Chapter 35 Conspiracy

After Fei'er left, Ashu Rufat turned to look at the darkness behind him.

"Leo, what are you doing here?" he asked softly. Ordinary people may not be able to see Leo hiding in the dark, but Ashu Rufate has dark vision.

"You discovered it. Asu Ruffat, you are really alert. No wonder you don't even need guards." Leo walked out and came to Asu Ruffat. "But about Miss Fier, let's stop here."

Asu Ruffat looked at Leo without saying anything.

"Our Miss Feier is not an ordinary prophet. I only realized today that she is actually the candidate of the Saint!" Leo shrugged. "In fairy tales, some prophets have indeed married a brave knight. But the Saint is another matter. The Saint is the favorite of the God of Nature and cannot be combined with ordinary people."

"What did you say? Fei'er can't fall in love with me." Ash Rufate replied. "She is just a little interested in me. I just...respond to her..."

"There is no reason to fall in love with someone." Leo replied. "Ashurufate, I am becoming more and more sure of something."

"What's the matter?"

"Although you are an earl, it will be difficult for you to marry a wife without me as a matchmaker for you." Leo walked past Ashurufate and patted him on the back with great force.

"When we finish the battle, the first thing I do is to find a good wife for myself, and the second thing I do is to introduce you to the most suitable one. We can let Thomas be the wedding host, and there will definitely be many people envy you."

A few days later, a small team appeared on the foggy grassland. This was a very small team, with only five or six people. All of them were riding war horses, and the person leading the team even sat on a strange saddle. The saddle was strangely shaped and the length of the left and right stirrups was inconsistent, which was obviously specially made for people with disabilities in their legs and feet.

The traces of the battlefield are still very clear. Although the corpse has been basically cleaned up, there are still many fragments of weapons and armor on the battlefield, as well as some untied minced limbs and flesh. All of this clearly proves what has happened here.

The bodies of the fallen men were separated. The bodies of the Paro people were buried in several large pits, and a stone tablet was placed next to them, recording the great martial arts of the coalition commander Thomas, who defeated the enemy here. As for the soldiers of Casilos and Saint Gene, they were carefully buried, and each tombstone was engraved with the names and origins of the fallen men.

In this situation, as long as you are not a fool, you can know who will win and who will lose in this battle.

The small team stopped by a large pit that buried the body of the Paro people. The leader turned over and dismounted. With the sunlight, he could see Ruk's thin and pale face. Riding on the horse was obviously an extremely laborious task for Ruk. After he dismounted, he gasped violently for a long time.

"So, our Earl Ashu Rufat really rushed to Wolfkou Castle?" Ruke pushed his glasses and asked his subordinates while reading the stone tablet showing off his martial arts.

"Yes, I guess I've already walked halfway now. But as long as they don't force the army, we can definitely catch up with the army before they arrive at Langkou Castle. We are much faster." said a subordinate.

"What are you still forcing to march now?" Ruke murmured in a low voice. Indeed, there is no point in it. Since last winter, Thomas' army has wiped out nearly 100,000 Paro people in succession, and made the Paro army stationed in the Casillos border castle a turtle of Mengzhong. Not to mention that they have killed two Paro generals on the battlefield in succession.

The Paro people now have no army to reinforce the Wolfkou Castle. Ashu Rufate can go slowly and come to a siege battle without worries. Of course, as far as the situation is concerned, Ashu Rufate must be the kind of ambitious and eager to win. He will not use the long-term siege strategy to capture the castle.

There was not much time left. In two or three months, the Paro people on the border between Casillos and San Gien would be out of fighting due to the cut off of food and grass. They had no way out except for surrendering to the Saint Gene army under the city.

There is no need to even be such trouble. Now the news of Thomas' victory has spread everywhere, and everyone in Casillos' territory knows it. Perhaps the Paro people have begun to prepare to surrender. Anyway, St. Gene's main force will pass through the border without any loss, sweeping all the way, and finally join the coalition forces led by Thomas under the Castle of Wolfkou.

If that happens, then Ryan's position will become extremely dangerous. If he stops the St. Gene's army, he will have to be enemies with Princess Irina, and the troops at his hands will never be able to defeat the St. Gene's army, and he is doomed to fail. If he does not stop, then his weak nature will be seen through, and the Duke's status will be dangerous at that time, let alone marrying the princess.

The ideal situation is to be able to take over the army under the command of Ashu Rufate. If Ryan can get this army, then he will not only greatly increase his strength, but more importantly, he will have a stable rear that can place a bid with Princess Irina and negotiate.

That guy Ashu Rufate must be allowed to disappear.

Ruk didn't stay in this battlefield for a long time. He inspected the battlefield a little and analyzed the situation in his mind. Then he hurriedly embarked on a journey.

