A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 105. P. 105

After bowing to Prince Garland, the middle-aged slave stood up and took out the one who had been provoking trouble among the slaves not long ago without saying a word.

When these people sneaked into the slave group and flew right and left and used their three-inch tongue to instigate slaves to make trouble, he had been watching with cold eyes and silently remembering these people in his heart.

A dozen other slaves also did the same behavior as him. Together with him, they took out all the troublemakers and handed them to the city guard.

Although these ten or so slaves were not of good origin, they were all capable people, and they were extremely appealing and influential among the slaves.

They used this method to show their determination to the prince.

Coming here, although Kayhus did not speak from beginning to end, he had an unexpected gain before he left. These prosecutors were obviously in the same group as the dozen or so people he had caught before.

So, he unceremoniously took over these guys and took them back to interrogate them together.

At this point, the downline that a certain man had finally bought in the city was almost completely wiped out.

The arrangements for these tens of thousands of slaves were handed over to a general. Gallan did not stay here any more, and turned straight back to the ruling government.

Only on the way back, Seth frowned and worried all the way.

As soon as he stepped into the ruling government and the guards who followed retreated, he finally couldn’t help but speak.

“Prince, you want to liberate the slaves. This will cause dissatisfaction among many people, and those people will probably make noise again in the city…”

He hesitated and stopped.

Throughout the ages, one or two people have occasionally put forward the slogan of emancipating slaves.

However, none of these people were attacked by aristocratic officials and merchants who were slave owners, and ended in a miserable end.

After all, to slave owners, slaves are their private wealth. If anyone dares to take their belongings from them, they will definitely want to kill you madly.

Now, if the prince wants to liberate the slaves of Tozes City, he will definitely encounter fierce opposition from the masters of those slaves.

Garlan glanced at the worried Seth.

He said: “I never said that I would free slaves.”

“Huh? But? You just clearly…”

Gallan shook his head.

Although it is known from the history of the world where he came that slavery will die out sooner or later, it is a long-term process and it is not possible to emancipate it immediately by shouting to emancipate the slaves.

In this world at this stage, as long as anyone shouts the slogan of emancipating slaves and abolishing slavery, that person will immediately become a public enemy in the world.

Everyone will attack them in groups, leaving them dead without a place to bury them.

He is still not going to do such a stupid thing.

“Now is a special decision made under special circumstances.”

Gallan answered.

If under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible to ask the merchant nobles of Tozes to give up their slaves, even if he is a prince.

However, the current situation is–

The biggest slave owners, that is, consuls, principal officials, and big business people all committed serious crimes, and sooner or later their property would be confiscated, and they couldn’t object to them when they were in prison.

As for the younger slave owners, the city of Tozes is about to be captured by the pirates, and they are trembling like frightened birds.

“Do you think that slaves are important to those people, or their lives are important?”

Gallan said.

“Just tell them to give me all the slaves and they will survive. Do you think they will object?”

If they could trade their slaves for their own safety and preserve the property in their city, they would beg Garlan to accept their slaves and would be grateful to Garlan.

Moreover, even if this matter spreads out after the war, other nobles will not be too sensitive to it.

Because they all know that this method is not universal, it is just to keep the special response measures made by the city.

Seth thought that the prince was right, so he was relieved.

So, as soon as he changed his mind, he immediately began to think about how to use these slaves in war.

Thinking about it, he frowned.

“His Royal Highness, you just said that killing a pirate is credited, but in the war, most of the slaves can only assist and do auxiliary soldiers. They may not kill the pirates by themselves. Come, their credit calculations are probably a bit…”

“Oh, that’s just what I said casually, just to make an analogy. As for how to calculate the specific combat merits, how much worthy of a pirate, that’s all for you to arrange.”

“Uh.”

Seth choked at Garlan’s tone of pushing things to him lightly.

The blond knight next to him also followed up.

“If the prince decides everything, what do we subordinates do?”

Seth laughed bitterly, but he had to admit that Kayjos was right.

Everything has to be decided by the prince, what to do with him.

“I understand.” He said, “I will discuss this with everyone now.”

Although arranging those slaves is a very troublesome thing, I am afraid it will be busy all night long.

However, not only was he able to withdraw nearly a thousand soldiers guarding the slaves, but he also gained tens of thousands of new manpower. I have to say that his pressure at the moment, who was worried about the shortage of manpower not long ago, has somewhat slowed down.

