Amera Fort.

Several more meetings have been held in these days, and General Garcia seems to have forgotten about Sabel's plan. General Garcia met in succession with the shepherds of the Gamici Basin, the scribes of the Greater Swadia period, the land surveyors, and the engineers. These men provide clues to General Garcia from their different angles. Saabmarion and his colleagues were already working on plans to build siege equipment.

Garcia asked the craftsmen to take local materials from a grove outside the castle and make the horizontal shafts needed for the catapults and the wooden frames for the ladders. One of Marion's superiors approached General Garcia and suggested that the craftsmen work on the inside of the castle.

"It's okay, let the craftsmen cut the wood with great fanfare." Garcia seems to be unconcerned about the Sarandians' plan being figured out, and even deliberately conniving.

On one occasion, the Salandan archers were spotted when they were three hundred meters away from the craftsmen, who hurriedly dropped their tools and ran in a panic to a watchtower at the end of the woods. The Salander cavalry inspected the clearing where the craftsmen were working, burned the work that the craftsmen had painstakingly completed for weeks, and then retreated before the Rhodok soldiers arrived.

After this, the craftsmen refused to work without the protection of the soldiers, and some engineers again suggested that the construction site be changed to the castle. General Garcia appeased the agitated artisan chiefs and engineers, agreeing to send patrols to protect the artisans in the future, but refused to allow the artisans to withdraw to the castle, and even after the artisans' first artifacts were burned, General Garcia asked the artisans to continue their work at night. This caused the craftsmen to complain, but under pressure from the army, the craftsmen had to work for another three hours after a short break for dinner. At that time, even from the top of Kamichi Fort, you could see the camp near Amella brightly lit, and countless craftsmen walked around carrying timber. Anyone would have thought that the Rhodoks were about to storm Fort Garmic head-on.

My father thought that he would be sent to climb the snowy mountains soon, and for several days he went to the military doctor to ask for a secret anti-freeze formula, and the military doctor was so annoyed that he had to say: "Wikibians will smear oil on their bodies when they fight at night, and you can try it if you are afraid of the cold." My father went back gratefully. But for weeks on end, General Garcia did not mention that stubble again. These days, General Garcia is just ordering the soldiers to stay trained; urge craftsmen to rush to work overnight; The prefect of Ameraburg was ordered to keep a close look at the surrounding population, and he ordered that no one should be allowed to enter or leave the army station.

A few days after his arrival at Fort Amera he went to the seashore with a supply convoy, and his father ordered him to take over the 'Valley of the White Dove', because the navy found that the navy of the Salanders had suddenly become active, and the fleet was ordered to leave the offshore waters and patrol the Salander route. Originally, his father was going to rebel against the ship himself, but General Garcia asked him to stay in Fort Amela, and as for what the situation, General Garcia did not say anything.

Finally, one day, the craftsmen reported that the equipment was ready, and if needed, it could be assembled into a finished product for the soldiers to use in a matter of hours. On this night, the number of people in the artisan camp was suddenly reduced, and the men finally returned to the fortress, and for them the work was over, but the cessation of their work suddenly made the atmosphere of the two fortresses facing each other suddenly tense.

Over the course of three days, hundreds of soldiers and men drove out ox carts to load all the parts from the woods and transport them back to Ameraburg. These men meandered for miles, kicking up dust on the Gamic Basin.

On the same day, all the senior officers received an order, and General Garcia summoned them. The content of the meeting was extended to the pre-war mobilization of the officers to their respective units. Every day, the military judges and chaplains had to write suicide notes for countless soldiers, and the food was noticeably better: the broth became sticky, and at noon each soldier received an extra salted duck egg.

But the atmosphere began to become oppressive.

One night, General Garcia suddenly summoned my father, Sabo Marion and Sabel. This summons was extremely secretive. None of them knew what they had discussed, and the next day, they all disappeared, along with two hundred soldiers from a guard battalion of General Garcia. The soldiers of this battalion were stationed far from other servicemen, were usually obscure and had almost no contact with the outside world. Their mission was simple and clear, to protect General Garcia's safety. This particular unit, with a strength of two hundred and seventy men, was General Garcia's personal bodyguard. The unit was so low-key that most of its soldiers were unaware when most of their soldiers disappeared in the night.

The next day, the Rhodok soldiers began to camp out of the city in batches.

The first group of three hundred soldiers, after several hours of continuous advance, rounded the Mill Hill and reached the front of Fort Garmic. A Salander cavalry then went out of the city to keep a lookout, and when they found that the number of Rhodok soldiers was small, the Salander cavalry tentatively approached. But the counterattack of the Rhodok soldiers surprised the Salander people, at a distance that the Salanders could not have imagined, Rodok's arrows gradually fell, and a dozen soldiers in front of Salander hurriedly avoided their legs, and the Salander cavalry in the rear stopped their horses, and broke out in a cold sweat: the attack range of the Rhodok crossbowmen was almost twice that of the Salander archers.

