THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 281: OPENING THE GATES OF THE CAPITAL
The figure of King Albert walking away from his palace wearing iron armor and carrying a sword at his waist, the head of the palace guard was shocked to find the appearance of the king.
He told the troops to stay on guard, making sure no rebels rushed to the palace.
After that, the head of the palace guards ran towards King Albert "Her Majesty, please retreat! The entire capital has turned into a battlefield, too risky for you to take a walk! It is better to remain in the palace until we and the city guards succeed in suppressing the Goblin rebellion".
King Albert looked at the figure of the palace guard's head before saying "Captain, how long have you been following me?".
The head of the palace guard was puzzled by the king's strange question, but he still answered politely "Your highness, I followed you for 25 years! Thank you for your noble kindness, without your help, it would be impossible for me to sit in the position of the palace guard's head like now!".
King Albert nodded "Captain, the reason I chose you as the head of the palace guard is not because you are the most powerful soldier, but rather you have the best loyalty among my other troops! Captain, do you mind following the final fight with me?".
The head of the palace guard was surprised, he understood the purpose of King Albert's words to die together.
If it was another soldier, they might disagree because everyone would put their own lives first.
But as King Albert had said just now, the head of the palace guard was none other than a loyal soldier. Were it not for the loyalty he had, he could not have been chosen as the head of the palace guard who had always been near the king.
Therefore, the face of the head of the palace guard was firmly "Your highness, let me follow you to the end!".
"Good, I did not misjudge you!", said King Albert smiling, then shouting "Tell the entire palace guard army to prepare, we will move towards the west and east gates! I lead the army to the east gate where there are the most rebels while you and the other forces suppress the rebellion at the west gate! Captain, I hope you're lucky and you can stay alive!".
"Your majesty! I hope you can achieve victory as well!", said the palace guard's chief saluting.
Under their swift movements, 1000 palace guards followed King Albert to the east gate while another 1000 palace guards went to the west gate led by the palace guard chief.
Although all the palace guards were elite troops, there were too few.
In the face of tens of thousands of rebels, thousands of elite troops were nothing at all. Not to mention that most of the rebels had been armed by Myro, there was almost no chance of winning.
Despite knowing defeat and death were in sight, King Albert did not hesitate and led his army towards the eastern gate where the rebels were most numerous.
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Myro quietly moved towards the eastern gate of the Capital of the Orc-Goblin Kingdom by bringing Retya's Victory Army as well as troops from the northern mountains belonging to Tanrou's brother, they move carefully under the darkness of the night. Among all the Myro troops, only Yuki and 2000 samurai were not with him.
When I reached the east gate that was still closed, Myro said "How are things at the west gate? Has General Herfu been there?".
Ren who was standing behind Myro nodded without hesitation "They should have arrived already, we are ready to attack at any time!".
"Then, we just have to wait until the gates of the capital are opened before attacking" Myro said staring at the capital's iron gate that looked extremely strong "I hope the Goblins won't let me down!".
As he stared at the capital's gate, Muteki who was leading the troops from the northern mountains shouted "Master, smoke! Smoke is visible in the capital! It seems like what Miss Ren planned was right, the rebellion has already happened!".
Myro followed in the direction where Muteki was pointing, smoke and fire were indeed visible from that direction.
Although Myro could not see it clearly due to the wall of the capital, but he was still able to find smoke and fire that shone quite brightly under the darkness of night.
"In a moment!", said Myro smiling, it seemed that the plan he had been putting together since a few years ago was successful.
Not long after, Myro and the others discovered the appearance of thousands of Goblins above the city walls.
They immediately fought against the Orc army guarding the wall while trying to move the city gate opening machine.
Although the Goblins tried their best to approach the city gate opening machine, the Orcs also knew their destination.
Hence, many Orcs gathered near the city gate opening machine while building the best possible defense.
Many Orcs tried to keep the city gates from opening, but they were too few in number compared to the invading Goblins.
However it was now night and the Goblin attack was too sudden, so they simply did not have enough Orc guards to help.
Over time, the Goblins managed to master the city gate opening machine.
They began to turn the machine which made the iron gate of the capital tremble.
"Shelf!".
The capital's iron gate that looked extremely strong slowly opened, but the gap was too small that they had to keep moving the machine again so that Myro and the others could instantly rush to attack the capital.
But before the Goblins can open the city gates even more, Myro finds the figure of King Albert who appears with the elite forces.
They rushed towards the opening machine of the city gate and aimed at stopping the Goblin's actions, they planned to close back the city gate.
Seeing the Goblin army begin to be suppressed again by the elite Orc army belonging to King Albert, Myro shouted without hesitation "All the attacking forces! Don't let the enemy close the city gates!".
Hearing Myro's decision, Retya was the fastest to act "All the troops follow me! Today, we will destroy the entire Orc-Goblin Kingdom!"
"Strike!", shouted the Victory Squad behind Retya who rushed to follow him forward.
Muteki had no interest in losing to Retya, let alone them being in front of Myro.
Because of this, Muteki stood up as quickly as possible "All the troops advanced! Show me the power of the northern mountains!".
"Forward!", shouted the half-animal army led by Muteki.
As tens of thousands of Myro's troops rushed towards the capital's gates, King Albert's forces finally managed to occupy the city's gate-opening machine from the Goblin's hands.
Seeing Myro's army approaching, King Albert panicked "Close the city gates immediately! Don't let any enemy army pass through our city gates!".
The palace guard troops who were the elite troops moved quickly, the capital gates that opened slightly started to close back.
Retya who was in the front row muttered staring at the city gate that would be closed "We don't have enough time! If it continues like this, the gates of the capital will definitely be closed again! I should have moved faster!".
It was not only Retya who thought that way, Muteki and the Victory Army as well as the troops from the northern mountains thought the same thing. The gates of the capital would close first before they could pass through, they moved too late.