"Speaking of Johnny being rescued by him, Johnny, how did you get found out at the time? What's going on? Tell me more! Ivo stared at Johnny with burning eyes.

Johnny trembled with fright, and hurriedly told himself and the elf Ayton about how they were discovered, but of course he hid the fact that he revealed the information, and only deduced that the elf Ayton himself said that he leaked his mouth, and he pointed to the sky to say that he was extremely loyal to the elves, and he definitely did not do anything to be sorry for the elf kingdom.

"They were going to put me to death, but Robert saved me, otherwise I might have been hung at the gate like Lord Ayton! General, Lord Kanis, trust me! I have served the elven kingdom for so many years, and there is no merit and hard work! Besides, if I had betrayed the kingdom, Lord Kanise would have been caught by Jian Chen! ”

Ivo nodded, noncommittal, but turned to Kanis and asked, "Is there anything else in the special?" ”

"One more thing is a little strange, the lord made an announcement with a bit of a strange content, and I still can't figure out why he did it!"

"Announcement?"

"This is it!" Kanis took out a document that had obviously been torn out of some place and handed it to Ivan, "I think the general might want to see it, so I brought it." ”

After reading the announcement in his hand, Ivo smiled slightly.

Although he has an impatient personality and is hot-blooded, Ivan is not a brainless elf, on the contrary, he is an elf who has a lot of ideas and likes to think.

Otherwise, how could he be favored by the Elven King, promoted to general, and specially sent him to Harmondale to perform such an important task.

Even if there is an element that hones his character, it also shows that the Elf King admires Ivo very much, otherwise why bother to hone it?

The content of the announcement in his hand, the information provided by several secret agents, the inside story revealed by the human traitor, and the performance of the lord so far, these factors combined to make Ivo gradually understand the ins and outs of the matter and the lord's thoughts.

This lord is really a little clever.

After quickly capturing Johnny and Ayton and getting information that the elves were going to attack Hammondal, there was a reason for what the lord had done.

He must have reported this important information to the Empire first, and asked for the support of the Empress's army.

Then he made this proclamation, which seemed inexplicable to many, and seemed stupid, but in fact it was shrewd, and he made a gesture of dying in order to show his loyalty to His Majesty the Empress.

As long as he can successfully hold on to the arrival of the empress's army, his hat of diligence and love for the people and loyalty to the country will be considered stable, and there are so many lords and soldiers and subordinates to help him testify, not to mention that he also killed the captured elven spy in public, so the empress can't believe it.

When the time comes, it will definitely be indispensable to increase the number of officials and knights.

In order to achieve the goal of holding on and waiting for reinforcements, this lord even resorted to quite shameless tactics, abandoning the outer defense and the castle, and retreating his army deep into the ground, trying to use the terrain to offset the enemy's numerical advantage and increase his chances of victory.

At the same time, just in case, this lord also stored a large amount of materials underground, preparing for a long-term battle, and in this way, even if he sealed the exit, they would not have to worry about eating and drinking underground, and they could support for a long time, as long as the empress's army arrived, they would naturally be rescued.

Unless he can break into this basement, or collapse the entire basement and bury them alive, or find all the ventilation holes in this basement to block and suffocate them, the lord is really invincible.

Ivo suddenly finds things interesting, and the war doesn't seem to be as easy as he thought.

Although it was not a big scene, the elven general's enthusiasm for war was completely mobilized.

Although the enemy's plan is good, there is a big flaw, that is, he takes the defeat of the elves as a major premise in his plan.

If the elves win and take the crypt well, or if the empress's army is repulsed, then the lord's approach is to dig his own grave.

The secret passage in the wine cellar was quickly discovered by Robert and a group of dwarves, the reason is very simple, the location of the wine cellar Robert knows, and the entrance to the secret passage in the wine cellar is so obvious - the secret door at the entrance is not closed at all, and it is so clear under the light of the torches on the wall.

"He's demonstrating to us!"

Ivo, who came to the scene, smiled coldly, disapproving, and immediately ordered the dwarven leader to lead people into the secret passage to find the trace of the enemy, the dwarves like to live underground the most, that is their world, if there is a race on the continent of Erathia that is best at fighting in the narrow passage underground, it must be the dwarves.

The first battle between the two sides soon began.

Along the winding tunnel, the dwarves soon came to the spiral-shaped steps, and the cautious dwarven warriors had just descended to the bottom of the steps, and before they could see what was happening in front of them, they were met with a head-on attack by the Hammondale Lord's Guard.

The tunnel is very narrow, the widest part can only accommodate three people walking side by side, and the narrowest place, it is a bit difficult for two people to walk side by side.

The short passage from the bottom of the stairs to Terrence Rocken's execution chamber, which is less than twenty meters, happens to be the narrowest section of the tunnel.

Chen Jian's chosen defensive location was precisely this part of the road, and he laid out a fortification more than half a person high with sandbags at the exit, and several guards soldiers were lying on top of the sandbags with light crossbows.

When the first dwarf appeared on the passage, the guards attacked, and several arrows of interest whizzed towards the dwarf's head, which was poking out from behind his shield to observe the situation.

Although the hapless dwarf was protected by a steel helmet on his head, he was unfortunately shot in the face, and died on the spot after snorting.

His heavy body fell backwards and fell, his shield and hammer falling to the ground, a loud thud echoing through the tunnel.

Because this passage was so narrow, the dwarves in full steel armor could only pass in line one by one, and the dwarves suddenly made a commotion when they saw that their companions at the front had just turned the corner and fell.

Of course, the dwarven warriors who walked higher in front stopped immediately, but the dwarves behind were completely unaware, and they were still walking forward one by one, and the passage was quickly crowded into a ball, pushing the companions in front of them to the next and west.

The dwarf who was originally walking in second place had already stopped, but when he was pushed by the people behind him, he involuntarily rushed forward.

The crossbowmen arranged by the lord behind the sandbag are divided into shooters, passers, and loaders, and the shooters finish shooting, hand over the crossbow to the loader behind them, and at the same time take the new crossbow handed by the passer, and shoot again. When the loader is reloaded, the crossbow is passed to the passer for later use.

In this way, the continuity of shooting was maintained, and Jian Chen originally wanted to set up a crossbow array with three shots, but the place was too small to place.

When the second dwarf staggered into the shooter's field of vision, the soldiers who had completed the relay immediately fired again.

After the training of the half-elves, the shooting accuracy of the soldiers has been greatly improved, and the distance between the two sides is so close, if they still can't shoot, it will be really unreasonable.

So the second dwarf fell again without any suspense.

(1st Update)