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One night passed and the sun rose.

As soon as daybreak, the pirates began to attack the city of Tozes with full confidence.

Judging from the situation of yesterday’s battle, the manpower in the city of Tozes was seriously insufficient.

So today, the pirate leader Basha decided to send more troops to attack the city, crushed by numbers, and captured the city of Tozes in one fell swoop.

However, when the pirates, which were nearly twice the number of yesterday, were killed again, they were shocked to find that the number of soldiers guarding the city had doubled the number of yesterday.

The loopholes that were originally relatively small have been completely blocked today.

As soon as he saw the situation on the city wall today, Basha’s face immediately became ugly.

Especially when he heard the retired subordinates say that most of the newly added people were branded on them, as if they were slaves, his face turned blue.

That waste in the city!

He scolded fiercely in his heart.

Then, he gritted his teeth and waved his hand to make the pirates under his command madly pressed up.

Fight!

The longer the delay, the more dangerous he will be. He must take down Tozes City as soon as possible.

Seth, who was standing on the city wall, shouted constantly, directing everywhere.

Now that there is a lot of manpower, the front on the wall is no longer as precarious as before.

The slaves, divided into nearly a hundred teams, were distributed everywhere. Their main task was to prevent the pirates from climbing up, pushing away the ladder, and prodding the climbing pirates with spears, and pouring boiling water and oil on the pirates on the city wall. Torches.

It is the well-trained soldiers who really fight the pirates who seize the opportunity to climb up.

But the slaves are not worried, because each slave team has a team leader leading them, telling them that even if they didn’t kill the pirates by themselves, the team rate would take their credit.

Among the slaves, the most conspicuous was a slave squad of less than a hundred people.

The slaves in that team were all round, sturdy, and powerful-most of them were slave gladiators. In order to entertain the noble merchants, they usually had to fight fierce beasts or fight each other.

These slave gladiators slain from death are much more fierce than ordinary soldiers.

This team is led by the middle-aged slave who talked to Garland yesterday, and they are constantly shuttled across the wall. Wherever the battle is fierce and where there are many pirates climbing up, they will kill them. They seem to have inexhaustible strength. The same, they can be seen everywhere.

Every time they kill a pirate, they will cut off the piece of skin with the pirate tattoo on the pirate’s arm, and put the bloody human skin into the bag around the waist as a proof of their military exploits.

Therefore, although the number of pirates attacked today is twice as much as yesterday and is even more fierce than yesterday, but due to the tens of thousands of slaves who helped defend the city and the group of powerful slave gladiators, the battle situation turned from yesterday’s side to the other. It can be flat.

The two sides are deadlocked on the battlefield.

And this is enough to make Seth and other generals overjoyed.

After all, everyone thinks it can’t last a day, and it’s been two days now.

There are still two days.

They thought.

In two days, the reinforcements the prince said will come.

They have to survive these two days desperately!

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The interior of Tozes is still very quiet.

In the room upstairs of the ruling government, Garlan was standing by the window, looking at the battlefield in the distance.

The moist sea breeze blowing from the sea blew his long golden hair that fell on his side neck, and the wind also faintly carried a breath of blood from the city wall.

Even the shouts of killing, roars, and screams faintly came from the wind and passed into his ears.

Garlan raised his eyes, looked away from the battlefield of the city wall, and looked at the endless sea.

His eyes seemed to have crossed the sea, looking at a distant place.

I have done everything I can do.

Tal.

It’s up to you next.

You must bring back Ailson’s reinforcements.

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On the other side, Tal, who was thought of by Garlan, had already rushed to Elson Island.

On the afternoon of the day the pirates attacked the city, he did not succeed in persuading Gallan to leave, but instead was assigned an important task by Gallan.

When he was ordered in danger, he was a little frightened, and he had no confidence in this important task.

However, when the prince said that he believed he would do it, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Even if he died, he would not fail the prince’s trust!

At that time, before the pirates had time to encircle the gate on the land, he broke through the gate under the protection of dozens of guards.

Then, rushing all the way, making a big circle on the land, riding a gallop all night, and rushing to the small port of the nearest fishing town at dawn, hired a small fast boat, and hurried out to sea.

After sailing for a day and a night, Taal and his team finally arrived at the only port open to the public on Elson Island.

