Sam's border post is nearly 80 kilometers from the North Fall Cliff, 100 kilometers from the border post to the Avery Industrial Zone, less than 200 kilometers away, and for an army composed entirely of knights, it is only five or six hours at most. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Five or six hours, even if the Avery Industrial Area is at full capacity, it will not be able to do any help in this war.

Downer knew very well that the reason why that army did not advance south in a big way was because for them, the key to occupying the Huls continent was whether they could stop the dwarves.

As long as they can destroy the entrances to Middle-earth in Foggy, Cliff, Pickertail, and Twilight, and block the millions of dwarven armies in Northfall, this army can turn around and slowly devour the fertile continent.

The knights' army created a no-man's belt along the North Fall Cliff in order to close off intelligence, as they could not determine whether there was a channel for rapid communication between the Faemon Empire and the dwarves.

Now, all Downer can use is the carelessness of that knightly army. Given the experience of the War of Divine Punishment, they must be on the lookout for threats from the skies - according to Sam's report, the enemy's east-west march is extremely long, probably to spread out as much as possible, so as not to repeat the old mistake of the fall of the City of Giants - but they certainly do not expect that they will encounter a strong army in Huls.

As for how strong this army is, it will depend on how much time Donner can buy.

On the evening of the 17th, the Doule Farm, where the massacre occurred, was 20 kilometers north of the border center, and according to Sam's report, it was inferred from the situation at the scene that the massacre could have occurred on the morning of the 17th. Durer Farm is 40 kilometers from North Fall Cliffs and nearly 70 kilometers from Falling Rock Town.

Even if the knight army appeared at the entrance of Falling Rock and went straight to Durre's farm, it would take at least two hours.

"So, yesterday morning, that army of knights appeared in Ovieer?" Cynthia asked with a pale face in Donner's office on the top floor of the Avery Building.

"That's the most optimistic guess, maybe even earlier. Although Donner was extremely angry at the dwarves' treacherous practices, he had not lost his mind after all, and now, Ceoseth, who knew the knightly army best, and Cynthia, who knew the strength of the five northern cities, were the ones he had to rely on.

"How far is it from Falling Rock City to Fog City?" said Ceosaise's face grim.

"It's almost 400 kilometres, but with the Oviere Mountains on the border with the province of Santan, they have to take a detour from the Broken Gorge, which is about 500 kilometres. Downer gestured with his hand on the map.

"500 km, 24 hours...... Maybe it's already here. Ceoses shook his head weakly.

"Cliff City is much closer. Downer added.

"Donner, do you have a way to contact the Thorn Pass and the Silver Finch, we need to notify Dusk City and Finchtail City as soon as possible, and send troops from there to help. Cynthia asked anxiously.

Donner suddenly realized that this was indeed a solution, and he was angered by the dwarves' letting the knight army pass through Falling Rock City just now, and he didn't expect that there were still dwarven armies in these two cities that could be used. In fact, before Sam reported on the direction of the knights' march, Donner even suspected that the dwarves had completely reneged on the Northfall Lend-Lease.

"Koenas has a letter crow connected to the Duchy of Gustav and the Empire of Thorns!" Donner said as he ran towards the door, only to remember something when he got to the door, and turned his head, "How do you get the dwarves of Dusk and Sparrowtail to believe this news?"

"The shrike bird's wings streak across the top of Nautis at dusk. Cynthia said loudly: "As long as you see this, Vada, who is in charge of these two cities, will know that it is my urgent order." ”

......

A few minutes later, in the transmission room of Cohenas, Auston Palace, Lucia recorded Donner's transmission sentence by sentence, and after repeatedly confirming that it was correct, she cautiously asked, "Where are you...... It's really okay, right?"

"Don't worry, it'll be fine. Donner replied in as confident a tone as he could.

"I'm waiting for you in Coenas...... Just like last time. Lucia remembered the past many years ago, curled the corners of her mouth and smiled, paused, and added in a coquettish tone: "But...... If I don't see you again this time, I really don't want to live alone in this world. ”

"What nonsense......" Donner casually reprimanded, wondering in his heart about the details that had not been forgotten.

In the "Donald ......" sound transmission circle, the empress's voice sounded extremely gentle.

"What?" asked Donner.

"Remember, when we first met, every time we were alone, something bad always happened...... You know what? I was afraid you'd avoid me because of that......" Lucia whispered.

Donner's mind also seemed to go back to many years ago, when he was a carefree civilian teenager, this world was just a mysterious foreign country to him, but now, because he knew the truth, he shouldered a great responsibility.

However, in the late spring morning under the arrival of the soldiers, on the other side of the sound transmission circle, the empress's gentle outpouring temporarily melted his heart shell and awakened the softest part of his heart.

"Lucia......" Donner suddenly felt that he had a lot to say to Lucia, but there was no time to pour out his heart to him now, and finally a thousand words turned into one: "Wait for me to come back." ”

On the other end of the circle, Lucia smiled happily, her red lips opened, as if she was kissing her sweetheart through the circle, and then said with a wicked smile: "Layla is clamoring to come to you, but don't worry, I will take a good look at her and Una." ”

"And Richard, don't let him out of town. Donner gave one last word of advice, gritting his teeth and extinguishing the circle.

......

Donner returned to his office from the sound transmission room, and as soon as the door opened, Cynthia hurriedly said, "How is it?"

"Just in case, there will be more than a dozen letter crows flying from Cohenas to Gustav and Thorns, counting the time it takes for the messenger to deliver the letters, if all goes well, two days from Sparrowtail City, four days from Dusk City. ”

Cynthia let out a sigh of relief, the best news she'd ever heard this morning. "Twilight has an army of 60,000 men, and Birdtail has 40,000...... If you count all the dwarven warriors who live in the city, that number doubles. She recalled.

"I made the situation very clear in the letter, believing that they knew what to do when they received the letter. Donner said.

"Even if they had rushed to the aid as soon as they received the letter, it would have been ten days before they got here. Ceossais's face was still ugly.

"It's only seven ......days from Sparrowtail," Donner explained.