Public trial?You deserve it too!

[So, no matter what, the Intelligence Bureau will have to bear the evaluation of wine bag and rice bag? 】

"So I left a list for him. The Theocracy's deep-rooted spies in Provence, if these things are dug out and handed over, they can still be redeemed."

Claude pointed to the Theocracy intelligence network that he had sorted out by himself.

"The lieutenant colonel Siegfried who followed His Highness heard that he was originally the chief of the imperial capital. This time, the emperor wanted to cut the mess quickly, so he sent this beloved general. Since Jane is in the emperor's heart As a competent man, that designation cannot let him return empty-handed."

"And what's interesting is that the director of the Intelligence Bureau who had a conversation with me seemed to have a good impression of me, and everyone was kind in that conversation, although I don't understand where this appreciation comes from, But this does not affect me to continue to keep this appreciation."

【I thought you would keep that information network for yourself. 】

"How is it possible? There are too many uncertainties. For example, new people from the Theocracy restarted them, or they were dug out by the Imperial Intelligence Bureau. Then I went to contact these people, wouldn't it be self-inflicted?"

【Then, can Julien really return to the Theocracy alive? 】

"Naturally, I have helped him release the smoke bomb. You know, even if I disguised the Lavender Knights, they would all die here, but in the eyes of the empire, he brought another knight belonging to the Theocracy with him." The regiment disappeared, do you think the empire would care about a certain person wanting to leave when they were hunting? As long as he gets mixed into the refugee team, he will be free."

Claude put away the map of the city defense a little bit disinterestedly, stood up, and looked at the flow of people who were reluctantly walking out of the city.

"Everyone's curtain call sequence has been set, so let's finish the play well."

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"Your Highness, there are a large number of refugees ahead, and they have already blocked our way."

A knight knelt on one knee and reported to Ludwig.

"Refugees? How many are there?"

The third prince frowned, and finished tuning forward.

"There are about [-] of them, and there are very few young and strong among them. We have already interrogated them initially. They are all from the city of Aix. They were driven out by the people of the Church, and they did not bring much food. It should be that the other party expelled the useless population in order to stick to the city."

"Hmph! It seems that the other party is also ready."

Ludwig's face was cold, and sure enough, the opponent still wanted to fight a trapped beast.

"Your Highness!"

Another knight came galloping.

"One of the refugees said that he was ordered by Captain Claude to come to see the commander of the legion!"

"Quick, bring him here!"

Both the third prince and Jung were refreshed. It seems that Claude is doing well?

"I've seen adults."

The person who was brought made a big gift.

"What did Claude ask you to come to me?" Ludwig didn't care about these things, and asked impatiently.

"This is the city defense map that Captain Claude ordered me to bring over. It was drawn by each of the brothers and put together." The man honestly handed over the map.

Jung took it over, glanced at it, and immediately smiled.

"Your Highness, it seems that we are lucky. The opponent can only defend the city by relying on the city wall and being young and strong. There are not many real teams of our own, so we can only let the knights stay in the center of the city and wait for something to go wrong. Go up. Looking at the dense number of troops near the city wall, in fact, as long as we can rush in, most of them will surrender directly."

A smile finally appeared on the corner of Ludwig's mouth, which couldn't be better.

"Anything else?"

The man scratched his head: "There is indeed one more thing, but the captain said it was a bit strange, so he just ordered me to say everything he said, and leave it to you to decide."

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"What's the matter?"

The man took out a letter and handed it up.

Ludwig took the letter from the personal guard. The content inside was very short, but after reading it, he frowned and handed the letter to Jung, and the old man read it carefully.

[When the Theocracy was dispersing the residents in the city, it abnormally took part of the grain from the granary and distributed it to the residents. Since the expulsion was completed, I have never seen the rebellious Lavender Knights Deputy Head Julien. ]

[After that, although the daily food provided to the knights in the city did not decrease, the carriages that transport excrement from the barracks to the outside of the city every day were only one-fifth of the original, so I suspect that the main force of the Theocracy Knights has disappeared. ]

The two looked at each other with solemn expressions. Judging from this information, what Claude said was probably true. Julien led the main force of the Knights and left the city of Exe, whereabouts are unknown.

"This matter must be known to Lieutenant Colonel Siegfried, and he needs to be responsible for the screening of refugees." Jung immediately realized the problem.

Until now, there has been no news of the Theocracy's attack on the Fortress of Turin, and the Anton Fleet of the Empire has firmly controlled all the outlets of Provence. Those who came to the Empire to start a rebellion have no Supported, defending the city seems to be the best choice at first glance, but it is an out-and-out dead end.

A knight order on the plains and a knight order in a strong city, although the latter may cause headaches for the siege troops, but the former can at least double the energy and troops of the latter!

