Iron Skull's words were like a nail driven into Erwin's heart.
Broken Snow City is now surrounded by enemies on three sides, the Bayer Kingdom in the north, the Lane Kingdom in the south, and the Golden Eagle Kingdom on the sea. If civil strife breaks out again, the consequences will be disastrous.
But what should we do with the situation in front of us? Should we let these women continue to cause trouble?
Erwin looked at Iron Skull and squeezed out a few words from his throat.
"Is there any other way?"
"I really have a way, but I can't speak here."
Erwin put down his gun, and he and Iron Skull entered a tower. Heyman took this opportunity to quickly comfort the women and children.
After entering the tower, Iron Skull first asked a question: "After the war, what do you want to do most?"
Erwin frowned and said, "I don't have time to talk nonsense!"
"It's just a personal problem." Tie Shou said with a smile.
Erwin replied patiently: "I will report the results to the lord."
"I won't do that. I'm not a military commander, and I don't have that qualification," Tie Shou said. "If possible, I will go home immediately and tell my wife that I am still alive."
Erwin was silent for a while and said: "I will do the same."
"Both of my wives will be waiting for me at home."
"I'm not as lucky as you. I only have one wife, and she will be waiting for me at home."
"I'm really not a sympathetic person. If it were in the past, I would definitely do it more cruelly than you." Tie Shou continued, "I firmly believe that killing can solve many problems, but now, I find that there are some things better than killing."
More useful, a piece of bread, a piece of bacon, a gold coin, and those potato seedlings outside the city, I don't know how to express it, these are what I just discovered, these things are really more useful than killing."
Erwin was silent for a long time and asked: "Did the lord teach you these?"
"He didn't teach me, but I learned it from him. I know it sounds stupid, and I don't know what it is, but I know it's really useful."
Iron Skull didn't want to say any more, these complicated things were beyond his language ability.
Erwin understood Iron Skull's meaning, and he made the decision to use a gentler method to solve the problem.
Anyone who returns to the house will meet their man immediately after the battle and will receive ten silver coins.
Those who do not leave the room before the battle is over will receive ten more silver coins and will be given a five-day vacation for their man.
The women shed tears, they were still scared.
But they came back to the house in tears because they saw something.
This kind of thing is something that Iron Skull has never been able to explain clearly. Erwin knows that the name of this thing is hope.
After solving the internal problem, Erwin hurriedly ran to check the repair progress of the door. Unfortunately, this time he didn't see much hope.
The huge door shaft is thicker than an adult's waist. The craftsmen from Hanfeng Fortress alone cannot repair the door shaft in a short time.
What should you do if the enemy rushes into the fortress? Do you have to fight hand-to-hand with dozens or hundreds of times more enemies?
Erwin was at a loss again, but fortunately Jiawen thought of the only feasible way.
"Look for stones, wood, sand, everything, even food, find everything, and find a way to block the city gate!"
The soldiers acted quickly, and at this juncture, they finally got into some fighting shape. The Second Army took the lead in finding some logs, the First Army transported several carts of sand from the seaside, and the orcs dismantled a barracks and moved in
Some stones and everything together barely formed a roadblock over three feet high in the city gate.
"Soldiers from the Second Army are guarding the top of the city, and soldiers from the First Army are guarding the city gates," Jiawen said. "I have sent people to Suixue City to dispatch craftsmen. Before the city gates are repaired, we must fight to the death to hold on to the fortress.
"
The city gate is much more dangerous than the city head, and the three-foot-high barricade will be their only cover. Erwin knows this very well.
"The second army will guard the city gate, you go and defend the city head," Erwin said, "This is all my fault. We cannot let the first army bear the responsibility for the mistakes made by the second army."
"Now is not the time to worry about faults," Jiawen pointed at the city head and said, "The First Army is not familiar with the structure of the city head. The battle at the city gate is relatively simple. This is the only choice!"
Tie Shou said: "Stop fighting, you all go to guard the city and leave this place to us."
Jiawen shook his head: "I will not leave you here alone. The soldiers of the First Army must live and die together."
"What's the use of you staying here? The city gate is already very crowded, what can you do here? You have to fight the enemy head-on here, and even fight hand-to-hand. You don't have this ability. Staying here is also a burden.
Let’s go to the top of the city, throw more bombs and grenades, and try not to let too many enemy troops get close to us!”
Iron Skull's words didn't sound very pleasant, but they were very realistic. Except for the orcs, neither the First Army nor the Second Army had the ability to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Jarvan let the soldiers board the city, but he chose to stay at the city gate and fight alongside Iron Skull.
"It's enough to have Erwin on top of the city. I think I still have the ability to fight the enemy in close combat."
"Master Commander, you are making things difficult for me," Iron Skull pointed at the orcs, "We have our own way of fighting."
Jiawen smiled and said: "Don't worry, I won't take away your command. Now I am just an ordinary soldier, and everything will be at your disposal."
