After a fierce battle for most of the day, Aledo finally broke through the encirclement in the rear relatively smoothly and withdrew the remaining army into the tightly defended eastern fortress of the Salanka Pass. Caroline, Daniel and Gia and the others

The team was not completely defeated. The reason was that they were unable to intercept an army composed of tens of thousands of people head-on. Moreover, when they suddenly encountered Aledo's army, their first reaction was to find ways to intercept Aledo.

There were many people, but because the opponent was really defensive, they had to choose to retreat first and wait for reinforcements from the rear after making a certain sacrifice.

However, when Aledo withdrew into the fortress, they still silently set up camp 3 kilometers away from the fortress. Such an obvious camp location was obviously intentional, but their luck was very good, because they inadvertently

The place chosen to camp was just outside the range of Aledo's artillery, so after firing a few test shots, Aledo ordered his artillery to stop attacking and let the opponent set up camp there.

After dusk, Aledo estimated that the Principality's pursuers still appeared in large numbers around the fortress, so Aledo felt a little puzzled. Because according to common sense, he was in a state of defeat, so Adrian chose to take advantage of the victory and pursue them.

With the right choice, even if you only pursue but not fight, you can have some negative impacts on your side. In the end, the two sides can face off for a while in front of the fortress before they can engage in peace talks. As for the one who suddenly appeared on the battlefield

Monster? Information about that thing. Aledo had already learned the entire battle situation from the mouths of the magicians who Boral ordered to retreat before he died. Of course, this part was only analyzed from Boral's perspective.

thing, but Aledo still paid more attention to the information about the woman named Erica, because Morana appeared with her, and this person was the person Morana proposed to assassinate before.

Aledo actively ignored matters related to the monster itself. After all, the inside information was somewhat sensitive and too dangerous. However, Aledo planned to follow Boral's last wishes and try to use some reasons to cleanse the conspirators organization, or simply

Destroy the conspirators and then use the resources Boral left to him to reorganize an intelligence organization that is truly under his control.

However, these can only be implemented after returning to Nosk. At the moment, Aledo feels that the most priority issue to be solved is the morale of the army. In any case, he led the army withdrew to Sasha in embarrassment.

Naturally, the military morale of his men was greatly affected by the Lanka Pass. Even some signs of dissatisfaction appeared among Aledo's soldiers. Therefore, Aledo felt that this matter was imminent. Otherwise, even if he led the army

If we go back to fight the civil war, we probably won't be able to show much of our strength.

Aledo simply summoned the officers of each army for a short meeting and then went to inspect the army camps. After all, his plan to improve morale was nothing more than to meet the material or spiritual needs of the soldiers, but

There is no use worrying about these things. At the moment, Aledo can only go to express condolences to the soldiers and then enlighten some individuals.

It was already night by the time Aledo came out of the military camp. At this time, Aledoo, who had a dry mouth and even a stinging throat, dragged his tired body back to the private room on the top of the fortress to rest. As for the security of the fortress.

Although Aledo was a little dissatisfied with the work, he could only entrust it to the soldiers under Brighton's command, and Brighton took all the Nosk noble cavalry back to Nosk on the other side of the mountain in advance before nightfall.

After all, it is within a visible distance of the fortress on the west side of the Salanka Pass. Aledo may even feel that Brighton has returned to the Duke's residence in Luce to enjoy a delicious dinner.

Already.

Aledo looked at the hot soup and a piece of barbecue placed on the table and really had no appetite to enjoy them. The double fatigue of his mind and body made him feel very lazy and sleepy, but Aledo still relied on perseverance.

After finishing some official documents, I plunged into the very comfortable single bed with thick mattress in the room.

"Ah... It is indeed a product of Michael... It is indeed much more comfortable than Nosk's animal skin bed..." Aledo turned over slightly and lay on the soft bed, and quickly fell asleep. However,

He deliberately went to bed empty-handed and still wearing clothes so that he could wake up in the middle of the night because he was not comfortable enough. After all, there are still many messes that Aledo needs to deal with, so he could have a good night's sleep.

He can only wait until he returns to consider it again, or Aledo also vaguely feels that he may also be tormented by the civil war that will end in unknown time before he can have a good sleep.

Just as Aledo quickly fell asleep, the interior of the entire fortress also gradually became quiet. The entire army, from the generals to the soldiers, were all exhausted in various senses and fell asleep early, except for the necessary fortress defenders and

Apart from the military patrols, there was no one else in the entire fortress who could still stand and move. Even some of the people who had originally planned to drink all night fell to the ground and fell asleep holding their empty wine glasses.

