At noon,

The merchants of the port actually took over the central square of the entire port city under the scorching sun, intending to hold a grand banquet for Major General Barker.

Buck, who heard the news, immediately ordered the cancellation of the banquet, which was somewhat too absurd.

The panicked merchants immediately prepared another grand banquet at the largest manor in the north of the city, which was nominally a merchant's 'birthday party', and sent several representatives of the city's chambers of commerce to invite Major General Buck in person.

But Buck didn't give these merchants a chance at all, and he used the magic circle to teleport to the northern defense headquarters in charge of Koba before they could speak again.

In just one morning, Buck made two consecutive long-distance long pine trips, and despite the technical support of the Mage Tower, he also suffered a lot.

However, Buck still had to endure the illusion that the space could tear apart at any moment, and endure nausea and dizziness to monitor the progress of the construction of this important line of defense.

This defensive line, which has only been under construction for less than two days, was originally planned to be built in the Northern Silver Forest, extending to the northeast to the eastern part of the El Luk Territory, near the outer defense line of El Rok City, to prevent the undead army of death from moving south again.

Adiri Line... This was the name Buck had chosen for the line, borrowing his father's name to commemorate the first major war in his life and to show his commitment to the war.

Two days is nothing to do for this vast defensive project, but according to intelligence from the High Command of Iruk City, the Undead Legion has sent their elite south... A big battle will begin in five days at the latest.

However, for this reason alone, Buck will not give up the opportunity to fish for political resources in the port city of Yekjar, and will use teleportation magic to teleport to the front line immediately after the hanging of Belém-Val.

The main reason why Buck rushed to the Adiri line was that he received the news that Koba, who was the acting commander of the defense line, did not really understand the meaning of this impending war, so that he behaved passively in the past two days, and the defense line was built extremely slowly!

In the humble open-air command post, Buck had just teleported to the defensive line when he summoned all the high-ranking officers of the Combined Fleet and the Mage Fleet.

"The progress of the defense line is too slow..."Buck didn't say politely, "We need more manpower!" he frowned, pointing to the earthen wall built against the cliff at the edge of the forest, "With the current progress, it would be better to give up on it." ”

"This is already the fastest speed, and we haven't even set up a camp headquarters. Koba really didn't realize his mistake, and he shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively, "Obviously, we all underestimated the land war... The construction of a line of defense does not mean that it can be achieved. ”

"But I saw many soldiers who had nothing to do, who were lying in their tents like moths and sleeping lazily. Buck banged his fist on the makeshift wooden table, "I've said a long time ago that this line of defense is important, and we need to use the best of our strength to build it!"

Koba frowned and explained with a not-so-happy expression: "The soldiers need to rest and conserve their strength for the upcoming war... Didn't we do that before every naval battle?"

"If you don't have enough fortifications, no matter how much physical strength you preserve, you will only fail!"

"To build a city wall out of thin air, you must have enough mages, otherwise no matter how much labor you have, you can only stare dryly!"

"Then go find more mages, you promised me before. ”

"I think we have more than enough people... You don't need to be so nervous, the undead legion is not as strong as the elves claim... Our record at Drake Forest and everything that has happened in the Eloke Territory over the past half month speaks volumes. ”

"I need to finish this damn wall as quickly as possible!" Buck's patience was lost, and he suppressed the anger in his heart.

"I think... We don't need this wall at all. Koba was still holding his point, but Buck looked at him as if he was about to swallow it alive and immediately said, "The Undead Legion will arrive here in five days or two days at the latest, and it is necessary to build such a narrow defensive line in two days, unless there are thousands of official mages who study earth magic." ”

"You promised me that I would fulfill any request I made!" Buck said in a deep voice as he looked around at the mage tower navy around him, "My request now is to have your council immediately send at least five thousand mages through the teleportation array who can help me build the city wall. ”

"This can't be!" Coba's voice unconsciously widened, "unless you use all the organizational strength of the council members, but even if you use the power of the council, it is impossible to gather five thousand regular mages in just a few days, and even if you can gather this number, they will not be able to come here to give you..." ”

"I need this wall, it's about the whole of Iruk's campaign to come there, and it's about your interests in the military port of Yekjar... Just tell me, does the terms you promised me count now?"

"Do you know what it means to have five thousand regular mages? if you can gather them together, don't need to repair this wall at all, and just let each of them activate a compound magic, you can turn the undead army into slag!"

"But... The Eluk Realm will also face collapse due to the elemental power that erupts from the magic web, and become a place even more terrifying than after the undead legion ravages. Koba squinted and stared at the rear admiral across from him very seriously, "So, you'd better give up your thoughts." ”

Buck was choked up and didn't know how to answer, and as a pirate, he did lack some experimentation in some areas, and he used to make quite a few jokes.

"You probably don't know the difference between a regular mage and a mage apprentice..."Koba understood at this moment, the commander of the combined fleet in front of him was a magical idiot at all. So, he pointed to the mages who were busy on the defense line in the distance and said, "Do you see those mages? How many regular mages do you think there are among those people?"

Buck followed the other man's fingers, and his eyes showed a group of young mages measuring and sketching circles on the ground, and the thick earthen walls rose from under their outlined circles, and then drew new circles on the soft earthen walls to reinforce the soil.

"At least hundred, right?" replied Buck with a look of disbelief, for he judged by the age of the mages.

"Hahaha!" Koba and the naval officer behind him laughed after a "poof".

Buck was a little annoyed, frowned and asked, "Is it funny?"

