Imperial Port North City Gate.
Seeing 'Elina' coming back with a large number of fully loaded carriages, the Maritin troops stationed at the city gate were very conscientious and planned to check the carriages.
But this inspection led to a tragedy...
Those dozens of carriages were not loaded with supplies, but the guards of Li Ang, led by Silver Hand led by Kloze.
More than two hundred tough men collectively jumped out of the straw pile in the carriage carriage, and more than half of the hundreds of Maritin soldiers at the city gate were killed in a few breaths.
The remaining few who did not participate in the search also had their heads smashed with short-handled hammers-the 'farmers' driving the cars were all Radiant Knight, and they were sneaky with their little hammers.
Of course, the Maritin soldiers were indeed well-trained. Before they all broke down, they successfully sent a request for help signal to the Maritin soldiers on several other walls.
Maritin soldiers from several other military stations also rushed over to rescue, but as soon as they reached the north gate, they did not dare to move...
More than two hundred strong men were guarding the north gate, and more people came from the north and rushed into Imperial Port.
Just looking at the scale, there were at least a thousand people and horses following, and all of them were accompanied by horses.
Of course, these more than a thousand people are the wounded who cannot fight. In fact, they can only be used as a burden if they do fight.
But Maritin people didn't know this - the wounded soldiers who had just entered the city were dressed neatly. If we only look at the appearance, the only difference between Silver Hand and Silver Hand is that there is no Mithril gauntlet...
And they even brought horses...
Those horses indeed belonged to Baxian, trophies captured by Li Ang from Agason's troops. But these heavy infantrymen Free Legion didn't know how to ride horses at all, and they were injured and were not suitable for riding horses.
These war horses are now used as pack horses, carrying various equipment on their backs.
However, for Maritin people, this means that a thousand heavy cavalry came here...
For them, now that the north gate of Imperial Port has been lost, they have lost their geographical advantage;
The fleet at the port has just been driven away by His Majesty Caspar for two hours, and there is no way to escape from the port, which means that they are blocked in the city, and the enemy is a "cavalry" - they have nowhere to escape now;
The number of enemies is more than three times that of your own, and they all look tough, and they are estimated to have extremely strong combat effectiveness...
And this is the enemy's home field...
This is obviously impossible to fight.
Besides, if His Majesty Caspar is not here, even if he fights to the death, His Majesty won't be able to see him - wouldn't that mean his death was in vain?
Therefore, the remaining 300 or so Maritin soldiers in the city wisely chose to surrender.
Imperial Port is back in the hands of Alina again.
Later, Silver Hand stripped all the captive Maritin people, selected some brothers with suitable figures, put on Maritin people's equipment again, and left the city...
And Radiant Cross Knights began to organize civilians to stand guard on the city wall - the wounded soldiers brought a large amount of equipment with war horses.
At noon the next day, Caspar arrived at Serendil with the fleet.
It is actually very fast to get to Serendil from the sea. The two-hundred-mile journey only took more than ten hours.
But Caspar wandered around Serendil for a long time and couldn't find even a hair. Instead, he met the troops he had sent to the west from Imperial Port.
After asking, I found out that these thousand people were searching for 'Li Ang' from Imperial Port to the west, and they met no one at all along the way.
Scammed!
Caspar's face was so angry that he asked his thousand subordinates to return to the ship and rush to Imperial Port.
In the middle of the night after arriving, Caspar finally returned to the port of Imperial Port.
He is still standing at the bow of the flagship - to be honest, this is a dangerous position. Generally, leaders will not stand there. The bridge is much safer...
But this time, what Caspar saw was no longer an empty city.
"Woo... Woo... Woo..."
Just when Caspar's fleet sailed into the port again, the horn signaling an enemy attack sounded at the top of the city.
A large number of torches were lit on the city wall at the same time, and the firelight outlined the entire city into a golden mountain. The entire Imperial Port was like daylight at this moment.
Under the torches, there are densely packed soldiers... countless soldiers.
Various weapons shone in the firelight.
On the pier, there were hundreds of large vehicles lined up - all turned sideways, forming a wall of vehicles, blocking all the disembarking space.
Behind the carriage, several rows of spearmen were waiting quietly.
A battle flag was slowly raised on the watchtower of the city wall - that was the flag of Emperor Marius.
The fleet became silent at this moment, and the battleship was still moving forward slowly, less than 200 meters away from the dock.
The city wall is high up, and more than two hundred meters is the effective range of the heavy crossbow.
Alina stood under the battle flag in a military uniform and asked Loris beside him to greet Caspar with a crossbow arrow.
Loris Knight Commander's shooting skills are actually quite good, but he did not hit Caspar, but deliberately hit the bow statue of the battleship - that is, the sculpture on the bow.
