The nineteenth day of the countdown to the eruption.

The team was still going a little slower than expected, but fortunately, there was quite a bit of room left in the time of planning, and they were now close to the incisor fort.

Since the Battle of Xiaoyang City, no troops have dared to resist Elis's army along the way. In the Kingdom of Louis, as long as Wu Xiaoqing appeared under the castle with his troops, the defenders would consciously go out of the castle and surrender. Occasionally, there were buses of people who refused to surrender and did not dare to go out of the city to harass the troops—as long as they promised not to stop their march and did keep their promises, the search and rescue team would not bother them.

The weather just in time cleared up and everything started to go smoothly.

Along the way, because of the policy of free cookies, many local farmers also joined the team because they coveted the cake.

According to the information gathered before the battle, the incisor fort will be a difficult bone to gnaw, and it is said that tens of thousands of enemies are gathering under the castle, digging the outer city and waiting for them to come.

Wu Xiaoqing thought that he would definitely encounter a vicious battle here.

Because the terrain here is very precipitous, for this battle, they even bought a few drones in advance - for reconnaissance, and can also be used to drop them from the sky*.

But now......

Wu Xiaoqing climbed for a long time to climb the ridge of this mountain, the purpose was to reconnoiter the enemy's position, but he looked down from the top of the mountain, and the built fortifications were still clearly visible, but Wu Xiaoqing's vision was blank, and there was not a single red dot.

The familiar military camp in front of him is the one that Wu Xiaoqing once reconnoitred and escaped again. In order to escape, the search and rescue team also specially helped him study the terrain of the barracks and showed him in glasses, all of which made Wu Xiaoqing remember deeply.

However, compared to the time he left, the size of the military camp in front of him was three or four times larger. When Wu Xiaoqing left, the barracks was still a standard circle, but in front of him, the circle had become a ring, besieging the incisor fort in the center.

The walls of the barracks were not only made of wood and earth, but also the huge gates that had just been built could be seen on the side near Wu Xiaoqing, and like the gates of the castle, the gates here were also made of cast iron hollow gates - in battle, such heavy gates were not only difficult to break, but also allowed the defenders inside to shoot through the holes in the gates. Above the gates, you can also see holes specially used to pour oil, which are used to destroy engineering equipment and troops that may kill and injure the enemy.

But from the point of view of defense facilities, this camp can be regarded as a fortified city. It is conceivable how much manpower and material resources will be spent just to build this camp.

And now, it seems, for some unknown reason, the barracks has become completely empty.

"Could it be that the Incisor Fort has been captured?" If that's the case, then the battle may be even more problematic.

This is not Xiaoyang City, the two sides are fighting on the scale of several thousand people, if the other side retreats into the incisor fort and disperses all the troops, in order to attack, it is necessary to set up camp and transfer all the soldiers out to fight instead of maintaining order. The use of modern weapons by four people is obviously much smaller in a large war of tens of thousands of people.

"Angkor, it's okay, the castle is fine, I saw the flag above, the top is big and the bottom is small, it is the flag of the Great Yang Sect."

"Let the troops go up, be careful not to go too far, and tear down the city gate first."

"Okay."

Leading the way into the barracks was King Elise and his guards, and Wu Xiaoqing made contact with the king by radio and asked for the king's opinion. After all, he is a real military expert of this era, and he understands many details of the military affairs of this era.

The king let his subordinates control the entrances and exits of the barracks for the first time, and he did not care about the details of the barracks, but went to check the besieged Citor for the first time.

As their troops entered the barracks, Xu Yan also observed that the defenders on the Fort of the Communors had also made corresponding adjustments.

The situation of the whole incisor fort is not good, the walls of the outer city have been smashed by trebuchets with many potholes, and many soldiers patrolling the walls can still see fresh wounds. When the drone flew into the city, it also found that the city was burning corpses. The corpses' uniforms were clearly the defenders of the Citor, not the jihadist army that was supposed to exist outside the city.

"I'm Elise! "Tell your Earl," shouted the king to the city with a loudspeaker, "and let him tell me what is going on here?" ”

"Do you know the commander of this city?" The search and rescue team asked the king.

