A major advantage of building a fortress in Dense Fog Town and setting off artillery is that it scared the Buche family's tax police team back. After all, Baron Bishop suffered a big loss here six months ago, and the family's direct line didn't want to die by himself.
So the cordon became a joke.
After being stuck in Dense Fog Town for more than half a month, the merchants had long been unable to restrain it.
When Powell entered the town of Dense Fog, many caravans rushed into the boundaries of Banshee Fort. Among them, a carriage full of explosives mixed in and headed south.
There was news of the invasion by the northern army along with it. Friedman Bucher received a message from the front-line wizard on the night when the cannon was set in Dense Fog-it was said that Victor Hugo's army had launched the attack.
For the first time in his life, Patriarch Buche was awakened by a rapid knock on the door outside his bedroom in the middle of the night. When the maidservant opened the door, she found not only the housekeeper who looked flustered, but also the man’s guard captain, the city defense commander and many high-ranking nobles.
Friedman failed to complete any ritualization steps. Wearing his pajamas, he got up from the big bed and asked in surprise, "What happened?"
"Your Excellency, we have just received a message of magic from Shitan Town. The monsters of the Black Forest have come from the north." The butler stood at the door, tears in his eyes, "The message said that the direction of Dense Mist Town used powerful magic."
war
The others at the door looked solemn. Friedman put on his clothes and hurried to the Wizard's Tower. Only there was convenient communication.
The moment he left the house, Friedman asked inexplicably: "Hugo is coming to hit us? Why is he coming to hit us? It doesn't make sense. He should interrupt Bridge City."
No one can answer this question. The dignitaries did not get more information from the front line of Shitan Town in the north until they arrived at the Wizard Tower and used the prophecy arcane magic.
It was the tax officers who were carrying out the blockade task to retreat. The initial reason was that they heard continuous loud noises in the direction of Dense Fog Town. As a result, the first blockade was withdrawn, driving all tax inspectors to flee madly, all the way back to Shitan Town.
Then...? Gone.
The front-line tax officer was too panicked and asked the wizards stationed in Shitan Town to send more than a dozen warning messages in a row, all of which were nonsense calling for help. They yelled at the enemy without even seeing the enemy's hair.
But Friedman didn't dare to be careless, and quickly ordered the Shitan Town organization personnel to go back and investigate it. At the same time, Banshee Fort also sent a team of family knights to investigate, to make sure that Dense Mist Town was doing it with his own eyes.
The order was given, but news of the coming of war spread throughout the city.
As if sparks lit up at night, the whole city blew into flames.
When the nobles, large and small, heard the news in their sleep, they all screamed and hurriedly cleaned up. They ran out at night to inquire around, wanting to know more.
On weekdays, everyone talks about what will happen in case of a war with the north. A strong counterattack is the mainstream, and the defenders will be criticized for being too weak. But no one thought that waiting for things to come, the first thing everyone thought of was to run for their lives.
In just half an hour, the streets of the city were jammed with horse-drawn carriages trying to escape. Some are going to the east, some are going to the west, everyone is anxiously angry, and often fights if they don't agree with each other.
The enemy didn't see it, but his own internal fighting resulted in a lot of casualties.
The sudden chaos frightened all the exiles in the Oss Principality. Enisa got up at night, and heard the news that the army from the north had attacked and had hit Shitan Town, fifty kilometers north of the city.
The princess' first thought was,'When did Victor become so strong? ', leading an army to force an assault without warning, this difficulty is not trivial.
But after another thought, if others can't do it, it doesn't mean that Victor can't do it. That kid has always been good at creating miracles. If he really fights over, he will definitely fail to achieve his goal.
"Talak, take a flight and go to Shitan Town to see what happened?" Enisa asked her Viscount to call out.
The haughty Viscount Tarak obeyed the order, took off the statue on his chest, released the two-footed flying dragon, and fluttered away on it. It was indeed fast in the sky. Before the sun rose, more accurate information was brought back.
First of all, there was no army going south, but a kobold engineering team that could set off artillery.
"Kobold?"
Friedman was sitting in the large parliamentary room, surrounded by all the elite soldiers and strong generals under him, along with envoys from the Northland, just to discuss the possible war.
The result...
"A group of kobolds frightened my tax officer and fled for tens of hundreds of miles?"
It's too hard to accept.
The city lord slammed his fist on the long oval table where everyone was sitting around, scaring the fat man across from the long table and paralyzed-Talak went to Shitan Town, and he rode a two-footed dragon to bring the tax official back.
There were more than 20 people in the hall, all of them awake all night by the message sent back last night. Hearing that kobolds are playing a ghost, everyone feels ridiculous.
When will human beings run away scared by kobolds
Friedman felt ashamed. He stared at the fat tax officer who was already peeing on the opposite side and waved his hand viciously, "Drag this incompetent guy out for me and chop it down."
The tax officer yelled heartbreakingly at this moment, "Your Excellency, please forgive me. Those kobolds will set cannons. Who could have expected that there are kobolds who can set cannons? Have you ever seen it before? Really can. Big gun!"
The tax officer repeatedly yelled the word "fire shot", but he couldn't save his life.
After the hapless guy was dragged out, Friedman continued to ask angrily, "Princess Inisa, we only know Victor Hugo best here. What is your judgment on the current situation?"
Inisa, on the left side of the long table, was forced to come to the meeting, and the first question fell on her. She frowned slightly and said, "Victor has always been unruly. I am not surprised that he has kobolds under him.
Kobolds are timid, weak, and low-powered, so they are not worth mentioning in battle. But as far as I know, kobolds have a talent for some reason. They are good at digging underground tunnels and have an excellent grasp of engineering.
According to the frontline report, the kobolds appeared in Dense Fog Town in the form of an engineering team. Everyone, think about it, maybe you can better deal with it. "
There is no need to remind Enisa, everyone at the table knows what the engineering team is doing next? Although Friedman was annoyed, he could only wait for further news to make a decision.
Within three days, a steady stream of new news came, confirming one thing—the kobolds did indeed want to build a fortress in Dense Fog, and they also mastered powerful magic items that could start construction in the winter.
"Victor Hugo really made the kobolds build fortresses?" Friedman immediately realized how threatening a border fortress was to him, "Huh, he repaired it, and I also repaired it. He repaired one, and I repaired two."