Perhaps in Aranza's view, this was a bitter irony - reality and his inflated confidence misaligned at an unexpected moment, and then opened an irreparable distance, and then gave it a profound irony. Aranza thought he had already
He controlled everything and let things develop as he wished, but reality struck him again and again: once was Jiexi leaving his world suddenly; and this time, when he thought he had a winning ticket, the winning ticket suddenly disappeared from his hands.
There is no contrast between the two, but a reverse progression that Aranza cannot accept. Because once, Aranza blindly thought he had control of everything; and once, Aranza blindly thought he had control over everything.
Already in control of everything. Last time he was growing, this time he was almost convinced that his branches could spread all over the sky.
Then, the cold wind that suddenly blew had a new smell.
It was a mockery - a mockery of Aranza's ambitious appetite and the rusty knife in his hand. He was not qualified to use this knife to cut off a bite of meat, but he thought he was asking for trouble, and the result was nothing but a meal.
Before the knife could cut through the meat, it was awkwardly broken in full view of everyone.
To put it bluntly, they were laughing at his overestimation.
The wind suddenly became cold.
"Hahaha!"
As expected, there were several wild and sarcastic laughs from the city wall not far away. Payton and others obviously saw the truth. There were no reinforcements from the Norland Army on the arrogant large airships. After they appeared arrogantly,
But he could only stop in place in embarrassment, and his original arrogance was taken away by Payton and others, and he became unscrupulous in the ears of Aranza and others.
As if he was afraid that Aranza would not be angry, Peyton raised his voice without saying anything: "Hey! Sir Aranza, may I ask where Noland's reinforcements are? Haha, haha!"
"Damn flies!"
Aranza's gaze slanted and fell on the city wall not far away. However, Peyton Redfield, the leader of the rebels, wisely closed his mouth and blocked the mouth of Pierce, who was still laughing next to him.
But there was still a look of ridicule on his face. When Aranza withdrew his gaze, the other party even deliberately raised his voice and said to the adjutant beside him: "Haha! It seems that the relationship between the Norland Army and their reinforcements is not
Very good, I thought there was a stick to hit, but it’s a pity, let’s ask our soldiers to go back and rest... Haha!”
"Ha ha!"
The adjutant and Pierce both laughed in agreement, but the former laughed in a witty way, while the latter laughed in a self-reassuring way.
At this time, around Aranza, the members of the Thorn Mercenary Group and the soldiers of the Norland Army, although they did not say a word, their eyes quietly fell on Aranza. Sympathy, doubts, despair, soul
This is the first time that the sensing ability has fed back so many completely different emotions to Aranza from various soul points.
"Your Highness the Prince...I..."
The laughter and curses on the city wall made Milok gnash his teeth, but when his anger was suppressed to a certain level, he suddenly lost his temper. He still knelt on the ground, slightly raised his head and glanced at Alanza Milok, whose expression was constantly changing.
Realizing that Aranza was struggling, or thinking about countermeasures, he could only stop mid-sentence.
The face of the white-haired boy sometimes showed an inexplicable smile, and sometimes was extremely gloomy. He was indeed thinking about countermeasures, and every countermeasure would affect his psychology. The only thing that could be determined was the various things that were echoing in him at this moment.
All emotions are negative.
Hancock stood behind Aranza at some point and said: "Just kill these self-righteous guys!"
"oh?"
Her words seemed to give Aranza a breakthrough, so the young man raised his eyebrows and said: "Well, I remember you didn't agree with me doing this before... Massacre will put us on the opposite side of morality, and it will also give some
The family’s reason for dealing with us.”
"There's so much nonsense!"
Hancock stared at Aranza with dissatisfaction, and she helped him out. Unexpectedly, he unexpectedly started questioning her. Hancock snorted and continued: "Do you have any other choice now?"
"I……"
"I don't agree with Mr. Hancock's approach!"
The person who interrupted Aranza was Old Follett. He was wrapped in exquisite full-body armor and walked towards Aranza step by step. Every step he took was as calm and steady as his character. After Old Follett stood still, he looked towards the surrounding Nuo
The Rand soldier shouted: "What are you doing here? Go back to your posts!"
Aranza's eyes moved away from Hancock and fell on old Follett. In his eyes, the old butler who had been forced by Goethe's grandfather seemed to be a product left over from his father's time, old-fashioned and rigorous.
,Although Old Follett's opinions are correct in most cases, Aranza does not like to adopt them, because after walking the same road several times with the same pace, even if the pace is correct and standard, it is just mediocre.
