Chapter 251

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 Board of Governors and the Student Union held an emergency meeting to discuss yesterday's fire.

This fire was simply a disgrace to the Imperial College. The Imperial College was founded

For hundreds of years, there has never been a devastation of this magnitude.

The destroyed and burned buildings this time are 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 have colluded 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. Do I need to do this? As for you, more than a month is really only that long. It will last until Dean Luca can 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 couldn't sit still for an instant.

"President Osen, please don't slander anyone. Besides, your student union also has unshirkable responsibility for this fire. I haven't impeached you yet."

"Sorry, the student union's general election is next semester. Counting the time, it's more than a month away. If the students are really dissatisfied with me, I will naturally lose the next election, and you won't be able to see me by then. ”

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

…

On the other side, outside Saint Laurent.

The army of the Duke of Orleans stopped in place after encountering symbolic resistance and began to contain part of the royal army, while the armies of Antica, Naples and Prussia arrived at the city of Saint Laurent unimpeded. outside.

Outside the city, those responsible for commanding the three armies were Lucius, Duke of Antica, Martin, Military Minister of Naples, and William, Duke of Prussia. The three men garrisoned outside Saint Laurent and then sent envoys into the city.

Outside the city, the three men successfully reunited.

After Martin was forced to rebel and join Li Te's army last time, he made many military exploits along the way. In addition, he was very capable. Li Te originally planned to take him back to Antica, but because Martin's lover was still in Florence city, he still chose to stay and build the Duchy of Naples, which was in dire need.

This time we send troops

The Dukedom of Central Naples also has the smallest army, but that doesn't stop them from supporting Orson the most.

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

He and Lucius once had a chance encounter. That was after he first joined Li Te's army. As an adjutant, he accompanied Li Te 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?"

After hearing Martin's words, Lucius did not answer and turned to look at William.

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

"We have sent people into the city of Saint Laurent and told His Majesty our demands. If His Majesty agrees to our request, we will withdraw our troops. If Your Majesty does not agree, we will have to enter the city to fight."

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

Therefore, they do not need to expend effort to attack Saint Laurent City, which has the tallest and strongest city wall in the empire. They only need to enter the city through the two city gates controlled by mercenaries.

On the other side, Alsace showed an expression of "Sure enough" after receiving the letter sent by the coalition forces.

"The army still mutinied."

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

Since the army does not want to get involved in this dispute and does not want to be liquidated by the royal family, it should also stop other armies. In this way, during the liquidation after the war, it can at least say that it has blocked the enemy's reinforcements. But now, To stand aside and watch oneself being attacked by the enemy's reinforcements is undoubtedly a naked betrayal.

The demands stated in the letter sent to Alsace by the coalition forces were almost identical to what Orson had previously told Rosalind.

Restoring his reputation, admitting his mistakes, etc., once done, will tell the world that Alsace's position was incorrect.

Under such circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for him to accept such a thing.

Looking at Langdon beside him, Alsace gave the order.

"Landon, open the armory, arm all the people in our control area, and let them go to the battlefield and be on the front line."

Langdon frowned when he heard this order, and then asked, "Your Majesty, isn't this a bad idea?"

In war, sometimes the more people, the better.

Just like the current situation, if the residents of Saint Laurent City are armed, although they can provide certain help in terms of population statistics, these residents who have never received systematic military training and have never been on the battlefield will Contact with the enemy's mercenaries would undoubtedly lead to death.

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

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

What's more, those residents may not necessarily accept this request. If they encounter violent resistance when recruiting them, the losses caused will be unnecessary losses other than battles.

This kind of decision was really inappropriate, and therefore, Langdon wanted to correct Alsace's thinking.

"What's wrong?" Arthas asked.

"Recruiting these citizens at this time will not be of any help, Your Majesty," Langdon warned.

"What should I do? My army has betrayed me now. Elsa's reinforcements are all outside the city of Saint Laurent. They give me a face and call me "Your Majesty" because of their previous relationship. Once the deadline passes, they will They will rush in and tear 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 must obey orders, do it quickly!"

Seeing that Alsace did not 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 durable and beautiful at the same time, both ordinary citizens and dignitaries are willing to do it.

Asking him to buy furniture, Robin was able to move into the main city of Saint Laurent when he was in his thirties. He had a beautiful, gentle and considerate wife, 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.

"Sorry, you have no right to refuse. This is an order from His Majesty the Emperor."

Hearing this, Robin nodded helplessly.

"Then, can you give me a little more time? I want to say goodbye to my wife and daughter."

"Sir, the target group for our recruitment is quite broad, and the time is also quite tight. If everyone asks for a few minutes to say goodbye like you did, it will end up being delayed for a long time. What we lack most now is time. The recruitment is late. One day is a day's delay in training. If the war fails because of this day's training, can you bear the responsibility?"

Robin was quite disdainful when he heard what the recruiting officer said.

If this country really reaches this level, training citizens like him will have no effect at all.

If every citizen needs to be sacrificed to save the royal family, then the royal family should change its dynasty quickly.

"If the royal family really fails because of this little time, I don't think the responsibility will lie with us."

Robin spoke out his thoughts without any scruples, but received a slap in the face.

"Citizen! This is not a request, this is an order. I hope you can tell the difference clearly!"

At this moment, Inis's voice came from behind Robin.

"Robin."