Compared with the lively dinner time of the enemy outside the city, the atmosphere of Michael's defenders behind the high wall seemed to be a lot lower. There was no other reason, except that it was caused by the simple farewell ceremony of the warriors that had just ended.

In addition to the infection of sadness, it was more due to the failure in the daytime battle that led to the spread of "defeat mood" in many soldiers.

Judging from the results of the battle during the day, for an ordinary army of another country, this result can only be regarded as a deadlock with the opponent, and for the defender, Fortress Maria, the defender has the best time and place.

Being able to successfully prevent the enemy from attacking the city can be regarded as a victory. But for the Michael Corps, which has not lost a single defeat in decades, when a draw can be considered a failure, this kind of outcome is indifferent.

Of course it can only be regarded as a failure among failures.

It is true that Maria Fortress, which has suffered a lot of losses, cannot continue to maintain high-intensity combat. First of all, the wounded of the Wolf Regiment need to be treated more intensively. The Eagle Regiment can still maintain it for a while, but the Bear Regiment cannot continue due to special conditions.

Due to their fighting methods, they are currently unable to continue fighting in a short period of time. As for the garrison, from the name of the unit, we can know that they have shields instead of swords, and holding on to the fortress is their best ability.

According to the current situation of Fortress Maria, it is the most reasonable and appropriate arrangement to have a good night's rest and then fight again tomorrow. Similarly, if we can persist until reinforcements or supplies from the south arrive, the battlefield war can be officially launched.

Entering the decisive battle level. But unfortunately, it seems that the enemy does not intend to leave Adrian too much time, because before dark, Adrian and the others have also noticed Aledo's building more than a thousand meters away.

facility, and the huge cannon was also looming in the mist, stimulating Adrian's tense nerves.

Since the cannon was set up, although it has only fired three times and failed to hit the city wall, Adrian's Night Owl agents and alchemists made a terrifying answer based on visual inspection and reconnaissance information.

That huge artillery was most likely prepared to destroy the city wall, and it had a high possibility of directly attacking the city wall of Mary Castle from a thousand meters away.

Although neither party gave an absolute answer, their speculation was actually no different from Adrian's own inner thoughts. He also did not think that the huge artillery was used by Aledo specifically to hit people.

Yes, the size of the stone cannonball that was hit near the Eagle Regiment earlier is almost the same as the size of the stone projectile used by the giant trebuchet in the fortress. However, when the existing trebuchet uses stone projectiles of the same weight,

There is no way to achieve a shooting range of one thousand meters. With the blessing of alchemy, 300 meters is already the limit.

In other words, this is equivalent to the fact that Adrian currently has no way to control that kind of cannon, and according to reports from Night Owl spies, Aledo is doing a lot of construction to build a fixed launch pad for that kind of cannon.

And they also used the blessing of alchemy. Although it is not clear which method they used, but the results show that the sudden and commonly known fort like that during the day is just a temporary method, because that

The fort collapsed when the cannon fired for the third time, and Adrian later understood why Aledo only fired three shots.

For everyone in Fortress Maria, they naturally could not let Aledo's artillery position be slowly completed, so everyone agreed that they must destroy and hinder them before they completed the construction no matter what. But the problem is

The sun was already setting at this time. Not to mention what was happening on the enemy side, no battle group in Maria Fortress could conduct a night attack that day. After all, in addition to the obstruction of sight caused by the dark night, the most important thing was

Everyone is very tired now, and even if they go out with their heads in front, they probably won't be able to come back. Before nightfall, even standing on the balcony of the conference hall, one could clearly see that the army on the opposite side had contracted its defense, and that

Two square arrays using spell defense are also stuck on both sides of the construction site. Coupled with the dense army camp directly in front, it is estimated that it will not be that easy to conduct a night sneak attack.

This is Adrian's view, and it is also the conclusion of most of the generals and officers, except for one person.

"Count Parsim..." Adrian looked at Count Parsim sitting on his right hand in disbelief and asked tremblingly: "Do you know what you just said?"

"Of course." The old count stared at the sand table on the conference table for a long time and said, "Let me lead the Eagle Regiment to attack their positions at night. This is our only chance..."

"No!!" Adrian slammed the table angrily and shouted, "This is asking you and the Eagles to die!"

"Maybe, but it's worth a try..." Parsim tried.

"No! I will never agree! Parsim...Uncle Erlich..." Adrian took a long time to calm down and said: "We...we can try other methods.

Solve this matter..."

