"Reed, you're back!" Boromir saw Hu Bin and his party hurrying back from the south at the gate, and hurriedly greeted the guards to open the gate, because of the loss of the Eastern Olympic Fortress, the gate of the White City was already under martial law, and it could not be opened casually without the permission of the high-level of the White City.

"Boromir, fortunately, not disgraced!" Hu Bin handed him back the horn when he saw Boromir driven down from the city wall, and this item allowed him to harvest ten elite seamen, who had lost their original attributes.

"I'm sorry that you and your companions saved General Quentin, but I didn't expect that old guy to still have such a desperate personality and affect you." As soon as Boromir's words fell, the prestige of Hu Bin's three Gondor Kingdom soared again, and Hu Bin finally successfully reached the prestige of respect, and the guards near the gate looked at Hu Bin with the same eyes as their commander, Hu Bin believed that if he was in battle, he could temporarily command some Gondor soldiers with such prestige.

Seeing that Boromir put away the horn, Hu Bin secretly called a fluke in his heart, the biggest reward for this mission is this horn. The original intention of the space was to allow the numberers to use this horn to influence General Quentin at a critical moment, so that he could give the order to retreat safely and save his life, but due to a series of accidents, Hu Bin had no chance to use this horn in the fierce battle. Even so, he could have used the horn to gain additional benefits for himself when destroying the pirate city, but unfortunately General Quentin was injured and let the adjutant take over the command, and Hu Bin gave up the interests there in order to buy ships. By mistake, the value of this horn is not reflected at all. It wasn't until the last space left the best choice among the mission rewards, directly hinting that Hu Bin's old crew members could be recruited by themselves, which cheapened Hu Bin and allowed him to get this batch of expensive crew members.

"No, General Quentin is a very nice guy. We had a great time with him, right. Hu Bin looked back at the tower shield.

"Huh? The old fellow ......" Lynn kicked Tadun on the calf, interrupting his death.

"Hehehe, I understand, he watched me grow up, and I was cheated by him a lot when I was a child." As soon as Poromir looked at Tadun's expression, he knew that he had been bullied enough by Quentin.

"Boromir, I want to ask about something, it's about the fortress of Aocheng." Walked up and whispered to Boromir.

"Let's go, come with me somewhere quieter." Boromir looked left and right and said to the three of them.

Poromir took the three of them to a corner, then took out a sketchy map and handed it to Hu Bin.

"What is this?" Hu Bin took a cursory look at the sign of the map mountain. With an ugly face, he said, "I originally expected the situation to be bad, but I didn't expect it to be like this." ”

As the map trembled, Boromeir pressed it to a stone and pointed to the location of the fortress and said: "Three days ago, when the fleet of the navy had just set out, the orcs launched a tentative attack on the fortress, but it was repulsed by the defenders there, but under the attack of the trebuchet, part of the fortifications of the fortress were destroyed, and the casualties made the situation there not optimistic. ”

Poromir tapped the map and continued, "My father was inclined to increase the number of defenders there, and the natural defensive line of the Anduin River prevented most of the orcs' siege equipment from being carried out smoothly. This will bring a lot of convenience to our defense. Gandalf, however, was inclined to retreat to the White City, where the defenses were more solid, and our forces were not suitable for the division of our forces elsewhere, and the two sides were at odds of opinion. In the end, no one could convince anyone, and the lords also had their own opinions, and they couldn't make a decision for a long time. However, the Lunes had broken through our North Anduin defences at this time, and most of the lords feared that the fortress of Aujo would be caught between two loaves of bread. So Yizhi advised his father to abandon the Aocheng defense. But his father firmly disagreed, and when he saw that it was impossible to say that the lords had sent troops to support Aojo, he issued a mission to defend Aojo. Let the many mercenaries in the White City go and guard it. ”

"Numberer?" Ta Dun exclaimed.

"What?" Boromir didn't seem to hear Ta Dun's words clearly.

"Nothing! You continue. Ta Dun probably received a warning from the space and immediately closed his mouth.

