Carry the Ring of Elden with you

"Understood." Roland nodded, then looked at the clock and told Ikosela: "Call all the generals of the Allied Army for me, and tell me to start preparing to attack the city."

Knight Rodel nodded and walked out majestically.

Jonson Bloodhoof said at this time: "Should I avoid it, Lord Roland? Although everyone in Moore City will not mind me attending the meeting as a tauren, humans in other countries do not allow orcs to participate in military meetings. A habit.”

"If anyone discriminates against you, just throw him out." Roland curled his lips and said, "I'm not used to that group of losers. I can't manage my own soldiers well. I really don't deserve to look down on them."

"Lord Jonson Bloodhoof, you don't have to worry that Roland will change himself because of other people's eyes." Melina, who had been staying in the tent, said with a smile: "If someone really speaks rudely to you, I will also help teach him a lesson. of."

The tauren chief raised his hand and touched his head, then nodded and stayed.

Soon, as Ikosela moved around, generals from various tributary countries of the Holy Empire of France gathered in the tent where Roland was.

Every general who came in was wearing thick clothes.Their faces were flushed with health, as if the cold winter had no effect on them at all, completely different from the soldiers in their respective camps who were shivering and stomping in hunger.

When these generals with armors of different colors entered the tent, they were immediately attracted by Jonson Bloodhoof's exaggerated body, and looked at him with fear and disgust.

However, none of them said it openly. These generals were all smart, and they knew that the first one to speak would be punished by Roland.So although they were all a little dissatisfied as to why there was a lowly orc in the military meeting, no one expressed their dissatisfaction. They just talked quietly with the generals who knew each other well, and from time to time they glanced vaguely between Jonson Bloodhoof and Roland. Look around.

Then they saw Melina, whose beautiful face was hidden under a hood. The mysterious and unpredictable aura about the latter made the generals even more fearful.

When these generals gathered, Roland also looked at them silently, remembering the faces of these generals one by one, and also remembering those generals who seemed to have known each other and talked to each other for a long time.

After assigning tasks, Roland threw these generals who knew each other together and let them play by themselves. When the time came, he would share the credit and let these generals who had good relationships with them brainstorm.

After all the generals had expired, Ikosela lowered the curtain of the tent to isolate the wind from outside.

The voices in the tent quickly fell silent, leaving only the occasional crackle of charcoal burning in the brazier.

Roland coughed slightly to attract his attention, and then said a few words without changing his expression under the gazes of all the generals, and those generals also gave him face.

However, both sides know that the current harmonious atmosphere is only because their respective interests have not yet been touched.

Sure enough, after Roland proposed the tactic of surrounding three and letting one go, with the Alliance Bureau as the main force of the feint attack, the generals started to quarrel because no one wanted to be the "three".

"Let me tell you, Leader Roland. Your Golden Dynasty only brought 2000 troops this time. Although we all know that they are elite soldiers and generals, there are a lot of enemies in Pulin City. I'm worried that you won't be able to take care of yourself by then. , there is no way to successfully break into the city. Wouldn't this make the soldiers' blood all in vain?" A general said with a sincere look: "We will not be able to complete the mission of the Holy Empire of France by then. We have agreed that if we cannot capture Puling City, none of us will be able to escape if the blame comes."

"That's right." Others agreed after hearing this. As for whether the logic of the general's words was logical or not, they didn't have to think about it.

To put it simply, it means opposing for the sake of opposing.

Roland looked over and found that the armor on the middle-aged male general was made of hard animal bones. Knowing that the man came from the Kingdom of Philemon in the north of the Holy Empire, he smiled and said, "It turns out he is from the Kingdom of Philemon." General, I have heard for a long time that the army is good at fighting in the snow after returning home and being surrounded by severe cold all year round. So in your opinion, who should be entrusted with the important task of ambush?"

