Chapter 1182: Escape Is Shameful and Useless

You can already feel a bit of heat in Estalia in May.

The Twilight sisters are actually not very interested in leaving Britannia, and the generals and bureaucrats of Ryan's direct line are actually not in favor of Devonshire taking the risk of leaving the country.

However, in this matter, the Green Knight, who has always been very strict, spoke up. The demigod of the kingdom and the embodiment of knightly virtues said that a boy must grow into a man and must be tempered by the flames of war.

Frederick on the other side of the mountain is only 19 years old this year and is already an outstanding general who has played more than 20 battles.

On the back of the forest dragon, Devonshire looked down.

I saw dense crowds of people crowded together, fleeing along the road towards the north. Horse-drawn carriages, bullock carts, handcarts and even trailers had completely blocked the road. Human beings were crowding each other and scrambling for the first place.

how many people? Devon Hill couldn't figure it out, because the long road and the crowds were almost endless, and Estalia, which was located on the plain, naturally had not only roads to pass through, but more crowds on both sides of the road.

"I can feel the fear of many humans. These people have lost their courage to face powerful enemies." Nestela looked at the panic-stricken humans with compassion: "They must regain their faith. "

"Otherwise, there is only death, or it is more terrible than death." Arohan said.

"The plague is spreading here." Nestela added: "If we don't take action as soon as possible, the only outcome will be destruction."

"Destruction is not bad. Then we can have a big fight." Arohan licked his lips.

"You must control yourself, Alohan!"

"You must control your compassion, too, Nestra!"

Devonshire had now learned to block out the sisters' habitual quarrels, and the young baron directed his full attention downwards.

Through the monocular, I saw a group of young couples pulling a pair of children, fleeing in panic. Perhaps all their wealth was the things on the carriage behind them. In this chaotic era, the husband had to take out his weapons. --Bay swords and muskets were used to drive away anyone who coveted the family's property. The mother sat on the carriage and looked at everyone with vigilant eyes.

Only the boy focused his gaze on the sky, and he soon made a discovery.

Groups of falcon cavalry, a group of Britannia Royal Pegasus knights and forest dragons flew across the sky!

The Bretons are coming! We are saved!

Cheers echoed in the crowd. Seeing this scene, Duke Casson, who was high in the sky, couldn't help but wave his hands, and he immediately received more cheers.

But Devon Hill couldn't show any smile. The Baron knew very well that their small number would not make any difference at all. Moreover, the Twilight Sisters were willing to come just for the sake of Ryan and him. .

As for Duke Casson, his team of Royal Pegasus knights is indeed powerful, but this group of people... do not regard themselves as their masters. They just drop by to see the excitement, and it can even be said that to a certain extent, they are here to inspect in advance. of his own new territory.

No matter how loyal Duke Casson is to his father and his family, he is still a knight and aristocrat after all... Devonhill couldn't stop smiling bitterly in his heart.

Father, your prestige and strength are really too high, too high, too high. Your personal prestige completely exceeds the prestige of the kingdom. It is you who everyone obeys, worships, and identifies with. Not the throne!

This group of airmen headed towards Magritte, the actual capital of Estalia.

Two more days passed before the group finally arrived at Magritte.

At this time, this once great city was already in chaos. Lucio Sungazer, Duke of Magritte, and his successor, Baron Felipe Sungazer, had already disappeared without knowing where they were.

In Magritte's State Guesthouse, the dragon landed, and the Royal Pegasus knights lined up in two rows. A group of knights welcomed Devonshire's arrival. A square table was placed in the middle of the State Guesthouse.

On the other side of the table sat Enzo Moretti, Grand Master of the Order of Magritte.

If anyone still remembers it, Enzo Moretti once had contact with Ryan. When Ryan came to look for the Poseidon Trident, he had reached a truce agreement with Ryan and others.

"My Baron, at this time, you have come to Magritte with such a small number of people. We really don't know whether we should be happy or what other expressions should we use to welcome you." Enzo Moretti and more than a dozen people Years ago, Bi was a little older, but still very energetic. Behind him, a group of Magritte knights in gorgeous armors lined up in a long row. The Grand Master spread his hands: "As far as I know, the letter for help has been sent long ago. It’s all been sent out.”

"I'm here to specifically assess the situation." Devonhill clasped his hands and the baron sat in his seat. He looked very serious: "Listen to me, Grand Master Moretti, we have also encountered this situation in history. This was the case during the Red Flame Expedition and the Arabi Jihad. We also worked together to fight against the enemy. Arabi’s desert people once forced Magritte into a desperate situation. Yes, the situation is very bad now, but we We still won the final victory, right?"

