Roland learned that a large group was approaching the next morning, and Lightning's routine patrol spotted the slow-moving group.

"What, more than a thousand people?" he was stunned, didn't he say a good group of fifty messengers?

"Uh-huh," added Maisie, "but there aren't many on horseback, only six!"

"The man who walked...... What about their clothes and weapons?"

"Ordinary, most of them don't have any armor, just ordinary linen clothes," said Lightning, "and there are all kinds of weapons, but a few hundred of them have short spears on their backs." ”

Roland wondered that there was no special training for the militia in this era, and to put it bluntly, it was a logistics team responsible for carrying grain, grass and baggage for the knights' troops, and sometimes it could be used as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's arrows.

If Tifeko wanted to settle himself by force, it would be impossible not to learn about the battle that broke out between the fortress of Changge and the border town. None of the more than 200 knights of Duke Lane's coalition army could touch the edge of the town, let alone this group of militiamen who ran on their legs. Knowing that the course and outcome of the battle were still going to march to the town, it can only be said that they were sure to break through the dense line of guns.

Roland couldn't help but think of the church's pills.

He had previously speculated whether the church, while supporting himself and Garcia, would also support Tifeco. If all of these people had pills, it would be completely different.

It can make a human run close to a horse in a short period of time, while not fearing pain, which means that the line of guns will face the onslaught of more than a thousand "knights", and if only one person rushes into the ranks, it will cause casualties to the First Army.

Fortunately, the First Army is no longer the army it was more than two months ago.

Although the revolver rifles have only been reloaded with about 100 units, the density of fire delivery has far exceeded that of flintlock units, especially after equipping the shooters with special loaders, the enemy who enters the range of 300 meters will encounter continuous attacks. After the fortress battle, the artillery team was also expanded, from the original four groups to the current twenty groups, each group is equipped with a 12-pounder field gun modification, the double diameter, so that the effective firing range has been increased to more than 1,000 meters.

But Roland had another question in mind.

"Have you noticed that the people on foot are wearing the Punishment Stone?"

"I don't dare get too close," Lightning pointed at Maisie, "this guy turns into an eagle and can see it much better than I can." ”

The latter shook his head and said, "I didn't see it, maybe it was hidden in my clothes!"

"In that case...... Roland thought to himself, "fly with the nightingale again." You can fly along the Chishui River, Maisie is in charge of guarding ahead, and if you encounter a passing ship, you can move from the nightingale to a state of fog. He looked at the nightingale, "After approaching the enemy, you should observe from a distance whether the large army is carrying the Divine Punishment Stone, and do not attack without permission." ”

"Yes. Nightingale and lightning said in unison.

Just as the three of them were about to leave, Roland stopped them, "Remember, safety comes first, protect yourself." ”

"No problem," Nightingale winked and smiled.

After the witches left, he was faintly uneasy, and the last sentence was too much like a flag?

And he also realized the major mistake in his work, that is, his control of the intelligence of the Changge Fortress was too weak—if it wasn't for the messengers sent by Perro, he would probably encounter a situation that the enemy would only find out when he reached the door. Once it gets bogged down in street fighting, it will be difficult for the First Army, which has lost its superiority in firepower, to recover the situation.

He was still too young and too simple, Roland thought, this link must be made up after the war, and not only intelligence, but also his own people should be placed around Peiluo.

The prince sat restlessly at the table, not in the mood for lunch, until Lightning flew into the room like an elf with the nightingale on his back, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

Maisie flapped her wings and landed on the nightingale's shoulder, and said in a loud voice, "No goo, no goo!"

"No Divine Punishment Stone?"

"Most of them weren't," Nightingale took off her hood and her blonde hair spilled out, "I observed from the front of the line all the way to the end, and there were only three or four black hollows in the militia, except for the ten men who led the group. ”

"Very well," Roland immediately formed a preliminary battle plan in his mind, "are you all hungry, go to the restaurant first, and tell the chef what you want to eat." ”

"Honey roast goo!" Maisie said with her wings outstretched, raising her head.

Outside the east end of the town.

Vanna glanced at the busy stonemasons and workers on both sides of the avenue, "What the hell are they building?"

Hundreds of men dug several large pits in the ground, and then built brick walls around the pits, which he thought would be connected at both ends to block the road, but he did not expect to be built around the pits.

"Whatever, all I know is that there's another enemy to beat," Yuzu said excitedly as he secured the gun mount in place.

That's true, Vanna thought. Since the last defeat of the Duke's coalition, His Royal Highness the Prince has personally awarded each member of the artillery crew a bronze insignia...... No, it's a medal. The front of the medal has a high wall symbolizing the fortress of Changge, and the back is engraved with the year name and battle record, and it is so beautifully made that the group of musketeers is envious.

And in addition to this honor, everyone has risen one level, and now Vanna is the captain of the artillery team, in charge of ten artillery groups. The Rodney brothers, Cat's Paw, and Grapefruit Peel, were promoted to team leaders, and three of them were transferred to the newly formed group to teach the recruits how to operate the artillery.

Most excitingly, His Royal Highness the Prince fulfilled his promise, and Vanna was given a piece of land on the east side of the town, at the foot of the Desperate Mountain Range, and although it was still only a forest, a stone monument had been erected on the ground, symbolizing that the right to use the land belonged to him.

So when they learned that an enemy wanted to invade the town, the First Army immediately boiled, and everyone was gearing up, hoping to make a difference in this battle.

When dusk fell, Vanna, who had finished the day's drills, wiped the sweat from his forehead and rested on the gun carriage. He spent the whole afternoon checking between the various artillery crews to see if the recruits were following the rules and regulations to fire the guns, and his voice was almost smoking.

"Let's take a sip of water," Yuzu Peel handed over a skin bag.

"Thank you," Vanna unscrewed the lid and drank it down.

"I think I know what they're going to build," the former said, smirking, cocking the corners of his mouth.

"Really?" he said, returning the skin to the other man. By this time, the brick wall had been built to half a man's height, and the pit was roughly enclosed in a hexagonal shape. However, each wall is thirty or forty centimeters above the ground, leaving a narrow horizontal slit, a bit like a window, but it seems a little narrower. "It's not going to be a house. ”

"It's not wrong to say it's a house, I just went to ask a stonemason," Yuzupi nodded, "and he told me that this is something that His Royal Highness came up with, and as long as the musket team hides in this half-buried house and fires, there will be no worries." However, it has a unique name, which His Highness calls the bunker. (To be continued.) )