The guards of the fortress are naturally those left behind by Brighton, and the army patrols are the auxiliary soldiers newly established by Aledo instead of the original army guards. These people are formed from the remaining personnel of Carmon Fortress.

After all, they are now homeless and have no other choice but to completely surrender to Aledo. Although Aledo incorporated them, he did not let them form an army alone, because Aledo’s army included

There is no need for pure cold weapons in the traditional sense, so based on some considerations, he can only temporarily recruit them as auxiliary soldiers and wait for them to return to the base camp before giving them new training.

Robert, the former Camon Wolverine centurion, has now become a member of the patrol. However, since Camon Wolverine is a strong regiment soldier after all, they have all become sergeants.

, and Robert himself was made an exception and was temporarily granted the rank of second lieutenant. However, although they were temporarily incorporated into Aledo's new military system, Aledo did not award them with medals or military uniforms, except for the title change.

In addition, the remaining members of the entire Camon Fortress are still in tatters and embarrassment.

This is also a very helpless thing, because when the news of the massacre of the Camon Fortress reached the military camp, the morale and mental state of the entire Camon Fortress dropped to the extreme in an instant. If Robert hadn't been quick and quick,

If a few frightened members are quickly dealt with, it is estimated that the entire Camon Fortress company will directly blow up the camp. This statement is not an exaggeration at all, because although the number of people coming out of Camon Fortress is less than a thousand, most of them are

The individual hand-to-hand combat effectiveness is better than that of Aledo's soldiers, so if it causes chaos, it will definitely cause some very difficult troubles for Aledo. In addition, he was preparing for a decisive battle at that time. If something goes wrong at that time, then

The entire Camon Fortress members will be ruthlessly dealt with by Prince Aledo. Naturally, Robert did not intend to face such an ending, so he ruthlessly dealt with the completely collapsed compatriots and then used the most violent means to destroy the Camon Fortress.

The company regained a certain degree of calmness and finally got to where it is now.

Although Robert was very envious of the beautiful uniforms worn by the new army officers, he also knew that Aledo's army was still not out of danger. After all, as far as he knew, the Michael family was very vindictive.

Because Aledo invaded their territory and caused a lot of damage, they would be in trouble if they couldn't find any way to get it back. That's why Robert took the initiative to sign up for the card tonight when choosing the night watch soldiers.

The people from the Fortress of Monte became patrols. After all, compared to this kind of thing, Robert would definitely dare to pat his chest and promise Aledo that he would be stronger than his new army, because the hundred-man team of Cammon Wolverines was originally the most powerful.

A team that is good at fighting in the mountains at night, and even ordinary Camon soldiers are better at night activities than Aledo's new army soldiers, so letting them serve as night patrol soldiers naturally feels safer than others.

Robert took a few soldiers to inspect the outer walls of the fortress and then returned to the interior. Since the structure of the fortress was built based on the Salanka Tunnel, many of the space facilities in the fortress were hollowed out inside the mountain.

For this reason, most of the space in the entire fortress is inside. Apart from a city wall and simple houses, there is nothing to patrol the outside. And the most important point is that the original east and west fortress structures were all owned by Michael alone.

It was built, so the fortress with real defensive effect is the fortress on the west side, and the fortress on the east side is just a symbolic wall, which means that if the enemy really wants to attack the city, it will not cost

It takes too much effort to penetrate the inside of the city wall.

Another point is that there are no other defensive measures outside the fortress except the city wall. Even the most basic sentry tower does not exist. Therefore, before nightfall, Robert quickly asked his subordinates to erect a temporary mast.

It was used as a sentry tower on the city wall, so Robert stayed outside for a while. The purpose was to personally climb the mast to observe what was going on in the wild.

It was already midnight when Robert led a few soldiers to inspect the internal barracks. As an officer, he did not have to be on duty all night, so he walked around the outer city wall again before returning to the fortress alone.

Rest in an independent room allocated to the high-rise barracks specially designated for officers. Although this so-called independent room is only a small bedroom with an area of ​​only a few square meters, this kind of right that is different from the lower-level soldiers still makes Robert

He felt a little satisfied, and another thing that made him very satisfied was that although Aledo did not award him a medal or military uniform, he first gave Robert a short-handled flintlock gun inlaid with gold as an officer's reward. Although this

Planting things is the standard ration for every officer, so there is nothing special about it, but an inexplicable sense of identification still made Robert think that the significance of this flintlock gun is very important, so even if he doesn't like firearms very much,

But after returning to the room, he still couldn't put it down and started playing with it.

