To Ye Tianlong's delight, after he had stopped for a day to repair at Dchiosburg, the troops sent by King Ragnar to receive those towns arrived.

After the handover, Ye Tianlong was able to gather all the troops stationed in various towns and towns, and at the same time received 50,000 silver coins from King Ragnar.

However, these monetary rewards were only a small head in Ye Tianlong's opinion, and what he was really waiting for was the promotion of King Ragnar's title after the battle was completely over.

After his scattered troops stationed in various towns arrived to join the large army, Ye Tianlong led the army of more than 1,500 people towards Dehrim City.

After discovering the movements of Ye Tianlong's army, the Marquis of Craggs in Dehrim City immediately understood that the other party's target was his own territory. So the Marquis of Craggs immediately began to prepare for battle.

Although the Marquis of Kraggs also knew that Ye Tianlong's army, which was equipped with a large number of firearms, was extremely powerful, but as a great nobleman in the Swadia Kingdom, he was also a large number of generals, so naturally he would not surrender so easily.

At this time, there were more than 2,000 regular soldiers and more than 3,000 militiamen in Dehrim City, adding up to more than 5,000 troops, which was several times the strength of Ye Tianlong.

After knowing that Ye Tianlong was coming to attack his territory, the Marquis of Kragus promoted and armed more than 500 militiamen with relatively good performance from among those people, making them official soldiers, and also gathered more than 500 elite mercenaries in the city who were well-equipped and had the combat effectiveness of regular soldiers. In the end, more than 9,000 young men were summoned from the city and incorporated into the militia. As a result, the defenders of Dehrim quickly swelled to more than 15,000 in a short period of time.

With so many troops, Marquis Craggs suddenly felt that the advantage was in me, even if he used human lives to fill it, it would be able to exhaust the ammunition of Ye Tianlong's troops, and when the opponent's guns and ammunition were exhausted, they would all become some useless burning sticks, and then he would like to see how the other party defeated his own Dehrim City.

And after Ye Tianlong's side marched for most of the day, he finally arrived at the city of Dehrim when it was almost dark.

Through the last afterglow of the sunset, Ye Tianlong saw the whole picture of this big city, although it can't be compared with those big cities in the real world, but on the continent of Calradia, the city in front of him can indeed be regarded as a big city, it is said that the population of the city is about 130,000, and the defenders have more than 5,000 troops, so it is still a little difficult to gnaw down.

In particular, its walls looked much taller and thicker than the two small castles he had laid before, with a height of about twelve meters and a thickness of more than three meters, and the walls were wide enough to run horses.

At this time, the sky had begun to darken rapidly, so Ye Tianlong asked the troops to start camping and resting, and at the same time sent Shi Qian to the city to investigate the enemy's situation, so that he could formulate a corresponding attack plan according to the enemy's situation.

Shi Qian, who had been resting in the carriage during the day, immediately set off energetically after receiving the task.

Knowing that the enemy was about to attack the city, the city was already under martial law, and as the sky darkened, many torches were lit on the walls, and every few minutes a group of soldiers patrolled the walls back and forth.

Faced with this situation, it is really difficult for ordinary people to sneak into the city to find out the situation, but this is an easy thing for Shi Qian.

He was wearing a close-fitting black python skin armor, and under the cover of the night, he quickly approached Dehrim City like a ghost, and then carefully shrank at the foot of the city wall, observed for a while, and summed up the law of enemy patrols, then took advantage of the fact that a group of trained soldiers had just passed, immediately got up from the foot of the city wall, jumped seven or eight meters high with a strong jump, and then tapped his toes on the wall twice, and then let his light body jump up a few meters, and successfully climbed the wall, And when it landed, it was also silent, and did not attract the attention of any nearby defenders.

After quickly scanning the city in front of him and judging the direction, Shi Qian jumped from the wall again, and the whole person flew sideways and jumped more than ten meters away, and finally landed on the roof of a residential house near the city wall.

However, because the roof of this house is made of a pile of weeds and branches, although he was very careful when he moved to the ground, he accidentally stepped on a dead branch that was extremely brittle by the sun, and made a snapping sound.

At this time, the occupants of the house had just fallen asleep, and had not yet fallen asleep completely, and when the hostess heard this voice, she immediately got up from the bed, and while trying to listen to the movement of the roof with her ears pricked up, she pushed her husband beside her hard, and reminded: "Have you heard any sound?" Looks like there's someone on our roof? ”

"Is there one?" When the husband heard this, he got up from the bed in a daze, trying to hear what his wife was saying.

As a thief, Shi Qian's hearing is naturally very good, and he immediately heard the conversation between the couple, so he hurriedly imitated the cat's meow a few times.

After the husband heard the cat meow imitated by Shi Qian, he smiled and comforted his wife: "You heard it wrong! It's not a human, it's just a wild cat that doesn't know where it came from! Sleep! I'll have to get up early tomorrow morning to work! ”

After saying this, the tired husband went back to bed and fell asleep.

