Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

In the end, it was the sword of sighs that pierced Sairon's chest - the sword of the father piercing the chest of the son.

Before he died, the man was crying and laughing. He looked at Bugu and said in a strange tone: "Bugu Kahn, the war has just begun."

"What did you say?" Ba Gu asked him.

"The moment you capture Eagle Head City, the northern border will be ignited, and you... are the sacrifice of this doomsday." He slowly collapsed on the ground, bleeding from his mouth, "My elder brother ...Camptrane...Rastol...will set the world on fire..."

"Betrayers, liars and idiots... will all die, but you... must be the one who dies the most, I..."

Ba Gu sneered: "Fuck you!" He said and chopped off the man's head with a sword.

eternal spring breeze, nine

eternal spring breeze, nine

"Your Majesty, there is news from outside the castle!" The steward came to the Mad King with a secret letter.

The Mad King read the letter and said, "They still have the face to come at this time?"

It turned out that the minor nobles around the valley united and prepared to rebel against the descendants of the night god.Including the four areas of Dragon Wing City, Swamp Border, Patrol Forest, and Racecourse, there is a marquis, two earls, and many knights.They asked His Majesty the King to add officials to them, so that they would be qualified to attack the rebels in Wolf City.

He received three such confidential letters in a row, all of which were similar in content.There is also a Mountain Man, and one is from Southwest Jinniu City.

After the fall of Bullland, the mountain people also began to revolt.In the same way, the three marquises of the Mountain People also wrote to Eaglehead City, asking His Majesty the King to make them Dukes, so that they would fight for the King.

Then Sarazi, Marquis of Taurus City, wrote to the Mad King, asking him to make him king, so that he would lead his vassals and forcibly form an army of 10 people to serve the king.

One after another, many nobles wrote to Yingtou City, requesting titles on the condition that they would escort King Qin.

The Mad King didn't want to talk to these people at all.

Why didn't you show up for the whole battle, now that we are almost finished, you all stood up!

It turned out that they wanted to cut me up and eat me.

Fuck you, I called a bunch of "sand scorpions" in the end!I can never get enough of you jackals!

They didn't come to serve the king at all, they came to eat my flesh and drink my blood!Then the North will be plunged into endless civil war, and I'll never be king!

"Your Majesty, there is another news!"

"I don't want to read letters from these despicable people!" the Mad King roared angrily.

"No, this time it's a battle report!" The manager shouted urgently, "It's from Yingtou Port, please take a look!"

The Mad King just received the letter, he glanced at it, and his heart immediately turned cold.

The Arctic Fleet has been defeated?

The letter said that the fleet was at Eagle's Head Harbor and Bowle Kahn was engaged head-on.

There is a passage in the letter that can explain the problem: "...At first, our side had an absolute advantage, but a few minutes after the war started, the Gulfland fleet also landed at the port of Eagle Head City. We were defenseless in the rear and could only Let others be slaughtered, but we still sank half of the warships in the Gulf, and severely damaged the little Trident himself..."

Well said, what happened?The mad king looked directly at the last line: the main force was preserved, and now it is retreating to the northwest by land, all warships were destroyed, and some tribal coalition forces surrendered.

Anyway, I can't count on it?The mad king tore the letter to pieces on the spot.

So is it possible for me to come back?

The mad king counted each of his cards, the extreme north, the mountain people, the valley, the soldiers, the Grand Knights, the Vulcan Cult, and other vassals... He found that he had no cards to play.

All those loyal to him are dead, and the nobles who are still alive all want to eat his flesh and drink his blood.Now there are five marquises in the northern border who have not participated in the war, more than a dozen earls, and countless minor nobles who still don't understand the situation. They are confused and wavering.The Northern Territory was defeated so quickly that many people didn't know what happened, and Eagle Head City was about to collapse.

It's only spring time.

The mad king thought: I should surrender, maybe I can save my life this way,

But how could Bugu Kahn? He said that he would kill all the men in my family, fuck all my women, and said that he would impregnate all my princesses with his seeds.He is a butcher, can I surrender to him?

I have nowhere to go.

Eaglehead is my kingdom, and my kingdom is this castle.

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Black smoke billowed from the battlefield.

It was the smell of gunpowder smoke, and Bagu had never smelled this kind of smell on the battlefield.The former battlefield should smell of blood, rust, dirt and stench.

He was not used to this strange smell, and felt a little uneasy.

