Chapter 802 A silver lining?
In the Dwarf Empire Palace, all the ministers were waiting for Ovge's response. Now the Dwarf Empire has reached its last moment. If this continues, the main city will fall in less than two days. By that time, nothing will be saved. The ministers have not slept all night and are waiting for news here.
"Your Highness, Lord Ovge is back, and the second prince is also back with him." A dwarf soldier came in and reported here.
"What, Vensare is still alive?" The dwarf king Aoli was a little stunned. He didn't expect that his son was still alive. He had thought he had died in the battle to defend the city and was brought back by Ovge, which means he should have been captured and sent back. This is good news. All the prisoners were released. Is there hope in the peace talks?
"Hurry, let them in." Aoli said immediately.
Soon Ovge and Vinsare were brought up, but their expressions were not very good. Ovge here looked down and said, "Your Highness, I have a burden..."
"What..." Oli, who was here, dizzy and almost fell off the throne. "That duke refused to negotiate?"
"Yes, Your Highness..." said Ovge here.
"But why did he agree to send Vinzare back?" asked Aoli here.
"This..." Ouvege here is really hard to answer. Could it be that he is going to break the main city anyway, and whether he will send it back or not will be the same? You just wait to die, will you answer like this?
"Father, maybe we did something wrong..." Vensare said suddenly.
"What did you say? Vinzare." Aoli said strangely.
"A country that cannot even protect the people should not exist. Perhaps it is our retribution. This country is about to perish." said Vinzare here.
"How can you say that!" Oli shouted, "The Dwarf Empire has been established for nearly 200 years. How could it be destroyed here? Come, the second prince is frightened and uncomfortable, take him down to rest."
"Okay father, I'll go down." Vinzare was ashamed. He didn't argue with Aoli and left directly.
"What should we do if the other party is unwilling to negotiate?" After Vinzare left, Aoli asked again.
"This..." The ministers were panicked. Now they said what to do, what else is there to do? The man has hit the doorstep of his house and will go to the main city in two days. There is no troops. What else can he do?
"You trash, you gangs of trashing louder than anyone else when you declared war. Now you can't beat them and you don't speak anymore!" Aoli on this side shouted.
"Your Highness." At this time, Prime Minister Te Ruo came out.
"What is the Prime Minister's plan?" Aoli asked immediately.
"There is no way." Te Ruo Ben said, "For the sake of the present, we can only move the capital..."
"Move... Move the capital?" Aoli here was stunned.
"Yes, there are only less than 1,000 troops in the Molten Iron City. Once the opponent's army arrives, it can be said that it can break the city in an instant. Staying here can only wait for death." Te Ruo Ben said here.
"Yes..." All the ministers next to him nodded. At this time, everyone didn't think that the solid walls of the Molten Iron City could block the attack of Li Huailin's troops. The opponent was too strong, and the city of Luogelan was gone overnight.
"Move the capital? Where to go?" asked Aoli here.
"Southern..." said Teruobo here, "I forgive my ministers for saying that moving the capital is just a nice saying. In fact, we can only run south. If we can run there, just think that it is the temporary capital..."
"But Prime Minister. There are no troops in the south, and there are no walls like the Molt Iron City in the south. Isn't this also impossible to stop the attacks of humans and the undead?" said a minister next to him.
"Yes." Teruo Ben nodded, "We can only delay a little while since this point. During this period, we hope that the 70,000 troops that reinforce the city of Logram can come back and then reach a peace agreement with the human race. Otherwise, the only one who awaits us is the destruction country."
Hearing the word "destroy the country", all the ministers here remained silent. This was something they thought but dared not say. They originally thought that this was the time for the rise of the dwarf empire, but they didn't expect that the destruction was approaching, and they really couldn't accept such a situation.
"If our 70,000 troops can come back, can we repel the human and undead troops?" asked Aoli here.
"The Duke of Aquitaine is a famous mainland general. There is not even a single person who defeated him in front of him so far." Teruo Ben said here, "But if the 70,000 troops return to defense, we may be able to block their attack..."
