Otherworldly, April of the second year of the new calendar in the Northland. The long winter has finally passed, and the power of the frost goddess Aulul has greatly faded. The temperature warms up, everything recovers, and the earth is in spring.

Zhou Qingfeng paid attention to the southwest at the beginning of the 93rd year, and by July, under the combination of guidance and crackdown, the drug trafficking forces in the Golden Triangle were smashed by him, and they either died or fled.

The system judged that Zhou Qingfeng's work was successful and efficient, could be promoted and replicated, and made a huge contribution to the country and the people, and gave a perfect reward, 10 million bonds.

But after giving a reward, Zhou Qingfeng was promoted to level fifteen by the way, his soul entered yellow, and his strength jumped significantly. The cost of one death became more than 3.2 million bonds.

It's a fucking maddening exponential increase!

Return to the Atlas again, standing on the walls of the newly built fortress in Fog Town and looking south. The green scenery in the spring seems to be pleasant, but in fact it is a deserted field that no one cultivates.

With Fog Town as the boundary, the farmers of the Banshee Castle to the south have been on the run since last winter. They entered the town of Fog, received relief from Coldwind City through the harsh winter, and were added to Lord Hugo's roster of lords.

In order to deal with Zhou Qingfeng's fortress, the Buchi family of Banshee Castle was also forced to build a fortress in Shitan Town, fifty kilometers to the south. Taller and larger than the fortress in Fog Town, it can be used to stock up more troops and food and launch more fierce attacks.

It is too difficult to carry out large-scale project construction in the icy winter. Coldwind City has explosives and kobolds. The Banshee Castle mobilized the wizards of the cities of the Northlands and took the lives of the untouchables to fill it.

The untouchables of the House of Buchi have been on the run all winter, as have the untouchables of the Northlands. They poured into the territory of Coldwind City in search of refuge, and the fallen corpses along the way formed signposts along the way.

Zhou Qingfeng stood at the head of the fortress of dense fog, and he could clearly feel the madness of his opponent's desperate bets. Regardless of whether or not they can defeat Coldwind City, the Northland nobles will have a big drop in strength. Because they completely abandoned spring ploughing and took the initiative to attack.

A thousand meters south of the fortress of the dense fog, an aristocratic army of about 2,000 troops was stationed on the road.

"On the opposite side are five hundred knights on foot and one hundred and twenty wizards. The rest were all heavy infantry served by nobles. Adrian stood behind Zhou Qingfeng and reported on the strength of the enemy on the opposite side.

"The Butch family has really come to fight hard. They forwent carriage transportation and gathered a number of wizards' storage rings to supply the team. Just to prevent our wanton harassment. ”

In the telescope, enemy wizards build circles on the spot, building makeshift wizards' towers. This can greatly strengthen the combat power of wizards, but it is completely based on years of accumulation to fight for consumption.

"The Buchi family really figured it out." Zhou Qingfeng put down the binoculars. He was able to force the nobles of the Northland to this point, which was also unexpected, and it was difficult for both parties to accept.

The Fog Fort was built two months earlier than the Stony Beach Fort. The men and horses of Coldwind City used the fortress as a base and continued to move south, crossing the mountains and fields like wolves, and entering the surroundings of the Banshee Fortress to attack.

Ordinary local nobles have limited power, and it is impossible to resist the targeted attacks of Cold Wind City. In the past two months, Zhou Qingfeng has caused huge losses to the Buchi family, as if a large piece of flesh has been dug up on its body.

The clumsy aristocratic system is completely incapable of adapting to a fast and ferocious style of play. They were forced to defend while speeding up the construction of the rocky beach fort. As a result, more untouchables died, triggering even greater flights.

Now that the Rocky Beach Fort has been repaired, the Butchers are desperate for revenge. They couldn't organize a small team of a large number of dozens of people efficiently and flexibly, so two thousand people came.

"Who's the commander on the other side?"

"Farrell of the Horn Fort hemlock family is in-law with the Butch family and has a very good relationship. His territory is mostly mountainous, so the hemlock family is basically a foot knight. ”

"Does that guy like to wear a horned helmet, heavy chain armor, and a big axe?"

