Baron Jacques pursed his lips, barely believing his ears.

Looking at the three sentries kneeling in front of him, Baron Jacques couldn't help but ask again, "You say it again?!" ”

"Forts of Twin Rivers have been breached, and no one in the city has been spared," the Boss carefully placed a seal in the Baron's sight, "This is what we found in Fort Twin Ho, Lord Antico...... Walk very bravely. ”

After just one glance at the seal, the corners of Baron Jacques's eyes began to twitch, and the baroness on one side rushed forward, trembling and reaching out to hold it, stroking the seal, and crying out: "I...... My Antico! ”

"You, with your own eyes, saw that they were attacking the city?" The baron asked word for word, his eyes fixed on the sentry who had answered, as if trying to dig out the slightest sign of lying in the sentry's eyes.

But no, the sentry nodded at once, and his eyes showed not the uneasiness of lying, but the deep fear of the enemy in his memory.

"Yes, my lord," the Boss still remembers what he saw yesterday, still feeling uneasy, "their oracle has summoned the Heavenly Thunder. ”

"Heavenly thunder?"

"Yes, we have seen it with our own eyes," said the three brothers, as if fearing that the lord would not believe it, "but that thunder is different from ordinary rain thunder, not from the sky to the earth, but from the earth to the sky. ”

"The gates and walls were toppled in an instant, and before the warriors defending the city could react, the Elise had already rushed into the city."

"When they attacked the inner city, they summoned again, and we went to the city later to see that near the inner and outer city gates, huge gaps were made by such heavenly thunder, and the cast iron gates were twisted into pieces by this divine power."

The combination of such a ridiculous statement, and the look of certainty on the faces of the three brothers as they uttered it, made the baron's mind confused, and he felt only bitterness in his mouth.

But the three sentinels couldn't care about their lord's mood at the moment, because there was still important information to report: "It's very likely that they are coming towards Xiaoyang City today, my lord." ”

"Little Yang City...... He...... They dare to come? The baron's tone at first seemed to be determined, but this determination lasted only half a sentence, and became a question.

At the end of this sentence, the Baron himself already knew the answer to this question.

Before Elise launched a formal declaration of war, the Baron had already made full preparations for the invasion of the Kingdom of Elis, as requested by King Louis and Pope Xiaoyang, and the previously breached outpost and the castle of the Twin Forks were an important part of these preparations.

In Baron Jacques's vision of war, the loss of the outpost must have been only a matter of time, and while it was a bit of a pity to be breached, it was not entirely unexpected.

However, the castle was the focus of construction, and in order to ensure the safety of the castle, Baron Jacques specially placed more than 800 soldiers in the fort, and half of them were veterans of the war.

The tall city walls, the double-layered defense system inside and outside, coupled with the moat, other city defense facilities, and all kinds of sufficient war materials prepared in advance, even if the whole Ilis Kingdom attacked the city together, this castle could easily be defended for more than half a year.

As for the city of Xiaoyang, a city named after the gods, King Elis, if he knew him, it was best to stay away from here, because it was the meeting place of the holy army of the entire kingdom of Louis, and it was also the destination where all the lords of the other kingdoms came to support the war. If that madman of Elise dared to attack the idea of this city, a steady stream of support troops, the towering walls of Xiaoyang City, and the tens of thousands of residents of the city would make the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Elis, which lacked a successor, sink into the sand.

If the outpost is regarded as the eye of the Louis Kingdom in this war, the Castle of the Shuangcha River is the armor of the Louis Kingdom, and the last Xiaoyang City is the sword.

According to the general idea of war, the enemy from the Kingdom of Elis will first find a way to blindfold first, and then slowly consume the armor, and when the enemy does all this hard work, revealing weaknesses and flaws—in war, there will always be such a time—the Baron will quietly gather the whole country—if the time drags on long enough, there will even be troops from the Quan Xiaoyang Sect to come to the rescue, sharpen this sword, and finally defeat the enemy.

But Baron Jacques couldn't imagine that in just four days, a vanguard of five or six hundred men had blinded the Louis Kingdom with just one sword, and easily pierced through the armor of the Louis Kingdom with just one sword.

At this time, the letters sent by King Louis to the whole country asking for the lords' support had probably not yet arrived—according to the time concept of this era, it would take three or four months at the earliest.

Now, Baron Jacques didn't have three or four months left, he only had two days, no, not even to.

If this vanguard marched at full speed at night, as it had done in the previous days, it would have appeared under Xiaoyang City tonight, or by daylight tomorrow at the latest.

And at this time, the entire strength of Xiaoyang City was more than 2,000 people.

If it had been four days ago, the baron would not have thought that a force of two thousand men would not be able to deal with an advance of less than six hundred men in the city, he would only fear that this small force would be too cunning to locate and capture, and would have scurried everywhere and plundered the villages near the castle and made a mess......

