Around the hill, we went north through the path and fought in a hidden cave for a night. As soon as the next day, Yat and the other two arrived near the newly built military fort by the Lombards.

Left a man hiding and watching the horses, Yat led Ron and the remaining personal guard to the weeds on the hillside less than a hundred steps away from the military fort.

The location of this military fort is very dangerous. It stands on the hills. The river extending from the northern mountainous areas flows quietly in front of the military fort. A wooden wall being built extends from the completed military fort, spanning the river and the roads that flow downstream are cut off in the middle.

The military fort is almost pure stone structure. Although it is not tall, it can only be thirty or fifty people in a rough way. However, its terrain is dangerously high and its walls are hard, so it will definitely not be easy to attack if it is necessary.

Although the wooden horizontal wall does not look strong, it will take a lot of troops to push it with the support of the military fortress. Besides, even if the wooden wall is pushed down, the army will not dare to go south directly. After all, the military fort is the real deterrent.

Seeing the carriages transporting food and weapons into the fort, Ron couldn't help but curse: "The Lombards are really rich bastards. Such a strong fortress has been built in this poor and remote area. The stones for building cities are probably transported from outside the mountains. The most important thing is that it has only been more than a month. If this continues, they will have to build the fortress under our Nanguan."

"Mr. Ron is right. I guess if there is enough food, supplies and military supplies, even if this fort is stationed in fifty troops, we may have to fill the lives of more than a hundred soldiers before we can conquer it." Another guard next to Ron also sighed.

Yat didn't say anything. He never intended to expect his opponent to become a group of fools waiting to be beaten, and the Lombards' reaction was expected.

If this military fortress was not a means of concealing people, it would not be a bad thing for Ateth. The ability of the Lombards to build a city here at least means that they have no intention of taking the initiative to attack for the time being.

In this way he has enough time to prepare.

The crawling and tilting head was very tired. Yat looked at it for a while and felt a sore neck. Fortunately, he turned over and lie down. He chewed the grass roots in his mouth, and ordered the two people beside him: "You remember the terrain, city defense, number of garrisons, supplies and other situations here. After you go back, you will write a detailed military information to the General Staff of the Military Affairs Office to facilitate them to plan in advance."

Ron quickly took out a hard charcoal stick and a stack of palm-sized straw paper from his arms, and roughly drew the terrain and defense maps near the military fort, while another personal guard stretched out his neck from time to time and glanced at the number of troops garrisons in the military fort.

After a while, only a small piece of chewed grass roots were left in the trampled weeds on the hillside...

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In the southern border of Wells Province, the river flows out of the valley.

On one side of the rushing river was a steep cliff formed by God with a giant axe, and on the other side was a river bank with a widest width of less than 100 steps and a narrowest of more than thirty steps.

At the narrowest point of the river bank, a wooden high wall has been built. Now the garrisons are reinforcing the high wall with stones collected from nearby every day. The wooden high wall is about to turn into a stone city wall.

In addition to the turbulent rivers, the city gate that can only accommodate two carriages and drive together can pass through.

More than twenty steps behind the high wall, the slightly wider open space is embedded in the Nanguan Military Fort.

Although this Nanguan military fort is as famous as the Beiguan military fort, the size of the military fort is really incomparable.

As the headquarters of the Wells Corps, the Beiguan Army Fort can reach 500 permanent troops. If it is crowded, more than a thousand people can hold it.

However, the Nanguan Military Fort is different. It is not easy to build a city and fortress on a river bank less than 100 steps, so it is no longer easy to get a hundred people crowded in it.

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In a small hut near the third floor of Nanguan Military Fort, two wooden beds were next to each other. A small wooden table was squeezed into the bed, and some clothes and food residues were piled up on the wooden table in a mess.

Hans wrapped the ragged wool felt blanket tightly on his body, but he still felt a little chill. After a loud sneeze, Hans couldn't help but curse, "Damn the river bank, the damn the canyon, it's cold and tide."

As he was talking, snot flowed out of his nose again, Hans rubbed his nose against the wool felt blanket, and a trace of smoothness was added to the shiny felt blanket.

Hans wanted to curse a few more words, but Bury, who was holding the pottery bowl in both hands, kicked open the door. Bury was obviously scalded by the steaming soup in the pottery bowl. As soon as he entered the door, he quickly placed the pottery bowl on the wooden table.

"Look, I can get you. I'm not going to get the stones in the river. Now I'm lying on the bed and pretending to be dead. Master, I'll serve you a bastard." Bury spitted at the palm of his hand that was scalded with red soup, and kicked the edge of the bed a few times.

That’s right, this is the commander barracks of Nanguan Military Fort.

