A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 201. Chapter 201

Bright sunlight fell through the skylight into the administration room and on the face of the young man who was sitting on the chair by the window with his eyes closed.

He propped his cheek with one hand, leaned his body slightly, and made a steady breathing sound, as if he was taking a nap.

The shadows falling from the slender eyelashes were reflected on the handsome and sharp face, and the thin lips were pressed tightly, giving people a sharper feeling.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes suddenly.

The golden-red hue came out from the gaps in the pitch-black hair.

At that moment, it seemed that the sunlight falling on his face was sucked into these deep and gloomy pupils.

The moment he opened his eyes, the sound of his originally steady breathing seemed to be slightly disturbed.

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The dark endless night…

It seems that the weird wind that will never stop carrying countless people’s crying and wailing…

The land of Aaron Landis was shrouded in darkness.

The heroic king fell in a small room, under the poison|pill that someone he trusted personally handed him.

The blood vomiting from his mouth dyed the soft screen by the window red.

He fell before the betrayer in pain and helplessness.

The young crown prince died in the rebellion.

The sharp arrow shot from behind him pierced the boy’s chest.

He fell from his horse.

The long golden hair was pale and weakly scattered on the ground, scattered in mud and blood.

Then, the spreading flame relentlessly swallowed the slender body.

In the huge roar, the white blizzard came from the west like a torrent, completely burying the land of Aaron Landis…

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Hiemos raised his hand and pressed it to his chest.

Even if he knew clearly that it was just a dream, but as long as he recalled the scene where the boy who fell on the ground in his dream was swallowed by flames, the thing that was beating deep in his chest twitched fiercely.

He pressed his chest, a vague look of hostility appeared in the gold-red eyes.

The gloom spread quickly and enveloped his eyes, his gloomy pupils seemed to have swallowed all the light, and he was about to fall into the deepest darkness.

Suddenly, a little bit of Cui Yi refracted a little light, passing from the corner of his eye.

Huimos lowered his head, his gaze fell on his hand.

On the brown fingers, the bright green malachite ring reflected the bright sunlight, refracting a little light into his eyes.

In an instant, the hostility that had originally surged under his eyes like a black mist faded away as if being driven away.

He looked at the ring, raised his hand, and stroked the cool emerald green malachite with his fingertips.

“His Royal Highness.”

A voice came from the side, awakening Hiemos’ attention.

Huimos raised his head, and what caught his sight was the tall figure of Shamash’s priest Shemur.

Turning his head again, he looked through the window to his side and saw the sun in the sky that had risen to the center.

“I am asleep?”

When he had memory, the sun was still hanging diagonally in the sky.

“Yes.”

“You should wake me up.”

Huimos glanced sharply at Xiemuer, his tone hard.

At this critical moment, no minute can be wasted.

“You have been tired of working day after day without rest. I think that if you continue like this, tiredness will affect your thinking and prevent you from making correct judgments.”

Xie Muer’s face was expressionless, and also replied stiffly.

Huimos squinted his eyes and looked at Sheemur without saying anything.

Facing this stone, it would be a waste of time to continue talking.

He touched the ring of his finger again, the ring made from Gallan’s damaged malachite earrings.

He asked: “Has the relocation of all the villages and towns outside Wangcheng been completed?”

The priest of Shamash glanced deeply at Huimos, his eyes were a little complicated, but he still answered Huimos’ question calmly and meticulously.

“According to your order, all the villages and towns near the royal city have been cleaned up.”

Xiemuer said,

“Tens of thousands of people have poured into the royal city in the past few days, and the defenders of all towns have also been summoned to the royal city, and people have been arranged to organize them into an army.”

After returning to the royal city a few days ago, Huimos took over the command of the entire royal city in the name of the prince.

His name of the’Black Knight’ and his outstanding feats in the Northern Land made everyone in the royal city dare not have any objections to this.

After all, even Shamash priest Shemur, who is a hard-core supporter of the crown prince, and Sage, the commander of the royal knights, have acquiesced in this matter, expressing obedience to the orders of Prince Huimos, and others will not. Talking a lot in this critical time.

And the first order that Huimos gave after taking over the command was to move all the residents of all the villages and towns along the road from the direction of the royal city, especially the direction from which the Gasdad people marched.

It does not matter whether it is moving to a large city or moving to the king’s city. Anyway, everyone must move.

At the same time, all food and materials in the villages and towns must be taken away, and those that cannot be taken are burned on the spot, leaving only an empty village and town with neither people nor any materials.

Strong walls and clear fields.

This is a tactic that no one has ever used before.

