Chapter 542: Who surrenders without conditions?
Looking at the castle that was full of fire and ax marks, Galinon swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
He stretched out his hand and was about to pull the reins to stop, but was suddenly clamped down by the two attendant knights beside him.
"Can't I just drink some water?" Gallinon could hear the cowardice in his tough tone.
The two attendant knights said with a smile: "Of course, you can do whatever you want."
But their hands holding the reins of Galinon's horse had no intention of withdrawing, and Galinon became even more distressed.
He obviously had no intention of making any small moves under the nose of Prince Kong Dai from the beginning.
It was Count Sampoli who won over him. He wanted to kill two birds with one stone. One was to sit on the fence and watch, and the other was to unite to resist.
With the idea of leaving a line of insurance, he participated in the operation to communicate with Meliati and assist the Saint Sun Rebel Army.
In the end, he was caught, and he was not the mastermind!
But he couldn't even reveal the mastermind, otherwise it would probably be a big purge based on Prince Condai's temper.
In the end, he could only embark on this journey of no return in tears under the oath of Count Sampoli, "I will support you as your wife."
As for the other Hotam County nobles, they naturally "abandoned your small self and fulfilled my big self" to appease Prince Condai's anger.
The current situation of the war is undecided, so we can't rashly break up the fight.
However, as far as Gellinon was concerned, the outcome of the battle was determined—Prince Condé was about to win.
There were corpses everywhere in front of them, and the city walls were being hacked with swords and axes. As they approached, there was the sound of strings being pulled tight on the city walls...
Galinon was about to shed tears. If you have the means, you should have said it earlier. Then why do we nobles from Hotam County sit on the fence?
This intensity is not the intensity of encirclement and reinforcements at all, but the intensity of a real siege.
To be precise, the church army was indeed conducting a siege.
Just as Lacunho missed the mark on the Salvation Army's recruiting and scheduling capabilities, Horn missed a point.
He only thought that the reinforcements sent by Duke Osla were only those domestic servants, but he forgot that the territory of Gravel Plain was almost a vassal of Duke Osla.
Puccilio's younger brother Arnold had already led nearly 10,000 noble coalition troops to the northern Mound County border.
At this time, because of the incident at Innocent Dam, the nobles were monitoring possible uprisings by the shepherds, which was enough to cover up the mobilization of the army.
The so-called encirclement and reinforcements are just hoping that Meliati will think that this is a war of attrition in which they are encircling the points and calling for reinforcements.
Lacunio just wanted Meliati to think that they might still be able to rescue the gray horse knight Wayne.
Once Meliati leads his troops out of the country, facing a powerful enemy like Prince Condai, the main force will definitely come out in full force, and the rear will be 100% empty.
The aristocratic coalition in Gravel Plain can then take advantage of the situation, cut off Meliati's retreat, and completely surround her in Lujiao Township.
So there is no reason why Meliati arrived at the battlefield in ten days and then delayed for another ten days waiting for Horn to arrive.
Before Meliyati reached the battlefield, the sentry fort should have been captured.
Even if Meliati wanted to return at this time, the retreat was blocked by the coalition of gravel plain nobles, and they could only fight the Imperial Order Company with the retreat cut off.
Instead of fighting a war of attrition slowly, it is better to fight a decisive battle quickly. If the two jade weapons are not combined, it will be a big trouble.
La Cunho, unlike Arman and Mizam, never underestimates any enemy.
After learning that Meliyati had sent troops, their goal was to capture the castle before Meliyati arrived.
As the name suggests, this is just a castle that serves as a sentry, and Wien only built a circle of forts on the outside.
However, this circle of fortresses was breached in only two days in front of the command company that arrived in advance.
Now there are only 1,000 defenders in this castle, and they have to face an attack ten times that of their own enemies.
And they are not ordinary enemies, there are 1,200 people from 4 command companies, 7,500 people from 3 elite mercenary groups, plus 1,000 recruited guards and armored sergeants, and 300 local country knights.
Yes, due to the crisis of trust, Prince Condai did not bring any of the noble troops in Hotam County.
Of course, there is no need to say much about the strength of this army.
As for the three mercenary groups, the Northern Mountain Knights who had fought against them would never classify them as guards or armored sergeants.