"The mercenaries in the city were going to support the city early this morning, but it was too late, just last night, the orcs took advantage of the night to attack the fortress of the city, to my surprise was that the well-guarded city did not find the orc troops crossing the river, the enemy quickly captured the fortress, only a few knights escaped with my brother, but Faramir has been released from military house arrest because of dereliction of duty." Boromir was a little frustrated, his father gave him too much affection, but he was indifferent to his younger brother Faramir.

"Did your brother tell me how the orcs crossed the Anduin River?" Hu Bin asked with some concern.

He didn't quite know that by the time he reacted, the orcs had already stormed the fortress. However, Gu and the knight who fled back with him said that there was a strange fog floating on the river that night, and that it was at this time that the orcs attacked it. Boromir said with a frown.

"What about the losses?"

"The Icylian Ranger forces have been scattered, and perhaps there are survivors who have fled to the other side and hidden, after all, there are still their hidden camps to use, but they are of little use. The defenders of about three thousand returned less than a hundred, and we lost nearly a quarter of our forces in this battle. ”

"Hey!" Although Hu Bin had long known that the Aocheng Fortress would inevitably be captured, it was two days earlier than he expected, and it was estimated that it was the other party's numberer, and the timing of the appearance of the fog was too weird, and it was understandable that the defenders were on their way. However, Rohan's reinforcements still have five or six days to get here, and the ships that were going to meet Aragorn and the Ghost Legion have only just set sail today, and Hu Bin can't tell if they will be able to get here before the orc general attack.

"However, the news is not all bad, except for your navy to solve the problem of the Umba pirates, the southern lords have pinned down the troops of the desert people in the middle of the way, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to arrive here in time to join Sauron's army." Boromir said this, and suddenly found that the hobbit Merry had hurriedly approached him.

"Boromir, go to the Consulate, hey, Reed. You're here too, great! Mei Li immediately smiled when she saw an acquaintance here, but suddenly thought that she still had official business, so she hurriedly restrained her smile and made a businesslike appearance, but she didn't know that his appearance was more likely to make people laugh.

"Okay, Reed, come along, I know what this meeting is about. As for your two companions......" Boromir hesitated, but soon Lynn pulled the unexplained tower shield and said she wanted to go back to the inn and rest.

Happiness after seeing Ta Dun's misunderstood face. Hu Bin secretly prayed that this guy would not die again.

On the way to the Consulate, Hu Bin learns that Merry has become a low-ranking nobleman of Gondor, and has been called by Boromir to be his lieutenant, which is actually convenient for the regent and Gandalf to communicate secretly.

Hu Bin noticed this, thinking that Mei Li must know a lot of inside information about the decision-making level, and he must visit this former friend alone in the future, maybe a can of charr tobacco is a good bribe, I believe Mei Li will know everything about him, and say everything.

In the Consulate, it's still that position. It was still the same map, but there were a lot fewer people in attendance, and Hu Bin found that some of the smaller lords, including the numbered lord, were gone, and the rest were either high-ranking and powerful. is either a big man with a special identity, which makes Hu Bin can't help but think about it.

The Regent and Gandalf glanced at Boromir when they saw him enter, Gandalf winked playfully when he saw Hu Bin following him, and the Regent called the meeting open when he saw that everyone was almost there.

"First of all, I would like to announce the agenda for this meeting. That is the counterattack on the fortress of the Austrian city! As soon as the regent's words came out, everyone shouted loudly, and some lords even stood up directly against it.

"I've made up my mind, and I'm just here to inform you. Instead of asking for your opinions. The Regent's voice drowned out all the chatter, but it didn't stop the opposition from below.

Some of the lords even approached Gandalf and tried to get a few words from the mage, who was always willing to oppose the regent, but Gandalf startled the lords as soon as he spoke.

"This is a decision made with the Regent, and as the Regent said, we are here today just to inform you." Gandalf said aloud as he stroked his beard.

Although the discussion below ...... still noisy, some of the lords had already begun to consider the deeper meaning of what the regent said, and since even Gandalf, who was more conservative, agreed to this plan, there must be something feasible about it.

