Black Scepter Chapter 149: The light of dawn (3)

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The army is not moving, and the grain and grass are going first.

At the time of Murenthal’s truce due to a three-day blizzard, the offensive momentum of the Purgatory Beast also seems to be slightly slowed down. However, the carriage that transported materials from various cities in Byzantine was also unable to move forward due to heavy snow. Under the circumstances, Hydera’s huge body took on the responsibility of transportation, and traveled between the cities one by one, like a hard worker ant. Mullentar’s rear position was filled with various neatly packed wooden boxes.

Then he took off again, hurried to the east coast of Byzantine with hundreds of mages, and meticulously executed the orders issued by Morpheus.

This behavior that looks like a headless fly to outsiders makes the Byzantine nobles who were waiting for the war to start a little dumbfounded. As early as a month ago, all the remaining nobles in the empire were ready to fight at any time, but today, Morpheus, who has served as the highest military commander of Byzantine, seems to have no intention of fighting with the other party at all. The command is two words: "standby".

The noble nobles have protested to Edward III, believing that the behavior of Morpheus was "completely mischievous," and even pointed the finger at the Duke of Acar within the palace, referring to the irony of Sang Huai "Half the Empire has fallen Into the hands of the Windsor family" and so on...

The accused Duke of Acar is very helpless, because at the moment it is his son, Grand Duke Lampard, Morpheus. From combat decisions to various decisions, in order to avoid suspicion in politics, he is basically the same as Duke Acar. It doesn't matter. It's just that before the war is completely concluded, he understands that all his arguments are powerless, so he can only remain silent in the end and put the hope of saving the country on Morpheus.

Until this time, the Principality of Lampard still seems to have no movement at all. Infantry, cavalry, longbowmen, and crossbowmen are all inside the huge shield enclave, and no one knows what they are doing. Many residents of the Principality who are planning to spend the winter in warm homes occasionally hear roars, booms, or rumbling horseshoes from outside the city walls-civilians saw the announcement issued by the Grand Duke himself and learned that it was just a military exercise When it sounded, he let go of his heart and stopped being suspicious.

In the eyes of Bishop Stewart, the commander of the Holy Gabriel Empire, there is no difference between Mulenthal and Daxue before, and it is only a matter of time before they are captured by the Jihad. As for the substitution of the commander-in-chief, he didn't even care about it.

The Vatican has not issued any orders in recent days. Although Bishop Stewart was a little stranger than the pope’s sudden silence, he decided to patiently rehabilitate the army and wait for the snow to stop. Plan to start the attack.

Looking around the mainland, not only the sacred Gabriel Empire as an enemy, almost all leaders and nobles of the country have no confidence in Morpheus, and they don’t think he can stop this catastrophe as he promised. Wait-and-see, sarcasm, and no comment. Various attitudes show that they all just regard Morpheus as a "dragon knight" with extraordinary personal strength.

Soon after the time passed, at noon on November 17, the heavy snow over Mullental finally showed signs of cessation.

The atmosphere on the walls of the fortress began to be dignified. Even if the soldiers of Byzantine were wearing thick clothes, the sudden drop in temperature still made them shudder. Looking at the sacred Gabriel army rearranging the array in the thick snow at the end of the field of vision, they all know that the other party's vigorous siege operation...will begin again.

The morale is not high. After a few days of rest, the soldiers do not have more fighting spirit, but they are more depressed, because they do not see any supporting troops arrive...even other private nobles in the empire.

What was the number of soldiers before the armistice and how many are still there. In addition to the large empty space that was sorted out in front of the barracks, the only thing that made the soldiers a little gratified was the mountainous armor and food behind the position. No matter how much material there is, the fact that there is "no reinforcements" is like a mountain, which not only puts pressure on the hearts of the soldiers, but also makes the non-commissioned officers and generals look worried. Realize the resilience.

Is the Grand Duke reliable? Is he just an empty but powerful warrior?

The soldiers were whispering in their hearts, and they could see that the Holy Gabriel Empire once again pushed the siege equipment to march towards here, and they had to get up and prepare to start to meet the enemy.

The noncommissioned officers climbed onto the city wall, and a large number of supplies for the city were carried by the engineers. The generals frowned and arranged tasks for their subordinates. In the cold temperature, many people rubbed their hands and stomped their feet to keep warm. The vacant ground beneath the city walls was full of heavily armored infantry.

This is a situation that has never occurred before when defending the city. Tens of thousands of soldiers are on standby-in order to adapt their bodies to this harsh combat environment, each soldier has carried out sufficient pre-war activities, they are cold The armor was worn on his body, but there was a little sweat inside, and he was already in the best combat state at this time.

This situation seems to mean that they are about to prepare for a head-on battle.

Prince Hades is currently the deputy commander of the Mullental battlefield, and the commander-the Morpheus Grand Duke who saw the dragon and his head at the end-did not come to the scene at all. The staff more than once persuaded Prince Hades to give up the preparations to go out of town and bluntly said "Morpheus is crazy" and even said "He is sending someone to die"... His Royal Highness Prince, who looked cold, did not pay attention to them. The deputy fully trusted the Duke of Morpheus.

The sound of the advance footsteps of the sacred Gabriel team gradually passed into the ears. The army covered with snow-white ground outside the city walls once again occupied the vision of the Byzantine soldiers. The neat square array and the neat military capacity all showed These believers have a strong war...

With this item, Byzantine has fallen into a moral disadvantage.

