Although Arold and his courtiers tried to disguise the enemy's attack, the merchants' sense of smell was so keen that they could analyze the approach of war by the large quantities of food purchased by the Brothers Ellvet in the castle, the whispers in the darkness of the tavern, and even the nervous faces of the officers, as well as the reinforcements from the Angry Lion.

"When night falls, caravans leave." As Arold looked at the depressed bazaar from the city walls, Brother Ernvet stood beside him and said.

"It's like rats on a sinking ship, fleeing one after another." Arold said self-deprecatingly, he held on to the battlements of his castle, looking at the arena under construction under the castle, the planned commercial area of the shops, and the Teutonic Knights' guild that had just laid the stakes, all of this had to be given up like this, and the knuckles of the fingers clenched in his heart turned white.

"Lord Earl, defending the city is the best choice, and when the number of troops is not as good as the enemy, we can only do so." Brother Ellvet told Arold that although huddling in the castle would cause some damage to the territory, as long as the castle could be held, the enemy would have to leave one day, and it would not be too late to resume production at that time.

"How's the asphalt stockpile?" Arold nodded, forming an army requires long-term training and a lot of money, in order to supplement the shortage of soldiers, Arold has made a lot of equipment and weapons, and asphalt is used for projection.

"Don't worry, Lord Earl, we have stockpiled enough asphalt and stones to use, and the crossbow on the arrow tower will surely surprise Rostold." Brother Elsvet was well aware of the terrible weapons in Arold's hands, including the Whirlwind Cannon. What's more, Arold has been ordering the craftsmen in the castle to make crossbows, this kind of heavily equipped light crossbow is foot-pedal, and the other heavy crossbow experimented in the smelting base, which is a crossbow with a crank and a winch, has a range of three and a half times that of a light crossbow, and the lethality is much greater, but the disadvantage is that the time interval between firing is too long, and the number is too small.

"The hussars were ordered to evacuate the villagers along the Rostock route into the castle, fill the wells and cut down the fruit trees. Not a single grain shall be left for the enemy. The burning of the house left them with no place to take refuge and rest. Arold turned his head to look in the direction of the Rostock's attack, and said through gritted teeth that he wanted to make these Rostockians who dared to attack him suffer.

A few days later, the chief of Rostock, assembled on the border of Mecklenburg County, looked at the vassals gathered around him. The chiefs of these tribes from the territory of Rostock County brought their warriors with them. Under the banner representing their coat of arms. Coming to the big tent of the chieftain of Rostock, they took off their hats and saluted their monarch.

"Honorable Chief, our master. I have brought forty-five strong warriors with me to serve you at your disposal. "The leader of the Bedol tribe of Rostock, dressed in leather armor and with a full beard and shaved hair, stretched out his strong right arm and pointed behind him, and a group of strong Slavs with round shields and axes in their hands, dressed in thick linen shirts and trousers, lined up in a loose line.

"Well, well done, now we have gathered a thousand warriors, let the Germans who blasphemed the gods of Lomwa pay with their blood." The chief of Rostock looked at the banners gathered in the camp with satisfaction, and his vassals brought their troops in accordance with their oaths.

The tents with spires in the clearing at the edge of the forest were dense like stars, and the Slavic warriors were grinding their axes, fighting each other, and still others sitting on the grass and watching the people fighting each other.

"Our master, when are you going to attack?" The chieftains of Rostock stood beside the chieftain, their eyes showed bloodlust and greed, Mecklenburg had a fur trading stronghold, and an excellent natural sheltered port, several times richer than Rostock, coveted by their poor clanging mountain people, but in the past, because they were also Slavs who believed in Omvaism, and under the oppressive rule of the great chief of Mecklenburg, each of them dared to go beyond the thunder pool, but now it was different, where the pagan Germans ruled, And the chief of Rostock was still on the orders of Bilis, and the attack on Mecklenburg County was simply justified.

"If I take Mecklenburgshire, the land will fall into my hands." Chief Rostock's eyes narrowed, and he licked his lips, greed for land and wealth was the reason he agreed to Bilis's orders.

When the vassals' patience reached its limit, the Rostock chieftain finally raised his cupager and pointed in the direction of Mecklenburg, and a thousand Rostock soldiers doused the bonfire with water from wooden barrels, put away their tents, and crossed the border between Mecklenburg and Rostock under the leadership of their own chieftain, nobles.

