Chapter 73 Routing
What to do? Surrender?
Now there are two witches lying on his bed, and he has annihilated so many church soldiers. He has become a witch's relative. Who should he surrender to?
Those are 2,700 extraordinary knights. Think about Barnett before, what level of force is that?
There are 900 top-end Barnetts, 900 high-end Barnetts, and 900 Barnetts.
There are even 5,000 infantrymen. Needless to say, they are basically the most powerful professional veterans.
It's not that the Leia royal family doesn't want to take all the imperial orders under its name, but it's that they can't afford the military expenses.
The dog head hanging in the stag room has wide eyes, silently watching everything in front of it.
There were seven or eight people present, all high-level officials of the Papal State, but they were like clay sculptures and puppets, standing still.
Nothing can be said.
After five minutes of terrible silence, Horn's gloomy voice sounded again.
"When you said this, you didn't mean to tell us that you came to accompany us to die together, right? You must still have a way out, stop hiding it."
Sissi smiled but said nothing. He just pushed the map in front of Horn and drew a line on it with charcoal.
“What does this mean?”
“We can’t escape to Black Snake Bay, but we can escape to Castle Joan of Arc where the Duke of Kush, Darnay, is. The Duke of Kush has a special status and has Without his protection, Prince Condai will not mess around.”
"Why should he protect us?"
"Well, Duke of Kush is not only a big customer of our White Mountain Monastery and the Joan Party, but also a big benefactor of His Excellency Juanno...
You have to know that the title of Duke of Kush comes from the Kush River, the ancestral land of the Thousand River Valley people."
Horn rapped the table with his knuckles and said slowly: "The Duke of Kush is willing to take such a big risk to take us in?"
Sissi used charcoal to draw a big circle on the map of the Qianhe River Valley: "Your Majesty, what happened to the Qianhe River Valley is... Crisis is also an opportunity.
The Norn kings of the Burning Castle Territory have coveted this place for a long time. What would happen if the Duke of Kush took advantage of the chaos to revolt, declared that he was a Norn, and joined the Norn Kingdom? "
"Is he really a Norn? "Grampwen asked.
"It can be, it can even be the case long ago. "
Horn nodded slightly: "I understand. "
"Then what else are you talking about? "When she heard that it was related to Dean Juanno, Madeleine's eyes lit up, "Go quickly. ”
"No, if you take the normal route to defect, you will probably be caught up and strangled by Prince Condai halfway through." Sissi refused.
“Is the line you drew on the map the road we want to take?” Horn asked, tapping the map with his finger.
Hearing this, the surrounding bishops immediately stood up, surrounded Horn, and put their heads up.
But when they saw the route, they all took a breath.
"Mr. Sissi, are you serious?" Picking up the map, Chilvis, an old guy who had always been tenacious, could no longer hold his nerve.
The route that Sissi had drawn had to pass through two dead ends, the Wild Spider Forest and the Black Bone Swamp.
“I know a small road with a total length of about five hundred miles. Someone walked through it ten years ago.
But if only a few of us go on the road, I’m afraid it won’t work and a lot of guards will be needed. "
Horn had a bad feeling in his heart: "How many are needed?"
Sissi raised five fingers.
"Fifty?"
"Five hundred."
"Five hundred? You mean five hundred!" Horn stood up from the chair, "You want me to Bring all the villagers?"
"Not all villagers, it is best to be young and strong. The dangers along the way cannot be overcome by relying on the number of people. The old, weak, sick and disabled are a burden.
Too little is not enough, too much is not necessary. The last time it was recorded that the fleeing Homer mercenary group took this road, 514 people entered and 114 left.”
"In other words, you want me to give up part of my old age and weakness."
Facing Horn's eyes, Sissi straightened her back and replied frankly: "This is an inevitable sacrifice."
“How can you say such a thing?” Madeleine slapped the table and stood up, “Do you know what will happen to those who are left behind?”