Naturally, his wife also heard the cat meows imitated by Shi Qian, and wondered if she was really thinking too much, and it was not a person on this roof, but a wild cat.

After listening for a long time, and not being able to hear any other suspicious movements from the roof, the wife, who was also very tired, could not stand it anymore, and after reassuring herself that this might really be her mistake, she also lay down on the bed and fell asleep with her husband.

Shi Qian was on the roof, and after seeing through the gaps in the weeds that the couple had fallen asleep again, he breathed a sigh of relief and inserted the two short knives back into their scabbards.

Under the cover of night, Shi Qian continued to advance cautiously in the city of Dehrim, compared to the strict garrison at the city wall, the garrison in this city is much more lax, plus this kind of city in the background of the medieval period as soon as the night falls, most of the people in the city will fall asleep directly, resulting in no lights in the city, so unless Shi Qian happened to bump into the patrolling soldiers, no one will find Shi Qian jumping back and forth on the rooftops at all.

After some exploration, Shi Qian finally found the city lord's mansion where the Marquis of Craggs was located.

After sneaking into the City Lord's Mansion, Shi Qian found that the Marquis of Kragus had not yet fallen asleep, and at this time he was gathering many high-ranking officers in the city to discuss the next city defense tactics in the City Lord's Mansion.

Shi Qian carefully hid in the shadows, silently remembering all the tactics discussed by these guys, and at the same time learned that the current defenders of Dehrim City were not more than 5,000, but more than 15,000 horses.

After two hours of discussion, the Marquis of Craggs finally dismissed the officers, and then after a hasty dinner of his own, he was ready to go to sleep.

Shi Qian also quietly left the City Lord's Mansion at this time, and did not disturb the marquis's rest.

When Shi Qian returned to the camp outside the city, Ye Tianlong also quickly learned these news from Shi Qian's mouth, for the fact that the defenders of Dehrim City had swelled several times at once, Ye Tianlong also felt very helpless, after all, the Calradia continent was already sparsely populated, and the Marquis of Kragus had pulled so many young men into the garrison army, and when this battle was over, even if he could successfully take Dehrim City, it was estimated that the young men in this city who were suitable for joining the army would be almost consumed. Most of the rest of the population is a group of old and weak women and children.

After Ye Tianlong gathered his generals to discuss, everyone felt that if they wanted to end this war as soon as possible and reduce the population loss of Dehrim City, then using the decapitation tactic was the best choice. As long as the Marquis of Craggs can be captured and killed as quickly as possible, then the remaining enemy soldiers are probably not stubborn to the end.

And it is not easy to capture this Marquis of Craggs, because the Marquis still attaches great importance to his own safety, and when Shi Qian went to investigate before, he found that there were at least more than two hundred elite guards in the other party's mansion, these guards were not only well-equipped, but also all of them had the combat power of a Ming Jin warrior, and the evil aura on his body was so strong that Shi Qian could faintly feel it thousands of miles away, and they were obviously veterans who had experienced a hundred battles.

Under the protection of so many elite soldiers, Shi Qian could only secretly hide in the corner to listen to a little information, and did not dare to assassinate the other party.

Just staying in his own mansion, the Marquis has arranged so many guards for himself, it is conceivable that when the other party appears on the battlefield tomorrow, there will definitely be more guards around him, and it is definitely not easy to behead him.

Not many masters such as Lin Chong and Shi Wengong all said that they could try, after all, as innate martial artists, their combat effectiveness was indeed qualitatively improved with those acquired martial artists, as long as they were fast enough, there was still a certain chance that they would be able to kill the marquis on the spot.

And this success rate! According to the estimation of Lin Chong and their innate masters, it should be around fifty percent.

Ye Tianlong felt that if the success rate of fifty percent was enough for him to gamble, after all, if he could win this bet, he would be able to end this battle as soon as possible, and he would not cause a large loss of the population of Dehrim City.

After a good night's rest, early the next morning, Ye Tianlong led the army out of the camp and slowly approached the city of Dehrim not far away.

Last night, the defenders in the city didn't go out of the city to carry out any night attacks, so that Ye Tianlong and the others could get a good night's sleep. And from this point, it can also be seen that the Marquis of Kragus is indeed very aware of the gap in the combat strength of the soldiers on both sides, knowing that even if his strength is ten times that of Ye Tianlong, it is difficult to defeat the other party in the field battle, and the only chance to win is only in the battle to defend the city, relying on various city fortifications and complex terrain in the city to consume the ammunition and strength of Ye Tianlong's troops little by little.

And at the same time that Ye Tianlong led the army to set off from the camp, the Earl of Melt was savoring his breakfast.

In order to show respect for this knowledgeable earl, Ye Tianlong not only did not treat him well, but also generously pardoned more than a dozen immediate family members of the other party, put them all under house arrest, and the daily food and clothing were also according to the highest standards in the army and Ye Tianlong himself, which made this earl live a very nourished life after becoming a prisoner of war, and even felt that the food was better than when he was still free.