Chapter 444： North Gate

The battle is over.

The southern wall of the Rock Fortress was completely incapable of combating the bombardment of heavy magical artillery shells after losing the shield protection. It turns out that the magic crystal shells exerted a higher damage efficiency than the calibrator beam when confronted with solid rigid targets such as the city wall. - The Marylands had thought that the Rock Fortress still had dozens of minutes of resistance after the shield was extinguished, but it turned out that he miscalculated the different effects of the shell and the energy beam: the wall eventually lasted only sixteen minutes.

The heavy gates of the fortress have completely collapsed in the bombardment. Together with the hundreds of meters of barriers that extend along the gates, all the towers, prisms and external mage towers in this range are all gone. The outer city and the inner city in the south have different degrees of damage. The military camps and armouries that are concentrated between the first and second walls are evenly razed.

This is a degree of destruction that would never have occurred in a traditional aristocratic war: the Cecil army ended the battle almost entirely with the defensive facilities of the fortress, leaving no stalemate and no dead to the people in the Rock Fortress. There is room for circling.

After the end of the shelling, Cecil's first and second combat corps led by Philip Knight and the Ward Perric Knights began to advance to the fortress, and arrived in the evening in this fortress that had lost its fighting power, and most The German knight sighs that his army’s time to receive the battle and spend it on the road is more than the time it takes to destroy the fortress’s defensive forces.

After the first and second legions entered the meteorite fortress, they barely encountered resistance - in fact, there was no resistance at all. If they had to say it, a frightened squatting pony suddenly rushed out of the ruins. The only enemy of the right.

On the evening of the 58th anniversary of Ansu’s fire, on the evening of the 58th, the flag representing the royal family of Ansu floated from the flagpole in front of the Castle of the Rock Fortress. The signs of the Cecil family sword and plow fluttered above this special fortress.

Gao Wen’s boots stepped through the fortress stone road, which seemed to have room temperature and tremors. His sides were ruins and buildings still smoky, with horrified colors, smoked, stunned fortress soldiers standing on the road. On both sides, when Cecil’s flag passed by their eyes, these people squatted on the ground to show their surrender.

“All temporarily held in the dungeon below the castle. If the room is not enough, it will be closed in the solid buildings in the inner city,” Gao Wen whispered to the Philip Knight, who was next to him. “It is strictly forbidden to abuse prisoners and murder the wounded, send medical teams to Treat them to the wounds - these people will be part of Cecil."

Philippe bowed up and said: "Understand."

The disarmed, gray-faced singer of Maryland walked under Gao Wen’s body under the **** of several Cecil soldiers. He heard Gao Wen’s confession to Philip, and he could not help but look up and have a little in his eyes. Accident: "I didn't expect you to follow the aristocratic spirit..."

"Prohibition of abuse of prisoners has nothing to do with the so-called aristocratic spirit," Gao Wen glanced at the former commander. Although the other is a respectable knight, he is obviously a traditional aristocrat. "I am forbidden to abuse." Captives can include more than just knights and nobles.

The Maryland jazz opened his mouth, but eventually he said nothing, just lowered his head again.

Gao Wen looked at the other side of the Wald Periqi Knight, he nodded to the old knight: "You take people to check the inner city and the underworld of the castle, search the entire city, to prevent people from hiding In addition, you must cooperate with the Philip Knight to check the materials and houses in the city and report in time. Don't forget to emphasize the military discipline in this process: prohibiting the possession of spoils, prohibiting looting, theft, and false reporting."

Wald Peric took a knightly ceremony with a serious look: "Yes."

The old knight understands that letting the Second Corps lead the team to search the fortress city is not only a glory, but also a test. In this battle, the Second Corps finally became active as a formal army. But then whether these soldiers from the Kant region can become the long-term trust of the lord, they must withstand the military discipline after entering the city, at this point, the second corps converted from the original aristocratic private soldiers must face The test is no less than the first time they came to the battlefield.

Later, Gao Wen arrived at the castle area of ​​the Rock Fortress - the castle spans between the first and second walls. In fact, its main body is part of the second wall, which was once the most magnificent of the fortress. Tall buildings, but now... it has less than two-thirds of the structure left.

The top floor of the entire castle and all the attached tower buildings have been destroyed by the calibrator's beam.

Cecil’s flag has been hung on the flagpole in front of the castle by the first team in the city, and next to the flagpole, Gao Wen saw a lady wearing a light aristocratic dress and a slightly thin body.

Roppini? Gülen stood there quietly, next to the loyal middle-aged housekeeper, behind them, followed by the marquis from Gülen to Panshiling, then from Panshiling to the Rock Fortress, always A loyal and determined hundred guards.

On the other side, stood the high-level Ranger Solderlin and the dozens of steel ranger soldiers he led.

A shadow flashed quickly in the air, quickly slammed into the high body and condensed into amber figure. Miss Half Elf looked up proudly: "He told me, the flag is my help." of!"

