Chapter 1023
"You climbed all the way, right, my Duke Lord?"
On the city wall of the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain, Salika is stuck in the waist · Jonah looked like make a fuss about nothing, and he was unabashedly proud: "I thought that everything you said this time would definitely be ahead of us, but it took me five days before you came—seriously. , Could it be slower?"
"Heavy snow blocked the road, and it took a few days." The black hair wizard faintly smiled, pretending that he didn't hear the other party's ridicule, and looked down the city wall. City wall Inside and outside, the endless East Sacrament Plain.
There is also the spacious camp where you can’t see the end, the sound of people screaming vast as the open sea, and the flag of horses is erected.
The Knights of Boye are not used to a stone castle, and the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain can’t hold tens of thousands of hussars, so they simply set up a nomadic camp behind the fortress, which looks like a sudden Popped up, densely populated towns.
"Of course, Byrne is in the south after all." After breathing out the mist, Loren chuckled softly: "In terms of adapting to winter, it is still not as good as our brother sisters in the north."
"Well...you dear Southerners, are not as good as our horseback people to fight the cold."
Salika agrees with this very much: "But...it should be more than this. Some reason, right?"
Huh?
Loren raised his brows and didn't react for a while.
"Come on, do you want to pretend to be stupid with me?"
The machete female grandfather with a sudden change of expression gave a "profound" smile, "pa!" With a sound, she slammed Loren's chest with her elbow: "You can lie to others, but you can't lie to me-I can't understand Charlotte, and there is nothing she wants to get!"
"Before you go to Eboden, you will never have time to speak to Byrne, so Charlotte must be arranging everything in that celebration-this is a round she planned to use you in the army, but in the end it became the wizard. A wedding with a relative of the Imperial Family."
"What does this mean? It means that this is a guise! The blood wedding is too difficult, and it is easy to be thought that you are coveting Charlotte's title and wealth. So I made such a special-right? I'm right?!" After finishing speaking, Sarika stared at Loren with wide eyes, "I said" By the way, quickly praise me."
Loren, who didn't know how to answer, twisted his brows.
Although it is completely false, the result is correct.
Of course, only half right.
The black hair wizard was lightly sighed: "This matter is still a secret for the time being. Charlotte and I plan to announce it in a while."
"Sigh...It's really true That's it..." The inner guess was confirmed, but Salika still looked shocked, and then immediately showed an expression of anger-or jealousy -:
"No wonder you are late. , Haven’t you all been day and night since that day... right?! That’s right?!"
"..."Loren · Torino.
"What are you doing, why do you look at me with this expression?" Sarika asked viciously: "Is it possible that you think I'm jealous, I'm dignified Lord of Boye, on horseback. Will the leader of you be jealous of you?!"
"...Jealous?"
"Of course I am jealous. In the fireplace room, back and forth on the soft feather bed, I can’t stand it anymore!"
The machete grandfather of baring fangs and brandishing claws doesn’t care about her image at all. It was a righteous cry.
But blunt... is indeed her strength.
Anger, hatred, joy, excitement, madness... This woman never knows what to hide, and she expresses all her emotions straight away. She can speak out what she wants and what she hates and hates. .
Well, especially in terms of desire and ambition, it does have several points of similarities with Charlotte.
"No matter sooner or later, Charlotte will always get what she wants;" Salika, with a sullen face, curled her lips very uncomfortably: "Everything is like this, and it is like this now, hey... "
The expression is like telling Loren "There is a story in this."
Huh? Having said that, Charlotte seems to be particularly concerned about Sarika, these two people... Could it be that something really happened?
"Salika, I was curious about something before, what is the relationship between you and Charlotte..."
"clang!"
The voice stopped abruptly, and Loren stared at the long knife "Iron Cavalry" that was suddenly nailed in front of him-the smooth blade almost completely cut into the seam between the stones and penetrated into the city wall under his feet.
