Lydia is on her way to the city of Rafiz with a chocobo.

Behind her were young men and Mira, who were also holding alpacas, and a black snow with a black parasol.

"I say, Your Royal Highness Princess, don't you really think about holding an umbrella?" Hei Ningxue asked.

Lydia took the chocobo and replied, "I've drunk mint tea to cool down when I go out, and I won't get heat stroke." ”

"The 'mint cooling tea' blended by the Holy Maiden can really make people feel cool." Hei Ningxue frowned, "But it can only guarantee that you won't get sunburned, and it can't guarantee that you won't get tanned." ”

"My life is not good." Lydia laughed self-deprecatingly, "You can't take the stupid white sweet route." ”

Hei Ningxue shook her head helplessly, "It seems that the shadow of your childhood is quite deep. ”

Of course, she knew how miserable Lydia's origins in this world were. It is said that shortly after she was born, she was bought by her adoptive father and kept in a convent in North County. If nothing else, when she grows up in a few years, she will be sent as a plaything for the powerful.

So for her, the pursuit of beauty is not only her nature, but also the most instinctive fear engraved in her bones.

Hei Ningxue could only change the subject, "The geographical location of Filas City is very dangerous, but judging from the intelligence, it seems that it has been destroyed by Babu and the Magic Star. ”

"That's not just 'sabotage.'" Lydia wiped the sweat from her forehead, "I read the military report of the Wild Sand Empire, and it can be regarded as 'razed to the ground' over there." ”

"If it's flat, what are you going to do with them?" Hei Ningxue asked.

Lydia twitched her head, "There are no particularly good methods, digging traps, building trenches, building fortifications, just a few old ways." ”

The young man added, "Not necessarily, we brought a few heavy crossbows and trebuchets this time, which can pull a wave of damage from a long distance." ”

"Let's hope Babu and Magic Star will slow down." Hei Ningxue shook her fan helplessly, "But I prefer that Tsukihime can start an infighting with the Demon Star first." ”

Of course, Hei Ningxue also knew that she was just whimsical, after all, the two of them were not like her and Hei Shiwen back then, with irreconcilable contradictions as soon as they appeared.

Lydia scoffed, "You're too good at dreaming, why don't you want a wall to fall from the sky and fall right outside the city of Firas?" If anyone can give me a wall now, I can kneel down and call him Daddy. ”

"Really?" The young man suddenly asked next to him.

Lydia was about to reply, "This knight is hard to chase", when she was surprised to find a high wall of yellow-brown dirt in front of her. Lydia's amazement was palpable, she had never imagined that there would be such a thing in the world.

Hei Ningxue unfolded her feather fan to hide her face and smiled, "It seems that we will soon be able to see you kneeling." Now let's ask which noble father gave such a precious gift. ”

Lydia's mind went blank, and as they approached Rafiz, they finally saw the shape of the wall.

It was a makeshift earthen wall, about three feet high, with no majestic towers, no hard stone bricks, no elaborate chamfers. It is a simple earthen wall that surrounds the ruins of the original city of Firas.

When they entered the walls, they found that the earthen wall, though it was only a mixture of dirt, gravel, straw and animal droppings, was not ordinarily thick: it was thick enough for six people to walk side by side, and the rammed earth slope behind it was like a hill.

If it is estimated according to this thickness, let alone a catapult, even if the other party uses a soul cannon to bombard it for an afternoon, it may not be able to penetrate it.

Tents were set up in the squares of the city, and building materials were neatly stacked. Many dwarven craftsmen sat around the barrels, drinking and bragging.

"Hiccup, Princess...... a dwarf head came over with a wine burp, "I didn't expect you to come so soon." ”

"...... you?" Lydia was a little surprised.

The dwarf man took out a document from his pocket, "Don't laugh at the adults who asked us to come over, saying that we would simply build a defensive wall here." ”

Hei Ningxue rubbed a soul flame with her fingertips and checked it on the document, "It seems that it is indeed a document that does not laugh at adults." It's just that...... Payment was made a month ago...... Before he took the imperial capital, did he give an order? ”

"Probably......" Lydia quietly pinched her thigh, making sure she wasn't dreaming.

Hei Ningxue put away the paperwork, "Looks like someone has become your father a month ago." ”

Lydia glared at her, and took advantage of the surprise to reach out and poke her finger under the black snow's armpit.

"Perverted!" Hei Ningxue itched and begged for mercy.

"It's a shame to be called a 'pervert' by a pervert like you." Lydia tickled unrelentingly.

……

When Hei Ningxue laughed so much that she could only hold her stomach and lie on the ground and convulse, Lydia let go of this pervert who called herself "Thin Life and Red Face". Then, with the young man and Mira, he climbed the city wall to inspect the situation.

