However, the Shattered Void Scroll does not directly lift the curse, and there is still a lot of preliminary work to be arranged.

Now that the war is imminent, Renard has a lot of things to deal with, and these tasks are naturally left to Vivien, the most professional.

Two days after the assembly order was issued, the armies from all walks of life converged on Silverthorn City, which could have held 200,000 people in an instant.

The first thing the generals did after meeting was to ask each other about the results of the battle, and those with fewer results were naturally depressed, and those with rich results were high-spirited.

Lei Ye didn't come to listen to their bragging, and after the last few troops arrived, he directly held a military meeting.

The theme of the conference was simple, skipping the cities along the way and heading straight for Fort Creighton.

Nowadays, from the lords and nobles of Kale County to the common people, all of them are panicked, and everywhere the crusading army goes, they all open the city and surrender.

There is no point in going on any more than wasting time.

Renard was cautious before, not knowing what the two families had.

Now, it seems, that's just the case.

It's not that he is arrogant, but the total area of this cabbage county is only 90,000 square kilometers, and the population is only three to five million, which is not as big as a municipality in the previous life, and the population is far less.

He led 50,000 strong troops to the north, and the king led 100,000 troops to the south, and there was really nothing to worry about dealing with a small Creighton family.

On top of that, the Western world mainly adopted the system of lordship and self-control.

Although the Creighton family has only one hand in Kale County, they do not have a strong control over the surrounding lords.

The reason why the lords gathered under each other's command was just to give this powerful neighbor a few thin faces.

If the king had gone south to defeat the Duncans, the lords of the Barrens would have risen up to attack him.

After all, the entire barren land is the fief of the Duncan family, and the nobles in the fief are all members of the Duncan family, or retainers of the Duncan family.

Everyone is prosperous, and everyone is lost.

Looking at the entire Cabbage County, although there are not a few nobles who are related to the Creighton family, there is only a relationship of interest between the two sides.

Husband and wife were originally birds of the same forest, and they flew separately when disaster came.

The king led an army of 100,000 men

Going south to crusade, what qualifications does the Creighton family have to make the surrounding lords loyal to them?

Renard has only recently realized this problem, he thought that the lords and nobles of Kale County were in the same spirit, but he found that these people were just scattered sand.

In fact, many lords did not know why they were beaten.

The most unfortunate of them all was the Marquis of Zangwill, the lord of Silverthorn City, the elderly marquis, who was really happy to hear that the king had led his troops to clear out the bandits, but was inexplicably killed as a traitor.

The old marquis didn't care about the world for many years, and he wanted to live on a few acres of his own land, but he didn't think that he still suffered this unwarranted disaster.

However, the fat Lei Ye who swallowed into his stomach didn't plan to spit it out, and this Marquis of Zanggerwell could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

Immediately after finalizing the plan to attack Creightonburg, Renard sent a letter to King Ferdinand.

It didn't take long for the other side to reply with a letter of agreement, and then the eastern, western, and southern armies marched towards Fort Creighton.

The lords who had nothing to do with the Creighton family along the way directly ignored it, and the territories belonging to the Creighton family were severely confiscated.

Meanwhile, inside Fort Creighton.

The Marquis of Sidney, who was in high spirits two months ago, seemed to be dozens of years old, with wrinkles on his face and gray hair.

He looked at the battle report in his hand, trembling with anger, and then slapped it on the table.

The luxurious coffee table was suddenly torn apart, and those battle reports were even more shattered.

The war went smoothly beyond the expectations of Renard and Ferdinand, as well as by the Marquis de Sidney.

He thought that with the 30,000 garrisons of Kale County, plus the 20,000 or 30,000 private troops of the Creighton family, and the support of the lords in various places, it would not be a problem to fight on an equal footing with the king.

However, reality gave him several loud slaps one after another, making his head buzz.

First, the garrison of 30,000 changed its banner, and then the lords of all walks of life also fell to King Ferdinand, and now only the Clayton family faced the king's army of more than 100,000 on their own.

He tried to calm the anger in his heart, and said sharply: "Damn bastards, all bastards, they said that they would advance and retreat with the Creighton family, and now they ...... Nowadays......"

The Marquis of Sidney did not know what words to use to describe his current mood.

Sadness, helplessness, anger?

Only then did he realize that the seemingly powerful Creighton family was actually so weak that it was far from qualified to argue with the king.

People went south to crusade, and the followers were like streams.

Look at yourself again, the allies who have been hard to win over are actually all hiding to watch a good show, and even more stomped on the head of the Creighton family a few times.

What he couldn't accept the most was that the Cronin family actually watched from the sidelines, did they want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight?

The Marquis of Sidney's mind was very confused, he was only able to take charge of the Creighton family because of his outstanding personal strength, and now it was time to use his brain, he suddenly found that he had become weak.

Seeing his appearance, the middle-aged man sitting opposite him suddenly spoke: "Now you know why I don't approve of you going against the king, right?"

"The Hope family is far stronger than you think, and the most important thing is that they have a reason, in the eyes of the subjects of the kingdom, they are orthodox, and we are rebellious, which is already doomed to failure. ”

"Besides, what are the Cronin family, treacherous and cunning merchant families, do you think they will have credibility at all?"

When the Marquis of Sidney heard the words of the Cronin family, he was immediately a little furious: "These treacherous villains will one day make them pay." ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man soothed, "Relax, Sidney, you should have expected this situation before you made the decision to betray the Hope family. ”

Marquis Sidney looked at the middle-aged man, took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked, "Is there a way to turn defeat into victory?"

The middle-aged man shook his head very bluntly: "No!"

Hearing this, the Marquis of Sidney sat down on the sofa like a deflated ball, with a sad look on his face: "Is the two-hundred-year-old Creighton family about to be destroyed in my hands?"

The middle-aged man nodded bluntly again: "That's right!"

The Marquis of Sidney was a little annoyed when he heard this: "Pritzer, don't act as if these things have nothing to do with you, you are also from the Creighton family. ”

The middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders: "I don't deny this, in fact, I'm always helping you find a solution to the problem." ”