A hint of joy flashed on the faces of the generals of Philemon. After seeing Roland respond to his words, he stood up and said proudly to the people around him: "When it comes to fighting in the snow, I, Philemon, dare to be second. All the generals here No one dares to claim to be the first. And Philemon brought a full 8000 soldiers this time, so I think the heavy responsibility of the ambush has been handed over to our Philemon soldiers. Please rest assured, Lord Roland and all allies , as long as the enemies of Pulin City dare to open the city gate, my soldiers will definitely be able to rush in."

"Isn't this inappropriate?" Immediately, another general said dissatisfiedly: "Your Kingdom of Philemon is not the king and hegemon in the north. Don't you think too little of us, Austin?"

Roland knew that Austin was a country that also lived near the snowy areas in the north. It had a small territory and was mostly composed of highlanders.

"But the number of people you Austin brought this time is less than 5000! Can you compare with our Philemon?"

The general of the Austin Empire stood up suddenly. The height advantage of the Highlanders made him look down at the general of Philemon and said contemptuously: "Do you believe that we in Austin only need 3000 men to defeat the 8000 soldiers of Philemon?" ?”

The hot scene became more and more chaotic. After Roland shouted twice symbolically, he found that no one paid attention to him and gave Ikosela a look.

The female knight immediately understood what Roland meant. The golden ancient dragon thunder and lightning suddenly exploded in the tent. The thunder and lightning with the roar of the ancient dragon drowned out the quarrels of the generals, and even made them nervously pull out their portable weapons. The weapon thought it was under attack.

After they discovered that the movement was caused by Knight Rodel who was guarding the tent, their eyes were full of fear.

"Everyone, I understand that you, uh, are anxious about the cause of the Holy Empire of France." While the tent was quiet, Roland resisted the urge to roll his eyes and said this. Some relatively thin-skinned people The generals also lowered their heads in embarrassment and did not dare to look at Roland's face.

"But it's nothing to be so noisy. Let's do this. As the leader of this alliance, I will set an example first." Roland stretched out his hand and placed the blue war chess representing the Golden Dynasty on the sand table in Pulin City. At the west city gate.

"Since you all say that the soldiers under my command are elite and fierce generals, then the west side, which has the largest number of garrison troops and is the most difficult to attack, will be handed over to the Golden Dynasty. What do you think?" Roland said with a smile.

The other generals looked at them like they were looking at fools, but then they immediately covered it up and said kind words: "Roland, the leader of the Alliance, is very righteous. The Holy Empire of France is really lucky to have such a loyal ally like you."

"That's right, hey, I've long heard that the silver-armored knights of your Golden Dynasty are as powerful as legendary powerhouses. How can that small west city gate stop their steps?"

hehe.Roland uttered two words with disdain in his heart.Just keep silent about the small number of soldiers I brought with me at this time, right?

"For the other doors, for the sake of fairness, you can draw lots yourself." Roland said calmly: "My patience is limited, and the empire's patience is also limited. If you think you can beat my guard knight, just feel free to cause trouble after the draw. . Oh yes, I forgot to remind you that His Majesty Latour gave me the right to kill first and then report later. However, Her Royal Highness the Fifth Princess is kind-hearted and cannot bear to see your allies being executed for trivial matters, so she asked me to record your performance. Report to her after the siege."

After saying this, Roland walked out of the tent that upset him. He really didn't want to see the faces of these generals.

As for the right to kill first and report later, as well as Evan Jielin's request, Roland made up nonsense later, but those generals did not dare to bet on whether it was fake.

As for the battle he took on to attack the heavily guarded western city wall, in addition to blocking the mouths of these generals, he had new ideas and was very confident after listening to Jonson Bloodhoof's words.

Pulin City has a river that runs through the entire city. In the cold winter when the river turns to ice, the city closes two iron gates to allow ships to enter and exit, and one of the iron gates happens to be at the west city gate.

Roland planned to let the tauren warriors of the Bloodhoof clan use this iron gate as a breakthrough to perform the earth-shattering technique, and then let the mountain demon knights who had awakened from hibernation break into Pulin City from the destroyed place.

He exhaled a white breath outside the tent.

Tomorrow morning, while the snowstorm has not dissipated and the cover of natural weather has ended, it will be time to attack the city.

