Uneasiness and depression spread in the army. Valed von Castein's strategy was as clear as ever, brilliant as ever. He stood above the city pass at the Black Fire Pass, looked down, and looked at the camp of the Principality of Ive. Every day, he could find that the camp had undergone a new change.

Bad, sad, bad changes.

As Vared expected, after a failed siege, the morale of the enemy further declined. Especially after the Duke Constantine lost command ability, Ivey's army had lost the courage to attack.

The most important thing is that there are not enough siege weapons - the reason why enough timber cannot be cut down and enough timber has been mentioned before.

Once, generals tried to concentrate artillery to bombard the pass of the Black Fire Pass. However, this pass, constructed according to the standard fortress of the Empire, focused on the issue of defensive artillery during design.

Therefore, the entire guard is in the style of a bastion, with a chest wall, a military cave, and an authentic net for the anti-rift wall. There is also a large triangular fort connected to the outside of the basin. There is a sloped embankment under the wall, and a thick layer of clay is also laid on the outside of the solid brick and stone wall. The soil layer is soft and the more elastic soil layer absorbs the power of the shells and prevents the jump from the large-scale damage to one's own side.

Such a complete defense network may not have much effect even if it is dispatched to bombard a large number of artillery. In addition, the magic defense devices owned by the undead army and the large number of captured artillery soldiers, the soldiers who operate the artillery are free mercenaries led by the border prince. The temporary artillery formation formed by the undead is not inferior to the human side in long-range firepower. In this way, the only advantage of mankind, gunpowder weapons, is also lost.

"You can't attack, you can't retreat, you can't advance, you can't retreat. Then there is no other way except surrender or annihilation of the entire army." Valed sighed like this. Every day, every day - Valed could see a large number of dead bodies that were frozen and starved out of the military camp.

At the beginning, the soldiers would at least dig a pit for their dead comrades, and at least roll a piece of cloth for them. But later, the situation became even worse. Hunger and cold made heavy physical labor very difficult. Sometimes people could not hold on to the ground while digging the pit. Those who went to bury people became the targets of burial.

"Life is really a fragile thing."

At the level, Vared had a very good vision and finally expressed such emotion.

The situation of deserters has become even worse. At night, the phenomenon of escape in groups of three or three has now become the entire company and the collective escape of the entire team. The direction of escape has become very interesting - those free soldiers who have seen vampires in the border prince or Silvania, who have seen vampires in groups, mercenaries swaying in groups, martyrs went to the Black Fire Pass to request surrender.

The trend is hopeless. Well, it is indeed the trend is hopeless.

On December 29th, Duke Constantine finally survived and struggled to open his eyes. The first thing he heard was his adjutant with a sad face: "Duke, we are defeated..."

"Are you defeated...?"

Duke Constantine's face was bitter and his voice was erratic. This was repeated again: "I was defeated..."

This time I used a positive sentence.

"If it is defeated... then surrender. The other party has not launched an attack for so many days. It seems that they are not in a hurry... Since they are not in a hurry, they do not want to send troops to the Duchy of Ivy for the time being, and do not want a full-scale war with the empire... If so, negotiate... let them make a way to let us, the group of betrayal dogs, return to their country... They... no, it is 'he', and 'he' will probably be willing."

After understanding the current situation, Duke Constantine paused for a moment and made such an analysis. Although he had never seen Valed, he had not even heard of it before. Therefore, when referring to the other party, the Duke could only refer to it with the third-person pronoun "he".

But if you listen carefully, you can hear the unforgettable hatred and heartbroken unwillingness from the word "he". Although Duke Constantine and Valed had never met each other, in his heart, the Duke has listed "he" as his lifelong enemy.

At this time, the 100,000 troops of the Principality of Ive had collapsed and more than one-third of them were killed. The rest of the situation was not very good. The soldiers complained, angry, and desperate. At the same time, they launched a rebellion, trying to cut off Duke Constantine.

Although this mutiny was eventually suppressed by the Knights and elite guards loyal to Constantine, the seeds of uneasiness were planted at the same time. This happened again, and no one could tell what the result was.

In the afternoon of that day, the envoy sent by Constantine to the Black Fire Pass under the white flag. At first, the Star Officer thought that this was another ordinary defector. However, looking at his armor, you can see that he was also a Flame Sun Knight - a noble knight who actually surrendered to the undead troops? The Star Officer thought it was quite new.

"And other than that, they will not have any good endings in defecting. Ordinary people may be captured. But we will kill knights as soon as possible. After all, that is the raw material for the precious black knight."

However, soon, when the messenger shouted loudly to explain his purpose, the curiosity and confusion of the vampire's star official turned into surprise.

"Negotiation?! You have already ended your limits, what qualifications do you have to negotiate with us?!"

At that time, the vampire star official loudly mocked the knight under the city gate, which made the usually arrogant knight blush and almost couldn't help but draw out his sword - he took a break, because he came here as a messenger, so he didn't carry any weapons.

"You can't make decisions about this kind of thing?! Let's go and inform and let those who can make decisions!"

Afterwards, the Yanyang Knight also raised his head and said loudly to the vampire star official.

"Hmph..." Although he was not convinced, the vampire star official was indeed unable to make the decision as he said.

So he activated the communication crystal and simply reported what happened here to Vared, who was planning the next move in the barracks:

"The leader, here is a man who claims to be the messenger of Duke Ive, who claims to want to come and negotiate. Please instruct."

After this victory, these newly joined vampire officers were also willing to call Vared the "leader" with the members of the Brotherhood.
Chapter completed!