Chapter 27: Preparing for War

Originally, according to Hao's plan, he was to find a new place to settle Tristana, after all, the Longsword Fort has now become a large military camp, which is full of soldiers belonging to various departments.

But after talking on the way, I realized that this Tristana is not an ordinary yodeler!

No wonder the cannon on the waist is so tricky!

She said she had always liked to run around......

She'd seen trolls migrate on the ice floes of the Northlands, and she'd seen warships whip up waves at sea, and their guns shattered in firefights...... But what stunned her the most was seeing the huge army of humans in unison!

"That's right, it's hard for you yodelers!" Hao couldn't help but smile as he remembered Bobby's lively nature.

"What's so hard, it's just impossible to be good?" Tristana replied to Hao.

There's another thing that Tristana admires about humans, and that's how humans protect their beloved things!

She couldn't understand why humans were guarding shiny metal or tall stone walls.

"But I respect such people!, so I began to learn from you humans, and perhaps in this way we can better defend our lovely Bandel City!" Tristana said with a determined expression, the same expression that Poppy had when she spoke of finding a successor to the Hammer.

So Tristana began to march around Bandel City with a serious face, beware of danger, began to call her food "military rations", and set strict rest and relaxation times for herself.

To be a soldier, you must always have a weapon, so Tristana referred to Bilgewater's black ** cannon, collected enough precious metal pieces, and asked someone to make a hand cannon, which is "boom"!

"Later on, my rumble and I did lift the woods of the Bandle Woods many times, but I didn't expect to come because of this trouble, and some people in our city have recently started to follow me every day, and they do whatever I do, and the point is that it doesn't look like it at all, just those guys, let them be as disciplined as I am?

"Did they ask someone to build a boom to carry with you, just like you?" Hao instructed step by step.

"Yes! Stupid Rambo helped them make a lot of replicas of the bang!" Tristana raised her head and snorted, "This Rambo doesn't want to think about it, how can the hand cannon made compare to my boom with the rags they sent?"

"Rambo?" Hao jotted down the name, and Hao was almost desperate when Tristana said that she had gathered enough precious metals to build a cannon.

In this way, this Rambo is really a talent, and he must find a way to dig him out of Bandle City.

But now that this passage has been closed, the magic array can't be broken anymore, and there is no possibility of opening it again for the time being.

Let's settle Tristana first, this great thing is not in a hurry!

Thinking of this, Hao sorted out his expression and said: "Xiao Cui, you said that your imitators will only cause you trouble, this is not right! You know, a person's strength is always limited, if one day there are bad people in the east and west of Bandle City, what should you do?"

"Hmm......" Tristana thought for a moment and blurted out, "After fighting the east, then fighting the west?" oh no, after hitting the west, then hitting the east? Oh, maybe if the bad guys over there are closer to me, I'll fight that side first!"

"The distance between the two sides is the same, and they are both very far, you will definitely not have time to hit the other side after you finish fighting!" Hao is full of black lines, fortunately, he is still very experienced in communicating with yodelers.

"That'...... What then?" asked Tristana, anxious.

"So you need to have a team! So you don't even have to go out yourself, just split your team into two, can't you take care of things!" Hao's expression at this moment was like that of a wise man who had penetrated the mysteries of the universe.

"Team, where can you find such a team?" Tristana asked quickly.

"Don't look for it, those followers of yours are a good team, they are scattered now, it's not their problem, it's your problem, you have to learn how to be a qualified commander after me!" Hao continued to flicker, and as he spoke, he had already walked to the door of the Longsword Castle.

Hao pushed the door open, and suddenly there was a chaotic black miasma inside......

"Well, none of them are on my team. Hao smiled awkwardly, but he turned his face and said very seriously, "I specially borrowed so many rabble to train you, are you willing to follow me to learn how to train them into a mighty army of righteousness in the shortest possible time?"

