Chapter 282 On the Border

Cecil Land was attacked by monsters from the wasteland of Gondor again, and successfully annihilated the incoming enemy that day - this has become the fastest and most widely spread news in this cold winter, and the spread of news is not only The credits of various spies, traders, and mercenaries, Gao Wen's acquiescence and even his secret promotion had a great influence on it.

In Gawain's words, that is, "the comfortable southern nobles and the people of the capital must be made aware of the existence of the threat."

In this cold winter, many people are destined to sit and lie down.

The eastern border of Ansu, Changfeng Fortress.

As the chief guardian of the Eastern Territory, Duke Silas Laurent personally guarded this fortress all year round. At this moment, he was standing on the top terrace of the castle in the center of the fortress, looking at the stacked walls in the distance. And the vast expanse of snow-covered wilderness beyond the wall.

This fortress, which was only completed ten years ago, is the pride of the Loren family in the East Territory. It has gone through three entire generations of hard work. This strong fortress was erected on the land that was tit-for-tat with the Typhon Empire. It was far away from the Winter Wolf Fort and its affiliated fortresses set up by the Typhon Empire on the border. It was both a barrier and a deterrent.

The creation of Longwind Fortress stemmed from the rapidly deteriorating relationship between Anzu and Typhon.

During the civil strife in the foggy moon a hundred years ago, the Roren family in the East Territory was the most well-preserved among the Dukes of the Four Kingdoms. From the very beginning, the family realized that the Typhon Empire, which was always commensurate with the Ansu brothers, was actually a huge Therefore, during the entire foggy month civil strife, the family did not let its core strength participate in the chaotic and cruel royal power struggle. The limited actions of the Roren family during the civil war were just to keep themselves in the The status and influence within the kingdom, and most of their energy has always been on this border line in the east-later facts proved that the prudence and conscientiousness of Duke Rollan guarded the entire kingdom.

After the civil strife ended and the domestic situation in Ansu was quickly pacified due to the establishment of the Second Dynasty and the thunder of the Wilder family in the north, the Roren family began to build a series of defensive facilities on the border. Changfeng Fortress was all defenses. The one with the most energy, the longest time, and the strongest garrison in the facility.

It is not so much a military fortress,

Rather, it is a "fortress city" that has both the functions of a fortress and a city. It has all the facilities to maintain the operation of the fortress and ensure self-sufficiency. The soldiers of the Loren family are not only the soldiers guarding the city here, but also the residents of the city. And the purpose of this fortress city is to stand on this frontier land under any circumstances and never fall.

When Ansu declined sharply due to civil strife, but the Typhon Empire became unruly because of its growing strength, it was precisely because of the barrier established by the Loren family that stood on the border of the country that made Typhon unruly. The heart can only be an unruly heart.

As a matter of fact, the four Ansu families in the civil strife in the foggy moon can be said to have assumed several completely different historical roles: the Franklin family in the western region has always maintained diplomatic and trade relations with the Ogure Tribe, and kept the kingdom. The economic lifeline of the country laid the foundation for the reconstruction of the kingdom after the war; the Wilder family in the north used an illegitimate son as a banner to calm down the civil strife in the entire country and forcibly stabilized the kingdom before the situation was completely irreversible; The Lauren family served as a barrier to defend Anzu's borders, keeping out malicious enemies outside the kingdom during the kingdom's civil unrest.

Although each of them can be said to have their own interests, and they were almost divided during the civil war, they still held the kingdom at the last moment no matter what.

In stark contrast, the Cecil family that was originally established by the four founding dukes in the southern border at the same time, the Cecil family that has always been brilliant for six hundred years... did not do a single thing.

Now that the ancestor of the Cecil family is alive, no one dares to directly criticize the honor of the Cecil family. It can only be said that their family is unfortunate. At the most critical point in time, they met the worst heir, the ancestor. The foundation was almost destroyed.

Historians have never been less enthusiastic in this regard, and they are always eager to discuss what caused the four families to behave so differently during the Fogmoon civil strife, but in the Duke of Rolland's view, all The discussion about that period of history is meaningless. He believes that the main reason for the situation at that time is actually that Gawain Cecil died too early - Duke Cecil died in battle at the age of thirty-five. He left this world early, so he failed to pass on his glory and glory to his heirs in time, so the inheritance of the Cecil family had a big problem in Grumman Cecil's generation.

Duke Cecil's resurrection this time may be to educate future generations.

