As the king walked through the inner porch, everyone looked at him in astonishment.

Mainly when ordinary people go with the duke's sister, they either follow her, and the worst is parallel.

The mage didn't care about that, and went straight to the front.

Although he had only been to the inner city a few times, he was already familiar with the structure of the castle and knew the way to the headquarters.

He walked in front of him, and he walked so fast that Elizabeth could only desperately keep up with him in the back.

Elizabeth wore a daily dress today, and the daily dress was also a dress, which was not very easy to walk.

In this way, it seems that the king is the one with high status, and Elizabeth is his maid.

The key is that Elizabeth is still dressed up very beautifully today, which makes people even more curious about the relationship between the two. There will probably be all kinds of rumors flying all over the sky at noon today, and yesterday the king made a great achievement, right, people can't even think about it.

The king ignored all this, went straight to the command room, and rushed in without waiting for the soldiers guarding the door to push it open completely.

As he entered, Kasander was reporting the situation: "The Amur mercenary group outside the city has sacked several villages and estates close to the city and occupied these houses for camp. They are scattered throughout these estates and villages, and if they were infantry I would suggest going out of town to surprise them. ”

Bruce: "But they're all cavalry, so they can support each other quickly." ”

After speaking, Bruce looked at Wang and Elizabeth who entered the room: "Last night's hero is here." Wait a minute, is there one missing? ”

Wang: "Yes. Xiaobai was held down by Ms. Melly and was changing clothes. ”

Bruce smiled and glanced at the other barons and viscounts, "No one in our place can disobey Lady Melly. Even when we're all grown up, she'll still be able to spank all of us! ”

The knights politely responded to the duke's joke.

Instead of laughing, the king went straight to the point: "Yesterday in the office of the Wanderer's Guild Don, we were attacked by the Wanderer's Guild and Irwin, and two of the Duke's men were killed, and I brought back their corpses and relics. Is it taken out here? ”

The duke took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "I'll leave it to Merlin later, and he will take care of the aftermath." ”

Wang nodded, walked straight to the big sand table in the command room, and carefully observed the wargames on it.

"Is this the Emperor's own team?" He pointed to the chess pieces of the soldiers who were close to the border.

"Yes, mainly conscripts, the emperor's own personal guards are also there, in addition to mercenaries, the total number is more than we expected, about seventeen thousand." Wayne Langdon explained as a military officer.

Wang: "And this is the cavalry that attacked yesterday?" ”

"Yes. The total number was five thousand, of which three thousand were light cavalry skilled in salvos, and two thousand were mounted infantry. ”

The king touched his chin: "Can I understand that the emperor only has 22,000 people?" And what about the enemy who came from the ground yesterday? ”

"We have recovered a total of 1,000 armored corpses and taken about 1,500 prisoners this morning." Wayne looked embarrassed, "Because we also have a lot of casualties, we just provided these people with herbs and bandages, and by this morning many of them had a fever, and the grandmother of the monastery was taking care of them. ”

Wang: "So about a thousand people escaped?" All escaped from the underground? ”

Bruce took his brother's words and replied, "We're launching a city-wide search so that everyone can recognize each other's faces." As for the part that escapes from the underground, you should know better than us how dangerous it is. ”

The king snapped his fingers: "So the emperor's elite standing army is reimbursed, right?" How many casters were killed in the enemy army? ”

Wayne picked up the conversation again: "The heavy armor who attacked the city yesterday mainly did torture and robbery, and neither the holy warriors nor the priests of the good gods would join in this kind of behavior.

"There are priests and paladins in the River Valley Army, and we have captured a lot of emblems, but because the battlefield was so chaotic last night, we can't identify the corpse of the caster of the Battle Death Spell. The arcane caster determined that the array had slashed 24, most of them were two-ring and three-ring casters. ”

Arcane casters generally don't wear armor, they are robes, and they are generally thin and relatively easy to recognize.

Wayne paused, and the Duke said, "The highest-ranking arcane spellcaster we killed yesterday, we have confirmed his identity, it is Morgan, the archmage of the court of the River Valley Domain. ”

The king interrupted Wayne, "Is the Archmage dead? The druid's claim is that she has seriously injured the archmage, and that a priest should be able to save her. ”

Wayne nodded: "Yes, according to the testimony of the captives, the archmage was indeed only seriously injured, but after the priests used healing spells, he immediately developed a fever, probably infected with some kind of disease, and the priests were all preparing for a short-term decisive battle, and were not prepared to remove the disease."

"Then before they can move the archmage to the ship and use the medicine, the Lord of the River Valley will be killed, and the whole army will be in chaos, and the formation will collapse. In the chaos, the archmage was trampled to death.

"Many captives can attest to the fact that the same druid, who killed the enemy commander and archmage, carried a huge ham. We think it's the werewolf druid who came back with you.

