Unknown Knight

Chapter 385 7 Day Dynasty

(The previous chapter was published without modification in order to take advantage of the event. Now it has been modified. Old friends who followed the latest updates are requested to return and read. I am really sorry.)

As the city wall collapsed, the confidence and hope of the entire Zhivadin defenders also collapsed, and even their desire to resist dropped to a low point, so that when Aix ordered the auxiliary soldiers to carry soil to fill the river, the auxiliary soldiers basically suffered no losses. The only damage was the sparse arrows shot at them. It was because Belgaru's personal guards were supervising the battle with swords, otherwise no one would have drawn the bow and shot arrows.

As early as the first day of the siege, Aix, who was good at psychological warfare, had catapults launch a large number of letters of surrender into the city. These easy-to-understand letters of surrender stated that this time Aix's army attacked the city of Rivadin for only two purposes. One was to avenge the deceased King Yarogerk, and the other was to avenge the royal family who were brutally murdered. These two purposes were directly aimed at the usurping false king Belgaru in the letters of surrender.

At the beginning of Aix's attack, although the Viegir soldiers on the city felt that Aix had more soldiers below the city, they were still quite confident in the solid defense of Zhivadin City and did not take Aix's letter of surrender seriously. If Aix directly ordered his men to attack the city at this time, he would definitely encounter fierce resistance and heavy losses would be inevitable.

However, Aix directly ordered catapults to attack the city walls, and easily collapsed the walls in less than two days. This completely changed the mentality of more than 2,000 Vigia soldiers on the city.

Except for more than one hundred soldiers who were directly under Belgaru, the rest were subordinate to the lords who drowned in the cesspool of Roma Castle. They were forced to come to Zhivadin City by Belgaru, and these soldiers were already dissatisfied.

Previously in Loma Castle, most of the lords drowned in the cesspool. The situation was urgent at the time, and the two surviving lords, Belgaru and Tesha, were still in shock and had no time to conduct a thorough investigation. No one even noticed the inconspicuous rope tied to the windowsill on the second floor. After all, there was a cliff outside the main castle, and the stench inside was so bad that it could kill people. They all agreed that the accident was caused by the disrepair of the castle's floor.

Immediately afterwards, Belgaru forcibly brought more than 2,000 soldiers who had gathered to the city of Rivadin. These soldiers had lost their lord and were in a panic. Rumors spread in the army, and many people wanted to return to the territory directly at that time. They were full of complaints about Belgaru's coercion.

After entering the city, Belgaru massacred the former king's close relatives. This move made Belgaru completely lose the support of the people. You must know that many of the elite soldiers among these soldiers, such as the Vigia Knights, Vigia Guards, Vigia Cavalry, Vigia Sharpshooters, etc., were relatives of aristocratic soldiers. They already felt that Belgaru's behavior of finding excuses to kill the king at will was very suspicious. Aix's letter of surrender turned this suspicion into suspicion in many people's hearts. Based on the basic logic that whoever benefits has the motivation, a rumor about Belgaru killing the king to seize power soon spread in the city.

Although Belgaru promised the soldiers many benefits in order to calm people's hearts after entering the city, these benefits were only verbal. The stingy Belgaru did not even give them half a silver coin, which instead increased the soldiers' dissatisfaction.

So when Aix's army formed a tight formation and rushed into the city through the collapsed gap with great momentum, they were facing a group of troops who were dissatisfied with their superiors, in panic, and had no will to resist.

Before the two armies came to a standoff, the Aix army shouted the slogan "No crime in surrender", and immediately large numbers of soldiers laid down their weapons and surrendered. Seeing this, the remaining soldiers turned around and fled into the city.

The brutal street fighting that was imagined did not happen at all. Aix took over the entire royal city without a single bloodshed. Belgaru and dozens of his personal guards were guarding the palace, still thinking of resisting stubbornly. As a result, Aix's army did not attack, but surrounded the palace in a neat array.

Seeing the streets filled with Ix's soldiers in shining armor, strict discipline and high morale, Belgaru's guards did not want to lose their lives in vain, so they decided to tie up Belgaru, open the palace gate and surrender.

Then Aix ordered his subordinates to capture all the Vigia soldiers who had fled the city, and then locked them up in the military camp in the city. He then sent people to register and identify them one by one to prevent any cronies of Belgaru and Tesha from mixing in.

After basically stabilizing the order in the city, how to deal with the fake king Belgaru became a very urgent matter. After discussing with several lords around him, Aix finally decided to follow the rules of the territory and hold a public trial for the fake king Belgaru and his accomplice Taishaboye.

The meeting was held in the square in front of the royal palace. About three thousand people, including citizens of the royal city, surviving distant relatives of the royal family, nobles in the city, and representatives of captured soldiers, attended this novel public trial.

The meeting was chaired by Sir Bandak. Under his arrangement, three people who claimed to be the personal guards of Belgaru and Tesha spoke first. The three men burst into tears as soon as they came on stage, and then one by one they made public the conspiracy of Belgaru and Tesha to assassinate King Yarogerk and the lords. They spoke clearly and logically, and told the story of a treacherous minister who used conspiracy and trickery to kill the king and seize power in a very detailed way. Belgaru, who was tied to the trial stand with rags stuffed in his mouth, was so angry that he rolled his eyes.

This segment was carefully arranged and was personally handled by Bandak, who was good at criminal investigation and interrogation. He selected the three most cowardly and fearful subordinates of Belgaru and the other man to participate in the accusation. Before that, severe torture, coercion and inducement were inevitable. He also made them rehearse for half a day and gave them a lot of benefits on the spot, which allowed them to perform on stage.

Next, the families of the murdered royal relatives came on stage to make accusations. They were not acting, their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons were really killed by the fake king Belgaru under some excuse. Their accusations needed no embellishment or preparation, they were enough to make people indignant, if Aix had not had the soldiers stop them in advance, these grief-stricken and angry women would probably have rushed over and torn the two men to pieces on the spot.

After a whole morning of trial, the false king Belgaru and his accomplice Tesha were completely nailed to the pillar of shame in history. Finally, Sir Bandak, who presided over the public trial, read out the verdict written by Aix himself, sentencing the two to death.

As the executioner cut with a click of his knife, the head of the false king Belgaru, which was covered with rotten eggs and vegetable leaves, rolled to the bottom of the stage and was trampled to pieces by the people who rushed over. His wishful thinking and grievances turned into mud together with his head.

From the time when Belgaru announced his accession to the throne to the time when Aix chopped off his head, it took only seven days in total. The short-lived dynasty he established was ridiculed by later generations as the "Seven Days Dynasty."