Nothing happened all night.

Early in the morning of the next day, Art led his whole family to greet Flanders. Just as he put on his armor and prepared to walk out of the mansion to inspect the city wall, a messenger in cotton armor strode over.

He hurriedly saluted Art, holding up two small cylinders with both hands, "The carrier pigeons returned from the southern front line, I saw the number, they are military pigeons from the Chinese army on the front line."

Art took the small cylinder, held it in his hand, opened the cork, took out the roll paper and unfolded it, then opened another cylinder, took out the roll paper and read it.

The contents of the two cylinders are the same, and they are all densely packed with special numbers. This is the Welsh Army cipher text. Being able to use two carrier pigeons to transmit the same cipher text only means that the military situation ahead is urgent.

"Decode it immediately." Art raised his hand and handed one of the notes to the two personal guards following him.

One of the guards took the note, and the other guard quickly took out the charcoal stick, paper and a thin square wooden board from the bag on his waist.

The guard holding the note read the numbers in groups of three, while the other guard wrote the Latin letters prescribed in advance.

After a while, several rows of Latin words were written on the paper on the wooden board in the guard's hand.

"Urgent, on Friday Lava surrendered, our army entered the controlled city, and on Saturday the enemy army went north to station Soronborg, with 3,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. The force is fierce. I want to retreat to Santia. Can you please respond urgently?"

The guard whispered the deciphered cipher text to Art.

Art's heart tightened. It was only a matter of time before Lavati broke the city. The trading city without city wall protection should have been captured by the Wells Army long ago. It was only because Art considered the special characteristics of this city that he ordered the siege.

Instead of attacking, wait for them to surrender on their own.

Today is Monday. It seems that Lavati surrendered as early as last week. This is good news.

But suddenly the Lombard army moved northward, including more than a thousand cavalry, and Art became nervous.

Now that the main battle force of Lombardy was held back by Provence, the scattered defenders and rangers in the North could only hold on to the fortified city to prevent the Welsh Army from launching a large-scale attack.

"Where did the thousands of heavy troops come from to go north? Did Swabia send troops?" Art was full of doubts.

Unbeknownst to Art, just when the Welsh Army was besieging Lavati, the Principality of Lombardy secretly hired an army from the Southern Continent with a large sum of money.

That army did not march by land, but took a boat directly from the sea to the southern port of Lombardy. When Art's eagle eyes deployed in Lombardy learned the news, the army was already ready to go north.

Art couldn't help but sigh, "It's great to have money."

The guard who had finished reading the secret text was waiting for Art's order. There was no response for a while. After a slight hesitation, he stepped forward and reminded: "Sir, the military situation is urgent. Do you want to reply to the front line with military orders first?"

Art came back to his senses and glanced at the young guard who had just graduated from the military academy. "Reply with a secret message."

"The infantry of the main battle legion withdrew from Lavati, retreated to Santiya and held on to the key fortress castle. The cavalry sent out sentries to detect the enemy. The garrison legions in the occupied areas immediately abandoned the villages and manors, gathered forces, retreated to the fortified city, and protected the flanks. Reinforcement Six

We rushed there every day, and all the armies held their positions."

Art thought for a moment and added, "If you are not in an extremely dangerous place, try not to use a killing weapon."

After the guard repeated the military order to confirm that it was correct, Art walked toward the inner city behind him. He wanted to communicate the frontline army intelligence to Flanders.

As he walked, Art ordered the remaining guard beside him: "Ask the guards to equip their horses. We have to rush back to the front line first. In addition, I will give you my order later and ask the guards to go to the weapons laboratory to bring all the newly manufactured bombs to the front line."

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After that, Art walked straight towards Flanders' room...

That afternoon, after a quick lunch, a cavalry team left Wellsburg. There were more than 280 people in the cavalry team, and nearly 500 horses. The cavalry were all wearing armor and carrying weapons.

The elite troops generally traveled south along the direction of the river in the Wells Valley in a long formation of two horses abreast.

The team has two kinds of flags, the fleur-de-lis and flying eagle flag of the Marquis of Flanders and the wolf flag of the Earl of Wales. The fleur-de-lis and flying eagle flag is three feet higher than the wolf cavalry. The flag-bearing officers hold the rein in one hand and hold it in the other.

The flag, the flag whistled in the wind under the encouragement of the military horses beneath him.