Lan Zuo told him that these muskets are new weapons that have only just begun to be developed. They are expensive and difficult to make, so there are only a thousand of them.No one expected it to be so powerful.

The port has been destroyed, the wreckage of the northern warship is burning on the water, and the warship in the bay has no place to dock.Therefore, the captain ordered to land in the shallows not far away.

Shallow landings are dangerous and inefficient, as it takes time to transport both personnel and cargo.The captain will transfer all the elite troops over first, and the rest will come slowly.

After all, they have plenty of time now.

The king, the prime minister, and the captain finally got together again.

"We have won for the time being." Lan Zuo said, "The forces outside Eagle Head City have been disintegrated by us - the three Dukes of the Mountain People, the Valley, and the Extreme North are all dead, and the remaining Great Knights will also be involved in Wolf City There will be no more reinforcements for the little king, and our next step is to besiege Eaglehead City."

The captain asked him, "Where are the other nobles in the north?"

Lan Zuo said: "A long time ago, I wrote letters to other nobles in the northern border, saying that when I conquered Eagle Head City, I would give them more fiefdoms and higher titles. Their original territories remain unchanged. , the extra territory will be distributed to the rest of the people. Now the northern border is a mess, unless someone with prestige stands up and raises his arms, otherwise these little nobles will always be dreaming in their own castles." Lan You sneered a few times, and said, "I told you that you may not believe it. Up to now, there are still many nobles in the northern border who don't know that there is a war. More people thought it was just an ordinary rebellion, and the rebels soon will be annihilated."

Said the captain: "Stupid nobles, they deserve to be ruled."

Bugu smiled and said: "But the king is even more stupid. If the little king can manage the country well, this kind of thing will not happen. Haha, the capital is about to fall, and the servants are still sleeping in the castle? The little king Without wisdom, lack of courage, and unpopularity, he will definitely die." Ba Gu raised his sword and shouted: "Soldiers of the Gulf, shout!"

The army shouted in unison: "Storm! Storm! Storm!"

The last spring breeze blew across the land, and the fire at the port intensified.The morale of the soldiers in the Gulf is also as high as fire.Eagle Head City is already at your fingertips.

Lan Zuo said: "Let's start the siege, we can slowly consume Eagle Head City."

It's the best way to do this, Ba Gu thought in his heart, that city can't be taken down by hard attack.

In this way, the siege of Eagle Head City began.

The coalition forces from the Bay Area and the Western Regions besieged Eagle Head City, and they were bound to capture this majestic city that had stood for 300 years and make history.

And the Mad King and the last warriors defended the castle, fighting to the death to protect their last land.

The worst siege battle in the history of this continent began from this moment.

Spring breeze is eternal, ten

Spring breeze is eternal, ten

When the siege began, Bagu thought it would take a month to break the city, the captain thought it would take two months, and Sand Scorpion was more pessimistic, thinking it would take until autumn.Lan Zuo didn't say his forecast, but among the materials he prepared were cotton coats for the winter.

Every day, Lan Zuo would send people to the city to persuade him to surrender, but the Mad King had no intention of surrendering at all.The ultimatum he threw in without showing up, without negotiating, also fell into the sea.

People outside the city didn't understand what the Mad King was still insisting on.

The mad king himself didn't know what he was still insisting on.

Time passed day by day like this, and a month later, people inside and outside the city learned that Wolf City had surrendered.The Claus family reunite with the Flower family and declare independence.Jiuguang Flowers ascended the throne in Wolf City and established the Kingdom of God named Harmon, which is also known as the Kingdom of Night God.The whole country believed in Night God, and he purged the nobles who opposed him, allowing the theocracy to be elevated above the authority of the nobles.

And he himself is both the spokesperson of the night god and the king, with overwhelming power that no one can match.

Meanwhile, summer has arrived.Lan Zuo organized a small-scale siege, which he said would speed up Eaglehead's surrender.

Lan Zuo, this demon, has been collecting corpses on the battlefield.He buried them in pits, doused them with the witch's poison, and left them to rot and stink.When the fire was hot enough, he ordered people to throw the corpse into Eagle Head City with a catapult.

Corpse pieces fell from the sky, and the stench filled the sky.As soon as the battle was over, Lan Zuo ordered people to burn down the siege equipment, and isolated the soldiers who controlled the siege equipment for observation.If a person fell ill, he was executed immediately, and the body was cremated with his clothes.

