A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 203. Chapter 203

The sun is about to fall from the distant horizon, the light disappears from the earth little by little, and the sky is going to darken.

The heavy horn sounded, spreading far from the ground.

The soldiers who surrounded the king’s city densely like ants, gnawing at the city wall, retreated amid the sound of horns.

Like a sudden ebb tide, it was evacuated immediately, leaving only corpses and blood stains all over the place under the tall walls.

The moat surrounding the royal city flows slowly, as always.

It’s just that its original clear water surface has long since become turbid, and the city gate has almost cut off the flow, and it has been mostly filled with sand bags.

Countless corpses and sacks of sand and stone piled up in the moat, cutting off the river. The countless stumps and broken arms mixed with sand and soil, like a messy graveyard, dyeing the nearby water a weird sauce red .

It took the Gasdad three full days to drop countless corpses here, just enough to fill the moat at the gate.

This is due to Tyre’s prior order to cut off the upper reaches of the moat, which is a living water, to reduce the amount of water in the moat and reduce the difficulty of filling the river.

However, the Gasdad people do not feel distressed.

Anyway, braving the rain of arrows to carry sand sacks to fill the river is a mixed army of soldiers from other countries who surrendered to them.

To them, these soldiers are pure cannon fodder, and they are useless except for giving their lives to help them clear the way for the offensive.

Mingjin retreated, and Gasdad’s army quickly returned to the camp.

The commander-in-chief of the Gasdad people, Prince Tyr stood quietly in the sunset on horseback.

The flaming sunset reflected his icy side cheeks. Compared with the far north, the wind that was so gentle and utterly soft brushed across his cheeks, lifting his velvety silver forehead.

Those pupils, like lavender gems, reflected the huge city standing on the ground in the distance.

The royal city of Aaron Landis.

Unlike Kanal’s exquisite and beautiful yet extremely fragile city, the city of Aaron Landis gives people a majestic feeling.

The royal city of Aaron Landis with a long history of civilization.

It has come from the ancient history, and has precipitated the vicissitudes and vigorous and simple atmosphere in the long time, but the passage of time has made it more and more magnificent.

It is an indomitable giant.

It is a towering mountain that stands on the ground.

No matter how time passes, no matter how many years of wind and rain, it is still so majestic and magnificent.

Even if you look at it from such a distance, you can faintly feel an invisible sense of coercion coming from that city.

It stands under the setting sun, like a cluster of black and red fires burning violently.

Scorching, fierce, huge, as if it would never go out.

Looking at the magnificent city, Tyre’s slender eyebrows frowned slightly.

The attack on Aaron Landis didn’t go as smoothly as he expected.

Today, both the northern and eastern legions of Aaron Landis are constrained on the border because they want to resist the two countries of Geshui and Israel, and they cannot move.

The Western Legion has been destroyed by him, and King Camos, known as the undefeated Lion King, has also been killed by him.

Although there are scattered armies in Aaron Landis’s cities, without a unified commander, it is impossible to organize forces to confront the Gastards.

He has also led an army to the royal city of Aaron Landis.

His army of hundreds of thousands is like a behemoth, and the defenders in the king’s city are no more than 10,000 at most.

It is said that some of them were the city guards who had little combat effectiveness in the nearby towns that were assembled.

In the eyes of others, the Gasdad’s offense went as smoothly as divine assistance.

With such a comparison of forces and no external reinforcements, the fall of Aaron Landis will happen sooner or later.

The destruction of the royal city meant the subjugation of Aaron Landis.

Now, almost the entire continent is paying attention to this place.

Many people sighed that Aaron Landis will follow Canal’s footsteps and will soon perish and fall into the hands of the fierce Gasdad.

However, the so-called smoothness in the eyes of others is accidental in the eyes of Tyre.

At this moment, he looked blankly at the distant Wangcheng.

If it goes well, according to his plan, he should have entered the city now and sat on the throne of Aaron Landis.

His indifferent pupils reflected the golden palace in the city and exposed the top of the city wall.

Gallan.

The crown prince of Aaron Landis should be in it at the moment.

It is said that he was seriously injured in the recent assassination and is still in bed.

Therefore, it was another prince, the black knight, Heimos, who commanded the war.

