A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 267. Chapter 267

More than four months after Aaron Landis’ army invaded the territory of Kanal, the first regiment of Kayjos went from the northeast and the third regiment of Huimos went to Kanal from the southeast. The king’s city is approaching.

Their marching route is to bypass an arc on the land of Kanal, attack one important city after another, and then slowly approach the royal city.

At the same time, in Aaron Landis, more than half a year has passed since Gallan established the Trade Office in the Royal City.

In the past six months, the Department of Commerce has not only existed in the Royal City, but has been established one after another in Tozes and other large cities with commerce as the main economic pillar.

The rich and powerful in those large commercial cities, that is, those with vested interests, are naturally unwilling to lose this huge profit path.

However, the situation is completely different from when the Trade and Commerce Department was established in Wangcheng. After seeing the benefits of the Trade and Commerce Department, the businessmen in these big commercial cities are almost looking forward to the establishment of the Trade and Commerce Department. . They even took the initiative to contribute money and effort to help, just to build the Trade and Commerce Department as soon as possible.

Moreover, the large cities selected by Garland as a pilot project to promote the Department of Commerce and Trade are all cities that directly belong to the royal city, and the incumbent consuls are all honest officials who have been specially selected by him to be loyal and loyal to him.

The most important thing is that this time there is also the escort of the Shamash Temple and the Nanna Temple.

In order to prove to King Garlan’s ability to overwhelm the other’s temple as much as possible, the two temples carefully selected highly capable chief priests to go to those big cities, sit in the local temples, and take charge of the division of the Trade and Trade Office. It’s power.

No matter how powerful the local power is, noble officials, facing these high-ranking priests, at least on the surface would never dare to make a mistake.

After all, the priests are the messengers of the gods.

Obviously it’s impossible.

But I didn’t expect it secretly.

Because, even if they want to do something secretly, they still have to ask the priest of Nanna, who is the best at conspiracy, to agree.

The establishment of these trade and commerce offices has brought countless wealth to Garlan, and it can be said that he is now gaining a lot of money.

These huge wealth are enough for Garlan to build roads, Solga’s Temple of Wisdom, water conservancy and other infrastructure, while also having enough room to support the military expenses of the army that attacked Kanal.

This is also the main reason why this battle has been fought for so long, and the ministers in the royal court have no opinion except for a few hardcore leaders and factions.

Many ministers feel that.

King Garlan is really a wise king.

Not only did he pay for the cost of building the infrastructure, but even the military expenses did not need to be paid by the royal court’s finances, and all by himself.

You know, military expenditures accounted for almost a quarter of the royal court’s fiscal expenditures over the years. In the past, Aaron Landis was very financially tight, because of the huge military expenditures that King Camos spent all year round.

The incumbent Financial Secretary has to rack his brains every year to balance the costs of all parties, so he is bald with worry.

Now, by saving such a large sum of money, many other things can be done. The upright ministers headed by the Secretary-General on the left are naturally very happy, and of course the current Financial Secretary, who is not as worried as the previous one, is also happy.

However, there are also some interested people who understand it secretly.

From then on, military expenditures were no longer spent from the royal court’s finances, but from Wang’s treasury.

In other words, the rise and fall of Aaron Landis’ army is completely controlled by King Galan, and King Galan can control the combat effectiveness of a legion with the amount of military expenditure.

After all, the generals’ food and drink, armors, weapons, residence training grounds and even fortresses and castles are all for money.

If any legion wants to rebel, King Gallan can simply cut off its military expenditures to directly abolish more than half of its combat effectiveness.

The most important thing is that from then on, even if the noble ministers in the royal court have a bad heart, their threats will be greatly reduced-without soldiers in their hands, what can they do?

The food and drink of the soldiers and the weapons and armors were all given to them by King Gallan. King Gallan is equivalent to their food and clothing parents. Who will follow you to rebel against their food and clothing parents with a mental illness?

Therefore, in this way, the lifeblood of all the army is in the hands of King Gallan.

Taking this expedition to Kanal as an opportunity, it was not just the six legions that belonged directly to the royal city. In the following year, Gallan gradually abolished the practice of “providing the army that guards the city with the city’s own taxes”.

All military expenditures for the army in the cities directly belonging to the king’s city are paid by the king’s treasury.

Those clan-traditional cities still continue to follow past practices and do not make demands-of course, some city owners are greedy for cheap and unwilling to pay for their own military expenses, and they only need to make a request to King Gallan, the rich and kind young king. Will be very generous to agree to him.

Under Gallan’s various hidden jabs, the centralization progress bar of Aaron Landis was slowly and silently extending backward.

——Yes, if you have money, you can do whatever you want.

The young king who was extolled as the wise king in later generations expressed this kind of emotion in his heart that was extremely inconsistent with the values of’wise and wise’.

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Closer to home.

After more than four months, Aaron Landis’ two armies unceremoniously approached the city of Kanal.

A month ago, seeing the defeat in the war, the commander-in-chief of the Gasdad had made a decisive decision to abandon other cities and shrink his forces to garrison the royal city.

Those aristocratic city masters who had surrendered to the Castadans without hesitation, saw the Castadans retreat steadily, and when the army of Aaron Landis approached the city, once again decisively opened the door and surrendered.

They made no resistance at all.

These shameless city masters don’t care who the target of their surrender is. Anyway, they just change their allegiance to them. They can still continue to be their noble city masters.

They don’t know at this time, what will be waiting for them.