It's so tight that you can't even see a tiny bit of gravel.
"Aiya, I was so careless." Salika of gloomy face lifts the head, still staring at him with those vicious eyes:
"sorry, ah, My knife fell out of the scabbard, didn't it hurt you?"
Loren's throat twitched.
"No, no."
"Ah, that's good, that's good." The machete grandfather nodded with her lips curled up and smiling—or rather grinning—: "You have to be careful when you ask questions in the future, and pay attention to your surroundings; otherwise, if you don’t pay attention, I will..." Sounded.
"Lord of Sackland, Your Majesty Connold is here——!"
The strong voice of Ernst Drecis, the deputy commander of the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain The sound echoed in the ears, breaking the deadly silent and extremely strange atmosphere, making the two of them look back at the same time.
At the end of the road where Legion soldiers stand on guard neatly on one-knee kneels, Connold Dessalion, in a black and red cloak, is expressionless, accompanied by Dresis Come.
"Good morning, my dukes."
With a leisurely opening, Connold glanced "inadvertently" at the two who were also looking at him. I looked at the long knife "Iron Cavalry" stuck on the ground again, and his changing expression was very playful:
"Very well, it seems that you have already said hello."
鎯——!
In front of Connold's face, Salika drew out the long knife very rudely, and deliberately played a knife while Drexis could almost kill, and put it in the sheath.
"Yes, we just chatted for a while about the Azores elves-the war sword'Iron Cavalry' passed down from generation to generation by Boyi, using the craftsmanship of the Azores long sword, everyone knows this "
Machete Grand Duke coldly said: "So I asked Lord Byrne for advice. What is the difference between the Azorean warrior's sword technique and ours... Is there a problem?"
"No problem, Duke Loren used to be an ambassador to Wuyue Court, and no one in the empire has a better understanding of elves." Connold's expression was very calm:
" But I think this kind of thing is better than listening to other people's descriptions, it is better to understand it after trying it yourself, Grand Duke Sarika...what do you think?"
Salika was coldly snorted and didn’t say anything. .
"This is the end of the chat, let's get back to the topic." Connold's gaze turned and fell on the black hair wizard: "Dressis told me that Byrne sent troops this time. , Only five thousand?"
"Yes, a total of five thousand Knights, and the crimson giant dragon Grum who promised to assist us, plus half of the counts from Byrne's thirteen collars." Loren deliberately Emphasized:
"This is the result of careful discussion between Byrne and his staff-we all agree that if your Majesty only wants to defend the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain, what is needed is not a huge army, but Absolutely elite."
"And after Poi’s 10,000 hussars, the Empire no longer needs more cavalry as mobile support; and the famous Sackland’s “black city wall”, It should not be necessary for the southern infantry to show off one's military strength in World of Ice and Snow."
"Five thousand Knights, more than enough."
It looks like a black hair wizard. Straightforwardly, but with a faint prickly answer, Dresis frowned.
In the empire, only by following the traditional "Knight system" by Byrne, the title of "Knight" is not like a knighthood, more like an honorary title and a profession; as long as you have a noble bloodline-no matter how many- -And have received standard Knight training, can be dubbed "Knight" title.
Conversely speaking, if a person has not participated in war, has no experience of "traveling", or even received Knight training; then even if he has a knighthood, he cannot be called "Knight".
Because of this, only Byrne can assemble a large-scale "Knight Legion" in the empire. It's already very scary.
Of course, Five Thousand Knight is an extremely powerful battle strength even for Byrne in the "Hometown of Knights"; not to mention that half of Duchy's count is dispatched at a time, which is enough to prove worship. En's sincerity.
So no matter how you have opinions, there is really nothing to refute and question.
"In other words, Byrne determined the strength and quality of this battle out of understanding of the form of war, right?" Emperor Connold said indifferently.
Loren slightly nodded: "You can say so."
"Then I now change my current combat objectives..."
