The night is getting darker, and the silver moon hangs high.
The battle at Windhowl Castle had long since ended, and the Tusk Mercenary Group, who wanted money but didn't want their lives, ended up neither getting money nor dying.
After quietly converting several undead troll warriors into blood slaves, Colin climbed to the top of the watchtower.
In the howling cold wind, Charles was leaning on the fence and looking to the north.
"What are you looking at?" Colin stepped forward and stood side by side with Charles.
"Viscount Angelet." Charles bowed slightly to Colin, then smiled, "I'm looking at the Troll King's City."
"Call me Ke Lin." Colin smiled and waved his hand, "But, can you see the Troll King City from here?"
"Haha, of course I can't see it. However, this year, I have been here looking north almost every day. Even if I can't see the Troll King City, I can still feel its existence." Charles clenched his fists, eyes as if Jumping with raging fire.
"Then have you ever been to the Troll King City?"
"I've been there. I sneaked in with a caravan before, but this time, we're going to get in!"
Colin smiled: "I hope that Troll King City is as easy to capture as this Castle of Windhowl."
"It shouldn't be too difficult. After all, the army of trolls has already gone south. Even if it is the city of the troll king, it is estimated that there will not be an elite regular army stationed there."
Colin turned his head to look at Charles' side face, and suddenly frowned, "But, Charles, don't you think our journey is a bit too smooth?"
Charles was a little stunned: "Too smooth? Colin, what are you worried about?"
"You said, could this be a trap for the troll?"
"Trap?" Charles said with a smile, "Colin, aren't you worrying too much? The last hundred thousand trolls gathered by the trolls have already gone south. The emptiness inside is inevitable. How could it be a trap?"
Colin reached out and grabbed a handful of snow from the fence and squeezed it into two snowballs, one big and one small.
"Charles, tell me, what would happen if the army of the trolls heading south was a mob and the last batch of elite troops were placed in the city of the troll king?"
"No... no way..." Charles said in a daze, looking at the snow ball that kept changing positions in Colin's hands.
"Do you know?" Colin smiled playfully, "Not long ago, I played a similar trick in Silvermoon City, and those stupid people from the east were played around by me."
"Really?" Charles also laughed, "I heard that you defeated the Pegasus Legion in Silvermoon City, but I don't know exactly how you did it?"
"It's very simple. First, I made the people in the east think that the black cavalry was hiding outside the city, but when the people in the east sent out their elites to search for the black cavalry outside the city, they only found a group of half-elf recruits, and the real black cavalry The cavalry came out of Silvermoon City!" Ke Lin switched the positions of the big and small snowballs in his hand, "It's as simple as that."
Charles suddenly realized the color, and said with admiration: "It is indeed a brilliant strategy!"
Colin stared into Charles' eyes as if to pick out something in them.
"Charles, tell me, do the trolls want to play similar tricks on us now?"
"Is...impossible?" Charles looked surprised, "How did the troll know that we would take the opportunity to attack the troll king's city?"
"Then what if..." Colin's eyes had already brought a trace of scrutiny, "Someone informs?"
"Informant?" The panic on Charles's face did not seem fake at all, "Colin, did you find something? Could it be that our whereabouts were really exposed?"
"No, I guess."
"Huh - I was shocked." Charles patted his chest and let out a long breath.
Afterwards, he said in a heart-to-heart tone: "Colin, in fact, your worries are not impossible. How about this, when we arrive at the Troll King City, we will launch a tentative attack first. If the resistance in the city is too tenacious, Then it’s not too late for us to withdraw our troops.”
"It makes sense." Colin threw out two balls of snowballs, and it was only a moment later that there were two popping sounds as they hit the ground.
He patted the remaining snow on his hands, and said with a smile: "I just took a tour of Windhowl Castle. I have to say that this military castle is really well built. If Knight Brad hadn't been on the wall this time, We have done tricks, and the defenders in the city are those stupid mercenary regiments, so if we want to capture this place, I am afraid we will have to pay a big price."
Charles puffed up his chest, and said in a proud tone: "Colin, to tell you the truth, in fact, this is what I asked Knight Brad to do in the first place, just to capture this military castle more smoothly."
Colin ignored Charles' request for credit, and continued: "So, if such a strong military fortress is reoccupied by the army of trolls going south after we leave, hehe, then tell me, will we have nowhere to retreat? gone?"
Charles was stunned, as if he was really frightened by Colin's thought, he came back to his senses after a while, shook his head and said, "Colin, don't you think that your worries are a little wild, the troll army has already gone to the north Why did you suddenly turn around?"
Colin didn't answer this question, but said with a smile: "Charles, you know, I hate two kinds of people the most."
"Which two?" Charles asked in bewilderment.
"Those who deceive me, and those whom I cannot deceive."
Charles was speechless. It was the first time he had seen a guy who took the "double standard" for granted.
Colin looked at Charles with a smile, and said: "If I were a troll, I would deliberately pretend to be going south in a big way to trick Ice Rock City into dispatching the most elite cavalry to attack the troll king city.
But in fact, the army going south was just a group of temporary recruits or simply a rabble composed of militias and mercenary regiments. The last elite army of the troll empire was deployed in the troll king's city.
When the northern cavalry encountered a bloody battle in the Troll King City and wanted to retreat, they found that Windhowl Castle had been reoccupied by the returning southward army.
In this way, hey, does it count as closing the door and beating the dog? "
Charles blinked, nodded first, then shook his head and said, "Colin, your analysis does make sense, but it's impossible for the trolls to sneak attack on the troll king's city before we send troops, right?"
"Yes." Colin leaned against the fence, staring into Charles' eyes, "Unless, from the very beginning, this is a round, a trap trying to strangle the Black Cavalry! And you are responsible for leading the Black Cavalry into the trap people!"
"What? Colin? How can you think that way?" Charles was shocked and aggrieved, and then he put on a look of righteous indignation:
"Colin, don't forget, what kind of blood feud is there between me and the trolls? Every day, I think about capturing the troll king's city and burning it into ruins! How can I help them instead?"
Colin watched Charles' performance with a smile, as if he had returned to the dinner party in Ice Rock City a year ago. At that time, the actor almost fooled the nobles in the entire northern border.
"Do you know when you were exposed?"
(end of this chapter)