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Solly Dahl walked across the broken castle gate with satisfaction and walked into the Castle of Coldwind Town.
Win the Cold Wind Ridge in three days? Aside from the time spent on the road for two days, it only took him half a quarter of an hour to break through the city wall of the town. Of course, whether the mud fence that was only one person high was considered a city wall or not. There were also very few guards standing guard. After being cut down by the trial army, they dispersed in a hurry, and there was hardly any formal resistance.
This is the town guarding the frontier
The same is true of the Kingdom of Greycastle.
The only thing that displeased him was that when the church army was still halfway up the mountain, the beacon tower under his feet started to smoke thick, as if he had expected them to attack the town.
Although it was only a matter of time before the other territories in the north saw the alarm, this lack of awe still made him a little angry that the team of the Holy City was regarded as an enemy in advance, indicating that they had long ago meant blasphemy. He has sent a small team of judges to the beacon tower, ready to capture these people for questioning, and then send them to the gallows.
"Please come this way, my lord," the knight who led the way trembled. When the long sword was placed on the necks of this group of people, the knights did not show the righteousness to protect the lord without fear of sacrifice, but immediately knelt down and surrendered, and declared their willingness to serve the church.
This is the ugliness of the unbeliever, cowardly, helpless, and nothing compared to the judgement warrior who fights for the gods.
After beheading several guards along the way, the Judgment Army broke into the lord's study and blocked any windows that could escape, although Soli felt that the other party did not have the courage to jump out of the window to escape. He slowly stepped into the room and looked at the pale lord of Cold Wind Ridge slumped slightly on the chair.
"Good afternoon, Lord Kevan Marton."
"You, how dare you trespass into Cold Wind Ridge... The Holy City is in trouble, do you want to openly become an enemy of Graycastle?"
He's done, Solly thought, and fear completely robs him of his will. Decades of defending against evil beasts on the Hermes line of defense, the archbishop has honed a unique ability to savor fear. Some people can turn fear into a desire to survive, while others can only be engulfed by fear. The former is a necessary quality for the judgement warrior to be promoted to the God's Punishment Army, while the latter will be eliminated by the endless bloody expedition.
Kevan is clearly the latter.
"That's right, didn't you already know this?"
"What? No! I don't understand what you mean by that"
"It's too late to regret now, my lord," Sully interrupted, "purchasing food at a high price, forbidding merchants to go to the Holy City, don't tell me you did this just on a whim... The King of Greycastle wants to turn Coldwind Ridge into a Attacking the outpost of the Holy City, we can't blame us for launching a counterattack in advance."
"You're accusing you for no reason!" Kevan shook his head again and again, "I didn't do these things at all, and the king never sent messengers to Cold Wind Ridge, let alone attack Hermes!"
"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it, the Pope naturally has a way to find out the information he wants from your head, but it won't do you any good when you get to that point, so you better explain everything you know now. Better."
"I-I really didn't do this, you can't wrong me!" His plump body shrank back again, "I am the lord of Cold Wind Ridge, the earl of the Kingdom of Greycastle! Your actions have violated Xie Yue. Covenant!"
"Enough, you brought it on yourself."
Solly Dahl waved his hand in disgust, and the judgement warrior immediately dragged him out of the study.
After the archbishop sat down on the lord's seat, he vaguely felt that something was wrong. The lord has already been destroyed by fear, why is he still biting and not letting go? Could it be that he would rather be escorted to the Holy City for interrogation than to tray out the king's plan for Roland Wimbledon
At this moment, a presiding judge walked into the room, "Sir Bishop, Pessos has blocked the granary, it's just..."
"Just what?"
"There is not much food in it at all. It is estimated that there is only enough food for the townspeople for a month or two, and it is impossible to support a large army."
"Are you sure?" Thorley frowned suddenly.
"Pissos turned over the granary and asked the keeper. They said that there has not been a large amount of grain coming in recently, and the wheat stacked in the warehouse is still the stock of the previous year." .
"What happened to the news of high-priced grain purchases in that town?" He thought for a moment, "Go and ask those merchants about the situation."
"Yes." The other party nodded in response, "In addition, we searched all the garrison camps in the west of the city, and most of them were empty rooms. According to the surrendered knight, since the frontier army was wiped out in Hermes, It has not been able to be effectively supplemented.”
In other words, Cold Wind Ridge is not ready for war at all? This is also far from the information provided by Zero. The gully between the archbishop's eyebrows deepened. After a long silence, he ordered, "There must be church believers in this town. Gather them and ask in detail about the changes in Cold Wind Ridge in the past two months. And those who volunteered to join The people of the church and the local mice also questioned, and I want to find out what the hell is going on right away!"
The presiding judge clenched his fists on his chest, "I'll do it now."
Sorley leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath. Attacking Graycastle was a plan that had already been decided. The process and capture were not important, but he didn't like this unexpected feeling at all.
Where did I go wrong
On the second day, the presiding judge handed the collected information to the archbishop's table.
Suo Li turned to the first page and quickly scanned everyone's confessions, "It is two local businessmen who wantonly buy food, and the hoarding of wheat is as much as a thousand ha?"
"That's what the merchants said," the presiding judge said solemnly, "I immediately searched the houses of these two people after learning about this. There was indeed a lot of grain in it, but that was just the total amount of food that was piled up in the basement for individuals. It's only twenty. And there's no one in the house, so he should have escaped shortly after the fire was lit."
"You mean... colluding?" The bishop quickly understood what the other party meant.
"Yes, my lord, only by colluding with foreign traders to pretend to buy and sell, pouring from the left hand to the right hand, and then smuggling from the right hand back to the left hand, can such an illusion be created."
"Where did those traders come from?"
"The various towns in the Northland, Yougu Town, Evernight City, Hengfeng Castle... The high-priced acquisition started a month ago, and not many people cared about it at first, and it didn't attract the attention of businessmen until the number became larger and larger. . We've locked up all the traders in the town, but we haven't found the guys delivering the food."
If the two sides really colluded, then the chance of catching them is very slim. It's just... what is the purpose of the other party doing this? Just to attract the attention of the Holy City and let His Majesty the Pope launch an invasion as soon as possible
Sorley flipped to the back of the report, puzzled, and another piece of news came into his eyes.
"The patrol member in charge of the beacon tower... is dead?"