Gao Wen patted Amber's shoulders at random (so it seemed inappropriate to touch the head on such a formal occasion), and then walked toward Roperie Gülen. After seeing the calm expression on the woman's face, he knew each other's Revenge has been completed.

"Your credit is irreplaceable, ma'am," Gao Wen said earnestly. "Patti will be happy for your safe return home."

He knows what the woman is most worried about.

After hearing Patty's name, Roppini's expression flashed a touch of softness, she showed a faint smile, and bent down on Gao Wen extremely solemnly: "Please allow me to pay tribute to you, this fortress is yours. - Please allow me to loyal to you again, the Glen family will always be loyal to Cecil."

"I accept your allegiance," Gao Wen nodded slightly. "But don't just be loyal to me or my family, be loyal to a great cause."

The Maryland jazz next to him saw this scene. His expression changed a few times. I don’t know what complicated emotions are in my heart, but in the end all his words have become a complicated long sigh: “Hey...”

He found that he couldn't even marry the woman as a traitor - Roppini's loyalty was unwavering, but she was loyal to Cecil...

"Jazz, don't be so busy sighing, although the Rock Fortress has fallen, but at least it falls in my hands, not in the hands of the Eastern Rebels someday," Gao Wen glanced at the Maryland sir. Said faintly, "Maybe you are full of regrets at the moment, but one day you will feel lucky."

The main hall and military hall in the upper part of the castle have been smashed by the collapsed ceiling, and other parts of the area have become precarious due to the collapse of the upper level. Therefore, Gao Wen directly took the man into the restaurant on the lower floor of the castle and regarded it as temporary. After the war, the command headquarters was taken to prepare further arrangements for the wartime control, reconstruction and follow-up management of the fortress.

It is only the first step of the work to lay down the meteorite fortress. How to re-arm and reinforce the fortress and turn it into the strong north gate of Cecil is even more important.

Of course, before carrying out these tasks, the Sir James and all the officers and prisoners captured after the break of the city were sent to the temporary prisoners of war camp, and they were held in separate detentions and heavily guarded – Gao Wen gave them A good living environment, but the security defense can not relax at all, although he does not think that the Maryland Jazz will make a move to escape, but he can not guarantee that the other side of the old man will have any extra action.

In his view, a knightly spirit like Maryland O'Neal, although not very popular in some aristocratic power circles, is very easy to cultivate extreme death loyalty, in which case It is necessary for all commander-level prisoners of war in the Rock Fortress to be held incommunicado and strictly guarded.

In the lobby of the temporary headquarters, Gao Wen looked around at the scene of the crowd - Philip and Byron two Cecil knights, Wald Peric and Margarita two Kant Knights, Sold Lin, the commander of the Steel Ranger, the female priest of Roppini, and the amber of the Guardian, this is everyone who attended this meeting.

"You, we have won, the Rock Fortress has become the northern gate of Cecil, but before we are immersed in the joy of victory, we must know that we still have a lot of work to do. Soderlin, first report what you have. Let's go."

"Yes," Solderlin stood up, and the high-level ranger's expression was serious. "The king will soon know the news of the collapse of the Rock Fortress." After the magical barrier of the city is extinguished, the commander in the city will immediately All the lion's messengers and homing pigeons were released, and a group of death squads were sent out of the city from the side gates of the north. We only had time to intercept some of them, and the remaining messengers had disappeared on the plains of the Holy Spirit. There was no first time to destroy the lion's nest. It is my fault."

"No, you have limited manpower. It is your mission to destroy the Master Tower. It is not the destruction of the Griffin Nest." Gao Wen interrupted the words of Solderin. "The situation is expected. Wang will definitely know the Rock Fortress." Falling - even if the defenders in the fortress failed to send the information out, Count Pompeii would soon notice the situation and immediately send a letter. There is still a lion's messenger on the count's territory, and even there may be magical communication."

Speaking of this, Gao Wendeng paused: "So, the first thing we have to do is to reinforce the wall in the northern part of the fortress and completely transform it - in fact, no matter how the king can not receive the news, how long does it receive the news? The first thing we have to do is this.

“The Rock Fortress was originally designed to defend the Cecil family in the south, so its northern walls are much weaker and lower than the South Wall – although the fall of the Rock Fortress illustrates the old fortress that relies solely on wall and magic shields to defend the attack. It has fallen behind this era, but they still have their existence. We must first thicken and heighten the wall on the north side of the fortress. For this reason, we can even slow down the repair of the south wall. Second, we will transform the northern wall. Cover the magic net and set the magic crystal railgun on the wall, and install the calibrator in the future. Finally, the fortress should be reconstructed as a whole. It will be built into a heavy industrial and military mixed fortress. The entire plain that stretches southward of the fortress will be included in the city of the fortress..."

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