Ludwig nodded, and immediately ordered the guards around him to invite Siegfried.

"Your Highness, I don't know if you called me over at this time, do you have any important orders?"

The man gave a military salute.

"There is indeed an urgent matter. This is a report from Knight Claude who went undercover in Exe."

Siegfried took it over and looked at it again, and his face became serious.

"Your Highness wants my people to identify these refugees, right?"

"That's right, it's up to the Intelligence Bureau to do this kind of thing, so as to ensure that there are no omissions. I know that your strength may be insufficient to face a knight order that sneaks in. I will ask Manduffel to send someone Be more cooperative with you."

The third prince nodded, but the deputy head beside him who was thinking frowned and put forward his own opinion.

"Your Highness, I think this matter should be delayed for a while?"

Ludwig was taken aback, and looked at Manteuffel.

"War is fought with poor intelligence, but this intelligence difference will only be effective if the other party does not know that we have the advantage. Once we start to screen all the refugees on a large scale, the other party will immediately realize that we already know that the Theocracy Withdrawing the main force of the Knights out of the city, they will definitely strictly control all non-teachers in Aix, which is not good for our plan, and it will also put Knight Claude and the others in danger."

The third prince's expression changed immediately.

"But if we don't screen them, then they are likely to attack us, isn't that dangerous?" Siegfried objected.

"I think the number of refugees mixed in by the other party should be very small. These refugees came from the city of Aix. Because they were young and strong, they were forced to be recruited, so these people are mostly women, old people and children, and the number of young men is very small. And the Knights of the Theocracy will obviously not have old people, they will not be so stupid as to make their own stand out from the crowd."

Mantefil explained.

"So the people who mixed in with the refugees should still only play the role of spies. Knights still have to rely on horses and armor to maximize their strength. The opponents will not do such things that destroy their martial arts. As long as we expand the ability to scout rangers The range of activities, this kind of raid is within the scope of resistance."

"Then don't carry out the screening of refugees for now, and expand the scope of the investigation. The other party has withdrawn the Knights out of the city, so there must be something to do. Now it is the other party who is anxious to break the situation, not us."

The most powerful thing about Ludwig is that he acts and makes decisions far faster than others.

"However, it is still necessary to take the city of Aix as soon as possible. Let those refugees get out of the way first, and don't block the march of the army. If they are short of supplies, they should first take some of them from the luggage and notify the rear to speed up the transportation."

"Yes!"

Ludwig looked to the south, and there were less than two days left to the Provence capital.

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"The army of the empire is coming, my lord."

Gorman's voice reached Claude's ears.

The young man looked towards the north, and sure enough, the sky was covered with dust.

"The Lavender Knights, are you all arranged?"

"It's been arranged, and my people will follow the people of the Lightning Knights. Once they see someone who wants to surrender, they will rush to kill them all in advance."

"Okay, let's get ready."

Claude looked at the Lightning Knights approaching the city wall and ordered softly.

"Yes."

Fatty walked towards his group of people, and at this time Manduffel had already led the entire Lightning Knights, and started running around the city wall of Aix City, shouting as he ran:

"Surrender to avoid death!"

This is a common method used by the siege party to suppress morale, but this time Manduffel has another purpose.

Seeing that only the city wall outside the North City Gate was smeared with red, the actual commander of the Knights heaved a sigh of relief. He still circled the city as usual, and then he led the Knights at the North City Gate again. After a routine but awe-inspiring announcement before the battle, he waved his hand to signal the knights to go back and return to the camp where the army was camping.

Just when everyone on the city wall let out a sigh of relief.

"what--"

A sharp scream fell from the city wall to the ground, as if to add a footnote to the scream, the originally closed city gate was also suddenly opened.

"Lightning Knights, charge!"

Manduffel's eyes lit up, and he immediately roared and led the headquarters to take the lead.

Claude looked at these knights in surprise. They had almost no time to accelerate, and they soared to extreme speed in an instant. Tuofeier's headquarters rushed into the city gate, and the others started to move while throwing bows and arrows at the city wall.

"Is this speed... a little too fast?"

[That is the unique power system of this world - [Mithril Magic Net]. 】

"Explain explain."

Claude used the bow and arrow in his hand to name the leaders of the Theocracy soldiers who had been inserted into the rebel ranks by himself, and asked.

[There is a special metal in this world called Mithril.This is a kind of metal that can respond to magic power. As long as it is mixed with a little bit in weapons and armor, it can be stimulated by magic power, such as increasing the sharpness of a sword or reducing weight without changing the armor's defensive ability. 】

"Is there such a thing? Then why don't the knight swords I bought? I don't feel much change after the magic power is injected."

