Garcia's envoy approached him and asked what to do next, "General, are we really going to retreat to Amera's fortress like this?" ”

"Who said that", Garcia threw the Salander contract into the brazier, "Has the Garmic fortress been restored?" Did the Salanders get out? Did the Rhodoks enter the land of the Salanders? ”

"That'''", the secret envoy was a little embarrassed, "the Grand Duke has repeatedly stressed the need to maintain peace with New Salander, which has been severely weakened after the war, and will become a controllable neighbor of our country."

"Hmph, Salander becomes a controllable neighbor? Salander has a country of thirty brothers south of the desert, and once the Salanders recruit them, the Grand Duke still wants to control Salander? Besides, this second prince of Salander is a hero, and the covenants he made for the sake of the throne, once Salander has passed the turmoil, he will forget these covenants completely, and he can't be too polite to this kind of person, and he will be slaughtered when he asks for us", Garcia patted the secret envoy on the shoulder, "Besides, even according to the terms, it is the new Salander with whom we want to keep peace, and now it is still in the rotation of the old and the new, and even who can enter the capital Kuba is not yet known, we might as well help Salander take over some land, So as not to spread the war and destroy the lives of people. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Inform the defenders of Fort Garmic: remove the gates; compensate for the losses of our army since the beginning of the war, totaling 270,000 dinars; We were buried with two hundred and twenty-one fallen soldiers and one hundred and seventy-four people, and each soldier was compensated with a pension of 200 dinars; Before the above provisions are satisfied, he shall be responsible for the settlement of food and lodging for our army, counting 150 cavities of sheep, 7,000 catties of wheat, 9 tongs of wine, and other materials per day." Garcia said as he thought.

"General", the secret envoy was a little puzzled, "I'm afraid this will provoke the Salanders to resist desperately."

"Aren't we just waiting for them to come here?"

The blackmail of the Rhodoks caused a violent resentment among the high-ranking officers of Garmic, who looked at the envoy of the second prince viciously and expressed great dissatisfaction. But the messenger had his life in his hands, and he had to do whatever it took to appease the Rhodoks. The Salander soldiers in the city did not know what was happening in the country, they were puzzled by the sudden changes in the war, no one knew what was happening, only that the grain, cattle and sheep in the city were sent out of the city in batches, and the soldiers on duty at the city gate whispered to their companions with a fantastical expression: "All the food has been sent to the Rhodok, is there something wrong with the general's head?" ”

General Adil could no longer refuse the Second Prince this time, because the Second Prince's emissary had brought him letters from his family and instructions from religious elders on the assessment of his membership. After Adil rejected the second prince for the first time, the envoys of the second prince went to the capital to secretly pick up Adil's two wives and five children; And the elders of the diocese of Adil also received anonymous reports that Adil persecuted his fellow disciples and favored infidels.

Adil had no choice but to compromise, sent messengers, and was greatly insulted; And when the list of blackmail of the Rhodoks was put in front of Adil's eyes, Adil even wanted to put everything aside and fight the Rhodoks, but when he calmed down, he had to write a letter to General Garcia in a more tactful tone and attach the 30,000 dinars in the fortress.

This letter was read with great interest by General Garcia, and the whole letter was completely in the tone of his own people, and Garcia finally replied to the envoy of Salander: "The Rhodoks will return to Ameraburg in a week".

Adil breathed a sigh of relief.

Over the next few days, the Rhodoks began to dismantle the horses in front of the camp and looked like they were ready to leave. The people of Salander also bring food several times a day to comfort Rhodok friends who have come from afar.

On the day of the departure of the Rhodoks, the Salanders were decorated with lights and celebrated with enthusiasm. This inexplicable war for most of the soldiers passed, and at this time, rumors of something big in the country spread among the soldiers, but it was a matter far away, and no one cared.

That night, the plain of Gamitch was at peace, and Gamitch fell into a state of silence after the noise.

Just as Adil was annotating the order on the document in the fortress's office, there seemed to be a low tidal sound in the distance, Adil opened the window and listened carefully, and soon Adil was shocked, because the tidal sound could be heard clearly, it was the cry of thousands of soldiers as they charged.

At this moment, the city was on fire, and the drunken Salander soldiers looked around in bewilderment, bewildered like headless flies.

The Rhodok lurking soldiers, who had been dormant for more than ten days, rushed out, set fire to the city according to the established plan, and tried to approach the city gates.

After infiltrating Garmicchi for the first time, Marion recorded the various symbols in the fort of Garmic, and discovered that Edward had not told a word. The Salanders had searched for spies after the fire, but found nothing, and finally the Salanders decided that it was an accident, and did not react more than to strengthen the night watch.

Just as my father was about to contact the battalion to attack secretly, suddenly Garcia's order came from Ameraburg: be quiet and wait, and wait until the order is given to assist in the attack.

By that time, Bruno and Marion had already drawn up a specific plan for the attack: once the attack began, the soldiers could split into two teams, one to set fire to the city and one to go straight to the city gates.

