We will not be garrisoning the castle this time, because there is a more difficult task for us to complete.77dus"

Art paused, attracting the attention of all the officers.

"A few days ago, the Lombards once again captured the recently recovered Solburg. Solburg is located at the southernmost end of the four guard castles and fortresses south of Aosta. It is close to Wilno and is the gateway to and from Wilno. The Lombards wanted to

Starting from Solbourg, we continued to capture the surrounding areas of Aosta, so we accumulated more than 300 troops and a large amount of armaments in Solbourg, and the number of troops continued to increase. Provence also hoped to regain Solbourg and then go south to regain Verno. So Solbourg

Fort Fort has become the focus of contention between the two armies recently."

"The second, third, and fourth companies of the Eastern Army will garrison the other three castles respectively to prevent the Lombards from continuing to exaggerate their power. The rest of the army will be sent to attack Sauerburg. Our outposts are also attacking Sauerbourg.

In military affairs, he is also responsible for forward missions of detecting the enemy's situation, clearing roadblocks, and destroying waiting posts."

"You go down and prepare to set off immediately. The soldiers will carry five days' worth of rations for themselves, and the heavy troops will carry five days' worth of rations for the outposts. To the south of the country, there are mostly low mountains and dense forests, which cannot be entered by carriages, so please let the soldiers as many as possible

Bring some food. We need to drive to a deep forest northeast of Solburg before tomorrow evening, where there will be sentries sent by Lord Balian to pick us up..."

In the outpost command tent, General Art briefly explained the army's combat deployment to the officers, and then the officers returned to their respective teams to prepare...

Five days later.

Among the dense forests in the southeastern hills of Provence, unlike the north, it is still filled with the steaming heat of late summer.

The outpost has been stationed and hidden in this dense jungle for five days. In order to prevent the Lombards from noticing their traces, they did not dare to openly light a fire for cooking. They could only cook at night in a small airtight hut.

A small campfire is used to cook some wheat paste broth.

Spencer, the baggage officer, has been quite troubled these days. He is hiding in the dense forest in the south. It often rains lightly and the sun is shining all day long. He has abnormal hot flashes and cannot make a fire for cooking. The daily boiled rye bread has made many soldiers hungry.

They suffered from sores and constant diarrhea. In addition, they could only lurk quietly in the forest and did not dare to move. The hot and humid jungle made the idle soldiers restless. "Sir Otto, when can we leave the jungle and attack the Lombards?"

Attack? Soldiers complain every day that their meals are hard to swallow and their whole bodies are unbearably hot and humid. Today at noon, two more soldiers had diarrhea and were afraid they would have to lie down again."

Odo was sitting on the ground, taking off his boots and placing his swollen and white soles in the sun shining through the branches. He also had a sad look on his face, "Let everyone be patient for a day or two. Your Majesty is taking care of them these days."

The sentry cavalry were scouting around, and they had identified several attack targets. It is estimated that they will end their dormancy and launch attacks on the Lombards in the next two days. By then, the Lombards' peripheral troops will be eliminated, and we can leave this fortress.

A place for human life.”

Behind the weeds on a small hillside five miles southwest of the dense forest where the outpost was hiding, Art had been hibernating here with Felix and Red from the outpost all afternoon. Felix's face had been covered in

There were many mosquito bites. Although Yate ordered a few people to wipe their faces with mud before going dormant, the hot sun was directly overhead, and there was no cool breeze blowing through the weeds and shrubs, so the sweat had already covered the mosquito-proof soil.

Washed away, the exotic "delicacies" that local mosquitoes love most are revealed.

"It's so fucking miserable, this damn place." Felix cursed in his heart, but he didn't dare to scratch it, so he could only bury his face on the ground and scratch it gently to relieve the itch.

Felix took two steps to the left. Art's experience was not as good as his. Sweat had accumulated in a small puddle under his head, and his face was red and swollen from mosquito bites.

It’s not that a few people are deliberately training their will and endurance. In fact, the Lombard outposts at the bottom of the hillside are too close to each other. In addition to the sentries looking around in the arrow towers of the outposts, there is also an occasional patrol.

Enemy soldiers passed by a hillside path not far from where a few people were hiding.

This is the largest garrison outpost on the outskirts of Solburg, and it is probably the most difficult perimeter point to capture Solburg.

This was originally a private farm outside the fort owned by the Lord of Solburg. It was built on a mountain and surrounded by a stream. Behind it was the hillside where the Aters were hiding. It was currently surrounded by a small stream on three sides.

Although the farmhouse is not big, it is all made of stone. The square outer walls are about fifty feet long and twenty feet high. The stone walls are so thick that the Lombards can stand directly on the top of the stone walls to observe.

Lookout.

The stone exterior wall has an oak inlaid iron gate. Walking along the gate is also a square stone inner fort. The inner fort is a sturdier structure than the outer wall. Apart from an iron gate, there is basically no entry or exit.

Passage to the inner castle.

Twenty-three Lombard garrison troops were stationed in the entire waiting post, including arrow towers, wall walls, open posts, and patrols. It was an almost complete defensive point.

Art buried his head on the ground and swung it from side to side for a few times, then slowly turned his head and whispered to Felix beside him, "Felix, do you remember the enemy's defense deployment?"

Felix nodded slightly.

Art turned his head and glanced at Reid again, and asked: "Red, do you remember the enemy's movements?"

"Sir, I've written down everything else, but the enemy's secret posts change frequently and I can't figure out their movements." Reid's voice was unusually soft, for fear of revealing his position.

Art saw that the sun had moved to the southeast. Even if he lurked further, he wouldn't be able to detect anything. "Okay, retreat slowly."

As he spoke, Art led the two of them back a little bit toward the other side of the hillside...

When Ate and the others returned to the dense forest where the outpost was hiding with their faces red and swollen and covered in rags, two teams of outposts led by Angus and Lusignan had already returned here.

Spencer handed a piece of rye bread and a water bladder to Art, who came home late.

Art took the dry bread and the water bag filled with boiled water and frowned slightly. Even he himself had been tortured by the rye bread and boiled water in the past few days, but as a commander, he was the least qualified to be picky.

Four of...

Spencer glanced at Art, who frowned slightly, then turned around and got into the hut and took out a wooden bowl filled with a few grains of dark yellow coarse salt.

While Spencer was crushing the coarse salt in the bowl with a wooden spoon, he said to Art: "Sir, make a bowl of salt water with water, break up the rye bread and soak it in for a while before eating. It doesn't taste very good.

But it’s better than swallowing hard bread that cuts your throat.”

After hearing this, Art broke off the rye bread bit by bit and put it into the salt water mixed by Spencer. After soaking for a while, he couldn't wait to pick it up and put it into his mouth with a wooden spoon.

"Well, it's indeed a lot better. You have a solution." Art praised Spencer a few times.

"There's nothing you can do about it, sir. It's all forced. I can only eat one soft hot meal a day. The guys are driven crazy. They complain all the time that the food I make is getting worse and worse."

Art raised his head and poured the soaked salted bread in the bowl into his mouth, and said to Spencer: "Let me tell you, the hard days are coming to an end. We will take action tomorrow. After completing the combat mission, I will give you

Eat and drink all day long.”

Spencer finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Art wiped his mouth, stood up and shouted to everyone in the camp: "All officers above the squad leader come to my camp for a military meeting!"

Then he ordered Spencer: "Spencer, go and call the two sentries sent by Lord Balian."

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