Then he sent people to poison the river upstream of Eagle Head City. He wanted to use this method to force the enemy to surrender.

However, Eagle Head City is still standing.

Two months later, it was too hot to wait for people.Bagu's army suffered massive heatstroke and infectious diseases, and they were running out of water.In desperation, they had to withdraw some troops.Fortunately, support from Jinsha Castle and Cold Night City arrived soon, and barrels of fresh water were transported into the big tent, which solved the urgent need.

At this time, Ba Gu couldn't help thinking: We have follow-up supplies, and even if we are living in such a difficult situation, what will Eagle Head City look like?

In late July, news came from the South that the slaveholders were at war again.The Federation of Free Chambers banded together in an attempt to overthrow the Duke of Miel.At the same time, Mier also proclaimed himself king. He set up the Saintess City as the capital and named the country "Long Xia".Then the academy sent the witch, Menglanda Manluoxi, as the Duke, and gave her the city of Hummingbird.When nobles and witches united, the Free Chamber of Commerce also sought allies—they allied with the natives of the southern tribal islands and attacked from the sea and the mountains.Tropical rain forests have also been ignited by the flames of war.

At the beginning of August, the mountain people began to revolt, and Sha Xie had to take people back to put down the rebellion.But Eagle Head City didn't take advantage of this opportunity to open the city to attack. Ba Gu thought that the little king lacked courage, but Lan Zuo said: "He opened the city gate in the morning, and we can plant the flag in the castle in the afternoon. This is correct." After hearing this, Ba Gu took it for granted.

In mid-August, the remnants of the Northern Guards and Grand Knights announced the establishment of the "Second Northern Empire".The new empire continued the system of the northern border, nominally inheriting all the heritage of the people, property, and land of the northern border.But the Second Empire has no king, Silver Flower Knight of the West Acropolis: Ciro Steka, uncle of the East Acropolis: Delixi Chester, and the new Knight Commander of the Great Knights, the God of War Ha Sanhelen's adopted son, Sren Mulister, the three managed the land together.Political decisions are made by collective votes in a parliament of [-] citizens.

At the end of August, the swamp orcs also broke out in war. The soul of the heavenly father in the western swamp fought against the spirit of the earth mother in the eastern swamp, but no one cared about it.The uprising of the mountain people was suppressed, and Sand Scorpion established himself in Castle Sword and Shield as "the eternal emperor of the yellow sand, plains, grasslands, wastelands and mountains, the spokesperson and representative of the Lord of Seven Colors, the guardian of order and the promoter of the world".The capital was set in Cold Night City, and Sword and Shield Castle was granted to the Marquis of the Mountain People who came to join him.

In September, followers of the Poseidon Sect came to Bagu to make a petition, asking him to confer the land.Lorelei and Putin claim the territory of Bear Mountain, Antler Pass, Dragon Wing City, Salt Flats, and the Valley.Bagu thought they had too much appetite, so he rejected it and asked them to draw up another document.Ten days later, the disciples of the Sea God announced their defection from the Gulf, and accepted the conferment of the Night God Kingdom.Bagu was furious, and ordered to attack these traitors in the afternoon.

In late September, the mountain people rebelled for the second time, but were quickly suppressed.

In October, there were four riots in the River Bend, but they were all suppressed by the Fengleibao troops. At the same time, bandits gathered in the area around Jinsha Castle, riots broke out in the Beihai area, and riots broke out in the swamp and rocky land.Lan Zuo thinks this is not a good omen, someone must be playing tricks behind the scenes.But now they have no time to take care of such trivial matters, so they can only hand over the task of countering the rebellion to Fengleibao.

In November, the weather turned cold, and Eagle Head City still had no intention of surrendering.Ba Gu went to persuade him to surrender, but was wounded by a bow and arrow.This time, for some reason, his wound continued to bleed, and it took a long time before it began to heal.Lan Zuo checked the arrow and said that the arrow seemed to have some kind of magical power.

In mid-November, Vulcan Castle announced that it would maintain permanent neutrality and would not participate in this war.At the same time, news came from the south that the Freedom Alliance was retreating steadily.

In late November, the mountain people rebelled for the third time and were still suppressed, but the people from the Western Regions also lost two nobles and suffered heavy losses.Shaxie was furious and sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress the remnants of the mountain people.The rebels retreated into the mountains without a trace.The weather was too cold, and the sand scorpions had no choice but to retreat.

