Among the three major passes in the north, the Mosalen Bridge is the most critical.

The other two, the Frost Canyon and the Black Pine Forest, even if they are broken through, there are still natural dangers behind them to continue to retreat, but this bridge, once it is broken by the undead, there is a smooth road behind it, as long as it rushes over, the undead legion can almost sweep the north.

With this in mind, Rollin arrived here with an army of 5,000 and personally garrisoned the bridge.

Frost Canyon, then temporarily by Joseph. Martin was stationed. The Black Pine Forest, on the other hand, is a temporary defense of Zacrow. Of course, this is all only temporary, Rollin's plan is for the frost giants to defend the canyon, the orcs to set up checkpoints in the forest, and the Terrans to all go to the Mosalen Bridge.

In doing so, they were able to give full play to their respective ethnic strengths and avoid conflicts between them.

The Mosalen Bridge is located on the second largest river in the principality, the Heishui River, which is nearly a kilometer wide and has a gentle current, from which the water is black because of its depth, hence the name of the black water.

The bridge is made entirely of boulders, and was built 300 years ago in the slowest part of the Heishui River. It is said that at that time, five * divisions and hundreds of high-level magicians were dispatched, and the entire bridge was almost integrated, with a bridge deck of nearly 20 meters wide and 1,100 meters long, and two huge bridge piers stood on the bridge deck on the left and right, and a tall defensive fortress was built around the bridge piers.

Such a majestic bridge is a miracle of this era.

There are defenders here, but because the principality has not had a major war in the past ten years, and recently because of the Davik fortress, the Grand Duke has taken away a large part of the defenders here, so now the defenders on the bridge are only 500 people, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled. Excluding the quota for empty salaries, there are only two hundred people who can really fight.

Two hundred men were nothing in front of the five thousand elite divisions led by Rollin, and as soon as the army arrived, the defenders immediately opened the door to greet them.

Rollin took over the bridge. Then he immediately began to prepare the fortifications, and at the same time sent emissaries to the tribes of the continent, sending letters for help, and asking for the assistance of the lords everywhere in the name of defending against the darkness.

It is impossible for 5,000 soldiers to defend this bridge, and in front of the undead legion of 100,000 at every turn, they are as small as ants in front of elephants.

Therefore, the matter of recruiting warriors was put on the agenda by Rollin for the first time.

It was on the third day of Rollin's arrival at the bridge. The island of Fix sent its first batch of food, enough to feed 20,000 people for a year, which relieved Rollin's urgent need.

The reason why Fix Island was able to come up with so much food was because the Davik Fortress was defeated too quickly. On that day, the Grand Duke demanded compensation, and Fix Island had just shipped a batch. Just as he was about to ship the second batch, the fortress fell. The second shipment was then diverted to the Mosalen Bridge.

The situation was similar in Maple Leaf and Levine counties in Rollin, where only a third of the support promised to the Grand Duke had been shipped that day, which was a great blessing in disguise, as it was fortunate that these precious grains did not end up in Davik Fortress.

One of the advantages of the Mosalen Bridge is that grain can be transported all the way by merchant ships, and a single ship can carry hundreds of tons of grain, which saves a lot of costs.

The merchant ships were accompanied by Horn and hundreds of officials. They had come to help Rollin arrange for refugees from the south.

On the fourth day, the group of refugees from the south arrived, and the terrain of Frost Canyon and Black Pine Forest was relatively rugged. It is extremely difficult to pass, so basically all refugees come to the Mosalen Bridge.

Standing in the fortress and looking out, Rollin saw a winding procession stretching into the sky on the plain, almost endlessly, and every fleeing refugee was unkempt. There was wind and frost on the face, and in this early winter weather rushed to the north. It's really hard.

In the crowd, scouts on horseback galloped past the group. After entering the fortress, there was a knock at the door, and the squire led the scout into the door.

"How many refugees are there in this wave?" Rollin asked.

"The refugee procession is about 30 miles long, with nearly 200,000 people, and most of them are strong young men and women, very few old people and babies, and the youngest children are over seven or eight years old, and they all walk on their own."

Why are there no old people and babies? Because in the process of fleeing, they couldn't keep up with the team, their parents and relatives couldn't help, everyone was hungry to death, and they were hurrying day and night, for fear of being on top of the undead army behind them, it was already very good to not fall behind.

And this is only the first wave, and if nothing else, more refugees will continue to come.

It's just that in this way, I don't know how many people have been ruined, Rollin sighed, and said to Horn, who was standing beside him: "Who would have thought that the situation would become so bad." ”

It's too fast, nearly two years faster than in his previous life, and even Rollin is a little unprepared.

Horn was also looking at the refugee team, his face was heavy: "There are too many people, we can only try our best to save people, but how much can we save, who we have saved, and who has not been saved, I don't dare to think about it at all." ”

In the process of escaping, his wife was separated, his children were eaten, and there was an epidemic of epidemics, the details of which were unbearable.