"Count Cerro, I have no intention of committing suicide." After Count Parsim stood up, he picked up a wooden stick beside the table and pointed at the sand table in the center of the table and explained: "The enemy has almost pressed all their forces on us.

in front of them, but haven’t you noticed that the manpower behind them is extremely scarce?”

Everyone followed Count Parsim's wooden stick and moved their sights to the stone castle barracks in the north of Fortress Maria. Then Count Parsim slowly moved the stick to the southwest along the road to the military camp.

Moving, they passed through the western garrison fortress that fell in the morning, then slowly moved towards the west, and finally stopped at a military town less than one kilometer away from the garrison fortress.

"Military Town - Nopa, this is the last report from Night Owl's spies on the location of the enemy's food and fodder..." Persim thoughtfully tapped the location of this small village twice with a wooden stick.

After hearing what the old earl said, everyone suddenly remembered something. The first person to react was the interim commander of the Wolf Regiment, Captain Caroline McGorris, who came to the meeting in place of the unconscious Chapter Commander.

She quickly looked back at the Nightingale agent who was sent to her side for intelligence liaison. The other party quickly understood what was going on, so he whispered a few words into Caroline's ear.

"Is Count Parsim talking about the place where the enemy camped last night?" Caroline stood up and looked at the town of Pano on the sand table. At this moment, in the open space on the edge of the town, there were still yesterday's

A wooden chess piece used to indicate the enemy's camp, and Caroline thought about what the Night Owl spies had just reported, so she clearly said to Count Parsim: "Starting from this morning, the Night Owl spies will

No large-scale enemy troop transporting supplies has ever been detected, and judging from the number of troops that came to attack the city today, it seems that the enemy has suppressed almost all the troops in their hands..."

Adrian also quickly reacted. He looked at several positions on the sand table, and then said to Count Parsim: "Uncle Erlich, are you planning to attack the enemy's supplies behind the scenes?"

"Yes, for now this is the only way I can think of to severely injure the enemy." Count Parsim put away the wooden stick, then he looked at the generals who were doing it and said: "We can use it now.

The combat power of the wolf regiment is not much. I’m afraid that the wolf regiment can’t even form a hundred-man team if it can still fight, right? Although the bear regiment has suffered a lot of losses, the most important thing is that your animal transformation ability consumes too much physical energy, so you can’t

A long and fierce battle with the enemy. As for the Eagle Regiment..."

The old count turned his head and looked at a commander and three centurions sitting next to him and said: "Although we have not suffered much loss here, you all know that our group cannot engage in frontal combat.

Although the number of Nosk cavalry on the opposite side is much smaller, they can easily defeat our group of shooters with just one hundred or ten cavalry charges..." After finishing speaking, the old count looked at Adrian again and said

"Count Cerro, do you think that under such unfavorable conditions, we can turn the situation around as long as everyone recovers tomorrow?"

"If it's a Norsk army that usually uses swords, our wolf group would be enough..." Caroline angrily sat on her seat and clenched her fists and sighed: "The enemy's new weapons are really extraordinary.

Our regular battles, so the battle situation will be defeated again and again..."

"Indeed, there is nothing we can do about it at this time, but it is also an inevitable result." The old earl rubbed the gray beard under his chin and then looked at the people who were gradually depressed and said: "Don't be so discouraged. This is the case in all wars throughout the ages.

, except for evenly matched bloody battles, most of the time there will always be one party that has some kind of advantage and will win. Just like our corps, in the past we could also crush the Nosk people at will.

Is it true? It’s just that this time the enemy has found a way to deal with us..."

The old earl once again picked up the wooden stick on the table and pointed to a few chess pieces on the sand table marking the positions of the enemy forts and said: "This war is actually not that disadvantageous to us. At least as the defender, we ourselves occupy a considerable

Huge advantage. The enemy seems to be coming menacingly, but this just exposes their shortcomings..."

"Food?" Sarema, the commander of the Bear Regiment, also rubbed his beard and interjected: "I remember the girls of Night Owl said before that the Nosk people brought very little food... You plan to take them

Are you going to die here?"

"No! It's not just food." Adrian called a Night Owl spy behind him, and after confirming some information with the other party, he stood up excitedly and looked at the sand table and said: "In fact, they are not worried about the food problem.

Because they had looted a few military towns along the way, they had already collected enough food to support the army. But the problem was that these foods could not last for long, and the summer grain on the plains had not yet been harvested, so they could not hold on for too long, or

That bastard Aledo has been planning a quick victory from the beginning!"

"Indeed." Count Parsim looked at the enemy camp on the sand table with his hands behind his back and said: "The enemy's weapons are very sharp, but these firearms, like bows and arrows, require arrows...or ammunition?