The military fort was too small, so Commander Hans and Adjutant Bury could only squeeze in this small house together. This was pretty good, at least a double room, which was better than a dozen ordinary soldiers who squeezed into a room.

"Who asked you bastard to take care of me, I can't die." After a sneeze, Hans turned around and cursed at Bury, then struggled to get up and pick up the pottery bowl and take a sip.

Puff~

"Bah! What is this? Why is it so bitter? Bury, do you bastard want to poison me and then take over the commander of the Nanguan Army Fort!"

Bury glanced at the guy in front of him, "You still need to be poisoned to death now. You will go to see God in a few days."

"I went to the rear camp today. Lord Scott personally sent supplies. I heard from the doctors in the camp that this thing can cure animals, so I brought some back to treat you."

Bury said as he took out a piece of fine wheat bread from his arms and threw it in front of Hans, "It's a little bitter, but it won't kill anyone. I'll drink it for two bites to suppress the smell."

"I said, get up quickly. Winter is coming, and there is still much to do. Yesterday, Greno took people to the southern post to check again. The Lombardians' shift has been completed. I am worried that the Lombards will take action soon."

Speaking of military information, the two people suddenly changed.

Bury sighed and pounded the bedboard hard, "If the Military Affairs Office had not ordered us not to attack, I would have to take people to attack it, even if it was possible to slow them down."

Hans had already pinched his nose and poured the soup. After his distorted facial features recovered, he said, "Okay, the officials and the officials of the Military Affairs Office must have long-term considerations. We are just sticking to the military fort."

"Grenault is familiar with the surrounding terrain. Tell him, and ask him to take someone to patrol the surrounding paths before it snows. If it can be closed, you must set up traps and pits if it cannot be closed. You must not let the Lombards bypass the Nanguan and raid the rear camp, where there are many foes living there."

"In addition, let the guys work harder and strive to build all the high walls with stones before it snows..."

The two were discussing military affairs, and a warning horn suddenly sounded outside.

"A bastard! Is it the Lombards raid? Hurry up and help me up and set up defenses."

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"Good! Respond quickly! When you are on the border front, you must always be in a state of preparing for war with the enemy."

Entering the high-wall gate of Nanguan, the defenders who had not yet relaxed from the tense state of combat readiness were praised.

After the investigation of the newly built military fort of Lombards in the south, Yat and his men walked around the secret path provided by the contingents in Ravati City to the Nanguan Military Fort.

The defenders saw four people galloping on horseback, thinking it was the Lombardy outpost, so they blew the horn.

"Sir, why did you appear in the south?"

"I can't tell a word about how I appeared in the south. But Hans, why do you sweat and look pale when you see me?"

Hans, who had put on his armor, was sweating profusely and his face was a little pale, but perhaps because he was too excited, he forgot that he was still bedridden the moment before.

Before answering Yat's question, Hans suddenly felt dark before his eyes and fell to the ground.

Yat looked puzzled, but Bury quickly reported to Hans that in order to obtain stones, he jumped into the cold river to pick up stones, and was caused by cold water to cause disease due to emergency repairs and reinforcement of the high wall a few days ago.

Att looked up at the towering canyon. It was early winter and there was no sunshine here, so it was really easy to cause coldness and disease.

"Hurry and send your commander to the rear camp to treat him."

"Ron, after returning, I told Fanaj to ask the government medical office to provide some medicine here and send it regularly with supplies. In addition, the winter clothes, quilts, and warm firewood materials should be fully guaranteed."

"By the way, I'll give the winemaking workshop a special order to provide Nanguan Military Fort in winter. The amount should not be too large to make them drunk."

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North of Nanguan Military Fort, half a day away.

The lake basin, Daying behind Nanguan, is called the lake land.

However, the deserted lake basin a few years ago has now built a settlement group with a simple wooden military camp as the core, with mountain people and new territorials as the main body.

Fifty war soldiers were stationed in the wooden barracks, and they exchanged with the defenders stationed in the Nanguan Army Fort once a month.

In addition to repairing the war soldiers, these replaced warriors were also responsible for training more than 200 militias selected from surrounding settlements. These militias were affiliated with the "preparatory regiment" that had just been formed and were directly under the leadership of the Wells Garrison of Bath in the Military Affairs Office.

Around the military camp, two new village settlements of about 500 people were built with a lake as the center.

Among the more than 100 people, more than 100 were the conquered people under the old knight Christopher, and the remaining were the newly conquered people sent here by the government several months ago to reclaim the land.

Now that wars are pacified in various places, the recruitment of refugees has basically lost its source. With the early settlement, these thousand people are also the last batch of new forces.
Chapter completed!