The situation changed suddenly, Duke Simon listened to the report of the attendant officer with a solemn face, his old and wilted eyes began to widen, he was silent for a while, and looked at the attendant officer, "Are you sure that the information is not wrong? The other party's target is Antura?" "Yes, absolutely sure!" The resolute face of the middle-aged attendant who was over forty years old was very firm, and before he served as the attendant officer of the northern army, he used to be a little famous in the Gallic military circles, and he said with certainty" According to the report of the most advanced outpost, the enemy's five thousand forward troops entered the narrow Starlight Gorge in the afternoon, and after resting, they drove out of the canyon, the target was in the direction of Baishan, there were more troops behind the canyon, the number was definitely more than 20,000, and the total number of troops of the Falcon Northward Advance Corps was about 30,000, so it was certain that it was definitely a main force level of march."

"White Mountain!"

Simon's body trembled slightly, his face became more and more gloomy, and he said, "White Mountain is the main road leading to the direction of Antura from Starlight Gorge, if the direction of the Falcon Army's attack is White Mountain, then it can basically be determined that the opponent's target is Antura, because it is only a small hill White Mountain, and it is not yet qualified to attract the opponent's main force."

"Although we can't determine the reason for the other party's attack, let's send reinforcements to Baishan immediately! If the Falcon Army crosses the Starlight Gorge and occupies Baishan again!

He is the attendant officer of the northern army, and he knows very well that once the main road is lost, the Falcon Army that enters Antura will go to the bottleneck that can be restrained, and the advance can be attacked, and the retreat can be defended, and this step of the opponent has inevitably made this winter, which I thought would make the war quiet, suddenly save up the luster of iron and blood!" "Liar, you immediately lead the first step of the Bidan Army to Baishan, and I will then lead the troops to rush there"

The situation was urgent, and Duke Simon also sensed the seriousness of the situation, and hurried to the desk to give the order for reinforcements. Although it is nominally said that a net has been laid in Antura, in fact, Duke Simon is very aware that the cold winter has greatly damaged the combat strength of the troops.

What can really play a role, except for the 30,000 Bidan army under his command, the other northern troops are unreliable, and the previous several blocking battles have also proved this, the rolling dragon of the Falcon Army has really entered Antura, and it is definitely a tragic disaster to stop its approach to Antura

"Your Excellency. I don't think it's wise to support Hakuyama at this time!" Just as Duke Simon picked up the quill on the table and saved it in the inkwell, and was about to put it down, a man stood up,

It was Liar, who went to Hakusan for reinforcements at the request of Bibi, as one of the few generals who had fought with the Falcon on the Western Front, and he was very respected by Duke Simon when he was in Kyoto, with blond hair, about thirty years old, and a tiger's back. The momentum is compelling, and there is a military temperament,

Just before he arrived, he had promised Duke Simon, who was preparing to meet with reinforcements from Kyoto, that the Falcon army on the other side would not have the opportunity to meet the walls of Antura throughout the winter. Heavy forces have been placed at strategic points leading to Antura, unless the Falcon Army is taken prisoner!

"Bluff?" Duke Simon looked at his first henchman, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, and his pen stopped in the air. Waiting for his explanation,

"Yes, sir. The opponent's attack is completely illogical!"

Riar, who was wearing a crisp dark blue general's uniform, respectfully saluted Duke Simon, stepped forward, drew his hand on the map on the table, and said with a solemn expression. If the other side had been to attack, it should have begun to advance in ten days, when our army had just been beaten back, the foothold was not stable, the army was discouraged, and most of the outer defensive line was destroyed in the battle with the Slavs, and now our army has gained a firm foothold in the Antura region, and the city walls and the border forts on the periphery have also been repaired and reinforced, and the battle line laid out outside the Starlight Gorge is already very obvious,