Chapter 75: Pig teammates really can’t be brought along

The next day.

Even in the early morning when the sun has just risen, dark clouds are always dense in the sky, casting a gray shadow over the earth.Occasionally, a few birds in the sky hid in the solemn Puling City to avoid the wind and snow, and were quickly frightened away by the sounds of soldiers moving and armor clashing and transporting weapons.

The defenders of Pulin City wore blue and black armor, with thick brown cold-proof cloth covering the armor.

They stood on the thick city wall, breathing white air from their helmets, and looked nervously at the scene outside the city, trying to see if there was any shadow of enemy attacks in the wind and snow with extremely low visibility.

It has been six days since the scouts discovered the traces of the enemy. General Lu Si'en, the lord of Pulin City, sent a number of cavalry for help to the three cities in the south as soon as he discovered the enemy's army. However, there was no response for six days. The cavalryman returned with news.

The scouts clearly found that the Allied forces of the Holy Empire of France were concentrated in the east and north directions, but General Lu Si'en felt that Pulin City seemed to be trapped in a dragnet.

"Still no scouts have returned?"

In the city lord's palace, which has been turned into a temporary command post, General Lu Si'en is a standard middle-aged male of the imperial aristocracy. He has short blond hair that is carefully taken care of, a Chinese-character face, and looks energetic, and his taupe-brown eyes are bright.

At this time, he was wearing a thick and gorgeous light golden armor, sitting on the city lord's seat and asked the scout who routinely reported the situation outside the city.

The scout knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said, "Go back to General Lu Si'en and go to Casterly Rock City, Nasansli City and Fanniu City. There is no news from the scouts."

And where were the scouts that Pulin City sent out to ask for help?

In a mountain forest covered with ice and snow a few kilometers away from Roland's camp, the flying dragon Yakir took a rest, its tail swept back and forth happily on the snow, and then it spit out a thick horse with bloodshot eyes from the dragon's mouth. Leg bones.

"Forget it if not. Anyway, we have been in regular contact with these three cities for more than two days. They will realize that something happened in Pulin City. It's just a pity that I want to use the reinforcements from these three cities to eat up the enemy's army." Yes. Did you get any information when you left the city?" General Lu Si'en asked, stroking his smooth chin.

The scout nodded: "Yes, the brothers heard some noise outside the city last night, and went over to see the movement of the enemy's march. Similar traces were found in the east and north of Pulin City. The brothers were afraid of exposing themselves, so they did not dare to go too far. If you look too close, you can clearly see which countries’ flags are among the Allied forces.”

After General Lu Si'en heard this, he sneered twice with disdain: "Hmph, don't think about it, there must be traces of the enemy in the west. There will be no traces of the enemy in the south, because the enemy commander plans to attack by encircling three and missing one. We are in Puling City. It’s a pity that God is on our side. Although the Allied forces are large in number, the quality of their troops is mixed. Those troops with poor military quality exposed themselves when marching at night. Come on, send the order to strengthen the west wall. Given the number of defenders, the Allied forces led by the enemy commander must be in this direction.”

"Yes!" A messenger ran out immediately.

Then Lu Si'en continued: "There must be a surprise force set up by the enemy commander on the southern wall of Pulin City. Order Captain Com to lead all the light and heavy cavalry in Pulin City. When the siege begins, choose an opportunity to open the south wall. City gate, pretend to run away but actually pay attention to the ambushing troops."

"Yes."

"Order all the soldiers on guard to cheer up. Since the enemy has marched overnight to surround Pulin City, they will definitely attack the city while the wind and snow have not dissipated."

"Order."

"How is the situation in Pulin City? How many days will the food be enough for the soldiers? Are the citizens making any trouble?" After issuing the military order, General Lu Si'en turned to the civilian officials responsible for the city's government affairs and asked.

"Back to the general, the food in the city is enough for the soldiers for half a month, so it is still sufficient for the time being. As for the citizens who dared to cause trouble in the city in the past few days, they have been executed in public. But..." The civilian official looked hesitant at the end.

General Lu Si'en frowned: "But what? Don't hesitate."

