When he received the news from the Rangers, the Grand Prince did not let the group, which had already been on the road all morning, rest, but ordered the march to continue, hoping to reach the Baron's castle before dark.

Although ordinary soldiers complained about the order of the eldest prince, but in general, the identity of the eldest prince was there, and the little nobles still silently accepted this order, after all, these little nobles all rode war horses, and even those who owned carriages like Pat were no longer few.

At the urging of their respective lords, the ordinary soldiers, who were already exhausted and hungry, continued to advance.

After tens of thousands of people marched for four hours, they finally saw the Baron's Castle standing in the distance.

It was only at this moment that those ordinary soldiers sat down on the ground and had time to rest for a while.

……

The Duchy of Albanne is located on the plains, and there are few hills, so the castle in the distance is not built on the hill like the Duchy of Jean, but chooses to build the castle on the highest part of the terrain near the river.

Such a castle does not rely on the height of the terrain to block the enemy, but like White Rock Castle, the moat around the castle is dozens of meters wide to protect the city walls, and the only entrance to this moat is the drawbridge facing the castle gate.

At this time, the drawbridge of the castle has been hoisted high and pasted on the wall of the castle, directly covering the entire castle gate.

If Gervais and the others wanted to attack the baron's castle, they had only two options, either swim over it or fill in the moat, or they would not even have a place to put a ladder on the opposite side.

Because the distance between the castle and the moat is very short, only three or four meters away, and the open space of three or four meters is still a slope, and the siege ladder cannot be fixed at all.

……

In the tent, the eldest prince and a middle-aged man sat on the main seat, while dozens of minor nobles sat below.

These minor nobles came from the Eight Earl Families, and they were all elected representatives of all the minor vassals of the Eight Great Families.

At this time, Gervais, Bertram, and Pat were in this tent, and the three of them came to the meeting on behalf of the vassals of the Jones family.

"Everyone has seen the Baron's Castle in the distance! I have summoned you this time to discuss with you about attacking the castle. ”

The eldest prince wore a well-made leather armor with a cloak hanging on his back, and a good appearance, showing a young nobleman with great power in his hands to the fullest.

The eldest prince didn't bother Gervais today, not even too much eye contact with Gervais.

When the representatives of the eight major families had arrived, the eldest prince began to speak at today's meeting.

"According to the strategy formulated by His Majesty the King, we need to split up several ways in the next period of time and attack the castles of those minor nobles in the county of Golden Mai."

"However, I think we have only just arrived in the county of Golden Mail, so it is necessary to take a castle first, so that we can boost our morale and discourage the enemy!"

"So I'm going to wait until we capture this baron's castle, and then we will divide our troops, do you have any opinion on this?"

After the eldest prince finished speaking, his eyes swept over the representatives of the little nobles below.

"Your Highness, we have no opinion!"

"We don't have an opinion either!"

Soon, several representatives of the minor nobles spoke out in agreement.

Although the eldest prince's argument of boosting morale and discourage the enemy's confidence is very far-fetched.

But there is no problem, anyway, these vassals came to the Duchy of Alban to attack the city and plunder the land, and now it doesn't matter if everyone fights one or the other.

"Very well, it seems that everyone has the same idea as me!"

The eldest prince enjoyed the feeling of being in control, and nodded in response to the little nobles who had expressed his position before continuing.

"But the castle in front of us is only a baronial castle after all, we have more than 30,000 people, if everyone attacks the castle at the same time, it will definitely be unrealistic."

"So I'm going to attack White Rock City in the same way as I would attack it, using wheel warfare to attack the city! You don't have any opinions, right? ”

With a warm smile on his face, the eldest prince looked at the crowd again, asking for their opinions.

Several of the minor nobles below continued to speak in favor of the proposal, and no one objected.

In fact, at this moment, Gervais looked at the eldest prince below, and his brows were already slightly furrowed.

Although the eldest prince has not released hostility towards him so far, Gervais does not feel that the eldest prince has forgotten his grievances with him.

The reason why the eldest prince is so calm is probably because he has already dug some pit waiting for him!

"Excellent! It seems that everyone has no objection to my opinion, so let's discuss the siege order! ”

The eldest prince smiled and nodded.

