Alsace was not as miserable as he had shown in front of Rosalind before. After Rosalind left, most of the things in Saint Laurent were planned and completed by him alone.

At this moment, inside the palace.

"Are you ready?" Alsace looked at the potted plant in front of him. Behind him, the raven stood respectfully.

"If nothing else happens, the Imperial College may be burned to the ground tonight. Worst case, they will also know the fate of the royal family."

Raven said so.

"Okay, just let them remember it for a long time."

Arthas said this and continued to give the next order.

"Raven, please do me one more favor later."

"Your Majesty, please speak."

"Help me get rid of the current acting commander of the coalition forces."

Chapter 59: Ultimatum (3K)

Imperial College, dormitory area.

These days, at Alsace's request, Rosalin has been staying at the Imperial Academy. At first, she was still trying to make progress in the negotiations with Orson, but later, as the war became increasingly unfavorable to the royal family, she Knowing that no matter how hard he negotiated, he would not be able to make any progress, he could only listen to Alsace and stay in the Imperial College.

Then, it was night.

After dinner at a restaurant on the commercial street, not long after Rosalin returned to the dormitory, she heard a commotion outside the house.

She opened the window, and then she saw a raging fire in the distance.

That direction was clearly the commercial street where she had eaten just now.

In addition, she also saw flames burning in the direction of the student union office building, square and teaching building.

The teachers on duty rushed to the scene immediately and began to put out the fire. However, the fire was too big and there were too many places on fire. They had to put out the important places first.

Rosalin also joined in the fire-fighting operation.

It lasted until midnight before the fire was put out.

Early the next morning, the Imperial College Council and the Student Union held an emergency meeting to discuss yesterday's fire.

This fire is simply a shame for the Imperial College. In the hundreds of years since its establishment, the Imperial College has never experienced such a large-scale destruction.

The destroyed and burned buildings this time were secondary. After all, buildings can be easily rebuilt under the influence of magic.

The biggest impact caused by the fire is the "safety" issue that Imperial College is most proud of.

Because there was an exception to the succession crisis in Saint Laurent City, the academy accepted the court magicians and others who were traveling with Elsa, and a series of incidents broke out from then on.

Therefore, in addition to reviewing yesterday's issues, the council meeting held in the early morning also had one of the most important functions, which was to impeach Luca.

"Dean Luca." A council member spoke first, pointing the finger directly at Luca.

"It was your instruction to let Elsa and the accompanying court magicians in, and now the Imperial College is humiliated because of your wrong instructions. I think, as the president of the academy, you should be responsible for this, right? "

Hearing this, Luka was silent for a while, and then nodded.

"You're right. I really have a huge responsibility in this matter and I can't shirk it. So I decided that I will not participate in the general election of the Imperial College Board of Directors. How about that?"

You know, with Luca's reputation and ability, even if the next general election of the Imperial College is held, he can still sit firmly on the throne of the college president. Even if this incident happened, as long as he can control it properly and eliminate the impact in time, he will still be quite good in the next election. Competitive.

But now that Luca has made such a level of concession, it has already given the royal family a lot of face.

But it's obvious that the royal family is not satisfied yet.

Luca wants to delay for more than a month, while the royal family needs to control the Imperial Academy now.

"Dean Luca, do you mean that you will continue to sit in the position of dean until the next general election?"

Another council member also raised objections.

"How can such a good thing happen? Luca, you should take full responsibility for what happened. I propose to impeach Luca and elect the next president of the Imperial College starting today."

At this time, Orson, who attended the meeting, put forward his own opinions.

"Everyone, are you a little too anxious to do this? You know, the handover of the dean is not a simple matter. It's just that dean Luka has been re-elected in previous years, so it seems very straightforward. But in fact, if you want to change someone, you need to You have to prepare for the handover some time in advance. If If Dean Luca is impeached today, the Imperial College will fall into a state of chaos without management for a period of time, and the results of the hasty election will definitely not be good. Therefore, even if Dean Luca is to be impeached, formal elections are required. Only after we have a suitable successor, right?"

Hearing Orson's words, the council member who had made the suggestion earlier frowned in dissatisfaction.