Silas Lauren stood on the terrace, quietly thinking about these issues related to the history of the kingdom and the inheritance of glory. Many people think that this legendary duke is just a warrior, but he thinks those are just ignorant. It's just his humble opinion, he has never lacked deep thinking, but his ability on the battlefield is far higher than his thinking, so people only notice his power.

A familiar breath approached, and Silas Lauren retracted his gaze into the distance. He turned around and saw a short brown, armored young man walking onto the terrace. Bending slightly in front of him: "Father, the information is here."

"Knightly salute!" Silas Lauren said sternly, "Belke, you are reporting the military situation now!"

"Yes!" The young man quickly stood up and gave a very standard knightly salute, "General, the latest information."

Silas nodded. "Say."

"It has been proved that the defenders of Typhon Winter Wolf Castle did fight a few days ago, but not against us, but against an unknown 'monster'. The defenders of Winter Wolf Castle won and the fort was not destroyed. It was broken, but the outer wall suffered moderate damage, and the casualties of the defenders are unknown, but they should not be very few."

Silas nodded slightly, but was noncommittal. Seeing this, the young Belk, the eldest son of Silas Laurent, couldn't help but say, "Father, this is a good opportunity for us to weaken the enemy!"

Silas looked blankly into Belk's eyes: "Do you really think so?"

"The exhaustion of the enemy is our advantage," Belk said with his head raised, facing his father's gaze, "their city walls have been weakened, and it is difficult to repair the city walls in winter, and the defense of Winter Wolf Castle is weak in a short period of time. Secondly, they were attacked by monsters, panic will weaken their combat effectiveness in a short time, and finally their soldiers are also damaged, so this is a good time for us to attack."

"idiot."

Belk stood up straight, without flinching at all.

"Did you know that Winterwolf is not a single fortress, but one of a series of forts? You know it's winter, and there's a huge area of ​​ice and snow between us and Winterwolf? You know that the Typhons are in their How many reserve soldiers are set up in the fortress group, can you replace the defeated army at any time?

"This damage doesn't hurt Typhon at all. On the contrary, it will allow them to at least double the defense of Winter Wolf Fort and its surrounding areas in a short period of time, and a large number of garrison troops will be transferred from the rear of the fortress to the front line. , to make up for the lack of defense caused by the damage of the city wall; we have to cross the ice and snow to attack the Winter Wolf Castle, the ice and snow will weaken our troops a lot, and the enemy's exhaustion is our advantage? When you run to the foot of the Winter Wolf Castle, It's you who's tired! And the most important point—offensive, is a total war, but did I say I want to fight Typhon now?"

Belk bowed his head in embarrassment, but couldn't help but say: "Our war with Typhon... is right in front of us."

Silas looked at his too young son, he could feel the courage in the opponent's chest and the thirst for victory and glory, this is the quality he tried to instill in the opponent, but he still shook his head at this moment: "Don't expect this game. War. Don't expect anything at all."

"Father?"

"Warriors should really desire victory on the battlefield, but not the war itself, especially with Typhon," Silas Lauren said slowly, sighing softly, "and you hear some other news?"

"Additional news?" Belk frowned, obviously not knowing what his father was referring to. "What?"

"A group of merchants from the southwest came into the city with an alchemy potion," Duke Silas said calmly, "they said that the new Cecil land to the southwest was also attacked by monsters. Attack, those monsters are mutant creatures from the wasteland of Gondor - your information is too slow, even the news of Cecil's territory followed the merchants here, but you only understand the matter of Winter Wolf Castle!"

Belk was a little ashamed, although he knew that it was not his incompetence - the merchants were walking in a safe and stable country, and he was going to investigate the situation of the hostile fortress groups outside the country with strict information blockade. The difficulty and efficiency of the two are completely different. Different, but even so, it's a fact that he didn't do his best.

So he silently accepted his father's criticism, and tasted a disturbing feeling from the news mentioned by his father: "Those monsters... just when Duke Gawain Cecil warned the nobles in the capital before. The mentioned monster?"

"That's right," Silas Lauren nodded. "At first, not many people believed him when he warned him, and even I didn't take it seriously, but now it seems... I'm afraid I made a mistake."

Belk looked at his father in amazement, who rarely saw his father admit his mistakes.

"Those monsters are real, and they are threatening human territory," Silas ignored his son's gaze, and continued as if to himself, "They will attack Typhon, and they will attack us, in In the eyes of those wasteland monsters, there is no difference between Typhon and Ansu, and this sudden threat... I am afraid that the whole situation will change."

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