"Yes, yes, according to the rules of your human race, should I kneel down for you and worship you as a teacher?" Tristana's eyebrows fluttered with joy, if it weren't for Haoyan's quick hand to grab her, maybe she would really kneel.

"Kneel is free, it's okay to call the teacher, but there is no free lunch in this world, this tuition fee is ......" At this time, the two had already walked to Hao's study, Hao picked up the pen and paper very skillfully, and said after writing three times and five divided by two, "It's normal to go out without money, don't feel very embarrassed, I wrote an IOU, you just press a handprint......"

After that, Hao's side was busy for another half a month, and the Noxians were really restless, and after spending a few days of recuperation, they immediately left the Black Castle and swept through the other castles of the Black Sea Fortress in five ways.

There are only a few thousand people in these castles, and only a few hundred people, where are the opponents of the Noxians who are like wolves? By this time, the twenty-three castles of the Black Sea fortress have lost thirteen!

The Nth emergency military intelligence meeting of Fort Longsword was held, and the previous N-1 was the same, there were many people who participated, Hao took the eight captains of the independent sixth regiment as the landlord, called everyone and presided over the meeting, that is, it was sure to attend the meeting, the fifth, tenth, and twelfth had defeated troops and reinforcements, and there were also some officers of the rank or even the regimental level here who were basically there, and then there must be people in charge of the reserves from various cities in Tobizia, and of course the representatives of the party and the petty nobles in the surrounding neighboring towns were indispensable.

“...... I don't understand why I asked you to send troops to support, but you just don't send troops, I only have 1,000 soldiers, and I have 10,000 iron troops against Noxus, how can this battle be fought?"

"So your mother just let a few arrows fly away with her tail between your legs?"

"Let you mad fart! Labor and management are dead and six hundred, what should I do! Damn, if you want to escape, you should first ask those who abandoned the city and fled before a single soldier died!"

"Quietly, quietly, everyone, if you want me to say that your Central Army is getting worse and worse now, it's only been a few days? Twenty-three castles have lost thirteen, we local squires are not as good as you, there are too many things that have been passed down from generation to generation, why don't you give us enough time to pack these things and transport them away!"

"What did your ancestors leave behind? I heard that all you packed these days are your little wives' jewelry and belly pockets......"

Hao looked at this chaotic scene and couldn't help but have one head and two big, but there was nothing he could do, he was just a deputy regiment in terms of position, how did you ask him to order these people with seniority higher than him?

At this moment, Hulda stepped forward and whispered to Hao, "Master, there are two people in your study, saying that they are your friends. ”

"Friend, who is it?" Hao asked rhetorically.

"Both of them are wearing cloaks and covering their faces with long cloths, so they can't be seen at all!" said Hulda with a wry smile.

In fact, the study is next door to the meeting room, and it doesn't matter if it will be like this, it doesn't matter if you leave for a while, Hao Wenyan simply got up and rushed back to his study.

As soon as he pushed open the door of the study, he was just in time for the people inside to take off the long cloth and cloak, but the oncoming person Hao still didn't know him after looking at it!

"May I ask ...... you?" Hao is very strange, this person is at least sixty years old, has a harmless round face, a fat body, looks like a well-maintained gentleman or nobleman, Hao can be sure that there is absolutely no such person in his circle of friends.

"This is ......" I didn't expect another person to stand up from behind, and then look at this person, Hao was immediately overjoyed, it turned out to be Taylor's second son, but Taylor's next words surprised Hao even more, "It's our current governor of Tobizia Province, Lord Michelin,"

"Poof......" Hao almost squirted, Mi ...... Michelin?

Taylor thought to himself, why are you reacting so much?, but the introduction still has to continue, and he then introduces Hao to the Michelin Governor, especially emphasizing that Haodong went out of the Black Castle to fight the Noxian mage group, and successfully detected the Noxians' plot against the Black Castle with very few casualties.

"Good, good, hehe. Michelin kept a smile on his face, and those eyes couldn't tell if they were open or closed.

