"If I remember correctly, your army, besides the defeated soldiers recently collected, are the main forces that you can fight, reliable and trustworthy, all of which are the loyalty you brought from the fiefdom of the Sezel province, right?"

That's of course.△, in the era of feudal lords, the most capable army under the feudal lords were often those old guards who came out of their hometown and were composed of the villagers and their hometown people. Because only in this way can you, as a commander, know them well and ensure the loyalty of the other party, believe that they are willing to fight for you, and also feel at ease to hand over their backs to the other party.

Bohmond was always a native of Sezel. When the "Emperor" of Ikon was named Prince Sezel, he was chosen as the prince's attendant knight and grew up almost together. Naturally, as a Sezel, the guards and trusted officers around him were mostly Sezel. Before the Auckland Civil War was about to break out, he even returned to Sezel to recruit a group of nearly 10,000 elite soldiers as his backbone, and then he dared to come to the North Gate, the imperial capital of Helin City, which would definitely withstand the fierce battle test.

Now, as the war continues, only half of the 10,000 old guard troops under the Marquis, composed of the people from his hometown, remain, and many of them survived with incurable and severely injured people. But even so, they are still the Marquis' core combat force that the Marquis relies most. He even has confidence that even if the others in the city jump up and rebel, as long as the 5,000 people are still on his side, there will be no trouble in Helin City.

Is "She" saying this at this time trying to shake my will with everyone's lives? Hey, that's a waste of effort. Ha... After all, she is a woman, how can she understand the friendship between comrades and comrades who eat the same trough, sleep the same room and the same hole?

"They are soldiers I trained, and of course they have already realized the desire to live and die with me." He said so happily.

"The warriors who live and die together are all human beings, people who have families and fellow villagers."

As soon as he finished speaking, a melodious song suddenly rang out of Helin City.

"Our Sezel is always like heaven, with green mountains and winding rivers of the South Dore..."

"...This, this is." The Marquis was slightly stunned. Even the iron man with a will like steel suddenly fell into an unspeakable trance.

"Life is there longer than trees, and is as young as mountains, drifting away like a breeze..."

The loud and melodious songs of only a few people finally turned into a chorus in unison. It was a chorus of hundreds of people. The sounds were uneven, far from the uniform spirit and majestic tone of the professional choir, and even mixed with trembling sounds. But it was so deep and passionate that people involuntarily fell into the sound.

"Mother Dashan, take me home! Return to my long-awaited hometown, the forest of Sezel. The winding river water, take me home! Return to my long-awaited hometown, the wilderness of Sezel."

The sound of the chorus was not known as what was being treated, but began to ring in all sides of Helin City. Gradually, everyone in the city could hear such a song. Whether it was the soldiers who were deploying defenses on the city walls, the medical officers who were healing, and even the elite knights who were dedicated to their duties and trained by the Marquis, they couldn't help but stop their work and listened to the fluttering of the singing of the listeners.

It is a folk song from Sezel's hometown. The tune is melodious and graceful, the lyrics are simple but sincere, and the singing is extremely high. It is also a song recognized as the most representative of Sezel's province and Sezel people. Whether it is a dignitary or a peddler, even if you can't sing it thoroughly, you will definitely hum a few words.

"All my memories revolve around her. She is the wife of a lumberjack and a hunter, the mother of a farmer and a shepherd. She has never seen the deep sea. Darkness and dust paint colors in the sky, and tears flow out of my eyes under the hazy moonlight."

Sezel is located southeast of Auckland, bordering the Qingling Mountains on the border of Nordor Forest, and is not near the sea. It is a region that does not rely on the sea and does not have any precious minerals. However, the land is fertile and densely covered with jungles, making it the most famous mountain goods and timber production in the entire empire.

The defenders of Helin City began to cry. They were all facing the iron army that stood firm in the city several times their own enemy, and they had already realized that the entire army would die in battle. But at this time, whether it was the resolute knight, the disabled veteran, whether it was the veteran, or the rookie recruit who had just begun to emerge, they all felt the softest and warmest place in their hearts. Even those soldiers who were not born from Sezel were affected by such an environment and involuntarily thought of their hometown. They choked up, they wandered, and they... gradually lost the courage to fight to the death.

"Mother Dashan, take me home! Return to my long-awaited hometown, the forest of Sezel. The winding river water, take me home! Return to my long-awaited hometown, the wilderness of Sezel!"

"You...you, you!" Marquis Bohmond stared at Lu Xi with a expressionless face, and for the first time felt a fear of being controlled by others. He could not even experience such fear after facing Karin's great victory in Helin City for several months.

He drew out his sword and pointed at Lu Xi, his whole body began to tremble.

"I heard a voice calling to me in the early morning, reminding me of my distant home and walking along the river. I felt this way in my heart: Maybe I should have returned home yesterday, just yesterday!"

"Do you still have to resist? Marquis?" Lu Xi said with a sigh.

Marquis Bohmond trembled with gritted teeth, holding his sword, as if he was ready to cut Lu Xi twice at any time, but after a long time, he finally let out a depressed sigh and silently lowered his weapons.

"Follow me!" he said to his guards: "Go back to the Lion Fortress and welcome our final end."

The so-called Lion Wing Fortress refers to the fortress in the city built by elves, dragons and Titan giants in the early days of the Griffon Dynasty. It is the oldest building in the entire Helin City, but it is still the most sturdy building.

When the "Chuge" around the city sounded everywhere, even Bohmond understood that his soldiers would completely lose the morale of continuing to fight. At this time, we could only expect the guards around us to be able to hold on. However, the Marquis's personal guards were only four or five hundred, so how could they defend such a large city? We could only barely use the Lion Wing Fortress as the final stronghold and continue to be a stumbling block.