The engraving on the bow is Kavala.
Loris just hit the wooden sculpture in the head.
Caspar was standing on the bow of the ship. Of course he saw the arrow and Alina standing under the battle flag.
After being stunned for half a second, Caspar snatched the shield from the hand of a Maritin soldier beside him, and then loudly ordered, "Stop the ship! Anchor! Don't come closer!"
Then, he cautiously shrank his body into his shield and slowly retreated into the bridge.
"Your Majesty, we'd better get out of here quickly..."
Inside the bridge, Adjutant Leo frowned and made a suggestion - there seemed to be at least five or six thousand people on the city wall, and that's not even a stretch...
All the Maritin soldiers also looked like they didn't want to die.
Caspar was also a little shocked. He didn't expect that in just one day, how could Imperial Port so many troops show up?!
He even wondered if this was some hallucination...
"Alina... You liar!! Liar!!"
Casper stared at the figure of Alina through the porthole, roaring hysterically.
But the roar in the bridge, Alina, would definitely not be heard on the city wall.
However, Alina is still waving towards Caspar's flagship... She can imagine what Caspar's expression will be now.
"Loris Knight Commander, shoot another arrow and give him this letter."
Alina took out a crossbow arrow with a paper roll tied to the shaft and handed it to Loris.
'Xiwu...'
This arrow still did not hurt anyone, because it was a sounding arrow, just used to make a whistle to convey signals.
"Your Majesty, a letter has been sent from the city..."
Adjutant Leo cautiously left the shelter of the bridge, went to the bow of the ship and retrieved the noisy arrow.
"Read!"
Caspar's eyes were already bloodshot. He kept staring at Alina fiercely. He saw the noisy arrow being shot the whole time.
"To His Majesty Caspar who came from afar: Unfortunately, your great cause of conquering Pande Continent may have to end prematurely. I don't want to be your enemy, but I also don't want to be the enemy of His Majesty Emperor Amorian of Maritin. You should understand that a young, powerful, and invincible 'Vice-Emperor', what does it mean to His Majesty Amorian? If you don't become the sole master of the Maritin Empire, you will never be able to win in other continents. I think I have made it clear enough?--Alina·Justus."
Leo read the letter and glanced at Caspar's expression.
Fortunately, Caspar calmly listened to all the content.
He rarely got angry, but frowned and asked his adjutant, "Leo, do you think we should go back to Maritin?"
Leo shook his head, put down the note and took two steps back. "Your Majesty, everyone knows the emperor's intention... You have fought in the north and south over the years and eradicated all the enemies of the emperor, but... when there are no enemies, you will be the last enemy of the emperor... But no matter what, you are the one who makes the decision, and we obey all your orders."
"Maybe you're right... but I can't leave behind the two thousand soldiers who have been sent out!"
Caspar closed his eyes and gritted his teeth. "Let the fleet retreat a little, retreat beyond their range, and anchor deep... I'm going to take a nap..."
After that, he left the helpless adjutant behind and turned around and entered the cabin.
Leo sighed helplessly. He was Caspar's personal attendant and the person who knew His Majesty best. He knew that Caspar would go to sleep whenever he encountered a problem, and would usually wake up soon. After waking up, he would kill the enemy crazily like a demon until he won.
Leo felt that His Majesty might have some symptoms of schizophrenia.
Of course, this can actually be regarded as "not panic in the face of danger", which is the style of a famous general...
But unfortunately, Caspar slept from night to noon.
This is already the third day since Caspar came to the Pande Continent.
Leo, who could never wait for his Majesty, went to the cabin to look for someone, but what he saw was Caspar huddled in the corner with fear in his eyes...
Hugging her knees, her face was pale, like a pitiful child.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Are you having a nightmare?"
After following His Majesty Caspar for more than ten years, this was the first time that Leo saw the appearance of Caspar.
"No... I'm not dreaming... I'm not dreaming..."
Caspar murmured, tears welling up in his eyes. "I seem to be... abandoned by His Majesty Kavala..."
Leo knew that Caspar admired Kavala, but he didn't quite understand what it meant to be abandoned by Kavala?
You should have been abandoned by Alina...
But Leo didn't dare to say it directly.
Although Caspar is usually nice to his subordinates, if he despises Kavala, he will definitely be killed by Caspar.
But now it was obviously difficult to communicate with Caspar, so Leo could only use practical actions to comfort him - he did not wait for Caspar's order, but directly ordered to withdraw troops to Serendil again.
In fact, the adjutant's choice was correct. He should at least leave the "dangerous zone" of Imperial Port first.
Although the abandoned fishing ports of Serendil are not suitable for warships to dock, it is a good choice to stay there and wait for the two thousand troops that were sent out before.
