Chapter 1418 Orleans Surrenders

Now that the central government has surrendered, they can't even guarantee the supplies of the army.

There are currently 70,000 people stationed in Orleans.

How much food is consumed every day.

Now that all the food in the city is gone, where will they go to find food?

The only way is to rob the food of the civilians inside the wall and in the surrounding areas.

The army that protects the country ends up robbing the civilians of the country's food - this kind of thing is really ironic.

Most of the generals present would not allow this ironic thing to happen.

No matter how you look at it, the situation they are currently facing is a dead end...

A dead end without any hope...

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"Let's surrender..."

A general said in a low, lifeless voice.

"The war...is over..."

"Even Tuli has already planted the flag of the Britannia Empire... There is no point in continuing the fight..."

"Surrender now, and you can try to save the lives of some of the garrison generals in the city..."

If it had been before, this general would have been criticized by everyone if he had said such words.

But now, after the general's words fell, no one said a word.

No one immediately jumped out to refute what the general had just said.

At a time when there is no longer any point in continuing to fight, everyone has no will to fight anymore...

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"No……"

At this moment, an old voice sounded from the corner of the long table.

Everyone present followed the sound and left.

"We... still have hope..." the veteran continued.

This veteran is none other than Leo.

Now that Denis has died in the battle, only Baal and Leo are left among the "three veterans of the Rollin Empire".

"Although His Majesty has issued a surrender edict and surrendered unconditionally to the Britannia Empire."

"But I believe - there are certainly a lot of people across the country who don't want to be Britons."

"These people who are still willing to resist are our hope for national restoration."

"We need to send people with charisma out of the city and rally all the resistance forces in the country."

"As long as we successfully gather all the resistance forces in the country, there is still hope for this country to revive."

"So - we must send the 'Saint' out of Orleans safely!"

"As long as there is the banner of the 'Holy Lady', there will be a large number of patriots who do not want to submit to the Britannia Empire!"

“Not only must the ‘Saint’ be safely sent out of the city, but Baal must also be sent safely out of the city!”

"With the appeal of the 'Saint', coupled with Barr's military capabilities, we can recreate a steel-like army in a very short period of time..."

Before Leo finished speaking, Gil slapped the table and stood up.

"enough!"

"His Majesty the Emperor has issued a surrender decree!"

"The war is over!"

"Stop fighting!"

"Sir Leo, the plan you just made sounds good, but what are the chances of success?"

"We have no hope of winning!"

"Until now, do you still want to force Na to take risks?!"

Gill was one of the many generals who had lost their will to fight.

Gil, who had no motivation to continue fighting, became furious when he heard the plan Leo had just proposed. He couldn't help but slap the table and stand up, bumping into the old man he always respected.

And Leo was not angry at Jill's rude rebuttal just now.

Instead, he said in a calm tone:

"Gil...can you bear to watch the flags of the Britannia Empire planted all over our country...?"

"Well..." Jill hesitated.

He wanted to refute what Leo had just said.

But he still couldn't utter a single word.

"You don't want to just watch our country perish? Don't you?"

"As long as there is a glimmer of hope, we must fight to the last moment for the future of our country - isn't this our duty as soldiers? Am I right? Barr?"

Leo turned his attention to Barr, who had been silent since just now.

"...Yeah." There was no expression on Barr's face, "You are right..."

"Your Excellency Leo..." Gil cast a complicated look at Leo, "Then how do you plan to send Jeanne and Barr out of the city? Although the Britannia army did not surround the city, they were monitoring it all the time. ”

"How do you plan to send people safely out of Orleans under the surveillance of the Britannia Army?"

As soon as Gil finished speaking, Leo immediately replied:

"It's also very simple."

A faint smile appeared on Leo's face.

"Just send a bait to attract the attention of the Britannia army..."

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"Orleans has surrendered! Orleans has surrendered!"

"Long live! Long live!"

"The Orleans head!"

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Similar cheers could be heard everywhere in the military camp of the Britannia Army stationed in northern Orleans.

Just now, a messenger from Orleans came to the camp of the Britannia army in despair.

He explained to Su Cheng the purpose of his visit - all the defenders of Orleans decided to surrender, and asked the Britannian army to come to receive the surrendered soldiers tomorrow morning, and asked Su Cheng to treat all the surrendered soldiers and citizens of Orleans well.

Su Cheng naturally agreed to this request without hesitation.

After all - he didn't intend to do anything to Orleans.

Even if the messenger did not add the request of "please treat the surrendered soldiers and citizens of Orleans well", Su Cheng would not inflict any atrocities on the surrendered soldiers and citizens of Orleans.

There was no need to hide such good news. Under Su Cheng's instruction, the news that "Orleans surrendered" spread throughout the army at a very fast speed.

Originally, all the soldiers were ready to suffer a lot before they could take Orleans.

In the end, they took Orleans without firing a single arrow.

There was a feeling of "saving their lives", so the morale of the soldiers was unprecedentedly high.

Their cheers even reached Orleans.

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The next morning, Su Cheng personally led the army to line up in the northern wilderness of Orleans, ready to receive the surrendered troops of Orleans.

The north gate of Orleans was wide open.

The first person to leave the city through the wide-open north gate was an old man who was not wearing armor or carrying any weapons.

The old man was wearing ordinary cloth and standing on an open carriage specially used for loading goods.

Under the guidance of the coachman, the old man drove towards the Britannia army in front.

Behind the old man were teams of "original defenders" of Orleans who were no longer wearing any armor or holding any weapons.

The expressions on the faces of these soldiers were different.

Some were dejected.

Some were expressionless.

Some sobbed secretly.

Some simply cried loudly.