After a day of fierce fighting, Stennis finally cleared every street of enemies and captured Drehem, as the first relatively large city he had captured since his army, but Stannis did not feel the joy of victory, but he was more anxious than before he entered the city, because he felt like a rat lured into a rat trap by cheese.

According to the captured defenders, Count Cyrus Igo, the head of the Igo family, was ordered by Duke Garcia to raise an army against the rebels, and he first sent 500 men to support the city, and ordered it to hold on for ten days, but no one knew where Igo led his main force.

Stannis felt a chill behind him, if Igo suddenly appeared behind him, they would not be able to stop them, but the good news was that he already had Drehem in his hands to defend the city.

But a day later, he received news from the Southlands that confirmed his worst thoughts.

It turned out that Igo sent troops to defend the city not to sneak attack Stagnis, but to sweep the south, and in the few days that Stannis was glued to Drehem, Fort Ophia Hannah, which was claimed to have never been captured, was breached within three days, and the southern guardian Snake was directly beheaded!

"How is this possible!" Stannis, who was eating breakfast at the time of receiving this message, almost tumbled off the dining table, he had tried to attack the castle before, but he had not gnawed down a brick for a week.

And his captain Charlie was not as surprised as the king he served, "That's right, I received a message from the inner line of the city that it was Cyrus, the head of the Iago family, who personally led his army to capture Fort Ofia Hannah overnight, because they were so fast that my cousin was caught in his sleep." ”

"Damn, this idiot, I was counting on him!" Stannis snapped to his feet with a sigh of rage, now that Fort Ophia Hannah had fallen, his southern barrier was gone, and the newly captured Drehem was exposed to the Great Plains, ready to withstand femdom from all sides like a naked woman.

Hillier was not surprised, "Cyrus Igo is known as the first general of Tanis, and it is not without reason that the name of the Northern Plains Iron Eagle is not without reason, and only he and his men can do it by marching ninety miles in three days and immediately attacking the city. ”

For the military strength of the Eagle Family, Stannis has already learned in this Draheim siege, this medieval army is not like the medieval army at all, the casualties have reached 70% and they still fight to the death, as soon as they think of being an opponent with such a person in the future, Stannis has a numb scalp, and it seems that they can only use counter-tactics to make this guy disappear.

Stennis stood up and walked over to the map, now that his southern part was lost, Drehem City became a 'balcony' salient. He finally knew where he felt like he was in a rat cage.

"Do you see that?" Hillier, the only one militarily more skilled than Stannis, certainly doesn't see their current disadvantage, that is, they are firmly trapped in this city, and if Stannis does not retreat from here, he will be easily surrounded by Garcia's troops from both north and south.

"I'll just say why Garcia, who has been losing and retreating, how can he defend this city, he just wants to use this city to delay time, so as to pacify the south, fortunately, the siege has not yet been formed, and I can still lead people to retreat, but ......"

However, Stannis did not want to give up this hard-won victory, Drehem was the most important military distribution center in the entire Duchy, for example, this time he captured 3,000 armor from the warehouse, if he can defend this city, not only weapons and equipment, but also an excellent window to publicize his victory over the Duke.

It's a pity that his idea was directly rejected by Hillier, "Stan, don't think about it, you can't hold this city." ”

"Damn, don't veto it so quickly!" Stannis didn't expect his best general to run away with his tail between his legs without even thinking about it, which disappointed him.

"You know that this city Garcia, or Sellers Iago, deliberately gave it to us, right?"

Stannis really didn't talk about this aspect, from the enemy's desperate resistance, it didn't look like he was releasing water, "How do you say that?"

Hillier held out his finger and put his finger on the map, Drehem is surrounded by plains on three sides, and only to the east is a wide river," Garcia should have deliberately shown weakness at the suggestion of Sellers and never launched an attack, just to lure you to take the initiative, and he saw that you would choose this city as a breakthrough, so he only arranged a small group of soldiers to defend it, and after we were exhausted to capture this city, he was not in a hurry to launch a counterattack, but waited for us to consolidate the city defenses, and then launched a big attack when he thought he could defend it, and then this easy and difficult city to defend will become our graveyard because we are trapped in it. ”

"Isn't there still a river, and if the war is unfavorable, we can use the river to retreat calmly. ”

But Stannis's idea had already been anticipated by his enemies, but he didn't know it yet.

"The enemy deliberately created this gap to allow us to escape, just in time to ambush us while we were retreating. ”

"Who could have set up an ambush so quickly?"

"Whose territory are we going to pass through when we escape?"

"You mean my father-in-law?" Stannis felt a sense of betrayal creeping up in his heart.

Hillier shrugged his shoulders and said that he did not mean to stir up family relations, "No one can be trusted in the current situation, in short, we take the initiative to withdraw now, and we can still ensure that the troops are brought back completely, but if we stick here, there is no hope." ”

Stannis knew that what Hillier said was right, but he was reluctant to abandon this hard-won possessions, perhaps because he was used to a hard life, and suddenly became rich and made the whole person suffer from gains and losses.

Just as Stannis was desperately looking for comfort, Cortana suddenly rushed in with a bloody letter.

"Letter for help, letter for help, Lord Stan, letter for help from Rwendale!"

"What?" Stannis himself is almost finished now, who has time to call for help from him?And Revendale is clearly the home city of Salel Igo who is now preparing to sharpen his knife and kill himself!?

"It's a handwritten letter from Ms. Igo, this letter doesn't have a specific address, but a plea for help from anyone who can receive it, and it looks like Rivendale is in a great crisis!"

Stannis couldn't think of any reason to come to the rescue, but he said to Cortana, "Cortana, show me the letter, so I can have a good time." ”

Cortana respectfully presented the letter, and Stanis found blood splattered on it, and wrote two large words on the envelope, 'Help!' and 'Hurry!'

Stannis had been gloating as he opened the letter and read the words inside, but after reading the first line, he jumped up like a great enemy.

"Corpse tide! Corpse tide has erupted in Rivendale!"