However, if you don't get it, it depends on luck.
Maritin fleet left again...
Imperial Port There was a burst of cheers.
In fact, there are currently only more than 200 soldiers in Imperial Port, and more than 100 of them are recruits in the militia.
The densely packed "soldiers" on the city wall are all dressed as civilians.
Anyway, if you put on armor and pick up a weapon, you will be so far away that no one can tell.
Of course, such pure civilians have no fighting ability. Most of them will scream when they see blood...
But it can still be used to scare people. At least Caspar's fleet was indeed scared away.
Winning victory does not require fighting. The only small-scale conflict was when Silver Hand killed more than a hundred Maritin soldiers when they captured the city gate, and that was mainly because the enemy was too cooperative - if those Maritin soldiers didn't plan to check the carriage, then even this small conflict would not have happened.
The only price was that Alina didn't sleep for three days and three nights - from Kavala to Caspar, Alina couldn't get any rest after a series of things happened.
Although she usually slept very little, she couldn't bear it after not sleeping for three consecutive days.
On the contrary, Li Ang had a good rest, and the injuries on his body were all scabbed.
Li Ang is currently also at Imperial Port. He didn't go far in the first place. He only waited outside Imperial Port for a day and then came back with the wounded soldiers - he couldn't run far even with his injuries.
After Caspar's fleet left, Alina prepared everything and returned to the Governor's Mansion. It was already night again.
Alina, who had not slept for three days and three nights, naturally wanted to catch up on her drowsiness, so she dove into the bedroom of the Governor's Mansion and fell unconscious as soon as she hugged the quilt - she fell asleep in a real second.
Early morning.
Imperial Port A bedroom in the Governor's Mansion.
"Ah!"
This is a soprano.
"Ah!!"
This is a tenor.
"Someone is coming..." "Someone is coming..."
This is the same knee-jerk reaction for both men and women.
"Shh..." "Shh..."
This was also the same subconscious reaction of the two of them. They both changed their words mid-call for 'Comer' and even covered each other's mouths - even the movements were the same.
Then there was silence for several minutes.
"You... why are you here?"
Alina lowered his voice, pulled the quilt over and covered his chest.
"I still want to ask you... I didn't find anyone in this room when I went to bed last night! And... this is my room! My room, understand! When did you get in?!"
Li Ang also lowered his voice and pulled the other corner of the quilt over, probably also wanting to cover his chest... But Alina held on tightly and he failed.
"Um... let me think about it... so... I went to the wrong door?"
Alina looked around a few times and realized that this seemed to be Li Ang's room...
She lifted the quilt and took a look, then let out a sigh of relief, laughed a little awkwardly, and then threw the quilt to Li Ang.
Alina is still wearing the skirt, although due to her dishonest sleeping appearance, the hem of the skirt has been lifted up to the top of her thighs, and her chest is stretched diagonally - a little exposed, but at least she is not naked.
Li Ang Now I understand what the situation is.
After he returned to Imperial Port, he asked Kloze to take Silver Hand and put on Maritin people's equipment and leave the city. In other words, his guards were preparing to ambush the enemy at Serendil and did not stay in front of his bedroom - so Alina was tired and confused and went to the wrong room in the middle of the night without anyone caring about him.
"Hey, you're still laughing! What should we do now?!"
Li Ang took off the quilt and covered his chest, shrank into the corner of the bed and asked.
"What should I do? Since nothing happened, of course nothing happened..."
Alina said confidently.
"I mean how do we get out? Look if there is anyone outside..."
Li Ang felt a little panicked, even more panicked than when he faced the enemy's large army. If someone saw this, he wouldn't be able to escape even if he jumped into the endless sea.
Although Wendy usually looks like a little bird, but if this happens, I'm afraid she will have to use a sword to heal people with strong martial arts - and Li Ang can't beat her...
"Li Ang Your Majesty, you... hiss... I didn't see it, I didn't see anything..."
I was really thinking about what I was thinking. I was wondering if there was anyone outside, and here I came, and I opened the door directly and came in - this is the doctor who treated Li Ang's injury and came to change Li Ang's dressing.
The doctor from Radiant Cross Knights came to treat me every day during this period, and Li Ang had already disappeared. When I heard someone shouting "Come here", of course I went in directly.
But today, the doctor happened to bring Loris Knight Commander...
Loris actually just came to say hello, but he didn't expect to see Li Ang and Alina on the bed!
And Li Ang has no clothes on, Alina is disheveled...
The doctor was very calm, covered his eyes and turned around to close the door.
Loris, on the other hand, had his eyes wide open and was still peeping under the door - his behavior was somewhat similar to that of Kloze.