"The other party is not a fool, but very cunning, and his subordinates think that the other party is knowing that our reinforcements are arriving, and they are forced to make some active offensive appearances, which is conducive to confusing us!" Liar's expression was respectful, and he said firmly, "And I think the other party's attack on Baishan is fake, their purpose is to lure the main force of our army out of Antula, exposing us to the harsh cold and snow outside, we fought with each other several times, each time the other party is like this, pretending to tease, Then choose a tight and orderly military formation under the favorable terrain" "Relying on excellent outrageous long-range weapons and thick warm cotton clothes on the body, like a hedgehog that people can't bite their mouths, they are slowly advancing, constantly crushing our attack line, although we have the advantage of troops, we have no chance to play at all, this is already a despicable tactic used by the other side many times"

"But just like that, I decided not to go to the rescue, I'm afraid that if Baishan is lost, it will be in trouble!" Duke Simon fell into deep thought

"My subordinates think that it is impossible to reinforce Baishan in terms of time!" Liar's voice stopped, his eyes glanced in the direction of the Kyoto Army on the other side, and said in a condensed voice, "My first step of the Bidan Army is twenty miles away from Baishan, if the enemy's advance is crossed the Starlight Gorge in the afternoon, then at this moment, the enemy has already approached Baishan, our strength in Baishan is about 5,000 people, and the time we can hold out is at most half a night, so if we can rescue quickly, unless we have a highly mobile cavalry unit!" Rial, are you dizzy?"

Duke Simon trembled with anger, and said sharply, "You should know that there is no cavalry in the northern army, and all the scarce materials such as war horses are supplied to the direction of Kyoto, even if it is the Bidan army, there are only less than 100 light cavalry formations, mainly for the purpose of transmitting information......!" Liar's ugly face stopped talking, and his eyes glanced in the direction of the general of the Kyoto Army, among the Kyoto Army troops who came to the north this time, there happened to be Tielan's five thousand blue holy beast cavalry regiment,

"If only cavalry can rescue, my Blue Holy Beast Cavalry can do it!" Tielan's face was cold, he was forced to such a point, he could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, his hand was clenched into a fist in front of the table, and said in a deep voice, "And my troops have also brought three hundred horse-drawn sleighs, enough to transport five thousand soldiers at one time!" "How can this be done, Lord Tielan is a distinguished guest from the north, and he has only arrived in Antura for less than a day. I have prepared a rich banquet for you to receive the wind and wash the dust, how can I let the adults go to the rescue in the wind and snow again!" Duke Simon stood up from his seat and said with an embarrassed face, "The military situation is urgent, as an imperial soldier, you should take war as the first priority!" Tie Lan smiled at the corner of her mouth and stood up from her seat, "I won't delay here, I just hope that Lord Simon can support in time, as for Baishan, it will definitely make the corpses of the Falcon Army pile up like a mountain!"

"Okay, what a mountain of piles, Lord Tielan is worthy of being a model for the nobles of the Empire. The flaunting of the soldiers is really the blessing of the country! Having an adult sitting in Baishan will inevitably make it impossible for the Falcon Army to cross a step beyond my Antura, so I will write an order, and the logistics of your army will be the absolute first guarantee!" Duke Simon said excitedly, and immediately wrote down an order to ensure logistics no matter what, and said that he would immediately issue an order for the whole army to support Baishan, and all the troops dispatched would be under the jurisdiction of Lord Tielan

After getting the support logistics, Tielan's cold face finally loosened a little. It seemed that he was really worried about the deterioration of the situation in Antura caused by the loss of Baishan, and nodded, "Thank you Lord Simon!" and hurried away with the generals under his command, watching Tielan's back disappear into the distance, Duke Simon, who had a bitter face just now, took a deep breath. Relieved, he glanced at Liar below, and suddenly laughed, and the other generals laughed too. It is very different from the tense atmosphere of war readiness just now.

