Sorry for the late update, I woke up ^_^ after a delay in buying something at noon and a meal **

On the castle of Baron Widdy, Tusech and a group of nobles watched the rattle of the counterweight trebuchet, and as the count gave the order, one of the guards cut the rope with his axe, and the thirty pounds of stones in his leather pocket flew over the heads of the people.

"Bang!" The stone fell to the ground and smashed a cloud of dust, and the nobles hurriedly stretched out their heads to take a look, and the guards under the castle walked to the landing point even more seriously, and then shouted loudly at the castle, "One hundred steps!" ”

"Try a big rock." When the Count heard this, he commanded, a hundred meters, closer than he had imagined.

A stone of about 100 catties flew out of the city wall, and the guard walked back, and after measuring it, he shouted loudly, "Fifty steps!" ”

"Do you have a way to increase the throw distance?" The Count asked Xiang Tuse.

"Increase the counterweight, the length of the belt." "But that would only add a little bit." ”

"I should have made a bigger one." The Count sighed, "This is not half the distance of the trebuchet in the Imperial Age, and the top of the castle is already within the range of the enemy's bow and arrow." ”

"Not to mention that we don't have that many carpenters, and that adding twenty more oak trees would delay the construction by at least two months." He looked back at the castle platform as he spoke, "And the conditions of this castle are not enough. ”

The Earl nodded silently, less than ten meters behind him where the trebuchet could be placed, and he said to Weidi, who was waiting beside him, "Tell the guards to keep their spirits up, and if the enemy attacks, they must use all their strength!" ”

"The guards are drawing strength during this time, and we are ready." After answering, Weidi frowned slightly and reminded, "Lord Earl, most of the knights' castles in my domain are wooden structures, are you sure to let those guards hide inside?" ”

"Don't talk about it again." The Count sighed, "I have prepared enough horses for them, and you must know that it will be very beneficial for us to be able to surprise the enemy's rear." ”

"I follow your will." Widdy saluted, no matter what the outcome was, he had already fought for the guards.

As if he had laid down his baggage, Widdy was about to go to see his canteen, and as he walked down the wall, he nodded to the sage, who had already taken the relationship of an earl after breaking away from him.

He nodded in return, then took out a wooden tube from his bosom and put it in front of his eyes, and after looking at it for a long time, he put it down and said to the earl, who was watching him, "The scouts from the border have returned. ”

"Divination with your magic wand?" The Earl snorted, and in the past few days he had seen that he had taken out this wooden tube and looked into the distance, thinking that this would enhance his vision.

"It's a telescope, you can see images from afar." Hearing this, he raised his arm and motioned for him to lean his eyes over.

"Can I use it too?" Curious, the Count leaned over to look, and finally narrowed his eyes in a fool's sight, and sure enough, at a great distance from the location of the Baron's castle, all the knights of the border guard had withdrawn.

There is only one possibility in this case, and that is a witch invasion!

"Open the gates and let the knights in." The Count shouted, and the guards below listened inexplicably, but they did so, and after about ten minutes they faintly saw a cloud of dust drifting in the distance.

"The Earl is truly a god! Isn't Mo good at divination? The guard measuring outside the door was surprised.

"Idiot, it's the dark mage beside him." The other guard cut off.

When the knights entered the city, the count and the vassals were already waiting in the hall, and in a few moments a knight stumbled into the hall, reporting the news that everyone had guessed that the enemy was coming.

"The armed savage guards are between five thousand and eight thousand, and there are too many wizards behind them to be observed, but they have a strange place, that is, in the middle of the team, there is a huge carriage with four white horses, and there are many pumpkins growing on the carriage!" "Because they are descending from the canyon, we are not tempting. ”

"Witches always dress themselves up according to legends, hoping to gain power in this way." The Earl sneered softly, "Pumpkin? There have been pumpkin people in Wadi's territory before, is it suitable to grow this kind of thing in the forest? ”

The vassals below were stunned for a moment, and then laughed, happy before the battle, enough to suppress their anxiety about the army of witches who were several times larger.

"I'm going to lead the knights through their ranks, and then I'll pick the pumpkins from that wagon and make dinner for everyone!" Baron Fender knocked on his full body armor and turned his head and walked out of the hall, he wanted to gather the knights in advance, according to the plan he was going to lead a team of knights for the first trial.

"Oh, that's great, I haven't eaten anything new like this, dinner is mine, don't take it from me!" Marty, a vassal, looked at Fender who walked out and said, according to the division of strength, he felt that it was his turn to set the mood.

"You turtle, that thing used to exist when the kingdom was still the Dark Kingdom of Massana, but later the ancestors of our King felt that the pumpkin was bloated and too similar to Belier's bear face, so it was forbidden to grow pumpkins." Baron Litao straightened his armor and said disdainfully to Marty, "Only a family like me with an ancient heritage can taste this delicacy, and even now the serfs will send it to me to share it even if they grow it privately." ”

"The kingdom of Massana?" Marty patted his head and said, "Oh, you older families are like this, who knows if what you say is true." ”

"As your lord and the ancient family, I will do justice to you." Hilton looked at Marty with a smile and said, "Pumpkins did exist earlier, I remember that when my grandfather was still alive, he always told me stories about the vampire Grand Duchess, and whenever night fell, the beautiful countess would always set up her pumpkin carriage and go to the villages in the suburbs to look for maidens, and use their blood..."

Hilton lowered his head as he spoke, Marty, who had been listening carefully, found that his voice was gone, and looked at the Earl blankly, while Lord Litaonanjue's face began to turn pale, and he looked up at Hilton who looked up at him in horror, and exclaimed, "Vampire Countess?!" ”

"It's really okay to scare yourself into setting up the atmosphere before the war." He looked at Hilton, who was screaming and changed his voice, "You just stopped the water in the mirror before the army pressed the border~ Heh." ”

"The lonely widow who had been robbed of her property, whose servants died, who had inherited the position of her martyred uncle before she was about to die a dignified death, was finally out of sight, but her name still hangs on the list of the Inquisition." Hilton was very unhappy with the taunt of Tuse, and he snorted, "This time she is back, as the Sage of the Starfall Land, are you sure that you will defeat her?" ”

"People who come from scratch with accounts like this are ruthless." She looked at the Earl's defiant eyes, "But she's human, too."