Throne of the North

Fortunately, nothing happened all night. Neither side dared to start a war in the dark night.

"How many of us died?"

Early the next morning, Viscount Walter, who didn't sleep much at all because of his nervousness, called his knight and asked.

"Sir Viscount, in yesterday's battle we lost one hundred and twenty slaves and seven soldiers, and more than thirty people were injured and unable to continue fighting."

Upon hearing this number, Viscount Walter almost fainted.

Because the county seat of Tieshan County is on the westernmost border, there is only one village in his own territory. The civilians and slaves in the village help him farm and mine iron ore. The number is less than a thousand, plus The population of the castle itself is only about 1,300 to 400 people.

As a result, we lost 10% yesterday? This is still defense.

"This matter must not be revealed, especially to the slaves."

Viscount Walter still understood something. If this was a head-on fight, the number of deaths would be enough to cause those slaves to scatter on all sides.

Only in the castle, they couldn't see everything, and they didn't know exactly how many people died.

In fact, this loss ratio is not surprising. What are these slaves? After Tieshan County experienced several wars, it was still not selected as a soldier's slave.

In other words, their quality is far worse than that of the slaves who were used as soldiers. They can almost be said to be the weakest group of people in the noble territory.

Compared with Viscount Hogg's army, even the slave soldiers and cannon fodder are all young and strong men selected from the slaves. Moreover, they are also the victors of several wars. They are better than the slaves in the castle in terms of body and mind. .

If it weren't for the castle as a natural defense, the collision between the two sides on the battlefield would almost be a battle that could be ended with a charge.

"When will Baron Tundra's army arrive? They can reach Baron Freeman's territory from here in one day. Why haven't they come back after a day?"

"Also, where are the reinforcements from other nobles?"

Viscount Walter roared angrily. He needed reinforcements, whether it was the army from Lane in the south or the reinforcements formed by other nobles in Iron Mountain County after learning about the situation here.

He sent all the Air Wolf Cavalry out to ask for help.

"The noble armies from the north, east and west are about to arrive. They will arrive at your castle this afternoon at most. However, we have not received a response from the army of the Tundra Baron. Knight Luke has not returned yet."

Viscount Walter's palms trembled slightly. How could he believe the defeated nobles in Iron Mountain County? What he needed most now was Ryan's neatly marching army.

"Damn Ryan!"

In the end, he didn't have any good ideas, and he didn't have any extra flying wolf cavalry to send out.

"Let me continue the attack. We must capture this castle today!"

Viscount Hogg's roar once again frightened the soldiers below. After Viscount Hogg killed several prisoners who escaped yesterday, an army of nearly five thousand people once again launched an attack on Walter Castle.

Unlike yesterday, today they had more improvised ladders. As time passed, an hour later, more than 300 soldiers rushed into the castle. Fortunately, they were stopped by the 200 soldiers of Viscount Walter. The soldiers arrived, led by several powerful knights, and held on to the gap.

But the price for this was that these two hundred soldiers once again suffered 22 casualties.

As for the other slaves, even more died. When the war lasted for two hours, some slaves fled deep into the castle because of the fear of death and war. They were really not capable of fighting to the death. material.

In the second and a half hours of the war, reinforcements from several nobles finally entered the castle, withstanding the situation that was about to be completely defeated.

But... the castle gate was broken.

A group of sorcerers appeared in Viscount Hogg's army. They used the sorcerers to corrupt the gate of Walter Castle. Under the huge power of the Golden Knight, this ancient city gate was finally unable to support itself. The huge hole was enough to Soldiers from both sides looked at each other.

"These damn warlocks, I shouldn't have saved the gold coins of those magic secret patterns in the first place."

Viscount Walter was a little annoyed. Now that there is no city gate, the above can directly engage in hand-to-hand combat, in case his knights cannot stop the enemy...

"Damn Ryan, why aren't you here yet?"

At this moment.

Ryan is leading an army of hundreds of people through the mountains.

"Viscount Hogg's army consists of thousands of people. It is impossible not to leave any traces. Since he can dig through the mine and is in the south, there are not many options left."

Ryan looked at Knight Luke. The flying troops were really useful.

"Go and find out where the trees in this area have been cut down and where there are obvious traces."

Knight Luke took off on the flying wolf, and he didn't know what the frozen baron wanted to do.

Looking down from the sky, Knight Luke quickly captured an obvious road. It was particularly conspicuous in the barren mountains and ridges. Not to mention that the trees had been cut down, and even the weeds had been trampled cleanly. Looking from above, there is a clear path.

"Found it."

Luke Knight returned to Ryan's team, and soon, Ryan saw the muddy road formed after thousands of people stepped on it.

At the end of the road, there was a bare and barren mountain wall, with no caves visible anywhere.

"The great mage next to Viscount Hogg is very talented."

As Ryan said, Brand beside him quickly rushed towards the stone wall in front. The next moment, terrifying power attached to the shield, and the collision with the stone wall made a deafening sound.

The empty mountains screamed at this moment, and the next moment the stone wall in front of them was shattered as if it had been hit by a ferocious beast. The flying stones scattered in all directions, revealing a large dark hole, and there was a sound coming from the darkness. Some confused and frightened sounds.

"Who?"

"Heh, it seems that Viscount Hogg still knows the importance of this passage."

Ryan took a few steps back and waved, and the soldiers behind him rushed forward.

Soon, twenty or thirty soldiers who were tightly restrained were brought to Ryan.

"Are you knights under Viscount Hogg?"

Ryan asked.

Although these knights were a little scared when facing Ryan, they were still calm. The leader said:

"We are the viscount's attendants."

"Are you here just to guard this passage?"

"Yes...yes."

"What's the point of guarding this?"

Ryan waved his hand, and the soldiers controlling them led the group towards the middle of the team. With hundreds of people staring at them, it was impossible for them to escape.

However, when the last soldier passed by Ryan, Ryan suddenly took action and grabbed the opponent's shoulder with huge force.

When the soldier was still shocked that the noble in front of him had such great power, Ryan's voice fell on his ears.

"Besides you, is there anyone else here?"

His words made the soldier's expression change. Although he pretended to be calm the next moment, the changes in his body at that moment were still controlled by Ryan.

"hehe……"

Ryan waved his hand, and screams came from behind him.