Just when the city of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, was singing and dancing, the closest secret realm to the city had been downgraded, and it had become a good place for ordinary adventurers in the city to collect all kinds of goblins and ogre drop equipment, and the high-level secret realm far away from the city could not affect their lives for a while, but then there came a news that people couldn't believe it at all, thinking it was a joke.

Just in the fortress closest to the Black Forest in Karelia, where more than a regiment of the army of the kingdom was stationed, the fortress of Sals fell. Zhou Zhongmou also knew a little about this fortress out of personal interest - although as a mercenary, he couldn't enter it, and the specific fortress map was also a military-controlled item on the market and could not appear in the library, but he still had a rough idea of the situation of this fortress.

A huge anti-magic circle is arranged throughout the entire fortress city of about 12,000 square meters, and all magic in this area is disrupted, and the large attack magic is basically ineffective - if you can concentrate the mage to use the large anti-city magic, you can indeed destroy the fortress, but that means that a lot of time and valuable spell casting materials are wasted, and the cost is enough to recreate two such cities, and of course, the biggest price of such a spell will take at least a week to prepare- In this case, any kind of surprise attack will be over

The Sals Fortress is located at the bend of the Morava River, the beautiful Morava River forms an arc of about one hundred and twenty degrees in front of the fortress, the other side of the river is a black forest, a road spreads along the river from the edge of the forest, and there is a stone bridge about twenty meters wide at the place of the fortress. It is also the largest bridge over the Morava River, connecting the parallel roads on both sides of the river and the continental road next to the fortress of Guò. The highway stretches all the way to Petrozavodsk, and the fortress is located on a high ground on the side of the road.

For many years, it was the front line of Karelia against the Transylvanian Empire, and countless Transylvanian invasions throughout history fought offensive and defensive battles under this fortress - even the undead armies that didn't need food and water needed logistics. Numerous invasions of the Transylvanian Empire were also fought from this fortress.

Although the fortress has an anti-magic arrangement, the command post of the fortress has a specially customized communication orb that can communicate with the main force of the Kingdom Army stationed in Petrozavodsk, and for many years relying on the cover of the fortress, Petrozavodsk has never been attacked from the direction of the Transylvanian Empire.

And now the daily scheduled communication has not been carried out for three days, and the gossip of the fall has also come out at this time. Although His Excellency the Nominal Count of Karelia immediately issued an announcement to refute the rumors, there was no way to stop the spread of gossip. Of course, the kingdom's navy and the Moby Dick Knights had been assembled, and the kingdom's army had already left the barracks outside the city, although it was set off in the name of drills, but this undoubtedly confirmed that the situation in the fortress ahead was certainly not good.

It's just that this qiē has no effect on Zhou Zhongmou for the time being - the mercenary union has not posted a large number of announcements to recruit mercenaries, and for the time being, there seems to be no businessmen who have fled and need to recruit guards, and even the announcement of the purchase of various materials has not decreased. Unfortunately, this qiē ended on the night of the sixth day of the first message.

The city was on alert almost all at once, and the gates, which had not been closed for many years, were closed for the first time - with the result that the unfortunate ones who returned late and were locked outside the gates were full of complaints, and many of them spoke ill words and threatened the guards at the gates - but all of them were useless

All the ships of the Moby Dick Knights of the entire kingdom's navy went to sea, and the Marine Knights began to defend the harbor and took over the defense of the city gate near the sea. As for the main force of the kingdom's garrison, it began to mix with the count's guard, and returned to the outside of the city under the leadership of the Grand Master Commander Gold Rank Commander Dragonov, except for some people who returned to the city wall for defense, the rest of the main force began to camp on the small hill on the side of the city. Speaking of which, Dragonov was supposed to stay in the Fortress of Sars, but recently, when the kingdom's army changed guards, he went to the battalion headquarters of the Knights in the city to do paperwork, and then lost a third of his men and the fortress he had to defend.

Zhou Zhongmou did not know how angry Dragonov would be, but he could imagine the severity of the situation, because almost at the same time the union issued a call-up order. Under normal circumstances, the mercenary union will not issue such a thing as a conscription order - free mercenaries, free employment is the main point they have been promoting, the union does not have the right to force mercenaries to accept employment - there is only a small back door: "Under the order of the local chief executive, and after paying sufficient mercenary money, the chief executive has the right to require the union to provide all local mercenaries on record." Zhou Zhongmou looked at the union treaty, "There is not a sentence on it that says that the mercenaries must accept this employment?" Of course, as a well-informed earthling, he knows that when the organization wants you to forcibly accept an "unreasonable" order, they always have a way

Zhou Zhongmou has no specific experience of war, especially the war of the Middle Ages in this magical world. At most, this guy just adds some magic effects to the pictures in the movies he has seen before, and has no idea what the war in this world really looks like. Of course, the war was not the squad fights he had experienced, and the scenes were much more striking than those - the first part of the war began when the Transylvanian Imperial Army, which had captured the Sars Fortress by unknown means, appeared on the road

The first brown-yellow skeleton appeared in sight of the defenders on the city wall, and then, almost suddenly, a tidal wave of skeletons appeared at the end of the line of sight. "Damn! there must be hundreds of thousands!" said one soldier to the hearts of all the soldiers on the city wall - the soldiers who had not fought in decades had panicked. Then he was hit in the head by the superior non-commissioned officer, who was calmer as a non-commissioned officer of the battle mage detachment, and still had time to count the number of skeleton soldiers. "Stupid! There are only no more than three thousand inferior Black Iron Rank skeletons here! The next time I hear you say something like this, it's not as simple as slapping your head!"

The chaotic skeleton soldiers began to approach the city with a rattling of joints, and stopped about five kilometers from the city - this is a distance that a mage cannot attack even with the height of the city wall, except of course if the mage group conducts a joint battle spell - but at least twelve mages perform a joint spell to bombard three thousand skeletons, and there is no guarantee of light, this kind of loss-making business that smart magicians will not do.

The skeletons stopped five kilometers away, and suddenly they were a very orderly army. Horizontal and vertical, if Zhou Zhongmou was allowed to stand on the wall and watch now, he would definitely say that it was the reason for the order caused by the National Day military parade, and behind the skeleton soldiers, there was a black knight with black smoke all over his body, a black knight with heavy armor who couldn't see his face, a black knight with a pair of red glowing eyes, and even the huge black horse under his crotch was emitting black smoke and a black knight with a dark blue flame on the horse's hooves. The knight held a large, exaggerated, exaggerated skull shield in his hand, and the armor on his body was also decorated with relief of the skull, and the black horse was also dressed in skeleton-like horse armor, and the huge single-edged long knife hanging on the side of the horse was even more terrifying.

"The Death Knight doesn't know which lord it is?" muttered an old officer on the ramparts.