Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 688 Situation
The wheels are rolling,

A low-key black carriage came out of the palace and rolled over the empty streets. The knight guards on both sides looked like eagles, scanning back and forth.

The streets of Wangcheng, which used to be prosperous in the past, are now littered with rubbish on the ground, and a few pedestrians are in a hurry. Seeing the carriage team passing by, they all give way to salute.

Even though there were no logos or family emblems on the carriages, the owner of the convoy coming from the Upper East Side must be a nobleman.

People living in the royal capital have already developed a certain level of vision, otherwise, if they live carelessly, they will fall into hell.

The carriage silently passed by the eyes of the sparse people on both sides,
Without stopping at all, it slowly disappeared at the end of the street.

The war is approaching, and the endless army outside the city is displaying below the city,

Although the army has not yet launched an attack,
But that kind of depression is shrouded in the hearts of everyone in the royal city.

The market is depressed and a dilapidated scene.

It is hard to imagine that, as the center of economic power of the entire Principality of Flanders, it will encounter such a bleak situation.

The war is about to break out. Apart from buying food, I am afraid that few people have the intention to buy other consumption.

"The morale of the people is really not good?"

In the black carriage,
Looking at the hurried pedestrians and the dilapidated streets outside, King Rufus frowned even deeper.

The effect of boosting morale by appearing in the square before doesn't seem to be very great.

After all, in the royal city, the people in the imperial capital live a comfortable life, and have never encountered the threat of war. Even the bandits nearby have decreased a lot under the rule of King Rufus over the years.

Perhaps in the shadow of the capital, in those invisible slums, such crimes still occur all the time.

But those so-called street overlords and gangster leaders are just like ostriches shivering in the corner and burying their heads in the ground in front of the blue dragon army that has swept across half of the Principality of Frandi.

The Dragon Nest army, which had crushed and wiped out the enemy for half a month, was condensed with a soaring evil spirit.

How can the soaring evil spirit of this kind of military formation be compared to those bullying gangsters?
The people in the royal capital have been in the center of political power for hundreds of years and have never experienced the threat of war. They have developed their pride in thinking they are superior.

For the residents of the capital city, even a shoe polisher in a slum area who probably can't even get enough to eat, can point to outsiders and say "stinky country folk" arrogantly.

Having not experienced the baptism of war, when the war is coming and the soldiers are approaching the city, some of these noble kings are only panic and fear in their hearts, as if they have lost their backbone.

Even if the king showed up to cheer, he could barely keep morale from collapsing.

At this point,

In border cities that are always under the threat of war, those urban residents who are besieged from time to time are doing much better than the people in the capital.

Because after being tempered by the war, the people on the border have long been accustomed to the arrival of the army. Unless they are really at the end of the road, there will be basically no collapse from the inside to the outside.

"Frandy's future, is there any hope?"

Seeing such a scene, Rufus in the carriage couldn't help feeling a little shaken in his heart.

But soon, this wavering was put aside.

No matter how critical the situation is, no matter what the subjects think.

After all, he is the king of Frandi, and he has the responsibility to bear everything in the country!

The wheels made a gurgling sound, rolled and disappeared at the end of the street,
The king, who was in deep thought, did not realize that when the carriage drove out of the palace, there were a few secret eyeliners who conveyed the news.

pass layer by layer,
In the end, they came to the royal city, among the major noble forces.

"His Majesty the King has left the palace, and the schedule is very low-key."

"I don't know where I'm going. I should be looking for a way to fight against the armies outside. Lord bless, I hope I can resist the attack of those brutal orc armies."

secretly,
Some noble families who are friendly with each other are secretly gathering in series.

Not an everyday banquet, but a consultation for the future.

In the past, the noble gentlemen who were elegant and gentlemen all had worried expressions on their faces.

"Damn orcs, damn blue dragons! If those rumors are true, even the southern defense line led by Duke Nonica Burrow has suffered a disastrous defeat in a short period of time. We don't know whether we will survive or die. We can really withstand the opponent's attack. city?"

"His Majesty the King is working hard, but I don't think those "old men" in the capital who have never experienced war can withstand the army outside, if the rumors are true."

The royal capital of every country is naturally guarded by an army, which is the Guards.

However, the royal city of the Principality of Flanders has not experienced a war for hundreds of years. The tens of thousands of guards guarding the Royal City, although it is said that they are the most elite troops in the Principality of Flanders.

But the actual situation, the aristocratic lords present know best.

The Royal Guards, because of their role in protecting the safety of the capital, are in the power center of Frandi and live at the feet of the king. It is relatively easier to get promotion and appreciation from the upper class, and they naturally have advantages that other places do not have.

Therefore, many aristocratic families will operate their children into the guards and take up positions.

The Guards themselves guard the capital, and they have not gone out to fight for hundreds of years. Under the influence of the power of the noble class, they have almost become a club for the noble class. If you find a soldier of the Guards at random, it may be someone The son of a certain noble family master.

It is undeniable that there are also excellent juniors among the nobles, but obviously those excellent juniors have already entered politics and followed the central route, how could they still be sent to the Guards to suffer and wait for the opportunity to be promoted, so they joined the Guards Among them, most of them are defective products with a less promising future.

These people are lazy and bully men and women in the royal city as soldiers of the Guards, but their strength is pitifully weak. Occasionally, adventurers who are not used to seeing each other bully goodness will just go up to them. Beating violently, there is not much resistance at all.

Only by bullying and bullying civilians can we maintain the appearance of life.

As a result, the soldiers of the Guards were also called "big master soldiers" by the people of Wangcheng.

Perhaps at the beginning of the founding of the Principality of Flanders, the royal guards were the most elite army in the entire country.

However, after hundreds of years of evolution and inheritance, the Guards have been eroded by power and interests, and the Guards with layers of intertwined interests have already had serious problems.

(End of this chapter)