Lord Chronicle

Chapter 107
Seeing that the enemies under the city finally evacuated, Sol also secretly heaved a sigh of relief.He said to Chip: "Take two people to follow and see if they really evacuated."

Chip nodded, called two of his men, and left quietly. Then Sol told the guards to be vigilant, and left the city wall.

At this time, the battle below was over, and the Northern Army cavalry began to clear the battlefield, but a scream could still be heard from somewhere in the castle from time to time.

As soon as he walked down the stairs, a person greeted Sol: "Master Sol."

"Hey, you're...that dead Kifa's..." Thor felt that his face was familiar, but he couldn't remember the other person's name.

The man introduced himself: "I'm Nori, the guard captain of the former Ramo Lord Kefa."

"Yes, yes, we met in Wright City in Masdiland." Sol finally remembered.

Nori looked ashamed: "It's ashamed to say, because of Lord Kefa, I have offended you in the past, I hope you don't take it to heart."

As he said that, he said excitedly, "I just didn't expect that you are the famous Qusi group recently. Even here, I have heard of your reputation from time to time."

"Ahaha, it's easy to talk. By the way, why are you here?" It's not very honorable for the dignified earl to be a bandit leader, so Sol quickly changed the subject.

Kress said at this time: "Thanks to their help in the battle just now, we were able to open the city gate in time."

Looking at the group of men behind Nori, Sol asked strangely, "Who are they?"

Nori explained: "They are all soldiers from the former Rameau garrison."

After his explanation, Saul understood.It turned out that after the death of the unlucky Kifa, the king temporarily appointed a lord to manage the Ramorland, and Nori and the others continued to serve as the garrison.

Later, when the Lulin army came to fight, the temporary lord fled immediately. When most of the defenders surrendered, Nori led his subordinates to resist tenaciously. In the end, he was defeated and captured, and was sent to Diviji Castle came to do the drudgery.

Although they always wanted to escape, under the strict supervision of the Lu Lin Army, they did not dare to make any changes.Until Saul and the others seized the city, when all the soldiers guarding them went to stop Kress, Nori led the prisoners to revolt, which played an unexpected role.

After listening to his words, Sol couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional, who would have thought that there were such loyal and brave soldiers under that dead Kifa, and after more than a year, they would meet again under such circumstances.

"How many prisoners of war are there in the castle now?" Thor asked.

"There are about 700 people, and many people are still locked up. We are the only ones who escaped." Kifa said.

Sol turned to Kress and said, "You send someone to release them immediately."

Then he said to Nori again: "You are free, get out of here quickly."

Nori was shocked: "You want us to leave?"

Saul was very strange: "Yeah, otherwise, what else do you want to do?"

As he said that, he suddenly looked like "I understand", and said with a painful face: "Ah, there is no travel expenses, right? But I don't have much money, this... how about sending some dry food and new clothes to everyone?" Sample?"

Nori shook his head and said: "Where did you go? I know all about your deeds, and we all admire your brave actions of resisting the invaders while going deep alone. So we all decided to follow your command and stay behind." Fight the Lulin here."

"Combat?" Sol was stunned, then shook his head like a rattle: "I never thought about it that way."

Nori was in a hurry: "Why? Diviji Castle's terrain is dangerous, and it happens to be nailed to the center of the enemy's occupied area. If we raise our troops here, we will be able to greatly restrain Lulin's army..."

"You guys better go, I don't want to stay here and wait for the enemy to come to the door." Sol stopped Nori who wanted to continue talking, patted his shoulder and turned away.

"Lord, do you really want to leave?" Kress quickly chased after him.

"Nonsense, of course we have to go." Sol gave him a blank look: "With just us, do you really think you can hold this castle? When Lulin's army arrives, everyone will be finished."

When he found Gein, the latter was going through a pile of records of Diviji Castle's hoarding of supplies.

"Gain, how's the cleaning going?" Saul asked him.

"It's almost there, my men are cleaning the battlefield." Gein showed Thor the records in his hand: "This castle has a lot of supplies, from medicines, weapons to building materials, and the supplies are enough for tens of thousands of people. Used for more than a year."

As he spoke, he suddenly said excitedly: "If we stick to this place, it will be tantamount to paralyzing the Lulin Army's logistics line. They will no longer be able to transport supplies to the front line as they please. This is definitely a great achievement."

Thor couldn't help rolling his eyes.What's the matter?Why is it so exciting to capture a castle, no matter how great the credit is, you have to save your life to enjoy it, right?
He couldn't help but said: "I think you're going crazy because you want to make meritorious service. Be sober. How long do you think we can defend with this small number of people? The enemy only needs to send a few thousand people and we're done."

Gein was not an idiot after all, he was stunned for a moment, and finally nodded helplessly: "You are right, I am indeed a little over excited."

