"Your Highness, Lord Arthas, please return to the city as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation, and I want me to hand it over to you myself. The herald stood aside, panting and cramped.

"Okay, you go down first, go and drink fish soup to warm up. Murphy took the letter and waved for the herald to stand down.

The herald bowed, then turned and pushed open the door and went downstairs to rest.

Murphy sat down behind the desk with the letter, opened the ash-sealed parchment envelope, took out the paper, and used the "Forbidden Staff" to quickly make a small fireball hanging over his head for illumination, and then read it.

The letter roughly meant that the scout captain who had been captured by Simon and the others had spoken, and it turned out that they were one of the scout teams that had harassed Remloth Fort before.

This time the border was re-invaded because I heard that the fourth prince of the Sellers royal family had been assigned here to serve as lords.

Klinsmann Romanoff, Prince Zhennan of the Theban Kingdom, wanted to capture Murphy and take him back as a hostage in order to claim more benefits from the Kingdom of Wallaine.

If they don't go back after a week, Klinsmann is likely to send troops to attack Remlos Fort, which has been around for more than a week now, and it is estimated that they are already mobilizing.

However, Murphy felt that even if he sent troops to attack, it was estimated that the number of troops would not exceed 5,000, after all, most of the army of the Kingdom of Thebes was facing off against the 70,000 army of Jackdaw Fortress, and it was impossible to divide more troops to attack the relatively unimportant Remlos Fort.

Murphy decided that it would be better to go back and ask for it himself.

Murphy put on his wind-resistant fur coat and walked out the door in the snow.

"Your Highness, I'll go back with you. Simon chased after him from behind.

"No need, no matter how I say it, I'm also an extraordinary person, nothing will happen, and you are still needed here to preside over the overall situation. Murphy turned back to Simon and shook his head.

Simon could only take the order back, but he was still relieved, and tied an arquebus and ten enchanted buckshot to the armor of Murphy's unicorn before leading the horse over.

Murphy turned on his horse, pinned his noble sword to the other side of the military horse's armor, tightened his fur coat, and galloped back to the city in the snowy night.

Passing through the city gate with the guard's respectful eyes, he neglected the construction of the city because he had been training recruits at the training ground in the south of the city for more than a week.

Should I say it or not, Alsace and Marshall are really rare talents, and God knows why they were buried in this small town.

When the two of them work together, one plans and one executes, and all the idle and wasted resources of the entire city are put into operation.

From the officials of the town hall to the workers and craftsmen of the lumberyards and steel mills, and even the rats of the Black Street, they all contributed to the development of Remlos Fort in their own positions, and in just over a month, they brought the city back to life, which was already on the verge of disappearing.

Murphy thought with a smile on his face, what leader wouldn't want to have such good employees under his command?

Finally, the unicorn carried Murphy to the castle in the center of the city.

When the castle guard saw Murphy, he hurriedly pulled up the hanging door, and a servant about seventeen or eighteen years old hurried over to lead the horse.

"Your Highness, you have returned, Your Excellency Arthas and Bruno have been waiting for a long time, and have been pacing in the banquet hall as if they were very agitated. When Philip saw Murphy returning, he trotted all the way like a savior.

The two adults came over in the afternoon and waited, and walked there in silence, asking themselves from time to time when His Royal Highness the Prince would return, otherwise they would be silent, and their faces would be gloomy and terrible.

"Take me to them. Murphy's face was also a little gloomy, and the Thebans were like a dark cloud, hanging over the sky of the whole Remloth Castle.

Led by Philip, Murphy walked through the castle gates and long corridors into the banquet room.

Before they could take off their fur coats, the two men greeted them.

"Your Highness, I have already explained the general situation in the letter, what should we do now?" Arthas said anxiously when he saw Murphy returning.

Don't say he's in a hurry, Murphy himself is in a hurry!

Originally, according to their own planning and the execution of various ministries, it would take at least next month for this city to have the combat effectiveness that a city should have.

But the enemy won't give him this chance! In four or five days at most, the Theban army will surround the city.

What if we could make all the remaining iron and lead into arquebuses and leadshots? Will anyone use them? Will they be able to exert their combat effectiveness?

He Chrisman wants me to be a hostage, can he vote? Absolutely not, even if he surrenders and keeps Fort Remloth, the Kingdom of Thebes will use his life to exchange more benefits for the Kingdom of Wallaine.

It's too much of a loss, and you can't put yourself in danger.

Now it seems that there is only one war!

"Arthas, Bruno, you two are high-level, others can panic, but you can't!"

Murphy shouted at the two of them, making them tremble, it was the first time to see His Royal Highness the Prince so angry, it was really scary.

The two hurriedly stood upright and accepted Murphy's criticism.

"At the moment, we have no choice but to fight to the death! When we met the undead a few months ago, didn't we finally get out of danger by fighting to the death?" Murphy continued to reprimand, and the two of them bowed their heads in shame, but they were also secretly surprised in their hearts.

His Royal Highness the Prince is so young but has such courage, he is worthy of the royal family!

How did they know, Murphy was also nervous, and he didn't take much of the picture of my defeat of the Theban army completely pretending to be shown to others.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" asked Bruno.

"Let me think about it......" Murphy rubbed his fingers at his temples, he had a migraine.

"Execute the scout captain and the shield captain, cut off their heads and hang them on the walls, call all the workers, farmers, and hunters outside the city back to the city, and distribute weapons to make a contribution, stop all other projects and use them to make weapons, and have Simon bring all the recruits to my castle to train, so that they can practice before the enemy arrives. ”

After issuing the decree, Murphy hurriedly asked Arthas and the others to implement it overnight.

Arthas also moved quickly, and under Marshall's coordination, at noon the next day, only a pile of wooden houses and stone houses remained outside the city, and all the people withdrew to the city.

However, there are some places that cannot be abandoned, such as the steel mill outside the east of the city, where there is almost no damage due to the natural danger of the Ersor Mountains, and it can be defended by sending dozens of soldiers, and hundreds of people cannot be defeated.

Of course, the premise is that it is not an extraordinary person above the middle level to attack.

The musketeers were also taken to the castle by Simon for training, and the amount of training increased every day.

In the square in front of the castle, Bruno beheaded the Theban scout captain Carrot and the shield captain Boyle and hung their heads on the flagpole of the city wall, where they could be seen from a distance.

In this way, three days were spent peacefully, and finally at dawn on the fourth day, along the hazy skyline north of the city, the army of black pressure advanced towards here.