"The sentry tower was attacked?" Aledo asked nervously: "Is it from the war group? Which war group?"

"No one saw the attacker. The patrol only discovered that the guard tower was attacked when they were changing shifts. All the soldiers and sentries inside were killed, but the three conspirators who were stationed there that night were not found in the bodies...

"The herald paused, then took out something wrapped in a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to the table in front of Aledo and said: "Nearly all the corpses at the scene were killed by this kind of projectile.

At the same time, we also found these on site..."

"Bullets?!" Aledo muttered subconsciously after seeing a bunch of fragments in the handkerchief. Then he picked up one of the golden shells and held it in his hand and observed: "Are there many such things at the scene?

"

"Yes." The herald replied nervously: "Captain Torre went to the scene after the incident and ordered people to seal off the sentry tower and began to clean and collect these things... and the captain has also gathered His Highness's personal guards in front.

To strengthen the defense of the outpost, at the same time, the conspirators have also spread out their spies and are trying to trace the whereabouts of the attackers..."

After listening to the other party's answer, Aledo sat back down with the golden shell. The "Captain Torre" mentioned by the herald was the commander of Aledo's personal guard. In other words,

His confidant, so letting him handle this matter can indeed make Aledo feel reassured. After all, in Aledo's eyes, this matter is not a simple enemy attack. Since such "advanced" can be seen at the scene

"The bullet casings indicate that the enemy is not from Adrian's side. At least Aledo does not think that this group of people can easily obey the orders of a mere count.

There is no doubt that these golden bullet casings should be brass, and this type of bullet casings can only be produced by industrial civilization societies of the previous life. And no matter how advanced the alchemy technology of the Principality of Michael is, it is estimated that they

It is impossible to produce this type of weapon. This fact can be seen from the appearance of the giant trebuchets on the front line. Obviously, there are better technical results, but they will always stop at primitive lever weapons, but from the perspective of

From the perspective of thinking and thinking, it can be seen that the alchemists on the opposite side are still a group of conservative old antiques.

The true origin of these bullet casings is actually easy to guess. The bloody handkerchief brought back by the conspirators last time actually gave the answer, but this time Aledo saw the real thing for the first time.

The Chosen Ones, that group of goddesses who claim to be the messengers of a certain god, are here. They officially enter the battlefield and openly become enemies with themselves. This makes Aledo feel extremely angry and jealous.

.

He was angry that this group of people were openly against him, and at the same time he was very afraid of the advanced weapons in their hands. Originally, when he learned that the other party had firearms from the earth, he did have the idea of ​​​​taking them for his own.

That's why Aledo sent conspirators to the south of the principality to investigate. The result was that not only did they not get the weapons, but they instead forged a grudge against the other party. But at that time, Aledo didn't care and even despised the other party.

However, after Morana went to the south, suddenly the Shadow Brotherhood that she had worked closely with in the past was no longer so obedient. For this reason, Aledo had to re-use the conspirators who had been neglected for a long time.

It was obvious that Morana had experienced something in the south, so she suddenly changed her tone and refused to be hostile to that group of people, even disobeying her own orders to avoid a head-on conflict with them. Although later due to the war, Aledo I won't have time to pay attention to these things for a while, but looking at it now, even if I don't go looking for trouble from them, they will take the initiative to cause trouble for me.

But let’s not talk about the ridiculous religious background behind them, but the position they chose in the battlefield made Aledo feel a little surprised. He originally heard that the spies from Mariaburg The news came back that this group of people had not met with Adrian, and they had not reached any cooperation on the surface, so this made Aledo's hostility towards them lessened a lot. Because Aledo felt that they were involved. They must have some purpose and benefit in coming to this war. Maybe they have made a missionary agreement with Michael's side, otherwise Aledo really doesn't think they have any reason to come here. Wading in muddy water.

If you think about it calmly now, the time of this sudden attack is really a bit unclear. That sentry tower is located in a relatively sensitive area of ​​​​the battle line. It is precisely because of this strong tower that Aledo's The frontline scouts can monitor and alert the enemy's tactical changes as they move south to bypass the front line. This is a real strategic target. If Adrian is not stupid, he will definitely try his best to take it away, and because of this, Alai Duocaihui stationed an infantry battalion alone near the guard tower.

This is not a different infantry battalion, but an elite guard infantry battalion directly under the jurisdiction of Aledo. Although the number is only 500, in terms of combat strength alone, it can definitely withstand the charge of about a hundred people from the opposite battle group. .If those people directly destroyed the sentry tower in order to cause maximum losses to their own side, then the best choice would be to directly attack the military camp on the southern line after destroying the sentry tower and cooperate with Michael's battle group. , at the very least, we should try to take the opportunity to attack the infantry battalion camp at night. Not to mention completely eating up the battalion's troops, we must at least cause heavy damage to achieve a certain goal. After all, simply kill the sentries in the sentry tower and then retreat. This is really puzzling. In addition, the bombing on the front line is becoming more and more frequent at this moment. It feels like a prelude to some big action on the opposite side, so any disturbance will make Aledo pay special attention.

