The front line in Windley is filled with smoke, but the fighting has long since stopped, and soldiers wearing the coats of the Kawalburg Bear badge are cleaning up the battlefield.

Amid the wrecked ruins of the western end of the ruined camp, Udi Cooper's silver-white armor was dusty and bloodstained. He knelt on his knees on the blood-soaked mud, and the unstoppable pride on his face had long since disappeared, replaced by a look of humility and fear.

Beside him, a group of ordinary soldiers crouched on the ground and looked at him like fools, and some even poked the soft flesh of his waist with wooden sticks.

In the face of the impudent provocation of the soldiers, Udi Cooper remained motionless on his knees. He almost buried his head in the dirt ... He's hiding his anger and he's hiding his lost dignity.

The way he pouted his ass made the soldiers around him laugh, and the guards who had been ordered to guard him shouted to the more and more companions gathered around him, "You can't use weapons... Hey, you can't use weapons!" his tone and the movements of the soldiers around him made it as if he were treating a captured brute.

"Hey, boys, it's not good to treat a nobleman like this!" interrupted the soldiers' movements in a playful voice.

Outside the crowd, Danmen Green rode a brown Crewe-led warhorse, looking at Udi Cooper with a look of arrogance.

"Is he still a nobleman?" muttered a soldier in dissatisfaction.

"Hey, you don't have anything else to do?" Danmen-Green raised his whip and waved it down to drive away the soldiers who were gathered together.

"They're all scattered! they're all scattered!" the soldier in charge of guarding Udi Cooper pretended to disperse his companions.

"I hope you have a good conversation. ”

"Old man, watch out for your **!"

"The MI rats are coming to grab food. ”

Although the soldiers muttered their dissatisfaction to Danmen-Green, their footsteps did not stop. After all, although the people in the MI are annoying, they are not something they can afford to mess with.

Soon, except for a dozen or so guards, everyone else was far away from Danmen-Grimm as if they were hiding from the plague.

Danmen Green didn't care about this, he stepped forward, leaned down and stabbed Udy Cooper in the back with the scabbard of his sword like a soldier had just done, and said, "Do you know why Master Pedi asked me to come to you?"

"Yes!" Udi Cooper replied in a crisp manner without the slightest movement... The reason why he gave up all his honor and curled up here like a brute was not to survive.

He has more important things to do than live!

Bane Lockton's final deception and abandonment left Udi Cooper so angry that he forgot all... Originally, serving the lord was an honorable thing for the nobles, but for the current Udi Kubo, he did not feel the honor of the mission, but instead had the feeling that a hunter had become a prey.

So, he was angry,

He needs to live to tell Bane Lockton that he's the hunter!

"You can leave now. Danmen-Green pointed to a group of horses behind him, "Your surviving subordinates can follow you away." After "stepping" the war horse and taking two steps, he turned around and said jokingly: "I don't think you want your whole family to live like you just now, do you?"

...

Three days later, outside Fort Herien, the most conventional siege battle was taking place.

Longbowmen, catapults, crossbows, and magicians on both sides drained each other's vital strength, and laborers recruited from under the towering walls, with the help of a row of siege tower carts, braved a rain of arrows to fill the moat.

The battle lasted almost two hours, and the moat under the walls was filled with the corpses of laborers, most of whom were ordinary farmers in nearby towns who were waiting for the autumn harvest.

This is destined to be a war without any honor!

In the garrison barracks area on the left side of Fort Herien, hunting and flying are battle flags embroidered with highland war horses,

This is the army of the Twak Lord, and they did not immediately evacuate after plundering the Heron Territory, in the words of Andy Barrett: The friendship between the Barretts and the Reagan family should not be broken in my hands.

The two sides fought until noon,

There was a sudden burst of cheers from the frontal siege army of Fort Herynn, and a huge giant bear battle flag with a red map on a black background rolled like rolling waves in the military formation.

At the front of the banner, Pedi rode a black horse and wore the suit of armor his father had given him called 'The Sigh of Harrence Heights', and his cold eyes were fixed on Bane Lockton under the white orchid banner on the walls of Fort Helrynn.

Command had only arrived at the front ten minutes earlier, and Pedi had just arrived and had gone straight to the front line with his personal guards. He's not here to boost morale, he's just here to see...

Pedi is actually very sensual, and a little soft-hearted, and in his father's words, weak.

Everything familiar around Fort Herien reminded him of last year's Battle of Twak. Last year, it was also at this time that he arrived here with a huge army.

At that time, he and Bane Lockton were in a command post, side by side against the orcs and Twak rebels.

And now, in less than a year, the two sides have changed from the Paoze brothers to enemies.

Undying enemies!

