The towering timber and stone walls of Fort Darlings thus stood in the path of the Jihad's advance, cutting off the Jihad's targets.

The castle was not too big, not much different from Fort Nobarev before, and 30,000 surviving Norvids of the 80,000 Vidasen troops who had been routed by the Jihadist had fled to Fort Darlings.

As a result, the small Fort Darlings contained a full 35,000 defenders.

It was almost an impregnable fortress, and more than half of the 35,000 men were regulars, much more than at Fort Nobarev.

And because of the adequate preparation here, the equipment for defending the city such as thunder stone and rolling wood is also readily available, and the quantity is sufficient.

In the face of such a castle, it is almost an insurmountable chasm until there is no big killer weapon such as the King of the Battlefield Artillery.

Even the previous Nobarev Fort, it was captured by the Jihadist Army after more than a month of grinding and grinding, and it cost a lot of money.

Obviously, the Darlings Fort in front of you is a more difficult bone to gnaw than Fort Nobarev, and it is estimated that it will be much more difficult to capture this place than Fort Nobarev.

But even so, things must be done, and if you don't talk about the fall of Fort Darlings, don't think about continuing to march for so long, and then the original agreed holy war plan will be in vain.

This is very likely to lead to the defeat of the jihad, and the consequences of the defeat of the jihad are self-evident, and no one wants to see such a situation.

But if you want to say that you are desperately attacking Darlingsburg, no one is willing to do it, and it is conservatively estimated that even if the Holy War Army fights desperately, it will take a month or two, or even two or three months, to capture this place.

At that time, don't talk about the success of the holy war, it is estimated that the Norweed people will defeat the holy city and capture the Pope and roast it.

They were pressed for time, and in principle, they had to reach the appointed position by the fifteenth of February to launch a general assault on the Norweeds, that is, after ten days, they had to reach the appointed position.

Castles, as the biggest guarantee of the lords of the feudal era, are obviously not so easy to conquer, although they are not large, but in many cases the defenders can even block ten times their own troops.

After all, the castle is the place where the feudal noble lords settle down, no matter how you extort in the territory, as long as the cat is in the castle when the people rebel, there will soon be relatives and other nobles to save you.

Therefore, the fortification of the castle has become the most concerned issue of the nobles, if you wait for your castle to be destroyed by the enemy before the reinforcements come, it is simply to cry without tears, and the sad can no longer be sad.

As a result, castles are usually very strong, not to mention that although the Norvids have not been in constant battle with the kingdom of Astra, they have some knowledge of the virtues of the Holy Religion.

It was common to wage jihad against their so-called infidels at every turn, so the Norwedians also built fortified castles and fortresses on a large scale in their territory in order to guard against the invasion of the Holy Religion.

As a result, these castles tend to be very strong, and it is almost impossible to conquer them in ten days anyway.

King Leonac and Archbishop Bailins were also very distressed during this time, and even looked several years old in the past few days.

Needless to say, King Leonac was worried, once the Holy War Army was defeated, then the first to bear the brunt would be the nearest kingdom of Astra of the Rinowides.

Although the kingdom of Astra is powerful and can barely protect itself from being attacked by the Norvidians, it is certain that the land will be ruined.

When the time comes, the infrastructure will be destroyed, the farmland will be trampled and burned, the handicraft workshops will be destroyed, and the country's finances will be in dire straits, and the country's strength will definitely be weakened as a result.

And King Leonac will definitely lose his majesty because of this, and some royal families will also lose their hearts because of this, and it is possible for the royal family to lose control of the country.

And Bailins was more simple because of the Archbishop's worries, he originally thought that it would be a good errand to be in the strongest Eastern Route Jihadist Army.

Unexpectedly, he faced such a result.

Originally, as a strong contender for the next pope, he wanted to continue this holy war to accumulate prestige and compete for the next pope.

However, if this holy war is defeated because of the Eastern Route Holy War Army with his army, his rivals will definitely continue to make a big fuss at this time, and his position as pope will be ruined at that time.

Anyway, at this time, the nobles of the Eastern Road Holy War Army had their own agendas, and all their hopes were blocked by the castle in front of them.

You said that if you go around, then this castle will undoubtedly become a nail in the back of the jihadist army, and maybe in the decisive battle, you will send troops to sneak attack.

What's more, the Jihadist Army marches deeper, and the logistics of the two rooms always have to be guaranteed, and if the nail of Fort Darlings is not removed, he will undoubtedly become the biggest obstacle to the food route.

Therefore, now the jihadist army cannot be defeated, and it cannot be bypassed.

Even if you play siege point reinforcements, besiege part of the city, and the other part to participate in the final decisive battle, it will not work.

If the main force is allowed to participate in the decisive battle, then Darlingsburg will undoubtedly go to war, and all the soldiers left behind will be annihilated, there is no doubt about it.

And if the main force stays here and the small troops go to participate in the decisive battle, then it will definitely fail because the main force of the Eastern Road Jihadist Army has not arrived, resulting in insufficient troops.

Anyway, now the Eastern Road Jihadist Army is not up or down, and it is very uncomfortable to choke.

The night was quiet, and the star officials in the sky seemed to have froze home from the cold air in the north of the night, and even the moon did not seem so bright.

No insects can survive in this environment in winter, so the sound of insects in the summer in Dellenburg is completely unheard on this road.

With only the crackling of the campfires and the dreams of the soldiers echoing through the tents, the Holy War never attacked Fort Darlings except for a tentative attack on Fort Darlings after their arrival.

William woke up a little from his slumber, but suddenly his hair exploded, he had always had an inexplicable sensitivity to danger, and he sensed that there was someone else in the tent.

Jumping up from the bed and picking up the long sword that lay beside the pillow, he bent slightly in the tent, tensing his muscles, and if there was the slightest mistake, he could react quickly.

"Who are you? Come out of here! ”

William said in a calm whisper, since that person has the ability to sneak into his tent so quietly, but he didn't do it, obviously he has no murderous intentions towards himself.

Otherwise, he would have attacked himself a long time ago, so William concluded that he had not come to kill himself, and in order not to provoke the man, he did not shout to attract the guards outside the tent.

"It's really worthy of being the champion knight of the Kingdom of Tskema, Count William, even if he is over thirty years old, he is still as agile as a young man!"

A faint boy came from the top of the tent, followed by a figure falling gently to the ground from above.