"I heard that there are rebels everywhere outside the city, and there are tens of thousands of horses, and the city of Thorne is surrounded like an iron barrel." I saw this guy pick up the peas on the plate and stuff them into his mouth as he spoke.

"I have also heard that I have a neighbor's son guarding the city at the south gate, and he said that not only are there rebels outside the east gate, but there is also a man named Wells Legion in the south, who is also a devil who kills people like mowing grass, and the outside of the city is densely packed with their people. I think this time, the army of Thorne City will not be able to resist it. ”

"Shhhh You don't want to die, let the soldiers outside hear your little life, but it's gone. ”

While a few people were talking, seven or eight soldiers patrolling outside the door walked over with spears in their hands. Frightened, several people quickly closed their mouths and buried their heads.

In a tavern in the city of Thorne, a few bold city dwellers sit idle and drink and gossip, talking about the current situation around the city of Thorne.

At this time, only a small number of pedestrians were still nervously walking through the streets outside begging for food, and most of them were beggars and homeless people from the city. Because he had no place to stay, he picked up the food thrown away by the rich and noble in the streets and alleys to fill his shriveled stomach. I joined the Western Army with the courage to do some hard work as a third-rate soldier to make ends meet.

Most of the shops on both sides of the street have already sealed their doors, and the family is hiding in the house and does not dare to come out. I heard the occasional movement outside the door, and I just glanced out through the crack in the window.

Since hearing that the rebels from the east were killing all the way to Thorne, many of the city's residents dragged their families and slipped out while they could still get out of the city. Some of the empty houses were occupied by the city's homeless people and beggars. Living in a house that can shelter from the wind and rain is much more comfortable than sleeping outside~

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Seeing a large number of men and horses outside the city, the Thorne soldiers defending the city were also a little unable to sit still. Most of the purpose of these people to serve as soldiers is to have something to eat, and if they are lucky, they may even be able to mix up a half-official position. Who would have thought that he would encounter today's situation, surrounded by tens of thousands of horses outside the city, and fearing all day long, for fear that the enemy would attack the city and take his own life.

"You see, there are at least tens of thousands of people in the camp of the rebels." On the eastern wall of Thorne, a soldier pointed to the camp of the Liberation Army and said to his companions.

"People claim to be tens of thousands of troops, I think this formation is almost 20,000 people." Another soldier analyzed.

"It's really fake! I heard that there are still a lot of people from the Midsummer Legion in the rebels, and those guys are a bunch of devils who kill people without blinking. Now that we're all in the Thorne, what are we going to do? I saw that the soldier was full of anxiety, and his body trembled slightly.

"Is the Midsummer Legion really that powerful?"

"Don't you see how embarrassed the supposedly elite fellows sent to the front line by Lord Count were when they fled back to the city? One by one, they were missing arms and legs, and they didn't know where they ran before they went out. Thinking of the Western soldiers who were "poisoned" by the Midsummer legionnaires, this guy had a cramp in his stomach.

"Let's go on patrol in another place, and be careful of being killed by the arrows fired by those guys. ”

"Yes, yes, let's go~"

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"The team behind hurry up and keep up~"

To the west of Besançon, in the province of Saône, a day's journey from the city of Saône, a convoy of 100 men was heading westward.

The caravan consisted of fifty wagons, all of which were filled with grain and grass covered with sackcloth, each with a coachman, and was followed by about twenty miscellaneous servants. The convoy was flanked and aft by one or two dozen lightly armoured infantry guards armed with short spears and shields. At the head of the line was an officer on horseback, followed by several soldiers armed with short swords.

The grain convoy had just come out of the nearby county town that had been controlled by the Liberation Army, and continued all the way west to transport grain and grass to the camp of the Liberation Army outside Thorne. Since the line has been controlled by the army of the Eastern Front, it is basically safe. So there were less than a hundred soldiers carrying the grain and grass, and all of them were lightly armored infantry, led by a baron.

If the Eastern and Western armies were still fighting here, it would not have been possible for a hundred and ten soldiers to escort more than fifty wagons full of grain. Because both sides understand that grain and grass are the guarantee of a large army, they will often send heavy troops to escort them. Now, all the Western Army has retreated to Thorne City, so the Liberation Army command camp believes that there is no longer a need for a large group of men and horses to escort grain and grass, so most of the men and horses who originally escorted grain and grass are transferred to the outside of Thorne City to participate in the siege battle.

The baron, who was at the head of the group on horseback, was very satisfied with the task he had given him. This guy was a baron under Balwyn who had fought on the front lines. Seeing that the Western Army was retreating step by step into the city of Thorne, the final siege battle was bound to be dangerous and unpredictable. So Balwin transferred him from the front-line troops and transferred him to a baggage officer, specializing in the transportation of grain and grass for the army. It was a safe and oily job, and the baron was overjoyed, and the next day he hurried to take up his post.

Looking at the large green meadow in front of him, the baron leading the soldiers was in a good mood, and he was humming an unknown country song in his mouth~

But he would never have imagined that the fifty wagons of grain and grass behind him had long been targeted.

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"Lord Viscount, here they are." A soldier who had just come running from the other side of a low hill in the distance dismounted and came to report the enemy to an officer on a tall horse.

"How many are there?" The officer asked.

