Chapter 936 (1/2)

Compared with the experience in the capital, Golovin, the reception received by Loren and his party during the journey from the capital to eboden can be called ”courtesy”.

As long as you see the flying golden lion with black background and the flag of the iron crown (given to him by Conrad) held by the three dragons, almost all towns, manors, fortresses and even the Legion supply stations along the way will ”enthusiastically” open the warehouse and provide the most sufficient supplies with the fastest speed. All weapons, food and even wine will be promised at once;

They even offered to provide pack horses and caravans to carry the expanding logistics team, so that this team of less than 2000 people was followed by a logistics team of nearly 3000 people; Even the bain army, known for its abundant supplies, has never enjoyed such sufficient logistics - it's almost like traveling.

Even because the team was expanding and the supplies were getting more and more abundant, the merchants in the surrounding towns took the opportunity to keep up with the team, do business with the knights with their scraps, or exchange more and better drinks for the Knights' supplies.

The knights who knew they were going to fight a bad war no longer cared about their money. Some bought wine and meat and drank it when they camped at night, while others spent a lot of money to send a letter to send home the small souvenirs they bought in the imperial capital and West Saxony.

In this regard, Ike, the Earl of angry castle, chose the default, and Loren didn't want to block it. Even the demon hunters of the wings of the sky joined in.

The Byrne people have a tradition of drinking and feasting before dueling and going to the battlefield. This is also their last chance to celebrate.

For such a generous payment, all ”warm and kind” local lords unanimously put forward the same conditions.

Stay only one night and get out as soon as possible!

Loren and his party did not have any idea of staying. The most important thing at present is to arrive at eboden as soon as possible and organize the local army and citizens in the city to prepare for the battle.

When he was about to leave the border of West Saxony, an imperial Legion soldiers and a flag regiment of nearly 1000 people joined Laurent's team, claiming to have been ordered by Conrad I to ”escort” Duke Byrne to eboden and fight side by side with the Duke on behalf of the Emperor himself.

Well, basically, I told Loren directly that I was sent by Conrad to monitor you. By the way, I would brush the sense of existence for his Majesty in eboden, so that the residents there would not think they had been abandoned by the emperor.

Although it is basically really abandoned - even Lauren, who has the most confidence in this strategy, doesn't think he can really hold eboden. It's only a matter of time at most.

But Loren laughed.

If the other party is the army sent by Conrad, it must be the elite of duanjieshan fortress; These Legion soldiers can be said to be experts in guarding the city up and down the Empire, and they are the best marine legions.

It's not appropriate to say so, but if you step on the earth to form a square array against the enemy, or form a small square array on the city wall to scuffle with the enemy... Maybe a legion of 100 people can play a better effect than the same number of Bain knights.

Although they claimed to be ”escorts”, the Legion soldiers still kept a distance from the Byrne Knights' team, followed not far or near, and even remained independent when camping, never close to the Byrne Knights' tents.

With the wings of the sky, Lucian walked in front of the team as a sentry and spy to protect the queue, and kept asking about the current trend of eboden;

The Earl of Fort fury, who led the Byrne knights, escorted and protected the baggage team together with Loren, and constantly discussed how to deploy eboden.

For Loren's plan, the experienced Eckert disagreed very much - in his opinion, a free city with weak defense and a particularly large urban area, such as eboden, could not and should not be fully deployed from the beginning.

The ideal tactic should be to cooperate with the aboveground and underground transportation network extending in all directions of eboden, take several structurally solid buildings in the city as the support, put the enemy into the urban area to fight street battles, and divide and annihilate between narrow streets and buildings, so as to delay the fall time of the City as much as possible.

Even if the enemy has a million troops, the number of troops that can attack the city is extremely limited; Once dispersed throughout the city, no amount of troops can control all buildings and streets.

For the experienced Earl of Eckert, Loren has always relied on his opinion, and he is also right. If only to keep eboden, he should give up the large but weak wall of the outer defense and turn to a stronger building stronghold in the city.

But the problem is not this time.

The reason for sticking to eboden is not because the city is important - of course, she is important - but to keep the army of Azores off the imperial coastline as long as possible and ensure that their fleet can't dock.

To achieve this goal, the two walls near the sea must be garrisoned by troops; Even if you know there will be heavy casualties, you can't give up these two defense points.

The only thing to be thankful for is that there are plenty of troops this time; In addition to the 2000 knights and 1000 Legion soldiers who accompanied them, there were nearly 20000 mercenaries in eboden.

Although the mercenaries of eboden have always been known for ”asking for money is better than life” and ”breaking up to murder their employers”, this time they are allowed to stick to their own city. Moreover, in order to keep eboden from falling, it is impossible for the free nobles in the city not to give generously, so there is no need to worry about their morale.

However, as the party gradually approached eboden and looked at the empty commercial road and the path with birds and flowers, a bad feeling gradually spread in Loren's mind.

It's too quiet.

It shouldn't be so quiet.

The Sifang Avenue from west Saxony to eboden can be said to be the busiest commercial route in the north of the Empire, second only to the gem river route.

Moreover, compared with the Baoshi river route, which specially transports tributes and supplies luxury goods to the upper class in the imperial capital, the Sifang Avenue connecting the two places is the only way for ordinary business hawkers; Two wheeled carts and trolleys carrying bags and goods, carrying billowing smoke and dust, drove to the countryside of East Saxony, lottel and eboden... Countless.

Even though he has seen the magnificence of Golovin, the prosperity of red blood castle and the camp sea of thousand tent city... Loren still remembers the original prosperity of eboden.

But now, there are few pedestrians, and the flat and spacious Sifang Avenue is like a country road in some remote place.

It shouldn't be... Although Conrad has ordered an all-out war, it was only a week ago. Dukes and imperial messengers from all over the country should have just arrived to mobilize the troops in the territory and martial law the towns and roads in the principality.

How could it be that the news came out here and the trade route was empty?

While Loren was still confused, the cavalry team in front suddenly slowed down and the whole team stopped.

Lucian, riding a pony, ran back from the front of the line with a complex expression.

”What's the matter?” the black haired wizard with eyebrows asked uneasily.

”There is a team ahead, coming this way from the direction of eboden.” the grey pupil paused and said with an unspeakable expression:

”There are so many people that the road is blocked.”