Chapter 8: The Duke Conquered by Food
White Ridge Fortress.
The fortress on the northern border of the Kingdom of Alibuda, a bridgehead against the northern gnolls, at this moment this fortress has been besieged by the gnolls for three months, and there are less than a hundred soldiers of the kingdom of nearly a thousand, and the city is already in sight.
Three months ago, tens of thousands of gnolls suddenly launched an attack on the White Ridge Fortress, but fortunately, they were discovered by the wandering Kingdom scouts, who desperately reported the news, so that the general stationed in the White Ridge Castle, the Silver Knight, the Duke of the Kingdom Gao Sen Teddell, was deployed in time to block the menacing army of jackals.
After receiving the news of the raid of tens of thousands of jackals, Duke Gaosen immediately sent people to the royal capital to ask for help while deploying defenses, indicating that this raid by the jackals was different from the usual harassment, and it should be a protracted war, but he was confident that he could resist the gnolls for two months, and asked the king to increase his troops to support.
Unexpectedly, Duke Gaosen waited for three months, under the continuous attack of the jackals, the garrison of nearly a thousand people has died less than a hundred, although the gnolls have paid greater casualties, but he is already on the verge of despair, the food has been eaten half a month ago, and now even the rats and insects in the fortress have been eaten, and the fortress is already in danger.
The main reason why the White Ridge Fort has not been broken by the Jackals until now is because the Duke of Gaosen is a powerful silver knight, and the most powerful on the continent is the Golden Knight, but the number is very rare, under the gold, the silver is the strongest, if the Duke of Gaosen is not a silver knight, the White Ridge Fort would have been breached a long time ago.
Duke Gao Sen stood on the majestic wall of the White Ridge Fort, looking at the gnolls who were constantly gathering outside the fortress, his heart was cold, due to the lack of food for more than half a month, the physical strength of the soldiers could not be replenished, and the spirit was already on the verge of collapse.
"General, there is food, there is food, the general ....... ”
Suddenly, a sound from far and near reached the ears of the Duke of Gomori, and when he turned around, he saw a soldier climbing up from below, with a look of excitement on his face.
"What, there's something to eat?
"Ron, where did you kid find something to eat?"
"There's really something to eat, and I can't even find rat hair in the fortress now!"
“............”
Dozens of uninjured soldiers on the city wall heard Ron's cry, and they all immediately got up, and stared at Ron with bright eyes, they were already suffering from hunger.
"Don't worry, big guys, it's Captain Abin who found the food, and everyone has a share. Ron trotted over to Duke Gossen, gasped and continued, "General, Captain Abin has found food, let you go now!"
Duke Gaosen looked at Ron with a serious face, and said in a deep voice, "Ron, Abin really found food?"
Ron nodded hurriedly and said with a happy face: "It's the real general, Captain Abin really found food." ”
Duke Gaosen looked at Ron as if he was lying, it seemed that Abin had really found food, looked at the dozens of soldiers around him with eager eyes, and said, "You stay here, I'll go and see, food is indispensable for you!"
Ron led Duke Gaosen to Abin quickly, at this time Abin had already moved more than a dozen boxes of instant noodles, ham sausages and sauce eggs to the small square of Bailen Castle, Duke Gaosen saw those brightly patterned boxes at a glance, with strange words written on them, looked at Abin, and asked, "Abin, where did you find these foods?"
Abin made a knightly salute to Duke Gaosen and said excitedly: "General, I inadvertently entered the residence of an archmage, and these foods were sold to me by the archmage. ”
Duke Gao Sen frowned, and said in disbelief: "Archmage, you entered the residence of the archmage?"
"Yes, General. Abin nodded.
"You tell me the whole process!"
Abin recounted the whole process completely, and said in a deep voice: "General, this is a very gentle archmage who gave me so much food without taking money, and it was very delicious food. ”
After listening to Abin's account, Duke Gaosen knew that only archmages could have mysterious space magic, but he wasn't sure what the purpose of this archmage was.
"Abin, is there really nothing wrong with these foods?"
Hearing Duke Gaosen's question, Abin was stunned for a moment, and quickly figured out the key to it, and replied: "General, I'm sure there will be no problem, I have eaten all this food, and I believe in the wisdom and noble character of an archmage." ”
Duke Gao Sen stared at Abin's eyes for a long time, saw that Abin did not dodge in the slightest, hesitated for a moment, and said, "What kind of food is it?"
Abin quickly opened the carton, took out instant noodles, ham sausages and sauced eggs, and said excitedly: "General, this is instant noodles, you need to soak them in boiling water to eat, this is ham sausage, this is sauce eggs, very delicious, general, you can taste it!"
Duke Gaosen tore open the package of ham sausage under the instruction of Abin, and a tempting aroma aroused his cravings, which felt delicious, and he took a bite and chewed twice, and an indescribable feeling made him unable to control himself, and he ate it quickly.
Abin couldn't help but laugh when he saw Duke Gaosen's appearance.
A ham sausage was in the stomach, and Duke Gaosen was conquered, and after eating the sauce eggs, he was even more speechless, and hurriedly asked Ron to boil the water, he wanted to taste the taste of instant noodles blown into the sky by Abin.
"Abin, the food is very delicious, but it's a little little!" said Duke Gaosen, looking at the little food.
Abin hurriedly said: "General, I have already ordered a hundred boxes of instant noodles, fifty boxes of ham sausages and sauced eggs, as well as medicines and bandages for disinfection and hemostasis, from Your Excellency the Archmage, and Your Excellency the Archmage asked me to pick them up in two hours." ”
Hearing this, Duke Gao Sen patted Abin on the shoulder happily and couldn't help but praise: "Abin, I really didn't misunderstand you, well done!"
"Hehe...... "Abin smirked, and then said solemnly, "General, how much do you think you have to pay for these foods?"
Duke Gao Sen thought for a while, it was undoubtedly very unwise to offend an archmage, and it was the wisest choice to befriend an archmage, and immediately said: "I have a box of gold coins and some rare materials there, just give them to the archmage!"
"Yes, General. ”
Duke Gao Sen finally smiled at this moment, the tense heartstrings were finally relieved a lot, and with food and medicine, he was confident that he could keep the gnolls out of the northern border of the kingdom, and would not let the gnolls destroy the northern subjects of the kingdom.