I will be crowned king

Midnight, 10:30, Eagle Point City Fortress, South Wall.

"Soldiers are ready."

At the top of the tower where the cold wind was howling, the fortress commander with a solemn expression said solemnly to Buller Matias:

"According to your request, 1,500 soldiers, equipped with four grenades and Borne rifles, all soldiers and generals were carefully selected from...the nobles who unfortunately lost in the battle with Clovis. "

Facing the noble pure-blood knight of Iser, who is also the heir to the six most noble families, the fortress commander who is just an ordinary "half-blood" noble has to use tactful words.

Although the opponent was a defeated general who was beaten by the enemy and lost his armor, his military rank was not as good as his own.

"Thank you."

The expressionless Buller Matias did not turn his head and looked at the dark hilly wilderness in the distance.

Under the dim starry sky, one could vaguely see the dense forest of bloody unicorn battle flags in the valley, countless trenches, fences, artillery forts... and tens of thousands of Clovis soldiers lurking among them.

"According to the observation post's speculation, the enemy's camp on the hillside should be used to deter the artillery fortress of Eagle Point City, so as to provide fire support for the attacking army during the siege - although we really don't know how they carried it. A large number of artillery can also appear quietly behind us."

The fortress commander pointed to the opposite side and explained to the Elf Knight with some humility: "On the contrary, in the middle of the road, except for a camp that is almost the size of an infantry regiment, there is not much defensive force."

"So my suggestion is to force a breakthrough from the middle. The enemy's main force is all on the hillside and there is no way to support them in a short time."

"If you're lucky, you should be able to break through the defense line smoothly, capture alive, or even kill the despicable villain who caused you such great shame... Anson Bach!"

When the fortress commander said this name, the elf knight's eyes instantly became sharper.

Just a few hours ago, when Buller Matias and another elf noble announced Anson's "surrender within forty-eight hours, otherwise there will be consequences" at the military meeting in Eagle Point City, the whole place was in an uproar.

Many previously defeated elven reinforcements generals immediately jumped up and shouted angrily, "The arrogant Anson Bach doesn't have many troops at all, he is just bluffing" to threaten the fortress, shouting "attack with the whole army, give him a good look"!

When this momentum developed, it was Buller Matias, who had been "humiliated twice by Anson", who proposed to organize an outpost of two infantry regiments to launch a night attack to "find out what Anson Bach was doing." "False and real"; and if given the opportunity, "kill them in one fell swoop".

His proposal was immediately endorsed by all the reinforcement generals, and even many officers of the original defenders agreed; now Eagle Point City is besieged from all sides and has been cut off from all support. Even a slight reversal of the situation can restore morale. Quite a few.

The only fortress commander who had some doubts about this matter wanted to stop it. After all, Eagle Point City, which was currently being attacked by the Southern Legion, suffered heavy casualties. The 1,500 elite soldiers were already equivalent to a quarter of the combat strength, so they had to be cautious. .

But with the support of many generals, especially the "pure-blood" noble generals, he, the fortress commander, did not have much say and could only acquiesce.

And since the proposer was Buller Matias, he should naturally perform this task; the Elf Knight also did his part and took the initiative to stand up.

Under the light of the fire, the expressionless Buller Matias walked down the city wall, where 1,500 elven line infantry with live ammunition were already waiting under the side gate of the city wall.

All officers and soldiers are carefully selected and fully comply with his requirements; every officer has worked with him and has a very close relationship; he remembers the appearance of every soldier and can even call out his name.

This is also for operational considerations... After all, in a battle like a night attack that requires extremely high command and coordination, if the soldiers and commanders are not familiar with each other, it is no different than dying.

Looking at these elite soldiers, the elf knight raised his head, first nodded slightly to the fortress commander on the city wall, and then suddenly raised the flag he received from the flag officer above his head:

"Set off!"

“For the glory of Iser—!!!!”

With the sound of chains and gears turning, the heavy gate slowly rose behind him.

The anxious fortress commander held his hands on the city wall and watched the 1,500 elite soldiers slowly walking out of the fortress and heading towards the silent darkness.