"Oson, what you said means that you and Dean Luca are colluding to control the decision-making and management of Imperial College?"

"It's not a crime, right?" Orson heard this and smiled.

"As a student of Imperial College, I can only stay here for two more years at most. Is there any need for me to do this? As for you, more than a month is really only that long. It is long enough for Dean Luca to be able to It took more than one month to turn around the criticism, or are you unable to survive for more than one month due to other reasons? "

Hearing Orson's aggressive words, the other party instantly couldn't sit still.

"President Orson, don't spit blood. Besides, your student union also has an unshirkable responsibility for this fire. I haven't impeached you yet."

"Sorry, the student union's election will be held in the next semester. It will take more than a month. If the students are really dissatisfied with me, I will naturally lose the next election, and you will naturally not see me then."

"Oh, I may have forgotten. Maybe I won't see you first then."

...

On the other side, outside the city of Saint Laurent.

After encountering symbolic resistance, the army of the Duke of Orleans stopped where it was and began to contain part of the royal army, while the armies of Antica, Napoli and Prussia came to the outside of the city of Saint Laurent unimpeded.

Outside the city, the three armies were led by Lucius, Duke of Antica, Martin, the military minister of Napoli, and William, Duke of Prussia. The three stationed troops outside the city of Saint Laurent and then sent envoys into the city.

Outside the city, the three of them successfully joined forces.

After Martin was forced to join Litt's army last time, he made many military achievements along the way. In addition, Litt was good at his job. Litt originally planned to take him back to Antica, but because Martin's lover was still in Florence, he chose to stay and build the Duchy of Naples, which was in need of reconstruction.

The Duchy of Naples had the smallest army in this expedition, but it did not prevent them from being the most resolute supporters of Orson.

In the central army tent of the coalition, Martin met Lucius, Duke of Antica, and William, Duke of Prussia.

He and Lucius had met once before. That was when he had just joined Litt's army. As an adjutant, he accompanied Litt and met the commander-in-chief Lucius.

Therefore, as soon as he entered the military tent, he immediately knew who the two people here were.

He greeted the two dukes respectfully, and then asked:

"When will we enter Saint Laurent City?"

Hearing Martin's words, Lucius did not respond, but turned to look at William.

Seeing this, William knew that Lucius had tacitly agreed that he had become the commander of the coalition forces, so he said:

"We have sent people into Saint Laurent City and told His Majesty our demands. If His Majesty agrees to our demands, we will withdraw our troops and leave. If His Majesty disagrees, we will have to enter the city to fight."

Now the mercenaries and royal army commanded by Litt each control half of the land in Saint Laurent City, so they naturally control the two city gates.

Therefore, they do not need to spend their time attacking Saint Laurent City, which has the highest and strongest walls in the empire. They only need to enter the city from the two city gates controlled by the mercenaries.

On the other hand, after receiving the letter sent by the coalition forces, Arthas showed an expression of "as expected".

"The army still rebelled."

In this case, maintaining the so-called "absolute neutrality" is rebellion, Arthas knows.

Since the army did not want to get involved in this dispute and did not want to be liquidated by the royal family, it should have stopped other armies as well. In this way, at least it could say that it had blocked the enemy's reinforcements during the post-war settlement. But now, standing by and watching the enemy's reinforcements attack was undoubtedly a naked betrayal.

The demands expressed in the letter handed to Arthas by the coalition were almost the same as what Orson had told Rosaline before.

Restoring reputation, admitting mistakes, etc., once done, it would be to announce to the world that Arthas was not in the right position.

In this case, he would never accept such a thing.

Looking at Langdon beside him, Arthas issued an order.

"Langdon, open the armory, arm all the people in our controlled area, let them go to the battlefield and rush to the front line."

Langdon frowned when he heard the order, and then asked: "Your Majesty, is this not a good idea?"

In war, sometimes the more people, the better.

Just like the current situation, if the residents of Saint Laurent are armed, they can provide some help in the number of people, but these residents who have never received systematic military training and have never been on the battlefield will undoubtedly die once they come into contact with the enemy's mercenaries.

