Of course, Kasia didn't know that the entire team of infantry members that followed her horse team was not human at all, but a group of alchemy soldiers with a human appearance, but a 'robot' inside.

These alchemist soldiers do not need any rest or resupply, as long as the leader of their crossers gives the order, they will be endlessly engaged in battle until the enemy or themselves are completely destroyed. As for staying up at a high speed without sleep, it's not a problem for them. Unless it is a moat with no road at all, it is regarded as a road in their eyes.

Just as Yang Qianyu muttered, Yang Qianyu deliberately commanded the team to slow down the march several times along the way, and even simply ordered the speed of the team to be halved after it was completely dark, so that the alchemy soldiers under his command could always stay two or three hundred meters away from the riding horse team in front. At this distance, the people in the front horse team can only see the infantry in the rear running closely at high speed, but they can't see that these infantry are not red or out of breath in the wild running, and there is no trace of fatigue at all (this is also the shortcoming that can most directly expose the actual identity of the alchemy soldiers, because this is something that humans can't do at all). Otherwise, if these alchemy soldiers were allowed to march with the knight ranks, and those knights would see the performance of the alchemy soldiers, I am afraid that they would be stupid on the spot.

Of course, Kasha also wondered why the infantry team behind her had been able to maintain a high speed and not fall behind, but at this time she didn't bother to think about it. Now all her energy is focused on how to get to Hump Fort in time, and what the situation is like in Hump Fort now.

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At the same time, Fort Hump.

When Luna Maria and her party arrived at Hump Fort, the sun was just below the horizon. The men passed through the porous encirclement of Manchado's army (from which one could assume that the enemy's fleeing ambush force had not yet joined the main force) and arrived at the southwest gate of the fortress. Nguyen Kunpeng, who was originally one of the people who crossed the crowd, was also worried that there would be a plot of the novel where the defenders could not identify the identity of the person who came because the night was so dark that they misunderstood and then attacked their own people, but what happened next showed that he had obviously read too much of the bloody and boring novels. The guards on the wall quickly recognized the leader Luna Maria and quickly opened the gate, and the group of more than twenty people quickly entered the fortress, and met with Lord Wussack, who had heard the news and came to greet him. After some pleasantries, Luna Maria arranged for her sister Meiling to lead her subordinates to eat and rest quickly, while she and her colleagues Ressa and Lord Wusack went to the northeast wall to observe the layout of the enemy's main camp. Originally, Shi Jinxin, Ruan Kunpeng and Zhang Boyin were the allies who came to support, and both Namaria and Lord Wusak said that it would be better for the three of them to go to rest first, but the three of them also said that they also wanted to observe the situation of the enemy army, so a group of six people came to the northeast side of the fortress and watched the camp of the Manchado army outside the fortress.

According to Lord Usack, the enemy appeared at dawn, numbering about a hundred at the time, and was spotted by the guards on the castle's watchtower during an attempt to storm the northeast gate of the fort. The enemy troops who failed in the sneak attack quickly retreated and withdrew from the attack range of the fortress's arrow tower, and then saw that the enemy team was divided into two, half of which blocked the northeast gate, and the other half detoured back to the southwest gate of the fortress.

About an hour later, in the early morning, another force of enemy troops appeared in the field of view of the watchtower sentinels, numbering more than four hundred. The enemy forces joined forces at the northeast gate and launched a tentative attack on the castle, only to be forced back by the castle defenders with bows and arrows. After the failure of the tentative attack, the enemy began to camp on the spot and began assembling improvised siege weapons, while also sending several teams to patrol around.

Seeing that the enemy was coming prepared, and that his strength was far outnumbered by the defenders. Lord Wussack immediately sent an elite ten-man squad to break through the southwest gate of the castle to the town of Prailly for help. The rescue team encountered the enemy troops blocking at the southwest gate during the breakout, and although more than half of the team members were killed in the encounter, the surviving team members still broke through and successfully passed the news out in time. When Lord Usack saw that the reinforcement team sent out had successfully broken through, he ordered the entire fortress to be put on high alert, and gathered weapons to defend the city and prepared to wait for reinforcements.

"Lord Woosak, I beg your pardon." Lesa looked at the Manchado army camp opposite the fortress, frowned and asked, "Looking at the scale of the lights in the camp opposite, it seems that the number of enemy troops camped is far more than four or five hundred." ”

"Ah, that's right—in the afternoon another force of about three hundred men appeared." "So the enemy is currently numbering about 800 people, but not all of them are in the camp at the moment - except for a few dozen scouts blocking the southwest gate of the fort, the enemy army has divided its forces again after the main camp has begun to take shape, and there is a team of 100 people who have bypassed the Hump Fort and penetrated deep into the heart of the Prairly territory, probably to raid and destroy the surrounding villages......"

Luna Maria, Shi Jinxin and the others looked at each other when they heard this, and then they all smiled in unison.

"That team doesn't have to worry about that, Uncle Wusak." Luna Maria smiled and said to Lord Woosack, "We have already fought this enemy army when we came, and I think they are no longer a threat at all. ”

"That's the only good news for the day." Lord Wussack had learned from the previous greetings that Luna Maria and her party had been ambushed on the way but had killed their opponents, and his originally melancholy face suddenly relaxed. "But even so, the enemy still has more than 700 troops, seven times the number of our side. If they launch a siege after dawn tomorrow, we will not be able to hold it. ”

"Does Uncle have any suggestions?" Luna Maria asked.

Lord Wussack hesitated for a moment and said, "Hump Fort is not so much a fortress, but it is only as large as a large outpost, and it is not suitable as a stronghold on which to rely for defense. If the Earl's follow-up reinforcements don't arrive in time, then we will have to abandon the fortress and retreat after repelling the first round of attacks from our opponents. ”

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Meanwhile, inside the Manchado military camp.

"Bastard——! Idiot——! Waste ——! ”

"Woo ——!" A silver-plated wine glass slammed into the ground, and the one who dropped it was a middle-aged man about fifty years old. This person is none other than the Earl Lord of Manchado and the current head of the Bilgard family, 'Mosara Bilgard'. The plan to lead the troops to raid Hump Fort went well, and he was in a good mood, so after the camp was set up, he arranged a small banquet and a wine tasting with his knights. But when his lieutenant entered the camp and told him the news, the good mood vanished.

"The ambush force that blocked the opposing reinforcements was actually defeated? Is all my raising waste?! What about the Maris guy? And what about Nossa and Damon? Get those three guys out there and meet me! ”

"I'm sorry, sir." The adjutant of the messenger bowed his head and cautiously replied: "According to the soldiers who fled back, the three knights including Maris have been killed in battle. ”

"All dead?!" Not only Mosara Birgard was stunned when he heard this, but all the knights present were shocked by the news.