall made him very uneasy. At this time, he found that the city gate guarded by the squadron he led began to slowly open.

  Charlie has served as the guard captain of the third gate for three years, and he could choose to retire after one year.

   The empire's retirement benefits are still very high. For a veteran in his forties, there is nothing more worth looking forward to than retirement.

  Yes, Charlie doesn't want to serve in the Imperial Army all the time, he wants to become a lecturer after retirement, teaching children how to be a knight.

  Charlie wants to play with his grandson and granddaughter and grow up with them. He just wants nothing to happen in his job.

  The war is still coming. Charlie’s two sons left the imperial capital, leaving behind their wives and children. In the war with the Holy Alliance, there has been no news for more than a year...

  Standing on the city wall, Old Charlie had already seen the cavalry led by Longhui on the opposite side. They made a detour and then attacked the city gate here.

   "Quick, activate the ballista, turn around, can't the **** guards below stop these chaos soldiers?!"

  Charlie looked at the turmoil coming from the inside of the city wall. He became more and more uneasy, and he could no longer stop the opening of the city gate. Is it the first time since the founding of the Motu Empire that the imperial capital will be breached...

  Charlie knew that everything started the day before yesterday, when the captives entered the city...

On the day of the fall of the Elegy Fortress, when the imperial capital got the news, the entire government and the public were moved. The prince of Jianguo ordered the whole city to martial law. Most of the royal knights were intercepted by Charlotte.

  Elegy Fortress is the barrier of the imperial capital, and the fall of the fortress means that the entire imperial capital is directly exposed to the enemy.

   "But the enemy is only in the thousands!"

  The defense minister of the empire is trying to persuade the prince to take the initiative to send troops to destroy the enemy outside the city.

  The crown prince was sitting on a smaller chair next to the throne. He could not achieve that position at this time. His eyes were all set here. He didn't pay attention to what the minister said.

  When the minister raised his voice again, hoping to get the prince's permission, he was drowned out by the reprimands of other ministers.

   "Shut up, do you want the imperial capital to fall like the Elegy Fortress? Are you as stupid as the Marquis Marshall in the Elegy Fortress?"

"His Royal Highness, don't be fooled by villains. The walls of the empire can't be breached even if they attack them for half a year. Now as long as the emperor returns, all those people will be tied to the stake to thank the gods shelter!"

   "Your Highness, I think the imperial capital should be closed immediately, and then the surrounding villages and towns should be armed to slow down the enemy's attack speed..."

  …

  While there was endless debate in the imperial palace, a team of tens of thousands of people appeared outside the gate of the imperial capital, and they were soldiers from their own side.

   However, they were dressed in rags, and almost all of them had their hair slumped. It looked more like a refugee team.

  But they are indeed warriors of the empire, some are knights of Elegy Fortress and Dirk City, and many of them are even lords of the empire.

  The guards at the city gate naturally recognized the military dignitaries among them, but the captain of the guard did not dare to call the shots after such a large number of prisoners were released, so he had to send someone to ask the prince for instructions.

  In the huge imperial capital, even from the city gate to the inner city palace, it takes more than ten minutes on a fast horse. In addition to the cumbersome procedures to enter the palace, it took nearly an hour to see the prince.

   "Tens of thousands of prisoners of war were released?"

  The prince finally looked away from the throne, because he heard a very interesting thing.

   "What, the captives were released just like that?" The prince asked the guard guarding the city.

   "Yes... yes, Your Highness, there are tens of thousands of people, we dare not make claims, Your Highness, please clarify."

"Ha ha!"

  The prince laughed lightly, "This is really a crude trick!"

  The prince of the Motu Empire, Odek Aleph, is only twenty years old.

  He is not the eldest son. According to the law, he should not even be the crown prince.

But he inherited his mother, Princess Sona of the empire, who had the power to surpass the queen step by step in the harem of the empire, and her son also overwhelmed the previous ones step by step. Brothers, when the Emperor is not around, he will naturally become His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Jian Kingdom.

  Now, he thinks his wisdom can finally be shown in front of the officials.

   "Such a clumsy strategy, only the southern barbarians can think of it!"

  The prince has always been disdainful of that rumor, that is, the youngest and best lord in the history of the mainland, Huyn Neumann.

   A war of a bunch of barbarians, what is there to discuss?

Now, the opportunity to compete with the barbarians has come, and the prince can see the opponent's plan at a glance, "They must have planted their spies among the captives they sent back, and they want to sneak into the imperial capital, ha ha, ridiculous, go down, send more Manpower, let me check one by one!"

   "Yes, it is Your Highness!"

  The guards hurried back to carry out His Royal Highness's order.

   "Your Highness, Shengming!"

   "The glory of His Highness be with the Motu Empire!"

   "These barbarians also want to hide from the eyes of His Highness..."

   All the ministers are flattering the crown prince. Even the defense minister of the imperial capital can't say anything. His Highness's consideration is correct. The enemy may have planted spies inside.

  Then arrived in the afternoon at the tens of thousands of Elegy Fortress under the imperial capital and the soldiers and some of the citizens of Deke City waited outside the city until late at night before being interrogated.

   The result is that everyone's identity has to be verified.

   No spies!

"This is impossible!"

  The prince shouted in the main hall, "There is definitely a problem. I will isolate all the people in the Elegy Fortress and keep them under strict supervision!"

  More than 20,000 soldiers of Elegy Fortress were placed in a deserted construction site in the imperial capital, because the imperial capital could not afford more cells to detain them for a while.

   It would be impossible for the warrior who had been hungry all day without complaints.

   And those who were eager to show their merits to the prince took away those who complained at this time, and these people were accused of being spies.

  Evidence has been forged, and self-confessions are easy to handle. Just beat these fighters out of shape, and then take their blood-stained hands and press them directly.

  So the next day, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince laughed heartily in the hall, "Rewards, great rewards!"

  Food, water, disappointment, when these things are mixed together, the soldiers of Elegy Fortress look at those "compatriots" guarding them with disgust and hatred...

  (end of this chapter)