The civilian official hurriedly said: "However, there are businessmen from Lulan Chamber of Commerce who begged us to let them escape from the city. They gave them a large sum of money... General, do you think?"

General Lu Si'en looked unhappy when he heard the words "Lulan Chamber of Commerce". He looked askance at the civilian officials: "A large amount of money? I'm afraid you have a lot of money in your pocket, right?"

"This..." The civilian official's face froze.

"Humph." General Lu Si'en snorted coldly, and the civilian official was immediately frightened and knelt on the carpet made of animal skins, sweating profusely and shaking like chaff.

"This is a wartime promotion situation. It would be unlucky to kill one of your own before the battle begins, so I will spare your life." General Lu Si'en said grimly: "Go tell those idiot businessmen from the Lulan Chamber of Commerce that if They think their legs can outrun the elite scouts under my command, so I can open the city gate and let them out. Huh, they are indeed ignorant businessmen, their brains are really stupid."

General Lu Si'en said the last word, shook his head disdainfully, then looked at the bewildered civilian officials on the ground and said impatiently: "Get out of here, or are you trying to see if my knife is sharp now?"

Then the civilian official crawled out of the city lord's palace.

"Alas... the merchants have harmed the country, Your Majesty Judah." After the merchants left, General Lu Si'en sighed leisurely.

On the other side, Roland was in his tent looking at a scout in black clothes captured by the lost knight White, with a troubled expression.

The scout was tied up by White and fell into a coma.There was a ball of rags firmly stuffed in his mouth to prevent White from swallowing poison pills that might be hidden in his mouth when he was captured alive.

White removed the rag and carefully checked that there were no poisonous pills for suicide in the scout's mouth before slapping him awake.

The scout was photographed cleverly, twisting his body, and soon discovered his situation, secretly screaming that it was terrible.

"Do you want to live?" Roland said, rubbing his eyebrows.

The scout nodded. He only had one life, so of course he wanted to live.He is not a dead soldier trained by General Lu Si'en, he is just a soldier who earns a living, so there is no need to sacrifice his life for that little money.

"Then tell me honestly what you did outside the city and the situation in Pulin City." Roland shrugged and said straight to the point.

Then he added: "By the way, since you want to live, don't play with me about sacrificing your life for righteousness. Either answer the question and I will abide by the agreement and let you go back, or you refuse to answer and I will send you to meet the god you believe in." .”

Ah this.The scout was awkward on the spot, not knowing what to say for a moment. He had never seen such a strange interrogation method: no torture, no pretense of friendly conversation, just straight to the point.

Well, at least let's pull it off, and then you get the information, and I was moved by you to surrender. It will give me a better reputation, right?

Seeing that the scout didn't speak, Roland looked at Melina and deliberately asked in a polite tone in front of the scout: "Melina, our scout doesn't seem to know what he is facing. Can you help him gain a clear understanding?" For a moment?"

"I'm happy to serve you, Roland." Melina opened her hood, revealing her unique short pink-brown hair and her left eye with the three-claw mark.

The scout looked at this beautiful girl without knowing why, but as Xiao Xi's eyes slowly opened, the scout felt as if he was being targeted by something terrible. The panic from the depths of his soul made him My back was immediately wet with cold sweat.

"I said it, I said it." The scout twisted his body to stay away from Melina. He felt that the woman in front of him was not a beautiful girl at all, but a magician who could easily destroy his body.

He heard that some female mages would reshape their bodies into what they were when they were young when their strength reached a certain level. Maybe the terrifying girl in front of him was an old woman who had lived for an unknown age.

···It seems that the feeling of being a scout does not exist. Theoretically, Melina, who has been wandering as a soul body in the border area for many years, is indeed, maybe, slightly, that much older?

No matter, it’s not stated in the game when Melina was born.Anyway, no matter how old Melina is, she is never older than a certain blue four-handed doll princess.

At least Mr. Martin, the real Supreme Will, clearly expressed that the period from the first Battle of Rodel to the entry of the Faded Ones into the border area was thousands of years.