"I can only strongly recommend your Majesty You, it’s best not to do this." Loren is unceremonious: "A change in the established plan will inevitably cause a turmoil in the military and soldiers; besides, temporary preparations must be rushed. When the time comes, I am afraid that no goal will be completed."
"If this change, do you need to make any more preparations?"
"If you don't prepare, you will definitely..."
Suddenly realized something The black hair wizard stopped abruptly, staring at Connold with a cold expression.
At that moment, he found that the other two were also looking at him.
Obviously, the information about the Azores is still incomplete.
"Dressis told me that the army of Azores was walking one third way from west to east, approaching the fortress of Broken Frontier Mountain."
Loren frowned slightly: "Did there be any changes?"
"One third...This is all the information from a few days ago. Not only did you come late, but you also know the news so late? !" Salika stared at the black hair wizard without looking back, and deliberately asked loudly.
As for the blackness of Drexis's face, she didn't bother to care about it.
"The latest news, we have found the traces of this group of long-eared people-it is near a deserted camp near the Valley of Blood Skeletons, but the force is far less than forty thousand, the number of trifling It’s just a hundred."
"Not only that, these small groups of enemies don’t seem to be just one or two, all together are about two thousand troops, but they are distributed in the ice field outside the fortress of Broken Boundary Mountain. Among them, from the east to the west of the Blood Skeleton Valley, their silhouettes are almost everywhere!"
Salika deliberately said with a smile in a very relaxed tone: "So we draw I came to a conclusion, that is, what kind of tricks these guys are doing, deliberately making us mistakenly think that they are marching fast, forcing us to dare not leave the fortress of Duanjieshan, and we are huddled here, I don’t know what they are doing!"
"If this is the case, then we can't make them happy!"
"So..." Loren raised his eyebrows.
"So we sent an elite ranger to raid the troops they sent out to confuse us." Sarika continued: "Then follow the vines and grab their tails!"
p>"Can it succeed?"
"Two hundred Legion Rangers, one thousand Boy Hussars, led by the leader of the Church Knight in the Broken Frontier Fortress, pledged to Lord Knight Nazer , Plus Poye’s Sete Braha count, absolutely foolproof, don’t underestimate the bravery of our Poye people!"
"I don’t mean to underestimate the Poye people, I just..."
"Just what, don't think that only you Bianren can defeat the Azores." The Machete Grand Duke glared at him, obviously not completely forgiving what he had just done: "Don't forget, last time it was Without the timely support of our cavalry from Boye, Eboden City should have fallen!"
Salika, panting with rage, hugged her shoulders in a posture of "You don't believe me".
The black hair wizard can only look helpless.
During the conversation between the three, a short horn suddenly sounded on the city wall, and the soldiers at the city gate could be seen from a distance.
"It should be the ranger who was in charge of the contact is back, I will pick it up." After that, Dresis, who bowed to Connold, was about to turn around and leave.
As a result, before he left, a soldier dressed as a cavalry hurried up the city wall and handed an unsealed parchment letter to his hand.
Drecis did not dare to neglect, and directly presented it to Connold without looking.
"This is..."
"With the stamp of the church Knight, it is the line of Lord Nazer Knight and Seth Braha count."
Before the black hair wizard asked, Connold had already opened the mouth and said.
The expressions of the three people became serious at the same time.
"The march arrived on the third day of the Valley of the Blood Skeleton... Sudden attack... The enemy was in ambush in the Werewolf tribe of the ice plain... The force exceeded two thousand... In a hurry... Surrounded..."
"Our army The intention was noticed by the enemy...The cavalry queue was torn...The formation collapsed...I couldn't organize an effective...effective resistance..."
The intermittent words made Loren's pupils shrink.
Salika is complexion pale.
"Nazer Knight led the army to break through...whereabouts unknown, Sete Braha count raised the flag...attempted to detour and cover...encountered siege from both sides...lost...prepared to retreat..."
"Dead in action!"