There is also one that confirms Xiaya's concerns: these guys from the Sixth Corps are really not so good at commanding.
Although it was when he asked Char Ya, Grenshire and other officers were very polite on the surface, and also expressed their willingness to cooperate with Char Ya and cooperate with Char's troops to fight the enemy.
But in the words, only "cooperation" and "synergy" are mentioned. Xia Ya also understood that if he wanted to command this army, it was impossible now.
Throughout the ages, the military of any country has a tradition of paying attention to seniority. The Sixth Corps is the most desolate now, but it still has nearly 10,000 troops, and most of the troops are veterans. Although there is no leading corps general, the remaining officers at the flag regiment level are all old people who have experienced the last Odin war. No matter how looked down upon by the Sixth Corps, it was still the standing corps of the Empire's Central Committee, the main fighting force of the Empire. Far from being comparable to the local garrison under Charya.
Xia Ya is young and has not been in the army for a long time. Although he is from the Rodriguez Cavalry Corps, the Sixth Corps may not buy his account.
Even in terms of military rank, Char is at the flag regiment level. The remaining leaders of the Sixth Corps are also at the flag regiment level. Nominally everyone is equal. From the perspective of the empire's tradition, other people's flag regiment level is the Empire's Central Army, while yours, Char's flag regiment level, is only a local garrison. Speaking of which, Xia Ya was half a level shorter than them.
If it wasn't for the fact that Char Ya also had a noble title, according to the tradition of the empire, the officers of the local garrison army, even if they saw the officers of the central standing army of the same level, would have to salute.
Besides, the original strength in the city was too weak. There are only more than 2,000 people under Xia Ya, and most of them are horse thieves who have just been recruited. More than 8,000 people from the Sixth Corps were stationed in, and they immediately became the most powerful force.
Even to say something unpleasant, if it wasn't for everyone's friendship in the past, and now that the Sixth Corps is begging for Char Ya's sake, it is possible for the Sixth Corps to in turn incorporate Char's troops.
Fortunately, now everyone is in the same boat, and Green, a well-known old guy in the army, is in charge. The cooperation between the two sides has also maintained a candid and united attitude. After the Sixth Corps took over part of the city defense work, the city defense strength of Denzel City suddenly increased a lot.
Xia Ya and Green waited every day for the scouts on the periphery to return from the horses, and they focused their eyes on the south nervously, waiting for the latest news...
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This year, almost all the eyes of the human world are focused on Osgilia.
At this moment, the battle in Osgilia will determine the future fate of the largest empire in the human world.
Byzantium, the empire with the most powerful, the largest territory, the largest population, and the longest history among the three major powers in the human world at present, has a future whether it will rise or fall, and its fate will be maintained in this decisive battle in the imperial capital.
Regardless of the outcome of the battle, this battle will have a huge impact on the history of the human world for hundreds of years in the future.
For ten consecutive days, the rebels' siege has become more and more ferocious. Although the rebels are willing to preserve their strength, after all, it is still in the honeymoon period of everyone's cooperation, and the rebels have also negotiated a fair solution. The Lu rebels, every day one family sends troops to attack the city, and the next day they replace the other one, so that everyone will be damaged, and on the battlefield, life and death will be safe.
And the old and cunning El Salvador also proposed a resolution. In order to prevent each family from being unable to do their jobs and having a selfish desire to preserve their strength, the rebels agreed that whichever team first broke the city of Osgilia, then the palace's internal library would be exhausted. Own it!
The Byzantine Empire has been established for a thousand years, and the royal family's inner library has accumulated an amazing wealth. With such a reward to motivate, the rebels have put away their own selfishness and spared no effort in attacking the city.
The ten days of siege caused great pressure on Osgilia. Outside the city, Sosiah and Butler's 2nd and 9th Corps also fought fiercely with the rebels for several times, each winning or losing. The Roderian cavalry regiment had more results. They defeated the rebels in two field battles, but the rebels were too strong. Even if the battlefield suffered a small setback, it did not hurt their strength. On the contrary, the Roderian cavalry was afraid of falling into a heavy siege and defeated the rebels. After that, he did not dare to pursue, and could not further expand the results.