At this time, Huimos and Kayhus had already joined the royal city of Kanal.

This royal city was established by the first emperor of Kanal, and the emperor finally created his own kingdom after going through hardships throughout his life.

At that time, the situation on the mainland was changing and it was very unstable. Therefore, he built the royal city under the cliff.

The king’s city is backed by a high mountain cliff that rises straight up into the sky, and it is inclined ladder-like from top to bottom. The other three walls are built extremely tall and strong.

And the river that surrounds the royal city flows down from the cliffs, and there is no fear that the enemy troops under siege will cut off the water source from the outside.

The first kings of Kanal believed with satisfaction that such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack royal city would never fall easily.

It’s a pity that this brave and powerful emperor couldn’t guess how, hundreds of years of ease has completely changed his descendants.

This impregnable royal city easily fell into the hands of the invaders.

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After a lapse of one and a half years, the battle for the city of Kanal started again.

The aggressor of the past became the attacked party.

The commander-in-chief of Gasdade stood on the high wall, frowning and looking down at the outside of the city.

Outside the royal city, there is a torrent of black and red.

The army of Aaron Landis, dressed in black and red armor, surrounded the huge city.

They are like monstrous floods, surging turbulently, hitting the city wall time and time again.

Under the scorching sun and on the battlefield, a black-armored knight stood tall on the ground.

The horse’s mane under him was burning like a fire in the sun.

The lion flag with gold stripes on the red background was flying high behind him, bathed in the scorching sun, like a red flame burning with golden brilliance.

Standing one man and one horse among the thousands of horses, but it is exceptionally conspicuous.

It’s like the only strong color in a black and white picture.

He just stood there on horseback, no one could ignore his existence.

The black knight Huimos.

No one knows his reputation.

Where he goes is where he goes to victory.

The soldiers under his command are all wolves like tigers and brave men who are not afraid of death. As long as he gives an order, all the enemies who dare to stand in front of them will be torn to pieces.

The commander-in-chief of Gasdade stared at Huimos from the wall with a solemn expression.

Today is the third day that Aaron Landis’ army is coming to the city.

The Gasdad people have reinforcements and are coming day and night from the northwest, but it will take some time to reach the city of Kanal.

He once thought that with the strength of the Gastards, it would be no problem to shrink all the troops into the royal city and hold it for ten and a half months.

But after only three days, he felt anxious.

In just three days, the war had already begun to be tense.

Gasdad is good at offensive, but he is not used to passive defense. Even he is defending the city for the first time.

If this continues, I am afraid that the arrival of reinforcements will not persist.

The commander-in-chief of Gasdade frowned and thought.

At this moment, there were noisy shouts from the city wall, and many Gasdad soldiers shouted and pointed outside.

The commander looked up amidst the shouts of the crowd, and his throat suddenly tightened.

A huge siege vehicle slowly appeared in front of the walls of King Kanal.

At the same time, five or six meters high catapults and giant crossbow|arrows also appeared in front of everyone.

After more than two days, Aaron Landis’s army craftsmen finally assembled these siege weapons and sent them to the foot of the city wall.

Hiemos rode on the horse, slowly raising his hand.

Then, swipe it down vigorously.

In the next second, amidst the panic shouts of the Gasdards on the city wall, boulders roared and slammed heavily on the city wall.

A giant crossbow|arrow that was only one person tall crossed an arc in the air, swooped down, and pierced the bodies of several guards at once, forming a gourd.

The walls of King Kanal seem to be tall, but they are not as strong as they look outside.

Under the impact of the huge boulder, countless broken stones rustled down on the city wall, and cracks began to appear in many places.

Even the edges of several city walls collapsed directly under the impact of the huge boulders, causing the soldiers standing there to fall from the high walls and fall into fleshy mud.

It was shocked that the other soldiers retreated subconsciously, for fear of following in their footsteps.

This time, many soldiers were killed, and the Gasdad suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing the turmoil on the wall, the commander of Gasdade showed a fierce expression.

He turned around and coldly gave a few words to a subordinate next to him.

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Countless slings and giant crossbow|arrows poured down the walls of Kanal, giving Aaron Landis’s army a boost of morale for a while.

Suddenly, there was an abnormal movement on the city wall.

The soldiers of Aaron Landis were astonished to see that the Garstad soldiers on the city wall took the initiative to retreat and hid behind, as if completely giving up resistance.

The general in charge of commanding the siege equipment waved his hand and temporarily stopped slinging and archery to avoid meaningless waste.

However, even if the stone throwing and the rain of arrows stopped, the wall was still silent, and the Gastad was nowhere to be seen.

Just when everyone was wondering, finally there was another figure appearing on the wall.

The general in command of the siege equipment raised his hand, intending to continue the attack.

But the next moment, his hand froze in the air.

His eyes stared at the figure on the wall in a daze, revealing an unbelievable look.

At this moment, those who appeared on the wall and in front of Soldier Aaron Landis were all figures tied and pushed to the edge of the wall.

Those people have a skin color, hair color, and appearance that are very different from those of the Gasdad people.

Aaron Landis.

After the defeat, the former Aaron Landis soldiers who were captured by the Gasdad and taken to the city of Kanal and became slaves.

They were tied up and pushed by the Gasdad before the city wall.

If the Aaron Landis people want to continue to attack the city, they must first kill them and kill their own compatriots.

There was dead silence on the earth.

It was a huge battlefield, and this moment was silent.