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency..."Koba bent slightly to stop smiling, "There is only one regular mage in total among the officers and men of our fleet, and the other hundreds are apprentices!"

"Only one regular mage?"

"Yes, but don't worry, reinforcements from the two directors of our Mage Tower will arrive in three days at the latest, and you will be able to see the beauty of magic by then. ”

"For such an important matter, you actually only sent a regular mage?" Buck's face was a little ugly, his cold words made the smiles on the faces of the mages Ta Navy become very stiff, and Koba was even more embarrassed under his gaze and didn't know what to say.

"Don't you know the importance of this line of defense?" Buck pointed loudly at the wall under construction, lowered his voice and roared, "This battle line is related to the victory or defeat of the entire battle of Elok Territory, you..."

Buck couldn't find the words to express his anger, but he could swear that if these people were his men, he would throw them into the sea to feed the fish!

"As I said, reinforcements will arrive in two days at most..."

"Then you write a letter to the leader of the Undead Legion, Muvet Phil, and ask him to order his troops to stop for two days!"

"Your Excellency, you say that..."

"Yes, I'm going too far, but you're going even more so than what I just said!" Buck didn't show the slightest affection this time.

"Katheu!" Buck shouted to the leader of his first detachment.

A middle-aged man wearing an ordinary sailor's uniform on the periphery of the command post squeezed through the naval officer of the mage tower who was at the front, and looked at Buck and gave a military salute, "My lord!"

"Tell the military department everything here, I need a reply within eight hours!"

"Your Excellency, there is no need to disturb your military headquarters for a trivial matter, right?" Koba looked at the cold expression on the other party's face as if he was about to eat people, realizing that he might have underestimated the importance of this line of defense, but it was more likely that the other party was annoyed by his own ridicule of him.

But whatever the reason, it's not good to take this matter to the top after all, after all, he did behave negatively in this matter, and Buck, as the supreme commander of the coalition forces in Iruk, he is obliged to follow the orders of the other party.

"You've wasted two days, two days!" Buck stretched out two fingers to suppress the urge to curse, "Do you know how much you can do in two days?

"I'm writing right now... No, I'll personally go to the Yekjar military port to report the situation here to the two councillors, and ask them to send more mages to reinforce them immediately!" As soon as Koba heard the words 'gallows', the sweat on his forehead couldn't stop oozing out of his skin.

"Your Majesty has the right to know what is going on with us here. Buck was unmoved.

"I'll go to the port now!" Koba took a step back and walked out of the command post, and as soon as he left the area, he immediately changed runs.

After Koba left, the naval officers of the Mage Tower looked at each other and left.

"I should have given them a little color, I've been suffocating these days!" Sir Pato, the leader of the second detachment of the Combined Fleet, grabbed the wine glass from the stone stone next to him, and after taking a full glass of ale from the barrel in the corner of the command post, he said, "They don't know anything about war, these officers are like..."

"It's like a bunch of bearded kids!" took over Sir Ernest, the newly appointed Chief Fleet Officer.

"Yes, the sea god can testify that they are really as naïve as a bunch of children. Sir Pato laughed.

"Alright, we're still allies. Buck shook his head.

"You didn't save any face for them!" "Sir Pato still laughed, "why didn't you think we were allies with them at that time?" ”

Buck wasn't in the mood to joke with his subordinates right now, he shook his head and looked at Kasiu with the smile on his face, "Although the warning just now can warn the Mage Tower, I'm sure they won't be too serious... As far as the directors of the Mage Tower are concerned, they don't have to listen to what you and I say, so... It is still necessary for the military department to put pressure on them. ”

"You're planning to report back to the Kingdom from High Command?" Cassiu, frowning, thinking about the implications.

Ernest also took a glass of ale from the barrel, leaned against a pile of wooden stakes used to build the camp, lowered his eyelids and looked at the bubbles of ale, and said: "The High Command has given us full authority to deal with this war, and we can report our thoughts to the High Command, but at the same time, we must immediately explain the difficulties we face to the kingdom. ”

"I agree with Sir Ernest that while I have full confidence in this war, we must also admit that with the strength in our hands it is impossible to make a head-to-head charge against the undead legions in the vast plains!" Sir Pato smiled, looked at the departing mage tower naval officer, and said, "We must let the mages of the mage tower know what this war means, but they obviously don't listen to our people. ”

Buck thought of the unscrupulous ridicule of the Mage Tower officer just now, and he felt very unhappy, so he changed the topic and said, "General Nemeiro has successfully destroyed the evil altar in the eastern region, and the hoplite cavalry led by Knight Wren has already joined forces... With the hoplites in hand, we don't have to worry about being surrounded by the undead legion in a short time. ”

"But it's still not enough," Buck looked around, "because we must defend this line for at least half a month, to buy time for High Command to deploy troops...", he looked at Cassiu, "Send a letter to Bowenwright to show my determination to hold this line." ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Also, send a letter to the military department indicating our practical difficulties and ask them to put pressure on the Mage Tower!"

"Even with the help of the Mage Tower, we wouldn't have been able to build such a long line of defense in two days. Sir Pato did not hold back the doubts in his heart and spoke it out.

Pat's words captivated everyone, and all eyes in the command post fell on Buck in an instant.

Buck took a deep breath and pointed to the stacked glasses, and Sir Ernest next to him immediately took him a full glass of ale and delivered it to him.

"We don't need a full line of defense...", Buck "grunted" a few sips of ale and said, "A line of defense that is too complete will only make the undead legion stagnate, so how can we plan the battle in the future?"