Chapter 1023

"You climbed all the way, didn't you, my Duke?"

On the wall of duanjieshan fortress, Sally Jonah with her waist inserted looked surprised and proud: "I thought you could definitely beat us this time. As a result, you didn't come until I arrived five days - seriously, can you slow down?"

"The heavy snow blocked the road and delayed a few days." the black haired wizard smiled faintly, pretended not to hear each other's ridicule, and looked down the crenels of the city wall to the endless East saklan plain inside and outside the city wall.

There is also the spacious camp with endless sight, the sound of people hissing and horses, and the flag of horses.

The Knights of Boyi were not used to stone castles, and the fortress of duanjieshan could not hold 10000 hussars, so they simply built a nomadic camp behind the fortress, which looked like a suddenly emerging and densely populated town from a distance.

"Of course, after all, Byrne is in the south." he breathed the mist gently, and Lauren smiled: "in terms of adapting to winter, he can't compare with our brothers and sisters in the north."

"Well... You delicate southerners are not as cold resistant as our horseback people."

Sarika agrees with this: "but... It shouldn't be just that reason?"

Huh?

Lauren frowned and didn't react for a while.

"Come on, you still want to play stupid with me?"

The machete female Archduke with a sudden change of expression had a "profound" smile on her face, "pa!" and hit Lauren's chest with her elbow: "you can deceive others, but you can't deceive me - Charlotte, I can't understand. She can't get anything she wants!"

"You never had time to summon Byrne before you went to eboden, so Charlotte must have arranged everything for the celebration - it was a game she planned to take your army, but it turned into the wedding between the wizard and the royal family."

"What does this mean? It means it's a cover! The blood wedding is too difficult, and it's easy to be thought that you are greedy for Charlotte's title and wealth, so you made such a special one - right? Am I right?!"

With that, Sally card, with her waist inserted, stared at Loren with wide eyes and an expression of "I'm right, boast about my greatness".

Loren, who didn't know how to answer, frowned.

Although it was completely unreasonable, the result was right.

Of course, only half right.

The dark haired wizard sighed softly: "this matter is still a secret for the time being. Charlotte and I are going to announce it in a while."

"Hiss... It's really like this..." her inner guess was confirmed, but Sally card was shocked and immediately showed an angry - or jealous - expression:

"No wonder you're late. Have you all worked day and night since that day... Right?! right?!"

"..." Loren Turin.

"What are you doing? Why are you looking at me with this expression?" Sarika asked fiercely, "do you think I'm jealous? I'm the Lord of Boye and the chief of horseback people will be jealous of you!"

"... jealous?"

"Of course I'm jealous, I'm so jealous - I can't stand the thought of you two walking back and forth on the soft feather bed in the room with a fireplace!"

The machete female Archduke with open teeth and claws didn't care about her image at all. She cried out very righteously.

But being straightforward... Is indeed her advantage.

Anger, hatred, joy, excitement, madness... This woman never knows what to hide. She can express all her emotions directly. She can speak out loud and directly what she wants and hates.

Well, especially in terms of wishes and ambitions, they do have some similarities with Charlotte.

"Sooner or later, Charlotte can always get what she wants;" the calm faced Sally card looked at her mouth angrily: "everything is like this, and it's the same now, boom..."

The expression was like telling Lauren that there was a story in it.

Huh? In other words, Charlotte seems to pay special attention to Sarika, these two people... Did something really happen?

"Sally card, there's something I've been curious about before. What's the matter between you and Charlotte..."

"Dang!"

The voice stopped abruptly, and the stunned Loren stared at the long knife "iron horse" suddenly nailed in front of him - the smooth blade almost completely fitted into the stone cracks and penetrated into the wall under his feet.

It fits perfectly. You can't even see the slightest bit of stone residue.

"Oh, I'm so careless." sullen faced Sally card raised her head and still stared at him with her vicious eyes:

"Sorry, my knife fell out of the scabbard and didn't hurt you?"

Loren's throat twitched.

"No, No."

"Ah, that's good, that's good." the machete female Archduke with a smile or a ferocious smile nodded: "you should be careful and pay attention to your surroundings when asking questions in the future; otherwise, if you don't pay attention, I'll..."

Before the words fell, a loud cry suddenly sounded on the wall.

"Lord of Saxony, your majesty Connor is coming --!"

The thick voice of Ernst dreisis, deputy commander of duanjieshan fortress, echoed in their ears, breaking the dead and strange atmosphere, and making them look back at each other at the same time.

At the end of the road where the Legion soldiers standing guard knelt neatly on one knee, Conrad de saleon, dressed in a black red cloak, came expressionless in the company of dreisis.

"Good morning, my dukes."

When he opened his mouth leisurely, Connor glanced at him and looked at the two of them, and looked at the long knife "iron cavalry" inserted on the ground. His changing expression was very interesting:

"Well, it seems that you have said hello."

Yibing -!

In front of connord, Sarika pulled out the long knife impolitely and deliberately played a knife flower in dreisis's almost murderous eyes.

"Yes, we just talked for a while about the information about the Azores - the war knife 'iron horse' handed down by Boyi from generation to generation uses the technology of Azores long knife, which everyone knows."

Archduke machete said coldly, "so I'll ask Lord Byrne for advice. What's the difference between the sword skills of Azores Elven warriors and ours... Is there a problem?"

"No problem, Duke Loren once served as an envoy to the fog moon court, and no one knows more about elves than the Empire." connord's expression was very calm:

"But I think it's better to try this kind of thing before you can understand it better than listening to others. Archduke Sarika... What do you think?"

