In another world, April of the second year of the New Calendar in the Northland. The long winter has finally passed, and the power of the frost goddess Oluel has greatly diminished. The temperature has warmed, everything has revived, and the earth is full of spring.
Zhou Qingfeng paid attention to the southwest in early 1993. By July, through a combination of guidance and crackdowns, he had smashed the drug trafficking forces in the Golden Triangle to pieces. They were either dead or on the run.
The system determined that Zhou Qingfeng's work was successful and efficient, could be promoted and replicated, and had made a huge contribution to the country and the people. It gave him a perfect reward of 10 million points.
However, after being given a reward, Zhou Qingfeng was promoted to level 15, his soul entered yellow, and his strength greatly increased. However, the cost of dying once became more than 3.2 million points.
This exponential growth is fucking maddening!
Returning to another world again, I stood on the wall of the newly built fortress in Dense Fog Town and looked south. The wild fields in spring were full of green. This scenery seemed pleasant, but in fact it was an abandoned field with no one cultivating it.
With Dense Fog Town as the boundary, the farmers of Banshee Castle in the south began to flee last winter. They entered Dense Fog Town, received relief from Coldwind City to survive the difficult winter, and were incorporated into Lord Hugo's vassal flower.
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In order to deal with Zhou Qingfeng's fortress, the Buqi family of Banshee Castle was also forced to build a fortress in Shitan Town, fifty kilometers away to the south. The fortress was built taller and larger than the fortress in Dense Fog Town, allowing them to hoard more troops and troops.
food, launching a more violent attack.
It is too difficult to carry out large-scale construction projects in the freezing winter. Cold Wind City has explosives and kobolds. Banshee Castle mobilized wizards from various cities in the North and used the lives of untouchables to fill it.
The pariahs of the Butch family have been fleeing throughout the winter, and the pariahs in the North are also fleeing. They flood into the territory of Coldwind City to seek shelter, and the fallen corpses along the way form signposts on the road.
Standing at the top of the dense fog fortress, Zhou Qingfeng could clearly feel the madness of his opponent's desperate efforts. Regardless of whether they could defeat Cold Wind City, the northern nobles would be greatly reduced in strength because they completely gave up on spring plowing and took the initiative to launch an attack.
One thousand meters south of the Fog Fortress, a noble army of about two thousand troops was stationed on the road.
"There are five hundred infantry knights and one hundred and twenty wizards on the opposite side. The rest are all heavy infantry served by noble retainers." Adrian stood behind Zhou Qingfeng and reported the strength of the enemy on the opposite side.
"The Bucci family really came here to fight for their lives. They gave up carriage transportation and gathered many wizards' storage rings to supply this team. Just to prevent our wanton harassment."
In the telescope, the enemy's wizard builds a magic circle on the spot and builds a temporary wizard tower. This can greatly enhance the wizard's combat effectiveness, but it is completely consumed by years of accumulation.
"The Buqi family really wants to understand." Zhou Qingfeng put down the telescope. He could force the nobles of the North to do this, which neither party expected and found it difficult to accept.
The Fog Fortress was built two months earlier than the Stone Beach Fortress. The men and horses of Cold Wind City used the fortress as a base and continued to move south, crossing the mountains and fields like a pack of wolves, and entered the surroundings of Banshee Castle to launch attacks.
Ordinary local nobles have limited power and cannot resist Cold Wind City's targeted attacks. In two months, Zhou Qingfeng caused huge losses to the Buqi family, as if a large piece of bloody flesh was dug out of his body.
The clumsy noble system was completely unable to adapt to the fast and fierce fighting style. They were forced to defend and at the same time speed up the construction of the stone beach fortress. As a result, more untouchables died, triggering greater escapes.
Now that Shitan Fortress was repaired, the Butch family was eager to launch revenge. They could not organize a large number of small teams of dozens of people efficiently and flexibly, so they came with two thousand troops.
"Who is the commander on the other side?"
"Farrell of the Hemlock family in Hornburg is related by marriage to the Butch family and has a very good relationship. Most of his territory is in the mountains, so the Hemlock family are basically foot warriors."