"I have a proposal here regarding the order of siege, I think we can use the order of siege according to the merits of the battle in White Rock City."

"Because this is the first battle, we must win beautifully, so that we can effectively hit the enemy's confidence, and the outstanding achievements in White Rock City also represent the strength of that family, so the first place is the need for such a family."

"What do you think of my proposal?"

The eldest prince's words fell, and the little nobles of course seconded it again.

And Gervais already knew in his heart at this moment that this eldest prince, who was pretending to be a handsome son, began to deal with himself as soon as he arrived on the battlefield.

However, the eldest prince's words were high-sounding, and there was nothing wrong with what he said.

So, Gervais asked in a loud voice to the eldest prince Derek in the second hand of those minor nobles.

"I'm against it!"

In an instant, the entire conference hall fell silent, and everyone looked at Gervais.

"Viscount Gervais, I don't know why you're objecting?"

The eldest prince was not surprised by Gervais's objection, nor was he in a hurry, and continued to ask Gervais calmly

"Your Royal Highness the Great Prince, I don't know when you are going to attack the city, how long is the siege time of each family?"

"Hehe, Viscount Gervais, since this is our first battle, we must fight quickly, so I have decided to start the siege of the city as soon as this meeting ends, and each family is responsible for the siege for half a day!"

When the eldest prince heard Gervais's loud question, his expression did not change at all, he was still very kind, and he also answered Gervais's question in detail.

"Your Royal Highness the Great Prince! That is, if the Jones family, as the first family to attack the city, needs to attack all night? ”

A hint of coldness flashed in Gervais's eyes, and his voice cooled and he asked.

"Yes, Viscount Gervais!"

"Your Royal Highness, we have only set up camp today since the morning march, and the soldiers have not been given any rest, and they have not even eaten lunch and dinner, is there something wrong with your offensive arrangement?"

Gervais now knows what the eldest prince Derek has planned to stop the soldiers at noon and rush straight ahead, that is, digging a pit and waiting for the Jones family.

"Haha! Viscount Gervais, you can't be scared, right? It's just a baronial castle, you Jones family are afraid of this, no wonder you were last in line when the camp was arranged! ”

"Hahahaha!"

The eldest prince didn't say anything, but the representatives of the nobles of the Charles family jumped out first to taunt Gervais.

And those who just seconded the words of the eldest prince were the most vocal and positive.

"Viscount Gervais, although it has been a day's march, each of your families has a team of thousands of people, and attacking the Baron's Castle only requires hundreds of soldiers at a time, and you have time to rest the other soldiers, so I don't think it's wrong for me to be hungry."

"Since, His Royal Highness the eldest prince said that there is nothing wrong, it is better to let the Charles family be the first to attack the city! The sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked viscount just now seemed to say that their Charles family was very brave! ”

"And Your Highness, you just said that the Jones family has the greatest credit in White Rock City, so can the Jones family get more preferential treatment?"

Gervais spoke sharply, and was not afraid of losing the face of the eldest prince.

"You ......"

As soon as the Charles family made a mockery of the aristocratic representatives of the Jones family, they immediately looked angry, and were about to stand up and scold Gervais, but they were stopped by the eldest prince.

I saw the eldest prince wave his hand at him, and then look at everyone.

"It seems that Viscount Gervais is not very willing to be the first family to attack the city, but presumably everyone is!"

The eldest prince still smiled.

"However, since the enemy's castle is ahead, tens of thousands of us will have to push back in the face of a baron's castle, and then it will inevitably make the people of the Duchy of Alban look down on, and His Majesty the King will inevitably be blamed."

"So, we might as well vote! There are two types of arrangement regarding the siege order. ”

"The first one is what I just proposed, according to the battle merits of White Rock City, the highest battle merits are ranked first!"

"The second is to decide according to the location assigned to the camp in the City of Glory!"

"Now, let's get ready, let's start voting!"

"Raise your hand if you support the first method of decision!"

Brush! Brush! Brush!

When the words of the eldest prince fell, almost all the noble representatives in the entire tent raised their hands.

The Charles, the Larkin family, the Cowan family......

