When the king passed through the inner corridor, everyone looked at him in surprise.
The main reason is that when ordinary people walk with the Duke's sister, they either follow her, or at worst, they walk parallel to her.
The mage doesn't care about this and goes straight to the front.
Although he had only been to the inner city a few times, he was already completely familiar with the structure of the castle and knew the way to the commander's office.
Even if he walked in front, he walked so fast that Elizabeth could only desperately keep up behind him.
Elizabeth wore an everyday dress today. An everyday dress is also a formal dress and is not easy to walk in.
This makes it appear that the king is the one with higher status and Elizabeth is his maid.
The key point is that Elizabeth is dressed very beautifully today, which makes people even more curious about their relationship. There will probably be all kinds of rumors flying all over the sky at noon today. The king made great achievements yesterday, right? It's hard for people to even think about it.
Wang paid no attention to this and went straight to the command room. When he got to the door, he rushed in without waiting for the soldiers guarding the door to open it completely.
When entering, Cassander was reporting the situation: "The Amur mercenary group outside the city looted several villages and manors near the city, and occupied these houses for use as camps. They were scattered among these manors and villages, If they were infantry I would suggest going out of the city to surprise them.”
Bruce: "But they are all cavalry, so they can support each other quickly."
After speaking, Bruce looked at Wang and Elizabeth who entered the room: "The hero of last night is here. Wait a minute, is there one missing?"
Wang: "Yes. Xiaobai was held down by Ms. Mei Li and was changing clothes."
Bruce smiled and glanced at the other barons and viscounts: "No one here can disobey Mrs. Mellie. Even if we are all grown up, she can still spank us all!"
The knights responded politely to the Duke's joke.
The king did not laugh, but went straight to the point: "Yesterday at the rogue guild Tang's office, we were attacked by the rogue guild and Erwin. Two of the Duke's men died. I brought back their bodies and relics. .Is it taken out here?"
The Duke took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "Leave it to Merlin later. He will take care of the aftermath."
Wang nodded, walked straight to the large sand table in the commander's room, and carefully observed the war games on it.
"Is this the emperor's own team?" he said, pointing to a few soldier chess pieces near the border.
"Yes, they are mainly levies. The emperor's personal guards are also there. In addition, there are mercenaries. The total number is more than we expected, about 17,000 people." Wayne Langdon explained as the military commander .
Wang: "Then here are the cavalry that attacked yesterday?"
"Yes. The total number is five thousand, of which three thousand are light cavalry who are good at volley shooting, and two thousand are mounted infantry."
The king touched his chin: "Can I understand that the emperor only has 22,000 people? Where are the enemies who came down from the ground yesterday?"
"As of this morning, we have recovered a thousand armored corpses and captured about 1,500 people." Wayne looked embarrassed. "Because we also suffered a lot of casualties, we only provided these people with herbs and bandages. Many people have fever this morning, and the nuns at the monastery are taking care of them."
Wang: "So about a thousand people escaped? All of them escaped underground?"
Bruce took over his brother's words and replied: "We are launching a city-wide manhunt to let everyone recognize each other's faces. As for escaping from the underground, you should know better than us how dangerous the underground is."
The king snapped his fingers: "So the emperor's elite standing army has been decommissioned, right? How many spellcasters were killed among the enemy troops?"
Wayne took over the conversation again: "The heavy armored soldiers who attacked the city yesterday mainly did mass murder and robbery. Neither paladins nor priests of the Good God would join in this kind of behavior.
"The River Valley Army has priests and paladins, and we captured a lot of holy emblems. However, because the battlefield was too chaotic last night, we couldn't confirm the bodies of the divine spell casters who died in the battle. The arcane spell casters killed 24 of them in a certain formation. Some are second- and third-level casters.”
Arcane spellcasters generally don't wear armor, they wear robes, and they are generally thin and relatively easy to identify.
Wayne stopped, and the Duke continued: "We have confirmed the identity of the highest-ranking arcane caster killed yesterday. He is the court mage Morgan of the River Valley Territory."
Wang interrupted Wayne: "The Archmage is dead? The Druid's statement is that she seriously injured the Archmage, and a priest should be able to save him."
Wayne nodded: "Yes, according to the testimony of the prisoners, the Archmage was indeed only seriously injured, but after the priests used the healing spell, he immediately developed a fever. He may have been infected with some kind of disease. The priests all did this for a short-term decisive battle. Preparation, no preparation removes disease.
"Then before they could move the Archmage to the ship and use medicine for treatment, the leader of the river valley army would be killed. The whole army was in chaos and the formation collapsed. In the chaos, the Archmage was trampled to death.
"Many prisoners can prove that it was the same druid who killed the enemy general and the archmage, and she was carrying a huge ham. We think it was the werewolf druid who came back with you.
"So last night she and you tied for first place."