Under the stars in the sky, Buller Matias finally showed a trace of nervousness after leaving Eagle Point City.

Unlike humans, elves have very good night vision; even if there are only stars in the clear sky at midnight, the elven soldiers can still clearly see the unicorn battle flags fluttering on the hillside, shadowy and shadowy, as if they are ambushing countless enemy camps.

But this did not reassure them at all. The more they saw clearly, the more nervous they became, and they even involuntarily slowed down their march.

At ten minutes past eleven, the outpost, which had been dawdling for nearly forty minutes, finally left the defensive radius of Eagle Point City and entered the fire range of the "Anson Bach Defense Line".

But the elf knight did not stop to observe, or let the soldiers change their formation. The column, which still maintained the normal march size, marched slowly, and even slightly accelerated.

"They are really here?"

In the storm group's position in the valley, Carl Bain, holding a monocular, looked at the Yser Elf Army slowly marching this way on the wasteland, with an ugly look on his face:

"I'm afraid you're going crazy for launching a night attack so openly and openly in the middle of the night..."

"Maybe I just want to test it out." Anson, holding rum in one hand and canned beef in the other, said absently:

"Don't worry, you personally supervised the construction of the Storm Regiment's position. It's backed by a hillside, with three crisscrossing firepower nets, and two cavalry cannons. It's definitely too late to escape - what do you have to be afraid of?"

As he spoke, he pointed at Major Fabian, who was setting up a defense line on the opposite side. The other side was leading half a company of skirmishers from the "artillery position" on the hillside, setting up snipers to kill enemy officers in case of war. point.

"Does this have anything to do with fear?" Karl rolled his eyes:

"Once we let them touch it, our firepower will be exposed in at most thirty minutes - even a fool on the opposite side of the Eagle Point City defenders will know that your 'Commander-in-Chief' is just a piece of shit, and he can The troops we fought were less than 2,000 men!”

"I would like to know how you plan to capture Eagle Point City by then?!"

Perhaps because of being too excited, Karl's face turned a little pale, and his body began to tremble unconsciously.

"Don't be afraid, Carl, don't be afraid."

Lisa, who was so sleepy that she was about to fall asleep, was suddenly woken up. She stood up holding the gun in a daze, and patted Karl's head with her little hand:

"Lisa will protect Anson and you, sleep peacefully, don't be afraid."

However, this "comfort" did not seem to have the desired effect, and Carl Bain's expression became even more depressed.

"Look...even Lisa isn't scared, so what do you have to be afraid of?" Anson smiled, putting the canned meat and wine bottles aside, and hugged Lisa in his arms:

"Trust me, you can't be wrong."

"What do you believe in me?" Carl, who looked nervous, twitched the corner of his mouth:

"You should give us something to believe in you. You deliberately provoked that pure-blooded knight and launched a crazy night attack. It doesn't matter whether he dies or not. What can we gain?!"

"Get the chance to capture Eagle Point City."

Anson suddenly said seriously.

"What?!"

Karl's expression was startled: "You...you don't plan to kill them, and then drag us into pretending to be an elf army and sneak into Eagle Point City? You...how should I say...this is too..."

"Who said... I was going to sneak into Eagle Point City in a sneak attack?"

Anson snorted softly, and involuntarily raised the corners of his mouth under his serious expression - this was the first time recently that Karl had not guessed his plan:

"I said before, I will not take the initiative to attack Eagle Point City... What I want is for them to surrender obediently."

"That……"

"How far do you think this is from Commander Ludwig's position?"

"How far... it should be... not that far, right?" Karl frowned:

"Then what?"

"Then if we fire here, do you think Ludwig will be indifferent?" Anson said confidently:

"No, he definitely won't! Not only won't he, he will also regard this as an excellent opportunity to attack Eagle Point City - someone has attracted Eagle Point City's attention from his back, Ludwig... He will definitely press forward with all his troops and seize this opportunity at all costs!"

"But on the other hand, because there was no preparation in advance, this must be an extremely hasty attack... I estimate that being able to take down all the outer fortresses is almost the limit; but for the defenders of Eagle Point City, this will It was an extremely difficult night.”

