Chapter 881, I Heard the Bell Ringing

After handing over the words, there was still no response from the high-spirited side. Ryan waited for another day, and the war council was still in full swing. The weather in Lothern was as good as ever.

Little Thorgreen-Iron Hammer sent someone to report to Ryan, saying that the ironclad ship has been repaired and can be used. Among them, the dwarf gun bullets, helicopter fuel, and ironclad ship fuel have almost been replenished, except for the artillery shells, especially the triple Shells for naval guns cannot be produced here.

In the previous sea battle, almost half of the shells of the ironclad ship had been used up, and the rest could only be used sparingly.

At this time, Ryan has no other choice but to wait. Here I want to emphasize that the time concept of elves is indeed very different from that of humans. Waiting for one or two months for one thing may be considered very procrastinating for humans, but for elves It's nothing at all.

Don't know what we are talking about? Just plan again and think again.

Ryan expressed his satisfaction on the surface after checking the situation of the ironclad ship and the training situation of the Old Guards during this period, but the King of Knights kept his hand. On the next night, Ryan and his queen Suria were going to go to war again. Make a surprise check on the situation at the Old Guard.

At night, Lothern is like spring all the year round, and the refreshing sea breeze blows through the garden of the villa. Ryan and Suria set off here.

Today, Suria wore an Ursuan Alion dark blue diamond princess sparkling dress with ultra-thin gray velvet soft pantyhose. "Honey, when do you think that dog skin plaster will arrive?"

"I guess it will be soon... Huh?" Ryan looked at the bright moonlight above the deep blue sky. The Knight King looked up and found that standing at the door of the villa was another elf nobleman.

This elf nobleman looks quite similar to Minister Shire, but he looks more haggard and not in good spirits. He has long, wavy gray hair parted in the middle, revealing a big forehead. What is more eye-catching is that he also has Leaning on a cane, the clothes on his body were not very neat. Although it was not worn out, it always had a shabby taste. When he saw Ryan and Suria appearing, he hurriedly saluted in a panic: "Your Majesty, Queen, Good evening, I am in charge today."

"You are?" Ryan wondered why he had changed to another person: "Where is Arsene? I'm not used to seeing him."

"I'm De Talleyrand-Maurice-Bennister." The elf nobleman smiled awkwardly, "I'm the cousin of the former Minister of Shire...if he admits it."

"Admit it?" Ryan asked with great interest, "Can you tell me about you?"

"I am a bastard,

Born by accident about a hundred and twenty years ago after a wild orgy at a birth party, the father is unknown. "The elf nobleman said everything about himself in a bachelor way: "I was born in Charis... In everyone's eyes, it was the home of a lowly bumpkin. I accidentally fell from a high stool and became disabled. When I grew up, she asked me to come to Lothern to join my relatives, that's all. "

"Then why did you come here?" Ryan only felt that the high spirit in front of him didn't have any arrogance, and was honest and enthusiastic. The King of Knights was also happy to say a few more words: "Where's Arsene?"

"Mr. Arsène has something to do, oh, if you don't mind, please call me De Talleyrand directly, I am only one hundred and twenty years old this year, if calculated according to Azul, I am much younger than you. "The high-spirited noble lost a smiling face. He didn't put on the airs unique to high elves. He seemed sincere and even flattering: "Where are you going? I will accompany your majesty and the queen. Just don't go too fast. Can't keep up."

"De Talleyrand?" Ryan thought that the name sounded familiar to me, but he didn't think too much about it. This high-spirited noble has a very good attitude, and he has been despised by high-spirited nobles and all kinds of eccentricities for a while. Both Ryan and Suria feel that they have gained the right to breathe, and their perception of him can't help but improve. This is probably the feeling of pulling a big guy out of a scorpion.

In this way, De Talleyrand became the new guide. According to him, Arsene asked for two days off because he had to count his family's trade bills and imported goods. Arsene's family was originally a family that produced a large number of Lothern Tritons. , but they now use business and ocean trade as their main source of wealth, and the number of family members serving in the military has been decreasing day by day.

Leaning on crutches, de Talleyrand limped step by step, and said with a little embarrassment: "Sorry, Your Majesty, I am not a person who is qualified to know more things. If you use the current situation as a metaphor, Mr. Arsene is responsible The customer's department manager, and I'm just a servant in charge of serving the dishes. In Ulthuan, especially in Lothern, your birth determines whether you are the one who serves or the one who is served, and I am The one who serves the plate will also be in the future, and the greatest hope in my life is to be able to serve a plate for an elf prince."