When he heard the eldest prince say that he was going to vote, Gervais knew what the outcome would be.

However, at this moment, Gervais was a little surprised that two family members did not raise their hands to vote.

Needless to say, one of the families is the Winton family, although the Winton family sent a woman Caroline in the representative today, but the Winton family has a marriage relationship with the Jones family, so naturally they will not vote in favor.

In addition to the Wheldon family who did not raise their hands to vote, there is another family that is the Elvo family.

And the Elvo family made this decision because of one person entirely.

This person is Boris, who used the purple elf to make a bet with Gervais in the Colosseum on Alice's birthday, and finally lost two elves, and had to beg Gervais to replace the elves with gold coins.

Boris was sitting opposite Gervais at this time, and when he saw Gervais's gaze, he couldn't help but nod to Gervais.

For Boris's release of kindness, Gervais also responded with a smile, he didn't expect Boris to be worried about offending the eldest prince, but it's not strange to think about it, this Boris also owed himself a favor, in addition to Boris also owes himself a promise.

"Very good, there are a total of five families that support the first proposal, so please raise your hand to the families who support the second proposal below!"

In fact, the voter turnout of the first method can be seen from the willingness of these families.

However, in order to maintain his own personality, the eldest prince did not have any possibility of shirking the Jones family, and still acted like a businessman, and pretended to start voting on the second method.

When the eldest prince's words fell this time, the audience was extremely quiet, no family raised their hand, the Winton family did not raise their hand, and the Elvo family did not raise their hand.

Of course, this does not mean that the two families have changed their attention again, but because they know that even if they and others raise their hands, it is useless.

So for the sake of the family, he simply didn't raise his hand, so as not to let the eldest prince secretly hold a grudge.

"Viscount Gervais, the results of the vote of the eight major families have come out!"

The eldest prince looked at Gervais with a smile on his face.

"In that case, then I don't have any opinion!"

Gervais shrugged his shoulders indifferently, not as angry as everyone expected.

In fact, Gervais had already guessed this result, and since the eldest prince was ready to calculate the Jones family in this way, he naturally had a lot of certainty.

"Your Royal Highness, you have no opinion on the order of the siege! However, I have a request, if the castle is breached within the time period of our Jones family's attack, then the battle power in the castle will be completely collected by our Jones family, and no other family is allowed to interfere! ”

"Of course, no matter which family breaches the castle, all the loot will be owned by this family!"

The eldest prince didn't have any opinions, the castle was not a city, and the area was not as large as a town, so as long as it was this kind of siege method of wheel warfare, all the strength to collect the spoils of war would belong to the family that broke the castle.

Although they all need to be handed in in the end, there are a lot of valuable things in the castle, even if you swallow a few gems and a book or two, no one will say anything.

Of course, now that the Jones family has the reward promised by the king, they naturally do not have to hand over the spoils.

However, no one in the room believed that the Jones family would be able to breach the castle tonight.

The soldiers of the Jones family were exhausted at this time, and there was a moat of dozens of meters outside the castle waiting for them to fill, so the Jones family could be said to be the coolies chosen by the eldest prince.

Specializing in filling the river and consuming the grievances of the enemy elves.

As for the Jones family, will they have a second chance to attack the castle?

The answer, of course, is no.

The Great Earl's family, with more than 20,000 people, and a small baronial castle, if they can withstand it in one round, then their team is a joke.

"Viscount Gervais! I don't know if you still have any questions? If not, this is the end of our meeting, and the Jones family will attack the castle within half an hour. ”

"No more comments! Your Royal Highness, then I'll go back and arrange the attack first! ”

Gervais waved his hand, stood up without saluting, said a word to the eldest prince, turned around and walked out.

"That's it! Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of today's meeting, and you can go back and rest! I hope to take this Baronial Castle in two days! ”

Looking at Gervais's back, the eldest prince did not have a seizure for the time being, although his fingers had been pinched a little white, but he still had a smile on his face.

"Yes, Your Highness!"

The other representatives of the nobility all stood up, saluted respectfully to the eldest prince, and then exited the tent!

Bang!

When all the little nobles had gone, the tent was filled with the sound of a loud lap on the wooden table.

"Gervais! I want you dead! ”