Sarika, who was pushed back, snorted coldly and said nothing more.

"That's the end of the chat. Let's get back to the point." connord's eyes turned and fell on the black haired Wizard: "dreisis told me that Byrne sent only 5000 troops this time?"

"Yes, a total of five thousand knights, the red dragon grum who promised to help us, and half of the Earls of Byrne's thirteen leaders." Loren deliberately stressed:

"This is the result of careful discussion by Byrne - we all agree that if your majesty only wants to hold the fortress of duanjieshan, he needs not a huge army, but absolute elite."

"Moreover, with the 10000 Hussars of Boye, the Empire no longer needs more cavalry as mobile support; and the famous' black wall 'of saklan should not need the infantry of the south to show off in the ice and snow."

"Five thousand knights, more than enough."

Dreisis frowned as he listened to the dark haired wizard's seemingly righteous but insidious answer.

In the Empire, only Byrne, who followed the traditional "knight system", the title of "Knight" was not like a title, but more like an honorary title and profession; As long as you have noble blood - no matter how much - and have received standard Knight training, you can be crowned with the title of "Knight".

Conversely, if a person has not participated in the war, has no "travel" experience, and has not even received Knight training; Then even if he has a title, he can't be called a "Knight".

For this reason, only Byrne could assemble a large-scale "Knight corps" in the Empire - although most of them were hired "Ranger knights" and "freedom knights", they were also very shocking.

Of course, even for Byrne, the "hometown of knights", five thousand knights are an extremely powerful combat power; Moreover, the dispatch of half of the Earls in the principality is enough to prove Byrne's sincerity.

So no matter how you have an opinion, there is really nothing to refute and question.

"That is to say, Byrne decided the strength and quality of this battle out of his understanding of the form of war?" emperor connord said faintly.

Lauren nodded slightly, "you can say so."

"Then I will change my current operational objectives..."

"I can only strongly suggest to your majesty that you'd better not do so." Loren said impolitely: "any change in the established plan will inevitably cause unrest in the morale of the army and morale; besides, the temporary preparation must be in a hurry. I'm afraid I can't achieve any goal at that time."

"What if this change doesn't require any more preparation?"

"If you don't prepare, you will..."

Suddenly aware of something, the dark haired wizard stopped talking and stared at connord with a cold expression.

At that moment, he found that the other two were looking at themselves.

Obviously, I don't know all the information about the Azores.

"Dreisis told me that the army of Azores was walking a third of the way from west to East, approaching the fortress of duanjie mountain."

Lauren frowned slightly: "has something changed?"

"One third... It's all the information a few days ago. You're not only late, but also know the news so late?!" Sally Ka, who doesn't look back, stares at the black haired wizard and deliberately asks back.

As for what dreisis's face was black, she didn't bother to care.

"The latest news, we have found the trace of these long ears - near a deserted camp near blood skeleton Valley, but the troops are far from 40000, just hundreds."

"Not only that, it seems that these small groups of enemies are not just one or two. Together, they have about 2000 troops, but they are distributed in the ice field outside the great wall of duanjie mountain. They are almost everywhere from the east to the west of Xuegu Valley!"

Sarika deliberately joked in a very relaxed tone: "so we came to a conclusion that these guys are doing something to hide their eyes. They deliberately make us mistakenly think that they are marching at a great speed, forcing us not to leave the fortress of duanjie mountain and shrink here. I don't know what they are doing!"

"In that case, we can't let them be satisfied!"

"So..." Lauren raised his eyebrows.

"So we sent an elite Ranger to raid the troops they sent to confuse us," continued Sarika. "Then follow the vine and grab their tails!"

"Can you succeed?"

"Two hundred legions of Rangers and one thousand boi hussars, led by the church Knight leader of duanjie mountain fortress, Lord Naze, the sworn knight, plus count Seth braha of BOI, are absolutely safe. Don't underestimate the bravery of our boi people!"

"I don't mean to underestimate the Boyi people. I just..."

"Just what, don't think that only you Byrne people can defeat the Azores." Archduke machete glared at him and obviously didn't completely forgive him for what he just did: "don't forget, if we hadn't been supported by Boyi's cavalry in time last time, eboden would have fallen!"

Sullivan hugged her shoulder and looked like "you don't believe me".

The dark haired wizard can only look helpless.

Between the three people talking, a short horn sounded on the wall, and the soldiers at the gate were busy in the distance.

"The Rangers in charge of communication should be back. I'll pick them up." with that, dreisis, who bowed to connord, was ready to turn and leave.

Before he left, a soldier dressed as a cavalry hurried up the wall and handed him an unsealed parchment letter.

Dreisis did not dare to neglect it and showed it directly to Conrad without looking.

"This is..."

"Stamped with the seal of the church knight, it was the Knight Commander Naze and the count Seth braha."

Before the dark haired wizard asked for the exit, connord said in a straight face.

The three people's expressions were dignified at the same time.

"On the third day of marching to the blood skeleton Valley... The enemy ambushed the werewolf tribe in the ice field... With more than 2000 troops... Surrounded in a hurry..."

"Our army's intention was perceived by the enemy... The cavalry queue was torn... The formation collapsed... Unable to organize effective... Effective resistance..."

The intermittent words made Loren's pupils shrink suddenly.

Sally card is even more pale.

"Knight Naze led his army to break through the Siege... His whereabouts are unknown. Count Seth braha raised his flag... Tried to cover in a detour... Encountered a siege on both sides... Lost... Ready to retreat..."

"Killed in battle!"