In December, Bagu's army could not hold on anymore.But he didn't order a retreat. He asked Captain Kilps to turn into a pirate and go to the surrounding towns to plunder and fight to support the war.Eagle Head City is still holding on, but there are fewer and fewer people on the walls.

The Second Empire in the Northern Territory was trying to launch a surprise attack on Bagu, but Lan Zuo noticed it first, and resolved its offensive through a mountain blocking battle.

The scale of the civil strife in the River Bend is getting bigger and bigger. Three villages and towns in the Second and Fourth Fork Roads have fallen, and the nobles of the River Bend have temporarily formed an alliance to resist the rebellion.

In January, the Ye Shen Kingdom and the descendants of the Sea God announced their assistance in suppressing the rebellion in the Gulf, and they sent troops into the Gulf for this reason to garrison Bear Mountain.Bear Mountain, as the territory of the Gulf, has existed in name only.Ba Gu once wanted to return to defense, but was dissuaded by Lan Zuo.Lan Zuo insisted on taking Eagle Head City, because only in this way can he command the remaining nobles.

In February, Ba Gu had a big quarrel with Lan Chu over the siege of the city. In the end, Lan Chu forced Ba Gu to continue besieging Yingtou City with death, so Ba Gu had to compromise.At the same time, the mountain rebels secretly united with the Second Empire in the North and revolted again.The Sand Scorpions officially declare war on the Second Reich.

In late February, it was rumored that the "Beggar King" held a large-scale rally in Mustang and gave a speech, with tens of thousands of spontaneous participants.It is known as "Xiaochun Gathering" in history.

In March, the spring breeze comes again.

The spring breeze is eternal, eleven

The spring breeze is eternal, eleven

When the spring breeze comes again, the mad king is no longer that mad king.

This year, he is old.

He stood in front of the mirror and saw his gray hair, chapped lips, wrinkled face and dick that couldn't get hard anymore.

Before that, he felt that time was eternal and he would never grow old.Because his mentality has not changed since he was a child until he became a king.He has been longing for a warm little home, a comfortable journey and a peaceful life.Tianhu's dormitory gave him everything, and he lived there happily every day.

But now, all of this is gone, and fate has taken away his young heart.

During this year, the enemy did not attack on a large scale. The enemy would occasionally throw some corpses to disgust people, and occasionally there would be some small-scale raids, but none of them could hurt Eagle Head City.

Yet the Mad King has been at war.

He executed a total of 34 generals and quelled four rebellions.

It turned out that everyone would betray him. He used to think that knights would not betray, that prime ministers would not betray, and that vassals would not betray... These were all stupid ideas.

However, he firmly believes that blood relatives will not betray.

However, after the siege, the first to betray him were blood relatives.

Shane Heworth, his uncle.

He set off a rebellion in the city, and he led the noble sons to capture the castle, trying to force the mad king to surrender.But the Mad King has paladins and mages, which are the most elite forces in Eagle Head City, and he easily wiped out the rebellion.He then killed his uncle in public - killing a total of 77 knives.

Three times later, in summer, autumn and winter, the guards rebelled, the nobles rebelled, and the last time the mage rebelled.They are numerous in number and well-planned. In the past, the Mad King must have been recruited.But he's been betrayed so many times that he can tell who's wrong at a glance.So every plan was strangled by him, and all those who betrayed were killed by him one by one.

The Mad King has always believed that loyalty is a noble character, and only well-educated nobles with high morals can understand loyalty.But the irony is that the people who are most loyal to him this time are the people at the bottom.

These people really believe that the Mad King is desperately protecting them, so they are united with the Mad King. People contribute their property, men take the initiative to join the army, and women also come to work as labor... It is because of these people, these people The poor, the peasants, and the slaves, the Mad King persisted.

Everyone in Eagle Head City wants to protect their homeland.

This is a miracle.

The difficulties they face are beyond imagination, but people can always come up with incredible solutions.

The first difficulty was the plague. The cruel Lan Zuo threw the corpse into the castle, causing an evil plague.The Mad King knew that the flame could purify this sorcery, so he burned all the people infected with the plague-rather killing people than leaving the seeds of the plague.Whether it is the elderly, women or children, if they are infected with the disease, they will be executed.Of course, he will give these people the title of martyr, which is an honorable sacrifice.

The mages washed their bodies with salt water, and the knights hunted the unclean things throughout the city-crows, mice, and bedbugs of all kinds, and killed them all together.Eventually the plague was contained.