"What do you say? Rhodok's army heading north?! ”

Byron had just gotten up in the morning, and before he could brush his teeth with the herbal juice of his own pig's hair toothbrush, Desaivi and Bandak barged in and told him the latest investigation.

"That's right, Serindil belonged to Count Rimusk of Rhodok, and he always wanted to take it back. Now he had gathered his troops in another of his fiefdoms, Imer, and had joined forces with part of Viruga's garrison. Our scouts estimated them at two thousand, fully armed, and carrying siege weapons. ”

Bandak's expression was serious, which meant that the problem was really serious.

"To dare to attack us before winter has passed, this earl is too bold. What about the guards in the city? We can stop them, right? ”

Hearing the number 2000, Byron couldn't help but be shocked.

Although Thrindil had successfully defended under the attack of more than 3,000 Rhodok soldiers, Byron had gathered all the forces of the Peony mercenaries, as well as the two barons of Thrindil, and reinforcements arrived in time to relieve the siege, and won the victory.

At that time, the garrison of Serindil was close to 1,000 people, and now there are only 200 Peony cavalry and 120 militia to maintain the peace and order of the town.

The main force of the Peony mercenaries is busy performing mercenary tasks in the north, and they will definitely not be able to come back now.

Even if the soldiers were well armed, they were not strong enough to hold the town under attack by an enemy force seven times their size. If nothing else, in order to hold the wall, these 300 people must fight day and night, and the other party can attack in batches, day and night. In that case, the town would have fallen before reinforcements arrived.

"I'm afraid we don't have enough troops, sir."

Bandak shook his head, and replied in response to Byron's conjecture.

"What about Baron Phyllis and Baron Zico? When will their troops arrive? ”

"I'm afraid it won't be there, a gang of robbers raided Baron Phyllis's territory last night, those people must have received aid from the south, the village was looted, and Baron Phyllis's soldiers were mostly lost. Now that he had fled north with Baron Zico, he did not want to come to the town at all. ”

"Zico's territory is close to the border, and he should have been the first to spot the enemy attack. It seems that he had no hope for us in the first place. ”

Byron sighed, a little helpless. Baron Zico should have been the first to discover Rhodok's army, but he did not immediately inform Byron, who was responsible for the lordship, but directly rolled up his belongings and left, obviously he had little hope that Byron could defeat the other party.

"And there is also a change on the side of Agollongburg, which seems to want to cooperate with Count Rimuske. If they send another one or two thousand men, we won't win. ”

Bandak told Byron very clearly.

"Well, it's my fault, I overestimated the damage the plague had done to them, and underestimated their resolve."

Byron hurriedly put on his clothes and went downstairs with Bandak. When they went downstairs, they never stopped talking.

"Your ...... for breakfast, sir?"

"Johnny? You have come just in time, and now go out of town, find Fatis and Ellenn, and let them come to Serindil with their soldiers. ”

Johnny, who was supposed to call Byron to breakfast, was immediately pulled out and sent to the village outside the town to call back Fatis and Ellene.

In addition to the two of them, there were a number of soldiers in charge of patrolling and policing in the village they managed, about 20 people in total, which was better than nothing for Byron.

"Serindil is afraid that he will not be able to hold it, pack up his things, and if it really doesn't work, we will withdraw."

............

"Count Rimuske, we've taken the village ahead, but it seems to have been badly destroyed by the bandits."

Outside a southwestern village in Serindil, a squad of about 300 Rhodok infantry was repairing outside the village, and the galloping horse banner of Count Rimusk and the double-headed eagle banner of Count Mateas on a red and blue background fluttered in the sky above the unit, proving that the force belonged to it.

And at the front of the troops, Count Rimusk, dressed in thick plate armor and in the prime of life, was listening to the report of his sergeant.

"There will inevitably be losses in the war, not to mention the fact that the people of this village have betrayed me and sworn allegiance to the mercenary lord of Svadia, and this betrayal will not escape punishment."

"But now I want to know what the robbers want to do now? We gave them a lot of weapons and equipment, so that these rabble also had the ability to attack and occupy the garrison villages. If they don't want to join us, we must exterminate them immediately, or these hundred or so bandits will become a big problem for us! ”

Count Rimusk had come with the intention of reclaiming his fiefdom, and he could not care less about the more than 100 bandit troops who were also armed, which would pose a threat to the security of his domain.

He financed the robbers, providing them with supplies and even equipment, hoping that they would attract Byron's attention and draw their main force out and defeat them in one fell swoop.

However, the bandits were much more explosive than he had imagined, and they plundered two villages and routed Baron Phyllis's forces. This power cannot be ignored any longer.

"Their leader wants to meet with you to discuss the benefits of following you."

The sergeant replied.

"Greedy! But it's better to have more people than not enough. ”

Count Rimusk cursed, but still led his troops to the village to meet the greedy robbers.

Although the large army is still marching beyond this side under the leadership of the military councilor Wiruga, there is still a certain distance from him. No matter how confident the Count was, the soldiers around him outnumbered the other side in quantity and quality, and he was fully confident that he would be able to kill them when they couldn't get along.

When they entered the village, it was littered with untreated corpses, loaded with grain and vegetables dumped on the ground and scattered everywhere.

And in some rooms, you can still hear the sound of women crying, and what happened is self-evident.

When the robbers, who had been sitting lazily in the village, saw them, they gathered together and went to call the chief.

But before the robbers could summon the bandit leader, who was a bit of a big player, Count Rimusk and his soldiers discovered the enemy.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard on the other side of the village, and the robbers on the other side of the village were yelling.

"How did these robbers survive in the forest? How did they escape the pursuit of the Yankees with this kind of reconnaissance ability? ”

Count Rimusk cursed twice and ordered his troops to prepare for a cavalry attack.