"Hey, Pedi!" Not far away, amid the galloping of war horses, a familiar figure imprinted into Pedi's eyes, and a familiar voice entered his ears along with the noise of the military columns.

It's Andy Barrett, Pedy's playmate who barely talks about anything when he's in the imperial capital and... Brothers!

Pedi could feel that his cousin's cry contained an emotion called 'surprise', which was the subconscious emotion of meeting friends after a long absence.

Within a few breaths, Andy was already close.

"Hey, Andy. Pedi greeted as usual.

"Haha!" Andy Barrett threw his helmet at the guard behind him and raised his hand as he approached with his horse.

"Smack" The hands of the two were tightly clasped together.

"Long time no see. Pedi whispered.

"It's only been less than a year. Andy shrugged his shoulders and said sarcastically, "You're still the same as before, I'm really worried about the future of Krewe." ”

"You've changed a lot. Pedi smiled and pointed to her jaw.

"You say that?" Andy raised his hand and scratched the beard on the left side of his face, "They say it's more majestic... So I scraped as hard as I could, how about it? Am I more majestic now? He straightened his chest, letting the horse insignia on his robes stand out.

"What I saw was a fool. ”

"Haha, which of us isn't stupid?"

Pei Di was stunned, and after admitting silence for two seconds, he shrugged and said, "Yes, we are all fools!"

Andy Barrett grinned when he heard this, and after staring at Pedy for a moment, he turned his horse's head to look at the walls of Fort Herien opposite, and changed the subject, "How about it, you want to take this castle in a few days?"

Pedy immediately replied, "I'm like I'm going to let Bane Lockton open the door and surrender right now." ”

"I'll help you take this castle in three days. Andy Barrett's tone suddenly hardened, "I want half of the wealth in this castle, and ten boxes of goblin bombs." ”

"I've heard that the riches you plundered in Herion are filled with hundreds of wagons, and the procession formed by these wagons on the official road stretches for more than ten miles with no end in sight... Aren't you satisfied?" Pedi suppressed the discomfort in his heart, "You can't move the things in Fort Herien... However, I can promise you half of the private property of the Lockton family, and as for the goblin bomb, I can sell it to you, as much as you want. ”

"Haha..."Andy Barrett laughed twice and then reached out and said, "Deal!"

This time, instead of raising his hand to shake his cousin's hand, he raised the horse whip in his hand and took two steps forward, "Are you sure you can take Fort Herien in three days?"

"You have your plan, I have mine. Andy Barrett smiled with confidence, "The old lord and most of the nobles in the Fort Herien region died in the Orc War last year, and the lords of various places have been attacking each other almost non-stop in the past year..." A large number of nobles waited for the opportunity to rise again. ”

Pedy raised an eyebrow, "You want to assassinate Bane Lockton?"

"Isn't it the same as you think?" Andy Barrett whispered, "Your MI should have a corresponding plan, why don't you join forces?"

"Well... Yes!" Pedi replied crisply.

"You may be as stubborn and rigid as our fathers, but you have a wise mind. Andy Barrett possessed the horse and said, "I have passed down the order... Just wait for your decision. ”

Pedy nodded and looked at Otwood, who had been following him, "Let Danmen Green know what he's going to do next." ”

Hearing this, the Atwood knight took a serious look at Andy Barrett and then turned his horse's head and galloped towards the command.

Andy Barrett looked at the adjutant who had left Pedy and said, "At this time, we should have a bonfire. ”

"You think the same as I do. ”

...

Three days passed in a hurry, and the cold winds of autumn in Harrence Heights were blowing stronger and stronger. During these three days, the temperature decreases almost every day.

The siege of Fort Herien did not stop, and the moat under the walls had been filled at the cost of the lives of two thousand laborers. However, the battle for the walls did not begin.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 18th,

In his private tent, Pedi is concentrating on copying a historical document, a hobby he has recently developed under the tutelage of his fiancée, Erin Field. Copying and reading are two completely different concepts, which not only allow people to accurately grasp the content of the book, but also relax people's minds.

That is, of course, if it's a hobby, not a job to make a living.

"Whew. A cold wind poured into the tent, causing the candles next to the writing table to swing back and forth.

"My lord...", Sira Marne walked into the tent in a military uniform, she looked at the copying table and frowned, and then said, "Danmen Green reported that things are going very well, and asked me to mobilize immediately before the war. ”

Pedi stopped writing and asked, "What are the Twak troops doing?"

"Duke Andy is already mobilizing their soldiers. ”

Hearing this, Pei Di put down the pen in his hand, looked at the more and more beautiful handwriting on the yellow paper, nodded with satisfaction, and then stood up, "Let's start preparing too." ”