"King of Sweden! Come out quickly!" Drague shouted outside Ella's cabin, "I've brought you gold coins! It's such a big box! Come out and count it carefully, and the deal is done!"
Ella's voice came from the closed cabin; "I don't want it! Think about it carefully, Dragoue, you also ran away from the patients in Constantinier! Leave quickly, leave quickly! Just put the gold coins."
That’s it!”
"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm a dragon! How could I be infected with your human diseases?"
"Then rats can also be infected with the Black Death! Who knows if you dragons and rats are related? Go away, go away, go away!"
Drague was very angry at Ella's words: "What do you mean we are related to mice? King of Sweden, come out!"
It had been two days since Drague first came. Ella's uncle was obviously anxious to make a deal with Ella. In just one day, Drague was traveling back and forth on Constantinier's boat with Ella.
Nearly ten times. According to her uncle's request, Ella first transferred Andrea's Ligurian navy away from the Black Sea Strait to show her sincerity. Except that she herself was aboard a large merchant ship with cabins, the Black Sea Strait now only
All that was left were the pirates' small longships. Ella's uncle quickly prepared two hundred thousand nomisma and handed them to Drague to move to the army.
However, in the final confirmation stage, Ella refused to come out to see Drague.
Amy's voice came from the cabin next door: "Your Majesty, let's count it. Let the soldiers count it, or I can come out and count it..."
"It's too dangerous! And it's completely unnecessary! If the amount is not enough, Drague's heart will explode, right? Boom! She threatened me like this at the beginning! Drague, put the gold coins at the door
, and then go quickly! Don’t touch my soldiers!”
Drague felt a little helpless: "I just moved your uncle's gold coins here, and I didn't count them myself... But since you said so, I will count them as you... Please fulfill your obligations next
Commitment to lift the blockade of the Black Sea Straits.
"I know, I know! I'm very anxious here too!"
Ella will next go to the Insteria Territory to join up with the other half of her army, and capture the capital of the Island Republic before the Alemanni coalition returns for reinforcements or the Seven Hills Empire army arrives. In doing so,
One is because Ella is very angry against the island republic, and it would be difficult to understand her anger without killing Patisipachio; the other is because the Swedish pirates were involved in the war and delayed the opportunity to sow seeds.
If the Republic grabs some money, they won't be happy.
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"Then again, I'm anxious. Why is my uncle so anxious? Can't he let me look at Constantinier more?" Ella complained through the door, "It's not that Constantinier's guard is
Most of the troops are sick, will it be impossible to defend the city? Now the First Royal Field Army and the Second Royal Field Army have not even been seen, so they are so anxious to let me leave. Is he really not afraid that Constantiniya will fall? "
"First of all, the pirates are not reinforcements to Constantiniya at all! Secondly, these two royal field armies are stationed in the city on the other side of the strait. Once the Black Sea Strait is unblocked, they can arrive within a day. But if you have been stuck in
Here, they don’t know the enemy or the friend, so they can only stay where they are!”
As soon as Drague finished speaking, there was suddenly a hair-raising horn sound in the distance. Hearing the sound, Ella opened the hatch with a "bang" and rushed out: "It's Constantini.
Oh, the trumpet sound! What’s going on?”
"The Alemannic coalition must have started to attack the city. I have to rush back immediately!" Drague rushed towards the deck. "King of Sweden, please go first. The Theodosian wall is still strong. My strength is also still strong.
There is some leftover. As long as there are no accidents, I should be able to survive for a day!"
Under the city of Constantiniya, an army of more than 40,000 people gathered at this moment.
Although the Alemanni coalition has launched many general attacks on Constantiniya before, this patchwork coalition has never worked together like today: from the lord to the cook, everyone has a
Weapons, everyone looked at the Theodosian wall in front of them fiercely like hungry wolves.
They know that today's attack will be their last chance. They have penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Seven Hills Empire and have been cut off from their retreat. The plague has spread among the army and will soon make them lose the ability to fight. In the Seven Hills Empire
If they capture Constantiniya before the two field armies arrive, they will survive; if they cannot capture it, they will die sooner or later!
The Duke of Saxony and the Duke of Burgundy stood at the forefront of the siege sequence. Behind these two lords was a squad of twenty heavy infantry, with various coats of arms painted on their shields, looking at
Extremely chaotic - before joining this phalanx, some of them were brave warriors, some were noble knights, and some were even lords themselves.
For this attack, the Alemannic coalition gathered together all the warriors whose magic power reached the "natural" level, plus a few stronger "self" levels, and then barely formed this twenty-man infantry.
squad. They will serve as the vanguard in the next battle.
The Duke of Burgundy waved a gray strip of cloth in front of everyone, and then silently wrapped the coat of arms on his shield with the strip of cloth. Then, the Duke of Saxony also did the same action in front of everyone.
.Everything is self-evident. Everyone in the team imitated their example, pulling off the gray cloth strips from their robes and covering the emblems on their shields and armors.
The messy colors disappeared. Family, status, identity, grudges, positions, everything was covered by the gray cloth. Next, they will simply advance and retreat together as comrades-in-arms.
The horn of the charge sounded. Every Alemannic soldier had received the order in advance: after the horn sounded this time, there would be no more orders to withdraw troops. Climb the siege tower while it is still there; siege the city.
If the tower is gone, use ladders and ropes to climb; if there is nothing, then pile the corpses of your companions into a mountain, and climb up the Theodosian wall on the mountain of corpses!
Only one force was not organized into the siege sequence - they were stationed at the port, preparing to use the fortifications there to guard against the raids of the pirates on the sea. This force only had three thousand people, not even as many as Ayla's force.
Half. But their mission this time is not to repel the pirates, but to contain them before the coalition forces capture Constantinian. To defeat that group of brave pirates, ten thousand people may not be enough. But if the entire army is annihilated as
Assuming that three thousand people are enough for that group of pirates to kill for a long time!
In order to ensure that the soldiers did not retreat on the battlefield, the Alemannic lords even gathered all the food and grass in their respective military camps and burned them together with the Count of Piedmont's military camp.
Constantiniya has been under siege for nearly two months. And now, the final battle has begun!