"Does that guy like to wear a horned helmet, heavy chain armor, and use a big axe?"
"What?"
Zhou Qingfeng threw the binoculars to Adrian, pointed forward and said: "The enemy has come out of the camp. This Lord Farrell is really anxious. The camp was just built and he wants to start a war with us."
Adrian took the telescope and looked forward. The enemies were swarming out of the camp and slowly moving forward in a battle formation. He adjusted the distance slightly to see more clearly, and said with an 'ah oh':
"Sir Hugo, it seems that more than just the Hemlock family has come to Hornburg. I saw at least three family flags.
The Holden family from Broken Bridge City and the Kent family from Rapid City are also here. Damn it, my men must have made an oversight, and the enemy's power is stronger than expected."
Opposite the telescope, a huge earth lizard slowly crawled out from the noble barracks. It was covered in thick black rock armor, and its huge fangs dripped with foul-smelling corrosive mucus.
This monster is blind and relies on the echo of sound to distinguish the surrounding situation. Therefore, it always roars, which is breathtaking.
Farrell of the Hemlock family was riding on the back of the earth lizard, and behind him was an attendant holding the family flag high. Behind him were two other family flags, leading a team of thousands of people out of the camp.
Farrell wore full body armor, with a closed horned helmet covering his entire face, like a strange-shaped iron can. He raised his iron-gloved arm on the back of the earth lizard and waved it forward heavily.
The temporary wizard tower built in the camp only has two floors, but it is enough for the wizards accompanying the army to cast spells together. They strengthen and accelerate the group's power during chanting, doubling the combat power of knights and soldiers carrying heavy weapons.
Farrell's team had to advance several hundred meters to approach the outer front of the fog fortress. In front of them, the expected battle line appeared. It was not just a few ditches, but fortifications built horizontally and vertically, with a depth of more than 300 meters in front and back.
After the fortress was built, it took the kobold engineering team two months to complete.
The attacking team had to stop.
"Damn cowards, stupid arrangement. They don't even want to accept my challenge."
Farrell cursed softly while riding on the earth lizard. In his eyes, these fortifications were ridiculous tricks, and his infantry knights could wipe them out with just one charge.
Behind Farrell, the giant shield battle flag of the Holden family followed. The new city lord Hardin Holden looked at the fortress opposite and cautiously suggested: "Should we find someone to fill in those ditches?"
"Of course you have to fill it in." Farrell shouted and summoned a dozen wizards, "I'm not a brainless mountain barbarian, so I won't jump into a trap stupidly. This kind of trick doesn't work for me.
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Hundreds of sword and shield soldiers came out, holding large shields as high as a person and advancing forward. Twenty or thirty infantry knights in heavy armor pressed the formation on the left and right. A dozen wizards walked past Farrell and arrived in front of the line to start.
Casting - Mire Spell.
The zigzag ravines and low walls are constructed of piles of earth and wood, and are normally very solid. However, the 'mire technique' will make the soil soft and seep water, causing it to collapse and turn into a bubbling, smelly mud pool.
Whether you stay in a ravine or behind a low wall, the original battlefield cover will disappear immediately.
Mire Technique is relatively cheap, but throwing a dozen of them at random costs thousands of gold coins. This is a huge cost of war. But now the nobles of the North no longer care. If they don't win this battle, everything they have will be in vain.
The quagmire easily destroyed a section of the outer fortifications, and Farrell's men banged their weapons on their shields and armor, shouting in joy. Then they only needed to use freezing spells to harden the ground, and they could gradually advance to the enemy's fortress.
As expected, with just a few more "fossils turned into mud" and a series of fireballs, the enemy's defense would collapse without a fight.
Zhou Qingfeng stood on the wall of the fortress, expressionlessly watching the enemy dismantle his own defenses. He only raised his hand to look at his watch and whispered: "It took these guys an hour to walk over a distance of more than 700 meters. I'm waiting.
We're all hungry."
Adrian's mood was not so calm. He held his hands on the crenellations of the fortress wall, his heart beating wildly. When he lowered his head and looked down at the city, he saw in the ravines of the outer fortifications a group of kobolds riding mechanical spiders through the hidden passages of the fortifications.