"In addition, there is still..." The Marquis pondered for a moment, and suddenly realized that the food that was still stockpiled in the warehouses in the city was enough to allow all the refugees gathered in the imperial capital to survive this period of time.

He felt the torment. The sense of honor as a knight and the sense of responsibility to serve the Lord began to fight in his heart. After a while, he gritted his teeth, and a trace of collapsed hideousness flashed across his eyes, and a personal guard came over. At that moment, he suddenly felt that something very important in his heart had collapsed...

"Go and get the warehouse..." The Marquis almost squeezed out a sequel from his teeth, but before he could speak, he suddenly heard a huge roar around him. It seemed as if the sky and the earth suddenly had an earthquake that collapsed and cracked. It even completely covered up the singing outside the city.

He was stunned, feeling a rumbling sound in his ears that shocked his heart, and he almost lost the ability to think. He looked at the guards around him who were more surprised than him, and looked in the direction of the sound, but he saw the ancient fortress that had been built for thousands of years, but it seemed to be pushed down by an invisible big hand, and it collapsed and collapsed like a pile of cheap building blocks.

It was a pillar that could support the soldiers in Helin City to continue to resist. In just five minutes, they were crushed to pieces.

"This. This is..."

"This is the will of the gods, Lord Bohmond!" Lu Xi said word by word. Yes, who could have thought that more than five thousand years ago, the dragon clan helped the ancient Auckland people to establish this Lion Wings Fortress, and had realized that these seemingly weak black iron people might one day truly rule the world, threatening the living space of the ancient golden bloodline and even their race continuation. They helped the Aucklanders strengthen the permanent dragon-word magic defense stance on the entire fortress, making these stone walls harder than steel, but at the same time they secretly left behind the back doors in those magic circles. As long as they were activated with certain commands, these defensive magic circles would disappear on the spot, and even pulled away the magic links used by the elves architects to maintain the fortress's architectural structure.

At that time, all the blows that the fort itself suffered, including the limit of its building life, will be directly expressed from the physical level in an extremely "realistic" way.

This is the last straw that broke the camel's back? At that moment, Lu Xi felt that all his energy seemed to disappear from the strong-willed famous general. He looked at the "female official" in front of him with an almost numb look. After a while, he finally realized something.

"...You shouldn't be as simple as His Highness Katerina's female official?"

"I am Lu Xi, Lin Ge, Berenkast, the Marquis." Lu Xi nodded slightly, and officially introduced himself: "I am not the only one in the Karin army who is confident of breaking out of this city alone, but I am indeed the only one who is confident of convincing you with words. Similarly, I am still the only one who is confident that you can stop you when you take the risk in the end. Now, the former proves that I am just dreaming in the daytime, while the latter... I hope you don't do stupid things at this time. You have fulfilled all your obligations as a warrior and retainer, and there is no need to bear the eternal infamy for a person who is doomed to fail."

Bohmond was stunned. A strong sense of frustration and fear brewed a complex emotion in his heart, but then he suddenly felt a rare relaxation and pleasure.

"It turned out to be you... Haha, I'm really confused. I was actually present at the grand birthday banquet when the late emperor was alive. At that time, you and His Highness Caterina were the focus of thousands of people in the harvest hall! But I didn't recognize you." At that moment, the Marquis showed a self-deprecating smile, but that was also the most relaxing and refreshing smile that Lu Xi saw.

"Kaicheng, surrender to His Highness Katerina! All the supplies, weapons and food in the city are sealed, and you will personally guard every important position, waiting for His Highness's army to accept it. If you take advantage of the chaos and robbery, kill them, don't worry! It's too short of manpower, you all go!" He turned his head and shouted loudly to his confidant soldiers behind him. At that moment, he once again recovered the duties of a famous general who led 30,000 to 40,000 people to defend Helin, leaving Karin's army helpless.

The Marquis's personal guard captain hesitated for a moment, but was infected by the lord's courage. He stood up and bowed, but said, "But, sir, if we all go, you..."

"I need to fulfill my final duties." The Marquis returned loudly.

The knight seemed to realize something, and seemed to be confused again. He pondered for a second, hit his chest with his fist and nodded, and then buried his head.

It was not until all his subordinates left that the Marquis turned around silently and looked at Lu Xi. His eyes seemed to be filled with complex emotions that were indescribable, making people unable to see clearly his mood at this moment: "Everything today is your work. Master Lu Xi, Berenkast. If you were by that highness all the time, maybe I wouldn't have kept Helin City until today, right?"

"...You are really over-reward. All the strange tricks are based on information asymmetry, and you have done your best." Although he knew that his words sounded a little proud, Lu Xi still couldn't help but want to comfort the other party.

"Yes, I did the best, but in the end I couldn't save the fate of my lord. But as a warrior, since he has decided on his life's destination, at least at the last moment, he must fulfill his last loyalty!" He suddenly pulled out his sword, turned his head, and turned around and slashed towards Lu Xi.

His sword was swift and fierce, and his moves were smooth and freehand. Perhaps the most perfect sword he had ever cut in his life. However, it only stabbed the air. He heard the sigh on one side of his ear, and then felt the severe pain of being pierced by a sharp blade in his chest. But then, the feeling of fatigue, numbness and chaos quickly occupied all his senses.

This strong and powerful general still kept his eyes open and stood tall until he died.

"Please go on the road with peace of mind. I will convince Karin no matter what, at least Prince Sezel's family can save their lives and personal property." Lu Xi whispered.
Chapter completed!