Chapter 40: The Wind Rises
When the negative emotions slowly subside and reason regains the high ground, Anne actually has the characteristics of a good businessman, a smart and perceptive person.
So she quickly discovers the anomaly of Alpine Fort.
First of all, on the night before, the scout reported that the lord of Alpine Fort led his guards to clear and expel the surrounding bandits overnight, and he tossed and turned until the second half of the night.
When she entered the camp at daylight the next day, she found that even the few wagons had been dismantled into planks to be used for rudimentary fortifications.
Anne asked them why they did this, but the people who dismantled the carts refused to say anything at first, and she couldn't resist her repeated inquiries before reluctantly saying that they were following the lord's orders.
All these facts lead very clearly to a conclusion that Anne finds hard to believe.
"Aren't you going back to Cologne?" Anne found Richard, who was busy directing the use of blades of grass to disguise.
Lush blades of grass obscure the entrance to the nest, and it is difficult to find that it is inhabited without getting close. Judging by the amount of blades of grass they prepared, they wanted to hide all the buildings in the entire Alpine Fort.
"No, I think the business you said is good, and I'm going to grab the iron ore. Richard smiled at Anne, as flat as if he were talking about beating two more eggs when eating noodles in the afternoon.
Last night, he led people to arrest several bandits overnight and torture them, and the confessions he obtained could basically confirm the information provided by Anne.
The female entourage who had been following Anne's side had adhered to the rule that silence was golden, and was very cold and stern. At this moment, he suddenly lowered his head and covered his face with his arm armor, and let out a series of coughs like choking on water.
"Lord Richard, you're always so fond of jokes. Anne seemed convinced that she had seen through his bluff, and smiled smugly, "But I'm not such an easily deceived little girl. ”
"I'm not joking. "Lord Lord is depressed to death, he has always believed that he is the kind of serious and prestigious classic lord design, how can anyone still think that he likes to tease.
Richard stared into Anne's eyes, "There are so many forces fighting iron ore ideas, what's so strange about me." The monks can touch it, but I can't touch it. ”
"Are you crazy?" Anne could feel that Richard's tone and mood at the moment were not like a joke, they were definitely too serious to be serious.
"In a scuffle of that scale, dozens of people can't even make a splash when they fill it. You can't even see the main master, and the manpower of the mountain fort is about to die!"
"Picking chestnuts in the fire is not better than breaking your wrists, the strength is very useful, the key is ingenuity and accuracy. Richard rolled his eyes innocently, as if Anne was making a fuss.
"Besides, Miss Anne, I must warn you, what is the manpower of Alpine Fort? You can insult me...... Well, no, you can't insult me or my subordinates. ”
I have to admit that in the face of the extreme disparity, his unwarranted but well-deserved self-confidence is indeed particularly convincing at this stormy moment.
Anne couldn't help but be in a trance for a moment - is she no longer able to keep up with the times, seventy or eighty people are involved in a melee of seven or eight thousand people, is it difficult to reason that she should win?
"What's your plan?" she said, trying to find out where the other man's confidence came from.
Even if the other party said at this time that she was actually a golden dragon rider who had been hidden for a long time, and it was purely a hobby to come to the wilderness to be a lord, and she was about to summon the dragon to push all the way, she could barely accept it.
"I'm going to form an alliance with the strongest dwarven tribe and come to the center to blossom tactics. As a result, Richard opened his mouth and fired a cannon.
The last guy like him who loved to shoot air cannons and thought of himself as good died in Meng Lianggu many years ago.
"And how do you get through the blockade of the other tribes?" asked Anne, unwillingly.
"This is a military secret for the time being. ”
"What's the way to hide from the falcon?"
Richard coughed twice and cleared his throat, and when the other party was ready to listen, he said, "This is also a military secret for the time being." ”
Anne's fingers clenched into fists suddenly, and a mouthful of white teeth creaked. Half-elves have a reputation for being demure and elegant, but that means that usually, when they are really angry, their temper is not less than that of humans.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
A few barbarians hurried past them with a roaring trumpet, joining the assembled Alpine Fort Guard, and by the way, they dragged Anne's gaze away.
The highland barbarians and centaurs are gradually lining up in formation under the command of their respective small leaders. In addition to them, there were two fat figures in the queue that were as tall as three blades and wore dark blue robes and hoods, which were very eye-catching.
The two of them stood there quietly and calmly, even though the weather was a little hot now, a robe was still tightly wrapped, and the skin and flesh inside could not be seen at all, which looked very mysterious.
Not far away, there was a little man wearing the same robe and hood, who took off his hat to reveal a shaggy dog face, and squatted in the shadow of his tall companion and stuck out his tongue to cool off. Whenever his companion moved slightly, he hurriedly dodged so as not to be accidentally trampled to death.
Anne blinked twice, she recognized Nehru and knew him as the kobold shaman who had been captured not long ago.
If Nehru was a shaman, then nine times out of ten the two big men wearing the same clothes were also shamans, where did the mountain fort get so many spellcasters?
"My Spell Advisory Group. Richard noticed Anne's gaze, and smiled slightly, without a trace of fireworks, "The scale is very small, and it is still in the initial stage for the time being, so I smiled." ”
Anne and the attaché leaned together and gasped, guessing was one thing, guessing was another.
The fact that there were actually three spellcasters in this small frontier territory was too exaggerated and too extravagant! While Anne was taken aback, she had to re-examine and estimate the strength of Alpine Fort.
She had to admit that Richard's arrogance had its own strength.
The number of the Alpine Fort Guards is pitifully small, but there is really no one redundant. Check it out - Highland barbarians, centaurs, shamans, all powerful races.
Which one is not a strong party in their respective fields, which one has not proved their strength with a great name, and which one is not a person who can cry when he releases his name?
It's enough to make any commander go crazy with jealousy, even if it's inferior to Pompeii's elite legions—no, three points better. Gathering together in a backwooded country lord's guard in the wilderness is a waste, a great waste.
Rather than questioning their ability to perform miracles, the very existence of this guard is a miracle!
If it was born for miracles, then why question it.