Luo Lin was silent for a while, and then said to the attendant: "You go and call the quartermaster to come." ”

After a while, a lean man entered the room, and Luo Lin said: "This team is 200,000 people, and there may be more in the future, can the food in the fort hold up?" ”

Of course, Rollin did not deliver food to every refugee, but he set up a relief shop on the bridge, and distributed a few portions of food to each refugee who crossed the bridge, so that they could have a full meal, and then there was some food on the way, hoping that they could go further north.

Of course, in order to prevent each other from robbing, there are soldiers to supervise all the way.

The quartermaster looked tired, silently calculated, and then replied: "Marshal, if you save a little, our food can help more than 500,000 people." ”

Horn said, "The next batch of grain will arrive in about ten days, and it should be able to be picked up." Maple Leaf County's grain is also heading south, and it is estimated that it will arrive the day after tomorrow. ”

"That's good." Rollin nodded, he looked at the bridge again, there were still many priests on it, Cornworth was also here, he was treating the refugees who passed the bridge, every priest was working very hard, trying to treat every sick or injured refugee.

Because of the excessive consumption of divine arts, they were all pale in the face, and without divine arts, they were treated with drugs and potions, and they never stopped from just now to now.

Rollin looked at it for a while, and then said to the attendant, "Go and call the recruiter." ”

Now there are only 5,000 people on the bridge, which is not enough at all, and the army of the undead is coming, and they are estimated to be forced to blow up the bridge, but this is the last option, and they will never use it unless they have to.

Now there are so many refugees, of course, conscription.

The recruiter also came, he was Langergo, who had followed Rollin all the way from the mountain town of Vendôme, and was now an elite warrior of level 30, and he was really a rare martial arts genius.

"How's it going? How many people are willing to stay? Rollin asked.

Langergo saluted Rollin and reported: "Marshal, in more than three hours since the arrival of the refugees, we have recruited a thousand young men of good physique. ”

1,000 people in three hours, and they were recruited according to Rollin's high standards, which was very good, and Rollin was very satisfied.

"Very good, you go on, we will add at least 100,000 fighters this time."

100,000 people, with the help of the Heishui River natural insurance, should be enough to defend this bridge.

"Yes, Marshal!" Longago turned and went back to work.

The refugees continued to pour in, as if endlessly, but by the third day, the quartermaster had counted 800,000 refugees.

These refugees who crossed the bridge must be resettled reasonably, otherwise it will have a huge impact on the original northern border, and even civil strife will occur.

In this regard, Rollin relied on a reclamation decree, which stipulated that in the north, whoever reclaimed the wasteland was the owner of the land, and the ownership was protected by the Silver Crusader commander Count Maple Leaf, and the seeds were also provided by the Earl Maple Leaf, as long as the seeds were repaid after receiving the crops in the following year.

This trick has been used on Fix Island, which can quickly allow refugees to find something to do, and their lives will be prosperous, so as not to gather crowds to make trouble.

Of course, laws and regulations are good, but in order to implement them so as not to become bad governance, reliable officials are needed to manage them.

For this purpose, Horn had already taken the officials he had brought with him from Fix Island to the North. These officials were very capable and experienced, and they arranged for refugees in the north to help Rollin worry about the future.

Of course, this reclamation order would infringe on the interests of some lords in the north, and some lords tried to oppose it, but they had no soldiers, and this resistance was weak.

Rollin didn't come hard, he opened an IOU to Iona's dragon vault, lent 500,000 gold coins, and compensated the lord for the losses one by one, so the lord was satisfied.

This slight wave of revolt was lightly suppressed.

By the tenth day, the number of refugees who had passed through the Guò Bridge had reached two million, and from the information from the scouts, all those who could escape from the south had already escaped, and a small number of them had followed Archduke Lehman to the kingdom of Aoraki, and most of them had come to Mosalen, after all, no one liked to go to other countries unless they had to, and the north had a great attraction from the Reclamation Decree.

The warriors who had been stationed at the lakeside fortress and Swan Castle also came. When the Davik Fortress fell, the Lakeside Fortress was in a mortal battle with the undead legion, and after receiving the news from Rollin, the fortress commander immediately gave up the defense, and fled the fortress from Bishui Lake with the remaining 12,000 soldiers, passing through Swan Castle, mixing with the defenders of the fortress, a total of 18,000 people, and marched north together.

These soldiers joined the defense of the Mosalen Bridge, and the defenders on the bridge reached 58,000 men. Twenty-eight of them were veterans of battle. Thirty thousand are recruits recruited from refugees these days.

When there are more soldiers, the lack of weapons and equipment is reflected, and most of the recruits have no weapons, and they use a wooden stick during training.

But on the tenth day, Rollin, who was stationed at the Mosalen Bridge, received the first foreign reinforcements, who were dwarves from the mountains. (To be continued)