"Along the way, I've heard that you've been busy gathering troops from all sides lately, and now you're a strong man, haha!"

"There are a lot of people, not many can be used, and the elite is seriously insufficient, there are 4,000 people in the headquarters of our regiment, about 16,000 people have been withdrawn from the front, although there are nearly 30,000 people from the rear, but the 6,000 soldiers who originally belonged to the 10th Army Corps have combat power, and the other 20,000 are untrained reserves!" Hao poured a glass of water for each of them, and at the same time, the bitter water in his stomach poured out.

"Four thousand, six thousand, sixteen thousand, and twenty thousand reserves, this is going to be nearly 50,000 iron troops in Noxus......" Taylor calculated in a low voice, and in the end even he couldn't help but shake his head, but suddenly his eyes lit up, and he asked eagerly, "No, didn't the Tenth Legion gather all the people who took turns to rest later, and there are still 30,000 regular troops?"

"Don't mention the 30,000 people, don't mention it! It belongs to the three army commanders, right?" Hao's face showed a disdainful expression, "On the second day of the Black Castle City Break, those three fools launched a counterattack against the Black Castle with their subordinates, and the result was that more than half of their troops were lost, and they also took the garrisons in those castles along the way to die with them, and now it seems that only one commander of the Third Army is left with 10,000 remnants to hide in the Bit Castle and dare not come out." ”

"Alas, a general is incompetent and exhausts thousands of troops!" Taylor angrily slammed the cup on the table, and then asked Xiang Hao with an expectant face, "What is the situation now?"

"The situation is clear. Hao sighed, pointed to the map on the table, and said, "The Noxians have eaten these castles in front of them, saying that there are twenty-three castles, but in fact, they have to remove four of the Red Tooth Mountain and the Shining Silver Mountain Range, such as Bechiel and Renwall, which are remote and rugged, even if they let the Noxians go now, they won't think about it!" Then there are still six left, and the Noxians have also lost their personnel these days, and the castles they have beaten down have also been garrisoned, and I predict that they will change from five to three roads in the next step, with 10,000 to 15,000 people on each road, and continue to eat the remaining six castles in two batches with the advantage of troops!"

"But if they send all the way to fight Fort Longsword, won't they have a superiority in strength?" Taylor asked.

"My second son, on the surface, I have more than 20,000 regular troops, but let me tell you clearly, I can't call those 20,000 people at all when it comes to fighting. Since the fall of Black Castle, several generals and commanders have sacrificed their lives for the country, morale has fallen again and again, and the group of dragons has no leader, don't forget that I am just a deputy commander!" Hao felt that Taylor and this Michelin Governor had arrived too timely, at least two more people for him to confide in.

The three of them were silent for a while, and Taylor suddenly seemed to have made a big decision and rummaged around in Hao's study.

In the end, he found a suitable piece of official paper, only to see him write on the paper, "In the battle of Black Fort, the senior generals of the three armies in the east suffered casualties, but the enemy army continued to press step by step, and the offensive became more and more ferocious. The finances are also under the unified control of the Eastern General, hoping to defeat the invading army of Noxus as soon as possible!Signed: General Andrei, Minister of Military Affairs, and Archduke Toby, First Duke of the Kingdom. ”

Hao only felt that his eyes were dark when he saw this, this Taylor's courage was a little too big, right?

"Don't stand stupidly, go and find me an official document with the seal of the military department and Andre, I have to engrave a fake for these two seals, I can always carry my father's seal, this is a real guy!" Taylor said as he took out a jade seal from his bosom and stamped it fiercely.

"Governor, old Governor!" Hao had been wondering if Michelin had fallen asleep, and raised his voice to exclaim, "this...... What kind of crime is this forgery of military orders?"

"Capital offense! Burn the body at the stake and cut off its head!" Michelin grinned, indicating that he was not asleep.

"What about not reporting it?" Hao asked again.

"Same crime, but only burning at the stake......"