"But the situation is different this time. My Baron, do you understand the situation?" Grand Master Enzo Moretti and the knights of the Magritte Order behind him all looked at Devin Hill with strange eyes. , this baron who is so young that he looks very immature.

"Situation, what's the situation?" Devin Hill read a different taste from the face of Master Enzo Moretti.

Enzo Moretti hesitated for a moment, as if he was weighing something, but then he smiled self-deprecatingly, and then told Devin Hill the news: "Okay, okay, actually I can't keep it secret for long, let me tell you Well, my baron, in fact, His Excellency Duke Lucio Sungazer, and his heir, His Excellency Felipe Sungazer, have all died in the battle!"

"What?!!!" Devon Hill's eyes widened.

Yes, the ruler of Magritte, the most important city in Estalia, the Sun Chaser... ahem, the main bloodline of the Sun Watcher family has been severed.

As mentioned earlier, after learning that the "strange beastmen" had destroyed Tobalo, Magritte's Duke Lucio Sunwatcher and his two sons decided to mobilize all Magritte's troops to support him. Unfortunately, the city fell halfway and was attacked by Skaven.

In the rebellious army, the Knights of Magritte, the Flying Eagle Knights and the Knights of the Spear of Justice fought bloody battles to protect the Duke and his family. However, they were outnumbered. In the rebellious army, both Lucio and Felipe were killed. Killed by the Cavan Warlord, the difference is that Lucio was struck by lightning from the Skaven Engineer Warlock and his whole body was burned to black charcoal, while Felipe was cut into pieces by "a cutter like a hamster wheel" Several paragraphs.

The arrogant Duke Lucio tried to establish his prestige and merit by "conquering the beastmen" but failed. Instead, he and his two sons died in the battle.

In order to prevent the resistance from completely collapsing, Enzo Moretti, Grand Master of the Knights of Magritte, had no choice but to conceal the news of his death.

The Southern Kingdom still believes that it was attacked by "special beastmen".

Of course, due to the desperate resistance of the knights and the death of all members of the Duke's personal guard in this battle, the Skaven also suffered huge losses and temporarily stopped to rest (and held several large human flesh banquets by the way).

"Very good." After Devonshire hesitated briefly, Baron regained his composure. He pondered for a minute: "Isn't this just right? My great mentor, you have taken over the entire city, including all finances, military, Order, am I right?”

"Yes, for the time being, we can't hide it for long." Enzo nodded.

"So for so long, tell us, tell us Brittanians, how do you, and these Knights of Magritte, plan to fight back?" Devonshire said softly: "I need to hear the plan."

"Plan? No plan." The great mentor spread his hands and tilted his head.

"No plan?!" Devonshire first stretched his head forward, and the baron opened his mouth, and finally even laughed: "Ha~ God, don't tell me, the knight brothers who have experienced the Arabi Jihad Have they actually degraded to this point?"

"Listen, our country is also facing a huge threat now. Thousands of Norscan longships are constantly attacking our northern shore. Within the territory, beasts and greenskins frequently appear. Even the palace, everyone is worried about whether to form an army. Come to support your arguments. The virtues of chivalry bind us, but there is no doubt that the virtue of defending our homeland is based on the spirit of chivalry. If we can't even protect our own homeland, how can we reach out to you? Where's the helping hand?" Devon Hill looked embarrassed, with an expression of "I'm doing this for your own good", and said words that were righteous but actually baseless.

Nestela, who was standing behind Devon Hill, almost laughed. This man spoke exactly like his mother, Queen Surya.

But Alohan had a cold expression on her face, and she had a headache thinking of the Green Knight, a stern mentor.

"Listen, my baron, we really want to fight back. Of course we don't want to lose our city and our country, but the previous defeat has caused us to lose our capital. Only 8,000 of the 20,000-man army survived, and in the end we returned There are less than 2,000 people who Magritte is willing to defend!" Enzo closed his eyes in anger: "Every sword in the city has been taken away, how can we rely on defense? With more than a thousand swords in the warehouse Stabbing swords, spears and shields? Are they relying on the grandfather-level artillery on our city walls that has been around for decades or even hundreds of years? Or are they relying on organized militia? I checked the military camp, and there are not even two hundred sets of breastplates in it!"

Devin Hill was stunned.

Only Duke Casson nodded slightly. He knew the situation in Estalia. To put it simply, Estalia has been at peace for too long, too long, too long. It has never been experienced here since the Arabi Jihad. Through the war.

