Under the urging of Don Thunder, the mercenary group moved quickly, and within a day, the soldiers brought by John Marlowe were reorganized into a military force of more than 1,000 people.

Don left 300 men to guard the camp in the Horn Forest, and then led 700 men straight to the Shadow Castle.

Since the disbandment of the Dragon's Horn Mercenary Regiment, the Shadow Castle has been desperately fought by the nobles, and once fell into the hands of the Bazel brothers.

After the Bazel brothers were killed by Donn, the castle was left without an owner.

The others were afraid of the power of Don and the others, and they didn't dare to attack the idea of the castle for a while, especially after Bishop Edgar spoke for them and the wanted warrant was lifted, some minor nobles didn't dare to offend Don and his gang easily.

Although because of Coubert's obstruction, Marianda and Todak did not justifiably take back the fiefdom, but no other forces dared to intervene and occupy it casually.

After all, in the past six months, Marianda has been famous for her murder, and her team has killed strongmen in the mercenary world such as Allen and the Bazel brothers, and she is almost the most vicious mercenary near the Horn Forest.

Even some low-level nobles, without great interests, are not willing to easily provoke such a violent madman with a bad temper.

Therefore, the move of Donn and the others to occupy the Shadow Castle was very smooth, and they almost easily occupied this castle with good conditions.

Located halfway between the Horn Forest and the Emerald City, the Shadow Castle is the gateway for all Emerald City adventurers to enter the Horn Forest.

As long as they hold this place, the camp of Tang En and the others in the forest can be safe.

Because of the importance of Shadow Castle, Don has transferred almost most of the mercenary group's power here.

In addition to Donne, Marianda, Lucia, Todak, Rednor, Marion, Bruce, Richard, and other elite generals, almost all of them are concentrated here.

In the camp, only Celtic, Tedley, Brand, John, and Engier were left with five weaker professionals.

It can be said that if the Shadow Castle is lost, their camp in the Oxhorn Forest will not survive, and they can only abandon the hard-built home and enter the Oxhorn Forest to avoid the orc army.

There are still more than 300 people living in the Shadow Castle, most of whom are family members of the Iron Fire Mercenary Regiment.

Because it was relatively close to the Emerald City, only one day later, they had vaguely known about the changes that had happened in the Emerald City.

Just as they panicked and tried to abandon the city, Donn and his men entered the castle. He not only brought seven hundred soldiers, but also carried a large amount of food by the way.

Starting tomorrow, Don is also going to build a dock fort near the Shadow Castle, which can not only open up farmland to feed ordinary civilians, but also serve as an outpost of the Shadow Castle, warning Don and them earlier, and use it to protect the safety of the Shadow Castle.

Donn plans to build five or so dock forts around the Shadow Castle, each of which can accommodate three to five hundred people, in the style of ancient China.

Since these dock forts could defend themselves against the cavalry of the steppe in ancient China, they could also play a role in the war of the orcs.

Because the world's magical civilization is relatively developed, the construction of fortresses is far faster than that of ancient China.

According to Donne's estimate, as long as he, Marianda, and Lucia all help to build, it will only take half a month to build the prototype of the two dock forts first.

Just as Don had just finished planning in his mind, a huge cloud of dust rose from the front of the Shadow Castle.

Bruce quickly climbed the watchtower to look out, and whispered to Donn, "It's some escaped Templars, and by the way, a few hundred civilians with them. There were some orcs behind him, but he couldn't see clearly for the time being because of the distance. ”

"Wave the flag, let them enter the castle to take refuge, and by the way, let the whole army be ready to meet the attack of the orcs at any time. Tang En ordered without thinking.

Under Done's decision, red flags began to wave on the castle, and some of the Templars who had broken off became more courageous, successfully repelling the orcs who pursued him.

The chaotic civilians crowded the gates of the castle, blocking access to the castle and completely blocking the severed Templars from the castle.

Don saw two Templars fall from their horses, one of whom was a bronze professional, and soon died at the hands of hordes of ordinary orcs.

Looking at the chaotic situation at the gate of the castle, Don ordered loudly: "Marlowe, you take people down to maintain order, whoever dares to crowd forward, you will not hesitate to kill people, let them pass quickly."

We need to keep the Templars behind, these people are strong fighting forces, and each of them is far superior to the ordinary people in front. ”

John Marlowe immediately ran down the city with a dozen soldiers, ready to maintain order at the gates.

But the survivors who escaped from the Emerald City were not willing to follow the orders at all, and still desperately squeezed forward and back, hoping to get into the safer castle first.

Marlowe has a decisive side in his character, and immediately began to kill ruthlessly, under the soldier's butcher's knife, he slashed eight or nine crowded civilians in a row, only to deter these survivors, so that they were no longer crowded, and began to walk normally.

Once order was restored, the speed of passage increased exponentially, and within a short period of time, all the survivors were entering the castle.

Seven or eight Templars at the back of the temple were the last, and all of them entered the castle safely, while the pursuing orcs, who were fifty meters away, had just entered the range of the castle defenders' bows and arrows.

Among these seven or eight Templars, there was actually one of Don's acquaintances, who was none other than Lan Qi, the priest of the Ice Temple.

Lan Qi and the others had been following Malouda and other remnant Templars to break through, but due to the chaos of the night, they were separated from the large army.

In the confusion, under the continuous pursuit of the orcs, they fled to the vicinity of the Shadow Castle, and luckily met Don and them.

This remnant of the Templar Knights, in addition to Lan Qi, also has two Bronze-level professionals.

Both of them are knights, and the younger one is named Bonilla, who is only of the third rank. The other middle-aged knight is the leader of the remnant knights, his name is Alvin, and he is already at the peak of the bronze rank.

Having taken in the embarrassed Templars, the orcs had approached the castle.

Tang En watched from the city wall and found that the number of orcs was not very large, only about five hundred, of which there were no more than three or five professionals, and the combat effectiveness was far inferior to Tang En and others.

Such a discovery made him suddenly let go of a little worry in his heart.

At this time, the orcs had already entered the range of the archers, and Bruce had already drawn the snake horn bow and aimed it at an orc professional, ready to take his life at any time.