440 – Battle of Benedict Plains (9)
After Peter Yeager heard those words, he quietly gestured.
“Please respectfully take His Highness the Crown Prince to a safe place. In addition, Colonel Falcon, who was in charge of His Majesty’s bodyguard, will be court-martialed immediately after the battle for failing to faithfully perform his duties.”
Having said that, two officers under Peter Yeager immediately moved to politely serve the crown prince.
“Your Majesty, I will take you there respectfully.”
“This is a battlefield. “It’s dangerous, so we’ll take you to a safe place.”
The words were intended to take them to a safe place, but in reality, there was a tense atmosphere that they had no choice but to subdue them rather harshly if they did not follow them.
The Crown Princess felt fear inwardly at their threats, but the last time she stood in front of the François people, led by Peter Jaeger’s hand, she told them that he had waited without forgetting her, and she cheered and was thrilled. I remembered the image.
‘Even though the François Empire is ruined, I must protect it as a member of the Cafe royal family.’
In addition, isn’t all of this ultimately a play that is put together and played?
“I won’t go. “Because this is where I should be as the princess of the Café Imperial House of the Francois Empire and the Crown Prince of the Reich Empire.”
Then she shook off the officers and walked toward Peter Yeager.
At that moment, Peter Jaeger was swinging his sword and slaughtering Franco and his soldiers, following the orders he had given.
“Sal, save me! “You monster!”
The unknown man who asked François to save his life was decapitated by a single stab wound while urinating his pants.
The soldiers behind him also attempted a tearful resistance by pointing weapons such as short spears, swords, and maces at him, saying they would fight at all costs, but…
“f*ck, f*ck!”
“Do you think we’re going to die like this?”
“aaah, come at me!”
There was a lot of cold sweat running down his face, his legs were shaking, and wet marks were evident on his lower body.
Peter Yeager did not laugh at those people.
“I respect the attitude of fighting until the end. “I will send you away with a single blow so that you can die without pain.”
As Peter Yeager said that, he raised his sword high and tried to kill the guys in front of him…
“Stop it, Marshal!”
Peter Yeager paused when he heard those words, and then, as if he had no choice, he lowered the sword he had raised high, brushed off the blood that was on it, and put it back in its sheath.
Crown Princess Lina walked quietly and blocked Jaeger’s path, as if covering the Francois soldiers in front of her.
“Your Majesty, if you continue to disobey military orders like this, you will not be able to avoid the severe punishment of His Majesty the Emperor, even if he tells you to protect the crown prince.”
“I know that could happen. However, as the princess of the Kafe Imperial Family and the Crown Princess of the Reich Empire, I have a mission to protect them.”
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Zhang, the man who had just been almost killed by Peter Yeager, was suspicious of the scene unfolding before his eyes.
That’s because he received so much education.
The woman who appeared before her eyes was the Imperial Courtesan of the Cafe who had reappeared to exploit them and was the Crown Princess of the Reich Empire.
She couldn’t believe that a beautiful woman wearing a dress that looked so expensive would step into the middle of her battlefield to save a lowly human like herself.
He was so dumbfounded and embarrassed that he couldn’t think of running away.
He was just blankly staring at the scene in front of him.
‘Am I dreaming now?’
However, as if to prove that the man’s words were not a dream, the princess continued her words.
“Also, His Majesty the Emperor provided food to the Francois people with the intention of embracing them as subjects of the Reich Empire in the future. Isn’t that right, Marshal?”
Peter Yeager, the symbol of that fear, was speechless at those words.
Actually, I was just pretending to be ignored by the princess’s words…
Jang, who saw it in person, thought this.
‘Her Highness the Crown Princess is taking risks for a lowly person like me, and is stopping Peter Jaeger…’
When he saw that scene, tears came out of his eyes.
“Your Highness.”
In addition, two other soldiers around him gave up running away and looked at the Crown Princess.
Unlike the aristocrats of the Francois Republic, who only saw themselves as talking animals rather than people, her warm eyes and attitude seemed to regard lowly humans like themselves as human beings.
