Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 451

Half a month later, Rhodes led the army and followed the Marquis of Foss to the canyon fortress.

After leaving Rock Fortress, Rhodes and the others helped some Nord nobles capture the cities and fortresses of the Roman Empire.

And in the next few battles, Rhodes never met any strong man comparable to the old mage in Rock Castle, and the most powerful one he met was only a nobleman whose strength reached the fourth level.

Therefore, he is like playing Mower Wushuang on the battlefield, and almost no one can block his casual blow.

Rhodes felt that this time was not in vain, at least he made more than half of the nobles in the Nord Kingdom remember his name, and left them with a positive image.

The Nords have always respected the strong. Even though Rhodes looks very young, many nobles will unconsciously use honorifics when talking with Rhodes, which makes Rhodes very embarrassed.

It's fine if they are of the same age, but there are still many nobles who are several times his age and will call him "you" when talking to him, which makes him feel very uncomfortable.

Even the Earl of Acet, who had always targeted him before, was in awe of him now.

Rhodes and the others arrived near the barracks built by King Nord outside the canyon fortress at night.

Because King Nord's army brought a lot of siege equipment built in the Fortress of Glory, they only arrived about a week earlier than Rhodes.

Before Rhodes and the others arrived, King Nord had already led the army to carry out an attack, but he did not achieve any results. Instead, it only caused Nord to lose a lot of soldiers.

After setting up the soldiers, Rhodes walked into the largest tent in the barracks. Now that all the nobles who participated in the war had arrived, the King of Nord was going to have a small meeting before launching the general offensive tomorrow.

After entering the tent, Rhodes found that the long table was already full, leaving only one seat, and that seat was next to the King of Nord, opposite to the Duke of Winterfell whom Rhodes had only met a few days ago .

"Don't stand there in a daze. This position is reserved for you. You are qualified to sit here." The Duke of Winterfell waved to Rhodes at the door.

The Duke of Winterfell Province is over 60 years old, but he looks no different from a middle-aged man in his 40s. This should be related to the combat skills his family has cultivated.

A week ago, Rhodes had helped the Winterfell Duke of Winter capture a very important city in the Roman Empire.

The Duke of Winter and the others had been unable to attack the city for a long time. After Rhodes participated in the war, it only took them half a day to break through and completely occupy the city. The family that ruled the city also chose to surrender.

After that, the Duke of Winter took Rhodes to chat for a long time, and planned to match Rhodes and his granddaughter...

Rhodes did not expect that his status would be so high in the hearts of the nobles of Nord, second only to the king of Nord and the Duke of Winterfell.

He walked by the long table and sat in the seat reserved for him. The expressions of all the nobles on the long table were very natural, as if they thought Rhodes should sit in this seat.

"Then let's start now. Let me talk about tomorrow's plan first." King Nord, who was wearing black keel armor, said after seeing Rhodes sitting down.

At this moment, the horn sounded outside, and all the nobles present stood up immediately.

"What's going on?" someone asked.

A knight in full armor came in from outside the tent, and he said, "My lords, a large group of cavalry rushed out of the gate of the canyon fortress and is approaching our barracks."

"Your Majesty, please allow me to deal with them." A young noble who Rhodes had met once but couldn't remember his name said while kneeling on the ground.

"Then you go." King Nord nodded.

This is a good opportunity to do meritorious service in front of the king. Many nobles regretted that they did not seize the opportunity just now after they came to their senses.

After the nobleman left the tent, the King of Nord cleared his throat: "Then let's continue. I have made a plan these days. We will pretend to attack the canyon fortress during the day tomorrow, use catapults to attack their walls, and let them spawn An illusion that we could attack at any moment.

At night, let Earl Rhodes sneak into the fortress. After he opens the gate, we will launch a general attack. The exhausted imperial soldiers will definitely not be our soldiers' opponents. "

King Nord obviously learned about Rhodes' achievements during this period from other nobles.

"I have no objection." Rhodes nodded, thinking that King Nord was worried about his safety, so he chose to let him sneak into the canyon fortress at night.

"But do our soldiers still have the energy to fight at night?" Duke Winter asked.

"The Imperials who have been harassed by catapults during the day will definitely have worse spirits than our soldiers, and a few days ago my scouts found that the Imperials in the fortress seemed to be unable to see clearly at night." King Nord explained.

The soldiers of the Roman Empire seldom ate food such as fish and meat, and it was normal for most of them to suffer from night blindness, while the soldiers of the Nord Empire basically ate meat.

"The overall plan is like this. For more specific details, let Marquis Gavill explain to you now." King Nord looked at a middle-aged man in his 40s next to Rhodes after finishing speaking.

He has a mustache and combs his hair very neatly. He looks like a very shrewd person. He should be the Marquis of Gavill.

The Marquis Gavill coughed, and the nobles who were discussing beside him fell silent.

He stood up, picked up a few white papers densely written with words, and began to assign tomorrow's tasks to the nobles present, such as which specific location to attack.

These white papers were also produced in Rhodes' territory.

After Rhodes heard that the king was going to let his soldiers stay in the camp, he sat in a chair and started to start a daze, recalling the content in the "Chronicle of the Roman Empire" written by Al.

During this period of time, he has almost read this book. If he hadn't been on the road and fighting every day, he would have read all of this book long ago.

Overall, this book is very well written.

It didn't take long for Marquis Gavill to finish reading what was written on the white paper.

"Let's all go back now, go back tonight and prepare well." King Nord said, and after turning his head to glance at Rhodes, he also left the tent.

After Rhodes returned to his tent, after carefully recalling what happened tonight, he felt something was wrong.

King Nord said that Imperial soldiers were invisible most of the night.

So who was the one who attacked tonight?

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(End of this chapter)