"There were about a hundred people in all, among them more than fifty coachmen and miscellaneous servants, and the remaining eighty-odd were lightly armored infantrymen, and there was an officer on horseback at the front." The soldiers reported the details of the enemy one by one.

"Good! When they heard me clearly, they rushed up and killed them for me, and burned all the grain and grass for me. The officer said to the man behind him. I saw that the soldiers behind him were all holding long swords, wearing shields on their backs, and carrying war horses, numbering three hundred.

"Yes!" The people answered the command. Then they headed in the direction where the convoy was.

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"Lord Baron, I always feel like people are watching us." The soldier who followed behind him said uneasily to the baron of the leader, who was on his horse and humming a ditty.

"You bastard, don't you see my lord I'm happy? It's really a disappointment, the enemies are all in the city of Thorne, where are the enemies? As he spoke, the baron struck his whip onto the mouthy soldier's helmet. Frightened, the soldier staggered backwards and fell. When he was getting up, he had already seen a group of people rushing towards him.

"Enemy attack!"

The shout startled the other soldiers, and the coachman took control of the horses by holding on to the reins.

"You bastard, you dare to scream." The baron turned again to whip the soldier who had risen, and had just raised his whip to swing it at the soldier, when out of the corner of his eye he saw that the group of men and horses rushing from the other side of the hill was less than five hundred paces away from the convoy.

"Enemy attack! Array! The baron commanded loudly as he drew his sword from his waist. When the rest of the soldiers saw the cavalry riding their horses, they immediately took off their shields in a panic and surrounded the carriage that had been circled.

I saw that the enemy's charge would rush the weak ring shield array to pieces. In the blink of an eye, three hundred light and heavy cavalry had surrounded this grain transport team.

"Kill me!" Seeing that his own people were already surrounded, the baron who was escorting the grain and grass ordered to rush out. The soldiers who were desperately resisting immediately gathered in a circle and surrounded the simple "wall" of the city with shields, trying to resist it in this way.

The cavalry team was ordered to destroy the grain and grass, and seeing that it was difficult to break through the opponent's defenses for a while, the leading officer stopped fighting, and immediately ordered people to throw the fire oil they carried into the shield array, and the other part went to burn the grain and grass.

"Kerose!"

One of the soldiers in the shield array shouted. Scared the others out of the blue.

As the clay pot filled with fire oil cracked, the leading officer fired the lit arrow into the shield array. Suddenly, I saw the flames soaring into the sky, and the sparks that splashed on the soldiers had already ignited the cotton armor, and bursts of screams kept coming~

On the other side, all the wagons full of grain and grass were also on fire, and the coachmen and miscellaneous servants had already fallen into the flames......

Looking at the enemy soldiers rolling on the ground and the grain and grass that was already burning violently, the leading officer's face showed the joy of victory.

Sure enough, after a while, I saw that the infantry shield array around the carriage began to disintegrate, and the soldiers in the shield array began to collapse and escape......

"Rush up and kill them all!"

In the firelight, there were screams everywhere......

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On a small hill not far from the city of Thorne, Flender was standing on the top of the hill with his officers and his party looking at the city of Thorne.

Early this morning, Arte sent someone to report that he had sent someone to mark the trap outside the east gate of Thorne at night, and wrote down the location of the trap on parchment and ordered it to be sent over. The trap outside the South Gate is still being investigated.

Flender was pleased with Arte's performance and gave him a credit in his heart. After the trap outside the southern city gate is completely understood, the Liberation Army and the Southern Frontier Garrison Corps will send the information and attack the city of Thorn at the same time.

At this time, the sun has slowly set over the city of Thorne, and there is still some dazzling sunlight shining from the west, which makes people a little unable to open their eyes~

After returning to the camp of the Liberation Army, Flender gathered a group of officers and ordered them to prepare siege equipment immediately, and to act against the defenders of Thorne as soon as the information was delivered.

Just as the military meeting was over, everyone was walking out of the command camp of the army one after another, and the herald had already dismounted and came towards the command camp.

"Report to the Marquis." When the herald saw Flender coming out, he hurriedly ran forward to report the military situation.

"Yesterday afternoon, the army carrying grain and grass from Besançon was intercepted a day's journey from the city of Saône. More than a hundred people, including miscellaneous servants, were killed, and all the grain and grass were burned. ”

Hearing that the grain and grass had been cut off and the soldiers had been killed, Flender's eyes widened wider and wider, and the herald hurriedly lowered his head in fright.

"What about those who burn the grain and grass?" Flanders' tone was filled with rage, and he wanted to go and tear the bastard apart at once.

"Back to the Marquis, when the patrolling cavalry spotted our men, they learned from a seriously wounded soldier that they had been attacked by a cavalry of about three hundred men. The wounded soldier was later taken to a nearby barracks by patrolling cavalry and died after failing to heal him. The cavalry searched the horse's hooves for a day, but could not find any trace of them. ”

At this time, Flender, who had already planned to lead a large army to attack the city, had to postpone the siege plan after hearing that his food convoy had been attacked. If you don't annihilate all that cavalry, you will definitely be attacked from behind by the enemy when the army is attacking the city. At that time, the Liberation Army will face an unfavorable situation of fighting on two fronts.

"Go to the south of Thorne at once and inform Lord Arte, and tell him to come and command the camp at once, I have something important to do."

"Yes, Lord Marquis."