In Estalia, the army is closer to an honor guard, and the martial arts among the people is extremely weak. Even the popular fencing skills are trained more as a "performance" and "competition" rather than an actual combat event.

The most terrible thing is that the Estalians have a habit.

They never wear armor!

The reason is simple. The raping competition is all about speed, dexterity, agility and lightness. Of course, you don’t wear armor!

Therefore, Estalia's army wears very few armors, and the number of armors in stock is extremely small.

If it weren't for the fact that the three knights, the Magritte Knights, the Flying Eagle Knights, and the Knights of the Spear of Justice, still have the habit of wearing armor, Estalia would have been defeated by a wave of Skaven and perished!

Needless to say, there is no need to talk about the issue of firearms. The 500 new firearms ordered from Noor were all lost in the previous battle. All Enzo Moretti could find was only 300 spare firearms. Due to the long-term shortage, Maintenance and maintenance, about 30% of which are not in use. Magritte has about 200 city defense artillery, most of them are grandpa style, some have not been used for hundreds of years, the most terrible thing is that Enzo checked the artillery shell warehouse .

The warehouse was full of wooden boxes, but they were all filled with stones. Only ten boxes at the door and in the corridor contained cannonballs.

Coming out of the State Guesthouse, Devonshire's face was ashen: "We don't need to stay here anymore. Let's go back and tell everyone that we are ready to snipe the Skaven army in Bilibali, and at the same time greet Estalia's army." Refugees.”

"Fortunately, we in Brittany still have someone who can take over all this with integrity."

The Bretons left just as quickly as they came, and the Twilight Sisters left behind their contribution. An aerial surprise attack, and two teams of Falcon Troopers' Kunos fired a volley to kill Ict-Claw outside the Skaven's range. After the 17 carefully designed and manufactured warpstone lightning cannons were blasted into pieces, Devonshire immediately retreated.

At the same time, Enzo Moretti, Grand Master of the Order of Magritte, officially ordered to abandon Magritte.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees came towards Britannia under the protection and supervision of the knights of the Order.

…………I am running away from the shameful and useless dividing line……

The Estalians abandoned Magritte and began to flee north.

Silver Mountains, Eternal Peak, Infinite Peak, Karaz-a-Karak, the capital of the dwarves.

A meeting of dwarf kings has just concluded.

High King Thorgrim the Grudge Bearer was so angry that he sat on the dwarf throne in the throne room, unable to recover for a long time.

He was furious at the cowardice and avoidance of the dwarves.

At this meeting of the dwarf kings, several dwarf kings actually publicly proposed an idea - to close all the dwarf cities, stay behind closed doors, and no longer pay attention to the affairs of the outside world.

Dear Granny, how did our dwarves become like this?

The High King used the most violent method to reject this issue. The dwarves must not be trapped in an isolated city and fight on their own.

However, when the High King proposed an idea, which was to abandon some unimportant dwarf fortresses and gather troops at the Eternal Peak to prepare for the final battle, he was unanimously opposed by all the dwarf kings.

Among them, Belegar was the most fiercely opposed. The King of Eight Peaks scolded Thorgrim, saying that you are not a real dwarf at all. No dwarf will abandon his homeland. If the dwarves really want to usher in their last moment, then He, Belegar, would accept it calmly instead of giving up the Eight Peaks Mountain Fortress that he had gone through so much trouble to regain just to survive.

From an emotional point of view, Thorgreen can understand Belegar's decision, but from the perspective of the dwarf's grand strategy, unity makes you strong, division makes you weak. Belegar was the first to come out to resist Thorgreen's decision, which made him unwilling to accept it. The dwarf kings who ordered the order all opposed together, especially the Butcher King, the King of Haimen Pass and the King of Torrent Pass who were the most fierce.

This ruined Thorgrin's plans, and what was worse was that the dwarf kings left in anger.

"Escape is shameful, but it is useful. Escape is shameful, but it is useless." Thorgreen sat on the throne, and the High King sighed softly: "It seems that in the next war, our Eternal Peak will only have I can rely on my own strength."

"Let them come!" Broxson, the chief engineer of the dwarves, was furious: "They will need the help of Eternal Peak, and then they will regret their rudeness today!"

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Thorgreen - The Resentment One sighed: "How is the situation of the Colossus?"

"After many debuggings, it is ready for battle, but I hope there will be some time for me to continue to fine-tune it." Bloxen nodded.

"You will get that time." The High King thought of those colossi and felt a little more confident.

Greni, Grimnir, and Valaya, thank you for leaving such a rich legacy to the dwarves.

If these colossi can be used properly, maybe... there is hope.

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