"Liar, nice job"

Duke Simon walked down and patted Liar's shoulder happily, "In a word, Tielan, a bastard who is bent on military control in the north, will be sent to the White Mountain where the cold wind freezes to death." I would like to see what kind of tricks the Kyoto Tielan Legion, which has the entire army logistics in my hands, can still play in a place like Baishan!" "No, it's mainly because of the wit of the attendant officer that he was able to come up with such a method!" "Actually, the Falcon Army has been in Baishan since noon, but I don't know why, they have been standing still" Liar's eyes flickered, and he said respectfully" Just let Tielan's Kyoto army help us test the water, if the Falcon Army is really bluffing, our army can take advantage of this to attack and take back the Starlight Gorge in one fell swoop, and the adults will definitely be famous in Kyoto, if the target of the Falcon Army is really Antura, with the Kyoto Army in front of us, we can join when both of them are exhausted, and we can also get a big victory and solve the crisis in my north in one fell swoop!"

"But what about the troops who sent reinforcements from Baishan? Is it really just like this to the Kyoto Army?" said the attendant with some concern

"What about giving him those miscellaneous troops who don't even have cotton clothes for the winter and have a large number of attritions? I don't believe that the Kyoto army will pull off their cotton clothes and give them to these second-line troops!" Liar's eyes flashed with a glimmer of memory,

Thinking of the style of the Kyoto faction in the Battle of Rasti, he gritted his teeth and said, "These Kyoto army are more big names than us, wait and see, it won't be long before they will provoke the anger of the heavens and become the unpopular people in the entire north, and in the end, they can only go back in disgrace, and they can't go anywhere else!"

Coming out of the Antura Council Chamber, the neat steps of seven pairs of pointed iron-clad riding boots walked in the dark red corridor, walking in the front was Tielan, followed by six generals of the Kyoto Army, in the cold wind, the red army cloak behind the seven people fluttered neatly in the wind, and the pace was neat and uniform like a person, "My lord, you won't really go to the rescue of any white mountain! The other party obviously arranged it on purpose! I dare to guarantee that when we arrive, it must be the time when the Falcon Army is in full attack." A sturdy officer with an eyepatch in his left eye shouted with an exaggerated face,

"Yes, my lord, we can't help people make wedding dresses!" Another general said, the footsteps of the iron fence suddenly stopped, and the footsteps of the others immediately stopped, the atmosphere was a little tense, Tie Lan looked around, confirmed that this place had been out of the guard's sight, and smiled coldly at the corner of his mouth, "Bai Shan, what are you kidding, it's Antura lost, what does it have to do with us!" Tie Lan's eyes flashed with a sly light, and he took out the order signed by Simon, and smiled disdainfully at the corner of his mouth. What I want is this, as for the rescue, we only said to rescue, and we didn't say that it must be to rescue Baishan" "But I can also see that Simon, the old fox, heard the wind from somewhere, and he was very strict with us, and deliberately wrote and staged this farce to let us leave Antura, he thought that controlling Antura was equivalent to controlling the lifeblood of the entire Northern Army, including us all having to listen to him. Now we must be very proud, rut is just our chance, when you wait to gather troops, take this order to get the supplies, prepare a month's weight, and load the rest as much as possible on horse-drawn sleighs,

Tielan whispered to a middle-aged general with short flaxen hair in the right rear, "Feida, you gather your troops immediately, and we will leave Antura! The three hundred carriages are completely full." Enough for him Simon to be heartbroken, let's go to Bialys northwest of Antura, which is the fief of my Tielan family, and with the supplies, we can sit back and watch Simon fight to the death with the Falcon Army! Simon Old Fox wants us to fight the Falcon Army, and then sit back and enjoy the results, and we will return it to him without pulling it! I want to see if the Northern Army listens to him or me without supplies!" It's still an adult!" The generals of the Kyoto Army behind him laughed in unison, and the generals went to assemble the troops, taking the Wen Jiàn to extract the supplies, and three hundred carriages lined up in front of the material warehouse. Three hours later, the Tielan troops, laden with supplies, left Antura and sailed away

Looking at the empty warehouse, the logistics officer of Antura had a sad face and wanted to cry without tears.