Ryan was a little sad when he heard this.

Are the high elves really free and democratic? In fact, not necessarily.

In addition to the elves' contempt for humans and dwarves, the high elves actually have a chain of contempt for themselves. The inner kingdom despises the outer kingdom, noble blood despises ordinary blood, cities despise rural areas, spellcasters despise ordinary people... etc., A chain of contempt with more than a dozen rings, from top to bottom.

And this De Talleyrand is an elf at the bottom of the chain of contempt. He is a country bumpkin from Charis in the Outer Ring Kingdom. In the lower part, if he didn't have a reliable distant relative, he wouldn't be able to come to Lothern.

"What is the current situation in the Kingdom of Charis?" On the way to the alien residential area, Ryan chatted with this Mr. Talleyrand with great interest, and De Talleyrand was a little flattered by the attitude of the Knight King. He didn't understand why the King of Knights didn't like the learned Arsene so much, but liked to talk to himself.

"Not much, Your Majesty." Talleyrand was leaning on crutches. After thinking for a while, he decided to answer truthfully: "Charis is an empty and forested kingdom, primitive and backward, and that's why everyone thinks that Charis Si is a place where a group of country bumpkins live, but now, Charis has become the only way for the dark elves to invade. Because of the war and backwardness, the population there is getting smaller and smaller, leaving countless deserted lands, many ancient and Towns and manors full of history are empty, many gardens and theaters have not been opened for hundreds of years, and there are many castles to defend against the dark elves, but most of them do not have enough troops to garrison them."

"How could it have declined so much?" Surya frowned.

"In order to protect the safety of the Phoenix King, the most elite white lion guards of Charis were transferred to Lothern, and those who had a way to leave left. My mother didn't like my lame son since he was a child. So let me come here." Talleyrand tried his best to pick out what he could say: "That's all."

"Since the population is small, why don't you have more children?" Su Liya asked casually. The queen didn't understand the ultra-low birth rate of Gao Jing.

"For my mother, there are many things to do in a long life. Planting flowers and singing songs is far more relaxing than raising a child. One more child is a heavy burden and encumbrance. In Usuan, The cost of raising an excellent offspring is very high." Talleyrand shrugged, his face full of self-mockery: "I am very grateful to my mother for letting me come into this world, but I have been fostered since I was born, and now I meet my mother I can't force my mother to visit me more often, I can only be myself, and she doesn't like a lame son."

Sophisticated peaceful and welfare society! It is really different from dark elves in nature. For dark elves, multiple populations add more combat power, but for high elves, multiple populations have multiple burdens.

Ryan closed his eyes and shook his head. The King of Knights didn't say anything, but motioned Talleyrand to follow.

So Sanguinius' words brought Ryan greater inspiration.

There are limits to scheming and manpower. No matter how powerful the court conspiracy of the high elves is, it is nothing more than subdividing the whole cake infinitely and eating as clean as possible. what? Can it turn into money and food? No money is no money, no one is no one.

Ryan understands better why Finnuba, the navigator, was chosen as the Phoenix King, because only he can make the cake bigger and pull Gao Jing out of the quagmire, it's as simple as that.

About 30 minutes later, Ryan came to the old guard station in the alien activity area. The King of Knights deliberately wanted to find out what the old guard was doing. After thinking about it, he took out a few gold coins and handed them To Talleyrand: "Do me a favor, tell the guard that you want to go in and take a look. If the other party refuses to agree, then use this money to ask the other party to make it easier."

"Okay!" De Talleyrand didn't think much, he directly took the money from Ryan, and limped towards that side.

By the way, Ryan also looked at the prosperous streets nearby. The lights here are bright, and many soldiers from the Old Guards and Ash Legion are also active outside, but most of them are officers who take the soldiers out to buy supplies, and some go out to eat and drink. .

Ryan noticed that two old guards were flushed from drinking, and they had just walked out of the alley deep in the corner. They came out to sort their clothes, and then planned to return to the station with satisfaction. There were two A beautifully dressed woman sent them out. Obviously, it was self-evident what these two guys had just done.

"These guys!" Ryan frowned, and he said to Suria: "How can..."

"Honey, not every soldier comes out with his wife and maid like you." Suria's Qianqianyu pointed at Ryan's eyebrows: "It's been several months, please be considerate of them, okay? You You might as well ask, are they on vacation? If they are on vacation, it doesn't matter."