But just when he was satisfied and had just taken off his armor and was about to go to bed, there was a slight knock on the door. Since the knock on the door sounded very ordinary, Robert relaxed his vigilance and wore light clothes.

He put on his personal clothes and went to open the door, and he was still imagining whether the person outside the door was a colleague, or a certain noble from Brighton. After all, he was also the previous Duke of Norsk, so Luo

Bell decided that he should be unusual in the eyes of the Norsk nobles.

But when Robert opened the door with a smile he had secretly trained for a long time, he was surprised to find that the knocker on the door turned out to be a beautiful lady.

The other party's beautiful smile instantly attracted Robert's attention, but at this moment Robert did not feel any excitement. Instead, he was so frightened that he almost lost control because the beauty's outfit was so unfamiliar, and she was holding a hand

Something strange was facing me, who was defenseless because I opened the door.

Unprepared, Roberge could only watch helplessly as the gadget in the other person's hand made a "pop-" sound, and then two metal strips with thin wires pierced him directly.

On his chest, there was finally a strange crackling sound of electricity, and Robert could only be paralyzed by the extremely powerful electric shock to the point where he could not move or even make a sound.

In this quiet corridor at night, the sound of Robert falling to the ground and the subtle crackling sounds did not attract the attention of the night watchman in the next room or farther away, so Robert could only watch the woman using strange words.

The prop shocked himself and walked into his room with a smile.

After all, Robert was a sweaty man who had received training as a warrior of the war group. This electric shock would not shock him directly, but the constant current still successfully paralyzed his whole body and even every hair.

Even Robert felt that his breathing was about to stop. But even so, Robert still did not faint, but the lady gradually stopped smiling and put on a puzzled expression. After a while, Robert

After the meeting, the stimulation of the electric current seemed to become smaller. Before Robert could try to fight back, the lady took out a strange prop from her fancy clothes and pointed it at him again.

It was still the familiar sound and the metal bar that was rapidly poking into the flesh, but this time it was not poked on my body but on my head, and then I felt a painful stimulation as if something was stirring my brain.

Next, Robert quickly lost consciousness in a convulsion.

"Tsk... The skin is so thick... I even had to be shocked twice..." Erica quickly put away her two stun guns and muttered: "Fortunately, I prepared an extra one in advance... otherwise it would have been...

It’s funny.”

Then Erica looked at Robert who was lying on the ground and still twitching intermittently. Finally, she picked up the oil lamp on the nearby table and took out a small piece of paper with a sketch of the head for comparison.

"Oh, it seems it's him. I was indeed right." Erica quickly tied up Robert with a rope, then quietly carried him to an unoccupied window and quickly lost him.

After going out, there was no sound of heavy objects falling to the ground outside the window, and Erica didn't bother to check, so she directly checked the map again and left the corridor.

After an unknown amount of time, Aledo, who was sleeping, gradually opened his eyes. However, he was not awakened by the reason he expected, but by a choking smoke.

Aledo does not have the habit of smoking, and only a few of his generals have this problem, and those people still have no right to enter their private rooms, so when they smell this pungent

After hearing the smell, Aledo woke up very alert.

The lights in the room had long been extinguished, so in the pitch darkness, Aledo quickly discovered a fiery red light spot behind the table that was dimming and lighting up, coupled with the familiar sound of burning tobacco.

As well as traces of clothing around the light, Aledo concluded that there was a stranger in his room.

Although Aledo quietly tried to pick up the rifle hanging by the bed in order to preemptively strike, but just as he reached out his hand, the oil lamps and candles in the room were suddenly all lit up at the same time. Even the brightness of these light sources themselves

It wasn't high, but the visual stimulation caused by all of a sudden being lit up still made Aledo instantly feel the pain coming from his eyeballs. But just when he tried to cover his eyes to avoid the light, Aledo did take advantage of it.

With blurred vision, he saw three figures appearing in his room.

"Is the "Soundproof" magic turned on?" said a frivolous female voice.

"No problem, even if you throw a grenade here now, no one outside the door will hear you." Another elegant-sounding female voice replied.

"Please solve it quickly. I'm almost exhausted. Staying up late is the natural enemy of beauty..." Another soft voice complained.

"This sentence comes out of your mouth without any sense of conviction..."

Aledo tried his best to calm down, and then he heard the woman with a frivolous voice stand up and walk near him.

"Do you feel better? Your Highness, the Second Prince Solis...or can I call you...His Royal Highness Wilsk?"

"...Who are you?" Aledo almost moved his body to the edge of the bed behind him, but since the bed was against the wall, he had nowhere to retreat and could only hold the wall up and try to open it, which was still a bit irritating.
To be continued...