His subordinate said nothing wrong. At dusk the next day, he had already caught up with the army. Two groups of horse-riding entourages in charge of reconnaissance came up, but Ruk had the identity certificate jointly issued by Princess Irina and Thomas, proving that he was the clerk of the army, so he did not encounter any unnecessary trouble.

It was dark, and the coalition's camp was not far ahead. Judging from the size of the camp, aside from the logistics forces, the coalition's troops were about 30,000 to 40,000. This was consistent with Ruk's previous estimate.

"Sir, aren't you going in yet?" The subordinate next to him asked in a low voice. Only then did Ruk realize that he had been waiting here for too long. He tried his best to keep his face calm, and when he realized that his feet were trembling violently, he pressed it down.

No, he shouldn't be afraid. Except for Ashu Rufate, Leo and William Daly, no one in the entire army knew about betrayal! Moreover, William Daly was killed, and there were only two people now. He had the identity certificate issued by Thomas himself...

Ruk mustered up the courage. It wouldn't be so unlucky. It's dark. Now Ashu Rufate and Leo must be resting or dealing with some incidents. And even if he was discovered by Ashu Rufate or Leo, it was not a special event. They were concerned about Ryan, not a small clerk like him. They didn't know that he was Ryan's uncle, and it was even more impossible for him to know that he was the driving force behind him.

"You guys are waiting here. If there is no problem, I will naturally come out to find you."

Ruk guessed nothing wrong. Inside the camp, Ashu Rufate and Leo were discussing the next issue.

"According to the information in our hands, the Paro people captured the Wolfkou Castle with a long-term siege tactic, so the castle itself is basically intact. However, the Paro people were too hasty to operate and had no time to improve the defense of the castle. There were only a few heavy city defense cannons. Using our detachable siege tower and raiding at the dead corners of the cannon is indeed very likely to succeed."

"But even with the siege tower, we do not have an advantage in terms of military strength." This is Leo's judgment. Although it seems that the coalition forces have 30,000 (after the battle, there were a lot of scattered Casilos knights and militias joining the army one after another, so that the coalition forces' strength will increase instead of decreasing), the conservative estimate of the defenders of Langkou Castle will not be less than 20,000. After the Battle of the Mist Grassland, the defeated Paro army almost all retracted into the castle. For the siege, this advantage is really not enough.

According to military common sense, the army trapped in the castle will inevitably fight to the death, and the fighting will be much higher than that in ordinary cases because they have no way to retreat. Therefore, when fighting in siege, they must rely on overwhelming superior forces to crush the enemy's resistance. In addition, on the city walls, shooting weapons such as muskets and bows and arrows naturally have good shooting angles and longer ranges, which will inevitably cause much greater casualties than normal. Attacking a castle with more than 20,000 people with military strength, even if they have sufficient siege equipment, it is a battle with no chance of victory.

The normal practice is to dig trenches, build fortifications, build camps, trap castles, and then rely on long sieges, use hunger as a weapon, and ultimately force the defenders to choose between starvation and surrender. In fact, on the border line between Casillos and St. Gene, St. Gene's main force did this.

However, neither Asu Ruffat nor Leo considered this much safer approach at all. Thomas's injury was already very critical. In fact, even if he could get "myea" now, it was not guaranteed to be saved.

"Three days later, at noon, we can arrive at the Wolfkou Castle, then arrange the camp and secretly assemble the siege tower at night. The next day, the attack immediately as soon as the daylight was dawn, and there was no other way." Ashu Rufate said anxiously. There was no time. Thomas' brief awakening a few days ago was not a sign of his recovery. On the contrary, he fell into a coma and a high fever again, and his situation was much worse than before.

Fei'er had previously inferred that it was twenty days, but in fact, there might not be this time.

"We have wasted too much time on the road! If we forcefully marched, we may have captured the castle now!" Ashu Rufate hammered the corner of the table hard, knocking the corner of the table into a concave. The strength of the boxing made Leo shocked. Of course, Leo knew that Ashu Rufate was just complaining. Both of them knew that forcing it was not a good idea.

"We should arrange a specific plan for siege. If we can, it is best to attract some enemies out of the city... If we do not set up a solid camp, we may save time to create a city-breaking hammer truck." Leo thought. "At that time, we should be able to slightly restrain the enemy and share the pressure for the siege tower."

"I don't know if it's too late... and the siege tower has not been assembled for a long time, so it may need to be repaired at that time..."

"By the way, Ashu Rufate, I've received news from the back, about that boy Ryan." Leo suddenly said.

"The last time he came to the news, he occupied the city of Derek, which we gave up, and seemed to call himself a duke... What tricks did he do this time?" Ashu Rufate asked coldly. Every time he mentioned Ryan, his voice was always as cold as a piece of ice.
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