Ryan stipulated that the Old Guards stationed outside would give one day off for ten days.

"Okay!" Ryan thought the same. He shook his head mockingly, then his face became firm again, and he strode forward and stopped in front of the two old guards: "What battalion are you guys from?"

"Us? Ah? Who are you?" The two old guards were drinking a little too much, and they were quite upset when they saw someone stop them, but when they saw that it was Ryan, they immediately sobered up in fright, and they immediately knelt down: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty!?"

"Which battalion?" Ryan snapped.

"Chang... from the Changji Battalion." The two old guards lowered their heads and said tremblingly.

"Why did you come here?" Ryan asked.

"Today is a day off." One of the tall men said with some trepidation: "It's finally our turn, so we decided to come out for a drink, and by the way, let's... that."

Hearing that they were on vacation, Ryan's face looked much better, and the King of Knights nodded: "Okay, get up."

"Yes." The two old guards quickly stood up. They were startled and fully awake. Thinking of being bumped into by the king, they blushed and lowered their heads in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, Queen."

"Where's Commander Raymond of your Halberd Battalion?" Ryan asked casually.

"Battalion Commander Lei Meng is reading military books in the garrison. There are a lot of translated elf military books for sale here. The battalion commander only reads that besides drills recently." The tall man then replied.

"Do you usually leave the station?" Su Liya's tone was much gentler.

"Who dares us, Sir Bertrand and Sir Davout, down to every officer, only leave the station when they are on vacation or when they have something to do. Everyone has early and late roll calls every day. The military order is strict. We I’m on vacation from this afternoon until tomorrow afternoon, so I don’t need roll call tonight and tomorrow morning, but tomorrow night will be called.” The tall man lowered his head and said forcefully: “Your Majesty, we are originally serfs, if we don’t His Majesty discovered us and gave us the glory and status we have now, we don't know where to farm yet!"

"That engineer Thomas is the younger brother of Battalion Commander Raymond, and he will only come to see him on the day when the battalion commander is on vacation, have a meal together, and go shopping together." The short man also said: "We are honored old men." Guards, we will always fight for the King and the Kingdom, Your Majesty, please trust us!"

"Well~" Ryan is satisfied now, the old guards under his command already have their own military soul, in addition to salary and promotion hope, national pride and national glory also inspire these elites: " very good."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty~" At this time, Talleyrand approached pantingly on crutches, and the high elves gasped: "Guards, say what you say, don't let them in~ huh~ha~ They said, even if it is the Phoenix King's Court It won’t work if you come.”

"Very well, let's go in." Ryan signaled the crowd to follow him, walked to the gate of the station, and pointed the black muzzles of five Seiko long-barreled firecrackers produced by Nuer at them: "Who...my Your Majesty, my queen?!"

"Are Bertrand and Davout here?" Ryan nodded, and he still needs to be vigilant.

"The commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief are here, and they are looking at the map."

Ryan couldn't help smiling when he heard the words. Since becoming Tal's God's Choice, Bertrand's waist has become stronger and he has enough confidence. He will no longer be a little envious and a little hostile to Davout like before, and he doesn't know Why was he chosen by Tal, but this is a good thing for Ryan, because Tal doesn't care about the human world at all, and naturally it is impossible to give Bertrand any strange oracle.

At the moment when the Knight King and Queen were about to go in and have a look, a bell rang from the direction of Lothern City.

"Boom~~Boom~~Boom~~~"

"Boom~~~~"

Ryan and Suria are fine, but Talleyrand, who was standing aside, changed his face drastically, and he hurriedly said to Ryan and the others: "No, Your Majesty, Queen, this bell is..."

"What is this bell?" Surya asked immediately.

"This bell is the bell of the army's assembly!" Talleyrand hit the ground vigorously with his crutches: "This is the bell of the War Council's assembly of the army, which can only show one thing, that is, the war lord Tyrion Your Excellency is raising an army!"

"But we haven't got the battle policy of the War Council yet... Ah!" Surya immediately reacted.

"Damn it!" Ryan stomped vigorously, and the king's face was full of anger and helplessness: "I keep urging and urging, but the war council is just dragging, dragging, has something happened now?"

"Call everyone and enter the battle preparation stage!" Ryan shouted at the guards without any hesitation.

The old guards responded loudly and rushed into the garrison to gather the army.

"yes!"

The enemy has already attacked the door!