Te Ruo Ben said this himself, because Li Huailin's performance was so scary before. Even if the 70,000 troops came back, Te Ruo Ben didn't think it was useless. But now, as the prime minister, he can't say "It's over, let's wait for death, especially your king, who will die the worst", so he can only comfort him like this.
"Your Highness, I think the primary goal now is to negotiate with the Duke of Aquitaine as much as possible, and I think the goal should not be to fight the truce, because the recognition of defeat is the goal..." Teruo Ben said again.
"Does the Prime Minister mean to let us surrender to the human race?" said Aoli here.
"Yes." Teruobon nodded and said with great certainty, "It is already true that we have been defeated at this point, so I hope that your Highness will surrender like a human race before we suffer greater losses. If we continue to fight, our race will be threatened."
"Race?" asked Aoli on this side.
"Yes, the Duke of Aquitaine is cruel by nature. He has never stopped massacre since entering the borders of the Dwarf Empire. At least 800,000 dwarves have died at his hands. If we continue to anger him, after the main city is captured... I think all dwarves may... "Terruo Ben finished speaking, but everyone understands what he meant.
"..." Aoli was silent. If he surrendered now, he would definitely be the worst one. Because he was the one who started the war, he would settle the score after surrendering. His throne would definitely be insured. Not to mention this, he would probably be publicly executed by the human race. However, if he did not surrender now, it is very likely that it would be the same as Te Ruoben said. He would probably have the clan to be destroyed, which made him not know what to do.
The ministers didn't say anything, just looked at Oli. They knew that if Oli surrendered, they would definitely step down. At this time, they all hoped that Oli could step down, so that at least they had a higher chance of survival, but no one dared to be this evil person now and didn't say anything.
"I... let me think about it." After a long silence, Aoli suddenly said, "You all go back and let me think about it. At this time tomorrow, I will announce my decision."
"Yes, Your Highness." All the ministers said immediately. They also had to go back at this time and think about what they should do. What if Aoli chose to surrender and not surrender, what would they do.
The long night passed quickly. All the dwarf nobles basically didn't sleep well this night, and there were too many things to consider. Aoli didn't sleep all night. He really didn't want to surrender. After all, they were already on the throne. Who wants to abdicate? But the facts forced him to give up his throne, which was really too unacceptable to him.
Although he wanted to slow down the time, it was still dawn in the end. Aoli here looked at the rising sun and took a deep breath. This might be his last day as the emperor.
Soon, the morning meeting began, and all the ministers came to the palace hall again. Just like yesterday, all the ministers had a low face, and everyone was in a bad mood at this time.
"I have been thinking about it all night..." Aoli here looked at the minister below, took a breath and said, "It has been fourteen years since I registered, and my contribution to the country can be said to be very small. Now the country has encountered such a big crisis, but it is all my dereliction of duty, so as an emperor, I can do now..."
"Your Highness, report urgently!" While Aoli was talking here, a dwarf soldier suddenly rushed in, "Your Highness, report urgently on the front line!"
"What urgent report? Tell me quickly!" Aoli asked immediately.
"Forefront news, the demon troops suddenly turned around and suddenly attacked the territory of the undead." The soldiers here said immediately.
"What, the demons attacked the territory of the undead?" the ministers here exclaimed.
"Urgent report, front-line emergency report!" A soldier rushed in here and said.
"What's the news?" Aoli asked immediately.
"The human rebels suddenly assembled 40,000 troops and headed towards the human main city of the God-Blessed City." The dwarf soldiers here said immediately.
"What, 40,000 troops? The human rebels actually have so many troops? Where did they come from?" The ministers did not expect that such a thing would happen.
"The God of Katok is above, this is really a god-blessed dwarves!" Prime Minister Teruo Ben said suddenly, "Your Highness, the battle situation has suddenly changed drastically, this may be a glimmer of hope for us."
"It's true that it's the God of Heaven!" Aoli said immediately, "Prime Minister, it's better to implement your first plan. We temporarily withdraw from the Molten Iron City and go to the south to avoid the war first, and then send an order to allow reinforcements to speed up their defense and resist the troops of the human and undead. Their home has a fire. As long as they can hold them up, they may retreat."
"Yes, Your Highness." Teruomoto said immediately. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!