"So before they come back, let's quickly burn this place down, and let's slap our butts and run away, and the ultimate goal will be achieved." Thor said.

Gein nodded and said, "Although it's a pity, this is the only way to do it."

The Diviji Fortress has stockpiled almost one-fifth of the Lulin Army's strategic materials in the occupied area. The building materials and siege equipment are the key to building the Ruhrland Fortress and attacking the capital.As long as this place is destroyed, it is guaranteed that the Lulin Army will not make any major moves within a few months.

It is enough for them to be proud of achieving such brilliant results with a few hundred people.

At this moment, a Northern Army knight rushed over: "Look, captain, this is what we found in the castle commander's office."

After taking the document he handed over, Gein only glanced at it, and his hands trembled involuntarily.

"What's wrong?" Saul asked incredulously.

After a moment of silence, Gein raised his head firmly: "Sol, I want to stay here and continue fighting."

"Why?" Sol Daqi, why did he suddenly change his mind.

Gein didn't answer, just handed him the document in his hand.Thor took it in confusion. It was an order for Gerson, but the contents inside were extremely astonishing.

"According to reliable information, the head of the enemy's northern army, Pintat, is trying to collect the remnants of the army and continue to resist our army. Considering the empire's occupation of the northern part of Dinar, the fortress of the Ruhrland must be completed as soon as possible. I hereby order you to collect the required building materials as soon as possible. Send it to the front line without error."

Sol looked up in surprise: "General Pintat is calling the army again?"

Gein yelled excitedly: "I knew that Dad would not be knocked down so easily. Now those Lulin people will know how powerful our Northern Army is."

As he spoke, he said to Sol: "Let's stay here. Dad is gathering troops to fight back. This is a good opportunity. As long as we contain the enemy here, we can buy him enough time."

"No." Saul refused without thinking.

"What? You coward." Gein was startled and angry: "Are you trying to run away again?"

"Nonsense, this is not called escaping at all, just like sending death is not brave." Saul retorted.

Gein snorted: "Is this not running away? You clearly know that if we stay and resist, the damage caused to the enemy will be several times higher than that of setting fire to running away."

"But I also know that if we stay, it will all be over in the end!"

"But it can also buy time for Dad. As long as he successfully gathers his troops, he can stop the Lulin Army's intention to attack the north. This may be a turning point in the war."

Sol snorted: "No matter what, nothing is more important than being alive."

Gein said in a deep voice: "So as long as you are alive, can you ignore everything?"

Sol was furious: "At the beginning you said that you wanted to capture this castle. It was a near-death situation. I did it with you. Isn't that considered cowardly? Now that things have succeeded, we can obviously burn this place down. You retreated completely, and you can also achieve the goal of containing the imperial army, but you insist on staying and dying. What is this, playing a hero? Or do you have a strong desire for self-sacrifice?"

"Of course not, but I..." Gein was speechless by what he said.

Sol sighed: "I'm sorry, even if there is a way out, I can stay with you, but I won't accompany you if there is no doubt about death.

"Besides, I also have to consider the lives of my subordinates. I can't send them to death for the sake of brotherhood. There are still many parents in Lovell waiting for their children to go back."

"It's the same for you, don't be dazzled by glory and merit. Think about your subordinates, and your father, do you think he will be happy if you sacrificed yourself for him? Listen to my advice, hurry up Burn here and leave, as long as we are still alive, we can do more things." Finally, Sol said.

The frenzied expression on Gein's face gradually cooled down, he gritted his teeth and pondered, his eyes were cloudy and cloudy, obviously hesitating between insisting and listening to Sol's advice.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the side: "Master Saul, I can assure you that this castle is definitely not the desperate situation you imagined."

Surprised, Sol turned his head and found that it was Nori who spoke, and he had come to the two of them at some point.

Gein asked with surprise on his face, "How do you say that?"

Nori explained: "This Diviji castle has existed in Lamorland for many years. It used to be a playground for children nearby because it was abandoned and left unattended. I grew up near here."

"Get to the point." Saul felt a little annoyed. I'm not interested in listening to your memoirs.

Nori made a gesture to signal him not to be impatient: "When we were young, we often came here to play, and we explored almost every part of the castle. As a result, in a hidden place at the highest point of the castle, we found a secret path leading to the top of the cliff behind. road."

"What, there is a secret passage?" Gein and Saul glanced at each other: "Do those Lulin people know?"

Nori shook his head: "Only a few of my partners and I discovered it at the time. Since we regarded it as a secret base, we never told anyone else. Now that I think about it, it should have been used as an emergency base when the castle was being built. A passage for escape."

At this time, Sol already knew what he wanted to say, and he said first: "Don't even think about it, after so many years, who knows if that secret path can still be used, don't use this to scare me."

