Garmicchi Basin.

After a day and a half of intense construction, the camp has begun to take shape. Thousands of soldiers and men entered the camp. The custom of digging a trench around the camp was inherited by the Rhodoks during the Kalad Empire, and now the men dig a four-meter-wide trench at the edge of the camp under the protection of soldiers. The camp began to set up a horse rejection on the side facing the fortress of Garmic.

The Rhodoc soldiers took turns resting, keeping an eye on the movements of Fort Garmic. The Salander forces went out of the city several times, tentatively approaching the Rhodok camp, but to no avail. The two sides fired at each other with bows and arrows from a distance, and because of the range, the Salanders, despite their large numbers, did not take advantage.

A detachment of Salander's guerrilla cavalry spotted the Rhodok's flaw at dawn the next day, and they burst into the camp through a gap on the left side of the camp. Fortunately, this army was small in number, and there was no clear plan, so they only set a few fires in Rhodok's camp, burned a few tents, and waited for an opportunity to run out. This raid caused the Rhodoks to speed up the excavation of the trenches, and gradually, the Rhodok camp became an isolated island, and anyone who tried to get close to it would have to pay great losses.

For the first time, the archbow and crossbow units of the Rhodocs took the stage in a formal collective. The Rhodoks were so skilled at making crossbows that even Uxhall, with its many Swadian craftsmen, could not make a better crossbow than Rhodok. This allowed the Rhodok soldiers to calmly suppress the enemy from a distance, and terrified all enemies who dared to approach the Rhodoks.

As for the cavalry units, in fact, the Rhodok region did not produce horses, so its development was relatively more tortuous. At the beginning of the founding of the country, it was said that in the land of Rhodoc, a horse was worth less than a mule. Most of the people who said these words were generals who had experienced the Swadian invasion and had made the Swadian cavalry suffer enough in the mountains and valleys of Rhodok. They felt that as long as the Rhodok soldiers took advantage of the terrain, they did not need the expensive and fancy class of cavalry.

At that time, General Enor and General Garcia stood together, and the views of the two men were clear: first, the lack of cavalry by the Rhodok would have a very bad impact on the future, and once the enemy learned the tactics of the Rhodok, the Rhodok tactics would lose their advantage; Second, no one dares to assert that the Rhodok soldiers must fight on the land of Rhodok, and with the rise of Rhodok's national power, the soldiers will one day go abroad, and the army that can only hide in the ravines to fight guerrillas will not be able to accomplish its tasks brilliantly.

Rhodok's young cavalry received great support from Vicchia. At that time, the Northland country was suffering from the agricultural and economic blockade of Swadia, and desperately hoped to establish friendship and promote trade with Rhodok. When he learned that Rhodok was going to train cavalry, King Vekia sent equestrian trainers and trainers to the Rhodoks, along with the best horses in Vecchia. Rhodok's newborn nation is tempting for those who wish to make a difference. Although the Nords and the Wikians disliked each other, they rarely agreed on the Rhodok issue. Both countries are actively helping Rhodok train their armies, both to pave the way and build bridges for trade with Rhodok, and in the hope that Swadia's attention will be drawn to Rhodok, which is becoming more and more powerful.

On the afternoon of the first day, the Rodok cavalry, which pursued the Salanders, was a unit completely modeled after the Wikibian cavalry system. Except for the Rhodok system in terms of equipment, everything else of this army is the same as the feared Wekian cavalry in the north, including its command terminology, section system, and so on. At the same time, Mr. Vicchia also made the Rhodok cavalry fall in love with the instrument of the knights of the northern kingdom, the shamisen. It's a lot of fun to play Rhodoc-style songs on the shamisen, but after all, the shamisen is an instrument that belongs to Vecchia, and the Rhodok people followed Via's teacher's hobby and directly inherited Vekia's cavalry military songs.

Now Rhodok's army is a young force that is growing rapidly: its main body is inherited from the civilian soldiers who rose in the war of resistance twenty years earlier; The cavalry was inherited from the cavalry units of the Vicchians; The hoplites and navy were more influenced by the Nords. The effect of this subtle reform, which is not well understood even by the Rhodoks themselves, is that the Rhodok soldiers are no longer as suspicious and even resistant to novelty as they were in the past. This old-fashioned plot of the ancient Karad Empire can be found in the Suno region to this day. The current Rhodok soldiers have an attitude of being willing to try anything new.

The presence of nearly three thousand soldiers of the Rhodoks made the eastern end of the Garmic Basin seem overcrowded. It's an interesting cycle, as years ago, the Salanders swarmed and trapped the Rhodoks in Fort Gammage, leaving only a few hundred soldiers under General Garcia's command alive. Now, the Salanders stand in the position of the Rhodoks: trapped in a fortress, waiting for rescue.

However, at this time, the situation of the Salanders was much better than that of the Rhodoks. The Rhodoks were poorly equipped, had no experience in defending the city, lacked rear supplies, and had little manpower. Now the Salander people are well prepared, after anticipating the war, the Salander Sultan has been carefully preparing for nearly half a year, although it is not perfect, but the defense of Garmic Fort has no longer made the Sultan no longer sleep.

There was no reason for the Salander soldiers to be too worried, and apart from the loss caused by the battle, the Salander soldiers were in a good condition: adequate food, tall and strong walls, and the imam's exhortations about faith all kept the Salander soldiers emotionally stable. And compared to most of the soldiers defending the city, the task of the Salanders is actually not heavy, a large part of the barrier of the Garmici fortress is the tall mountain range on its west side, whenever the Salander people stand on the battlements and look back at the mountain, they will give birth to a sense of security, and this sense of security gradually becomes the confidence of the Salander people to persevere to the end. Of course, it would be a different matter if a few hundred enemies suddenly came down from the mountain, but even if such a thought had ever crossed the mind of a certain Salander soldier, it would have been quickly ignored, and indeed, there was nothing but birds to descend from such an almost cliff-like mountain.