"The outer strongholds have been stripped bare, at least one-fifth of the elite troops have been wiped out, the supply lines have been cut off, and they have to face attacks from both the north and the south at the same time... At this time, how much morale do you think they can hold on to?"

"But, what if they just hold on!"

Karl twitched his lips - although he also felt that Anson was right, he couldn't help but retorted: "The Israel Guards are on the way, and they can get here in forty-eight hours of urgent march!"

"Um……"

Anson pursed his lips tightly and let out a long sigh - this was almost the most uncertain part of the entire plan, because it was really hard to say how long Lieutenant Colonel Roman would be able to hold on. Louis, who had gone through Thunder Castle and several months of "severe beatings from society" ·Will Bernard become more practical than before?

The risk of pinning hopes on uncertain factors is too great, and it is also very inconsistent with the habits of a former copywriter; but there is no way, he has too few cards in his hand now, so he can only seize every possible window of opportunity. .

Even if you know that there is a high chance of failure, you must try, otherwise you will never have a chance.

"Well, although I didn't mean to interrupt the conversation between you two, but..."

Fabian, who was frowning, suddenly walked over and coughed twice: "The enemy on the other side is already very close to us."

The two men's expressions were startled at the same time, and they looked up alertly - the elven outposts, which had always maintained a column formation, were slowly approaching the storm group's forward position.

The skirmishers lying in the trench raised their guns one after another, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

But the strange thing is that the elven outposts that are constantly approaching the forward position have not spread out. They still maintain a rapidly advancing column formation and have not even taken off their weapons from their shoulders.

As if they didn't see the fences and trenches that were already in front of them, they continued to advance slowly, looking ahead.

At 11:35, the Elf Outpost has completely entered the Storm Group's position.

The nervous Karl tensed up and held his breath involuntarily.

From here, the enemy has completely entered the fire range of the storm group, and there are mountains, woods and wilderness behind them. It is difficult to see the battlefield clearly from the position of Eagle Point City.

In other words, even if all these enemies are killed, the defenders of Eagle Point City will not know what happened.

"What are they thinking?" Carl, who was in a nervous mood, turned his head and stared at Anson with nervous eyes:

"Do you want to take action? If we do it now, none of these elves can escape..."

"Quiet!" Anson shouted in a deep voice.

Karl immediately covered his mouth, and even Lisa, who woke up for some reason and secretly ate canned beef, quickly closed her mouth, blushing and trying desperately to swallow the beef in her mouth.

The outposts of the Ysel elves were still advancing, and the sound of neat footsteps was extremely clear in the middle of the night; the soldiers in the front row of the trench could even vaguely see the appearance of the enemy.

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters, thirty meters...

"Stand where you are!"

The order sounded, and 1,500 elven line infantry stopped less than twenty meters away from the defense line.

Bugles sounded continuously like a relay, and the long and narrow column changed its formation in front of the defense line, from a column to a horizontal formation with the same width as the defense line.

The Clovis soldiers, whose faces were full of surprise, tensed up and stared at the enemy who was almost in front of them, anxiously waiting for the order to fire.

But Ansen still did not give the order. He looked at the neat military formation in front of him with an indifferent expression, as if he had vaguely guessed something, and waited extremely patiently.

The next moment, Buller Matias, holding the flag of the Golden Ring of Order, suddenly walked out from the back of the queue, passed the last twenty meters without fear, and stood directly in front of the fence.

The elf knight, who was trying to be calm but was actually extremely nervous, tried his best to stand up straight. From his sight, he could already see three lines of firepower ambushing in the narrow road, as well as densely packed guns aimed at him.

He glanced at Eagle Point City behind him, slowly withdrew his gaze, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly to the back of the storm group's defense line:

"I am the pure-blooded knight of the Royal Court of Iser, Buller Mattias."

"According to the previous agreement with the respected Commander of the Southern Legion, Lord Anson Bach, I came here specifically to bring Eagle Point City..."

"Hands up!"