Next, he had to wait quietly for the enemy to appear, which made Iron Skull somewhat irritable. He could endure the toughest battle, but he really couldn't bear the long wait.
"Why did the beast masters go to Bayer Country?" Iron Skull spat, "Damn it, they have never been an outside force."
"Beast Controllers? What's so special about them?" Jiawen asked in surprise, "Can't you control beasts?"
"Of course not," Iron Skull shook his head and said, "Beast Controllers are a race. Like hard workers, warriors, and mages, they are born to control wild beasts. The Benlang Kingdom never allows them to fight for other countries, because these guys can
Turn all the beasts into an army, they will be too dangerous."
"Why don't they form a beast army themselves? With beasts fighting for them, they can no longer be enslaved by the Wolf Kingdom."
"They tried, but failed. There are no large beasts in the Benlang Kingdom. If they had giant elephants like the Bayer Kingdom, I am afraid that the king of the Benlang Kingdom would have been crushed long ago." At this point, Iron Skull seemed to remember
What, "Besides the giant elephant, what other terrifying beasts are there in the Bair Kingdom?"
Jiawen shook his head and said: "This is difficult to answer. There are hundreds of species of giant beasts in Bayer Country. It is originally the kingdom of giant beasts."
"It's fine if there are no tigers. Don't have tigers. Tigers are too fast and their claws and teeth are too vicious."
"Do you know the Wolf Country very well?" Jiawen was very curious. According to Old Hill's description, Iron Skull was brought back to Broken Snow City by Old Hill before going to the Wolf Country.
"Yes," Tie Shou nodded, "We were all warriors of the Benlang Kingdom. Because we were defeated in the war, we became prisoners of the Golden Eagle Kingdom. We were then sold as slaves by the Golden Eagle Kingdom to the White Tower Kingdom. The White Tower Kingdom sold us to
The slave traders wanted to sell us back to the Benlang Kingdom. Thinking about it, we were really lucky to meet Old Hill at that time."
Jiawen picked up the telescope and sighed, "It would be great if Old Hill was here. He is also a beast master."
Jarvan knows the identity of Old Hill, and so does Iron Skull.
"He is not a beast master," Iron Skull said with a smile, "he is a hybrid of an orc mage and a human wizard."
"Uh..." I really didn't expect Old Hill's bloodline to be so complicated.
"He can drive cattle. This is his innate witchcraft. Because he has the blood of a minotaur in his body, he can freely control his physical state. He can become a human, a cow, or a cow.
Becoming a tauren is the talent of a mixed-blood orc... Oh no, the beast master belongs to the Blue Wolf King, could he be..."
Iron Skull suddenly became nervous, and sweat flowed down to his cheeks.
"You're scared again, aren't you?" Broken Bones finally spoke. Jiawen rejected his request for transfer and allowed him to stay in the orc army. In the past period of time, he had refused to talk to Iron Skull.
It's okay if he doesn't speak, but when he speaks, Iron Skull becomes very angry.
"Listen, you idiot, I'm in a bad mood," Iron Skull whispered, "Don't make me chop you."
"Save your strength to deal with the Green Wolf Army. The beast masters are coming, and the hybrids will definitely come too."
Jarvan didn't know how powerful the red wolf army was, but he could tell that both beast masters and hybrids were difficult to deal with.
At dawn, war drums sounded on the city top, and the enemy appeared.
Iron Skull, who was standing at the city gate, did not have such a good field of vision, and it took him a long time to see the enemy.
Unexpectedly, they saw no wild beasts, only ordinary infantry.
"The number of the Green Wolf Army is very small," Broken Bones smiled. "Kill one by one, and they will not dare to come."
"No, this group of infantry is too fast," Iron Skull's ears suddenly stood up, "It's a leopard, the first group of soldiers shoot, tell the people on the top of the city to drop bombs quickly!"
Jiawen visually measured the distance and said, "This is too far, at least nine hundred feet away."
"It's not far, move faster!"
Before he finished speaking, the enemy's figure had already appeared at the foot of the city, only five hundred feet away from the city gate.
A bomb was dropped on the city, and at the same time, Jarvan led the first team of musketeers and started shooting.
The bombs did not harm the enemy troops. Their speed was too fast and all the bombs were left behind them.
Jiawen quickly fired all five bullets, and he noticed that the enemy's body shape had changed. They were on all fours and running towards the city gate.
The first group of soldiers retreated behind them. The second group of soldiers had just set up their spears when more than a dozen enemy soldiers rushed to the door.
They jumped over the barricade, and an enemy soldier pounced on Iron Skull, opened his mouth and bit his neck.
Iron Skull broke off the enemy's mouth, and rolled and fought with the enemy on the ground.
Thousands of enemy troops poured into the city gate, and the battle instantly turned into a hand-to-hand fight.