"...We must maintain the most basic relationship in the Principality. Once Thorne City falls to death, we still have to count on the friends in the west to secretly support us..."

"Next, the defenses of each section of the city wall are deployed..."

"Not good, Count, no good~ no good~"

Bernard, who was summoning the city guards to discuss the city defense matters, was interrupted by the messenger who shouted loudly outside the lord's hall.

Plop~

The messenger ran and stepped into the threshold of the lord's hall and fell a big fuck.

"Brother~ Lord Earl, it's not good!" The messenger was holding up from the ground with severe pain, while hesitating to report on the military situation.

"Bastard, why are you panic?" Bernard was furious when he saw this panicked guy and shouted at the messenger.

The messenger was so scared by Bernard's scolding that he quickly lowered his head, and he didn't even have time to pick up the helmet that fell to the ground. The officers present were also scared by Bernard's scolding that he dared not move, but at this moment they thought in their minds what news the messenger would bring.

"Are you mute? Talk!" Seeing the messenger standing there like a piece of wood, Bernard shouted.

"Report~ Report to the Count, there are a large number of enemies outside the East~ East City Gate, and they are approaching Thorne City step by step." The messenger almost spoke the enemy's situation word by word in a trembling voice, with a crying voice in his mouth, his eyes full of horror, as if the enemy outside the city rushed towards Thorne City like a demon.

Bernard had already had an answer to this result. However, the speed at which the enemy arrived at Thorne City was indeed beyond his expectations. He thought that under the leadership of a small number of regular troops, the miscellaneous troops outside the city could withstand for a while, and gain more time for the defending troops, but he did not expect~

Just as Bernard was worried about the sudden news, the officers sitting on the long table were already in anger. Although he was prepared, he was still shocked.

"Shut up!" Listening to the noisy sound in the hall, Bernard roared at the people present like a roar.

Silent...

After a while, Bernard adjusted his emotions and said, "What are you all panic? The enemy has scared you like this before it even started siege?" Bernard glanced at these guys coldly, all of them lowered their heads, with fear on their faces. They dared not speak out for the old guy in front of them.

"Don't forget that the 20,000 troops of the Principality failed to capture Thorne for three months. Even that bastard Flander wanted to capture Thorne, hum!" Bernard sneered.

"Bah!" A mouthful of thick phlegm hit the little Trojan horse representing the Restoration Army on the long wooden table~

The war that Bernard mentioned happened during the former Ireyaf's father. In order to control the Kingdom of Bern, the Principality summoned nearly 20,000 people to attack the Kingdom of Bern, and wanted to force Ireyaf to surrender with force.

The army marched all the way to the Thorne province in the western part of the country. However, due to the strong city defense of the Thorne city and the desperate resistance of the Bo country's army, after several siege battles, the Duchy's army suffered more than 2,000 casualties. Seeing that so much troops had been spent to capture Thorne City for a long time, it changed its strategy and used the siege. But the Principal never expected that the old marquis had already stored enough food in the city for two years to eat, but in the end, he blocked the road due to heavy snow and could not transport supplies, so he had to retreat.

This is what Bernard's confidence lies. As long as the city has sufficient food and water resources, he can waste his opponents to death outside Thorne.

After hearing what Bernard said, the officers present breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Immediately send an order to the defending army to close the city gate immediately after all the retreating soldiers enter the city!" Bernard issued an order calmly.

"Yes! Lord Earl." The messenger quickly picked up the helmet on the ground and hurriedly ran out the door~

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Outside the east gate of Thorne City, the Restoration Army was under the command of the frontline officers to pursue the enemy soldiers fleeing towards Thorne City. These deserters were not the men retreating to the Western Army, but took the initiative to leave the city to harass the defenders in the city camp of the Restoration Army.

Yesterday, after most of the Restoration Army arrived at Thorne City, they stationed in a wheat field a mile away from the east of the city. After several days of pursuit and clearance, the Western Front troops were completely defeated and continued to shrink their forces to Thorne City. When the Restoration Army pursued all the way to one mile outside Thorne City, Flander ordered the entire army to stop pursuing.

After fighting with Bernard for several months, Flander was clear about the old fox of Bernard. Far from the attack of the army, Berner must have set up many traps outside the city to kill the Restoration Army approaching Thorne. Flander had been fighting for many years and had long been familiar with these conspiracies and tricks, and would definitely not be fooled easily. But what he did not expect was that not long after most of the Restoration Army had just been stationed outside the city, an army of fifty cavalry and one hundred infantry was sent to harass the army camp, and even tried to burn his own food and grass.

Flander did not sit idly by the enemy's provocation.

