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As the sun gradually set and was about to approach the top of the mountains, Ryan saw the looming outline of the Border Town Castle... and a group of densely packed figures outside the town.
"Father, Duke," Ryan Med, who was responsible for leading the team, rushed back to report, "Those people in front should be the guards of the fourth prince. They are all armed and don't seem to welcome us."
"That's good, at least we don't have to bother to go to the castle to invite him," Earl Elk smiled, "Go and notify the knights to slow down. It's still a long way from the charge distance."
"Yes, father," Ryan took the order and left.
Duke Ryan raised the telescope and looked at the enemy's formation. The team in the mirror looked very strange. They held a strange weapon and stood in two dense rows next to each other. If the weapon was a spear, the tip of the spear was not visible at all, and the handle was too short. Moreover, the formation set up by the enemy was too unreasonable... Such a thin defense line, wouldn't it be broken through with one charge?
This confused the Duke. Even if the prince had no common sense of military formations, he still had knights and guards under his command. It was impossible for them to accompany him to do whatever he wanted,
right? After thinking for a moment, the Duke decided to let the mercenaries take the lead first, and the knights temporarily stopped in the charge acceleration area to wait and see what the prince was up to. Of course, the envoys who persuaded him to surrender still had to be sent. Duke Ryan called a guard, "Go tell the prince that I have no intention of hurting him, but the will of King Timothy Wimbledon has arrived, and I have to obey. If he lays down his weapons and surrenders now, he will not be harmed in any way, and I will escort him back to the capital as a prince."
The assembly of the army was a very slow process. The knights took their positions one after another, and the mercenaries were still slowly gathering in front of the formation. At this moment, Duke Ryan saw four balls of fire appearing on the enemy's position - the fire flashed and then turned into a puff of green smoke. He frowned, thinking that he had seen it wrong. Just as he was about to use the telescope to observe carefully, a series of thunderous noises suddenly exploded in his ears!
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When the enemy appeared in the field of vision from afar, Vanna saw those fully armed knights, riding tall horses, wearing shiny armor, slowly approaching the town. Usually, a knight master in the town is a high and mighty existence, and now there are nearly a hundred people coming out at once, this scene made him gasp.
Vanna felt his palms sweating again, just like when he first faced the evil beast on the city wall, but this time, he was facing the same kind - the noble coalition of Changge Fortress.
No, he spat and threw his thoughts aside, the same kind? When did those nobles ever regard you as the same kind? He thought self-deprecatingly. They came here to seize the border town and bring the North Slope mining area back under the control of the fortress. More importantly, they actually planned to drive His Royal Highness out of the Western Territory, which was something that all members of the First Army could not accept.
His Royal Highness made it very clear in his pre-war speech yesterday that Timothy Wimbledon, His Royal Highness's brother, used conspiracy and trickery to seize the throne and killed the old King Wimbledon III. Originally, Vanner had no opinion on these matters between the royal family and the nobles - whoever was the king would be the king? But Duke Ryan wanted to take this opportunity to take away His Royal Highness's territory, which was too much.
Think about it, what was Border Town like before His Royal Highness came here? The previous lord seemed to be an earl, who was rarely seen at ordinary times. When he bought furs, he brought his personal guards with him and often forced hunters to buy good goods at low prices. He was the first to escape when the Demon Moon came, and he never asked about the suffering of the townspeople in the slums of the fortress.
Now, Border Town is getting better and better under the governance of His Royal Highness, and these changes are visible to everyone. Vanna thought that the more the miners produced, the more they would be paid. After His Highness put the black machine into the North Slope Mine, the extra output was still counted on the miners. Whether it was building the city wall or mining gravel, the villagers were paid on time. Not even one person died of starvation or freezing this winter.
Of course, the biggest change is the militia - no, now the First Army. With them guarding the town, no one has to huddle in the cold wooden shed of the fortress in winter, begging those big men for a bite of food. If His Highness the Prince is gone, will the Duke still allow the First Army to exist?
Vanna took two deep breaths and wiped the sweat from his hands on his clothes. Of course they wouldn't allow it. The nobles of the fortress didn't care about the lives of the townspeople. This is exactly what His Highness said: Only an army composed of the people will be willing to fight for the people.
Moreover, he was already married, marrying his beloved Cheryl. Although His Highness had fucked Cheryl several times, Miss Anna had also compensated him. Vanna had never heard of a noble giving compensation for fucking his subjects. Miss Anna's beautiful body still made Vanna unforgettable. Vanna hoped that His Highness could come to his house and fuck his wife a few more times, so that he could fuck Miss Anna again. Unfortunately, His Highness did not come later. However, this time the opportunity came. Originally, everyone had a lot of rumors about witches, and His Highness did not seem to have the intention to stop it, but let everyone discuss it. Then this time was the best time for him to show himself!