The king frowned: "Is it appropriate to reward based on merit now? Isn't it appropriate? The emperor still has more than 20,000 people who have not been eliminated."
Bruce: "The Emperor has lost. Yesterday's offensive was when he had the best chance, but we withstood it. And because we fought on our home soil, the priests brought most of the wounded back from the brink of death.
"Although the emperor still has the advantage in terms of military strength, the quality has greatly declined. Most of his knights and retinues died in the raid last night. Now he can't do anything to Langdon City with this small force. Wait. With our armies massed, the Emperor is doomed.
"Didn't you see the homing pigeons that took off against the rising sun this morning? When the homing pigeons reach our allies, they will raise troops. These people will never come to rescue you when you are in danger, but when you show victory, They came very quickly."
Wang was about to speak when suddenly his left eyelid began to twitch.
"Well," he said, "maybe this time the crisis is really over."
Bruce came to the sand table, took the pointer from his brother, beat Langdon City on the sand table and said: "The emperor may still want to give it a try. Although his arch mage is dead, the arch mage of the River Valley Territory who was finally persuaded is also He's dead, but there should be some mage apprentices around him.
"His priests and paladins did not participate in the sneak attack last night, so their power should be relatively intact. If the priests are equipped with fireball scrolls, they can also perform well in the siege. Even if they are extremely poor In Steyrland, a fireball scroll that costs 400 gold coins is also affordable."
King: "Yesterday Mishashala reported that the enemy is equipped with crossbows made by dwarf craftsmanship. It seems that the Steyr Territory is not as poor as you think."
Bruce: "According to the latest information obtained, His Majesty may have cut down the vassalage in his own territory. He ignored the opposition of the noble council and adopted the law of equal inheritance. The territories of the barons became smaller and smaller, and then they were defeated by the emperor one by one. Now. The territory he directly governs is larger than imagined.
"Because of this, he was able to support the huge expenses of the Southwest War. But now, it's all over. If he can't defeat us and seize our treasures, he will go bankrupt. He will recruit troops for a long time during spring plowing, and by autumn The harvest will fail and he will have no money to help the victims.
"So he had to, he had to go all out and make a desperate move."
Wayne added: "Before our allies' troops arrive."
Wang: "Does that mean that these two days will be the decisive battle?"
Wayne: "Judging from the enemy's movement speed, we will be able to see the enemy on the city wall tomorrow night. I estimate that the emperor will let Amur's light cavalry harass our army gathering towards Langdon Territory. The baron's army who is far away might as well Yes, they are all wearing armor.
"The conscripts basically have no way to deal with this kind of harassment. We must be mentally prepared for the conscripts to be dispersed."
Wang crossed his arms and held his chin: "It's not very effective to transform into a dragon and attack these light cavalry. If they disperse, the dragon's breath will not spray on a few people."
"About this." The archmage led by Langdon raised his old hand, "Can I take a look at the content about dragon form in your book of infinity? I only read the dragon form, in order to deal with the current situation!"
Wang: "Yes, yes, but because even the seven-ring dragon shape still has seven pages. I need to turn it over for you myself. Once my hand leaves the book, the text display on the page will disappear immediately, and the book will also Close.
"Besides, you are also a mage. In order to know transformation magic, in addition to knowledge about spells, you also need to be familiar with the things you want to change. Do you have any knowledge about dragons?"
The Archmage closed his eyes and sighed: "No. But after this matter is completed, can you please copy the dragon shape into a scroll and give it to me?"
Wang: "I can't make a seven-ring scroll myself. I'm just a three-ring spell caster.
"But I can slowly turn it over to you so that you can copy it into your own spell book.
"But knowledge itself has value, what are you going to exchange for it? The knowledge you have collected over the years is meaningless to me. I can't use the precious spell-casting materials for the time being. As for the gold coins, I think when everything is over, the Duke will You have given me a lot of rewards. What price can you give in exchange?"
The Archmage looked troubled.
The Duke said: "I paid the price for him, using the resurrection scroll that my father couldn't use."
The king nodded: "Deal. This is great. Erwin's body is in my dimensional bag. Once we get the scroll, we can resurrect him and then torture him. But I guess he won't tell, because the mastermind behind the scenes There may be some kind of prohibition contract that prevents him from speaking out. But it’s always good to give it a try!”
Duke: "Wait a minute! You mean, Irwin, the mastermind behind this, is not the initiator of everything?"
Wang was a little stunned. He remembered that he reported this matter yesterday. But he understood immediately that the Duke was doing it for others to see. This new Duke seems to be acting all the time.
So he nodded: "Yes. So our journey will continue."
Bruce shrugged: "Okay, once the scroll is in your hands, you are free to use it however you want. However, all this will have to wait until the dust of the war has settled. After all, I still need this resurrection scroll to get the bottom of it."
Wang: "Reasonable."
