The military discussion in the command tent of the temporary garrison camp outside the stronghold of the mountain pass village has ended, and Art has a thin note in his hand, and there is a pigeon coop on the simple wooden table in the corner of the camp.

Ron stood aside and saw that Art had finished reading the characters on the note, and said, "Sir, those two disguised messengers are indeed from the county of Longxia, they have seen you in Longxia City, and they can find out the details of my competition with the knight of the Inner Mansion of Count Flanders, Leonde."

Art pinched the note and nodded lightly, and handed the note to Ron, "This secret letter was written by Sir Leonde, who defeated you, and the defense of the Longxia Territory was handed over to him after the new monarch Flender led the Longxia Legion to the north, and this time it was he who led the eight hundred mountain people army left behind in the Longxia Territory to the north to attract the attention of the Kodor army." ”

Ron took the note and glanced at it a few times, "I've heard from the messenger that Lord Leonde has been promoted to baron and commander of the legion left behind. ”

Art got up and paced slowly in the tent, spur-fitted cowhide boots creaking softly.

The content of this secret letter is simple, the midsummer mountain army has attracted the attention of the southern army of Kodor for the Wells Legion, and now they must evacuate, and the rest of the matter can only be handled by the Wells legion itself.

Flender didn't want his troops to be involved in this battle that broke the peace, and he feared that he would not be able to mediate in the future, and Art understood it.

However, Flender did not intend to really put Art and Wells in a desperate situation, Leonde sent two well-trained carrier pigeons to Art, once the Wells army fell into a dead place and could not get out, as long as the flying pigeons called for help, the army of mountain people in midsummer would rush down the mountain to rescue them.

"Ron, give these two pigeons to Spencer for him to feed well, I hope we don't need them, but this is a back road for us and we can't cut it off."

"In addition, the mountain people in Midsummer will withdraw their troops tomorrow, and the Leol troops sent abroad will definitely return to defense immediately, leaving us not much time."

"The herald has a good rest tonight, and will set off tomorrow morning at dawn to the county town of Rioole."

"Yes!" Ron turned around with the pigeon cage and went out to give the order.

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The county town of Riool, a jewel set on the edge of the hills southeast of Kodor.

Although it is also the capital of a county, the city of Riol is a little more prosperous than Tignets. The entire castle wall and inner fort are almost all made of stone, and the houses and shops in the city are tall and neat, and the wide streets in the center of the city are paved with stone slabs.

However, the city was also very tense due to the atmosphere of war, with few merchants and pedestrians lining the castle streets, and the castle walls were full of armored defenders, and the gates were closed.

Apparently the result of the notoriety of the mountain people in Midsummer.

Due to the sudden appearance of the mountain people on the edge of the mountain in midsummer, most of the garrison of Leo County was transferred to the border to confront, and at this moment there were only sixty elite infantry and one hundred newly armed peasants in the county town to guard.

While the defenders of Ciudad Ríol were all looking in the direction of the Midsummer Mountains in the southwest with their bows and swords, axes and spears, a cavalry dressed in the uniform robes of the Kodor army appeared on the high hill half a mile east of Ciudad Ríol.

On the arrow tower on the east wall of the county town, the guards of the county town, who were staring at the southwest and were about to widen their eyes, unconsciously glanced to the east, and suddenly found that there was a team of more than ten horsemen outside the east of the city, stopping to observe the direction of the county town.

The guards exclaimed, "There is an enemy situation!" There is an enemy! Then he kept tugging at the cuffs of the guards beside him.

The guards beside him had apparently spotted the team not far east of the city, and they were trying to look at the team with their brows on their faces.

After observing for a while, the guard lowered his right hand on his brow, "Hey, big surprise, that's our people, they circled around the northeast of the city for most of the time just now." ”

The guard who exclaimed was a little suspicious, "Our people? What are our people doing there? Go down and report to the sentry officer! ”

"Why don't you go yourself? The arrow tower is so high, do you think you won't be tired of climbing up and down? You go on your own. Another guard sternly refused.

"Forget it~ It's my own person anyway."

The two defenders shirked each other and slackened.

But just as the two defenders were shirking, a team of horse-drawn carriages behind the cavalry outside the city appeared in their field of vision......

Ding Ding~

A hurried alarm bell rang over the city of Riol......

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In front of the team, Jafar, the deputy captain of the legion cavalry, led several light cavalry to rush to the leader of the team, Yat, and grabbed the reins, "Your Excellency, the cavalry team has already stinted. The defenders of the city of Riol are indeed small, there are at most a hundred people on the four walls, and it is estimated that there are only a hundred and ten defenders in the city. ”

"We've reconfirmed that the fallow land northeast of the city is hard and the wagons can pass through it."

Featuring a quick glance left and right, he kicked his horse's belly and ran towards a slightly higher ground, Ron leading the guards to follow.

Stopping to look at the city of Riol at this time, more and more soldiers have been deployed on the east wall of the city, and the figure of the crossbowman can be faintly seen.

"Herald! The Legionary Cavalry marched to the castle to stand guard a stone's throw away, ready to fend off the enemy soldiers out of the city; The rest of the teams quickly bypassed Riol from the northeast and headed north. Art gave the order.

After a while, the deputy of the legion, Angus, personally led the cavalry team of more than 50 cavalry cavalry to leave the marching column, approached the northeast direction of Riol in a cavalry line, and stopped at a distance of more than 300 paces outside the city, and confronted the defenders at the head of the city.

At the same time, the soldiers who had been riding in the carriage also jumped down one after another, forming a formation in the open space next to the road outside the east of the city

However, while the defenders of the city of Riol waited for the enemy to launch a surprise attack, the army in formation marched northeast on fallow land surrounded by more than fifty wagons.

