There was a crisp "pop", and the delicate porcelain wine glass was slammed to the floor and shattered into countless pieces, as if the owner was in the mood.

"How so, that damn Midi Asrex! and that little girl from Fina!" In the midst of the marching tent, the Red Fox General Potter Seth roared angrily, and on the side, Fenrir's face was not much better, "Two thousand elves, archers, clerics, mages, and some Nightblade Leopard Cavalry, where did this group come from? Are those elves crazy, running to the human kingdom to find trouble!"

After the attack on Yorkshire, General Red Fox changed his previous aggressive style and always took stability as his main idea. He consolidated the 2,000 soldiers of the Joseph family, and the army of 10,000 men advanced all the way to the territory of the Asrex family, uprooting all enemy strongholds along the way, leaving enough defenders to secure the rear route and supply routes.

In the intermittent period, he also intended to curry favor with the future head of the family, Fenrir, and would also let the young master lead a team of several thousand people out to sweep up, and there was no mistake in it.

Along the way, it took a whole week to finally arrive under the main city of Count Asrex, which can be described as an extremely royal and frontal way of using troops, completely impeccable.

However, just as General Red Fox was triumphantly preparing to begin the siege of the city, the bad news of the surprise attack of the occupying forces came from several places.

An army of elves with terrifying combat power and an average level of 15 or more appeared. This army completely defeated the thousand-man team of Chishi County and the five-hundred-man team of Lanshui Village, and the thousand-man team of blood wolves, which was claimed to be the first attack power of the Joseph family, was completely annihilated, and it is said that not even a single person escaped.

Although the main force did not suffer any losses, the loss of any thousand-man team was not allowed by General Red Fox. 10,000 people, it's just 10,000 people, and if you lose one today, you will lose one tomorrow, and if you continue like this, won't you soon be a complete failure?

We must not allow the current situation to continue, and we must not give that Midi any chance!

General Red Fox secretly made a decision. And at this time, the curtain of the Chinese army's tent was also opened.

One of the two uninvited guests was none other than Quinine Joseph, a careerist who had risen to power after his father was seriously ill and had devised a trap to kill his siblings, and his face was also extremely ugly.

Losing a team of 1,000 people may just be a pain in the flesh for the Seth family. But for the Joseph family, which has a total strength of only 3,000 troops and only 2,000 people brought out this time, this is a full half of the troops, or the blood wolf brigade that quinine has poured a lot of effort into and is known as the number one attack power!

Of course, Quinine couldn't sit still, so he immediately ran to Fenrir to ask for help.

The other guest, on the other hand, maintained a calm look.

"I heard that the young master of the Asrex family has found an elven reinforcement army, and it has caused a lot of trouble, and the famous Red Fox General is also very troubled, right?

The guest was about forty years old, dressed in an ordinary gray robe, an old staff, tall, with a calm expression, always squinting, and looking like a good gentleman, almost like those court scholars who would not come out of the library.

His external identity is that he is also a visiting scholar who lives in an uncertain place, and now acts with the army as an alchemical adviser to the Seth family.

But General Red Fox knew that if he despised the person in front of him, then he wouldn't even know how to sell himself.

Because of this person's true identity, he is one of the cadres of the famous Alchemist Guild of the Delos Empire.

"The Hand of Nightmares" Wiseman Newton.

As Midi speculated, the clutches of the empire have long been deep into the Duchy of Belmar, and it is still such a terrible and ruthless "nightmare hand".

Seeing that Wiseman came uninvited, General Red Fox naturally cheered up. He smiled slightly, completely lost the angry and corrupt appearance just now, but showed a kind of general demeanor in his chest, and said lightly: "Thank you Mr. Wiseman for your concern, but this is just a small situation, the battlefield is changing, there are always some unpredictable accidents, it is better to say, it is precisely because of these accidents that we can distinguish who is a famous general and who is a mediocre talent." ”

"Then I want to dare to ask the general, how are you going to deal with it?" Wiseman naturally will not be dismissed with a word, and the empire's investment in the Seth family also makes him indeed qualified to ask about the next military policy.

"It's very simple, to deal with Midi's harassment, just one move, gather troops!" General Red Fox replied without hesitation, "We can occupy the resources later, first take back all the thousand troops placed outside, and with the strength of 10,000 people, directly capture the lord's castle garrisoned by only 3,000 people, and hang Midi's father, the incompetent Earl of Ingman, on the gallows!

There is nothing wrong with the red fox's answer.