In this case, those who die will not make much contribution to the war situation, but will instead hit the morale of the regular army behind them.

Once the morale of the regular army is low, the war situation will really be over.

What's more, those residents may not necessarily accept this request. If they are violently resisted when recruiting them, the losses caused at that time will be unnecessary losses outside of the battle.

This decision is really inappropriate, and therefore, Langdon wants to correct Alsace's idea.

"What's wrong with it?" Alsace asked back.

"Recruiting these citizens at this time will not help at all, Your Majesty." Langdon advised.

"What should I do? My army has betrayed me. Elsa's reinforcements are everywhere outside Saint Laurent. They gave me the face of calling me Your Majesty because of our previous relationship. Once the deadline is over, they will rush in and pull me off the throne!"

"If I don't rely on these subjects now, what else can I rely on? What else can I rely on?"

"You are a soldier, you have to obey orders, do it quickly!"

Seeing that Arthas didn't listen to him, Langdon sighed silently in his heart, and then nodded.

"Understood."

Chapter 60: Irresistible (1W)

Ever since the city of Saint Laurent fell into civil war, the lives of the residents have been like heaven and earth compared to before.

The city of Saint Laurent is no different from the countryside. Most of the citizens are well-educated, so they know how to protect themselves wisely when facing such political turmoil.

Robin is a carpenter in the city of Saint Laurent. Because the furniture he makes is both durable and beautiful, both ordinary citizens and dignitaries are willing to come to him to make furniture. Robin was able to move in when he was in his thirties. In the main city of Saint Laurent City, there is a beautiful, gentle and considerate lady, and an obedient and sensible daughter.

These days, the war has not affected the street where Robin is, so Robin can also go to the street to buy supplies.

But everyone knows that with the war now, it is difficult to bring in things from outside, so prices have also risen. Robin spent almost half of his savings to buy enough supplies for his family for one and a half months.

But as the days passed, Robin saw that the supplies at home were decreasing day by day, and the smiles on the faces of his wife and daughter gradually disappeared, and he felt a lot of pressure inside.

Fortunately, during this period, the royal family would symbolically distribute some supplies that met the minimum living standards to the residents in the controlled area every week, so that the Robin family could live a less difficult life.

In the early morning, Robin heard sounds coming from the street and opened the curtains in a daze. As the sunlight filtered through, he saw a long line of residents on the street.

Soldiers lined both sides of the street, and then a group of recruiting officials forcibly came to the door of each house, knocked on the door of each house, and after showing a document, the head of the household was taken away by force regardless of his wishes.

Some heads of households who still wanted to resist were picked up by the soldiers and dragged away by force.

Among them were wives, children, and children, and they all stood at the door and accused the soldiers, but the soldiers remained unmoved.

"Dad, why is it so noisy outside?" At this time, Robin's daughter Sally opened the door, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and asked with confusion.

"It's okay Sally, it's okay outside." Just as Robin was about to continue to comfort his daughter and let her go back to the room to continue sleeping, there was a rapid knock on the door downstairs.

Sally was also startled awake by the knock on the door, and then she looked at Robin.

"Dad, are there any guests coming today?"

"Not a guest." Robin shook his head, then came to Sally and hugged Sally.

"Sally, listen to daddy, go back to your room and sleep, and ignore whatever happens for a while, okay?"

"Yes." Sally heard this and nodded obediently.

At this time, Robin's wife Inis also came to Robin's room.

She slept with Sally yesterday and had just woken up now.

"Robin, what's going on down there?"

"You send Sally back to the room first, and I'll talk to you later."

Robin said so and walked downstairs.

The knocking on the door became more and more urgent, as if if the door was not opened, the person outside was going to use violence to break in.

Robin came to the door and opened the door to the room.

Then sure enough, an official stood at the door and showed him a document.

"Hello, sir, this is our recruitment document. Now in order to defend the glory of the emperor, we need you to go to the front line and kill the enemy for us. If you agree, you can go with us to get the equipment now."

"Do I have any room to refuse?" Robin said with a wry smile as he listened to the recruitment officer's words.

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