Obviously, the Rhodok's purpose was not to kill or injure the Salanders, but to keep the Salanders far enough away. Otherwise, the Rodoks could have let the Salander cavalry get close before shooting, which would have been much more effective. Salander's cavalry began to move north, and these men wanted to get around the Rhodoc front to see what was going on. But soon the Salanders stopped and watched, for the vast clouds of smoke rising from the horizon told the Salanders that the main force of the Rhodoks had arrived. A Rhodok cavalry began to form a group to approach the Salanders, but the Salander cavalry didn't seem to care about these people at all, because this cavalry was about the same number as the Salanders, and it was impossible to form an encirclement of the Salanders.

But what happened next made the Salander cavalry seem to be at a loss, and the archer force suddenly raised their spears and began to move slowly. The Rhodoks were divided into four rows, each with more than seventy people. After some adjustments, the distance between the Rhodok soldiers and the soldiers was reduced from two feet to four feet, and then, to the surprise of the Salanders, the infantry began to jog towards the Salander cavalry.

'The infantry wanted to push the cavalry back. ’

It was meant to be an entry-level joke for the armies of various countries, but the Rhodoks don't seem to think so. Before the Salanders could laugh, the Rhodok infantry regiment had advanced an astonishing distance. What is even more surprising is that the Rhodoks are still accelerating, and the entire legion is in unison, and there are no flaws in the formation. If it is an ordinary infantry group, it will only advance cautiously, and even then, if the general's ability is limited, or if the troops are not well trained, there will be a gap in the front. But this time, the Rhodok infantry advanced at high speed, and the front was almost impeccable. The Salander cavalry had just been watching the Rhodok dispatch with a cold eye, when they suddenly found that their own situation was rapidly deteriorating: the Rhodok cavalry was rapidly approaching the Salander, like a hammer; The Rhodok infantry plunged into the retreat of Salander's cavalry from the other direction, like a piece of iron felt. If the Salanders did not make any more moves, they would be shattered by the Rhodoks.

Salander's cavalry quickly turned around and prepared to retreat towards the city gates. Just as the Salanders were in the process of being surprised and making adjustments, the Rhodok infantry was approaching the return journey of the Salander cavalry. A whole column of infantry turned out to be like a man. The cavalry was fast, but in the process of attacking, the team lost formation and the line was very long. The Rhodok infantry seized on the flaws of this cavalry, and through astonishing painful training, perfected the infantry's line and optimized it to the extreme.

Soon, the Salanders had mostly passed through the front of the Rhodok infantry and managed to escape from the Rhodok attack. But the rest of the cavalry were not so lucky, they were forced by their teammates in front of them, and had to watch the Rhodok infantry rush but could not do anything. Just as the Rhodok infantry was about to ram the Salander cavalry, the clumps of spears and halberds fell in rows and were flattened, and the spears of the Rhodok soldiers in the back row stretched out through the gaps in the front soldiers and rested on the shoulders of the soldiers in front. The Rhodoc phalanx became a spiky whip that whipped at the Salanders. The momentum of the Rhodoks finally caused the backward Salander cavalry to abandon the formation and start running away in all directions, which caused confusion and crowding. The Salanders knew that this would cause more casualties, but no one was willing to try Rhodoc's strange-looking spear formation.

Finally, as if a wooden wedge had been driven into the birch, the Rhodoks slammed into the dozen or so Salander cavalrymen at the very edge. The screams of Salander's cavalry and the neighing of warhorses were heard from under the dense jungle of spears. The Rhodok stopped slightly, and the soldiers in the rear cleanly killed a few wounded Salander soldiers, and then, the Rhodok spear array was like a wall, passing over the Salander corpses on the ground and crushing it. The Salander cavalry continued to press ahead, and due to the confusion of the formation and the sloping terrain in front of Garmic's castle, the cavalry could not be much faster than the infantry. Salanders were constantly pierced by spears stabbed in the back.

Eventually, however, by the time the Rhodok cavalry came to cover the infantry, the Salanders had all retreated to Fort Garmic. The Rhodok cavalry stopped advancing, and beyond that was the range of the Salanders. The infantry of the Rhodoks began to slowly retreat under the cover of cavalry.

The frightened Salander cavalry officer ascended to the top of the city, and saw the mighty Rhodok soldiers approaching with shields and halberds, and the people following with a herd of cattle and mules.

Under the shouting of dozens of heralds, Rhodok's various troops stopped advancing one after another.

A Rhodoc officer, with the help of several civilians, drove a stake into the ground.

"Set up camp!"