If it was yesterday, the baron would only feel that the opponent might be attracting him out of the city to rescue the Shuangcha River, and he was preparing to besiege the city for reinforcements, and he would not have any doubts about the safety of Xiaoyang City itself......

But, by now, Baron Jacques was really starting to feel terrified - if the angels of the Elis really possessed such magical skills, then what would they not dare?

Turns stones into powder......

Turns steel into pieces......

Xiaoyang is on top!

The body of only two thousand men would be heavier than a stone wall, and the armor of only two thousand men would be stronger than a steel gate?

"Officer, draft the order," Baron Jacques felt himself break out in a cold sweat, "all the men over the age of sixteen in the city, gather them!" ”

"Everybody's going to hand out weapons!"

"Execute it now!"

"Immediately!"

……

Just when the entire city of Xiaoyang City was mobilized and prepared to actively respond to the invasion of the Elise Kingdom, the Ilis King City, hundreds of miles away, was also making the same move.

A large number of people, horses and supplies have already left the city one after another, and the entire royal city of Elise has lost the hustle and bustle of the previous half month, as if returning to the peaceful and stable days of the past. Only the looks of the people on the road made everyone realize that the current royal city of Elise was no longer the royal city of the past.

There were hardly any young people on the streets, and all those who remained in the city were mostly old people and young children, in addition to a small number of nobles and their families.

In the eyes of those who remained, their lives now seemed to be in heaven. The abundance of spices and wealth brought by the divine envoys has been exchanged for their subordinates and food, and the nobles who remained behind have now all become rich, rich people they could never have imagined before.

But their affluence was not good news for ordinary citizens, and the price of food in the whole city was skyrocketing, although the people of this era did not know what inflation was, but everyone could feel it, that is, in the royal city of Elis, gold, pearls, crystals, spices, ...... These things are beginning to become common, and grains, the most common ones, are becoming scarce gradually, slowly, but firmly and irrepressibly.

It's not that no one is aware of the dangers.

Just as King Elise had just left with his original subjects, the first thing the future king, now Duke Antony, did was to organize the other nobles to try to buy more young men and grain from other countries.

When new immigrants enter this strange and famous city, they will also see many strange signs posted all over the city, which is the great upheaval that the city has just experienced and is the most important part of the city's history.

Bulletin boards are painted with bread everywhere, and there are many wells everywhere in the city, and their names are often related to the two key words God and bread.

Land Well......

Sweet Well ......

White Cake Well ......

If you ask the many original residents who have stayed on the street, you can also hear a lot of stories about oracles and cookies. If you are really interested in these stories, you can even ride a horse, as long as you walk more than 140 miles to the south, that is, a little more than a day's journey on horseback, you can also see the brigade of people who have just left, and the cake shed where you can eat bread for free.

Wang Youquan and Xu Yan had already left yesterday, and Shen Changwen was supervising the last batch of grain transport teams in the city. As he rode past the Duke's mansion, he noticed that something seemed to be going on inside.

Out of concern and some concern, Shen Changwen decided to go to the door and inquire.

The Duke met him personally, and told him what the gods had made him do—he was going to dig a huge underground space for the possible catastrophe that the oracle had said.

After telling the description of this project, the duke also asked Shen Changwen euphemistically - if the disaster that Shen Changwen said was true, whether the project would work.

Shen Changwen couldn't laugh or cry a little, this kind of question, many nobles had come to ask him privately before, and it was estimated that after they left, they would dig a pit under their own place like the duke. Of course, theoretically speaking, as long as the basement is dug deep enough, the space inside is large enough, and the equipment is complete enough, it is not difficult to achieve the effect of evacuation. In the initial rescue plan, Shen Changwen also consulted many experts on the plan of digging a pit underground.

If it is only a small number of people, such as a nobleman or a family, it is not completely impossible to do it.

But this can be done, just to say, in the volcanic eruption stage, they will not die for the time being, but whether they will live after that, how long, and how they will live, it is difficult to say.

What is the point of just prolonging life for half a year or a year without purpose, or even in the best case, a few people, or a dozen people, barely struggling to be tortured by the extremely harsh environment in the future for more than ten years and then dying in great pain?

If it exceeds a certain order of magnitude, such as hundreds of people, then even this extension is basically impossible.

Moreover, even if this standard is to be met, the premise is to use modern design concepts for design and construction, and it is as ridiculous as Qin Shi Huang to try to build an underground bomb shelter to block the magma by hiring a group of stonemasons to build an underground bomb shelter to block the magma.

Shen Changwen would not laugh at the ridiculousness of these ancients, because the concept of a world-destroying volcanic eruption was unimaginable to the ancients. He wasn't going to tell them about the fact that building this kind of underground space might not save their lives, but it still had a bit of historical significance as a tomb, and it was rare to find something meaningful to do in terms of the more than a month of their lives left now.

So Shen Changwen could only comfort Duke Anthony and said, "It will be useful." ”

The use of this may be that hundreds or thousands of years later, their bones will be dug up and used as stupid specimens to commemorate them.