Soon, the Berans gained the allegiance of several nobles—or rather secretly surrendered.

If an army of principalities appeared nearby at this moment, I believe that these nobles would immediately turn their faces and deny their accounts, anyway, there is no place in those allegiance letters that can prove their identity, and no one can guarantee that these letters are not forged by the Beran people to frame them.

Even if the royal family can guess the inside story, for the sake of stability of the situation, most of them will not really pursue this matter.

However, there is no such principality army now, only the army of Beran is here, although they are not willing to give in openly for a while, they have also shown their intention to secretly communicate with the song, such as some nobles sent people to send some military rations.

To be honest, this does save the people of Beran a lot of things. Don't look at the fact that they easily took Keshan Fort with the Benlei car, in fact, they still wasted a lot of time and energy, and lost the life of the key components of the Benlei car.

If these nobles could not cause trouble for them, and even took the initiative to send some supplies, the people of Belan would naturally let them go, unwilling to uproot the hard stubble like the castle one by one.

Zagmer, the commander of the Beran army, was full of ambition and planning the next strategy, when he suddenly received bad news.

"What, annihilation?" his eyes widened, and his whole body began to tremble.

The next moment, he slapped it hard, directly smashed the wooden table into two pieces, and then gasped for anger.

Scattered sawdust hit the messenger in the face, but the mage's face twitched, and he still pretended that nothing had happened. Almost all the rest subconsciously hid far away, and no one dared to look at Zagmer at this moment.

Only Vytautas immediately stepped forward and said: "No matter what the truth is, this kind of unfavorable news cannot be spread. And your regeneration of anger will not make up for this mistake, it will only damage the body, which will make the enemy see the joke. We should calm down and think about how to adjust our strategy for the next step. ”

"Hey, you're right, you're right......" Zagmer waved his hand, and one of his soldiers brought him a wet towel and asked him to wipe his face.

After this, he finally calmed down and immediately summoned the officers to begin the discussion.

The structure of the Beran army is actually similar to that of a wolf pack, a powerful head wolf leads other wolves to hunt for food, and the fury he showed just now will indeed make people fear and fear him, but if he continues to be so angry, it will inevitably be suspected that he can't control his temper.

Or there is another explanation - why can't he stop being angry all the time? It's because he can't think of a contingency strategy, so he can only sulk!

Anyway, it would be bad to be like that, but fortunately he was reminded, and Zagmer gave Vytautas a grateful look.

Although he initially thought the young man looked like an aggressive little wolf, Vytautas was now much more sleek and stable.

And Zagmer himself actually has no conflict with him, the two have a distance in the domestic territory, don't worry about anything, you can even support him a little, it's not bad to be your own helper.

Zagmer is far from being young anymore, in fact, he is feeling a little tired now. After this invasion of the Duchy of Lothar, he probably won't be involved in any more wars.

Although most of the inheritance, both the territory and the reputation, was passed on to his sister-in-law, the young man ......

He put aside the thought, which was a little too far away, and soon the officers were almost in line, and he called the meeting to begin.

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At 3:45 p.m., a large tree with lush foliage at the top of the western pass was slowly brought down.

The observation sentinel in Ironfire City soon discovered the incident and reported it to Loming.

This is the content of a certain story from the Anti-Japanese War period that Luo Ming heard in his previous life - this kind of "message tree" is not only not easy to detect by the enemy, and can save the fuel for wolf smoke, but the tree can still be reused.

Luo Ming didn't feel sorry for the little wolf smoke, but it was not easy to transport this fuel to the stronghold on the mountain pass, and it was better to save this fuel and use the limited and valuable transportation capacity to transport some water and ammunition.

Luo Ming immediately recalled the soldiers and civilians who were working outside the city, and set about entering the first level of combat readiness.

In the process, he also contributed to another invention - the facility he called the Light Tower.

To put it simply, it is to set up a wooden frame device at the top of the tower, and represent different codes through the transformation of the wooden frame, and then the people on the other side interpret the code according to the code book, and the remote transmission of information can be realized, and the flag is a principle.

Although it is not as good as the telegraph, the two towers can transmit messages more than ten kilometers apart, and the transmission speed is dozens of times faster than that of people riding horses, that is to say, if Luo Ming wants to build a teleportation line from Schönbrunn to Brandon, the capital of the principality, then only about fifteen towers are enough, and it takes less than twenty minutes to complete a brief exchange.

Of course, this is not to mention compared to telegraph, even compared with spell communication, it is significantly slower, but if you calculate the cost, it will be surprising to find that traditional spell communication is actually much worse in terms of cost performance.

As long as the communication tower is repaired and slightly maintained in the future, it can be used for decades, except for these two expenses, only the salaries of the personnel have to be paid.

In the long run, it's more than half as cheap as the kind of spell communication that basically burns a gold coin every minute.

Now there is no need for long-distance communication, and the communication speed is faster.

If you can know yourself and your opponent, everything will become orderly.

Gradually, the Beran army appeared in the mountain pass and entered the view of the Iron Fire City.

In the eyes of the chief general Zagmer, Luo Ming led his troops north out of Karlo Mountain to defeat the Beran division before, which can be regarded as a great military adventure, but if you calculate the distance he led the troops back and forth, you know that the physical exertion of the soldiers is very serious, and in order to rush back as soon as possible, it must be a forced march along the way.

Luo Ming himself knew very well that those soldiers had not completely recovered their strength now. Even those soldiers who often do marching training are now showing fatigue, and as for those first-class and second-level reserves, they are even more sore and have leg cramps.

Although they were given some medicinal soup to assist in recovery, and some methods to soothe their muscles, they definitely couldn't show their combat effectiveness today.

If it were to rely on this tired army and part of the militia, it would certainly be difficult to hold the city according to common sense.

If Luo Ming was given more time, his soldiers would recover, and he would be more prepared to deal with the Thunder Cart.

That's why Zagmer came early with his troops.