"From the time the sentry tower was attacked to now... no trace of the enemy has been found yet?" Aledo unconsciously tapped the table with the bullet casing between his fingers while staring at the sand table on the table and continued to ask: "After the sentry tower was attacked There were no losses at the Guards Camp?"

"Yes, Your Excellency General." The herald who came from the Guards Battalion replied with his head held high: "Before I set out to report, Captain Torre had already asked the outstanding scouts in the camp to disperse for nearly 10 years. There is still no sign of any troops within a kilometer range."

After hearing this, Aledo still didn't say anything. Instead, he continued to play with the bullet casings in his hands in silence and stared at the sand table on the table and kept muttering: "This is strange... Could it be that they didn't talk to Adri?" An cooperated instead of acting alone? Why did he only attack a guard tower and then retreat?"

Aledo carefully recalled the information reported by the herald just now. After thinking about it, it seemed that the most intuitive explanation was the three conspirators who were neither alive nor dead.

The purpose of their attack on the guard tower last night was to kidnap three members of the conspirators? This does seem to make sense, but what is the purpose? Could it be that they have enmity with the conspirators?

Aledo had another headache when he thought about the conspirators. Earlier, Aledo felt that this ancient organization was not so obedient, so he ignored it intentionally or unintentionally. Then Morana's shadow brother

It is indeed a more suitable alternative.

It's just that Aledo doesn't know what happened to Morana. The only letter she sent back some time ago stated clearly that Aledo should quickly eliminate some of the conspirators and keep a distance from the conspirators, although her

The excuses seemed to be based on the fact that the conspirators had gone too far in the central region of the principality, which had caused many strong neutral forces to tilt the balance, but Aledo always felt that Morana did not mention it.

point, or she did not explain the situation completely at all, so even though Aledo was new to Morana, he did not adopt this suggestion.

After all, the war situation is urgent, and Aledo's men lack key manpower. Although the conspirators organization is already aging, their intelligence accumulation and information sources in the past nearly a hundred years are not something that the new Brotherhood of Shadows can look upon. Coupled with the power of magic,

Aledo has not found a replacement so far, so the conjurer among the conspirators can be regarded as their trump card. Based on this, even if Aledo neglects the conspirators, he will not suddenly

The interruption of the relationship with them.

Regarding this point, Aledo did not want to respond too strongly to Morana, so Aledo has not replied to Morana so far. But even so, Aledo still paid attention to some of the conspirators' personnel movements. After all,

Aledo is not willing to let the kind of disaster in the central part of the principality happen to him, even in the Duke of Nosk, so Aledo has openly increased his cooperation with the conspirators during this period, but

Privately, he mobilized a group of shadow assassins loyal to him to secretly monitor the conspirators.

But the conspirators organization has a history of nearly a hundred years, so its contemporary members have more than 10,000, if not 100,000. The number of members who followed him into the Principality of Michael this time is almost more than 1,000. Although there are thousands

There don't seem to be many people, but the number of assassins in Aledo's hands still cannot be fully monitored. In addition, these assassins have also suffered considerable losses in the battles in the past two days, so the only thing Aledo can do is

Only a subset of the Assassins were assigned to secretly monitor the most dangerous group of conspirators.

Morana's letter stated that the conspirators had recently recruited some new members, and these people were probably the cult organization that had wreaked havoc in a city in the principality before the war began. At the same time, Morana also pointed out that this cult organization was very powerful.

The powerful monsters in the central region were all created by members of this cult, so their destructive power far exceeded the original plan of the noble rebels, and the prosperous central region of the principality almost returned to the barbaric era of decades ago.

These new members of the conspirators have naturally become Aledo's primary surveillance target, and during this period of time, the assassins have also investigated some clues. For example, this group of people is indeed very strange and has some mysterious behavior.

It seems, but their joining did give the conspirators organization some powerful power assistance. The most intuitive manifestation is that after the war started, the strength of the conspirators' spellcasters unknowingly increased by a whole level.

Especially in the previous siege, the strength of the spell shields used by the conspirators and spellcasters mixed in the phalanx was simply beyond imagination. It is no exaggeration to say that Aledo even used a 64-pound heavy cannon.

Even if you try to bombard their shields, you may not be able to break them, and this is inconsistent with the strength that the conspirators showed when they joined their ranks.

