The shouts grew clearer.

"Miss Selinda!"

"It's Nina. Selinda stood up, "Something must have happened, otherwise she wouldn't have bothered me at this time." ”

Selinda pushed open the door to the rooftop and saw her maid Nina hurrying up, with a panicked look on her face, tears on her face, as if something terrible had happened.

When Nina saw Selinda, she didn't care about etiquette, grabbed her arm, and stammered, "Miss! Something is wrong, your father has been defeated, and my father has sent a message, he has just arrived below and is seriously injured." ”

Selinda grabbed her, "What are you talking about?"

"That's it...... It is...... The Earl's army was defeated, and only my father escaped and came with a letter. Nina repeated.

"Calm me down, what about your father?" asked Selinda.

"In ...... Downstairs. Nina said.

"Let's go down and have a look!" Li Jia said.

"Take me to see him!" Selinda pulled Nina and rushed down the stairs, and Li Jia hurriedly followed.

Nina's father, Knight Holmes, was lying on a bed in a bedroom, he had many wounds on his body, and his face was as miserable as a blank sheet of paper because of excessive blood loss. He leaned against the bedside cushion, his eyes almost closed, but he tried to open them outward, trying not to fall asleep.

When Selinda broke into the room, Holmes braced himself up and said, "Miss Selinda, there is a military situation that is extremely urgent! Lord Earl's army has been ambushed by the Sun Knights and the Heavenly Punishment Legion of the Temple of Nature!"

"Why did the Temple of Nature suddenly attack us? There was no warning before! And we had a tacit understanding with Priest Roland, how could such a thing suddenly happen! What is the situation with the Count himself? What about his army?"

"I don't know if your father escaped from their siege in the end, but I have been informed by his orders to break through the siege that there must be an army of the Temple of Nature gathering near you, and if we are right, the main attack will be the Templar Legion of Heavenly Punishment led by the Knights of the Angry Waves. Holmes said in one breath, and after he finished speaking, he coughed several times in quick succession and spurted out a mouthful of blood. Frightened, Nina hurriedly went up to wipe him.

Selinda shouted to Nina, "Don't make trouble here, get a healer." ”

"Oh, yes, yes. Nina gave her father a worried look and hurried out the door.

Selinda has been commanding the army for a while, and now she has a calm face and speaks with a rather majestic voice: "Holmes, you now tell me in detail what happened. ”

Holmes looked up and looked out the window, "It all happened three days ago. ”

He paused, as if recalling what had happened: "In the last ten days, the Earl has been leading us to besiege the Rock Fort, that fortress is very strong, although the Duke of Hoval has been defeated in our hands many times, but there are still many troops under his command, these people are cowering in the Rock Fort, so that every inch of the Rock Castle wall is full of enemies, it is difficult to deal with.

We set up three camps in the northwest and south directions of the Rock Fort, the big camp is the west camp where the Count is located, although the defense of the Rock Fort is strong, but with the pneumatic cannon given to us by the Chinese, it is only a matter of time before the wall is knocked open. Four days ago, we blasted a gap during the day. Then they kept suppressing each other, so that they had no way to repair this section of the wall with magic. The Earl was ready to launch a general attack in the evening, breaking through the gap and taking the Rock Castle in one fell swoop.

But just as our troops were attacking the Rock Fortress from several directions at the same time, the main berserker brigade began to attack the gap in the castle wall. Out of nowhere, many Templars and Templar soldiers. They appeared suddenly from the rear of our team and, under the cover of magic, took advantage of the darkness of night to launch a surprise attack on us.

No matter how powerful an army is, it can't resist the enemies rushing out from behind, not to mention that these enemies are extremely strong. The enemy troops in the Rock Fort also rushed out of the castle together, flanking our troops on both sides. ”

"That night...... Holmes shook his head gloomily, "it was a complete rout." ”

"What about their main berserkers, have they been routed as well?"

"That's the Knights of the Sun. They formed two cavalry teams with knights of the middle rank and above to harass our berserker troops. You all know that berserkers lose their minds when they go berserk. They took advantage of this to divert our berserkers from their original attack routes, lured them into the traps prepared by the temple priests, and controlled them with vine magic, trapping them alive in the vines. ”

"Then what happened to my father-in-law?" asked Li Jia.

"Because the western camp can't stop these madmen of the temple army at all, the Earl led us knights and some of the soldiers who had gathered to retreat towards the city of Bavilia, but unexpectedly, when we arrived in Bavilia, we found that the city had also fallen into the hands of the Temple of Nature. Because after a night of fighting and fleeing, everyone needed rest and supplies, and the Earl had to take us to a stop in a nearby town called Sedara, but we all knew that it would be only a few hours at most for the Temple of Nature to find us. Lord Earl is confident that the Temple of Nature will not attack him alone, and will come against your flank forces. Therefore, I must tell you what happened to him.

The Earl ordered me and the other five knights to come to you separately, but as I came out, I ran into the enemy army that had come after the Earl, and I was later spotted by their scouts, and I fought my way to this place. I was the only one of us messengers who seemed to stand out at the end. ”

"What does he want us to do?" asked Selinda.

"Retreat, withdraw to Ariac, and send a messenger to the Tower of China for assistance. Now it is impossible for you to move on, or to hold the city of Lagos, there is a lack of popular support for the city, and only the Chinese can change the situation and help you break the siege. Your armies are all pieced together, the walls here are broken, and the inhabitants don't support you. Once besieged by the Nature Temple, it will be attacked both inside and outside. Only by retreating immediately can you survive the attacks of the Temple of Nature. Holmes suddenly said in a particularly solemn tone, "The Earl has specially instructed me, and I must emphasize one point, and you must not think of saving him!"