"What?"

Zhou Qingfeng threw the binoculars to Adrian, pointed ahead and said, "The enemy has come out of the camp, this Lord Farrell is really anxious, the camp has just been built to start a war with us." ”

Adrian took the binoculars and looked ahead, and the enemy was swarming out of the camp, slowly advancing in battle formation. He adjusted his distance a little to see it more clearly, and said with a 'ahh

"Your Excellency Hugo, it seems that more than the Hornfort hemlock family has come. I saw at least three family flags.

The Halton family in Broken Bridge City and the Kent family in Riptide City are also here. Hell, my men must have overlooked, the enemy is stronger than expected. ”

On the opposite side of the telescope, a giant ground lizard slowly crawled out of the aristocratic barracks. It was clad in a thick layer of black rock armor, and its jaws dripped, foul-smelling, corrosive slime.

The monster was blind, and he relied on the echoes of his voice to distinguish his surroundings. That's why it's always roaring, and it's breathtaking.

Farrell of the Hemlock family rides on the back of a ground lizard, followed by an attendant holding the family's battle flag. Behind them were two other family flags, leading a team of thousands of people out of the camp.

Farrell wore full-body armor, and his enclosed horned helmet enveloped his entire face, like a strangely shaped tin can. He lifted his iron-gloved arm from the lizard's back and swung it forward.

The camp's makeshift Wizard's Tower is only two floors, but it's enough for the accompanying wizards to cast spells together. They strengthen and accelerate the power of the crowd in their chanting, multiplying the power of the knights and soldiers with heavy weapons.

Farrell's team had to advance a few hundred meters to approach the outer line of the Fog Fortress. The preconceived front appeared before their eyes. It is not a simple few ditches, but a fortification built horizontally and vertically, with a depth of more than 300 meters before and after.

It took two months to complete the fort after it was built by the kobold engineering team.

The attacking team had to stop.

"Damn cowards, stupid arrangement. They weren't even willing to take on my challenge. ”

Farrell rode on the ground lizard and cursed in a low voice. In his eyes, these fortifications were ridiculous tricks, and his foot knights could sweep them away with a single charge.

Behind Farrell, the Halton family's giant shield banner followed. The new lord of the city, Harding. Horton looked at the fort on the other side and cautiously proposed, "Should we find someone to fill in those ditches?" ”

"Of course." Farrell shouted and called in more than a dozen wizards, "I'm not a brainless mountain barbarian, so I won't jump into the trap stupidly." This trick didn't work for me. ”

Hundreds of sword and shield soldiers marched forward, holding large shields as high as one person. Twenty or thirty heavily armored infantry knights pressed on the left and right. A dozen wizards walked past Farrell and began to cast a spell before reaching the line, the mire spell.

The zigzag ravines and low walls are made of mounds of earth and timber and are normally very strong. However, the 'mire technique' will cause the soil to soften and seep water, and then collapse into a bubbling and smelly mud pond.

Whether you stay in a ravine or behind a low wall, the original battlefield shelter will disappear immediately.

The quagmire technique is quite cheap, but it costs thousands of gold coins to throw a dozen of them. Such is the enormous attrition of war. But now the nobles of the Northland don't care anymore, and if they don't win this battle, everything for them will come to naught.

The mire easily destroyed a section of the outlying fortifications, and Farrell's men struck their shields with their weapons in a cheering shout. Next, as long as the ground is hardened with Cryomy, they can gradually advance under the enemy's fortress.

As expected, with a few more 'fossils to mud' and a series of fireballs, the enemy's defenses will collapse without a fight.

Zhou Qingfeng stood on the wall of the fortress, looking at the enemy with an expressionless face and demolishing his own defenses. He only raised his hand to look at his watch, and whispered: "More than 700 meters away, these guys have walked for an hour." I'm hungry. ”

Adrian's mood was not so calm, holding the battlements of the fortress in his hands, his heart pounding. When he looked down at the city, in the ravines of the outer fortifications, a group of kobolds rode mechanical spiders out of the dark passages of the fortifications.