"Quiet!" Boromir finally couldn't stand the chaos in the arena and spoke out to stop the meaningless discussion.

"Very well, then listen to me continue!" The Lord Regent straightened his cuffs, picked up his baton and pointed it on the outside of the fortress on the map.

"Thanks to the information that Master Gandalf brought us, the main force of the orcs has not actually arrived in Ojo yet, they are probably in this position now, and they are still on the way to transport heavy siege equipment, and the army that captured Ojo Fortress is only their vanguard legion. Judging by the speed of their march, we can conclude that they will not be able to reach Aocheng before dawn tomorrow. The Lord Regent paused for a moment, while the lords below nodded after a moment's discussion.

"This is an opportunity!" To everyone's surprise, Gandalf took the regent's words and continued: "The orcs do not think that we have the courage to go beyond the walls of the White City, so they have sent half of the troops of the city of Aujo to the east bank of the Anduin River to meet their main force, and there are less than four thousand orcs and some mercenaries guarding the fortress, and if we take advantage of the attack tonight, they will not be able to get help from other quarters. ”

"But wouldn't it be too risky, after all, four thousand and a half orcs is not a small number, and they still stand on the geographical advantage of the fortress. It is impossible for a large-scale military movement not to attract the attention of the orcs, so that it will not be possible to sneak up there even at night, even if we send more troops, there is no guarantee that we will be able to annihilate them without paying great losses, and we will have to face the main force of the orcs afterwards, if you cannot give me a good explanation, I will refuse to send troops to assist in this plan. A lord who looked like a high-ranking lord stood up and said, Mei Li told Hu Bin next to him that this person was a great lord in the western part of the kingdom, and that there were a thousand elite troops in the reinforcements from the west this time.

"The orcs haven't fully captured the fortress yet, and we still have an army lurking around there." A voice came from the corner, and the crowd turned their heads. The voice was found to be from a handsome man with pale blonde hair.

"Faramir, who told you to come over and won't let me go back to your house, don't you think you have lost enough of my face?" The regent looked at his youngest son with a grim face, and tried to call the guards to drive him out of the venue.

"Wait, Dinner, prejudice can cloud your sanity, listen to what Faramir has to say!" Gandalf stopped the regent and called for Faramir to come up and speak.

"Don't worry, my brother. I'm here to make up for my mistakes. Seeing Boromir tugging at him worriedly, Faramir gave his brother a reassuring smile and said.

"There are still some Icylian ranger warriors who survived in the fortress of Aocheng, and today they passed me some information, after they escaped from the secret passage north of the fortress, they found that the orcs did not chase after them, and in the subsequent reconnaissance, they found that the orcs did not find the secret passage, we can send an elite force to infiltrate the fortress and open the gate." Faramir said loudly from the stage. Then he looked at his father, hoping that he would give him a reassuring look.

"The valiant Icyrian warriors have not given up, and Master Gandalf has provided me with an explosive developed by Saruman to open the gates of the fortress. This makes our plan more confident. The Lord Regent only glanced faintly at Faramir and continued.

"Lord Gandalf, can the power of that explosive really blow open the gates of a fortress?" The previous lord asked.

"Saruman's army used it to blow up a section of the walls of the Valley of the Holy Helm."

The lord was silent for a moment, then raised his head suddenly, his eyes glowing with a fiery forehead, and said, "If that's the case, please add me to the plan to recapture the fortress." I'm going to see for myself how powerful it is. ”

"Welcome!" Gandalf said with a smile that it was not his question as to whether the lord would directly lead his troops to retreat and preserve his strength after the failure of the operation.

"We're not just going to take back the fortress. There will be at least a day's delay for the orcs there, so once the operation is successful, all the strong men and women in the White City will have to be organized to deliver supplies to the city. The Regent's voice detonated the hall again.

"No way, we don't have enough troops to defend that fortress in front of the main force of the orcs, and even if the fortress is intact, it will cost a huge amount. Why do we have to spend our already scarce forces to retake that fortress, wouldn't it be more certain that we should stay here and wait for the orcs to attack? A lord asked aloud, and Mei Li shook her head in response to Hu Bin's inquiring gaze, indicating that she didn't know whose origin she had.