Different from the miscellaneous mercenary groups hired by Boluo and Puzilio, these mercenary groups have all participated in the Battle of Windmill Land.
The Death Group and the Eagle Group are both strong contenders in the current mercenary market.
Although Hakuto's old club, the White Maple Mercenary Corps, is not as good as the previous two, it is still at the upper level.
These men were true veterans of many battles and were familiar with large-scale corps operations. If Prince Condai is willing to sign a hundred-year contract with them in the future, these people will smoothly become servants of the country.
If it wasn't for the purpose of luring Meliya out, just a thousand people would have been captured by these elite infantry yesterday.
The war situation was decided, and he was also dead. Galinon drank the emboldening wine in the water bag, and finally couldn't stop his tears from falling.
Why were you deceived by lard and thought that Meliati was capable of fighting the demon Horn?
"What are you here for?"
Two attendant knights holding white flags shouted loudly into the castle: "Are we here to send envoys to negotiate with you?"
"Negotiation, what's there to talk about? God bless us, we can only live and die!" The bloody response of the mountain knights gave Galinon a glimmer of hope.
But I don’t know what the people on the castle said, but they still put down a hanging basket.
"Lord Galinon, do you need us to invite you?"
Galinon wiped his tears and snorted: "No need."
Then he fell off the horse and had to hold on to the saddle to stand upright. Riding on the gondola meant death.
If there is a territorial dispute or title claiming war between ordinary lords, there is also the custom of not killing envoys and knights to redeem themselves.
But the intensity between Meliati and the church can even be regarded as a heretical holy war.
Moreover, Prince Condai gave Guerinon the task of forcing the gray horse knight Venn to surrender, but he did not have the power to promise any conditions.
Then this is nonsense, isn't it just sending him to die?
Who is the Knight of the Gray Horse? He is a subordinate of the old Duke, Meliaty’s swordsmanship teacher, and a titled knight!
How could he surrender?
The hanging basket slowly rose into the air, and his body swayed with the hanging basket. Gallinon felt that his soul was also rising into the sky with the hanging basket.
Being escorted by several soldiers, the crying Galinon was even in a daze and was sent to the general's room.
"Are you the messenger of Charles?"
He opened his blurry tearful eyes, but saw a handsome middle-aged knight with a sad face on the main seat.
The knight had a bandage on his left hand and was looking him up and down. He was probably the knight on the gray horse, Wayne, who was famous for his handsomeness.
The middle-aged bearded man next to him looked familiar to Galinon, but he didn't recognize who he was.
After the bearded man whispered a few words to the handsome knight, Wayne was startled for a moment, then looked at him with a smile: "Are you the unlucky Galinon? You were imprisoned for dealing with the Saint Sun Rebels?"
Galinon's sobbing voice suddenly stopped. He was not well-known enough for the titled knight to recognize him at a glance.
"It's me, Seisinger." The bearded man spoke, "Gellinon, do you still know me?"
Galinon was stunned. When he built the castle and palace, the wood supplier he found was Sechinger. Wasn't he a noble from North County? How did you get here?
But now that he is about to die, how can he still find the time to explore these things.
Galinon tried to stop crying, but the tears couldn't stop falling. He choked and said, "I'm here to persuade you to surrender."
"Well, what next?" The knight on the gray horse waved his hand and asked the soldiers who were watching and laughing to go out first, leaving only Sechinger, Wayne and Galinon.
"No more."
"There are more, there must be more."
"It's really gone."
"Let me ask you, are there no conditions?" Wayne lowered his voice.
"No, no."
"Who surrenders without conditions?" Wayne's eyes widened. "You didn't take all the benefits you gave me as kickbacks, did you?"
"Huh?"
Gellinon and Sechinger exclaimed in unison, their tears and smiles retracted.
Seitzinger looked at Wayne as if he were meeting him for the first time.
"There is an old saying in the El Empire that those who understand the changes in things are the heroes." Wayne waved his hand, "I already know that we will definitely lose, not only this castle, but also the entire battle situation.
If this is the case, then why go against the will of the Holy Father?
Go back and tell Prince Condai that I want the title of earl, fifty beauties, and one thousand gold pounds! ”
(End of chapter)