Aledo doesn’t think that the conspirators’ organization deliberately showed weakness to him in that show of power a few years ago, but it is also quite unrealistic that it suddenly became stronger in just a few years. After all, although Aledo is not

He understands magical concepts such as magic spells, but he has also worked hard to learn related knowledge in the past. The power of this kind of magic is not the same thing as exercising muscles, so taking the most common magic as an example, a human

Magical power has an innate limit, and the amount of magic that can be mastered in a lifetime also has a very strict limit. After all, the human brain can only accommodate a certain amount of knowledge. If there is more, the brain will explode. Although it is completely different from magic.

Different basic concepts, but the performance of spells in terms of restrictions is not much different from that of magic. In other words, spells are actually more stringent than magic in terms of limiting the limits of the human body. After all, the fields involved in spells do not only indicate the use of magic power.

That's all.

Aledo, the magician in the phalanx, had seen their spell performances a few years ago. At that time, their spell shields could not directly cover a phalanx of about a hundred people.

Those top magicians who can cover their whole bodies with spells are very impressive. How can a dozen magicians like now be able to open such a huge magic barrier and block the enemy for a long time?

Long-range attacks, even in the current mutual bombing of positional battles, those magicians are all lined up near the heavy fort to guard the 64-pound heavy cannon.

If you think about it carefully now, there have indeed been quite a few changes within the conspirators organization recently. Those old monsters who had to kowtow to themselves in order to survive in the past have not shown up for several days, even if they asked the lower-level personnel about their whereabouts.

Their whereabouts cannot be told. This kind of suppression seems to be a bit out of control. Have they recently mastered some special power and begun to plan not to put all the chips on themselves?

Aledo is not a conspiracy theorist, but he definitely likes to do certain things without leaving any consequences. The conspirators organization is like a vicious dog that obeys his orders. If suddenly one day he discovers this

If a vicious dog is fed by someone else and no longer obeys his words, Aledo will definitely plan to beat the vicious dog to death instead of letting it go.

Of course, the metaphor is just a metaphor. After all, Aledo cannot directly abandon the conspirators at this moment, but if we talk about beating, now is not the right time. In addition, the conspirators can be said to be centipedes that can die without being stiff.

Even if we want to eliminate them, it will take a lot of time and experience. All in all, the conspirators' recent performances have made Aledo alert, but due to the needs of the war, Aledo can't do anything to them, so

This matter simply made Alido a little crazy.

"Well... I finally understand what Morana means now..." Aledo flicked away the bullet casing that he had been playing with for a long time with his fingers, a little irritably.

Following a crisp sound, the shell casing rolled all the way and fell into a pit in the sand table with a clanking noise, and that was the bombing area where the two armies were fighting the most intensely at the moment.

Aledo once again shifted his attention from the attack on the sentry tower to the battlefield at this moment. After all, although the things there were very suspicious, they had been effectively controlled after all, and with the garrison of the Guards Battalion, even if

Even though he was attacked by the enemy, he was able to hold on until the reinforcements arrived. On the other hand, Aledo was bombarded more and more fiercely at this moment, but he was very worried about what the other party was trying to cover. After all, the other party couldn't just bomb for so long just to listen to a story.

sound, so we will definitely use this bombing to do something on the anxious front.

Previously, Aledo had always suspected that he was detouring from the south to attack his side, but after the attack on the guard tower, he could basically rule out this possibility, because at this moment, he had already diverted his attention to that side, so he made a sneak attack.

It is unlikely to happen, unless Adrian plans to launch a large-scale storm, once again sacrifice the elite warriors of a battle group, and attack directly here to destroy the command system before his reinforcements are transferred to the south. The cost is too high and very dangerous.

Unwise, Aledo thought for a moment before shaking his head and moving his gaze back to the center of the battle line. He listened to the increasingly dense explosions outside and began to think silently again.

"If not the south, then where could it be?" Aledo looked up at his lieutenants and asked, "Is Ulf back? Is there any new news from the Musketeers?"

The adjutants looked at each other, and after confirming that no one had received the message, they collectively shook their heads. Aledo then gave a few more instructions to the intelligence officer who had sent the message, and then let him leave.

Then he sat on a chair and stared at the sand table on the table and muttered: "The artillery that wants to bypass the front line is only in the north and south directions. Since it is not the south... is it possible that you want to attack from the northern mountains?"

Aledo looked at the mountains in the northern part of the sand table and shook his head. He thought that the terrain of this mountain range in the middle of the plain was unusually steep and desolate. Even the surrendered officers of Camon said that this terrain was impossible to march on, so Aledo

Only then did Ledo dare to spread out his position in this position and fight fiercely with Michael's army.
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