Chapter 94 The Demolition Doesn't Need a Reason

The production of the artillery is also advancing steadily. The second cannon blank has entered the stage of expanding the bore, while the third cannon is still hoarding materials.

With any luck, in a month's time he will have a gorgeous lineup of four twelve-pounders. There is no doubt about the advantage of firepower, but how to turn the advantage into a victory is a question that Roland has been thinking about.

He was just a mechanical dog before crossing. Like most people, his understanding of war comes from history, movies and games. If it was a complete cold weapon war, he would let Carter and Iron Ax take command. But this battle is different, no one can understand the combat method of hot weapons better than himself.

That being the case, he can only combine all the knowledge he knows, and formulate every step of the plan with a vision higher than this era.

In order to ensure victory, Roland made Lightning go back and forth between the fortress and Border Town every day. One was to observe the road conditions, and the other was to accurately calculate the distance. Roland believed that the victory of the war was based on a large number of investigations and calculations. Whether it is the formulation of tactics or the deduction of the battle situation, these two points are inseparable.

Using the dimensions he had set for the cannon last time, he made several one-meter iron rods and one-hundred-meter hemp ropes. Then, at the artillery test range west of Border Town, he drew out a projectile according to the projection of the hemp ropes and wooden poles A runway about a kilometer long. Lightning practiced controlling the consumption of mana, repeatedly crossing the kilometer distance at a fixed speed.

After she had proficiently memorized this output of magic power, Roland began to measure the distance from the fortress to the town. Using the round-trip time obtained by the sundial, he calculated that the distance between the two places was about fifty-four kilometers.

Of course, this is only a straight line distance. In fact, the land road has to turn two big bends to avoid the foot of the Impassable Mountain Range. Anyway, if the Duke chooses to march by land, it will take at least three days to reach Border Town.

With Lightning as a scout, Roland can clearly understand where the enemy is and what actions to take.

Within two kilometers to the west of the town, he had already inserted signals used to mark the distance. As long as the enemy entered this range, the artillery team could quickly adjust the corresponding muzzle angle without firing a meter.

Now he was starting to worry a little, what if the other party didn't come over.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Nightingale, who had been lying on the sofa chair and chewing dried fish slices, disappeared in an instant. Roland coughed twice and said, "Come in."

The one who opened the door was Assistant Minister Barov, "Your Highness, a nobleman from Longsong Fortress wants to see you."

"Who?" Roland didn't realize it for a while, "They sent an ambassador again?"

"No, it's not the ambassador," Barov shook his head. "It's the Baron Corlis who left before the Moon of Demons and is now back."

Roland thought for a while before he remembered that there were indeed fortress nobles living in Border Town before. But they dare to come back? Moreover, he ran here just after the beginning of spring. Didn't he see the iron fist of the royal family's dictatorship? "What does he want to see me for?"

"His house was demolished because he obstructed the defense of the city wall," the assistant minister spread his hands. "If you don't want to meet him, I can help you refuse."

Roland wanted to agree, but changed his mind in a flash, "Let the baron wait for me in the living room."

Maybe we can get through him and put some pressure on the Longsong Fortress, the prince thought.

After dawdling for a quarter of an hour, Roland came slowly to the living room. At the side of the long table, a man with a round stomach was already waiting impatiently. He walked back and forth, the flesh on his face trembling with his steps. Seeing His Highness's appearance, the baron stopped and bowed reluctantly to salute.

"Sit down," Roland returned to the main seat and sat down. According to his usual habit, even if it was not dinner time, he would have a dessert in the kitchen, but today he didn't even prepare tea.

"Honorable Prince," Baron Corliss said hastily before he could sit still, "How could you let those stupid stonemasons tear down my house! It's a good house, built with stone bricks underneath. The parapet wall and beam-column roof are also made of the best quality logs, when it was built, it cost me a hundred... no, one hundred and fifty gold dragons!" He stretched out his fingers and gestured.

One hundred and fifty coins, Roland sneered twice in his heart, if he had just traveled to Border Town, he might have believed it just based on the prince's memory. But now... "You mean the house at the far west end of the town?"

Koris nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, that's the one. It's the second largest house in the town after Baron Simon's residence."

"That's really a pity. It's too close to the city wall, blocking the passage of my subordinates." Roland paused for a moment, "But the city hall has already made compensation."

"How much... how much?"

Roland stretched out two fingers, "Twenty golden dragons."

"That's too little! Your Highness..." Kolis opened his mouth, as if he wanted to argue, but finally held back. He took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Okay, twenty is twenty, where should I go to get the money?"

"Get it?" Roland pretended to be puzzled, "The money has already been paid to the owner of the house."

"What? Wait, wait... I am the owner of the house!"

"It's not you, it's Blair, the captain of my Second Militia."

"Who is that?" cried the baron. "Your Highness, you are mistaken! I am the owner of that house!"

"Really? But I didn't see you in winter," Roland raised his eyebrows. "How can you say that house is yours?"

"Of course I'm going back to Longsong Stronghold. Who wants to stay in this ghostly place? If I'm not careful, I'll have to feed evil beasts!"

Idiot, Roland commented in his heart, still maintaining a flat tone in his words, "So you want to say that because you are afraid of evil beasts, you abandoned your lord and fled, don't you?"

"Uh, I..." The baron froze for a moment.

"Guards," Roland clapped his hands, and two guards immediately walked in outside the living room, sandwiching Koris between them.

"Your Highness, what do you mean!?"

"It's very simple, now you have two choices," Roland stood up from his seat and looked at the other person contemptuously, "One is to admit that you were wrong, that house does not belong to you at all, I can treat it as a farce, now Let you go. The second is that you betrayed your lord during the month of demons, left the territory without permission, and fled shamefully to Longsong Stronghold. I will put you in prison and hang you for treason Die. Which one do you choose?"

The sweat on Kolis's forehead couldn't stop coming out, he swallowed his saliva, hesitated for a while before saying in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, I...I made a mistake, that is not my room."

"So this is a misunderstanding," Roland shrugged and said to the guard, "Send Mr. Baron out of here."

When Kolis walked to the door, the prince stopped him: "By the way, when you return to the fortress by boat, send me a message to tell those... Well, the nobles who will have the same misunderstanding as you. If not If you plan to choose the second option, you don’t need to waste time making a special trip to the town.”

"As you wish, Your Highness." Kolis said with a forced smile when he went out, but the moment he turned around, Roland saw the expression on the other side's teeth.

In this way, there must be an uproar in the fortress, right? he thinks.

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