Well, that should be the name. In short, their weapons consume more money than arrows, and didn't Night Owl's spies say it last night? Most of the enemy's supplies are not food and grass, but I don't know what they are.

.But now it seems that the enemy’s materials should be the so-called ammunition..."

"Gunpowder, or black powder." Mr. Sinclair Albron, the great alchemist who had been sitting on Adrian's left hand side, said: "Test according to the captured weapons. This kind of weapons will not matter.

Whether it is a musket or an artillery piece, each shot requires a considerable amount of black powder to be used as kinetic energy to impact the projectiles. There is no doubt that the enemy must have prepared a sufficient amount of black powder."

"So that's it!" Adrian looked at the sand table on the table excitedly and said: "The enemy has almost overwhelmed the front line with all its troops, which means that the number of defenders guarding Nopa in the rear is very small. We can arrange one at night.

The team went to attack Nopa and set fire to their...gunpowder."

Adrian looked at Count Parsim excitedly again and asked urgently: "Count Parsim, is this what you mean?"

"Absolutely." The old earl sat down and looked at Caroline and said with some embarrassment: "Although our Eagle Regiment has the ability of 'night vision', we are not suitable for running attacks, so I want the Wolf Head Thousand Commander to be stuck.

Lorraine summoned the elite of a wolf regiment to attack the army town of Nopa."

"Indeed, although our wolf regiment suffered heavy losses, there is no problem in gathering a hundred-man team to be responsible for the attack. Moreover, the enemy's rear defense is empty, and even the defenders do not exceed a thousand people..." Carlo

Lin's eyes suddenly flashed like a hungry wolf, but then she looked at Count Parsim with some confusion and asked: "But, Count Parsim, this doesn't seem to be necessary."

Should the Eagle Regiment go into battle? It’s enough to leave the attack directly to our Wolf Regiment.”

"Of course not." Count Persim glanced at the night owl behind Adrian, then looked around the Fortress Maria on the sand table and said, "Didn't the night owl say that before? Assassins.

Fortress Maria is surrounded by Nosk sentries, almost completely surrounding the entire Fortress Maria. In this case, no matter where people escape from, they will be noticed by the sentries.

"

"Then we can let Nite Owl..." Caroline seemed to want to say something more, but before he could finish speaking, Count Parsim said immediately, "It's not enough, Nite Owl doesn't have enough manpower... but we

The Eagles can."

The old earl stood up again, picked up the wooden stick and pointed at the model on the sand table and explained: "Our Eagle Regiment can go out directly from the north gate under the guise of a night attack. This will be enough to attract the sentries around the north gate.

Look out, and then we will try to harass the enemy's camp from the west. At the same time, the Night Owl can hunt the surrounding sentries in the dark. We don't want to catch them all, but we just want to be able to cover you and leave the fortress quietly. Then you

Instead of going north to the Stone Castle Barracks, you can go directly across the forest in the west to reach the vicinity of the West Guard Fortress. However, I heard that the enemy does not seem to have troops stationed here, so you don't have to worry about attracting the enemy's attention when passing by. But

Considering the safety period, I suggest you also avoid this side and head directly towards the military town of Pano."

After the old count finished speaking, he paused for a moment. He looked at the others and saw that there was no objection before continuing: "You should be better than me on how to attack, so I will leave this to you to handle. But the attack is completed.

In the end, you don’t have to go back to the Dao Fortress. You can rush directly to the Kasan Canyon in the southwest and try to get in touch with the Tiger Regiment this morning. If nothing else happens, I think the Tiger Regiment should be responsible for outflanking the enemy’s rear.

Yes, I heard that Miss Chris has arranged a special cavalry to assist them. Well, counting the time, the two teams should be in contact by now. If nothing else happens, they will be able to enter before noon tomorrow.

Bar Plains... As long as the Tiger Regiment is outflanking, and supplies from the south are delivered on time, and in conjunction with Fortress Maria, reinforcements from the west, and reinforcements sent by Chris, we can attack the enemy from three fronts.

Encirclement... As long as the fortress can hold out until noon tomorrow, we will be sure to win this war."

After Count Parsim finished speaking, he sat down and asked everyone if they had any other opinions. After listening to the old count's explanation, everyone also talked for a while. At the same time, Adria also joined the old count.

They exchanged opinions quietly in front of them. A few minutes passed quickly, and finally everyone sat up straight and expressed their affirmation.

Strictly speaking, Count Persim's plan is not too bad, at least it is much better than staying in the castle and waiting for death. The key to his plan is whether the wolf group's attack is successful, although even if it is successful, it is unlikely that it will be successful.
To be continued...