And Lani actually lived that long.

Hmm, that means a certain Moon Princess is eating young grass after an old cow?

Cough cough cough!Stop it, if we keep talking about this topic, the dignified, beautiful, quiet and mysterious Lani will pull out the book under her butt and hit someone!

Roland raised his hand to signal the scout to tell him the information he knew.

"Last night we were ordered to go out outside the city to inquire about the enemy..." The scout told everything he could know when his life was threatened.

After hearing this, Roland confirmed to the scouts with a headache: "Does this mean that all the signs of our march in the north and east last night were known to you scouts?"

The scout observed Roland's expression and nodded cautiously, fearing that his actions would make Roland unhappy and then kill him with a knife.

"I understand. But I can't let you go back to Pulin City. You should stay as a prisoner in my camp for the time being."

Roland resisted the urge to curse in front of the scouts. When he set off, he explicitly asked the generals not to make too much noise. The horses' hooves and the soldiers' feet were all wrapped in thick cloth.

The sound of the wind and snow late last night was so loud that it could still be heard by the scouts who were out in Pling City, which meant that those generals did not follow Roland's instructions at all.

I couldn't carry him, so I originally thought I could give him a hand, but now I realize that there are really people in this world who force themselves to sink when you drag their butt.

Roland waved his hand to White, the lost knight, and motioned for the latter to take the captured scout down and imprison him.

After White's figure disappeared from the warm tent, Roland let out a long sigh that he hated the iron.

Melina cast a concerned look and asked softly: "Are you worried that your tactics will be known by the enemy commander, and that you will not be able to attack Pulin City?"

Roland nodded and shook his head, and explained to Melina: "To be honest, it doesn't have a big impact on me whether the enemy commander knows, but I know how many losers there are among these allies. I really doubt it. Did the Holy Empire of France not think that the Allied forces could attack a city like Puling City, which is located on a traffic artery, and instead deliberately threw the Allied forces with so many of us as bait..."

By the end of his speech, his brows were getting tighter and his voice was getting lower and lower.

Roland suddenly felt that this possibility was not only possible, but also very high.Otherwise, why would the Holy Empire of France be so generous and selfless in providing so much soldiers, armor, and food to its tributary countries?Money is not so wasted.

However, he has already led his soldiers to Pulin City. Regardless of whether he and the troops from other countries are decoys, the top priority is to capture Pulin City.

After all, my current strength is too weak and I dare not openly challenge the Holy Empire of France.But when he summons the majestic and unstoppable Stonewell City, plus the demigod [Golden Lord] Greg, there will definitely be excess ether that can be used to summon the clones of Bernal and [Blessed King] .

In addition, the Storm Eagle and the Lion Guard are two units that belong to the [Storm King]. By then, whether it is the Holy Empire of France or the Charles Empire, they will have to consider whether they are qualified to start a war with them.Because no matter what, the Storm King is a country that has fought against the Golden Dynasty.

"Icosella, send me an order to send two homeless knights to the south of Pulin City to inform the general of Philemon who is ambushing there, and inform him to retreat. If he doesn't retreat, don't worry about it. We just have to notify him. Be benevolent and righteous." Roland stood up and ordered.

Ikosela nodded slightly and walked out, and then he said to Edgar, the city lord of Moren City, who had been silent for a long time: "Edgar, go and inform the messenger to launch a signal flare to the friendly forces, and let us prepare to attack the city. Since Pu The defenders of Lingcheng already know our whereabouts, so there is no point in staying hidden."

"Please rest assured, Lord Roland. Even without those allies like chickens and dogs, victory will eventually belong to the Golden Tree." Edgar comforted Roland.

"I have always believed in this." Roland responded with a confident smile, then the smile disappeared and he said with a change of subject: "But we can't directly send out our own soldiers like before and let other allies in the west 'Let's go up first. Didn't they listen to my plan and think they can easily enter the city by blowing up the iron gate on the glacier? Are they clamoring to be the first to go up? Then let them help us explore the way first Lu, try to see how many kilograms the general guarding the city on the other side has."