Chapter 18: Chess Pieces
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Everything was ready, and Li Zhan quickly rushed to the city wall in the east of the town with supplies and personal guards.
The walls of the town of Castel are standard in Roman towns, with 15-meter-high walls made of single blocks of rock, with a horizontal distance of nearly a kilometer and a width of 4 meters. There are 5 beacons on the wall, four of which are used to house archers, and the middle one serves as a command center for all resources.
The exterior and interior walls are piled up with soft sand and gravel, but some mud is added during the construction to form a relatively hard inner body.
In addition to the personal guards led by Li Zhan, there were 300 ordinary soldiers in the city defense force, most of whom were slave fighters, and a few of them were just slaves.
"Quick, start making incendiary bombs!" On the way, Li Zhan had already told Mata how to make incendiary bombs, so after he went up to the castle tower, he arranged for everyone to start making incendiary bombs.
Of course, the other 300 ordinary soldiers were also assigned to build fortifications. Trenches and the like don't work well in sandy terrain like Custertown, but simple pits can be more of a surprise. So the 300 soldiers were assigned to dig the pit.
"You two, go and see how the Persian army is marching, and I want to know if they have siege weapons." Li Zhan said to the two guards beside him, arranging for the two of them to go because Li Zhan saw the specialty of "reconnaissance" through the data, and their speed was also very fast, I believe that this task should be successfully completed, "Calculate the time, there is probably more than an hour before the Persian army will arrive here." ”
The two received the task, nodded in agreement, and hurriedly left the castle tower and marched quickly to the east.
As for the science fans who were specially brought over by Li Zhan, they are now depressed and have no temper. It's not like the arrogant and domineering science fan master who calls for wind and rain in the gladiatorial arena at all.
"Master Science Fan..."As soon as Li Zhan wanted to speak, the science fan took over.
"Master Li Zhan, please let me go, I am willing to give you everything in my manor, I am willing to be a cow and a horse for you in this life, as long as you let me go..."
The fan begged Li Zhan for mercy in a pitiful tone.
"Hehe, Master Science Fans." Li Zhan smiled slightly, patted the fan on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to be so nervous, I didn't plan to kill you, in fact, what I'm most interested in is Lord Mario, I believe that in the entire town of Custer, no one knows Mario's personality better than you." ”
Although Mario has always expressed his support for Li Zhan and has given him so much power, out of instinct, he always feels that Mario has another conspiracy, but he can't see it now.
However, even if Li Zhan doesn't know the reason, at least he can get some useful information from the mouth of the fans. In Custer Town, science fans and Mario have always been against each other, and the two have been competing with each other for so many years, if science fans don't know Mario's identity, then Li Zhan will never believe it.
And after Mario killed Vic, he suddenly took control of the military power of Custer Town, which shows that Mario is definitely not such a simple person.
"What do you want to know?" Hearing Li Zhan say that he would not kill him, the eyes of the fans were also shining, but he was still a little hesitant, so the direction of his eyes involuntarily tilted to the left.
It's greasy!
Li Zhan noticed that something was wrong with the science fan, especially from the direction of his vision, it was obviously a little hesitant, and the science fan was very likely to know a lot of Mario's secrets.
"Tell me, what kind of person is Mario?"
Now Li Zhan has only one science fan by his side, and he is not worried that someone will eavesdrop.
"Don't worry, although you once instructed Walton to want to put me to death, but now I'm still alive, relatively speaking, a living science fan master will definitely be more useful than a corpse."
Li Zhan's purpose in saying this is to gradually eliminate the guardiness in the hearts of science fans, and he wants to know more information about Mario, which is extremely important for his future path.
"Okay!" The fan took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and seemed to have made a lot of determination, and then said to Li Zhan, "I will tell you everything I know, but you have to promise that you will never hurt me!" ”
"No problem, I, Li Zhan, will do what I say and never break my word." Li Zhan raised his left hand, "I swear to the great Roman Empire, I, Li Zhan, will never hurt science fans." ”
This time it was the turn of the fans to be surprised, he originally planned to let Li Zhan swear to the glory of the empire, but he didn't expect the other party to take the initiative to swear.
"Now that you've shown your sincerity, I won't hold it back." Ke Fan nodded heavily and said, "Mario is not only a descendant of the former general of the Dacia Province, but also the illegitimate son of the third prince of the empire. ”
The illegitimate son of the prince, isn't that the royal family of the empire, that is, the grandson of the Roman Empire today?
Li Zhan was also very surprised after listening to the words of the science fan, and he didn't expect that Mario was still a royal family. However, just looking at Mario's current situation, it can be seen that his royal grandson is not so orthodox, and in comparison, he should be regarded as a relatively neglected one.
Otherwise, how could the royal family be placed in a small town like Caster, or at least a big city like Port Guardland.
"Since he's royal, why are you going to go against him like this?" Li Zhan is also interested in the identity of the science fan, since the science fan knows that Mario is the royal family, then why do you have to keep going against him, and before today, he has the advantage.
At this time, the fan smiled awkwardly: "I am the illegitimate son of the second prince of the empire. ”
It turned out that the two were illegitimate children, and the two fought so hard, it seems that the relationship between the second prince and the third prince is not very good. The throne is indeed something that can turn brothers against each other.
The two of them are brothers, and they are both illegitimate children, and they are still fighting so fiercely under such circumstances, wouldn't it be even more ferocious between the princes who can really inherit the throne?
Mario's identity has been confirmed, and the doubts in Li Zhan's heart can be regarded as solved, and the other is why Mario can control the military power of the entire Custer Town, and the science fans who are also descendants of the royal family cannot.
"Or is he better suited to lead the army than you?" If the doubts in my heart are not solved, I always feel a little pimple, since the science fan has revealed such important information, then this can't be regarded as a secret now.
"His mother was a princess of Persia."
It was only now that Li Zhan finally understood everything, and at the same time understood his current situation. Not a close confidant of Mario himself, but a gift to the Persian army! Or a discarded chess piece!