We won't be garrisoning the castle this time, because we have a more difficult task to complete. 77dus”

Arte paused, drawing the attention of the officers.

"A few days ago, the Lombards recaptured the newly recovered Solburg, which is located at the southernmost point of the four castle fortresses south of Aosta, close to Vilno, and is the gateway to and from Vilno, and the Lombards want to continue to attack the perimeter of Aosta from Solburg, so they have hoarded more than 300 troops and a large number of armaments and ordnance in Solburg, and the number of troops continues to increase; Provence also hoped to regain Solbourg and then move south to regain Vilno. So Sol Fort has become the focus of contention between the two armies in recent times. ”

"The second, third, and fourth companies of the Eastern Corps will each garrison the other three castles to prevent the Lombards from continuing to exaggerate their power. The rest of the legion's army was to be sent to attack Solburg. Our outpost is also in the military process of attacking Fort Sol, and is responsible for the forward tasks of detecting the enemy, clearing roadblocks, and destroying waiting posts. ”

"You go down and prepare to set out immediately, the soldiers carry their own five days' rations, and the baggage soldiers carry the outposts for five days' rations, and the south is mostly low mountains and dense forests, and the carriages cannot enter, so you let the soldiers carry as much food as possible. We need to go to-morrow evening to a deep forest northeast of Castle Sol, where we will be met by a sentry sent by Lord Berrion......"

In the outpost command tent, Art briefly explained the battle deployment of the legion to the officers, and then the officers returned to their respective teams to prepare......

Five days later.

In the dense forests of the hills of southeastern Provence, unlike the northland, there is still a hot air of late summer.

The outposts had been stationed in this dense jungle for five days, and in order not to be noticed by the Lombards, they did not dare to make a blatant fire to cook, and had to make a small bonfire in a small closed grass hut every day at night to cook some wheat paste broth.

Spencer, the baggage officer, has been quite distressed these days, hiding in the dense forests of the south, often with a light rain and half a day of hot sun, extremely hot flashes, and unable to make a fire to cook, and the daily raw water and rye bread has made many soldiers sores in the mouth and diarrhea. In addition, they could only lurk quietly in the forest and did not dare to move, and the humid and hot dense forest made the idle soldiers even more restless, "Sir Odo, when will we leave the dense forest and attack the Lombards?" The soldiers complained every day that the food was difficult to swallow, and the dampness and heat around them were unbearable, and two more soldiers had diarrhea at noon today, and I was afraid that they would have to lie down again. ”

Odo was sitting on the ground, took off his boots, and put the soles of his swollen and whitish feet in the sun through the branches, he also had a sad face, "Let everyone bear with me for another day or two, my lord is taking the sentry cavalry around the sentry in the past few days, and they have identified several targets for attack, it is estimated that these two days will be able to end the dormant attack on the Lombards, and when the time comes, we can solve the outer armies of the Lombards, and we can leave this place where people need to die." ”

After weeding on a small hillside five miles southwest of the dense forest where the outpost hid his figure, Art had already led Felix and Red of the Sentinel Cavalry to lie dormant here for the whole afternoon, Felix's face had been bitten by mosquitoes in several places, although before hibernation, Art commanded a few people to wipe their faces with thin mud, but the hot sun was directly overhead, and there was no cool breeze blowing in the weeds and low trees, so the sweat had already washed away the mosquito-repellent soil, revealing the exotic "food" that the local mosquitoes loved the most.

"What a damn place." Felix cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to scratch it, so he could only bury his face on the ground and gently scratch it to relieve the itch.

Felix took two steps to the left, and Art's experience was not good, the sweat had accumulated into a small puddle under his head, and his face was also red and swollen from mosquito bites.

It was not a few people who deliberately honed their will and endurance, but the Lombard waiting posts below the hillside were too close to each other, and in addition to the sentries watching around in the arrow towers of the waiting posts, there would occasionally be a patrol of enemy soldiers passing by the hillside path not far from where a few people were hiding.

This is the largest garrison waiting post on the periphery of Solburg, and it is estimated that it is also the hardest perimeter fortification point to capture Solburg.

This was originally a private farmhouse of the lord of Solburg outside the fort, built on the side of the mountain and the stream, with the small hillside where the Yates were lurking behind it, and it is currently a small stream surrounded on three sides.

Although the farmhouse was not large, it was all made of stones, and the square façade was about fifty feet long and wide, and about twenty feet high, and the stone walls were so thick that the Lombards could stand directly on the stone walls and look at them.

The stone exterior wall has an oak inlaid iron gate, and along the gate is also a square stone inner fort, which is a stronger structure than the outer wall, except for an iron gate, there is basically no access to the inner fort.

Twenty-three Lombard garrisons were stationed in the entire waiting post, with arrow towers, battlement walls, sentry posts, and patrols, an almost complete defensive point.

Art buried his head on the ground, swung from side to side and rubbed a few times, and slowly turned his head to Felix on the side and whispered; "Felix, do you remember the enemy's defensive deployment?"

Felix nodded slightly.

Art turned his head to look at Red again and asked, "Red, do you remember the enemy's movements?"

"My lord~ everything else has been recorded, but the enemy's secret posts change frequently, and I can't figure out their movements." Red's voice was unusually weak, for fear of revealing his position.

Art saw that the sun was already tilted to the southeast, and even if he lurked any longer, he couldn't detect anything, "Okay, retreat slowly." ”

With that, Art led the two of them backwards to the other side of the hill......

By the time the Artsians returned to the dense forest where the outpost was hiding, with a red face and rags, two teams of sentry sentries led by Angus and Lusignnan had already returned.

Spencer handed a piece of rye bread and a water bladder to Arte, who returned late.

Art took the hard bread and the water bladder with raw water, his brow furrowed slightly, even he himself had been tossed with rye bread and raw water these days, but as a commander, he was the least qualified to pick and choose......

Spencer glanced at Art, who frowned slightly, and then turned and went into the hut and took out a wooden bowl with a few grains of dull yellow coarse salt.

Spencer crushed the coarse salt in the bowl with a wooden spoon and said to Art: "My lord, make a bowl of salt water with water, break the rye bread and soak it for a while, it doesn't taste very good, but it's better than swallowing hard bread that cuts your throat directly."

After hearing this, Art broke off the rye bread bit by bit and put it into the brine prepared by Spencer, soaked it for a while, and then eagerly picked it up and put it into his mouth with a wooden spoon.

"Well, it's a lot better. You've got a solution. Art complimented Spencer.

"There's no way, my lord, it's all forced out. I could only eat one soft hot meal a day, and the guys were driving them crazy and complaining all day long that the food I made was getting worse and worse. ”

Art tilted his head and poured the soft salted bread from the bowl into his mouth, and said to Spencer, "Tell everyone that the hard days are coming to an end." We're going to be on the move tomorrow, and when we're done with the combat mission, I'll give you a whole day to eat and drink. ”

Spencer finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Art wiped his mouth, stood up and said loudly to everyone in the camp: "All the officers above the squad leader come to my camp to discuss!"

Then he commanded Spencer, "Spencer, go and call the two sentries sent by Lord Berion." ”

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Chapter 183: Hidden Sentry