Huimos ordered this strategy and immediately caused great controversy and dissent in the royal city.

Many people have accused Huimos of treating the people harshly in this way.

Others question whether this never-used strategy will work.

Moreover, this order did arouse strong dissatisfaction among many people around Wangcheng, who were unwilling to leave their homes, and even less willing to burn their houses.

But Huimos simply ignored the dissatisfaction of the people. Hearing that the people were unwilling to relocate, he sent the army directly to force them to relocate.

Those who refused to leave, let the soldiers forcibly drive them out, and then set fire to the entire village and town, forcing them to move.

For a while, smoke bursts on the ground, and small villages were burnt down on the ground.

Although the people whose homes were burnt were very angry, they had no choice but to drag their families and flee to the nearest large city, or the city of the king.

And after this incident, the’Black Knight’, who originally had a name of horror among the people, became even more fierce.

That resolute behavior and ruthless means made everyone terrified.

In this regard, Huimos didn’t care.

At this moment, he arbitrarily turned over the report submitted by the subordinate responsible for cleaning and driving the people, and continued to ask Xiemur.

“How long will the Gasdad people get to the royal city?”

“One night, it is estimated that they will arrive in the evening of tomorrow. Because of the harassment of the cavalry you sent, their marching speed was two to three days later than expected.”

The priest, who had long been familiar with military affairs, replied.

After Huimos gave the order to move all the people around the king’s city and along the enemy’s roads, the second thing was to dispatch more than 2,000 elite cavalry soldiers, divided into dozens of small cavalry squads, and kept facing Gass along the way. The Dade army harassed.

They also don’t face the enemy head-on, and often run away while they are not prepared for a sneak attack, or release arrows from a distance in the middle of the night.

Even if he was driven away by the army, he came back in a circle and continued to harass him, making Gasdade annoying.

To them, these cavalry squads that harass the army from time to time are like mosquitoes that buzz around them but can’t hit them.

In this way, although these cavalry squads could not cause substantial damage to the Gasdards, they greatly delayed their marching speed.

Otherwise, according to the original marching speed, the Gasdad had already been under the royal city at this moment.

Huimos hummed and stood up.

He is now on the high tower in the palace. Through the window, he can see the gate closest to the palace from a distance.

The city gate was crowded at the moment.

Countless people who had been forcibly driven out of their homes by him were still entering the royal city endlessly, dragging their homes with their mouths, all of them looked ugly and complained.

Following his gaze, Xie Muer also saw the situation at the city gate.

These days, the gates of the royal city are like this.

The priest of Shamash frowned.

To be honest, he didn’t approve of Heymos’s approach at first—the enemy would hurt himself before they even came—this tactic was simply unheard of.

He looked at Huimos’ profile.

The prince’s face was extremely handsome, but those golden-red eyes looked down at the people of the city gate without any emotion.

The way he looked at those people was like purely looking at the chess pieces at his mercy on the chessboard.

Xiemuer remembered that day.

That day, when Huimos proposed this strategy, he also had the same look in his eyes.

At that time, he hadn’t spoken yet, and Sa Ge, the head of the royal knights, had already stood up and opposed.

“I disagree!”

The burly man with short black and brown hair frowned and said displeasedly.

“Before the Gasdards came, we let ourselves suffer losses first. What kind of ridiculous strategy is this?”

Facing Sago’s questioning gaze, Huimos still sat steadily, his expression calm and calm.

He said, “War always has losses. Whether you win or lose, it’s just the difference between more and less.”

“Then there is no reason for self-defeating before the war! I don’t agree! Nor will the priest Shemur agree!”

Huimos glanced at both of them lightly.

“Don’t forget, the order Garlan’s secret letter gave you is to obey my command completely.”

“…”

Sago couldn’t deny it.

The crown prince gave the order in a secret letter-as the crown prince, he ordered them.

They must unconditionally obey all Heimos’ orders.

He frowned tightly and said, “Can’t you think of a better strategy?”

“The best strategy? Yes.”

Huimos raised his eyes, looking at them with indifferent eyes like golden red glass beads.

“In my opinion, the best strategy is to abandon the Royal City.”

“!!!”

Ignoring the anger in Sarge’s eyes, Huimos crossed his hands on his lap and continued speaking on his own.

“Abandon the royal city, abandon the northern line, abandon the eastern line, gather all the remaining army forces and retreat to the northwest, completely abandon the eastern area of Aaron Landis. In this way, we can take the natural dangers of the Eya River. As a defensive line, at the same time, it is backed by the friend Tasda, which can attack and retreat and defend.”

