Roger knew that the rushing river was called the Denza River, which was narrower than the Maricha River, but was harder to pass through.

He knew that it was generally impossible to build a bridge in such a turbulent river.

But the ancient Romans conquered this river with their wisdom.

They successfully built a stone bridge by widening the river channel and slowing down the water flow.

Roger gave a thumbs up to the ancient Roman engineer in his heart.

He hoped that his troops would also be able to cross the short bridge over the Denza River in peace like the river water under the bridge.

But this is just a luxury.

On the other end of the short bridge is Adrian Castle.

On the towering mail tower, the guards holding crossings can easily tie the people crossing the bridge into strings.

While watching the terrain, Roger asked Odin, the one-eyed dragon beside him.

"When you sent Cosma in three days ago, were you stopped?"

"Stopped it, but the guard knew Cosma and let us in."

"All 200 people and 400 horses went in?"

"Yes."

"Then everything is normal?"

"Normal, after being sent to the church, Cosma sent a deacon to take us out.

"As we planned, on the way out, several soldiers were shocked.

“But we took control of the situation before the guards came.

"Then the deacon took us through the city gate."

"Didn't the guard notice anything?"

"There is a little boss who envies us for being alone and having a few nonsense words."

Roger looked at the three cavalry teams with 180 people behind the One-Eyed Dragon.

He turned to ask Danny: "Are the person who responded to him ready?"

"It's right."

Roger looked at the Densa River, which was turbulent in the distance, although it was only 50 meters wide, with a turbulent flow of water, and he asked:

"This water is too urgent."

Danny said confidently: "No problem, all the ones picked out are very good in water, and they can swim in the big waves in the sea."

Roger saw a few more figures appearing on the gate of Adrian Castle in the distance.

It was obviously the guards on the opposite side who saw Roger's team, so they went to call the manager to come out and watch.

Roger was not interested in being watched.

He turned his horse's head and took his men back to the camp two kilometers away from Changqiao.

Roger made a simple prayer in the tent.

He prayed that God would give Kosma the power that he could convince the Duke of Bavaria to finish the trouble.

Then Roger began to think about plan b.

But in the absence of sufficient intelligence, he couldn't figure out any effective method.

Roger hopes that the 20 spies he sent can collect valuable information as soon as possible and convey it properly.

He knew that most lords of this era did not pay any attention to the value of intelligence and did not know how to keep it confidential.

If you have the soul of later generations and know the Art of War, Roger, who knows the "Sun Tzu's Art of War", naturally attaches great importance to the principle of "knowing yourself and knowing your enemy, and being able to win a hundred battles."

Roger believes that the spies he has trained with great effort can complete the task.

By the evening of the next day, Roger received a lot of news.

There is one that was sent by Muttier, which is bad news.

"Captain, there is not much supply. There is no shortage of horse feed. I can ask someone to cut grass by the river and green wheat in the fields. But people can't eat for a few days. If we don't find a way to get supplies, we can only eat grass."

Others are brought by Danny, some are good and some are bad, and some are hard to understand.

They were all sent out by the secret spies in the castle and were sent back by the warriors of Huishui who forced their crossing of the Dunsar River.

While Roger was watching, Danny complained:

"Captain, Kosma is really not a guy. He agreed to speak for us, but he left without saying a word."

Roger looked at the spy's records and said that this was a spy who bribed the church deacons and had a very high accuracy.

What Danny said happened the day after Odin, the one-eyed dragon, sent Cosma back to the church.

According to the church deacon, Patriarch Kosma followed the Bulgarian Duke Guge and returned to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

Although Roger was very dissatisfied with this, he had no choice but to do anything about it.

What's more, the information from another spy explained Cosma's behavior of breaking the appointment.

This information comes from the director of the castle stables.

Under the temptation of the spy's money, the supervisor revealed:

The Duke of Bavaria, Welf and the noble Lady Aida, left Adrian Castle two days before Cosma returned to the castle and embarked on a trip to Constantinople.

The supervisor swears to ensure that the news is absolutely correct, and he said that he personally equipped the horse with his wife's luxurious horse carriage.

Next, Roger focused on the piece of information he was most interested in.

That was news about the castle's military power, and it was found by several secret spies working together.

They obtained this information by bribing the guards, bribing the servant who ran errands for the logistics manager, and observing with their own eyes.

According to the spies, there were more than 6,000 cavalrymen in the castle, including the cavalry team that was defeated by Roger and retreated, with nearly a thousand people.

The main force of these cavalry was led by William of Poitier, a heavy-armed knight with as many as 700 people.

In addition, there are more than 20,000 infantrymen in the city.

However, according to the observations of the spies, although this infantry team is huge in number, it has extremely poor equipment.

Only a very small number of people have half-leather armor, most of them have only a short spear, and many people don’t even have a shield.

And they have hardly received much training.

In his mind, Roger directly classified these infantry as unorganized and undisciplined farmers.

He knew that such infantry might be able to exert strength when defending the city, but when it comes to the field battlefield, it is easy to collapse whenever there is any movement.

The spies' intelligence also records that there are a large number of pilgrims in the city.

The pilgrims from all regions and industries were completely unorganized and gathered in a mess throughout the castle.

I'm afraid only God can know exactly their number.

In the spy's report, this is only a small part of the pilgrims.

More people have followed the Duke of Bavaria on the road to the east.

Roger has now roughly figured out what happened to the Duke of Bavaria's army of 160,000 people.

He thought, subconsciously pinching the parchment paper that recorded the information with his fingers, making a "crying" sound.

Roger is very experienced in defending the city.

He thought that there were not many long-range troops on his opponent, and probably only the crossbows he saw on the city wall.

In this way, the loss of rushing across the bridge will not be large.

But if the cavalry in the city would not agree if they left directly along the castle and the narrow clearings along the castle and the river Denza after crossing the bridge.

In that case, facing the assault of a cavalry cluster, your own troops will most likely collapse.

Then the opponent launched a follow-up and chase, just like killing Bulgarian bandits, killing their own people completely.
Chapter completed!