As soon as the Rostockians entered Mecklenburg County, the hussars on the border immediately conveyed the news to Arrod in Mecklenburg County, where the war drums and noise of the Rostock people were unscrupulous, and the leaders and nobles rode proudly on their horses, looking at the land under their feet, they were already calculating in their hearts how much benefit they could gain from this expedition, and the soldiers carried their spears, carried the axes at their waists, and held the round shields on their arms, bustling as if they were rushing to a market.

"I heard that the Germans defeated the hero Kang Tuoyi, are we their opponents?" Some of the troops worried about their comrades that the defeat of the hero Kang Tuoyi had dealt a heavy blow to the Slavs' psyche, and they never thought that any generous, valiant hero who was loved by the gods would be defeated by Germain.

"Come on, what's there to worry about, Kang Tuoyi is the murderer of Momis, he has been spurned by the gods, and there is nothing surprising about failure. I heard that those Germanic people were small in number, they were weak and weak, and they were not our opponents at all. "But there were also dissenting in the troops, who shouted at the coward, the spearmen of the direct jurisdiction of the chief of Rostock, who had been trained in the castle of Rostock since childhood, and who even had the illegitimate sons of nobles, so that they were stronger in physique and courage than the average tribal warrior.

"That's good." Listening to the words of the people from the side of the noble chief of Rostock made everyone feel a lot more relieved, and the beating of war drums at this time also made the blood of the light infantry surge.

"See what's that?" Suddenly, someone at the front of the procession exclaimed, and as they passed through the border forest, a sight they had never seen before appeared in front of them, and the marching procession stopped.

"Honorable Chief, please take a look ahead~~~." When the chief of Rostock heard the words of the soldiers in front of him, he hurriedly kicked his horse under his crotch, and when he came to the front of the group, he saw several thick black smoke rising from the endless fields, and the villages and settlements along the way were on fire.

"Damn the Germans, are they crazy?" Seeing the villages burned along the way, the leaders who followed the chieftains of Rostock were wide-eyed, they did not expect that the Germans would be so vicious and burned all the villages themselves, and a sense of foreboding appeared in their hearts, without the villages along the way to replenish food, with their own baggage food could not last even a week, and the distance to transport supplies from Rostock County was long, and what could be replenished would be limited.

Squeak~~~, hearing the sound of the iron door opening, Kang Tuoyi just reflexively raised his head, his eyes were red and swollen, his finger joints were swollen, and malnutrition made him sometimes have auditory hallucinations, but this time someone really opened the iron door and walked in.

"Kang Tuoyi, my brother, are you okay." Billis's voice reached Kang Tuoyi's ears, he hadn't come to see his brother in secret for a long time, and today it seemed that Bilis was in a good mood, and he personally went to visit Kang Tuoyi in this damp and smelly dungeon.

"Billis, am I dreaming?" Kang Tuoyi's chapped lips trembled.

"No, not a dream. I'm here to tell you good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first? Billis said triumphantly to Kang Tuoyi.

"Hear the bad news first, but there's more bad news than being locked up in a dungeon right now." Kang Tuoyi was silent for a while, and then said to Billis.

"Well, I was hoping you would hear the good news, so you'll feel better." Billis said in a slurping voice, as if in a tone of pity.

"Hmph."

"Your wife committed suicide, and she seemed unable to bear the charge of murdering her own brother, and stabbed herself in the throat with a dagger and died."

"What? What is all this for? Kang Tuoyi was taken aback after hearing Billis's words, tears flowed involuntarily in shock, and his hands trembled and hugged his head.

"Look, I knew it would be like this, but my good news may interest you, I have sent the Chief of Rostock to attack the Germans of Mecklenburg, and he will avenge you, my poor brother, and rest assured, I will chop off the head of that little boy who calls himself Count of Mecklenburg, and wash away the humiliation of defeat for you, Haluha." Billis unceremoniously mocks his hero-titled brother, perhaps the eruption of a long-standing grudge.

"Chief Rostock? He's going to fail. Kang Tuoyi lifted his face, his beard was dirty and full of lice, but his eyes were clear, and he warned Bilis.

"Hey, looks like you're out of your mind." Billis looked at his former excellent brother in front of him with the eyes of a bedbug, and he didn't take Kang Tuoyi's words to heart at all. (To be continued......)

PS: Although the recent update of this book is relatively slow, the outline has just been expanded, I hope you will be patient and watch, and the plot will be more exciting.