He was not a member of the Bidan's army, but a member of the Northern Army, because he was not accustomed to Duke Simon's behavior. was demoted from a high-ranking officer to now in charge of guarding the warehouse, and in the cold winter he saw his colleagues starving, and Duke Simon gave them to others in large quantities with a stroke of his hand,

Three hundred carriages, and the ration of 50,000 soldiers, these bastards directly removed six-tenths of Antura's supplies and food, and the angry logistics officer went to the council chamber, and before he could walk up the steps, he was stopped by the captain of Simon's personal guard at the gate at the moon gate below,

"Who are you?"

The captain of the guard looked up and down at him, and after learning that he was only a viscount, his tone was a little disdainful, "I'm sorry, a grand banquet is being held inside, and only people above the baron are eligible to enter, go back, your lord won't see you!"

The captain of the guard looked at Viscount Bolando, a low-level logistics officer, with a slanted gaze, like a large number of water dogs

"I have an emergency military ......" Viscount Bolando, the logistics and materials officer, trembled angrily, and there was nowhere to vent his grief and indignation, showing a rare hardness

"If it's military affairs, it should be during working hours, now it's rest time!" The captain of the guard reprimanded unceremoniously, the captain of the guard was a baron, so he had no pressure on Shang Bolangdo, and said in a contemptuous tone, "Don't keep thinking about how to talk to your lordship, your lord is receiving distinguished guests from Kyoto, and you don't have time to take care of this kind of hour, with your identity, you can only wait at the door!"

"You ......" the official face of material logistics turned red,

Stampede, the sound of hurried horses' hooves came in the night, a herald cavalry full of wolves galloped into the gates of Antura, the sound of hurried horses' hooves that broke out in the night woke up many people, and the herald stopped his horses outside the council chamber, jumped down, and trotted over,

The captain of the guard stretched out his hand to stop the herald cavalry at the door

"Stop, what's the matter, didn't you see that your lord was holding a banquet?" said the captain of the guard, looking impatient at the herald cavalry's dirty appearance, "I have a tight ...... Urgent military report, Baishan has fallen!" The herald cavalry was panting, his voice was indistinct, and his chapped lips were like a purple ham sausage in the cold night, which was the sequelae of being frozen for hours, and the thick northern accent was like humming,

"What is he talking about?" The captain of the guard was not used to hearing the spoken language of the northerners, so he asked the material logistics officer next to him, "My lord, he said that the White Mountain has fallen!" The material logistics officer, Viscount Bolando, repeated the "White Mountain...... Lost!" The captain of the guard was taken aback by the news, as if his eyebrows were burned, and turned away, and soon, the attendant officer in charge of affairs appeared outside the council hall, he glanced at the herald cavalry who was squatting on the ground to rest, and asked angrily, "Are you sure that Baishan has fallen?"

The herald cavalry stood up with difficulty, he ran for most of the night in the cold and windy night, and he was treated like this, not even a mouthful of hot water, the defenders of 5,000 people were killed in the battle, 2,000 were killed, and the others were captured because the battle line was broken!" The herald replied with a strange face, "And I didn't see any reinforcements on the way back!" "You are talking nonsense! You must not have seen clearly in the dark!" Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, the attendant officer shuddered when he heard it, his eyes were bulging, there were no reinforcements in Baishan! Where did the 50,000 Kyoto troops of the Tielan go? The head of the attendant was messed up, and he said to himself, "They should have set off three hours ago!"

At this moment, Viscount Borando, who was in charge of logistics, said coldly, "If you are talking about three hours ago, then I only know that just three hours ago, a unit with the warrant of Lord Simon took away 60% of Antura's food and supplies......!