Ten thousand betrayals It seems a bit unreasonable to capture only dozens of bandit heads.
Especially for Prince Condai, the famous first knight of Leia, victory with dozens of heads means loss.
"I know, but there's nothing we can do." Sissi turned her head away and looked at the square tiles on the ground, "Maybe you can use other words to deceive them, some special event, at least before they die, they will still be happy."< br>
"You idiot!" Madeleine rushed over and wanted to grab Sissi's collar, but was stopped by the people around her. "Quiet!" Horn shouted as he knocked on the table again with the papal scepter.
Everyone’s eyes were focused on Horn.
"Your Majesty, what do you think?"
It's not that Horn can't bear to pull five hundred human shields on the road to escape.
But there is a key point that cannot be ignored, that is, the people left behind must be compatriots, relatives and friends who are human shields.
You must know that Horn's golden body is appointed by the son of Myrcella, which means that as long as you follow him, you will not fail.
These villagers have always followed whoever wins, and they will obey Horn's words, just because Horn is the winner appointed by the Holy Father and the Lord.
If he takes off this layer of the emperor's new clothes and lets some of the villagers die, it is tantamount to saying that Horn is not invincible, which will leave a flaw in the lie.
But when the lie is exposed and the illusion that Myrcella's son is invincible is exposed, the angry villagers can tear Horn to pieces.
So, either Horne goes alone or together, there is no second option!
"What will happen if everyone goes together?"
"Do you want everyone to go together? I don't understand why you want to do that."
"You just Tell me, can you?”
"It's possible, but with all due respect, I don't think this will improve the probability of survival. I have to remind you that if Duke Kush sees too many..."
"Okay, That's it."
"But..."
"I'll do it if I say so!"
Slammed the table hard. Horn's veins popped out, and the water glass on the table tipped over.
The water glass spun around on the table, and the water flowed down the corner of the table.
“I don’t want you to feel it, I want me to feel it, do you understand?” Suppressing his inexplicable anger, Horn looked directly into Sissi’s eyes with cold eyes.
After a moment of dead silence.
Sissi took half a step back, faced the gazes of others present, and performed a skirt-lifting ceremony expressionlessly: "Okay, if you insist."
After the meeting , all the bishops and senior officials left worriedly, and Grampvin walked side by side with Sissi to meet his wife Dia.
As Grampwin walked, he noticed that Sissi's brows were gradually furrowed and her eyes were blank, as if she was thinking about something.
"Mr. Sissi, His Majesty the Pope is usually very friendly. Today, maybe things were too sudden and he lost his temper."
"I'm not thinking about this, I'm running a business The 'courtesy' I encountered was much harsher than this."
"What are you thinking about?"
Sissi raised her head: "This papal crown of yours. Has it always been like this? ”
"What has always been like this?" Grampwin didn't understand, "What is it like?"
Sissi did not answer, but continued to walk forward until she reached the end of the corner of the corridor.
The sun shines in from the flower window, making the dust particles in the air sparkle.
Standing in the dancing sunlight, seeing no one around, Sissi turned around and faced Grampwin seriously: "Don't you think his behavior and thoughts are strange?"
"Strange, why is it strange? His Majesty the Holy Sun Sun has always been like this."
"Yes, that's it." Sissi clapped her hands and he looked around, "You all preconceived that he was different, so you ignored his strangeness.
I asked before , before his little U-turn magic, he was an ordinary farmer
If you look at it from an ordinary person's perspective, you will find that his speech is weird, his behavior is abnormal, and..."
"Hey, hey, you don't understand Shengsun, so don't jump to conclusions!"
Hurry to interrupt Sissi, Grampwen Khan was about to come down.
The Holy Grandson can get through to the Holy Father. When he goes to bed one day and asks his grandpa and mother, something will happen.
"I don't mean to say that I have any objections to him. He is a kind and smart leader." He frowned and muttered as he walked: "But he always gives me a feeling of déjà vu...but what is it..."
(End of this chapter)