According to the news that Tyre has collected over the years, this young crown prince has a beautiful appearance and is a beautiful young man with a face that is praised by the world.

This crown prince is completely different from the brave and powerful King Camos. He is a prince whose strength is very weak, even less than a knight under his command.

Generally speaking, Tyre has never been interested in weak people.

The weak are not qualified to be in his eyes.

However, for the prince who is not powerful in the rumors, Tyre is somewhat interested in it.

Because the prince has done a lot of things to him in recent years.

This is also the reason why his attack on Aaron Landis didn’t go well.

Apart from other trivial matters, at least three of his important deployments were disrupted by the crown prince.

If it weren’t for the prince’s intervention in the Tasda mission, at this moment, the Tasda country was not only a period of civil strife, but it should have changed its ruler.

And the new ruler should have been with him at this time, divided into two soldiers, and marched on Aaron Landis together.

Then there is the city of Tozes in the south, where his people lurked there for several years, corrupting local powerful officials, and secretly allying with pirates.

After he decided to attack Aaron Landis this winter, he directly ordered the people lurking in Tozes City to summon the group of pirates. If Tozes, an important maritime trade city, is occupied by pirates, Aaron Landis will not only suffer economically, but it can also contain some of Aaron Landis’s forces, including the navy.

Even when he was attacking at this moment, he was able to make those pirates attack the city of Tozes again, and ignite war in the south, making Aaron Landis more and more lacking.

It is a pity that this important chess piece was also discarded by the prince.

And the most important chess pieces are the people he sent to lurk in the royal city.

It took him more than seven years to open a big net in the royal city secretly, just to make those people riot in the city when attacking the royal city, help him open the city gate from inside, and break the city easily.

Unexpectedly, even if the prince was stabbed and injured, he could still fight back, set up traps, follow the vines, and get rid of all his people.

Without the people in the city who should cooperate with the outside, unable to break through from the inside, Tyr can only forcefully attack the city.

All of the above were done by the crown prince.

The action that caused Tyr to attack Aaron Landis could not proceed as smoothly as he expected.

Moreover, there is one thing that makes Tyre quite puzzling.

He obviously should have succeeded in instigating the relationship between the two princes and splitting them, so he forced the prince Huimos, who has made great achievements in battle, to the north.

Who knows, Huimos rushed back to the city at a critical moment, and helped the injured Prince Garland defend the city without saying a word.

This kind of completely disregarded behavior… totally not like this person’s character.

Or, what is the key thing he didn’t notice?

Just as Tyre was looking at the distant royal city and fell into deep thought, a sudden rush of horseshoes came from behind.

A general looked anxious and hurried towards him.

When he reached Tyre’s side, the general eagerly leaned forward and whispered a few words in Tyre’s ear.

Tyre’s gaze paused.

He seemed a little lost at this moment.

“His Royal Highness?”

After hearing the shocking news, Tyre remained silent, and the general shouted nervously.

“His Royal Highness Tyre?”

The constant shouts of his subordinates brought Tyr back to his senses.

He looked up at the royal city standing in the sunset, then turned his head and looked west.

His lavender eyes seemed to have strange light surging at this moment.

“Ha ha ha ha!”

He suddenly laughed.

In the general’s stunned eyes, the prince of Gasdade, who had always been indifferent, burst out laughing.

“very good.”

Tyre’s eyes shimmered, his eyes gleaming, and his expression radiant.

He seemed to have discovered something extremely interesting and looked at the West with interest.

That was the direction he came from and the direction of the crown prince he was most interested in now.

He thought that the man in the royal city had led his troops to take back the city of Rudas in one fell swoop on the night of his arrival in the royal city three days ago.

“Gallan.”

He said the name seriously and carefully.

Then, repeating this name that kept things out of his control countless times.

“…Gallan.”

For some reason, when he said this name, something destined to flow into his body, making his always cold chest become extremely hot at this moment.

That was the first time he felt the fiery warfare coming out of his body since he traveled all the way.

Scattered silver hair scattered in the corners of Tyre’s sharply raised eyes, and he looked into the distance with a cold smile on his lips.

Gallan.

Crown Prince of Aaron Landis.

My enemy.

There is a war between you and me.

I look forward to the day I meet with you.

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It was night, and the city of Rudas, who had been jubilant all day, returned to silence.