Really, as a defender of the fortress of Garmic, the last thing you need to worry about is probably this gable.

The people of Salander worship the holy snowy peaks, and in many desert areas, the survival of the oases depends on the snow that flows down after the snow-capped mountains melt. The people of Salander cherish the snow-capped mountains as much as they cherish the crescent moon. It is said that many of the Salandan prophets, sensing that their lives were imminent, would set off for the snow-capped mountains and never come back. Ancient corpses are often found in caves in snow-capped mountains, and some of the deceased are still recording their thoughts before they die. These records are often regarded as holy objects and are believed to be the conversations of the souls with Allah's messengers before they ascend to heaven.

Yes, the snow-capped mountains bring snow water, peace, and a happy life. The Salanders would think so.

Of course, Arcadio the second, who was shivering from the cold, would not think so at all. When he finally stood on the top of an abandoned tower and looked back at the silently marching ranks behind him, he was determined that if he could go down, he would have to return the Salanders twice.

This detachment, which was mainly General Garcia's personal guard, quietly moved out at night. The soldiers did not know where they were going, but they obeyed General Garcia's orders unconditionally. When Garcia asked them to follow a young general up the snowy mountain, the soldiers didn't ask a word and turned back to pack their equipment. Since it was the turn of spring and summer, the soldiers did not bring enough warm clothes, and just when the soldiers were worried, Garcia's cart brought thick clothes. These were collected quietly by General Garcia after the last meeting.

Just when the soldiers packed their weapons, equipment, supplies on their backs. The young general, Arcadio II, suddenly ordered the soldiers to assemble, and without saying anything, he asked the soldiers to take off their clothes, and then brought several jars of oil for the soldiers to touch each other. The general explained to the soldiers that this was a secret recipe for the Wikibians, and that it had a miraculous effect against cold. The soldiers were surprised, but they said no more, and soon touched the oil clean. There was still not enough fuel, and Arcadio II ordered him to go to the quartermaster's tent and take it as he pleased, as long as it was not discovered.

The soldiers knew that the operation was secretive, so they quietly went to get a lot of jars of oil back, and the unused ones were taken away by them overnight, if it really worked, it is always right to bring more on the mountain.

The day after Arcadio left, the quartermaster was shocked to find General Garcia's adjutant and said bitterly, 'Thieves are hard to prevent, and countless fuel thefts have been stolen overnight.' The adjutant did not alarm General Garcia, but such a humiliating thing must be thoroughly investigated. Several military judges were also extremely angry about this, and how could this kind of corrupting military discipline occur in the army's new recruitment.

After careful investigation and careful consideration, the military judges found a camp, and a young non-commissioned officer was overjoyed and proposed to go in and inspect it immediately. The young man was slapped in the face by an old colleague: "You are looking for death, it is the camp of General Garcia". The investigation was tacitly stopped, and no one dared to pursue it.

When Garcia looked worriedly at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, he turned back and asked his adjutant, "Is there anything wrong with the supplies in the camp lately?" How do I think the quartermaster was always bitter at first, and now he suddenly has nothing to do and keeps smiling at me? ”

"No, General, there is no doubt. The quartermaster may have first felt that you were working hard and worried that you were tired, so he cried and mourned; Then he found that you were not sick at all, and he rejoiced. ”

Garcia pursed his lips and shrugged his shoulders after hearing this, and stopped mentioning this stubble.

While General Garcia was looking at the snow-capped mountains, the soldiers on the mountains had been trekking for two days.

On this morning, the soldiers had crossed the watershed, and they could now see the plain of Garmici unfolding like a green scroll at their feet, and the pools of water shining like silver. Spring returns, and if it weren't for the war, Gamichiping would have been a place of serenity and tranquility, as it has been for hundreds of years. But the war of more than a decade ago shattered the tranquility of the area, and since then, the thriving Garmici Plain has become a place of peace and quiet, with weeds growing from fertile fields and foxes nesting in once-tended vineyards. The war has passed, but peace has not come, only the increasingly impoverished life tells people that the suffering continues.

The once-rich Garmic Plains have withered away from all their colours, and only a few ruins on the Mill Hill are a reminder of the past.

From far and near, my father saw the perimeter of the Garmic fortress at his feet. A little further on, you will have a clearer look at the interior of Garmic Fort. Earlier, a group of soldiers had been sent to check if there had been any trails down the mountain, and they had not returned yet.

Sabel and Sabo Marion hid in a hollow in a tree, shivering with their blankets over them.

Sabel said to Marion, "I say, you must lead the way, or we will all be ice."

"Hmph, you came up with this idea, otherwise I wouldn't have come with you to climb the snowy mountain without even finding my daughter."

In fact, the situation is more serious than what Marion said, the people in the Admiralty said that there was indeed a little Marion who had been in the team for a while, but after the ambush of the Salanders on Mill Hill, Marion Jr. did not return to the team, maybe he was cultivating in other units, perhaps, he had been captured by the Salanders. Either way, Marion had to look as close to the Salanders as possible.

My father stood on the edge of the mountain and looked at the ground below, the cold wind was blowing in his face, and it was cold to his bones, but the despair in his heart was even colder, looking down here was a cliff, if there was no path down the mountain, it would be completely useless.

At this time, the scouts sent out in the morning returned.

"General, no road down the mountain has been found for three miles on the left and right."