"Yes, he was once one of my lords, and was sent to the front by his god because of his faith in holy wars," the king pointed to the wolf-like coat of arms on the tower, and the strip of cloth on the tower where the soldiers were tied to their hands, the other end of which was tied to the weapon, "which he invented, and it means fighting the enemy to the death." ”

After waiting for a while, there was a response from the wall: "I am Count Flo." ”

The king did not even look up to look at it, but shook his head and replied, "I can hear your voice even through the helmet and the walls." Count Flo is old enough to be your father. ”

"I am his son," replied the man on the wall, "and my father died in battle a month ago. ”

The king raised his head, asked Shen Changwen on the side for the telescope, looked at the other party's face carefully, sighed in a low voice and said, "I thought I could help him, forget it." ”

Then Elise looked up again and said to the new earl, "You should know me, and your father should have brought you to see me while he was still under mine." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The other party nodded.

"Then why haven't you opened the gates?" "We are not here for war. ”

"I don't know why you came, Your Majesty," said Flo, "for I have heard that you believe in a new god, and that your expedition is a holy war in the name of the new god. ”

"Yes, but you will not be the target of jihad."

"When the envoys of the Xiaoyang Sect first came to the city, they said the same to us," said Flo, "I'm sorry Your Majesty, but I can't open the gates of the city to anyone until I see the Pope's edict. ”

The king smiled: "Okay, then let's talk about a light topic, what about the besieging Xiaoyang Sect army?" When did they leave? ”

"Three days ago, they went to the south, and we took a few prisoners while they left, and it is said that they were running out of food."

"Can't get enough food? Isn't this year's Xiaoyang Sect a bumper harvest in the whole territory? "If it weren't for the harvest, there would not have been this holy war.

"It is said that it was because the peasants and lords of the south sent their grain into the mountains and then hid in it. Not only could the jihadist army find food, but they could not even find farmers to help them with their farming. ”

It was the first time the king had heard of such a thing, and he asked curiously, "Are these peasants and lords crazy?" ”

"Who knows, but it's a good thing for us, if it weren't for their farmers going crazy, I'm afraid that what is in front of you now is already the corpse of the whole city."

Elise noticed that the gates of the Fort looked completely broken, and the stone and wooden barricades that had been used to block the gates could be seen when looking through the broken marks. Although there is no blood on the city wall due to heavy rain, the pits that have been smashed by heavy trebuchets are very obvious.

"Okay...... We're going to rest here for two days, and hopefully we'll be okay with each other for a few days. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. If we are all willing to be peaceful. ”

There is no doubt that the crazy peasants and lords that Count Frow is talking about are the masterpieces of Shen Changwen and Xu Yan at the beginning. It's just that they didn't expect that a failed plan would be of such great help in the end. Originally, they also set aside several hundred kilograms of *, which were prepared to break through the defense line here, now look. I guess I didn't have a chance to use it.

Since the enemy has completely abandoned the geographical advantage, it means that they do not intend to fight at all, or rather, they are not capable of fighting. The Incisor Fort was only more than 300 kilometers away from the final chosen place of refuge, and at the current pace of marching, it would take ten days at most, and for practical reasons, they would need to slow down a little - because they had lied to everyone that there were large patches of spice at their destination. If you end up at your destination and no spices are found – things become unmanageable.

According to the plan, it is best for them to enter the shelter area two to three days before the eruption, and then implement strict military control, and when the eruption is over, there is no need to hide it anymore. Their mission is almost over.

This time can't be too long, because the army they brought is a purely feudal army, and compared to the huge number of personnel, the proportion of numbers is not much, only close to one-seventh. In a marching team, such a ratio of force is undoubtedly very low.

After King Elise returned to the camp, he also personally inspected all kinds of traces in the camp, and interrogated several civilians captured by the cavalry from dozens of miles away, and finally confirmed the news - the troops of the Xiaoyang Sect had indeed retreated due to lack of food.

That evening, in order to celebrate this great "victory", and to celebrate the natural progress of the expedition, the whole camp held a grand celebration, the so-called celebration, that is, everyone was given a double portion of sugar cookies. In this day and age, sugar is basically the same as a white powder, and eating it can make people addictive.

But Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan couldn't stay, and when the other natives were having dinner in the evening, the four of them, plus the search and rescue team, held a closed-door meeting, and in this meeting, they urgently arranged tasks for Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan. They needed to take a cavalry and set off lightly at night - the intended rescue site was near the waypoint, and they needed to get everything ready first.