The people who vented all their negative emotions to their heart’s content on this day were tired, but sank into their dreams with great peace of mind.

Their eyebrows can finally be stretched out, even if they have fallen asleep, there is a slight smile on the corners of their mouths.

The castle in the city is still brightly lit, and the light radiates warmth in the dark night.

There was a crash, it was the sound of the chain clashing.

Located deep underground in the castle, the gate of the dark iron prison was opened.

The old man in the prison knelt under the only skylight in the dungeon, and the starlight came in and fell on his gray temples.

He knelt there, clasping his hands against his forehead.

That is a praying posture.

The old man kneeling and praying is like a stone sculpture, motionless under the stars. No one knows how long he has maintained this posture.

“Master Yunus.”

The voice of the people came from behind.

The old man who had been praying to the gods raised his head and opened his eyes.

The faint starlight fell into his eyes, and his eyes seemed to have many things entangled together, converging into an extremely complicated look.

He slowly got up, pressed one hand on the ground, erected his legs because he had been kneeling for too long, and stood up with difficulty.

He turned his head, and the familiar face of the one-eyed knight fell into his eyes.

His slightly muddy eyes fixedly looked at that face, with a white complexion that was different from his.

Knight of the scorching sun.

A powerful knight who is well-known in the mainland.

One of Aaron Landis’s only four riding coaches.

In a big battle, the Lion King died, and the seven riding commanders who symbolized Aaron Landis’s strongest strength were almost half dead.

The six major legions have gone to the third, especially the destruction of the first legion, making Aaron Landis almost lost more than half of his military power.

Gasdad’s army is approaching the royal city, and seeing the danger of subjugation is right in front of him, Aaron Landis is swayed by storms, and all the people are in sorrow.

And the culprit leading to all this…

Yunus closed his eyes, concealing the pain in his eyes.

He didn’t say anything, and followed Kaijos out of the ghastly dungeon.

He slowly walked up the stone steps, staggering step by step.

Walking through the familiar hall, through a long spiral staircase, Kehos led him to a room above the castle.

As soon as he entered the door, Yunus saw a familiar face.

His former subordinate Yuta.

At this moment, the high-spirited general who used to stand outside the prison to speak out, his arms tied to his back with a rope, kneeling on the ground, head down, his whole body exuding a decadent aura, looking embarrassed.

As soon as he saw this despicable traitor, Yunus’s heart suddenly rose with hatred.

His eyes turned red when he stared at Juta, and he could not wait to rush over immediately, devouring his flesh and bones.

But when he had just taken a step, he was stopped by Kaihuos’s hand.

As if suddenly hit hard by someone, Yunus stayed in a daze.

Yes, he hates the traitor Juta.

But what right does he have to hate?

As the culprit who killed King Camos, what is the difference between him and Juta?

Yunus stood in the room dazedly, with a dazed look and blank eyes.

After a few minutes, footsteps sounded from outside, the door opened, and Garland walked in.

Teva, who followed him as a guard, glanced at Kejos in the room, and did not follow him, but closed the door outside and guarded it.

As soon as the boy entered the door, Yunus, who stood there like a wooden stake, subconsciously raised his head and looked at the boy.

Prince Garland, the younger brother favored by King Camos.

It was the prince who rescued Camos from him a month ago.

The reason why he made up his mind to betray Camos is because King Camos canonized the prince as the crown prince.

And he does not allow whites without noble blood to inherit the throne.

But it was this white-skinned prince who he thought was not pure and noble, and saved the city of Rudas.

Yunus’ gaze fell on Garlan’s head.

His pupils shrank sharply.

The familiar lapis lazuli gold crown was worn on the young prince’s head, and the redness of the blood bead on the azure jewel made his eyes hurt.

Yunus looked at the crown steadily, his eyes in a daze.

“I always thought… what I did was right…”

He said, “King Camos has deviated from the will of the gods, and I will bring him back to the right path.”

He closed his eyes, his face was haggard, and his voice was hoarse.

“I don’t have a son, and my only daughter swears not to marry forever because of serving the gods. I have no descendants who can inherit the throne… So I think I sit on the throne not for myself, not because I want to be a king… I think , When I become a king, after I redirect Aaron Landis to the right path according to the will of the gods… After I die, I will hand the throne to Prince Huimos.”