For a time, hundreds of thousands of troops fought together inside and outside the city. Seeing that the weather was getting warmer every day, every night, many fires would be raised around the battlefield to burn the bodies of the fallen soldiers.
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Sarum Bonelli, the sixty-three-year-old chancellor of the Empire, has finally had a taste of true power these days.
In the past, this "superfluous prime minister" was not trusted by the emperor at all when Caviehir was alive, and had always acted as a mascot.
However, with the assassination of Caviehir, the state of the empire changed dramatically, hundreds of thousands of rebels besieged the city, and the battle was fierce. The sixty-three-year-old prime minister suddenly had a huge power that he had never had before.
Although after Adric entered the city, the city defense was presided over by the famous general of the empire, but all the reserve materials in Osgilia City were decided by the prime minister.
The prime minister summoned officials every day to appease people's hearts, inspected various central administrative offices, and delivered speeches one after another to encourage the fighting spirit of the central government in the imperial capital. He even summoned some prominent figures of the wealthy and powerful families in the imperial capital, and asked each family to contribute and contribute their own guards and private soldiers to enrich the city defense.
The 63-year-old prime minister has never been so busy in his life. But every day, no matter how busy he is, he will insist on doing one thing: he will personally sit in the open carriage, take his men, and drive horses in the city of Osgilia, from the south to the north of the city, walking around the city. Last lap!
As a result, the people of Osgiliali can see this old prime minister with silver hair sitting on the carriage almost every day, with a calm smile, a calm expression, no panic, and even occasionally facing the outside The people who stopped and watched from a distance waved their hands.
Originally, hundreds of thousands of rebels were besieging the city, and the people in the city were already terrified, but as the old prime minister patrolled the city once a day, everyone looked at this honorable prime minister with such calmness, watching the old prime minister every day. That gentle and unhurried smiling face... Most people can't help but think: Lord Chancellor smiled so easily, it seems that adults are sure in their hearts. Anyway, when the sky is falling, there is a tall person standing on it, and even people in high-ranking officials like the Prime Minister are not afraid.
Since then, the daily routine inspection has finally brought a lot of peace of mind to the people in the city.
Every day, the calm smile of the Prime Minister sitting in the car has become the greatest comfort to the people in the city.
But only the old housekeeper of Saron Bonelli knew how bad the situation of his prime minister was!
These days, the Prime Minister has only eaten one meal a day and slept less than four hours. The allocation of supplies in the city, as well as to appease the deployment officials, and to count the emergency military reports from all over the empire, these arduous tasks have overdrawn a lot of energy for the 63-year-old.
One after another exciting speeches in each deployment, behind those inspiring words was the tired body and badly damaged health of the sixty-three-year-old.
In just 20 days, the 63-year-old man lost ten pounds!
This kind of situation made many people who despised and looked down on this prime minister in the past couldn't help but be convinced at this moment.
In today's rotten situation, even those famous officials in history, it is impossible for anyone to do better than this 63-year-old old man.
That night, Sarum Bonelli, as usual, supported his body and rode the carriage to complete the tour of the city. After the carriage entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, when he got off the carriage, the old butler beside him saw that the Prime Minister was a little faltered, and hurried up to help him. He held the old prime minister's arm with his hand, only to feel that the muscles on the old prime minister's arm were weak and weak, and half of the weight of his body was almost on his body. Bonelli glanced.
The old prime minister's complexion was a little pale. At this moment, where is the calm smile on his face when he was patrolling the city just now
"… grown ups!"
"Yeah." The old prime minister snorted and didn't say anything more. He stood up straight, broke free from the butler's support, and smiled bitterly: "I was a little tired just now, and I felt dizzy for a while, hehe..."
After speaking, his eyes became stern, and he said coldly: "Why are you looking at me like this!" After two steps, the Prime Minister's steps were a little limp, and he finally sighed: "You help me to the study room. , everyone else is gone."