"So last night she tied with you for the first prize."

The king frowned: "Do you want to reward meritorious deeds now?" Not suitable, right? The emperor still has more than 20,000 people who have not been killed. ”

Bruce: "The Emperor has lost. Yesterday's attack was when he had the best chance, but we took it. And because we fought on our own soil, the priests pulled most of the wounded back from the line of death.

"Although the emperor still has the advantage in troops, the quality has been greatly reduced, and most of his knights and servants died in the raid last night. Now he can't do anything with Langdon City with this little force. When our army is assembled, the emperor will be finished.

"Didn't you see the carrier pigeon taking off against the morning sun this morning? When the carrier pigeons reach our allies, they will raise their troops. These people will never come to the rescue when you are in danger, but they will come quickly when you show your victory. ”

Wang was about to speak, when suddenly his left eyelid began to jump.

"Well," he said, "maybe this time the crisis is really over." ”

Bruce came to the sand table, took the whip from his brother, knocked on Langdon City on the sand table and said, "The emperor may still want to fight, although his archmage is dead, and the archmage of the river valley who finally said that he is also dead, there should be some mage apprentices around him or something."

"His priest and paladin didn't participate in the sneak attack last night, so the power should be relatively intact. If the Priests are equipped with Fireball Scrolls, they will be able to play well in sieges. Even the poor Styr Collar can afford to equip a fireball scroll for 400 gold coins. ”

Wang: "Yesterday Mishasara reported that the enemy was armed with a dwarven craft crossbow, and it looks like the Steyr Territory is not as poor as you think. ”

Bruce: "According to the latest information, His Majesty may have cut down his domain, and despite the opposition of the Council of Nobles, he adopted the law of equal succession, and the barons' domains became smaller and smaller, and then the Emperor broke them individually. The territory he now governs is larger than he could have imagined.

Because of this, he was able to support the huge expenses of the Southwest War. But now, it's all over. If he can't beat us and rob us of our treasure, he'll go bankrupt. During the spring ploughing, the troops were requisitioned for a long time, and the harvest would fail in the autumn, and he had no money to help the victims.

"So he must, he has to break the kettle and gamble."

Wayne added, "Before our ally's troops arrive." ”

Wang: "So these two days are a decisive battle?" ”

Wayne: "Based on the speed of the enemy's movements, we'll see the enemy on the walls tomorrow night." I suppose the Emperor will allow the Amur's light cavalry to harass our army assembled on the Langdons. The baron's army, which was far away, was armoured.

"The conscripts have basically no way to face this kind of attack, and they must be mentally prepared for the conscripts to be dispersed."

The king clasped his hands to his chest and held his chin: "The effect of turning a dragon to attack these light cavalry is not very good. If they disperse, the dragon's breath will not spurt a few people. ”

"About that." The Archmage of Langdon raised his old hand, "May I take a look at the contents of your Book of Infinity about dragon form?" I only look at the dragon form, in order to cope with the current situation! ”

Wang: "Yes, but because even if it is in the form of a dragon with seven rings, it has seven pages. I'll need to flip it to you myself, and as soon as my hand leaves the book, the text on the page will disappear and the book will close.

"In addition, you are also a mage, and in addition to knowing the knowledge of transfiguration, you must also be familiar with the things to be transformed. Do you have any knowledge of dragons? ”

The archmage closed his eyes and sighed, "No. But when this is done, could you please copy the dragon form into a scroll for me? ”

Wang: "I can't make the Seven Rings Scroll myself. I'm just a three-ring spellcaster.

"But I can slowly flip through it for you, so you can copy it into your own spell book.

"But knowledge has value in itself, what are you prepared to trade it for? The knowledge you have gathered over the years does not make sense to me. I don't need the precious casting materials for the time being. As for the gold, I think when it's all over, the Duke will reward me with a lot. What can you pay in exchange? ”

The archmage looked embarrassed.

The Duke spoke, "I'll pay for him by using the resurrection scroll that my father didn't use." ”

Wang nodded: "Deal." That's great, Irwin's body is in my dimensional bag, and we can resurrect him and torture him when we get the scroll. But I don't think he will say it, because the person behind it may have used some kind of prohibition pact that he can't say. It's always good to give it a try, though! ”

Duke: "Wait a minute! You mean, Irwin, the mastermind behind the scenes, is not the one who started everything? ”

The king was a little stunned, he remembered that he had reported the matter yesterday. But he immediately understood that the duke had done it for others to see. This new duke seems to be acting all the time.

So he nodded, "Yes." So our journey continues. ”

Bruce shrugged: "Okay, when the scroll is in your hands, it's your freedom to use it however you want." However, this will not be possible until the dust settles down. After all, I still need this resurrection scroll to cover it up. ”

Wang: "Reasonable. ”