"With the city walls, the battle becomes a battle for the defense of the city." The young man smiled with satisfaction, "Now our winning rate has increased tenfold." ”

"Sure enough, it is worthy of the craftsmanship of the 'craftsman's association', and the earthen wall can be so strong." Mira sighed as she stumbled on the walls of the city several times.

The short artificial head laughed, "This is not our original craft, it is said that this is Rowling's master craftsman referring to the method of building a wall with the master of Buxiao, using monster feces to glue gravel and burn it into mud bricks, and then build it." ”

Lydia remembered the matter of the Greystone Castle, "But your movements are indeed fast enough, such a wall cannot be repaired by ordinary people in half a year." ”

The dwarf raised an eyebrow, "That's impossible, we can use the latest machine designed by Rowling's master craftsmen, she calls it 'romance that only men can understand'." ”

Lydia snorted, "A man's romance? What's that, black silk or short skirt? ”

"Excavators." The dwarf head stretched out his hand, and not far from under the city wall, there happened to be an earthy yellow excavator.

Familiar arms, familiar buckets, familiar crawlers. Even the location of the operating compartment is exactly the same as the excavator I have seen in my previous life.

"Cut, this is a man's romantic ......" Lydia was just about to complain about this boring thing, when she suddenly noticed that the young man next to her had already looked straight in his eyes.

Not only the young people, but also many soldiers watched the rough noise of this large machine and slowly dig up a bucket of sand.

"Men ......," Lydia couldn't help but hide her face, "that's the nature of men......"

Mira suddenly pointed into the distance and shouted, "Your Royal Highness, come and see, what's going on with that cloud of black smoke?" ”

Lydia hurriedly looked into the distance, and on the horizon in the distance, billowing smoke and dust were rising, like a torrent, rolling towards the earth city. Judging from the speed of this rush, it must have been the vanguard sent by Prince Babu to seize the terrain.

"Good fellows." Lydia reached out and took the spear from the squire's hand, "It's better to come early than to be lucky." ”

With that, she raised her spear and raised her arms to the soldiers behind her, shouting, "Warriors, the scum of the demon clan is provoking us. Take up your weapons, and we're going to crush these evil minions! ”

The trumpets sounded in unison, and the snare drums beat instantly. The soldiers grabbed their weapons and ran up the city wall in a neat and brisk manner, ready for battle.

The first to rush up the city wall were the large shield soldiers, who lowered their heads against the large shield and formed a double shield array, as if it were a stack of arrows, providing adequate defense for the soldiers behind.

They were followed by three rows of soldiers armed with strong crossbows.

With the support of the Red Pavilion's strong industrial capacity, the Red Pavilion has now abolished the normal crossbow formation, and all combat formation soldiers, whether spearmen or boring rakers, can obtain a strong crossbow with a range of more than 500 paces.

Lydia also modified the previous military discipline so that all soldiers in the combat formation entered a three-stage cycle of firing. Since then, the bow and arrows of the Red Pavilion have become a nightmare for all enemies, and the arrows of the storm have shattered the illusions of countless enemies.

Even more terrifying than the rain of arrows is the legendary "Divine Arrow Battalion". It is said that only those who can shoot at targets 1,500 steps away will be assigned to the "Divine Arrow Battalion" for training and become full-time snipers. On the battlefield, they will shoot through the heads of enemy generals like ghosts.

If the enemy general intends to rely on a shield to defend himself, then the Red Pavilion's special "three-bow bed crossbow" will teach him to be a new man.

A number of able-bodied soldiers had already assembled several heavy bed crossbows with a range of 2,000 paces on the city walls. The hollow short spears waiting to be fired were already filled with explosives and piled up in bundles on both sides, and two soldiers were methodically pulling the ratchet and tightening the bowstring.

The space at the top of the wall was not too spacious, so heavily armed troops such as catapults gave up the idea of going up to the wall to join in the fun, and quickly unfolded the parts of the catapult behind the wall and quickly assembled them.

It's just that the catapult in the Red Pavilion has never lived up to its name, and in Lydia's many battles, this big killer has dropped explosives, leaflets, and even dung buckets, but it has never thrown stones.

The soldiers in charge of the catapult were nervously adjusting their counterweights and torque, and several observers were already on the ramparts estimating the coordinates of the shots and waving flags to them.

"Put on the explosives!" Lydia gave the order, and the explosives dragging the fuse were already filled into the launch bucket, and the launchers stepped on the safety pins, ready to go.

"Get the cavalry ready mounts." Lydia patted the young man on the shoulder, "I'll leave it to you here." ”

"What are you going to do, Your Highness Princess?" The young man didn't expect Lydia to get into battle so quickly.

Lydia put on her helmet, "Of course, I'm looking for a chance to rush out and kill him." ”

"That's a bit sloppy, isn't it?" The young man subconsciously stopped the way. In his vision, Lydia should stay in the rear so that it would be safer.

It's just that Lydia didn't think as far as he thought, and just blinked, "Or pinch?" Do you still want to go out of town and have a knightly conversation with them? ”