"Anyone who wants to take this castle must pay a heavy price."
Half-face commented like this, and after speaking, he turned his head to Ilea, "Your guardian knight is surprisingly capable."
"Mom said that although Alfred seldom spoke and cherished his words like gold, he never disappointed. He was the perfect embodiment of chivalry." Miss Rabbit said proudly.
"There is such a fool in the world. What you said makes me want to meet him." Jude tidied his hair that was messed up by the wind, "But only if your stepmother is willing to let us in."
Jude didn't mean to undermine morale.
Mainly because he really couldn't think of any way to sneak into the castle by bypassing the soldiers outside.
Vanessa probably gathered less than 300 armed men, most of whom were militiamen. It was actually a bit unsatisfactory for such a small number of people to besiege a castle.
However, Vanessa's advantage is that she has lived in Teacup Castle for many years and has a good understanding of the structure of the castle. As long as she sends people to block the gate and guard the secret passage, she can basically cut off the connection between the people inside and the outside.
And when night fell, Vanessa divided the people on hand into two teams, one team was on duty in the first half of the night, and the other team waited until the second half of the night to take over, and everything was in order.
However, this beautiful woman with lop-eared ears is not as calm and composed as she appears on the surface.
In fact, she had become more and more anxious in the past two days. Although Ilea still did not show up, there was no news from Faja.
Vanessa didn't know if Honey Bear's team succeeded, because those guys disappeared without a trace after taking her money.
Although Fadja repeatedly assured her, this young man from the Boleslaw family was so good at tracking that even if a person died, he could dig it out of the ground as long as it didn't turn into ashes.
However, the more this happened, the more uneasy she felt when the honey bear didn't show up.
In addition, the castle also fell into the hands of that guy named Alfred, and Vanessa became even more upset.
She never dreamed that the usually taciturn old man, who was ridiculed and jokingly called the Death Knight, could be so ruthless.
After receiving Ilea's letter, he took down Teacup Castle with only three people.
It is said that this guy pretended to deliver wine to the castle, deceived the guards at the door, and then directly kidnapped the old wife and two sons of the steward Fausto.
Fausto was forced to trick the knight Pablo, who was responsible for the defense in the castle, into an empty room, where they ambush Pablo and sneak attack him, knocking the latter unconscious and tying him up without any effort.
After that, he followed the same pattern, eroding away any possible resistance forces in the castle, and finally successfully took over the place.
Vanessa heard about this from a groom who luckily escaped from the castle. Her first reaction at the time was that there was something wrong with her ears.
Because this is so bizarre.
The extremely strong Teacup Castle, which had withstood invasions by powerful enemies dozens of times in history, and eventually helped the Arias family repel the invading enemies, was unexpectedly taken away by an old man who was over a century and a half old.
Three or two kittens were easily captured.
If this matter spreads, it will be a shame to the Arias family.
However, this was not the end. After receiving the news, Vanessa denounced Alfred as a traitor, and used her prestige to quickly summon a troop of soldiers and horses in the territory, and surrounded Teacup Castle for three days, and then discovered...
...can't get it back.
Vanessa originally thought that she had a righteous name, and there were many old people around her in the castle. When the soldiers came to the area, they would raise their arms, and without even taking action, the people inside would tie up Alfred and open the door.
The city gate greeted her.
But he didn't expect Alfred to be prepared for this. The old knight divided the people in the castle into two categories in advance.
Those with relatives and those without relatives were locked up directly by him and thrown into the dungeon. For those in front, Alfred selected young men and sent them to the city wall to defend the city.
They also guarded their relatives alone, and then told those guarding the city that if the city was breached, they would kill their relatives first.
With such a sharp blade hanging on his forehead, Alfred also took out Ilea's autographed letter and asked the steward Fausto to check it in person and read it in public.
The big guys got on the old knight's pirate ship in a daze and helped defend the city.
So Vanessa was dumbfounded again. After all, she wanted to convince people to defeat them without fighting. She really wanted to attack the city. How could she understand?
Moreover, she did not prepare siege equipment in advance, and there were not enough people.
They tried to fight, but two militiamen were killed and four others were wounded. Knight Javier, who was supervising the battle in the front row, was almost attacked by Alfred who was hiding behind the arrow gaps and firing cold arrows because he stood too close.
A positive one.
Fortunately, his plate armor worked and blocked the fatal arrow for him.
Otherwise, Knight Javier might have become the first noble to die in this siege.
Seeing that the strong attack failed, Vanessa had no choice but to let people surround Teacup Castle first.
But time was not on her side. Even though Vanessa had given repeated orders to strictly prohibit people below from leaking what happened during the election that day, so many pairs of eyes were watching at that time.
Many of them were members of the Arias family's entourage. These people followed Vanessa back to the green fields. It was inevitable that some of them could not keep their mouths shut and secretly told their friends about the matter despite Vanessa's prohibition.
Then his friends told their friends, and their friends’ friends told their friends’ friends’ friends... Soon, the word spread, and it didn’t take long for more than half of Vanessa’s army to listen.
This is over.
These people behaved relatively restrainedly in front of the beautiful woman with lop-eared ears, but in private they started to have more and more various discussions.
People's hearts are floating.
Vanessa saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart. She had already made up her mind to launch a general attack after the sun rose tomorrow. She would retake Teacup Castle regardless of casualties, because she could no longer delay it.
On the other side, Miss Rabbit and her party were still trying to find a way to enter the castle.
Unfortunately, after looking around for a while, I didn't see any opportunities.
Until Li Yu pointed to a towering section of the city wall and asked Ilea, "If someone puts a basket down here and we sit in it, can they pull us up?"
"That's true, but the question is how do we contact the people in the castle and ask them to put the basket here?"
He paused for a moment before adding, "Although the soldiers outside the city focused on the city gates and secret passages and didn't pay much attention to the city walls, you also saw that there were still small teams patrolling nearby.
"We have to reach the city before they are discovered, and then climb the city wall. The time in between is quite tight."
Ilea also felt that Li Yu's idea was not practical.
However, the latter said, "What if I have a way to get in touch with the defenders in the city?"
This chapter has been completed!