He raised his head and looked to the left side of the sky. There was a faint black dot hovering in the distance. If you looked at it casually, you would think it was a huge bird. That was the firing director of the artillery group-Lightning. She used the woods on both sides of the road as cover and looked down at the enemy's movements. When she flew back, Vanna noticed that as long as she didn't take the initiative to go to the open area, the people below would only see the branches on both sides when they looked up, and it would be difficult to find the witch scouting from the sky.
Lightning once flew to a position close to the front of the formation in a quarter of an hour and showed a green ribbon.
That meant that the enemy had entered the one thousand meter preparatory firing range. Vanna didn't know how far the "one thousand meters" His Highness said was, but when he saw the green signal, he subconsciously shouted the command to load and adjust the firing angle according to the regulations of the comprehensive exercise.
The four artillery groups quickly completed this set of actions, the muzzle firing angle was adjusted to the third gear, and the gunpowder and solid shells were loaded into the barrel.
I thought that standing on the city wall and fighting against evil beasts was already experienced, but Vanna found out today that he was still far behind Iron Axe and Brian. When the formation was assembled in the afternoon, his heartbeat was always difficult to stabilize. The two men led their respective teams into the shooting positions. Not only did they look normal, he could even hear a hint of eagerness in Brian's voice. But until now, he still hadn't regained his composure. Even the Rodney brothers seemed to be performing better than him. This made Vanna a little frustrated.
He licked his dry lips and looked for the location of the lightning again.
At this time, the enemy's advance speed suddenly slowed down a lot.
"What are they doing?" Rodney asked.
"Not sure." Cat's Claw stared around with wide eyes, "They seem to be adjusting their formation. They look a little disorganized."
"I think it could be other rewards. If it was just money, His Highness wouldn't have invited everyone to the castle to hold this celebration banquet, and not all members would have attended."
"Is it about land distribution? People who have made contributions can get more land!"
Rodney and Youpi were also communicating excitedly, but Vanna felt that their guess was not correct, because land distribution was also the merit system set by His Highness at the beginning, and there shouldn't be a celebration party for this specific purpose.
"Okay, okay, don't guess anymore, just wait honestly, anyway, His Highness won't harm us, this time it must be good!" Vanna asked the chattering crowd to quiet down. Similarly, Iron Axe and Brian on the other side also stopped the noisy crowd, because Roland had already appeared on the stairs, followed by the Guardian Knight Carter.
Vanna was a little disappointed, because Miss Anna was not accompanying Roland. Vanna wanted to take this opportunity to contact Miss Anna again. After all, Miss Anna had hinted to him before that if he could work well for His Highness and make contributions, some things would not be impossible.
But after all, those present were all vulgar men, so it was understandable that Miss Anna didn't want to be there.
While Vanna was thinking about it, Roland had already come to the main seat. Looking at the quiet crowd, he was now accustomed to such scenes, so he didn't need to prepare a speech in advance, and everything could be done at will.
"Okay, my warriors, I've been waiting for a long time."
Roland looked around and saw the excited eyes of the crowd.
"We won the victory, and we won a complete victory in this attack against us by those dirty nobles."
Roland paused and continued.
"Even those knights who claim to be brave were defeated by us."
"You have earned honor for yourself. As I promised before, you will get land, land that belongs to you. Of course, we won't talk about all this today. I hope everyone can have a good rest tonight!"
Roland raised the glass of wine in his hand, indicating the start of the celebration banquet.
Although everyone didn't understand what Roland meant by resting to their heart's content, they were already hungry and didn't care about it, and began to enjoy the food on the table.
Roland shook his wine glass, watching the scarlet wine swaying, but his mind was thinking about the after-dinner activities. For the first time, Roland disliked the time passing so slowly.
For a while, there was only the clinking sound of knives and forks hitting plates in the hall.
When the food on the table was eaten up and there was no more wine left, everyone sat down to rest. Roland saw that the dinner was over, so he signaled the servants to take everyone to the guest room.
Yes, everyone needs to stay in the castle tonight, so all the servants' rooms have been vacated in advance.
Vanna, Brian and others were all drunk. Although they still couldn't understand Roland's arrangement, it was a rare experience to be able to stay in the castle for a night, so they accepted the arrangement. Roland came to the room on the third floor.