Unknown Knight

In fact, before asking Niza to personally go to various places to appease the people, Aix also personally appeased the chiefs who stayed behind in the occupied cities.

However, these local forces all swore allegiance to the princes they supported. Not only did they contribute money and effort to support the princes' great cause, some even offered the women of their families, and had formed a certain degree of bond with the princes.

To them, Aix was a force that came out of nowhere, an outsider, unfamiliar and uncertain. Even if Aix successfully occupied the city and promised them huge benefits, it would be difficult to shake their position for a while.

It is for this reason that even though Aix has achieved actual occupation, it still needs to be wary of their rebellion at any time and dare not easily withdraw a large number of troops to support Niza in Dukuba City.

Only the personal presence of the new Sultan Niza can dispel the doubts of these local forces. After all, Sultan Niza comes from the royal city of Shariz and is the former Sultan's biological son. Although he is the least popular and powerless one, his status and position are there.

Now Niza has ascended the throne in the royal city and become the Sultan. In the eyes of the Sarand people, he is the orthodox one who is superior.

Now that the Niza Sultan has arrived in person and has apparently gained absolute advantage, according to traditional practice, these local chiefs should immediately abandon the princes they previously supported and swear allegiance to the Niza Sultan.

Now Niza has personally promised them that as long as they support him and guarantee that their existing interests will not be infringed, these remaining chiefs can finally put their minds at ease.

In the eyes of these local chiefs, any sultan who came to power in the past could not rule the local area without the help of these local leaders who were deeply rooted and had complex connections.

As for the princes they had supported before and the various promises they made to them, they were nothing but empty talk.

Now the coalition forces of the three princes have been defeated in the Kafra Fort, and the remaining defeated troops are besieged in the city of Dukuba. The balance of victory has tilted towards the Sultan Niza. In their eyes, the defeat of the coalition forces of the three princes is only a matter of time.

If they fail to surrender voluntarily before Niza Sultan captures the city of Dukuba, it will be too late for them to surrender after Niza Sultan has completely pacified the coalition of the three princes.

At that time, these chiefs who stood on the wrong side would be regarded as outsiders in the eyes of the Sultan, or even as traitors. Even if they were not deprived of their territory and property, they would be severely suppressed and excluded.

So this time, Niza came in person in the name of the Sultan, which seemed risky, but was actually a good move.

Although the journey was difficult and I was even scared at first, the results were surprisingly good.

Through Niza's preaching, appeasement and enticement, both ordinary Sarand people and local chiefs and nobles expressed their firm support for the new Sultan.

This resolute support was not only verbal, but also practical and costly, especially from the chiefs who had previously invested in the coalition of the three princes. They not only provided money and food, but also manpower. Some old chiefs were already unable to move, but they personally led the remaining young and strong people in the tribe to join the army of Sultan Niza.

So starting from the second day after the successful night attack, Aix, who was in charge of the camp, no longer sent soldiers to pretend to be reinforcements at night, because he had received a letter from Niza a few days ago, telling him to expand the camp as soon as possible, and a large number of reinforcements would arrive, probably in the next few days.

Sure enough, on the morning of the third day after the night attack, a group of reinforcements arrived from the city of Amrad.

As time went by, a total of six or seven groups of reinforcements arrived. When Niza returned to the camp with the last group of reinforcements from Barie City, the total number of reinforcements had reached nearly four thousand.

This also includes the 500 people left behind in Aix. Now that the chiefs of the two cities have sworn allegiance to Niza, only some people need to be left behind to maintain order.

The reinforcements also brought sufficient military supplies and food. Donkey carts pulled mountains of food, and camels carried countless supplies, raising clouds of dust until the entire camp was filled.

This includes an important material produced in the city of Barieh, namely the open-air oil outside the city of Barieh.

Niza had witnessed the power of this material before in the defense of Fort Kafra. Although it was much less powerful than the incendiary oil invented by Aix, it had the advantage of being available in large quantities and at low cost. Apart from some transportation costs, there was almost no other cost.

Putting this natural viscous petroleum into a cheap clay pot produced in the city of Amrad makes a dwarfed and simplified version of the biological incendiary oil bomb.

So Niza specially ordered people to dig a lot of oil from the open-pit oil mine near the city of Barie, ready to be used specifically for the siege of Dukuba.

Previously in Kafra Castle, Niza had been very frustrated by this kind of fierce incendiary oil and was very angry. This time, he had made so many preparations for the attack and defense, and he also had the intention of revenge.

On the second day after Niza returned to the camp, the siege equipment that was hastily made in Shariz City was also pulled over, and then the army launched an siege on Dukuba City.

The siege went very smoothly. The catapults equipped with lookouts were very accurate and threw a large number of incendiary oil bombs at the city defense equipment on the city, burning all the defense equipment in front of them.

The city gate was also the focus of attention. The flaming oil was used to set the city gate on fire, but the enemies in the city had been prepared. Although the iron-clad wooden city gate was burned, the enemy had already filled the gate hole with bricks and stones. The army had no choice but to use siege towers to directly enter the city.

However, the ascent to the city was unusually smooth. When the soldiers on the city saw the new Sultan's soldiers climb up the city wall, most of them immediately surrendered. After a brief period of chaos, the army easily broke into the city, and the city of Dukuba was immediately captured.

The reason why it was so easy was due to Nizza's orthodox status. Long before Nizza returned, Aix began to take advantage of Nizza's orthodoxy.

Among the chiefs and relatives who came to support, many were from the same family as the soldiers in the city, and some were even their brothers, uncles, and nephews. Aix organized these people and asked them to go down to the city to make a speech.

From these chiefs and relatives, the soldiers and noble chiefs in the city learned that, except for the isolated city of Dukuba under their feet, all other Sarande lands had come under the control of Sultan Niza.

Moreover, these chiefs and relatives called out the names of their relatives in the city and told them how kind and generous the new Sultan Niza was, and that he had personally promised not to hold them accountable and that their interests and families would not be harmed in any way.

The soldiers and noble chiefs on the city looked at the people who came to surrender below the city, and then looked at the flags of their own families fluttering in the wind in the camp in the distance. They became agitated at that time, and many people's hearts were shaken.

If the Mamluks directly under the three princes had not been patrolling around them with heavy scepters in their hands, these people might have opened the city gates and let the army in.

However, these Mamluks who were directly under the princes did not dare to really take action against the people in the city. After all, the three princes relied on the support of these people to make their fortunes. Once they lost the support of these local people, they would really have no way to survive.

The local forces in the city did not turn against him immediately. After all, they had all sworn in the name of Allah to be forever loyal to the prince they supported, and they were too embarrassed to turn against him for a while.