At this time, Gein had a smirk on his face: "Who said just now that as long as there is a way out, they will stay with me?"

Nori also said: "When I was imprisoned here, I went to investigate secretly alone. The secret passage was well preserved and can still be used. The Lulin Army did not find it when it was repaired. It was just because I couldn't leave me alone and was imprisoned together. Comrades, so I didn’t use it to escape.”

The hatred in Sol's heart at this moment almost beat his chest and stamped his feet.It was hard for me to convince Gein, a lunatic, what are you doing here?This is good, let me get involved too.

However, he could no longer repent at this time. Facing Gein's eagerly looking eyes, he had no choice but to act righteously: "If that secret path is really usable, I, I will stay with you..."

"Aha, so we are really good brothers, and we can't be separated no matter what." Gein was so excited that he gave Sol a bear hug.

Nori said with reverence: "It is the honor of my life to be able to follow Lord Sol."

Sol looked at him, then at Gein, feeling like crying, "You guys killed me now."

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"This is it." Holding the torch high, Nori said to the two.

At this moment, the three of them were in a hidden cave. The cave was located behind a crack in the rock at the highest point of the castle. If it wasn't for Nori who led the way, no one else would have found it.

They came here under the strong request of Sol, there is no way, if they can't confirm the existence of the secret passage, Sol will not be at ease.

Under the light of the fire, you can vaguely see the simple artificial steps on the wall of the cave, which go up in a spiral shape. These steps are very narrow and can only be passed by one person without any protection.In the cold cave, the water droplets seeping from the cracks in the rock made the steps slippery.

This should be a secret passage created by using a naturally formed cave, otherwise it would be impossible to dig such a huge space in the mountainside with manpower. Looking up from the top of the head, the cave is so gloomy that you can't see the end.

"Can you really go up to the top of the cliff from here?" Thor asked suspiciously.

Nori nodded: "I just walked through it myself not long ago, and I can indeed go up, but some places have been collapsed by water seepage, so I need to be very careful."

Gein asked, "What's behind the cliff?"

Nori thought for a while and said: "Behind the cliff are steep mountains, which should belong to the offshoot of the Primo Mountains. If you go north through the mountains from behind the cliff, you should be able to reach Peiqiling, and then I have encountered Lord Saul's Masti has taken it."

Gein couldn't help but said, "What if the enemy climbs over the mountains and attacks from behind?"

Nori shook his head without hesitation: "This is absolutely impossible. Even if the enemy can occupy the Peiqi Territory, we are separated by mountains. Arranging a sentry post will prevent any possibility of sneak attacks, and our rear is absolutely safe."

Thinking about the straight up and down cliffs they saw when they were observing the castle outside, Sol and Gein were convinced.It has to be said that this castle was indeed chosen in a good place, the location was dangerous, and it was protected by natural dangers. Under normal circumstances, they would not be able to capture it with ten or twenty times as many people.

"How about it, are you willing to stay now?" Gein said at this time.

Sol completely gave up. Anyway, there is this secret passage, and I will use it to slip away when I am in danger. He comforted himself in this way, and finally nodded.

"But you have to promise me that if it really comes to the last moment, you must not be brave. If you want to use this secret path to leave with me, the only hope is to live." He said to Gein.

"Okay, I promise you." Gein nodded seriously.

After leaving the secret passage, the three of them began to discuss defense along the way.Within two days at the latest, the Lulin army would get news of the fall of the castle, and they had little time left.

Sol's garrison plus Gein's cavalry plus the prisoners of war in the castle, their number was just over a thousand.Fortunately, those prisoners of war were all soldiers who had received strict training before. After being fully armed with the countless weapons hoarded by the Lulin Army in the castle, they became trustworthy fighters.

At this time, Gein said: "1000 people is still too small. Maybe it can repel the enemy's first wave of attack, but it will definitely not be enough after a long time. We have to find a way to increase more soldiers."

Nori nodded in agreement: "I think so too. In fact, although the territory is occupied by the Lulin army, many people are dissatisfied with these invaders. As long as you and Lord Sol show the banner, you will definitely attract many resistance troops to join us .There are all kinds of supplies in the castle, even tens of thousands of people can afford it.”

Gein clapped his hands and said, "Yes, this is indeed a good idea."

Sol hesitated a bit: "Not too good, will this be too ostentatious?"

Gein said: "Swagger, can you still boast that we have occupied this castle? Anyway, it has become a thorn in the enemy's side, so let's make it bigger. Don't play your bandit banner, you boy, just do it!" Show our identity, and let the whole world see what kind of feat we have done."

Now that there is really no need to hide his head and tail, Sol nodded: "Okay, pull the flag!"

Gein patted him on the shoulder: "That's right. Leave it to me to arrange the defense, and you replace the flag on the top of the city as soon as possible. Hey, I can't wait to see that moment."

