"King of Sweden! Come out quickly!" Drague shouted outside Ella's cabin. "I've brought you gold coins! It's such a big box! Come out and count them carefully, and the deal is done!"
Ella's voice came from the closed cabin; "I don't want it! Think about it carefully, Dragoue, you also ran away from the patients in Constantinier! Leave quickly, leave quickly! Just put the gold coins That’s it!”
"What are you talking about? I'm a dragon! How could I be infected with your human diseases?"
"Then rats can also be infected with the Black Death! Who knows if you dragons and rats are related? Go away, go away, go away!"
Drague was very angry at Ella's words: "What do you mean we are related to mice? King of Sweden, come out!"
Two days had passed since Draguet first arrived. Ella's uncle was obviously anxious to make a deal with Ella. In just one day, Drague made nearly ten trips back and forth between Constantinier and Ella's boat. According to her uncle's request, Ella first transferred Andrea's Ligurian navy away from the Black Sea Strait to show her sincerity. Except for herself, who was traveling on a large merchant ship with cabins, the only pirates left in the Black Sea Strait were of small longships. Ella's uncle also quickly prepared two hundred thousand Nomisma and handed it over to Drague to move to the army.
However, in the final confirmation stage, Ella refused to come out to see Drague.
Amy's voice came from the cabin next door: "Your Majesty, let's count it. Let the soldiers count it, or I can come out and count it..."
"It's too dangerous! And it's completely unnecessary! If the amount is not enough, Drague's heart will explode, right? Boom! She threatened me like this at the beginning! Drague, put the gold coins at the door , and then go quickly! Don’t touch my soldiers!”
Drague felt a little helpless: "I just moved your uncle's gold coins here, and I didn't count them myself... But since you said so, I will count them as you... Please fulfill your obligations next Commitment to lift the blockade of the Black Sea Straits.
"I know, I know! I'm very anxious here too!"
Ella will next go to the Insteria Territory to join up with the other half of her army, and capture the capital of the island republic before the Alemanni coalition returns for reinforcements or the Seven Hills Empire army arrives. This was done, firstly, because Ella was very angry with the island republic, and it would be difficult to understand her anger without killing Patisipachio; secondly, because the Swedish pirates were involved in the war and delayed the opportunity to sow. If they don't steal some money from the island republic, they won't be happy.
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"Then again, I'm anxious. Why is my uncle so anxious? Can't you let me look at Constantinier more?" Ella complained through the door, "It's not that Constantinier's guard is Most of the troops are sick, will it be impossible to defend the city? Now the First Royal Field Army and the Second Royal Field Army have not even seen a shadow, so they are so anxious to let me leave. Is he really not afraid that Constantiniya will fall? "
"First of all, the pirates are not reinforcements to Constantiniya at all! Secondly, these two royal field armies are stationed in the city on the other side of the strait. Once the Black Sea Strait is clear, they can arrive within a day. But if you have been stuck in Here, they don’t know the enemy or the friend, so they can only stay where they are!”
As soon as Drague finished speaking, a hair-raising horn sound suddenly came from the distance. Hearing the sound, Ella opened the cabin door with a bang and rushed out: "It's the emergency horn sound of Constantinople! What happened?"
"The Alemannic coalition must have started to attack the city. I have to rush back immediately!" Drague rushed towards the deck. "King of Sweden, please leave first. The Theodosian wall is still strong. My strength is also still strong. There is some leftover. As long as there are no accidents, I should be able to survive for a day!"
Under the city of Constantiniya, an army of more than 40,000 people gathered at this moment.
Although the Alemanni coalition has launched many general attacks on Constantiniya before, this patchwork coalition has never worked together like today: from the lord to the cook, everyone has a Weapons and everyone looked fiercely at the Theodosian wall in front of them like hungry wolves.
They know that today's attack will be their last chance. They have penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Qiqiu Empire and have been cut off from their retreat. The plague spreads among the army and will soon make them unable to fight. If they capture Constantiniya before the two field armies of the Seven Hills Empire arrive, they will survive; if they fail to capture it, they will die sooner or later!
The Dukes of Saxony and Burgundy stood at the forefront of the siege sequence. Following these two lords was a squad of twenty heavy infantrymen. Their shields were painted with various coats of arms, and they looked extremely messy. Before joining this phalanx, they had many brave warriors. , some are noble knights, and some are even lords themselves.
For this attack, the Alemannic coalition gathered together all the warriors whose magic power reached the "natural" level, plus a few stronger "self" levels, and then barely formed this twenty-man infantry. squad. They will serve as the vanguard in the coming battles.
The Duke of Burgundy waved a gray cloth strip in front of everyone, and then silently wrapped the coat of arms on his shield with the strip of cloth. Then, the Duke of Saxony did the same thing in front of everyone. Everything is self-evident. Everyone in the team followed their example and pulled off the gray cloth strips from their robes to cover the crests on their shields and armor.
The messy colors disappear. Family, status, identity, grudges, stance, everything was covered by the gray cloth. Next, they will advance and retreat together simply as comrades-in-arms.
The horn of charge sounded. Every Alemannic soldier has received instructions in advance: after the trumpet sounds this time, there will be no further instructions to withdraw the troops. If the siege tower is still there, climb up the siege tower; if the siege tower is gone, use ladders and ladders. Climb with a rope; if you have nothing, then pile the corpses of your companions into a mountain and climb up the Theodosian wall on the mountain of corpses!
Only one force was not organized into the siege sequence - they were stationed at the port, preparing to use the fortifications there to guard against the raids of the pirates on the sea. This troop numbered only three thousand, not even half of Aila's troop. But their mission this time was not to repel the pirates, but to contain them before the coalition captured Constantinian. To defeat that group of brave pirates, ten thousand people may not be enough. But if the annihilation of the entire army is taken as the premise, three thousand people are enough for that group of pirates to kill for a long time!
In order to ensure that the soldiers did not retreat on the battlefield, the Alemannic lords even gathered all the food and grass in their respective military camps and burned them together with the Earl of Piedmont's military camp.
Constantiniya has been under siege for nearly two months. And now, the final battle has begun!