“And once we evacuated the eastern region, the Geshurs went south, and the Essians moved west, we would not let go of the fat of the king city. If the Gasdad people want to defend the newly defeated king city, they must have to deal with it. Two countries are fighting.”

“When the three countries were fighting with each other, we stayed in the northwest to slowly build up our strength and rebuild the army. After a year or a half, after the countries were almost consumed, the initiative was in our hands, whether we wanted to cut off. It is up to us to decide whether to retreat for the Gasdards or to solve the Geshurs in the north first.”

Huimos said this paragraph calmly, his voice calm to the point of cruelty.

Sa Ge, who was angry at first, opened his mouth and was speechless for a long while.

He couldn’t agree with Huimos’ abandoning the king’s city, but he couldn’t refute this strategy either.

This is indeed the most effective strategy that can retain Aaron Landis’s army.

Yes, it can retain the strength of the army.

But what about the people of Aaron Landis?

The army retreats to the northwest, abandons the eastern region, and allows those three countries to wreak havoc on the land of Aaron Landis. During that time, the people of Aaron Landis on the east land will be endless. How cruel was he suffered in the chaos of war?

Xiemuer opened his mouth thinking this way, but after all he didn’t ask this sentence.

He knew it was meaningless to ask.

Because His Royal Highness never thought about things that he didn’t care about.

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Wake up from the memory and return to the present, Xiemuer looked at Huimos.

He has a feeling.

If there was no existence of Prince Garland, or if the prince died in the city of Rudas, and no secret letter could be sent, Huimos would really implement that cruel strategy.

Without going to see the complicated expression that Xiemuer looked at him, Huimos’ eyes had moved away from the noisy city gate.

“At noon tomorrow, close all gates.”

On that handsome face, a pair of sword eyebrows are sharp as blades.

He turned and left, the dark blue cloak flying up behind him.

Huimos said: “Since then, without my order, anyone who wants to enter or leave the city will be killed on the spot.”

The sun goes down.

One night later, it rose again.

As it rose into the sky that day, the three gates of Aaron Landis’ King City slowly fell, completely shutting down the access channels.

Then, at the moment when the sun is about to set on the earth.

On the distant horizon, a white army appeared in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Accompanied by the sound of horses hooves shaking the earth, they are like falling ice and snow in a snow-capped mountain, rolling over the sky and the earth.

The army of Gasdad came under the city of Aaron Landis.

On the high city wall, Himos stood there, condescendingly looking down at the ground and the army of Gastad in the distance.

A black armor draped in the glow of the setting sun.

The gust of wind blew his dark forehead, and the golden-red pupils seemed to burn with the burning clouds on the horizon.

He bowed his head, raised his hand, and gently kissed the emerald green malachite ring on his right hand.

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I will defend the king’s city.

As long as it is what you hope, your wish, I will realize it for you.

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The wind whizzed past, across the sky, and across the distant earth.

After a night, the moment the sun rose, it blew to the city thousands of miles away.

The gentle wind in the morning passed over the cheeks of the young man standing on the ground on horseback. He lifted the long golden hair on the cheek and let him gently wipe the white earlobes.

The soft touch of the hair passing over the earlobe seemed to be the gentleness of someone kissing.

Unexplainably moved in his heart, for some reason, Gallan raised his hand unconsciously and touched the empty earlobe.

Then he turned his head and looked at the east.

The direction in which the sun rises.

The direction of the city of Aaron Landis.

Presumably… Hiemos has received the message he sent back.

Gallan stared quietly in that direction.

The reason why he chose to stay here to counterattack instead of rushing back to the King City is because he knew that even if he returned to the King City, he would not be able to defend the King City in such a sinister situation.

However, Huimos is different.

He believed.

As long as Huimos is still in the city, no one can let the city fall.

He believed.

In this sinister situation, Heimos was the only one in the world who could still hold the royal city.

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Following the Rudas City counterattack that ended overnight before the world could react, the much-anticipated Aaron Landis city defense battle will soon follow.

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According to historical records.

The battle of Aaron Landis’s King’s City was the first battle in the world to use the strategy of “Strengthening the Wall and Clearing the Wilds”.

It is recorded in the annals of history as a classic battle.

The ancient history books also record that Heimos, the military strategist of Ancient Aaron Landis, created this strategy.

In later generations, the strategy he created was used for reference by countless outstanding military strategists and is still used today.

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Ah… only to find out that there are already two hundred chapters…

Ask for a handful of white liquid.

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PS: Well, in previous lifetimes, there was no’firm wall and clear country’. Heymos used the method he said to abandon the city and abandon the people…