In a town outside the mountain pass, the Lombard "Northern Expeditionary Army" garrison camp was filled with people, mules and horses neighing, and it was chaos.

The laborers in various clothes stood on the carriage, carrying barrels of wine, bags of flour, and bundles of newly feathered arrows. The blacksmiths were busy smoothing the swords and smoothing the arrows on the armor.

The dents were knocked out and the horses and cargo mules were shoed. The soldiers tossed the mail armor into buckets of sand and rolled it along the uneven ground of the barracks square to rub them clean.

In the small town churches, both nobles and soldiers crowded in to pray. They hoped that the Holy Lord would bless them for their safe return, and it would be best to attack the enemy's territory in one fell swoop. The filthy military camp square next to the church was filled with various large and small buildings.

The tents were dismantled one after another, and the entourage lifted buckets to put out the campfire, while the soldiers took out the grindstones and sharpened their knives carefully for the last time before going out for the expedition. The horses neighed and gasped, the lord officers gave orders, the soldiers cursed each other, and the camp prostitutes who had been tortured all night quarreled and bickered.

, the noise is like a rising tide.

These are all ordinary scenes. What really catches the eye are the dozen or so carts of kerosene pots that have been loaded outside the military camp and the hundreds of craftsmen and multiple laborers gathered next to the carriage. It is estimated that Wadbury Lei will bring the entire Principality of Lombardy to the throne.

The northern craftsmen and their apprentices were all captured here.

Judging from this posture, Wadbury planned to use kerosene to burn Nanguan Fort to the ground, or he planned to let the craftsmen and laborers build a road in front of Nanguan Fort that led directly to the wall stacks.

There is no doubt that the wealthy Lombards really have this strength...

Under the bushes on a hill more than 200 steps outside the town, their clothes were torn into rags by the thorn bushes. The two sentinels from the advance company had been lurking here for two days.

Wadbury had fought with the Welsh Army. He knew that the Welsh Army was not a good person, so the military camp was very tightly defended. There were almost no channels to sneak into within half a mile of the military camp, but these two guys got in.

The thorn bushes crawled closer to the enemy camp, and almost no one paid attention to this barren hill covered with thorns.

After swallowing the chewed sweet grass root in his mouth, he narrowed his eyes and glanced at the military camp not far away again. The sentry shouted softly to his companions beside him, but received no answer.

Then he moved his feet and kicked lightly, waking up his sleeping partner beside him, "Is there something abnormal?"

"Sleep again! If you sleep again, all the enemy troops will be gone."

The sleeping sentry was on duty in the middle of the night last night, and he was kicked awake just after he fell asleep. He suppressed his anger, rubbed his eyes at the enemy barracks under the barren hill, and quickly took out a carbon rod and a pamphlet from his arms, "

Quick, record the enemy’s situation!”

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Ten miles east of Yamaguchi Castle, there is a dense forest in late summer. The temperature on the entire continent has passed its highest point, but the dense forest is still shrouded in heat.

After lurking for five days, the soldiers and task force soldiers were fine, but the members of the weapons research room were a little overwhelmed. Although these guys were in the military, they only occasionally participated in some simple physical fitness on weekdays.

The body will naturally be weaker for training and weapon use.

They haven't been able to find a cave in the past few days, and starting a fire in the wild can easily expose the target, so they can only use water to soak the compressed hard bread crumbs they scraped off into wheat paste every day.

Jack, the leader of the weapons research laboratory, had just dug a hole under a big tree to solve the fifth problem this morning. He wiped his butt with soft leaves, picked up his pants and bent down to bury the hole.

"Sir Jack, you have diarrhea again? Hurry up, Sir Ron asked you to come over quickly." A soldier found Jack who was running away.

Jack patted the stick buried in the pit into the soldier's hand and quickly walked towards the center of the dense forest camp.

"...Three hundred infantry, one hundred crossbowmen and nearly three hundred craftsmen and laborers. I don't know how the Lombards plan to attack the city this time. It seems that they still plan to use siege equipment."

"I guess they are planning to burn Nanguan with kerosene. Maybe they are also planning to let the craftsmen and laborers build another city wall on Nanguan, and then climb along the wall to cross Nanguan..."

"We just released the flying pigeons to send a message three days ago. Could it be that Sir, they have thought of a way to lure the enemy into action so quickly? This is too fast."

"I guess the Lombards themselves can't sit still."

"No matter what, we will immediately report the enemy's movements to Nanguan so that they can make plans..."

"Sir Ron, sirs." Jack walked to the tree-shaded clearing in the center of the camp and saluted the commanders who were having a military meeting.

Ron held a wooden stick in his hand and was drawing the enemy's distribution map on the ground. He raised his head and glanced at Jack, "Can you hold on?"

Jack tried his best to stand up and look stronger, "Sir Ron, I'm fine."

Ron didn't hesitate and said bluntly: "Perhaps the Lombards couldn't sit still. They left the rest station early this morning and headed north to Nanguan Army Fort again."

"It is estimated that we will have to pass through the Yamaguchi Fort and enter the canyon in the next two days. We are going to discuss the battle plan. You and the guys in your hands are the main force this time, so I have called you here to participate in the military meeting."

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At the end of August, on a moonlit night, the wind was high.

Yamaguchi Castle is called Rock Castle by the Lombards.

True to its name, this military fortress built against mountains and rivers is indeed very strong.

A stone structure with a height of twenty feet, the military fort is equipped with walls, watchtowers, and arrow towers. At the same time, there is also a high wooden wall made of double-layered logs that extends across the river from the military fort to the other side.

of steep cliffs.

There are about fifty troops stationed in the military fort, mostly archers and armored infantry. Although there are not many defenders, they are holding on to the strong city. In addition, there are sufficient reserves of arrows, stones, rolling wood and kerosene in the fort. This is the Lombard version of "Southern

"Guanjun Fort".

On the hillside a hundred steps away from the mountain pass military fort, Ron led several adjutants and Jack to this place.

The military fort was heavily fortified and it was impossible to get so close during the day, so they could only conduct close-up reconnaissance under the cover of night.

"The castle is a pure stone structure, with fifty-three troops in the garrison. It is twenty-three feet high and eight feet thick. The front of the castle we are going to attack has two gates: iron-inlaid oak and iron-barred portcullis. The first oak gate is easy to use.

The city-breaking cannon can break through, but the second iron gate will take a lot of effort."

"It is no less difficult to attack this military fort than it is for the Lombards to attack Nanguan."

The person who introduced the situation of the military fort in a low voice was the deputy captain of the task force, Oliver. He personally led the soldiers of the task force to investigate the military fort in the past two days.

This is Ron's second time to investigate this place, and the specific defense deployment of this military fort is still in his mind.

"No, we are not going to attack the front." Ron corrected the direction of the attack.

Everyone was limited by their fixed thinking. Since they came from the north, they naturally wanted to attack the north gate.

"The north side of the military fort is used to defend against our Welsh Army, so both the city wall and the fort gate are extremely strong."

"But the Lombards were too hasty in garrisoning the fort at that time. They focused on the north front, while the southern wall was made of broken stones. The most important thing is that the southern wall was only an oak door."

Stanley was the first to wake up, and he whispered excitedly: "The enemy never dreamed that there would be a lightly-armed team running around the bend behind this rock fortress to attack the city."
Chapter completed!