Late at night, outside the Kingsfort, at the siege forces' position.
Captain Chalka Matt of the Thunder Group County infantry regiment, commanding a small team of light infantry, quietly crawled out of the front trenches, following the marks left by the scouts, and approached the bastion situated in front of the New Town's main gate at Kingsfort.
Since the United Provincials send line chamber gunners out of the city every night, to avoid any surprises along the way, Captain Matt's route tonight had been cleared by scouts in advance.
Through a man claiming to be an insider, the siege forces obtained numerous intelligence on the southern front.
For example, they learned that the so-called southern front was nothing more than a donkey in horse's skin, composed of four infantry battalions, plus some artillery and engineers, totaling less than three thousand men.
