It was drizzling when they returned to the garrison.
The 10,000 or so people who had arrived from Fico did not live in the city of Fermil, of course, but were stationed outside on the flat land and set up camp.
There was not enough space inside the city and it took a little time to clear out.
There were a few groups patrolling around the camp, surrounded by dark trees where the light from the torches did not reach too far.
There weren't too many people, as there was a night market in Fermil, and probably most of them had gone to relax and rest in Fermil.
The patrols saw Joseph walking past and told him to stop at a distance, and then let him pass when they got closer and found it was Joseph - because of Dragan's relationship, along with Joseph is also famous in the army.
The people in the same team with Joseph also greeted him when they saw him return.
"Captain Jose!"
"Captain!"
....
Joseph also answered one by one, together with him, a total of five people are here.
Joseph looked at their faces, looking dark in the light, Deburr, Dino, Tiha, Trojan, these four people are his squad members.
"Take it and eat it!"
Joseph will bring the roast meat to share with them, which he bought on the way back.
This is destined to be a war in which many people will die, and everyone will have to go to war.
This light rain with a breeze, how also feel the wind is about to fill the building.
.......
The city master's residence.
Everyone's face is gloomy.
"The Kaiser people have taken over Karta."
This is what everyone expected, with such war attitude of Kaiser people, it is really hard to hold Kartar with only a thousand garrison.
"But this is already five days old ...
from Kartar to Fermil, if we move fast, I'm afraid that at most the day after ...
Kaiser people will arrive."
Between Kaiser and Han River, there is almost only one Kartar to call an obstacle - because it occupies a dangerous location to build a city, surrounded by difficult to cross mountains, once the Kartar is broken, it is a flat road all the way, along the way, although there are also small cities, but the Kaiser people can completely bypass, straight to Fermil.
And if Fermil is broken, then Han River can also be said to be completely lost, and a large number of people must be plundered.
"General Hatton, how many men have you brought?" Ned, the lord of the city of Fermil, asked in a deep voice, he was also a Spiritual, but looked quite old, perhaps seventy years old.
"Eighteen thousand, but most of them are inexperienced in battle, so I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to undertake combat missions." Hatton replied.
This army from Figo was not meant to resist the Kaiser people, and asking them to fight would be a death sentence for anyone who knew.
"It is enough to send armaments to assist in defending the city." Ned nodded, he was naturally clear about this, "We still have a garrison of more than six thousand people in Fermil, all of them are sergeants trained for many days, with the help of the city walls, and your nearly 20,000 people to assist in the defense, defending until the Fico army arrives should not be a problem."
"But just afraid of an accident ...
such as the Kaiser people set fire to us, or there is some epidemic, we are easy to break without attack."
"No need to worry." The one who spoke was Onofre Mehia, the city lord's staff, who looked quite young in his thirties and said with a confident face, "Since the battle of Leno a thousand years ago, which of us Odin's cities dare not clean up the dead grass for miles around?"
"Besides it just so happens that the season is still south windy, and they just set fire to themselves likewise."
"The same goes for the epidemic, not to mention that we patrol day and night, strictly check the people entering Fermil, if they really want to use inferior means to create an epidemic for Fermil, then they can not benefit, they started the war, is not it want the population of Fermil?"
Onofrei's analysis, the crowd also found it very reasonable and nodded their heads.
"That's right."
This is a war that is destined to end in Fermil's victory, Onofre thought to himself, everything is under his control.
"If Jace were alive and leading an army to war I could square a few points, but Alexander is worthy to invade Odin?"
Onofrei had quite a disdain in his heart for the rumored good-for-nothing King Kaiser.
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....
The day after the arrival of the troops from Figo.
"Up ahead is Fermil!"
Alexander Hull narrowed his eyes and waved his hand, telling the troops to stop marching.
The army is known as the order of the day, the moment Alexander waved his hand, all sounds in the army stopped, and all that could be heard were insects from not far away.
If Onofrei really knew the newly crowned king Alexander Hel, he would never think that he was a guy who was bragged about, but his military skills were the best of all the kings of the Kaiser Kingdom.
He led more than 50,000 troops, all of whom were the best in 100 battles.
Before attacking Odin, he had already recruited his own troops before he ascended the throne, and attacked the Amon kingdom in a big way, first to train his troops, and second to plunder a large number of slaves for Kaiser.
Unlike the Odin Kingdom, the Kaiser Kingdom, which had become a slave kingdom, all the plundered population were slaves, and the descendants of the slaves' children were also slaves.
"Did you find out clearly?"
After about half an hour, the squad sent out by Alexander first to scout had returned.
"Your Majesty, the city is inaccessible, but there are many tents outside the city, at least fifteen thousand people, and according to the information from the previous scouting, the city army stationed in Fermil, should be around six thousand people."
Alexander nodded slightly and asked again, "These ten thousand people, should be the temporary army from Fico, I know that old guy Quinn too well, he definitely does not want Han River to fall."
"What is the news about the Fico army?"
"As you instructed, a general was bribed and he promised to delay the march as much as possible, we have at least twenty days."
"That's perfectly enough."
Alexander said faintly, "The people we deliberately put back probably arrived in Fermil yesterday, they will think we will not reach Fermil until at least tomorrow."
Alexander suddenly turned his head and smiled, "If we were a weak army like Odin's, of course we wouldn't arrive until tomorrow."
Alexander was not being presumptuous, in fact he was.
Odin hadn't had a major war in many years, and the soldiers' fighting strength had long since worn out.
"The troops are divided into three teams, one team to surround the troops coming from Figo, one team to go around to the east city to create the illusion that we are attacking the city from the east, surround but not fight, one team to ambush in front of the west city waiting for them to open the gates, the camp garrison of the west city will surely flee into the west city, at this time, directly attack the city, this team will be led by me personally!"
Alexander's war strategy was formulated in just a few minutes.
And the troops under his command were likewise divided into teams in a very short time, obviously not the first time they were divided into three teams.
"Tonight, night attack."
....
Joseph had a vague uneasiness that he sensed might be coming from the Kaiser.
But even with his heart pounding, he was still reluctant to use his guide.
This was the first war he had ever been truly involved in, and Joseph took a deep breath and looked at the sky, it was nearly dusk.