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The same approach may not lead to the same legend.
Thinking of this, Aranza's heart suddenly beat wildly, and a crazy decision seemed to surface in his heart. But Aranza suppressed this feeling and asked old Follett: "Well, Grandpa Follett, what are you doing?"
What do you think?"
"His Royal Highness Prince!"
Old Follett emphasized the title, as if to remind Aranza of his identity. He thought for a while and said: "In any case, it is absolutely irrational to use the power of the sanctuary of you and Mr. Hancock, oh,
In the past few years, haven’t there been many incidents where some strong men from the Sanctuary have been jointly strangled? Killing a battlefield, although we can achieve temporary victory, will also make us a target of public criticism!"
"Well, I know that."
Aranza responded calmly, hoping that Old Follett could give a more substantive answer.
Old Follett seemed to realize this, so he continued: "The current situation is still favorable to us. As long as we stay here for a month or two, the rebels will definitely starve! Breaking out is their only option, but we have a suspension bridge
Our advantage, as long as we guard the suspension bridge, we can win this war!"
"maybe……"
Old Follett's answer made Aranza hesitate for a while. In fact, Aranza himself had thought about such a countermeasure, but quickly rejected it in his mind. He said: "Well, it took too long. This is
The most fatal part of the countermeasures...the longer the time, the higher the chance of an accident. And..."
"And winter has arrived."
It was Hancock who took the conversation. Her face was still as arrogant as before, but there seemed to be something else in her eyes when she looked at Aranza. The corner of Hancock's mouth curled up slightly and he said: "Our camp can't stop her.
Stay out of the cold wind.”
Hearing this, Aranza and even old Follett were speechless. Cold was always the biggest enemy of the human army.
"Well," Aranza finally took the lead in breaking the silence and said, "It's a very important matter. I don't want to make a decision just like that. Let's talk about it later..."
After that, Aranza ignored the two of them, turned around and walked towards the hillside not far away. It was his favorite place to lie down and bask in the sun these past two days.
Hancock and old Follett, who stayed where they were, looked at each other.
Old Follett's eyes were not respectful because the other party was a strong man from the Holy Realm. In fact, his cloudy eyes had a bit more edge for some reason. He stared at Hancock and said: "If you are really His Highness the Prince's
Ally, I hope you will not give wrong advice to His Highness the Prince!"
However, Hancock's smile suddenly showed a hint of playfulness instead of coldness, and he said: "I have already made a 'correct' suggestion to him, but this suggestion was not adopted by him... And, old man, you
Is the tone that you are afraid of evil people bringing back children? I admit that I am not a good person, but I don’t know if your ‘His Royal Highness’ is a child.”
"Don't change the subject!"
Old Follett's face darkened, but he selectively avoided Hancock's ridicule, and changed the subject of the conversation, saying: "Humph, even if the correct suggestion is not adopted, you shouldn't give him the worst suggestion!"
Hancock chuckled, but his eyes moved to Aranza's back and said, "Old man, haven't you discovered it yet? Even if no one proposes some things, it doesn't mean that Aranza won't choose them."
And she just brought it up at the right time so that if Aranza failed, someone would take the blame for him.
At dusk that day, Aranza summoned everyone from the Thorn Mercenary Group and some officers from the Norland Army to start a long meeting on how to deal with the rebels. The meeting did not consume too much time, but ended hastily.
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Because the discussions and arguments failed to yield results, by the end of the meeting, the only opinion adopted was to first send the large airship team to Sophie City, and send Kim Gates, Elita, Li and Longlong, as well as Shou
All the Noland Army soldiers in Sophie City have been transferred here. They would rather have Sophie City be taken advantage of by others than to concentrate on solving the problem in Noland City first. Of course, it seems now that Kay
No other nobles in the state had the strength to attack Sophie City.
On the other side, the rebels' arrogance was just a show, and their atmosphere was equally tense and anxious.
There are many heavy crossbows on the walls of Noland. These heavy crossbows are all good, but Aranza destroyed all the crossbow bolts when she left, rendering the heavy crossbows useless. This also gave Peyton Redfield a
A good excuse allowed him to frequently mobilize new soldiers in the city. On the surface, he was collecting wood to make crossbows, but in fact, he used this to cover the secret of digging tunnels. This work was indeed carried out extremely secretly. Now that half of the tunnel has been dug, various private armies
Important people in the city knew nothing about it. Even Payton's son, Pierce, didn't know that a tunnel out of the city was being excavated.
Obviously, everything Payton does has an unknown secret or purpose.