“That’s the proof that I didn’t betray King Camos for the throne of greed…”

Garlan looked at him quietly, Kaihus was also silent, and Juta, who was kneeling, shrank his body.

No one else in the room was talking, only Yunus’s voice echoed.

“I told myself that I betrayed King Camos, not because of my own desires, but just to set things right…”

“My daughter also encouraged me, saying that this is what God has given me and is what I should do.”

“That makes me firmly believe that everything I do is for Aaron Landis, to establish the correct order, and to reproduce the glory of the royal blood.”

“I always tell myself that…”

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside, interrupting Yunus.

Tewa’s voice came in from outside.

“His Royal Highness, the daughter of City Lord Yunas is here, and she wants to see her father.”

Gallan pondered for a few seconds, then glanced at Yunus who suddenly turned his head to look at the door of the room.

He said, “Let her in.”

The door opened and a woman who appeared to be in her twenties walked in. The door closed behind her.

The long, fluffy brown hair was draped over her slender shoulders, she clasped her hands in front of her, and the hem of the big goose yellow skirt was gently swinging.

She has a slender face, her long slender eyelashes cast a rosy shadow on her cheeks, she pressed her lips slightly, her eyelashes quivered, looking soft and feathery.

Three maids of the same slender figure followed behind her, hanging their heads quietly, without saying a word.

This weak and beautiful woman glanced at her father Yunus, showing a look of heartache.

Then, she took two steps forward, leaned over, and her skirt was scattered on the ground.

She bowed her head and knelt in front of Garlan.

“His Royal Highness, please, Your Highness.”

She begged hurriedly, with a little choked voice.

“Please forgive my father. He is too old and can’t suffer. Please, Your Highness, I can accept all the punishments on his behalf. I only ask you to forgive him…”

Kehos, who was standing by, frowned. He took a step forward, and he just wanted to say something.

But all of a sudden, there was a sudden change.

The maid who had bowed her head and stood quietly and humblely stood aside suddenly and suddenly rushed towards Kaijos.

The remaining maid took a dagger from her chest and rushed towards Garlan.

Kayhus raised his hand and wanted to get rid of the two maids, but what made him shocked was that the seemingly fragile maids were surprisingly powerful and could actually hold him in place.

A sharp expression flashed under his eyes, and the knight directly attacked.

As soon as he raised his hand, his elbow smashed the ribs of one of the maids who was holding his arm.

However, something amazing happened.

The maid whose ribs were smashed by Cyjos still dragged Cyjos tightly, without even a wailing. She glared at Cyjos, her eyes were mostly white, and she looked quite terrible. And that look is even more weird to the extreme.

When the maid leaped over, Gallan, who reacted extremely quickly, had already pulled out the sword from his waist, flew the dagger in the hand of the maid, and then pierced her chest with a sword.

If it were ordinary people, they would have fallen to the ground.

But at this moment, the maid whose heart was penetrated by him actually stretched out her hands and firmly grasped his hands on the hilt of the sword.

Her strength was surprisingly strong, like iron tongs, and Gallan couldn’t get rid of it.

The maid stared straight at Garlan with a pair of bright red eyes, and blood was pouring down from her pierced chest, but she didn’t seem to feel any pain at all, just grinning strangely at Garlan. Terrible laugh.

“My great god, Timyat, the mother god who created all things.”

Yunus’s daughter, who had been mourning and weeping on the ground just now, stood up for some time.

That weak appearance disappeared without a trace, her face at the moment was extremely excited, with craziness, her eyes were terribly bright as she watched Gallan.

“Your loyal believers will offer you the most precious sacrifice! Offer the blood of the gods!”

She shouted like a chant, holding a short sword and stabbing Gallan, who was restrained by the maid and unable to move at this moment.

“Prince!!!”

In the cries of anger and fright in Kayjos.

The sword’s edge struck a cold light in the air and stabbed heavily.

In an instant, blood splashed.

The fair-haired knight showed a look of consternation.

Gallan suddenly widened her eyes.

Yunus, who suddenly rushed in amidst the chaos, stood in front of Garlan and vomited a mouthful of blood.

The short sword in his daughter’s hand has been completely submerged in his chest.