After the enemy's first attack, the second time came. This time, Fland immediately sent one hundred cavalry to bite the small army, and ordered the army to prepare for siege at any time. Fland planned to use the gap between the enemy's opening the city gate to send cavalry to rush over and control the city gate. He led the army to arrive later, trying to conquer Thorne City in one fell swoop.

Seeing that his people were only dozens of steps away from the city gate, a rush could control the East City Gate when the suspension bridge rose. Looking at the cavalry getting closer and closer to the city gate, Flander was ready to lead his troops to attack the city. Unexpectedly, an accident happened~

The front hoof of the war horse rushing in front suddenly fell and knelt down instantly. The soldiers on the horse were thrown out under the powerful inertia and fell into a large pit that was enough to swallow ten war horses. Their bodies were pierced by the dense pickets inside. After struggling for two times, they died. Immediately afterwards, the cavalry behind approached the trap step by step. In the blink of an eye, seven or eight cavalry encountered the same trap and rolled down one after another. Some of them were stepped on the belly by the horse hooves that followed behind, and they immediately vomited blood. The soldiers who escaped the trap and the horse hooves had just gotten up from the ground, but were shot to death by the defenders on the city.

For a moment, the cavalry chasing the enemy were in chaos. The dense arrows on the city wall flew towards this side, and from time to time, some people fell to the ground and couldn't get up...

At this time, the remaining troops of the harassing army had approached the suspension bridge and were escaping from inside one after another. Most of the cavalry chasing were blocked by various traps and could not get close to them at all.

Seeing this, Flander tightly held the hilt of the sword with his left hand. He was about to succeed, but he never thought that Bernard was so cunning. Flander had to order his retreat and find another opportunity to fight.

"Sir, they retreated." The officer standing behind Bernard said, pointing at the retreating cavalry of the Restoration Army. Bernard did not speak, but just quietly looked at the large tent of the Restoration Army not far outside the city.

I saw the secret tents lined up neatly, which could accommodate at least tens of thousands of people. Looking at the massive Restoration Army, Bernard couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He did not expect that in just a few months, the strength of the Restoration Army had grown to such an extent, and it was no wonder that the Western Army continued to retreat. Faced with such a powerful enemy, it was not easy to defend Thorne City.

"Sir Count~"

"Sir Count~"

After the cavalry of the Restoration Army completely retreated, Bernard turned around and left alone without saying a word. The group behind him also hurriedly chased after him.

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The Restoration Army Base one mile east of Thorne City. Att and his group set out from the Wells Corps' garrison and arrived at the Restoration Army Camp after half a day.

"Cousin Yat!" As soon as Yat and others got off the horse, Flander came out of the command camp and walked straight towards everyone.

After seeing Flander, Yat also hurried forward. "Marquis!"

"Marquis!" Leond was very excited to see Flander who had not seen for many days.

"Finally, you are here, go and follow me in." As he said that, Flander led everyone to the army command camp. After Yat and Leond took their seats, Flander ordered his servants to bring a glass of wine to the two of them.

"Marquis, this time I have brought you 30,000 pounds of food and grass and 20,000 Finney's military expenses that the army urgently needs. This was seized when I attacked Fort Marsey. There are many troops in the liberation army, and I think you must need these things in urgent need." Before Flander could speak, Yat offered a generous gift.

"Cousin Yat, you're so polite." Flander nodded with satisfaction after hearing this.

"Marquis, this is what I should do." Att hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"Okay, since that's the case, I'll accept it. After taking down Thorne City, I'll return it to you twice."

As Yat expected, he would only get more benefits from Flander if he was always loyal to him.

Several people talked about the battles over the past few months in the tent. Flander praised Yat for his record of capturing Fort Marsey and annihilated several encyclopedia soldiers. What made him even more happy was that he could force Count Kodor to join his camp, which relieved a lot of pressure for Flander to unify the country of B.

After hearing how Flander turned the unfavorable situation, turned passive to active, and forced the Western Army to Thorne step by step, Yat was impressed by Flander's diplomatic ability, military ability and command ability. He was far from comparable to Flander, and even felt that being able to serve him was his supreme glory.

After a brief conversation, Flander sent someone to take Yat down to rest for a while and ordered people to prepare a dinner party. He planned to take this opportunity to talk to Yat and the officers in the Restoration Army, and initially discuss a plan to defeat the enemy. A military meeting was held early tomorrow morning to study how to break through Thorne City at the lowest cost and completely annihilate the defenders inside, thereby ending the battle of successors.

After the dinner, Yat took Ron back to the tent to rest. After several days of marching, Yat was already a little tired. After the army arrived outside Thorne City, he rushed to the Liberation Army's headquarters to receive the orders, and he did not even have a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!