Elson State does not allow men to enter the country, and this port is specially set aside for the purpose of foreign transactions. However, because of the hostile or ignorant attitude of the countries around it, this trading port is not prosperous, shops are sparsely populated, there are not many people, and there are only a few merchant ships moored in the port for trading.

When Tal arrived on the island, it was almost noon. As soon as Tal got ashore, he started to go directly to the manager of this port and asked to see the queen. He was thought to be mentally ill, and the other party almost blasted him out.

It wasn’t until Tal showed the silver earrings that the female manager saw the unique pattern of Elson on it, and then she reported the matter to it suspiciously.

After Taer waited anxiously outside for more than an hour, news finally came from above.

A team of Elson female soldiers came out and took him in alone, and the other guards could only stay in the harbor.

Elson is a small island country consisting of a large Elson Island and adjacent small islands.

The palace where the queen lives is not magnificent and large, but the shape is exquisite, and the interior decoration is also exquisite and beautiful. Since the palace was built, only a few dozen men have been able to enter it. However, Taer, who had this rare opportunity, was in no mood to visit the palace, his chubby body circled in the reception room, waiting anxiously.

There was a brisk footstep, and the door opened.

Female General Elson in a light purple leather armor appeared in front of Tal.

She looked disappointed when she saw Tal.

When the female soldier below reported that Aaron Landis had an envoy coming, she thought it was the blond knight she was thinking about.

However, as soon as they returned to Elson Island with the little queen’s forefoot, the little fat man followed her back foot.

Seeing his anxious look, I didn’t know what was urgent.

“General Vinelle, I don’t know about my request to see the queen…”

Vinelle nodded and said, “Come with me, the queen is very grateful to you for helping the little queen, and promised to summon you.”

Following the general Elson to the palace hall, Tal finally saw Queen Elson.

The queen was tall and tall, and did not wear any gorgeous long dresses. Instead, she wore a strong dress with a long sword on her waist and a long cloak behind her. There was a bit of awe-inspiring majesty between her eyebrows.

With arms outstretched, she was sitting on the throne boldly, bravely and brilliantly, and at first glance it made people think that this was the outstanding demeanor of the legendary Elson warrior.

The queen also spoke simply and neatly, pointing straight to the center.

“The messenger of Aaron Landis, I am deeply grateful for your help to my daughter.”

She asked straightforwardly.

“You rushed over to see me so eagerly. Is it because you have encountered difficulties and need my help?”

Seeing Queen Elson’s words so freely, Tal no longer scribbled around, and quickly explained the current situation in Tozes City.

Then, he explained to the queen that the prince asked Elson to send a navy to rescue the city of Tozes.

Queen Elson pondered for a moment, then shook her head.

“Feel sorry.”

She said, “I can only refuse Prince Aaron Landis’ request.”

“Your Majesty—”

“The messenger of Aaron Landis, I am very grateful to your prince for saving my daughter. If, as a mother, in order to repay the prince’s kindness, I will not hesitate to go to the battlefield for him. ”

The queen interrupted Tal and looked at Tal scorchingly, her eyes bright.

Her voice and words are as determined and determined as her face.

“But, as the queen of Elson, I cannot send my soldiers to the battlefield just because of the kindness of Prince Aaron Landis who saved my daughter.”

“But, Your Majesty, if Tozes City falls, hundreds of thousands of people in the city will be massacred by pirates.”

Taer said eagerly.

“Even if I ask you to have mercy on the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in that city…”

“The mission of General Elson is to protect Elson’s people. Their existence is not to fight to death for my personal kindness or feelings-let alone sacrifice their lives for the people of other countries.”

Queen Elson flatly refused again.

It can be seen that the queen is a tough personality and decisive person.

Once she has made a decision, there is no room for change.

“Emissary of Aaron Landis, if you are willing to stay in Elson, or the prince is willing to come to Elson, I will protect your safety.”

“However, there is no need to mention the matter of letting our troops go to sea to rescue the city of Tozes.”

The last word fell silent, and the queen stood up.

With a flick of his cloak behind him, he simply turned around and left.

Tal stood there, with his mouth open, but speechless, he could only watch Queen Elson’s back and disappear before his eyes.

If Elson’s reinforcements cannot be brought back to Tozes, then, the prince… the prince he will…

Thinking of the trusting look in the prince’s eyes when he sent him away.

At this moment, Taer felt unprecedented despair.