There are many ways to end a noble war, such as negotiation, such as dependency, such as surrender, such as compensation, and so on. And the death of the lord is the most terrible of them.

Relying on an army of 10,000 people to surround the castle, then capture the castle in a short period of time, capture the Earl of Engelman and put him to death, in this case, although Midi will automatically inherit the title, however, in order to maintain the status of "lord" in the name, it will require a series of complex rituals, and there is no doubt that the Seth family will not allow this ritual to continue.

As a result, Midi can only be an empty count, and he will not be able to get anything from the territory, and in the end, this war will end in practical reality, on a legal level, and even morally.

This is the most correct, the most logical, and the most royal approach.

But because it was such a reasonable approach, Midi had of course made arrangements in advance for the assumption that "the enemy would suddenly start attacking" when he went to look for reinforcements from the beginning.

"Lord Earl, it seems that the Red Flame Legion is about to launch a general attack, and looking at this momentum, the first wave of offensive must be very fierce. The chief knight, Bartlán, stood on top of the castle's tower and reported to Count Ingman.

From the castle, you can see the surrounding scenery at a glance. The Red Flame Legion was so black that it had already surrounded the entire castle, and they had now divided a team of 1,000 people and marched in the direction of the forest, obviously to cut down wood and make large siege equipment.

There is no consumption and temptation, and the direct use of siege equipment to attack is undoubtedly a very strong signal.

However, with an army of 10,000 against a castle garrisoned by only 3,000 people, the Red Flame Legion was not too big.

"Apparently, it's time to use that. Earl Ingman nodded, and Butland understood, and immediately went down to set it up.

Early the next morning, when the first batch of siege machinery of the Red Flame Legion was completed, they suddenly found that the castle of Lord Athrex in front of them had become unrecognizable.

Countless stout green vines emerged from the dirt and climbed the towering walls, covering the entire castle with a layer of emerald green clothing.

"Demon Vine!" General Red Fox recognized the plant at a glance.

"Let's try it, Seth family pups!" Bartland shouted as he stood at the head of the city, slowly.

The Demon Vine is not just a summoned beast that Alice uses to attack, but more often than not, it is the best choice for castle defenses.

It has a high resistance to magic, which makes the great magic that magicians have managed to cast less effective.

Its torso is extremely elastic and resilient, wrapping around the walls as if it were a layer of leather armor, making catapults and siege vehicles less effective.

If you try to climb up the vine, the countless barbs that protrude from it, and the venom in the barbs, will cause the besieging soldiers to suffer from it.

Even if it was a fire attack, it didn't have much effect.

Unless targeted blighting techniques are used, or alchemy is used to rain down large areas of acid, it will be difficult to produce any effective results during the growth of the Demon Vine, on the contrary, quick success will only bring huge casualties and lead to low morale of the army.

This is undoubtedly an extremely powerful plant.

But of course, there are pros and cons.

To feed the vines of the Demon Realm, you need a complete Demon Vein, at least a hundred kilometers in length. Or like Alice, first concentrate a large number of scattered magic veins, and then integrate them together for mana transmission.

Under the castle of the Asrex family, of course, there is no magic vein, otherwise this land is not the value of the county, but the dukedom. But after all, an earl is also a wealthy family, although there is no demon vein, but by providing a large number of expensive magic crystals, he can also maintain the growth of the vine of the demon world.

With the current inventory of magic crystals, Count Ingman can support a whole week, and during this time, the castle can be considered almost invincible.

"My son, it's up to you next!" said Count Ingman, standing on top of the tower, looking out over the distant western horizon. Although this was a last battle, and although the Count himself had never been on a real battlefield in his life, however, there was no anxiety or uneasiness in his eyes, on the contrary, a father's pride and expectation for his son.

The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and even the reborn cannot make accurate predictions about things that have not happened in the previous life. However, he has a strategic vision that can accurately make the most accurate arrangements for those situations that can be adapted to change.

For example, he arranged in advance for Batlan to use the Demon Vine to delay time, while preserving the strength of his own 3,000 defenders.

For the current Midi, that precious week can be used to launch the second phase of the offensive after the blitzkrieg, and it is also the most important reversal link.

"It's finally time to enter the second phase. Midi took a deep breath and stepped out of the hidden hill.

Behind him were two thousand elven warriors who were full of spirit, high spirits all the way, and their fighting spirit was boiling.

And in front of his eyes, there was a magnificent castle that had been carefully constructed.

The castle of the lords of the Joseph family.