THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 312: ENEMY RETREAT?
Without hesitation, the soldier gave the letter that King Diamant I sent to Ferta.
Opening the letter, Ferta began to read the decree of King Diamant I regarding whether Ferta should continue to defend the City of Bern or take Kelrun's corpse away from this city.
However, as long as they left Bern City carrying Kelrun's corpse, the enemy was considered a failure because the purpose of Myro came here not to seize Bern City but to take Kelrun's corpse.
While Myro was likely to take Bern City as his territory, Ferta discarded the possibility.
The city of Bern was located between the Kingdom of Diamant and the Kingdom of Azeroth, if Myro dared to make this region his power then he should be ready to withstand the attacks of the 2 kingdoms while the Victory Province was far from Bern City.
Therefore, for Myro now, seizing Bern City was completely worthless but only brought trouble.
At the beginning of reading the letter of King Diamant I, Ferta's face turned strange.
But moments later, his face returned to normal and he closed the letter "Tell the whole army to retreat, we will leave first from Bern City until help arrives! Our goal is to change, not to defend Bern City anymore but to prevent Myro from returning to his territory. Since Myro dared to attack here, we will kill him without giving him a chance to return to Victory Province! Therefore, our task is now to buy time and disrupt Myro's army until help from the Diamant I King arrives!".
The soldiers around were happy to hear the news, after all they would most likely die if they continued to try to defend Bern City.
"General, what about General Kelrun's body? Do we have to take him?", asked a soldier.
"No need, the Diamant King I decided Myro would die in the Diamant Kingdom, so let Kelrun's corpse as a diversion. When Myro thought his plan was successful so his troops moved slowly, King Diamant I's army was surely able to chase and kill Myro. Besides, when Myro dies, we can take Kelrun's body back" Ferta said confidently.
For Ferta, King Diamant I was a strong and cunning figure, even he himself was not at all an opponent of King Diamant I.
For that reason, Ferta believes Myro can definitely be defeated if King Diamant I comes alone here with help.
So why should they bother to run Kelrun's corpse? When Myro died, they were able to retrieve Kelrun's body.
Hearing the decision of the general and King Diamant I by letter, the troops did not talk much but hurried away to tell the other troops to get ready to leave the city of Bern.
They were only soldiers, their duty was to fight, not to think of the plans made by their generals and kings.
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At night, Myro passed through the gates of Bern speechless because he had previously thought a great war would take place tonight.
But who would have thought that when Myro's army passed through the city gates, they found no resistance whatsoever.
After his army had taken control of Bern City, Myro only realized the enemy troops had left a few hours ago through the rear gate.
At first Myro hesitated and thought all this might be a trap, but who thought the enemy had actually retreated without giving any more resistance.
"While their goal is, the enemy forces may be planning to trap us in the Diamant Kingdom. If we fail to leave the Diamant Kingdom and the enemy's relief forces arrive, we will most likely lose. Therefore, we must go towards the northern region of Azeroth Kingdom as quickly as possible before the help of the enemy arrives! The longer we stay, the greater the risk of us being surrounded by enemies".
Myro was a little surprised, who thought Ren had managed to think of all the reasons behind Ferta's actions in less than an hour.
Although Myro became smarter as a result of studying for almost 10 years, it seems that he is still under Ren.
Thinking of what Ren said, Myro nodded in agreement "I see, after checking if General Kelrun's corpse is still here, we should leave Bern City! No matter whether General Kelrun's body is found or not, we must leave immediately! We may be considered a failure because we did not bring the body of General Kelrun, but we managed to seize the city of Bern briefly which has shown our strength to everyone. The help that King Diamant I brought must be quite strong, at least he will bring hundreds of thousands of troops considering we managed to kill around 200,000 of his troops. We can't stay here too long".
"Okay, sir!", replied everyone.
After that, Ren began to divide the troops into groups to find the whereabouts of Kelrun's corpse throughout the city.
So that night, the whole city of Bern became crowded due to Myro's troops searching for Kelrun's body.
Everyone understood how risky their situation was now. No matter how great the strategy Ren made and how strong the general and Myro troops were, they had not been able to fight the Diamant I King who used full strength.
Especially Myro was now in the Diamant Kingdom which meant all the officials and nobles around were enemies, if they all helped King Diamant I defeat Myro, he said, no wonder Myro had to fight 1 million troops.
Because of this, Myro and his troops had to leave here as soon as possible before the help of the enemy arrived.
Myro was in Bern City for another hour until a trooper reported "Master, we managed to find General Kelrun's body under the mayor's house!".
Myro stepped forward and looked at the corpse of an old man who had changed due to his long-time death.
In addition, Myro found some rope marks on the corpse which were most likely the result of the corpse being hung.
Even so, the aura of a general could still be felt through the corpse.
The aura Myro meant was that even if people who did not know Kelrun saw his corpse, they would realize that before dying, this corpse was a general.
Sighing slightly, Myro said firmly "Since the corpse is found, tell the whole army to gather! We have to leave Bern City as quickly as possible, let alone the corpse of General Kelrun having been found, there's no point in being here any longer!".
"Understand me, sir!", replied everyone who had begun to gather Myro's army.
But unbeknownst to Myro and his troops, a large army was approaching towards Bern City, most of these troops were cavalry so their movement towards Bern City was very fast. Compared to Myro's army which consisted mostly of infantry, the speed of the cavalry troops rushing towards Bern City could be 4 to 5 times faster than Myro's forces.
Among these cavalry troops, there were several flags of the Diamant Kingdom that indicated they were troops from the Diamant Kingdom.