The soldiers’ heartbeats on the city walls increased due to tension, and the white breath that was exhaled one after another, almost forming one piece. Because of the lack of confidence, the palms of the weapons were generally held tightly and stiffened and whitened in the cold air...

There is no morale-invigorating words, no impassioned pre-speech speeches, and from time to time someone looks back at Hades’s camp, hoping that this prince with a mighty killing power can come out and encourage the soldiers a few words-even if they are just scene Okay...

With tens of thousands of enemies advancing on the snow, these soldiers did not expect the encouragement of the prince in the end, but they only heard the crackling sound of the huge trebuchet's trial shot to adjust the landing point...

The soldiers withdrew their long swords and set up their longbows with their crossbows on the silent city wall, waiting for the moment when the two sides completely started the war.

But at this moment, the soldiers who put their fingers on the trigger of the crossbow suddenly saw a wonder-the tidy central team of the sacred Gabriel suddenly had some confusion, and the front of the position The vanguards seemed to have heard orders, and turned their heads, looking at the direction of the Chinese army-this behavior was not individual, but started a large-scale infection like a plague. It took almost less than a minute to let this Nearly all the soldiers turned around and aimed at the center of the Jihad.

The soldiers closer to the center immediately began to kneel, followed by the back row, in the back row, and at the end, the entire army moved towards the central bank of the formation. …

The soldiers of Byzantine looked at each other, their arms carrying crossbows were a little sour, they looked up, and the huge team stopped suddenly and stood in front of the battlefield, and fell into a strange silence. .

"What is that? Is there a bishop coming?"

"The bishop level will not let these jihadists from all regions kneel at will...is it--"

"Maybe..."

"Is... pope?!"

Originally silent on the walls, the Byzantine soldiers’ voices gradually sounded, and even the squadrons and non-commissioned officers forgot to stop it-countless soldiers pointed at the distant army that had completely stopped the attack, and forgot in a flash Just nervous...

The soldiers guessed right, Giovanni really came.

There was no sign of direct flight from the sacred Gabriel empire. The majesty of the Pope was followed by only ten highest-ranking "executors" of cold-spotted heretical verdicts. At this time, he was wearing a simple white-gold robe, and the crown on his head was slightly skewed due to rush... This may be the first time that Giovanni had lost the calmness and calmness that the Pope should have, and his expression even looked a little grim, looking at The squadron in front of him, his eagerness was obvious.

When Bishop Stewart came to Giovanni with surprise and awe in his heart, His Majesty the Pope, without any nonsense, directly announced that he had taken over the command of the army. Giovanni's pale face was covered with clouds, and he came to the center of the lineup all the time, and began his bewitching "pre-war speech" to all the soldiers of the sacred Gabriel empire...

"Lord's dear people..."

Bishop Stewart’s eyebrows flicked slightly instinctively, and he instinctively sensed that something was wrong, but at this time he had lost all his powers, and wanted to step forward to ask, and was still indifferent by the ten indifferent "executors". Blocked in the periphery.

What happened?

The bishop looked at the soldiers who began to kneel on a large scale around him, only to feel a coolness spreading from the bottom of the feet... He was not stupid, the status of the pope determined that he must stay within the Vatican, the center of the Holy See, and now... the highest in this country The monarch is unprecedented in the battlefield... what does it mean?

Even if his mind is slow, he will start to recollect it-I am afraid that this war is not as simple as previously thought.

At the center of the lineup, the pope's breathless voice was transmitted to the entire 70,000 ex-army troops with the help of divine art.

The heir to the chief apostle Peter, the archbishop of the sacred Gabriel empire, the lord of the Vatican City, and the servants of God’s servants—what does this long title stand for? For the Kingdom's Jihad, his position is no different from the deity. Therefore, the appearance of Pope Giovanni at this time has no surprise that the morale of the soldiers reached the peak in an instant!

From near and far, tens of thousands of soldiers who knew that the pope was at the scene performed all the kneeling salutes, and even some soldiers wept bitterly to see the pope’s deity...

The Byzantine soldiers in the distance have basically confirmed that this is Pope Giovanni, the supreme leader of the Holy Gabriel Empire, but they can’t hear what the other party’s speech is. The only thing they see is those. When the morale of the jihadists reached the extreme, the scene of wailing screaming towards the wall...

"They are crazy!"

"Shut up! Listen to the command--"

"Ready to meet the enemy!"

"Attention Ballista!"

"Release!"

The noisy command sounded in a tumult, and the Byzantine soldiers seemed to have felt the madness of the enemy’s pavement, and they all showed a dignified look, but in the entire army, only the prince in the center of the town was strange. Laughed out loud.

After listening to the soldier’s report of the Pope’s presence in the distance~IndoMTL.com~ Prince Hades’s tense face was relaxed, relieved, and said to himself with a smile: "Oh, the big picture... it’s set. ."

Having worn the exquisite knight armor for a long time, he got up suddenly, stepped out of the camp, turned over and jumped on the tall warhorse loaded with various auxiliary weapons, and pulled out the Naples magic steel dagger with high spirits.

The stunned aides didn’t even know that as early as the day before the war broke out, His Royal Highness Prince already learned from Morpheus all the trends that the enemy might appear today.

And now that the Pope is "in person", it means that the Morpheus plan...has been thoroughly and successfully implemented.

"Hey...After so long, I can finally move my muscles."

At this time, this powerful knight who was enough to enter the "Knights of the Round Table Parliament" gently pulled up the reins and calmly issued the order that the Morpheus had already arranged and also decided this pattern involving the entire continent--

"Open the gate, the whole army...strike."

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