[Because this metal is very rare and the forging process is complicated, ordinary blacksmiths can only make regular swords and armor. Generally, only knight armor and sword weapons can afford this metal.Do you still remember that the Adelins chose to use their own sabers for you at that time? Both of those swords were forged with mithril. 】

"Then what is the [Mithril Magic Web]?"

[The whole knight group uses the same armor, from its own armor to the horse armor, all are made according to the unified blueprint, so that these mithrils can resonate after being excited by the magic power, so that the whole knight group can obtain special combat capabilities , this kind of ability is not solidified. For example, if these armors are worn by the Lightning Knights, this is the effect, but if you switch to another knights, it will be a completely different effect. Even if you are still these knights, changing a leader may change the effect . 】

"Then the [Mithril Magic Net] of the Lightning Knights should be of the speed type?" Claude thought thoughtfully, "I didn't expect this Manduffel knight to be the type of speed. No wonder that time in The fight in the Saxony Mountains is so ugly, and the emperor's guards are needed to open the passage, so they are light cavalry who have been restricted to death."

He stopped what he was doing, because the Lightning Knights were advancing unexpectedly at a high speed, and the city gate was now in their pocket, so he could have more time to fish, so he walked through a team of running The walking knight walked to the fat man's side.

"Gorman, what is the ability of your knight order's [Mithril Magic Web]?"

The fat man who was commanding the battle was silent for a while, then lowered his voice, and moved closer to Claude's ear.

"Our ability is [change formation]. I still remember that when we attacked the Front Rock Knights, we pretended that the formation was out of line, tricked the opponent to relax their vigilance, and then in the next instant, under the condition of all speeding up the charge, we managed to tear apart the formation. The pursuit formation has been transformed into a piercing arrow formation."

Claude recalled it carefully. It seemed that such a thing happened at that time. He was still amazed at Gorman's command ability and the elite level of those Wallachian knights, but this explanation always felt too magical. point.

"There is also this type of [Mithril Magic Web]?"

He kind of asked in disbelief.

"It's hard for me to explain clearly, because this is the result of General Galapash, and I can only achieve half of his performance at most. Originally in the hands of the general, it was possible to change formations instantly without laying the groundwork. That's how way, we can hold the Eastern Front against those long-eared outlandish blows."

"You don't know the principle?"

"I don't know. In short, this is how the general commands the army like an arm. As long as an order is given, these knights seem to be able to find their own position with the surge of magic power. After subconsciously moving, they can show the general desired formation."

The corner of Claude's mouth twitched, this is so magical.

"What about the Knights of the Front Rock? I don't think those guys have any abilities, or is it that the death of the main general will also affect [Mithril Magic Web]?"

"No, that's just because they are too useless and don't deserve such precious armor. Only the main battle knights are worthy of armor that can form the [Mithril Magic Net]. The Principality of Wallachia could only support two This kind of knights." The fat man sneered, "Front Rock Knights? When did sharpness become a characteristic of rock? It is not as sharp as a sword, and not as strong as a rock. It can only be called such a name, but it is not bullshit."

"What about the Lavender Knights?"

"Of course they don't. Most of the knights recruited and supported by the governor wear their own armor to join. Even if their armor is mixed with mithril, how can they form a unified magic net? "

Gorman saw the young men and rebels who had already knelt on the ground in groups, and he also put down his command and began to concentrate on solving doubts for Claude.

"Actually, these armors are not difficult to manufacture, but mithril is a very rare mineral with a very limited output, and these armors are always damaged, so reserves are also necessary. This is why the power of Wallachia can only Support the consumption of two knight orders, because the number of armor is the only factor restricting the size of this knight order."

"And if the backup knights of the Knights wear these armors for training, they can quickly enter the state after entering the Knights and use [Mithril Magic Net]. On the contrary, those new knights wearing this armor for the first time, it is very It is possible that the battle with the old knights was completely out of touch, some of them activated the magic net, while others were completely out of touch."

The fat man sighed. He had already ordered his knights to replace their armors. If Ludwig found out that their armors were mithril armors when he recruited him, it would be a lot of fun.

"I see." Claude nodded, "Come on, come with me to meet the future commander."

"it is good."

The fat man responded briefly, told his subordinates to stay where they were, and followed Claude towards Manduffel.

"Your Excellency, Major General." Claude and Gorman saluted together, "Claude Kaos, Captain of the No. 12 Long Knight Battalion, reports to you."

"You did a good job, Captain Kaos. The most important thing to do next is to suppress the Knights' garrison in the center of the city. Can your subordinates guide us?"

Manduffel's words were hasty, just like his demeanor.

"No problem, we have already made a harassment plan, and I will hand over the command to Mr. Gorman and lead the way for you personally."