Marion had been interrogating Edward these days, or rather chatting with him. Marion found out that Edward had been to his hometown, which made Marion very happy, and even slightly diluted his worries about his daughter. But that sadness immediately welled up in his heart, and Marion sighed, "I hope my little Aoi is okay."

"Sir," said Edward, "my adoptive father was a man who was relatively well-fed among the people of Salander, and the man who took Aoi was from a famous family, and it was easy to find such a person. I'm sure your daughter will be found once the war is over, I swear."

When talking about Aoi, the light in Edward's eyes was clearly not simple sympathy.

When Garcia made an agreement with the Salanders, his messenger immediately set out to climb the snowy mountains to find my father. Soon, my father revised his plan and stopped anything that would alarm the people of Salander.

Marion told of an incident in which he had seen the Salander Gate in an abandoned tower, and found that the gate had been modified to allow chains to be hanged together at a critical moment, so that it would be impossible to open the gate unless the entire gate was shattered.

"But the gates are very strong," says Marion, "and if they are well maintained, it would take at least a few hours for the thick gates to be broken, and then a sneak attack would not have been possible." It must be burned with fire".

"Is there such a big fire there? There is plenty of food and grass in the city, but once there is chaos in the city, no one can guarantee that they will be able to take it."

The father thought for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Ha! Didn't we bring a lot of oil, and when the time came, we would pour oil on the city gates, and it would be nice to set it on fire, and how much oil would we have Bruno? ”

"Uh'''", Bruno smiled awkwardly.

"Twenty-two cans," Sabel, who was sitting with his back to everyone, said indifferently.

Everyone admired Sabel's thoughtfulness from the bottom of their hearts, and he was not surprised in this kind of chaos, and he could know everything like a mirror, and he was really a first-class person.

"How do you know? Mr. Sabel? The father asked curiously and adoringly.

"It was too cold the night before yesterday, and I didn't want to go out in the tent at night. When it's done, it's all the oil," Sabel looked back and smiled.

All of them immediately remembered in horror when they had last oiled themselves to protect themselves from the cold, and made up their minds that they would freeze to death and no longer use that thing to protect themselves from freezing.

Finally came the night of the appointment with Garcia.

While the Salanders were in the midst of their lively celebrations, the soldiers took down the walls, and this time, they simultaneously unarmed themselves with all their weapons and equipment on the wasteland.

When midnight came, the main force of Rhodok quietly folded out of Amera's Fort, and after quietly clearing the scouts of the Salanders, he quietly approached Fort Garmic in the thick of night. Due to the paralysis of the Salanders, the Rhodoks were not discovered until a mile before Fort Garmic, and the Rhodoks then charged.

The Salanders were stunned by the tremendous movement inside and outside the city, and by the time they could react, a group of Rhodok soldiers had begun to storm the city gates out of nowhere. The Salander soldiers on duty at night gathered together and resisted with their backs to the city gates, but due to their lack of preparation and low morale, the Rhodok soldiers in the city soon arrived at the city gates and began to set fire to the gates, which had been hanged by the Salanders with iron chains. The oil spilled by the Rhodoks made the fire rage. The Rhodok soldiers then used the cloister around the gate as a position to resist the frantic counterattack of the Salanders, who knew that if the gates were lost, Garmic would fall.

The Salander soldiers fought bravely until about half past one, when the gates, which had become fragile due to the fire, were smashed open with battering rams by the Rhodoks outside the city, and the Salanders, who were besieging the soldiers inside the city, saw no hope and scattered in all directions. The destruction of the city is inevitable.

Some of the soldiers in the city continued to resist until dawn, and finally, due to the loss of command of most of the soldiers and the complete chaos in and around the city, more than 600 Salander soldiers and more than 1,000 men surrendered to the Rhodoks.

After 16 years of fall, the fortress of Garmici has returned to the arms of Rhodok.

In the midst of this change, my father was so well behaved that General Garcia warmly praised him, and put him alongside Wright of the North, calling them "the Eagles of the North and the South."

In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that Wright is going to do much better. Wright almost changed half of Swadia with one person, while his father only rescued more than a thousand refugees, and hid in a cave and stabbed King Salander in the back.

The Salander captives were taken to several courtyards to wait for their release, and the Rhodok soldiers looked around the city with their toes proud, and countless people lamented the ups and downs of Gamic's years of ups and downs. Some of the veterans who followed Garcia sixteen years ago were even more embarrassed and wept.

Garcia's quartermaster, the same soldier who had witnessed the fall of Garmic sixteen years earlier, leaned against the gate and wept when he suddenly smelled the familiar smell of burning oil. He thought about it for a long time before he remembered that it was the smell of the oil that had been stolen at the beginning of the war.

"Could it be that the oil was stolen by the Salanders?"

The old quartermaster thought it was unimaginable, but after thinking that his long-cherished wish had finally been fulfilled, the old man rested his head on the city gate again.

Smelling the familiar scent of oil, the quartermaster cried happily.