Looking at the courage shown right now, standing proudly in front of the incarnation of fear that is Peter Yeager, and trying to protect them.
This is because they decided that if they wanted to survive, they had to hold on to the princess’s affection.
Immediately they got down on their knees, put her head down on the ground, and prayed, as if they were seeing someone on high.
“Please save me, I have a wife like a fox and children like rabbits!”
“What sin can idiots like us have?”
“Her Royal Highness!”
Crown Princess Lina, seeing this, Lina strengthened her resolve once again.
“……Your Majesty, please get out of here. “Francois must be killed here to reveal the majesty of the empire.”
“No. “I can’t admit it.”
“……”
After fighting with Peter Yeager for a while, the Crown Princess looked at François and her soldiers with a solemn expression, befitting a princess, and spoke.
“I am Lina von Kafe, the princess of the Kafe Imperial Family and Crown Princess of the Reich Empire.”
At those words, all of the Francois and Reich soldiers around him stopped moving for a moment.
The soldiers of the Francois Republic were so surprised that the princess of the empire who had been driven out decades ago had appeared that their movements stopped for a moment.
“Why on earth is Her Majesty, the princess of the Imperial House of Cafe, in a battlefield like this?”
The soldiers of the Reich Empire also paused for a moment at the fact that His Highness the Crown Prince was speaking to them.
“……Why on earth is Her Majesty the Princess?”
Lina helped one of her kneeling soldiers up.
“What is your name?”
“This is Jang.”
“Okay, Jean… Do you want to go back home?”
At those words, Jang stood up and shed tears as she nodded.
“I have a wife and children who only look at me. If I die here, my whole family will be thrown out onto the streets. So please save me. If you ask me to give my loyalty to the Reich Empire, I will. “You can tell me to become a slave…”
“There is no need for that. However, no country can spare the life of someone who points a sword at the Reich Empire… So put down your sword and surrender. “Then I will send you back to your hometown right away.”
“Are you sure?”
Lina nodded her head at those words.
Her words soon spread to the soldiers belonging to the army of the Francois Republic.
They say that if you surrender, they will let you live.
Because these were the words they needed more than anything else and were the most earnest words.
Franco and his soldiers laid down their weapons without hesitation.
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“You may not believe what the imperial soldiers say, but they say that you are the princess of the Imperial House of Cafe…”
“You care about guys like us…”
“It would be great if you just gave me something to eat now…”
As they all began to lay down their weapons, the other officers turned to Peter Yeager.
He didn’t say anything, but he was asking for opinions on what to do.
Peter Jaeger gritted his teeth and changed his orders.
“Her Royal Highness has accepted their surrender, so there is nothing we can do. Please spare the lives of all those who put down their weapons and surrender. “Kill anyone who resists with a weapon or runs away.”
Despite what he said, Peter Yeager was feeling satisfied that his operation was going well in the right direction.
At the same time as those words were spoken, the imperial soldiers raised their weapons and shouted loudly.
“Put down your weapons and raise your hands! Then you won’t die!”
“If you don’t want to die, throw away your weapon!”
“His Royal Highness Crown Prince Lina took pity on your humble lives! “Stop resisting pointlessly and surrender!”
Except for Carlos and some other leaders and a few soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the siege…
After hearing that story, I put down my weapon without thinking for even a second.
“You can’t die like this.”
“Please save me.”
“I surrender, please spare my life. “I want to go back to my wife and children!”
As everyone began to surrender, a cart containing the flour porridge that Lina had prepared arrived just then.
The meals that the Reich Empire soldiers ate were of much better quality than this, so they did not pay much attention to them, but…
François and his soldiers, who had been living in an environment where they could not expect proper supplies, flocked in as if they were excited to see wheat porridge.
“I’m going to eat, I’m going to eat!”
“Could you please give me one more bowl?”
“Ugh, I have to feed it to my kids too…”
I felt a little guilty when I saw Francois’ people liking something that didn’t look like porridge, just boiled with flour, water, and a few vegetables…
‘This was also necessary for the empire.’
And on this day, I was able to completely lay the foundation for controlling the public opinion of the soldiers of the Francois Republic.