As he said that, he smiled meaningfully at Sol: "Look, we will soon become famous all over the world."

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When the northern army flag and the Lovell family crest flag with a four-leaf clover in its mouth were erected on the wall, the news that Sol and Gein captured Diviji Castle with a few hundred people quickly spread throughout Dinar.

Immediately, the world shook.

The sights of the two warring parties almost simultaneously turned to the castle located in the middle of the area occupied by the Lulin army, which clamped down on the entire southern avenue, and the two young men in the castle.

And the gossip about Lord Lovell, who is well-known and turned the entire southern avenue upside down, also spread like the wind.

For a moment, this place really became the focus of everyone's attention.

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Royal capital, Dusk.

"You mean, we have a force that has penetrated into the center of the southern occupied area?" King Robert of Dinar stood up from the throne in surprise.

"Yes, the news has been confirmed. At present, they have occupied the Diviji Castle at the junction of Lamo and Ferris, which has greatly restricted the logistics supply line of the Lulin Army." The official who reported said.

"Who are they, who are they?" Robert asked impatiently.

The official flipped through the documents in his hand: "One is Gein, the son of General Pintat, the head of the Northern Army. The other is Lord Earl Sol, the lord of Lowell Territory."

Hearing the official's report, the third prince Das standing behind Robert visibly shook his body.

"Saul? Is that Lord Lovell who once sent an envoy to the Orc Empire?" Robert asked.

"Yes." The officer nodded
"Hahaha, this is the real soldier, the model of the nobility, the order, I want to reward them heavily." Robert's excited voice echoed in the palace.

For the first time since the war began, the officials were so happy to see the king.

"Two good boys, well done."

At this time, no one noticed that the hands of the third prince Das were also trembling slightly due to excitement.

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The Kingdom of Bamuk, the headquarters of the Mage Guild, and the Mage Training Tower.

After a day of training, Walsa changed out of the sweat-soaked mage robe and walked out of the practice tower.

"Mr. Walsa, this is the latest battle report of the Kingdom of Dinar." A servant handed over a briefing.

Walsa took it and casually flipped through it, and suddenly, his eyes froze on one of the pages.

After reading it carefully for a moment, a smile spread across his face.

"These two guys, okay..."

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Bahrain Territory, Feli City Lord's Mansion.

"Master Cliff, the mastermind who captured Diviji Castle and the identity of the death group have been clarified. They are the same person, and they are our old opponents." Felino hurried into the study.

"Oh?" Cliff showed a surprised expression on his face, took a look at Felino's report, and then threw it back on the table heavily: "It really is him!"

"It's really unexpected. With just a few dozen people, he has made troubles in the entire south these days. This time he even captured Diviji Castle, which directly threatens the entire logistics line of the Imperial Army." Ferino It seemed that until now it was hard to believe that all of this was done by that humble little lord.

Cliff snorted: "The empire won't just sit idly by, because his few people will be wiped out sooner or later."

"I hope so." Felino nodded.

But there is still one thing he didn't say, that is, this Sol has done many things that are impossible in our opinion, so what miracle can he create this time?

After a pause, Felino tentatively asked, "My lord, shall we let Gru..."

Cliff waved his hand: "No need, that guy won't be successful, let the Imperial Army take care of him. Now Gru's task is to find the treasure of Kajirido as soon as possible, and he is the most suitable candidate."

"Yes, I understand." Felino bowed his head and agreed.

To meet this person again, is this really an arrangement of fate?
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Lowell Territory, the lord's official residence.

"Sister Jessica, sister Kafir, the young master is fine, the young master is fine!" Marlene ran in screaming.

"Marlene, what's going on? Talk slowly." Jessica and Kafir looked at her in surprise.

Marlene cried and laughed while hugging Jessica, and said vaguely: "It's the young master, he's in a fortress in the south, he's really fine, woo woo woo..."

"Is she talking about Saul?" Kafir gave Jessica a strange look.

Jessica also couldn't understand what Marlene was saying, and she was about to comfort her and speak clearly when Vince walked in, his old face full of excitement.

"The young master is safe and sound, and he has done something extraordinary." Vince said to the two women.

"It's really Saul! He, where is he now?" Kafir stood up suddenly.

"I don't know why, the young master is currently in Lamor and has captured an enemy fortress. Now the whole world is telling about his heroic deeds." Vince simply told the two women what he heard.

Finally he said: "Our people in Lovell seem to be all right, including your brother."

"Ah... ah..." Kafir opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.Suddenly, she covered her mouth with tears rolling down her face.

Jessica looked at Vince, who nodded and smiled at her.

Jessica's eyes were instantly red, her nose was sore, she turned her head away and wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes.

That's great, nasty guy, you know how worried I am these days...

(End of this chapter)