The lord's opinion was representative of the majority of the people in the field, who were already puzzled by the Regent's plan for a counter-attack.

"Obviously, a bunch of rat-eyed guys." Hu Bin muttered contemptuously, and Boromir glanced at Hu Bin in surprise after hearing this, knowing that Hu Bin had been adrift on the sea for a few days, and as for the information he knew, he still got it from himself.

"I think there are people down there who understand the need for this, Mr. Reed, can you give you your opinion?" Gandalf's glasses were poisonous, and he immediately discovered the meaning of Reed's expression, and it would be better to let the elven boy from the outside say it than to let himself express his concerns.

"That's rude." Hu Bin was not afraid to walk on stage, and he didn't know how many big scenes he had experienced in the warband world. After glancing at Gandalf with a resentful look, Hu Bin gave the regent a fairy salute and asked for the baton in his hand, and pointed heavily on the location of the Rohan Kingdom.

"The reinforcements of the Rohan Kingdom are very important to the current situation, with the current strength of the White City, it is already very difficult to deal with the orc army alone, let alone the Rune troops in the north. The fastest route from the Kingdom of Rohan to this place is this mountain road called the Stone Path, and the time it takes from the time Rohan receives the beacon fire to the time they gather their army to arrive here is about ten days, which means that we will have to hold on to the White City for at least five to six days before we can get their support. Hu Bin put down his baton and looked at Gandalf.

"But the orcs won't give us that time, so we'll have to fight for it ourselves." Gandalf tacitly attached a closing remark to Hu Bin's explanation.

As for the meeting after that, there was no point in it, and everyone knew the significance of this plan, so they accepted the regent's arrangement, and Andorf would personally direct the implementation of this plan.

"Father, please let me join this operation!" After the lords dispersed, Faramir pleaded with his father to give him a chance to atone for his sins.

"Go back to your room, and don't let me see you again." The Lord Regent said in a deep voice, and then left the conference room.

"Father......" Boromir chased after him, wanting to say a few words for his brother.

And when Hu Bin walked by Faramire's side, a sentence came: "Don't you understand? Your father is protecting you! Then Hu Bin didn't care about Faramir's reaction, and beckoned Mei Li to walk out of the hall together, ready to talk to this guy alone.

"Reed!"

Hu Bin unexpectedly saw Gandalf waiting outside the door and had not left, as if he was waiting for himself.

"I have a task I want to give you, and I believe you can complete this task well." Gandalf tried to fool Hu Bin again, but this time Hu Bin was much more alert.

"Excuse me, last time you swore that there was only one sentry on the beacon, but when I went up, I found that a small team was guarding there, and the ghost believed you." Hu Bin stood there with a scoundrel face, quite a little bit of oil and salt.

"Well, that's a pity, then I'll have to find someone else to help me hire some people to participate in this operation." Gandalf raised his feet with a sly smile and wanted to leave, and then saw Hu Bin's expression collapse instantly.

"I'll just go, don't play tricks on me." Hu Bin hurriedly stopped Gandalf.

"Don't think it's an easy task, I have a request." Gandalf restrained his smile and began to tell Hu Bin something. (To be continued......)

PS:I was going to have a drink with my colleagues today.,I turned out to excuse myself and came back to the code word update.,And then when I uploaded it, I saw that there were less than 40 recommended votes on the first day of the week.,It's just a small number of tickets.,As a result, I glanced at the number of subscriptions.,Only about 200 people are subscribing to my novel.,Even the book review area is a lot cold.,To be honest, I'm really a little chilled.,I kind of want to become a daily update 3000 words to fool around.。

Today, there are some touching scenes, and there are a little stumbling on the road of life, maybe only friends who have subscribed can see these words, but what I want to say is, even for your two hundred subscriptions, I have to insist on 5000 words a day, and when will the heat insulation not be able to continue, please understand.