The defenders of the city of Riol thought that the enemy was going to attack the northern city, so they immediately adjusted their deployment, and the crossbowmen and infantry on the eastern city were driven to the north wall to prepare for engagement.

While the defenders of Leol were already holding their weapons with the determination to defend the castle, the accident happened again—the marching army had crossed the fallow fields and rounded the road to the north, jumped into the wagon, and then ran north.

The shadow of the carriage had just disappeared on the northern road, and the dozens of cavalrymen three hundred paces northeast of the city also turned their horses and followed them coldly......

The defenders of Riol City were stunned, they didn't know what to do for a while, so they could only stand in the city and look at the north in a daze.

"Oops! The enemy is going to raid our hinterland! I don't know who let out an exclamation and scream......

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Art didn't plan to capture Riol, he didn't plan to take it from the beginning.

If the Wells were to take Kodor, then Yat would have to take Riol and then Lapaz step by step, and then march north to conquer all the arteries and chokepoints along the way.

However, raid warfare is not a regular battle that encroaches on enemy territory, and at this time, Art does not need a solid rear to support the frontline battle, so in order to insert the blade into Kodor's henchmen as soon as possible, he must abandon those difficult strongholds, and go around as much as he can.

So by the time the Leol defenders reacted, Art had already led the Wells legion to run a long way on horseback.

"How? Did the defenders of Leol City chase it out? Art asked Angus, who had returned from the rear, as he controlled the march of his horse.

Angus took off the wine bag on horseback and took two sips, "The group of mongrels just reacted, they sent twenty or so cavalry to chase after them, and they were beaten back by Lusignan and the cavalry. Kill the three horsemen of the column, and one of us will die. ”

This ending is not expected by Art, and Leol will definitely send someone to give a symbolic chase, otherwise they will not escape the charge of arson, "Good! You continue to lead the cavalry in the rear, and if there is a pursuer, you will be directly defeated. ”

Angus agreed, turning his horse's head and running behind the marching procession.

Art glanced at the Welsh legion soldiers riding in the chariot beside him, looked at the road leading north to the north of Lapaz, and ordered Ron: "Ron, go to the front of the team and tell the leader Odo, tell him to speed up his pace, and tonight we will fight for the northern border of the two counties to rest."

"Also, you immediately have your horse go north and infiltrate Marcy City, and tell the task force lurking in the city to prepare to meet ......"

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Although the provinces of Codor and Lucesen are close to each other, they are almost incompatible due to the north-south mountain range that stretches from Besançon in the north to Sapsburg in the south.

The reason why it is "almost" is necessarily not absolute.

The exception to this is Marcy (Fort of Arms).

If you mention the history of the Welsh Army, the battle between the northern part of the county of Tignats and the Western Army in the province of Saône (the Battle of the Northern Commandery) is definitely worth remembering.

In that year, the Count of Bernard secretly sent a western army to raid Tignaz through the western mountains of Lucesn Province, and it was this mountain road from Marcy that he secretly sent a western-armed army to raid Tinets.

Marcy is located in the foothills of the western side of the mountain range, and to the east of Marcy there is a winding and rugged mountain road leading to the southern part of the province of Lucesyn.

The most critical part of Arte's "lightning raid" is to capture Marcy, and a closer look at the sand table map will show that Marsi is very close to the town of Diguan, and is the best enclave to attack the town of Diguan, the southern gateway of the city of Kodor.

Moreover, Marcy is located on the edge of the mountain, the terrain is difficult to defend, and the main thing is that there is a rugged road to the foot of Lucesin behind Marcy.

This road is definitely not suitable for large-scale army marching operations (the Battle of the Northern Gun and the Western Army learned a painful lesson), but it is absolutely fine for escaping.

Since it was a dangerous place, and it was also a possible route for the enemy of the province of Kodor, Lucesen, to send troops, it was naturally heavily guarded, and it was almost impossible for the Welsh regiments, who were marching hastily, to take it without carrying heavy offensive equipment.

The strongest fortresses are often breached from within.

Art, who had long planned to open up the southern hunting grounds, had of course planted a nail in Marcian......

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"Ah ~ Who is TM talking about me?" Stanley rubbed his nose and smeared the snot onto the Marsy Fort wall stone.

After wiping his nose, Stanley turned to Oliver and Millers, who were carrying the stone willow basket on the stone staircase of the fort wall, and shouted, "You guys, lift all those stones up, don't be lazy!" Your heart has withheld your wages today. ”

Seeing that several of his "laborers" had quickened his pace, Stanley turned his head with satisfaction, then took out a wine bag full of beer from his waist and handed it to the officer of the defenders of Fort Marsey who was overseeing the fort wall with both hands, "Your Excellency, Commander, you have worked hard, the air is hot, you can take a beer to relieve the heat." ”

The defending officer obviously received Stanley's flattery, and took the wine bag with a light smile and took a sip, "En! This beer is good! ”

"If you like it, I'll give it to you!" With a wave of Stanley's hand, the officer took advantage of the situation and hung the wine bag around his waist.

Stanley glanced at the steep terrain outside the fort walls, "Commander, your fort is strong enough, so it needs to be reinforced." Don't be human, even monsters can't climb the walls of this fort. ”

The officer had just received the benefit, and his attitude was naturally close, "Brother, since the Baron hired you to repair and strengthen the castle, it is naturally his reason, this is the only way for the enemy territory Lucesen to attack Kodor, we can't pay more attention......"

Stanley nodded like a pound of garlic as he glanced nonchalantly at the southern ......