Behind the cavalry team, more than thirty two-wheel-drive four-wheel carriages loaded with weapons, armor, provisions and baggage were galloping under the handlers' whips, chasing the cavalry in front. Among the many carriages, there were three four-wheel-drive four-wheel carriages with iron carriages.

The carriages are particularly eye-catching. In addition to the human heads and skulls painted with white paint on these three carriages, there are eight heavily armed cavalry closely guarding the carriages. They are also fierce-looking. They all belong to the Earl of Wales's Guards...

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More than a hundred miles away, in the Principality of Lombardy, the city of Lavati.

Less than four days after entering Lavati City, Hans received the order to withdraw his troops. Hans was very disappointed.

Hans is now the captain of the infantry company of the First Division of the Wells Legion. The Legion has not expanded for a long time, especially since the First Division is the absolute main battle force and its establishment is almost maintained at the number of the Successor War. Therefore, for the

It is really difficult for officers in the First Division to be promoted to military positions.

However, Hans was lucky. In the recent battle against the night attack, Andrew, the captain of the third company of the first division, was injured and transported back to the rear to recuperate. He was a flag captain who had made outstanding achievements in the defensive battle of Nanguan.

Finally got a chance to be promoted, took over Andrew's position as company captain, and became the commander of the third company. The company-level officer of the soldiers was already equivalent to the sub-regiment commander of the garrison. He could directly skip the company deputy commander and become the company commander.

Captain, Hans was very proud for a few days.

Especially on the premise that the Welsh Army marched south to Lombardy and captured countless wealth and supplies, he was promoted to two levels. In addition to the military merit rewards he had worked so hard to obtain, his military career rewards would also be upgraded by two levels.

The city of Lavati surrendered last week, and Hans was ordered to lead the third company to garrison the city.

The Welsh Army has strict military discipline, and Lavati itself surrendered voluntarily, so the Chinese Army ordered that there should be no hostile behavior at all.

Hans's company did a good job. Even though many officers and soldiers, including himself, looked at the splendid mansions and the gorgeously dressed citizens, their eyes glowed green, but they still resisted the urge to rush in and plunder.

Impulsive, he garrisoned the city barracks according to military orders and controlled the chokepoints of various places. At the same time, he assisted the legion's baggage team to take over the civilian army's armed forces and the army's granary and arsenal.

After the wealthy merchants in the city got over the initial panic and uneasiness, they gradually accepted this army. In the past two days, the merchants in the city have repeatedly raised supplies to reward the Welsh Army inside and outside the city.

"Those Lombard bastards, sir, I just stayed in this bustling city for a few days, and they forced me to evacuate, bastard!" Beside him, the captain of the third flag of the third company, Berry, was helping Hans pack the items in the tent.

While cursing loudly.

This Bury was originally the adjutant of Hans's banner. Hans was promoted two ranks to the captain of the company. Bury also became the commander of the third banner. Originally, he came to Hans's barracks to drink with him today. Today

In the morning, the wealthy merchants in Lavati City once again sent a large amount of wine and food to the garrison in the city, but they did not expect that the Chinese army sent an order to retreat.

"Although Lavati surrendered on his own initiative, the Lombards couldn't bear to leave such a prosperous city to them~" Burry was still thinking casually.

Hans had already packed up the weapons and armor in the barracks and the large iron box containing clothes and "personal belongings". He stood up and took a look at the bedroom of the mansion that originally belonged to a merchant in Lavati. He couldn't help but take a look.

That big velvet bed, "I will come back."

After saying that, he called to Berry, picked up the iron box and walked out of the bedroom.

Outside the bedroom, the officers and soldiers of the third company of the first division were also busy packing up the barracks and preparing to evacuate. Hans refused the soldiers who were coming to help carry the iron box, and directly carried the iron box out of the mansion and sent it away.

Get on the baggage carriage.

At this time, two men wearing coarse linen robes, with hemp ropes tied around their waists, and hoods on their heads walked towards Hansbury and the two men.

Hans instinctively took a half step back and put his right hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist.

The man stopped five steps away, lifted his hood, and revealed his dirty face.

"Lord Dawson! Why is it you?" Bury exclaimed.

Dawson raised his hand to signal his silence, turned to Hans and said: "Hans, Lord Odo of the Chinese Army ordered the third company to select fifty elites and give them to me to stay behind in Lavati." After that, Dawson handed over a copy.
Chapter completed!