Along the way, the old butler only felt that the lord's pace was sluggish, and even his breathing was so heavy. After walking down a short distance, the old prime minister saw sweat on his forehead. As soon as he entered the study and sat down, Sarum Bonelli. He laughed, and his tone was quite mocking: "It seems that I am really old, hum."
"Sir, do you want to rest for a while, or..." The old butler felt a little sad and whispered: "You came back very late today, why don't you take a rest, I'll let you..."
"Shut up." The old prime minister raised his eyebrows and said lightly: "I'm hungry, get some food, yesterday's thick soup was good, you can get me some sauerkraut, the taste is not good recently, yesterday's soup is good. Those sauerkraut are just the right appetizer."
The old butler wanted to say something, but he felt that the eyes of the adults became severe again, finally sighed, turned around and walked out.
Many people may not believe that the imperial prime minister's dinner was just half a bowl of noodle soup mixed with minced meat and a little pickled cabbage. But it was only half a bowl of noodle soup. The old prime minister lost his appetite after eating only half of it. After putting down the spoon, the sixty-three-year-old man suddenly sighed, with a strange smile on his face, glanced at him and stood aside The housekeeper suddenly smiled and said, "Tell me, am I being a bit cheap?"
"?" The old butler looked at the master inexplicably.
Salem Bonelli shook his head, his smile full of mockery: "That man... When he was alive, I expected him to die all day long. But now that he is dead, with such a big mess of things weighing on me, I suddenly It feels really difficult for him. At least... these things, when he was alive, he did much better than me."
The prime minister's emotion, but the old butler did not dare to answer, because for many years, the old butler has already understood the master's temperament. I know that although the adults are emotional for a while, they are not really asking for their opinions - in fact, as the Prime Minister of the Empire, Sarum Bonelli has always strictly prohibited people around him from talking about state affairs. At this time, even if he opened his mouth with emotion, if the housekeeper knew very well, if he really answered, he would be scolded by the adults instead.
Sarum Bonelli sighed a few words, but watched the old housekeeper shut up in silence, and suddenly smiled again: "Why don't you speak?"
"I dare not." The old butler lowered his head.
"Well, I can say a few words today." Sarumbonelli said lightly: "I am too strict on weekdays, but today, I suddenly want to say a few words to people. I also want to hear other people's thoughts. "
"I..." After hesitating for a while, the old butler finally gathered up his courage and said, "Sir, I think you are like this, some... some... some are not worth it."
Salem Bonelli was not at all angry, and smiled lightly: "Well, it's not worth it, right, maybe anyone would think so. The emperor put me aside for many years, and in this situation, his trusted confidant died. , I had to use me to work for him. Hmph, to be honest with you, do you have no resentment in my heart? I… also have it.”
He stood up slowly, walked to the desk and sat down. After tapping his fingers on the desk twice, he smiled: "I know your loyalty, and I also know that you will be unfair to me. Hmph, but, you know Why do I work so hard these days? I'm such an old bone, so tossing... Do you think I'm not afraid of death? I'm afraid too."
"Sir..." The old butler looked at the prime minister's thin face, and suddenly his eyes turned red.
"I do these things for nothing else, and I don't care if the emperor is unfair to me. I do these things only because I am Saren Bonelli..." He suddenly straightened his waist, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "I am the prime minister. It's the Prime Minister of the Empire!!"
At this moment, the eyes of this tired and weak old man seemed to be radiant!
"There have been six imperial prime ministers in the Sorom family! I am the sixth!" Sarum Bonelli was smiling, and there was a cold smile in his eyes: "I am old enough to live long enough. It's been long enough. In this life, I've eaten delicious food, enjoyed mansions, wore fancy clothes, and owned beautiful women... Up to now, I don't have much to pursue in my heart, but the only thing is that I don't want it What happened, do you understand what it was?"
"I don't know."
Sarumbonelli looked at his old housekeeper, and then the sixty-three-year-old chancellor smiled.
"I don't want... I don't want to leave a title of 'the last prime minister of the country's subjugation' when it is written in the history books of later generations! Do you understand? I am not the first prime minister of the family, and I definitely don't want to be the last!"